skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who are you talking about when you say “ an entire economy that sprung out of people who were exposed to computers at an early age”? I genuinely have no idea what economy you’re referring to. Certainly not software development, as the original computer programmers (the people that built the things that later inspired children when exposed to computers in the home) were exposed well before computers were small enough to be in the home. Do you mean influencers? Streamers? Neither of those are considered generally to be positive for the social development of children.
> You can't sell what you don't own, so legally you didn't buy anything.

An exchange of money for an item/product is a purchase.

It might be confiscated by the Police and/or given to the rightful owner.

If you bought a thing and have the bank-/card-statement to prove the amount, you will probably get the money back, but if it was with cash, you technically don't have proof of the amount given when purchasing.
People that are experts in one field tend to assume they are experts in other fields.

I think this is a fundamental human flaw, rather than a personal one, because I easily make the same mistake if I’m not careful.

Of course, this belief is based on the assumption on how frequently I see it. Could be confirmation bias or me trying to write off my own problems as not being mine. :)
It's offensive because it's someone dictating how student's should live. It besmirches any goodwill from the original act of philanthropy.
Show HN: MPL Plotter 4.1 – Matplotlib-based library for technical plots
I've been working on MPL Plotter for some time now. I shared it back in the day, but it's gone through significant improvements to the point I'm using it as my main plotting software, so I figured I might as well share it in its adult form :)

I'm eyeing network graphs in the not so distant future, perhaps moving away from Matplotlib.
Any feedback is appreciated!
Your guess about 'forcing them outside' seems wildly off base. The article pretty clearly points out that the goal is to remove the practice of bunking freshmen with strangers.
My post; your question at the very least is a fair one.

I believe a hint of metaphor there compares humanity as a whole to a relatively autonomous process. If 'Caton' does not clarify a frame for you, compare a pessimistic Adam Curtis. Caton enters as a riff on 'detritis'.
But they have windows in every apartment, and the UCSB dorm does not.
Homepage feedback: It would be great if there was a demonstrative code-snippet that pre-populated that editor at the top of the page, even if it's just one of the snippets further down.
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> the rush to validate

do you mean society would be better off if gay rights took longer to catch on?

> nobody is better for it... shift in religion

I am better for it. I have never been religious, though.
There is no doubt in my mind that themes and good colour support is very important and that their claim of boosted engagement is correct when the user picks a colour.

The joke to me is the blog post explaining it. I had to dig for a while to find out what a colourway even is. The first few paragraphs were meaningless marketing dribble.
1. If you add a "ret", you just jump to an invalid address.

2. If you add nothing, the CPU will continue to execute the bytes that follow.

In both cases it is quite certain you end with a segmentation fault.(Or in case 2., an illegal instruction)
I wish this website did not recommend another walled garden, Signal, and recommended Matrix instead. That would be in line with other recommendations of federated platforms.
> In particular, when the Polish government asked Gorbachev for for help in putting down Solidarity, thinking they'd get a Soviet tank brigade like HUngary in 1956, Gorbachev said nyet, and Soviet control of the Eastern bloc unzipped pretty quick.

The timeline does not work on this. Gorbachev was in power only from 1985, while Solidarity got thwarted in 1981, during introduction of Marital Law (key leaders got arrested, the strikes and protests were broken down, sometimes using lethal force). The Polish communist party justified these harsh measures with exactly the argument that it's still better than a foreign (Soviet) invasion of their country.
CandygramDB? Avoids any trademark confusion, and a great callback to Blazing Saddles.
Images and markup are not JavaScript.

A reasonable rule of thumb is that on a low-end Android phone 100KB of JS takes about 1 second to download and parse. A 5MB bundle would take 50s or so to run. You probably don’t notice this if you’re only testing on fast PCs/macs, or modern iOS devices.
Interesting, the Munger apartments have one to two orders of magnitude more reviews than any of the other mid-rise residences (e.g The Collegian, Zaragon West, Tower Plaza Condo, etc)

https://i.imgur.com/8o7TnoL.png

Wondering if it's an odd outcome of media exposure or if it's a consequence of bought reviews. It'd be interesting to compare the reviews of the building to other graduate residences elsewhere.
It might've been, I still have it somewhere probably.

To this day it is still the hottest piece of hardware I've ever owned. I swear you could cook on that card. It definitely didn't help that the fan died, and it melted itself into a broken state not long after I suppose.
We extended Helm lifecycle with Rust
Max 150 share?
Exhibit A: Exposing Software
Thanks again for the replies, actually interacting with them is something I've never even considered - my mental model of them is as a group of "others", only interested in interacting with each other, and I'm a mere eavesdropper. Most of the time it sounds like two or three conversations going on at once, and I'm only able to pick out the occasional word from each of them, which is what I meant by nonsense - it could just be that I'm only getting a small portion of several perfectly sensible conversations.
I'll give this a go.
What is the ratio (and the correct measure of) students to stairs?
> sorry this is not relevant to the question...

