skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's simply dishonest for you or anyone else to pretend like COVID filling up ICUs is a wide spread problem. There may be anecdotes of it being true in a particular hospital or community. But nationwide we are back to pre-pandemic occupancy levels.

I don't understand why you extrapolated that data to suggest something about how many measures we have in place. Is your position that we should lie to the public so they will do what you want?
This sounds like it was carefully crafted by a lawyer:

“We received no funds from Google for the project,” a spokesperson for Automattic said when asked if the company was compensated as a partner in this effort.

There are ways to be compensated without receiving funds.
The key difference between just pure bubble assets (where extrinsic demand outstrips intrinsic demand) and Ponzi schemes are the representation of the real thing being bought underneath.

In the gold market, you are buying a contract to deliver you physical gold at a point in time.

Similarly with tulips, Beanie babies, fine art, and old watches the underlying asset is what it is.

MLMs and other traditional pyramid schemes also do typically hand you real assets, and so are not inherently Ponzi schemes.

But when that extrinsic demand is driven by fraudulent claims (like Madoff's "beat the market every year" returns), then it can be considered a Ponzi scheme, because they don't even get the tulips or Picassos or whatever, they get nothing.

The gray area, especially with MLMs, is what kind of support and service benefits you get - these are often fraudulent or misleading (Ponzi scheme) but they don't inherently have to be.
Other corollary: Don't say "hey, need something." in an IM.

Just tell me what you need in the first message. It takes combined less time for you to continue typing the original message than it does to send a message, interrupt me (or multiple people!), so I can wait for you to finish typing what you actually need.
Eh, that book was riddled with spelling errors and could have been a blog post, in my opinion.
But vnodes have a predefined shape, whereas this library is for diffing (relatively) arbitrary objects, right? If your data isn't arbitrarily shaped, I would assume you'd get much better performance by just implementing a simple direct diff, no?
there are plenty of ppl with 'no fucks given' attitude who are far from rich
Babelfish for PostgreSQL
For those add-ons, don't you have to provide them with the prompts? You still need to actively _know_ how to do something to have it provide you with information.

You can use something like LunarVim which has everything already setup.
I'd say the problem with touch screens is that they encourage car manufacturers to be dumb at UX (see also: that German who crashed because Tesla thought window wiper controls needed to be in the iPad). When I'm cold on my night time commute home, I want to reach for a knob and turn up the heat, when my music is loud and I'm approaching a roundabout, I want to thumb a rotary encoder and turn it down, when a call is coming in I want to feel a button and push it to answer, same for pausing music or skipping that song I don't like but is still in my playlist for some reason.

All the common tasks that may have an impact on safety while driving need a physical control, and anything else can be relegated to the magic rectangle because I've no need to use them. As it stands I only use Android Auto to tap "Maps>Work" or "Maps>Home" just so I can have the best route through Milton Keynes with it's ever changing traffic.
It looks like they have a rack that’s 1U tall, but they only fill every few units to leave space for the pis. So in other words, it’s 3U...
> ”Unfortunately this argument is sustained all through history and today we have people going something like “actually, working multiple minimum wage jobs and struggling to pay rent is good”.”

It’s much worse than that — today we have people justifying why they work for others as opposed to being entrepreneurs. “It’s not for everyone. It’s too much work. It’s all about luck. You have to be rich already. etc…”
Shoutouts to GoG. I'll buy games off of them even if they're on Steam. Making old games compatible and offering DRM free downloads deserves respect.
oh, super! but don't I have in this context the same issue somebody else wrote about? the fact that my analog sound will be shrink to much due to digital transformation, at least on mobile connections? (somehow the same issue I read people face while sending a fax over mobile connections).
I think the complaints here have to do with poor management of channels, not their existence per se. In the discord I have with some friends (~60 members, with about 20 making 90% of posts), a lot of the channels arose because a handful of people with a specific interest were clogging up a general-interest channel with hundreds of posts that were not interesting to most people. If you are not interested in survivor, you try to skim through those hundreds of posts, and you miss the discussion of, say, other tv shows that you are interested in. Now I, who don't care about survivor, can choose to ignore it, or occasionally skim it for jokes, without worrying that I'm missing a topic that I'd be interested in. Certainly we have some channels that are rarely used, and could probably be pruned, but we also don't gratuitously create channels for topics that we don't have a demonstrated need for. Worth noting that we don't police the categorization much, so sometimes topics spill over, and that is fine.
Or the many UCSB students who withdraw from college because of housing, or sleep in their cars.

https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/van-life-street-m...
Mask Igan has left Australia
What collective narcissism does to society
That seems to be the cost of the physical batteries, not the price the grid would pay the farm for.
If someone says AMP is bad because there's some better project for accelerating mobile pages, I'm all ears. If they say it's bad because web pages are fast enough, I'd tend to favor "bias for action", but I could imagine being convinced by something like Dan Luu's parting shot (https://danluu.com/web-bloat/) that a big new standard hurts other people trying to solve the underlying issue.

