skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the detailed technical feedback, it's why I'm here.

> Why is RDAP limited if anybody can just use a client and any server on the internet that fulfils the same spec?

RDAP as a technology and RFC isn't limited or restricted of course, just like restful APIs as a technology are not limited. However, the implementation of the technology is limited. The servers offered by registrars and registries will be limited and the access and use of data restricted.

We promote NUM as unlimited and unrestricted because NUM records (whether in authoritative nameservers or under num.net) are hosted in DNS and requests can not easily be tracked or rate limited.

> I'd argue that the DNS protocol wasn't designed for the purpose that the NUM protocol seems to have as its goals

I disagree, we're using vanilla DNS TXT records which have existed in DNS since '94 [1]: "This paper proposes the use of the DNS TXT resource record [...] to contain new types of information."

Most NUM Records can be transported over UDP, even under the original 512b limit. A NUM record containing let's say 20 typical key value pairs is smaller than a DNSSECd A record and smaller than millions of DNS TXT records at a domain apex (dig target.com TXT).

> given the overhead of schema validation that each client has to do for themselves

Validation is minimal and is dealt with at a library level, as it will be with RDAP or any other API. The fact that mainstream data serialisation formats (e.g. JSON, YAML, etc) are not designed for DNS, does not mean that DNS is not designed to store serialised data. We created MODL [2] to solve this problem.

To demonstrate low overhead, we have a heavy example implementation that fetches 62 NUM records, validates them and displays them in 1.6 seconds [2].

> Honestly in times of GraphQL making predictable queries as easy and as built-in as possible...

This data is already centralised in graphs by Facebook, Google and more. There was an effort to decentralise it with the Semantic Web. We're offering an alternative to both, where users can retain their privacy, developers can actually build scalable, profitable products (as opposed to using Google / Facebook APIs) and the data is actually available (as opposed to SemWeb).

> ... the NUM protocol feels like a huge setback in terms of transport encryption, integrity, predictability of state complexity and confidentiality.

These seem like complaints about DNS which are addressed by DNSSEC, DNS over TLS (DOT), DNS over HTTPS (DOH), DPRIVE and Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS (ODOH).

Thanks again for your thoughts, happy to dive deeper into any of this.

1. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1464

2. https://companydirectory.uk/barclays.co.uk/contact-informati...

3. https://www.modl.uk
> And this is the post of someone who doesn't know anything about Charlie Munger.

“It’s okay actually because he always talks like this” is one of the weirdest arguments in this thread.

Why can’t we call out bad behavior just because it comes from a specific person?Bad behavior is bad behavior. Being consistent about being bad doesn’t make it good. I don’t understand why anything thinks this is okay just because it comes from a specific personality.

> If you think he has "been surrounded by yes-men for so long", I have some news for you. He doesn't manage anyone.

He’s dangling $1.2 billion dollars in front of people to get them to do his bidding with this construction. I really don’t understand how you think that’s less of an incentive than giving someone a paycheck a fraction of that magnitude.
No, it's the language of someone who's rational and so rich that he doesn't need to be persuasive (a.k.a. manipulative) to make people like him. He can instead say things exactly as they are, without concern for his approval ratings or the risk of getting cancelled.
It's definitely possible for every room to have its own window. There's a well known solution to this: the courtyard.

I just stayed in the middle of Manhattan in London Terrace, in a one bedroom apartment where the living room, bedroom, kitchen, AND bathroom ALL HAD WINDOWS. This is rare in Manhattan (and in most parts of the country), simply because architects/owners decided to cut costs.

London Terrace is an entire city block of buildings designed around a big courtyard in the middle. I learned first hand what "pre-war" means :) Pre-war means "expensive apartments that people like because nobody builds them like this anymore". (It's not perfect, and I decided not to live there, but it has many good points)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Terrace

It was one of the biggest apartment buildings in the world at the time of construction (1930's). It has 1700 apartments, and every apartment has 3 or more rooms, so it's probably bigger than the 4500-room Munger building.

