skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I probably missed their point because I reject their point entirely. Whimsy and curiosity for it's own sake are absolutely vital for your well being. That is the essence of being well cultured.
I currently work at Google (though my time will be ending soon due to this shit show) and everything you said couldn’t be farther from the truth at least for me. I want to make sure everyone has both sides here instead of the rosey picture that so many want to paint.

Google is, by far, the worst place I’ve ever worked with the most useless work and uninspiring management and coworkers. I haven’t learned a damn thing in my time there. FB had its problems but I was at least learning there.
Dell, HP and the enterprises that buy them don’t really care about UX.
John Carmack headlines 'toxic and proud' sci-fi con that rails against 'woke'
Could you perhaps explain this paragraph?

> Alert readers will notice that Moser managed, in one paragraph, to dismiss the efforts of all three major luxury watch groups – Richemont, Swatch, and LVMH – as somewhat lacking in intestinal fortitude
Isn't there a technology that makes fuels out of atmospheric carbon? That could use some of the overproduced cheap energy. Or use that energy to make hydrogen or what not. There are plenty of ways to use it indeed.
Is it the connector itself that's broken? Or something about the connector's electrical characteristics that causes the charger to break? It seems like the maintenance schedule is orthogonal to the connector design.
Meta bought the company that makes BeatSaber so I assume it is at this point. But without controllers and haptic feedback it wouldn’t be very fun anyways.
100% agree that euthanasia is the effective way to deal with the problem.

But, someone in this thread made the very strong point that people will trap and collect cats for free if you're going to neuter and release them.

Granted TNR hasn't worked at all, but at least it's possible to stay elected while the program exists.
Scaling software to the same level of revenue as a trade business is a sure way to get run over by the VC backed competition.
Where's the most up-to-date fork from before they did this?
jaeger has a history as a traditional alpine bitter of serving some sort of medicinal purpose. like chartreuse or absinthe, lots of the herbal ingredients inside sometimes helped soothe upset tummies, or in the case of wormwood, expel parasites and worms.
typo: Lorentz should be Lorenz

https://www.google.com/search?q=lorenz+attractor%2C+black+ho...
Stopped in 1985, resumed in 2007
> I saw a calculation that suggested that anti-nuclear campaigning has resulted in 1/3 of current emissions because it resulted in increased coal and gas use

Seems like a pretty extraordinary claim, funny you didn't share the calculation with us to support the suggestion.
I mean, baby cows…
Distributed Rate Limiting at Razorpay
I'll take a stab and say most of this community isn't perfectionist but more efficiency-ists.

While it's easy to lump them together, the difference in end goals tend to be absolute mastery vs maximizing use of time.

But the similarities between the two above is as old as time, the comparison vs others and the acceptance of ones self is critical to happiness/joy. I myself could use some recovery.
It's sub $300 msrp and doubles a bunch of the numbers on the previous generation at a lower price. Tom's was a dismissive review, and the challenge is real, but it sure looks like a solid value oriented offering to me. Not a ton of lift, but cheaper msrp. And a couple admittedly minorish perks over last gen. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-rx-7600-revi...

There's also a bunch of pretty positive reviews too. Also the competition is o ly so so. Nvidia's up scaling is amazing & probably an easy sell, but the amd card is quite a contender. It really reminds me of the rx580, but which was soo confusing at the time. Prices were going up & up & max killer speed was the only thing the gamer media ranked on or cared about, and the rx580 was so much less. But it was a great & amazing value, that served so many so well. I think amd is at another place of mismatched expectations & desires. But yes, the synthetics are amazing but the actual lift here is lackluster. But it's at an amazing msrp.
> is it that some people define intelligence as >= human

