skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And Tietgenkollegiet mentioned above can house less than 400 of them. The fundamental difference is that the University of Copenhagen (like most European Universities) don't take on the responsibility of housing students. For various reasons many US Universities also provide the actual housing the students live in.
A UK-based newspaper that caters to the bourgeois/aristocrat segment of society (since 1843) proclaims the UK's system to be the best, and relegates a bunch of republics to secondary status...

Forgive me if I don't trust their judgement. I'd take any western European republic's system over ours in a heartbeat.

Also, keep in mind that in Canada, our government is currently formed by the party that got the second most votes and has had so many scandals that half the leadership should be in jail, not in power (not that I'd be particularly thrilled about the Cons in power either, they're at least as inept albeit probably slightly less corrupt). We also have an appointed senate, which is basically just political patronage. Same goes for the GG spot. We have entire provinces run by oligarchs. And so on. If we're considered a 'full democracy' then I don't trust whoever made that proclamation.
I wonder how many were touting The Science in order not to eat the tomato and have it banned.
That sounds like the worst rail service imaginable. Very American.

The Swiss town of Chur, which has the same population as Menlo Park, California, and which is a good distance from Zurich, as Menlo Park is from San Francisco, has five S-Bahn trains every hour, all day long, plus 9 other regional, interregional, and intercity trains per hour.

There's nothing fundamental about trains that says you have to have insulting levels of service. It's a choice.
Yes, we have. And no, they are not interested.
Ah ok. The usual editor wars. There's one point that has to be made: software lives or dies (or withers on the vine) due to network effects. In the case of Micro vs Vim vs Emacs it's all about keybindings and the time to learn them. Micro uses CUA [0] keybindings intuitive for most Windows users, while Vim and Emacs (cua-mode notwithstanding) are stuck in the middle of shallow local optima.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20010107084700/http://publib.bou...
Might also be the value of the stolen property on the black market. There are unfortunately enough unscrupulous antiquities collectors, that one can estimate “market value” of Roman amphorae, jewelry, and other items.
A lesson people have learned the hard way for decades:
Don't get in bed with microsoft without contracts.
I own a 7 series that has both, touch controls and the iDrive knob with physical controls. I mostly use the physical controls because BMW's user interface works quite nice with it and the physical controls are positioned where the driver's arm is resting, making it kind of natural to use. Touchscreen requires more leaning towards the screen, making it impractical to use while driving (of course, always be cautious while interacting with your infotainment while driving).
I’m not disagreeing that he says that or that some people apparently find that endearing. It’s just hilarious to see it written out as an earnest sincere response.
When app developers “nest”...
> There is no evidence ivermectin works against COVID

Does that mean that there is no evidence that it doesn't work either? :)
At that age your body will decide if can keep on going. It's not really a personal decision.

Having said that, I think we could structure work so that older people could work fewer hours, if they want to.
College kids smell very bad, windows were the one thing that would let people air out their smelly rooms. Windowless rooms are a terrible idea.
Would blocking (or doing some kind of JavaScript challenge/captcha) to VPN IPs help reducing the automation issue?
Plenty of free services like Google Colab exist for Tensorflow/Pytorch and offer gpu/tpu. I pay just $10 a month to train my models at my leisure on it, and the free version is great if you're doing shorter training runs.
Link is https://www.anyleaf.org/blog/writing-embedded-firmware-using...

I don't know why it's truncating the URL. It stays correct when I post, but is truncated shortly after.
> Most proeminent features for Windows 11 are an updated scheduler tailored to big.little architectures like the new Alder Lake from Intel and Direct Storage for games, a rebranding of the same feature from Xbox One and PS5.

Let's be honest here though: those could easily have been added to Windows 10 as they will be on the same kernel... they added them to Windows 11 so that people would buy the new shiny!

