skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since that website uses the aggressively stupid "talk to sales" tactic, the "find a retailer" link a the bottom is more informative: https://www.adorama.com/vr0017500.html ($3990) or the platinum plated version at $9990 https://www.adorama.com/vr0017400.html both of which are "on backorder until March 2024"

I got a dystopian chuckle out of "Varjo XR-3 Headset with Perpetual Offline License" for $10990 (but free shipping!!1) https://www.adorama.com/vrjvr3d.html so maybe the $3990 XR-4 is just the hardware, and it's another $X for the license to use it
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Looks like existing worldwide reserves are 26M tons [0], so this is a big find.

[0] https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2023/mcs2023-lithium.pd...
I wasn't clear and I updated the GP: I meant the regulation, controls, etc. until the 1980s.
Yes, exactly. I am myself guilty of exactly that. My excuse (a really lame one): logging in to my credit card accounts is too much of a friction with 2FA and all that, and then sifting through statements is work. I don't want to do the work.

Of course, that's a pathetic excuse, and I tell myself that one of these days I will check my statements but that day never comes.

It's quite easy to be lazy in the moment and put this "work" off to tomorrow. As a result, days, weeks and months go by.

I now use privacy.com for most subscriptions and one-off trials etc. It at least notifies me via email every time there is a transaction.
This is itself a meaningless appeal that can be used to justify any behavior, absent a concrete example or definition of the good.
Passit: Open-Source Password Manager
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Python and esp Django are great for rapid prototypes but larger projects I find the performance and structure of Java easier for a large team. Maybe things get a lot better in the future as type hints get more widely used with Python?

My company does Python for ETL/data but Java for everything else
I think if we compared similar quality products by adjusting for inflation, the picture may be less alarming. The real change is the modern appearance of much more inexpensive manufacturing (with all the consequences that entails).
When do we think this was last updated?
Here's some further reading on this and other interesting lobster lore, by the MIT Sea Grant Program:

https://seagrant.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Lobster_...
This case is probably not a great example to use, because the woman's card wasn't stolen. Her account at Walmart was hacked, and the purchase was made there with the shipment sent to a different address.
Thank you!

Ente was first a piece of hardware, then a self-host-able project, but we had a hard time monetizing both, which lead to the E2EE pivot.

TIL about TagSpaces, thanks!

Our server can be open-sourced, but we're unsure of the value E2EE will provide, with services like Photoprism[1] and Immich[2] already doing a good job of serving customers who prefer to self host. In this context E2EE might become a constraint, rather than a feature.

[1]: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

[2]: https://github.com/immich-app/immich
It's definitely on the roadmap somewhere.

SpaceX's problem as a private company is that they've been so successful that they're a victim of their own success; they've captured a market that isn't necessarily a growth sector by itself, they need people to have a reason to launch payloads. It's one of the reasons they're in Starlink; making their own payloads justifies continued development and operation of their rocketry sector.

So a space hotel would be a huge justification of their continued existence as a private concern.
And when you do try to cancel, you have to chat or call somebody. I'm looking at you SiriusXM.
Share link: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/couch-sofa-quality-furniture-r...
> just by using a server-side mechanism Google could have promoted since… forever?

Google has been pushing 2FA and App Specific Passwords for many many years. They’re just now making it mandatory for apps that can’t update to support oauth
>> as though they were in a single process

The problem is, you cannot abstract away a 3 order of magnitude difference in performance and latency. This problem increases with larger teams as people don't understand what is happening. Abstractions shorten the learning curve but also greatly slow the formation of an accurate mental model of how a system works.
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Their customers do care about this accuracy. Highly so. That is the entire thing they pay for. Random garbage is costly to their customers, and not in a good way. Poisoning is a valid direction.

To be sure it used to be more costly in the times of paper advertising and US human employees. But some records are very expensive at brokers, so still matters.
I never used Apps for that reason. I found more success increasing attraction face to face. When I started I "killed the sale" when I mentioned I owned a place , or they found out about my "high status" job. I went from "fun guy" to "serious guy" and it killed the vibe.
The Rise of POMG, Part 1: It Takes a Village
We're at single digit gigahertz for an entire chip, not a single transistor.
"They recognized that getting a new card is one of the rare times you must actively renew your automatically renewing subscriptions, since you have to update the payment information on file with those companies."

This isn't true: I've had subscriptions roll over to the new credit card number - and not just for a month or two. Apparently the bank will continue to process them (I'd rather they didn't.)
Absolutely not.

