skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While that is funny, there is power in irrational hatred of the masses.
This here. No more loud principles but what it actually does is more important. The last time I used Facebook it was full of ads, irrelevant posts and news. I rarely saw my friends or families updates anymore.
My personal experience from working with functional languages at my university is that there is a certain familiarity-floor which has to be reached before you start to see the language as elegant. This doesn't even translate between languages - I've now worked with F#, Haskell, LISP and Erlang and all of them have required some practice before their elegance was visible to me, even though certain solutions seem to have a similar "shape" across these languages.
Imagine what you could have accomplished if you didn't have to spend all that time writing an entire large codebase just to make it usable. It's a false assumption that it should require pointless busywork to be useful. You're never getting back the time you've wasted on writing a config for an obsolete editor.
I would rather live here than any of my dorms from college. It’s not like you will spend all, or even most, of your time in the room, especially with the nice shared facilities in the same building. Plus all the other options and opportunities on a college campus.

The complainers are only considering an imaginary ideal alternative, not realistic trade offs.
Funny story about my Metaverse experience...

I assume this will be an unusual opinion, but I'm actually very excited about Metaverse. I probably would not have chosen Facebook as the stewards of the first big VR-world, but I've been waiting a long time for some big co to make an investment in this direction. I think a (little m) metaverse is the obvious evolution for VR and could become ubiquitous.

I left Facebook about 3 years ago, around Cambridge Analytica time. It's bee annoying - very hard to plan events, chat with family, etc. - but I've felt strongly enough that the privacy cost wasn't worth the value.

When I heard about Facebook leaning hard into Metaverse, I immediately ordered an Oculus and signed up for a Facebook account (which is required to use Oculus). The value of being early in potentially the first big metaverse is well worth the privacy cost.

Surprisingly, as soon as I created my account, the account was locked for "not following community standards". I hadn't even seen the feed yet, and I was banned! I appealed the ban, and no dice - now it's permanent.

So now I am permanently locked out of Metaverse, presumably for the crime of not being a long-standing Facebook fan. When I imagine a world where a metaverse is a core piece of society, this sort of corporate gatekeeping is _exactly_ the thing I'd worry about.
Me too, audiobooks really allow you to wallow deep into a subject without distraction. I find the 'zoo radio' format beloved of podcasts a little annoying and often inappropriate for the subject matter - I tried the 'Behind the Bastards' podcast that gets recommended a lot and it was all "whoo! Soviet Russia! J-Stal in da house! Millions dead!", very jarring. I'm sure there are many with more stolid presentation, but mock pissed-up banter seems to be the default.

I do enjoy ones more in the style of radio programmes, or for that matter actual radio programmes.. In Our Time is excellent for short deep dives into all manner of subject.
No, a grocery store is like a sub-developer, buying in bulk and splitting it up.

There is no other physical necessity sold on a time dimension. I cannot rent you water, or rent you food. Once the grocery store has sold a certain amount of food, they have to re-enter the market and buy more. Once a gas station has sold a certain amount of gas, they have to re-enter the market and buy more. Once a sub-developer has sold a certain number of homes, they have to re-enter the market and buy more.

A landlord does not. A landlord is not the same thing.
There’s many towns in the USA where kids can walk to school and shops are walkable, etc. especially on the east coast there are numerous pre-war towns like this.

But your experience is in California, a place notorious for being designed around the highway.
Even Europe is terrible because we have no urbanism except on areas of cultural heritage, square cheap shops, add panels etc. really destroy everything for all.
Matrix has introduced some really neat innovations compared to XMPP:

- decentralized conversations instead of centralized ones

- MEGOLM

- Cross Signing

- monolithic protocol (i.e. one true way of doing things officially)

- easy sync of (encrypted) history between sessions

These are reasons why people use Matrix and not because of misinformation about how private it is
Not true. I got a shared room 10 years ago as an undergraduate in the University of London and I'd have much prefered a private windowless one.
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You can have a window AND a TV

There is no need for a TV to REPLACE the window

Even bird cages have openings. Trapping a student in a hole is rather miserable.
Developers at a large tech company in the US can easily earn 300K per year. This is US specific, but working at one of these companies isn’t particularly stressful.
I kinda agree, even though until I hit bottom I couldn't change my diet/lifestyle either. The odd part in this is that mushy gray context people live in, they're not bad but improving anything requires losing short term, so things stay in that rounded corner crate.

That said, for anybody in a nice city with enough bike lanes, I cannot stress how nice bike commute is for your life. Saving money, time[0], mental energy while restoring health. That a fractal silver bullet for you.

[0] everytime I tried going to work by car or bus, I left home earlier, arrived late at work, and had to pay for gas or tickets. Insane
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> for the IntelliJ stuff I had to take notes on what I changed where so I could reproduce it.

