skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that they don't have to say anything. People don't get fired for being silent.
Software has to run on the Quest, which costs $300 delivered.
It's also produced needless stress and bullies that manage scrum. Maybe that's what you want in a business to get stuff done on time.
>Sure, but when's someone going to make an ebike that can carry lots of groceries? Or really anything more than 1 large bag.

Countless people here in Tokyo do this every day on regular bikes and e-bikes. They even transport their kids on their bikes (with groceries).
The Oculus/Meta Quest 2 runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2. That chip's GPU, the Adreno 650, has a pixel fill rate of 14 GP/s. Compare this to a GPU like the NVidia RTX 3090, which has a fill rate of 190 GP/s.

Lighting, textures, transparency, and many of the effects that make things look good in modern games, at the resolution and framerate required for smooth VR, can't currently be done on a $400 headset.

At least in terms of the cartoonish graphics, it seems to me like a case of "fast, cheap, good, pick two".

[1] https://chipguider.com/?gpu=adreno-650-645-mhz

[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090...
Widgets that indicates purpose.

It can be tricky to make everything self explanatory, but at least if you use icons or text rather than just colour you give the brain something to help you recognize.
But it is always going to continue to spread won’t it? A vaccine may slow it down which is good but my fear is that long term non-live vaccines like this could just make things worse when used with such a volatile virus.
It looks like the policy isn't as rigid as this tweet suggests – the next couple bullets in the bill appear to say you can have known vulnerabilities so long as they're explicitly disclosed and have a mitigation plan. The full text is at https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7900..., heading "SEC. 6722. DHS SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN RISK MANAGEMENT."

The wording is left a little ambiguous though since there's no "and"s & "or"s to join those bullets (1)-(3). I've never understood why they can't use more standardized boilerplate in legal text for and/or/xor logical clauses, to eliminate that kind of issue.

For that matter, I also don't get why this official congress.gov site can't manage to support basic anchor links! Or even better yet, links that automatically resolve references like "subsections (b)(1)" in the text of the bill...
> Take SF

> They will stay "aspiring" for the rest of their life.

They have a very viable option, which is to leave SF and go somewhere else where they can stop aspiring and afford to actually become homeowners if that's what they want.

I speak from first-hand experience, although in my case it was Manhattan not SF. I very badly wanted to live in Manhattan but no matter how I sliced the numbers, there was no way. Too expensive.

I didn't remain "aspiring" for the rest of my life though. I gave up on that dream and moved and bought a house elsewhere. It's worked just fine.
I thought a lot of these were recycled from vehicles when their energy density doesn’t meet the needs of a vehicle anymore but make sense in a house since the house doesn’t move?
Also presumably they were experienced engineers who could be trusted to make good decisions. But not all teams are like that. I have worked with many engineers who are completely lost, or will routinely make the worst decision possible, any time the requirements are exactly spelled out for them.
I hope I find a home like that for myself one day.
Ask HN: Mind Game
Help me.

I want to invent a game that I can play in my mind. A real game.

Would be helpful for staying away from screens.
The problem is that programmers answer to idiots, but nevertheless those idiots have certain reptilian sensibilities in which they exceed us, and a consequence of this is that they have a knack for zero-sum power grabs and pissing contests. So, even though those people are 30-50 IQ points below us, they nevertheless end up remaining on top, and there isn't really much we can do about it unless we're prepared to burn down a whole socioeconomic system (which I am, but most people aren't there yet).

"Sprints" are supposed to be humiliating. The very message is that you're not trusted with even two fucking weeks of your own (!!) working time. It could not be clearer. If you work in sprints, it's because the higher-ups think you're a child and a loser, and you'll never be able to overcome that negative inference, because if you perform poorly you will confirm it and if you perform well, you will confirm that their micromanagement actually works--there is no winning.

Also, "Waterfall" never really existed. It was a straw man invented to sell this Agile bukkake.

In any case, a number of the dysfunctions are, in effect, intentional. Standups that go on for 45+ minutes? Long meetings are a classic way for managers to punish perceived underperformers (or, in Agile terms, "impediments") when they're not entirely sure who problem player is. The theory is that the rest of
"the team" (I put this term in quotes because coworkers in corporate aren't an actual team--that's just management speak--but are often pitted against each other) will get sick of the incessant meetings and rat out the underperformer who is causing this wastage of time. The humiliations of Jira and "user stories" aren't bureaucratic accidents that occurred in good faith; they hurt because they're supposed to hurt.
So... why do you put up with it?
I'm in CA. I pay 56 cents from 4pm to 9pm.
> It is weak that they only pay for energy delivered instead of being available to deliver as reserve, but I am sure that will come once the technical details are ironed out.

