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It's obviously sad that an animal was killed in an accident, but the outrage towards Waymo and media coverage definitely seems disproportionate given statistical context, and I was pleasantly surprised that the article made efforts to point that out rather than dogpiling on Waymo.
past the paywall: https://archive.ph/Axj2B
Valve / Steam presumably has good data on what controllers and peripherals people are using, so I'd imagine their port choices are based around that. Here's a June 2024 post talking about Steam Input and controller market share: https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail... . At the time of the post they say "59% of sessions are using Xbox controllers, 26% are using PlayStation controllers, 10% are on Steam Decks"
https://archive.ph/BBbtH past the paywall
past the paywall: https://archive.ph/pIEgu
This is one thing I've been wondering about AI: will its broad training enable it to uncover previously covered connections between areas the way multi-disciplinary people tend to, or will it still miss them because it's still limited to its training corpus and can't really infer.
If it ends up being more the case that AI can help us discover new stuff, that's very optimistic.
room presence detection has been a long standing challenge in the smart home / home assistant community. it's cool to see home assistant used and adapted for this use case.
It's been somewhat surprising Twitter has remained as highly available as it has been despite all the firings. It makes me wonder what the cause of this outage was, for being a relatively short one. Is it a sign of things to come, or just unusually high activity related to the ongoing Israel/Palestine crisis?
I thought it was an interesting read and it would be interesting to hear a summation of why you left the industry.
It also made me consider the possibilities for a sort of vertically integrated debt collection company. Someone that's had a debt sent to collection is possibly a good candidate for financial literacy education, credit rehabilitation, debt consolidation and refinancing etc. Can debt collection serve as a sort of loss-leading subsidiary for a bigger business that provides financial literacy and services to people that need it?
CA will make money if home prices increase from current highs due to supply constraints and if owners sell triggering the capture IIRC. CA now has a +$300m financial stake in that outcome. $300m is probably peanuts compared to the upside of addressing the CA housing crisis and enabling more CA GDP growth but it's also not nothing.
IANAL but wouldn't a judge look at that and just say it's wage fixing with extra steps?
There's a fun trashy sci-fi novel I read years ago about how potentially devastating it would be if a plastic-eating microbe got loose: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2368220.Mutant_59
It reads like a summer disaster movie, entertaining but mostly forgettable. What was interesting about the book was as a thought experiment about the use of plastics in critical infrastructure and how much of a nightmare plastic-eating anything could be.
Yeah, I'd imagine in many respects he's unqualified to be a good CEO since he, as far as I can tell, essentially stumbled sideways into the role as co-founder. There's the upside of the CEO being a creator themselves but the downside of not having a background in business or necessarily the other qualities a good leader possesses.
Patreon has a great mission though and I can see how it would attract creator-focused team members. There are some impressive Patreon alumni in their own right.
I always thought it was awesome that a company to support creators was creator lead. I came across Jack Conte in 2010 before Patreon existed. He was a music creator on YouTube that made what he was calling Video Songs, songs with each instrument part video'd and mixed together, and selling his music collection through e-junkie at the time. He was one of the first creators I ever financially supported. Some of the videos are still up on YT: https://youtu.be/D2PwVkQBp5o
Despite not knowing Jack personally pretty much everything I've seen from him over the years has reinforced my generally high opinion of him. In this case as well. As lay-offs go Patreon seems to be trying very hard to do right by their employees.
I would never self-host email based on what I saw during the portion of my career as a web hosting Linux sysadmin. At one point I half-seriously offered to pay for Gmail for Business for all our customers out of my paycheck.
Email is THE crucial link in the internet identity chain. It NEEDS to both work always AND be secure. Two things that frequently weren't the case in web hosting.
I relatively recently read a biography on John D. Rockefeller and this reminds me of some of the things Standard Oil did with rail companies to gain a market advantage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil#Monopoly_charges_...
Rabbithole indeed. Here's notes from a meeting of the HoR Judiciary Committee in 1999, "ANTITRUST ASPECTS OF THE OCEAN SHIPPING REFORM ACT OF 1998": http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju62447.000/...
TIL that ocean carriers have apparently been exempt from antitrust laws since ~1916.
I relate to a lot here which is why I wondered about a support group. I've come close to self destructing a number of times but lucked out. I also struggle with depression, anxiety, and substance abuse.
By 7th grade I would ignore whatever was happening in class and read escapist fantasy fiction instead, while I was still bothering to attend school. The same year I decided school wasn't for me and refused to attend. My mother (single parent) didn't really know how to handle the situation, but after a lengthy conflict between us we eventually came to an agreement where I would be dual enrolled in high school and the junior college where she worked. I think roughly half way in to my first year of high school I walked off campus and never came back, and ended up enrolled in junior college full time. I ended up wasting years failing half the classes I enrolled in at the junior college, basically incapable of engaging with higher education. I was fortunately able to launch a career in tech. It began by working as a student assistant in the computer lab and working my way up from there.
I feel fortunate that I was born in the era I was born in and ending up in tech. I can't imagine what my life would have been otherwise without the internet or the tech world. Tech keeps me somewhat engaged and provides financial security which is such a blessing.