I'm not saying it's wrong, companies need to get new money in to keep going, but those features hardly merited a "new" OS :)
> knowing how they operate

You know how they operate now. It's entirely possible for them to change strategies and start oppressing you out of the blue.
Yes, it's not a problem to have a higher surface area to volume ratio. You can make a not so tall building with a budget of 330 000$ per room, by putting common area in the center.

The issue is not the aspect ratio. The issue is that Charlie is obsessed with having every room connected to a common space which is the one with natural light. It would be trivial to have a slightly higher aspect ratio, maybe one or two more floors, and have the common areas in the center.
“The helium-3 is produced by D-D side reactions and is captured and reused, eliminating supply concerns. Helion has a patent on this process.” —Wikipedia
You don't think setting out a dichotomy of either "being a billionaire" or "not having any money" is a just a tad narrow-minded?

Sure, tangible steps are nice. Even hobbyist billionaire architects are capable of taking tangible steps because it's quite a low bar to clear.

I do find it a bit ridiculous that you call any opposition to the plan "unrealistic", as though Munger is the only architect in the world who can save UCSB from its housing problem.
Small unit of dedicated hardware, without any other tenants on that same host.
Well Hot Damn!... this is definitely on track.

The only problem that I have with Amtrak is their disconnect with modern pricing for value of service.

Case in point being a train ride from say SF to Seattle is WAY more expensive than a flight, many times longer and other than no plane crash risks... what value is it for that price?

I find it akin to the guy on a slow sunday morning drive on an impassable two-lane highway where his old restored 1938 ford only goes 45 mph and the speed limit is 65 and there are mad waitresses trying to make it to clock-in time and the old guy is oblivious to other's need to be to work on time...

(this is a true story based on a close friend of mine who works at the French Laundry and is constantly thwarted by oblivious slow drivers)
Housemate is working on solar pod-cars - think of it package-switched trains (as opposed to circuit switched)

Takeaway from our conversations: highest pain point is floodplains. Like Jakarta, which is sinking. Like Houston, after Harvey.
Tietgenkollegiet is a small experimental project housing less than 400 students with apartments starting at $500 a month (not including electricity or heating). Hardly a fair comparing it to a project that needs to house thousands of students who cannot afford anything else.

Also no one would consider Tietgenkollegiet in any way typical Danish student housing.
I installed it exclusively for WSL2 CUDA/GPU support (for ML). This was previously only available in an Insiders build of Windows 10, and I got tired of waiting over a year for Microsoft to keep delaying it.

It probably wasn't worth it, since now I just have a worse version of Windows 10.
>Let's be honest here though: those could easily have been added to Windows 10 as they will be on the same kernel... they added them to Windows 11 so that people would buy the new shiny!

Well yes of course, obviously, but I was not trying to defend Microsoft's choice here, just pointing out the feature difference between them as great-grandparent was being vocally critical without doing any prior research beforehand or he was just being intentionally snarky to score karma points from the Microsoft/Windows 11 hate mob.
It depends on the commuter rail. The S-Bahn in Germany is sort of 'commuter rail' but also gets regular use for other types of trips. And actual commuter-specific train lines tend to go on just general tracks that are used for other lines as well, so it's not a huge deal.

It's just that US-style development -- more or less mandated by the government -- makes public transit in general infeasible. For example, in Munich where I lived, there are suburbs nearby surrounded completely by farmland, where the whole town is still a handful of minutes by bike to the train station. That means that even in these sleepy little towns, it's dense enough to where a car is unnecessary. In the US, that kind of development is a rarity, because the local zoning makes it literally illegal, and the roads have been designed to be hostile to anything that's not a car.
I know devs who do free giveaways through steam keys once in a while so presumably there is a provision in place for that too.
From the article: "Munger said he hadn’t decided how much of the building’s $1.2 billion cost he will cover, ..."