If someone says it's bad because corporate interests shouldn't push innovation... well, I'd like to understand why they're okay with the explicitly bought and paid for OpenJS board seats, or the permanent corporate tetrarchy for HTML. A lot of developers seem to have unrealistic expectations about how software governance works.
I always respond with "Yep, have a minute right now" regardless of what's happening.

I'm not going to do more work if I am going to get walked out so work stops _right now_ to resolve the vaguery, so in the end there is a net loss in productivity when the message could've been, "Need to chat about <x>, no rush", then we can minimize context loss for 2+ people.

Basically the same length but clarified.
The dreaded "full stop of hatred", as we call it in my circles.

In digital text-based communication, you have to choose: either go all-in with proper style - capital letters, proper sentences, correct punctuation - or don't capitalize at all, write in single sentences, and never use full stop. In the latter case, full stop is equivalent of hitting the desk with your fist for emphasis.

Related: don't end sentences with ellipsis, ever. That's (in my experience) almost universally read as being disappointed with something or someone, and the lack of explicit target usually implies the disappointment is with the recipient.
Maybe I wasn’t clear but if you dont have native support then it’s really worth the 30%! If a game does it’s more debatable. I also always try to buy the DRM free version if it’s available!
Wirecutter is owned by the New York Times Company and explicitly says they don’t get paid by manufacturers (except through affiliate links to Amazon) and recommendations are purely based on editorial testing. NYTCo really can’t afford to lie about editorial independence, particularly for something that’s not even their core business.

Quote from their site:
> We work with total editorial independence. That means nothing appears on the site as a recommendation unless our writers and editors have deemed it the best through our rigorous reporting and testing.
The mcedit (editor from midnight commander) has been my choice of editor before I switched to vim. Thanks for the micro suggestion.
Don't know about I_Byte, though I could have written what he has written.

I can now actually afford games (in the quantity I consume them) now, so that question is fair. But thankfully the video landscape fractured, now you better have NowTv, Netflix, Prime and Disney+ and you still can't watch all. I've started pirating again after 10 years or so of complete abstinence. So I think it's causal (if you have money)
California high speed rail will run $100bn. If we're lucky. Is that sexy enough?
"Plans are useless but planning is indispensable" (c)
Is this a true deep diff utility? Didn’t check the code, but the readme makes no mention of depth capability beyond comparing to some other deep diffing libs.
Than, to your horror, here is how it looks (1). Thankfully it was only used on the Gen 2 of the X1 Carbon.

The thing is, the concept of the touchbar (especially as technically implemented by Apple with a matte texture) is actually great. The great mistake was having it replace the Fn-row. If it was placed above the Fn-row, the touchbar would have been great.

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgkB6T6LrhQ
These rooms cost 330 000$ US dollars to build, excluding the land.

For that price you can build a three bedroom condo with amenities.

This is a false dilemma. Little money is being saved here.
The way I see it, if "let's talk when you get a minute" comes across as spooky that means you already have a communication breakdown and mistrust has already blossomed. Here's a slightly different scenario: You have a disagreement with management; there are many subsequent conversations happening behind the scenes; but no one keeps you in the loop or updates you on what is being decided. In that situation, practically any message (apart from "here is exactly what we are thinking..") comes across as spooky, and you will start reading into what _isnt_ said.
In short, if you think someone might want to know something, and they have a reasonable claim on deserving to know, let them know. Keep people informed, and if you do that then "let's talk when you get a minute" won't feel like such a lurking shadow.
Actually what I think you should do is continue to proceed as though the vaccines make you impervious to COVID and see how it works out.
Given the high construction cost everywhere, this is not surprising. I had a friend with a backyard slopping down a hill. He got some quotes to put in a deck and redo his yard. No one quoted anything less than 200k.
People need to stop blindly trusting. ~ I simply dropped the last word. Just a thought.
This is an advantage of smaller-scale organic growing operations: the nitrogen gets recycled. Yes, it means we'd need more people involved in agriculture again, but there are benefits for the climate and for resilience. India has been showing the way here with high rice yields using organic methods.
We're a tiny boutique consultancy but we build end to end machine learning products for very large organizations. The CEO is our sales guy. We get referrals and he leverages his network to find projects. He also teaches a course in university and writes in a newspaper, and we get inbound requests.

