skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of big tech is throwing bodies at problems at this point since decades of data is all rotted and programmatic solutions simply don't work. IF you stay at Amazon after all of this attrition, your life will be hell.
I had an inside view of things, but all of the work being done is actually a long term roadmap towards building AR devices that don't suck. There many complicated issues to deal with, including batter life, processing power, input and control, heat management, placement of self and objects in a virtual world, safety, and on and on. That's all on top of figuring out what content is interesting and compelling.

Devices being made by these companies all embody elements of solutions to these challenges, but they all recognize it's a long road, and there's a lot of learning still to be done.
> Open source != free to use anywhere

This is the way. And while you may not be legally entitled to, you can.
> I do embedded so it's just never been necessary.

Oh that's cool! I've never worked on that side of things. I assumed SQLite was used in embedded stuff, but I guess not.
You can also just put seats on a normal bike. I have two kids seats on my bike, front and back, and take my 3 and 6yo to kindergarten that way. It's cheaper than a cargo bike, and much less likely to get stolen.
I was on my mobile, I think the keyboard is Gboard, you have a symbol keyboard with two pages and the second page has the bullet.

Also if I long press on the bullet I can choose among •♣♠♪♥♦, which I find to be a hilarious random assortment...
This also has the advantage of being browseable. I just sorted by votes and learnt some neat new tricks.
Mastodon is not a commercial entity, it doesn't have to compete with Twitter any more than my alumni.university email has to compete with Gmail.

Mastodon offers a simple solution to stay out of the text wars, one that Twitter wouldn't dare offer: "turn off reblogs".

Half the people I follow retweet/boost things I find irrelevant (personally). I can turn that off on Mastodon to reduce the noise. I can't on Twitter because then I might spend less time on the app, robbing them on precious ad revenue.
as cool as this is, i feel that anything with the complexity of more than one or two arguments should really be written in a different language, like Python (or AppleScript for macOS users). bash just isn’t the right tool for the job then.
It's expensive to have a car in central London because of the cost of parking. It has basically been unbundled from housing; garages sell for upwards of £100k, guaranteed parking spaces somewhat less, on-street parking is either banned, charged for, or very heavily competed over.

As a resident you get a 90% discount on the congestion charge, so driving it will cost you £1.50 per day. I'm not quite sure whether that applies to parked cars as well.
Embarrassed about what, exactly? You seem hostile, i'm trying not to.

I stand by everything i said.

> My hope is that even if it never goes beyond being an autocomplete; if we can improve the training dataset, help it not conflict with itself, etc - that maybe the autocomplete will be insanely useful.

I stand by my first post's summary. Which is "never going past an autocomplete".

You're pedantic, and struggling to move past the fact that something can be both token prediction and still have successes and failures in the user perception. Inaccuracies.

How you write software with such a mindset is beyond me.
Bank stocks continue to fall, signaling problems with the financial system that run deeper than deposit flight at SVB and other regional banks.
Yes but remember, everything now is tech. The days of companies being evaluated at their peak purely because they are "tech" is over.
Don't the sheep get eaten in the end? Or was that your point?
I think the crux of the issue is as part of hiring, we expect folks to memorize knowledge from school. What I personally try to look for is candidates with the aptitude to learn quickly and apply that knowledge to solve problems.
That’s a pretty strong statement to make without backing it up with some evidence of foul play, or at least evidence of these links.
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And many accounts are not active. I would hazard a guess that of these 10M accounts, less than 1M are active users--making the submission headline very misleading indeed.
That's going to take a long time.
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https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/

> Have they modeled all the different plausible crops and agricultural techniques, which regional environmental conditions they're most suited for, and the transitions between them based on regional climate change effects?

Seems so.

> It's one thing to model a natural system, but seems quite a bit more complicated to model a system where human technology and decision-making is extremely significant.

"Extremely" is a big word. Agricultural yields depend on the weather. A population of 9-10 billion will not be sustained by vertical farms maintained in a synthetic climate.
It’s building on a pretty serious thread of research, and demonstrates reasonable agreement with prior work (table 9) so I don’t think it can be dismissed as an advertisement.

Generating exposure ratings via GPT-4, from annotations provided by OpenAI people does definitely put a positive bias on the exposure estimates (which they acknowledge)
> If you run an ARM OS in it

Only arm64/aarch64 operating systems I know are GNU/Linux or Mac OS X. I doubt the iPad is strong enough to run a usable Mac OS X virtual machine, and I don't see a ton of value running either a Linux distribution as CLI ("headless") or with a GUI on an iPad as an app in a window?
If I’m being honest, that’s a bit dramatic. The internet has always been at least a little clique-y.