It’s a very good tip though. I must start doing this.
The Jitsi thing is going away, matrix already has its own video chat for 1:1 chats, and it's coming for rooms soon too. The Jitsi option was a temporary setup.

The clean rooms approach is a good thing I think. Xmpp is becoming a pileup of different add-ons and suffers from the same issues you mention for matrix (not all features supported by all clients). Probably in a worse way.

I know the reluctance of IRC operators to allow (global) matrix bridges is often a case of different paradigms. On IRC a conversation can only be seen by users who are present at the time. A user joining a bridged matrix room can see the entire history from before they joined. This changes the privacy model a lot (insofar as IRC has any semblance of privacy, but whatever is there is regarded as very important). People running their own Heisenbridge puppeting bridges solves this issue though.

I'm not a matrix dev but I do like it, especially the phenomenon of bridges.
No, I want as much free time and energy as possible, and don't want to waste my life carrying water in buckets when I can have a tap. Likewise I also don't want to waste any time carrying milk either
No worries, it's interesting how incredibly bright these rooms are. The windows are unusually large.

Maybe Munger didn't have much input there.

[edit] downvoter is maybe unaware that I'm referring to the Stanford Munger building and not the proposed windowless building
We have little evidence that people even optimize for their own long term well-being
>>"closed source" and "proprietary" that's just really not a good description of TimescaleDB

I suppose we can agree to disagree on this. Perhaps "Open Core, Source Available" is a term you can agree to? I think my original comment was clear that part of Timescale is Open Source, or in other words Open Core.

>> the only thing you cannot do when using the Timescale license is basically pull an AWS move and sell TimescaleDB as a service

Actually, by virtue of this, it prevents me from paying some one else to host a Timescale fork for me... this in turn is a major stumbling block to creating a viable fork if my business interests diverge from Timescales's business interests for any reason. Thus leading to Vendor Lock-in, as per my original comment.
Regular brita filter is great solution for drinkable tap water.
You made my day! :)
Yeah. In Finland these days the most common mode of student living is an individual studio. Sharing the same flat (common kitchen/living room, individual bedrooms) used to be more common but they’re really falling out of favor. Sharing the same bedroom? That’s just unthinkable and only happens in US movies and TV series.
people seem to always talk about this as if it's about the time to download.

Open the profiler and see how long it takes for your computer to parse and execute those 5 megs of JS. especially if its not crafted in the right way for V8 or whatever to ignore the contents.

Also all the garbage your code might run on first run to get started. "Garbage" here being used as neutrally as possible (I like Python and it has a similar "pay init costs up the wazoo for anything" feelings)
I am really puzzled by the amount of people that basically dream up their own story for Facebook and act as if this is coming for sure.

Facebook did announce something very vague, didn't show any tech or proof of concept and for the most part it was just "tech visionairy" babble with some buzzwords sprinkled on top. What makes anyone think Facebook has the ability to create even a decent basic game/3D experience? A very basic decent VR experience? Let alone some kind of VR world encompassing MMO?

Companies with the most experience and specialized talent in the world in those sectors fail very regularly at the attempts to just create basic decent 3D experiences that don't feel like complete jank.
And we have also seen the silicon valley arrogance of non gaming companies with a "It's just <anything related to gaming or 3D> how hard can it be?" attitude fall on their noses plenty of times.

The whole "metaverse" announcement gives me the vibes of a mix between Ouya (all the empty PR babble) and Star Citizen (overpromising way too much).

> all they did was announce something to divert from a serious scandal

This is what it boils down to.
> which takes us to the situation where Matrix has the exact same selling points which XMPP had 20 years ago... and keeps on reinventing the wheel

I don't get it. XMPP had MEGOLM, cross signing, decentralized chat rooms, good iOS support in practice, very simple sync of e2ee chat history, ... 20 years ago?

> spitting on other protocols (or not even acknowledging their existence) without a technical reasoning (Matrix could have been a "simple" decentralized room extension of XMPP or any other established protocol) ;

This simply so wrong: Matrix was created exactly because if the failure of existing protocols [0]. And the mentioned extension was one failure in their mind.