You obviously sacrifice density, but I can't imagine how that's a problem in Santa Barbara vs. Manhattan! You can build higher, or you can build 2 buildings on different sites rather than 1.

It's obviously more expensive than making a big storage cube, but I would argue it's worth it. And Munger could obviously afford it. Not sure why he would put his name on such a building.
A song about the sun being a ball of gas, for those that find it hard to remember:

The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas https://g.co/kgs/g8rKyh

A follow up song, correcting the incorrect physics of the first one:

Why Does the Sun Really Shine? https://g.co/kgs/2QKBdw
You don't have to be an idiot to sometimes act like one.
I would say that if someone has a power and chooses to never use it, that is itself a political act (one which is biased towards the governing party).

Giving this power a democratic mandate and legitimacy may make the role "very different", but that doesn't mean the constitutional dynamic would be worse.
This is the corporate equivalent to “See me after class” and “We need to talk.”
So... they already did it in southeastern michigan, which I don't think is any warmer or brighter in the winter than new york.

https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2021/11/03/heres-what-its-like-...
If you can live with ~ 1 kbps and can afford some weeks of engineer time (and have someone abroad too) you can surely build a TCP/IP stack over sound.

See https://dspillustrations.com/pages/posts/misc/using-your-sou...
Since the number of dependencies is way less then in the JS world, its possible to pin them down manually.

If you absolutely need to have multiple versions of the same dependency, you probably need to use OSGi.
There are windows at the ends, so not entirely windowless[1]. The layout is brilliant to be honest and I would have preferred my own space (especially as an introvert) than a traditional dorm room.

[1] https://www.architecturalrecord.com/ext/resources/news/2021/...
That’s €72/mo. Different price class there.
>the mistaken notion that fossil fuels are essential for making fertilizer

I think the correct statement is that fossil fuels are the cheapest way of making fertilizer, and that any other (known) way is currently much more expensive. Therefore raising the price of fossil fuels does raise the price of fertilizer. This is pretty incontrovertible.
Slight off-topic, but I wanted to address the above concern.

APT, DNF, and many other package managers have an "autoremove" command that will uninstall unused dependencies. So if you did "apt-get -y install $PACKAGE && apt-get -y remove $PACKAGE && apt-get autoremove", you won't have any of $PACKAGE's dependencies hanging around after.
“I tend to think the drawbacks of dynamic linking outweigh the advantages for many (most?) applications.” – John Carmack

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/
Pray tell, how does this sunlight make it into the windowless rooms?
Ok, but most fertilizer production uses natural gas to supply the hydrogen and fossil fuels of one sort or another to bring everything up to temperature. So, why should this article go out and say, 'well theoretically we could obtain hydrogen some other way...'.
I agree with you, but I think it's actual deeper than him just not caring about what people think of him. I think it's more deeply engrained narcissism in that he doesn't trust others' expertise or opinions, thinks he's the chosen one of being right, and ultimately just likes the control he can wield over others.
We don't live in a comic world - things aren't black and white. People die from the virus with or without vaccination - what matters is how many.

> Never have we mandated flu shots

Flu shots are already mandatory in many countries for many professions, e.g. in the US military. Should we encounter a pandemic strain with similar IFR as SARS-Cov-2 in the future (and the likelihood of that happening in the next 100 years is very high) I'm certain we will see mandates.
I have the same feeling of limitation when using Windows. As someone who's used to Linux and other UNIXy systems, the idea of having and using GUI software on servers is... distasteful to me, to put it mildly. GUI configuration makes changes easy, but change management extremely difficult, which is not a good combination.
Therefore I struggle with administering Windows because there is no useful editor by default when you use it remotely over the console, leading to a lot of friction to just "browsing around" on a remote Windows machine, and most of the time installing what I need is not an option due to the lack of a default, trusted package manager. (though that might be changing, finally)

While PowerShell is, well, powerful and nowadays there's at least OpenSSH for for secure and convenient remote access, unfortunately it's rarely installed and PowerShell over SSH is still very janky and even when it's there, many things assume a GUI, which is anything but convenient to me. My workflows tend to use SSH all over the place to make remote access transparent.
A list of attacks on Bitcoin and crypto assets in the meatspace
These numbers don't pass the smell test, it's just more nonsense being pumped out by the CDC to push the vaccines, probably in large part an artifact of wildly different levels of testing being done with the unvaccinated vs vaccinated.

