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I think Scott Aarons' statement is misguided . It is not about what is "better" or "worse" . It is about the difference between concrete vs. abstract.

Abstract things are representations of many different concrete things, they are abstractions of concrete things. Abstractions are "real" but they exist on a different ontological level than concrete things. They only exist in our head, and therefore many say they don't "really" exist by which we commonly mean that they don't exist in the physical world.

There is clearly a big difference between what exists in the physical world, and what we SAY or write about it. The latter are descriptions, which are often abstractions. Like say "redness" is an abstraction of the common properties of all red objects.
Cabin heater failure causes the entire drive system to fail. This is Christmas light string level engineering. You are double fucked if your heating fails in a blizzard.
Second failure of this rocket. Space is so unforgiving - no rolling back the update when you're sending up hardware into orbit.
Cool idea, I've thought about writing an editor on python as well, so glad to see how you've done it.

If you're looking for contributions though, I think you'd be wanting some changes to help other python devs to join in:

1. run a code formatter on it. I don't know why you put many statements on one line with a `;` - if anything it just suggests that the code is messy.

2. Have some basic tests so we know where the guardrails are.

There's also no structure. You've got this all in 3 python files, which is great and all for a personal project, but if you want some contribs, then you've got to help us out... i have no idea what I'm looking at..

What is `rightSpeak` `fullSpeak` and `speak` for instance?
There’s a $40bn/yr business here. I’m sure somebody can figure out how to decouple.

Also, many breakup scenarios for Amazon involve spinning out the fulfillment business. Who cares if Amazon.com stocks 10 mattresses if I can just build a competitor stocking 10,000 while using the same infrastructure.
> Hello there. I'm here to roast you.

> I am a Clojure programmer.

> Ah, Clojure. The language that's so obscure even the guy who made it can't keep it straight.

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> Hello there. I'm here to roast you.

> I am a Haskell programmer.

> Oh wow, a Haskell programmer. The perfect combination of being unemployed and unemployable.
I wouldn't take its numbers seriously. It's a travel article by someone who thinks Ashoka lived in the 3rd century CE instead of BCE. May not have gone through any editorial review or fact check.
I've worked with batteries, and firmware, and the person you're responding to is correct. The firmware on a battery controls things like charging limits (and more!). If the firmware is written poorly it leads to battery fires.
It also makes sense that it's guided by prompt engineering to avoid certain topics.
> Food trucks are expensive, for the price you need to pay to get that business going, you could buy the equipment needed to start a more lucrative business

not really, if the skills of the owner is essential to the business (which is true for a foodtruck). You won't be hiring a chef, you will be doing the work yourself.

I would argue food truck business is less capital intensive than opening the equivalent restaurant.
A lot more computing horsepower by being tethered, really. A standalone unit naturally can't have the same kind of graphical fidelity than something tethered to a full-powered current-gen console.

I think there are two strategic errors worth considering here:

- wireless vs. tethered. Was it really worth it going wireless or was there viability in being tethered?

- the hype around PSVR2 is around the Horizon game, which seems like a legitimately great, full-length game that's both a gameplay and technical achievement. What if Meta had spent their $$$ on funding and shipping titles like it? Beat Saber is the only title of note for them and it's getting very old.

One gets the feeling that Meta only begrudgingly services the gaming applications of Quest, even though it's the only application right now. This is understandable as the console market as a whole is far to small for Meta to be interested in long-term, but one can convincingly argue that the status quo doesn't serve them either: they have a product that doesn't have non-gaming PMF but also are visibly annoyed at being in the gaming market at all.

Their existing customers have no confidence in the platform and have reasonable expectations to be jettisoned the moment they become inconvenient, while the company has no line of sight to another market.

There's a lot of execution here that feels like it puts the cart before the horse. Of course you want a bigger-than-console-gaming market, but you have to excel in your space before you can convincingly lay claim to another. Finding viability (both product and financial) in your current market gives you freedom to pivot later.

The step away from Quest Pro feels incoherent. You don't really see yourself and your product as a gaming product, so you pivot towards MR/productivity use cases... and now you're... pivoting back to gaming? What? Yeah, ok, the Quest Pro was definitely underbaked, but it suggests that the company has no confidence in its own strategy. If you believe in the MR/productivity path, double down and fix the problems with a follow-up. If you believe in VR gaming, then act like it!
I'm a user and I think they are compatible requirements and support each other well.

