skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not a swindle.

I'm going to assume, based on this statement, that you have an education that allows you to forecast and do cost-benefit analysis. Most people do not, and just hear "you will pay less". When you knowingly do this to people, it's a swindle.

Yes, we do need to protect some people from bad choices, and yes, that will limit the economic freedom of the very well-educated to some small degree. That's society, baby.
Maybe not if you do it slowly. One hack that room-scale VR systems do to make you feel like you're in a larger space is subtly curve the direction you're walking, so you end up walking in a large arc but you "see" you're walking in a straight line. It's subtle enough for most people to not notice.
I wouldn’t call myself a workaholic either. I do my 38 hours and be done, but often it feels like there is couple people who do all of the work and then bunch of free loaders who struggle with any task for weeks just because they know they can get away with it
Or they are scared of what they might find. Whenever I read "the only reason" I have doubts. How can we be so sure?
Nope. I only expect that my coworkers and I come to agreements on how we will function as a team (read: establish roles and processes) and then make a reasonable effort to stick to what is agreed upon, while discussing any emerging need for changes along the way.

These agreements should take everyone's individuality into account to find a balance or compromise in terms of personal preference and overall comfort (not to mention meeting the goals of the team from technical and business perspectives) which everyone involved finds acceptable.

My comfort is no more or less important than that of others.
Not only commerical real estate but the adjacent businesses that depended upon that traffic, and the shortfall in tax revenue cities / counties were getting from that activity.
This looks amazing @rasbt! Out of curiosity, is your primary goal to cultivate understanding and demystify, or to encourage people to build their own small models tailored to their needs?
Consider the general prevalence of conspiracy theories on the American right - Alex Jones, qanon, stop the steal, etc.

Consider that many on the left avoid jobs in the military, where most of the UFO stuff is coming from.

I'm on team 'lots of nut jobs.'
1. This is mostly confusing individual paying for their own education and a state paying for future workers. Even the US is coming round to the idea it has to forgive most student loans which eventually becomes state pays for university (because now that 50% kids go to further education the school leaving age is now 21)

2. You are not there to be taught. You are there to learn on your own, near people who will tell you an effective way to get through the syllabus (ie grabbing a text book on your own require huge amounts of effort and is probably impossible in say chemistry or most sciences. This is the other part of the fees - paying for buildings, explosive glowing stuff etc etc

3. Other students - 50% of the experience of university is meeting people not from your walk of life, getting to work with them, have sex with them etc. see point 1. It’s not about educating one person - it’s about building a new generation

4. That’s why well designed conscription actually seems to breed stronger societies (but usually confounded by most conscription is during times of actual war so hard to tell but post WWII societies seemed more egalitarian- but again lost confounding factors
The Act of Killing

JODOROWSKY’S Dune

Burden of Dreams
Goodbye, WhatsApp
I’ve worked with Jetson going back to the TK1 and I highly recommend you do not do this.

Nvidia has significant dominance in the AI space because of their work on software and the overall platform.

With the Jetson line being the sole exception. Use it for what it’s for - a targeted build for an embedded/specific application requiring small size and low power.

The software is a mess. Support for Jetson (generally) is a far afterthought or not considered at all around projects at Nvidia and the broader ecosystem. When it is supported at all it lags behind significantly, using ancient distros (Jetpack), etc. To make matters worse the user base is so (relatively) tiny there are bugs and strange behavior everywhere.

Just don’t do it.
Isn’t it possible to setup a default search domain. So most places you could just type something like https://site/ and your dns config knows to look for https://site.internal/
you arent being gaslit, but you also take the time to understand the rules of the game you were trying to "win."

there is a 1.2 trillion dollar corporate real estate debt bubble caused by speculative investing during COVID that absolutely cannot be allowed to crash in 2024. its so monumentally important the president of the united states even threw his weight behind it in symbolic gesture (arguably because he and his friends have investment portfolios they dont want to see take a haircut in a recession)
https://www.hrdive.com/news/mandatory-return-to-office-400k-...

remote work means the death of major cities and a cascade failure of major economic sectors that are barely back after covid as it is. once office space cant be leased the property holders will declare bankruptcy. states then get hit with budget shortfalls as tax revenue is lost, small businesses and service industries in the cities fall apart and the unemployment rate rises, urban blight sets in and an entire legion of major real estate spends 20 years moribund and zombified, with bankrupt property holdings and trusts owning most of the decayed ruins as crime rises. Think cabrini green and watts during the mid eighties. All those Erewhon, whole foods and trader joes will turn into boarded window crack houses and garrisons for gang warfare.

