skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> even the students who might try are bullied, and there are zero role models in the lives of students

Some schools allowed students to beat these odds and decide to give themselves a chance by being in an environment where they could succeed academically. Lowell was such a school here in SF [0]. Sadly, it became a target of a certain crowd and has now switched to a "lottery" system to admit, so the bullies have as much chances of getting in as the victims. [1]

[0] https://youtu.be/DVMmT9k5rYk

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/education/article/sf-school-lottery-L...
Isn't this just a forced rebranding during s time of pr nightmares that has nothing to do with actually building a successful "metaverse"?
Once you've announced your intention to leave, even just privately, it changes your relationship. Accepting a counter-offer is just going to leave things awkward.
One of my coworkers in Taiwan, who studied in NYC, proudly walks against pedestrian red lights. She claimed this is the better way because this is the New York way.

I cannot fathom her logic.
Thing is everything feels frothy because people haven't reset their mental model on what the dollar is actually worth. Over the past year or so the Fed took every pre-pandemic dollar in your pocket and made it worth about 70-80 cents. PPIA (Post-Pandemic Inflation Adjusted) the values on a lot of things are just fine.
This is why I generally treat stuff like that as a two-meeting problem.

The first meeting I don't beat around the bush, I get to the point within 60 seconds. I explain what I need to explain, and don't really leave them a chance to feel like they need to talk.

I finish up by telling them if they have any questions right now I'm totally happy to answer them and discuss, but I'm scheduling a follow-up meeting at $earlyTime tomorrow so they can sleep on it and we'll check in and have a follow-up conversation. And also that if anything comes to mind late tonight, they wake up in a cold sweat, whatever, to give me a call and I'm happy to talk whenever.

Because yes, even the most composed people I've worked with have been thrown for a loop by stuff like this and the first meeting is never really a productive two-way conversation. I just try and make it make as much sense as possible and don't take anything personally, and then have the real conversation about it the next day.
Totally depends on your local places. Even a national place like Texas Roadhouse is something like 9 dollars.

We've actually found places, by chance, that have huge awesome kids burgers for 5 or 6 dollars.

Apparently some places just sell the same foods cheaper under the kids guise. We aren't scammers, we do have a kid.
GC has a lot of issues, especially in engine level code, but in practice every game I've worked on or shipped has had at least one garbage collector running for UI or gameplay code. Lua, Actionscript (Scaleform), Unreal Script, Javascript, managed C#. Every game had GC performance issues as well, and we wrote code to generate minimal or no garbage
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> The metaverse, as I understand it, is just Facebook Games but in VR, for kids and bored adults.

I don't think that's true. Search for "Horizon Workrooms" to see an (IMHO) significant product they have in the collaboration tool space.
Why do you pick Helion over Commonwealth Fusion Systems?
Nowadays peripheral ICs are usually accessed over SPI, I2C, onboard USB, or some other indirect method. It is common for complex devices to have a micro on the other side handling I/O requests rather than spilling their guts to the world. That "other micro" could also be a full blown multi-core processor with an MMU running at hundreds of MHz and beyond. The difference back then is that parallel bus interfaces were king and custom ASICs couldn't necessarily afford the gate overhead of an embedded micro at all.
> Meta-not-Facebook

I am going to start using this term to satisfy people that argue its not called Facebook anymore.
My first language is python and I code in Racket in my spare time. I found going through the little schemer taught me recursion. Once I got it in Racket, it was easy to figure out how to do it in Python.

Also being forced to read the docs b/c there are not as many YouTube videos and stack overflow answers has been great to get over my fear of doing that in python.

Lastly not having a specific library requiring you to develop more of the code from scratch, has helped me think about how to tackle harder problems on my own.

Some helpful tips for a beginner in Racket.

1. The Racket discord is very helpful

2. If you are having trouble debugging an error in Racket, and it isn’t giving you a specific line number. Try racket -l errortrace -t my-program.rkt

3. Racket has a vscode plugin called Magic Racket

4. Drracket’s syntax highlighting leaves a lot to be desired, but you can change what gets highlighted to a high degree of granularity in it’s settings
Don’t read much into the product side of meta. Metaverse is just a hedge, so that if Apple shows us how to do VR/AR “right,” Facebook will have $10B worth of pieces on the board to be competitive, allowing them to avoid another iOS platform risk. Owning a platform provides leverage elsewhere too. Apple will be Apple, but maybe Facebook can be Android, next time around. (As a side benefit, it also helps “rally the troops,” which is needed given current morale.)
Whatever anybody thinks "metaverse" means now, what it really means, Facebook is going to change it permanently or go out of business. They have to be able to define away every negative aspect of their new metaphorical identity or they'll be used to undermine every future development of FB.

