skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is neat but from a scaling perspective it doesn’t make sense. A single server grade Xeon chip can expose the same compute power as a cluster of these devices, with better performance across the board (memory access, peripherals, etc)

Just trying to grok a legit use case?
> Imagine if each IRC channel on freenode had between 5 and 10 subchannels

Yes, we did exactly that back in the day by running our own IRC server. I don't see what the problem is, nor do I understand the arguments in this article. Very uncompelling imo.
It's way bigger and nicer than the jail cell I just spent several years in.
I'm not a lawyer, but I took a few courses on legal English at university. These courses predominantly approached the subject matter from a linguistic, rather than a professional point of view.

I find the language of common law, its richness, and history to be quite fascinating. The nuances and details it is able to convey are astounding.

Legal doublets such as "cease and desist" or "terms and conditions" are an example of this. These phrases originated when multiple languages (i.e., Norman French, Middle English, and Latin) were used simultaneously in English society.

Often consisting of two near synonyms, one from an Anglo-Saxon / Old English origin, one from a French or Latin one, these doublets helped with clarifying intent for readers with different native language backgrounds.
Wow - apparently asking questions is a bad thing on HN?

The fact that a "slave's" room from 1,942 years ag, resembles the room of a presumably well-educated, skilled and/or technically-focused contributor (as I perceive nearly all contributors to HN), seems rather odd.

So, my question still stands... Is the comment meant to be sarcastic?

Can the the comment be interpreted as:

1. "They didn't have it as bad as we might think"?
2. "My life is little different from a slave of ~2000 years ago"?
3. "I feel a connection with the people/person who lived in that room"?
4. Something else?
I think Alexandra has temporarily stopped adding new papers, hasn't she?
No "they" are forcing us to be part of a human experiment.

It doesn't matter that what I eat, or the fact that I drive a car, or other medication I take is several orders of magnitude more risky than getting vaccinated. I just don't want others to decide what's good for me.
The comment I responded to consisted of one sentence that communicated one idea. Where’s the ambiguity in what I think is good?
I just spent 5 years locked in a room with no window and 24x7 artificial lighting, so they have it way better than some modern folks.
American trains need more than railfan nostalgia
Nim can provide full memory control.
It's been documented[0] pretty[1] well that they were aware of the risk and associated consequences. They misled their customers and the public.

[0] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2827786-1970-H-R-Hol...

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3483045-AQ-9-Task-Fo...
My favorite has been a stovetop toaster (e.g., [0]), when I've had a gas range. It toasts bread of varying sizes, no need to worry about bread or bagels getting stuck inside it, no dials, it folds up for storage out of the way when not in use, and it's cheap.

[0] https://pampadirect.com/tostador-enlozado-enameled-kitchen-g...
The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y
More program analysis & LLVM resources (books, courses, and talks): https://gist.github.com/MattPD/00573ee14bf85ccac6bed3c0678dd...
Except it doesn't have people. shame.
What's wrong with it? Having the Windows APIs turn into a portable abstraction layer is certainly amusing, but having wine sitting underneath the program is really nice (essentially for the same reason a VM is). For one thing, winedevs are way better at linux support than random gamedevs.
> I don't know why Discord has replaced a good forum in a lot of communities.

Low friction. Doesn't require any knowledge to get up and running so anyone can do it. Doesn't require keeping forum software up to date and all that jazz. Single account makes it trivial to join new communities, no need to set up yet another forum account.

Drag and drop uploads of images, videos etc makes it trivial to share content. Want a quick voice chat? No problem, just hop into one of the voice channels.

Reddit might have replaced the chat aspect, but they turned actively user hostile so not a fun place to be. And no trivial way to voice chat with people.

Discord ain't perfect, but there's absolutely a reason why it's so popular. Yes it started with gaming but it works so well for many other communities.
Let me push this again: Chrome, sans Google. My main browser is Firefox, but this will do in the few cases I "need" Chrome.

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
Yeah, people do eat themselves to death eating whole foods as well as processed foods. Eating processed foods is clearly linked to higher rates of obesity, but my point is that many people still get fat eating whole foods unregulated until they are satiated.
Yes, I've seen them all... and "Oh, look, there's some lovely muck over here."

But, I don't see the connection?
Normal users browse new and vote for good content. This works pretty well!

Could you designate a bunch of people as mini moderators and have the majority vote of mini mods decide moderation?

Then have one moderator curate the list of mini mods. By spreading the work out, more actual time can be spent on the decision and feedback given.
Awesome! I keep looking for the perfect solution for this. I use GUI editors for real projects but when I need to quickly edit a config file on a remote machine I currently use mg.

It's not bad but it doesn't support Unicode. It's also nearing 35 years old now and while that has its advantages maybe something more modern would be better. The main reason I still use it is that it has emacs keybindings which sadly are seared deep into my brain.
Perfect is the enemy of good.