make no mistake, your relative comfort will be exchanged for the status quo, its just a matter of when not if. the president even earmarked 10bn dollars as a sign of goodwill to the landed gentry in order to "remodel" downtown high rises from commercial to residential, although anyone with even a cursory understanding of how real estate and development works (including the biden administration) understands this will almost certainly be pocketed to pay near-term creditors and stave off immediate foreclosures of properties instead.

to prevent something like this you'd have to have an administration that could act against its vested interests as a ruling class in order to secure a more verdant employment for you (and you probably wont find that in the gerontocracy.) the current fight isnt remote-vs-office, its a fight to get a handful of major companies still "hybrid" and "remote" to toe the line. Whether this happens in time to avert a real estate crisis is yet to be seen, but it hasnt made much headway in 2023, so theres not a lot of incentive to think 2024 will differ.
Apple don't think 3rd party stores will actually bring malware, they just don't want to lost their absolute monopoly over iOS apps, and more specifically their revenue stream from taxing all apps on the official App Store
it's good you can live in the camper, but:

the roads will all be out, or gridlocked in both directions, with criminals on foot robbing the cars.

Or if you do get where you want to go, it'll be thronged with other urban escapees and they'll have even less food, water, and shelter.

My own belief is, your house is unlikely to be really unhabitable. It's better to NOT bug out, and have your emergency supplies there. You'll get to know your neighbors, if you don't already know them.

Of course, a tsunami cancels all that advice.
The number of companies with a large holding or commercial real estate is staggering. Entire buildings were built as investments for companies who are not in the real estate/development business.
I'd like to explore your opinions on this one and how products have become user-hostile as we've let them to.
‘The ".localhost" TLD has traditionally been statically defined in host DNS implementations as having an A record pointing to the loop back IP address and is reserved for such use. Any other use would conflict with widely deployed code which assumes this use.’

Reading that sentence implies a single loop back address. I appreciate that IPv6 “fixed” this confusion by having a single loop back address of ::1. While you are correct that IPv4 reserved the entire /8 in practice the expectation is generally that 127.0.0.1 is the loopback address, and using other addresses in the 127/8 space tends to lead to unexpected issues across many pieces of software. The intention of the .localhost domain is to ensure that DNS resolutions never resolves to something external, for security reasons.

See also, RFC 5735:
“… This is ordinarily implemented using only 127.0.0.1/32 for loopback.” — https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5735
According to this article [1] it looks like there is no complex preparation needs to run the inference on a Jetson system. Should work with Mixtral too.

[1] https://www.hackster.io/pjdecarlo/llama-2-llms-w-nvidia-jets...
What’s wrong with this? People have paid lots of money for those houses and they don’t feel like the local infrastructure can support apartments population density.

I have seen huge problems in Tennessee zoning causing massive traffic issues where I grew up. It’s honestly very bad — maybe we should start by fixing the infrastructure first.
Funny enough, I wasn't aware of the Queen's Wish games (I do have a bunch of other Spiderweb title). But instead of buying them, I added them to my wish list to get them on sale.

Sorry, I have more games than I'm likely to play during my remaining lifetime already.
> either that aliens are real or there are a lot of nutjobs in the US government

Well, they caught David Grusch in multiple factual lies he made during that congressional hearing and called him out on it immediately after[0]:

> Contrary to assertions made in the hearing, the central source of those allegations has refused to speak with AARO.

> Further, some information reportedly provided to Congress has not been provided to the office, Kirkpatrick said, “raising additional questions about the true commitment to transparency by some Congressional elements.”

With his credibility already being questionable, those easy to disprove things don't make his credibility look any better at all. So I am heavily leaning towards the nutjob take on the situation. If we have presidents willing to perjure themselves during a trial, I can easily believe we have a bunch of random government employees willing to make up lies in congressional hearings.

P.S. It doesn't have to be all nutjobs either. All it takes is one nutjob and a good number of opportunistic grifters.

0. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/28/pentagon-ufo-boss-c...
Oh of course, that would be the single most needed fix for the language, enabling intellisense and aligning with real query execution order.

Look at Linq in C#, there they implemented it correctly and it's just awesome to use. It's so much more flexible and fun.

from ...

where ...

join ...

where ...

group ... by ...

where ...

select ...
which UN force will enter gaza, fight door to door against booby traps and AT teams, the way Israel is doing currently, when the next round of rockets go off?

They won't. It's a fantasy.
(1) RTO can be used as an excuse to fire employees, especially the older, higher paid ones who moved away from city centres or are reluctant to move back.

(2) People have investments in commercial real-estate, and forcing RTO is a way to profit from those investments even if it immiserates the workers (article discusses this point).

(3) Cities offer tax breaks to encourage businesses to move, on the basis that the workers will use ancillary services (transport, restaurants, shopping, etc). If the tax breaks go that will negatively affect the companies. If the ancillary service businesses go that will negatively affect the city's revenues.