In the UK every age group over 30 is seeing a higher case rate in the vaccinated. I think this is probably explained by a higher prevalence of natural immunity in the unvaccinated cohort but it also shows the vaccines are not providing a high level of prevention of infection: https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/ukhsa-efficacy-stats-death-...
People want the standard of living everyone had in the US decades ago, it costs much more now.

There are more people, more competition, and things are much more expensive. He’s bringing a realistic solution given today’s capacity problems and a bias towards not wanting to share rooms.

He’s 97 with nothing to lose and it sounds like he doesn’t care about his legacy.

Honestly I think the solution is realistic and people don’t like it because they don’t want to acknowledge their quality of life is in decline when it comes to housing for themselves and their children.
My company and manager is excellent to always add reassurances to such requests.
In that case i'd like a refund as we ship a native linux version ourself
It seems possible university requirements for this will change, if part of the motive for this construction is [from OP] that "UCSB is experiencing a severe housing shortage and is being pressured by area residents to build new dormitories" -- seems like it doesn't meet that pressure unless they increase the number of students living on campus, right?

They're going to have to fill those 4500 beds (about 20% of the total undergraduate enrollment of UCSB) once they're built... seems safe to assume one way or another the portion of students living on-campus will increase significantly once this dorm is built.
Why wouldn't it be? What were you hoping would happen?
I wish news websites, or any website for that matter and including Facebook, to just embed YouTube. I have not met another video player that does not suck.

I was unable to watch the video, too impatient to wait for the player/website not to shit itself every time I clicked the "play" button.
Think you’re missing the /s
The unfortunate aspect of most (if not all) OKR articles is their use of very simple examples. There are a thousand reasons why real world is messier. In a changing environment goals give people the false sense of comfort to stick with a plan rather than review and adapt, not to mention the danger of optimizing things for the wrong KPIs. So surprise surprise! It’s not as easy as it sounds.
True. I'm in Switzerland. I did find one with sunflower oil but haven't looked into it further.
It was actually caused by a digital certificate which expired last month

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2021/11/04/releasi...
Answering myself:

I decided to search for SMP, which stands for Symetric Multi Processing, to verify its definition. This acronym is used for hardware sporting several identical CPUs, which is what we've seen so far in the x86 world.

The opposite is called AMP, for Asymetric Multi Processing. The Wikipedia article on the subject describes several OS level strategies to handle that sort of hardware.
“ once in a generation investment—in our broadband networks,” said Doug Brake, director of broadband and spectrum policy at the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, a think tank. (The foundation lists a trade association for broadband companies, and broadband providers themselves, as donors.)”

How are people ok with this? It is outrageous.
Cool. I love it.
Best toaster I ever had! I love it.

* Amazon.com: Breville BOV845BSS Smart Oven Pro Countertop Convection Oven, Brushed Stainless Steel: Home & Kitchen || https://www.amazon.com/Breville-BOV845BSS-Convection-Toaster...
Apart from a few games purchased on GoG, everything I buy is on Steam. It’s been a very consistent experience for a long time. My first Steam “purchase” was me plugging in the CD code from a copy of Half-Life purchased ~1999. Everything I’ve purchased since then is playable in minutes—most of it playable on Linux.

The killer feature of Valve / Steam for game developers is customer trust. For me, that trust has translated into a resolute refusal to buy games on any other platform.
I generally like car UIs (I'm a fan of glossy things rather than flat things) but no amount of polish will make the layout not suck. Its usually designed for left hand drive cars and clusters common actions near the wheel, but won't change when you're in a right hand drive, causing you to lean across the centre console to use it. Android auto (and I'm hoping Apple's equivalent) mostly handles this amazingly, putting common functions actually close to you.

