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I would argue the Civil War put the nail in the coffin of the Jeffersonian model. The 14th amendment buried the coffin. That's been over 150 years ago, in our "tween years" so to speak. The United States has spent the overwhelming majority of its lifetime under our current model. What I find ironic is the Right abhors Freedom - they don't like people having the freedom to marry whomever they want, they don't like people having the freedom to have sex with whomever they want, and they don't like people having the freedom to be whomever they want. Those are profound freedoms to argue so vehemently against.

When you step back you realize it's not even a "small government" vs. "big government" thing - both sides want a big government. To me it appears the right wants a theocracy and the left wants a secular government. Which means, ironically, it's an argument over religion. Which is supposed to be one of our freedoms, but here we are.
Author here. I could have worded this part better.

I probably bill about 5 hours a day, give or take. The 40 hours I referenced encompasses everything that goes into freelancing including my client work, not just the client work itself.

Work hours seemed an unlikely cause for the burnout to me because I've worked at least that my entire career (and in previous jobs many more hours) without even a hint of burnout. I'll never know the true cause, but I suspect it's a combination of the factors I mentioned in the post.
Or the reverse: today's AI research is missing large components of what would be necessary to achieve sapience. A conversation with Gerald Sussman half a decade ago had a big influence on me in this area:

https://dustycloud.org/blog/sussman-on-ai/

I had some further conversations with Sussman and some other oldschool AI researchers from MIT later, the shortest summary of their comments would be that "We knew that neural nets could do this kind of thing, we didn't have the power to do it yet though. But an artificial intelligence system that can't explain why it's doing what it's doing doesn't seem very intelligent." Sussman and his students' work on propagators provide a very interesting alternative direction where explanations are a key part.

And yes it's true, humans also construct imperfect versions of their own thinking. That's because these systems are combined: the fast gut-feel type neural-network'ish systems and the slower symbolic reasoning systems that are associated with language. And probably the right design combines both of these.

A view into how this might work can be found by first reading Alexey Radul's dissertation on propagators: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/49525

And then on top of that, Leilani Gilpin shows how propagators can be used to analyze neural network systems and create retroactive explanations for decisions that were made: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/lgilpin-PhD-EECS-...
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In comparison, this is some cool student housing: https://copenhagenarchitecture.dk/tietgen-student-housing/

It's a ring. The personal rooms have views to the outside, and the communal spaces open to the inside.
Mark's statement was worded carefully in that he stated access would not longer require your _personal_ Facebook account. I interpreted this to mean you'll still need a Facebook account, but it would be through a Facebook for Work account (although I'm not sure if today these are distinct entities).
I guess we’ll see if zuckerberg can lure enough people into his next digital fiefdom for it to have staying power.

Hardware control seems to be the big money move, especially as advertising is looking less like a money firehose as governments start to catch on to how dangerous it is. A theory I’ve been entertaining is that he’s chosen to execute now in response to Apple & Google’s centralized control over hardware, which was directly and explicitly used to attack facebook’s sole means of funding itself.

If this metaverse bullshit catches on, zuck will have unaccountable control over his users eyeballs, software distribution and competition, and who knows maybe even the industry standard 30% tax. Here’s hoping the antitrust crowd is watching closely. I wonder if that’s why they’re investing mostly in the EU for their workforce vs the US (EU very much wants to be a tech rival to the US after all).
Yes. It was really different.
The government had some restraint in the past about spying on their own citizens. McCarthy and McCarthyism ended up universally condemned, the press felt it was their duty to bring things like watergate to light. Anti war activists could trust the press and courts of law.
Things changed a lot
And that would be a win for me too.

In fact, I'm really just trying to put them between a rock and a hard place so that I win no matter what.

Of course, if that does happen, I expect more people would want to use my licenses...
The place I focus the most is in an airplane.

Maybe as you are saying the presence of fellow tribe, but in this case I know they won't come to talk because we all have the seat belt, and when the is allowed to take it off, it's the social norm to minimise interactions due to the reduced space, people usually keep the norm to enable the corridor just for the staff and trips to the bathroom.

But additionally:

- Being offline, also makes you feel certain no one will interrupt you electronically.

- No one would expect you to get anything done in airplane, and that can feel like a liberation, meaning you can catch up and the time feels "free".

- Timing is programmed, start and end and the food breaks in between are scheduled and announced.

- And the noise inside the cabin combined with noise cancelling headphones, I don't know why, it helps.
Two occurrences would actually be much more than one! Our own existence is useless due to observer selection, but discovery of even a single other independent OoL event nearby would allow us to infer OoL cannot be too uncommon.
Totally agree with this. Subtitles and a good contrast are very important for me. On many games, with the basic contrast settings, I can't see much.
Just curious, what BIOS images are you building?
This is really difficult when a large part of the population is either apathetic or actively sympathetic to the policies of these insane people.
The IP you connect to could host 1000 sites. Leaking which one you're actually accessing could be important.
Munger also did the same thing for the University of Michigan's graduate residence building^; 95% of the rooms have no windows.

