skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We say we're against racism, sexism, and other isms that involve people not being equal because of a condition of their birth.

No, no, no. Being against racism means you give people a fair chance irrespective of their race. It does not mean you want everyone to be equal due to the conditions of their birth.

In fact, we do not want people to be equal at all, as we need specialization, and people are highly unequal, oftentimes because of the conditions of their birth.

For example, it may well be that the condition of Sam's birth makes him a better diamond cutter than the condition of Joe's birth -- Sam might have been born into a family of diamond cutters who trained him when he was a baby, slicing apples in a certain way and whittling on wood all the time. Or maybe there is a diamond cutter gene that Sam has, which gives him superior diamond cutting skills.

We'd still hire Sam because he was a better diamond cutter. What we wouldn't do, is refuse to hire Sam solely because he was Swedish, and we don't think Swedes can be good diamond cutters, and so we wont even give Sam a chance to prove he really is better Joe.
Not the GP, but all of the above is true. There's a warped "coastal 9.9%" perspective on having children where someone in the Bay area working at FAANG on principal level told me they cannot afford a 2nd kid because of how much private school/bigger house/... would cost. There's also the model the rest of the world uses, and probably "normal" people in the USA too, where you share a room with your siblings, wear your older cousin's clothes and then pass them on to your younger sister when possible, etc. ;)
The description of "decentralized" seems to be a little weak here.
> Grid scale batteries are definitely not cost effective or in existence.

California has more than 1.5 GW of utility-scale chemical batteries interconnected to it's grid with another 1 GW anticipated to enter service by the end of the year. Most of these batteries can sustain full output for four hours. This is in addition to the more than 3.0 GW of pumped hydro "batteries."

1 GW is roughly the output of one nuclear power plant.

Source: I develop power plants in the western US.
You're missing the point, the energy released in fission is energy stored in the uranium billions of years ago when it was formed by a star collapsing, that collapse was powered by gravity.
But it also implies (1) that the server programs are independent, and (2) that I could run my own server independent of the developer. A Discord "server" is an unknown number of programs/services that interact with each other while presenting a unified interface. It is also entirely in the control of the developer, and I cannot run a private server.
Democratization of resources also reduces the chance of war.

A fair amount the second world war can be told purely in attempts to control access to fuel:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_campaign_of_World_War_II
Check out the Pipifier app. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pipifier/id1234771095
Oh, so this law isn't even in force yet? No wonder I'm not aware of it.
EDIS offered a colo service for free, back in the early RPi days.

I had two gen 1.5 machines hosted with them; one with OwnCloud, and another hosted my music via SFTP.
> “It’s all about the happiness of the students. We want to keep the suicide rate low.”

If he's trying to come off as not out of touch... it's not working.
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/286
Is there a source or related content for this photo?
Since Linux only has between 1-2% market share of desktop operating systems in total, that 0.13% increase is a reasonable proportion of the Linux users out there. So not too bad I'd say.
This is excellent. I use "When do you have time to talk about ways to solve [particular issues, with ticket numbers if possible], including [possible initial implementations and approaches] and how they impact other parts, including [part 1, module 4, service X, etc].

Our product offers real-time collaborative notebooks, and we use that feature to create a notebook that contains the agenda for what we'll address in a scheduled meeting. Each member writes down the issues they think are pressing. Then we get on a call and go through the points one by one, and we collaboratively edit the document based on the roadmap, customer conversation, etc.

We try to leave as little to interpretation as possible, and when someone isn't clear enough, others usually reply with clarifying questions. Usually a "What do you mean by X". The person then clarifies with a more specific answer, but we evolved to be much more systematic.

We strive to be "clear, concise, complete, and correct" in our writing, even more so for personal matters precisely to avoid people filling the void, and putting effort into what we'll actually talk about before the talk. I have addressed that issue with the same words and am aware that we fill the void with fear.

By the time we have the chat, the person has already done the groundwork and is prepared, and we both use time wisely.
What do both have in common? K. That is, Key.

It's easy to compile and track minutia. To get sucked into "isn't this data and analysis interesting? And fun?" We've all done it.

But time and resources are finite. So it's better to focus, and not not try to eat the whole elephant all the time.

