skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, I wouldn’t be happy with a single word either, no matter if “yes” or “no.”
Microsoft isn’t certain they can leverage TPM the way they want so they are not inclined to spend money promoting it yet want to get it established as quickly and deeply as possible.

I expect they will end up with what they deserve, i.e. nothing.
I think this building has more than just these pods, eg. open space, the shop he is talking about etc. So much more real estate than just rooms get covered with this money.
>Most individuals display self-interest, material and otherwise. But most individuals aren't narcissists; they lack the grandiosity, the entitlement, the monopolization of conversation, etc.

Well, this isn't about individuals though, it's about groups.

And groups have legitimate political and material grievances against one another, not just "narcissistic" ones, as if everything is perfect in the most perfect of possible worlds.

>In my opinion, that's bonkers. To make one's own identity and purpose so deeply based in the inferiority of another group is fucking deranged.

Well, that's the case with the North too, and the whole American experiment was established on this, and continues on the same path: on the superiority religious zealots thrown out of Europe (and later immigrants adopted into their culture cult) claim against other countries. "Greatest country in the world", "Manifest destiny", "Home of the free", "leader of the free world", and so on.
Pompeii was a place where rich people lived, not an average town.
Sure, it is likely that slaves lived there. But I would not state it as a fact.
I remember when PopOS was first announced and everyone was like "terrible decision, just use one of the many distros already out there." Yet, PopOS is now one of the most popular and most recommended distros out there.
Did you ever lived or worked in a windowless room (or a room whose window doesn't directly take sunlight or see anything besides a wall) for any amount of time?
I only watch Youtube on a computer for that reason. The mobile app is just to add videos to my “watch later” list.
I have direct experience of curing this fear and highly recommend the method:

I took flying lessons.

I was afraid of mechanical failure, weather, random noises, people errors, generally the unknown. The moment I was in charge of the plane I realised how just damn safe these things are. I cannot describe it. It requires an immense amount of effort to encourage a plane to land - they want to fly!! You just need to try it yourself and then take off and landing will become moments of great fun.

A tip about turbulence: think of a speed boat. It skips across the water but has no risk of sinking or failing. The boat is built for that action. But you notice a lot how heavy it bumps over the water, it's forceful. But then realise, how much distance the boat is actually jumping around - only a few inches! And so is a plane! It just feels like so much more because of the speed and size of the craft. But it the same principle as a speedboat on water.
Why there isn’t a Linux gaming module to make gaming for Linux simpler for the developers is beyond me.
> a significant chunk of e-mail that does not go in to the spam folder is spam, and that a bunch of e-mail that is not spam ends up there.

Maybe for you, but not for me.
Reliable rail has been supported very heavily wherever it exists and it's the preferred option nearly everywhere.

Busses are slow, uncomfortable, and less reliable, even if cheaper to operate. They can be a decent connector or last mile option.
They can be copy and pasted just like messages on a blockchain — all that does is give someone else a backup copy of your signature. They can’t use that to forge messages to create new copies - only the holder of the private key can do that, and if you try to cheat by issuing the same transaction multiple times it’s immediately obvious.

The key to understanding how this works is remembering that blockchains are only useful when none of the parties involved have identities or trust relationships. In this scenario, you’re exchanging physical objects in the real world which need to be verified for authenticity (which cannot happen on the blockchain) and the trust is rooted in the idea that the manufacturer will not issue the same serial number to multiple people. A blockchain doesn’t add trust or safety, just overhead and expense.
I paid $65.28 (before tip) for a Lyft from downtown to SFO last night (14.27 miles), for a $120 flight to DEN.

I'd like to think that Uber/Lyft changed the industry for the better (and in many ways they did: app is easier, upfront pricing, easier/safer payment, more accountability through location tracking and ratings), but I don't think that the underlying economics have changed all that much (other than the period of time where Sand Hill Road was footing half the bill).
Or lets see what the final plan is before I commit to anything...
>It's 2021, and you think 10 Mbit/s is enough.

I mean, not to disagree here, but that's pretty much the average internet speed in some third world countries, like Austria for example. :)
GPT-3 Is No Longer the Only Game in Town
>I would expect a huge portion of that Room & Board is actually the "Board" component, i.e. food, utilities, maintenance, etc.

"Huge Portion"... not really its about 2k each semester for food.

https://www.dining.ucsb.edu/off-campus-meal-plans
Drought is forcing farmers in Colorado to make tough choices
WSL2 got a big upgrade they developed for Windows 10 initially but then pushed to Windows 11.
Tons of comments here agreeing that this kind of vague messaging is to be avoided (and I'll toss my comment in there as also being in agreement).