^ https://housing.umich.edu/residence-hall/munger/
At this point is looks like a landing page to collect email addresses. Please submit again when it's ready to be tried out https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Wow this is an idea by Warren Buffett’s business partner? I thought he was widely respected but this indeed seems like a monstrosity.

Why would he put his name and legacy on it? There must be another side to the story, though it’s hard to imagine what.

Wikipedia mentions that he has done this at University of Michigan too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Munger#Architectural_w...

https://observer.com/2019/05/warren-buffett-vp-charlie-munge...

It's hard to imagine what "windowless" has to do with encouraging new ideas. It feels more like a cost-cutting measure.
> I don't like the tone of naming the company then basically sticking two fingers up at them "look at me now".

That’s true, me neither…
It looks like a prison. Maybe worse. I think prison cells still have a small window (at least what I have seen in media). Totally crazy.
Do yo know why this is the case? Due to integrated peripherals? Or is there something particularly incompatible about the ARM architecture?
This design isn't even in the same field as American fire codes. I don't know any jurisdiction in the country in which this could get permitted, certainly not California.

The usual expectation is total time for a fire to cause an alarm, all occupants of a building to respond to an alarm, and make their way to a fire rated area, usually a stairwell, is 2.5 minutes.
Glad he had the balls to step down and call them out. The other committee members and people in charge of the project should be embarrassed as they failed to represent the best needs of the university and its students.

Windowless dorms, crazy 97 year old billionaire amateur architect and a bunch of corrupt university staff and committee members who would do anything to save a few bucks. What could go wrong? Humanity at its finest.
> there was no immediate need for it.

You are incorrect. See the original design document [1] for skin tones and other diversity improvements, especially the "Sources of input" section.

[1] https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14172r-emoji-enhancements.p...
If anything, there's a oversupply of VC money right now. You can get funding for incredibly whacky ideas. There's just not enough good ideas for the amount of money available, so it's sloshing into anything and everything.
In the eyes of rightwingers even building code is literal communism.

On a side note, I wonder if the billionaire apllies own ideas on himself, or is he a "special exception".
Was still a breakaway hit.
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I wonder what made it stop. Just centuries of regional specialization that were quickly wiped out when long distance bulk trade went away when the Roman Empire collapsed?
>Comparing hardware, with a fixed cost of about $300 to a free online service isn't exactly a valid comparison.

Zuckerberg has previously said that he wants Facebook to "effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.” So while I definitely see where you're coming from, the intent here seems to be, in the longer term, to transition FB users from mobile/desktop use and into an AR/VR environment in one form or another. With that in mind, it's valid to acknowledge Oculus sales numbers relative to FB MAU numbers.
I support social services to help these people. Welfare, housing, medical care, the works. And I feel I'm far to the left of what almost any Democrat would ever propose to help those the worst off.

But i do think society should be designed to minimize where they can do drugs, and where delinquents have sex in public.

And I do not think those who own private property open to the public for commerce should be burdened with their sleep, sex and drug spots. Not their problem. It's not the problem of a small business owner that someone had trauma and then made some bad choices in life and need to mod off in their restroom or sleep in the doorway or their restaurant
Appropriate long drink to match the long read: https://imbibemagazine.com/recipe/the-bicycle-thief-cocktail...
To a university, undergraduate students are kind of accessories, so it fits. The real money is in research grants and maybe athletics (although nobody seems to agree whether they cost more than they bring in).
Classic example of somebody becoming rich and thinking that makes them an expert on everything and the most qualified to solve any problem they cast their mind to. See also: just about every other billionaire on the planet.
> but in practice with UNIX socket, you have issues like "which instance owns the socket", "how are the requests distributed", "how does an instance know the current handler died"

While bus-based publish-subscribe paradigm may have some merit in desktop setting, for direct control the client-server is much more straightforward, and in this case these answers are easy. Each instance owns one socket, if there are multiple instances and not a default one, a client needs to know which to connect to (as they are generally not interchangable), and even if they are, a client can just enumerate sockets and open the first alive.

> "how to serialise and version the remote requests"

These issues are irrelevant for connection-oriented and reliable unix sockets.

> Dbus solves a lot of that without (effectively) designing your own custom underspecified version of half of dbus.

Not really. Connection-oriented client-server solution is just much simpler that dbus and offers some advantages like implicit state associated with connection. Dbus makes things much more complicated and then solves some of these complications.
8 people, 2 cans, and a kitchen sink. Guess what happens next!