Meta was created out of a life or death situation (perceived or otherwise), so they have to gain control over their future so that it isn't possible for that to happen again. None of Gibson's words can prevent or counteract this.
I second this. The first course was a gentle enough intro that I finally “got” Racket. I also learn some good design principles along the way
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Its a powerplay. If he succeeds, he can solidify himself as a product genius, but in reality its just his money at play. Its easier to use money to take over something than to use money to invent something new.
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Hope this is the right place to share this.
AWS Secrets Manager gives me everything I want, for no effort, and costs rounds-down-to-zero. I cannot begin to imagine what Vault could even offer that would tempt me to switch.
When I was in college Louis Farrakhan [1] came to speak. There was a great debate if he should come (state school/funds and a pretty high speaking fee.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Farrakhan

He spoke, huge protest outside (I covered the protests for the college paper) As a suburban white kid i learned a lot about things I wasn’t exposed to. I listened to a recording of him speaking a while I processes the pictures in the dark room. His oratory was mesmerizing.

Universities should be places where interesting opinions are shared and debated. If the person is relevant and not crazy they should be heard. Let the protests happen or ask them questions.

As for the other complaint, big companies have sexual harassment and diversity training. Probably not a terrible idea, just get everyone on the same page and it’s also an big time institutional protective move (CYA).

All these students got into MIT so they’re already doing pretty pretty good..

I work at a university so I might be a bit biased, but they’re not terrible places to donate to. My group shares all its science data with the community and does a lot of stuff that’s pretty non-commercial. I had someone in pharma tell me they’re always grabbing all the public data..
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>If I am vaccinated for chicken pox why do I have to worry if my friend is not vaccinated for it and gets it ?

When my "friend" is taking up an ICU bed at the local hospital and I die from a heart attack that would have been easily treatable when there were beds available, I care. When I can't get the surgery I need to deal with cancer because the hospital is overstressed dealing with my "friends", I care.

Every time the virus infects someone, it replicates millions of times inside their body. If one of those mutations is more contagious and prolongs this pandemic, I care.

As other posters have told you, vaccines aren't 100%. I get my flu shot each year and I still don't want to spend time around people who have a cold.
Yea I stopped paying attention, but the last "show off" game I remember was Crysis in 2007. But at that point Valve games, Sims, and etc were very lower-end friendly.

The premise is just bizzare where OP thinks these bleeding-edge mind-blowing graphical games were somehow "efficient" and conservative in how they abused your hardware.
Oh yeah, I absolutely think his intention was to sell from the start.

His brother just sold a large chunk on Friday... totally not coincidental.

He's also frequently made jokes about how overvalued the stock is... definitely knows it's totally mispriced/overvalued.

Makes sense to diversify a bit either way. It may tank bigly before he can even sell though. I'm sure many will try to front run. But who knows, let's see.
In my personal opinion, you could consider using passive bandwidth estimation approaches, like in Chrome's Network Quality Estimator.

See, for example: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-networks-ig/2020...

(This is my opinion and not that of my employer.)
It's a vision for when VR/AR transitions from being heavy clunky hardware with niche use cases and early adopters, to lightweight powerful hardware with wide use cases and majority adoption. Similar to how mobile phones started out with a small group of adopters, then technologically evolved enabling more use cases, got small enough to fit in our pockets and now everyone has one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_life_cycle

The idea that we will work and play in the metaverse is blocked by the hardware right now. If the hardware is amazing (say, a regular looking pair of glasses) and can actually enable an immersive computing experience, that is more productive and better at connecting people, why wouldn't you use it? Regardless of who builds the platforms and experiences.
SDRs are for research and base stations. Trying to do a mobile phone based on an SDR stack would eat through your battery in minutes. You need dedicated silicon.
The writing is great.
And sound? :)
The expression problem has been known for quite some time [0].

Final tagless[1] is an fp approach and Object algebras[2] is an oop approach to solving this problem.

Setting aside the timelime, reading the various claims it seems like Eric Meijer, Anders Hejlsberg et al still had a hard time obfuscating the math to make patentable claims.
A naive read (on my part) of the claims looks like they wished to patent Object Algebras.

[0] https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/expression/expr...