Munger is a devoted rationalist and student of history. His company has 360,000 employees. He is not some idiot who fails to understand how to create spaces for people to be successful in.

Here he is offering a way to alleviate a housing crisis at a school with a 30% acceptance rate.

Charlie comes from a generation of people who were capable of solving hard problems. And we need this kind of leadership and lesson.

When we spit on these acts of charity, what will be the result? Our ineffectual politicians will agree and limit the scope of what is being built here. Less students will be housed and those unhoused will be forgotten.

What’s offered here is more students housed in private rooms if we can accept giving up a private window is ok. I would give up a window if it meant my dorm mate didn’t have to masturbate next to me at night.

Pull your head out of you butts and start addressing these problems like adults. If not this then what?
Presumably, they were hoping for native Linux support.
I like Munger but I am certainly not one of those worships him nor one of those who calls him Bill Gates' lawyer (those who knows knows).

Reading through the article and the comments, I can only say it is his money and it should be a wakeup call for the college and the state of California. He has a vision of where and how he wants to spent his money and you can either accept it or not. Super rich people don't donate, they invest in social causes where their views are reflected in the long term and the goals are often not obvious. This is a very long discussion but that is how I see it.

Nothing is stopping the college to move around funds and having a tighter grip on the administrative expenses so they can invest not wisely but rather opinionatedly into projects. The mounting student debt on one side and the hypocratic song and dance to please billionaires for handouts is simply ridiculous.
As a hundred-thousandaire with an architecture degree and my own don’t-give-a-rat’s-ass ‘tude, I’m here to say: this building is not fit for human habitation, Charlie Munger is a fool, and the UCSB chancellor will be lucky to get part of his tongue back out of Munger’s sphincter.

For a billion $ he could have built a lovely ‘academical village’ with every kind of amenity and a wide variety of rooms for every preference. This is a tenement, a warehouse for living people, in the worst 1900 Lower East Side sense, minus some of the fire and sanitation risk. Suitable for vermin, not scholars.

See also Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 1890.

A citizens’ movement resulted in the organization of a Board of Health and the adoption of the “Tenement-House Act” of 1867, the first step toward remedial legislation. ... The dark bedroom fell under the ban first. In that year the Board ordered the cutting of more than forty-six thousand windows in interior rooms, chiefly for ventilation—for little or no light was to be had from the dark hallways. Air-shafts were unknown. The saw had a job all that summer; by early fall nearly all the orders had been carried out. Not without opposition; obstacles were thrown in the way of the officials on the one side by the owners of the tenements, who saw in every order to repair or clean up only an item of added expense to diminish their income from the rent; on the other side by the tenants themselves, who had sunk, after a generation of unavailing protest, to the level of their surroundings, and were at last content to remain there.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45502/45502-h/45502-h.htm
It’s unjustified because that is one of two variables: difficulty, and funding. Once funding dried up it became a determining variable. As we now see, progress has resumed as funding has returned. The “it’s always 30 years away” trope is backstopped by the assumption of low or declining funding.
> Voice chat is unreliable, often requiring 2-3 attempts restarting the call to work.

Sorry but that must be something on your end. Never heard anyone with that problem and I'm very very active on Discord.
Do we ever see proof of Johnny's lack of faith in God, though? I suppose he's fairly prideful, by way of his assertion about being the best there ever was, but I don't think it's as clear as that. He does beat the Devil in a fiddle contest; is it prideful if it's a justified statement?

The Devil clearly can't just take souls without their owner's consent, so he needs to project an air of trustworthiness. There's a serious power asymmetry between mortals and the Devil, and the only higher authority one could think of is God himself. One suspects that God wouldn't easily take the Devil's side, so it behooves (heh) the Devil to be seen as honourable as possible, to ensure smooth and continued soul acquisition.
If you don't mind having to connect your toaster to the internet and having it collect a bit of telemetry, the ToasTech2 is pretty good. You can toast like 60 pieces of bread per month on the free tier which is plenty for us.
Nervous people about spectre? Only thing I can think of besides renting a VM.
I understand the sentiment. But problem is every new generation thinks they are the only revolutionaries to have suddenly discovered activism. For previous to previous generation it was about stopping wars and killing nuclear power. For the current generation (Greta T) it is climate change and inaction by politicians. Next generation it will be something else. It's like every one below 30 thinks they are the only ones who were ever below 30.

