skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> University officials told the three that because the school was a state institution, participating in a lawsuit against the state “is adverse to U.F.’s interests” and could not be permitted.

Hmmm... that was new.
Wood framed houses survive many hundred of years. In fact they offer many advantages to bricks.
At this point I have enough confidence in Google's developers to consider bad performance in Firefox not an accident.
Land, near where the jobs are, isn't in abundance. And were it, resources like freeways will constrain unbounded growth with horrendous traffic patterns.

I don't think anyone is intentionally putting their finger on the scale when it comes to real-estate prices.

Maybe, and this is not from any data I can pull up, it is those with deep pockets buying additional properties as investments/rentals. And now we have huge corporations flipping, building rental homes on a massive scale.... The only solution I can see is to tax the living hell out of 3rd, 4th properties (etc.).
How many world thought leaders said the segway is the future of transportation? None. How many for metaverse? Quite a few.
I'm a parent of a kid too young to be playing these games yet, and I appreciate seeing this sort of discussion and insight. I only hear, "My kid loves Roblox," from other people and had no idea until this thread that other parents didn't view it so positively.

So, on topic or not, I appreciate the discussion.
See, case in point. She should change the chart so SHA-2 has an all-green line. It's clearly misleading people.
Architect Says Dystopian Dorm Is a Dangerous Psychological Experiment
It's not thought experiment. Not long ago I was under state welfare and hosted near free. It changes how you approach your day. I was happily volunteering and working way more than people under salary (politics come into play and people start being jealous, and wanting more to do less because they don't want to be here, they "have to".. it's pain first system). Hence me saying, if people didn't have to pay rent, what would they do with their time ?
I’m waiting for flutter support for roku apps
IANAFarmer: Grazing animals like horses and cows need to eat something over the winter. You can plant fields of grass and harvest them into hay bales for storage. If you aren't devoting any/enough of your land as hay fields, then you need to buy hay from someone else.
I'm not really sure what EGL is, but will Vulkan also run on top of EGL?
Good comment. Also, density of people makes a very big difference in quality of life. If you upzone the popular western US cities to fit everyone in the world that wanted to live there, it would inherently change the quality of life. Obviously, whether or not people that already own land there should have some type of priority on deciding who and how many people get to live there is a political problem probably as old as the human race.
Sitefox: A Node.js and CLJS web framework
Plenty of them, here is a non-exaustive list.

C, C++, Modula-2, Pascal, AMOS, Clipper, FoxPro, Turbo Basic, Quick Basic, Turbo Prolog, PC-Lisp, Native Oberon,...
Taking apart the 2010 Fisher Price re-released Music Box Record Player
> Hah, imagine the dollar crashing and the fed banning crypto. How do you think that will affect the faith in the US dollar? Even worse! Imagine US bans crypto but other countries go the other way and they lean more on it, and somehow a coin is becoming de facto world reserve currency. Then the US would be left on the outside.

Pretty sure the US government ceased people's gold at some point in the first half of the 20th century.
...you're not trying to use it in Safari, are you?
I like the concept of using different languages instead of terraform because I consider the latter to provide pretty terrible developer experience.

I don't like the idea of having a Turing complete language to do that. I would prefer things to be declarative.
Honestly I would just be happy with a better terraform without yaml and better tooling for terraform.

I tried to use pulumi and they didn't support something I needed, or maybe I was too dumb to understand how to do it, so I insta quit.

They're also pretty pushy in selling whatever they're selling.
Simon Mol
Sure, you would probably be worth less to advertisers.

But the web would probably worth a lot less to you because so many web sites will be broken.
If you spend $100/month on a thing and I, in a city, spend $500/month on the same thing it could still make strictly logical financial sense to live in the city.

Suppose you and I both save 30% of out net income. If I'm making far more in a city then my 30% savings will go very far in a not city location.

We can also assume if you spend 100/month on rent and I spend 500/month on rent it's the same "percentage" of the pay we make.
Depending on your needs, the technology is already there. I already do most of my work in VR with my partner, while he is also in VR from his house about 2 miles away.

