skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The report casts serious doubt on the need for further interest rate hikes, and instead calls for stronger policies to rein in “corporate profiteering”.

Let's make money artificially cheap again and involve the government more in price controls. What could possibly go wrong there? I'd rather they just enforce existing antitrust laws and enjoy market forces working in their favor.

> Still, prices remain high. Consumers are still paying about 25% more for groceries, the report notes as an example.

By coincidence, the PPI for food manufacturers are about 25% higher than pre-pandemic[0].

> Diaper prices have increased by more than 30% since 2019 from

The M2 money supply is up over 40% since 2019[1], compared to ~1.5% in population growth. The available dollars per person in the system is up a lot more than 30%. Absent commensurate increases in productive capacity, things are going to cost more. And speaking of productive capacity: policymakers have been discouraging, if not outright hostile, to such endeavors, with all this rhetoric against profits.

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCU311311

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
What kind of vehicles do you see this on? I have only rarely seen this, perhaps because it's not common in the US, or perhaps because emergency braking isn't all that common. But if there's going to be a different kind of light behavior, I'd think they'd want to have it triggered commonly enough that people would know what it means. Otherwise they might be confused the first time they encounter it.
Full bio from the site:

>David Evan Harris is a chancellor's public scholar at UC Berkeley, senior research fellow at the International Computer Science Institute, senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, senior advisor for AI and elections at the Brennan Center for Justice, and visiting fellow at the Integrity Institute. He previously worked as a research manager at Meta (formerly Facebook) on the responsible AI, civic integrity, and social impact teams, and was recently named to Business Insider’s AI 100 list for his work on AI governance, fairness, and misinformation.
It is. I bought a Beam with my Airs.

The screen fills up the entire FOV, which is great. The problem is that there's a lag between head movements and the glasses adapting. That means unless you stay very still, there will pretty much always be a part of the screen that's not visible. Furthermore, the lag is (to me) really bothersome.

I sent the Beam back and kept the glasses.
To be fair, it’s the Olympic-sized swimming pool of tablets.
An API is actually not good enough. It's the minimum you could possibly have to allow communication. So the silos can "work together" though that API, but problems then occur due to lack of understanding of how each silo actually works under the hood.

Imagine a bunch of microservices built by different teams. They just send each other their OpenAPI specs and some URIs. So they start calling each other's APIs. Everything seems to work fine.

But wait. Are there limits on this API? How many calls, or how much data can I send? What's the SLA on these transactions? What happens to data, how it's stored, processed, backed up? If I send X data to service Y, do I know service Z is going to get the same data? If one of these services goes down, is everything going to go down, and is that team staffed for 24/7 support? Do they even know what to do when things are down? When everything does down, how do these silos know which thing was the cause and who to alert to fix it? Does it require multiple silos to fix?

All of that and much, much more, is deeper knowledge related to the entire system, which is the inter-relation of all these silos from top to bottom and sideways. The API doesn't solve these problems or answer the questions. The API only tells you how to do one thing.

The premise of silos is the idea that you don't need to know anything else about the rest of the world but some tiny bit of information. Well, reality says different.

DevOps is not about "merging teams", but communication and collaboration between teams. They should understand each other well, or at least make it much easier to discover the right information in order to improve outcomes. You absolutely have to have specialized teams where people have domain knowledge. But you also need to provide the tools and practices that enable very different teams to work together to build things right and solve problems quickly.

Say you're building cars. A dealership's mechanics notice a belt keeps rubbing on a cable or hose. That needs to be quickly notified to the assembly people to see if it's an assembly problem, and if not, it needs to be sent to the mechanical engineers to address a potential design flaw. That all needs to be done quickly, as soon as the problem is noticed, because cars are shipping every day. The longer it takes for that whole loop to complete, the more bad cars are shipped. By focusing on improving the loop between all these different groups, you improve business outcomes. But "an API" isn't going to do that.

That's why the idea of a "DevOps Engineer" is wrong. This isn't an engineering problem. This is a business process problem. The communication between teams is not an API, it is really organizational structure and practice. Engineers noticed the problem, and wanted to fix it, but they failed to use the language of management. So instead people slapped "Engineer" on the concept and everyone got confused.
Apple likes to make heavy stuff.. The first iPhone X is also super heavy. I think they watched too many Jurassic Park..

"Are they heavy? Then they're expensive, put them back"
Maybe every interaction with HR should be recorded, but almost none of them should be posted to TikTok. That eliminates anonymity, and increases the chance of bias for future employers.
Google keeps YouTube for its massive dataset to train its (unsuccessful) multi-modal language models.
Normal Accidents and To Engineer is Human are two popular and great books.
The 37signals Employee Handbook
Probably not what you are asking for but thought they might be worth a look

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61899637-philosophy-of-c...