The key is Key. Or maybe it's, The Key is key.
What if you have someone else do the blockchain credentials for you?
How do you feel about package managers?
No problem, I've updated my profile now
> The room was lit by a small upper window
At that point what you're describing has little resemblance to a hosted RPI though, the complexity justifies just making something custom that's better suited to the task than shoe horning Raspberry Pi hardware into a rack.
These are long term problems for a development shop that is 2-3 people, getting work that allows for survival and growth is the problem now. An external partner, as long as they are facilitating the development of relationships and the contract rates are reasonable, are worth quite a lot. Pretty much every successful small consulting firm I've been a part of has leveraged at least one partnership like this, even if they don't perceive it as this kind of "rainmaker" relationship.
windowless is a piece of it. these are larger and have their own bathroom. this does not map well as as comparison.

and, for myself an essential differentiator, the University of Michigan's are for older grad students.
I quite like them for token gates chat rooms, i'm in a few discords that use nft ownership as keys, keeps out the spam, and I can always sell my access by selling the token, and if I do the creator gets 10%(standard but varies) of the sale.

I can use them for voting in https://snapshot.org/#/

I can rent them out on places like https://dapp.renft.io/
for example if you have a stonercat nft (mila kunis and ashton kutchers new animation series) you have a key to watch episodes, but you could always rent that key out to others to watch episodes.

I could (and do) buy music and art that isn't nft'd, but i like that it gets stored in my wallet. I can open rainbow and it has all the links to everything ive bought.

I like that i can deploy a contract and then add some js to my website to connect it to eth, and then people can come to my website and mint/buy my art. I dont need to set up stripe or shopify and get it connected to my bank account. I can have a shopfront up in like 30 mins, even less if i use zora/opensea. I dont need to store databases with peoples emails and passwords, they just use their wallet to log in.

I can easily gift them to friends, I can pull the meta data into whatever website/app/display i like.

I can make rules in my contract that it can only be transferred once a year, or that it gets split into two on each transfer, or that you have to feed it and play with it like a tamagotchi. I can play with the responsibility of ownership, make it much more involved and participatory. Maybe all the owners of my nfts have to work together to activate it.

You could probably still do some of that without cryptocurrencies, but programmable tokens and a big shared database/computer make it much easier.
The problem in that case is trying to reverse a fraudulent transaction. Blockchains not only do not solve that, they make it impossible to solve: phish someone or exploit their computer and you can instantly make an irreversible transfer of their assets! If you have a mechanism where a trusted third party can reverse a transaction, you don’t need a blockchain and all of the expense and inconvenience was worth nothing.
OKRs are essentially 2 parts. The "O" is an aspirational goal; The "KR"s are the measureable components.

* Start with the problem statement and then make the objective to address it.

* If you're always 100% on your OKRs they are not amibtious enough. The value is in the progress not "completion".

* Don't make your Key Results a giant checklist of TODOs. It's OK to have figuring out the "how are we going to do this?" as part of the result to be measured, you just need to predefine how it will be measured.
This is also the reason they are so many weird bugs in the original Pokemon games; they reused storage and parts of code for different things, but if you exercise that in a specific order it starts doing weird things instead.
This is like arguing against seat-belts because you think you can brace yourself sufficiently.
And all of the top reviews complain about the lack of windows. Even the positive reviews complain about the windows.

The top review is titled “No windows, no way”. The second review says it was great until COVID hit and they had to actually spend time in the windowless rooms.

Most of the positives seem to be about things like location and convenient access to other things, which has nothing to do with the architecture. The architecture is listed as the downside.
The percentages aren't the same, incidence is much lower (6x) among the vaccinated.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/9511...
It's ridiculous to use age in this way.
> Plenty of designs allow students their own room. The fact that he considers this a design leap is problematic.

I believe the architect, who resigned and wrote the letter he’s reacting to, suggested this as a compromise for getting every room a window.
Solid read! An additional resource for OKRs is a book called “Radical Focus” by Christina Wodtke. Here is a link to it on goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28951428-radical-focus
Heh, when I watched the Chrome Summit recap video earlier this week, when they talked about the Privacy Sandbox developments, I remember thinking to myself “This is all cool, but I don’t trust you”. xD
We wouldn't have a civilization with out the pioneering work of individuals.

Individualism and collectivism are tightly woven together. Both are needed, its a mistake to think that you can have one without the other.

And actually many of the pioneering individuals had to transcend the boundaries of collectivism to actual make the world better. Tesla comes to mind.
Those living there who don't like it really don't like it. They could be a minority, that rating could be accurate otherwise... but I don't necessarily trust internet crowd ratings.

https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2021/11/03/heres-what-its-like-...
homework assignment: watch two Monty Python movies and three flying circus episodes.
I worked in a team management/IC role at an engineering services company that tried to do staff augmentation, custom software/hardware design and their own products. I found that to be the worst of all worlds since there was a constant struggle for resources between those three "worlds." You'd get a client who had a project that was big enough to need three people, but because two of your guys were on a 1-year contract at $BIGCO, you either couldn't take on the project or had to tell the client they'd need to wait a year. At the same time, you don't make that much profit on the staff aug. to be worth it (IMO). The main attraction to staff augmentation is that you have a steady stream of income for a year or two from that placement.

