skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ah, ring-back, of course! thank you so much!
this one no doubt can at least save on phone calls: I can set it up with twilio, or even the cheapest Dellmont reseller: ok, great... then yes, I could have a friend with a 'very old style' BBS kind of setup, but best would be an already made service

Oh, wait I sec, I've got a possible solution here: the UK service ZEN cited by
thinkingemote https://support.zen.co.uk/kb/Knowledgebase/DialUp-FAQs plus a callback triggered by a text message: form Ethiopia I send a message to a SMS in twilio, this will trigger an API that with a Twilio (or cheaper Dellmont) provider which will call ZEN in the UK and me in Ethiopia: then I need to answer with a modem (I need the proper hardware modem I guess..... uh. it's really a shame I cannot use my mobile phone!!)
Which job boards and at what rate? Who was your blog aimed at?
The primary reason for the size was the amount of memory. The hardware address space was 64kB. It's a DOS so there were full set of system calls for file and directory handling.
From their rack diagram it looks to really be 2.67U + 1U 24 port switch per 12.
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This is good advice to some one who is already aware that they terrify their employees -- but many of these scary vague messaged come from people who aren't.
The dorms I’ve been in have twin XL, but you make a good point if these are not.
Why are soo many people who have a proven track record in the markets going haywire? Zuck with his Metaverse, Elon with his Tesla Bot, Sam Altman „Lets scan every eyeball in the world“ now Charlie Munger with his windowless dorms. Is it just their ever-growing echo chambers of yes-men or has the flooding of the markets with money maybe gone too far to keep everyone honest/down to earth?
I suspect calloc() doesn't have this problem as it initializes the area with zeroes.
I get it why someone else scrapes it. But why customers upload data in the first place? Aren't they interested in getting some OTHER data from you and that OTHER data may as well be scraped?
Rent and tuition in the free market economies exist to extract money, paying it back in some form somehow defeats the purpose.
I actually completely agree after upgrading. Very trivial differences over 10. At least it forced me to upgrade from MBR to GPT and UEFI boot.
There wasn't any coursework - just a single thesis at the end. I think some people do achieve a PhD alongside work, but it can be a long process. I also think things have changed these days in that decades ago you could take as long as you liked, whereas now they're very strict about you handing it in completed in 4 years after registration. It maybe that you can register part-time and the deadline is subsequently pushed back, but I imagine it can be a bit risky as departments change and supervisors will come and go if you're taking more than 5 years to do it. The other aspect is what type of PhD it is. For laboratory work it can be hard to fit that around work, especially if you're receiving samples on another timetable.
Those batteries only have a few hours of storage at max power, they're for solving the duck curve not a week-long supply shortage (let alone seasonal fluctuations). If we got the Midwest on heat pumps, how you planning to keep places heated when there's a week of blizzard? Right now we have no plan for addressing the occasional bad week besides overbuilding natural gas. That's worse than keeping our nuclear running and expanding, but the solar and wind is subsidized but not the natural gas. The way the market for power works, bidding on a daily or hourly basis, doesn't account for seasonal variation. The solar and wind builders are off the hook on blizzard week but get subsidized enough to run the reliable plants out of business the rest of the year.
But who is "they"? The one who pays the piper picks the tune.
> Does it even have new features?

To name just two examples: Windows Subsystem for Android, nested virtualization support for AMD processors.
I'd like to be able to follow this advice always, but what about when, say, you're scheduling a call with your manager to let them know you're leaving the team? Do I lead with context by titling the meeting "Discuss my Departure"?
No one rational wants to discard long-term nuclear safety, much less easily...

My worry is that we have swung collectively towards the very opposite, towards a demand for unrealistical level of one hundred per cent safety, unparalleled in any other modern activity (flights, medicine, construction, food...)
It should be noted that this contains pure speculation on the part of how much of the actual information processing in the neurons is optimally required given the total information processing to be done vs what is required given the biological mashup of hundreds of millions of years of evolution.
> I have a Pi 4 home server, and the biggest issue right now is that my home upload is a bit weak for remote video streaming.

