skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see the vision you’ve laid out. The idea of “the information is just… there” sounds useful to me, too. Maybe it’s even the next step in computing.

The hurdle to overcome in my opinion is the form factor. Everyone walking around wearing ski goggles is a deal breaker to me. Glasses, maybe; or even better, contacts. Right now that size technology is more sci-fi than reality, and I suspect it will be a very long time before we reach that (if we ever do).

It’s also important to keep in mind that information availability isn’t the end goal. The purpose of having more information is to improve other aspects of our lives so we can reach our goals more effectively. We want big data so we can optimize for outcomes of our choosing. We want to understand the natural world so we can use it for our benefit.

Connectedness to information does not benefit us if it comes at the cost of having face-to-face interactions with each other, IMO. A lot of people think in-person conversation has gotten worse since the advent of smartphones because they steal peoples’ attentions. Imagine the extent of that dynamic when everyone is always-connected and it is impossible to discern who is paying attention.
I’m curious, what were your interview strategies? What was it like when relatively simple work wasn’t getting done? Was there much communication, clarity, or accountability, or was it more opaque and drawn out without much communication or transparency around what was getting done?

I’ve worked with teams to address those problems in the past, especially in a remote context. It’s really hard, but it’s certainly possible to make it work. In many cases we managed to turn around “bad hires” and get people fairly productive with the right strategies, but it took a lot of work.

I wonder if it could be that with so many layoffs, people are applying to and accepting offers for jobs they don’t actually want out of desperation. Perhaps they’re perfectly capable of the work, but they aren’t engaged because they aren’t where they feel like they should be. No intrinsic motivation, thinking about other jobs (maybe even still searching for other jobs), burned out on being unhappy, etc. That’ll turn down performance for most people.

It’s hard to say! Having a bad time hiring is legitimately tough to deal with. For you, for the other employees, for the people who end up being fired… It can be turned around, though.
I find that having to pretend to be engaged while I need a rest takes way more time than just taking the time and watching a youtube video for 10 minutes.
>In embedded work, you don't get extra credit for being faster than necessary.

For battery powered devices, you absolutely do. When you're talking over a slower protocol, being able to put the processor to sleep for 95% of the time can translate to pretty massive power savings.
Exactly. Revolutions usually happen because the friction to adoption is near-zero. If so, your benefits can even be modest!

The cost of using ChatGPT vs older chatbots was... nothing.

Once there are downsides, people weigh them and you lose chunks of your potential adoption base.
Facebook and Instagram have historically shut down API with 0 days heads up. Breaking apps that depended on them. This is pretty normal for a social network trying to commercialize
One wouldn’t even need to go outside to want it. This could be the ultimate standing desk — one that you can bring with you to the kitchen or to the basket of laundry.
> It was never polite to just wander up to people working on something and bother them with random junk.

A lot of 'management' doesn't build communication or workflows more advanced than that. And when people are never more than a short walk away, they don't have to.

Slack is just the online version of that. A noisy conversation always within earshot. One that you can usually ignore, but should still be a little aware of what's going on overall, and occasionally you get pulled in to the larger conversation.
100% anecdotal. Zero credible sources.

On the anecdote side I do know that within the past couple of years I saw a discussion on here about how many visitors someone gets from a top of the front page on HN. The numbers were absolutely miserly compared to what I experienced getting the same repeatedly years earlier. Like, 1/20th or less.

Maybe it's just HN that declined, but if so where did the tech news community go? Digg? /. Reddit /r/programming (to some degree yes for the last one, though still it is nothing compared to what once was).

Everything is much quieter and more restrained than it was.

And sure, there are time zones circling the globe. But generally on the English tech sites, the US/Canada are going to dominate the demographics and have an outsized effect on spikes.
Made a tribute to VisiCalc in Google Sheets. Tried to recreate the look and feel. And used Apps Script to code up some features.

While creating this I ended up reading all 265 pages of the original VisiCalc user's Manual and recreating the keystroke guide.
And watched as many interviews with Dan as I could find.

Found him talking to a class in 2019 with a working emulator.

And also got to read about the launch of the Apple II and VisiCalc. Just like any geeks, they were excited to play the games the computer came with.

Https://bettersheets.co/visicalc

Its free to check out. And copy to your Google drive.
And to further reduce headcount through silent layoffs.
You’re using 2 different measuring sticks.

Oculus Pro is objectively better in all possible ways than other VR headsets (but has trade offs vs substitutes, like regular screens).

ChatGPT is objectively better in all possible ways than other chatbots (but has trade offs vs substitutes, like google search).
In an industry that is an exponential growth phase, and basically a side product where the majority of its product goes into cars, yes, this is indeed a very casual suggestion.

