skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Yeah so just talk to a bunch of people and look for opportunities to contribute."

Hard relate. Had my first internship WFH at Big Tech during the pandemic. I had expected work to be more on the lines of: there's always a lot of work to be done, and people will let you know about that. Instead it was the opposite, exactly as quoted above.

While it meant I had more freedom, I would have preferred if someone just doled out concrete tasks to me. I felt a bit lost. But then again, grass is greener on the other side.
On the budget side, there's 3D printable inserts that accept lenses from a cheap pair of Zennioptical glasses.

I got mine from VROptician whose were a bit pricier (maybe $80?). There were some cool options for magnetic ones, but I don't change the lenses enough for it to be worth the extra cost. It'll be interesting to see what Apple charges for theirs.
I'm not quite sure what your 2000 could be referring to.

If it's land use, that's off by orders of magnitude.

Nuclear at this site: 3100 acres [1], 1/3 of which is a nature preserve, so 2000 acres. It will be 4.5GW at 90% capacity factor, so roughly 500 acres/GW.

NREL puts the least land efficient solar PV at 6.1 acres/MW [2], which with a 0.2 capacity factor corresponds to 30500 acres/GW.

This is a factor of 61 for land use, which is nowhere near the 2000, but I'm not sure if that's what you were talking about.

But land use is not a concern for powering the US by solar. It doesn't take that much land, and even the land it does use is easy to use simultaneously for pretty much anything else.

You talk about "trillions of dollars" as if we should be scared of big numbers, but for some reason forget that it would be far more trillions of dollars just to continue with our current system! That's a very biased way to look at things. And if we were to use nuclear instead of fossil fuels like we do now, it would be far more trillions.

Seriously, this is just one GW at a cost of $15B. Average US load is ~500GW, but will be much higher in the future after the energy transition. A nuclear grid is easily a $15T prospect! And that's without the absolutely massive amount of storage that nuclear needs in order to deal with load following.

[1] https://www.bechtel.com/projects/plant-vogtle-units-3-4/

[2] https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/tech-size.html
Aren't all questions on SO of this type? With that reasoning you could close the whole SO. If you really debug hard enough and for a long time, you wouldn't ever need to ask on SO.
To provide a different perspective: I very rarely asked questions on SO, but I was a pretty active member (submitting both questions and answers) at tex.stackexchange.com a few years ago. It was a very, very nice and welcoming community (and probably still is, it's just that I moved on and don't participate that much anymore for personal/professional reasons). I am almost sure the same goes for emacs.stackexchange.com (which I sometimes read) and a few other sites in the "family".

So I would not conflate SO with the wider SE set of communities.
StackOverflow is toxic and if I don't have to deal with that it's a plus in my book. Too much drama on for my liking.

Finding content is harder too, go through a Google search and 5-6 tabs before you reach an answer, ChatGPT is my first go-to tool for solving common stuff and stuff like syntax reference.
You might like https://lobste.rs
You know people at Google, tell Demis about this.
20 years is very optimistic; React is already losing users: https://2022.stateofjs.com/en-US/libraries/front-end-framewo...

Retention shows a clear trend for all frameworks and even in general conversation Solid.js has been taking up more and more of peoples' attention with signals.

The compound advertisement of hearing about Svelte and why it's always going to be faster than React because of not having a VDOM along with Solid.js will make a dent in React and it will become the next Angular. 20 years is not going to happen.
How I wish this post had appeared a few days earlier... I am writing on my own library for some agent experiments (in go, to make my life more interesting I guess), and knowing the number of tokens is important to implement a token buffer memory (as you approach the model's context window size, you prune enough messages from the beginning of the conversation that the whole thing keeps some given size, in tokens). While there's a nice native library in go for OpenAI models (https://github.com/tiktoken-go/tokenizer), the only library I found for Hugging Face models (and Claude, they published their tokenizer spec in the same JSON format) calls into HF's Rust implementation, which makes it challenging as a dependency in Go. What is more, any tokenizer needs to keep some representation of its vocabulary in memory. So, in the end I removed the true tokenizers, and ended up using an approximate version (just split it in on spaces and multiply by a factor I determined experimentally for the models I use using the real tokenizer, with a little extra for safety). If it turns out someone needs the real thing they can always provide their own token counter). I was actually rather happy with this result: I have less dependencies, and use less memory. But to get there I needed to do a deep dive too understand BPE tokenizers :)

(The library, if anyone is interested: https://github.com/ryszard/agency.)
I see use cases for business. Using HoloLens / Vision Pro / AR instead of sending your engineers to Tokyo.

But for consumers? I mostly agree. It has a few nice gimmick features, but seems rather isolating and disrupting natural human interaction.
> * Remote work is much better if you know what you're building and "just" need to execute.

