skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"CEO Sundar Pichai defended the layoffs and claimed that workers sometimes reach out to express gratitude for the cuts. “And I just want to clarify that, through these changes, people feel it on the ground and sometimes people write back and say, ‘Thank you for simplifying.’ Sometimes we have a complicated, duplicative structure,” he said, per the Verge."

When CEOs say this, you know you have a huge morale and leadership problem. Statements like that are incredulous. It's the boot lickers who say that stuff to the CEO.

Sundar is out of his depth at worse and disconnected at best if he believes that is the way to defend layoffs. I am surprised HR/PR let him say this...
I think the update experience was a small part of it, but for me the process model of Chrome was the main thing that made me eventually switch. Crappy javascript on one tab would lock up the entire browser -- a thing that just simply doesn't happen in Chrome.
Even NASA isn’t escaping the layoff tsunami. Everyone is getting decimated.
Avatar 2 came out just over a year ago is one of the highest grossing movies of all time.
Derek Guy, menswear writer: "Aesthetically, this is basically how you have to dress to make things like the Vision Pro and Cybertruck look cool. These things mainly look bad in public bc there's no congruity between the business casual gear most ppl wear and these futuristic designs"

https://twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/1755425085580869834
Yes. Performance reviews are short-term focused, so by the time the bureaucracy gets around to formally cancelling your old project, it will have probably forgotten that you were the one who created it.

Add to that a healthy dose of toxic positivity and "blameless postmortem" culture, and the fact that you created the product can actually still be used as a good thing on your CV. You did fantastic work! The product was flawless! It just happened to be a total failure for... some unrelated reason. "Shifting business priorities", maybe, or "unforeseeable macroeconomic conditions".
I wrote a longish guide about learning to program from scratch using spaced repetition. I can't recommend it highly enough. It helps immensely in boosting you past the chasm of incoherence in the beginner stages when you are getting bombarded by unfamiliar terms. I included lots of example cards at the bottom.

https://experimentallearning.substack.com/p/functions-descri...
Unless you are a legendary JS dev, it's too hard to find a job as a junior dev these days.
Can’t wait for all the comments telling me its ok because people also hit bikers.
Where are they wrong? This is a review of the device as it stands and not what its future looks like. They're charging $3500 for this device and not for the promise of future devices
I agree, but I think there are a couple important stages that should be explicit: actively solicit proposals and fund the proposals
This is the first vision pro review I've seen that has mentioned nausea. I know it is a possibility with any kind of VR headset, but in my usage of it I was surprised how good it was at avoiding nausea. Are there any other major outlet reviews that also mention nausea?
It’s not like saying that, but saying that doesn’t seem too absurd anyway.
yes, though in California cars required to be 0 emission by 2035
Nice, this is helpful when I try to remember what some hosts said. Could you submit your own podcasts?
This frees up innovators to launch their own companies.
> Cyclists are just dangerous

Nope. The numbers of people killed or seriously injured in road collisions that don't involve motor vehicles are absolutely tiny. Motorists are dangerous, cyclists are not.

> Cyclists sometimes behave as though they are pedestrians and other times they behave as vehicles, depending on what is convenient.

And? Is that somehow bad? This seems to be a common motorist talking point, but I've never understood what it's supposed to imply.
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Well, the key difference is that using all those things together is very quickly going to ensnare you in a big pile of goo. That you can forgo all of that and just write functions without having to build them into Wasm or any other format with any kind of build tool is the difference. That you get typed data storage without running a DB. That there is no “deployment” whatsoever.
I'm really pissed off at Google for doing this:

- First, they "steal" @simonw's 'llm' keyword for their own CLI tool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39296567)

- Then they create a wrapper around llama-cpp-python which is a wrapper around llama-cpp, a project they don't even credit nor support.

- Then they steal @mcapodici's article title to publish it on their blog (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39297563).