However, when we stuck to our core competency in wearables/wireless devices, we had lots of return business and could complete projects more efficiently.

What I learned from the experience is that providing engineering services or freelancing can be very profitable, but you really need to specialize. Specialization allows you to become expert at doing a few things, which leads to more accurate time/effort estimates while being able to charge the same price or more (can charge a premium for being fast) as it takes you less time to complete a job. Trying to be everything to everyone, OTOH, means you're constantly churning while figuring out a brand new technology.

tl/dr:

Specialize and don't charge hourly.
You basically just install steam from within your linux distributions package manager. I use and recommend some arch based distro but for Ubuntu it should be apt-get or some gui tool like synaptic.

After you installed steam it will probably just work. You might need to go into settings -> steam play and enable proton. that's it.
At my university (in France) we all had a room with a big window and a balcony, and a shared shower for two (each room had a door to the same shower, so you could go from one room to the other through the shower). The bathrooms were for the whole floor. It was very nice, if a little unusual.
Doesn't it matter where is the developer from? There's a lot of places in the world where $50/hr is way above local market rates, but is it easy for a developer outside US or UK to make that much on Upwork?
NextDNS has a “No Google” list but it definitely takes some getting used to. Even though you’re aware of Google’s stranglehold on the internet it’s a bit jarring. I didn’t realize just how pernicious Google was until I blocked them completely.
I like the concise aspects of your OKRs but maybe they're too specific? It's hard to tell without seeing the motivating problem statements in context though.
Was just thinking if we managed to land on a planet that had more sophisticated civilizations than us, humans may be adopted essentially as dogs, just the way we adopted them as pets, and after a few thousand years, pets will be all we have ever been.
The Clean Hydrogen Ladder
Go doesn't support shared libraries. The community likes it...
This past week, I witness Steam/Proton making it possible to play Age of Empires 4 just 4 days after its official release (and 2 of those days were Saturday and Sunday).

That is just awesome.
To be more specific, I personally estimate that it will take around 2^108 attempts on average to find one such key, which is much more difficult compared to an aes128 batch attack.
> Imagine how much praise it would receive if it had windows?

It would also be more expensive and have fewer rooms. In all likelihood, that would result in multiple people per room. All that makes the result unclear.
I work with computers 10 hours a day and I love having natural light. It kind of conects me with the real world and makes me feel better.
I developed a fear of flying as I grew older but I have been able to mostly get over it. What helped most was realizing that me being afraid of flying has no effect on whether the plane crashes or not. So, it's pointless being afraid.
It is a very American perspective that allows anyone trying to change anything to be blamed.

I personally blame the status quo, and think that if fewer people had stayed home and let things be we would be a far better position.

Your politics say sit at home and let the world end -- I have never and will never do that. I'm an activist in every part of my life.
why would you assume the designer would choose the optimal graphics config, instead of the artists who are the visual experts?
I think it is incredible that after all these years the best target for Linux gaming is still a Windows compatibility shim.
He's just regurgitating the theme of his 2001 book 'The Skeptical Environmentalist', nothing new here.
I have a simple question: Is it possible that they were servants and not slaves? I'm not very knowledgeable about ancient Roman history but it seems somewhat presumptuous to assume these are slave rooms.

Was there no such thing as a lower economic class of free people that were working as either attendants or servants? This is after all, a villa in a resort area. Its not as if people throughout the annals of history didn't work as attendants alongside slaves.

All of a sudden "An intact servants quarters found in Pompeii's ruins" doesn't sound all that enticing of headline.
I'm not really passing judgement on Epictetus, merely relaying his position, as someone with a far more personal understanding of roman slavery than anyone discussing it 2000 post fact. Difficult to explain to the man how he ought to feel about events in his life we have only a sketch of an idea about.

Within the framework of Stoicism, where worrying is one of the greatest evils, his argument makes every sense.
He's trying to get credit for... not giving the top floor of a student doorm to rich people as a penthouse?

Are there other student dorms where the top floor is given to rich people for penthouse condos?
I don’t really follow - most people inspired by Apollo have only ever known about it via film or words.

A huge fraction of the movies people have suggested here are nonfiction about the space program.
Augmented reality inventor warns it could be far worse than social media
I went to Windows.old, and copied out the all the executables in System32, as well as the locale folder (en-US for me). Pinned snippingtool.exe to start menu, and then uninstalled the W11 snipping tool.

My snipping tool again works, and exactly how I need it to.
On the other hand, extremely limited artificial light, so this would have been penumbral the entire day, with the possible exception of the moments where the sun really faced the window.

