skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location data collection firm admits privacy breach
- "A Course of Higher Mathematics", VI Smirnov.

- "Problems in Mathematical Analysis", Demidovich.

- "Differential and Integral Calculus", Piskunov.

That's what our courses in university followed (first and second year), but also high-school teachers were inspired by as they studied these in university themselves. Smirnov takes you from the "concept of number" into the deep. Piskunov is cool and full of examples, including operational calculus and probability theory. Demidovich is a problems book to exercise your hand.

They are concise and to the point. Smirnov's has five volumes across seven books, though, but they're concise (density of information is high).

These books have examples from physics as well. For instance, I didn't understand enthalpy from my physics course until I read about continuity in Smirnov's book as he masterfully gave an example of discontinuity using enthalpy (phases of water).
Finding gadgets like it's 2015: part 1
Modern C is a nice one, and free to read at

https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02383654
Problem is: those "cells" cost ~$300,000 each. Assuming a break-even at 10 years, that's $2,500/month - more than my mortgage for a 2400 sq ft home on .75 acres with a small forest. At $100/mo, would take 250 years to pay off.
Using Kerberos for Authentication Relay Attacks
What does complexity mean, exactly? How does it demark the line between living and not, is there a threshold, and what is the threshold?

There’s also a lot more interesting stuff going on inside a car, a computer, or the planet earth that is made of rocks, than there is for an individual rock. Our solar system is extremely complex, yet is not alive. So complexity doesn’t seem to mark the line between living and non-living things at all.

Saying life is “complexity” seems reductionist and almost information-free, it doesn’t really explain or even shed any useful light on the difference between living things and non-living things, since there are plenty of examples of high complexity, low-entropy inorganic objects & systems. We can synthesize complexity all day, but we don’t know how to synthesize life yet.
The bigger point is how much of your personal info and psychographic profiling will, one way or another, still make its way to The Company Formerly Known As Facebook, which remains to be seen

Do you think they will just ignore those micro-head-movements when they start A/B testing different stuff on screen to figure out the algorithm that is _you_? Who needs a real, physical Westworld?

I hear the next version might even track retinal movement. So many useful audience-segmenting and personalized targeting capabilities!
Which history shows us tend to be locked or barricaded when they're not supposed to be, or obstructed in some other way, or otherwise unavailable.

Sure, there are other egresses available in principle. Hell, you can sledge-hammer your way through a wall in a pinch. But in any practical sense? Having two primary ingress/egress points is a horrible idea.
You picked a very generic name to beginn with. That's not an accusation but a statement. Intuitively I'd think only a very heavy organization can profit of a generic name and really make it theirs (shift the public eye to connect that word with a product/ brand). So, my action would be to take the opportunity and look for a descriptive AND more unique name for your project. Whatever you do, I wish you good luck for what comes!
Don't know why, but Firefox on my Ubuntu is slow AF. Scrolling pages is just a pain. Graphics acceleration seem to be enabled.. Chrome is buttery smooth though, so no idea how to fix FF
I love parts of it (the small single occupancy rooms), but I'd hate having those common areas right outside every door (especially that TV), one bathroom for 8 people, etc. The odds of at least one inconsiderate jerk (not cleaning, stealing food, being loud, etc.) in every "pod" is probably close to 100%.
I mean, thats a complete lie. Got anything else?
The intention is good behind Metaverse, bring places and people to people, which in theory should create opportunities, but as with the internet this won't entirely work out that way.

This is another uncharted road with a lot of potential for harm and adverse effects. I'm not sure Facebook is qualified to do this.
Really nice work btw!
This reminded me of how the early novels had incredibly long titles that correctly summarized the plot

For example Robinson Crusoe’s title was:

“ The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pirates ”
> I always say, that sort of reasoning leads to us eating shit because billions of flies cannot be wrong (cit).

You didn't make the distinction "is not necessarily" in your first comment. That changes the connotation.
"There's no way to succeed in such a high pressure environment like those college years with so little space and so little privacy."

I lived in Stanford for four of its most overcrowded years... as a junior I lived in an tiny two bedroom apartment that had three people in it, because the university needed to get extra people in and didn't have the space.

Obviously a ton of things wrong with this building, but the idea that this will cause people to have "so little space and so little privacy" ignores the fact that UCSB is in a tremendous housing crunch right now. Adding more housing isn't going to suddenly create a space with little space and privacy... that's the current state of affairs, and more housing will alleviate it. You have to examine this in the context of the university, not in a vacuum.
I lived in a rather small double occupancy dorm room for a couple years of my college career.

It was common to leave your door open if you wanted to socialize, but then close it if you needed some quiet to study.

And there are all types. Some really do need the quiet to concentrate. Some apparently like having others around while studying, like the folk who were in the 24-hour study lounge of the main library at midnight.

