skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The poster you're replying to still has the cause vs effect right. That gets encoded into law because that's what a lot of people want. The law follows the demand - people know that there are developers out there with far more money to throw around then they have, so they fight money with law.

So when you get densification in US cities, it happens in districts that were formerly industrial/commercial only - where people aren't giving up the form of their existing neighborhoods - or in poor areas with little political organization.

(There's also a TON of underutilized land in industrial/commerical only districts in most US cities, so the focus on single family home zoning when all those lots are already there and similarly "underutilized" is foolish. Even if you abolished zoning overnight, a big industrial or commercial property is going to be much easier to acquire than a bunch of individual home lots.)
Even non-long distance friends it's been a great way. The pandemic reinforced that. I had friends start playing games they never did before and I even started playing some I hadn't so we could socialize.
Not in SpaceX’s case. The satellites are in low enough orbit to deorbit themselves naturally if they fail, although they do so faster if using onboard thrusters at end of life. Any debris caused by failure is also likely to deorbit quickly. Not true for higher orbits, like 800km or above.

As far as being visible to sensitive telescopes, that is true, but also not surprising. Telescopes are designed to detect really faint things, so even though Starlink is now almost always darker than the visible limit once fully deployed in operational orbit, it can still show up in sensitive astronomical surveys.
I upgraded from XS to 12 as well, interestingly I didn't see any improvements over cellular reception aspect.

I paid for a Verizon Premium data plan, however whenever started downloading a large file, the 12 will immediately switch from 5G to LTE, need to mention the heat dissipation is significantly higher on the 12 as well.

To me the 5G is just a display gimmick, at least for now.
The main value Facebook ever had to me was a way to reach people that were otherwise hard to reach. Over the years, literally every other possible benefit eroded away as the platform changed.

Therefore, I make sure people I care about know how to reach me outside Facebook so that it really does not matter if I log in to Facebook. In other words, I no longer need it even to reach people.
Attaching property wrappers to function arguments
Everyone says they don't want to switch to Linux because they don't want to learn a new UI. That's why you do it once so you're not forced to with the next Windows update. I'm typing this on a machine with the same WM config I had on my first laptop 17 years ago.
I am not familiar with these groups, being rather new to the whole thing, but I would love to find them!
We have cpus with lots of pins, nobody is stopping ram from switching to a cpu socket layout..
while (node) {
value += node->value;
next = node->next;

So it is the same thing.
These days the Palm V would be the hipster choice :)
Yeah same for me. Seen it being used for npm and friends and been wanting some for Go too, for a long time now! I love graphs and dependency monitoring!
Tweet from the story's subject: https://twitter.com/JoshuaBarbeau/status/1418452459744280577

This is a true story of how I used A.I. to simulate a conversation between myself and my dead fiancée, Jessica.

News outlet: @sfchronicle

Writer: @jfagone

Made possible using Project December, a gpt-3 chat-bot engine created by @jasonrohrer
Billions wiped from Chinese education companies; Beijing suggests banning profit
In languages with a compilation step, this is true but a side effect. Really, what "const" denotes is an association between a name and a value (ie a binding, in this case an assignment, although there are other kinds of binding such as naming positional arguments in a function signature) which has to be performed when the name is declared, and which cannot be changed once made. (Hence for example in Javascript why properties of an unsealed object can still be modified even via a const binding - what's immutable isn't the value, but the association of that value with the const-declared name.)
For ID by song, does Merlin sacrifice any accuracy by being offline?
Something that might surprised some people is that there are far more species of "moths" than species of butterflies. It is just that it is more difficult to find them during the daytime. It seems likely that the day-active butterflies evolved from nocturnal animals, which I found surprising when I learned that from an expert.
This sounds conspicuously like an Intel NUC, I think?
It's not really crazy.
Parrots can like or hate you. That's why they can be a terrible pet.
PC World posted a teardown video last night. It makes working on any other laptop look like a chore.
Privacy and most other things are always an afterthought for closed software.
I don't know, but my guess:

Apple Exec: "Build an external display for the iPhone and/or iWatch."

Apple Engineers: "Ok, but we will need a GPU built into the display or it'll look like shit. It'll also need a lot of RAM/SSD to store textures, etc. Additionally, a high bandwidth, low latency wireless connection between the iDevice and the display (e.g. UWB)."

Previously to support an enormous external display the iDevice would need to have a large GPU, battery, etc that are mostly unused except for when the display is "active". With a GPU in the display, the iDevice just needs good enough data transfer rate to get textures and stuff over to the display, meanwhile events like mouse movement, or open an app, or switch apps can be very low latency instructions sent from the iDevice to the display and vice-versa.
Angels on a Pin (1968) [pdf]
I love OpenSim so much. I wish it had a bigger community!
The 'intolerant minority' is a very interesting and surprisingly useful concept.
Grandparent claimed that something done in excel by one person in a week takes a team of five and half a year to reimplement in some other language. I disagree with that as a general rule (of course, exceptions may apply, as usual).