Recently, however, we built our own machine learning platform (MLOps, for the buzzword) to be able to execute these projects and build these products faster and more systematically. We did that because they took a long time before and required certain profiles that are rare, and the way we were going about it had too many bottlenecks and risks.

We also refined the process of doing these projects, especially with scoping, understanding the jobs to be done and non-consumption, and involving the actual people we were building for, not just talking with the execs/management. We had to insist. This lead to "repeat business" and reduced the need to always be prospecting. In other words: make your clients happy and you'll work together again, and the next projects will be more important and you'll amortize the time it took to build the trust because you're practically colleagues. I.e: compounding.

You need some or all of:

- Finding new clients

- Charging more or finding clients who can pay more.

- Doing more projects with the same clients

- Improving your processes so projects take less time

- Re-selling the same product your built for a client to other clients, and amortize a codebase

- Building a product for a sector/vertical/role

- Improve your tooling

- Productize yourself so you can sell items or a bundle, as opposed or in addition to selling your time.
Humans have been building buildings for a pretty long time. So I would propose that my reasonable solution is every other building that’s ever been built.
That site has hundreds of people quoted and I don't trust the journalist to pick a representative sample, vs. focusing on the most negative or click-worthy takes.
I'm gonna ask the dumb/obvious question: Why would I want this?

It's certainly not for the compute. Isn't the point of a Raspberry Pi controlling periphery on the edge? But that's not possible here?

???

It's not even needing ARM cores, as those are now cheaply offered by all the cloud computing companies.

Is it just for some cheap fun? But if I'm going to host something on cheap amateur grade hardware, why would I not also just use my home connection? Is this for the experience and education?

... I really don't see what it's good for (explanations welcome).
With games, an important part of the equation is DRM. I prefer buying (DRM-free) things from GOG where possible, but steam has provided developers with a decent bit of DRM that is not too intrusive for consumers. There's plenty of older games from before Steam became dominant that I refused to buy because of their draconian DRM solutions.

I have to say that Spotify completely changed the way I listen to music, and I would really struggle to go back to buying individual albums.

I think of the three, movies are the only one where the "more disposable income" part of things is the dominant component of why I changed behaviours.
The expected prices - 330k per room - is not an effective way to provide for poor people who need housing. If that is what you want to do, then you need to build cheap housing, not a monstrosity that manages to be both barely livable and also very expensive.
Probably because the tasks are badly-defined and management is generally uninterested, which leads to a low motivation, which in turn instills a constant fear of reprimand.

In an environment where there is constant positive feedback from your work, you wouldn’t feel as scared from such “spooky” messages.
Yes you're right about concise and specific. These aspects help teams who are new to OKRs and who want to write good ones.

The motivating problem is how to get teams to try: "I don't want to waste time with project management overhead buzzwords" or "I don't understand why we need this because we already have task cards".

It turns out when teams see the concise specific templates, and write using that format, then the mental model clicks into place.
I would only like a bit more than the endless negativity, that's all. If you can't even offer that much, then why would I ever expect anything more?

It's easy to blame others and excuse yourself, but if I could find the will to get a job at Mozilla to try to help the company to a better end, then why can't some of you folks who always act like you have all the answers?

If we aren't willing or able to do better than Mozilla, then we're stuck with the Mozilla we get, no matter how much we complain about it.
Podcast: Lex Friedman interview #124 – Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe @ 12:43
https://lexfridman.com/stephen-wolfram-2/ . And, In particular Rule 30 of Wolfram's elementary cellular automaton rules https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Rule30.html
In Toronto you could get $1800 a month for that or sell it for $600k.
Just noting that this is long and incredibly basic. It doesn't cover anything about spectrograms for example despite the subject title.
College construction and the related contractors and unions in the US are really effective at extracting money from even "small" projects. The goal is certainly not to be efficient.
> and on the other hand excitement towards technology that lets everyone stick their head in the sand.

Well TBF, isn't that what culture has been for since the invention of the first song and story?
How? We can build rooms with Windows for less than 330 000$ per room. We don't even need to put multiple people per room at this price.
This is not quite right. In no cases are nucleons converted into energy. D+T fusion releases a He4 atom and a free neutron - 5 in, 5 out. U235 absorbs a neutron, then decays into Ba144, Kr89, and 3 neutrons - 236 in, 236 out.

In the fission case, the neutrons escape to hit other U235 atoms, which causes the well-known chain reaction. In the fusion case, neutrons are not an input to the process.

The released energy comes from the binding energy of the nuclei. The nucleons in a U-235 atom are held together weakly.

My lay understanding which is probably wrong, is that the protons are trying to repel each other electromagnetically but are held together by the strong force, so splitting the atom means less strong force is "required" to hold the two new nuclei together.