- And the ironic part is that their Gemini models are closed-source, so no gguf for those.
I agree. AR is dead in the water until we invent magic displays that may be decades away.

VR has some nice gaming and fitness applications and I think like handheld gaming as a niche, VR gaming will never take over completely but will always be its own little corner of gaming.
Not to mention that no matter how compelling the footage, people will argue who is at fault.
I feel like I'm the only person in my town without tinted windows. I never see other drivers faes whether I'm driving, biking, or walking.
You sure are doom and gloom about something that was released today
Typically dental floss is categorized as hygiene, not cosmetics.
Roundabouts are rare in the US. Four-way stops are far more common. If the authorities find a particular one to be too dangerous, they would normally install traffic lights rather than replace it with a roundabout.
Checkboxes Are Never Round (2015):

http://danieldelaney.net/checkboxes/
Agree with sibling. You are speaking out of turn in that you have no idea how long a human would take to react, as we don't know the situation completely enough from this article.

That said, my takeaway is that the cyclist likely ran their stop sign. This is a very common accident situation even between cars, where the view is obstructed and the at-fault driver imagines that their path is clear. It seems very likely that the cyclist did a similar kind of thing, but with the additional aspect of ignoring the traffic control.

Since I'm here: brakes not breaks.
no cause of death is given. people who are healthy can still die early from accidents
Bluesky is not structured the way Bitcoin was structured. It's nonsensical to make prescriptive statements based on that comparison.
Last year I caught this footage of a driver that hit a cyclist and they were fully visible. The police determined the driver technically wasn’t at fault because they had the right of way but humans drive incredibly unsafe.

https://youtu.be/uycFSrUI700?si=DPgNc_B5CNDctDyt

1) cyclist assumed they were safe to cross as there was a pedestrian
2) the driver didn’t slow down for the pedestrian in the road at all
3) driver was probably speeding
4) driver didn’t brake until very late, probably distracted
5) cyclist was 15 years old so probably not using enough caution in general

I honestly think a self driving car would have been going slow for the crossing pedestrian and this collision would have never happened (but I guess we can all just guess).

The question is, what’s better, occasional software glitches or human stupidity? I guess time and data will tell.
Seriously -- automated cars are going to kill a lot of people[0] yet by every objective measure that is a good thing. There's a cognitive dissonance here that needs to be overcome else society will pay to the tune of tens of thousands of lives per year.

[0]captured in multi-angle 4k, replete with gore and blood splatter. leaked to the press, compiled into tic Tok reaction videos, etc.
Is there any company that has tried that idea? Sounds interesting (akin to DevOps).
Waymo expanding service area to SF peninsula
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> How did we get here? Crisis of ideology?

Yeah, there's a nice book about it: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/technopopulism-97801...
Towards the end of WW2 the US Navy got pretty good at anti-aircraft gunnery. The Japanese responded by sending their "guided missiles" (kamikazes) to attack in column formation. By the time the target ship shot down the attacking aircraft at the head of the column the others shielded behind it would be that much closer. Often the last one would get through to score a hit.

The weapons are faster and more lethal now, but similar tactics would probably still work to an extent. The Navy has run some computer simulations but they've never done an all-up fleet exercise of a realistic saturation attack that requires emptying the magazines. So, no one really knows for sure how well the defenses would hold up. There would probably be some nasty surprises.
It’s actually just a polite way of calling you a jerk.
Forth is a charming little language, and I highly recommend spending a few evenings implementing one on the processor of your choice. You'll be astonished at how much functionality will fit in just a few kilobytes. FORTH will teach you no-foolin' hard core pragmatism, and a few dirty tricks that will make you smile.

(That said, I don't like FORTH much at all. The amount of stack-thinking is just agony).
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The tool that 'poisons' data, gives artists a fighting chance against AI
> As a driver, it took me many years to get into the habit of shoulder checking when turning right from the right lane

If you weren't already doing it all along, that's kind of on you. It's literally on the driving test. I've been hit walking in a crosswalk by a driver who didn't check over their shoulder as I came up behind them while they were stopped. No injuries luckily.
Yup. Also people using edited footage out of context for nefarious purposes. Really zero benefit for Waymo to release footage, only things to lose.
Agree that's not a great look for the supervisor.

