skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reasoning for this architecture is supposedly to encourage socializing, but my suspicion is it will actually do the opposite.

The tiny rooms are perfectly compatible with the "antisocial 4channer" lifestyle. Internet addicts will probably be thankful because there is less space they have to keep clean.

What it seriously discourages is inviting someone into your room, doing sports, caring for plants or pets or inviting your own group of friends for a boardgame night.

It also takes away any agency over when or with whom you want to socialize by forcing you through the common area when you want to eat or just have to use the bathroom.

I've been in a dorm with single-occupancy rooms but shared kitchens. I can say it can get extremely awkward if some other group is having a party and you just want to cook something for dinner. And that design had an ordinary shared kitchen, separate from the floor. I can only imagine how awkward it gets if the only way to your room is through the common area.

The forced socializing (but only with your housemates) reminds me of something out of The Crimson Rivers. If that billionaire guy demanded exclusive authority over room assignments next, I wouldn't be completely surprised.
Climate change: Human activity makes forests emit carbon
1 step forward and two steps back. Now it has 2 soon-to-be obsolete ports — HDMI 2.1 and SD Express aren’t supported. All to save a dongle? If you’re carrying around a magsafe cable you can carry a dongle.

The slimmer design of the 2016 generation was really nice and had just as much battery life. A shame they threw out the touch bar entirely, with the hardware ESC it was absolutely fine. And they certainly didn’t take back the price increase it came with.
> there appears to be 1 bathroom per 8 suites

That looks like two bathrooms per 1 suite, or 1 bathroom per 4 rooms. I never shared a bathroom with less than 3 other people in my four years at college, so that doesn't seem particularly out of the ordinary for an undergraduate dorm.

The difference in size of rooms seems significant, though.
In the video version of the review it's touched on more. Their editor/lead video woman stated that after almost half an hour of exporting work the fan never turned off, and when it did she couldn't hear it, only felt the vibration.

It sounded promising, like it rarely turns on.
You shouldn’t have to prove innocence or provide any evidence at all to keep your property when there is no charge or conviction.
Apple explains why it hasn’t added a touchscreen or Face ID to the Mac
As much as I'm ashamed to admit it, my diet suffered when I went totally WFH. I went from eating a healthy salad 4x a week to 'eating out of the pantry' with grocery runs every two weeks or so. You can't keep salad greens around shopping that infrequently. Granted, shopping that infrequently was a consequence of trying to limit exposure in a global pandemic, but my dietary habits are much less healthy now, lol.
Yes, it is a fallacy, because in both cases it misrepresents the premise.

In the case of taxes, the actual premise is, "I think [set X/behavior Y/product Z] should be taxed", so generalizing it to "I think more taxes should be paid by somebody" misrepresents the premise.

In this case, the actual premise is, "I think this is something publicly-facing businesses should do", so generalizing it to "I think _every_entity_ should do this", again, misrepresents the premise.

As for the restroom access, and the inevitable consequences, is your issue with the provision of the service, or with being obliged to deal with the consequences for less than fair compensation?
When talking about all of humanity, does saying “we” really imply that every single person has this or that trait, or does it imply that people in general have this trait? We are social creatures. Do you think I mean every single human being that lives or has ever lived was social, or in general we are a social species? This just seems like intentionally reading their comment in the least charitable light as an excuse to argue.
And it's often in the safest neighbourhoods.

My family lives out in the safest burbs imaginable, with not a funny looking person for miles. 0 homeless. 0 crime. They all have these heavy security systems and door cameras.

