skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what, exactly, is the purpose of a manager communicating that something unpleasant is coming without actually giving context for what that domain is going to be?

If you’re going to tell me something unpleasant is coming, at least give me enough clues to steel myself for news about:

- technology problem

- customer problem

- team communication problem

- team performance problem

- personal performance problem

- litigation problem

- etc

Any of those things still might lead to me getting fired for any number of reasons, but at least my imagination can spin something potentially productive to bring to the meeting.

If you say only “let’s talk” all the time, it just becomes a background anxiety due to being acclimated to it, sure, but I don’t see how it’s productive.

This whole “you need to have anxiety now” makes absolutely zero sense to me. The meeting can be for the details that you’re not prepared to dig into right now, that’s fine, just give me enough broad context to hang a hat on.

Edit: I guess if there’s zero power imbalance, I might be fine with just “let’s talk,” but I still don’t see why providing zero context results in a better meeting.
Good video, never seen it before. Thanks! Also love the fact he doesn't take himself or programming things too seriously (Haskell in useless category is great).
I seem to be allergic in the context of histamine. Not as much as oranges, which can make me sneeze for the rest of the day. Using hay fever pills makes this reaction go away. I do enjoy tomatoes very much and eat them often though.
I've had two System 76 laptops in the last 3 years. With the first one, I found PopOS! to be very glitchy, and battery life was less than 1 hour. About a year in the hardware failed. I then got a second newer System76 laptop and with that one the hardware failed within 6 months.

Recently I bought a new Dell XPS, installed Ubuntu, and it works perfectly.

I really wanted to like System76, but I've lost all faith in them and will never buy from them again.
Because people like living close to other people, and living in a human-dense environment makes this a lot more practical and easy. I don't understand what is there not to understand? You do know that some people are social creatures right?

To me it's the exact opposite. If I could live anywhere in the world, why the fuck would I not live in a huge city like NYC. It's a no brainer. The only argument right now is that I don't have a job there and I can't afford it.
Sure but that hasn't been true since, like, 2003. Many games these days (especially popular console games) have no such option (despite the existence of a PC port). Only the company can "run" "servers" that the built-in (aka GameSpy is dead) matchmaking will see. Gone are the days that you can feed an IP address and port into a game and connect to a friend's instance. There are exceptions that prove the rule (Hi Factorio!) but they're rarer and rarer, especially if you want a dedicated (no graphics) server running. Still, technology has advanced to the point that we can run Quake2 in-browser via JavaScript+wasm (and I don't mean via a plug-in!), so the old ways aren't totally dead.
My meaning was just that I saw it sometimes referenced on HN, but I haven't seen it mentioned for a while now. Hence my search and results showing 8 years since.

I guess what I should be doing is looking at the Alexa ranking of Wolfram Alpha.
An early look at Verse syntax: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/840713360?t=01h06m24s
I feel like I should create this on a USB stick right now before it stops working (they could change the tools). But I also have no incentive to ever want to install Windows 11, unless they drop the TPM requirements.
It would still be less work to build on that foundations. Heck, System76 couldn't even bother to pony up the theming specification they were supposed to do for KDE and Gnome. Never happened.

If they don't even have the resources to work on the toolkit level, how do they expect to get the resources to work on a full desktop stack?

Bad call, imho. But hey - I think Rust is an excellent choice.
I use it whenever I have something mildly annoying to convert, especially dates. e.g. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1636221900+unix+time+i...

Probably an incredibly trivial use-case but still useful regularly for me...
I'm not sure about inter-city travel because as you said the train can't just stop in the middle of no where. But I think it works for subways and buses, at least in China.

China has a different model of city economic expansion and here is the basic idea:

- Government identifies new areas to develop (they could be "out of city" but usually just suburbs/rural);

- Public transits were developed to cover those lands before others move (so no malls, no hospitals, no residential buildings, etc.);

- Because it takes a lot of time and money to develop public transit, city sometimes issue bonds;

- Other buildings start to move in, usually starting from residential buildings and malls;

- City expects the revenue and tax from newly developed lands to cover the cost of bonds

This sort of "creates" new cities (actually they are called satellite cities) but I don't think it gets to extend very far.
Be spooky: people get tense, scared, etc.

Don't be spooky: "how can you drop that BOMB on my lap without warning? YOU MONSTER!".

I may be thinking about romantic relationships, though...
I don't see how much use you would get out of a 2TB or 4TB SATA SSD attached to a raspberry pi if the network is locked at 10Mbps throughput.
I have not had great luck with speech recognition on Linux, but I suspect that will be solved before there's a compelling reason to use Windows other than having no other choice due to niche applications.
Also, "The Poisonous History of Tomatoes": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beBQgxdu2eY
It would be interesting if Charlie Munger were an HN commenter!
But Fortnite is a not a pay to win game. Unless All Games are "praying on human frailties".