IntelliJ (and all other variants), stores setting in code (xml) too. It's not as exposed or clean as a single .vimrc or .emacs.d/init file but it does the job. You can easily export the settings or have them auto sync via your jetbrain account.
I love writing elisp, obviously! It wasn't some drudgery for me, it was the whole reason I even got into coding (from using R in emacs) in the first place.

I got into a habit (obsession?) of automating as much as possible everything I repetitively do on a computer by writing elisp. It's essentially my operating system.
I remember someone demanding that we needed to run our Monte Carlo pricer on 1024 paths, that 256 just wasn’t precise enough and one of the risk guys said “Well since we know our assumptions are wrong I’m not sure what difference it makes.”
> The problem is cultural. You see, motorised traffic wins by default, unless there are strict rules to stop that happening.

It's not cultural, motorized traffic wins because it's more powerful.

> Right now a child is being taught to give way to cars because if they don't the car will kill them. Vehicles with enclosed cabs like cars are the worst because the drivers are completely removed from the road. Their experience is not human.

Subways, trams and buses will also kill them, that's just as dangerous.
How are the Barbara databases synchronized - as multiple nodes are mentioned ? The description makes it sound like it's just a large set of pickles in something like a Berkley DB?
Why does it need less code than React?
I think this line of reasoning is completely unsubstantiated. I sleep in a room with a window covered up, which I never open, and it’s just fine. Because I don’t spend my whole day in that room. Asserting that it’s some kind of a giant problem for undergrads to sleep in a windowless room, when that building has plenty of well lit common space with windows, is just absurd.
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It is quite possible not to send presence information at all. I'll say more, we're working on an 'omnipresence' protocol that will advertise only the desired status to the external contacts, and will not leak per-device presences.

This Presence thing works well for always connected clients (desktop), but becomes a huge problem on clients that can't be always connected (iOS ones).
> It's also far outside the purview of the CDC

What? no it isn't. CDC report on a wide range of harm. It's baffling to think the CDC can be funded to research on road traffic deaths but not gun deaths. Or, to use your examples, that they could be funded to research knife deaths but not gun deaths.
The whole romantic scene of a hijacking or theft is plausable. But I also have my money on inside jobs. I knew a truck driver who was a thief. One story:

PS2 is released. He goes to the Bestbuy warehouse to pickup a skid of 20 PS2's to deliver to a Bestbuy. They seal the trailer BUT the supervisor at the warehouse was busy so he hands the seal to my friend to put on the trailer. My friend slips it on and makes it look like he snapped it together but didn't. Warehouse guy sees the "sealed" trailer and signs the paperwork. 8 of those 20 PS2's didn't make it to Bestbuy. He unloaded them with the help of his wife and then simply snapped the seal on. The store manager accused him of the theft since it was a local point to point delivery and inspected the trailer for holes or signs of theft but found nothing. He shrugged and said well your guy signed for this count and sealed the trailer so not my problem.

He also told me the owner of the trucking company used the warehouse as his own personal shopping mall. Turns out the whole trucking company, drivers, warehouse workers, management, owner, all of em, were stealing. And yes, they eventually got caught. But it happens all the time.
As painfully admitted, you are not wrong.

MVRS stock is actually a great buy right now.
This is the risk with the ‘no electron’ crowd. Everything native is nice, but you’re always excluding a bunch of people.
If you dont mind me asking, where do you live? City wise..
My impression was the whole article is basically just “why don’t people like what I like”.

These houses are scarce but that doesn’t necessarily mean the mainstream market wants that. It’s a niche.
If you registered with a fictional name and not your real name, that will get you banned. And also if you use a picture of a pet or cartoon avatar..
HN post inspired me to quit my job and found my own startup
We don't know. Note that the whistleblowers that are in the news currently are against e2e encryption.
Why should I use Matrix over XMPP? All the problems mentioned in this article also apply to Matrix.
>The lack of available accomplishments, such as a job repeating beginner things dicking around with frameworks drives me crazy.

How do you make sure you are keeping up with new emerging tech/frameworks and feel accomplished?

I find it hard to make time for learning new stuff or improve on core concepts of JavaScript after giving 9-10 hours to my day job as a frontend dev.
Wild tangent:

Another side effect of cyclosporin is increased hair growth. Every where. I shaved my ears while taking it. I saw women on cyclosporin growing beards.

The person(s) who figure out why will become very rich. Imagine a rogaine (minoxidil) that actually worked.

I've shared this tidbit a few times. I've met (socially) a few people working in pharma. One was even working on hair growth.

I don't think anyone I've told ever believed me. It's so weird how silos increase as knowledge expand.