I fully agree that Excel is great for quick drafting, visualizing data quickly, and prototyping. But it should be left there. Anything you do that lasts even overnight and has any significant numbers in it should be done with something else than Excel.
I'm guessing it's to go along with a DaaS (desktop as a service), like the recently announced windows 365.
> I know that games aren’t all stimulating paragons of human social connection, but it feels as if something exciting is happening. There’s more mushing together to arrive at new digital forms that emphasize interaction rather than passive reading, watching or listening.

Social gamification could be the name. So, name it, and then ban it before all our lives become a rat wheel with micro transactions that trigger micro dosis of endorphins. Facebook likes or Twitter shared are still coarse approaches at what it can become.
By this logic, FAANG is best positioned to every tech innovation because they have the resources and know-how to pursue it.

I think it's a dangerous line of thinking as the power these company wields absolutely corrupts their governance. Sure they give us cool toys, and they have the marketing budget to make sure know it, but real talk: we need restrictions on their ability to dominate every area instead of cheerleading the horizontal economies of scale that erode our privacy, kneecap the next generation of startups, and consolidate power in ever smaller group of global corporate oligarchs.
To me, VR is really cool. I wouldn't want to give it up. It functions as a game console with a different input/display device. I'm not too keen on the metaverse concept, and I don't use it for social stuff.
If you hit the Pepsi button and get Pepsi, you know it's random, so the random button has to be Coke (and Coke gives Pepsi). So picking the Pepsi button first still works in two tries - you either get a Coke all the time, get it randomly on the first try, or figure out which button gets you Coke.
A Man Is Rescued from a Bear After He Writes 'SOS' on a Shack
> I'm surprised how negative the comments here are

Honest discussion about Facebook on tech-centric forums is nearly impossible these days. Facebook and Zuckerberg are favorite villains in the tech discourse in 2021. I don't agree with everything Facebook has done, but the vitriol directed at Facebook has become so disconnected from reality that it's getting hard to take it seriously.

> this still does seem like a very well thought-out and aggressive long-term mission that is worthy of being pursued,

I agree. Once you get past the anti-Facebook hyperbole, it's interesting to read about where they're headed next. They have a lot of excellent engineers and a lot of revenue, so I'll be keeping an eye on where they invest their R&D spend.
And we've gone full circle: objective analysis, facts, longform journalism, etc. are now what "appeals to conservatives".
Arguably they added that "feature" as a "preview" for 11's new take on Vista's (rarely used) Widgets panel (that moves Live Tiles from a place they are useful if configured right and get increasingly rare developer support to a place that pretty much guarantees their death), as all the junk in the Widgets panel that's not the dying Live Tiles seems to be the same junk news stuff in the annoying 10 "weather popup".
Url changed from https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/fa..., which points to this.

There was also:

Zuckerberg on why the social network is becoming ‘a metaverse company’ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27921327 - July 2021 (15 comments)
Oracle cloud egress goes from $0.0085 USD to $0.025 USD (depending on the zone) and the first 10 TB are free.

It's quite good; too bad their cloud services are quite bad.
"Do I have a crew to help me?" had me laughing out loud.
Ye, they really don't like people who think at marketing departments.
Buffett Indicator: Is the Stock Market Overpriced?
GMail is still SMTP and IMAP compliant. One can simply switch the client. Not as good from the privacy perspective, but takes minimum effort.
I imagine for that reason all space activities involving any significant amount of mass will be conducted under the strict control of a military, or pseudo-military hierarchy. And also as part of a world polity as such control proliferates since even one crazed defector out of say a 1000 such ‘rocket engine controllers’ could destroy civilization on Earth, preventing any possibility of defection would override all other goals.

A future where the equivalents of ‘Steppe nomads’ could throw around significant of mass would be a future where every habitable planet and fixed space facility would be slagged in short order, i.e. even more unstable and untenable.
Right. But then you’re hoping the kidnapper doesn’t notice you? Which means they’re not there? Which means you could just shout. And how can you use the light switch if you’re (presumably) tied up anyway? Alexa?
T-Mobile has been playing this game like "fasted LTE in the US", "fasted LTE in US cities" for almost 10 years..

Ironically T-Mobile employees working in their Factoria HQ cannot get T-Mobile reception near their homes in Sammamish.
On the way to Virtuaverse's¹ idea of permanent reality?