It was easy to look at statements when they arrived by mail.

But with paperless billing, you've got to conscientiously log into your credit card site each month. If you have four cards, that's four logins. Who's going to do that? Not many.

The only reason I review my transactions it's because it's easy through an aggregator like Monarch (was using Mint before it shut down). And the only reason I do that is for budgeting -- reviewing transactions is just a side effect.

It still annoys me to no end that I don't have a single bank or credit card that will attach my statement as a PDF to a monthly email. As long as there's a secure email transmission connection, I don't understand why they won't do that.
I think it's both.

To counter the dark patterns, I now use privacy.com. It's far easier to just cancel a virtual credit card.
Just think about how much lighter your wallet is!
With mattresses it's really worth splurging if (1) you can afford it and (2) you actually like whatever you're splurging on. But it's hard to figure out the latter without physically trying the mattress ahead of time... I had to go be Goldilocks at a local mattress store for forty minutes before I found my match.
You don't know how much they are paying for components. (Hint: It's not retail)
The stated purpose of DEFUSE was to study zoonosis, but I think the clandestine, plausibly deniable development of a bioweapon through back-channels was more likely the true purpose. DARPA doesn't fund anything unless it has warfare implications.
Brazil is the world’s third largest producer of graphite, behind China and Mozambique. Our current most reliable graphene production methods start with graphite and exfoliate it into single layers of graphene.
The clock frequency is single-digit gigahertz. But digital signals have to propagate through multiple layers of logic gates, so the transistors have to switch much faster.

At a glance, the article doesn't make it clear whether the "terahertz" speed refers to switching frequency or gain bandwidth (fT). You can definitely get transistors with fT in the hundreds of gigahertz range right now.
Yes, I use a VR headset in my flight simulator and can read the small text on the glass cockpit displays.
No, not seen that. Multiple articles and I read some letters etc by Wilde, Gide and others years ago.

Some defences either ignore the key evidence - for example the first I found was this which just looks at his attraction to adult young men, and ignores his attraction to teenagers: https://www.makingqueerhistory.com/articles/2016/12/20/the-t...

The others base their case on distinguishing between a paedophile and an ephebophile. It may well be true, but the latter is still a criminal offence in most countries (albeit lesser in some countries). Combined with travel and prostitution it is still pretty horrible behaviour.
I get that buying used products might be a partial solution at a personal level, but that doesn't change the fact that we're producing ever more cheap, low-quality stuff. What the market is ideally supposed to do is optimise for the tuple (cheap, quality). It doesn't seem to be doing that, as it seems like things are being optimised for (cheap, perceived quality), and just straight up lying about their quality. When people are buying stuff online, it is even easier to just focus on the price. How do we fix this?
> My overall reaction is that this is a great piece for products/teams that have reached significant scale, once the job to be done is too big and complex for one team to own, end-to-end, or there are truly reusable concerns that can be separated from the core product (e.g. auth, observability).

I'd say it's critical in the small scale too. When you get down to a single person size, this is just what well factored code is: you write down little reasonably independent pieces that can be learned about and thought about without having to think about all the other things. After all, we've all had that experience when you go back and revisit your code after vacation or something, and it might as well have been written by someone else.

I was on a tiny team not long ago where my teammates kept writing tightly coupled systems, then rewriting everything from scratch every time. It was hell. Our product moved slowly, broke constantly, and we couldn't build off of our prior work, and could barely even build off of each others' work, so velocity stayed constant (read: slow).

(as a tangent, the communication patterns of remote work seem to make this more important)

Siloing teams, siloing concerns, and writing modular code are all kind of the same thing, just at different scales.
Good point. I only know my sub-culture.
Exactly, I buy more used furniture and clothing because of the “old world quality” of consumer goods.
Number of DIMM is important, I know the standard BOM at my company has way more memory that we use just to have more bandwidth.
There is important lesson to learn from here.

Everybody who claims that there is not enough some mineral for something must consider the following. First in every moment in time there are certain number of mineral resources - these are known deposits that are not all necessarily accessible economically, but some of them are - these are reserves.

If the demand for something increases then also the price will increase, making more of the resources available as usable reserves at the new price point. At the same time it increases the incentives to find even more new resources.

More over, if there is certain amount of mineral already in circulation then it may suddenly become economically viable to recycle it, limiting the demand for new resources.

What is important to observe instead is if the increase in production can follow the increase in demand and if the resources grow at such speed that the growth can continue.