The other side effects of cyclosporin truly suck. I doubt I'd ever use it off-label, in hopes of saving some brain cells.

But I hope someone can learn from cyclosporin and maybe find alternatives.
Thanks for the alternate view.

My initial reaction was to react against a windowless dorm room layout. But you make some good points.

What I still don’t get is why insist on such few egress paths and emergency exits?

Do you know if they are piping in some natural sunlight to the interior?
NO, China arrested Alibaba's Jack Ma:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgecalhoun/2021/06/24/what-r...

China inprisons successful entrepreneurs and takes away their property. The concept of private property in China is there just to show.

So no, Munger is far from being a real proponent of a Chinese-style capitalism.
Exactly. Floating point is inappropriate for anything related to accounting (payments, balances, etc.), but when the numbers you're producing are effectively forecasts or estimates, it's no different than what floats were originally invented for (numerical modelling in physics and engineering).
This is selective bias. Many European cities were devastated by bombing in the 1940s, forcing rebuilding of terrible building stock. Various dictatorships, of both the right and the left, have blighted cities around the continent with monstrous buildings. Past generations of urbanists rammed highways through cities or built ugly social experimental housing projects.

European towns and cities are mixed.
I'm keen to hear more about VS Code's remote editing strengths over TRAMP.

What is it in particular?

I see some UI operations block on TRAMP operations which is laggy and annoying.
> There's literally thousands if not tens of thousands of hosting providers and software packages that offer just that.

But most of them are incredibly confusing and off-putting to the majority of people FB attracts. Most contemporary net citizens don't have a functional mental client-server model such that they would even know they need a thing called hosting, let alone choose a service. And there's no tools that integrate a content feed, personal publishing, threaded comment and events/calenders in a coherent, secure, easy to use way. Most people barely understand that some code runs "in" their browser and some "on a server", or the relationship between the two. It can't be taught in a few minutes (it takes most of us here years to grok the subtleties and there's infinite edge cases).

To really get the whole FB experience, we also need "group-ware" (shared photos, tagging, shared calendar, private chat) with single-click installation, configuration and built-in templated branding.

You're right that all these tools exist, but they're fragmented and take time and knowledge to understand, use and integrate. And most of them are not interoperable.

> Following is through RSS feeds.

RSS is great in principle but all the tools that consume it suck: comment RSS feeds are treated at the same level as content, rather than "of" the content they refer to; most site still use RSS rather than ATOM, so you only get a summary of content; most readers keep you in-app rather than linking to full browsers, so you're trapped in webviews and inflexible, under-featured tools.

Yes, it's all "out there" but none of it matches the speed and comfort of FB.

(coming from someone who no longer has an FB account)
Why is it dubious? Dropping out of school and social awkwardness are not uncommon stereotypes among computer enthusiasts. Having these properties doesn’t necessarily correlate with negative economic outcomes…
Not if you're buying stock on the open market - only in the IPO, or in additional sale rounds, are you providing funds for a company to scale out their operations.
Even if you used weightless atoms to fill your balloon, the lift is only the weight of the air it displaces. So you don't really get much better since hydrogen already weighs so little.

Air is about 30 grams per mole and hydrogen is two grams per mole. So going entirely weightless you could go from 28 grams of lift per mole to 30 grams of lift per mole, a 7% increase.
Wait? It’s open source? I thought I would check the claim about no connection, but couldn’t find anything.
Whoops, meant isn't. Too late to edit.
> This kind of Big Enterprise technology however takes away that basic agency of those Excel users, who no longer understand the business process they run and now has to negotiate with ludicrous technology dweebs for each software change. The previous pliability of the spreadsheets has been completely lost.

> Financiers are able to learn Python, and while they may never be amazing at it they can contribute to a much higher level and even make their own changes and get them deployed.

Coming from a slightly different part of the finance world (insurance) this rang very true.

I think there is a huge opportunity here to build on the Python ecosystem - which is gaining more and more ground - and provide much more powerful alternatives to Excel and legacy proprietary systems.
What are 'insecure JavaScript functions' mentioned in 3.3?
It would be helpful if you included the fact that while this role is currently remote, the work can only be performed in WA state— which, if I'm being quite honest, is very limiting and is going to reduce the pool of applicants greatly.
It's more like background processes. They very rarely reach a critical point all at the same time, but I make progress toward several conclusions at once, including while I'm sleeping (I'm also a lucid dreamer, but I don't know if that's related.)

When one of them does reach an important point, it's like it pops up a notification and reminds me about itself, so then I'll either write down what needs to be done or just take the action if it's quick.

It's rare that they alert at the same time, but yes, when they do, I can just record the statuses consecutively as quickly as I can.

For example, in college, I'd often compose whole papers in my head over the course of weeks for several subjects at once, and then just sit down and write them down in an afternoon.