I don't have a solid understanding of exactly how the binding energy is lower in a He4 nuclei, and would love someone to explain!
This seems better for younger students than older.
Microsoft provides also their own instructions on bypassing some of the requirements: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ways-to-install-...

Looks like you by-pass CPU family and model check and go with TPM 1.2 instead of the required 2.0.
I posted this in another comment:

"Given the high construction cost everywhere, this is not surprising. I had a friend with a backyard slopping down a hill. He got some quotes to put in a deck and redo his yard. No one quoted anything less than 200k."

Both of these situations are in California. Construction costs are extremely high right now.
Yeah, 330k is a lot per room seeing as you can buy an entire house for that money in many parts of the US.
As much as I despise Google and AMP, the one upside to AMP was it allowed you access to almost every online news article that was behind a payroll. You could just Google the title of a paywalled article, click on the AMP version, and view the whole thing.
That's the admiralty's job though, it's not supposed to be easy. They are supposed to be good at it.

It's not as though it's impossible or pure luck, and the stories coming out say there are warning signs there which have not been acted upon.

This is OP's point. Of course you fire the captain if he grounds his ship or rams another ship. But if your fleet's captains keep running into things, the solution is not to simply keep firing them.
We are currently missing a decent pluralism in production. Smartphone and smartwatches are a example: thousands of inadequate similar models, and with software and systems the "intended user" (say, those of us, probably many, who kept programmable electronic devices in their pockets since the earliest years) does not trust. That «win» is a problem, if you are a consumer needing instruments - instead of just a citizen at the arena watching gladiators fight.

In fact, I am not sure which «smartphone and smartwatches» are those for the professionals in «After targeting the average user, the same companies focus towards the professionals and build a version targeting them».

The Augmented Reality Eyeset technology is ready already for mass adoption - in terms of results. The problem is just with a couple of missing details.
That's the slipstreamed, highly modified pirate versions with spying/updates disabled. You'll have to torrent it and put in a bit of working keeping it up to date but it's the least worst way.

No doubt MS will have their subsidiary Github remove coofcookie's Windows11Upgradetool and soon it will only be available for pirate users.
The pool of applicants for Wikipedia editors and Reddit mods is already small as it is, and neither of it is paid. Reddit also expressly forbids moderators from profiting off their position (which is why the r/wallstreetbets takeover and the oust of u/zjz was reversed in the first place!), and Wikipedia disallows paid editing entirely.

Changing that would completely compromise both projects: Wikipedia, as it would immediately lead to "whoever bids the most controls the narrative" orchestrated by shady PR companies eager to white-wash the history of nations and individuals (again, it is already difficult enough to prevent that with the current model), and Reddit would face similar issues.

That said, both are in dire need of more paid and fully transparent support staff that mediates issues as well as takes over the load of policing outright abuse either by mods/admins or by mere contributors. Way too much volunteer time is wasted on dealing with low-effort bullshit (which is partially why I left Wikipedia over a decade ago).
Even for things you'd think were uncontroversial, they are insufferable. A number of years ago I tried to fix some really obvious errors in the article that described the small(ish) company I worked for. I sourced my changes, generally with links to the authoritative source, and still most of them got reverted. By someone who had no actual connection to the company, even.

I still browse wikipedia on occasion, due to ease of finding things, but I read everything with a very critical eye and keep in mind that I'm only getting one carefully curated version of reality. And it may be false even so.
Robots that follow you to learn where to go
Isn't a lot of that nitrogen that goes through our bodies just dumped into sewers? It seems like a lot of that nitrogen could be reclaimed.
How does it reach 1.0.0 without working font scaling? When you set DPI it has no effect.
This would be really cool! Unfortunately I have no idea how to even tell what's in this bill -- do you?
> we're all fighting against entropy, which is a hard fight to win, but there are long and fascinating stalemates ahead

Lately, I think of entropy as a friend more than a foe. all of the examples of privatization of technology he brought up, I think will eventually fall down due to the entropy. All these privatizations are attempt at optimization (hence the value extracted). But it is not free at all - optimization means specialization, and specialization means decreased flexibility and decreased chances of persevere the tendency of the world to digest systems and spit out chaos.
> So much for climate change.

Making more cars was never going to solve climate change, EVs still have lifetime co2 footprints of the same magnitude as gas cars plus their use is not capped by available supply of oil.
And, often but probably not always, using a class instance rather than a POJO. Seems unintuitive (function call overhead), but it can signal to the JIT that the object’s type is relatively stable.
Housing Crisis Is Leaving UCSB Students on the Streets
You've probably considered this but would it be an option to reach out to friends in the city who have satellite phones or work places with sat internet? Thinking NGO and foreign businesses.
What are the biggest features from the past decade?