skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dormitories typically have a terrible problem with their one-way doors getting mysteriously blocked. In my college dorm, they were chained shut. This was to prevent people from opening up an egress door from the inside and getting alcohol from the people on the outside. Also the hatch on the top of the elevators was nailed shut.
An overall valid argument, but there are also other vantage points to consider.

Take for instance providers' backlogs. Anyone having studied process scheduling knows how the size of your tasks, precedence, interruptibility, number of processors, and scheduling algorithm make a huge difference. The covid disruption affected all those factors.
The regulations may have been written with architectural rules of thumb in mind, as in, "surely no one would..."
I really enjoyed reading this the clear and concise way of explanation as documentation.

While I was totally not interested in a hash function whatsoever, I read the whole thing :)
Thanks. To challenge that a little, MUDS certainly felt pretty real. Somebody wrote a book about a rape in LambdaMOO. [My Tiny Life.] I'm still confused about what's a metaverse and what's something like Second Life.
...and I am working in a warehouse-style building at a Silicon Valley startup. All the windows have been blacked out, to keep the IP safe. It's a little like being inside a Borg Cube.
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Most people don't live in an office, only spend there 8-ish hours per day.
Go to your nearest grocery, hardware, or department store, head to the back on the day that a truck comes, and look around.
Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it exists. You fell into the argument from ignorance fallacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
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I’ve printed his entry and there are some neat tricks I learned, but ‘stage 3’, where, according to his comments, a bytecode interpreter is used, is still beyond my understanding. Also not sure why this helps, a bytecode interpreter sounds like a lot of overhead to me…
I’m curious too about the differences between Murmurhash and xxHash. I’ve been using Murmur in my side projects.
Do you think adding qualifiers makes the point any clearer? I think it just makes it harder to read. Accessibility options in video games do nothing for new born babies or people in a vegetative state, but that doesn't really need to be said.
I do not have a problem with 4,500 students in a dormitory, it reminds me of a large resort hotel, but each room must have a window. Not just for sanity but safety.
It‘s strange that this isn‘t a law. Everywhere where I‘ve lived in the US, windows are required in a room with a bed.

I can‘t imagine it wouldn‘t be very pleasant, as an example, someone smoking weed inside a dorm next to me without a way to vent it out.
I think this is a general problem that's common among people with specialized expertise. This kind of problem is common among engineers, lawyers, and doctors as well.
I agree Zuckerberg had probably been thinking about it, particularly since Snow Crash is assigned reading for some of his employees.

It seems, though, that the timeline was moved up dramatically to both distract from other Facebook-related news, and to escape from the toxic branding that is Facebook at this point.

Switching to a name which is already a common english word with many uses, seems like an attempt to make future criticism more confusing, as well.
Two people didn’t commit a crime together. Parent’s argument is that Assange didn’t commit any crime, because publishing secrets isn’t illegal, only when you’ve agreed to keep it secret (security clearance) can you be prosecuted.

Assange is not party to such an agreement.
> Pending sales are updated as soon as it's A/O

The status is updated, but is the purchase price entered when a purchase agreement is signed? AFAIK, the purchase price is eventually entered, but there's a lag.
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Yep. We used to hire remotely in Nigeria, and that was almost always the case. The ones that we wanted to keep always got to richer countries and multiplied their prices.
There is no evidence of hacking tools used by Assange, or offered by Assange to Chelsea.
Unless you consider secure drop hacking.
But then many other journalists are hacking too.

And that's the point - to have a chilling effect on the press.
You’ve gotta do something about the boomers sooner than that if you want to inherit a living planet. The thing that makes Gen X as a group ineffective is that it’s a much smaller cohort than boomers or millenials. Boomers didn’t have enough babies to replace themselves, narcissistic fucks.

OTOH, maybe generations are just astrology for journalists.
FWIW, I am intrigued enough by this that I decided to reach out to SBFD and inquire as to their position (if any) on this proposal. I just sent the following email to several of their fire prevention / inspections / public info people. If/when I hear back, I'll update you all. Or heck, maybe one of them will sign up for an HN account and post something. That would be interesting.

----

> SBFire:

> Hi, I have a question I hope you can help me with. I

> stumbled across an article about the proposed UCSB "Munger

> Hall" on an Internet forum that I frequent.

> https://www.independent.com/2021/10/28/architect-resigns-in-...

> As a former firefighter myself, I got some serious bad

> vibes from the way this building was described. I made a

> comment about my concerns which sparked (no pun intended)

> a lot of discussion about fire safety, building codes,

> etc.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29038356

> As it happens, the original article was somewhat light on

> details about the fire safety aspects of the building. So

> I wanted to reach out to you and simply ask "From an SB

> Fire perspective, has this building design been reviewed,

> and - if so - are there any outstanding concerns from a

> fire/life safety viewpoint?"

