skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the point is probably about whether google still has the ability to go from 0 to 1. instead of 1 to n. from the outside they look like they are not so slowing becoming the bean counting accountant / MBA type of company.
I still would think twice about doing DIY battery work in a multi-family unit. I wanted to get into FPV drones but reading about the concerns with battery charging and issues with minor damage, I decided I had nowhere to safely charge and passed on it.

I haven't looked into it too much, but I'm also curious if your insurance would have a major issue, and if you open yourself to possible criminal/civil legal troubles if you start a fire due to a botched unattended DIY battery setup.
Business bank accounts that fund solar
Is this new? It seems to me that investing has always had a very large political component to it. How could it be otherwise? When you invest in something, you are literally funding that thing and helping it grow. That makes it inherently political.
It’s crazy because if you try the Quest it’s quite insane how good it is already. If I were to guess what could give it an iPhone moment:

- lighter/more comfortable

- faster to get started when you put the headset on

- more social experiences and event organized in VR

- shorter time from headset on to hanging out with your friends in VR

A number of years ago I convinced a bunch of my friends to buy the Quest after being blown away by board games in VR, but turns out Catan only worked for the Go and it was a lot of work to do something together in VR.

IMO there needs to be some sort of lobby that does not take you away from hanging out with your friends when you’re in between games. I should be able to easily join a lobby or pause a game to go to a lobby and wave at my friend who’s playing to pause and join me in the lobby
Well, if you want to take what I said literally, it seems I need to explain..

My point is, he thought about it for some time before he was free to start the work, then he laid down the basics in less than a week, so he was able to start using Git to build Git, polished it for a while and then turned it over.

Here's an interview with the man himself telling the story 10 years later, a very interesting read:

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/10-years-of-git-an...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#History
Submitted by Simon himself 4 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40114311
VR headsets can be fun for some games, but the hardware and software still have a lot of maturing to do, it's not like smartphones where it feels very developed and there's not much more room for obvious growth/improvement.
depends on the scale factor. can you scale it 10x to match the canal? probably not.
People don’t use electricity during the day?
The basic logic is convincing: the canal killed the train line's business long before containers became a thing. Ship-to-train and train-to-ship should be far more feasible today than it used to be back then.

And the train-to-ship part would double as ship-to-ship redistribution, fanning out to different ports in both Asia and on the east coast. Basically a role similar to the one served by Atlanta in the United network.
Coin cell powered SRAM as an alternative to proper non volatile memory. I find it funny but probably any other solutions were plenty more expensive.
I don’t think cargo trains ever go “fast”. But it is slower than normal in the US anyways. I think in US max speed for cargo is like 50 mph / ~75 kph, and this train is going along at 46 kph assuming constant motion. In reality, it’s fast in some segments, dramatically slower in older segments.

According to Wikipedia, it’s an old line that has speed limitations in some areas of 20 kph. Addressing these limitations is a substantial part of the rehabilitation project, aiming to get the speed from 20 kph up to 70 kph.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interoceanic_Corridor_of_the...

“the rehabilitation is reportedly expected to result in a speed increase for trains using the railway, from 20 kilometres per hour (12 mph) to 70 km/h (43 mph) for cargo trains, and of up to 80 km/h (50 mph) for passenger trains”
NiteróI, the Brazilian city that has been releasing mosquitoes to stop dengue
Having worked as a server in college, servers get blamed for everything, and it definitely made me avoid and lose most of my confidence in humans other than close friends and family. People can be just mean and horrible for no real reason. Most are nice and patient, however a significant minority are just awful and must lead miserable, empty lives.
Yeah, we could call that the... Job Simulator ;)
> Is the company supplying arms to Russia? Is the coworker the boss who lied about >doing so?

Is there some evidence that this is a defense/military-related project despite Google's public denials that that is the case? Honest question, I have no idea.
I wonder at what point it makes economic sense to "solve" the freshwater problem in Panama with new infrastructure. My understanding is that they lose a lot of water because it has to get flushed out to sea.

Is there an engineering solution to recycling more of the water and flushing less of it to sea?
I don't think you need that much context if you start with an organ system. For example, I got interested in biology by learning about how the kidneys work. You can give a pretty handwavy explanation to get someone oriented and then go into more and more detail (for example about the structure of the nephron, the hormones involved, how filtration works at a molecular level, etc.)

The other organ systems are similar. Once you know about the organ systems development and genetics are well motivated and easier to pick up. And from there you have a pretty good scaffold from which to fill in the rest of human biology.
Balanced Portfolio Construction
A good deal of the argument seems to be that a) specific past moral panics, like pinball, turned out to be harmless b) worrying about smartphones shares some similarities with worrying about pinball c) therefore smartphones, like pinball machines, are harmless, and it's irrational to worry about them.

