skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Around me I see some people that are very dedicated to exploiting these fruits. They’ll show up with a large group - children, friends, family - and systematically pick everything clean to fill their buckets. It’s really disappointing because they clearly don’t need that much, there’s nothing left for others, and there’s nothing left for wildlife. The worst thing is they usually don’t pay any attention to whether the fruit is ready to be harvested or not - they just grab it all - and that means they’re not likely to get something tasty even for themselves. But there is a mindset to get them before anyone else does, so they take them anyways. Personally I think it is better if these aren’t mapped out, so at least locals who are invested in their community have a chance to pick them responsibly. These maps end up just being used by the exploitative people.
Ask HN: Where are dockable phones and text-only glasses?
There are several new or new-feeling devices that have come out or will come out in the past year, but two obvious ones are nowhere to be found.

1. Why doesn't the phone/dockable computer exist?
2. Why is there so much emphasis on vr/ar headsets when simple text overlay would be much simpler and more useful?

I have some ideas on this but I really would like to hear other people's thoughts. About the phone/computer, I actually saw a phone (or maybe it was a tablet) that could dual boot into Android or Linux maybe 5 years ago. It would be great to be able to just plug your phone into a dock with a monitor/keyboard/mouse and never have to carry around a laptop. For 90%+ people, that would be powerful enough. The iphone 16 that just came out appears to be slightly more powerful than the m1 macs, which are only 4 years old and still decently powerful machines. Now I get that Apple would never do this because it would cut into their own sales, but why wouldn't Samsung or other similar companies?

About #2, completely detatching oneself from one's surroundings by wrapping screen-google around your head is an obviously fringe idea. On top of that it's a considerable hardware challenge so even something like Meta's upcoming chunky-but-more-or-less-normal-looking glasses will almost certainly be exorbitant. Why doesn't anybody start with a super simple pair of glasses that have text-only overlay. Also, no on-device ai or even significant compute, just connect via bluetooth to a phone. I get that Meta will never tie themselves to phones because they have a grudge against Apple, but again, why not Samsung or even Teenage Engineering? It seems crazy to say, but Google basically got the form factor right ~20 years ago with google glass. Now so much later shouldn't this be a lot easier to make a reality?

It wouldn't bother me so much, but after seeing so many distopian headsets and two or three ai pins in a short span, it really makes you wonder why simpler, more useful things don't come out.
But that's what the article is about.

The utilities are being asked to make massive speculative investments in transmission infrastructure, but are dubious that the demand will actually be there when those projects finish in half a decade, and they'll be left holding the bag.
honestly, I want to be rich. I do make a decent living, but not enough to quit my job. At this rate I'll have to work until I'm 50 or 60, which is same as everyone else, so cry me a river, but even so, it would be nice to dedicate more time to hobby which at this rate I can at most dedicate a weekend to, but in practice it's a bit less because I have to go out with the wife and I have visit my family, etc. Most weeks I have a full day at most to pursue anything.
Not just government agencies. Everybody wants their finger in the pie to justify their job. And every politician wants to do things their voters like.

I'm thinking of a reasonably recent article I saw that was talking about helping people navigate the 30+ assistance programs they might be eligible for. There's your problem right there--there should not be 30+ programs doing approximately the same thing! That's an awful lot of duplication of effort.

Or look at what happens with business licenses. Two things I see:

1) They want their $ from entities that shouldn't really be "businesses" in the first place. Around here an awful lot of licensed professionals have to have a "business" license--never mind that the nature of their work means they're inside some other entity that actually is reasonable to license. And that means a sales tax registration which has an annual minimum that such people almost certainly will never reach. (Sales tax includes use tax--but it's their office that actually engages in such transactions.)

2) Businesses that perform their work on-site have to have business licenses for every license area of the metropolitan area they work in. Hey, guys, get together and define the superset of the rules of your area and allow someone to get a license that covers the whole area based on that superset.

The Republicans are "right" in that we have far too many regulations. But they are very wrong in wanting to take an axe to them--most of the rules are individually sensible (and when they produce nonsense it's often situations where it's not worthwhile to special case), there is a horrible problem of duplication of effort and fingers in the pie. It's not chopping that's needed, it's organization.
Looks like the antagonist is only outside the brain, so it works to counteract the side-effects, pretty cool.

I wanted sort of the opposite of this for opioids - work in the body, not the brain. There's been a few attempts but non that passed trials.
My kids get a fair share of unsupervised tablet time.

And they seem to know 10x of what I did at their same age.

My son is 9, watching endless Geometry Dash tutorials, and making his own levels. He loves it, and he loves to show me his work.

Tablet time will become an extension of your home life.