> I'm particularly interested in knowing if there are any

> concerns around the number of entrances / egress points,

> the proposal for interior bedrooms with no windows, and

> whether or not this structure would be sprinklered.

> Thank you kindly!
> At this point, “plug in and hope for the best” is the unofficial USB-C slogan.

It's a real shame.
Please elaborate on how that's responsive to my comment. Again, not really sure a possible 2 year pandemic is especially significant in the 50 year design life of a building. Even if it sits empty for 4% of its life with 100% probability (generous), you still get 96% (48 years) of use out of it.
The real question here is if most states would even want that. Despite the downsides of the national government, there's a lot of benefits as well. As a newly formed country, a state would have to fund a military, pay for infrastructure currently paid for by the US government, devise their own type of social security (or not, but that money would be lost to the union that is left), ensure that the citizen's money is held in banks in the given state, create new passports, grow their own food or otherwise negotiate trade agreements, etc.
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That was a pretty rude dismissal of a fraction of my experiences during all of this. You might want to reflect on what WFH has done to your social skills.
I think I was just sticking on the gp's "In my mind STEM topics exist on a scale that has math at one end..."

Especially with the first supporting evidence being that order matters on how you mix things. Only in very elementary math, it seems, is that not the case. Yet, we stick on that heavily.

That is, I wasn't trying to counter the point. I intend my point to be a further exploration on why that makes things feel more complicated. Near mystical, in that we can't always explain why an order is important. Sometimes we can, of course.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18262627
only by people who don’t understand the science of fires.

Fires need three things: fuel, oxygen, heat, and two are effected by humans.

Heat: PGE, Lightning, Vehicle fires etc. all statistically provide opportunities for heat.

Fuel: There is an order of magnitude more fuel than a century ago.
If your meeting attendees are zoned out, they either need to be held accountable for not being attentive, or they shouldn't have been invited in the first place.
What about the argument that our existence is some evidence that a Bayesian estimates of p can't be so small that N p is less than one?

You're focusing on (lack of) evidence for a mechanistic explanation but that's not exhaustive.
I think there are crates that enable it, but like via 3p stuff like redis (but I don't know enough about rust to be certain)
There are differences from the shuttle's tiles, but they are much more similar than different.

Rapid turnaround seems at this stage more an aspiration than a designed feature. It was the same with the shuttle. In that case it was never achieved at all, even with decades of experience.

Turnaround and reuse are desirable, particularly to minimize cost, but not strictly necessary for a successful mission.
I agree with OP for regular wired Oculus devices. They are essentially monitors, and I wouldn't expect to have to have an account in order to use a dumb peripheral. For the Quest, you're right, it's more like a computer system with OS, apps, etc. I'd still rather be able to use it without an account, and only create an account if I wanted to interact with online services like apps and games.
No you stop bullshitting.

The problem you lament are due to covid, not due to wfh.

And covid it's not an incident, its a f-ing global pandemic.
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Is there a local jurisdiction in this country that approves permits without checking if they‘re valid for the local fire code? That just doesn‘t pass the smell test.

My alma mater had to go back and redo a building based on fire marshal concerns.
Which is great except 50% of people are introverts and need space to recharge. How many people live like this in real life? That speaks to the choice of hanging out followed by "leave me alone".

It sounds like an experiment but it could probably have been done slightly further "away from home" if it was about collaboration. Just have places to encourage people to hang out if they want to and not if they don't. Forcing them just feels like mental breakdown waiting-to-happen.
I've heard about a system in Germany where local government pays restaurants to allow the public to use their toilets. It's cheaper for the government than erecting public toilets and covers extra cleaning costs for the restaurants.

https://www.die-nette-toilette.de/
Or because we don't want literally filthy, mentally ill, drugged out people using our bathroom. It's not my job to clean up after those people.
I see a lot of criticisms by people with a long history of wood buildings(which burns), painted(which burns), wooden furniture with foam(which burns).
Is this building made totally out of non combustable components which will not create toxic fumes if intentionally doused with gasoline. This means all furniture, floor covers, lights etc simply will not burn.
Then they have sprinklers as well. Windows, Bill Gates has some rooms with no windows at all, but they do have huge screens on which lessons, movies, travelogs, and even the view from any place on the property at any time of day or date. How would you like to have a screen of a warm sunny day in June to look at on a dreary January day?

