skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The strict definition would be essential complexity is only the complexity that would be required to implement in an "ideal system" (eg no latency, memory concerns, etc). By that definition you cannot just abandon all incidental complexity (as our systems are no where near ideal). Instead, this way of thinking is helpful for keeping the essential complexity implementation isolated and free from the incidental complexity.
I’m genuinely puzzled by the people around me who don’t want kids. They have stable jobs, they get to travel, they give to charity, they go to restaurants and go out on the weekends. It seems so dull to me. I’ve been to a lot of parties, done a lot of traveling, and it’s fine. Good, even. But to have that be your highest purpose in life?

If you’re building a major company or becoming president or doing cancer research or are a schoolworker or social worker, then I can understand saying you don’t want kids because you’re doing other important things with your time. But to miss out on life’s greatest mystery and many of the extremes of human emotion, and to not experience spreading your selfhood across others in the deepest and fundamental way because you want to watch more netflix, enjoy happy hour and learn to surf… feels profoundly unimaginative and dull?
It’s guys like this that are going to destroy the American tech sector by creating a political backlash on the scale of tobacco.
This will not be popular but you don’t need ECC or Xeons.

You can find great deals on powerful PCs from eBay sellers who are IT recyclers.

I’ve found the SFF/Mini PC’s to be great.

You also have to decide what you want to do. And if you want the headache.

For example it’s easy to start doing home automation, dns server, NAS. When things break or updates break things and nothing is working and you have to pull it all apart again was to much for me.
The article we're discussing uses the term 'productivity' in the economic sense of 'labour productivity', i.e. GDP or GVA divided by labour hours.

Are you using 'productivity' in that same sense?
Why does anyone get tips? Are restaurants struggling to pay their employees?
We have this in Austin too. Also the capitol view corridor, an inverted system protecting sightlines to the capitol building
Congestion pricing is congestion pricing because traffic is bad. Waymo doesn’t solve traffic.
> it seems woefully inefficient.

Why receiving some non-sensual comments in a random time of a day do you consider efficient? Don't you have a life with more important events than some random dude's comment? Every time you are receiving the beep you are inevitably losing some context, maybe even get thrown off from "a stream".

For me reading HN is OK only before and after work, not instead. Maybe I would like to read some reactions to my ancient comments and I do not know where I have aquired additional +10 karma points over the last night, but theese are so unimportant things in my life that I will not lose anything if I dot't see it eventually.
>> In 1998, the feud between the Navy, which still owned Yerba Buena Island, and Brown went public. Navy officials expressed frustration that the new eastern span would flow directly over Nimitz House and the nearby historic residences of other officers. A Navy aide called the plan “devastating.”

Not In My Immediate Territorial Zone
Hmm maybe I'll just walk...
The definition says “output per hour worked”. Company revenue would depend less on individual workers and more on strategic decisions from upper-level than, and target audience spending above all.

But how do you measure worker output? Even “units produced” can be altered by higher-level strategy (e.g. less efficient production). And some aspects software development don’t have units produced at all, like how much “progress” someone makes on an app (LOC doesn’t count)
Autonomous working has proven to be a game changer for myself and others in my team.

I can login and out when I need to (meetings/stand ups I obviously need to factor in) which allows me to take an actual break and go somewhere with my dog when I am feeling bogged down/unproductive.

The ability to do this means that, when I return to the desk, I am refreshed and ready to tackle a problem with fresh eyes instead of glazed over and looking at a clock anxiously waiting for my time to jump on a train and commute to my home.

This rhetoric that remote work is bad for business seems to always come from people whom I suspect have an ulterior motive — usually people with investments in real estate and retail businesses which are taking a hit from the lack of lunchtime and rush hour footfall.

My manager once said to me “I hired an adult, so I don’t need to hold your hand” and this has resonated with me since. If you cannot trust your staff to do what is best for you then that is your problem for hiring the wrong people. It isn’t the problem of an entire industry.
Writer from Marvel Studios saves free Comic Book Day at public library
I can negotiate on my own. I see no reason to ever join a union when they are almost always run by people as incompetent as this. No thank you.
I think this is an excellent summary of the perspectives.

I agree that it is difficult to come up with a definitive answer.

(That said, trying to persuade reluctant persons that they should have children seems like a really bad idea (not to imply that anyone here was doing this). And, while I chose to be a parent, it seems to me that those who choose to not have children are making a responsible decision for themselves.

(Edit to add: FWIW, while I try to approximate selflessness as much as I can, I consider my decision to have children to have been selfish on my part. (I'm not saying all/other parents are selfish for having kids, just that I feel selfish for having made the decision I did.))
Cargo Cult Science [pdf]
The classic.
More often they will declare >N persons a 'fire safety hazard' and refuse for your safety and security. And to help them make more revenue.
I have just purchased 5% of a data center's Deep Learning servers. 10 GPU / 384 GB of RAM, 2 x Xeon 10-Core processors. I am putting them in a solar powered data center and plan to lease them out at $0.2 per GPU hour.
The argument was more that to do it generally you need vision to work, lidar will always be a narrow solution and redundant when you have vision.

