skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see it making sense if you're a cross platform shop and a high quality Mac app is something that you're prioritizing. You might not want people to inadvertently happen on an iPad app that will run on the Mac but is worse than the Mac app.

But it doesn't sound like Mac is a big priority here, so who knows why they would do that.
Any open source options similar to comet chat (but obviously may be with less functionality) ?
In most of those places, zoning rules come from a state/national level. In California, the city has enormous power in zoning rules and the city council is beholden primarily to homeowners.
This is by design to some degree over the last few decades for much of the UK television landscape too. Successive UK governments have directed the BBC (state run broadcaster responsible for huge amount of UK TV) to incorporate more regional content/actors/accents. Historically the BBC had often been accused of a London/“Received Pronunciation” bias.

This has been accomplished in a number of ways - opening more regional TV production studios, commissioning more content from regions outside London, hiring presenters/actors with regional accents etc, the net effect of all of which has been to broaden BBC talent pool beyond the usual cadre of “Received Pronunciation”-style presenters.

As one example, I personally find the presenter Freddie Flintoff to be almost impossible to understand on any BBC show he appears on, but he has exactly the sort of accent you would never have heard on BBC 40 years ago.
Conversely you now seem focused on getting into an argument about simulations -- I gave an example of what I meant that doesn't involve simulations and is purely physical but you didn't comment on that.

It's true I've focused on something that wasn't the meat of the original post -- but it's also true that I challenged a direct quote that is arguably the most profound claim in the post, and that's what I'm most interested in ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I assume you read the comment I'm responding advocating for 100% vaccine rates to drop transmission rates below R0 1. If politicians (aka "Science Advisors") claimed this was the requirement from the git go it would have been an obvious non-starter.
They do. See the removed Reddit blog article about Eglin AFB being the most "Reddit addicted city" removed after commenters pointing out Eglin AFB had social media pilot programs

https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.reddit...

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf [PDF Warning]
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Microsof... [2018]

https://microsoft.github.io/mu/
As always, essays like these bring to mind the Prisoner's Dilemma. A thought experiment that, at scale, humanity consistently loses.

I'm not sure that there is a solution. Part of the overall system of..."all this," for lack of a better term...is the fact that we are always dissatisfied by the results of consistently losing the Prisoner's Dilemma and thus are always looking to solve it; our always-looking-to-solve-it more or less guarantees the fact that we will continue to lose it. Around and around it goes.

I ruminate on this stuff probably more than I should, and the only semblance of a conclusion that I can come to is that we only choose the objectively right choice within the Prisoner's Dilemma when we are given a reason to overcome our selfishness, i.e. during times when not working together presents a clear and present existential danger. Thus, war, breakdown of complex systems, death, etc, are all inherent parts of choosing that which keeps us going for just a little bit longer. Just as someone suffering from addiction might only finally turn the nosedive up once they've hit rock bottom, the New Deal was only possible in the midst of a world war and the Great Depression. Intelligent folks can see these problems coming from a mile away, as this essay makes clear, but actually mustering humanity together to walk in step to a degree in which we can actually address these problems either requires authoritarianism or a massive imminent danger to rally against.

Some are born during the spring, when we're coming out of one of those bad periods and have mustered the will to replace a part of society's roots with something better so that it might continue a little longer; almost immediately, those who benefit from it take advantage of it and begin dismantling it, thinking they can have their cake and eat it too -- retain the work society has done together, that rare thing, and use it to help boost themselves to a height far greater than might be achieved by simply contributing to the continued existence of society as a whole. Everyone being in its for themselves results in a breakdown, leading inexorably to some sort of collapse, big or small. Those born in winter do the hard work of setting things the pins back up so that their children can knock them down again. Around and around it goes.

The wild thing is that, as the interlocking mechanisms of society get more complex and consist more and more of complex interlocking systems themselves, and as globalization continues, those cataclysms shrink in scale and increase in number. 90 years ago it was a world war; today it's millions of little fires that need putting out, technical debt piling up, the odd sense of alienation brought upon by society looking at itself. The rock bottoms multiply, from one a generation, to one a minute somewhere in the world. Just juggling that and seeing how that all interacts becomes its own crisis of entropy.

I suppose I'm rambling now -- this kind of ruminating has a way of transforming from terse description into navel-gazing poetry. Around and around it goes.
'Needed' is too strong a term. I function OK on a single screen laptop... But I've got a second screen in my laptop bag for when I'm going to be sedentary for several hours. I work in 6x10 font on my emacs at my main workstations, so I'm moderately small text. I stopped using 5x7 some years ago. But somewhere in there, you start using mental effort to resolve the smaller features.