[1] https://okmij.org/ftp/tagless-final/

[2] https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/11/13/scrap-your-boilerplate-w...
In the most recent episode of the Exponent [1] Ben Thompson and James Allworth make the interesting argument that it's intended to recreate the enterprise-to-consumer transition that PCs made but for VR technology. That is to say that very low price-sensitivity enterprise money will end up funding dramatic technological improvements in VR that can then be more effectively deployed to capture consumers.

[1] https://exponent.fm/episode-196-forecasting-the-metaverse/
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Racketcon 2021 [1] is going on right now as well for those interested

1. https://youtu.be/1mOhCuSJI60
Second Life didn't have the resources of a (approx) trillion-dollar company to pour into a solution by a CEO convinced it's the future. That can fix a lot of problems and force a lot of adoption.
You're assuming Apple doesn't have a way to bypass airplane mode when they receive a warrant.
I understand your point of view, truly. But I disagree with the premise that because I have used that phrase we have to throw the baby out with the bath water. Essentially, the point of copy is not to follow each and every grammar rule. It is to make sales. Nothing more, nothing less.

Also, here's an interesting post from the Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/overwhelming-overwhelm-w.... The author acknowledges that the word "overwhelm" has been used as a noun since the 1500s.

It may not be everyone's cup of tea. But it doesn't need to be.

So there are two truths here. Yours and mine, which can happily coexist :)
The frameworks and tools around them tend to be mostly about learning other people's piles of bureaucracy, which might or might not be documented well.

Pretty much everyone gets overwhelmed with the bureaucracy, and people end up cargo-culting to various degrees. Don't get intimidated.

Once you find a good framework and coherent documentation for it, then one of the usual rules applies: getting good at something takes time, and it's important not to get discouraged.

If the framework community has a text chat that answers questions quickly, that can help.

Good luck, and have fun exploring.
Not the DoD buy side. The UNIVAC sell side. After the war, Groves became a VP at Remington Rand / Sperry Rand / Sperry Univac.
So-called programming "tutorials" have never sat right with me. The idea is fundamentally wrong. It's like trying to learn painting by watching a series of videos in which you're taught which parts of canvas to paint what exact hue to recreate famous works of art, instead of being taught how to mix paints, negative space, and color theory.

"I'm stuck in tutorial hell, I understand the tutorials for how to multiply 3 digit and the tutorial for how to multiply 4 digit numbers. But when I try to multiply 5 digit numbers on my own, I just can't figure it out and have to go look up a tut."

Programming shouldn't be taught piecewise via 15 minute videos on YouTube of how to accomplish one particular specific task. It needs to be built from the ground up, from first principles of the environment in which you're programming, and the instruction given to pupils must be "determine the solution you need, break it into a series of building block steps, and then perform those building blocks." Not "try to re-create the tutorial of how to make a React component send a JSON request step by step without looking at the video." But no one makes video "tutorials" about the building blocks. Which is a shame, because that's the actual learning part.
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Honestly, this stuff is hard.

I understand this can be stressful, and a manager should never accidentally flag that they want a difficult and serious conversation by accident. Sometimes you need that conversation though, and foreshadowing it by giving context in text form is not better.

Best case I think is simply to come see someone and speak to them immediately, or give them a phone call and do it that way.

Second best is a meeting as soon as possible. When you need to speak to several people, it can be very stressful too to try to catch them one by one, find some are unavailable or not responsive, when you are trying to be respectful by sharing difficult news ahead of the grape vine.
> The electric motors tend to be quieter and also weaker. But there are also newer models that are more powerful.

Reminds me, couple of years ago I tried estimating what it would take to run a steamer to kill weeds. Felt like you could do it off a 240VAC 30amp circuit but not a 120V 15/20 amp one. Trouble while more modern houses have exterior outlets, none have 240V. Then again, EV chargers can deliver that.

Maybe the solution for gardeners is run power of an electric truck like the new Ford one.
Rail infrastructure in Switzerland is very expensive because of all the mountains.
The interesting question is: what APIs and data does the SIM card have access to?
Having been caught without ID while working at a university site as a contractor, I'm 100% certain that a university somewhere has carted some poor sod off to university prison. They are like extra powerful mall cops.
I mean, I’m a front end web developer, and I get fucked up about how little I know about backend web development.

Embedded programming? Dealing with signals?! God forbid, man.

There’s just so much of everything! Terrifying! But fun!
There is (was) this concept of "cinema ticket based" inflation index that linked consumer level effective inflation to the price of one entry for a movie across the years. I wonder if anyone has published a somewhat large scale estimation of the "post pandemic inflation" adjustment from a collection of these (consumer level) frothy assets.
> Third, intellectual ability and achievement are the principal requirements for admission as a student or faculty member to any university.