His way of saying "You'd better be nice to me"?
For all intents and purposes, this isn't competitive data for them. There aren't really competitors in the space anyway, the barrier to entry is ridiculous. In fact, by law, operators in the industry are required to share this particular data with each other and industry regulators. But they don't share it with outside parties in the aggregate form we need it in. Hence, the scraping.
Do Private Prisons Affect Criminal Sentencing? [pdf]
How to Fully Cover .NET C# Console Application with Unit Tests
OKRs are hard. A common error is to couple the O too tightly to the KR.

Case in point:

> Objective: Reduce body fat %
Key result: Reduce body fat by 5% by the end of the year

I really don’t like this form of OKR pair. The O is arbitrary here. Ideally leadership should convey the O, and the team can meaningfully exercise their experience to come up with KRs.

In this case you are just specifying the KR. For example the O might really be “Get in shape for the calendar photo shoot”, and another meaningful KR would be to increase your lean body mass a bit. But not if you are training for an ultramarathon!

Anyway, that’s perhaps a nit that is orthogonal to the point of the article. As to the article itself - I’m not sure I’m convinced by using both KPI and OKR. As I learned it, there is no reason not to set up KRs that are maintaining instead of improving; for example the SRE team might have the O: “keep the site up”, with one of many KRs: “99.99% API uptime”.

I’m a fan of conceptual simplicity and I just don’t see a win for a third category above “plain metrics” that the team tracks and “KR” that the company tracks. The main strength I can see to the OKR&KPI approach is it lets you hide your KPIs in some contexts and really drill down on the few true KRs you have left. But whatever works for your team, go for it.
How is this different than any other billionaire? Perhaps allowing un-elected people to hoard and control such vast resources is simply incompatible with a democratic society...

Why is Bezos allowed to squash a tax to address homelessness? Why do Bill and Melinda gates dictate health policy for millions of people? And so on...
>Is it just their ever-growing echo chambers of yes-men

yes
This is may be a long shot, but I wonder what “shut down the internet” means from the ISPs perspective?

Do they turn off their 2/3/4G services at the tower, or do they just stop passing traffic to their upstream providers?

If the latter then it may mean that devices on the same network can still communicate with each other. I don’t think this will solve your problem, but it may still be helpful in some cases.
I used to be moderately afraid of flying. Just didn't trust the machine.

Then I saw an episode of PBS's Nova where they filmed a bend test of the 777 wing, to destruction. The deflection they achieved before the wing snapped was jaw-dropping. I'm no longer afraid of the wings falling off, these are amazing machines.

I might change my mind if I saw the software. :-)
People from the 1950's would be shocked at today's infrastructure progress in the US. "What!?? You guys are still traveling at the same or worse speeds 70 years later!? What happened?"

Also, it took 2x the cost and 8 years to build an access bridge to Golden Gate bridge than it did to build the bridge itself (3.5 years in 1930s) accounting for inflation.

Our government is so dysfunctional, it is hard to imagine where my taxes are going. I live in Bay Area - No solution to homelessness here, pot holes everywhere, trash on highways that sometimes make me wonder if I am in a developing nation, new construction is a forgotten concept, complete gridlock in the CA gov for issuing permits of any high rises or building new subway systems, security and crime through the roof, etc.

I am extremely against everything about CA government. It is rotten to the deepest core. Anything it does bites dust. The entrepreneur spirit and its natural beauty is what's keeping it relevant. There is no point in voting any of these people out, because the replacement is exactly the same kind of people. Besides the tech industry, people here have no optimism, they're more pro China than pro US, mostly busy destroying this great state.
That’s interesting. The timeline here doesn’t dictate someone publishing the photo to Google. I expect Google crawled out and that they decided to use it in search results and decided to collocate it with articles.

Google search isn’t really a publishing platform, but they do have lots of money and lawyers, which counts for something, I guess.
Ah, I might have misunderstood your previous comment about RDAP - I thought you were asking why we didn’t fetch this data from registrar RDAP implementations, so my answer was in response to that.

