skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3D TV's didn't catch on, I think part of the issue is to get over the early adopters into mainstream there is the hurdle of wearing something over your eyes for hours at a time. The vast majority of people (aka mainstream) don't enjoy it. If people don't enjoy simple lightweight 3D glasses, they aren't going to enjoy the VR form factors out there.

I'm choosing the word enjoy because its not something like a car dashboard being touchscreen where people deal with it, this is entertainment and hobbies. If people don't enjoy it, they'll go do something else. VR will have niche use cases for sure and there will be some people that enjoy it but its not going to be mainstream.
And a pen is a robust way to write down information that is easily retrieved on a lot of surfaces.
This is nonsense. It's like saying "sun" is the most succinct word, meaning "Giant ball of fusing plasma situated approximately 149 million km from earth that acts as the centre of the solar system and around which the earth orbits". Of course, if you have no word for a concept, you need to describe it, but all words are like that. Try translating "quantum electrodynamics" into the Yaghan language. In practice what happens is the foreign word gets adopted to represent the concept.
How do you guys manage DarkMode in Tailwind ?. using dark:bg-xxx or are there any better way ?
How are the llama weights usable by the public? Even if leaked, doesn't using it count as piracy and thus a violation of either copyright or database laws?
Only if a "full cycle" is aggressively draining the battery. More likely, that 40 miles is a safe amount of discharge for the pack.
Related: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7e4g3/found-page-25-of-the-...

Also, according to Richard Doty, a former Air Force OSI intelligence officer / counterintelligence (disinfo) agent: the Army psychic program was continued in a special access project after they pretended to shut it down with the 1995 AIR report, and "There's a school at Fort Belvoir where they train psychics for military intelligence."
Good, then we stay away from such software.
With both series written and directed by Mitsuo Iso, who also contributed to storyboards, key animation, and digital effects. Iso had a remarkable career and notable animation style even well before Dennou Coil. It's only unfortunate that there's such massive gap between productions of his own original works.
That might not be enough as in the case of Gabriel's horn [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%27s_horn
I knew it was the Feynman video!
The original question was "Why are developers expected to estimate tasks at all?" @benjaminwootton gave perfectly sane answer to that question.

HOW developers should make their estimation is a totally different question, but it is not some arcane knowledge, and it should be an everyday craft for every mid-level engineer. First of all, we are doing those tasks by hundreds through our careers, so an easy way is to remember how long similar tasks took us last 10 times an produce a bracket, like in "from 5 to 8 working days, let's say 10 to be sure". Every business person will be happy with that answer.

OP says that every engineering task is unique as a piece of art. This is BS, IMO, except for the very junior engineer. Most of the time business wants some well-known and hundred times done things they see their competitors do. All the uniqness stems from particular codebase. If your codebase is a mess - you are in trouble, but it is you problem, not the general problem of software engineering.

In case I have some really unique task, what I should do is to say: "I cannot estimate this right now. Give me two days and I will get you an estimation". In those days I decompose the task into smaller, and divide those smaller tasks into "well known" and "unknown". Then I imagine (or even draw) a trivial Gantt chart and will have my estimation.

It is also totally normal to change your estimation during the work. You just should do that the moment you see a problem, not at the day of the deadline.
Just about the entire business world? M365 is like, six times the size of Google Workspace (see the Superhuman for Outlook release announcement: https://blog.superhuman.com/superhuman-for-outlook/ - the company specifically notes that it's startups that use Google), let alone Slack.

It's pockets of hyper early adoptery / fashionista startups and small media production companies where people started on Google because it's what they were used to from non-work life (they've probably been on Gmail as long as it's existed because it's just been the cooler product for forever). A good example being a recent LTT WAN show where Linus and Luke went "Who even uses Outlook?" and were genuinely surprised when people said that Outlook's actually good.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/xt5uho/wan_s...

Ben Thompson on the Silicon Valley attitude towards Redmond:

Back in the 1990s Silicon Valley was terrified of Microsoft; then, over the intervening years, that fear faded, and Microsoft became yesterday’s news at best, and the punchline of jokes at worse. Obviously the company has completely turned around its fortunes over the last decade, but even then the primary source of growth has been Microsoft’s ability to bring its pre-existing customer base to the cloud.

There have been other intrusions into Silicon Valley consciousness, of course, particularly when a seemingly unstoppable startup ran into the Microsoft distribution advantage wall, but few people in Silicon Valley use Microsoft products, and that’s that. Indeed, the response of several folks I talked to after Microsoft’s demo was “what demo?”