I think the bigger problem is that residential users can't really guarantee supply, so it doesn't work for the utility to contact for that.
12 month fixed term contract, which is up in a couple of weeks.

;)
> A while ago, my friend's bag got stolen at a coffee shop.

Traveller tip: loop the bag's shoulder strap around your leg when sitting down at a table in places like that. Extra credit: reinforce the strap with a steel cable so it's harder to cut. I do #1 but not #2. Definite benefit of #1 is that it's saved me from forgetting to take the bag with me.
Yes. And then I think that I need to take the project further, make it bigger and more attention -getting, and document it more, and push it in social media more.

But I'm not going to do that. So there is some associated pain. But it's diminishing with time.

And the attention my project got is definitely greater than zero. And the internet is forever. So there is a kind of peace.
GP had a typo, it's 109 houses.
I think that you don't understand what this allows you to do...
> extracting money from individuals for goods which don't exist or provide utility

It’s already a billion dollar industry.
read some Adam Smith. land appreciates as long as population increases because you can't make more of it.
I found this video[0] quite informative
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dUsnR4ifqNs
Take good care of them. They worked really well for me.

But, the internal frame is partly plastic, and mine snapped. You have to be careful not to flex it much when taking it off. Now, I'm looking for fine weave carbon fiber cloth to fix it - I got it working once using superglue, but it broke again.

Meanwhile, Bose has completely exited the hearing aid sector.[0]

[0] https://www.hearingtracker.com/news/bose-cease-hearing-aid-s...
> xref - You can opt out.

track your ex girl friend easily... thanks apple ....

it should be opt-in at the very least

Not sure why HN is so anti-privacy lately
"Agile is for smaller companies or smaller projects that can be broken up into sprint size pieces. Many are not."

Just not true. I know it's hard to know if you haven't seen it but I assure you it's possible and much for effective for a large team to be truly agile
defund the police and let the market look after it
I believe you mean the version of it that is hosted at https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/.

If that's the story here, then it's a dupe, since there have been two significant threads in the last year:

Solar-powered, Self-hosted Low-tech Magazine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31985478 - July 2022 (27 comments)

This website has 81% battery power remaining - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29531145 - Dec 2021 (351 comments)

...as well as these previously:

How to build a low-tech website? (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29067118 - Nov 2021 (216 comments)

A website that runs on a solar-powered server in Barcelona - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20038619 - May 2019 (103 comments)

A solar-powered, self-hosted version of Low-Tech Magazine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19407847 - March 2019 (66 comments)

How to Build a Low-Tech Website - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075143 - Sept 2018 (183 comments)
I thought HN people love Manjaro. I installed Manjaro because it was the majority of HN recommended
They dispute it because they assume that developers are padding their estimates. You know, it will probably take 2 weeks, so double it and then double it again.
It's $20 for a 10kWh battery and you then don't have sufficient energy left when they shut it down anyways. Hardly seems worth it.
High Performing Teams: Super Goals and Super Identity
I appreciate your point of view. What about Iraq? What are your thoughts on that? Seems like it has a bit more going for it than Afghanistan.
That wish is already granted

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Path_Workbench

My thesis is that the bigger challenge is "economic", not technical.
Can you back that with some proof?
Phenomenal article, but I'm frustrated by his focus on Google, because it implies that you can only do 'Good Agile' when you have more money than God and no deadline. Although, perhaps that was his point.
What you describe has nothing to do with waterfall and is simply agile. Literally nothing in what is supposed to be waterfall prevents specialization or treating people nicely. However, multiple agile methodologies explicitly prevent specialization and explicitly are tickers focused.

They do it for a reason, to be fair. But, it is ridiculous that for how long agile existed, every single uncomfortable or dysfunctional thing about any agile process gets blamed on waterfall.

No. These are all issues with agile methodologies. Agile manifesto is just feel good document meant to make you buy into the process in abstract. It is inspirational, but that is all there is to it.
Alcohol websites in the US have to ask a visitor’s age before they can enter. Irritating. It adds friction to the site experience. It reduces traffic to the parts of the site that matter. But there’s no way around it.
Having managed agile projects at startups and big tech, there's a few problems that were common:

1) lack of customer feedback loop - agile is meant to ship features quickly to customers, get feedback, and iterate/enhance/pivot based on their feedback. Often times the projects were simply things that "had to be done" and the whole agile process was not necessary.

2) inaccurate estimation - projects would start with asking engineers to estimate "t-shirt size" efforts on user stories, and what happened in reality is the projects always ended up taking longer than expected due to unknowns, dependencies etc. I've only worked with a few senior engineers who can accurately estimate, but junior engineers starting their careers in a big company, it's a tall order to ask them to be accurate.
I already stockpile particular old models of ThinkPad laptops, and now I should pick up 1-2 backup no-nonsense laser printers.