If the group-think and witch hunting is as hard on you as you seem to describe, I can assure you there are MANY others in the same position.

So make your own thing.

Why’s that bad? Why are you responsible for expanding their minds and exposing the group-think sheep to new viewpoints? Live in your own rebel communities. Basically like the internet has operated for the last 30 years.

The adventurous among them will venture over when they want.
Relatedly, there's a new drama out about the history of pinball: https://pinballfilm.com/

It's good!
You are thinking of Oulu.

It’s not just Oulu, though: any city with students in the North has a lot of bikes, Umeå in Sweden has 40k students almost all on bikes; Vaasa (opposite Umeå, in Finland) also has a lot of bikes. Uppsala, Stockholm, Malmö, Göteborg, Eppo, all have a lot of bikes—and just as many in winter and summer.
There's another type: who comes into the kitchen,right at midday, knowing well that there will be another 15 queuing to do the same, puts in the food and walks away for a half an hour. I had to take food out quite a few times because I can't wait around for some princess. Obviously stopping it mid journey is a crappy thing to do.
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No one's 'still in' the METAVERSE cause zuckbuckland isn't what people who have VR devices actually want.
History doesn't quite work as nicely as one might like. Fact is, dozens, probably hundreds, maybe thousands, of PLATO people wound up working in the tech industry, had long careers there at DEC, Data General, Sun Microsystems, Atari, Oracle, Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc etc etc etc.

The last section of my book documents some of the influences, including the most obvious one, Ray Ozzie's Iris project which created Lotus Notes, named after PLATO Notes. Lotus Notes had like 100 million users and was sold to IBM for billions of dollars. It had a huge influence on the corporate IT world.

And AuthorWare was developed by PLATO people, and got merged with Macromind, creating MacroMedia, which was ultimately gobbled up for billions by Adobe.

There's a lot of influence, but there's 100000x more noise and other stuff since, so it's buried and therefore the normal conclusion is "oh, there's no evidence so there was no impact" but that's too easy to dismiss... there's lots of impact, and PLATO people went everywhere, including me, doing a bunch of startups all of which were influenced by PLATO in one or more ways
From what I, as an outsider, could see, it seemed like most contributors stayed with gitea.

At this point forgejo is just a soft-fork as well, so there really isn't any reason or hurry to switch (yet) in my opinion.

Though it did stand out that they are migrating stuff from gitea.io to gitea.com, as mentioned in this blog post.
Twitter has that feature.
The coin operated machine museum on Fisherman's Warf is also quite cool! They also have free admission, but you can play all of the games.
I think you should relax. Even if this AI hype is 100% real, we will be running massive IT projects for 20 years to convert everything over to AI run. Realistically, it will probably find a use case for a few niches, but not take over all work.

Unless we invent an actual superintelligence, in which case, no humans will be needed for work ever again and you will either live out your days in some kind of early retirement paradise or be fighting over the last can of cat food.
>and some (a lot?) of the community/devs went to https://forgejo.org/

The Forjero commits prove that this is incorrect (they are still busy removing Gitea branding related things from their code). It's going to take a long time until they begin to match the Gitea momentum.
Variable bitrate is for cost saving/efficiency, no?
Thank you for the suggestion, I'll check whether something resembling this is available in my area.
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That might be the case, but the investment show itself, however, might also just be far less than what it used to be...

Plus the "deliver cheap and fast" was not just because tech was so useful and must have, but mostly because of a number of factors, like people having money lying around to put into stocks, interest rates being low, QE, and so on.

With a decline in income comes a decline in advertising, (taking "eyeball" based companies), and a decline in BS subscription spending (taking down many "real business model selling SaaS" companies, resulting in a downward spiral...
> they haven’t fixed this

A fix has been done and will be rolled out by the end of the year. (Tesla: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
Playing for an hour at an arcade can easily drain a roll of quarters. $22 for a day is a pretty reasonable deal imo.
The free transmission of information should usually triumph over the enforcement of intellectual property. It's a symbol of a healthy democracy, in my opinion.
It's a soft fork though, so the Forgejo folks are still relying on the Gitea team for features like this.

The Forgejo folks seem to object to Gitea on the basis that a company took the project over. I think it was that an American company took it over, not that a company took it over. They didn't AGPL forego, they just soft forked and backed the fork with a European organization instead of an American one, Codeberg[1]. Yes, the org is non-profit, but it still smacks as hypocritical.

I'll be sticking with Gitea for the foreseeable future.

1: https://codeberg.org/
The thing that made me switch from Chrome on iOS to Safari was that I could easily install an adblocking extension through the app store onto vanilla safari.
> You can no longer expect to move out of the city and still get a short way to everything by using your car

E-bikes could actually improve rural life as well (the example I read about was Spain). If you live 10km outside a village and can do your normal shopping by bike instead of car, that can really make an impact. Won't work in really sparse areas of course.
I wonder if learning how a more simple microcontroller boots might help you.