We need a few desktop screens up for information, a big whiteboard, and the ability to see each others screens. With Immersed and Horizon Workrooms we get all of that already. Before workrooms was really stable we were using Immersed and keeping Mural (white boarding) up on one of our desktops together.
The point is that this technology forum is in the sad state of being consistently dismissive of novel technology.
> What governmental policies make housing an investment?

Local government (US): Low-density zoning, burdensome review processes on new development, "historical building" preservation, minimum amenity regulations (e.g., parking spaces, "set back"), etc.

Federal government (US): Subsidizing the cost of 30-year mortgages for lenders; subsidizing mortgage interest for homebuyers (mortgage interest deduction) at the expense of all other taxpayers (e.g., renters).

> Are there countries with policies that effectively make it a depreciating asset? What do those policies look like?

I can't speak to the specifics of what other countries do, but many of the obvious steps are to just stop the bleeding that we already know about, mentioned above. Eliminating the federal mortgage interest deduction, removing local government authority to impose arbitrarily burdensome processes on new development, upzoning, deregulating (no minimum parking, reduced minimum setback), etc.
We'd rather not? Or "they'd" rather not? They as in the status quo, their power, and their tools (e.g., waving the carrot as the rats run on the wheel?).

There's plenty of we who want to see change. But not enough of us. There are still too many who buy into the web of the narrative spun by The They.
Thank you for “augury”! I looked up the etymology in Italian for auguri and it derives from the flight of birds. “Tanti auguri“ means “best wishes“, on the contrary “sciagura” (same root as “auguri”) means “misfortune“.
There are env variables set by the session
link to the law?
I remember the dubstep it used to play to connect to the Internet. Good times
"Imagine the awfulness of facebook, but now imagine it in AR." - The metaverse.
Anyone know where I can read more about SBCL or Lisp compilers in general? It does not need to be very technical.
Or it could be that some students don’t need to sacrifice sleep to succeed.

I spent most of my degree goofing off with the regular interruptions of sitting in lectures, writing notes, and maybe review them once before taking a test.

I always made sure to get enough sleep to be mentally sharp. If I did that, the act of writing notes in the lecture was enough to lock the information in my head.

Later on in college when class got more difficult, my best friends and I would talk about what we learned each day. We taught each other our own subjects and teaching can be the best way to learn.

Not everyone is so fortunate to have the massive advantages I did. I had to be careful with money but never needed loans or a job. This let me focus solely on getting good enough grades to graduate.
> Land, near where the jobs are, isn't in abundance.

Sure it is, because the jobs are everywhere internet is.

Semi-rural and rural property values should roughly follow fiber and Starlink rollouts.
Well, the communities belong to the oldest continuous organization of mankind :)

E.g.
https://encourageandteach.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/the-frida...
https://www.catholicapostolatecenter.org/uploads/9/2/4/6/924...
People don’t want to pay for things that are infinite. People who make digital things want to be paid. You end up either with drm or tokenization.
The library costs you money too, in the form of taxes. At least Netflix only charges its actual users. I'm forced to pay for the two public libraries in my town even though I've never been in them.
You're welcome to cripple yourself (and you'd be in illustrious company -- just about every famous name in Emacs's history has suffered severe RSI); I was just trying to answer your original question.
I disagree with the jury system but as I understand it American jurors are supposed to reflect society.

If you only want smart people you leave it to the judge.
It is not Facebook's fault human nature engages with outrage. Facebook didn't change anyone. Facebook doesn't make a good person into a bad person.

"In-group vs. out-group baiting, mayhem, & loss-of-life " existed throughout all of human history (and in much larger quantities!) before the age of Facebook. They will continue to exist long after Facebook displays its last newsfeed item.