It might end up that solving the narrow city problem with high res maps is valuable enough to tackle anyway, but it could still be true that will never solve the general case.

Of course, it could be true that Tesla was be unable to solve it also. Though at some point attaching some general intelligence to vision can probably do it. Likely will be bigger issues then though.
In a Napoleonic legal system it might not be. Perhaps the question you should ask instead is why is it not illegal?
Who cares if employees complained? People will complain about anything. It’s not indicative of relevance or importance.

I’ve found myself completely avoiding any article for which the headline is some variation of “person/people complain about something”, e.g. “activist group slams company X decision”, “politician calls out other politician”, etc. It’s lazy and pointless faux-journalism, and usually deployed because the author or editor has something the themselves want to complain about and need an excuse to do so. So “people are talking” becomes the justification.
I would almost expect something like this, at this price point, to have a replaceable camera back, probably with a medium format sensor…
Imagine if every time there was an article about ice cream people had to comment that they don’t like ice cream.
Agreed, this would be a terrible measure. I can't stand other people's kids. But I enjoy being a parent. It is vastly different.
Does not say TikTok specifically indexed and promoted gay content
I don't consider that corporate bloat. That's just life in the software business if you want good talent.

Corporate bloat is like the mini empires people build, headcount for the sake of headcount, that guy who's been here forever passion project that doesn't make money. Process because it helped someone's resume. Those kinds of inefficiencies. This stuff is different then treating employees nicely.
Or maybe workers realized that the corp working conditions are declining and getting worse every year, and it was crystal clear during the pandemic how a lot of requirements were taken for granted while they don’t really contribute much like being physically in the office? 40 or 50 years ago, a corp job and pay for one of the parents (usually the husband) was sufficient to buy a house, 2 cars, feed a whole family while also enjoying life, nowadays, you and your SO are both working 12hrs a day and maybe even two jobs, and barely living paycheck to paycheck, owning a house is a dream unless you are willing to have a mortgage for 70 years (1) or 50y in the UK (2), rent is sky high especially in the crowded cities -where the offices are-, gas and car prices are abysmal, not to mention the wasted time in commuting due to again, crowded city, during the pandemic people realized how fool they were wasting there life in this rat race that doesn’t benefit anyone except the greedy corps, so unless the compensation and other factors are adjusted so it matches the old times, I don’t think anyone will get back to the old ways of work, as in: “we will get back to old ways of work if we are compensated like the old times”.

(1) https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYEGwwSD/
(2) https://finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-lender-set-offer-50-173000...
What if one would like to opt-out of gay content? not taking a stance, food for thought
Church is part of culture. Culture evolves. How about gender segregated education, do you want to bring it back?

And new time does mean new morality. If not I imagine there would be slaveowners around still
free as freedom, but not free as beer?
If I'm not mistaken, it does mention the sensor being replaceable.
This is utter nonsense:

> "Yet this belief — that science is somehow subjective and should be practiced and judged accordingly — has recently taken hold in academic, governmental and medical settings."

I've never heard any rational person espouse this view, it's not normal, no reasonable experienced scientist would ever adopt this nonsensical concept.

The NYTimes has become another part of the clown show, I guess. Oh hey I hear Saddam has WMDs maybe that's related?
Minimizing round trips is an optimization with improved UX and operational cost and no real downside except marginal implementation difficulty (which itself seems like an argument for being able to share validation between the backend and frontend).
For what it's worth, everyone tracks that stuff. The Wall Street Journal probably has a file on you with the categories of things you're interested in.
Still, every social media out there does exactly this kind of categorization, at least for gay content. TikTok is all kinds of shady in general, but this is not a good example of them being any different from any other such org.
I’m not sure California has ever had a tipped minimum wage that was lower, but not in the past 3 decades at least.
Is already done in a kind of way.

The recycling Initiative is named holy grail 2.0 and the identifier is digimarc barcode

Atm, holy grail 2.0 is thought as follows:
Scan Code, read DB, sort the materials in buckets as they'r defined in DB.
Can Supercomputers Make Socialism Work?
> The problem with this is that laptops are a terrible way of watching a streaming show (or anything else) if you're more than 1 person

Well, I'd agree but my wife and kids don't seem to care. They'll all huddle around a 14" laptop while I'll be like "we could at least use my large monitor?"
>Just try out the power of the most advanced astronomical instrument ever developed.

I don't say this lightly ... are these people high?