Just like some people define stupid as <= them. Aptitude is a multivariate spectra. It is already hard to come up with a cutoff on a single measure, way harder to do so for a bunch of different skills that for some reason happen to correlate in humans (and sometimes they diverge wildly as in the case of savant syndrome).
You thought it was bad before, now we're going to cram you into an even smaller open floor plan.
China relies on 5 year plans, and they still have to deal with a public that doesn’t just implicitly trust them to not be corrupt in the operation of a nuclear power plant. That delayed them at least 5 or so years in the current batch being built out.
so, when they discovered this in GPT-2 they should have excluded this subreddit from the training data for GPT-3, right?
They're getting rid of real estate yet force people to work from the office at least n days a week. Why not embrace remote and get rid of even more real estate.
That's a skeumorphic anchor to get people comfortable with a new technology. If you're going to introduce technology to the masses, you have to do it in stages. There's a lot more going on here than is apparent on the surface.

You could have said all of things about the original iPhone. It did similar things to a lot of existing smartphones at the time (send email, play music, browse web, make call).
Return to office you say?
I can only surmise from all the posts and interviews that Christian has done post that call but it simply seems like he tried calling their bluff on the $20 million number and/or was fishing for a buyout. He found the number ridiculous, the reddit admin told him that this number wasn't server costs but opportunity costs for lost revenue, Christian decided to poke the bear and ask if instead of him paying them 20 million dollars a year, they could buy him for 6 months of that "lost revenue" and then make that revenue for themselves. He was offering to be acquihired and was simultaneously calling their bluff about the API pricing

The reddit person seems to have thought that Christian was threatening them in some way??? I genuinely don't know what Christian could even have threatened them with. It seems to me they didn't understand the power dynamic at all of a small solo app developer talking to a massive corporation. Maybe they thought he was threatening simply shut his app down for that amount without telling anyone which might have avoided this ruckus? I'm sorry but I genuinely cannot fathom what they thought was going on

1 and 2 are different in that clearly the admin thought Christian was making a threat to their business whereas he was merely calling their bluff and possibly opening himself to business negotiations if reddit actually thought his app was worth that much. Through all this it feels like Christian did not communicate what he wanted effectively (though this seems to have been a throwaway line in a much longer call that got misconstrued gravely) and the admin was simply not equipped at all to handle negotiations
Honestly I learn mostly from documentation and code and writing and so on, and when I do communicate it’s mostly emails and text even in the office even when people are sitting near me.
Also, i don't understand the reasoning behind not having controllers. You are freeing up your hands for ... what? You are already wearing a blindfold on your face. ( I think the passthrough will be used very little because in most cases it's distracting)
It'll enable collaboration
Putting recreational drugs in your butt is surely the pinnacle of culture.
Or Quest 2 that is 11 times cheaper. And has a higher refresh rate than Vision Pro.
> you can't make something darker and more opaque by adding more light

I mean... theoretically you can if you can match photon for photon with the inverse phase. Difficult, I know :)
Thanks for clarifying. I agree that rejecting a PR can be seen as negative in some companies, but I'd also argue that it's a symptom of a bad culture to view rejected PRs as something negative. And using tools to mask a a negative culture instead of surfacing it may not be wise.

> they should still be a single input in a more holistic picture though.

Whilst, in theory, no single metric should be used to determine performance, in practice it may (especially if your lead is inexperienced). But it can be prevented altogether by exposing individual metrics to indivuals only, and exposing the less granular aggregate metrics to the team and team lead.

> You can show why you couldn't get to a task sooner if you spent time reviewing a lot of PRs on the day.

I think in a culture where you have to justify AND PROVE why you couldn't do a task sooner shows a lack of trust, and the problem won't go away even if you are able to show, this time around, that the delay is justified.

I do think tracking the cost of a PR is important, as it will incentivize smaller PRs. But my point is that exposing the "wrong" metrics (like individual review times) isn't just a data point that people don't have to use, but that it can be harmful as it'll incentivize the wrong behavior (e.g. knowing the team lead value quick reviews, developers may be incentivized to review quicker and thus less thoroughly).
Was it a blue and white G3?

https://apple-history.com/g3blue
> i have a non tesla ev and it’s totally fine

It really isn’t. Driving my Leaf or i3 beyond 70 miles round trip is absolute Russian roulette. Will the charger be in service? Will it accept payment? Will it accept payment and then, for unknowable reasons, just not initiate charging?