We have seen the result of aged construction codes unable to adapt to this modern age. This dorm looks to have been well thought out as an experimental future habitat, with fire safety and access thought out, exits, air exchange, heat exchange all dealt with adequately
Well let's get some edumacation goin here, you can be wireless.
Tracking is night and day on a vive vs. fb trash device. Are you really running around with a vr headset on? No, you mostly stay in one area and usually the same one. My vive pro not only has insanely good tracking. The video is amazing and the tracking, you can't say enough good things about it.
Vive costs more because it's that much better. So while I'd buy the facebook trash costs less, that's the only reason to get one. Not even imo, fact.
The problem is that X was created over decades for very different eras of computers and it doesn’t really make sense to keep modifying it — there are design limitations to it, and the accumulated complexity has made it unmaintainable. X maintainers have abandoned it and told people to migrate to Wayland. Sometimes you just need a clean slate.
It’s a feature, not a bug. The monied classes/aristocracy use the good times to pad their coffers and make the plebs feel like they can succeed and then they hunker down and wait out the bad times in their castles and mansions while the plebs fight for king and country because the aristocrats/monarchs got bored and kicked off a war, the plebs get sick and die while the rulers/owners stay safe by sending their servants into harms way out to attend to their external needs, or the plebs starve in the self-inflicted financial collapse.

Sometimes you get all three in quick succession like the early 20th century.
because fear = control

the end.
I can vouch for xxHash (it does what it says on the can), but I'm really curious to hear from who have experience with meow hash.
I think the general concept of the one way exit door is rescuable from the mistakes of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire.
Such a fascinating point that I did not think about, it seems this is related to competing theories what world was first; RNA world vs Protein World (may be even both).
Nowadays the visual studio updates are quite small for my workload with C++ tools.
This is the real answer, your shadow profile will become your public profile. No more pretending your IG and WhatsApp are siloed.

More just instead of a star with each on a spoke and FB in the middle, Meta will be in the middle and FB just another spoke.
To be clear, I quite like Swift and did from day 1. Granted I’ve only tinkered with it. What I didn’t like was interacting with Cocoa APIs. I found it difficult to use Swift’s protocols and structs in a FP style, because Cocoa isn’t designed that way.

I imagine this has gotten a lot better since, particularly with stuff like Swift UI. That said, I’d personally find Swift more compelling to use as a server language.
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I think the massive difference between income and capital gains taxes plays a huge role - especially when you get into the .1% where a substantial portion of wealth and income lie.

All of this funny stuff is mostly people trying everything they can to get capital gains instead of income so they can pay a 25% tax rate instead of a 39% tax rate. When you're talking about billions of dollars - 14% is a lot of money.

From the perspective of the average person - the tax code probably makes sense. If you already pay 39% tax on your income, and THEN you have to pay 39% on your capital gains and half of your capital gains are actually just inflation - it's like you're getting taxed on your tax! True inflation has likely been ~4% since 2008. The S&P average is ~7.25% per year. So half of the "capital gains" the ordinary index fund investor would pay are just inflation.

But the .1% are different. You don't make it into the .1% with a ~7.25% return and a laborer's salary. You need to be making ~30%+ returns for decades. Or, ~10,000% for a few years (a lot of the successful VC-funded entrepreneurs).

Half of their capital gains aren't inflation. Barely any of it are. Effectively, there tax rate is ridiculous low compared to the average Joe.

And what's worst - the Fed is causing so much of that inflation. Would Tesla be a $1.1T company today if the Fed wasn't pumping up asset prices, lowering interest rates, and making future cash-flows absurdly and artificially valuable? No. And yet, Elon Musk gets to make $100Bn on paper - and he can take loans against those gains with <3% interest and never pay ANY taxes.

It really seems like this is a completely separate world - and it's >30% of US wealth - and it should be dealt with separately.
>I got to see other people, even if they weren't strictly friends. Hell, I went outside on a regular basis!

all of the complaints about remote work are more about the pandemic rather than remote work
Apropos name.
Hackers are just tech debt collectors.

* Not my joke. It was a co-worker's.
Cool, to an outsider, would you recommend studying Domain Theory side by side with Category Theory, or is the latter a prerequisite of the former?
No the accusation is conspiring with Chelsea basically for intrusion, but there is no evidence that such happen.

Chelsea was willing and capable of doing it on her own.
Ah yes, let‘s make the students paying out the butt pay for an expensive lamp in a room that barely fits in said room.
Why aint anyone blaming the "Me Generation" for the current crap?

The kids who were really invested in the difference between Disco and KISS and AC/DC; and have yet to forge any closer connection to reality even though they're the people in charge of shit now?

The folks writing paeans to the Quaalude and taking full advantage of the modern pharmacopeia to make sure those pesky pains of reailty biting them dont actually affect their groove.

Them bastards are to blame, yeah thats it.
i find it easier to speak up in front of people way above my pay grade. the digital barrier erases all of what i would call the "scary boss" intimidation. allows me to ask more pointed questions no matter who is in the teams "room"
Not an expert but wondering why Methane was used as a precursor for the experiment since its an organic compound.
Was the idea not to produce organic compunds from purely inorganic ones?
> You're assuming those laws are adequate.