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60965426-the-creative-ac...

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/530415.The_Art_of_Doing_...
>> Don't use your credit card on websites you don't trust

> The person in this article bought stuff from Amazon

Yeah, you shouldn't trust Amazon. They don't do nearly enough to ensure their 3rd party marketplace is safe.
That means you're not doing anything interesting with it :P
That makes sense. I was thinking that its altitude sensor might have been miscalibrated or confused, so it hadn't yet reached the ground when it thought it had.
Ask HN: Tools to help families with Alzheimer's/dementia
A close family member of mine is developing Alzheimer's disease. He can still take care of himself but is getting more difficult to converse with. He loses things easily, and every once-in-a-while gives us a scare because he decides to leave the house and doesn't tell us about it.

What tools, devices, apps, etc do you recommend that could improve his safety and/or quality of life (and also our peace of mind)?
I agree, it's pretty darn baked!

This is exactly what I have always want to build for myself, it has the right amount of functionality I need, and also the right amount of "flat"!
Density is a way to make cities more livable and attractive, and to scale up public transit investments.

After you've done all this, you'll find that your city is more expensive than the surrounding cities without, not less.
I think it was originally Small Lander for Investigating Moon :)
> I'm clearly not alone with my opinion (see original post),

I recall seeing the same thing being said in the 2000s on Slashdot, so "software is shit now" is an opinion that's not new.

> and you're trying to undermine your opponents' credibility by getting ad-hominem and pointing out that their position lacks the kind of research

All I'm saying is that this popular position of "software used to be so much better" has strong "kids today" vibes.

> which you yourself did not provide either.

I'm not the one saying an entire industry has forgotten how to do our jobs.
Trying to stick to bellow as much as possible all the time:

"Keep it simple, stupid!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

The Basecamp's books are enjoyable, recommending
https://basecamp.com/books/rework
The Design Of Everyday Things by Don Norman might be something of interest

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/840
Wish they'd ask for feedback about alternative app stores for iOS. ;)
Yeah, I've bought a vehicle with ~200 miles on it. But it was near the end of a model run and there were very few left. IIRC, it had been transferred, and also had been on the lot for a while.

It definitely shouldn't be the norm, but there are cases where it makes sense.
* The Art of Unix Programming

* The Art of Computer Programming
> ‘I recall lots of people dismissing the iPad as "just a big iPod Touch".’

The interesting point here is that Apple’s competitors at the time didn’t even have a product that could come close to the iPod touch, and yet Apple was already taking the product into a completely new direction.

The iPod touch doesn’t exist anymore. Turns out the paper-like size combined with the simple UI made all the difference. And nobody scaling down from $2k Windows tablets could have figured that out. That’s how Apple created a beautifully designed tablet for only $499 and everybody else was left scrambling.

With the Vision Pro, Apple doesn’t seem to have that kind of advantage. But I’d be very happy if it exceeds my expectations and is also successful in the market. I’ve been waiting for VR all my life. The Quest has come tantalizingly close but still misses the applications that would make it a part of my daily routine.
I don't know Canadian law. Once a prosecution is started, must it be completed within the statute of limitations for that crime?

I think that's how it generally works in the USA. Because the prosecution is stayed you lose the right to a speedy trial, but the statute of limitations still ticks.
Weight distribution is just as important as weight. The Meta Quest 3 is significantly more comfortable than the Quest 2 despite being slightly heavier, because the weight is much closer to your face. A fairly lightweight motorcycle helmet weighs about 1400 grams, but you really don't notice that weight unless it's poorly fitted.

Given that the Vision Pro is exclusively available with a custom-fitted facial interface and headstrap, I'm quite confident that the comfort will be - at worst - on a par with most other VR headsets.
Is there any evidence that supports this statement?
Based on the video, I'd say the company's culture is safe.
She admitted on camera to having underperformed.
She did not close a single contract, while working in sales, which translates as 'the company did not make any money as a result of her presence'.
We will delve into the inherent risks of API integration and explore strategic approaches to effectively mitigate these challenges.
Lots of focus on the fishing industry I'm that article and not on the fact that sea life populations are collapsing.
I think that it's possible for both of you to be right.

If you work in traditional manufacturing in the Midwest and mostly consume domestic goods, then it's easy to feel like the US is circling the drain.

If you work in IT or finance in a coastal city and mostly consume imported goods, then it's easy to feel like the US is in a golden age.
Correct. The way they showed it, the Mac screen is mirrored once in the Vision Pro.

The whole Mac becomes essentially its own 1 app in the virtual space.

It's possible they will add the option to have multiple virtual displays for 1 computer but I haven't seen any indication of that.