Cyclists have a bad rep in SF because many (not all) ride quite dangerously. It's a common sight to see cyclists running four-way stop signs and lights without even yielding. I live adjacent to a four-way stop and there's an incident where a cyclist fails to yield nearly hourly.

Meanwhile, Waymo has millions of incident-free miles and of all the self-driving car companies generally takes safety seriously, even if they will act to protect their interests here.

Until more evidence comes out I'll be taking Waymo's side here. I want safer vehicles and Waymo is currently the best bet.
Hello HN! I built an app that can transcribe & summarize podcasts. I'm a huge fan of podcasts & this was something I thought could be really useful. It's sometimes a little hard to figure out if something I am planning on listening to is just rehashing stuff I already know, which often happens in history / educational podcasts.

The stack is built on Rails / Stimulus. The actual podcast transcription is actually done from a home computer with an RTX 3070 running 24/7 downloading & transcribing. It can typically churn through about 500 / day so I'm hoping to just slowly add podcasts I like to listen to on here over time.
According to other people in the thread, 40% of the company is owned by Tencent already.
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What an absolutely deranged comment to make.

Are you of the opinion that anyone going even ever so slightly over the speed limit deserves their fate if they happen to crash and get injured or killed?

Car drivers do after all break the rules of the road far more often than cyclists do, with further-reaching consequences.
> In 20 years it will still be a bulky headset with battery life limitations preventing the all-purpose computing device.

The nreal glasses show that a more compact sunglasses form factor is possible, though it's not doing anything cutting-edge, lens or compute-wise.
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As a pedestrian, I've been struck (once) by non-automated vehicles and yes, walked away on my own and that was that. We do already accept this kind of risk and you're just unfairly picking on AVs with that comment. Bicyclists accept huge risk, period. Simple things like people parked and opening the car door without looking, right into a cyclist, happen all the time. I bet every single day.
You clearly have money to burn.
The surprise is not that it’s newsworthy.

The surprise is that this is allowed in the first place.
This is a complete waste of time until video or a decision based on video is released.
Perhaps, but many sports (such as football and American football) are far too popular to end anytime soon.

Additionally, it may be given as a precaution after a first concussion (car wreck, for example), even if that person is unlikely to be "banged on the head everyday"
What is this? Are you ok?
Adam Neumann is trying to buy back WeWork
The gas mileage isn't actually higher than a regular motorcycle (*well some yeah but not by much). It seems mostly useful as a demonstration of the tech.
I’m not sure what the exact cause is, but for some reason, they lose billions on streaming (page 24):

https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/app/uploads/2023/11/Q4_FY23...
Yes. Nreal seems more like an Apple product than the Apple product.
I would say that the US also belongs in the agressor camp.
HackerNews has a major problem with regards to victim blaming as it pertains to cyclists, and this thread is clear evidence of it.
Goody-2, an LLM which refuses all interactions on ethical grounds
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I don't think that is correct. With net metering residential solar owners are overpaid for the value of their power. More than commercial solar plants selling at the same time.

Homeowners may get paid less than their panels cost, but rooftop solar is tremendously expensive and there is no way that it would recoup the cost at actual market prices
Quicken's Simplifi is pretty close. I tried Monarch as well. Simplifi seemed a bit more polished. To me, YNAB was a different type of tool than what I wanted. I didn't want everything assigned to a budget and such. I just want something to collate all my transactions, do some basic tagging and classification. That's it.
Healthcare applications are also really interesting to me because those tend to be high value for 30-60 minutes. The Department of Veteran Affairs, for instance, is the largest health system in the U.S. and has a nationwide network of clinicians already using AR/VR applications.

https://www.innovation.va.gov/hil/views/immersive/immersive....
The system and society built and maintained for cars is the problem. Not robot or human drivers.
1) is hard to imagine given that neither of the streets are one-way (a crossing cyclist would not be occluded by the truck on the right and would not be able to go straight when the truck partially cleared the intersection from the left, unless they were traveling in the wrong lane.