If you have good discussions - encouraging curiosity, fostering creativity, challenging their approach "Why did you design it this way?" - the kid and the algorithms will follow that lead.
IMHO, some people just really want Dart and Flutter to fail, so they post the same tired doom prophecy in hope it will become self-fulfilling.

What is also annoying is that they come to normal Dart/Flutter related threads just to spoil them.

Meanwhile, the ecosystem grows, more and more people and companies choose Dart and Flutter and have fun creating software with this excellent toolchain.

The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on, as they say.
Cool map. But in Copenhagen there are so many toxic lots that I would never take fruit from any tree within the city limits.
How about if you're focusing on climate change, you target the causes of climate change? Shocking, I know.
Not handling unaligned access gracefully is a classic RISC "feature", as part of the general simplification of a processor to its basics. I'm not sure if it's really an Alpha specific thing. Plus they added some instructions to ease the pain in 1996.

The main issue people tend to bring up with Alpha is the very loose memory model, of the "things happen, but different processors may not really agree on the order they happened in" type of thing (plus, isn't it rude to want to know what other cores have in their cache?). Which would be a pain in our modern multicore world.

Of course we don't know how things would've evolved over time, ARM (at least on big cores[1]) shifted towards the forgiving model for unaligned access, it's possible over time Alpha would've similarly moved to a more forgiving environment for low level programmers.

[1] On embedded stuff, you're going to the Hardfault handler.
What We Know About Hurricane Helene's Destruction So Far
Archive / paywall: <https://archive.is/CaRow>
Love it. I'm firmly in the Yes And camp.

Could you also produce for the sizeable and growing SiC market? It'd be cool if your source was competitive (assuming green H2 level subsidies).

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As you know, once we achieve net-zero (2050), we'll have to accellerate into net-negative. From the hip, maintaining current growth of renewables (17% YoY), we'll cover expected demand 2045-2050. Then what?

Methinks each and every carbon sequestion idea and strategy should be attempted. Like starting with obscene funding amounts for yearly DARPA style x-prizes. Winners advance to the next round.

And hopefully some of the strategies are scaling in time to soak up the excess production.
These users can download plenty of designs for the objects they think of - you don't often create truly unique things, most stuff already exists.

More importantly, creating a 3D model without understanding mechanical properties is a meaningless exercise. Go ahead, ask anybody who has built things about their first attempts - and this approach means they will always be first attempts.
Unlike banks, grids have an obvious solution to this problem: stop supplying these players with energy when the grid is at significant risk of a black out.
ndiswrapper was a big learning moment for me as well
What, exactly, is wrong? I need actual replies to continue a discussion.

This is a declarative shadow root [1]. The template goes next to its slot contents, so you can render both separately on the server and let the HTML parser attach the shadow root, without JS, then use JS custom elements to progressively hydrate it.

[1]: https://web.dev/articles/declarative-shadow-dom#how_to_build...
There is nothing remotely similar.

Have you noticed it's only in our cities you seem to really hear about the homeless poor? It isn't the corollary of overall population distribution that it might intuitively look like.
> The expectation of not oversharing needs to be met by a commitment of not over-asking,

Nosy people are a fact of life, and their existence shouldn't invalidate norms against over-sharing in inappropriate contexts.
Where Are Laid Off Tech Employees Going? [video]
I think the central takeaway of this essay is dead wrong, you should aim for the exact opposite. The fewer labels or identities you have yourself, the more strongly you hold on to them and the more fragile your personality. If the only thing you identify yourself by is your job and that gets taken away from you in a downturn, never to return, what's left? A lot of people who are in that situation and don't have other selves to identify with struggle strongly. On the other hand, people who identify with more facets of what makes them them have a lot of options to fall back on. You're not only your job, but you're also a parent, a child, an athlete, a hobbyist, etc. Even if you stop being one of those things, you keep being all the rest, and that gives fortitude and resilience.
> Game changer in treatment of disease we can't even define

Doesn't quite have the same ring to it, now does it?
Are you suggesting it should be illegal for these players to buy energy on the open market?
Rip Ted, you did nothing wrong
A simple Python command line domain name generator
Ahh, the anti-AI vitriol strikes again. I think it crops up because there’s such an overwhelming emotional undercurrent of futility, like how I feel when I consider capitalism; it seems like a natural reaction to scream back, to make yourself big and draw an emphatic line in the sand, to rage, rage against the dying of the light. IMO it’s an urge to be suppressed, but no one’s a flawless automaton, me especially!