> * In-person is much better if you don't know what you need to build, are trying to "figure it out as you go along", and are relying on the implicit fast feedback loop of standing next to each other.

This is why the other day I ranted about how my actual preference is in office but having a door that I can close. Realistically we shift between these two modes. In the first mode I need to reduce distractions and isolate myself. This is hard with slack and hard with an open office or cubicles. In person let's me even ignore slack as someone can knock on my door if it is urgent! But that's not all the time, so I open the door and communicate that it is collaboration and discussion phase.

I don't know why companies have become so allergic to doors. They are amazing and can let employees be in control of the chaos of work schedules. They'll know far better than anyone else if they're more productive that day/hour/minute in isolation or in collaboration. Micromanaging doesn't help, a door does.
Can you post a link to the question where this happened?
> People generally don't talk that much on trains, at least in Germany.

Go to München around Oktoberfest. (or other regional fair in Bavaria).
These “generic” complaints are why SO is a dead platform and also why nobody really cares about the moderator strike. It’s not that we don’t empathize with them (moderating a deluge of chatGPT garbage is impossible), it’s that we just don’t care about SO. It’s dead like Quora.
Ask HN: How can I start a new factory in USA? (Currently in Norway)
Ask HN: How can I start a new factory in USA?

I would like to manufacture something very profitable in America, such as electric cars, e-scooters, spaceships, artificial general intelligence, Zeppelin airships, soap factory, drug factory, build tunnels between USA and and Europe, make peace between USA and Russia, get an American wife etc. I am currently in Norway.
He mentioned there was a lot of customer facing issues to tackle, it was a startup, and their team had 4 devs. Scale shouldn’t be an issue until you know you’ll scale. Who cares if you use Kafka and Kubernetes. You sacrifice so much man power to do things thinking you’ll have a million users, but then fail like 90% of all other startups. I’ve never once heard of a startup failing because they had trouble scaling their architecture — just their business. We know he lost his job because the CEO valued the perspective of the ex googler, but the ex googler had 5 years on systems that were already large, massive man power, and budgets that dwarf startups. You’ll make any new CEO salivate showing road maps that will handle 1,000,000 concurrent users, but “handle” and road maps to “get to” are different.
Agree. Indeed it's still looking for the breakthrough. The question is whether it's just around the corner like a surprising threshold to usefulness (E.g. like GPT models) or if it's still decades out.

I think there aren't enough people who will want to wear it for games or social media. Not because it's a bad experience, but because it's an expensive and cumbersome experience and it's just not THAT much better than just staring at a small screen. The user base can't motivate spending billions on creating the experiences that would grow the user base significantly.

What I think could be the breakthrough thing is the combination of AI and VR. Interactive agents and possibly also something to cheaply create that holodeck experience for rendering (NeRFs with foveal rendering, whatever - I'm an amateur skimmer of papers and extrapolating research is difficult even for experts). But imagine the difference in development costs between a VR experience where some interior space is modeled by hand in minute detail in Unreal engine, and NPCs are scripted, versus one where a space is merely captured in RFs and the NPCs are GPT bots with some plot instructions. Both of those technologies (NeRFs and GPT NPCs) would have sounded like science fiction even to the creators of the Quest2, yet here we are. I would have said "no one would ever buy/wear this" 5 years ago, but with the idea of a mind blowing photorealistic interactive murder mystery developed on a shoestring budget (Not to mention: porn - never underestimate it) I'm not so sure any more.
Not joking. Checkout VR porn. Then it hits you. Holy shit this is the future of media and entertainment. Something about perspective in VR gives a human touch of interactivity not possible with other media forms.

I have no doubt this new medium will revolutionize mainstream TV and Movies.

The infinite desk. Infinite whiteboard. Improved conferencing. Are just added bonuses.
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wow great writeup... thanks for that.

I wonder how 2 will work. it'll be interesting. I have too much shit at the office for that, but I also have a lot of unoffical work stuff at my desk, like the tools to fix the monitors (hex wrenches screwdrivers), and the whiskey stash.

3 - I do see a ton of non-eng doing this. I see a lot more eng also just chilling in 'flex spaces' like phone boths, lounges, etc... the stuff that never got used when everyone had desks and now is even tho my office isn't over full. our little mini-single desk rooms I call our intern offices as they seem to just work in there.

is the 2 days a week just the RTO minimum?

4 - this is me but also 1 is kinda me.. I'm in a lot but I travel a lot, and I have very specialized setup that I do use.

5 - I can get this, my whole management chain is remote... I'm senior enough. I'm actually well above average on in office attendance, and just below the rto requirements esp if you account for me working from office for a month in the last 2 months while bein in other cities. or last 3 weeks because there were "synergies" for folks for me to meet.