Meanwhile neither the wars have stopped nor did the climate change. It is easy to say that is because no one is doing enough and everyone should be an activist. But then if everyone is continuously doing activisty thingies, they are not even expounding the same ideas or even worried about the same things. The result is meaningless placard holding protests and pulling in a million directions. It's difficult to take anyone to take the climate activists seriously when on one hand they say we are heading towards catastrophe and at the same time say Eww to nuclear.
Sure, I don't think the comment you are responding to is advocating for pure collectivism though, just speaking to those who completely reject any aspects of it.
This reminds me of this wonderful NPR segment from last year:

>[...] when it comes to text messaging, the period has lost its original purpose because rather needing a symbol to indicate the end of a sentence, you can simply hit send on your message. But caution is needed, said McCulloch, noting that problems can start to arise when you combine a period with a positive sentiment, such as "Sure" or "Sounds good." "Now you've got positive words and serious punctuation and the clash between them is what creates that sense of passive-aggression," said McCulloch.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/05/909969004/before-texting-your...
I wasn't arguing in favour of a purely symbolic president, but I should have made that clear at the start of my reply, I apologise.

The kind of role I was imagining is one that could have a legal continuity with the GG role (and could keep the same name), but their mandate would come from the people, and not the monarch.

My point was, by limiting their power, they would be very different from a US style executive president, and ideally (if the government of the day was doing its job properly) this president would indeed find themselves only performing symbolic/ceremonial functions.
I was working with an agent and I barely was able to get those disclosures before closing because of the sluggishness of the seller's chosen title company. For the disclosures, you're clear if you didn't know about it, but the issue of whether you reasonably should have known about an issue remains. Just saying to the best of my knowledge doesn't clear you on that. And figuring out what you reasonably should have known can be a protracted legal argument.

Just as an example, imagine you buy a house from me that turns out to have foundation issues. Imagine I hadn't disclosed them, but I had actually filled in and painted over a number of cracks in the wall. That could possibly be construed as an effort to cover up the problem and deceive. But maybe I just thought I was making it look nice.

In short, mandatory disclosures protect the buyer, not the seller. The seller gains nothing.
These numbers are way off though, maybe those are just the cells?
If we look at the 2021 estimates by the National Renewable Energy Labs for utility scale 4h batteries [0] We get cost estimates of 250 $/kWh for the high case, 200 $/kWh for the middle case and 150 $/kWh for the low case by 2030.
[0] https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/79236.pdf.
I think it was Supergiant Games who said that because Proton is good enough, they're don't plan to provide native Linux versions of their games in the future.
That article shows a clear correlation between 2 locations with large populations that are susceptible to high risk of severe covid and 2 of the main mutations delta (india) and alpha (uk).
> People want the standard of living everyone had in the US decades ago, it costs much more now.

I think you are right. But all the CPI data and real income data says people are much richer than 40 years ago. And as someone who has spent a lot of time digging through the methodology of these time series, I don't see any bias or obvious error that should make me suspect the government data.

Then the next step is to say "yes, a car of today is much better than a car sold in 1980, so in real terms, maybe cars are cheaper but you can't buy those cheap cars now." But if you really think about it, that's not true, either. You can still buy cheap cars, for example used cars, that will last longer as they are better built. You can still buy cheap housing, just in a different location. Remember there were no mobile phones in the 1980s, no internet, no personal computers, etc. But if you want to live like someone in the 1980s, you can do that and have more money left over than someone would have in the 1980s.

So you point me to one thing and I will show you how, with today's income, you can get it at same or better quality and have more money left over than if it was 1980. Except healthcare, you can't get the cheaper version of healthcare from the 1980s (since that would be illegal). But other than that, you really can, and you can't pin the entire difference on healthcare.

The best I can think of is a vague notion that people have lost the skills to be able to live like they did 40 years ago, possibly because being able to live like that requires some community support, and we don't have that support anymore. As one data point, take the Amish, who live like they did 200 years ago. And they are not poorer. But they make sacrifices to live like that as an entire community. If an individual tried to do it on their own, they would fail. For one thing, no one would marry them once they found out about the lack of electricity and 18th Century amenities.

But I'm not too happy with this characterization, either. It's something that still puzzles me.
Probably cheaper than providing them with candles or oil lamps.
You can absolutely retain what you've bought: all content is saved in the steam/steamapps/common folder. If you want you can rip those files out and run them separately with cracks or Steam emulators like Goldberg, but the supporting infrastructure and dependencies for games (like multiplayer services, matchmaking, official support) will be lost. Many games prefer to rely on Steam's platform and support for core features by their own design.
This sorta reminds me of the note they add to some compostable products which says the item is compostable, but not in California. I actually appreciate CA’s tighter regulatory standards but the note itself feels absurd.

This is milk, but not in Europe
How is it that the US with some of the highest tuition and rent in the world can't deliver half the quality of Danish public universities?

For example: Tietgenkollegiet. It has great shared spaces, great rooms, amazing green spaces and water features, and has bike infrastructure and public transit readily available.
Working in marketing has made me (sadly) realize these articles are meaningless. Articles like this don't mean the recommended brands are the best. It just means those brands paid to be recommended.
LOL, you've had to replace most of the innards, on a $300 toaster? I'll pass.

