skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know what brutalism means in architecture? It means exposed concrete, Munger's design is not brutalism. Also what "commie-blocks from eastern europe" are you referencing? I can't think of any eastern european apartment buildings that resemble this design in any way. (They tend to have windows)
Why are there not more successful forks of Firefox? While it's still my browser of choice, I think it's safe to say there are a significant number of developers who are not happy with the leadership of Mozilla. What's preventing other forks from taking off?
Seconding MOFAD, it is great.
Jokes aside, definitely not a day's worth of tuning.

My minimal set-up is mostly hiding all the GUI elements. Though I also make a semi-virtue out of trying to use as much vanilla Emacs as possible, for this very reason.

If you know your way around it, there's a lot of power in unmodded Emacs still.
These issues I'd consider pretty crucial to approaching Signal-like privacy and there's not been much progress on them unfortunately:
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1769
https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/11655
https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/2320
https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/2772
https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/2458
In collusion with someone inside the institution, as a way to get around internal budgetary disputes?

That said, I don't understand why even the boring version is confusing. Someone can want to help an institution achieve one of its goals, but not others of its goals.
economy is reflected by the the decisions of individuals and groups and what they priorities.

Im not talking about post-scarcity economy Im talking about trying to get there, right now it feels we only moving away from it, and the labor we do is not constructive to us or valued very little.
In the name of Anti-Racism, we're re-inventing segregation.

People trying to object to this are labelled "Racists"

At some point we have to stop, look at what we're doing, and "say this is silly and unnecessary and we can do things that make more sense"
Ask HN: What is the best privacy-focused video doorbell?
So the family have decided they "need" a video doorbell... with calls for a Ring Doorbell. I don't want more Amazon/tracking/spyware installed so looking for the best privacy focussed doorbell (Ideally with open APIs).
I think I've seen that design in Dwarf Fortress.
That's true. But a different interpretation is that natural selection is an optimum in progress. It can all end abruptly, but there can be many branches too.
> the user isn't really in control of who can see this information

Server-side parties (e.g., the admin) can see the status information without adding somebody to the group. It is in cleartext, passing the server.
Cows, pigs, chicken, tuna…they’re all magnificent creatures.
Stockholm parents built their own school app, then the city called the cops
Any stats about tourists in Houston or Phoenix?

I'm pretty sure that international tourism is more of a thing in more "walkable" cities like New York.
Maybe they mean syntax? I guess you could compare it to say syntax like "char 'a' + either char 'b' or char 'c' + char 'd'".

I like regex as is but that would def make it more approachable for the folks I know who don't.
The article isn't trying to engage problems at the lowest end of the housing market, it's concerned with the strange dynamics of the middle 60% of the market.
I have been a developer for 20 (e: I've just realised it's actually just over 25 years..) or so years now. I've attempted to "learn" Angular multiple times. I just can't do it. I get mental fatigue within an hour of picking up Angular CLI, or even just watching/reading tutorials. It speaks a foreign language to me.

And I've got years of React, Vue, vanilla-JS as well as Java, Kotlin, Scala, PHP, Smalltalk, Go, Rust, .NET (and the various flavours that comes in) under my belt. If I put some effort into it I could probably regurgiate some Cobol, RTF, and other now-forgotten stuff, too.

But Angular? I just .. can't.
I was hoping for something more conclusive. I have had two good friendships that lasted more than 2 years each. besides them, I feel like I've almost never had friends at all. I don't know if I can say they were romantic. the first one I miss so badly that I wonder if it was. the second one became romantic and now we are married. I terribly want the lifelong deep friendships that normal people seem to form accidentally. I don't know how to form them even on purpose.
How do you prove intent in a historical context without admission?
> I agree that the choice between crippling rent rates and having no access to windows is not a good one, but it seems a function of where we are economically. Base rents everywhere I've ever lived are much higher compared to minimum wage than they've been for past generations.