But....clearly there are people out there who use this kind of communicaton, some of them doubtlessly reading this thread. So my question is: those who do say vagaries like "let's talk when you have a minute* - why? What is your intention?
> riding on the crown jewel of the Amtrak network: Northeast corridor Acela.

It is worth pointing out that it's unanimously agreed that the worst part of the NEC is the Connecticut segment, especially New Haven-New Rochelle, as Metro North is responsible for the dispatching there and they do not do Amtrak any favors. Every time I'm riding Amtrak on that segment, it feels like the train is stuck behind some pokey local commuter rail rather than expressing around it, and this is not something I ever felt on the MARC, SEPTA, NJT, or MBTA portions of the line.
there are a few low acid tomato varieties that are still flavorful. Keep your eye out for them, they tend to be less red (or yellow/orangish).
I think most "hardcore" vim users do re-map Esc for something else, like Ctrl-C (or maybe it's a built-in alternative keybinding) or Caps Lock.

I've used vim for 25+ years, but always alongside other editors (only used it as my main driver for 4-5 years sometime in the 90s), so I've always stuck with Esc (which, is the default anyway).

That said, I wanna jump back on with Nvim 5.0 when I get the chance to have a free day to setup and configure it to my liking.
> Your suggestions are not compatible with what I was thinking , my scenario was that "I need to write a small application very quickly" not "I am staring a bussiness and I want to spend a few years developing an application"

I disagree; it's very possible to write a small application very quickly in modern C++ without Qt.

> with Qt you have more then a GUI, you don't have to Google what library I need to do some networking

If you are new to Qt then you do need to google how to use Qt.

On the flip side, if you're not new to whatever other library you want to use for networking then you don't need to google to use that. Indeed, I don't need to use Google to figure out how to use asio and beast to connect to a server and download data using http.

> or what is the win32 API to count how many screens this PC has

What small application needs to know how many screens this PC has? I definitely don't consider that a small application and I would need to go "Google" how to get that information out of Qt.

I would just as quickly find that information from Xlib because fuck Windows.

> for a quick project I don't want to learn some niche libraries

For a quick project I don't want to use Qt. Your argument is merely an opinion.
I use it regularly. Sometimes it’s broken, and maybe nobody notices but me? :)

Their natural language queries for things that I know they know about are amazing. Here are some that I have used recently. You really need to see these results to appreciate them.

I wanted to know how tall my daughter might be.

8 year old female 55 lbs

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=8%20year%20old%20female...

I wanted to know the nutrition content of an egg sandwich.

1 egg, two slices whole wheat bread, one slice of cheddar, two pieces of bacon

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1%20egg%2C%20two%20slic...

I was curious about the relative usage of two names over time.

Michael, Henry

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Michael%2C%20Henry
"freed from vim."

... Does not compute.
Roman plasterwork was applied in layers, and in first layer (which is quite rough) a diamond pattern is scratched. This is to increase the adhesion of the next layer (also known as the key). This is also true of lime plasterwork done through the ages.

As far as I can see only the first layer with the diamond pattern is visible one the left wall. The other layers may have not survived. Why would you bother to create a diamond pattern if you're not going to put more layers on?

In fact, the wall at the far end does show more layers, and also some decoration right in the the middle.
I have heard it said that with public transit (including inter-city travel) service drives demand. Until you can rely on it for your commute people don't use it at all. For inter-city rail the "service" includes getting you to a location where you don't need to already magically have a car there to use.

But I'm not so sure where this idea comes from, I've heard it said but not seen actual research. It seems simple, but you can't just take a high speed rail and put a stop in the middle of nowhere and expect a city to pop up. Clearly as in their example for Waterloo thoughtful service might drive demand but useless service not so much.
You could say this about anything that has been around right? Basically an argument to say "Don't innovate, X has been around for a long time and works!"
They can take chances on riskier more far out / potential technology. And they can actually make a go of it.
Kudos to Toronto for implementing this, we can use a lot more practical infrastructure projects like this.
The use case is greenwashing and separating people from their money because everyone thinks Pis are just the bee's knees.

The Pentium G6400 outperforms a Pi4 4-5x, and has a 54W TDP (onboard GPU so at least part of that is for the GPU, so CPU-only workloads will be less.) The Ryzen 5600x is 65W and is twice as fast (at least) as the G6400...so in theory a 5600x is twice as energy efficient as a Pi4 if fully loaded. Sure this doesn't account for system fans and the motherboard, but they don't use that much compared to the CPU.

The whole point of virtualization is that most systems are idle a lot of the time. At datacenter scale virtualization, you can dramatically over-provision and shut down/sleep unnecessary nodes, firing them up when you need to. You can get near 100% utilization on your hardware, making the very most of every watt that doesn't go to actually computing.

