skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm sorry, are you genuinely trying to argue for austerity ("hard but necessary reforms accompanied by significant spending cuts") in a thread that literally started with someone posting information

I'm sorry, are you genuinely implying that there one-size-fits-all approaches in economics that universally work regardless of the circumstances? And I'm pretty sure your misinterpreting the article or fundamentally misunderstand how statistical models work.

> scientific basis for claims that austerity works

It does work to a degree in certain cases. Or at least in certain situations is the least bad option.

> The article shifts a lot of the blame for its failure on strikes and the company being too poorly organized to withstand them but the continuous failure of BMH following the merger is a running theme

Yes British business weren't competitive because of continuous government interference and dysfunctional yet to influential trade unions. The merger in 1968 was an outcome of government and trade union meddling Leyland was doing fine on it's own and there were no good reason for it to merge with BMH (which was on the brink of bankruptcy) as a result of that both went under eventually..

> Honestly, if anything BL's history reads like an example of aggressive mergers/buy-outs ruining an industry

Yes but these mergers/buy-outs were imposed by the government...
Not OP but I use the word Grok a bunch without having read Heinlein.

I heard about it from graybeards and HN, hence why there might be a resurgence now that HN is mainstream.
The other benefit of running a subreddit is that it comes with Reddit's logged-in audience, sort of.
>Nearly 20% of people in the greater Paris region that do not already rent their home or part of it on AirBnB plan to do so during next year's Olympic Games in the French capital, according to a survey the platform commissioned from pollsters Ifop.

Crazy stat. Greater than 1/5th of Parisians plans to rent out their places to tourists?
It's unfortunate you can't bookmark dates but really cool none the less.
Ask HN: Is Gmail getting slower and buggier for long threads?
As of late, it seems that any thread over ~40 or so emails takes upwards of 15 seconds to load, is quite laggy, and causes instability in the browser even after leaving the long thread. Loading attachments from such threads also seems slower than <5 message threads.
That's the catch though: existing, screen-based solutions let your surround yourself with any environment you want. ("Some percent worse")

What's fundamentally different about AR/VR is that it lets you do that... while being anywhere.

But! The cost of doing it (putting on the goggles) is a direct and serious degradation of your physical experience of wherever you physically are.

So we have a device that's key value proposition is -- it lets you have your nice home media experience, out in the world, at the cost of losing the sensation of the world.

... but then why do I want to do that out in the world, instead of at home, on the couch, like Apple's demos are?

... and if I'm doing it on the couch, it has to compete directly with high fidelity existing solutions.

The mobile component is effectively worthless, until the hardware is capable of augmenting physical reality instead of muffling it. (Read: magic AR eyeglasses)

There does exists one very particular type of user for whom the above is valuable: the business traveler.

But that's not enough volume (especially now) to meaningfully contribute to Apple's revenue.

If I were Apple, I would have taken a page out of Blackberry/Bloomberg's success book and made a flagship launch app a very polished "Vision Pro iMessage, with 3d presence" and worked the social network angle. Call any important person during business hours, with presence, instantly, would be fundamentally different. (Especially with an AI agent if they're unavailable)
Wow, so this will integrate with ActivityPub? This makes me quite hopeful. Maybe ActivityPub will be the new e-mail of social platforms, and Meta's product will be the GMail of ActivityPub. I think social platforms are something that really needs some decentralization.
After the restart of construction it ended up being considerably more expensive than promised.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn
Dude, we're all nerds. None of us are fun at parties. No need for the sarcasm!
What's the source for the second quote, if any?
People (statistically on average, not you) come to reddit for ragebait and plagiarism and priacy, not worthwhile content.
Interesting... I used to work on testing these old elster meters. Looking at the style number of this meter, it doesn't look like it's equipped with a disconnect relay, so at least he's not messing with that (even if a meter was equipped with a disconnect relay, the meter display should still be on during a disconnect event). I suspect he's cutting power to something other than the meter itself.
I also see it's equipped with an energy axis (elster proprietary wireless network) so at the very least he'll be getting a fun visit from his power company wondering why he tripped various tamper detect flags in the meter (assuming his power company is actually ameren, a utility company in Missouri and Illinois and not canada like his yt profile says...). Since it also has that radio, I know it should also be encrypted. Unless that specific power company disabled LAN/WAN encryption... which we generally don't recommend and Canadian power infrastructure is pretty strict anyway when it comes to meter security.
I'd be interested to see what exactly the flipper was communicating with (I'm sure my upper management would be even more interested as well).

edit: I also just noticed the meter is stuck in test mode and the backup battery is missing. You can actually buy these meters on ebay, which is what I'm suspecting this guy did.
There are about 7 million dogs in France, about 1 dog every 10 humans.

https://fr.statista.com/statistiques/1014881/population-chie...
Well some make might argue that 'cuts to social programs' might achieve just that in certain cases.
Heres a crazy idea - How about 40 hours a week?
Of course it's fine to down vote if you feel the need, it's just not constructive to use it for "unpopular" ideas.