Tech also seems to be disproportionately populated with hard working and intelligent individuals, so it's easier to find others to befriend, relate to, and converse with. I've also come to value raw intellectual ability less and value outcomes more, which has been a useful lens to self direct how I engage with others. Telling someone their ideas are bad because $REASONS turns out to be remarkably counter productive, regardless of any factual basis. Unsurprisingly a lot of people don't want to work with someone that thinks they're stupid. I still struggle with how to engage with others though. I've tried acting as an educator but that seems to come off condescendingly, ending back at the same place of no one wanting to work with someone that thinks they're stupid. More often I find myself not engaging, hoping that some people might learn from experience, and otherwise just doing my own thing.
At any rate, thanks for sharing.
I'm currently 35 and I was ID'd as a gifted child, so this paper caught my attention. There's a section that discusses outcomes based on whether gifted children were allowed to skip grades or not, and my personal experience largely matches what is described for what would be my group, the nonaccelerands:
"Several of the nonaccelerands have serious and ongoing problems with social relationships. These young people find it very difficult to sustain friendships because having been, to a large extent, socially isolated at school, they have had much less practice in their formative years in developing and maintaining social relationships. Six have had counseling. Of these, two have been treated for severe depression. If educators were made responsible to ethics committees, as are researchers, such developmentally inappropriate educational misplacement would never be permitted."
I wonder how this group is doing these days. I wonder if the runners of the study ever considered introducing members of this group to the others to form a support group.
There are thousands of interesting people in tech. It's impossible to know of everyone.
Totally! If you aren't familiar with who Jessie or Bryan are yet though I think you're in for a treat. So keeping in mind these are largely impressions from their public personas and I know neither of these people personally...
Bryan is one of my favorite speakers / presenters. Virtually every one of his talks conveys his passion and knowledge for the subject at hand, and it's presented in as much depth as the time allows for and any nuance involved, and Bryan conveys a great sense of humor with little tolerance for BS. Here's a non-comprehensive list of talks Bryan has given from his blog: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/02/03/talks/ .
Jessie, to me, is like the Adam Savage of tech: curious, interested in a ton of different things, a maker and tinkerer, and just a generally hard working huge talent. I love her sense of humor, and she puts content out into the world just to share that with others. Like she got to go tour CERN back in May and shared a bunch of cool stuff from it like this https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/1129845849054253056 which I really enjoyed. If you're on Twitter, I highly recommend following https://twitter.com/jessfraz .
If you have recommendations for other awesome interesting people worth knowing, I'd love suggestions!
I follow Jessie and Bryan both on Twitter and at least with what Jessie has been exploring since she left her last job, this seems like a natural progression.
It trips me out to see other people in the comments that don't know who Jessie and Bryan are. They're legends to me, and I consider myself basically a SRE. I highly recommend following them on Twitter as well as virtually any talk they've given. Just go type their names into YouTube. Steve Tuck doesn't ring a bell for me, but considering the company he's in I want to learn more about Steve.
I'm super interested to see what comes out of this. I think Jessie has a passion for security (also many other things, but it's what comes to mind), and Bryan for debugging (similarly, many other things as well). I think those are really good backgrounds to have when approaching hardware these days, considering the recent security vulnerabilities around speculative attacks on hardware (specter etc.).
Some of the conversations Jessie started on twitter in the past few months raised some interesting questions around open hardware and open firmware, and the problems with proprietary and closed source hardware and firmware.
It sounds like this Oxide project might be in a similar space as https://www.opencompute.org/. I'll be interested to see if they partner at all. I'm also very interested to see what the actual products are, how open any hardware or firmware ends up being, and if this venture is successful, if they end up at the same place as any other major hardware company or if they tread new ground.
I wonder if it would be possible to extend open source software licenses and include morals clauses.
Two things: mods can we get the title updated to reflect the publish year of 2014?
The second is that the codeswarm link in the article is dead. This project on github is the closest thing I can find to any remnant of the project: https://github.com/rictic/code_swarm
Any reason you picked that sensor over others?
This may be of interest to you: https://www.pyinstaller.org/
Hey, thanks for taking a look. This is spot on. Most of the technical questions are aimed at startups / software shops that are hiring for growth / large enterprise companies with tons of IT. They become less relevant if you're the sole IT guy in a non-software shop. There still are a number of questions we feel are relevant to any position that are important to ask such as health care provider, retirement fund, etc. If you have any suggestions for questions to add we'd love to hear them. The removal of questions (ex. the test coverage) we put more consideration into. I think questions like that are valuable to the extent other people find it valuable. Certainly if no one thinks test coverage is a good question to ask then we'd remove it. Thanks for the feedback.
Hey, one of the authors here. While there is some prior art we (me and gravyboat, the other author) felt that this is an improvement upon what's out there, especially the part where it's collaborative with the community as a GitHub repo. With HN hosting the monthly "Who is hiring" threads we'd like to see more companies be more open about these things and realize that quality of life for people in the technical line of work isn't just about what perks the company provides, but also about how painless it is to be an individual contributor.
It's a cliche that we all want to change the world, but there's a bit of truth in it. If as an employee I have to fight against your ancient development environment and painful deployment model to get my code changes into production while being chained to a desk, I probably don't want to work at your company.
If I would have known to have asked these questions I might not have had some of the jobs I've held. My hope is that by sharing some of that experience the junior people can avoid trial by fire in less than optimal work environments by asking the right questions, and that table stakes for companies to attract talent will be to have great answers to these questions.
I frequently joke that Gentoo (really any source based Linux distribution) promotes climate change.