And the absence of crime is not due to these cameras. Just a kind of fearful mindset, and a lot of extra money.
There were a lot of researchy implementations:

"Writing Concurrent Object-Oriented Programs using Smalltalk-80"

http://www.wolczko.com/mushroom/compj.pdf

"Actra = A Multitasking / Multiprocessing Smalltalk"

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/67387.67409

Actra -- an industrial strength concurrent object-oriented programming system

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/127070.127090
Your comment doesn't really make sense in the context of the book; the advice offered in the book boils down to 'hire some dude in India to do your work for $5 an hour'
If it costs just as much money to support the long tail as it does to support 95% of your user base, guess what? That long tail will go unsupported. This is why the only relevant web standard is "does it work on WebKit (formerly IE)?" And why the only relevant firmware standard is "does it boot Windows?" The major distros ship with Wayland. The major toolkits support Wayland. That's where all the development and maintenance energy is right now. X is still around, but eventually support for it will go away. Once it becomes niche enough that the costs of maintaining an X code path outweigh the benefits of supporting the few users still on X, they will take the X code path out. That's how things go in software.
I'm in-between, but honestly, young americans, even those with high-paying jobs, have it really hard.

When i told i was on a month-long vacation, the question was "oh, you're on sabbatical or in-bewteen jobs?". I just have 10 weeks a year plus two weeks of training of my choosing. It was a bit more than the bare minimum, but not having at least 7 weeks/year would be really harsh.
I mean, I had a vita and the gyroscope control was more accurate than the stick for shooters but that's because I'll naturally adjust if it overshoots (if I go to above I'll immediately push slightly down in a feedback loop - so here what really matters is the precision, not accuracy and in fact I can even adjust the sensitivity to my preference). That feedback loop with the user doesn't work well in VR, if my hand overshoots I don't have means of resetting the position (I can only compensate, but it's extremely uncomfortable when you feel your hand in position x, look at it and it's at position y and that x-y mapping will keep changing over time - and of course it's even worse with your head PoV not matching your head movements). Of course there are lots of issues as well, how do you get the perfect initial position? After all gyroscope/accelerometers only measure movement, it can't know where it starts (for example for jogging you need a gps to get a measurement of position, just like you need a camera/laser sensor for current VR). For gyroscope in traditional gaming you usually use the stick to adjust a solid start position, which is not possible in VR as well unless you force the user to stay in a perfect pose at the start of every level after inputting arms length and height as an example, which would definitely be annoying quickly if you need to reset frequently).

And finally, you example (splatoon 2) only needs to compute 2 degrees of freedom in movement (rotation left-right - or yawing, rotation down-up - or pitching, since rolling isn't relevant with a dot target), while VR systems depend on 6 degrees of freedom (yawing, pitching, rolling, elevating, strafing and surging - all of these for at least 3 devices at the same time: your head, left hand and right hand). Unfortunately controls in VR are quite complicated, and accelerometers, gyroscopes (and magnetometers which are also used in VR systems to know the reference to the floor) are simply insufficient (but necessary since the positional sensors can't keep track all time with occasional occlusion, such as having one hand passing over the other or leaving the tracking area), which is why the same sensors on the switch are used in every VR headset and controls in addition with even more sensors and algorithms.

EDIT: the camera system also helps a lot with defining gaming boundaries in the room and being able to quickly see if I accidentally leave it, I already punched my monitor once and that's with a barrier that always get visible when I approach something in my room.
I expect lots of people care, though if it's an option for you VMWare does have a public beta of Fusion for the M1s[1] and I have seen people running Windows (11 even) under it.

1: https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/09/fusion-for-m1-pu...
Claims that it takes to long to construct and overruns costs are just FUD from the solar industry which relies heavily on coal and concentration camp labour to produce cheap panels that provide unreliable energy without some sort of storage system which doesn't exist at scale.