"To ensure that every Pi at our decentralized locations always has enough network throughput, the uplink and downlink is fixed at 10 Mbps."

Not sure about your use case, but for me that is way less bandwidth than I have at home.
As with any software project, optimization is part of the trade-off equation. In those days, that type of optimization was a necessity. You just couldn't build a decent game without doing it.

It can still be done today of course, but it is less of a necessity. Teams choose to spend that time working on other aspects of the game instead.
Well to be in the spirit with the parent it should also try and use terabytes of storage to push the storage to the limit.
> This is loosely the same idea that drives React, ObservableHQ, Kafka, and other event-streaming architectures, but I first encountered this ~15 years ago at a bank.

See also the "observer pattern" [0]. It's a fun exercise to implement a reactive system in Python using the descriptor protocol [1]. IPython's traitlets library is an example of this in the wild [2].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_pattern

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/descriptor.html

[2]: https://github.com/ipython/traitlets
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Yes. I should have noted for clarity that vdom diff is a special case, not a general one like that of subj. But their similarity reminded me of the experience.
Even the Flu shot, its not very clear that it actually does work, and is not just a statistical effect of selection bias. The people most likely to take the flue shot are already from a subgroup that cares more about their health, if you add in young and healthy people in the military it skews things even more. Sure you can show that the group that took the flue shot died less.
But its mostly a statistical effect. The sickest people and the ones that are near death already, or neglect their health are the most at risk of dying from the flue. They're also the group that will not take the flue shot, or will not be prescribed.

Its easy to convince yourself that cheering for your team has an effect on how well they play.

The companies doing the research also have financial incentive to show that it works.

But honestly, mandating a half walk everyday, will probably be more beneficial to the US population than any flue or covid vaccine. Since both diseases are so tied to BMI, weight and its complications like diabetes.
Mr. Munger has clearly read J. G. Ballard's "Highrise" and taken it as an inspiration instead of the social critique it is.
While it's likely that not everything we label as "for ritual purposes" was exactly that, I think you're hugely underestimating the force of religion. Think about all the huge temples and cathedrals that have been built just in the western world. You don't think Mesoamericans felt the same impulse? "Seized by astrological magic" is framing the question with a putdown that distorts your understanding. You can't predict the actions of ancient people with a modern mindset about astrology in particular or religion in general. To them, these ideas were very real and important.

If you read a tiny bit more broadly in pop archaeology, it's clear that they're trying their best to find economic reasons for things. It's a bit insulting to insinuate they jump straight to "ritual purposes" without considering more mundane reasons.
And filter out the pharmaceuticals from the sewage
Yes it covered my clinical salary and had around 20'000 per year for the lab work. It was very generous, but hard to get. Also, the year after I got it, the recession had truly hit and charities and research organisations stopped most of their funding.

It was hard applying for the grants, but it is possible in your spare time. You can talk to potential supervisors and they can point you towards grants coming up - and help you write them.
Thankfully, the author of Yori[0] shell has made a modern port of EDIT called, well, Yedit[1].

[0]: http://www.malsmith.net/yori/

[1]: https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2021/03/03/yedit-the-miss...
Good links, thanks. I'd say that just points to the need for very basic DRM instead. If a game isn't distribute by steam or some other DRM'ed platform, a simple activation code should be a sufficient hurdle for opportunistic pirates. Not these complex systems that run alongside the game and sometimes do all sorts of other system monitoring too. (Excluding anti-cheat systems-- they're half a root kit, but somewhat of a necessary evil for competitive games)
Channels become absolutely necessary once servers hit very large user counts. Even “low” large numbers at around 1000 users total with 200 actives at any given time result in chaos if there is only one text channel. Now imagine a server of 40,000 with many more actives (fandom servers will easily hit those numbers).