Not only that, Epic invested every single dollar they made from Fortnite back to improving Unreal Engine.
> it's not a problem to have a higher surface area to volume ratio

Apparently the original article included only 1/8th of the building's floor plan. Another commenter linked me this floor plan: https://www.dezeen.com/2021/11/02/architect-resigns-grotesqu...

As you can see, the surface area problem even worse!

Each bedroom is 8x10 feet, but the building is only 87 * 4 by 200 * 2 feet. That's 1496 linear feet of exterior wall. That's only enough for 187 exterior rooms per floor, while the design calls for approximately 512 (8 rooms per suite * 8 suites per house * 8 housed per floor).

> It would be trivial to have a slightly higher aspect ratio, maybe one or two more floors

You'd need to add not just "one or two" more floors, but increase the residential part of the building from 9 floors to 24!. Even if you made very narrow (6 foot) rooms, it would still require 18 floors.

> You can make a not so tall building with a budget of 330 000$ per room

And they're paying over $1 million per bathroom! I consider this a fairly disingenuous comment because the article is clear that the building includes space for other things like convertible classrooms and rec areas.
Yep, you're describing the offices and schools I've worked and studied in for the last 5 or 6 years. 8-16 hours a day in rooms without sunlight. It rarely crosses my mind. I can say that I would in a heartbeat, no questions asked, choose a single-person room with no windows that I only sleep and study in, over a shared room where I have minimal privacy and I run the risk of having my sleep schedule be completely trashed by an inconsiderate roommate.

This design is asking you to walk out of your room if you want sunlight. It's not ideal. Some students would rather not. They're doing sardine-packing here as a matter of necessity and there's going to be some tradeoffs, but frankly this is a pretty minor one.
I understand that you're saying these contractors have better jobs to do than someone's yard. The guys who came out to give bids specialized in residential landscaping work. The fact that they came out to give quotes means that some of these 200k jobs are actually happening.

In my experience, contractors who do not want your job will not come out to give bids.
:bufdo! %s/<search>/<replace>/gc to multi-buffer search-replace.

But depending on your starting point though, you might need need a vim $(grep -l <filter>) to get all relevant files into buffers.
In Javascript, forEach, map, reduce and other similar array methods are considerably slower than a regular for loop. You can see [0] and the linked questions for more technical details.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/q/22155280/1470607
Fragmentation, that's what Linux need...
Organic material didnt survive. What missing would be mattresses, blankets, cushions, rugs, clothing. These items would be be made of basic coarse material for slaves. Upper classes would have more refined and comfortable items.
Very interesting.

Without going into too much personal detail if you'd rather not, what form did the issues take?

Was your physical or mental wellbeing negatively affected until you cut them out? On whose advice did you do this?

Or, was it instead a case where you cut them out, in case a hypothetical issue developed?

Also curious to know if you have allergies or other foods that disagree... (sorry for being so nosy)
> alternative for people that want a static ip without renting vps/metal

How do you think Cloudfront works? Amazon is just selling you a bunch of VMs pre-configured as load balancers.

Not trying to be a jerk here, but the cloud has really caused otherwise smart people to lose a grasp on reality.
The whole point of this dorm is that singles are way too hard for UCSB students to get, and triples are much too common.

This dorm would be all singles, and would eliminate the need for any triples campus-wide. Introverts would be able to choose to either live here and get a single, or go for any of the other existing housing options on campus.
Is Microsoft actually making money with Game Pass? I'm guessing many users just subscribe for a month or two when a new interesting game is released and cancel just after they are done with it.
Tim Sweeney and the Metaverse
For anyone really interested, operant conditioning describes being in the world. It was around long before humans existed. It's a selectionist system: neuronal pathways are the genotype, stimulus-response conditioning is the phenotype. In simple terms. You will think of a frog because I just wrote frog. That's historical conditioning. Nothing simple about it either, in animals or humans.

For example, a basic study allowed animals to self-administer cocaine. Other animals were administered the drug in the brain on the same schedule but without 'choosing' to take it. The findings showed that the areas of the brain affected differed depending on these two conditions. The role of behavior in this system of reinforcement is determinant. This is a study with rats, yet the effects of a seemingly small environmental/psychological difference changed everything about the reward experience.

Another study on electrical brain stimulation showed that while animals would self-administer it, when it was automatically administered, the same animals would respond always to turn it off. Again, this is agency and it is demonstrated via a Skinnerian model.
Cut Out Time Estimates on Roadmaps: Get into a Product Delivery Rhythm
I wonder why they wouldn't include direct ipv6 connectivity in addition to that proxy thing.
And how would that work?

No matter the connection between two people, how close they are privately, none of that can fill in the missing information.

Even your best friend or even your spouse can have some very bad news for you. In the context we are discussion it is rare that only one person and exactly the one giving you the request will be completely in control over what it's about.

