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> Gary hasn't bullied or abused anyone

Let's say he hasn't. So what's at issue? Because this bothers me if I
am to continue to participate in HN.

Pursuing intellectual curiosity involves tolerance, yes, and
forgiveness. And seeing a little of the other in yourself, and you in
them.

You know, I wouldn't presume to say anything about a person I don't
know, or to psychologise too much on an individual. There's a parallel
universe where I'd meet Mr Tan and enjoy some beers, we'd talk about
tech, and maybe after a few we'd get all 'blokey' start comparing our
lists of people who should die horribly. That's all human enough. And
I come from a background that makes me not ashamed to be in touch with
my own disdain, violence, unacceptable sides and masculine toxicity.

We all say cringe things we wish we could take back from time to
time. Shame is a good teacher if we don't leave that unexamined etc.

I'm not "outraged" (the only emotion 21st century people feel) at Tan
for slipping up and going a bit gangsta, channelling his inner 2Pac or
whatever. Who doesn't? I've no doubt some of those Californian
politicians are infuriating and cut from the same cloth as the poor
shower we have over here.

I'm disappointed because of how that reflects on me, on other hackers
and the real tech community - you know, us grunts who actually think
up and build all the stuff.

He's not quite young enough to be my son. But if he were, I'd have to
say "Gary, why are you hanging out with these losers? People who
claim to represent utopian technological ideas, but are massively
stunted as human beings? Tech billionaire trash who are actually a lot
less smart and well educated than they think. They're insecure,
inauthentic, cloistered, frightened of dying, doing far more drugs
than is good for anyone, and hell-bent on imposing technological
terror upon the world we haven't seen since the Third Reich.

Please find some nicer friends."

And what I'd hope to hear is like; "Yes I'm sorry to let the community
down. I feel a lot of anger and frustration at the world. I realise
my worldview is parochial. I see that I'm in a group whose ideas are
not universal, whatever our "progressive" good intentions. Maybe I
can temper myself in a way that's more congruent with the money, power
and consequent responsibility to others' I carry."
It happens with executives whose compensation is unrelated to the company’s welfare (but rather to a custom agreement between them and the board/shareholders).

As the OP notes in conclusion, saying it wouldn’t make a difference financially is missing the point: it would make a symbolic difference, which is what matters for the employees that stay, saying in substance « we are in it together ».

The reality is it isn’t true for those huge corporations. Because of the scale of their compensation (and the actual power/status it gives them), executives in these big corps have little in nature in common with executives of medium or small firms, but the name/role.
This is because of YouTube‘s obsession to build cross-platform, lowest-common-denominator apps, resulting in mediocre experiences across all the platforms they support, and rarely excellent on any single platform.

Their Apple TV app is basically a web view which doesn’t conform to any of AppleTV’s UI principles. Same as their YouTube TV app. It’s sad.
The only side accused of Genozid in the current Gaza war is Israel. October 7th was a terror attack, not Genozid.

What Russia does in Ukraine is a conventional war, not Genozid neither.
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Thanks! Didn't know Leanpub has its own markdown too. Yes I do want to keep everything local.
They said 'go ask them' a out why they decided to close the issue (which also implies that someone went over this already), not 'go ask them because we simply don't care to look', as your comment seem to imply...
> And a vacancy tax would force developers to finish projects or abandon them completely so someone else can at a lower price.

i tend to favor vacancy tax, but this won't fix the problem with developers. SF needs to reform their review process. this is TLDR but there was a big study about this: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/us/san-francisco-housing....

it's already incredibly expensive for a developer to even go through the review process for a development, let alone build it. a vacancy tax would further deter developers from building in SF (as it's already happening due to the terrible review process)
Are you looking for this kind of plugin?
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I'm skipping 2 hours of ads per month for $15. IMO it's a pretty good deal.

(Assumptions: I watch 10 hours of YouTube videos per week, YouTube shows 30 seconds of ads per 10 minutes of video)
"We will be able to falsify it in 100,000 years" gives you a handy funding window.
Farscape was a great show with bold choices. I really miss it and wish it had more recognition.
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I'd feel differently if some people died because their CPAP wasn't operating as well as it should have, too low pressure, etc. But this was a design decision to put material in the airflow that you should know would degrade and cause people to aspirate. It's pretty unusual negligence of design, followed by denial and a coverup.
The NASA Workmanship's guide linked in a sibling instructs to stagger multiple splices. I think that would help with this problem.
I'm a bit rusty now, but I used to make a lot of pasta and enjoyed teaching friends the wonders of making pasta. There's a learning curve as many other commenters mentioned, but once they "get it" it's magical.