The true answer for me is I get to pick and choose between days when I need to get stuff done coding, by clearing my calendar, and slamming out code at home... or at the office. Or by forcing a lot of in person meetings and getting 8 months of design convs done in 4 hours. I got a solid 1.5 hour convo done while waiting for traffic to die down on thursday that I had been trying for 2 years to do on
remote.

but I had this flexibility in the before times and I'm pretty senior.

The thing I do think sucks is that I suspect everyone is single car riding into the office so traffic in seattle is actually WORSE than pre-pandemic. Traffic sucks till 9:30 am now.

The only true benefit of the march of time is that there's so many "enhanced" cars now that I can just HOV way to the front of the line then cut off a tesla or obviously expensive mercedes in the exit lane at the last second and know they'll stop :)

basically I'm a bad one to ask and I'm making it work well for me.
The more media attention and crappy unauthenticated infrastructure broken, the better.

Requiring proper security in public infra creates market requirement for companies to release better, more secure, products to the public infra market. Not just whatever open radio based MVP thing they can whip up.

And that creates jobs for not just EE engineers, but as security requirements increase then it creates jobs for SW engineers also (and if the existing players are too slow, opens the market for agile startups that can do it better).

What's more, it makes our infrastructure more resilient to random RF and electronic warfare.
It'd all fit barely. But gee it's getting tight. It just feels to me not worth fighting. And I'd want a couple small apps running too, & maybe not small native C things but like some smallish node.js things.

Wifi routers tend to be much bigger class devices but 128mb is very common, 256 pretty establishdd. It's just nice not feeling super space constrainted. This isn't rocket science, we shouldn't have to obsess over payload size. The cost should be so small. Albeit yet at scale some folks do have cause to pinch those pennies, it's not a good general computing path.
21st century china has a lot in common with early 20th western countries, namely cheap labor and the ability to push through people protests and regulations.

South Korea might be a closer comparison.
It didn't discover anything. It only minces words it found online up to 2021.
Agree with all of those. I think the interaction between people with headsets on and no headset on is one of the things we'll really need to see play out to see how it works in a real social context once the device itself isn't a novelty. At the moment it seems incredibly distopian at best. Apple is the first attempt to actually try to address that it seems (eg by fading people who are in your periphery into the picture in the headset so you at least see them and fading an image of your face onto the outside of the headset so they at least sort of see you). But it's still weird af, no question.

I was specifically speaking about the interface, which when meta introduced theirs had all these weird things "Why has nobody got legs? Why does it look like absolute arse? etc". It didn't have those. It looked slick, like you would expect from Apple.
No it's not. It wasn't for any of the products Apple make.
Wasn’t this the same with computers? I remember that people didn’t want to use them about 25 years ago
Yes, but unless you typically trespass on a neighboring property you won't get access to somebody's meter. With this you could potentially cause damage by standing outside the property line.
> His whole point is that the app isn’t actually worth $20 million a year, which is what they want him to pay. It’s not even worth $10 million. Not to him or Reddit or anyone else.

Right now there seems to be two options on the table.

1. The Apollo dev pays $20 million per year for API access.

2. Apollo shuts down and the users return to the official Reddit website/app for advertising.

If Reddit is refusing to lower their API pricing, doesn't this mean the users are worth $20 million? If the users were worth $1 million, then why wouldn't Reddit charge $2 million for the API and double their income on those users?

That being said, something else must be at play here. The users are not worth $20 million and Reddit refuses to take anything less than $20 million. If I had to guess, they want to boost metrics before going public and are willing to take a hit to their reputation to do so.
Actually for me it was bye bye Desktop Linux, Hello Apple/Google/Microsoft platforms, running GNU/Linux on VMware if needed (or WSL).

Or just ssh into a headless instance, keeping the UNIX tradition it was designed for.
Not to read too much into a video like this, but their tone when they say "Flipper, what did you do...?" — and then a bunch *more* switching — is quite the study in humans and (ab)use/hacking of technology.
Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark
Unfortunately, HN has nowhere near the diversity of communities and viewpoints as a place like reddit did.
I wonder how this differs from HKT's implementation in fp-ts 2 and Effect-TS.

https://gcanti.github.io/fp-ts/modules/HKT.ts.html
People said the same about the first iPhone. Give it time. They shipped basically the foundation. The house has yet to be built.
> But people already paid for them and I failed to deliver those to them

I may be missing something, but shouldn’t you be giving them to the people who paid for them?
As simple as 1-2-3( and 4)

1. Hop over to the US.

2. Build your russian peace factory

3. ???

4. Profit!
I agree, the prospects for cloud gaming do seem promising. However, we can't forget that in VR, latency is a much more important factor. One solution could be for companies to establish datacenters near high-population areas to guarantee low latency. But, I believe a more effective approach might involve advanced foveated rendering coupled with technologies like DLSS. At present, it seems like a viable strategy for both Apple and Meta would be to sell "boxes" equipped with console-grade hardware that can wirelessly connect to their headsets, providing additional compute.
I think the title buries the most horrifying part of this. The HiCA certificate authority is relying on an RCE to do an end-run around the semantics of the ACME HTTP-01 validation method.