They are absurdly high and I think the people who are put in that position are doing what they feel is in their best interest. What worries and frustrates me is that many publications/people seem to be seeking to normalise the situation we're in rather than thinking about how we could provide a better standard of living to people.
Based on the stats, you're probably underweighting the damage of very high debt levels and overweighting the importance of windows. Although there are serious questions to ask about the ventilation of these rooms - as long as they've got satisfactory answers it looks like a good idea.

The options can't be perfect or nothing. The options should be perfect, good and bad.
How nix-shell Saved Our Team’s Sanity
>>$10k for a cadaver, but this lady seemingly got nothing. That is (should be) the crime here!

if that offends you, wait until you research how much money the Red Cross gets from all that donated blood....

This kind of thing is common practice, where it is illegal for an individual but there are "loop holes" where companies are not actually selling the blood, organ, etc but "transport", "collection" etc services or other related things.
I'd also bet that whoever buys this type of nuclear-powered graphics card does not plan to use a driver that will not allow 3D gaming or bitcoin mining.
> dictating how

It's actually the opposite... It creates an option with different tradeoffs.
I agree with you on the rebuttal, but disagree with you on your description of this specific building.

This is supposedly the floor plan: https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2021/11/munger-hall-univer...

> each of these sleeping spaces with no windows is said to attach to a 'house' with a private common area and real windows. Nothing like the isolated skyscraper dorm you link to.

Yeah, but not quite. First, these "sleeping spaces with no windows" are apartments, a cluster of 7 single-occupancy bedrooms, with a common area in the middle, with kitchenette, shared bathrooms, etc. It's a self-contained unit. And most of these units have no windows at all.

8 of these units form a "house", with a large common area and real windows, as you see. But it's a space shared by 56 people, and their guests. Calling it private is rather stretching that term.
A therapist can only help you if you don't understand yourself or your situation (they can help to make sense of it by helping you to unlock new information). But I understand my situation perfectly. I will probably end up converting the therapist to my world view unless they're too shallow to understand it... In which case why would I want such shallow person as a therapist?

If I want to unlearn information, maybe old-school electroshock therapy is a better way...
Does anyone of interest really believe in what the article calls a "sugar mono-causal theory of obesity"?
i can't read it either
GDBFrontend v0.8.2-beta is released and needs testing
Five Breakthrough Signs of Early Peoples in the Americas
The most obvious that comes to mind is eval. However a custom function could also be dangerous, e.g. a function that posts some sensetive information to a REST API where the attacker can control the variable that defines the API endpoint address and thus can send the information to themselves.
I really like this, congratulations on the launch. And this is such a huge space that there's definitively room for other options (aside from Segment).

I'm a little bit out of the loop in this event processing space. Do you think Jitsu could replace lower-level event processing implementations as Kafka/Kinesis? Or this is thought for more "high level" marketing stuff.
> Zoning is the biggest impediment. Most US cities have parking requirements, rules for setbacks, and limits on number units in a building.

Surely that's not it, because zoning in general and urban planning in particular is what determines walkability, and that is determined by design. Even if you have the most stringent requirements for parking, plans are already produced with that in mind.

Therefore, either a urban area is designed with walkability in mind, or it is not.
Old extentions had way more access to the internals of the browser. When they disabled that access, they also meant they could change internal interfaces faster without breaking so many extensions. So I think it would be possible to make a small source-level tweak and compile a browser that loads old extentions, the individual extensions might not work anymore.
Sir David Attenborough's Address to World Leaders at COP26 [video]
> A photo gallery in a smartphone is extremely dull in comparison, and that's why they can learn to use it immediately.

I think the reason they can learn to use it immediately is that it's super-simple to learn - tap and swipe, and not very many of those gestures at that. Phone interfaces now are designed to be used by /anyone/ - and that means keeping them simple enough that it can be learned quickly by a child.
Great work! It's funny that YC funded Segment as well as two direct Segment competitors (RudderStack is the other one, though I think they initially started with a different idea an pivoted to that afterwards), though given the size of YC this is probably expected and Segment is probably large enough to "deserve" some good smaller competition.