The accommodations should cater to all kinds who have different needs.

I do wonder if the tiny bedrooms will have sufficient sound insulation, in the walls, ceilings and floors, and especially the doors. And I wonder if the AC will be sufficient, individually controllable, and always working so that it is feasible to shut yourself up in your room to study.

And also... sometimes you just get tired of your roommates. All it takes is one guy to chews his food loudly to mess things up for everyone else. (No, that didn't happen to me, but my freshman year roommate regularly stunk up the place with weed. Or incense to cover up the weed. Which didn't fool anyone.)
Interesting, most reviews are fine with it.
What are the symptoms you have? is it like feel tired all the time?
What Linux distros do? The comments in the `command` script on macOS indicate that FreeBSD included a separate executable for `command` in 2005. But there's no package in all of Nixpkgs providing a `command` executable and the command-not-found handler for Ubuntu doesn't suggest anything either.

The norm, afaict, is for `command` to be a shell built-in only, and not available as a separate program.
We agree on that. Pick your poison. But it is poison nontheless.
Terrible decision, Oculus is a well known brand, the name is catchy, it has good reputation. So, Facebook decides, let's kill off the brand and replace it with. something completely unknown!
Thanks, it seems very well liked.
If he wasn't sucking at the US Government's teat for funding for SpaceX, tax breaks for Tesla, and evading income taxes then I might admire the guy, but as it is, he's the same corporate grifter in a new set of clothes.
Wow, did not expect those to come in at an 8.8.
"Don't worry, there's plenty of fake windows you could use, oh wait..."
The sunken cost strategy.
It was pretty easy for me to go to most of those websites that the user linked to, and find the Assange headline with very little scrolling, often only the fifth or sixth article down - not "buried under pages", but still a part of equally important news from around the world. Where I couldn't find it a couple of times on the front pages, it was at or towards the top of the "Tech" section, and then only superceded by FB's Meta announcement.
The Birth of the Coalition for Competitive Digital Markets
TLDR: Flash loan publicity stunt to create the illusion of a gigantic whale buying a CryptoPunk. Magnificent scam artist.

Want to really know why? [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/nanexcool/status/1453872924646158336
Students seem to love it. It's a shame that this sole piece of actual data is buried so far down underneath piles of speculative naysaying.
I lived in a building like this at Cornell University. The building was a converted mental health asylum prior to its purchase. Tiny rooms, with tiny slit windows, common areas, and doors that automatically swung shut in every room.

Every year, students did their best not to get stuck living in that building. The only ones who considered it voluntarily were the engineering students (due to proximity to the eng campus). The "bolstered" social communal area did not make up for the additional anxiety and mental pressure of the jail-cell like rooms, and the feeling of isolation and no-escape that the layout fostered. The only thing it did do, was make a notable increase in the school suicide rate.
Why the fuck do I need to log into my monitor?

Because you bought a system that only has apps from your monitor's app store available, and that means you have to prove who you are to use them.

It's no different to phones, consoles, etc.
Everytime someone mentions VR, i got reminded of the same scene of hbo silicon valley sitcom on why VR tech won't work unless there is a significant breakthrough: It needs a 1000 usd dollars rig to run smoothly plus the VR equipment.

What facebook is doing is preparing for the inevitable... they are going to break his company for monopoly reasons, therefore he needs zuckerberg to be seen as the CEO of something else, kinda what google does with alphabet were the founders basically run alphabet and have someone else run google in case they need a someone to put the blame on why "google shows first the image of trump when searching for idiot".
Hm. I've got a border collie sleeping at my feet right now (a calm BC is a rarity...). We have two of them. One (the male, younger) does the head tilt a lot, but the other (our female) does not. What I find interesting in terms of this article is that the latter, the female, is a lot smarter, more agile, more focused, and has more of the classic border collie attributes ("the eye", intense focus, etc.) but head tilts a lot less. Instead she stares and does a lot of... ear antennae action. Instead of tilting her head, her (erect) ears wiggle all over the place, like they're ... tuning in.

So this seems to contradict the findings of the study here where they seem to associate the head tilt with intelligence,

I've always interpreted head tilt as confusion.

But of course that's just a single data point.

Ah, border collies. Just wanna collect em all.
Likely how beer and wine were discovered as well. Happy accidents that someone decided to taste
>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.

Yes, parents with babies and caring for a bedridden relatives reminds us that human excrement is a natural part of life. But it's not contradictory for those same people to not want their bathroom degrading into dirty public restrooms. Especially when it's caused by strangers who are inconsiderate rather than relatives who are helpless (babies & elderly). Sure, we can all clean up excrement if we have to but the circumstances matter.
The Legal Marketing Podcast – Ep #27 – Law Firm Legal Directories
Take the file in a filing cabinet metaphor; then. You ask for someone's employee record, they hand you a file folder with a rubber band around half the pages. It's not legal for you to peek at that "sealed section", but they let you keep the whole file because they made the copy for you.