In this specific case it’s a little funny, just because the author is a photographer. Literally all of their criticisms (other than “it looks bad”, which is obviously both ephemeral and subjective) were leveled against photography about a century ago:

“From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on the metallic plate. A form of lunacy, an extraordinary fanaticism took hold of these new sun-worshippers” (Baudelaire 1980, 86-87). His biggest fear and source of bitterness was that photography was being accepted as art and “if photography is allowed to deputize for art in some of art’s activities, it will not be long before it has supplanted or corrupted art altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the masses, its natural ally”

For one thing: Since when is people’s ability to hire service workers like photographers relevant to the worth of their writing? Isn’t wealth discrimination something to be minimized in scholarly pursuits?
Semicon India: Modi touts goal to become chipmaking powerhouse
Someone's part of the lucky 10,000

https://xkcd.com/1053/
Why Are Innocent People Still Being Executed?
I just don’t think that’s true. The sampling of early internet users and writers is not the general population.
Me neither, looking on archive.org. That's curios.
you are one of these people.
Std: Initializer_list in C++ – Caveats and Improvements
I haven't sought to argue either should override the other, but indeed exactly that both should exist in more balance than has lately been evident.
Quantum CGA will be mind-blowing.
Discussed at the time:

A Taxonomy of Technical Debt - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16810092 - April 2018 (113 comments)

also this bit:

A Taxonomy of Tech Debt (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39782923 - March 2024 (1 comment)
Ryan builds out Solid's reactivity system (createSignal) from scratch in about 20 minutes, live, in this video https://youtu.be/N-Y32BqhoYQ?t=1100

I haven't bothered fully grokking it because I've never had to understand the impl details. Solid gives me literal dom elements, and that's low-level enough for me.
What brings an upgrade to GCC 14 from GCC 13?
I made a mistake here, leading astray. It's second-order cybernetics, not second order systems theory. I melted the two in my head, reason is that (Social) Systems Theory according to Niklas Luhmann [1] incorporates several parts of second order cybernetics (most of the people mentioned before show up there) and blends it all together to a point where I have difficulties to distinguish the separate parts.

This is all not 'new' in the literal sense. Luhmann died in the late 90s. I tried to come up with a spot-on-book of Luhmann, but that lead to nothing. It's all spread out (papers and books) as far as I know. There is a (transcribed) lecture given in 1992, which may come close, but I couldn't find a translated version of it.

One of the parts which hit home for me was the introduction of a differenciated form of distinctiveness, in turn partly enabled by the introduction of an observer, and observation in general. Heinz von Foerster gave an often cited sentence which I think fits the part, albeit Luhmann gurus will probably moan my simplification : "Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer."

Apart from that, sorry for not being more helpful here.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Luhmann
https://archive.ph/rS3ze
OpenAI is expecting $3.7 billion in revenue this year, and is going to lose $5 billion, according to this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/technology/openai-chatgpt...

So they are currently printing 1 dollar bills at a cost of $2.35 each.
HomePod with display and homeOS to launch next year with Apple Intelligence
But this is just so dismissive of the whole profession(s)

It's like saying I only want 2 sculptures on my garden so we should make a thing that sculpts like Michelangelo because I don't want to learn to sculpt for only two statues.

This is why we have civilization, trade. We can each specialize, master, one thing, then share our surplus for others'.

Why wouldn't you hire someone who can do it on an hour?
Transactions are hard, and in reality there's a shit-ton of things people do that has no right to be close to a transaction (but still are), and transactions were a good imperative kludge at the time that has just warped into a monster that people kinda accept over the years.

A loop is a bad construct imho, something I like far better is the Mnesia approach that simply decides that transactional updates are self-contained functional blocks and the database manages the transactional issues (yes, this eschews the regular SQL interfaces and Db-application separation but could probably be emulated to a certain degree).

https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/mnesia/mnesia_chap4.html
I’m sort of surprised to see someone claiming schizophrenia is subjective. Schizophrenia has extraordinarily pronounced symptoms. It’s like claiming lupus doesn’t exist because there’s no single reliable diagnostic test for it. Schizophrenia has very specific and easily observed symptoms and is specifically affected by medications such as Zyprexa that doesn’t cause similar changes in behavior for people without schizophrenia or psychosis. However that and related medications have horrible side effects leading most patients to avoid taking it. For people who are or have family members ravaged by schizophrenia this is some of the best news you can imagine - a medication with similar beneficial effects on their loved ones but without turning them into zombies. It feels callous to an extraordinary degree to deny the existence of schizophrenia and to not recognize the benefit to a minimal side effect mediation that can give the schizophrenics life back.
Can you believe these “mammals”, burning energy around the clock to keep their blood warm all the time?
I'd add two more:

1. Luck. Plenty of lucky successful people out there. Not to say only luck gets you there, or that luck alone is always enough, but it makes a massive difference.

2. Lack of understanding of risk. Probably not an overall good thing, but a common thing among successful people (IME). Quite often the backstory involves some hideously crazy risks the person took at some point that paid off, but the cost of failure would have been unbearable.
If youre looking to an ascetic lifestyle there are dozens of other people you could reference besides ted.