Solar Power May Be the Next Victim of China’s Coal Shortage

>Prices of silicon metal, used to make the material that comprises solar panels, have surged about 300% since the start of August after a top-producing province ordered production be slashed amid a power crunch. China dominates global solar production, with its coal generators powering many of the factories that make clean energy equipment.

https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/china-slashes-silico...
From the maga hat
yup, and it pervades everything Microsoft does now. Windows, Office, Azure, etc. they've all been packaged as services funded either by consumers or ads.
you should ask how bad the interviewing process in this industry is instead
Many enterprises are coming up with patterns where they replicate the data from the database (say Redshift) into parquet files (data lake?) and directing more traffic including analytical workloads onto the parquet files.

duckdb will be very useful here, instead of having to use Redshift Spectrum or whatever.
Many if not all UC campuses need only respect state regulations. City and County building codes need not apply, and fire codes, hopefully would, but University administrators have room to push that.

Land grant universities!
> I wish there was a consensus non-cryptographic hash algorithm

I think Siphash serves that role pretty well. It's one of the most if not the most secure among non-cryptographic hashes, and quite speedy, especially with SIMD implementations. One need only consider alternatives if one wants to trade off a bit of security for even higher speed.
Sure in OS X/macOs, but Macbook Pros have generally been decent gaming machines if you went the Boot Camp route which is no longer an option on Apple silicon.
Anyone have a good benchmark comparing DuckDb to Parquet/Avro/ORC etc.? Super curious to see how some of those workflows might compare. Obviously at scale its going to be different, but using a single parquet file/dataset as a db replacement isn't an uncommon thing in DS/ML work.
I’d actually say it’s the opposite. My impression is that people who use bikeshares are casual cyclists and tourists. Everyone I know that I would consider a “cyclist” owns their own bike and would only use a bikeshare as a fallback if something happened to their bike. It’s possible bikeshare users are early adopters - but in cities where bikeshares have been around for nearing a decade (nyc comes to mind) I think that framing doesn’t make a ton of sense.
Google would be smart to replace Sundar Pichai, that company has been ruderless.
They are making more and more of their money from services.
One could imagine Apple starting a datacenter that is populated entirely with their M-series chips and their stupendous power efficiency.

Current Apple isn't the kind of company that would do this, but it's not that hard to imagine. Ultimately Apple still prefers to be a hardware company, even their software or services efforts are mostly to encourage people to buy their hardware.
This could be very interesting. The argument that "you put your money behind a pickable lock so you gave permission to anyone with lock-picking skills to take it" is a classic immature and self-serving understanding of the law, but in this case the system was built with the declared intention of creating a space where that logic applies.

How do you appeal to the courts after doing business under an explicit shared understanding that the courts are unnecessary and irrelevant? It will be difficult to prove that you had any expectation of the other party obeying any norms other than doing everything within its technical power to benefit from the transactions.
You are probably right. I'm just drooling for general stuffs such as battery life and low temp.
In short: over optimization.

In ML we fight this with regularization and dropout. However I‘m not sure how to transfer these ideas to economics.
> Either that or bringing Steve Jobs back to Apple via NeXT.

That one move by a board directly caused the biggest positive shift in a corporation's fortunes I can think of.
At that point what’s the use speculating? You’re not going to get a conclusive answer.
Good, it is a public problem and and the public should deal with the consequences (or fix it), not externalize it to some private individual.
Don't forget the hoodie. Gotta have a hoodie.
Somewhat offtopic but your story reminded me of the time I went to a KFC to use the facilities and found a huge brown turd on the water tank. Right there on top of it. I wonder how often does something like this happen.

I've seen my fair share of messes but that was clearly intentional for no good reason
All things considered they're not too bad if their goal when fabricating bad times is so that the next generation gets stronger. I would be solely focused on my self-interest if I was a Machiavellian oligarch.
Is this really any different than any highrise, that nobody seems to have this very pressing concern over?
Big focus on internal culture shift, allowing Linux adoption and OSS to flow freely, heavy focus on cloud, building a decent hardware business, and very strategic enterprise partnerships ie Salesforce. Let’s not discount tech stock valuation inflation is nearly unprecedented at this point, some credit is due there.

