skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't get me wrong, there's still some amount of concerns about some of these charges. There are a lot of complicated things going on there, a number of court cases, and there's definitely a mixture of things going on. I was buying electricity through a retail electric provider (REP) who ended up folding and selling my contract to a new REP after the freeze so I and everyone else with a fixed contract in the deregulated areas had practically zero impact, maybe slightly higher delivery charges. Other people are on co-ops, and they might have to have some extra payments in their bills spread over a few years to cover the costs (depending on some court cases) or have their co-ops get pretty heavily restructured. Then there are some municipal electric companies who were often mixed, as sometimes those had generating capacity (so if those stayed online they received these huge payments or balanced out) and sometimes they didn't.

But those people showing their $20,000 home electric bills? Far outliers, way outside the norm. They had signed up specifically for spot price energy plans without realizing what that really meant. I do imagine a number of people probably really didn't understand their plans, as its really easy to change plans and Griddy did a lot of direct selling.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/17/puc-appeals-court-ur...

For a lot of people though there was confusion related to energy prices increasing after the freeze, which was correlated but not necessarily caused from the freeze. Global gas prices shot sky high, a lot of LNG capacity was added for export, a huge amount of Texas electricity is from gas, so electricity prices increased around that same time. Not necessarily from the freeze though, but most people weren't paying attention to the natural gas prices.
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Would you happen to have a link for that? It would certainly help, as they are currently around where I'd call the minimum necessary (likely) PPD. Every little improvement counts until they catch up to 4k monitors, where anything looks good.
> Good-looking female students didn't get straight A's when I was in college

> Or did they? Honestly, I never ever inquired into anyone's grades

And this is why we do studies.
If you go one step further than the simple math formula - pH isn't just describing the concentration of hydrogen ions in a solution but rather that solution's ability to donate/accept H+ ions. So a solution of strong acid which is inhibited to fully dissociate into H+ and it's anion would have a pH much lower than the measured value in the solution. As H+ ions are donated, the acid in solution further dissociates providing more H+ ions, so clearly the solution is more acidic than originally measured.

This is how mine water and volcanic hot springs end up with negative pH; https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/17247528.pdf
I read it as Mistrial three times before I figured it out.
NGL M2 is incredible
> But I sure couldn't produce the tools I want without making use of the work of profit driven people, simply because advanced tech is a lot of work, takes hundreds of people, is too big for anyone to understand and thus is almost never made if idea-exploring is the main motive, and generally seems pretty tied to profit.

Kropotkin's model of anarchist society is that we still have guilds and federations of workers, mostly composed of people drawn to whatever they are interested in most. If the farmers produce food, and the workers produce tools for the farmers, we can exchange them without having to profit from that exchange. Take the food or tools you need.

Over time, as practices become established, group up with other farmers, tools producers, etc. and form guilds that are democratically run. Those guilds negotiate with other guilds to help drive what tools are in demand and work to increase them.

Chip fab would necessarily be slower under the system -- democratically run organizations do take longer to reach consensus -- but we would probably route around that a bit by doing with fewer chips. (Or maybe we'd see more people enter chip fab as their career if there wasn't the concern about bankrupting themselves by going to college.)
I have lived this in contexts, it is absolutely true. Energetic dumb people get noticed and often promoted based on their energy and seeming ability to move fast. That quickness is usually due to the fact that they don’t do any proper due diligence or analysis, they just bull ahead.

The trick is to catch them early enough and get rid of them as quick as you can.

Seen this both in startups and big companies where a person was fired a year to the day they were hired (or whatever their contractual “safe period” was).

I have also seen orgs where they did not catch them in time. You do not want to work there.
I’ve struggled with this on my site too - I don’t want to custom code a solution so I’ve been using Mailchimp but Mailchimp is gross (it keeps people’s emails even if they unsubscribe)

SendGrid is cool and allows for much more flexibility with emails like custom variables, I recently rebuilt my email templates with MJML but I really wish there was just an easy service that allowed you to POST to an endpoint, supported double opt in and gave you that level of control.

After researching it became clear I was going to have to setup some kind of custom backend for my Gatsby site or use a server less function service and write the code myself.
The ideal optical design is such that your optical spot size/MTF is matched to your pixel size in a way that

* subpixels are blurred, and it's hard to see the boundary between pixels
* you still have enough resolution to resolve text clearly

Our headset has that, and I'm confident Apple's will too.
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I agree, without being able to read the linked the article, I assume this was a subreddit specific thing that happened. If that's the case, it's probably a good thing. I'm in a few subs where people constantly post links to alternatives and it floods the feed with useless posts. I understand that the lemmy situation is somewhat different as reddit is being a pain right now, but in general it's a dick move to go into a community and start spamming links to a different one.
You're getting heavy downvotes but I'm curious: do you have a reason (ideally a citation) to say that eyestrain is inevitable? Do you think that applies to all professional XR workflows, or just this generation of headsets for some technical reason?