> “My server is too big to not have channels — you can’t usefully stuff a thousand people into a single channel productively. (As evidence, look at Twitch streams!)”

GP even admits it themselves.

But
>discord just doesn’t scale well, because it lacks good threading and discussion-organizing features

It’s not supposed to. It’s an ephemeral chatting app, not a forum.

One best practice that I’ve seen that helps turn a particular channel into a forum is to slow-mode the channel with a long cooldown. Make the cool-down about 60secs and the nature of discussion very quickly changes.
The philosophers Plato and Epictetus were, for a time, slaves.
You summed up the reason. Recently i opened a Discord and Discourse forum to complement a community, both have different uses cases. Launching a discord server is hassle free with no cost, if you want to upgrade to more features just pay Nitro. Discourse you need the know how of installing it yourself or pay $100 month from Discourse.org.
"I think we're crazy to allow it.", Charles Munger, 2021
I bet everyone who has a raspberry pi had this idea. Throwing a raspberry pi with a solar panel and a sim card to a random place. It could be for backup, vpn or to access some private network. But having it be a rackmounted VM in a fixed location doesn't sound that fun to me.
I think you're onto something. Quite a few things actually. Social media has a lot of untapped potential if we engineer better products. A continuum of related products will help. And for all their problems, voting systems can be very helpful in the right context.
I feel like ARR is a vanity metric compared to MRR.

In the SaaS industry MRR is the most commonly used metric.

ARR = 12 MRR

500k ARR = 41k MRR

ARR is just used in the title caused it's a bigger number and makes it look more impressive.
No, I mean we don't mind offering it if they pay the fee. Customers have different reasons for preferring credit cards.

Maybe they honestly can't afford it and need to use it for the credit aspect.

Some aren't comfortable with automatic withdrawal from their checking account.

Some it's just a habit and don't use checking accounts.

I'd say about 15% pf customers would rather take the fee.

The normal cash back on a card is 1% and some even higher so to them its not that big of a deal...but to a business it ads up.

Our profit margin is about 20% of sales. If we gave up 3% of sales, that is taking away 15% of our profits!

To give example numbers, if we charge $100 per month we pocket $20 after expenses (rent, payroll, etc)...but If we swallow the credit card fees that's $3, and makes the profit down to $17. So after all this hard work of customer acquisition, providing services etc, such a little thing takes away 15% of our profits (and that's before it passes through to us as income tax!).

ACH used to be a flat $.50 per transaction...it takes time to reconcile invoices and payments so right now just sucking it up.
This is the official site of Pompeii archeological park : http://pompeiisites.org/en/
Sure, but there are <1% of the games being produced that need to tackle those problems. Look at the most of 10,000+ games released on Steam or the endless mobile games released over the past year.

For every Naughty Dog, Riot, Take-Two, CDPR, or Bethesda, there are thousands of garbage studios. Thus my “Broadly speaking” caveat.
One has to remember what Valve tried to achieve. If I remember correctly, Microsoft back then announced that the Microsoft Store would be an integral part of the upcoming Windows 10. Seeing the huge amounts of money Apple/Google/Valve were making with their stores, they openly played with the idea to only allow application installations through the Microsoft Store, most importantly games.

So Valve tried to break the Windows monopoly on games by creating a native Linux SDK and releasing the Steam Machine, which was based on Ubuntu. The goal was to make Linux a first class citizen as a gaming development platform, not just something to run an emulation layer.
The Steam Machine failed, because it simply wasn't very good. Valve quickly lost interest in native Linux and let the native SDK rot away into obsoletion.
Fortunately, Microsoft being Microsoft, the Windows Store was (and still is) a terrible platform, so pretty much nobody is buying games there (except for Minecraft), and you can still install anything you want on Windows.