2) doesn't make much sense to me... a cyclist with so little sense would have been hit by a car long ago.

Looking at streetview, I see bike lanes so there is also another possibility:

4) The cyclist was parallel to the truck on a bike lane, but the truck overtook the cyclist while in the intersection while the Waymo turned left after the truck cleared. This would be a similar situation as if there were pedestrians in the crosswalk.

edit: according to https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/7/24065063/waymo-driverless-... , the truck was turning? That opens up a number of other possibilities...
Off topic, but you can think of PFAS as micro plastics at the molecular level.

We humans can metabolize/excrete the shorter ones (common in food wrappers, cosmetics, fire fighting foam) over months to years, but the longer ones (mostly banned in the 2010's IIRC) are usually never metabolized and slowly build up in the body and mess things up. Like cancer rates near DuPont GenX factories or fire fighters having higher rates of testicular cancer.

TLDR: PFASes are bad, NZ is doing a good thing. Not sure if we have replacement chemicals for PFAS yet, but I hope so
It's hard to describe the pure absolute hell that can be working there, you'd be surprised how quickly the money becomes not worth it.
He parted ways with Autodesk a long time ago but it would have been nice for his former company to acknowledge him https://www.autodesk.com/
That's pretty rough, Fortnite has done some very cool things in gaming that have paid dividens
> And? Is that somehow bad? This seems to be a common motorist talking point, but I've never understood what it's supposed to imply.

Yes, it can be very bad. Drivers not being predictable is a big cause of car crashes. I was always taught that when driving, don't be nice, be predictable. It's also a large part of defensive driving. A cyclist that is sometimes acting like a vehicle, and at other times as a pedestrian is not nearly as predictable.
Great website. Really enjoyed his writings. RIP.
The criticisms of the original iPhone weren't inaccurate. Buying that iPhone didn't give you a free upgrade to subsequent models either.
A single Thunderbolt (or HDMI) output. Then it could double as a Mac Mini on a desk. That would help justify about 1k of the total spend. I know it sounds a bit ridiculous, but I think it's less ridiculous than a 3,5k (minimum) face computer that, for most people, will not be getting nearly as much facetime (pun intended) as a normal desktop. One wired output, just one, for the love of God.
Surprising Things People Don't Tell You About Success
Even if a human sees the bike slightly sooner, the reaction time is so much slower that it's either a wash or the self driving car is likely still faster. Median braking reaction time for humans is ~500ms[1].

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26376036/
I've been on the receiving end of that kind of "reorganization" and this didn't look like that.

EDIT: Specifically, replacements were not "cheap".
does he still code in one php file
TL;DR: more talented people tend to move on to more lucrative gigs, leaving less talented people behind. The title draws an analogy to the Dead Sea, where water evaporates and leaves salt behind.

Really, that's all the article has to say. You're welcome.
I'm planning to add something like that if people actually find this useful! The nice thing with podcasts is that they are typically powered by RSS feeds, which let me download basically anything out there that isn't an exclusive. The next time I'm working on is making it so readers can submit their own podcasts for transcription!
Agreed that grid styling works better in plain CSS, but that's often only a small amount of the CSS a site needs in my experience. You can write grid in a normal class and then write all your other styles inline via classes.

Best of both worlds IMO.
Did a quick google and DMV states they must stop at all stop signs.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-education-and-safety/ed....
Explore the role of consideration, its forms (money, promises, services), its exceptions, and how contract law addresses issues of fairness and equity.
Didn't want to delve into it in the original comment but what you mention is correct and is one of the reasons I mentioned how far back this was.