The big reason I prefer more real estate is that it's desperately more mentally efficient to e.g. trace through multiple levels of abstraction with your eyes, than with eyes plus fingers plus reorient on the new desktop configuration.

Just having "the usual" fullscreen editor setup on one screen, and "the usual" browser or mail setup on the other is a huge improvement.
In 5.1/7.1 audio mixes, the center channel is the magic channel with the dialogue.

It gives plenty of control. It's pretty great in practice.
Smallpox vaccine did, in fact, prevent infection and transmission with estimated 95% efficiency and is thus considered sterilizing.

The Covid vaccine is very leaky, and Marek’s disease and it’s vaccine in chicken is an interesting comparison.

And I did not claim it was news - all I said was that there is no reason to believe SA is a variant breeding ground (any more than any other place) and explained why.
> Housing is only a "problem" if you haven't bought a house yet

So what if you want to have a family and need to move to a bigger place ? Is it not a problem then ?
> Hakim did a very good short introduction [0]

Who is this Hakim, why is he credible, and why should I listen to him?

A brief Googling gives me the impression he's a patreon-funded social media personality with a rather far-out ideology ("Just your friendly neighborhood Marxist"), and frankly that doesn't inspire confidence. IMHO, people like that are usually "stopped-clocks" at best (as in the expression about being occasionally correct but too unreliable to be trusted).
Simpsons: Tiananmen episode not found in Hong Kong
Honest question, how is FireFox becoming unusable for you? I am using it on both Linux and Windows and do not really have any problems with it. Sure, sometimes a web site does not load properly but more often than not is because some add-ons like ad-blocker and no-script are intervening for me. In other cases, its obvious that the website was never tested in anything but chrome. In those cases where I really need it, I have some chromium-based browser as backup on all my devices. But daily work on FireFox is just fine for me.

Your comment reminds me of how people were complaining for a long time that FireFox had become so slow, while I was browsing with multiple dozens of open tabs on my 8GB system all along. I do not want to say that this is not the case for you, but I honestly cannot reproduce it on three different laptops.
I'm not even sure that would have helped Transformers: The Last Knight.
I can upgrade your claim: laptop monitors are not ergonomic, period.

Laptops force you to place your hands close to your monitor, which is really bad ergonomics - either you place the laptop low and kill your neck (looking down for long periods of time can cause spinal fusion and back problems in your 30's - careful with how you hold your cell phone:), or you place your laptop at head height and kill your wrists.

If you value your body at all, you'll keep your keyboard and display in their appropriate places and well separate from each other. Laptops should only be used in case of emergency, or while docked.
I think this is a dig at the google bus. The daycare thing is way less true. The price of google daycare (bright horizons?) is nuts. I think it was like $2800/month per kid for googlers.
Your argument would make sense if the smartest people in the world were developing alternative, highly efficient systems to replace the current mess.

Alas. Our smartest people are working on making people click ads ...
HOA SFH neighborhoods about to get a lot more expensive.
Phrasing it as "things don't work" misleads people into thinking that it's just a matter of reforming a couple of regulations.

Instead this a world-wide, centuries-old conflict for power and wealth. The kind of thing that people live and die for.
You’re not alone, I use the 4K monitor on my laptop exclusively and it works just fine.
More space for me just means I keep to much stuff open anyway
Coronaviruses have long been known to have this behavior.
Right now I use 2 4K 27" 120hz monitors from Acer (XV273K) and share both with a gaming PC and my Mac 16" laptop in clamshell mode. The Acers have a ton of inputs (2 DP, 2 hdmi) so it's easy to have all hooked up at once at the monitor end.

I also generally prefer one large monitor, so I will angle/connect 2nd DP to Mac, unangle/remove 2nd DP from Mac as needed for work. I am mainly a front-end web dev these days and occasionally really need that second screen! But I don't like moving my head around and inevitable go back to single monitor when possible.

Viva la flexibility!
TLK looped around to being enjoyable for me. Sanity buffer overflow.
Orgdown – Using orgmode markup outside Emacs
Speaking as someone who doesn't own a house in California, apartments are not enough and never will be. Housing is an investment, and if I am put in a position to perpetually rent then I am excluded from a very stable and viable long term investment that is not easily replaced. What complicates this more, is if you shove all the affordable houses to the outskirts of the city where most companies are not then you create an entirely new class-based issue.