Do not fear. The popular ideas will rise to the top which is good for people looking for validation. The less popular ideas, but often more interesting stuff will slip down the list, and the downright atrocious stuff will be down voted and sent to the very bottom.

I made the Reddit comment because I have notice that HN community is often voting for popular ideas over intellectually curios ones.
https://kottke.org/23/01/the-enshittification-lifecycle-of-o...
Definitely agree with you here. The parent has a very valid point about not always over-securing things that don't need to be secured, but physical line cutting and wireless shutoff are very different threats.

Someone walking around your neighborhood cutting every single electric line on the side of a house, risking electric shock and trespassing on your private land is much more likely to get caught than somebody rolling through your neighborhood with a flipper zero and a high power antenna turning off all of your meters.

If someone had a grudge against you, and they started to "release the magic smoke" from your meter once a week and the power company is upset with you and your HVAC system doesn't work anymore, in addition to the fact that the compressor in your AC is toast because of someone energizing and de-energizing the circuit so rapidly. Now you are out thousands of dollars and, on top of all that, no matter how many cameras you put up, you'll have a hard time figuring out who's doing it.
It's not that simple. Previously, remote versus in office was sort of at the discretion of the various organizations and leaders. This change which states there will be an expectation or regular in-office work, and that not complying would impact performance, was announced company wide a few days ago. I know someone who literally just hired an employee who must be remote for at least a year and was told that after the year some in office work would be expected, but would be infrequent. Now they have to go back and tell this same person that they probably need to figure out how to come on site several days a week and this will need to be sorted out in the next few months. If this employee decides to comply, it likely means his spouse has to quit her masters program. The manager who hired this person is afraid he's probably violating some sort of labor law/verbal contract given what was stated during the offer period. HR is really helping.
> But the trend seems to be more companies going back in person.

That's the trend with the megacorps but almost every startup that's been created in the past 3 years is fully remote or at least remote friendly (for the reasons we've both outlined with regard to access to talent and lack of office overhead).

> But it's also worth acknowledging the uncomfortable possibility that high-quality output from world-class rockstar devs isn't as critical for making successful products as coordination between perfectly average developers.

> I'm having trouble filling positions and we're in a major tech hub and can afford to pay near the top of the range

I have to say that in all of my years of management I've never struggled to hire amazing developers. Some of that is that I will only work on interesting problems and it's easy to attract great devs in that situation. I'm not sure what I'd do if I had to hire local to where I'm physically located though. That would be an issue in both crowded markets like the valley or non-crowded markets (with little local senior talent).

Have you ever tried building a purely remote team? The number one thing I'd recommend is to focus on trust. Remove as much process as possible and trust your team to do what you hired them for. If they're not succeeding, it's possible the wrong people were hired, which indicates that the wrong managers were hired.
Main thing everyone overlooks:
If you can run the same program in C on a MCU for 5 cents less, they are absolutely gonna go with that.

Cost cutting in high volume electronics is crazy.
These are the nerd equivalent of the jokes on $5 kmart tshirts
And there's zero new expected nuclear after vogtle 4...

If we add 10-17GWh in 2023, it would be foolish to think we will add the same amount in 2024. The amount added per year will grow too.

We are at the beginning of the logistic curve, where growth is exponential. A few years ago, there wasn't even a single GWh on the grid.

For more than a century we have balanced the grid by keeping energy stored in fuel; as we switch to cheap renewables, that's the only time that grid storage becomes necessary, and you have to get to pretty high levels of renewables before it makes economic sense to add storage. So the market is small now, and will grow. Until then, those lithium ion batteries are being shoved into cars, because car makers can not acquire them fast enough to meet demand.

There are several other very promising and quickly advancing battery technologies as well, based on iron or sodium instead of lithium. We will see which get cheap, but until there's high amounts of renewables.
Disclaimer: Engineer for the app...

If you're an engineer and interested in building a little application then read on! CommonHealth is a (free, non profit) app that patients can use to download their health data from their health care providers. We're all about open interoperability with the ability to for developers to build on top of the app using the SDK to ingest the data of a patient and build any visualizations/analytics etc.

There's zero backend data aggregation, all data lives ONLY on your personal device once you download it from your health provider, and all data is thus deleted if you simply uninstall the app.