It's a (very nice) ground-dwelling optical telescope; am I missing some key magic here? All of the 'body and soul' nonsense in the world wouldn't make this 'the most advanced astronomical instrument ever developed.' .
Well, it is. Arguably even more so, especially for people who live in these types of places and need to see more supportive content to feel good about themselves.
No more stupid than concatting json for those same users
> then I (and everyone else) am/are paying for it

Don't you already pay for it?
Every time I click Samples.md and then click back, GitHub tells me "Access to this site has been restricted." and times me out for a while. Anybody have the same thing or know why?
There are limitations to that, as you well know, since you hedged with “much of.” And this is, again, a nitpick around the edges and not really a comment that addresses my main point.
You need only watch one congressional hearing grilling Jack or Zuck or Sundar to know that you don't blame on malice, what you can blame on pure incompetence. Our geriatric leaders have little idea how the tech that dominates our lives function, let alone regulate them well.
As someone who used to go to 2-3 Meetups in Chicago a week, I can say that Meetups are not a good way to build connections because you almost never see the same person twice.

Friendship requires 3 elements (which were easy when you're a kid and much harder as an adult): proximity, repeated exposure and letting your guard down. Meetups are good for the first, but don't do much for the second and third.
two cops and security guards are a band-aid. If you approach the Westfield from the Mission St garage, the entire Mission-facing side of the whole mall reeks of human excrement, has camping tents and incoherent people lying on the sidewalk. Two feet away from a shiny Bloomingdale, which is a miracle how it's still in business and will probably soon quit like Nordstrom did here.

It's like a wave of crap sweeping over previously decent locations. Two assigned cops are not very useful against a tsunami of crap.

I also had my car broken into right there on 4th St with crowds walking by, but that's a different story.
I'm fine with the courts deciding what is misinformation. That's a huge improvement.
The moth thing pulling the fox into the hole, breaking all its bones

I liked the movie too
Does it work on the ads in the Gmail app for Android?
"Equipped with Sony's latest technological gem, the IMX455 full-frame monochrome sensor, Hyperia is not only state-of-the-art but is set to remain so forever.

Our evolutionary system means you can replace the existing sensor with the latest technology on the market. You can always remain one step ahead and benefit from the very best."
>He installed a towering fence, which partially obstructs the view, to protect his golden retriever Elsa from rattlesnakes.

How high is this fence? I feel like a 4-foot-high solid fence is more than plenty to keep rattlesnakes from jumping over. I'd be more worried about them burrowing under. Is it working?

I assume there's rattlesnakes in Orange County. Probably even Mojaves and those are one of the more venomous in the US. Then again, Orange County surely has plenty of antivenin for any venomous snakes in the area and an individual with a mansion wouldn't have trouble getting his animal to the vet quickly and could afford the treatment. Sounds like he's blocking his own view due to disordered thinking. It appears to be the point of the article, but man that guy's life is so negatively affected by his fears. I should feel bad for him, but I just can't.
The parents I experience around me are the very definition of dull. They lament simultaneously all the drawbacks one expects from raising children, having no time to do what they want, worrying about their children all the time, experiencing stress from financially stretching themselves, brain fog from being unable to sleep 8 uninterrupted hours at night. Forget about hobbies, forget about having maintaining your relationship to your spouse or even your previous circle of friends. Yes, most are sick to add that they nevertheless wouldn't change it for anything. My impression take-away though is the exact opposite of yours: Making the same decision as your parents and most everyone around you, because you fear having to come up with your own ways to spend your time, it's the most dull thing I ever heard.
Why would you come to that conclusion?
So how did the board if independent, end up electing company representatives?
Then why offer it to begin with? Presumably a company does so because there's some form of value for them.
What do teams at google and meta practice?
The definition says “output per hour worked”

When you measure this at the level of the whole economy, you can think of the numerator as being the country's GDP, and the numerator as the number of hours worked by all employees.

But how do you measure worker output?

Great question, and that is exactly my point: in many modern businesses (and hence in the economy as a whole) 'labor productivity' is not a measure of worker output.

Imagine an economy in which everything has been automated, and everyone is unemployed and living on welfare, except the one guy to turn the machines on and off. He is paid $100k for a not-very-demanding job.

Now you calculate labor productivity, and it's a gazillion dollars per labor hour, the highest it's ever been. At the same time the (ex-)workers are as unproductive as they have ever been, because their skills are no longer applicable to any useful activity.

Consider the times in your career when you were most productive (in the everyday sense of the word). Do those coincide with the times when you worked at a company that high the highest profit per employee-hour? Maybe, maybe not.
Only a matter of time until the same thing happens there.
Vulnerable corals, vulnerable cities: rising heat makes everything vulnerable
If every organization feels like for improving org outcomes bringing workers to the office is absolutely crucial, then that org should bear the cost as well. The org should pay for gases, pay for time in commute, pay for car and cover it's insurance. For people who moved to colocate with the org, org should pay for their rents too. After all, it's the orgs decision to call workers for it's own profits, why should a worker be paying for this unnecessary expenses when the alternative of remote is very much feasible.

