skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Munger said he based the dorm’s design on the Unité d'Habitation in Marseille by Le Corbusier.

Ugh, that is one of the ugliest, soul crushing building I've ever visited.

I went to see it on a trip to Marseilles, dragged there by my art major girlfriend of the time who was into Le Corbusier big time, including his furniture designs.

Much like his sofas which - while stylish - are entirely unfit for any kind of sitting on longer than a minute, Le Corbusier's buildings are the ultimate exercise in not caring for the people who will live in it.
Is it his money though? I think he is putting in 200 millions and the university is footing another 1 billion.
Yeah, it's just a single function that recurses. So the limit will be your VM's call stack limit.
Oh come on. Yes construction costs increased and then started to go back down, but if no one quoted less 200K for a deck and a yard either his yard is the size of a plantation or the quotes were simply from people who had better things to do and were short staffed.

You know, a problem that doesn't apply to billion dollar construction.
Yes but that’s not what I said! If you make a game that doesn’t have native support I will not buy it. 70% is much bette than 0%! I’m sure if they had the choice between no fees or 30% fees and Linux support they would take the zero but they don’t.
The distinction between sport and ritual human sacrifice isn't quite clear when it comes to this part of the world.

But who are we kidding, the Romans also built massive structures where they could watch people kill one another and/or get eaten by lions. The shape of those structures can definitely still be seen in the design of modern football stadiums.
> All of this basically stems from a few weeks of true hard lockdown.

I'm sorry, but that's just bullshit. The best comparison scenario we have is Sweden, which closely resembles it's neighbors in terms of temperature, society, households. They didn't do any lockdowns, just recommended people not to gather too much; Denmark, Norway and Finland all went through multiple lockdowns. The economic downturn seen in Sweden is comparable to the one in its neighbours, even without stringent restrictions.

Brazil also didn't do any lockdowns and their economy indicators are far from great.

Pandemics impact us regardless of our opinions.
Some degree of mistrust - or should I say, fear - is normal when communicating with your manager/supervisor, because there's a power imbalance in that relationship. Your manager has the power to significantly complicate or even derail your whole life. They're also themselves in a similar relationship with the person above them in the org chart. So no matter how much you trust them, there's always the possibility they're bringing bad news, and vague communication helps people play up that possibility in their heads.
Does the game run well in Proton? Then who cares if it’s not native. What’s wrong with using Windows APIs to run games on Linux? Let’s take Microsoft’s API, embrace it, and steal that sweet sweet gaming marketshare.
I use godit as my microemacs. It's written in Go so you get a statically linked executable, easy to cross-compile and it supports UTF-8.

https://github.com/nsf/godit/
India has been doing quite well with organic methods for growing rice that produce very competitive yields [1]. Yes, it is more labor intensive, but from a climate-change perspective and a resilience perspective (much less dependence on petrochemicals) it has some big advantages.

> If we stop using artificial fertilizers, how are we going to get that nitrogen?

Many legume crops are able to capture their own nitrogen from the atmosphere by using bacterial symbionts. Crop rotations with legume crops are one way we already take advantage of this. Genetic engineering could allow more types of crops to form symbiotic relationships with these bacteria.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/may/13/m...
Nobody needs windows - says the guy with a window in the background of his TV interview.
Do you use the same rigor in information gathering in developing all of your opinions as you used in developing your opinion about my approach to COVID?
> 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.

I talked with a former boss about this (in a good way): trust. I always think about this when thinking about my relationship with an employer: do I trust them to do right by me? Typically when the answer is "no", I know it's time to leave.

You need to build and maintain trust in the relationship. It doesn't need to be on a friend level but you need to have built trust that your boss is watching your back and wants the best for you as a person.

Then if a hard discussion needs to occur, even if it doesn't end in termination, the discussion can begin at a place of "how do _we_ solve this" rather than having to work on an unstable and untrusting platform.
Interesting. If I understand correctly, the "bypass" is https://github.com/coofcookie/Windows11Upgrade/blob/1.0.0/Wi... which is a copy of https://github.com/AveYo/MediaCreationTool.bat/blob/main/MCT... which appears to be intentionally cryptic.