I would have preferred if each Mac window floated in the virtual space as its own thing instead.
yeah I went to Tennessee on holiday in 2017 (from Scotland) and thought I'd managed to time it perfectly for a brood emerging, but one of the locals said it was a yearly occurrence. It was still fantastic to hear that constant background noise
I had similar thoughts when I saw the flea robot from Boston Dynamics.[0]

Imagine exploring mars with a combination of a dozen or so flea type robots that have solar panels on them and a robot arm for sample retrieval that can fold up into the body. They can trundle around the surface taking video and picking up samples as desired and then return to the stationary lander that they came from when needed.

The stationary lander can have all of the sample analysis machinery, seismograph, weather station, as well as a high bandwidth uplink to satellites in orbit / Earth.

Keep landing more and more of these within the the same area so that the fleas can travel between the stationary landers as they travel further and further, heck you can even form a mesh network between all of the machines on the ground, and offload a lot of heavy computational processing to the stationary landers that could be powered by an RTG.

You can risk individual fleas doing dangerous things that you otherwise wouldn't want to risk one large all in one lander on, as losing a flea only degrades a small fraction of your research and if fleas get stuck somewhere another flea can attempt to rescue it. You could even have the fleas return home to overwinter if they're not designed to withstand the winter.

There's so much versatility that you gain in a model like this with small disposable rover robots paired with massive stationary landers.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b4ZZQkcNEo
Due to concepts like 'trust-based working hours' employees learn to monitor how much time they spend working. So when you get more time as an employee, you don't spend it on the company, which doesn't pay you more. Instead, you spend it somewhere else, like on your family.

I think the productivity gains of remote work depend on personality and type of task. Some things work better, others don't. But as the study shows, the net effect is neutral.
> hire the best programmers, give them freedom, and they'll build products that will win in every market. And, well, that hasn't happened

There are 2 dimensions in this equations (1) best programmers (2) management.

They might have hired best engineers, but not the best management. Maybe the management ruined them, by putting profits above everything else.

Keep in mind, some of those management/MBA people have tendency to put promotion above anything else.
> I mean, isn't that what Bell Labs basically was?

More like Xerox PARC. I wish we could re-create the secret to how productive that engineer playground was. Yes, Xerox HQ (across the country) had little interest in monetizing their output but as an invention factory it was an immense success and we use their ideas every day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Parc
Likely single devices patterned from a epitaxially grown graphene layer. It would be a functioning transistor —- or set of transistors, albeit not terribly useful as single devices. Typically they would pattern the devices with large metal landing pads to drop probes onto, and perform characterization from there.
Building Observable ML/AI Systems
I wonder whether lobsters will respond by evolving to be smaller adults.
Even the H2 process is horribly inefficient. Just use the electricity directly and store the small amount that is needed for peak levelling in ordinary batteries.

All these ways of using hydrocarbons are less efficient than batteries and only make sense when the hydrocarbon has a higher energy density and when the density is actually needed.

Just install a battery in every new home, make all new homes comply with passivhus standards, put solar panels on top of all new commercial buildings, generally stop wasting energy. And strengthen the interconnects between countries so that places like Spain can sell excess solar to France and thence on to the rest of Europe.
These are extremely early production units. Hopefully this means a higher than usual amount of testing on the test track before delivery.

I wouldn't personally want to buy one either, but mostly because of the potential issues with such early production. The actual miles don't bother me as much as that.
I second Rick Rubins book
Canada has terrible policy making.
The moon is far enough away that there will be a 1 second time delay regardless
What makes me really mad is that I mark a sender as 'not spam' over and over again in Gmail and where does it keep going? Spam. I have a bunch of system emails and I can't convince Google to just give me my damned mail.
I think that was it. I replied to this point downthread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39054947

I’d be glad to hear your perspective or thoughts in this thread or as a reply to my post re: Google Earth/Keyhole.
Tried this out and blew my mind! very cool
I find the title overly slanted for my tastes, and I don’t have any stake in the game. The article admits the headset weighs in between a quest 3 and a quest pro. Why are we comparing to “almost as much as an iPad Pro? Maybe it’s a standard reference for the macrumors audience? Kinda feels like the author is trying to bait outrage clicks but maybe it’s just awkward wording.
I was calculating TCO vs cloud services the other day and was amazed at how little tier pricing had changed since 2015/2016. Previously they were dropping by ~20% yoy now they’ve stalled out at the current pricing levels. Meanwhile the cost of the commodities in a server has dropped over that same time frame. The difference in costs likely translated to higher profits. Especially in the last 6 months.
The problem with "You wrote it, you run it" is they are completely orthogonal skillsets, and you lose the benefits of specialization. It introduces a high amount of context switching, and loses consistency in how services operate.
In the long run it is cheaper to transport the energy as electricity.
The biggest factor is that you don't have one company owning everything, like Amazon does with their network.