I would organize parties where everyone would bring different ingredients and we'd make ravioli from the food we had. With noodles, some guests wouldn't understand why make the effort. But with custom ravioli, they would immediately understand it.
Sorry I'm not really interested in psychoanalyzing this guy. There are a enough talented(?) songwriters around so that I don't have to put up with these sorts of things.... you know, abject misogyny. I feel like HN community has a very low tolerance for this sort of thing, why is this guy immune? Because he's relatable? Gross.

Look, if you're still an adult listening to this stuff and it's not just a "once a year because of nostalgia" deal... I have serious questions.
Yes, it seems like advertising as a specialist while being a generalist is a winning strategy. This is only true as long as there is no personal rapport though, as soon as some personal trust relationship is built it matters much less, almost not at all.

It's actually quite weird. I got tasked with things I explicitly didn't have experience with from people who knew me several times.

I think even a career change can be engineered more easily like that, within the context of client or employment relationship, and the opportunity comes up.
The US has a long history of "stochastic terrorism", which seems to be at a relative low compared to the violence of the early 1900s, the 1960s, and several other periods etc. I have faith in its institutional ability to handle and restrain actual violence.

I am much more concerned about the normalization of the idea that we should restrict free speech. I suppose this isn't too shocking - the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed after what we would now call many instances of "stochastic terrorism" in the newspapers - but I'd hoped we'd learned our lesson and permanently repudiated these ideas.
This is something that always confuses me about cooking and commercial products.

Apparently making it at home, freezing it, and using it later is easy.

Having someone else make it, freeze it, then sell me the frozen product is somehow impossible and lower quality.
For a useful comparison you need to show if open source hardware is more common / more invested in other parts of the world. E. G. Risc V has a growing momentum https://riscv.org/blog/2023/07/the-growing-momentum-of-risc-...
The drummer seems cool enough; I guess he likes the paychecks,
Tell HN: It makes no sense to ask whether we're living in a simulation
The question is fundamentally nonsensical, much like questioning the existence of the number 42 within a calculator.

Firstly, consider the nature of numbers and mathematical truths. The number 42, for instance, exists as a concept within the realm of mathematics, independent of any physical or digital representation. A calculator can perform operations involving 42, displaying it on its screen, but the number's existence is not contingent upon this representation. Whether or not a calculator is switched on, or whether 42 is actively being displayed, does not affect the number's existence within the mathematical framework. The calculator merely accesses and manipulates a reality (the mathematical truth of 42) that exists independently of the device.

Applying this analogy to the universe and the concept of a simulation, if it is possible for our universe to be simulated, this implies that the universe can be fully described by a set of mathematical rules or computational algorithms. These rules or algorithms define all possible states and outcomes of the universe, much like how the principles of mathematics define the existence and properties of numbers.

Therefore, the existence of our experiences, consciousness, and the universe itself does not depend on whether a simulation is actively being run. Just as the number 42 does not cease to exist when a calculator is switched off, our universe and everything in it does not require an active simulation to exist. The potential for our universe to be simulated indicates that its essence is embedded in the underlying mathematical or computational structure, independent of any physical instantiation of that simulation.

Asking whether we are living in a simulation becomes akin to asking whether the number 42 exists within your calculator—it misses the point. The existence of the universe, like the existence of 42, is a facet of its mathematical or computational structure, not its representation or simulation in a particular medium. Thus, the question of living in a simulation overlooks the fundamental nature of existence as something that transcends physical or simulated reality, rooted instead in the abstract, yet profoundly real, domain of mathematical possibility.
I was also hoping it would at some point. It's a good fit. The creator has a serious and delightfully nerdy vibe. I wish him all the best.
> That statement was based on the old text, correct?

Yes it has. The updated text was published on December 20th [1], and does a lot to address these concerns. See also Bert Hubert's analysis [2].

The amount of knee jerking in the comments for this law really brings down the quality of discussion and detracts from remaining issues.

[1]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CONS...

[2]: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-what-does-it-mean-f...
My smart TV used 483 GB in the last 30 days
Why do all these tools pretend that knitr / R Markdown never existed, and that they have invented some novel concept? I looked through the docs of Quarto, Jupytext, and now Codebraid, and none of them mention prior art.