It sets HKLM\SYSTEM\Setup\MoSetup\AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU=1 which is mentioned by Microsoft in https://support.microsoft.com/windows/ways-to-install-window... which seems reasonable.

According to the comment, the rest of the script "uses IFEO to attach to Virtual Disk Service Loader process running during setup, then erases appraiserres.dll [...] it must also do some ping-pong renaming of vdsldr in system32\11" Could anyone explain this in more detail?

Also note, according to https://github.com/AveYo/MediaCreationTool.bat/issues/11 it skips the CPU and TPM checks, but not the Secure Boot checks.
> AMP, FLoC, Portals, etc are all browser “innovations” too, are you glad those came around?

At least for AMP, I indeed am glad because it finally forced the big media houses to provide pages that didn't suck ten freakin' megabytes off my 50€/2GB data plan (yeah, that were German mobile data prices until not too long ago!) for a single page load with under 10KB of actual content.

I'm not particularly liking the situation, but the fact is that the only entity able to actually force change is Google.

ETA: Sorry, I forgot Apple who managed to get the Web rid of the proprietary, expensive (for authors) and insecure scourge that was Adobe Flash, but that was about the only progress that came from Apple. I'm not counting PWAs because Apple utterly failed to make web apps actually competitive with App Store apps for profit reasons!
> But this bill may help reduce longer term inflation if it's actually spent wisely.

Absolutely! And it's a shame that the USG is using this type of cash-based accounting instead of depreciating long term assets like any other business.

At the same time, anything to do with infrastructure is so wasteful that I am always a little afraid whenever these infrastructure bills come up.

Good discussion here: https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/08/02/why-does-infrastruct...
I just provided one source against a string of claims right out of the playbook from the conservative anti global warming lobby.

If this makes me a "funny" one, I gladly am. I don't like dealing with people throwing out unsubstantiated claims or dismissing others with ad hominems.

Btw. you could just provide a counter argument (I would be open to that in a empirical discussion) but you chose to do a counter question showing you actually have no interest in rational, fact based discussion culture.

To quote numbers:

Between 2013 and 2025, 14 nuclear plants are slated to shut down. As of July 2018, there are 99 operational plants in the country.[1]

I wasn't able to quickly find the number of reactors that compromise said plants.

But from a purely nationalistic perspective you are right. The US actually looses reactors. But I stated World wide numbers. I don't care about the US loosing reactors. I was looking at it from a global perspective and just providing one counter point to someone stating unsubstantiated stuff.

Btw. themain reason for the US not building new reactors in the same amount they are shutting down others seems to be economic, though. Other sources of energy are nowadays way cheaper to produce and atomic seems to have lost the status of cash cow for the industry. [1]

[1]: https://theconversation.com/the-demise-of-us-nuclear-power-i...
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The absurdly-rich universities can afford to pay livable wages. Undergrads have been traditionally treated like prison labor, e.g., grossly underpaid. In undergrad at a large university, I had to social engineer myself a research job because the menial on- and off-campus jobs paid nothing.
>For the D-He reaction that helion intends to use, they need to achieve a similar triple product at 50 keV

The triple product is 16x higher for D-He3.[0] They also need to get D-D reactions going to produce the He3. The triple product for that is 30x the D-T value. (Yeah, you could run the D-D reaction at a loss or at barely-breaking-even I guess).

They're talking about letting the T from the D-D reaction decay to produce more He3. Tritium has a half-life of 12 years, so in steady-state, there is about 20x the annual tritium production sitting in storage. That's a massive amount -- a 1GW D-T reactor would use something like 50kg of T in a year, so that's about 1 tonne of T. (Just getting some rough approximation.) Even if you scale it down to 50 MW, that's still 50kg. It's a major radioactive hazard.