I dunno what it'll come out as after a court gets it... Probably sending them both to the electric chair is too much to hope for.
Have the same feeling, but unfortunately I have a family to feed. I wish I could just take a year off and do absolutely nothing.

What alternative do you have?
I agree with you 100%. In places with private security such as restaurants, malls, and hotels there are relatively nice facilities and the people there are generally safe.

In "public" places where the only security force is the police such as side walks, that is where people defecate in the open and you are relatively unsafe from violence.
US is the world police.
Fish sauces are a common addition to stews of all kinds! Works well.
Exactly, so an "Oculus-specific account" would not actually be an account specific to Oculus, it would be a differently-branded Facebook account, too
I find the profanity nicely limited and appropriate; if the comment had gone on to curse institutions in general / not share a constructive anecdote that's where I'd call it inappropriate.
The guy that released evidence of torture in Russian jails to western media is fighting back against tyranny, but when the shoe is on the other foot the language changes

The 'patriotically' minded folks in Russia and US are surprisingly alike, and patriotic ideology is invariably full of hypocrisy.

I think if they were to run a country, it would look very much like Russia of today.
> I tried to paint a short, coherent, neutral picture of the affair as not to derail the discussion.

well you succeeded, here we are talking about your 'neutral' picture
The guy you replied to seems to be correct.
You do not need to be an architect to see that living in windowless boxes (not rooms) will damage young adults psychologically. Just put yourself into this room and try to study for 6 hours a day. It looks worse than a prison cell.
This old fart probably has his own ideas about how poor students need to work and live in order to "earn" an education. Not to mention anything regarding virus spreading...
I would really love if they accepted this as a non-backwards compatible change.

Or at least (for now) a configurable option in the database config, so each site can switch it on as they like.

Adding "UPDATE xxx WHERE yyy SET z=42" to the grammar would be a nice addition too.
Surprisingly positive reviews.
Without knowing how often a Switch is used in "portable" mode as opposed to docked it's hard to use the Switch as an example one way or another.

Either way the Switch has sold far slower than both Nintendo's handhelds and consoles.
Implementing Conway’s Game of Life using homomorphic encryption
Very glad to hear this, the X11 mechanism has been causing issues for me for a long time, as detailed in the article.
Oh, it's stunning alright.
>The dormitory’s nine identical residential floors would be organized into eight “houses” with eight “suites” (shown here) with eight bedrooms.

Sounds unironically like something Scientology-adjacent.
There are tons of windows and natural light in the common areas; the design is meant to encourage congregation there. The bedrooms are just for sleeping, dressing, and sex.
seconded. Now that we've seen the fragility of self driving cars and the lack of originality in driving, I think it'll be some time before truckers will be replaced.

Maybe they won't be used much anymore to keep the device between two lines. They'll supervise that. But for everything else it seems a human being is required to be present.
- Your privacy is being invaded. Look at snowden, PRISM, facebook!

- Don't have anything to hide.

- At least use Firefox.

- Nah.

Sorry but no, it's definitly apathy.
Audio and video 'broadening target audiences'
No I’m not. You do not need ”pixel” perfect accuracy, or precision. Play the game and find out. This is why I’m confused as to why people think even in an FPS the gyro controls need to be accurate enough to perform surgery.

They also complained about discomfort when resetting center on the gyro control. Something else Splatoon 2 nailed gracefully.
OT, but don't you miss the Action Architect movies like Towering Inferno and Death Wish.
Corona corners
Again, it depends on the company. For in-house software, which is quite a lot of the software out there, the people I need to show it to are not developers, but users. Given that I specified users, it seems pretty obvious we're talking about the whole company.

You clearly want other people to show empathy and try to honor the way you like to work. So I'll repeat icelander's question: Do you have empathy towards 90% of the remainder of a company who doesn't like that?
Waiting might be the best option, but inaction might also kill the patient. Think of it as a patient with arrhythmia. Sure the patient might simply have sinus tachycardia that goes away when the patient's fever dissipates. Or it might be ventricular fibrillation that can easily kill the patient.
I'm looking forward to its evolution; I hope they can execute this metaverse world perfectly. Does the only problem lie in how the mass consumers will react to the metaverse?
I find it hard to disagree - and I'm (finally) on a full Wayland setup (that's honestly pretty stable/good -- Sway for anyone curious)

The amount of 'lift' involved was absurd. Half of the applications I launch need tickled/informed that Wayland is in use.