But that argument simply doesn't hold. The thing about "moral panics" is that you retroactively apply that term to things that groups were worried about that seem silly in hindsight. But people also worried a lot in the past about drug use and rising obesity, which both have turned out to be gigantic social problems.

Even leaving aside the validity of the studies (I think that Haidt overstates his evidence at times), I think people can come to conclusions just by introspection and observation as to whether the impact of smartphones/algorithmic content on society is more comparable to pinball or to a new drug.
Besides song choice, the community also produces higher quality charts than the official ones, and offers difficulty that scales much higher.

Lunatics like these can't be sated by the official songs: https://youtu.be/CKwX349aV98 https://youtu.be/sJQSy3KG-oQ?t=33

That first chart averages 12 notes per second for 5 straight minutes and the player only missed a single note.
Well, WAV files can easily have metadata, it's just that most people don't bother to add any
Those "vacuous" roles exist to ensure that the dev team isn't lighting company money on fire working on the wrong thing, or crippled by inefficient bureaucracy which is also lighting money on fire. Which isn't "vacuous;" there is value in saving the company money.
> Because I can look at the price of goods versus their cost. A company that owns the production chain for a sub-component is paying the cost of that component, while a company that doesn't pays the market price.

I'm not sure I follow. Let's say Acme Inc. produces a widget that is a subcomponent of their larger product. When that subcomponent is within the control of a team of four who works for Acme Inc., the company has to pay the market price (meaning a markup margin?), but when that team is joined with another team who also works for Acme Inc., then they only have to pay the cost?

1. What difference does that make? Even if a markup really was paid on paper, it's just to Acme Inc. itself. You haven't changed anything, practically speaking.

2. If an external entity is willing to pay more for the component, which is what I think you are trying to suggest with market price, Acme Inc. is paying the opportunity cost when keeping it internally and thus is still paying the market price. Are you under the impression that there is a free lunch here? There is not.

> trying to maintain an internal market of software where multiple teams build the same service and compete with each other on who has a better version is crazy

Just as it would be crazy in the macroeconomy. The idea that competition is necessary for markets to work is misguided. You don't need a second road running parallel to the first. One road is just fine. Competition only comes into being when someone thinks they can serve the customer better by doing things differently. Which is a useful property of human dynamics, to be sure, but sometimes things are already as good as anyone is able to imagine.

> they started collaborating on Linux

As individual teams, with another team headed by Linus who accepts the services of those other teams as seen fit. Another great example of the service economy in action. No need for a monolith – if such a thing were even possible, but as pointed out at the beginning of this, of which I agree, we don't actually know how to build monoliths, no matter how great they sound in theory. There are outstanding problems not yet solved.

> They are built as monoliths with large teams working to add features and collaborating relying on a hierarchy of maintainers

A monolith, but also hierarchal? Uhh...

> I don't see any proof whatsoever that building a company or a product in general out of a marketplace of dozens or hundreds of very small teams has ever worked beyond maybe some niche cases.

I suppose you can take the perspective that nothing works, but given the outstanding problems not solved to allow anything else, something that doesn't work beats nothing at all. Worse is better, perhaps.
Maybe. So far, Apple's headset isn't particularly impressive or compelling, but I suppose it's possible they'll fix its issues in a future version.
> A news site can embed their own content and summarize it.

But not a YouTube embed? Well we just disagree. That's what the embed is for.

Whether or not a video can be embedded is under the control of the creator in their YouTube dashboard, not this third-party site.

> There's no link to the channel, no credits from the video itself.

Not true at all, the creator is listed in a pretty big font size, and there is a literal YouTube embed that links to the video (and channel if you click the avatar). The creator gets the credit and ad revenue from the embed, the third-party site doesn't.

> This șite exists to take the work of others

Not true either, see the news site example, or any blog or tutorial site that references videos.
From the Financial Times article [0] cited in the OP:

Mexico’s government is bullish about prospects for the rail crossing, which will offer proximity to the US and a transit time of 6.5 hours excluding loading time — less than the eight to 10 hours it takes on the 80km canal.

Much more than transit time, I'm interested in throughput. How long does it take to move a full container ship's contents from one end to the other? How long does it take just to unload and load?

Also, regarding loading/unloading: When I think of a train, I imagine it being loaded/unloaded in semi-serial - first the front cars, then the next set of cars, as the train moves segment-by-segment past the ship. Essentially you are transforming a massive pile of containers onto a long string of containers. Is that correct? Is there any solution to speed it up? I suppose they could lay several train tracks in parallel alongside the ship and use extra train engines to pull up groups of rail cars, and then reconnect them into one long train as the train pulls out. How long is a train carrying a full container ship's capacity?