>I see no reason why a company looking for investment would hide such a result

Exactly. Fusion companies tend to trumpet their successes from the rooftop.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion#Neutronicity,_c...
it’s fascinating that you are apparently incapable of making any genuine, honest comment on this subject, and favor spewing continuous sarcasm.
My tactics for a profitable business that doesn't make 6 figures. AMA
How you can generate $2400 without an audience

This is not a 6-figure income.
It's just my story as an indie maker with a 9-6 job, 2 kids, and a family life

Here is my story & my tactics ↓

Context

I created my 1st twitter account 9 months ago :January 29th, 2021

I launched my first paid product in April, The Garage Studio

At that time I only had 281 followers

And yet I made my first sales

HERE IS HOW

April : Validate the product
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁: Identify the problem
𝗔𝗰𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 : @Reddit + @IndieHackers + @Twitter + Communities
𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: Pre-sales on Gumroad
𝗠𝘆 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝘀: landing page with pre-sales is enough
𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀: $425

May: Use the community of others

I only have 461 followers but thanks to my product an influencer contacts me on Twitter

We find a deal

And in return he shares my product on a Facebook Group

𝗠𝘆 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝘀: Use other's communities
𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀: $1040

June:Classic distribution

588 followers & I continue to make content to promote on "classic" channels: Reddit, Indie Hacker, Twitter

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: No special offer just classic promotion
𝗠𝘆 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝘀: Consistency and content is the key
𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀: $324

July, Aug, Sep : 3 months of chill

During these 3 months, I redesigned a part of the product to embed it totally on Gumroad and propose the content in PDF

I completely stopped the distribution

-𝗠𝘆 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝘀: Keep distributing permanently

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀: $168

October:A lead magnet

All the year I offered free products to build an email list

𝗔𝗰𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Mailing list
𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: I offered my product for free
𝗠𝘆 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝘀: Build a mailing list
𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀:$441

I generated $2400 by spending 3 hours a day:
→ after work
→ after taking care of my children
→ after having a normal life

𝗠𝘆 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝘀 : I tested, failed, iterated.

tl/dr
Step 1 Validate your idea with a landing page but without product
Step 2 Pre sales on Gumroad
Step 3 Use the power of others
Step 4 Never stop distributing
Step 5 Build a mailing list

If you want to follow my adventures to turn a side project into a startup, we meet on Twitter

My DMs are always open to exchange with you
Housing and living costs have gone insane. Personally I don't care about a window, I care about having a space I can study, work, and not deal with a bad roommate. I care about it being affordable, with access to a kitchen.

The way munger is going about it is a ridiculous amount of money, and I heavily doubt it will be built right. But the concept itself, to me, is a worthy tradeoff if it means reduced costs and better benefits. A window is not a benefit I care about.
US universities have all these amenities, while also serving 40k+ students. How many students attend a Danish public university?
Small hardware stores do this still for businesses, but some still do it even just for personal accounts. (Pennsylvania, Centre County area…)
I don’t think I understand what the motivation is for consumers to install Windows 11. It seems like exclusively new requirements and zero new features over Windows 10. With that understanding, other than for a fun intellectual exercise, I’m not sure why you would try to install it by bypassing Microsoft’s requirements list.
The non-use of the powers of the GG is an essential part of the structure of the governments of Canada & Australia and of course it is a political act, the bias towards the parliament is intentional, the parliament is supreme.

I feel it is self-evident that the new dynamic created by an elected GG would be worse. If you have a person at the head of government whose only job is to say no to things and resolve constitutional disputes they are left with only those tools to differentiate themselves from other candidates.

That creates an incentive system for this person to veto and manufacture constitutional strife in order to create a profile for themselves. It is a role built specifically for political arsonists.
4K works even on the X201, though also only at 30 Hz.
Look. This isn't how it works. What happened is that no contractor thought it was worthwhile to take on a small project when they were busy with bigger fish. So they quoted him a ridiculous price.