Answer: you pee out the window (because someone is already using the sink)
Good news, Nvidia has granted upon thee a driver that might actually work with Wayland
I don't quite get why people ask for a dark mode in websites. I've been using "Dark Reader" on Chrome[0] for a long time ib all websites, without them offering a dark mode, to the point these requests, or even websites announcements of their "dark mode" have become "meh" for me.

- [0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadp...
There is power... in the union...
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Steal documentation that showed in no uncertain terms that the security apparatus of the US government had abandoned any remaining respect they had for civil rights and the law.
A lot of trucks run company cards for fuel. So slightly cheaper fuel isn't a differentiator.

Better food, showers, and restrooms are. ;)
FWIW, this is the university’s press release, titled “Absolutely stunning”, about the dorm: https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2021/020361/absolutely-stunning
By all means, open the door to your home, hero.
I do not own an iPad. Also... do you really have to? I haven't used an iOS in a little bit now.

Apple is hardly the model for technology we should be using these days. Their walled garden has rotten fruit and it doesn't even get you drunk, you simply fall ill.
> This gives us MAGMA

Best pronounced as Dr. Evil does in the first Austin Powers movie
I assumed it is $14k/core as for the standard edition it is quoted "Standard - per core". It is a weird for me that in the same table the number above is not per core. Yet you know much better than I do, so I will take your number: $7K/core.

Thank you for sharing so interesting data on the usage. This is very surprising to me, though. At least coming from my background (company providing Postgres Professional Services) we see much bigger deployments usually.

In any case, I expect servers to have replicas for high availability. So even an 8-core server would count for a total of 16 or 24 cores for a 2-3 node cluster, isn't it? And then this multiplied by the number of clusters that you have.

Some of our customers run 1,000+ cores on a single cluster. Or some others which run dozens of clusters, where each cluster is 3 nodes, with nodes in the range of 16 or 32 cores. That all adds to thousand-plus cores and arriving to the 6-7 figures (list price) that I was referring to. It may be surprising to me that in the SQL Server world deployments are significantly smaller. But very useful information!

What I believe is that for sure there's a very interesting use case here. AFAIK Amazon always makes decision based on customer requests and data they have. They have both Postgres and SQL Server on RDS. And if they created Babelfish and published it as a managed service, it's probably because there are a significant number of customer requests. Whether that is licensing savings, license/compliance uncertainty or anything else, I don't know for sure.
Were those days so early, backups weren't mandatory yet?
> small single rooms with common areas in general

This is fine; the problem with Munger's design is that most of them don't have windows.
>I would argue the Civil War put the nail in the coffin of the Jeffersonian model.

I would think the Civil War certainly started the move from Jeffersonian to Hamiltonian, but that is one of the oldest arguments of the design of the country (thus why each theory is given its father's name.). I think the pendulum moved back towards Jeffersonianism after reconstruction. I've heard the Civil War called essentially the prototype of the world wars, and I can see that. I feel WWI really started the movement back towards Hamtonianism with Wilson in earnest. It's been a long road though.

>is the Right abhors Freedom

I would argue both political parties abhor freedom, it's just different freedoms. To only see (or support) one party curtailing freedoms while ignoring the other really supports that system. Political parties weren't in the original design and cropped up as a power grab during Washington's administration. They've hijacked power ever since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_Farewell...
NYC has a law that for a room to be legally called a bedroom, it must have a window that's not on a lot line. I can't believe California doesn't have a law like that.
I tried the Surface Go 2, and it would indeed be a better option. However it's terrible as a drawing tablet (the reason I looked into tablets), and I just can't deal with Windows anymore. After spending a whole day (including several hours of looking at the update screen) making Windows halfway usable, I decided to just return it.
For a company that wants to "effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company", 5 million still really pales in comparison to FB's MAU count.
And we are subsidizing this hubris project with a massive tax break for Charles Munger.
A massive network of cross-site tracking and a terrible track record for protecting personal information.
Fair point, you don't want those transactions hanging around.
Still, I prefer it to the alternative.
So... did this billionaire get rich by selling anti depressants?

I'd understand this as his cunning plan to get richer then.
Much of the US has similar requirements, that any bedroom has 2 egress points. One of those points is usually a window, the other the door to the rest of the building.

Idk how real estate works for large-scale dorm-blocks, but in my town, this would have to be listed as effectively a building full of storage closets.

Starting to smell misinfo on this...
This is not what begs the question means.
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Idk if you can say that. Using Wayland may very well give better UX after all.