According to the plan at the bottom, the window would have been east-north-east and thus really only useful early morning, if at all.
His proposed building looks like an American Kowloon Walled City lol
It's particularly bad in the German Wikipedia. Compared to the situation there the English language version is downright welcoming.
I recently had spooky messages several times, like "All-hands meeting on Wednesday, attendance is mandatory". So, are we all getting fired? Are you leaving? If you want your employees dusting off their resumes, this is a great way to do it.
Tj_max is listed under "absolute maximum ratings", so indeed operating conditions should be well below that. I see I was a bit sloppy in my wording.
Demonstration Fusor
Yes, it's like netflix/etc in that regard.
It doesn't say more about me than I like. Go be woke somewhere else please.
I did, yeah, I posted it the day I finished it. I think the mods moved it off the front page a couple hours in because the discussion was trending too humorous / not substantive enough.
The point is, that in a moderately complex Java project that might be something on the order of 150-200 dependencies, and updating just one of those usually doesn't lead to a big change in the transitive dependencies (it is a different thing for a major update, Java 8 -> 11, or from the pre jakarta JEE to jakarta), but its possible for a single person to track whats happened. But with 1500+ dependencies, so an order of magnitude bigger, its just not possible.
An alternative interpretation is that by losing, the devil offers the fiction that a human can succeed without faith in God, damning them.
That demo is eerily beautiful. Honestly the first time I’ve seen photorealistic detail in a game engine.
There is a reason we don't often use electrolysis for hydrogen production -- it scales poorly and is expensive. Scaling that up several orders of magnitude is not a realistic option.

This is true of most electrolytic industrial chemistry, for example the hydroxides used in many carbon capture schemes. What works for the small-scale needs of today for industrial chemistry are not intrinsically scalable. In software terms, industrial chemistry is not "embarrassingly parallel" for reasons that are not immediately obvious to the layman, so scaling is hard.
Telegram has all of the above + native desktop clients (built on top of Qt).
Sophie Zhang’s India Focused AMA
"should not be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness"

Exactly. Neither should aggregate numbers that various US states and Prof. Spector use to spread fear, acrimony and stigma should be used to estimate VE, or mislead the audiences to estimate VE by themselves. Notice how the ZOE video you linked lacks the intellectual honesty to display the same disclaimer. His own website says "Incidence estimates were updated on 21 July 2021.". He's basically fabricating numbers, for all we know just as accurate as Prof. Ferguson. This is no better than the "antivax garbage" some people are so keen on summarily calling out.

Here are some longish term studies and preprints for Pfizer's VE against infection.

UK, 3 months VEaI = 75%. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01548-7

Qatar, 3 months VEaI = 70%, 6 months VEaI = 12.8%, https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2114114

Sweden, <50yo, 2-4 months VEaI = 83%, 4-6 months VEaI = 50%, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3949410

US, veterans, 3 months VEaI = 78%, 6 months VEaI = 50%, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.20.21254636v...

Two notes:

* VE against infection drops over time. Sadly, I am not aware of any reliable literature for VE after 9 or 12 months. Unfortunately Pfizer killed their own critical trials, which had a solid headstart, by vaccinating the control arm after 6 months. But the trend is clear, and worrisome.

* 80% VE => 1:5 infection odds. 75% VE => 1:4 infection odds. 50% VE => 1:2 infection odds. 12% VE, it's a wash. Numbers like 1:6.8 infection odds this long after the vaccination campaign are fantasy.
It works the other way around too. As a manager, when some of my employees sent me messages like: "Can we talk when you have some time?" One of my immediate fears was that they are quitting because he found another job.

That happened only once, the other 300 times it was just about something they were working on and needed more information.
> “You’ve got to get used to the fact that billionaires aren’t the most popular people in our society,” he told MarketWatch. “I’d rather be a billionaire and not be loved by everybody than not have any money.”

> I honestly struggle to understand what he means by this, but I have a hunch it's not good.

I think it's pretty clear. He doesn't give a rat's ass about what people think of him, he has enough money for him not to care. Good for him, I guess. The problem begins when these sociopaths try to impose their views on other people, and esp. if they want to "help".

We should not encourage them with tax deductions or other incentives.

Taxes good, charity bad.
Would the standard feral dog color suggest an origin someplace sandy?
Simply Piano is a great app for learning piano. It might be a bit frustrating though if she already knows how to play.
It's been documented[0] pretty well that they were aware of the consequences. They misled their customers and the public.

[0] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2827786-1970-H-R-Hol...
Mega-thread vs. subforum, the debate still rages.
I think because they aren't sterilizing vaccines. They don't prevent infection or transmission. They just reduce severity of the disease.
I wouldn't say something lacking a LSP is modern by todays standards, as that would mean it lacks syntax highlighting, go-to definition, and other basic things for a bunch of languages.