The longer we try to blame a technology for humanities issues, the longer it will take to address the issues.
what a lunatic
Yes, I can relate. I realize now that fun conversation is highly illogical, emotion based. I view my desire for control and logic actually gets in the way of emotions, which makes conversations less enjoyable.
I'm 45 and already spend more than half of my day in VR. My morning workout is done in VR, then I move on to guided meditation session, before finally starting work in Immersed.
Agree CF is crap.

Each clouds SDK in the language the team is most familiar with is by far the best option.

State can be stored in git. Any version of my infrastructure is a git checkout away.

I use Go, and the documentation for the AWS SDK includes copy-paste examples

Try and checkout Terraform from 6 months ago and run it? Frequently I cannot even get someone’s tutorial example written a week prior to work without edits.

I checked out a year old commit in my infra repo; rebuilt an entire ECS stack deprecated 18 months ago.

Just be programmers. The cloud ops scene is just reselling the same delusions as Unix grey beards and Windows server admins. It’s about making hardware do the right thing, not hand wavy semantics.

Most of the people I work with just regurgitate memes. Very few actually test them for truth.
Wonder if this has anything to do with Charlie Munger’s windowless dorm experiment:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/29/business/ucsb-munger-hall/ind...
I think Microsoft did take them seriously. They just screwed up the execution.

Like here's a "Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC Phone Edition" phone out a couple of years before the iPhone https://www.zdnet.com/product/anextek-sp230/
You're right there but that's not why these are not similar questions.

A ML agent driving a car is about being able to do something out of "it's own agency"(We'll pass the free will observations for now, they're really irrelevant unless that's the point one makes between a ML agent and a dog, where the latter arguably has it compared to the former), the focus here being on "doing".
A dog's sniff being considered as enough evidence to put someone in jail is not really the equivalent to "the dog has put X in jail".There's a case to resolve, and obviously the person/agent who has the evidence does not put the criminal in jail.Here the focus would be on the fact that the dog is not only observing something, but also the subjective interpretation of it's senses (assuming we would have such a thing as an "objective interpretation of one's senses at a given time", which is problematic imo)
The cultural factors behind falling fertility rates
> Growth is natural, given that there are more people born, more money is printed and the economy expands to add jobs to meet those needs.

Yes and no. Does that mean houses have to get bigger? Cars more "luxurious" and complicated (read: expensive)? Or higher education - for the same degree - also disproportionately more expensive?

Or are all these "givens" simply bad assumptions that have been nomalized?
How old are you? Is it too late for you to live up to your potential?
Are you patching all your machines at the same time, overloading your SAN? Are you running webroot or similar horrifying security software?

We generally see <5 minute downtimes on all our Server 2016 and 2019 VMs, never more than 10 minutes.
> At the end of the 19th century, anarchist thinkers predicted with modern techniques we'd be down to 10h weekly work

Similarly, John Maynard Keynes, who probably had access to better data, predicted that increased productivity would allow us to work 15 hours / week by now. And his projections for productivity growth were accurate—however the benefits never materialized.

You see something similar with women entering the work force. It used to be that married men worked 8 hours a day, and that provided for their wives, who stayed home and took care of children, etc. Then it became more common for married women to work as well. You would expect that this would mean that husbands and wives would split the work and do 4 hours/day each and likewise share domestic responsibilities. But that's not what happened. Instead men still work 8 hours a day, and women work nearly as long and also bear most of the responsibility for childcare and the home.
>In US most houses are made from wood panels and nobody expect them to out live the owner.

This is just nonsense.

I expect my house to outlive me.. a wood framed house has a 100 year life expectancy but that will be longer with maintenance. We have older homes from the 1800s too. Plenty of people buy homes from the 1920s.
Apparently the silos are back, given the whole .NET vs UWP/C++ politics.
One issue with many Czech brutalist buildings is that they are brutally impractical - no heat isolation, mold problems, clogged toilets, not enough natural light, not accessible for the disabled, hard to repurchase, slowly falling apart yet using many custom parts that are no longer available & and the buildings are like 50% made of asbestos by weight.