Far more causal than the suggestion of building a single new GW-scale reactor, when they have just proven to have a 50% success rate on build, and come in several times over budget and behind schedule.

Until the nuclear industry shoulders the construction risk themselves, there's little chance of another utility making the decision to build a new reactor.
Gmail is incapable of handling threads at all, as a matter of design: https://lwn.net/Articles/837960/
The use case I want is showing me someone's name and s few notes I wrote previously about them. I'd be so much more comfortable at parties. Creepier, too.
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This is sadly not a unique quandary. From personal experience, if you search for "Dogs of Sarajevo" you'll see some interesting (as well as heartbreaking) happenings and hard decisions within our own lifetimes.

Not sure why you're downvoted btw; it's a legitimate if hard/difficult question and spurs discussion. And it's easy for us today from luxury of our homes to point out to sterile facts of "average calorie intake".

Having a pet in a war is difficult. When there's bombing, do you leave the pet in home or do you take them to shelter? If there's snipers and bombs pestering the city every day for years, how do you take them out to do their business? How do you give them exercise and love and attention and play with them when your friends and family just got killed, when you yourself are a shell of a terrified, stressed out, depressed, uncertain human being? How do you explain to the animal what the terrifying nightly sounds are that make it go berserk and attack furniture and other pets and human children in sheer terror, while keeping it confined to a couple of small rooms for years?

I don't think the cold simplified wikipedia article gives any justice whatsover to the actual emotions and situations and difficult decisions and tradeoffs those people had to make.

Heck, in the middle of the war, every day you have to make decision for yourself and your family - are we going to live another day? Should we end this? Is this suffering worthwhile? Is there end in sight? Is there any rainbow or light or good ending to this? Pets are simply part of that larger heartbreaking awful equation we as human beings inflict on each other.
The gorilla in the room is:
https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline

And another big one hides behind him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-grid
He got into this situation because they were waving their guns around, and got out of it through the courts. You're suggesting there should have been a threat of gun violence against the prosecutor and that this somehow would've helped his situation?
Do you have anything to back up your assertion that power users bring the most value?

Mods certainly don't sustain or bring the quality bar up. Reddit content quality has fallen over the years as it has gotten more popular.
Just whom I was thinking of IRL. If you run through the letter's concerns about risk, they just about all got a lot worse once a "hacker" could get a general purpose computer and a 2400 baud modem for around the same inflation-adjusted price as a nice AI/ML-optimized setup today.

But I don't think senators at the time were sending ominous letters to the Steves & BillG asking why they were letting the general public have access to these dangerous tools rather than guarding them in machine rooms like IBM.
For those wondering, a Land Value Tax is just a tax on the Value of land irrespective of whether you have built on it or not. So an empty/derelict lot would attract the same tax as one with a 50 unit high rise.

This does not directly penalise leaving lots empty / derilict. It does however reward people for not doing that.

The main downsides are that you have to have some wy to determine value (and people really hate that) and that you end up subsidising bigger, richer households compared to smaller poorer ones on similar land. It also incentivises people to build those 50 unit super buildings,

The article is sort of weird. It makes a bunch of assumptions and does not support them, and it wanders all over the place using statistics that don't actually support its claims. C'est le vie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
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Interesting that on that basis, $3500 is probably about on a par with a really nice OLED big-screen TV and surround sound system.

One person only though, not a shareable experience.

Like others, I'm waiting for this to come to a spectacles / sunglasses formfactor. An external box would be fine, I just wouldn't be able to bear wearing what looks like metal ski-goggles for any significant period of time.
If the party house isn’t causing a nuisance who cares? What people decide to do with their property should be their choice.
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how exactly is energy extracted from such a system?
> That must have been an extremely tiny minority of people who wrote off the first iPhone.

Not really, it was really, really expensive at the time. And didn’t have an App Store, the bet was on web applications but front end web technologies were still quite bad for any interactive experience.

Edit: cellular internet was already terribly slow and expensive
Weren't a lot of functional languages, like ML and it's descendants, created specifically to write parsers and compilers?
It's two extra wires. Two extra wires going a few feet. Let's say those two wires are 2lb/foot (that's way heavier than actual, but let's be generous here) and they need to go 6 feet (also, probably doesn't really go six feet, let's be generous).

That's maybe 12lbs of extra stuff. On a 4,500lb car. 12/4500. 0.2% difference in mass in a car with regen braking. You think that's enough for a difference in range?

I routinely get groceries weighing more than that. There's no effective difference in my range. I don't even have a noticeable hit in range with just a solo driver or four total people with bags, a difference of probably 600lbs or so.