Contrast that with driving 2000 miles round trip in a Tesla. There’s not going to be any trouble charging, ever.
Him going public with... what? The API pricing? This was discussed in similar calls with all third party app devs. The pricing was going to be public anyways
IIRC, Apple didn’t make a stand to hold the Apple Watch charger either. At least for Series 0.

And, I don’t think they had a stand for the iPhone Magsafe either. Here’s the intro video showing it’s use with just the cable:

https://youtu.be/82po_sYbbio

Both examples strike me as strange since using either without something to keep the charger in place is a joy it setup, possibly worse than trying to keep an 8 pin from falling behind your bed stand again.

Apple doesn’t choose not to make these kinds of things because they aren’t needed. It chooses not to make them to narrow their focus.

Apple had planned to be out of the display market as well.

I believe the Studio display and even the XDR are possibly the result of failing to meet original timelines for Vision.

The company continues to sit out home networking despite the success of AirPort Extreme and generally confusing and messy state of the market.

So it is no surprise to me they wouldn’t be trying to guess at controllers. They are working on a platform.
What open standard? CCS is neither open nor a very well defined standard. Think patents, licensing, and lot's of car and charger specific behavior and weirdness, endless software glitches, etc. Design by committee stuff that the likes of VW, Mercedes, etc. came up with years ago. Let's just say it's not very good.

It's why non Tesla chargers are such a compatibility mess. There are a few emerging standards like plug & charge and a mess of ISO and other specifications. So, things are slowly improving but there are still lots of issues with cars and chargers not being compatible with each other, weird payment processes and complexity, enormous testing overhead to deal with all the silly hacks, workarounds, bugs, etc. CCS is a bit of a train wreck as a standard and it's a bit user hostile. And very much a work in progress.

The Tesla ecosystem predates all of that and is un-apologetically a Tesla ecosystem that has been running smoothly for many years that has none of those issues. While other vendors insisted EVs were a fad, Tesla actually invested in lots of chargers which is why they dominate the market.

The Tesla charging experience is best in class in this industry. It is a standard in its own right as well. Tesla positions NACS as an alternative to CCS. And like CCS, you can license it in order to use it and it is well specified. Ford and GM just chose to license NACS in addition to CCS to enable a better charging experience for their users. Nothing wrong with that. I'd say, more vendors will probably do this and that would effectively make it an industry standard just like CCS is. All an industry standard is is different companies agreeing on some specifications and signing licensing agreements with each other.

I think instead of governments dictating half broken specifications as standards or endorsing this or that consortium, it's better to just let the industry sort things out by itself.
I remember reading that the range of nuclear subs isn't limited by air or water or power (obviously) but by the need to restock fresh food.
Being forced to sit on co-workers lap while desk-sharing (and chair-sharing) will enable even closer collaboration
Ask HN: What is screen real estate?
It was mentioned by a Google program manager at an event with respect to developing for the phone. Has been bugging me ever since.
Doesn’t it depend on everything?
Nvidia’s AI software tricked into leaking data
This exactly. Furthermore, Mastodon rewards those that want to actively participate in communities. It does not reward lurkers who want to passively (doom)scroll.
But reddit is so much more than an API… and I can’t imagine anyone wants to deal with the user-generated-content hell of actually hosting that kind of platform.
It'll be interesting to see which companies rotate people through & how. Most orgs are trying to get people in on the same days, to synergize & that shit. Will that be the path forward? Who will rotate shifts more?

Shout out to a TSMC interview where M.C. was saying TSMC is just better because instead of running 1 shift a day of trying shit, they ran the fab always & got 3x the shifts a day.