As for MS Windows, that's already giving people problems from software like we're talking about avoiding from hardware.
MicroSD booting is brilliant as it allows the OS to install itself onto eMMC. Also when you have an OS installed on eMMC but need to fix something or want to try something out, all you need is to pop in a micro SD and it will boot from it.
That's essentially what the FDA is doing with regards to most medical devices. The 'stamp' is allowing you to make certain claims about a device's ability to have some medicinal effect.

As already demonstrated, Bose was able to sell what was effectively a hearing aid in this new category, but without making any claims about assisting with hearing loss.

I guess what you're suggesting is that manufacturers should be able to make any claims they please with the FDA being relegated to a position of endorsing those claims.

Nothing that has happened in the past few years has given me any confidence that such a system would work (see: Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, Bleach, intravenous UV light, Chelation, et al.).
what I wish they would do is what Go does with dependencies. Package it up, compile it and turn it into a binary. This way I know 100% it will work on AWS Lambda for instance. I've spent ridiculous amount of time building dependencies that has to match Python versions and OS. AWS layers on github help save time but I don't know if I can trust strangers for this process.

Really should be, write stuff and test it locally on my machine, put it in a container and upload it. I know Lambda supports containers but sometimes I feel like its too much of an overhead, especially with shitty upload speeds but I really don't see any other choice unless I manually build AWS Lambda layers myself.
Is it a heavy process when you compare it to stuff like Scaled Agile Framework (https://www.scaledagileframework.com/)?
Make sure you adjust your faucets so they won’t go full hot. Don’t want to scald someone.
I think the recent metaverse push is well compared with a certain search company’s attempt to become a social network.
It's a virtual office park running on low end hardware. I don't think anybody is enjoying making it, so not that much effort goes into making it look nice.
Hardware limitations of the headset most likely
I've found that there's no single method that works well over time. Agile gives you crappy code and a stressed team and water fall gives you late projects. I generalize.

People want to blame the method of project management but it comes down to the team and the project manager. There's a reason why project managers get paid so well in every field. They know how to manage a team while bringing in the project on time. It's a hard job. What method is used is not as important.
I think what makes or breaks a team is not so much "is it agile or is it waterfall", but more cultural and difficult to quantify. My fairly small team of ~20 tried all kinds of kanban, sprint, standup, scrum or whatever and have converged on something amusingly waterfall-like where we design stuff upfront then just bang it out. We have open communication, so if we hit unexpected snags, you can just talk to product or bizdev or dev and sort it out. If product is getting anxious about progress, they just ask and the devs give an estimate (or even a demo). I guess business is kinda like a marriage where just talking about things openly solves quite a lot of problems.
Scrum was designed for low trust environments where you have to constantly demonstrate that you are worth your salary, ie consultants. Scrum gives a constant stream of status updates to show you make progress and blocker reports to cover you ass and shift blame to the client, that is very important for consultants but shouldn't be needed in high trust environments.
I would argue HN is the biggest echo chamber in tech. The hive mind is very strong here
Why would a live vaccine be better?
Just about all of that comment relates to something stated in this chain.

> Believe it or not, it’s actually possible to pay attention to two (or more!) things at once!

Here you're suggesting it's not a problem to mess with the stereo because you can multitask. This is directly against the quote from the NTSB, which relates you arguing:

> If by distracted you means ‘occasionally pokes it when necessary for comfort when it’s safe’, and ‘operates it as a normal human being’ (including tweaking a mirror when you notice it’s not where you want to be able to see, including gasp while driving when safe) then the NTSB, every state and federal government, and 99% of the driving public says yes. Including me.

The NTSB does not agree with you. They do not agree it's fine to adjust your stereo when you drive, they clearly state the opposite. They state you should only focus on driving. Not just that it should be your primary focus, but that it should be your sole focus. There's zero way you can read that as an endorsement from the NTSB that it's OK to adjust your stereo while moving, which you absolutely claim here.

Another part of the comment is based around the concept in that above quote that if the majority of the public (measured how? Who knows) thinks it's OK, then it's OK (99% if the driving public says yes). You're definitely making that argument there, that since 99% of people agree messing with the stereo while driving is acceptable then it is. I don't know where you're getting that 99% figure, as obviously the NTSB disagrees. I'm then pointing out that just because a ton of other drivers do some action or find it acceptable, it doesn't mean it's truly a safe thing to do. If you took a poll and 99% of drivers admitted to texting and driving, what would your position be?