__________

1. https://www.gog.com/game/virtuaverse
So the solution is to write assembly for an extremely common micro-architecture design. Maybe the compilers should provide more tools to exploit such parallelism. That asm block looks like a weird hack.
yeah, sure, Mark, I'll believe in this "unprecedented interoperability" when I can follow someone on Facebook using an open standard like RSS without having an account, and when I can have my personal Wordpress site auto-post to my personal Facebook account.

I'll believe in this "unprecedented interoperability" when you're not constantly trying to get me to pay a ransom to have my posts shown to people who have said they wanna follow me, either.
Yeah, in the US you often get declared historic but there’s a fund to help pay for things but it’s entirely underfunded and so you’re stuck with the costs or ignoring the problem or just jury-rigging something unofficial.
The monitor could also have retained state (based on the pre-fetching of textures, etc as you said), so the majority of time the display and iDevice are sending small, low latency packets for mouse movement, or clicks, and periodic bulk transfers of data to sync files, etc.
The problem is what is the premise of this metaverse.
I will be data collection for FBs core business.
Imagine something like Horizon for Oculus in big, a virtual world observed and controlled by FB.
Before Sky Net we will get the Matrix.

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I read about 6-8 books at any time and I'm having a problem forcing myself to focus on one book. I'm also enrolled in about 5 different online courses trying to learn everything. I hardly get anything done.

I used to be able to "multitask" when I was in my early 20s and I got a lot of stuff done which resulted in my fast career progression and overall I noticed my knowledge about everything grew. The more I learned the easier it became to learn new things since pretty much everything is derived from something else, the concepts are quite similar. It doesn't take much to connect the dots.

But the "multitasking" had its peak and gradually became worse when I entered my 30s and now I'm 36 and I have to struggle to finish a book (or a course) and I hate myself for it. Whatever progress I make in one sitting that's more or less it. Every time I start reading a book, I immediately think about another book I could read. I have more kindle books, paper books and audiobooks than I will ever have time to finish and yet I can't stop myself from buying more.

It's a real struggle focusing on one thing and finishing it. I know some people prefer the freedom of doing multiple things at once but I think it's a trap and that freedom will eventually come at a price of attention disorder. The more things you do, the more things you want to do and with everything being immediately available these days, it's not that hard to get trapped in a vicious circle.

Perhaps my fault is that I used to read to complete an achievement and I did it for a very long time and somewhere along the way I forgot to read for pleasure; much like I listen to music or look at paintings.
It's not solely isolated to funding. Baltimore is the 3rd highest per-student spender in the US, and has terrible outcomes.

I don't doubt that funding is part of it, but there's definitely some more nuance to it.
I think we can keep the same term and socialize the term so it is more acceptable to those that might have a stereotype in their mind. Socialization via playing a game with friends goes back really far into human history I would imagine. Video based games are a different medium but the interactions are similar.

It would be great for that journalist to do some deeper research on demographics of people playing games and if there are correlations with demographics and what types of games and platforms. I am going to guess there is a large untapped market for socialization capable games that aren't shooter/killer/conqueror types of games.
The Google Graveyard gets all the attention but Facebook has built and retired more clones of existing products and attempts to break into other people's moats than anyone can remember.

Investing in "metaverse" is just ticking a sub-category box after they've already ticked off "VR" with their Oculus acquisition. It's doubtful that all the money they have to burn on this boondoggle will actually go anywhere.
Has anyone seen companies working to solve the real world to NFT secure translations?

Gartner talks a bit about it here:
https://blogs.gartner.com/avivah-litan/2021/04/25/think-you-...

There are some folks tracking the incorporation of non blockchain native assets into NFTs:
https://www.coindesk.com/nfts-can-bring-the-real-world-on-ch...
I downloaded the app and tried to fool it with whistled bird songs. It correctly identified the species as "Human - Homo Sapiens - Likely".
Android used to let you administrate your devices and it was easy to do stuff like this.
I think it's a rare practice right?

"... the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training."

I must be a genius. I'm sooo bored at my software dev job.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...
Outsiders. They don’t want anyone wandering around.
Let them serve lattes ? to rephrase an unfortunate quote from France
I was recently forwarded a big comment thread from a while ago on that site where a bunch of people I haven't talked to for like 5-8 years were figuring I blocked them when really I just deleted my account a long while back¸ which was pretty funny.

I didn't bother reaching out to correct this at all. I think I value the ability to keep people who think their time is best spent staring into nightmare rectangles and pretty much just gossiping their way into hell experience out of my life, and the people who aren't into that as much in.
If they put half as much effort into eliminating real scams as they do in eliminating proven useful software, what a different platform it would be.
I would go back to Gerard K O'Neill who didn't indulge in the full-fledged transhumanism of Timothy Leary, et al. (e.g. if you're grown-up you don't need personal immortality)

I think Mars is for the birds, cutting up a carbonaceous or wet asteroid to construct a solar-sail factory that can deliver sunshades to earth-sun L1 is a more interesting project. Something halfway to Niven's ringworld seems like a possible endpoint. (see https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07487)

As I see it the problems are half chemical engineering, half "building a ship outside a bottle from the inside of the bottle" and half "what do you do with the gas before you take the asteroid apart?"