It's not because it would actually cost them 200 000$ in labour and material to build a deck and redo a yard.

Besides, for a billion dollar you're not dealing with local contractors, at that price you can even contract international companies, let alone bring in labour from the rest of the country.
Having read and applied Pryor’s book and having not-insignificant experience with animal training: no, all of it does not apply to humans. It’s tempting to want to ascribe all human behavior to “lizard-brain” motivations (and fits nicely with modern fads like an obsession with unconscious bias) but humans are far smarter and more adaptable than animals (including and especially dogs). Techniques like extinguishment for instance work very poorly with humans while working exceptionally well with dogs.

I’d say the pieces that are best for influencing how to work with people are (and obviously much of this does come from Skinner) are variable reward systems and immediate feedback of good/bad behavior. That’s about it.

I’ll also close by saying that Pryor’s methods are most relevant when there is ample time for the training and when consequences of misbehavior are relatively low. If the behavior being extinguished is for example randomly attacking other dogs, Pryor’s methods don’t effectively address that kind of thing, despite her claims to the contrary. And while Koehler gets a lot of justified criticism, in my experience with potentially dangerous animals at least like large-breed working dogs, a mix of Pryor-like and Koehler-like approaches are required. The happy clicky feedback isn’t going to convince an aggressive Malinois not to shred someone’s arm, much as we wish it would.
The death of HN.
The problem is that labor and material cost continues to go up. As an architect yourself, I suspect you're not working for minimum wage. Given the thoughtful comment you posted originally, you seem like someone who puts in good work. People who put in good work deserve raises.

I dont know how to solve for rising costs. I do know that if I cannot afford something nice, I have to settle for something subpar. I'm not sure how else to deal with the issue.
MongoDB Performance is Disk-graceful
Yes.

However, this is part of the reason why you always try to avoid performing if/then in critical loops. Obviously the index counter cannot be hoisted, but if you are doing 1000 iterations, 2-bit Yeh prediction (which was common at the time) can be amortized.

Later CPU architectures speculatively executed and then re-executed instructions that were incorrect due to branching, and VLIW allowed you to "shut off" instructions in a loop rather than have to predict.
The question is not "how many trillions should we spend on keeping someone alive" but "how much money should we spend on deliberately, actively killing someone", to which the answer is "zero".

(I don't mean to downplay the fact that there are difficult questions for working out how much money a government should invest to add one quality-adjusted life-year to their citizens, or how to calculate QALYs in the first place, but governments do manage to do that and these questions are not the level that political controversies generally focus on. Also, I'm completely ignoring the issue of national defence here, as people can disagree on military posture based on other considerations).
While I completely understand the allure of running on your own hardware, if you just want a cheap server to host a personal page or similar, you cannot beat Scaleway's Stardust VM instances. For less than 2 EUR a month you get 1 vCPU, 1 GB of RAM, 1 IPv4+IPv6 address, 10GB of storage and unlimited traffic. They claim up-to 100Mbps bandwidth but I regularly get much more than that. This sounds like a commercial but I'm just really happy with the service.
The subset of servers I am in inherently do not want to be easily discovered. And I’m in some large servers (total members > 25,000). You have to either be in a related server, find it from a related subreddit/youtube channel/tiktok profile/etc., or be directly invited.

Anecdatally, this seems generally to be a cultural divide among demographics where restricting access is not good enough for privacy—the mere knowledge of its existence is the first barrier (see: teenagers and “finstagrams”)
Caddy-l4: TCP/UDP routing, TLS termination for Caddy
Citogenesis (2012)
The author is a publisher, by definition.
Maybe I'd consider using such a tool in 2025 when Windows 10 runs out of support. Until then, the idea to install Windows 11 on an unsupported machine seems crazy to me. Who would do that? I haven't heard of a single feature Windows 11 has that would make using it desirable. Does it even have new features?