I think this is a massive mistake: Silicon Valley needs to rediscover its Microsoft fear, and Business Chat gets at why. Make no mistake, the Copilots are impressive, although it is reasonable to expect that Google Workspace’s implementation will be at least comparable. The problem with the Workspace + vertical SaaS app stack, though, is that none of it is designed to work together. I’ve been arguing for years this is an underrated reasons why Teams beat Slack; from 2020:

"This is where Teams thrives: if you fully commit to the Microsoft ecosystem, one app combines your contacts, conversations, phone calls, access to files, 3rd-party applications, in a way that “just works”…This is what Slack — and Silicon Valley, generally — failed to understand about Microsoft’s competitive advantage: the company doesn’t win just because it bundles, or because it has a superior ground game. By virtue of doing everything, even if mediocrely, the company is providing a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts, particularly for the non-tech workers that are in fact most of the market. Slack may have infused its chat client with love, but chatting is a means to an end, and Microsoft often seems like the only enterprise company that understands that."
The only world vr would work the way meta wanted is a world where everyone social distances forever. There's a slight chance if it's a hyperrealistic environment where you can actually see people in the eyes. No one will replace akwardly looking at the ground as everyone directs the attention to you with a bobbling 3D avatar as their main interaction with other people.
Personally speaking I got into custom keyboards which in turn got me into fountain pens.

I don't own anything amazing but have come to appreciate good quality paper and the clarity of thought that writing with pen and paper forces upon me.
Airlines can be turned into blimps. It's the big super-carrier cargo ships that are going to need all of the fuel.

That or we go the aircraft carrier route and make them nukes, which isn't feasible at the scale that international shipping operates.
One of my earliest experiences with VR was from Disney as a child. They’d built a VR “magic carpet” ride for Aladdin where you sat on a saddle shaped seat, wore a headset, and could navigate around an Aladdin-like world on the virtual carpet. That was when I was a small child, down at Disney World. 30 years later, it’s interesting to see them pull back on what still isn’t a sure thing for home use. I believe VR will succeed in some form but I suspect live sports will be the first industry where it succeeds. Event tickets are already insanely expensive and an immersive experience to be “at” every game will be an easy sell for some.
I think it would be really cool if there was a way to make one of these that repurpose the laptop display port as a built in DisplayPort or find a way to make a power adapter (maybe Ethernet, too?) not take up one of the 4 available ports. That would make it an insta-buy for me since otherwise I'm having to plug in a keyboard, mouse, and display and I'm left with a portless desktop machine.
> That's my speculation. If I was Musk, I wouldn't voluntarily quit OpenAI.

In hindsight. Back in 2018 it wasn’t at all obvious they would be in the position they are today. Google released the Transformer paper just a year before and were commonly seen as being in the lead.
FWIW Camo also works with any webcam now, also.
> At which point was nodejs five years older than the distro it shipped on?

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1259840/why-an-old-nodejs-ve...

Nodejs v4.x was "new" when Ubuntu 16.04 LTS came out. It was added to its apt repos, LTS releases are supported for 5+ years, and LTS policy is not to update major versions of software within a release.

So while nodejs was pumping out new major versions every 6-months, people running Ubuntu 16.04 and installing "apt-get install nodejs" were stuck on the same ancient version.
So any Londoner worth their salt should possess the Knowledge, then?

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/t-magazine/london-taxi-te...
That, obviously, will fail, as many (including child predators) will migrate to messengers that don't do that.

The informed ones anyway. They would be happy to get the uninformed ones as it still makes their numbers look better and justifies their position of weakening the internet.
The U.S. enjoyed and continues to enjoy pseudoslavery by any other name.
Wow, that is some nice handwriting indeed. Almost looks like a font.
VR controllers aren't reading your mind yet.

It doesn't matter how good the VR output is if I can't recline in my comfy chair with a VR helmet on and then run around a fantasy world fighting monsters and throwing fireballs while lying motionless in the real world.

That's the VR future science fiction has promised.
Let's say company A uses OpenAI models to create an open dataset, like alpaca. If company B uses that dataset to fine tune a model, is company B liable to TOS violation? Afterall, they may not even be an OpenAI customer.
I think the problem I responded to is of the ticket machine. The ticket machine is the property of the second party, and an agent for it, so hiding that is disingenious at best, and misleading at worst.