As someone who also builds an open-core product (though not directly modeled after an existing closed-source product) I really hope this kind of business model will become more accepted.
I’ve been a fan of metals (and more broadly elements) for project code names lately. My current project is called Cobalt!
unfortunately the last 2 years hasn't been full of news stories of zoom meetings to discuss happiness and the good times

I remember before Covid when the news was wall-to-wall positivity.
Also see

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28816893 (27 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28814163 (5 comments)
If 5 people go out 5 nights a weeks there will be the same crowd as if 10 people go out 2 nights a week.

Maybe there's just a ton of people and not a lot of restaurants and people like to eat out occasionally.

The immediate conclusion doesn't have to be that the Italians have a bunch of money that they are being frivolous with. There are other options.
All of Jeff Bezos' Amazon Shareholder letters from 1997 to 2020 [pdf]
Opinion: Elon Musk’s Extraterrestrial Capitalism
Vim has a built-in tutorial too. As said elsewhere, you literally cannot get started in Vim without knowing a dozen command and grokking modes, in Emacs you can at least stumble around without knowing anything.

Equally, there's a difference in target audience. Do you need a tutorial to operate a screwdriver? No. Power drill? Arguably yes. CNC mill? Dear God please yes. I don't think you expect a fork lift or nail gun to be accessible with zero runway by anyone, or for their features to be discoverable by trial-and-error.

You could argue that this is not a worthwhile niche, and maybe that's right (at least for you and like-minded people) but it's just what it is.
Why Big Tech is leaving China
This isn't actually (entirely) true.

One of the core technologies of the old extension model, XBL, has been completely ripped out. XBL-defined elements and XBL overlays were how a lot of the old UI customisations functioned, so even if you enable loading the older code it just flat won't work. Obviously custom JavaScript, as in the example you linked, can still do whatever when loaded without restrictions, but then you're at the mercy of changing internals, instead of the supported stable WebExtensions API.

Additionally a lot of XUL in the chrome UI has been removed, replaced with HTML equivalents or custom elements (a descendant of XBL), and the root documents that make up the browser chrome have transitioned from being .xul XUL documents with some HTML elements in to .xhtml HTML documents with some XUL elements in.
Bought from own savings and income 4 years ago with no help from parents, not a family-owned apartment or sizeable inheritance. Owner is an immigrant from a developing country, the exchange rate alone would be prohibitive for any family assistance.
This is covered well in Parasite. There are degrees of “niceness”, some of which are enabled when money is no object and you don’t have someone taking a piss on your house.
In-House vs. Outsourcing vs. Freelancing Software Development
Genuine questions. Aren't such forks harming the actual Firefox developers by decreasing the Firefox user base? Doesn't it help the Google monopoly on the web?
> I’d like them to figure out things from a clean slate without my opinionated views on top of it

What clean slate? The alternative is their being influenced by other people's opinionated views.
Well that's exactly my point. People like you who think gun rights supercede everything else. It's ludicrous. Almost nobody needs a gun. Most other wealthy democracies have universal healthcare and near total bans on private gun ownership and they're doing way better than America. Proof is in the pudding.

But even so, your opinion is clearly colored by propaganda. Gun control isn't a popular topic on the left. The second amendment remains inviolable and has greatly expanded in the last twenty years. "They're coming to take our guns" is a cry of right wing media because they know it will scare people into voting irrationally.
> I believe you're slightly misunderstanding the details here (no surprise, as the article is not clear).

The article clearly mentions that passwords are sent in cleartext to the server when the user sets/changes their password. It even clarifies that SCAM-SHA-1 won't help as hashing happens after cleartext password can be logged.