[Not that I'd need new features in any OS, just wondering what motivates people to upgrade voluntarily.]
What, those things you put on horses eyes?
Yep! Thanks! I was also thinking of his "Graphics Programming Black Book". Black Art ... hah! My bad memory. That dude abused the hell out of int 13! Kinda surprised he's with Oculus under Facebook. I wish his brain wasn't owned by Zuck. Maybe he's in that phase that musicians hit, when they get old and gray and start performing their classics at Vegas for a million bucks a night to audiences of boomers.
To name those I use in my daily work: WebRTC, img srcset, the video element, WebASM, media queries, CSS animations. I haven't had the chance to play with the new authentication stuff (Yubikey) yet.

Yes, some of that, e.g. srcset, animations and media queries, was possible using Javascript... but god, it was awful to use, even more awful to debug (especially "stuttering" issues or unresponsive pages due to some animation locking the render thread) and, worst of all, a couple tabs with JS animations open and you could watch your battery go empty faster than the gas needle of a BMW X7 on a German Autobahn!

The only thing that is still, for now over than thirty years, needing massive effort is HTTPS client certificates.

ETA: And... best of all, Chrome and FF forced people to regularly update, meaning the days of supporting a browser that hadn't seen an update in a decade (IE6) are gone. Mobile devices aside, you only need to take about half a year worth of browser versions to test, and cross-browser compatibility issues have all but vanished for standard stuff (with the notable exception of Apple).
> This whole time I've been confused how investing more money in roads is compatible with our climate goals.

It is compatible with our goal of getting from point A to point B safely. Climate goals are not the only goals, and if you look at this bill carefully, you'll see that they are quite secondary to other goals, which reflects the underlying political reality.
His money his call. I'm sure there are plenty of other colleges who would accept his terms.
Inside the sun's core, where the fusion occurs, the density is considerably higher - 150 g/cm3 vs. 5.5 g/cm3 (average) or 13 g/cm3 (inner core) for the earth.
What is the relation between food names and feelings in Egyptian Arabic
>In a nutshell, you don't want right now to actually own an electric car past its warranty, you'd be better served by long renting or similar

If you can tolerate the risk, a used, out-of-warranty ev can be pretty economical. You'd want to do something to evaluate the condition of the battery, and then accept that there is some probability of a battery failure that will not be worth fixing.
It’s impossible for me not to have any fear of someone whose job is (in part) evaluating and criticizing my work and determining whether I should be fired.
I love trains, watching & riding, and not a railfan.
What we need is secure lines. Way too easy to derail trains in middle of nowhere. It happens and is not reported so we can feel safe.
"Legitimacy" of possession at a specific moment in time is a lot to read into the comment. Simple possession is sufficient, as it attributes the actions of the actor at that specific moment to the possessor, legitimate or otherwise.
How often do these tweets come out?
> This is the language of someone who has been surrounded by yes-men for so long

Munger is an asshole, but that's not something that's happened over time - he's always been like that, there's the entire BRKB shareholders meeting records as tangible proof.
I've had a few experiences with Wikipedia that left me with a sour taste. I can't remember details but there was a pretty big error on the Lancia page that I fixed, which somebody at Wikipedia changed back. This wasn't the first time but it was so long ago I can't remember what else I corrected.

Upshot was reverting to my old Microsoft Encarta disks, until I discovered Britannica. €100 a year and I have it all, and it's all from an organization that stakes its reputation on accuracy.

Even more useful now that my boy benefits.
If the impact of the coal industry wasn't so gradual but was released in a sudden event every 10-20 years, we would outlaw coal mining, with prison times for anyone who burns it. But with the impact being diffuse in time and space, we don't really mind. It's the same effect as nobody caring that deaths from car crashes in the US increased by 3000 people between 2019 and 2020, but kill 3000 people at once and it's a tragedy that will be remembered for decades.

Our skewed perception of threats is maybe one of the most destructive psychological quirks of humanity. It makes fighting gradual events like climate change or disease outbreaks incredibly difficult.