Here they're going to have a zillion Pi4's, most of them sitting idle, but still using a couple watts. They're not even bothering to use any sort of shared power to improve PSU efficiency. They're not even bothering to use Pi4 compute modules.

Now, the interesting bit is that now there's the Pi Zero Wireless 2. It has nearly the compute power of the 3B+, but the highest energy efficiency per watt of any Pi board so far...
Philosophically, it's important to have something concrete to work towards.

Like you say, what happens in practice, no matter what the system, is that it takes on a life of it's own, and there is a management layer discussing, planning, monitoring, etc thr KPIs, OKRs, whatever, as if tending the metrics is the goal of the business instead of delivering the underlying work. And this pisses off the engineers (or whoever the actual "doers" are, because it makes management look like a big circle jerk instead of a useful function - and a lot of the time, this is true.

Personally, I can see emphasis on these metrics and their associated processes as an important part of a process driven organization, where you want everything to be consistent, and are willing to sacrifice efficiency (and job satisfaction), while carrying a heavy admin layer. This is probably true for most big companies.

Personally, I think the solution is individual responsibility- less management and more focus on specifications. Basically treating each employee as a subcontractor or tradesman and telling them what you want done instead of how to do it, and having money or %utilization as a feedback mechanism. But they only works with the right mindset, and if you're the government or a big Corp, it's probably easier to just spend the time on OKRs
I think I'd rather have a decently specced KVM VM on a x86-64 hypervisor somewhere, I can run mainline debian on, for $6/mo than a raspberry pi. For that money if you look you can get something with 2 pseudo cores, 2 gigs of ram, and probably 40GB of storage.

At least I can have more confidence that the storage won't spontaneously fail, and network throughput greater than 10 Mbps.

This seems like a cool idea and all and it's certainly cheap for hobby projects. But I wonder how viable it really is as a business model. Doing the math on person-hour costs if just one pi requires 15 minutes of support/human attention from a person at the ISP, once, you're losing money on that customer forever.
ok but does anyone offer pi VMs that can boot my sdcard image
Don’t lead with “ I have some bad news”. My manager thought I was dying or something so in the end I guess they were relieved.

Just call them without setting anything up or if you’re in the office pull them into a immediate quick chat.
> making their idle power usage higher than even some x86 chips

What x86 chip can idle on 4W when including RAM and the mainboard?

I have some very low power J1900 boards, but even they idle on ~10W.
This is a core architectural problem which cannot be fixed without completely changing how the system works. NFTs require non-tiny content to be hosted publicly on a separate system. You can build separate access control systems but doing that means you don’t need to pay for a blockchain in addition to the independent system which actually works.
> The language of someone who's rational would respond to the issues raised by the interlocutor

Not necessarily. You are confusing social graces with rationality; rationality is optimized pursuit of one's own utility, not politeness.
Narcissistic behaviors are not unusual or always bad (kids need it for example), but many times in adults they manifest as a means to offload the work from the pain they are experiencing based on their own judgments, of themselves. When cornered, some may freely admit this as they can easily pin it on you later if you aren’t paying attention.
A huge loss to and a massive vote of no confidence in MSR Cambridge.

Is Epic worse than Facebook? I can’t imagine much of an upside to praying on human frailties in order to make games addictive to extract money from kids.
So, a single person in such country would be enough to saturate the server...
Javascript challange - if the bot uses headless browser then won't help much.
Captcha - it costs like $1 per 1000 resolved by paid captcha resolving services.
Blocking VPNs - poor man's solution, but might help. Bot operator is likely to switch to residential proxy service. There are various residential SOCKS proxy services offering routing of requests via hacked computers/home routers.
I use WA for complex math at least once a week.
For me, I never got into using it much (due to lack of experience with Mathematica syntax). I had some niche uses like "how many work days between <date1> and <date2>" but that's hardly so important.

Instead I use the SymPy Live shell https://live.sympy.org/ which does most of what I need in terms of math calculations. I'm a big fan of the sharable links (the thumbtack button below the prompt) that you can post in comments to show an entire calculation encoded in the URL querystring, e.g., https://live.sympy.org/?evaluate=factor(x**2%2B5*x%2B6)%0A%2... (factoring a polynomial), or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23158095 (linear algebra helper function).
It's easy to dismiss it, and that's quite predictable. In fact there are a number of fields wholly or party based on Skinner, including Behavioral Pharmacology and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. See also the application to constructionist theories; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning-making

and see articles such as: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/000579...
good question, but central American / Caribbean is lush vegetation, so another guess might be reflecting sun?
Yeah they usually have to wait for Metro North CT trains to move on from commuter stations.
I believe it certainly is about wokeness. Your example is one of the better ones, but it very easy to find many woke/Orwellian ones:

Equality -> Equity

Fairness -> Social Justice

Race-based -> Raced-concious

Illegal immigrant -> Undocumented immigrant

...

