skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Allowing some/any assets from other games to be available in a specific game would be a design decision. Just another game mechanic that game developers could incorporate.

> This only makes sense for like gambling games / other financial stuff that values those items as a substitute for money.

Here's another scenario outside of gaming - suppose I once bought some content on Apple Music, but now use some other platform. If music streaming services stored ownership information on a public ledger, then those permissions (and possibly playlists) could just be imported into arbitrary platforms. What's better, startups that build a better experience than Apple Music could access that data without Apple's permission.

The core idea is that the end-user owns their data by default (ie, no explicit export); not the 3rd party platform.

It's reasonable to doubt that Apple would want to allow this, of course - they do seem to like their walled gardens. But it does give another concrete example.

I'm going to reiterate my main point - a public ledger that no particular party can control is the only mechanism that I see for avoiding vender lock-in as we (for better or worse) lean ever more heavily into online and virtual systems.

EDIT: Tried to reword to make my point more clear
Secoda is different from ThoughtSpot in a few ways:

1. It is likely that you'll need to setup a 1:1 meeting with a ThoughtSpot expert to help get your company up and running on the software. Our goal with Secoda is to be a self-service platform that is designed for any company, large or small, to get their data knowledge base setup in 5 minutes.

2. ThoughtSpot's price point is typically in the six figure range, which is much higher than Secoda's price point that starts at $29/editor on the platform.

3. Thoughtspot's core focus is providing answers to data questions through visualizations. Secoda takes a more comprehensive approach to documenting data knowledge. In addition to having visualizations that help answer questions, we also provide a shared data dictionary for defining metrics, as well as a catalog that can store tables, dashboards, jobs, and many other data resources.
> Would you have voted for a party that spent $1b annually on mask manufacturing subsidies for masks nobody even bought? Who could have foreseen that demand spike?

Many people did (only at the $450MM level/annually). It was considered standard practice to have the federal government purchase large quantities of N95 masks to have in case of an emergency. GWB started the program, and Obama distributed 100,000,000 masks during the H1N1 crisis from the stockpile. I will say that restocking the pile took a cut after 2010, Congress cut its funding and Obama's team didn't fight for it. And what funding they did get didn't seem to get prioritized into masks.
The dorm I lived in undergrad had a variant of that common area arrangement--though rooms had windows and they weren't all singles. I definitely preferred it to the anonymous corridor approach. Not to defend this particular design for a number of reasons, but having a variety of rooms clustered around shared spaces is pretty common: https://capitalprojects.mit.edu/projects/new-residence-hall
> his could be done by no longer permitting commissions on the sale of real estate for example and by only allowing for a small fixed fee in a transaction, e.g. $500. One of the main problems with the rising cost is the realtors who constantly jack up the price artifically.

Nonsense, the sellers' agent does not own the property and the buyers agent does not put up the money to purchase it. They are facilitating a large transaction of money between two wealthy parties. Those two wealthy parties still exist, and still want to transact properties, even if you take out the middle man that facilitate the transaction.
Honestly a lot of this sounds a lot like having normal healthy boundaries at work.
DuckDB is columnar, so in theory a lot faster than Postgres or SQL server for Analytical workloads.

DuckDB is to Clickhouse, TimescaleDB, Redshift, etc as SQLite is to Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server.
Well, they can’t say it because it’s not true. The Paris agreement is associated with a substantial change in our “current policies” climate trajectory (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/10/25/climate/world...), and that was before a large paradigm shift in the cost of renewables.
A simple way to preserve it is to scan it and rip it and upload it all to archive.org.

https://archive.org/details/cd-roms
That won't prevent you from getting subscribed to newsletters.

There are parts of life where discipline is good for you (diet, exercise, etc). For unsubscribing and not signing up? Not really. Why be disciplined about it when there's a simpler solution?
Pot calling the kettle black doesn't make the pot less so, and is more than a little ironic.
I liked this tweet of the thread: "Almost nobody has any employee loyalty because they haven't been willing to take care of their people through thick and thin of business, and thus they can't staff up quickly to meet surging demand. All businesses now complain about employee loyalty, but have we earned it?"

It's hard to find someone loyal to their employer. The only loyal low level workers that I know they work in the public sector or NGO. Is this a usual feeling in other countries?
I wouldn't say the housing market in Ann Arbor has a fair bit of choice. The vast majority of undergrads live in frat style 7+ bedroom houses. There really aren't a huge number of 1 or even 2 bedroom apartments available, and what does exist is either incredibly run down or 2k+ a month in a high rise building that grad students can't afford.

North campus has better 1/2 bed options, but only engineering and art students would be there.
We know approximately the lower bound of N, which is the approximate number of stars in the observable universe multiplied by an informed estimate of the expected number of planets within the goldilocks zone. That's usually what people mean when they discuss N. N could be that, or it could be much much larger, but I think it's fine to limit the discussion to the lower bound, we still have a huge N to work with.