So of course you can say that you don't care if it runs natively or in an emulation shim. It would have been nice if Linux had become a game development platform and not just a kernel with a Windows API layer on top. So in a way, Linux' success here is similar to Android's: Yes, it's technically Linux, but not really.
Seems so arbitrary and petty. But thankfully I like another OS that doesn't do this! :)
When I announced I was leaving to my team, I titled the meeting "Future of (project name)"
Telegram is an example, see Durov's group when Durov makes an announcement, conversation is almost imposible to follow.
Hey this is really cool! Not sure how this compares to https://github.com/benjamine/jsondiffpatch which has been unmaintained for some time. But if this could replace it I'd happy to start using it.
That's nice to hear, and to correct my previous comment, Australia is the biggest producer of iron:

> In 2019, the country was the 2nd largest world producer of gold;[1] 8th largest world producer of silver;[2] 6th largest world producer of copper;[3] the world's largest producer of iron ore;[4] the world's largest producer of bauxite;[5] the 2nd largest world producer of manganese;[6] 2nd largest world producer of lead;[7] 3rd largest world producer of zinc;[8] 3rd largest world producer of cobalt;[9] 3rd largest producer of uranium;[10] 6th largest producer of nickel;[11] 8th largest world producer of tin;[12] 14th largest world producer of phosphate;[13] 15th largest world producer of sulfur;[14] in addition to being the 5th largest world producer of salt.[15]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Australia
>how you planning to keep places heated when there's a week of blizzard?

When the wind is blowing really hard? Wind turbines?

The texas winter was a bit of an anomaly. It got so cold that every power source ending up failing because none were set up to deal with it even though all of them in theory could have (& would have if they were in, say, alaska).
good catch; it's $550B in new spending and $450B of renewing infrastructure programs that were going to expire (or have expired since the bill has dragged on)

I don't know what the $450B is though, all the media focus and interest is on the new shiny stuff.
Do you currently live in a windowless room?

Have you experienced being in a windowless room for a long period of time?

It’s not a luxury.
I’d usually first communicate that in an email where you express your appreciation and briefly explain why you’re leaving, along with your last day.

Then the manager will usually schedule an exit interview for the report (or, if you’re at a bad company, fire you on the spot).
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this is concerning.

i can't say we can predict where all this is going or what will come out of this case. but wikipedia seems to have too much power over what constitute the "truth".

i recently read a book on cognitive science that has most of their sources from wikipedia.
What’s a little odd to me is we don’t call it “rituals” when applied to modern people, we call it “religious services”.

“Rituals” does have a bit of a connotation beyond religion don’t you think?
I think I have a really good boss, but at the end of the day, it's an imbalanced relationship. He holds my salary in his hands, I think some fear is natural.
We're not frustrated about covid. Covid is not a threat of any significance. It never was. The threat, from the beginning, is the absurd hysteria around it.
Yep. I thought I was the only one. I think it is a dominance thing.

Also... "did you do that thing we talked about last week".
I'm running it right now, and I cannot tell you why.

It has a lot of incomplete ideas and feels really unfinished. I think Windows 11 could be worthwhile next year after it is more finished/polished and the Amazon/Android app store is available; but as of today you're just volunteering to be an unpaid tester for unfinished software.

Pretty obvious Microsoft just rushed it out in time for Christmas, so their OEM partners could sell "Windows 11 Compatible" PCs. Feels like they didn't learn much from Vista in that the stigma an OS ships with hangs around its neck forever.
> Does that strike anyone else as insane? That's like 330k per room

It is expensive but Room & Board is 16.5k for 9 months at UCSB, so it will break even in 30 years or so depending how you model it.

https://www.finaid.ucsb.edu/cost-of-attendance
If car use and infrastructure wasn't so heavily subsidized, then trains would likely fare a lot better.
I believe it. Just mildly humorous to me.
> (I admit I'm suddenly intrigued by the possibility of a "live forum". It would be identical to a traditional web forum, but each post would generate its own instant message space.)