Anecdotally I've worn the Oculus S for extended periods and didn't notice any eyestrain, but also "extended periods" obviously wasn't a full workday so can't be too confident yet.
I mean... 100tb is like 4 hard drives worth of data these days
The loans are non-recourse to the developers, so while they might have to turn over the keys to the property at the end of the day, the bank isn’t coming after them for their other projects or personal assets.

A busted deal isn’t a happy outcome for a real estate developer, at all, and they lose whatever equity they invested on the project, but non-recourse debt protects them on the downside and they make their real money on the successful deals.
>Yes, there's a name for this, but I forget what it is.

Resume Driven Development.
yet physical hardware has a finite amount of memory, so at some point you either stop your program of you have to modify a cell you already touched.
This is perfect for Elegant!

You can get a free newsletter subscription account going with ConvertKit, and add your form url to get started with collecting sign ups right out of the box.

It’s built with Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Markdown loader, and a bunch more.

It doesn’t cost anything, and you can host on Vercel or Netlify for free :)

https://github.com/elegantframework/elegant-cli

https://www.elegantframework.com/docs/convertkit
Vision Pro is powerful enough for "phone" or "tablet" type tasks, but I don't think it's powerful enough for actual work.

Development, Design, Video Editing, etc, etc still require additional capacity than what the Vision Pro is offering.
> Paul Graham did some napkin math on Twitter a few months ago highlighting his approach is just try to get ahead of a trending but still not quite super popular idea.

got a link?
I think they might be referring to the transition from 68K to PowerPC.
This is a disanalogus analysis, because the value of these platforms it the labour of their volunteers --- they *are* the commons.

"Natural power" includes the collective action of these volunteers -- seen here, eg., with reddit.

My point is that the drive to profit from this labour will make the platforms extremely sensitive to their demands -- in ways that do not occur when there's no need to profit.

You can say "let them eat cake" if you have your own cake supplier. When the cake runs out, all those labourers turn out to be required.

I think these are unique dynamics -- much closer to the fall of serfdom than the development of TV networks
https://news.ycombinator.com/lowlights needed

(I recently found https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights )
I hope this never happens. Sponsors in the middle of podcasts, that are not targeted, are totally fine. You want people to produce something for you and consume it for free? If you don't want ads pay for it.
If you told people 30 years ago that in the future, people would be walking around city centers with their heads down and eyes glued to a lit screen they would have laughed. This is less a laptop replacement and more a mobile-compute replacement. Who needs a tablet or phone if you have one light enough and with enough power to see you through the day strapped to your face? It also allows for a more intimate, private experience, as you may balk at opening some items on your phone in a crowded subway where a casual shouldersurfer could catch a glimpse.
The stupid part is that profits are really not optimized by the enshittification profit campaigns - there is so much incompetence in isolated C-suites making these decisions.
>> don't know who invented this nonsense distinction ...

It not nonsense. In C or C++ lots of code can be made parallel using OpenMP and inserting some #pragma statements above for loops. This does not work for things like running a UI in one thread and some other work in another thread, perhaps displaying results as they are found. These are quite different types of parallelism.
It's a bane of all bureaucratic structures because such energetic/"gets things done" people tend to rise in the ranks (their self-confidence also helps) and then their stupidity allows them to inflict damage on truly impressive scale. No wonder there exists a Soviet-era saying "who's more dangerous than an idiot? An idiot with initiative" because they've been hit hard with that unpleasant truth.
This is so sorely needed. I used the app after the PH launch and loved how easy the self-serve was!

Do you have plans to let users define "types" of data that can be redacted (like monetary terms in a contract, code embedded in documents etc)? Also, any plans on making this an API that other developers could build on top of?
Ask HN: Bootstrapping, Indie Hacking or Rocketship?
What do you guys think about the saying that “The success rate of all types of business is the same, therefore you should always start a Rocketship as your potential return would be greatest”.
The Xreal isn't a wide FOV at all though, unsuitable for what SimulaVR is going for.

It's more literally a head mounted display, rather than a virtual reality headset, with its 46° field of view.
Haha, I came here to make an "Is this a joke?" response
I really hope their password isn't literally "password", so I can't see how blocking that word improves anything.
They apparently[0] have plans to do this for their next "Helpful" content update. And that update should happen soon if we go by the current update metrics[1].

(I also manage sites myself and they've been doing some heavy A/B testing the last couple of weeks, but we have to wait and see how big of an impact it will actually have.)

[0]: https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1656362551456993288

[1]: https://status.search.google.com/products/rGHU1u87FJnkP6W2Gw...