Also I think you missed my point which is about Bayesian estimation of p, not of N.
you can just curl the article to get past the paywall
The states that are so quick to secede are likely shooting themselves in their feet when it comes to support from the federal government(1). Having driven through most of the country, when you get to areas like South Dakota, they don't have much industry besides cattle, tourism, mining or storing ICBMs. Leaving the US potentially neuters their own tourism industries and introduces all types of logistical issues.

As much noise as red states like to make, many would probably still be hunter gatherers traversing the plains on their rutted dirt roads if not for the technologies and/or subsidies provided by their despised city dwelling "coastal elites."

(1)https://apnews.com/article/north-america-business-local-taxe...
I found the ambiguity in toki pona too much a hurdle when I was trying to use it some years ago. The best minimalist conlang I ever found was Angos

https://qdoc.tips/angos-grammar-pdf-free.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/angos/

I couldn't really get into it though. Nowadays, it's all about ido!
Vue.js Computed Properties Not Re-Computing?
It's made quite clear every summer that Apple has a stranglehold on the language steering committee. When a new language feature that just so happen to enable a closed-source Apple framework drops out of the blue and then goes through a retroactive pseudo-open review.

Frankly, this distributed actors thing is more of the same -- it's something that someone at Apple thinks is important, so, despite it being just a library, it gets active support from the compiler and OS teams. There's absolutely no way that an outsider could have gotten anywhere proposing anything like this.

I like Apple's platforms and enjoy working with the language as well, but the openness is rather a charade.
Mostly SteamVR datamining. But it's a reasonable thing to do and SteamDeck looks like a nice byproduct.
They also post frequently about making Garum on their Instagram, @nomaprojects. One of my favorite accounts to follow
> From my point-of-view as a former firefighter, I would say this:

> A building meant to house 4500 students, with only two entrances?

I would think that, you being a former firefighter, you’d know that exits (for regular use and, even more so, emergency exits) are not the same thing as (are generally a superset of) entrances.

The plans for the building [0] show 10 escape stairs with dedicated exits (including the four which also have doors onto the two main entrance lobbies for regular use) and dozens of additional first-floor exit doors.

> One of those details would be the presence of a sprinkler system. IF local building codes require sprinklers in dormitories

State building codes in California have for new construction for more than 30 years (heck, California has, for a decade, required them for new single family homes, too.)

If the resigning architect could have plausibly raised the argument “this building will either get everyone killed in a fire or never be allowed by the fire marshal to be occupied because it flagrantly breaks the most basic fire code requirements”, they probably would have led with that rather than fuzzy social and psychological concerns.

[0] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gb5DVYUPyNj2JYla5B_dL4-Ke-j...
There was a documentary on self cleaning ones in New York.
From what I recall they got so bad that even drug users didn’t want to use them.

Plus they were extremely expensive.
This was 20 years ago.
Can you elaborate on the initial promise of smart contracts?
Yes they are a measurable proxy. But if you read the article and look at break thru infections and hospitalizations you see that t-cell immunity is either waning or not relevant.
The last part of the post - on the arc of history, and its perception by various groups - is pretty insightful.

But the majority of the post is simply a short biography of Marshall's career.

FTR, I deeply admire Marshall. But the post doesn't live up to the title. I'd much rather have useful information on how to be a social engineer
That's been my experience as well as a manager of Zers. Yes, there are a few who have drunk the wokeism koolaid and crave the attention they get for the "cause du jour". But most, especially in dev, just want to focus on their careers and on solving interesting problems, and they are happy to leave divisive political activism at the door, or at the moment of selecting which company's mission to join.
Bringing Geek Back: Q&A with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger
“The Possibility of Bigger Bangs”
I think the core issue is the younger generation sees that the American Dream is bullshit and they aren't putting up with it anymore.

We're told from a young age that if you get educated and work hard you will be successful. You will be able to buy a house.

So, Gen Z gets a degree and is released into the hellscape that is the current state of American society. 40+ hour work weeks that are incredibly stressful, with bosses and companies who do not care about you at all. Rent, health care, child care, student loans - impossible to afford all these things on their low salaries, and when the business they work for is probably making as much profit in the history of the company, they see it as extremely unfair.

Vacation days? Time off? Barely any, deal with it. Getting called in on your day off? Part of the job.

And the worst part is all around them they hear boomers and older people tell them that this is normal. "Oh you're just weak and complaining. I had it worse in my day. You have an iPhone, Netflix, and Starbucks, you're living in luxury!"

Gen Z looks around and says - wait, is this really it? Is this what I've been preparing for my entire childhood? To just be miserable all week and have 2 measly days off that is barely enough time to do all the non-work stuff that needs doing like cleaning, bills, shopping? I see my coworkers 100x more than my family and friends. I get 2 weeks of vacation EVERY YEAR. I can barely afford to share an apartment let alone buy a house.