If I don't do this, most of these things default to XWayland and copying/pasting between that and native things is absolutely broken (often one direction)
I can use an Android or iOS devices without logging into their respective app stores easily, hopefully they allow similar on Oculus.
Let go? Sued.
I was under the impression that pretty much anything recent used client-side rendering anyway? For example, anything Qt based.
Because of the security and risk implication of not preventing it. Goldman Sachs is both an investment bank and an asset management firm, literally the same company. However, they have clear protocols in place to separate the two sides because otherwise the opportunities for impropriety are too high. I could see a similar argument for separating Facebook and Oculus accounts.
"To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops." - DevOps Borat

https://twitter.com/devops_borat/status/41587168870797312
Low resolution meaning coarse, like if you had to choose to believe if evolution was progressive or completely directionless, progressive would be a better model.
We say employees when we mean people, who have a history of self organizing around human need

It’s mesmerizing to me how so many think office life is a necessity for data entry work

Nevermind open source developers building the software world we rely on via email for decades.
As point out elsewhere, 2 entrances doesn't mean 2 egress points. There are likely lots of one way doors out of the building.
It's weird watching the Linux development community go from the position that Windows apps tightly coupling to Windows was bad because it made those programs more of a pain to run under Linux (most of the time requiring Wine) to deciding that sticking with cross-UNIX platforms was just no longer worth their time because Linux "won" the UNIX wars.
A lot of deadly fires happen at night when people are in bed sleeping. And most of the "bedrooms" in this building would not have windows, per the article.

an 11-story, 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.

"Ah", but you might say, "just use someone else's window!"

To which I say "bullshit." If it's 3:00 in the morning, and you have a bunch of sleepy, probably hung-over (or still buzzing) college kids, and a building full of smoke and superheated toxic gases, the odds that these kids will successfully locate and utilize another window strike me as so low as to not even be worth considering. Drunk college kids don't do well with dormitory fires, or at least that's what a lot of historical evidence suggests.
My opinion: Meta wasn't a great name, even if it weren't in conflict with somebody else more famous. It's hard to Google, because so many other things are "Meta". It's vague and doesn't really tell you anything about the project.

So I'd recommend a rename, just to find something more creative and distinctive. Finding good names is hard, so I wish you luck on that, but it's worth the effort.
Its exceedingly likely that that number does not include fire escapes and emergency exits.
Would it even pass fire regs? Surely that makes it a non-starter?
You describe microscopically what's happening macroscopically: The US is experiencing runaway consolidation and monopolization in every market sector. It is the business plan of every VC-funded startup discussed on this forum to monopolize a market and extract ALL the profit from it. The excess capacity of every supply chain in the entire country has been liquidated for short-term profit over the past decade, and then COVID happened. No one seems to be calling out this behavior, so I expect it will continue.
What I don't understand is how this shithole costs so much? 1.5 billion for 4,500 residents comes out to 333,333 per resident. It feels like they could probably build normal dorms for that price.
I see other concerns being voiced which I agree with, like the lack of windows and having only two entrances.

Other than these valid safety concerns, and in an ideal world, I find myself in support of the project.

I absolutely abhor sharing a bedroom with total strangers. To me, it is totally unacceptable.

I would rather live in a physically constrained space rather than share it with a stranger, or even a friend.

But I would like a window that I can open.

And I mentioned ideal world because this should drive down cost of college for students.

As they are all stacked up in a smaller place eating up less space horizontally, their accommodation cost should be down.

But I don't think that this would realistically happen.
Umm, what again is the criticism for crating meta account vs creating oculus account(without fb)? I think at this point whatever fb does it will be criticised?
Meanwhile mixing red and blue help a lot with certain eye conditions :(
Sorry, no windows!
Web3 Explained
Hm. I'm thinking of it as training for long range spaceflight or tight LEO or other type of space station---crowded, microscopic personal space, no view or just darkness of space, light engineered to support circadian cycles.

Will this be good for students in SB? Based on psychological research in last few decades, nope.
Clinton wanted to drone him.
https://archive.md/zY2MA
Sorry, that's like saying that the people of Flint, MI were free to move somewhere else when their water was polluted.[1]

No, the university is responsible for providing safe housing for the students, and if they accepted this lunatic's plan, they would be breaching that trust.

When parents and students look for colleges, they assume a certain level of due diligence has been done for them, and they will be leaving their teenager in a minimally safe environment. You can't let people off the hook because of some right-wing idea of "freedom".

[1] In April 2014, during a budget crisis, Flint changed its water source from treated Detroit Water and Sewerage Department water (sourced from Lake Huron and the Detroit River) to the Flint River. Residents complained about the taste, smell, and appearance of the water. Officials failed to apply corrosion inhibitors to the water, which resulted in lead from aging pipes leaching into the water supply, exposing around 100,000 residents to elevated lead levels.