I haven't read Herman Pontzer's recent research, I'd equate to becoming a more efficient runner; as efficiency increases energy demands are reduced.

Some of today's research just didn't exist when this was written. Of course, some of the advice was already debatable by the time I got to read it in the mid-late 00's, but that can be said for a lot of health and fitness advice even today.

I didn't follow it proscriptively. What it did do was give me a different approach to tackling it as a problem and was the first resource I had read that helped in that regard. Everything else was very much eat less of this and more of that

Like thread's asking which book/resource to use when learning to code, there are many good examples out there. Not all are perfect, and some are occasionally wrong but like that example, this was the one that stuck with me.
link please bro
> A city should be a safe place

Is that a fundamental attribute of a city?
https://github.com/fredrikwidlund/libreactorng
Same here. Thank you John!
> I've enjoyed reading about FORTH and LISP over the years and I think LISP advocates have a similar philosophy.

Want to make a hacker laugh? Say "Forth is the dual of Lisp" to someone familiar with both languages. It seems they reach the same goal of a totally programmable programming language through completely opposite approaches.
You mean there is no attendant you can go in and say "$20 on pump 8" and hand them cash???

Could you not buy a drink or snack at these stations either?
Waymo probably has cameras from every angle here, so it seems kind of odd that we have to rely on a textual description.
Note that there are bike lanes on the likely street where this occurred. The cyclist was not necessarily following the truck but could have been parallel (and overtaken).
After college, I lived with a friend who worked in the IT department at our college. He got called in on a Sunday once, and came back around lunchtime quite flustered.

"What's wrong?"

"Sam asked me what a traceroute was."

Sam was the longtime Novell admin. Yes this was a while ago...

"The worst part was, I patiently explained it to him, and he just asked me why that was useful?"

Just one example. There was more, of people of low competence who were very entrenched.
Insisting that a bicycle needs to follow the same procedures as a 3000lb internal combustion engine driven vehicle is madness. The vast majority of car laws are completely inappropriate for bicycles. Bicycles are much smaller, go much slower, can stop much faster, etc.
Or maybe evolution was designed by God? I have no proof either way… I also don’t know what version of God we are all talking about. Maybe this is all just a simulation after all; God is just some teenager in their parent’s basement who has been absent for what we call billions of years and what they call, “dinner.”
Have you tried Raycast? It has all the AI scripts you mentioned and many more. And many things done better, like showing diff before inserting grammar-corrected text.
Vermont skiing is better than nothing, but it's absolutely not comparable to what is available in the western US.
The older I get the more I feel humans only know how to set up Ponzi schemes
The spyware business is booming despite government crackdowns
That's that magic of concentrated benefits and diffuse harms. The inverse is manufacturing workers who suffer concentrated harms from cheaper foreign competition and everyone else enjoys the slight benefit of cheaper TVs.
Nobody heard of Raycast?
Sure. It's just we tend to notice the tradeoffs and forget the win-wins. Every bug fixed and every performance improvement benefits all three.
I've found that if a PR is sufficiently small then reviewing it doesn't entail quite as severe of a context switch as reviewing a larger PR. Something about it being shorter means I can keep some of the coding context fresh in my head so I can switch back to it quicker (whereas for a longer PR I need to jettison that context in order to comprehend the whole PR).
I agree that there's still lots of ambiguity and Waymo's PR comment provides limited and one-sided detail. I stand by my previous comment as the most likely course of events, but we won't know for sure until video is released.

The comment that claims bikes can treat stop signs as yield signs in California is incorrect. From the CA DMV website [0]:

> Bicyclists must obey STOP signs and red signal lights, and follow basic right-of-way rules.

There was an attempt to change this a few years ago, but it didn't pass.

[0] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-education-and-safety/ed...
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9 drones in three attacks? This asymmetric warfare thing may have something going for it!
There is no expectation of privacy with what happens on a public road.

See all the dashcam videos on YouTube.