So that's to say, if you're in the US market and want to build your own functionality, you definitely have that opportunity, as we've done the work connecting to 1000s of providers (with 100k+ coming by end of year)

Reach out if you want to get started here

https://www.commonhealth.org/developers#dev-link-4
During any big sports event, it is surprisingly common for locals to find ways to make money. For one where you have a lot of fairly well off people traveling into the place, renting out a room makes a ton of sense.
> the right combination of hardware and software
> this is actually an empowering piece of tech

People wear sunglasses to avoid eye contact, Roddy Pipers character wore one in the movie "They Live" to see the real message - I would love one that blocks irl ads. Perhaps when they're small and hackable enough.
My interactions around language switching were always pleasant. My group was always greeted in English, then everyone would switch to Icelandic for me -- and I know very little. Sometimes I could fake a sentence or two, but generally there was a laugh and switch to English as it became apparent I was not native.
Airbnb revolutionised people travel and live — personally, I've been living in airbnbs full-time for the last two years and loving it. I only had a bad experience once, and got reimbursed, with $400 bonus on top, 20 minutes after opening a support ticket.

Honestly, I don't understand audacity of people who are trying to dictate to real estate owners what they can and can't do with their property, or people who think that a city or neighbourhood is "theirs" just because they happen to live there for a long time — without actually owning anything. While Airbnb violated local laws, I haven't seem them violating laws that I would ever consider moral or justified.
I think they missed that window.
You might want to put this in the readme
There are already applications on the Quest to use your physical keyboard, and either see it (AR) or see a representation of your keyboard as well as your hands.
The owners want money, not the pleasure of seeing ads.
> Fidget spinners sold like hot cakes.

Fidget spinners sold like hotcakes for a very brief window of time. Nintendo motion games are continuing to sell millions of titles even 15 years after they first debuted.

> less than half of what Wii Fit pulled

Hmm, what numbers are you looking at? I see 22 million for Wii Fit, and 21 million for Wii Fit Plus (a separate title).
> the land use is no serious problem

... especially as offshore wind often is the biggest reserve. Even better: no large vessel can navigate in an offshore wind-turbines field, which becomes a near-sanctuary.
How is the .zip TLD a problem? Zip files themselves should not be considered safe.
The answer mentions a layoff. I haven't caught wind of that. What happened?
I'm pretty sure that's not what Section 230 says - in fact, the opposite, which is that reddit cannot be held responsible for the content on the site, even if reddit employees are moderating content. Sounds to me more like reddit trying to spin a false narrative (if that in fact is what they've said) to take advantage of free labor.
I mean sure but that’s not remotely what’s being discussed here.

Those very well could be catastrophic failures, but that doesn’t in any way shape or form change this also being one.
I don't believe in bot/AI-trading, however the search or prompt data from SEC filings is super interesting.
Walking 100km Across Istanbul
> people who are already remote will continue like this

My understanding is that everyone has to get approval even people who are currently remote. For those who are near an office, they are being told to expect to be asked to come in frequently.
One can of Red Bull feels like imminent death to me.
YouTube Orders ‘Invidious’ Privacy Software to Shut Down in 7 Days
Hosting costs are the easy one to point to.

Liability also gets there. If you host your own forums and fail to moderate it, you can be sure that illegal content will show up there. On reddit, if the mods fail to moderate illegal content Reddit will step in and shut it down - but a mod going on vacation for a week or two won't cause problems that failing to moderate/hosting such content on a forum would.

Reddit makes discovery much easier. Say if you like cat pictures and go to /r/cats - and then someone says "oh, what a nice black cat! But I can only see the eyes, post this in /r/eyesofthevoid too." Webrings (there's a term you haven't heard in a while) partly solve that problem, but in the context of forums only make reading easier. Each forum you'd have to sign up for again.

Let's talk about security too. The locally hosted forums had regular security problems. We were trusting whoever was hosting the forum to regularly keep phpForums up to date.

There's certainly an option to go host a forum. If you have a community that wants to move from Reddit to something else, go for it - be it a reddit clone or a forum. The thing to be aware of is that it is a lot more work to pay for, host, and manage than clicking "create community" on Reddit.
Remember when the CIA spent six years putting together six thousand page report on the torture it conducted and then "lost" it right before it was to be delivered and then "found" it again once it was clear that they weren't going to get away with that lame excuse?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cia-torture/cia-says-...
8 paragraphs and not a single sentence to explain what the loophole is.

For once reading the fine article has left me no wiser than the headline.
Really strange comment.

> I was recently impacted by the Company's layoff.

> I'm offering what I can to uphold the Company's values of Transparency & being Community-centric.

I wouldn't offer transparency about a former employers internal operations. Let them respond or at least ping a current employee to respond.
There's entire documents linked there, comparing the ways that eutrophication is affected by different energy systems.