Then finally I'm arguing against your statement of it being necessary to make changes to the center console. It's not necessary, I assure you that the car will continue driving down the highway regardless to however you configured your AC or if your radio is getting nothing but static. Making those adjustments are definitely not necessary to drive the car, which the NTSB says should be the sole focus. If you're needing to make center console adjustments so you can continue safely driving the car while it's in motion, you didn't fully configure your car before it started being in motion. I know it's not necessary, because I haven't touched my center console while the car is in motivation for many thousands of miles. And I routinely do hour+ long highway drives, so it's not like I'm stating this only driving short drives with lots of lights.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me this phenomenon is entirely explainable classically (and fairly simply) by using the fact that linear filters dot product the polarisation vector of the incoming light with the polarisation vector of the filter. A dot product of orthogonal vectors gives you 0, while a dot product of vectors rotated 45° gives you a non-zero answer (meaning if you do it twice you still get a non-zero answer). We did a fairly simple proof of this in second-year undergraduate physics. It's only surprising if you make certain assumptions about linear filters that are not correct.

Of course you need a quantum explanation if you're treating light as photons, but quantum mechanics is not needed to explain this phenomenon (unlike other phenomena).
One issue is that viewing VR on 2d is incomparably worse than experiencing on a VR set. The feeling of presence makes up for the bad graphics. You feel much more connected to content in VR than you do with a AAA game on a projector, despite it's low poly look.
I note recently they've recently changed it to present as "Thank You" points at a rate of 100-to-the-dollar.

The cynic in me wonders how long before they devalue them. It's easier to start changing the rules for "points redemption" when they aren't saying outright "You have $112.75 in cashback value" on the statement.

They recently had a promotion-- use the points directly to buy on Amazon, but if you paid that way, it was debased-- something like 120 to the dollar. It was actually better for me to buy what I wanted on credit, redeem the points as a bank transfer, and settle the bill at the end of the month.
The Horrors of Being a Facebook Moderator | Informer [video]
I make $0/year, so my choices are more restricted.
You're just applying the concept at the wrong scale.

Honestly I hate the term agile, it should really be "open communication", and it can apply on even a daily timeline

Waterfall "style" is a directive comes from on high to get every service running on the new cloud provider, and 2 years later those on high find out we're still 2 years away from completion and along the way we spent months working on tiny aspects of it because the directive couldn't capture every nuance.

Agile "style" is where you get to return feedback to "on high" before that point. If there's a service that represents 5% of our revenue but required 30% of the effort, you get a chance to push back and talk to stakeholders before committing that.

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It's really the idea of "further unraveling uncertainty as you go along instead of assuming you accounted for all of it at the start" that makes agile useful, and that can work on any project of any scale.

No matter how rigid the parameters of a project, at some level there's uncertainty (otherwise you'd have perfect estimates and nothing would ever be late). So better that "on high" learns more details about that uncertainty as you go along, and you get input on how to handle that uncertainty... than in a giant "we're flailing" moment later down the line.

I think people focus too much on the whole "no committing to deadlines" idea, when that is not at all central to the value proposition, and honestly feels like a feel good platitude that doesn't actually work when it meets reality regardless of how small you are
I tried both NMN and NR. NMN did absolutely nothing for me. NR is noticeable - can sustain heavy exertion for much longer. Much faster recovery.
What do you think about Roblox and Minecraft then?
You still do. These "init-less" packages are something specific called namespace packages, and you shouldn't use them unless you have a good reason to use them. See https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0420/.
One part of that post that hasn't aged well is the praise Google's launch culture got.

15yrs of hindsight later and it has probably become the biggest product pathology cliche identified with Google.
> Fraudulent charges can be reversed immediately

This isn't really a benefit, it's a fix to a problem caused by credit cards that doesn't happen at all (or at least rarely) with debit cards.
The emperor has no pants.
Yet the price the purchaser pays doesn't change, so the less fortunate end up subsidizing the rich. Credit card rewards are egregiously regressive.
There are android apps that can detect AirTags. It’s just iOS is the only OS that has this built in and enabled by default.
This is such a gimmick.

PG&E should publish price forecasts 24 hours in advance, and then push real time prices to the battery controllers every 60 seconds.

(Insert undergrad reinforcement learning homework assignment here.)

And then the battery manufacturers could advertise by publishing their average regret (the machine learning metric) over the last year in terms of dollars saved vs. some baseline.
> more than half of the stand-up is discussion of topics that are totally unrelated to my context.

or the team is doing too much at a time, and delegating different "projects" to different people in the name of efficiency.

I think that's actually wrong - the whole team should work on the "same" task. For example, coding a module could be done together. It might seem like only 1 person is writing code, and everyone else is over the shoulder looking, but you save knowledge transfer times in the future, and you save code review time (you do review at the same time when everyone is there).