They might look impressive from sufficient distance, but often not very useful.
40 years ago I got my degree in Hort Science., almost all my classmates ended up in other professions, as did I. No one did the research to determine that upon graduation companies wanted to pay you $800 a month to manage their greenhouses.

Most consumers do not realize that 99% of all houseplants they purchase at nurseries or stores are heavily contaminated with pesticides, in mass mono cultures you have to do this because the pests explode and ravage the "crops".

Houseplants bought from stores are mostly a consumer "throw away" culture.

I grew rare plants as a hobby and made a few bucks selling them, and still dabble in propagation of difficult to root species, as well as polyploidy conversion.

One interest is growing some of the most fragrant flowering plants, such as night blooming jasmine and sambac jasmine, but these species require rainwater or deionized water so as not to turn yellow due to the alkalinity in most municipal water supplies deactivating the soluble iron (or so I thought deionized water was the key).I installed a RO system I bought off the internet for $300 about 10 years ago with timers and solenoids to fill a 55 gallon drum every day.

Then, through experimentation I discovered you could simply acidify the water to just below 7.0 with sulfuric acid bought over the internet, or weaker version through local auto parts store. 1 capful in 55 gallons of water of conc. H2So4, let sit overnight. It's dangerous to handle, it can burn your eyes and hands really fast, so perhaps better for newbies to spend more money$$ on vinegar and use a pH meter off Amazon.

Also, organics will generally grow plants faster and healthier, such as homemade compost, bat guano or fish emulsion - - - but fish emulsion smells ugly, so only use for outdoor plants. Champion cabbage growers in Alaska use fish meat scraps mixed into soil to compost to grow prize vegetables.

The "bagged" soil mixes at local big box stores are mostly crap, like ground up wood chips. Real bales of authentic sphagnum peat moss 50% with sand 50% should be the starting point of a good soilless potting mix, if money is no object, years ago we found 50% sphagnum peat moss and 50% COARSE vermiculite grew the best plants.

You need to sterilize or pasteurize your soil/soiless mixes or you risk fungus, root rots. Commercial growers use lot's of toxic soil drenches to combat root rot. If you sterilize, then you can drench with PreStop beneficial fungus (prebiotic) to try to prevent root rots. There are others, but the research I reviewed showed PreStop performed best.

Appears the only folks printing huge money with horticulture are those growing marijuana.
...replace metaverse with Bitcoin.

For all the hate HN has for the latter, it still exists, and defies its constantly predicted death. At this point if HN says something is bullshit its actually time to start looking at it critically because apparently bullshit survives much longer than what HN actually likes, lol RSS for example.
That's sort of the point though, isn't it? We're at a point where large capital holders pretend they want competitive forces to keep them in check, yet employ anti-competitive practices and cry regulatory overreach at every opportunity.

Current businesses don't want a competitive labor market in the sense they have to compete for your time, they want drones to do whatever they want and want to pay bottom dollar for it. Just look at the massive outcry right now claiming labor shortages. Maybe there is some shortage but it's a well justified shortage in my opinion.

If you had a labor force with a real basic sense of security, people not worried they may get sick and their entire life's accumulation of assets from work will be washed away in an instant or they may be out on the streets looking for a warm bed, then you have a strong labor force that can negotiate reasonable working conditions. We don't have that.

We largely have a growing precariate class of people that seem to be sweeping in low to lower middle income that seems to be growing into the middle income brackets. A large bit of middle and upper middle are fine but even there, pressure seems to be growing.
I'm not sure that my king size online millennial hipster brand mattress weighs too much less than this!
My experience with Apple TV was that Apple advertised their own apps regularly. Also most Roku devices released in the last couple of years including Roku TVs support Airplay.
You already have Office on Ubuntu via Office 365 and WSL.
> Is your only option really to buy a house while working at Dairy Queen?

Why shouldn't there be houses—or apartments—you can afford to buy while working at Dairy Queen?
I live in Yucatán. Most of what they're finding in the cenotes is trash. One of them had hundreds of electric meters in it. So it's nice when they find something like this.