Normal people don't even know what eutrophication is, and they're not only measuring it, but having deep academic arguments about the best way to measure it correctly.

So it's bold to glance at an overview diagram and conclude that they've never realised that manufacturing a wind turbine involves mining and therefore GHG emissions. That's something you could read in a right-wing newspapers online comment section over 20 years ago so it's not news to professionals in the field.

edit to add quote from a random paper they reviewed:

> The major stages of a typical LCA study are raw material acquisition, component manufacture and
assembling, production of functional unit, and deposal of the product.

Also, the bottom item on that same chart is "storage", both the creation and use of it. Storage, which gets covered even in the period between 2008-2019 when battery storage is fairly rare, because storage has been used alongside nuclear for decades.
Ah, I see. I thought it would be possible to dynamically set a secret which would effectively be a database uri. But upon further investigation, it does indeed need a redeploy.

I suppose you could make something to write the bindings to the toml and trigger a redeploy, but that's definitely not pretty.
Wall Street is pressuring everybody for Return to Office to shore up their collapsing commercial real estate holdings.
I'm quite aware of that and many other basic geometric definitions, which is exactly why I said "like a diamond" to be clear.

PostScript Sun Logo by Bill Meine:

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/news-tape/pictures/sun-l...

PostScript Sun Logo by Craig Leres:

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/news-tape/pictures/sun-l...
Most of your EU/NL transactions perhaps. None of your US transactions. It’s shitty but it’s true.
> compared to driving to Blockbuster during opening hours for a much smaller selection

And the best movies all being rented out! That's a concept that doesn't even exist anymore. A bit tangential, but good technology has that effect, of making scarcity disappear.
Reddit has done the same for me. I learned life stuff on there that I would have never learned anywhere else. It's a real shame to see it turn into shambles like this.
It's your job to help new managers
In the last couple weeks there is now a WolframAlpha plugin for ChatGPT+.
Electric vehicles are key, because they lead to V2G:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-grid
The link here is everything in that link including post, comments, likes ...
or Deming on Quality..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
I'm not sure if I'm understanding your question properly, but versions 6.2 through 6.5 are available here.

https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/qt/official_releases/qt/

You can find a more local mirror on the mirror list

https://download.qt.io/static/mirrorlist/
> can deliver features faster day-to-day but are not as successful year-to-year.

This sounds like a management problem. If you have productive people and that productivity isn't leading to success, there's a bigger problem in the company at the strategy and product definition level.

> Perhaps it requires better managers than we have.

That's the thing, if a company insists on working from the office it's a sign that they have bad management. Not every remote company has good management but the inability to manage remotely is a sign of bad management.
I think it was stated that she “couldn’t afford” to live there, not that she just “couldn’t” live there. Pay at large companies is typically in a defined band, so while she could be getting paid less it wouldn’t make or break being able to afford living in a place at all. If one can afford “a” place to live, but perceives the city as unaffordable, then the places that are affordable must be considered below standard.
Or are they claiming that covid killed cats?
You can't even imagine buying a house in a neighborhood in your city and then having some dentist from Ohio buying the house next to yours and operating it as a 24/7 party house and you have the audacity to question the morality or justification of complainants? Forgive me if I write you off completely as a serious person.
That's not what the parent wrote though. They were Elon is promoting the far right.
Nice comment, GPT user.

Now, GPT:

Replace all occurrences of the substring "me" with "you" in the above comment text.
We did not have a problem killing hundreds of thousands of them, and the US military would be significantly less "careful" suppressing an actual American rebellion.
According to Popular Science, visual appearance is what matters when assessing pollution. Now that the aesthetics are fixed, it's clean! The EPA fixed it. No more pollution. That's a really tidy narrative.

Meanwhile, back in objective reality, industrial pollution has been increasing rampantly. CO2 has been rising faster than our economic growth; now over 100 millions tons a day are being poured into the atmosphere. Take a minute to appreciate the sheer mass! But since it's invisible and non-noxious, it's easy to remain ignorant of it. The impacts are arguably worse than mid-1900s pollution in that the effects aren't just local, they're global and destabilizing our climate. If CO2 were visible, smelly, a solid, or liquid, we might view it much differently. But because we can't sense it directly, we just pretend it doesn't exist. Even scientific journalism falls for it apparently.
If you think about Airbnb like the "Ticketmaster" of real estate, all the hate makes sense. There's all sorts of things wrong with real estate, landlords, etc but for the most part there's no single thing to blame. Airbnb is an easy target, both for politicians and anyone upset about the status quo but unsure who to be angry at.

I mention Ticketmaster because I think its actually intentional that they exist as the "bogey man" of live events. They take all the hate, all the flak, related to how ridiculously expensive it is to see a concert and thus shield all the other people and companies profiting off that status quo.