The alternative, having ambiguous addresses, makes systems hard to reason about and monitor, and add compplexity - eg when inevitably "internal" networks end up connected to each other in various kinds of reorganisations resulting in misconfigurations because nobody can tell anymore what the ambigous rule about a 10.xx address meant. Complexity and
anbiguity are main enemies of security because you can only secure what you can understand well.

NATs are also hard to reason about in that there's no real spec about what kind of incoming traffic they allow and when. The NAT function is designed to facilitate communication in face of connectivity hurdle presented by the addressing, not limit communication.
Maneuvering the odds: The dynamics of venture capital decision‐making
Jaxa could do with Google's Pixel camera expertise to adjust the lighting on the main vehicle and blast plume bursting from the rocket engine at the first ten second span from launch. The best Space Shuttle camera work did that kind of thing. Lost art?
You didn't go on the offensive.
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Margins are still very high for a tech company, so the business can be sustainable even with high R&D costs. What’s happening is the end of a cycle where everyone pulled back on their spending and companies try to keep the same margins by managing their expenses as they cannot attract more revenue.
E5/L5 compensation is relatively similar across the board for normal performers ($350k-$450k). Once you get into the E7+ compensation levels, then you start to notice a real differences.
Use ChatGPT/GPT in Google Sheets
Different tools for different tasks. Can you score a movie whilst maintaining perfect clock sync with umpteen devices via SMPTE and load-balance your DSP across a cluster of computers whilst recording an orchestra in real-time? Can you do digital productions in Unreal whilst designing the set in real-time and showing it to the director in-camera as the cast are on set? No, and I wouldn't want to try anyway.

What you're describing is fairly basic stuff, and the computational resources required to perform those tasks has been outpaced by the miniaturization and price-to-performance value of a smartphone or tablet. But complex tasks have always required complex tools, and complex tasks become more and more complex over time, they take advantage of modern-day performance.

The smartphone is the modern-day personal computer. A workstation is still a workstation, and just because it comes in an ATX tower doesn't mean it's consumer-grade hardware.
what's your first book? I love stuff like this!
Is this for the purpose of more easily identifying causative factors? Kind of like always developing/debugging in the same environment for reproducible results?
Were We All Gaslit About Content Being King?
Strongly agree. Dropped prime after I Amazon adds mean I couldn't find what I wanted. Now use google to find specific stuff on D2C websites (probably Shopify) and spend less. It's great!
> can charge you property taxes on a higher amount of their choosing

i think it should be that if they choose the price, then they must also be obliged buy at that price, in lieu of having the tax paid.
The other factor that a lot of people overlook is how badly Ukraines defeat would affect nuclear nonproliferation.

Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons and long strike weapons in exchange for a promise to not be invaded.

After Russia broke that promise who would ever make that same deal again?.
Play ransomware operators claimed to be behind the massive cyberattack on City of Oakland disrupting the IT services resulting in a state of emergency. Recently, they have also leaked over 10GB of stolen data containing confidential documents, employee information, passports, and IDs.
I agree - Apple TV is very tolerable. Most importantly it's fairly robust.
And a lot of startups that shouldn't exist got financed.
Licensing only part of your software under free software licenses is a clear statement that you do not believe in software freedoms for users.

A proprietary software house that releases some free software is still a proprietary software operation.
>... I really don't get the hatred.

The hatred pretty much comes directly from the fact that as developers we are not the customer, just the user.

What do developers want? Not to wait for flipping ever on every damn mouse click. To be as fast and minimal as possible. Stay out of the way so I can get work done.

What does the customer (the person who selects the product and signs away company $ for it) To "manage" developers with more of the latest utter bullcrap management cult incantations that are fundamentally useless while being time expensive to developers who have just a little bit of talent. Kanban. What the actual f&^k? Seriously. Does it cost develeoper time? How much? Is it worth that time?

So yeah, bits of jira as a bug tracker were designed ok, then made worse and worse and worse and slower to run and worse I have to do what now? and slower and worse and what else is there non-atlassian like literally anything else is worth a shot.

Years ago in a fit of "do something about the misery" I looked at the atlassian website, saw "contact the founders" and thought I'd let them know how much worse this crap was getting and how much I didn't like putting up with it as a user. Some flunky created a goddamn jira ticket, then closed it! Never seen by the founders. Being an angry idiot I sent another one filing a bug that "contact the founders" is not seen by the founders so is wholly dishonest. You can guess how that changed everything.

They don't and didn't care. They hate me and my kind is the only reasonable inference I can make. What am I meant to do? Turn the other cheek so they can make more money kicking me in the shins? Yeah so there's one place the hate comes from. We are forced to use a product made by a company who hates us.