Your computer should be (although often isn't) doing things on your behalf, and only yours. There, the insertion would be jarring, and an encroachment.

I'm not quite sure where on that spectrum stand services which deliberately insert themselves between you and your data, like Dropbox or Google Sheets.
I work very hard to work as little as possible. On a given day I put in ~ 3 hours.

I realize that sounds very low, but I think as long as I am exceeding the expectations of my team and director, which I am, that is all that should matter..

My job could be done by AI, but it would take a different kind of system than what we have. It would not put my career out of business by any stretch, but it would close off a pathway.
It's called stability and it's a good thing. And no, nobody is forced to use docker.
There are other, even OTC, painkiller medications that might be worth trying. Diclofenac (Voltaren/Flector etc) or Metamizole (variously banned, prescription-only or OTC seemingly random around the world) for example, and then there some newer non-opioid painkillers maybe worth trying but those are mostly prescription only.
at least two of the example dogs have 5 paws
I would recommend to search for a setting that enables this to happen. Fortunately, it has nothing to do with a location.
I'm not armed for a philosophical battle, but the author seems to have a certain pretension to know what a good life is, and how others aren't living it. Yet the picture he paints I would very much question exists.

I'd have a very different take on the article if the author told their own story of (tiktok + adderall + chatgpt + porn + stuffed animals + calling people snowflakes) and how it was not a good life and turned it around, and would definitely see the wisdom in that.

Just enumerating what somehow triggers you and turning it into a tirade about how others should their life, not something I consider very wise. Obviously it will still resonate with individuals who struggle (as seen in the comments), but it will also further cement the grumpy old grandpa "kids these days suck" attitude (as seen in the comments too).
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> There are also others who are not journalists or involved in factual programming who nevertheless have an additional responsibility to the BBC because of their profile on the BBC. We expect these individuals to avoid taking sides on party political issues or political controversies and to take care when addressing public policy matters.

Having such a public face of the BBC hyperbolically compare government policy to those of the Nazis in 1930s Germany is inappropriate.
But that's Family Guy.
Buying enough vehicle that even your exceptional use case for it isn't pushing the limit of what it's capable of is absolutely a hallmark of upper middle class/white collar consumerist culture.

A socially awkward teenager gets more ass than rear seat of your average HNer's 4Runner or Model 3. IDK why the internet always shits on pickup drivers.

Regardless, I don't think you understand how impactful "a couple orders of magnitude" are. Even the heaviest of light vehicles, like a Hummer EV are of negligible effect on a road that has to handle any proportion of medium and heavy truck traffic.
I agree. Maintainers are useless middlemen (at best) who only exist because of Linux userland's particular diseases and a desire for distros to rule over their own little repo fiefdoms.

No other desktop OS has done it like Linux and for good reason. People have been citing this as a reason they don't want to use Linux as a desktop for decades to mostly deaf ears, who then turn around and wonder loudly why no one wants to use their OS. Hell, even Linus Torvalds himself complained about it.
To be fair notepad++ is pretty good
> Airlines can be turned into blimps.

For cargo, maybe, but I really doubt passengers would accept a significant slowdown on air travel.
> - 35000kcal from gasoline emits how much CO2?

If you're going to do that, what about the CO2 (gasoline) emitted to collect the gasoline? Given you need oil to extract oil, it's still far, far, far less efficient.
Both of the articles you linked are old though
Penmanship != Cursive,

Cursive may be dead, but for good reason. We don’t need to draw out huge chunks of text quickly anymore. If you don’t need to hand write blisteringly fast, printed letters are imminently more legible/consistent. Cursive also requires a lot more practice that would just be a waste of time. I write beautiful cursive letters on occasion for my wife, but it’s terribly slow because I don’t have much practice.

People with good printed penmanship are not rare. In school I recall admiring many classmate’s neat and creative note taking styles in the 2010s. That’s because note taking is where hand writing still offers benefits over typing. The freeform of pen&paper is still faster than typesetting atypical styles.
That's a manager talking.

The company dies anyway, so that argument is moot.

The solution lies somewhere else. For instance, actually taking the pressure off with resources - e.g. the manager can get their status reports by actually understanding the project by short one-on-one interviews and attending design meetings. Instead of asking everyone to come to a staff meeting, or send their status reports and jamming them into one aggregated email and forwarding that as their own work and pretending they did something.
This makes me think of https://www.bardeen.ai/ but maybe more capable of finding out what to do by itself.
Discussed here at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22019202
The article doesn't have a specific author listed. Is it safe to assume RMS?
> Try that command on Arch, Fedora or OpenSUSE and let me know how it works.