You can call UPS and get them to take a pallet somewhere, and it stays in the "UPS delivery network" but the vast majority of freight is not shipped that way (it's quite expensive).

For full truckloads you're usually dealing with a broker who finds a company or independent operator who is willing to take the load to where you want it, or if that is not available then the broker will find a chain of companies that will get you the result you want. This often involves calling or faxing to various "hubs" that he thinks will work.

For LTL (less than truckload, think pallets) it is even worse - your pallet will be taken to a local warehouse by a local driver, and then combined with other pallets to another warehouse, and potentially a whole chain of these. The brokers work even harder on these.

It is not insurmountable, but "modernization" doesn't get you much of a benefit at all until it's all modernized, so there's not much budget for "lets' modernize and have no benefit for 20 years".
Imagine working in sales and not understanding that you are expected to actually sell.

PS - she obviously did not matter enough.
No. No. No. This is not how it works.

Inflation is ONLY caused by fiat currency not backed by anything real; The federal government writing checks for objects/services where the total amount expended exceeds the amount intaken via taxes. Literally any other explanation is incomplete.
Northern Ireland in 2024: A land of misery
My view on this is this: You either need to farm and kill animals, or you don't.

Currently, we absolutely don't, and we arguably never did, because animal products like milk or eggs are nutritionally sufficient and do not require killing the animals.

I personally really enjoy meat, but consider eating it unethical.
What is the difference between Loran-C and tactical Loran-C? I googled "loran-c vs tactical loran-c" but did not come up anything. Thanks.
It was basically the same idea as WSL1, i.e. running the Linux kernel (or equivalent) in Windows userspace.

It actually worked decently when I tried it back then.
I would just use pg_upgrade with --hardlinks for an in-place upgrade.

Have done 2 TB dbs in less than a minute.

We were running our own Postgres instances on-prem.
And decibels are logarithmic, so 80-100 dB is 10 to 1000x times as loud as 70 dB.
The Canadians are complaining that they will have to catch less lobsters, but that is exactly the reason for the new legislation.

It is working as it is intended and as it should.
The Samsung Tab S9 Ultra is larger and heavier.
Progression GPT1-2-3-4 in last 5 years, with no indication of any slowdown in the near future.
I think the virtual mac screen is limited to 4K resolution, which means you can “zoom” it as much as you want, but you won’t be able to fit “more content” on it. That is to say, there’s a difference between having a huge screen with a matching huge resolution (which can fit more windows with the same text/content size), and what the Vision Pro is going to emulate, which is more like taking your existing 4K monitor and blowing it up (making each window/text/etc correspondingly bigger, and potentially looking blurry if it’s too big.)

You can probably work around this by adjusting the compositor into a “more space” mode in preferences which makes all the content smaller, but it’s not the same as having arbitrary resolution to match the arbitrary virtual size.

Personally, I don’t want a virtual screen at all, I want all the individual windows on my Mac to hover around me in virtual space (like they do for native visionOS apps), but that’s not supported. It’s a real shame IMO.
Yeah, I am sad. I still use the Microsoft Exchange option to access my Gmail account on my iPhone in Mail.app so that I get push notifications.
Thanks for the detailed reply.

This largely makes sense to me. Stuff like jump discontinuities I've only seen as an exercise for calculus classes.

Sad to see Taylor series go but that is kind of a dangling topic in an intro class and could be picked up later when there is a need for it.
I would state this as "chemical space is so large it's surprising that an evolutionarily distance biosynthetic pathway would, through evolution, actually find and optimize molecules that were remarkably effective modulators of an extremely distantly related organism." (I'm not ascribing intent or desire to evolution here, when I say "find and optimize").

But like many things in biology, if you view it through a billion-year evolutionary lens, it's not completely surprising. I doubt anybody could come up with a general rule or law that explained this well, and anything I did would just speculative arm-waving, of which this site has enough.
The system is $10k, the CPU costs $5K, the rest of components at most $3K, so I guess that means $2K profit on each system?
> "Who, in middle 80% of Google's org chart pyramid, actually cares?"

I agree with you except for this part. People at the FAANG level sometimes actually do care about fixing problems for both good and bad reasons. Some people take pride in their work and want to see their product succeed; it can be immensely gratifying to see your work garner positive press and be used by tens of millions of people. Some people tie aspects of their identity to pride in being at a FAANG; arguably this isn't healthy but if it motivates them to create better products, who are we to judge? Some people care because being seen to point out and propose solutions brings them visibility and promotions and this, for good or of ill, does work. And last but by no means least, some care because fixing problems hopefully will increase share price and make them even wealthier.

If they actually didn't care, they wouldn't have bothered to write their posts after being laid off.
Two delivery robots face off against each other
I think Jobs as an example here is confusing, because he's noted as being an asshole and also an asshole, so people will read it your way and people will read it the other way.