Same story, but different timebase. Utilization. How can we do great for space, & utilize it well? We are so far away from that level of smart management. Such idiotic returnalism. Space wasn't good before. If we want to return, how do we de-suck it? Admittedly better utilization feels like an anti goal for de-suck, so extra hard mode: how do we make good utilization a win win win?
It has affected me at all either. I played with it a bit a few months ago, asked it show me code for PouchDB.js and it did. It was basically a copy and paste from their website without attribution.

After pondering it a bit I really couldn't come up with anything I wanted to use it for and haven't looked at it since.
can anyone speak to:

a) how dense was google office space in the before times?

b) what their remaining portfolio of office space is?
It's how any search engine does autocompletes... you can't possibly store all the queries clientside. Whether you're sending a tiny JSON or a tiny HTML snippet back doesn't really make much of a difference. It's usually fast enough, especially if you debounce/throttle the user input so you're not sending the query on every keystroke.
I wonder if having access to characters actually helps rhyming in English all that much, as English rules of pronunciation are essentially rote-learned anyway. If it were not rote-learning, then it might make different mistakes, for example expecting two words to rhyme because they end with the same suffix.

Perhaps it would be more effective to ask it to produce poems in the format: English0 IPA0 English1 IPA1, where each line is produced in both semantic and phonetic representations. This would give it the context necessary to “see” the rhymes without having to mess around with the tokenization.
I have a vision, external cameras on, on a cal with you where we are looking at hardware.

"Hey Seydor, tab A isn't going into slot B here..." You being able to watch, is gonna be great. You can tell me I'm a moron or that the parts don't work or some combination.

Apple probably has enough of an internal use case with product design, development and production being as long, desperate and demanding.
Thanks for chiming in. It is oddly comforting to hear that others have had similar experiences. When it was happening, the first words out of my mouth were “You guys see that, right? I’m not hallucinating?” It was so obviously not normal. I rubbed my eyes, questioning whether it was me or not and it was a relief when they saw it too.

The size of the one I saw was large and it was already extraordinary and alarming. A formation would be astounding.
But the choice of "people sitting on a sofa do their work" is not good. Not everyone has a sofa.
Go look at opioid prescriptions by country. Europe is way lower than the US. Plenty of anecdotes about how hard it is to get opioid prescriptions in Europe.

I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm just it's lower than the US, yet less religious, which pretty much blows up OP's thesis.
How does this fit with return to office?
Arguably a toned-down version would be the true "Pro" device, as a replacement for external screens. No need for

- spatial audio

- the front screen for your eyes (who the hell needs that anyway)

- only need rudimentary hand tracking since you will be mouse and keyboard

- potentially cheaper processor
By haptics you mean a buzzer? That doesn’t replicate any kind of real-world experience.

But again - there is no reason gamers can’t have a control, but it’s silly to use a game controller to interact with a computing environment when you can use your hands.
Hmm, you think so?

To me, the term just sounds better than "VR" or "AR" without meaning anything different (other than being less specific). There's nothing Apple-exclusive about it; it would apply to existing "VR" or "mixed reality" apps like Horizon Workrooms or Virtual Desktop just as much as to what Apple is doing.

Personally, I feel "spatial computing" sounds clearer and less silly than the previous terms. But, that's just my opinion so I guess we'll see if it catches on...
The problem isn't so much that it's hard to get started with Docker, it's debugging stuff when it goes wrong is so hard. There's this 80M dockerd binary that needs to run as root and last time I checked it's over a million lines of code – lots of potential for failure there, ranging from "Docker doesn't do the right thing and I can't figure out so let's just nuke the entire server and start up a new one" to "Oh dockerd magical firewall rules made my firewall ineffective".

Is that a good tradeoff? I don't know; it seems to me you can get 95% of what Docker gives you with 5% of the complexity. Luckily the ecosystem has started to realize that and better tools have started to materialize.
My dad was apart of that building boom (starting at Hanford). In 1986 or so, he went from making $200k/year as a contractor to…< $40k/year in Mississippi as an FTE for a newly built power station there (after being unemployed for 2 years).

