balaji1

Great clips and editing. New perspective on the scale of self driving cars deployed currently.

What if the digital infra that issues the token is state or Federal software? That should significantly reduce privacy concerns?

It is hard to "vote with the wallet" when the chemicals are present everywhere and we hardly know where all it is present - maybe if there is a list of top N most-used/common most dangerous items to avoid - popcorn bags for example.

The RAM being so low is confusing. Given RAM is one of the cheaper components. I guess they do some smart swap memory using SSD - but my Air laptop struggles to run PowerPoint, few browser tabs and video calling at the same time.

> It makes life feel short, fleeting and mundane

I read somewhere else that time speeds up when we repeat a few boring/not-so-stressful things each day.

> reviewing old entries provides a feeling of history that makes life feel soooo long and so rich

I want to agree with it. The more I take on and do, however imperfectly and which involves a bit more stress, it starts to slow down time. At least in the sense that you look back at the previous year and think "wow that was a lot and it seems like so long ago" when it actually wasn't that long ago.

> It makes life feel short, fleeting and mundane

In fact, the key might be to journal more of the mundane things. Like how many times I had to get on a call with the background verification company to speed up my move to the new company.

and from OP article,

> Surprising information comes in droves every single day, so the brain simply paid a lot of attention

how come all the new/surprising info from shorts/reels/tiktok not have a effect of slowing down time haha?

I am not aware of the packaging of regular baling wire. You should be able to source coir twine for cheap from SEA in a packaging you want, assuming baling wire packaging is somewhat standardized. But not sure if you have the bandwidth or worth the hassle.

Any thoughts on jute twine or coir twine? Fully plant based. Jute is probably very similar to hemp.

Would you have been surprised if you did find that plastic mulch is actually shredded plastic? I wouldn't have been. That's the prevalence and abuse of plastic.

In USA, open farm lands are literally covered by huge sheets of plastic.

> but they are first in the line getting reimbursed

Sorry about the incident. Do you mean the health-insurance company tries to get reimbursed? From who? the auto-insurance of the other driver?

basically they are unwilling to admit a mistake and fix a small issue. I have seen a few PMs become super defensive and double down on a decision.

so its good my card that was auto-paying for the Copilot subscription expired

Stretch: it is the kind of thing that exposes a bug the PM/dev-team didn't catch themselves. So maybe they are trying to sweep it under the rug haha.

The product manager was not involved in the decision to mark it "won't fix". Or more likely, even if the PM did see your bug report, the PM doesn't understand the issue.

> Papers, textbooks, tech talks, university lectures

Perfect list. Tech talks, university lectures (recorded videos) are almost as consumable as YT edu-tainment videos. Papers, books and textbooks are accessible but requires more motivation.

To the parent comment (zadokshi), if YT content is education, why don't the biggest creators make 5-10 videos on a topic, back-to-back? 5-10 is minimum for learning, example Coursera content - I'm not even comparing to semester/yearlong coursework at schools. Because there isn't a demand or incentive for that on YT.

Multiple YT profiles is a smart hack! And also, great work on the app!

The YT algo is pretty good - it catches on to what I want to follow and magnifies (ie suggest more content on) that topic. But it never pushes me to educational videos.

I suspect educational videos are best to watch on Coursera. I know people who just open up Coursera and start listening on commutes, etc - instead of infi-scrolling.

The pedagogical (instruction techniques, content structure, etc) aspect in those vids is different. I wonder if there is inspiration for creators/topics from Coursera?

"educational entertainment" videos are way too many, way too popular and binge-able - much more recommended by YT's AI. Actual education are much harder to discover on YouTube.

I have been wanting to build a YT front-end that lets me control how many "new" videos are recommended. New videos are the time-sinks.

Instead this new FE should make me re-watch so I absorb and retain better - maybe thru more Q&A like OP's platoedu or even make me write out some notes. Then I am forced to curate videos and maybe be more productive.

another problem with ML workflow is the difficulty of iteration - takes long to run, etc. - but SWE are super used to iterating quickly

A robot truck could just follow a smaller autonomous vehicle.

Alternatively a drone flying ahead of a truck with cameras could augment the sensing on the truck and extend the sensor range. Deploy the drone(s) from a station on the truck. 2-3 drones per truck for redundancy and charging. Tho maybe drones can not fly at 65mph for long in bad weather.

Exactly, a fold-away/flip-away form factor that doubles as a phone-case might be better.

Hahaha so true. Flying things aren't more abundant and prevalent because there must be insane lobby machinery and regulatory capture around the aviation industry. Plus economics of course.

For example, Zipline[1] is innovating in a part of the world, which wouldn't be possible elsewhere.

[1] https://www.flyzipline.com/

would it be possible to cross the plants the other way? Make the European/Asian ones big and tasty like the American ones. I am sure there are people thinking about this full time and would have much better ideas, but just wondering.

the game is a big trap... why is the post still on the HN home page...

do the European / Asian versions survive and grow in America? Are they being grown?

it is depressing to some, others in a different stage of life might experience gratitude, others hope and clarity, etc. in all aspects of the human condition, there's probably a similar dynamic to the 5 stages of grieving.

tho I agree the popular notion is to > fill each moment/cell with something "meaningful" or "worthwhile".

and I would add, there is pressure to achieve something "unique"

Answering popular questions like the "contrarian question" Thiel poses is a good exercise. Flesh out the answers to a degree you would feel good presenting it in an interview.

it is not a suspicion of false entrants. generally wonder how some of these small competitions are run (tho "Young Animator of the Year UK" would suggest it is reasonable size by now).

how would you avoid an entrant submitting pre-created or even some (obscure) work by someone else?

what are good prizes that incentivizes good submissions? how would you run such small competitions?

Because I think these small competitions could be super interesting for fostering skills among younger folks.

on the other side, what is in it for the organizers? is it best run as a charity?

wonder how the organizers verify that a submission is actually only one person's work

Doing things manually for a while might be natural to some builders/hackers. Customer service is one such example where many builders are willing to go above and beyond. So maybe the OP does not have to read too much into the PG quote.

Also Samuel Johnson "A second marriage is a triumph of hope over experience."

totally unrelated but still, heard this recently ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I may be reading the critiques rather than the original "techno-optimist manifest". Either way, I want to avoid the original article for some reason.

"Optimists" may just be inevitable. But we need a few generations of intentional stewards. We need to engineer resilience and sustainability in our systems. Else we would have to rely on "Apollo missions" in the future (government setting the specific moonshot goals and creating highways to achieve those); rather than on "optimists" inside the macroeconomic structures to achieve those.