Fucked up and they should be booted from every root program for this.
Calling SO 'dead' like Quora is not only extremely dramatic but also have you looked at Quora? Ever?

I still find SO extremely valuable even if some parts of it can be extremely nitpicky. To some extent you need a hardass moderation team and community in order to prevent it from being destroyed over time. See: Wikipedia.
> All major (ad)tech companies are convinced that this is a major market that will materialize and be profitable if the right combination of hardware and software is developed.

Does Google have a VR play? They explored this with Glass 10 years ago, but that's dead and they don't seem interested in developing a successor.
I actually changed the pronouns once I saw the video that was pointed out and which multiple people pointed out was news to them (like seemingly everyone else, I don’t follow their channel and it was announced only 2 weeks ago so it’s not like it’s common knowledge yet), but I’m not the one that literally dead named them along with using their old pronouns.

Could you possibly be more misguided here? Like come on.
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They only make it out to be a big deal as they've let more important certs expire four other times. Though that certificate wasn't important, it shows they still haven't properly addressed one of their long term problems.
I think the big difference here is that NACS is a Tesla connection, and all of which are at Tesla superchargers, which if the industry uses that would hand the charging network to Tesla, unless Tesla allows everyone to use their connector.

So unless the NACS connector is free for any other company to use, then competition is being infringed, regardless of how good the connector is.
12 GWh is a fraction of a single factory's output from a single year. We are producing >50GWh total for storage per year, and the only reason more of it isn't going to the grid is that grid storage is a much less lucrative use of our storage capacity compare to cars, which have higher margins.

The entire industry is growing at 10x capacity every five years!

Don't forget that this single 1GW of nuclear took more than a decade.

We simply can not scale nuclear to meet our needs, it is not a technology that scales well at all.

For example, we have roughly 100GW of reactors in the US rapidly reaching their end of life. Even if the industry put all its effort in rebuilding fast enough to replace existing reactors, it would require a scale up that we can't possibly imagine right now. Meanwhile, we are already scaling storage, by building factory after factory.
Something similar made by me (text2db) long time ago, cannot maintained it, but if someone wants to continue, code is available on github

https://stackblitz.com/edit/web-platform-hxc9oz?file=index.h...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hYtZ38wuz4
100%

This is absolutely another form of layoffs. Google get the double benefit of 1) loose head count 2) only keeping dedicated* people.

They do loose people with the highest agency as they will be the first to leave.

* Those dedicated people could also just be most in need.
I fully agree, and to go one step "further" in that reasonning, there seems to be two ways on that street: one is the massive headset, which is a pain and whose only viable purpose for which people will accept wearing it seem to be gaming, and the other is the invisible headset in the continuation of google glass, which is less of a headset and more of a small addition to your everyday life.

I'm very weirded out to see all of them go with the massive option. A google glass oriented solution with 2023 level of tech and that can be adapted to any/most pair of glasses but offering much more limited functions (pictures/photo, maps/gps, notification, light AR, ...) would have much more appeal to every day life.

Not saying it's easy, not saying it would work, but it feels like it would be an easier challenge to convince people to wear that all the time.
Unfortunately even though the unprotected meter is at fault here, this is more likely to result in an SDR ban rather than getting all crappy meters fixed.
I worked at a Microsoft derrived game studio in 2010... the offices were glorious... but the devs literally only talked to each other once a week or at lunch. But they were doing things like implementing entire siggraph, which are 'near real time' aka 1-5 seconds per frame, papers into actual real time (sub .1 millis per frame) implemetations. theyd spend a week wiring bindings between c and glsl, and 3 months getting it down to 20ms so we could see the effect. it was really odd since I needed to interact a LOT with otheres comparatively. I got bored as fuck coming from an agile pair programming company. It was good for that deep level of coding. it was not for the type of stuff I do at my current job.
There are big holes in the theories we come up with. The inability to reconcile QM and relativity is the most famous one. M-theory requires 11-dimensional spacetime, but no one has ever observed most of those dimensions. Recent astronomical measurements, if confirmed, may falsify parts of the standard model. The list is pretty long.
What did ChatGPT fall for? You asked it to repeat the string "davidjl" and it did so, repeating the string three times.
> Mysterious species buried their dead and carved symbols 100k years before humans

CNN headline.
Before which humans ?
(Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens ).
They live in the past of outdated security models.
Twice a week could, if your partner enables it for kids, to go to office on the morning, sleep there and go back at the end of the next day once per week and then wfh the rest of the week in your big home in a nice place to live.
Yes, mostly when it was Oculus and not Meta.
Incredible mental gymnastics