This was extremely frustrating to my thesis advisor, who wanted to see "progress" at various checkpoints, but I didn't have anything deliverable until I pressed the metaphorical "print" button in my head and wrote 100 pages in the final week.

The whole project was in my head already. It just didn't exist in discrete, completed form until it was finished processing. I didn't write the chapters separately.
Just feels like its presented as undergraduate accommodation comes with either a shared room or a window. which is complete BS. I don't think this would even be allowed to be built in a lot of Europe.
> Even in the UK, ...., every undergraduate has always gotten an individual bedroom

This is mostly true but not universal - when I was in UG accommodation in the mid-2000 it was indeed mostly individual, but there was also some small fraction of shared rooms available, that were a little cheaper than my (probably somewhat subsidised) £50/week individual room.
The difference between precision and accuracy in a nutshell.
Not to mention all the people that were on Instagram and WhatsApp before the sale… If a competitor emerges, it will play out the same way.
Obama did not dial it back. His ATF moved guns across the southern border which resulted in US deaths (Fast and Furious).

Gave weapons to Syrian rebels.

Gave weapons to Libyan rebels.
I find it weird that you trust the inspections to have been genuine when the bureaucracy was so infamous for corruption, shifting the blame and being guided by a culture of fear. It's also unsurprising that the bureaucrats in charge were better fed while the populace was starving: both the USSR and China only managed to replace the ruling class rather than abolish the class divide altogether, regardless of the at times drastic measures they attempted. The Soviet Union literally put former oligarchs back in charge because they "needed the expertise".

The Great Leap Forward was remarkably incompetent in many parts exactly due to the same circumstances I described: forcing ordinary citizens to produce shoddy steel in their backyards to meet quotas for example. You seem to give Mao and the mid-century CCP a lot more credit than they deserved.
What's your cold boot time?
Have you actually tried any alternatives at all?

Even Matrix with Element (which used to have quite a few issues with slowness and encryption), works way better these days

Not to mention any widely used centralized messenger...
Examining interactions between narcissistic leaders and anxious followers
The one thing that's more annoying than Facebook are the whistleblowers of Facebook (like that frances haugen character, which I'm fairly certain is a spook). Such a cheap and condescending group of people who think they know more than the rest.
I'm not oblivious to the threat of lock-ins. But as far as remote tools go, my experience during the lockdown was that of competitive capitalism working at its best.
I've customized my setup to the point where I don't just want emacs keybindings, I want my emacs keybindings. Because those are the ones that are in my fingertips.
Oh Tiberian Sun... That game (and the whole Westwood era) will forever hold a special place in my heart. And I'll forever be sad about what EA did with the studio and the franchise.
Lifetime odds of dying due to an activity is a poor indicator of how safe that activity is.

Lifetime odds of dying due to an activity = Probability of dying due to activity while performing it x Expected number of times that activity is performed in lifetime. (Only the first factor corresponds the inherent safety of the activity.)

It is not that bicycles are more dangerous than sharks. It is that people are cycling much more than they are interacting with sharks.

It is not that walking is more dangerous than cycling. It is that people are walking much more than they are cycling.
"You HAVE TO give us ALL your data, just some of it won't suffice!"
Part of the shtick here is that the common spaces are large and of very high quality (for dorm rooms). The sticker price may also include land purchase, and almost certainly includes furnishings. The last thing to note is that all construction is very expensive right now due to materials shortages.
Never update anything
As I was reading the article, I started thinking this guy was right. At university, I would often have to get to a lab or whatever early in the morning and then get home late at night. I would have this sort of routine for weeks or months at a time. I may as well have had no windows.

I think as long as you get out during the day, and as a student, that’s probably likely, this sort of arrangement seems to make sense. But still offends me.
Because he has thought deeply about building design and believes he knows the best way to do it. If the university thinks it knows better, it’s free to reject the money and he can donate it to some other worthy cause.
Oculus was making a dumb tethered headset. Go and Quest was after Facebook.
I wonder how that would play with strong consumer protection laws. Not being able to use the device you paid for immediately is beyond the pale IMO.
11 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28934028
> You do realize that this is just your privilege?

Yes, that's the point, though. This discussion thread is about walkable cities.

I should also point out that urban planning that gives priority to people who walk benefits everyone, independent of their income. This cannot be said for designs that give priority to cars.
Where I went in Aberdeen, each floot had a 6 small, private bedrooms, and a shared, combined kitchen/lounge area (which was also pretty small).

I would have absolutely hated it if I'd had to share a bedroom with someone else! Aside from generally wanting my own space with privacy, how the hell is that supposed to work when you're bringing sexual partners back to your room?!
A Haskell memory leak in way too much detail with Cachegrind