Alaskan off grid YouTube is a great resource, as are a lot of sustainable off grid tiny home channels.

Theodore kazynskis manifesto alone does irreparable harm to the thesis that any person should look to his deeds or acts as a source of self improvement.
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I do not support in any way the crimes perpetrated by this terrorist.
"breakdown in law and order"

I think we have different fundamental assumptions about what motivates people. "Threat of being punished" isn't a healthy motivator for a society.
> I have yet to visit this misterious universe you describe.

The trick is to have 1 backlog. Tech debt and features live on the same list and it is up to the PM to prioritize. Engineering’s job is to argue cost.

Good PMs will prioritize relevant tech debt or pull it in with feature work in the same area. They understand the tradeoff of go slow to go fast. They also understand when tech debt will never become relevant (because the feature is getting nixed, or hasn’t shown desired impact yet, or because the cost of interest is waaaay lower than the cost of paying it off in many cases).

This only works when engineers have the discipline to look stinky awful code in the eye and say “not today” and stay within agreed timeboxes. You blow this estimate once or twice, get the PM in hot water with leadership, and you’ve lost the trust.
> I am certain they never intended to inspire a 12 year-old kid to find a better life.

i can't speak for everyone, but as one of the people writing tutorials and faqs and helping people learn to do things with free software during the period miller is talking about, that is absolutely what i intended to do. and, from the number of people i knew who were excited to work on olpc, conectar igualdad, and huayra linux, i think it was actually a pretty common motivation

as a kid on bbses, fidonet, and the internet, i benefited to an unimaginable degree from other people's generosity in sharing their learning and their inventions (which is what software is). how could i not want to do the same?

underwritten by the nsf, the internet was a gift economy, like burning man: people giving away things of value to all comers because if you don't do that maybe it's because you can't. the good parts of it still are
I’m glad this author had an endearing experience.

I can’t say that I did. I’d blame “being raised on the internet” as a consistent contributor to a lot of negatives in my life. Certainly, I picked up a lot of the rage from people in the IRC circles I ran with, and like a parrot exhibited it in my personal life. Beyond that, the general degradation of IRL social skills.

I can say my life took a significant upturn once I extricated myself from that community.

I’d say the thing is that the internet is filled with a lot of negative places, filled with people who literally can’t operate IRL. If as a kid you’re sucked into them, it can be detrimental.
Unclear if using microphones to track heartbeat also works when the AirPods are also playing music.
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> My experience at big corporate is that (edit: unmanageable) tech debt is caused by undisciplined and unorganized scrum team.

Yeah, this is 100% correct. I comically left Riot after ~6 months for this exact reason. Obviously it's a large company with many different flavors of teams, and it sounds like this team maybe has gotten it together, but by in large most haven't.

While I was there I was working on some of their core games tooling and felt uneasy about my day-to-day. My teams tech debt was quite literally owning them. Constantly missing sprint scopes, spending countless hours arguing and debating about trivial stuff, it was all a mess. They ended up laying off a number of people from that team in a pretty shifty manner so maybe things have gotten better since then.
We can do that too, or at least mark the low-quality subthreads offtopic (which downranks them). But if we don't take the provocation out of the title, it'll only generate more of the same.
I always liked dune 1 a lot better. The gameplay wasn't as RTS but there was a storyline mixed in (following the book which I was not familiar with). It made it a really cool experience.

Dune 2 was definitely the better RTS though
Done now. Thanks!
https://www.interno.gov.it/it says Italy.
the grid gets to choose how it prioritizes power. if they want too much power at a time the grid doesn't have enough to go around, they're likely fairly early on the cutting block
You give the impression here of having taken something I said quite personally. I hope I may be forgiven for not yet really understanding what or why. Likewise, my responses may be somewhat less on point for the distraction.

The account under discussion is attributed public speech on the Internet. In other contexts, other conventions apply. There are about as many such contexts as there are kinds of relationships between humans. That's about as general as I can really make it.

If you're asking for a recommendation, it would be twofold. First, if a question seems like it might be taken as nosy, try to find a way to reframe it, or don't ask it at all. Second, when someone seems to persistently misunderstand something you're saying or asking in a more personal than professional context, consider that they may be intentionally deflecting a question or subject which they consider inappropriate to address in that setting.
I think you might misunderstand your analogy. If you owe the bank two billion dollars it's their problem because a missing 2 billion dollars is large enough to be painful for the bank.
And unfortunately the website has several entries that are in nature reserves where picking is absolutely not allowed. I mailed the owner of the website to let them know.
Sorry hospitals, these AI jerks have more money! /s