Hopefully that clears it up one perspective for you. Others may see things differently of course.
I've found many useful threads and answers for some super niche and obfuscated stuff on Gitter where you get some discord like benefits (better irc) and is indexed by engines. I liked their model where you can have rooms for topics, repos etc but shame it's hardly used.
> Design success as the enemy of success, and you never run out of issues to solve.

And a game almost everyone will hate, as it slaps you in the face and spits on you for succeeding.
Google Should be broken up first
Reminds me of The Temples of Syrinx, by Rush
Asteroids are indeed much more dangerous because no atmosphere exists to protect machines and human from space scraps and lights.

That said I think human need to be multi-planet to be able to survive big disasters. And asteroids as a small scale space station has its own benefits compared to planets or space crafts.

Guessing as a 21st century human of course :)
Ngl, as a Muslim, Indraprastha is a much cooler name than Delhi.
Hey! Yes, I'm one of the co-founders of Olvy. Should've mentioned in the earlier comment.
Turning your V8 over and having it cough into life is very satisfying.
Yes, I know this is opt-in, but Matrix has a static & crawlable service for their chats: https://view.matrix.org/
I would love to experiment with a dishwasher that can accept single items and deliver them cleaned on demand. And scale up to full loads with the same mechanism. Like dropping dishes into a river, with a cage at the start for stacking up dishes waiting to be automatically cleaned.

On a related note, at some point, computer vision models could probably help classify and typify incoming crockery and their target stains for a more accurate clean...
They did the same thing for Walmart+ and honestly it's pretty terrible. Every business is going to try to be amazon now and while it's probably going to make money in the short term it'll eventually poison their brand. I want to know the hot sauce I'm going to buy isn't sold by some random dude who will send me expired items. I want to know the hard drives I'm going to buy are actually new. Same thing with newegg.
Have any digital assistants actually been successful? Alexa, Cortana, the "Hey, Google" one (not sure if it had a name) all seem to me like they flopped, but I haven't been following closely.
For older people, socializing may extend life span significantly
I wonder what effects this uncertainty will have on an organizational system. With multiple rounds of layoffs, talks of 'flattening', projects being cancelled, internal transfers being frozen, hiring being frozen, when does an organization finally become 'healthy' again? When are the right people in the right places making the right decisions again?

Does an organization that has so much capital need to even care about organizational strength?
> But I really don't understand why people use Rust for scenarios that a GC language works.

This entire article's thread is littered with generalizations without context/nuance so you're probably right. I don't think most people could rationalize it beyond those usecases. Especially considering 90% of us on HN are building SaaS and business software or stuff unrelated like games/data science. Maybe even more than 90%.

For the rest of us doing non-Rust applicatiable software to pay ou4 bills GC by default and Rust where it matters is more than sufficient. And usually the Rust part means libraries since we can't all have dedicated dudes doing optimization type software.

Or maybe I'm biased cuz I work for Startups.
I tried asking ChatGPT easy but completely off-the-wall questions and it consistently got the answers surprisingly right. For example, I asked it "Which is more powerful, a DEC VAX or a GTX 1070?" and it both noted that this comparison was questionable, as the two are not used in the same context, and correctly answered that the GeForce has much more processing power than a VAX. There are no Google results that directly answer that question, and yet ChatGPT knew that was what it should say.

So while it is obviously just guessing what to say, the idea that it is just regurgitating existing material seems wrong to me. It does some pretty impressive synthesis to come up with its answers.
It's definitely good for alarms, music, and controls for a few lights around the house. Occasional factual questions at the dinner table without needing to bring out a phone.

Does it need to be more than that? I guess the hopes were higher. But on the list of tech products, it seems to have utility and staying power.
Many cheats violate copyright licenses and the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/bungie-wins-lawsuit-against-che...
Sounds cool but isn't it somewhat lazy to not include at least a picture in the article of what you're talking about?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17115643
Wow this kind of news… 5% of its workforce? In other news, a company eliminates 1.25% of its workforce…
If a random unauthenticated user can find it, which is what I am assuming people mean by making it accessible instead of locked in a discord, then other companies can pull and use the data too. What benefit does discord have to gain by making their content more accessible, that outweighs the possible losses?
Yes... Surprisingly that would still matter for their other (Mac only) software. Yet they still could choose to kick the can for this video game. Which is what I was talking about.
1) It's no longer the search intent destination for advertisers. You find information on TikTok, you research products on Reddit, you send your purchase intent to Amazon, etc. These platforms will accrete more advertiser dollars.