For people who don't want to click the Twitter link:

> We're also improving how we rank results in Search overall. Helpful information can often live in unexpected or hard-to-find places: a comment in a forum thread, a post on a little-known blog, or an article with unique expertise on a topic. Our helpful content ranking system will soon show more of these “hidden gems” on Search, particularly when we think they’ll improve the results.
Spaced repetition is useful, there's a level of nuance beyond that with interleaving and variation that hasn't really hit the mainstream of podcasters trying to hype research yet. https://bjorklab.psych.ucla.edu/research/ has some good nuggets.
This is that one meme with the normal distribution from total novice to jedi master: https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/035/645/cov...
I don't buy it, Apple very proudly shows the numbers when they can make them shine under a good light in comparisons.

When they were trying to sell the new mac pros as AI/ML devices they underlined a lot the technical specs of those Macs. Or when they introduced Retina displays they all went into PPIs and pixel numbers. Or when they introduced M1s to show the performance and wattage boosts.
Haha, just today I saw comments seriously praising this exact approach on HN.
> resistant to API changes

Is there any details about this? I can’t find anything on the about page, or on a quick skim of the readme they have hosted on codeberg.

Nothing is resistant from changes in the upstream data source. It’s pretty easy to break things if you’re dependant like that.
> designed towards table-like content consumption

I didn’t get that impression at all. You can stream your Mac display to it and at that point you have a real Unix system in AR/VR. That’s good enough for many of us.

It seems that Simula is betting on people wanting to not need the external laptop and I think it’s a losing bet. There aren’t all that many use cases where having a Mac streaming wirelessly to your headset isn’t good enough.

The use cases where having a connection to a laptop isn’t feasible are probably the same ones where you are mostly going to do be using it somewhat passively. Doing things like working in a coffee shop will probably still be done on a laptop because who wants to be a glasshole isolating themselves from an environment wearing a ring of cameras on their head? I don’t think I’d be comfortable doing that or being around somebody I don’t know doing that.
I tried to run just an ipad pro for office type tasks for a while and just found it supremely limiting. Just being able to run excel isn't enough. It's positioned as a laptop replacement to justify its cost, but I don't think the ios/ipados software ecosystem in any way replaces even a windows desktop.
What would you use besides LangChain?
They openly admit that they can't match Apple's polish with their current resources.

Also, the SimulaVR shown is a prototype. Pretty obvious that comparing it to the Vision Pro is comparing apples and oranges at this point.
Nobody argued the partners are managing. They’re the ones pulling the arbitrage.
The venerable sdf.org might be a good home for your community. It's a nonprofit that's been online since 1987 and hosts a variety of communities. Usage is mostly free. They recently launched a Lemmy instance where you could set up a "subreddit" with a couple of clicks - https://lemmy.sdf.org/
Mondragon is. You might not be familiar with them, but they are a federation of co-ops in Europe that are a billion dollar business and are the 10th largest industrial group in Spain.

They do R&D, Finance, Manufacturing, and a bunch of other stuff.

https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/en/

There's no axiomatic reason why an Intel or Microsoft couldn't be a co-op or federation of co-ops. It just didn't shake out that way this time.
How much of that growth is paper? Additionally, A lot of infrastructural maintenance and investment was deferred by communities that should have been taking advantage of low rates which will cost a premium in the future, likely compounded by higher rates.
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> What I wasn't expecting was so many tier 3 devices that aren't really what I'd consider "tier 3." I was expecting all tier 3 devices to be gaming-level GPUs.

Could be the detection of GPUs doesn't work correctly? My nVidia 1080Ti is detected as nVidia 980Ti, and a sibling comment mentions an integrated laptop GPU being detected as tier 3 with isMobile=false.
Agreed. There’s a viral meme HN is “better” but little evidence it is true the content is more often accurate.

Still a lot of noise and little signal even if the noise is not emotional like 4chan or Twitter
I know we’re kind stuck with the term of art “concurrent”, and will forever have to explain the difference between the synonymous words “concurrent” and “parallel” — The Merriam Webster definition of “concurrent” uses the word “parallel”, for example.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could come up with a better word for this that doesn’t literally overlap with ‘parallel’ and doesn’t need to deviate so far from it’s dictionary definition?

Personally I think of JavaScript as ‘asynchronous’, and I know this as a term of art means a programming model, but it’s a lot easier to see that async can be done with a single thread and isn’t necessarily parallel, right?
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Yes, I should have been more specific. The broader point I think stands: you need a very high resolution screen and high-res image (and thus rendering compute power) to get even a good-enough viewing experience, especially for text - say what you'd get from a mediocre FullHD monitor.
Sounds like they're not Team Players if they give you feedback you Simply Do Not Want To Hear!
Apparently the eviction is from the "S'park" office, and X Corp has vacated some other Boulder offices:

https://bizwest.com/2023/06/13/judge-landlord-can-evict-twit...