And I'm supposed to do this for 40 more years??? This is Life?

Fuck that

Oh, and to top it all off, they're inheriting the mess that is climate change.
You are me. We had cubicle walls that were so short they didn't make any difference with noise because half the employees were on their feet while having conversations away. Constant talking. It was endless. Non stop complaining about significant others. Thankfully I had an hour lunch to get away for awhile.

We overheard every call because it was cubicle after cubicle in one big room. But hey! Let's complain about the customer that we just overheard you talking to for 30 minutes. Let's relive it after every call. Man.

Hey yeah, let's have our personal cell phone alert tone be a Linkin Park song at the loudest possible volume and always leave on their desk next to you. What a hell hole.

Micromanagement? You got it! You haven't experienced pedantry until you've met my supervisor. If you misspeak a word he pretends to not understand what you mean until you've re-spoken it in a way he understands. Now that we converse over chat/email almost entirely that ridiculous behavior has subsided.

They rarely cleaned the bathrooms thoroughly. One urinal. One stall. Just gross.

Microwave encrusted with who knows what. Janitors don't clean microwaves I guess?

I'm not one of those people that has very specific temperature needs. But of course we had one of those people that was very underweight in the office that needed it to be much warmer than normal. Why can't those people just wear more layers of clothing and not make the rest us suffer in sweat?

Parking? Okay that was close. If you can find a spot.
I will never go back to the office. I will also quit my job first.
"Here, have a sense of freedom. Something Apple will never give you."
The sale price isn't available until close.

Knowing that an offer was accepted and how fast it was accepted is useful, but what you really want to know is "for how much."

Even if you make an offer and it is rejected or another offer is accepted you and your agent have no idea how far off you were.
Munger Hall, more like Munger Hell!

I feel claustrophobic even if I’m in windowed room where the windows don’t open.

You basically have to cross your fingers and pray that the HVAC system is superb and will remain superb indefinitely and without fail.

Oh well, I guess this is fitting on many levels - it’s a reflection of the psychological boxes universities shove their students into, it’s an extension of how California promises utopia and then delivers dystopia, and it’s an example of the weakened minds and resolve of Santa Barbarans.
Smaller reactors (which may be, but are not necessarily, "modular") should help with both the build time and cost overrun issue.

The USA has been successfully building small reactors on time, on budget, more or less continuously since the 1950s - they've just been going into warships and submarines and not commercial generating stations.
The ones that kill people or cause loss of value are, criminal and civil respectively. You go to court for them, and either go to jail or compensate the victim for their loss (or sometimes both, depending on the bug and the intent and actions around it).
The Harder They Fall – Army of Thieves – Swagger – Fairfax
>for embarrasing an oil company abroad

For criminal contempt of court, in a very scrutinized and controversial decision that is freely debated and will be settled case law when it's through the process.

>USA has refused to extradite Warren Martin Anderson

Citing lack of evidence.

>You chance of going to jail is inversely proportional to how wealthy you are:

You ability to hire good lawyers is proportional to how wealthy you are.

It's unclear what these tidbits are supposed to illustrate. Failing to effectively remedy inequality with pro bono legal aid means your country's judicial system is flawed, and judges make arguable and controversial decisions. This does not mean the country is not governed by law.
We need more identity politics? Really?
Even in the US having living quarters with no windows must be illegal. It’s dumb enough that people are allowed to work in offices with no windows, but this has to be illegal.
10 years later we still are. And yes. Very very tired.
Making up stuff is half true at best too but whatever, have a nice day you too :)
So much of this bullshit about beef between generations is really just beef with people in their 20s, 30s, 40s, etc.

Tired of people trying to pit us against each other because we're in different stages of life.
Maybe I should read it again, this did not answer the question posed.
DuckDB-wasm is targeting the browser so it's not directly competing with Pandas (that's the job of native DuckDB).

It's targeting use cases where you want to push analytical computation away from servers into the client (browser).

Lets me sketch 2 examples:

A) You have your data sitting in S3 and the user-specific data is in a browser-manageable area.

(E.g. this paper from Tableau research actually states dataset sizes that should fall into that category: https://research.tableau.com/sites/default/files/get_real.pd...)

In that scenario, you could eliminate your central server if your clients are smart enough.

B) You are talking about larger dataset sizes (GB) and want to explore them ad-hoc in your browser.

Uploading them is unrealistic and installing additional software is no longer ad-hoc enough.
That's why code is not law. Intent is law.
The concern is especially strong here because of the nature of the building.

In an ordinary apartment building, if you build it stupid, people won't want to live there. Then the landlord won't want to build it that way to begin with and if some fool does it anyway there will be a profit incentive to knock down the building and do it again.