Its not all good, though. The Skoda Karoq has this split personality thing going on where it comes with its own sat nav, and that tries to take over your experience when you start navigating in Google maps. Its only a (first world) problem when you have the overly fancy glass cockpit, but it likes to replace your speedometer with a full screen map from the internal sat nav, which has none of the information from Google such as your next turn or the blue line showing your route.
There are DRM-free games on steam, but how many people maintain backups of their games? And this is not limited to steam. Most distribution these days on PC is digital, and even consoles moved there. If you lose your account for whatever reason, you will lose them all. Same problem with other content (video, audio, etc.). As long as there is no law protecting the customers from those things, it will remain a problem.
Glad Bill Gates owns all the farmland now.
Nice :) Feature request : Make windows a proper operating system where you are not the product being exploited.
I like your optimism that it was going to be covered anyways and that you'll get something out of it
I certainly trust it more than that article.
> And even then, all versioning systems deal with versions, not changes.

No, Darcs and Pijul (for which I have high hopes, though it's not ready for prime time) deal with changes.

> It seems that your expectations of what a CVS "truly stores" is naive and based on a lack of experience.

Thanks, but attempted insults notwithstanding, I know what CVS truly stores, and what SVN, RCS, SCCS, git, Mercurial, darcs, and pijul truly store. (I admit I don't know what Perforce or ClearCase truly store, or others I may have used too little to recall.) And before SCCS I knew what a stack of labelled backup tapes truly stored, though I wasn't _quite_ as proud as git of my fancy labels.
"12 pis in 1U" where 1U is defined as the height of a pi on its side plus shelf, rather than the definition of 1U in every other 19" rackmount data center
I guess the reason would be that they could take away your pay.
> Pacman doesn't support ‘partial upgrades’[2] (once you refresh your package lists, installing anything is ‘unsupported’ until you upgrade everything), and this is why.

> Another depsolver related issue in Pacman (related to the lack of partial upgrades) is the lack of distinction between upgrades and dist-upgrades.

Yes. Personally, I believe that these are features rather than issues. I don't ever want my system to be in a partially upgraded state. I treat inability to fully upgrade as a maintenance problem that I have to solve.

I'm sure there's a lot of people out there who get a lot of use out of these partial upgrades. I'm not one of them. Stuff like apt updates vs upgrades only confused me when I used those systems. I suspect other Arch users have similar opinions.

> every single time you upgrade, if you've installed anything from the AUR, it can leave your system with broken packages

> there's no CI that tests for ABI changes

Yes, those are fair points. I suppose I don't feel this pain because I don't actually use the AUR very often. When ABIs are broken, Arch maintainers will recompile and update all affected packages. Naturally, AUR packages will not be included...
The recycling movement was green washing from the petro chemical industry to shift responsibility of trash from the industry to individuals. It was a failure by design and never meant to create a closed loop of production and consumption [0].

You are correct by pointing out the intermittency of some renewable sources of energy. These are constraints of the technology that have engineering solutions.

I don’t think activists are to blame for what we see. They are a convenient scapegoat. Think about who would benefit from having us all sit quietly at home waiting for our leadership to make the right decisions for us.

[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drilled/id1439735906?i...
Office buildings have the same layouts with windows at the ends and cubicles in the middle. I doubt the patrons feel stuck in a temperature storage facility. I prefer Munger's layout after looking more into it.

https://www.architecturalrecord.com/ext/resources/news/2021/...
I've heard this quite a few times now and I'm not sure where the idea comes from that slavery in the Roman Republic and Empire were somehow humane but that wasn't the case at all.

Roman slaves were property and could be treated as such, including sexual exploitation (eg made to be prostitutes) and being summarily executed.

And yes, slaves could be freed but that was also true in the American slave era. Just because something is possible doesn't mean it's accessible, particularly by the slave themselves. Also, freedmen in Rome had less rights than citizens.