There's a long legacy here, it does nobody any good to disregard it. Maybe Knuth is well-acknowledged for his invention, but I think for instance Yihui Xie is a little under-recognized.
Show HN: Teleport 360° Camera – Take 360° photos on iPhone to view on Vision Pro
Hello HN!

A couple years back, a few of my VFX friends and I set out to create an iPhone app that allowed you to take 360° spherical HDRi photos to light your 3D scene (https://hdreye.app). This led us down the rabbit hole of taking a spherical photo using your iPhone. To our surprise, the only iPhone app that had allowed a user to take these types of photos was Google Street View, but had since been discontinued.

With the release of the Vision Pro later today, we believe these types of photos will hold much more value.

As a result, we’ve created Teleport: 360° Camera. Teleport allows you to take a 360° spherical photo using just your iPhone or iPad, and then view it in full immersion on your Vision Pro (or your iPhone or iPad).

We’re eager to get some initial feedback.

App page: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teleport-360-camera/id64769054...
U.S. economy adds whopping 353,000 jobs in January as labor market heats up
Like Boeing, a monopoly and lobbying power leads to "self-regulation" that gets people killed. The FDA, Congress, and Philips share blame.
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I worked at an agency in 2007-2008 that did some software work for Phillips related to CPAP machines. I remember they were not great clients to work with, they didn't continue after the short project.
I think this is the thing people like the guy linking to Google's paper on arxiv.org don't get. OpenAI actually delivered something.
I think the GP was talking about the database schema and not the actual data. If they were talking about the data it sounds like it would be in reference to the setup guide of the project.
> I had submitted this as a talk to a conference, apparently they did not like the message.

Maybe because the conclusion was too one-sided.

k8s is fine if you have engineers that can support it. This is a tale of that not happening.
I like it too, but there's no denying that it's more of a production than you're suggesting. You need a clean place to knead the dough (so first clean the counter), you need to flour the dough as you're kneading and then putting it through the KitchenAid rollers so flour gets on the counter and floor, you need a cutting board to cut the pasta if you're not using the machine cutters (which I agree are superfluous), you need a tray on which to put the cut pasta after cutting and before cooking.

Then you need to clean up the mixer, pasta rollers, counter, floor, cutting board, knife and resting tray. Maybe you can minimize all this by the generous use of plastic wrap or something, but 15 minutes would be a reach goal for me.
The things he purchased were fine. They became revolutionary under him.

The man has a lot of flaws and since covid drifted into ideologies I don't agree with. I also wouldn't buy a Tesla. But there is no denying that both Tesla and SpaceX revolutionized their respective industries. And it seems safe to say that neither would have managed to do this without Musk. And at least SpaceX manages to sustain a substantial lead over the competition and continues revolutionizing industries.
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Preston used to represent me before redistricting happened.

His office is accessible and he very clearly cares about the work he is doing. I often see him walking to work and talking to constituents along the way.

The demonization of the man is shocking…
I'll contrast with other commenters here and agree with you. The notion that private ownership of the arts is a good thing is very much a modern idea born of mass production. Most people prefer paintings and sculptures to be in museums, and the notion that live performers of theater or opera could ever be "owned" is abhorrent. The best means of financing the arts has always been a membership or patronage model, which very much depends on recurring subscriptions. What streaming services have done is make patronage happen on a massive scale, the sheer volume of which ensures a stable stream of financing for content that has produced what many people call the Golden Age of Television.

It's not all good; the fracturing of availability of content across streaming services impacts affordability, not to mention the return of regional releases impacts availability. Ideally copyrights would be shortened and there would be some kind of publicly funded streaming framework to provide free access to works that enter the public domain. But these are momentary challenges of what is a more widely successful model and improvement over what came before.
Have planes mastered flight or are they mimicking it ? Can you mimick flight ? Is that a distinction that has any meaning ?
Might depend on what kind of book it is - do you have a lot of images, tables, cross-references, ... or is it mostly plain text?
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This is my current checklist