Cost seems the other essential question: Sea transport costs a fraction of rail transport, generally, but I expect that canal transport is far more expensive than open sea transport.

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/bbe8e851-e9f2-4ed1-a4a7-051a670b4...
I really hope Meta keeps making hardware. I want a Quest 4
Platforms are a trap, except Windows launched a revolution. Platforms are a trap, but iOS made companies (like Facebook) billions.
Radical transparancy only works in a world of radical acceptance. I deliberately hide some stuff I do from some people not because it is shady but because it will impact their view of me in a negative way.
I want that too, but it'll have to be a lot more secure, as now it would be trivial to record me saying Hey Siri and play that back.
I understood it came about due to RMS wanting the source for the printer driver for the Xerox 9700 - nothing to do with Symbolics.
Maybe shoes are not the best example, because even the most expensive shoes will only last a few years.
Well, as someone living in the United States, I live with the saddening understanding that our military spending indicates that we're willing to immiserate large swaths of the world's population for increasingly diminishing returns.

It's authoritarian enough that I have no choice but to support our military decisions through the taxes I pay.
One of the issues seems to be about the TikTok Lite app's potential mental health risks. How does one even quantify that? And by who's measure?
Whether you agree with the article or not, if indeed AI is going to have a future it must eventually produce something of value to the "business world".
Never heard of splinter but I'm quite familiar with the author Justin Ling. You'll notice the various character assassinations in the article to understand that this is not journalism. Danielle smith being a former radio host doesn't have a great deal to do with carbon taxes.

I'm upset with this article because it misses the opportunity. He acknowledges that it's a matter of time before Canada quits all climate change efforts, but he gives up his opportunity to constructively repair.

>Poilievre is, for a variety of reasons including the climate backlash, riding high in the polls. Some surveys have him up by as many as 20 points. His lead exists despite, or perhaps because of his, his total lack of a climate policy.

The NDP and Liberal provincial entities are squarely against the carbon tax as well. A liberal premier just called Trudeau out for his ideological marriage to the tax.

Oil and byproducts are an inelastic priced commodity. A carbon tax will not adjust usage, it marginally raises prices on a product which is already over 100% taxed. Afterall road taxes come from there as well.

If you truly worry about carbon emissions and wish for reductions, this will do nothing at all to solve the problem. Hence why the provincial NDP and Liberals have come out against it as well.

To a climate change warrior, this carbon tax is the worst thing to be done. It's not helping the movement at all. It's only causing damage toward the movement.
> they needs apps

Meta likely has the most apps and most users of any one VR platform. Sure everyone needs apps, but they needs apps the least, especially from Play Store.

Unless you see using phone apps as 90" virtual screens as a killer feature at least.
Ah, ok, cool. Pity it can't be hand-edited, but that should generally cover it.

A couple little bug reports on citations (let me know if you want this elsewhere, I don't have to clutter this thread):

- APA doesn't include a second period between an author's initial and the date, but you have that in the bibliography. E.g. Schmoe, J.. (2021).

- Many places list DOIs as urls, e.g. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203108352, but MonsterWriter tries to import that as a webpage, so I have to remove the part before the number

- I added the following citation by DOI: 10.1080/10508406.2013.836655. In the metadata in the citation popup, it correctly lists the lead author's name as "Berland, Matthew," but it comes out in both the citation and the bibliography as "Berl, ."

- I wasn't sure if there was a way to add a citation where an author had written a specific chapter of an edited book. [1]. I could create a reference to a book, and then I could list a chapter, but the inline citation was weird (Shmoe, 2013, chaps Chapter Name) instead of just (Shmoe, 2013), and the bibliography section didn't include the chapter name. Basically it just treated it like a page number, instead of as an authored section of an edited book.

- Speaking of which, every time I went to edit that reference the drop down switched back to "page number" instead of "chapter."

1. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references...
This doesn't address the contradiction. The fact that a CEO's sociopolitical views take precedence over the impact of the actual company is exactly why ESG is a cancerous tool for political activism that should not be taken seriously by ethically-minded investors. (Kind of like DEI actually since you brought that up.)
Global entry kiosks clear me to enter the country in 3 seconds. No reason going through security should take any longer.
The Metaverse is what the Internet is if you add VR. It’s not hard to understand.
I mean if CC is missing you just run it through whisper/whisperfast and you've got CC.
Meta is desperate to get devs to develop apps on their platform. It is the only way to get more interest in VR. Devs dont want to be on it because there are no customers, consumers don't want it because there's no apps. They've been trying to market it hard but nothing has worked. They tried to brand it as a fitness device, a work device, and a game device, but the consumers are not biting.
I partially heat my 900sqft SFH mining monero... since [compared to resistive space heater usage-offset] there is no additional energy usage, it's effectively free crypto.