You may have been suggesting that we serve out our data from num.net using RDAP instead of DNS. In answer to that: NUM is a DNS-based protocol because every online organisation has access to DNS - it’s a standardised way for them to store and serve out data, they’ve already got it and already pay for it.
Supply and demand do dictate prices, yes.
Paging Orwell. The American Medical Association takes on politics of language
Quite a few people cite games (and software) as the reason they don't switch, so hopefully that 0.13% are converted people and not work-only users that started gaming.
Please name the yes-men. From which companies? Berkshire has a list of companies in its annual reports so I'm assuming you obviously can name the yes-men from your extensive research on Charlie Munger. This would be breaking news in the investment world and something that Warren Buffett doesn't know about.
Oh there is a cure for narcissism and group narcissim. A good ass kicking.
For those interested in software in this space: https://cedar.ai.
gen 1.5? Are they still running those for free?

I had "free" colocations in Sweden and Holland that then turned not free then got cancelled altogether.

Pi clusters are best for home hosting on your own fiber.

Also those Pi 4 need heatsinks like so: http://move.rupy.se/file/final_pi_2_4_hybrid.png
Auto HDR is nice. New Microsoft Store isn't doomed to fail like the original "new app types only" mess but it's severely limited in increased utility until they finish the Android portion they promised which didn't make the initial release. The native window tiling and set options are much improved, especially for larger displays. The redesigned Settings app feels like an actual improvement on Control Panel rather than just a touch focused replacement. Also support for new hardware designs like performance/efficiency core sets coming out now.

But if you're looking for groundbreaking features you just have to move over for there aren't any. It's really more a "standard 6 month Windows update that happens to represent the next compatibility/support group" than "a brand new Windows version after the last one sat stale for many years" type upgrade. As Windows 10 nears its end of life I suspect the disparity will grow more but as of now I'd take Windows 11 as heralding what is going to be supported for new features for the next 10 years not as an instant revolution in features you're missing out if you don't jump to it immediately at release.

As such these projects will become much more useful/interesting in about a year or two but it's good they have been started now.
Love this. Thank you for posting!
I can’t deny bounded rationality is interesting for a hacker to contemplate. And thus I applaud your approach to karma accumulation as completely within the spirit and letter of HN rules…
If you read my post again, you'll see that I already mentioned rerere :)
What’s the thinking behind this?

> Keeping something static (like keeping a metric at a particular number) is not a key result.

I could easily imagine a support team having an objective to keep the backlog of queries low. And to be pedantic, any metric can be expressed as “keep difference between metric x and expected/desired value y close to zero”, so there must be something deeper here.
1. With regard to build / CI, I certainly don't know the percentages worldwide, but this example actually comes from my own experience as a company I used to work at I believe had this setup of separate build and CI machines (for a variety of reasons, including the resource requirements being quite different).

2. At least with our frontend tests, no, we don't run them "in" node-js. Well, to clarify, the "tests" are run in node-js, but the frontend code in question is run in Puppeteer. Hence those libraries do not usually have any chance of touching our filesystem (except for their install scripts). This is a less complicated answer for non-"isomorphic" companies -- for example if your backend is Ruby and you use puppeteer-ruby, then I think we can agree that your npm packages should never run on your machine outside of a browser.

Just to give you a third case, again from my own experience, install scripts are also a good vector for typo attacks. If you type `npm install lodsah` instead of `npm install lodash`, and you don't notice and hit control-C fast enough, that mere installation can be sufficient to compromise your system.
Getting to/from the airport is the much larger headache than security in a lot of places, especially in NYC. Even if you're willing to pay $50-$100 each way for a car, it's not always easy to get a car and it's a long drive. It takes almost no time for Manhattanites to get to a train and costs virtually nothing.
Blinds literally work in a large office space. I work in such a space now. We get direct sunlight most of the year. If it’s too bright, people just go up to the window and put up the blinds. If it’s an overcast day, sometimes the blinds are up, sometimes they’re down, just based on any random person’s whim. As I said above, if you work in a place that literally makes the room so bright that you can’t see your screen, the solution is probably not to argue about your ideal setup with strangers on HN, but rather to have a conversation with your coworkers and make it so you can actually see your screen.
What Happens to Your Crypto When You Die?
Deno Deploy Demo: a multi-datacenter chat, client+server in 23 lines of TS
Does it scale poorly for any reason other than current availability of electricity?