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/lithium-electric-v...
Not an EE, but my guess is that current transistors can likely operate at a much higher clock rate than current chips.

The problem is that when you pack them together, they get far too hot to permit dennard scaling to reach the limits of the individual transistor.
I totally agree, and I don't buy from Amazon as a matter of principle, but considering their size, clearly most people don't. And I suspect that's not because they're fine with the risk, but because they're not aware of it. And that's a problem. Amazon is profiting from trust that they're not worthy of.
Seems like a decent perk to have an employer that actively discourages partisan activism in Slack.
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There's no indication that the pace of innovation for LLMs in the near future will be anywhere near what it has been in the past few years.
Being a passion project doesn't preclude making a profit. Especially if you're not being stupidly short sighted.

Plus, other companies are having a hard enough time competing already (even small launch is facing tough competition from the F9 rideshares), if SpaceX dropped their prices too low, it'd quickly run most of the launch market out of business, which is not in the interests of a company that wants to improve accessibility to space.

This is also why even if Starship's cost targets pan out, they'll likely just charge slightly lower than competing options for the specific payload.
The problem is not usually the benevolence of the first dictator, but the benevolence of the 15 that come after.
> By poking around in Kubernetes is it deep enough for production or only broad enough to impress someone who’s deeper yet not broader? By reading the docs and textbooks and learning from people, would that be enough for production?

Many enterprises and companies use Kubernetes as at least _one_ of their deployment targets. So if you're a provider of software that has paying companies consuming it, does it matter if kubernetes is "deep enough for production"? It's being used in production, so I would argue, yes, from the perspective of a software provider, kubernetes is in fact deep enough for production. Though to one of your other points, define deep enough, because that statement seems like a moving target depending on who you talk to. But in general, if a piece of software doesn't work well in kubernetes, it's because the authors of that software hadn't considered any setup other than running as a monolith systemd service with an sqlite db for state. That will move me into the next quote:

> Define “knowledge” you’re referring to. I have checklists for my ops. Define “really” and “good”. That sounds like perfectionist maxims without ground. Your listing of deployment targets can be extended by any BSD system, Android, iOS, IoT SoCs—what’s the point? If that’s your business requirement then you do it, if not then why bother?

Knowledge is a fairly generic term, isn't it. It's a placeholder word for a series (or bucket) of facts about one or several domains. "Really" is a nuanced word that means different things depending on how it's used. For example, in my sentence fragment, "can you really write," I'm using the word 'really' to express disbelief in one's ability to perform the context. On the word "good" we can use context clues to extrapolate that I probably am using the word "good" to mean one that supports a wide variety of deployment targets with ease because you often do not know how your product consumer's infrastructure looks, but you can probably guess that if its intended deployment target is a linux server, these days, it should probably also be well supported in Docker and Kubernetes. So that is "good." There are a bucket of other concepts that make a piece of software "good" as well that I'll merely touch on for the sake of brevity, such as being well tested, generally lacking unchecked exceptions, runtime panics, is well performant when ran for long periods of time, etc.

Though, to be honest, I think you probably could have used context clues to come up with rough definitions of those words yourself, and I suppose your purpose was to glean what I think those words mean. In my opinion, the exercise seemed a bit more tedious than maintaining infrastructure though.
Systemantics, AKA "The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small" by John Gall.

It is offered from the perspective of how not to design systems, based on system engineering failures. The primary precept of the treatise is that large complex systems are extremely difficult to design correctly despite best intentions, so care must be taken to design smaller, less-complex systems and to do so with incremental functionality based on close and continual touch with user needs and measures of effectiveness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics
I have trouble discerning the author's point exactly.

- Yes, you can't rely on open-source project going in the same direction as you want.

- Yes, any process involving people has a phycological and interpersonal component.

> To this day we read about the war and it feels distant[...]

> [..]don't get blindsided, especially in times of war[...]

I'm glad the author is not affected by the war, but I supposed it's fair to say that it is not hard for the author to stay unbiased (or it might be just indifferent).
I need to demo it, but ky understanding is that the virtual display can be very large, and from there I can use multiple windows to provide what I was getting from multiple monitors
"Powered tools such as leaf blowers make them 'The Pickleball of Gardening'" seems like a good way to put it :-P
It would be very concerning (and in violation of the First Amendment) if the government forbade you from talking about politics at work. But this is not that — it's a company saying that at their company, they don't have political debates on their internal communication systems. This is different in both degree and kind.