Still, Balmer was driving the company off a cliff with his brutish orthodoxy. Nadella transformed the company based on new assumptions about positioning in the modern digital economy, not the desktop days.
A lot of charming naïveté here along the lines of "surely the city has fire regulations, and surely the building will be reviewed for those!"

You forget the power of money. I live near the Apple Spaceship, where they have the city of Cupertino completely cowed and afraid to even ask a question about their stupid plans. An entire useful east-west artery (Pruneridge) was permanently taken out of service for that.

It's so cute when you assume that Santa Barbara is going to say No to this.
This was all done under emergency approval, with typical protocols suspended, no time for long term studies, not to mention a chilling effect from people like you against speaking ill against the vaccines, including reporting adverse effects.

The fact that it has been "approved" by the FDA is irrelevant when there has been such an immense political pressure to do so. Not to mention there are now thousands of careers on the line and billions of dollars in pressure to keep up the appearance of a working vaccine.

Meanwhile we're just expected to ignore the explosion in VAERS reports, ignore the fact that despite ≈70% vaccination rates in countries like Israel and UK cases are at record highs, ignore that this is indeed a novel technology which induces your cells to manufacture an inflammatory protein which is expressed on cell surfaces (autoimmune disorder potential). Oh and there is also statistical evidence of ADE for strains like delta once the vaccine effectiveness wanes after a pitiful 3-6 months.

Suddenly we've also forgotten all about regulatory capture (the pfizer CEO, for example, is the former commissioner from the FDA), perverse incentives (and political pressure) in academia...and on top of that the bulk of safety data came from the vaccine manufacturers themselves...who are also not legally liable for adverse effects. Conflict of interest maybe?

>No one will reason you out of a position you didn't reason yourself into

I would say the same thing to you, as it seems that so many people have mistaken media propaganda (how often does "safe and effective" appear in reports?) for certainty regarding the effects of a very uncertain novel technology. The fact is that without the emergency of the pandemic, these vaccines would NEVER have been approved.

Now mention pharmaceutical companies are trying to push vaccination onto children - when it is pretty much certain that covid is and will be endemic, and that children are not at any kind of risk from the virus. A vaccine which requires others to be vaccinated to protect recipients of a vaccine is clearly not an effective vaccine.

So I repeat my question: if the vaccines are effective, and the virus is endemic, why does a mandate for healthy individuals make any kind of sense, for a virus with an IFR and epidemiology comparable to the flu? We've been at this for 2 years. Clearly hospitals are no longer being overwhelmed. Stop and think for yourself for just a moment - our institutions are far from infallible; after all, they are ultimately staffed by humans just like you and me. I assure you all of my conclusions are based on reason unlike your (ironic) appeal to groupthink.
so its a company that buys houses and sells them? like a big property dealer who wants more profits by buying and selling as opposed to just commission? cool.
Subaru Disables Starlink in 2022 Vehicles to Comply with Right to Repair Law
I disagree.

I got the vaccine hoping it would make travelling easier and because I don't want to spend money on useless tests. Too bad I ended up having to get tested anyway.
In an ideal world, one would expect nuclear tech or financing be addressed in global forums, like say cop26. But, from leaked reports, India was complaining that the cop report is demonizing nuclear and wants nuclear included in the solutions to climate change. Highly doubt India would get any traction on that.
Along with playing nicer with open source.

The thing I probably find most impressive is that they have been able to do so well as a business while basically losing mobile--which I'm not sure I would have thought was possible.
Big government is always big government--severe, unapologetic, and poorly-directed. It's bizarre watching various coalitions form to defend it.
It's probably better in SB than just about anywhere else, since you can quite literally always just go outside. I think that's almost part of the "point" here. To try to demotivate students from sitting in their rooms. I don't like that approach at all, but I actually don't think windowless bedrooms are the worst thing in the world.

I had a windowless dorm room for a year in a very cold northeastern city where I couldn't realistically spend time outside for most of the year. It was attached to a windowed suite common room and I liked my roommates, so it was no big deal. I think I would have suffered a lot had I been a real social recluse, though.
That was me, too. But I'm trying to make it up to her now.