You might wind up with a structure that can hold a few trillion people, but you start with maybe 40 hardcore Zeons and a few million eggs because I don't see how you build and operate the factory or the factory factory with a 20 minute time delay.
Because he was clever enough to realize that it didn't matter.
I have absolutely found this too. On days I don't want to lift after a run, I just make myself start one set. And then I usually get going and do my whole routine. Of course, that fails on days I don't run at the gym (like today...)
My beef with them is more recent. Specifically, with their recent "We Love Linux" push, they are trying to kill it entirely on the desktop via the use of WSL, and now via threatening to make boot restrictions mandatory.

Half of the magic of Linux is being able to run it on bare metal. Microsoft is acting against that.
TDM is good because you can use it as a monitor long after you've stopped using it as a computer.

My worry with embedding an A13 or whatever is that it will require an Apple device to do anything or a bunch of hackery to make it work on a non-Apple device. Previous Apple monitors were already sometimes a PITA to get running with non-Apple stuff. It just ends up with more ecosystem lock in and that's not needed from a probably $1000+ monitor.
> I read it. It’s clearly decades out of date. The specter of species-ending nuclear war was not ended by utopian visions of cooperation… it was the triumph of capitalism, not the ending of capitalism, that arguably coincided with the massive reduction in risk of nuclear war.

Last I checked, the threat of nuclear war is not over. Sure it doesn't seem as likely today, but the bombs still exist and if our current prosperity was to halt, it seems their use would become more and more probable. By capitalism do you mean globalization? I agree governments have lost much of their power due to how powerful current corporations are, which was enabled by technology that allowed globalization. So there is less incentive for war nowadays. However when things get though.. cue all the impending changes that climate change will bring... I'm not so sure the threat won't reemerge.

> Overpopulation is no longer a threat in most of the world.

It seems overpopulation is as much of a problem today, as it was back then. It is not mentioned directly, but every time you hear about global warming, water scarcity, over-fishing, the great pacific garbage patch, etc. All of these things are problems of scale. Or do you believe that with 100 thousand humans we would have these problems?

I agree with the oil, but also notice your omission of pollution. As for the larger point of resource depletion, I'm not so sure we are any better than we were in 1980.

Overall I think you are missing the forest for the trees. The purpose of the paper is to highlight how our behaviors are selected for a past when they were beneficial, but currently we are changing our environment at an increasingly faster rate due to technology (and this is the point of the von Neumann paper also). Our methods for dealing with the problems that arise are not good enough.
Can no longer edit, but I should add troll accounts to that list as well.
Judge OKs $85 mln settlement of Facebook moderators' PTSD claims
I "predict" two strains of comments:

How this is way different from Tesla's batteries catching fire for some reason (Tesla's "obviously being worse")

Fight club was right all along!
Options Trading Renaissance Is Upon Us
Old previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1866305
Sun gear has REALLY jumped in price, especially the early 32bit SPARC stuff. I had a BUNCH of them in the mid 2000's, an IPX, SS10, SS20, Ultra1, and a beautiful full stack LX with CD-ROM and two external hard drives. Sold them all on over the years--now ONE machine is worth more than all I sold combined. I recently had a hankering for another Sparc and settled on a SunFire V100 because it was reasonably priced and I wanted to avoid buying a 13w3 monitor and Sun-Keyboard at the upper price range they are going for. Still a very capable server and it scratched my big-endian itch for the time being.
Institutional Authority Has Vanished. Wikipedia Points to the Answer
We always ran most load in our own data centers with the ability to transparently shed load into AWS for large peaks. It saved a lot of money.
There are many kinds of internships that can be considered good I think. And it also partly depends what your goals and/or aspirations are.

Types that come to mind that I would consider good:

- Big brand names (like FAANG or some Unicorn/Big N type) => helps with getting jobs in the future

- Place where you can learn a lot, most likely either a company where you can get a lot of hands-on mentorship, or startups where you get to actually ship things and work on a team just like any other member => helps with actually learning how to build software

- Something really specific to a industry/field/niche that you are interested in => helps to explore what you really like and want to do in the future

For best "outcome" you will likely want to do multiple with a some combination of those. Of course best situation would be to get to combine all of those.

As cliche as it may sound, I wouldn't consider money too much. It's more important to learn and get experience, the big bucks are anyways made after internships in full-time work.