The news does not have to originate from them, they are just reporting it. So you may have the greatest of relationship with that person and you know 100%V they have your best interest in mind at all times, but you don't have that same connection with the rest of the entire universe which can be the real origin of the message you will be receiving.

There also is to take into account that humans are much more likely to try to delay bad news while good news is shared much more easily and quickly. So receiving the discussed communication already tends to be used more frequently for talks people would rather not have.
What's the distinction between modified and engineered?
It may be a symptom, but it may also be its own cause. Chemical addiction is a thing and various drugs have various levels of risk or chemical addiction. Alcohol, nicotine, cocaine, heroine - you can get addicted to them without any emotional problems.
Why is this more dangerous than installing a deb, which can also run arbitrary code as root?
I feel the same way, I use JOE's jstar mode because I fondly recall using Wordstar under CP/M, and it has enough features for basic editing.
Johnny's lack of faith is that he doesn't invoke the name of God. The devil has God's absolute power when applied to testing humanity. The devil lost because they wanted to. By losing he has planted the seeds in Johnny that he can live without God's help.

It is possible the author intended something else, but this interpretation is the closest to Catholic doctrine I have seen. IIRC I am remembering it from a priest's comments on the song.

"Those who study demonology quickly realize that any power lies with the demons." - Some DND manual.
Yes, the input layer and .... The input layer?
You don't have to go all in Hanseatic. Just have high enough customs that local industries can compete with industries that e.g. take advantage of child labor (clothing) or industries in areas that lack environmental protection laws/costs.

Also, open price fixing could be legalized to move bargain power to manufacturing of base products.
Schools should never be autonomous, but I dont believe they should be considered to work for parents either

Schools should work to produce well rounded educated productive citizens for the community. That includes the parents, but also includes childless citizens, businesses, etc.

The politics of both parents, AND teachers have muddled the true mission of what a school should be. I would like to see schools return to actual education, and less politics.
Telegram is working on ad-free subscription model
Cannot compute, mind overload, lol
Human Computer: The Forgotten Women's Profession
Great, what desktop Linux needs, yet another DE, written in a language whose GUI ecosystem is miles behind something like SwiftUI, WPF, WinUI, Qt, Jetpack Compose, Flutter.
Thank you for posting these. I had seen and read about both of these before, and had been blown away by both of them -- but since had forgotten they existed!

(For MIR overview, I recommend reading the Redhat blogposts mentioned in README rather than the README itself)

If I implement a language for learning purposes, I will implement it first in QBE and then MIR and then LLVM, and publish a retrospective analysis + comparison + thoughts.

I think that would make really interesting reading!
+1. How is that king of garbage the norm?
One of the [dead]/censored comments correctly pointed out that the examples have a clear political bias.

If we are being honest, the "group narcissism" elephant in the room is neoliberalism, which portrays itself unambiguously as the One True Way to manage human societies (everything else is "totalitarian"), to absolutely disastrous human consequences in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, and many more regions.
Doctors usually pretty well know which patients are poor based on how they dress and speak.
Amtrak long distance trains have like 4 or 5 “cars”. Unlike planes that carry hundreds of passengers, the trains carry far fewer so the cost per passenger tends to be higher. I’m guessing they don’t add more cars because there isn’t much demand but IDK; could also be their engines can’t tow more.
Scientists Want to Find Out How Much Carbon the Oceans Can Absorb
If other people had the same attitude, we'd all still be using Symbian or be writing programs in Fortran. The Cinnamon desktop was started long after GNOME and KDE, yet it's now much better than both.
Sort of - everyone having a single rather than doubles helps with that too. Introverts can retreat, as needed, to their, albeit tiny and windowless, rooms.
This is a uniquely weird US PoV. Everywhere else in the world, university students as the adults they are, live in housing much like that of all other adults, maybe in self-organized groups. The whole problem starts with dorms.
Paid editing of Wikipedia (English, at least) is allowed with disclosure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Paid-contribution_di...

Edit:

The Wikimedia Foundation ToU allows this in all its projects (wikis) and allows project-specific policies:

https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use/en#:~:tex...

List of projects with their own policies:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alternative_paid_contributio...

FAQ:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/FAQ_on_paid_con...
~10.5 days per TB over 10Mbps :)
> http://talk.binarytask.com

Your own http server/database!?! Do you mean you implemented them from scratch? I'm just using nginx/expressjs & postgres. Edit: rupy! interesting! Does ssl kill it's efficiency?

> Democracy only works ...

Energy limitations seem beyond my lifetime. I just want to see how to run a community based on the will of it's members. Efficiently using their time.

> sign in with google

It's not ideal. I originally implemented my own authentication, however implementing it "securely" is a huge task. My main problem is unknown unknowns. Even big companies have non-perfect authentication, like leaking emails during recovery/login. If the site gets any traction I'll expand the authorisation options.