We know from the lawsuit against Harvard brought by Asian applicants that the principle requirements for admission are having a parent alumni or donor, since discovery in that case revealed that the majority of all admissions were legacies. I don't think the quoted suggestion has ever existed.

Selective universities who wish to rebuke any assumed nefarious intent behind their admission policies and procedures are welcome to publish data showing us that the bulk of their admissions are not legacy admissions. Until then, I say Harvard describes them all.

After all, the new norm is that accusation denotes guilt, right?
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I think he is competent, just not at guiding an economy or making the rest of east asia not angry at you. It takes a lot of skill and will-to-power to get to his current position. Stalin was similar, being a genius at getting and holding power but not so good at a lot of other aspects of running an empire.
FYI you might like this series from Huygens optics, although his more targeted at microscale lenses than transistors.

https://youtu.be/_w0Z2Y5vaAQ
One of my favorite techniques you don't see at all today but looked amazing from that era is color cycling (or palette shifting). Its more of an artistic technique, but it shows how creatively people can think with and around constraints.

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/?sound=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_cycling
"Ritual" in an anthropological context, the way I believe OP is using it, is a pretty broad term with no particular magic connotation (though I'd say "general social shared experience" is going too far). It seems to encompass e.g. burial practices, and our common celebrations of Christmas and Halloween would qualify as well. The definition in this cousin comment meshes with my understanding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29131502
I’d imagine that these have less overall impact. Along those lines, remote job sites probably need fuel-based energy.

In this case there’s some carbon and a relative lot of pollution going on.
Thing to remember is the article linked is basically a propaganda outfit. They claim a lot of thing but don't link to the law itself. The law is basically enabling legislation that requires the state air resources board to develop regulations and a system of rebates and incentives for commercial users to transition to zero emissions equipment.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
Found a copy here: https://markqiu.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/copilot_spec1.pd...
Searchcode looks great. Wish it had a recently indexed sorter.
Sonic language: Inspired by Swift, but compiles to C so can be used anywhere
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Hi all, please be gentle :) A close friend and I have decided to bite the bullet and attempt to create an applications programming language! Even if we fail, we'll learn a lot. Anyway, wish us luck!
Not sure why you got downvoted. All the carriers make a lot of money on charges related to subpoenas and warrants from LEO.
I wouldn't use a non-FOSS platform or experience for non-corporate reasons. My employer wants me to use a particular hardware? Fine, but I'm not using my money for it, I won't like it, and I'll break it every chance I get.

The idea that I will work and play in the metaverse is forever and eternally blocked by which particular group of assholes is trying to wrangle me. If it's a group that allows me the same access they have, which enable me to wrangle the tech and myself? I'll pay triple the premium, just to stick it to Zuck and other proprietary scum.
Managers can make good money, I think OP was referring to the entry level positions.

And I would agree, they aren’t intended to provide a wage to support a family. That doesn’t stop people who are doing just that to work those jobs.

And there are also plenty of adults who don’t need to work who do those jobs. I know a few older guys who work part time at Home Depot making peanuts but they don’t need to the money, they need some routine and interactions.
I've not had an electric bill this year. My panels make way more than I use.
I'm cool with them.
> “There are better ways to go about this,” the regional supervisor replied. She had been thinking about boosting pay at the Bradford McDonald’s, she said, but she was not going to give into threats or give up control. Because of the petition, no one was getting a raise.

If I was one of those workers I'd be insulted she thought I was dumb enough to believe that old lie.
Author is in Romania, and those two items are each unique links to their respective Wikipedia articles.

It's not embellishments, it's information
I've been using OVH VPSs for a long time.
Americans know trains can be nice. We just can't get our local, state or national governments to build and operate nice ones at a reasonable price (actually, nice might not be attainable regardless of price in many areas for a variety of reasons.)

But we also can't divert the overspending on rail to just building more buses, so don't worry. :) Choice would be nice.
I assume the university didn't have the budget to provide a dorm network so they didn't object much to the students building their own.
Cars need quite a bit of infrastructure too and central planning mandates that cities in the US be built to be maximally friendly to cars, at the expense of every other mode of transportation.
If you take sharding out what's the point of using anything other than a normal sql database?
I worked for BoJangles in the 90s at a starting wage of $4.75. They called it a training wage, for 90 days. It sucked, but not the job, or really the customers, it was the management. Managers never had, nor cared for, the respect of their reports.