Allowing workers to work remotely or in-office is the choice of the organisation. Since, it's a choice... It should come with a price tag associated with it.

Alternatively, of govt as well feel that workers are needed back in the office, all of the above expenses should be allowed to claim back during taxation.

My simple question is how fair is it for workers to pay for the luxury choices made by their respective employers?
curious why you will take his word for it? given he gets paid to do and say those things
Strange, the game doesn't seem to support a full-screen view.
Robo cars are more expensive during peak usage, so they can form habits where public transit is both encouraged because I took a robocalled to work and the bus home because then it was rush hour, or Vice versa. Or I took the bus to work and left late at night after the buses stopped running via a robo taxi…etc. All this occurs with Uber already, I don’t bother renting a car because even though it sucks to take the bus from the airport, I can Uber that and use more efficient transit when available, since I have something that fills in the gaps. Robo cars just make that link more efficient (lower cost eventually as humans become more and more expensive).

They make not taking your car with you a bit more feasible, and that’s a start at least.
Thankfully this solves the spelling ambiguity!
It is, believe it or not. Hard no for me though.
No more than socialism made supercomputers work.
Just FYI, they’re not really all that effective against fire outside of very narrow parameters. If you have one, consider placing it in places that tend to survive house fires, i.e., bottom corners or the structure, away from the kitchen and electrical or combustibles, preferably not below grade where the fire fighting water will flow.
What a hype, pardon the pun.

"Just try out the power of the most advanced astronomical instrument ever developed."

I don't know... I am sure the telescopes professional astronomers use are more advanced... some operate even in space.

"Hyperia is made of Zicral, an alloy used in the aerospace industry for its outstanding mechanical performance and exceptional resistance to extreme conditions."

What are they going to do with a telescope like this such that it needs that material... other than charge a premium for it?

"Enhanced sensor sensitivity with 91% quantum efficiency."

The most important factor of the performance of the telescope are the lenses (and location for weather/light pollution). This is just ordinary.
I'm not sure why that matters? Salt water is salt water. An carrier's brake horsepower is ~200MW, so a fraction, but a reasonable fraction. When San Diego had a county-wide power outage in 2011, the carriers at North Island pushed power to the grid to support essential services.
lobste.rs. Wish I had an invite. Community seems better overthere.
Unless you've got insurance that'll cover it, and/or cash money for fairly serious injuries, you probably shouldn't. You won't bounce back like most of us did in our childhood and teens, and you stand a chance of seriously fucking yourself up.

Depending on where you live, sidewalk construction may be an issue. E.g., paved areas in the UK can be shitty due to inconsistent height between paving stones. The slightest thing and the newb is gonna go flying.

The thing to remember with skateboarding is that for every several minute video showing cool tricks, you aren't seeing the hours of bails. The Tony Hawk games always included bails videos to show that there's a lot of perseverance and pain that goes into making it look effortless.

I did myself some horrible injuries over the years, including slashing the palm of my hand wide open on a pebble-dashed wall whilst learning just to coast. Also gave myself a horrendous groin injury at one point whilst casually riding around.
I agree with you but there is some kind of irony about priests who ostensibly believe an omniscient being watches their every move expecting privacy from digital surveillance. We are in the process of building a god of sorts (omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent) and I’m not sure it’s a good thing.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with an archaeologist when I was hiking in Spain. We were in Burgos and looking at the beautiful cathedral.

Archaeologist <drinking a sip of beer>: “see we find really good precision work on parts of cathedrals that nobody would ever see - this is because they had a deep relationship with good and we’re convinced they had to do a good job.”

Me: “or you know, they were craftsmen and prided themselves on quality craftsmanship and doing a good job.”

People back in the day probably didn’t think any different than we do - I don’t only do a good job when I know someone is watching and I reckon people building cathedrals didn’t either.
Lightning is one of my favorites as well. I never read another Koontz after it, back in '97 or so. Perhaps I should.
Thanks! I feel like these discussions would be so much more fruitful if they were centered around dissecting real products.
I've been playing with this a bit. Sharing some examples that aren't from their repo, in case people are curious.

Simple objects are surprisingly good. Examples of a viking helmet below:

-- https://phasellm.com/static/img/helmet-01.png

-- https://phasellm.com/static/img/helmet-02.png

More complex objects, e.g., "a viking" are harder though you can clearly see what the model is trying to do (cape, sword, person, etc.)...

-- https://phasellm.com/static/img/viking-01.png

Maybe more iterations of the model could work. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before this gets much better, more details, etc.
His history of the Eadwig scandal, to not show up at his own coronation is wrong. All sources tell that he left his coronation ceremony to have sex with his future wife and her mother.
Large banks, and, more broadly, any large company is also concentrated power, though.