Of course this means you can only earn half of the year. Mine ejects its heat under desk toes.
Mysterious why Germany has no software mega Corp, ever so mysterious, it's almost like everything software is linear in Germany meanwhile it's exponential somewhere else. I propose the theory that there is a massive object beneath cal to blame.
Long term maybe, but it'll take years for the rest of the logistics network to fully accommodate the new capacity and do things like building more ships or reallocating routes. In the meantime the new ports would probably undercut Panama fees to attract traffic that would otherwise go via the canal.
Raevsky’s ultimate goal is the US Senate, she said, where she would focus on education and public safety.

She's in for a rude awakening if she thinks merit is the most important thing in politics.
Good writeup! It certainly seems absurd for banks, investment firms, government services, etc. to just allow third-party analytics startups to inject whatever code they want in between the user and the product.

It's like if the bank hired contractors from Google, LivePerson, Tealium, and Yext to listen in on every phone call I make to the bank, for "analytics purposes". Um, is it really necessary for them to hear my account number and everything? Oh, you say they're plugging their ears?
You’re discounting the huge number of android devices that use it as a base OS. E.g. Amazon and Peloton use android without Google services for consumer devices.
Definitly try out whisper after splitting out the audio as a fallback, and don't forget their are other models like WhisperFast that might be slightly less accurate but less resource intesnive, and since your not publishing the captions themselves you don't need it to literally get every word perfect.
I thought ultra-ridiculously-high-end was referring mostly to Apple hardware and bundled software.
Pistol whip is pretty good too. Those two get your light saber sword fight fantasy, and the Matrix Gun-Fu fantasy :)

And though I haven't an athletic bone in my body, the fitness / boxing apps are actually a great way to get some exercise in.

Generally, quest 2 was one of the things I haven't had any interest whatsoever until after a year's campaign, my friend basically forced me to try it during a visit :-). I have one now, largely for those 3 apps.
If this is exciting to you, I’d recommend “Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life” by Nick Lane [0].

It’s a fascinating and captivating (albeit dense) exploration into the concept that mitochondria were central to the success of eukaryotic life. I read it in a book club during my PhD.

[0] https://nick-lane.net/books/power-sex-suicide-mitochondria-m...
I miss a bit some of the old `xxx2yyy` programs. It's tempting to consider:

FILE.csv.html.pdf.zip

...`csv2html | html2pdf | pdf2zip`, and vice-versa... how possible is it to make the pipeline reversible, eg: `zip2pdf | pdf2html | html2csv`, or in the absence of "reversibility", could you simply shortcut and get straight back to the original `*.csv`?
Sure, let's be more specific. First of all, do you live in a high density area with a high homicide rate?

If so, answer the following questions.

- Have you ever seen somebody walk out of a convenience store without paying. If so, would you try to say anything disapproving to such a person?

- If you're a woman, have you ever taken an Uber instead of the bus service your taxes subsidize because of safety concerns? If not, has this happened to a partner or friend? Would you let your underage daughter take the bus home from somewhere alone after dark?

- Have you ever had to cross the road because you weren't comfortable walking past somebody standing/lying on the corner?

- It's 3am. A large group of teenagers are having a party in your apartment building. They're still at it and they're very loud. Are you comfortable heading over and asking them to keep it down?

- It's 6pm. A large group of teenagers are hanging out in a public park near your place. You are curious about what they're up to. Are you comfortable walking past them while keeping eye contact with one of them and visibly checking out what they're doing?

- Would you consider walking the streets regularly while wearing an all-red streetwear outfit with a red paisley style bandana? How about a different color,say blue?

- Would you feel safe wandering the neighborhood at night in a drag costume?

- Would you feel safe wearing a black t-shirt with white text announcing that you don't like the music of a popular local rap artist?

If you don't do some otherwise perfectly reasonable and morally activities because it would be irresponsible or unsafe to do so, you're modifying your behavior. If you don't feel that you need to modify your behavior to avoid being a victim of violent crime, chances are it's only because you're very very lucky with your preferences. Some people happen not to want to do any of these activites, of course, but that doesn't change the fact that one can safely engage in them here, but not in any comparable area in the U.S.
Diversity Goals Are Disappearing from Companies' Annual Reports
this seems like micromanagement taken to the next level and I hope if any such thing becomes "normal" that legislation will stop it. We aren't robots meant to react to green and red spots on an AR headset.