The growth of PV has been pretty close to exponential since ‘92, with the current (nameplate) capacity estimated to be just short of 1 terawatt and a doubling time of 2.2 years, so I think we will have a few terawatts on a relevant timescale.
US big infrastructure projects tend to be 2x or more expensive even compared to other developed nations, including ones much older than us.

There's definitely a cost disease at play, and that makes it vastly harder to build and maintain the infrastructure we need. Unfortunately, neither major party seems to care in the least: the Republicans just want to cut government spending in general rather than make it more efficient, and the Democrats are happy to intentionally balloon the cost of new buildings and infrastructure to satisfy allies in the labor movement*. Hardly anyone talks seriously about efficiency.

* It's common to have requirements to pay the 'prevailing union wage', which means no price pressure from the government, no negotiation to get a better deal is possible. Nothing against unions, but intentionally going, "we're going to ban ourselves from negotiating a good price when we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars" is ludicrous.
That's kind of impossible when the server and the browser are on the same machine :-)

Bear in mind that what I'm talking about here is making UI's for embedded systems easier to design by using web technologies. That means that we're only leveraging web tech for local use: there is no connectivity farther than (maybe) to another device on the same circuit board.

Something like BoneScript (javascript for the BeagleBone) takes this step farther by building I/O extensions into the language so your system controller and webserver can be the same process.
It actually is possible, but at very low bitrate. I've seen more than a few demo's showing at leats 9600 baud is possible. But you need someone on the other end to set up the gateway.

[edit to add] My memory was off, it was 300 baud. quick search yields things like this:
http://www.gsm-modem.de/M2M/m2m-faq/how-to-send-data-over-gs...
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1497979
https://github.com/quiet/quiet-lwip
Depends. How fast? How cool?
I am not sure what makes you think that that username is respectful, or good practice - it has a direct connotation of impersonation.

I have seen dang react to a poster named "Mick Jagger", and I thought posts considered that it was not impossible Daniel could have later received the surprise of a mail with a passport scan and a signed portrait with autographed greetings. In this case, there is little doubt.
Better than attending USC
Sounds similar to the fear about drugs. Many people who use or abuse drugs have mental health issues and they are using the drug in an attempt to self medicate. People see this and think that drugs cause mental health issues, which is not true at all.
Archive link for those who get thrown an 'accept unknown GDPR policy' notice:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211106164904/https://www.archi...
The best technique to do this, which I just used tonight is to use the Windows 10 media creation tool to create a USB installer. Then use the Windows 11 media creation tool to download the Windows 11 ISO. Then copy the install.esd from the sources folder of the Windows 11 ISO over the one on the Windows 10 USB stick.

That creates a Windows 11 installer that works on any PC that meets the requirements for Windows 10. At first this installer will even say that it's installing Windows 10, but it actually installs its esd payload, which is Windows 11.
>>>a. Suburban-to-city center commuter trains stopping every two miles or so, vacuuming up all the people from the suburbia that want to get to the city without the hassle of endless traffic jams. These need a certain density of the suburbs, so that the stops make sense and the train is "just full", but not absurdly crammed.

UHMmmmmm

Cal train from south SF to say - moutain view on a bike was the worst...

They would only pull a couple cars and only one of them would be a bike car.

Many times had the bike car been full and I had been physically stopped from boarding the train with a bike... when there was clearly more room on the train's bike car - it was that the bike-hangers were full...

I was late to a number of meetings because of this.

Also - Rail is so poorly integrated that BART and Amtrak and Caltrain all have less than optimal intersecting stations.
Burning ordinary hydrogen (protons) in a fusion reactor is completely impractical.