The Lightning range estimates don't really change much with several hundred pounds of stuff in the bed. You really only start seeing range hits towing, and that's mostly because you're adding a lot of drag and extra rolling resistance with more tires.

I don't think the charge port is making that much of an impact on the range. Motor design and placement, aero drag, suspension, tires, battery size, inverter efficiency. These things will affect range, but not 12 extra pounds.
Is the match-case statement a functional concept? I see it in functional languages but I'm not sure it is inherently functional...
The obvious example here is /r/AskHistorians. Notoriously among the strictest subreddits, and an absolute treasure to read as a result. There is zero chance it could be maintained by paid staff without a serious search for qualified people.

There's a bit in Predictably Irrational by Daniel Ariely where he talks about social compensation vs. market compensation (I could be remembering the terms wrong). He asks how poorly it would go if you went to Thanksgiving dinner with your grandmother, and after eating the amazing spread you handed her a $20 and said, "That's for the great food, gran, it was amazing!"
EVGo has done it, but they've done it by using chademo adapters strapped to the side of the unit. Most of that was before Tesla added support for CCS signaling to the cars.

Also, they did it in the most EVGo way possible. There was a high traffic route near me with no superchargers. EVGo had a location, but no adapter. But EVGo would put units like that in the same parking lot as supercharger. :facepalm

More recently, a lot of manufacturers want to do it, but there's a different constraint. High quality cable and connector manufacturers are not yet making Tesla connectors in volume. Tesla doesn't sell their own cables and connectors to third parties. I'm hearing that this will all change by next year, though.

At least one charger company (Freewire, IIRC) has committed to using them.
> due to the Tory party's constant purges over the last decade most of them were rather new inexperienced not-super-competent MPs. "Random Tory MP has stupid idea, talks about it stupidly"

I really don’t believe that the broadcasting of stupid ideas was/is due to inexperience. Some of their most ludicrous crap was from their experienced MPs.
For every mod of a subreddit large enough to matter the wannabe mods will be lining up.
Even worse with https://github.com/rochus-keller/leancreator/ which doesn't have any version at all ;-)
Nice idea.

I wonder if one could calculate an upper bound of the available potential gravitational energy available in the entire universe by estimating how far every massive point (baryon) is from all the others.
I have the same conclusions as well however, in-person collaboration can be done remotely but it requires less professionalism and more trust. You have to allow for unforeseen moments and allow each participant to have their time to weigh in. Take breaks. It’s a 2.5x time slog vs in-person but it can be done with whiteboard tools and open honest communication. It’s the ones that expect excellence that struggle with remote’s imperfections.
TBH, a customer owned adapter is likely better than magic dock. Maybe easier to use too.
Right, so do we switch to J3068 for all North American EVs adding yet another connector for providers to support? NACS support is a much lighter lift.
Do you think I used the terminology "24/7 party house" to cover properties that are not a nuisance. You're on the list of unserious people as well now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Big_Itch my favorite was the flea warfare testing
I use a dumb adapter. The J1772 charge box still is able to talk to the Tesla car to negotiate charge current. The digital pins are still present.
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Why manjaro for those people? What desktop environment?
3,100 volumes of the English language edition apparently.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia
Reddit is like a crowdsourced wiki. It goes wide and does a decent job on a variety of topics, but drastically fails when you need to go deep.
I've seen an increasing amount of support for 'nuking' your personal reddit history—posts and comments—in protest of the upcoming changes, taking back what Reddit are profiting from. I'm hugely in favour of it, anyone else considering it?
Indeed, rationing is often seen as people having to cut back on their food intake. In fact, its aim was to guarantee a decent minimum for _everyone_. The people working in factories making vehicles, munitions, ball-bearings, etc. needed to be healthy enough to keep churning them out.
Ruby ridge and Waco (though that is less clear) happened, and the only person to "revolt" about that used a farming material bomb.

"We need guns to protect us from authoritarianism" has always been a fucking lie. No gun owners protested and started a rebellion after the patriot act.

The few times gun owners HAVE "rebelled" it has been for incredibly stupid reasons like "I don't want to pay taxes for the land my cattle have grazed on"
I put in the last thread that I find having an attendance score rather interesting for a company that is so proud of how well OKRs work for them.

That is, I can see some reasons to want more visibility into what people are working on. And when. That is exactly what they pitch OKRs for solving, for as long as the goal is getting achieved, you don't have to measure other things.