What do you think I could do to improve the site?
*kind of garbage
Didn't say I agreed. But there's an argument to be made that by making the game addictive, keeping players in the game encourages them to spend money on skins and whatever else they sell.

I'm personally pro-entertainment, pro-culture, etc... Tons of things we spend money on in life is entertainment and frankly, useless. But it's fun.
a .deb at least went through some cursory level of examination by the people who downloaded the source, built it and are authorized by the debian project to submit new .deb files to the debian package servers.

not just any random person can submit a .deb and have it go live on the gpg-key authenticated debian mirrors.

https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debmake-doc/index.en.html

curl into bash can be as quick as "ooh look shiny new thing on website, let's copy/paste this string of text into my shell"
>so that people would buy the new shiny!

Makes no sense there is nothing to buy. Win11 is a free "update". Not adding it as update to win10 but give it a new name I purely marketing. Stuff like that happens if new people are in charge and want to have a new thing "made by them". It does not cost the users anything.
Yes for some reason people don't like when we expedite the process.
> and it's always been neutral or positive - a manager I don't have regular conversations with wants an update on something big they know I'm working on, my immediate manager wants to tell me about an upcoming project and if I can take it on/put aside current stuff to do it (and it's urgent enough it can't wait until our normal 1-on-1), stuff like that.

Yes, it usually is. But the whole point of avoiding phrases like this is that the person does not know this beforehand, which can put them in a state of uncertainty. It's not at al difficult to just say "hey, can I get an update on your project" in your example.
Personally I'd rather have all software like this.

Have platform agnostic code, or let it prefer windows. If your compatibility layer is so good I don't care.

Better than what we have now where tons of applications don't run on Linux or Mac OS.
Can confirm also happens in relationships and best to be avoided.
There's a window in each of the kitchen areas.
On a much smaller scale, a bad school app experience is the main reason why I built an Alexa app for anyone in our district to easily ask Alexa for the lunch menu daily https://github.com/jeffsheets/alexa-papio-lunch-menu/

Pretty common for school district apps to feel antiquated and hard to use. Definitely a disruptible space.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28740486
It isn't a lottery as much as an availability constraint.

First you have a limit of 1 stardust per datacenter per customer. Second, they only spin up a fixed number of new stardust servers per day.

It is a loss leader just like in any other business. They are losing money on one instance to get you in the door and you realize their other services are awesome.
> In SNT’s warehouse, bright red emergency water lines snake across the ceilings, a safeguard against calamity.

Are water lines going to be adequate to contain a warehouse full of lithium batteries on fire?
Yes but did we stop calling them servers when publishers stopped letting us run our own; accessible outside of their matchmaking process?
Maybe not. Most of the low hanging fruit. It's becoming much more difficult to find novel small molecule drugs. The possibilities are finite.
I assume this is a non starter since no one (that I know of) is doing it, but is there a reason you can't "just" apply a 200mm mask on top of a 300mm wafer? If the limitation is the 300mm wafer costs more and makes the chips too expensive, how much would the cost have to increase in order to make it worth it? ((300mm^2pi) - (200mm^2pi))/(300mm^2*pi) % roughly?
Munger has clearly been very involved with this project. I'm not gonna try to wade into the windows vs not thing. I can see how there's a trade-off especially given that having a single-person room is something of a luxury for college students.

But I do want to question whether it's appropriate for philanthropists to be so involved in what they fund, or whether it should still be considered philanthropy at that point.

Economists sometimes talk about the inefficiency of gift-giving. Compared with the amount expended, perhaps substantially less value will be captured by the receiver. This seems like the billionaire equivalent of giving someone a painting you did, if you're not especially renowned as an artist.

If the UC system had received an equivalent amount of funding from another source would they have chosen to spend it all on this building? Or perhaps, would some have gone to scholarships, and some to more faculty, and some to a misguided new institute for whatever? Even if they had wanted to build a dorm, had Munger not been involved, would they have preferred to go in a very different direction?

Munger gets to put his name on this thing, but it sounds like he also enjoys getting to play architect or designer but without having to compete on the merits of his skills in those fields. He gets to build a thing the way he wants, put his name on it, and put it on UC land. And if we're having a conversation about how in this specific instance it may be out of line with actual benefits to the future residents, then can we also talk about how it's maybe in general a bad idea to keep congratulating rich people for pushing their personal vanity/hobby projects onto the public and calling it benevolence?

Meanwhile, Munger has been vocal in opposition to the idea of introducing a wealth tax, or a tax on corporate stock buybacks, and has suggested that the capital gains tax is too high rather than too low. To Munger, even at a public school, private entities should decide how much to spend and how to spend it.
"how many 3mm circles pack in 15mm circle"

WA offers answers with drawings. Google cannot do that.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+many+3mm+circles+p...