(4) Bad middle managers feel they lack control if a worker isn't present.
> Poettering is radically anti-user

What does that mean?
Since I am European we don’t have that kind of work culture. No one did overtime unless they wanted to take some extra time off. But effectively yes it feels like most people are doing around 4 hours of work per day.

In the beginning it was funny to see people literally playing WoW in the middle of the day
You're still not paying attention to what I'm saying, which is that journals are expected to catch the easy errors, not make an absolute determination of truth. I said this in my first comment on this thread.
The first two are more important when you are young and single. Junior employees working onsite in urban areas does seem to make the most sense.
I think of the word in the context of the attempt, rather than the outcome. We agree on the situation, but I do think folks are “falling for it” as they are the storyline of job scarcity (also pure BS as we sit, though it may become true).
So? You can notify regardless.
An exploration game where you win by going places you've never been before
Agreed, this just looks like a non-accessible <optgroup> alternative and feels like a step backwards. I fear authors will now use hr instead of properly grouping their elements, to the detriment of screen reader users.

Why not just make horizontal rules between optgroups the default?
You are a prepper... And that's not a bad thing. Only stupid people think that being prepared for emergency situations is stupid
Fair. But in the context of remote tech work, SFBA salaries & costs of living is usually what’s being compared to, and you can get all that stuff in places that are not rural at all (such as the cities I mentioned) at a way lower cost of living.
> withstand, say, a few million years in orbit

> ...scale of industry

They don't have to do that. The probe just has to make more "child probes" before it dies. You don't need a huge industry if they are self-replicating. You need only one working probe to start, the rest handles itself.
Yeah I think people overestimate the effectiveness of four wheel vehicles on uneven ground. It is very easy to get bogged down, tip into a ditch, run out of clearence on one side or have major technical issues. And the routes that do exist can get blocked very easily. A pair of boots, a trail bike, or a mountain bike are in a different league on that kind of terrain. You can always get off and push.

Obviously a vehicle is good but may just be phase 1 of bugging out. Best to pack the bike, sleeping bag and water purifier.
Space is far, far larger than the mind can easily conceive. To "von Neuman probes should be here" is to fail to comprehend just how improbable it would be for a spacecraft to be aimed at Earth.
I really hope people let what happened in the last few years sink in.

We had a global pandemic. Government spending had a massive impact on eviscerating poverty, raising some 11.2 million Americans out of poverty [1]. To keep companies afloat and to avoid the healthcare system collapsing, people stayed indoors and worked from home. Many took pay cuts or loss of benefits to do this. A lot of people realized they didn't need to go into the office at all and they could have a substantial improvement in the quality of life by not wasting hours a day in a car and/or moving somewhere more affordable.

Demand did drop in 2020/2021 but it came roaring back and companies saw an ppportunity to recoup lost profits with predatory price incresaes. They saw massive profits and inflation shot through the roof as a result [2].

To compare to the oil shock of the 1970s, Nixon instituted price and wage freezes to stave off shock inflation [3].

The Fed responded to inflation by raising interest rates. They government had a far more effective tool available: corporate taxation. Some countries like Spain instituted a windfall profits tax. Taxes fill government coffers. Interest rates enrich bankers.

Certain workers gained wage increases in the pandemic as they were essential. Inflation eroded much of this and employers took further opportunity to suppress or claw back wage incresaes through layoffs. Layoffs increase the workload of those workers who remain and reduce the ability for workers to demand wage increses, even cost-of-living adjustments.

Return to office mandates are soft layoffs. They're cheaper too since if people quit they don't get a severance payout.

The only effective wage increases gained during the pandemic were through labor organization, such as with the UAW and the Big Three automakers.

So here are the lessons to draw:

1. Government policy exists almost entirely to transfer wealth from the poor to the already wealthy;

2. Employers are not your friends. You owe them absolutely no loyalty. In fact, given the trend to rescinding job offers, I would strongly advise people not to quit their job before starting their new one. Just don't show up. Two weeks notice is a courtesy not a legal or even contractual requirement. "At will" employment goes both ways.

3. Government spending is a way to redistribute wealth from the ultra-wealthy to the poor and it is incredibly effective. Post-GFC we've had many countries operate with austerity measures. This is simply propaganda to stop this wealth transfer.

4. Greed is the primary driver in inflation. Taxation would at least allow the government to help those worst affected;

5. Companies use layoffs and return to office mandates to suppress your wages; and

6. The only effective counter to wage suppression is labor organization ie unions.

[1]: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/09/who-was-lifte...

[2]: https://thehill.com/business/economy/4057722-greedflation-is...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock#:~:text=Nixon
A 'Corpsicle' Came Back to Life on 'True Detective.' Is That Possible?
The History of The Ampersand
Space is huge. The odds of being "close enough" to another sentient species are very low.
Did worker bees escape from the corporation's office-based system of control, or did they just bring the corporation into their home?