I had the same questions as you around a year ago. As other commenters mentioned, modern hardware is incredibly complex and needs to go through many, many steps before it can boot a kernel. Modern CPUs have a bunch of legacy requirements that still exist to keep backward compatibility with older hardware.

One good example of these legacy requirements is the A20 line on x86 [1]. A20 can be considered a boolean flag that determines whether the CPU can access more than 1MB of RAM. The A20 flag was introduced in the Intel 286 because its predecessor, the 8086 had a limit of 1MB of RAM. The 286 needed to access 16MB of RAM, so Intel introduced the A20 flag that determines whether the CPU can access memory past 1MB. The A20 line still exists in x86_64 CPUs today, so it needs to be enabled before the entire RAM address space is used.

There are a TON of legacy requirements like the A20 line on modern CPUs (especially x86_64). It can make it very difficult to figure out what is going on in the boot process. For me, I found it much easier to start learning how simple pieces of hardware works before moving on to x86. The boot process for Raspberry Pi's RP2040 microcontroller is explained in the datasheet [2] and I found it to be a great resource to figure out which hardware needs to be initialized and what that actually means.

Just like x86, microcontrollers have many tasks they need to complete before loading the main program. But these steps are much less ambiguous and are described very well in the RP2040 datasheet. It lists every step that it goes through before the main program starts (including stuff like initializing the clocks to specified speeds). After I felt like I thoroughly understood how the RP2040 boots, it became much easier to understand why the bootloader needs to complete certain tasks.

Not sure if you are familiar with assembly, but you can also checkout part of the RP2040's bootloader here [3]. There are a few different bootloaders for the RP2040, the one I linked is the one referenced in the datasheet. Its purpose is to load the main program from a specified location in the flash memory chip.

Remember that the boot process on x86 processors has been changing for around 40 years, so expect it to take a while before you feel more comfortable with the terms used in bootloading and hardware. I've been learning this stuff for around a year and still feel like I only understand a fraction of the x86 boot process. But I find it so fascinating that I can't help but want to learn more of its complexity.

I love talking about hardware and the boot process, so feel free to let me know if you have any more questions! :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A20_line

[2] https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2040/rp2040-datasheet.p...

[3] https://github.com/rp-rs/rp2040-boot2/blob/main/src/boot2_w2...
I run https://pixeldrain.com. At the start of this year I completely removed all ads from my site. I'm done with checking ad network after ad network only to find out that they all pay the same: pennies.

Pixeldrain now runs on subscribers over at Patreon and it's working quite well actually.
I think you'd want a tetanus shot just by looking at my girlfriends bike with too much insistence.

We still lock it with a chain but I guess that is a good deterrent as there is always a nicer bike that looks more worth the effort on the same rack.
For me the biggest failure of all the VR headsets is there is no demo units at big box store and the lack of a TV app to see what the user is doing.

People don't want to blindly buy an unproven expensive gaming system without trying it out first. You can't go into a local Best Buy, Walmart, or Target and try the units out. You have to wait till someone you know gets it an is kind enough to let you give it a go.

With all the money Zuck has spent on developing these devices, it is surprising that no money was spent on demo kiosks.
I was hoping it was a reference to foraging after the apocalypse.
I mean you can only learn so much in school.

I have been developing for 5 years now and I'm always finding a new neat thing even in SQL.

Recently, had an issue with deadlocks, I learned about them in school(even did a presentation on it) but had to research how SQL handles them and how I can rectify the issue we were having. I really enjoy this part of the job. There is always something 'new' to learn, even if it existed for a while like SQL.
Gitea was taken from a community run project to an corporate owned one to allow for an open core future. Currently there's been no actions taken that negatively affect the open project, but the door is now open for a "This isn't working for our company, we're now going to SSPL" style move in the future.
What's the "dark secret" exactly? The entire point of AWS is companies being able to outsource this army of sysadmins so they don't have to hire them themselves. That's also why they pay 3-5x the cost of buying an equivalent server to Amazon.
The problem is that about a quarter of the world population - 2 billion people - currently make their living through traditional small-scale farming. If it turns out that climate change rapidly expands the viable area for growing quinoa, that's great for Peru and Bolivia and the world food market, but it's not going to help a subsistence farmer in Vietnam who finds their rice fields no longer grow enough to live from.
Yeah I've never worked anywhere where you could expect to leave food over the weekend.

Office fridges are for today's lunch, or saving lunch leftovers for tonight or tomorrow.