This is a dorm. At at state school. The normal market forces aren't there. The landlord isn't going to be motivated by losing money. The tenants aren't in an ordinary market because dorms are often subsidized or have unique zoning that allows for lower cost than is legally permissible in other available housing and are likely to be closer to the school than other available housing. So you have to exceed a higher threshold of terrible before people will abandon them.
Code is law? hehe

I actually think Smart Contracts have loads of potential beyond all this "number go up" stuff

Here just a few : https://intercoin.org/applications
See front-page discussion of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29036327
Cocoa uses classic MVC, and actually started from NextStep (last century). UIKit smoothed it out a bit, but it’s still MVC/OO, under the hood.

SwiftUI was developed from the ground, up, to use FP concepts, and things like Protocol-Oriented Programming.

I’m looking forward to learning it, but the fact that most of the Apple world runs on tech from a design that was developed in the 1980s, should be an object lesson in the structural integrity of “classic” OO, and the MVC pattern.

We rubbish the past at our peril.
IMO it's a form of ageism, but given that most of these articles are written by 20-somethings at Buzzfeed and the Verge, there's zero incentive for that angle to be highlighted, as none of them have personal empathy for it.
While the story was about the architect's resignation, there's got to be a story here. Why would the school spend a billion dollars and tie its hands like this (circumventing its own review process and providing input for needed changes) to get a 200 million "gift"?

Did the university believe it couldn't otherwise house 4500 students for a billion dollars? Were there considerations involved other than student housing?
I wish architects showed the same level of concern for office workers!

Kidding aside... given the size of the bedrooms, I get the impression that the students aren't meant to spend much time there aside from whatever amount of sleep college students are getting these days. The rest of their time would probably be spent in common areas that actually do have sunlight. Recalling my personal experience in college, where most of my time was already spent in common areas anyways, I don't see the lack of bedroom windows as that huge a problem.

This particular dorm design also seems to allow for more privacy than a traditional dorm does.
> Sending drawing commands over the wire is WAY more efficient for the vast majority of cases than sending compressed H264 video, and DEFINITELY much lower latency no matter what the codec latency is!

How closely have you profiled this? Back in the early 2000s I found there was a fairly strong divide between the applications which used X in the traditional manner, where sending the command across the wire could potentially be faster modulo loss of parallelism, and the growing number of applications which were doing more of the graphics internally so they could control font rendering, antialiasing, blending, etc. directly and were just slinging bitmaps back and forth. I'd expect that would have gotten worse over time rather than better.
We need laws to save people from themselves and from being taken advantage of.

If fire codes were not a thing, developers would build terrible fire traps and people would rent them. There would inevitably be many deaths; this has happened all throughout history prior to modern building codes (and of course still happens today[1]).

The free market is a lie and impossible; you cannot expect the common person to be an expert on everything. We need (and you should want) baseline standards to ensure a reasonable quality of life for our society - think automobile safety standards and building codes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire
> ...with one very elaborately painted and decorated room like straight out of a horror film.

If it's anything like the abandoned mental health facility I live near, it may have been exactly that: the set for a horror film, meticulously decorated for that purpose.
Oh, locking is what Oracle does. That and hanging because the work of keeping the transaction increases faster than linearly with the amount of data.

You shouldn't get access to prod if you didn't have experience with Oracle. The database is just too fragile to survive inexperienced people changing it.
My dog is blind and does the head tilt when she hears certain noises (e.g. dogs barking). She was not born blind though, in case that could make a difference.
would be the perfect crime to create a hackable platform, hack it and steal your customer's money, quit after a while...
> The context is Gen X is weak. So Gen X is good too?

I don't think you understand the context of the quote at all, this is also the exact opposite of what the quote implies.
> Puppies are soooo much work. And there's so many mature dogs that need rehoming, so why bother.

I definitely feel bad about that. Our last dog was a rescued golden retriever who passed away around the start of the year, and we had our hearts set on another golden. We felt uncomfortable enough with purchasing a dog that we donated the same amount spread out to a few animal rescues, but I still feel a bit guilty.

But we got our last dog when she would’ve been about 5 (she was a stray! How was the sweetest golden in the world a stray!), so we skipped all the puppy and adolescence. We underestimated the puppy stuff.

Antlers are a good idea. We were doing pressed rawhide but she started choking on them for some reason.
It will have sprinklers that’s the code now.
> It seems to me that -xcb-native-painting does the exact opposite of what I "expect Qt to do"?

I was talking about the flag.
Qt by itself can render however you want it to, if someone wanted to make a platform abstraction that would render Qt apps with ncurses that would be possible too.

> it's basically already ready for that scenario (passing pixmaps), isn't it?

sure, if you use it as a local X11 client (or on other platforms than X11) it's what happens too