> "First, a little background. Monitoring software programs entered the workplace a decade or so ago and initially were popular in call centers and warehouses. Fast forward to 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and the monitoring industry exploded as employers in nearly every sector saw an urgent need to monitor employees who were suddenly working from home."

https://www.ourmidland.com/opinion/voices/article/Opinion-Em...

Saving time and energy on commuting is an undeniably positive benefit, but IMO the optimal remote-work situation is in a separate space from one's home, ideally a walkable local office space with its own dedicated network and power.
Heat, and not very much
https://archive.ph/t6izR
I just use i.slow.network as my internal domain. Most things support search domains to avoid having to type too much.
I think this is the joker.

If enough companies have vested interests in keeping real-estate prices high in the cities it will happen.
Love these annual letters from Dan. It was a joy meeting him randomly in Berlin years ago and I'm glad to see him having carved out such an interesting part of the internet for himself.
Nutjobs have already been proven to exist and are in ample supply. Odds are it's not aliens.
Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while inside the wrecked airplane?
And they're still both amazing piece of hardware and software and very much prized by people today. It falls in a totally different space of immense possibilities.
How does vscode make money?
or they re competing with folks making $150k
Sure. There is survivor bias.

I agree with all these points. What we'd debate is the assigned probabilities.

Which is a bit subjective and a sliding scale.

Think at that point there were definitely signs that it was not going to be nothing, and blow over.

The US was much more 'head in sand' response, not as you imply, they made some reasonable calculation of probabilities.
I still use seldomly the electric guitar I got when I was a teenager. I’m not a very good musician and guitar player, but it makes nice harmonics.
I love the idea. I signed up and now I'd like to import a bunch of bookmarks I have stored in Evernote and Obsidian over the years. I can't find a way to do this though. Is there a way to import all of these?

I suppose I could try the Chrome bookmarks importer if I can import everything into chrome. But I can't find the import option after the initial signup workflow.
You're right and you should say it!
Note there was a W3C community group that explored the "HTTPS on local networks" question. It's closed now but they wrote use cases and proposals:

https://www.w3.org/community/httpslocal/
https://httpslocal.github.io/proposals/
https://httpslocal.github.io/usecases/

I wish some of this work would continue as well.
This is false. Free is still a price. As a developer, you can keep the current terms. You do not need to go to a 3rd party App Store and pay the CTF.
In the UK I don't even remember any other option than joined up handwriting. I'm pretty sure it is still the only option in schools. Writing in block letters was seen as juvenile. I presume that's not the case in other parts of that world?
There is 1 legitimate reason to keep it a secret. If the technology will guarantee our destruction. For example, if for some reason the technology makes it possible for anyone to create a nuclear bomb level device from their living room.
Do you have data to back up that trains in Europe are safer than the US (for passengers, pedestrians get hit a lot. Getting hit by a train is bad regardless)?

The FRA refuses to let us use European light trainsets because they're "unsafe", because they're too light. They're worried about collisions with freight trains.
Are you comparing nominal mortality instead of rates (per hour of travel or per mile)?
This feels shortsighted. The patent holder gets exclusive rights for a limited amount of time in exchange for publishing how the thing works. Eventually, and not long from now, everyone can make use of it without restriction. And maybe after reading how they do it someone has a better idea.
Why is this government officer, speaking just to a newspaper more reliable than the other government officer who spoke under oath?

There was legislation to bring transparency to the topic, and it was stripped at the last minute by 2 congressmen heavily funded by the defense industry. If this was all a rouse to get more funding, don't you think they would've loved the legislation?
> Most want the flexibility to work remote

I think it's because the tech people are young and single/live alone. Many people need the office to separate life from work and dont prefer remote.

It has a lot to do with the fact that lives are built around tiny real estate.
> Maybe highway miles are much more dangerous than non-highway miles, and we shouldn’t be on the highway at all.

I imagine it's pretty hard to get seriously injured or die when not on the freeway. I've long thought that should be the primary application of self-driving technology. It's ultra-simplified and relatively standardized compared to other types of roads, and it's where the most life and limb can be saved. Not to mention the potential to alleviate traffic, which would save people vastly more time than just driving too fast.

Also, will everyone please use you blinker for fuck's sake? If moving your wrist slightly is just too much of a burden for you, then stop driving, you're not cut out to pilot your own anything.
Lost pet signs don't need to be terribly legible for passing cars. If you found a lost pet, then you would walk around with the pet to see if it will lead you home (dogs often will), and check signs while you're walking.

If that doesn't turn up anything, then you take the animal to a vet to check for a chip and figure out what to do after that.
Yeah in my PNW suburb most people have barely enough space to park a Civic, let alone an RV…