> loglevel: 5 (or “debug”) logs every single message and all activities mentioned above plus passwords in cleartext. Some XMPP proponents insisted that this isn’t true as XMPP servers use SCRAM-SHA-1 for password hashing. However, it doesn’t matter whether you enable or disable server-side password hashing as clients send new/changed passwords to XMPP servers in cleartext. The server logs the cleartext password before hashing it.
What are branches?

Seriously, it was only "main" when I started at Apple 26 years ago. Our version control was such that when someone wanted to edit a file it was "checked out", locked to others on the team, until it was checked back in.

It worked surprisingly well (obviously no merge conflicts for one thing). I doubt anyone would suggest going back to something as simplistic (but I have to admit Git feels way too complicated than it should at times).
That, and I like how they neatly sort.
Any probability distribution of any attribute can be aribtrarily cut off at the 90th or 85th percentiles to make this point. Are you claiming there's something special that relates integer multiples of standard deviation of the IQ distribution to emacs usage?
option 1) die in the gutter like the filthy rat you are
option 2) lick this dung off my boots
I would argue that Facebook are not the stewards of the first big VR world, Linden Labs are. Second Life has been a thing for a long time and, while not exactly the decentralised dream of an open metaverse we would want, its a hell of a lot more open and unregulated than whatever Zuckaberg's boffins could cook up in a month for the keynote scripted demo.

Now, I could sing the praises of Second Life (and parallel efforts like Open Simulation) for a long time, but it would be unfair of me not to mention that it is not officially a VR experience. All VR access to "The Grid", as they call it, is done through third party "Viewers" (effectively a web browser for the metaverse) based on the now open source code for the official Linden Viewer. That said, there has been serious efforts made into making a VR Viewer for The Grid, and I expect such efforts will only be enboldened by the new direction Facebook/Meta is taking.
It's boilerplate and makes you have to jump around in the code to follow what's happening.

If a function is used 2 times, 3 times, ... sure, go for it. If it's just a one-time use, please don't make a separate function.
You must know some pretty smart five year olds!
We leverage it mainly to confirm license compliance but the package vuln notifications are nice
And my experience was that I had a roommate all four years. But that was back in the 80s. Maybe that's one reason student debts have gotten higher.
On the other hand, is an architecture degree the right credential to criticize the proposal? The strongest critique seems to come from the social science side with an argument that windowless rooms are bad for mental health.

I'm interested in hearing more about that, particularly whether there's a difference between windows and natural-spectrum light (the latter of which can be mimicked).

However, an architect has no particular authority on this subject. I can't give his opinion here any more weight than the manager who's hired architects before.
Can anyone who uses this comment on their experiences? The UI looks pretty slick.
Unfortunately Signal is a walled garden actively fighting against alternative clients and servers. This is enough for me to avoid it and recommend Matrix. If you feel that those issues are critical, please donate your money or time to solve them.
Why I Left California for Florida [video]
Program Files (x86) and SysWOW64 folders explained
Yes, tying the design demand to the donation is the core of the problem.

It puts the university in a no-win situation of either foregoing the best practices of design review, or foregoing $200 million.

If it’s actually a good design, it should stand up to scrutiny like any other building design does. The most famous buildings you’ve ever heard of passed through a design review and made revisions. It’s absurd to think that Frank Gehry gets design-reviewed but Charlie Munger does not.

By exempting a design from review and revision, you get what they are getting now: a shitload of bad PR. If stakeholders can’t weigh in internally, they will attack externally. Left to fester, this could affect the university’s acceptance rate. Publicly disregarding the concerns of parents and students is not generally a great look in higher education.
The Michigan building houses just 630 graduate students who chose to live there. Over 98% of students live elsewhere. How does that show most people prefer it?

The bedrooms are much larger. They have individual bathrooms. And a number of reviews said at least the suites have windows. UCSB's wouldn't.