Guilded kinda has this, as they have different channels types, one of which is a forum channel. I actually love that feature and yet have noticed over the last half year or so, the Guilded team doesn't seem to be developing and fixing what seem to me to be dealbreakers. However, it has shown to me just how much I would appreciate something like Discord or Slack but with the ability to make forum-type posts. Maybe the next evolution of these apps will have this. I find myself lost in normal group chats on WhatsApp, Discord just seems to be even more of those linear chats with what I believe is a worse interface than WhatsApp and Telegram. Guilded's forum channel makes it much easier to pick and choose which part of the convo I'll follow.
How do they know slaves lived there? Is it just an assumption? The article does not mention any clues.
True. Self knowledge is the first step to all these self improvement plans.
I suspect most of the pharmaceuticals in sewage have a pretty short half life in that environment. Maybe the biggest problem would be the antibiotics that could impact beneficial bacteria in the soils. Not sure how long those survive in a composting situation where the temperatures get up to 170F.
This is the architectural equivalent of Soylent.
with starlink you need to place the dish (size of a large pizza) towards the clear sky…from an helicopter this is very much visible. I think this he refers to. Given they are focused on searching for these. Long Range WiFi can be much more stealth to setup.
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> just wonder when we'll have the next violent revolution or civil war and radical regime change as inequality

Didn’t communism have its chance in Leipzig?
https://www.scaleway.com/en/stardust-instances/

I am not a fan of the lottery approach and being told you're lucky to do business with them.
I live in Cambridge (across the river from and on the same subway system as Boston). In theory Amtrak should be able to attract my business for trips to NYC. Prior to COVID, about twice as often I flew to NYC as took rail. The times I took rail, the train literally never arrived on time at either end of the journey. We’d sit for an hour waiting for some track or switch problem to be fixed. Or we’d sit for a few 15 minute stretches for no apparent or announced reason.

If I could count on the arrival time, I could use the train for business meetings near the train station. Since I can’t, I fly in and Uber over which, even if it takes longer per the published timetable, has less tail-risk of being late.

No one needs hourly rail service between city pairs (as the article implicitly calls for) while the variability is -10 to +150 minutes.

Looking for a Nov 15-19 trip to NYC, Amtrak is $306 on Acela and I could plan to start working around lunch on Monday and work a full day on Friday if I was willing to arrive home around midnight. On Delta, waking up around the same time, I could reliably attend a 9AM meeting on Monday and working the same full day Friday, get home in time to say good night to my kids. That would cost $157 plus two Ubers. That’s with spotting Amtrak the advantage of a meeting walking distance from Penn Station and riding on the crown jewel of the Amtrak network: Northeast corridor Acela.
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Context could be provided with something like "Due to unexpected circumstances, Joe is taking leave of absence. We'll have a meeting to discuss this and the impact on the team."
I tried Micro on for size for a few months earlier this year. I like it a lot, but stopped using it over time. Any time I reach for a text editor I kind of muscle memory open vim if it's something quick or VS code if it's a larger project.

Micro is like nano re-built for the 2020's. It feels really natural to use with sane key bindings and text selection. I like that it's written in Go and has a nice plugin framework. I might have used it more if a file manager / code tree off to the side was a built-in feature. I found a plugin that could do it, but I had some hassles with it iirc - https://github.com/NicolaiSoeborg/filemanager-plugin
It's simple physics. If every bedroom has a window, the building needs to have a higher surface area to volume ratio.

The proposed building looks like a Borg Cube (maybe that's why architects don't like it?), but that's only possible because most bedrooms are not on exterior walls. Instead, each bedroom is part of a suite that opens to a common area that does have a real window!

If you take a look at the footprint of residential buildings, you'll notice that they are almost never square. In fact, they have a fairly high aspect ratio.

In the case of Santa Barbara, the major constraint is land. If you wanted to house the same number of students, you'd either need to make the building 2-3x taller or use 2-3x as much land. Otherwise the buildings would be so close that the real windows would get no natural light (but, hey, at least you'd have a real window).