* Break down key area and create a list of relevant topics to understand and relevant study materials, gpt can help
* For each resource, skim & write summary on material,
* Read deeply or discard & take atomic notes on new/key info then write hand written summaries after each page or chapter,
* Re-read/skim notes and previous pages when revisiting material
* Alternate topics/key areas interleaving and noting their similarities & relationships, gpt can help
* For interleaving, spend 20-30mins a key area when studying
* Transfer paper notes to digital & outline
* Rewrite again in 1doc and elaborate, gpt can help
* Elaborate further with how&why questions, gpt can help
* Answer the how&why questions, gpt can help
* Identify multiple concrete examples and analogies, gpt can help
* Find counter arguments, gpt can help
* Read other resources, wikipedia reviews, websites, blogs, & repeat the above
* Give gpt notes “whats missing?”
* Add/create/organize visuals/concept maps/mind maps for dual coding, dall-e can help
* ?how to add sensory experience and engage more of brain when learning # pragthinking
* Watch relevant videos for more dual coding,
* Mediate on ideas
* Teach someone or speak it, or Feynman it
* Create test, gpt can help
* Create
Productivity rises rapidly again in good sign for US economy
Oh don't worry, the job itself is wasteful.
I don't understand it either. Buying fresh from a local store and freezing is also easy. But I can never find a product of that quality that already comes frozen.
They have no definition for victory that they can achieve in Gaza or with Hezbollah and this is causing a lot of stress on the Israel government and Israeli society (especially because both still want to punish Palestinians). It seems like Israel is headed toward civil war at the least. I don't know how anyone could be bullish in the long run.
yes, I also applied for a couple of data science jobs, but that field didn't seem promising so I gave up quickly.
Oops, missed that! It should be there now.
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 353,000 in January
I'm Done Punching Trees and Grabbing Rocks in Video Games
I don't know, at this moment, what it means for something to be made real just by a set of equations. An equation can determine the future without that future having taken place. "being real", to me, means "being observable." If I can't observe/measure it, is it real?

This seems like a philosophical conversation.
Decoding horsepower required increases sharply with increase in resolution/framerate. 720p30 doesn't cause my fan to even run but 1080p60 does and 4K30/60 drops frames.

Just to be clear, 4K is 9 times the load of 720p. 4K60 is 18 times.
> The amount of knee jerking in the comments for this law really brings down the quality of discussion and detracts from remaining issues.

Sadly, there are topics that sometimes come up on HN that makes people have these knee-jerk reactions. Anything related to EU, unions, Tesla, Israel and more tend to bring out the worse from normally reasonable people. I'm probably guilty of it sometimes too, we're all humans after all.
The clue is in the title there - it says nothing about the amount of corruption, only the perception of it. People notice the low-level corruption of petty officials asking for a few bucks, but they're largely blind to high-level corruption that takes place behind closed doors.
I think you're right in so far that the US never really wanted to do what it would take to convert the whole of Afghanistan to a friendly state, like say Japan after WWII.

Urbanization statistics for Afghanistan place them at something like 20-25% with most of the population being rural. So even if you occupy the cities and stay for a generation (19.9 year according to https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/mothers-mean-ag...), you haven't really won the war. The first source I found says that in 2017 about 50% of the population was still under Taliban control or where Taliban openly moved about.
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Free to download or "Free to use in my other app"?
Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news
Hi HN! I built a GPT powered tool that searches for today's top news, creates article summaries with GPT4, and will even read those summaries aloud while scrolling down the page for you (just click 'Play Audio').

I instruct GPT4 to be as neutral (politically) as possible and to not cover tragedies with no historical significance.

What you get is a news site that heavily respects your time.

I've had a lot of fun building this for friends and family. I can imagine a future where we all have a personal version of this, searching for news we care about and eventually going beyond just aggregation and moving on to custom reporting.

Check it out and let me know your thoughts? Thanks.
A Camera-Wearing Baby Taught an AI to Learn Words
It is one of the most useful programs I use and the only useful program I ever used that was written in Haskell.
While looking for Pandoc + Make for Website templates, I stumbled on the Website of Jilles van Gurp[1] (hi @jillesvangurp[2]) and I have seen it evolved over time. It is beautiful[3].

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Ask HN: How can Apple reduce the weight of Vision Pro?
Given the amount of hardware involved and battery pack already separate, how can Apple make a meaningful difference in the weight of this device other than switching to cheaper materials or moving anything that isn't a sensor to the battery-hip-pack?

Genuinely curious if large weight reductions are feasible going forward, of if this is just a wishful talking point.
It's legal because they collectively paid a shit ton of money to make it legal.
> It’s definitely more delicious but at 4x-8x the time cost

I guess I'm the only one who doesn't feel like it's tangibly better than dry pasta. I've made my own, bought from some of the best Italian pasta makers in Brooklyn ... I just can't tell.