Or maybe yogurts for the whole week but there usually isn't space for everyone to be doing that.
Cyclists on the pavement make me so angry. (Also, "pavement" means "sidewalk," for the Americans reading.)
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My average was 18-20km/h, but half the journey was on the Vistula river bank which makes lights irrelevant. https://um.warszawa.pl/documents/61166/6599671/08102017_Bulw...

Still, would assume 16-18km/h is minimum reasonable speed unless you ride like a pensioner.
Since offices can be daycare or high school for adults, it might just be easiest to get a well insulated bag or lunchbox to keep at your desk. The tech these days is crazy. Some folks I know have used a small cooled fridge meant for beverages. If needed throw some medication in it (like eye drops for those dry eyes) to keep it cool.

Community fridge - people can put shareable things here. Sometimes people have soda they don’t like or some frozen meals that they bought too many of they don’t like. If you let people know they can do the nice and thoughtfully hung, they will.

Someone I know would take left overs they were done with and still good, mark it as a free leftover lunch. Never know what someone’s momentarily experiencing in life, or when you might be. Oddly others started doing it.

On the other extreme, I know someone who experienced endemic lunch theft that it was bordering cruel and once attention was brought to it it happened even more. So they put already expired lunches in the fridge.
How can mv and mv² explain the damage "equally well", when one is linear and the other is quadratic with respect to velocity?
You killed Bob Rife?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
Why would the mob own the robots? The whole point of robots is to eliminate the mob’s power.
I work for a tiny startup and while things are good, we are prioritizing reducing cloud costs as well. Our bill is relatively tiny right now, but as we grow it’ll become a bit more unsightly. Best to do it now and get that over with!
I've used the sniper approach.

Where have you been? We've been trying FOREVER to find a good person for this role. You should have been working here years ago!

"I applied like 6 times. Nobody ever called me back."
big if
Very similar impressions after years of biking (and having switched to an E-bike about 2 years ago).

I bike year-round in Warsaw, Poland, even though most people consider winter to be "off-season". Don't really understand why — they do go skiing after all, so cold must not be the problem? The only days I don't bike is when it's raining heavily or when it's really slippery (lots of snow, freshly frozen sleet, etc).

There are days when I don't ride a bike, and on these days I can really tell the difference: I feel much worse.

I found that what I miss when switching to a car is the sense of freedom: on a bike, you can stop pretty much anywhere, while in a car you need to follow the road in the traffic and are generally stuck. No way to stop quickly, take a phone call, or admire the pretty passers-by.

Also, switching to an E-bike was a great idea: it doesn't take away the exercise (as most people tend to think), it just makes biking more pleasant and extends the max distance I can go. And in summertime I can set the assist to max and not worry about arriving all sweaty.

If you live in a city, I'd highly recommend getting a city E-bike. Not a mountain bike. A city bike with proper mudguards, upright posture, and a large basket in front. Don't be that guy in lycra pants on a mountain bike, with a backpack on his (sweaty) back, taking the full additional weight of the backpack on the narrow seat, and with a mud stripe on his back. Enjoy life!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35233168
The sense that I got is that the whole relocation thing is on case-by-case basis. That is, it's up to your manager to work it out with you and determine whether or not this is a requirement. At least this is what I hear from someone working there. Is this not the case?
From multiple reliable sources I've heard that AWS's DynanamoDB team/ops is a meat grinder. The open tickets run into thousands with no hope of anyone getting time to work on permanent fixes.
> the number impacted in the past year seems to be between 100-250,000 tech employees

That's because companies announce layoffs but they usually don't announce mass hiring.

While cloud sectors are laying off, healthcare and defense are hiring tons right now
Every hour in operation 2GW of natural gas emit the same CO2 as 1GW of coal. In terms of how quickly we hit 2.5C of global warming that makes a big difference on its own.

However, large steam turbines simply take a lot of energy to warm up to operating temperature. This means simply turning coal power plants on and off releases lots of CO2.

This makes a huge difference as we add wind and solar because you can turn natural gas off and on multiple times a day with minimal cost. Which enables you to dramatically scale just how much wind and solar is connected to the grid.

Nobody wants to turn off a wind farm in favor of a coal power plant but it happens. Eventually we want to swap to energy storage, but for now getting off of coal is a huge deal in both directly and because it allows the grid to be more flexible.

> Electric cars are an expensive distraction from the problem.

As long as people live outside of cities they need personal transportation. Electrifying roads is a viable option, but it’s much easier when cars carry a big battery so you get similar results with 1% of the infrastructure.

*Actual efficiency varies somewhat, but it’s still big gap.
Librewolf is the big one, but there's also GNU IceCat if you're into that sorta thing.
@Dang, maybe this should be merged?

>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35232150
What's the rig? Is that more than the headset?