The history of Rome is a fascinating one but it's hard to look at through the eyes of modern morality. I think this generally applies to the Ancient World: if somehow we could be transported back to that time I'm sure we'd find it quite alien.

My favourite example of this is the origin of the word "decimate" [1]. If, say, a military unit rebelled against Rome, groups of 10 would have to decide which one of the 10 would die and to kill them.

Slavery has always been brutal.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(punishment)
My friends and me use Discord channels as virtual "rooms". Therfore, we can imagine our server as a home full of people and traverse between rooms to find people you are interested to talk with at the moment. Works even better for voice channels.
It’s beside the point, but historically a lot of the iron ore used in US steel manufacturing has come from northern Minnesota.
Yes, our “Blockwärter” do this for a decade now. If they don’t know something, it doesn’t exist and also isn’t “relevant” enough for Wikipedia. It’s a shame.
Dualit 4 slice, but it’s too big. The 2 slice would cover 90% of our needs without occupying 150% of the counter top :)
I agree, but that's no different than making songs/videos public on youtube. Pictures too, unless watermarking is used.

I'm not a fan of this, but this is where the copyright zeitgeist seems to be headed.
Bjorn still has quite the following. Skeptics often refer to him.

He’s also still writing new books that are still popular:

https://www.amazon.com/False-Alarm-Climate-Change-Trillions/...

In fact, others have realized there’s a market:

https://www.amazon.com/Unsettled-Climate-Science-Doesnt-Matt...
Radiation poisoning has a long tail, so it hard to calculate how many were killed by cancer and for how long. It doesn't mean that we easily discard long-term safety when talking about nuclear power.
And we don't build things anymore.
An Aga is the best toaster in the world. Huge mass so it toasts beautifully and evenly and the dome doesn't seem to dry the bread out like other toasters.

https://www.agacookshop.co.uk/aga-toast.html
Believe it or not, lots of people in the corporate environment still behave like grown children, but with much more expensive toys.
How do you fit a raspberry pi edge-wise (56.5mm) into a rack unit (44.5mm)?
Hilarious.

"The evidence is fake, take the mectin".
Fun fact. I used to work in the Kowloon Walled City. It's really not anything like it.
Apologies in advance for the rant.

As an engineer, I’m really tired of these processes and metrics that are supposed to increase focus and enable delivering value but in practice often don’t. A lot of organizational time is spent coming up with OKRs only for them to be either overridden due to the reality of running a business (gotta do what clients need, gotta do what you can to compete with competitors) or just by VPs/Directors deciding that something else requires the teams focus. Ultimately it seems like a whole bunch of busy work for PMs and TPMs, to justify their existence and hiring more of them.

“But you’re not doing OKRs correctly!” Sure, I agree to that. But what use is a system or process that’s so difficult to get right that most organizations fail? I would argue that it is useless.

I’ve seen this happen with another process: the church of agile. The way I’ve seen agile being used effectively is for orgs to agree to use the parts of it that make sense for them, not worry about what’s “right”, and constantly try out new ways of improving in response to feedback. That gives the team a sense that it’s a process that is evolving to meet their specific needs, rather than evolving to meet a dogma.
You’re describing an office, not a living space.
We need to rethink how we plant and sustain agriculture over long term. Ie a shift from mono crop fertiziler to sustainable multi crop robotic weed control.
> compared to the uniquely hellacious experience of installing CUDA drivers on Ubuntu, this seemed to be... a single header file, and a single .c file.

> Turns out, it is that easy: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1400749405356052483

> And not because there's some SDK preinstalled

Maybe not an SDK, but AFAICT it is that easy because all the drivers and stuff are already installed.

If you start with the drivers already installed, this is exactly how GPGPU works too. You can write an almost-identical program using OpenCL (or CUDA) instead of libtpu, the only difference is that instead of this HLO the program is in SPIR-V (or OpenCL C, PTX, CUDA C).

And you can start with all the drivers installed by using GCP or AMI images with all the GPU stuffs preinstalled.

It is awesome that this is accessible for free.