Instead, this is what happens when you have bean counters look at the system. Everything starts looking like a bean to be counted. You can't, with a straight face, tell me that attendance counts, but lines of code doesn't. Or all sorts of other countable things that we all, as an industry, claim to agree is a bad idea to count.
EA is likely the last one to add it. They've been actively moving to single cable designs to try to force CCS1 as the standard.
No. I gave clear examples of what I meant.
Easy - pay more and use less! A little capitalism goes a long way.
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Stackoverflow has over 500 employees ?!
For some reason, they gave Verge a time but not on their own post. It's at 1:30 pm EST

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754780/reddit-api-update...
Some people just don't have the brain chemistry for it, I suppose.

I'm kind of jealous of your friend. I've been a daily smoker before, and I'm usually able to like do simple tasks and such. But I just get too lazy and dysfunctional. And I feel dumber. Part of me is drawn to that because it's so much easier to be dumb. But I also depend on working memory to make a living and also for my favourite hobbies. Eventually I learned that the only thing that actually works is occasional use. I can't be completely abstinent because then I never actually learn moderation, and I just end up binging again. But if I know I can enjoy myself if I want to, I don't have to be constantly thinking "fuck I want some weed". And then when I do finally give in, there's this shame spiral about it that leads to binging. Whereas now I can just smoke if I feel like it, have a great night of sleep and go on with my life the next day.
I don't know anyone in the trades who is going to pull north of 200k unless they own the business. In which case my Ex's father comes to mind; he owned a plumbing business and had 4-5 vans out servicing clients.

He made 300+, and busted his ass to get it. Most of his guys were in the 60-85k range.

HVAC at 300k is an absolute outlier, and there are going to be some serious tradeoffs in terms of how brutal that's going to be on your body. Gonna be some long, hot days.
Thanks for posting this. Many years ago (2006?) I was a just-out-of-university programmer and a friend of a friend who wrote Python for Canonical sat me down and tried to teach me functional programming using Python. I was a poor learner: I didn't 'get it' (functional programming in general) and, to my regret, learned nothing.

Much time has passed and I hope I'm a more aware and open-to-new-things person today :) I use Python these days though in a traditional procedural / OO way. This post reminded me that maybe I should look into writing it functional-style. Thankyou!
Yep. If the locals aren't armed, you can just sweep in and arrest.

If the locals _are_ armed, you have to decide how much blood you're willing to spill.
The idea that merely owning property gives you total unilateral power over what can be done with it is I guess common but it's certainly not the only conception of private property that exists.

Land is what it is because of where it is. Models exist along a spectrum of where they distribute powers over land, but placing them all with the owner with no input from the surrounding community or state is fringe, even freak.

> 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.

God forbid poor people feel a sense of place, community, and pride in their hometown.
The first two night photos have logos for EarthCam, Live, and some location data. Seems they found a way to remove those in later images.
Yup during peak hours I'm usually pumping 3-5 kw to the grid. It's a win-win.
Real estate owners are already limited to what they can do with their property.

How is regulating airbnbs any different from zoning laws?
I never argued it made practical sense. I was making a point that, when Biden goes on TV after a shooting and kind of hints at the idea people should give up their guns, they might if they felt like they could trust their government more than they currently do.

It's a big ask for people who almost have a religious belief in the right to bear arms to give them away.

Stories like this one, and countless others, including the poor treatment of whistleblowers are why we Americans can't have nice things.
> what's truly wild is the number of stray cats, especially in the suburbs!

The smell of a cat colony has to be smelt to be believed. It’s up there with the worst smells I’ve experienced.
https://archive.is/wip/a5vJb
Yup.

Similarly, in the Everglades the invasive Burmese Pythons introduced in the 1970s are multiplying, killing predators like bobcats, and the rats are taking over, further destroying the ecosystem. [0]

[0] https://www.livescience.com/animals/snakes/burmese-pythons-a...
I’m gonna be honest, I just sincerely have no idea what you mean by “fundamentally different.”

Like, Peloton is an exercise bike. A cool one! A great brand and experience! But it’s an exercise bike.

And it’s somehow more “fundamentally different” than this device that is trying to materialize sci fi?

I guess I just don’t get it
I find this similar to those note taking apps. Everyone assumes having notes stored digitally will be more useful by allowing search, sharing between devices/friends, or any of the other propaganda used. However, they all miss the crucial bit of taking notes is that the act of writing the note is the key in helping retain the information. Can't get much cheaper than a pencil and paper, but yet we keep trying and failing.
Oof. This was one of the big central tenets of SO, the reason it wasn't Experts Exchange 2.0- the escrow of the community's contributions.
I only hope this and the Reddit slowmo-trainwreck-in-progress sensitivise more people about the value of the data they contribute and how it is appropriated by the platforms.