There was a strong push by the government to build, and when that evaporated, all activity just stopped over night.
Solar/wind/battery/hvdc is more than capable to providing gigawatts of power, cheaper.
I've wanted finger guns as an input mechanism since the Kinect disappointed me with its lack of finger gun halo. But the tracking would need to be crazy precise.
I think it already does (expecting Quest sales to soar this quarter).

But both companies forget that people don't use them much. There is no killer app yet. Apple showed horizon worlds in AR - but very few people use VR goggles for that purpose. There is a lot of speculation that apple knows what they are doing here - they don't
What makes you think they aren't? Everything they've done the last few years has been cost driven.
Learning curves and compatibility.
Agree that though it's better in person during brainstorm / discussion, it isn't decisive. When people are having zero ground during the meeting, it won't provide any meaningful result no matter what you do. And if it resulting in something, usually it'll be bad.

What I found to be the best approach is one or two people already established a concept at what to make or at least the image of it, and the discussion can move to the details and implementation plan. And that doesn't need to be in person
Sure, some people do, but the majority of people are not looking to exercise while gaming. It's a niche use case. The Wii lost its novelty pretty quickly.

If you're gaming for 3-4 hours, watching a movie, or using the device for productivity you're going to be seated or standing still.

Also, Vision Pro can be a mobile device, albeit for <2 hrs. Imo, Gaming will not be the primary use case for these devices.
Assuming Vision Pro has powerful sensors and computer platform, controllers could be dumber and then easier to make (and eventually part of a bigger ecosystem that may extend the Vision Pro with 3rd party hardware).
> won’t have a controller standard to work against

There is no reason this is how it would play out.
There sole goal is to get people to quit, so they can hire cheaper replacements - something they can only do because they’ve created a market where people are afraid of being fired.

But unions are the enemy.
I was going to suggest they do what they did in Vietnam when the couldn't get milk for coffee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_coffee

But then I remembered I'm reading an article about the last egg getting used up.
Google looked at how sailors share space on a sub and were like "yeah, that's the ticket".

Hot-desking is the worst way to be in-office, on top of the worst way of working which is in-office.

What happened to being a forward thinking and innovative company? These "geniuses" can't use their superior big brains just barely hiding under those infantilizing propeller hats to figure out a way to make remote work effective? You're literally a tech company, you make all kinds of collaborative technology.

I'm selling my Google stock. They've gone full IBM and are legacy tech.
Who cares about capacity factor, just build more than enough solar/wind/battery/hvdc and transport it where needed. Faster, simpler, safer, cheaper.
> I'm so annoyed with three-tier monthly price matrices. It's honestly a red flag for me at this point.

On an aesthetic level, I agree with you. For some business, it’s just not needed.

That said…

As someone who has optimized pricing matrixes many times, I will just say that it works incredibly well. Also, for the whatever number people (like you? sort of like me?) who drop out due to “red flags”, there are legions more who allow their behavior to be shaped in an incredibly profitable way.
The open secret is that the units they’ve sold get very little use. The typical user plays around with it for a few weeks and then it sits on the shelf.
You better love Unix to run NixOS.
I do love Unix, I was a FreeBSD fellow, but Nix is so incredible that everything else feels like poking at your hard drive with a stick.

Editing a file in /etc/ feels like PEEK/POKEing to memory now. Barbaric.
>What happened to being a forward thinking and innovative company?

Google went public is what happened. You literally cannot make good decisions when you have to base everything around what will make the most profit for the shareholders this quarter.
Wasn't the CHIPs act passed less than a year ago? The 800,000 is over the last two years.
u ok?
I use Pop_OS as my daily driver because of the existence of the NVIDIA version of the distro.

I work in Deep Learning, and the NVIDIA version comes in really handy.

I never face NVIDIA issues like my peers frequently complain.