Looks like a dilemma for X Corp workers in Boulder and a headache for HR. I'm not sure what I'd do in the worker's situation, other than update my resume.
This seems like a cool tool. Any customer stories that you can point me to where I can better learn about use cases?
I don't think it will ever happen. Apple has essentially stated that the openness of macOS is not something they'd repeat. We are also on Gen 6 of the iPad Pro a device that could very easily replace a laptop both in specs and feature set that is continually hampered from doing so. And there was/is countless rumors that Xcode will finally land on iPad and the best we've gotten is locked down and limited Swift Playgrounds.
Whether dead keys are acceptable or not depends heavily on how frequent they are in the language.

The Danish keyboard layout has ¨, ^, ´ and ` on dead keys — those are used in foreign names and a few loanwords — but Æ, Ø, Å are real keys.

Having Å, Ø and Æ as dead keys would make as much sense as having V, K and J as dead keys in English.
It probably would be a more effective campaign for subreddits to have their users wipe all their old comments (older than 1 year) than a temporary blackout for a few days.
> If you accept that Reddit could be OpenAI's moat, I think you could explain Reddit's behavior even without OpenAI's intervention. Like the premise here is that Reddit's data is super valuable and so OpenAI would want to stop others from getting it. But it also makes sense to say Reddit's data is super valuable so Reddit would want to limit access to it and be able to charge a premium for it.

I don't think I have a refutal, honestly. OpenAI aside, Reddit clearly has realized that their data is valuable, perhaps more valuable than their ads business. This is why my piece is frankly very speculative: the strategy aligns really well and the financial interests are there, but I wish I had a great argument why my theory is more likely than simply Reddit trying to capture the value of their data.
Well, I resetted my vs code environment in order to start fresh and check if my problem was still there. My issue is that VS Code interactive windows do not share the same "working space" as the cells. I usually use the interactive window to try stuff, which then gets crystallized in the notebooks. The interactive VS Code consoles are disjointed from the notebook, making it a pain to test stuff with already-defined variables and libraries.
“Employed” can also be implied, depending on context.
> I know google results have dropped off the deep end, but framing reddit going dark as being of significant impact to search results is not honest. Yes, the result these people want is now inaccessible - it's not a new thing, results that are inaccessible are not unexpected. It's no different to the many deep searches I've done in the past and found what might have been useful results, were actually private unless one agrees to sell up their tracking data or the site was behind a pay wall.

In your opinion it is not honest, and many people disagree with you. This is an example of the “dosis sola facit venenum” or the dose makes the poison. Some random forum post you came across in a deep search that no longer can be accessed is barely noticed. The size of reddit and how weighted it has become to google users is why google search results are now poisoned. If you want to understand the issue, you have to step out of your own specific uses and look at how a large percent of people use google searches.

If a grocery store loses access to a couple products a month, shoppers would barely notice. If they lose access to 20% of products that are normally on the shelves, that is significant and will effect customer behavior.
Nixpkgs Emulators
Yes other companies have animations but they make sure it performs well across browsers and OSs.

Mac+Firefox users are probably in your customer base. Listen to the feedback.
I'd consider myself dumb and lazy in this context. I'm lazy, so nothing I build is ever complicated. And I'm dumb, so it's never very clever either. The result is simple straightforward readable code, with very little indirection, and minimal modularization.

It drives the Architecture Astronauts crazy, but Grug no mind. Neither do PM. His code work, and feature done fast.
This has made me formulate a new theory that European access legislature is actually funded by VPN providers.
Ha, whoops you’re right.
Yeah but the point is that the subreddit blackout means you can't actually view the threads. The best you can do is hope that Google Cache has a readable version of it. And the longer the blackout goes on, the more likely it is that the results will be purged from the SERPs anyway, since they're now just an error page instead of relevant content.
I'm guessing that you didn't mean to end up with 180% of development time, but that does seem about right when it comes to the software development projects that I've been part of. I also think you're correct that despite the impressive recent advances in AI, the remaining effort may still be enormous.
It's sensible to use AC to only bring temperature down to warm instead of freezing cold like they tend to do in the US, especially since you're probably already lightly dressed. Setting it to 23-25 does sound like a good compromise, also implying that AC stays off until temp reaches above 25C (also sensible, IMHO).

Actually here in the UK we're having a bit of a heat wave and it's currently 27C inside my house downstairs and hotter upstairs.
Binance Moves to Deregister Cyprus Entity Ahead of New EU Rules
I might be about to wade into solar for my place (So Cal). But home equipment reviews on the Internet are..mixed at best. How to evaluate what's the latest/greatest and most reliable, etc? Tesla has the biggest name but reports of support post-install are...mixed at best.
I had a co-worker who would reject feedback and then complain that it was the reviewers' fault that his PRs weren't merged.
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