[0]: https://matrix.org/faq/#why-has-no-one-done-this-before%3F

And imho it was the best thing to do.
You don't repair a car if repairing costs much more than getting a new one

> pushing for a broken state resolution algorithm (decentralized consensus) without a formal analysis, which means it's now reached its 5th or 6th version and Matrix

In fact there are 9 versions today. Though afaik only one of them was due to a broken consensus algorithm. Others exist for new features.
Strangely I can use even the latest ones with alternative clients such as Fluffy Chat - contrary to your claims

> but why is a Jitsi <iframe> considered a decent extension mechanism

It is? Source needed

Native Matrix video chat is being implemented as of now

> putting all of their $$$$ into a single web client with very bad performance, not caring for other platforms

Also wrong: Element has a native Android and a native iOS clie t
> Your guess about 'forcing them outside' seems wildly off base. The article pretty clearly points out that the goal is to remove the practice of bunking freshmen with strangers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/uc-santa-barbara-mega-dorm-mung...

Choice quotes:

> In an Oct. 24 resignation letter to the committee that leaked on the image sharing site Imgur, [former lead architect Dennis] McFadden described the project as a "social and psychological experiment with an unknown impact on the lives and personal development" of students

> McFadden, however, is doubtful of the building's effectiveness. In an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, he wrote that the building "attempts to engineer social experiences" by placing communal spaces at the perimeter of the building, which would receive natural light.

> "It is meant to build community, encourage peer-to-peer interaction, promote engagement and relationship building, foster an environment of learning and support, and provide necessary resources and amenities to support a 24/7 on-campus living experience," [University spokesperson Andrea] Estrada said.

I wasn't pulling it out of thin air; it's the foundational ethos for the design. Everything else is just an added layer of PR.
We run a 2 year old frontend system with React server side rendering at work.
Profile Maker for Firefox Browser
Version control benefited devs, other processes that has crept in less so.
> the USA is only ~250 years old and most of its planning was done in the past ~150 years, whereas most European cities date back to the middle ages or even before that, growing much more organically

Agree. This is key. To be sure, Europeans are busy making plenty of wasteful American-style car-based future ghost towns around the edges and satellites of their beautiful (or at least walkable) dense old urban cores. Places tourists don't usually see, what I recall travel writer Rick Steves referred to as "Dullsdorf or Nothington".
I was inspired by this and tried creating my own text file, but it seems difficult to be consistent enough in the logging to run statistics on it

Also, it would be useful with some syntax for reference to another line and tags. I tried using line number in square bracket for reference, but it's not optimal and requires some manual work and attention. And hashtags can be used to define tags, of course, but it quickly becomes complicated

I combined this with Tasker for android and RFID tags as shortcuts when I am at the computer
I’m sorry what? No matter what type of dorm that is built it’s dictating how students should live?!?
Aren't the opponents equally dictating how student's should live?

Furthermore you are dismissing the fact that there still is a market, with choices.
This was presented at the HOPL IV (History of Programming Languages 4) conference. HOPL is an infrequent conference of ACM SIGPLAN (Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Programming Languages.)

https://hopl4.sigplan.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Programming_Languag...

HOPL IV was colocated with the larger ACM SIGPLAN conference PLDI 2021.

https://www.pldi21.org/

The proceedings of the HOPL conferences are really interesting reading. If you like physical reading material and live in California, you can get (looks like only) the HOPL II proceedings from any public library via the Link+ system: https://csul.iii.com/search/?searchtype=X&SORT=D&searcharg=h... . Link+ is amazing.
I did mean the nefarious intent.

We currently have a problem with outdated information in tickets. Keeping such tickets up to date requires a bit of discipline that involves adding in information as soon as it becomes available.

These updates are almost always provided during the stand-up; when not provided, they're forgotten.
You might want to tell the maintainers about their error:

> Clojure is a Lisp not constrained by backwards compatibility

https://clojure.org/about/rationale
There's more options for the students to live than this singular building.

There's nothing hindering students from renting an apartment, they don't have to use the 200$ million building.
Sure, and there can be conflicting preferences within a person's society of mind as well. Workplaces and schools sounds like a decent scale of granularity for free market effects though. I'm not saying network effects don't exist of course.
So does the crap on Amazon. We should probably use studies rather than internet reviews.
If someone controls your computer remotely, it's the same as if she controlled it physically, no difference from pownership point of view.
Sugar Consumption and Obesity
Stockholm is not car free by any standards. On the opposite it’s very car friendly.
Segmentation violation.

I've seen code with a hlt instruction after main and the exit system call. Not sure what their intentions are, it should be unreachable.
One of the nice things with XMPP, where in public channels your address is generally only shown to room moderators, not to all participants.
> The bedrooms have artificial windows instead of real ones, but they've got perfect ventilation.

Well, to be honest, I'm a bit speechless about this phrase. Way to educate the future generation that it's fine to live in small, confined, window less environments.
I’m looking for texts at a beginner or intermediate level, read by native speakers, which have not been abridged.