In the jungle they have found thousands of artifacts and structures. It's going to keep the archeologists busy for quite some time.
> The absurdity of it makes me want to scream, or maybe die, or maybe just spoon out the part of my brain that knows what an NFT is.

Funniest thing I’ve read all week.
Yeah, we’re currently thinking about using a third provider with BGP and DDoS protection for the announced blocks and only tunneling it through there when we are being DDoSed but said provider only offers servers in three locations (Luxembourg, New York and Las Vegas) and has no API for automated server ordering etc., so we’ll have to see. Looking forward to reading the follow-up blog post!
Trivia: teletext was really popular in Italy, and a large fraction of small TV broadcaster ran teletext equipment based on Erlang (R14B, FreeBSD 8.something, custom ISA board for the signal). If anything bad happened to the software you'd see the teletext page counter "restart" as the gen_servers came back up \o/
Brave Search Uses Click Data in Search Ranking Algorithm
FB employee calls me “d*ck” after I replied his tw thread with “Facebook papers”
here's the story:

i saw a tweet from an swe at whatsapp (https://twitter.com/yanolacagidi/status/1454359485552734208) and supposedly he's asked "whats like to work at a company that has bad image like fb" and he claims that the image of fb is exaggerated by the media. he continues and claims that he is objective and he thinks that there's an injustice, perfection operation towards fb by the media.

i responded with the shit fb caused, such as elections, myanmar, disinformation (antivaxxers, far-right movement etc), and he claimed that these problems exist on other social networks too. I told him that those networks' reach is limited and fb deliberately ignores and provokes the hate-speech on the platform to increase engagement rates and profit.

then he responded that we, as outsiders, don't have any idea about what's going on at fb and that fb works real hard to solve the issues etc. that as insiders they know that. and i responded with facebook papers meaning that we know what's going on inside fb too. then he blocked me lol and tweeted another post telling that "achievement unlocked: get trolled by a dick".

needless to say, the guy represents the true ethical values of facebook. but tf is wrong with fb employees? everyone's aware that they work for a company that is root cause of almost every societal problems in countries and yet they deny it..
Sounds like a barracks. Why not make sure it’s brutalist architecture and open bay, I’m sure everyone will love living there.
Darwin is useless, all the good stuff is on the upper layers.
Product Manager, Growth [Job Posting $90K-130K]
I think this is a non sequitur. The cost of renting is a direct proxy for the cost of homes. It doesn't matter who the owner is -- if home prices rise exponentially, rents rise exponentially.
There are many jobs that require physical presence. The whole world isn't made up of IT workers...
Staying in a tent for 2 months in Alaska sounds extremely painful. How did you cope with that?
Anything, in excess.

But, it seems that winning in life is figuring out how to get healthy addictions (to work, exercising, good diet, helping other people).
Why is alfalfa worth so much less?
Fair point, but hopefully obvious I wasn't purposefully trying to mislead with statistics or anything.

Providing a median works as well, yes? The fact is, a truck driver's wage is slightly above the median wage. So the largest group is also in the upper half of US incomes. And they are getting priced out of housing. That should paint a bleak enough picture.
The process is a good one but it's not like what was described. Each side gets a chance to remove some jurors, not a chance to insure all jurors in the pool meet a criteria, and removal is based on how much the attorney thinks you'll hurt their chances not based on if you'll be able to accurately interpret the case. I was also the last person struck in a case involving IT once the prosecuting side found out I worked in IT. Looking at the case results the prosecution lost the case for reasons that would be apparent to anyone that understood how IT systems worked.

To be clear I think the selection process is a good one (or at least I think it's better than other options I've heard) it's just not the same thing as the GP was proposing.
With Chromium 95 and Nvidia 470.74 driver for me hardware acceleration is enabled for canvas, and can be enabled for rasterization. For video decode it can be enabled, but it's VA-API, which is not supported by Nvidia. Vulkan can be enabled. GpuMemoryBuffers is software only.