Using apt, yum, pacman or the equivalent is still just a single command. Your implication that "manual installation" is extra work when it is a single command on all the desktop distros.

Saying that "executing a single command" is too much manual work is simply delusional.

> Also, having multiple DEs in parallels rarely plays well with most distros.

Nonsense. I'm currently running Plasma, which was not the default. I've installed so many in the past on this machine that I lost track of them.

I've switched DEs and window managers multiples on this machine, with no problems.
Ah okay, you're not legitimately criticizing the US, you're a Russian troll. I see. You played your hand a little too strong there.

Ukraine was not harboring "Nazi battalions". The US has never intentionally targeted children with drone strikes. Both of these things are ridiculous to even state.

The news media in the US absolutely engages in propaganda, however it's usually for the benefit of the wealthy, not so much for the benefit of the government. In the US, you get unedited access to news from around the world, it is a trivial matter to read Channel NewsAsia (from Singapore), Al Jazeera (from Qatar), or Der Spiegel (from Germany) in English on the Internet, all of which are much less friendly to US policy interests globally and are more than happy to write scathingly about US behaviors abroad.

Good luck to you.
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Seriously, anyone with an interest in AR/VR and even a passing tolerance for anime ought to give Dennou Coil a chance. For those curious, it's better than just safe for work, it's a family friendly series that you could watch with your kids (or your parents).
It speaks volumes to the success of Snap that they’re now moving to ensure Flatpak isn’t part of the default desktop experience.

The only outcome this leads to is monetisation attempts through their store and other OS integrations to try and turn free users into a source of revenue. If you’re using Ubuntu for desktop I’d urge you to start exploring alternatives.
Humanity is in danger if the world does not pause AI ‘experiments’
https://archive.li/vf4Fn
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"By your logic:

"I can't stop overeating" => "It's not your fault"

"I'm concerned about myocarditis" => "You're selfish"

I didn't say this and you ignored my entire premise about the difficulty of the situation. Both an obsese person and a unvaccinated person are to blame(unless we want to talk about misinformation). The difference is the mitigating factors .

Getting vaccinated is easy but so is gaining weight. Losing weight is hard.

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"Yet the media had basically no campaign to encourage them to lose weight. "

There are massive campaigns by the government encouraging people to become more fit. Remember the presidents physical fitness challange? ( I'm assuming you are US).
Encouraging a health lifestyle through physical activity happens all the time. Also the obesity issue in America is reported on all the time.

Also the "media" isn't an organization it reports the news and they reported that government official wanted people to get vaccinated. I don't understand how you look at them, like some sort of government.

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- fear about side effects

The vast majority of experts said it's safe and the chances of side effects are extremely low. Lower than the probability of getting covid. It doesn't make sense to be afraid of side effects but not the disease.

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"Mental illness? So a schizophrenic person magically gets obese? Self-control issues? People who can't put the cookie down? "

I saw your comment about how you are happy about this engagement which makes me think you are a reasonable person however the comment above is the opposite of that. The mental illnesses I'm thinking of is depression and anxiety disorders. People don't magically become obsese, as you said, and if it was as easy as "put the cookie down" almost no one would be fat. There's also been studies showing that sugar is similar to an addictive substance.

Finally have some empathy for people in a difficult situation that has a difficult solution. Getting vaccinated is easy that is unless you don't want to look stupid after you took a absolute stance.

My original comment was about the cost of all these people going threw the medicial system. I take it your arguement and annoyance with this is that I'm selective right? Something like "what if someone is skiing and breaks a leg. That was an optional activity so shouldn't I be angry?"

Not to argue with myself but skiing is entertainment which has value, people don't intend to break a leg, and i hope often take precautions. If there was a situation that a person put themselves in intentionally increasing the risk of an event that then requires huge amount of medical care I would say the same thing.
Measure how long a response takes, shave that.

Count how many responses you're providing for a single request. Reduce them.

See what can be done in parallel or out of order, do that.

Check requests through time of day. Eliminate overload.
Your numbers are absolute nonsense. You excluded the CO2 to extract the oil and refine it into petrol/diesel. Nobody eats 2000kcal of beef: that's 6 whole burgers!

On top of that, your numbers assume that drivers don't eat, which is self-evidently not true!