For example, I have a dual language text of Hesse’s Damien. I found an audiobook on Amazon, but it has been abridged, to the point that individual sentences have been changed - with words eliminated! That makes it very difficult to follow text while listening.

I’ll see if Librivox, mentioned above, has a copy. Thanks!

What I’m trying to avoid is starting to read Spanish with an English hybridized with Latin pronunciation running in my head. I can halfway understand written Spanish already, so I figure that a few weeks following audiobooks with a text would be very helpful to getting a good start on a proper accent.
I was just in Italy the last few months and it's true that street food is cheap but normal restaurants are similar to US prices and those places were packed every night in every city I visited.
I recall housing prices being mostly reasonable 15-20 years ago, I don't think our current woes are the result of any "design".
Except they’re building the most popular consumer VR headsets by far? (Without going into any of the software/platform stuff that’s being developed). Also see ASIC part of comment for AR (they've been on a hiring spree for silicon)… The hardware is probably the most serious technical bottleneck because the sensory experience is kinda janky and isn't super-compelling, so that’s where innovation has to happen first.
Choking can happen anywhere you are; preventing accidents from drowning and bicycling is 100% under your control (just don't swim or ride a bike). Mass shootings don't and aren't.
Hi, authors here (Again, as we already have had the pleasure a while ago).

> The main problem with this article is that all the points apply equally to other services, but the article frames it such that it implies the problems are unique to XMPP.

The article never states that these issues exclusively apply to XMPP. In our opinion, users should be aware of these downsides that might be obvious to technical people, but aren't obvious to others.

And no, not all the points apply equally to other services. Even if this would be the case, then should we just withhold downsides of XMPP because these downsides might also apply to unrelated communication protocols? This article is about XMPP, not about something else.

> Pretty much everything else listed is solved by verified end-to-end encryption, which is the primary solution to these problems regardless of any platform or protocol you use.

No, as stated in the article, you can't solve most problems with XMPP by enforcing E2EE in XMPP. This article is about XMPP, not about unrelated communication protocols that might have similar problems.

> Instead of focusing on helping educate people sensibly about these things, the article seems to be a lot of biased scaremongering.

Ehm, no, again, this article lists verifiable downsides of XMPP. People should be aware of these downsides and decide on their own what they want to do. There is no need to call it "biased scaremongering."

> Full disclosure

Full disclosure: We aren't involved in any XMPP projects or any other projects related to instant messaging. No party paid for our article.
Genuine beautifying comes from the community.
I work at Mercury Banking Solutions, and I've loved my time there. Everyone is whip-smart and helpful. I both feel like I'm playing up, but also get the support to rise to the challenge.
When I went to school in the 90s, as a freshman, we had 3 students to a single room (at least mine). 1 bunk bed, one single bed. I remember it was normally 2 to a room but we had overcrowding issues at time time. It was fine, I didn't have any issues with my roommates, but I didn't hang out with them much either. When you're that close, you learn how to get along with anyone. We were freshman and didn't spend a lot of time in our room anyway. We would study in the library and hang out in our friend's rooms, or outside. I moved to off-campus housing after a couple of years and kinda regretted it. Our dorm was men on the bottom two floors and women on the top two floors. It was a lot of fun, I remember the time fondly.
Not to put a big stamp on it but sounds like mild depression which I think has been inflicted on mass by society upon itself.

In not making a judgement on that, but unfortunately the last 2 years hasn't been full of news stories of zoom meetings to discuss happiness and the good times...
SrsRAN release 21.10: Open-source 4G/5G stack adds 5G-NSA base station
>I’m not sure why this particular structure has provoked so much more outrage than the previous ones.

Nobody heard about the building in Michigan, so nobody talked about it. Also, in Ann Arbor it's very likely that the CoL is not so high that students are de facto forced to tolerate these conditions.

It's not really Munger who's the villain here, he instead plays the role of an enabler. There's no inherent reason that housing costs should be so high that students have to live in these awful boxes, it's because of the policies chosen by the City of Santa Barbara. For context, the population density in SB is about a quarter of that in SF.

What's outrageous is that students pay the price in mental health and fire safety for housing policy that benefits the well-off and well-connected seeking aesthetics and investment returns. What motivates people to comment is the implied risk of this callous abuse of construction restrictions ("zoning") being extended to other vulnerable populations.
Really interesting comments.

I'd guess that you have proprietary (e.g. valuation / capital calculation) systems that need to interface with Trek in some way. Could you share how you've approached that at all?

Also not clear why R couldn't be added to Trek alongside Python and C#?
People prefer to buy all of their weekly groceries at a single store instead of chasing all over town, and they want to spend as little as possible. This is totally rational. You can't expect them to shop at nearby stores if the selection is poor, prices are high, and parking is limited.