> or at least the kind of people that would sign up for res in a building like this

You added this later. It's tautological. And often undergraduate students don't get to choose their building.
Housing is also subsidized in the US, the FHA, USDA and VA all have housing subsidy programs. States and local governments also operate housing subsidy programs.
even GNU has really hard time keeping up their IceCat releases
If a fork like this would decrease ff's user base, Mozilla can change ff or have their lunch eaten by said fork. Hard to see a down side.
cheaper

Price sensitive shoppers are not in the product's market segment.
Can we expect react native integration any time soon ?
How does this compare with IceCat and Fennic?
cradling is not neglect, two very different things
The loss is that DRM is added to a product, which means that even if you legally purchased it, you don't really own it.
Could anyone please explain, why is it not possible to have windows there?
For example, if every room had a 1x1m window.
Is it because of heating issues?
Svelte/Sveltekit. It's really difficult to go back to React/Vue/Angular once you get a hang of Svelte.
Title: Billionaire defends windowless dorm rooms for California students

Content: Quotes from billionaire defending his windowless dorm design

How is that clickbait?
It might make more sense to have no ads and for telemetry to be opt in. I actually want FF having my telemetric data as far as it is used for improving the product only. Ready to pay if they were into it.
Walkability demands density, and density intrinsically is encouraged by smaller units. Now, obviously the economic factor you describe can exacerbate this, but fundamentally dense walkable neighborhoods can't have the kind of sprawly mcmansions some people have grown comfortable with in suburbia.
How to Build an Igloo
There are actually many UCSB students living in hotels due to a severe housing shortage.
I'd say if there's any harm, it would rather be related to money, as in Mozilla has less to bargain for their deals with their sponsors.

However, seeing how these forks are just "cosmetic", they still use the same rendering engine, which doesn't increase Google's relative user base. As far as this monopoly is concerned, all these forks are still Firefox.
Great article. I’d like to see a follow up addressing how to get from A to B without causing displacement due to gentrification. The article treats it as a false scare but it is real and can’t be overlooked. Millions of houses can’t be built over night so there will be gentrification. Sucessful development needs to maintain mixed income, and price caps/rent control need to exist in order to avoid that IMO. Property developers will not do that without a helping hand from the government.
> but a bank is definitely not one of them

Investment banks are basically risk-management shops. The partner made an assessment and evaluated the potential benefits as higher than risks. Note the word "probably".
> So any characterization of USA vs Europe positing Europe as some sort of walkable-heaven is really just idealized bullshit.

Or that is just a strawman of what is clearly true, but not literally universal in every single individual location. Biking/walking is utilized at least twice as much in Western European countries as in the US, and often 3 times or more [1]. European cities are, in general, more walkable and bikeable than US cities. If you want to read an in depth article about the many factors that led to US urban sprawl vs European cities, I’d recommend [2].

[1] http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/trnews/trnews280western...

[2] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/are-europes-cities-better...
You shop, Maersk ships: A new challenger to Amazon emerges
Subways, trams and buses are not just as dangerous as cars.
I thought the sensor for Lighthouse was just a bunch of IR diodes and very precise timing?
It's an excellent documentary on how the modern western culture based on individualism was born, and I plan to re-watch it soon, because it was a really interesting perspective, and and incredibly interesting narrative style. I haven't seen any of the other documentaries by Curtis but I will.
> Thats 32,000 pounds. In a single day. If I ate 5 pounds of food a day, it would take me nearly 18 years to eat that much!

It helps to be 200 tonnes though, or to grow from 3 to 200 tonnes in 10-15 years (3 to 20 in the 6~8 months weaning period, blue whales are estimated to produce >200kg milk a day).
Really don't like different opinions getting out? What is it like working for the secret police?
Look at the code
Can you elaborate? Is Mozilla paying off people who try to start FF forks? Because I could use a bailout.

More seriously, is the suggestion that FF is too complex to properly fork without full time devs?