There is no manual on how to be a parent. Don't tell our kids that we're making it up as we go.
So I've observed something from many of the tests/reviews posted so far, as well as Apple's specs: Apple claims 200GBps memory bandwidth for the M1 Pro, and 400GBps for the M1 Max. Some tests show the M1 Max saturating the memory bandwidth between 200 - 240 GBps rates.

Maybe someone who understands better than me can explain these observations:

1. DDR5 RAM is supposedly 36-38GBps bandwidth, DDR4 3200 is about 25.6GBps bandwidth. (Supposedly Alder Lake is the first chipset to support DDR5.)
2. Maybe the 200-400 GBps rate advertised is the entire bus bandwidth for the SoC? If this is actual memory bandwidth, then Apple increased that bus speed 5-15x!
3. Maybe Apple divided the RAM into additional banks with more lanes to increase the bandwidth?

I've been very irritated by the pricing, but if Apple figured out how to optimize the memory bandwidth this much then maybe it's worth the extra cost per GB.

Did I catch on to something majorly different here?
It's not completely clear what they plan to do with the personal information they are collecting.

Note also the pre-checked "Opt in to email updates from Fight for the Future, OpenMedia, RootsAction.org, Win Without War , Accountable Tech, Presente.org, and Action Center on Race and the Economy"
All the tech compagnies have increased in value over the last 10 years, not sure the board of director have anything to do, or their CEO.

Is there a single major tech compagny that has lost valuation?
FYI anyone curious about what this link is: it’s a “please sign our petition” page and that’s it.
There's a few VR reviews on YouTube. Many things break for a lot of the user base. One reviewer has been through three headsets and a bunch of controllers. The RMA process is good.
It was not just strategy but also culture. MSFT internal working dynamics used to be depicted as in the image [1]. This was also corroborated at that time by some of my friends working there.

Now the same friends admit that there is a lot improvement in this regard since Satya came on-board.

[1] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/500e2d14e4b042...
This also happened in 2019 as we well. These two companies have been trading places as most valuable company for a while now.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/07/19/microsoft-...
Interesting.. Would this be effective at loading a remote CSV file with a million rows, then performing basic GROUP BY COUNTs on it so I can render bar charts?

I’ve been thinking of using absurd-sql for it since I saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28156831 last week
> Building engineers ensure everything is to code. Architects fret about whether it looks and feels right.

The idea that architects don't worry about building code is absolutely incorrect on a project of any scale.

Prima donna "starchitects" worry less, but that's because they've hired other architects to handle it.
Google provides two definitions for "expectation"

(a) a strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future.

(b) a belief that someone will or should achieve something.

The first is a descriptive expectation. A statement about what you think _will be_. The second is a prescriptive expectation. A statement about what you think _should be_.

I think the person is trying to point out that in this context, "expectation" is a descriptive expectation, rather than a prescriptive one.

If you interpreted it as a prescriptive expectation the other meaning of the sentence might be something like "47% is less than the number _desired_ by analysts"
> "when you have trustworthy institutions"

Quite. But what if you don't have access to trustworthy institutions? Or what if you need to coordinate between trustworthy institutions that either don't work together or don't share mutual trust? What if you distrust the very currency the institution does business with?

Your point is correct. If you trust the institutions all the way down, trustless is complicated and unnecessary. If you don't trust the institutions, what are your other options?
For once the threat they're scaremongering about actually does kill people, not that the police drones and patrols keep people alive when cops here refuse to wear masks or get vaccinated...
The more serious charges didn't expire, they were dropped.
"It’s not clear when the funds will be returned to Warren, but prosecutors said that they will “make all best efforts” to do so by Thanksgiving"

Insult to injury. They took his money within a few mins of meeting him. This shouldn't happen in the first place, but they should have to return the money within 72 hours of verdict/resolution.