This is getting toward conspiracy theory territory. It's... a building code. Yes. Yes, I tend to trust building codes that have been keeping all of us safe in our homes and offices for the better part of a century. If building codes don't work, then where are the disasters in all the other buildings? You're saying that every other building in the USA in the 20th century "just happened" to be built safely, despite a thousand year history of terrible urban fires, and that regulation had nothing to do with it?
> It is debatable if what he did should be considered Journalism.

How so? How is what he did any different than the New York Times publishing whistleblower documents? It's only "debatable" because the media he's in competition with says it is.
It's illuminating to read this article's HTML: (Apologies, non-monospaced)

However, this also meant that characters which differ in appearance across languages, such as

<span xml:lang="ja" lang="ja">刃</span>

and

<span xml:lang="zh-Hans" lang="zh-Hans">刃</span>

and

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were given <strong>identical code points!</strong>
With an FPGA attached for faster SHA3 that 400GB/s could be used to great effect.
This design came from an amateur architect, someone who has never designed ANY building before and is surely clueless about safety laws and even basic physical structural limits. To imagine the design has seen anywhere sufficient review by others who DO know what they're doing is assuming a lot.

All this just to save $200/1500 (13%)? You can get a better discount than that at any retailer.
Thinking you just inherit power while waiting patiently for your turn is why GenX is going to be ignored by millennials and zoomers.
An apartment for $800K is understandable. A small bedroom @ $333K is not.

If they already own the building, it is only construction costs whereas buying an apartment is possibly extortionate land or property prices from the current owner, which is purely demand-driven.
The vast majority of app income is from apps that make more than $1 million a year.
Your exposition of UK law is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Edit: Edited to remove extraneous (now) material.
It's a very good explanation because we think that's why domesticated dogs developed expressive brows: https://www.inverse.com/article/56744-dog-eyebrow-expression...

I hesitate on this explanation in this specific case just because the reason that we think head tilting is cute in dogs is because we also do it - and IMO we also do it when we're remembering something successfully - so I'd check for it in non-domesticated animals (wolves) and in other mammals.
Swift Actors are an important contribution to the Actor Paradigm.

There is is an upcoming keynote address on the Actor Paradigm at the Linux 30th Anniversary Conference. See

https://reactivesummit2021.sched.com
It was just a joke, perhaps a not very good one.
That sounds nice. By contrast, the US makes moving goods between two US ports illegal.

Okay, it doesn't technically do that, the Jones Act just requires you to use a US-owned US-built US-crewed US-operated ship. These ships, in general, don't exist. Oh, sure, there are a few that go back and forth to Puerto Rico, and there are a few wastewater ships running up and down the East River in New York, but no one would dream of using ships like these for general cargo. They are not up to modern container-shipping standards. Puerto Rico pays a premium for a few of these freighters and tankers but generally does more to import goods from the Caribbean and Central America than from the US; when there are hurricanes, the President has to issue a waiver so they can move disaster recovery supplies in from the mainland.

Fish shipped from Alaska are unloaded on the east coast in Canada, where they put on trucks, and the trucks are put on a carrier train which makes a round trip back and forth for the length of the cargo terminal to qualify as being "shipped by Canadian rail" for US legal purposes, and then the trucks drive into the US with the fish. A related law afflicts cruise ships, which always stop somewhere in Canada, Alaska, or the Caribbean, on their way between US ports.

One of the premises of the Jones Act was that it will preserve American shipbuilding for national security™ purposes. This has more or less utterly failed. However, Joe Biden's campaign promises specfically called out fortifying the Jones Act so that it would be even stronger, so, don't hold your breath on change.
In the eyes of the Supreme Court, games consoles are not general-purpose computers. Even if they were, Apple still drives wider margins than any of these console manufacturers do. The cost to manufacture an iPhone is about 40% it's retail price. The cost to manufacture a game console is ~90-105% it's MSRP. Without the ability to drive hardware margins, they stand a lot better chance in court than Apple does.
Amazing! that's great to hear.
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So are the greatest generation bad and the boomers good?

This is a silly way to look at things I think. Without a solid definition of time, its just the tautology of the good times and bad times being the only states and then blaming the people of those times.
You might be surprised. Fire regulations are very much a local issue and there can be a lot of variance (although many local municipalities base their codes on standards put out by bodies like the NFPA, etc.).

There are quite frequently things that one might intuitively expect to be in the regs, that aren't. Requirements for sprinklers, for example. As surprising as it may seem, there are still lots of places where sprinklers are not required in many buildings.

I don't know the situation in Santa Barbara, but I did email their fire department earlier with an inquiry about this topic. Hoping to hear something back.
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Curious he didn't reply to you isn't it dvdkhlng.