My cheap 'panasonic' (yeah, right) toaster is still going after nearly 20 years. I'm not a fan of disposable, but I am a fan of cheap.
Haber-Bosch is slightly exothermic.
The turbomachinery for doing the pressure-swing product condensing in the loop might have too high losses to get by without external power supply, though.
If land-lines work, dial-up is your best bet. If you can't find a provider and need to look for ones outside the country, you may have trouble reaching them (ex. if they don't provide service to other countries). In that case you can look for "ring-back" services.

The way it works is, you call a number and give them a number you want to dial, and hang up. They dial that number, and then dial yours on a second line, and bridge the two. This gets around high fees on outbound calls from, say, a tiny nation with a telecom monopoly. We used them back in the day in small island countries to cut the phone bill in half. Might also be useful for connecting to dial-up services that are restricted.

If you can't find one of those services, you can pay someone in another country to install a phreak box on two landlines that will do this for you. You build the box and hook it up to two phone lines. When someone calls the first number, the line immediately picks up and feeds a second phone line into the first (giving you a dial tone). You can either make it two-way or one-way. I can't remember the design (I built it 20 years ago) and I'm shit at electronics, but it was really simple, so hopefully another old head can reply with a schematic (I think I used photodiodes/photoresistors for some of it?).

And now that I think of it.... If you can't find an international dialup provider, you could just pay someone to run a dialup server for you. Just a computer with a modem and one phone line, and a broadband connection. Set up a DUN server on the computer (old Windows machines could do this) and NAT connections out on the broadband line. Your own private dial-up provider.
I realize this is somewhat tangential to the topic, but related questions:

1. The whole project is expected to cost $1.5 billion. Does that strike anyone else as insane? That's like 330k per room, and these rooms are really tiny with no windows. I get the point is to have tons of more inviting common spaces, but 1.5 billion just seems nuts to me. Especially since Munger decreed much of the building will be assembled off site in "pods".

2. All the beds are at the back of the room, essentially "walled in" on 3 sides. I'm too tall for a normal twin or full size mattress, which is what these images look like. Normally that's not much of an issue because I let my feet hang off the bed. I would feel super squished in this bed.
The slave is intact or the room?
Nim is what you are looking for.
You mean the new Yahoo! ?
Vim is simple but not easy.

https://youtu.be/rI8tNMsozo0
Panasonic NB-G110P

https://shop.panasonic.com/flashxpress/NB-G110P.html

I was hesitant to get it at first since the UI is quite different, but it's the best toaster I've ever owned.
The solution is found in proper accounting.

Hrmmm... Reddit pays mods? It would be very interesting to know how much they get paid by reddit. We didn't know how much Twitch streamers made until that info was leaked this year, and it encouraged many others to stop wasting their time on the platform in hopes of fairness.

It seems to me that reddit mods, and even the platform, often do(does) side deals with certain accounts to allow and help posts to reach the front page as well, while reddit also fosters this with paid promotions on the site. Lots of things that make it to the front page are not likeable, but somehow embedded with political and marketing messages, that's what corrupted the overall experience of browsing reddit for me... Not proven fact, but my opinion as a web developer mind you.

People play with anonymity that social media can provide to make money, now companies also do it. If transparency isn't practiced on the corporate side, everything online becomes a carefully controlled reality show while the shady deals go on behind the curtains.

Reddit removing public metrics, like displaying both upvotes and downvotes next to each other allows brigading to go on unchecked, and it enables an ideal that certain things are popular or likeable without dispute... The ideal that things make it to the front page because they are favorable, controversial, or popular is a big lie in itself especially if the numbers aren't truly accurate and/or transparent.
> They allow you to generate steam keys (at no cost to you) and sell them on your own website.

Only if you charge the same as Steam, i.e. you can't pass the 27% (still pay payment processing) savings on to customers, unless it is a limited time sale.
The bottleneck of nuclear fusion in all stars is the proton-proton chain reaction, turning two protons into deuterium. Only deuterium can further fuse, and usually deuterium doesn't survive in the sun for long. This reaction is caused by the weak force, so it's extremely slow. This is what's slowing the fusion in all the stars.

"The average proton in the core of the Sun waits 9 billion years before it successfully fuses with another proton. It has not been possible to measure the cross-section of this reaction experimentally because it is so low"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton%E2%80%93proton_chain

In nuclear reactors, we can start from deuterium, making the process much faster and power intensive than the sun.
Right? I called a meeting to let people know a teammate was off because he'd suddenly lost family and was a real mess and needed our support, and I didn't feel comfortable putting that in emails... And the reaction I got was "I was scared I thought you were quitting". They stopped short of saying it was a relief, which is good, given the circumstances.