Are you concerned that if too many companies take this approach, it will become the norm, like it was before about 10 years ago, and that then there will be attempts by politicians to codify it into law?
It's right up there with velcro and teflon.
This is why I paid $40 on FB marketplace for a $500 Ikea couch that you can replace the entire cover on. Bonus, I didn't even have to replace the cover. =)
I had professor Mills in the mid 90s. He knowledge and application of hardware and software was truly impressive. A true hacker (In the finest sense of the word). RIP
I hear some farmers pump water into chickens to increase the weight so it sells for more. I also hear the same thing about bean moisture content since it's sold by weight (I think the Smarter Every Day has a video about granaries that shows this?).

Will this put pressure for farmed lobsters to be full of growth hormones?
> My solution in general terms is to go where competence isn’t ambiguous.

And you went into management?
Manufactures do believe they are safe. There are over 20 million of these out there. OP said it caused serious neck injuries. Doug asked for a single source.
Curious that this project is clearly named after the Chilean project cybersyn. Project Cybersyn attempted to centrally gather realtime economic data and use it to make realtime economic control decisions. Effectively it attempted to solve the communist economic planning problem with cybernetics.

The project was destroyed by Pinochet before ever being used.
if we lived in utopia the software could be open source, so that everyone who wants a feature can contribute. Best would be when it can easily be self hosted
I worked for a company a few years ago that issued me a System76 laptop. It was ok. Weighed a lot and was made of cheap plastic, and it also had issues with the fan. However, for a Linux laptop with open source hardware and firmware I was ok with putting up with those niggles. Glad to see they are still rolling along.
> I think Stoicism would be most succinctly described as the appreciation that you cannot control what happens to you, but you can control, with no mean effort, how you let it affect you.

Which is why it was upheld by people administering the slave empires, and rejected by those who ultimately opposed and overthrew them. It justifies existing hierarchies and domination as natural vs. arising from systems which can be fundamentally changed.
> your initial point was "It was pretty bad in the mid-90s, and it's no worse today" which is really not very optimistic either,

Partially but I suspect things are better than everyone keeps saying. The whole "it used to be better" is a meme I see in all walks of life and I want to see something to prove it beyond a bunch of opinions.

Do I think some things are worse? Yeah, probably, such is the way of life. Do I think the entire industry went to shit? That's something that even the most respected people will need to provide evidence for. It seems a bit strange that I somehow joined the industry in 2010 and spent my entire career getting shitter and shitter.
My, perhaps unpopular, opinion is that email/chat/even lunchtime workplace discussions can easily escalate to something contentious/distracting, will make at least some people uncomfortable, and are probably sensibly approached by either keeping your mouth shut or voicing generic assent with the reigning political ethos in the organization.

By all means, talk among your friends circle after work at the bar. But I don't have a lot of interest in engaging with a lot of political conversation that I may or may not agree with.
It's true that Barker is now disadvantaged for certain types of jobs for an accusation he was never convicted of, which is completely unjust. He deserves far better treatment.

However, requiring consent means that the records are not publicly available, so he is not immediately disqualified when he applies. In addition, a company has to specifically request for a deeper background check for this to appear—the base level of a background check only includes convictions. No person in Canada who is charged yet not convicted is therefore barred from work, which is an impression made from Barker's quote and a previous comment.

A more precise understanding of the system is important for advocacy to change it. It's more effective to argue for reforms related to Police Information Checks (such as for more transparency) to be specific, and this requires a specific awareness of how Canada's process for background checks works.
Can’t wait to start paying subscriptions for all my furniture
Regarding new competitors, I assume the upfront capital expenditure for many of the areas would be prohibitive for raising enough money from typical sources, especially since the existing industry could just lower costs once a new competitor got going. The large companies are probably much more efficient in terms of supply chains simply because they are larger and better established.
Shelly devices are great. They have a "cloud" that you can optionally use, but the settings (at least on the switchable plug and the in-wall energy-monitoring switches that I have) default to that cloud connectivity being OFF. They seem to be aligned with those of us who prefer local data, interoperability and despise vendor lock-in and surveillance capitalism.
Wow love it
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I wanted to learn more about web components/custom elements, and also about how the big JavaScript meta frameworks work, so I've been doing some research into how to fit a framework together. It's not intended for use in production today, and may never be, as it's primary purpose is educational.
> I had just graduated with a degree that was fairly unemployable, and didn’t have good enough grades to go to grad school in the same field

Well that was lucky. Imagine spending another $100k for a slightly less unemployable master's.