2) Google SERPs sucks now. Low quality ads at top, low quality results that follow. A lot of SEO bullshit. Information returned is often irrelevant. Users know this and are getting fed up.

3) Google Search tech / product itself sucks. Power queries no longer work. This might be hard to unwind from as revenue numbers are propped up by answering "dumb queries" with ads.

4) AI will eat search's lunch. You'll increasingly ask LLMs, and these LLMs will push search ad revenue to a much lower margin, especially if the goal is to gain a reputation for quality.

Google has to figure this out quick. 50% of their revenue is from search. I think they're checkmated. There's no way out except to build something new and hope it works. That wouldn't be easy for anyone, but Google especially hasn't shown a history or aptitude for doing this.
Do you know of any service that is running at scale out there that stores their data as 5mb plain text files?
Is the JTBD framework another reinvention of customer use oriented requirements? What's the special sauce other than new lingo?
I share the author's concern about company-sponsored groups, but I'm not impressed when the article starts out by citing the "robust literature" that employees can only be productive for under 3 hours a day.

Robust literature? A deals website in the UK did a survey of its customers during the pandemic and announced that people work on average 2 hours 53 minutes per day[0].

I can imagine no more robust source of hard data on human potential than a blog post about a self-reported survey from the marketing team of a deals and coupons website during a pandemic. But hey, I'm sure they got great SEO on the article and have great coupons and discounts on stuff.

Don't cheapen your points by pulling in a bunch of nonsense "statistics" to try to back them up.

[0]The firm that did the survey doesn't even seem to have any live links to their "report". The best contemporary discussion I can find of it is https://www.strategy.rest/?p=3169
Buddhists were the only folks who were building universities at the time Hindus didnt even have a school leave alone universities. The so called "Gurukul" has never been found at any archaeological site.
25cm is the allowed limit for commercial satellites. That isn't enough to identify anyone. The atmosphere limits the best possible resolution to not significantly better. Imaging off axis through a longer column of air makes everything worse.
My eyes rolled straight into the back of my head

Yeah, mine too. It's hard for me to take these kinds of arguments seriously in 2023. I'm willing to concede that geographic proximity was necessary for collaborative intellectual work, but the internet has changed that milieu. I also don't think it was true pre-internet, as Einstein himself showed.

Linus Torvalds didn't need to be in the Bay Area of California when he created the Linux kernel, yet it didn't happen without a massive amount of collaboration enabled by the internet. Solzhenitsyn, after he emigrated to the USA after getting deported by the Soviet Union, continued his intellectual work and writing in Cavendish, Vermont which was and is extremely isolated. And that was pre-internet!
Same for me. Annoying!
That article is literally talking about amazon workers listening to queries asked to Alexa. Are you mad that they have a feedback loop that lets them improve? They’re not spying on you talking about your mundane life. No profit in that.
All of those listed technologies got cancelled, shut down, or deprioritized due to rampant spam.
It’s very likely I’m just assigning too much functionality to DP++ in my memories :).
NAT is not only bad because you don't have publicly routable addresses, but because it's a hack and a pretty "clever" one at that, aka, incredibly nasty.

If we had networking protocols that took into account the complexities of private addresses it could probably work - but we don't have such a luxury. The entire TCP/IP stack assumes peer to peer connections, and NAT is literally a spanner in the works for all that.
> as fleshed out or complete as it is

Their dropdown list doesn't show the currently selected item
Here is an interesting article written from an anthroposophic perspective of why this happens.

https://www.anthromed.org/library/2018/12/6/the-fungi
More mass means more kinetic energy when moving. In the vast majority of cars, all the kinetic energy is wasted as heat when braking. More mass means more rolling friction on the tires. More energy wasted means more gasoline burned, more resources used, more pollution generated.

Here's another way to frame it: If weight is not waste, would you volunteer to manually pedal a 2000-kg quadricycle to drive yourself to work? Do you not appreciate the vast increase in energy to move a heavier vehicle?

Finally, look at the GMC Hummer EV versus their e-bike: https://www.gmc.com/electric/hummer-ev/insider/awd-ebike . The car weighs 4100 kg and has a 213 kWh battery. The bike weighs 43 kg and has a 48 V × 17.5 Ah = 0.84 kWh battery. In this case, one car battery has as much capacity as 250 bike batteries. Every electric car manufactured takes away natural resources that could transport many more people on lighter vehicles.
Microsoft GitHub does this nonsense too stealing add-ons' and native `/` for quick search even when you disable the it in their settings