My prob with Wayland is more like, as shitty and 80s X may be, it's the one stable API that almost all F/OSS desktop apps and quite a couple highly specialized apps are developed against. The risk is loosing it all, especially as new desktop aren't coming in this millennium.
UploadVR asked Andrew Bosworth directly. https://uploadvr.com/quest-2-unlinking-facebook-accounts/

Quote: We asked Bosworth directly if we could unlink and delete our Facebook accounts from Quest and still keep our software purchases, to which he simply replied: “Yup”.
Fair point, and I agree. Missed that part of your comment above.
I think the best thing about the toilet in the video you linked is that there are cleaning supplies in every room!

I don't think there's anything dehumanizing about cleaning up shit and piss. If you've ever cared for children or elderly people you quickly get used to it. But it's hard to clean up a mess with just toilet paper!

It's also natural that toilets get a bit dirty. If lots of people use them, they just get dirty, even if everyone is considerate. You don't deep clean toilets after every use.

But if there are cleaning supplies available, every toilet user can clean the toilet to their own standards before use! I'd love that!
It would seem that the next logical experiment is to take Miller-Urey as a given, throw a perfect blend of polymer chains into the "soup," and see if they can start forming RNA chains. I thought I had read about such an experiment, but I can't find a reference to it now. Anything coming up in Google for me is being obfuscated by this recent study, and mRNA COVID vaccine stuff.
1.68-million-square-foot structure that would house up to 4,500 students, 94 percent of whom would not have windows in their small, single-occupancy bedrooms.

Why am I not surprised that Charles "The-most-important-thing-is-getting-your-first-100000-dollars. Work-multiple-jobs-skip-meals-do-what-you-have-to-that's-the-investing-entry-fee-to-wealth" Munger architected a large prison for students?
> Obviously, 20% salt is a lot of salt, I think you can't use that much for many other kinds of fermentation (e.g. vegetables), because the product would be inedible.

For vegetables, you have lactofermantation that can make you attain a low pH.
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This was not a comment on who is or could be better workers. I was simply pointing out what has traditionally worked, and that it's been pretty successful. Also I think your boxing this in to the context of the article by referring to the first six months (and that's fair to do) but I wasn't (I should have made myself more clear).
He was also openly gay and used women's rights as a big talking point. In the sense that the far right is a taint, he was tainted; in the sense that it's an entire set of political beliefs, he didn't fit neatly into that box.

This kind of black-and-white thinking also applies to Assange and WikiLeaks, and has had the unfortunate effect of removing his support from both the left (because of the Guccifer leaks) and the right (because of the Collateral Murder leaks).
We always have a hard time figuring out how to define our source of truth and which tables/graphs to use for measuring our KPIs. Definitely going to reach out about using Secoda... would save us a lot of number wrangling during our weekly syncs.
Would Facebook be physically prevented from ever accessing or linking to data on the Metafacebookulus account, ad vice versa?

If not, sounds like a Facebook account by another name.
Squid game look less unrealistic after reading this.
Jesus FUCK that's a horrible idea. My neighbor is a maintenance guy for a sober living complex and he has talked to me about maintaining these kinds of high density environments, and this seems like a nightmare scenario just waiting to happen.

Also, just emotionally, this can't possibly work. There's no way to succeed in such a high pressure environment like those college years with so little space and so little privacy.

This reminds me of that Black Mirror episode where they ride the exercise bikes and earn credits and watch advertisements 24/7.
The worst part is: "The entire proposal ... is budgeted somewhere in the range of $1.5 billion.". So the guy is covering only 13% of the cost and gets complete control.
Could be acceptable for few years if rent was extremely cheap. There is lot to trade if living like this would cost less than a hundred a month.
Reminds me of the below the waterline cabins that cruise ship staff share. Has anyone looked into the mental health of people already living in similar conditions?
This is awesome, I'm always looking for more competition in the distributed actor model/system space.

So now we'll have Akka, Elixir, Erlang and Swift as options. Pretty exciting!

edit: Rust's Actix too!

edit2: jk Actix is only local.
See, this is what I mean about there being a lot of misinformation out there. That £37 billion wasn't handed solely over to any one company - political opponents of the current government kept on falsely claiming that it was all given to Serco, but in reality only a small fraction of the Test and Trace spending went to them: https://fullfact.org/health/test-trace-march-2021/ (I think most of the money that went to Serco was ultimately spent on employing the numerous call center staff required to actually scale up manual contact tracing too.)
Have I misread it, or is TFA claiming that this building is going to cost 1.5 Billion Dollars to house 4500 students? Over $300,000 for each "nice looking" prison cell ?!
How did this pass any sort of litmus test? Putting 4500 stressed out kids, for whom many this dorm will represent their first extended away from home experience, in small windowless cells? Modern building codes were created, in part, precisely to avoid this type of design.