I'm not cherrypicking, skim through the document and see for yourself. [1]

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20211101000458/https://www.ama-a...
Is it helping their business though?
Managers shouldn't send messages like "let's talk", but if receiving a message like that scares you, there's probably something broader going on (ie the work environment might be toxic or lacking in trust).

As an extreme, think of the worst manager or company you worked for saying "let's talk" vs the best manager or company you worked for saying the same thing.

Honestly, I've worked in places (and with managers) where a message like that would scare the crap out of me, and places where a message like that would make me really excited, because:

- I trust that my manager will rarely negatively surprise me.
- I feel like most news is generally positive (ie positive feedback, good opportunity opening up, etc).
- I know that even if it is going to be negative (ie negative feedback, etc), I have room for failing and learning and my manager will generally have my back.

So I agree, there's no license to be spooky, but the broader context can be as important as the specific context.
I was joking, but since we're here,... MAGNA?

Edit, oo, I got it: MAANG. That way we can say, "Come on, MAANG!"
It's suggested in the article that it was probably a family.
> Building bridges should be 100x as safe, cost 1/10th, and be done in 1/2 the time, by now.

This seems like the sort of thing that only a software engineer would say. So please, tell me that's not your job.
> This is the floorplan I could find. Where are the windows on the suites of house 4?

I stand corrected! I was going by the floorplan on the original article, which apparently didn't show the full building. You'd think that someone trying to make the point that it's a bad design would show the parts of the design that are actually bad.

> Why? Did god gave us the number of students this university must accept? Sometimes the correct answer is that the question is wrong.

Sure, that's a fair point, but then the problem isn't the building or its patron, so the criticism is misplaced.
In the USA it’s a hot issue right now whether the schools work for the parents, or whether the schools have autonomy from parents.

I read articles like this (and others) and I feel we’ve swayed too far into the “schools are autonomous” side of things. I want it to swing back.
> There's a limited amount of exterior wall space.

So add courtyards. Or build an E shaped building. Or build multiple smaller buildings.

You know, the things we do for other large institutional buildings like hospitals and dorms.
>Around 1880, with the invention of the pizza in Naples, the tomato grew widespread in popularity in Europe.

The most interesting part for me, was that Pizza was invented in ~1900? That is relatively new.
Is it not always the case?

Do we say that Ebola doesn't kill you directly, it's the hemorrhaging and multi-organ failure?

Of course it doesn't kill you "directly" for some sufficiently narrow definition of direct.
Caesura - the origin of the Pause symbol
This looks great as a software project. And a good alternative to Nano.

But from the website: "curl https://getmic.ro | bash"

NO!

We need to stop getting people comfortable with the idea of just curling random stuff into their shell.

Even worse is software that suggests you sudo curl it into bash. What could possibly go wrong?

Download and build it yourself. Or download and install a packaged .deb or .rpm or whatever is the equivalent for your platform.

Do not just blindly curl into your shell things coming from people you don't know and trust to the level that they are personal friends and you would loan them your house keys or your car.
IMHO the best song to accompany reading this article is my favorite Paleo diet song:
Megadeth - "Deadly Nightshade"
> CMake does not invoke qmake for Qt projects. It does invoke moc though. Perhaps you meant that you need to use moc?

Indeed

> Signal-slot is simply a convenient way to declare events (signals) and connect callbacks (slots) to them, using implicit per-thread event queues. Pretty standard stuff.

They're not convenient because they're not standard and require ~~qmake~~moc. A regular function with a regular event loop is convenient. But Qt doesn't let you poke around its event loop without using signals and slots.

> Imgui is a nice library, but it lacks a very large number of features you'd want in a desktop application, all of which you'd have to write yourself.

Maybe in a full desktop application but remember the idea is for a small one.

> Some of which you'll have a hard time developing (e.g. accessibility).

A small free application doesn't need accessibility to be useful to the author.

> This is of course because Imgui isn't meant to be a general-purpose GUI library for desktop applications.*

If you say so.

> It's kinda funny that you complain so much and then recommend iostreams of all things.

iostreams are just as easy as qt and without the bloat needed for it.
I saw an RPG maker who’s been making games for over 20 years on GDC recently. He talks about steam’s 30% cut. His basic takeaway, is that he used to need to employ an entire fulltime employee to handle all the things that steam now does for him. For him, the steam tax pays for itself for support and distribution alone.
Overconsumption is the symptom of mental health problems, not the cause. The only major class of drug induced mental disorder has to do with people who have a pre-existing condition. But when people can’t stop using drugs, it’s because they have an emotional problem. Most of the Vietnam vets who used heroin overseas stopped using without issue when they came back.