Edit: I don't care what kind of housing it is, but it needs to be for sale as opposed to for rent.
> Looking at the publishing industry through the lens of most written works rather than most revenue generation misses the point spectacularly.

Sorry, but I can't agree. He explicitly argues for fewer but better works, and laments that this can't be achieved as long as you can profit from writing, but the fact is *this can't be achieved*, as we can se from the fact that most writing is not profitable today, and never has been.

Thinking that if only the commercialisation stopped, literature would suddenly be in a better place is utter nonsense that is based on a fantasy world where writing well is far easier than it is.

It's not commercialisation of writing that is stopping us from getting better literature, but the difficulty.

While there certainly is a lot of commercial writing one can easily dismiss, the notion that a profit motive prevents writers from writing from extrinsic motivation ignores that most literature is written by people who can never in a lifetime hope to life of their writing.

There has never been more books written with extrinsic motivations.

As I pointed out, there may well be a point here in that some types of commercialised content often is pure dreck. But only a fraction of a percent of literature is "commissioned, written, edited and promoted for their commercial potential".

A lot of it for good reason, because a lot of that content is also pure dreck. But even fantastic authors often struggle to get published and only a fraction of them make a living of it.
Catastrophes are smaller if you let them happen now and again. And localized. And you will have planned for them, because the population isn't conditioned to think the government will bail them out.
Comcast reduced “working latency” 90% by deploying AQM during Covid
Refreshingly hype and agenda free reporting, as usual from Derek Lowe.

And still "[vaccination] is better than a naive immune system" with the conspicuous gap of where "already infected / recovered / might not have had symptoms even" might go.

"effective vaccines actually suppress variant formation" is going to get him yelled at for supporting antivaxer arguments, I bet.
My ideal programming screen is a 1:1 square.

Before I got my 4K display I tried using a 24" 1920x1080 monitor in vertical orientation, and found that even though 1080 pixels wide should be enough to render any website fine, some websites (including some pretty big/important websites) started treating my screen as a mobile device screen, hiding many elements and giving me the mobile view/UI. I guess those sites weren't detecting user agent and were detecting screen resolution? Idk but it was annoying.

Got a 27" 4K screen last year and I have just left it in landscape mode...it's been fine.
The Big Company Trap
That's nice and I hope it works out for them, given how difficult it can be to get physical objects properly tracked in a digital system when the people responsible for entering data into the system can be corrupt. But getting the third world digitized is the very opposite of the "very interesting innovation" that everyone else in this thread keeps referring to; it is just making some thing that already exists again. That is not innovation, that is an incremental improvement at best.

For those of us living in prosperous Western countries (and let's not kid ourselves, that is at least 90% of HN), the biggest attraction of cryptocurrencies seems to be "if you buy this, it might be worth more in the future". Which is nice, but hardly innovative.
If you build more dense and closer to work and shops, people can travel smaller distances. Public transport, walking and biking will become viable alternatives, resulting in fewer car trips. You could have less traffic when planning it well.
How is it whataboutism? Twitter is posting about state info ops but don't mention any American ones.

If you want evidence the US military is running info ops, here it is straight from the horse's mouth : http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf

Beyond that Snowden gave up a few more details, see https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/16/britains-twi...
> In fact this whole situation is weirdly democratic but un-democratic. Un-democratic in the sense that it casts out folks that don't live there, but democratic in the sense that the voices of those who own homes are clearly heard.

This isn't undemocratic at all.

I know people hate this generally, but just to make a point: Democracy literally means "rule by the demos". The demos is (definitions from wiktionary because it was the first search result): "ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state” or "(political science) The common populace of a state or district, the people". So, the citizens or the populace. Meaning the people who live there.

That is to say, the will of "folks that don't live there" has nothing to do with Democracy. The citizens of an area voting for their self interest is completely democratic. It just doesn't end up with the results some people want.
I Lost $400k, Almost Everything I Had, on a Single Robinhood Bet
> You don’t want high density housing in your city? Fine, cap your employer zoning.

The political incentive is to do the opposite. Make it cheaper and more attractive to employers, then make residential housing scarce. You get huge demand for housing, then employers have to pay more (generating more income tax revenues) even though all the money goes to landlords, then landlords have to pay more in property taxes. From the perspective of the self-interested government bureaucrat, this is the system working as intended.

> Nobody needs to use land “efficiently” by packing more people into it.

Except that then things are more spread out, and what you're using inefficiently then is transportation.

If you have a twenty story building with shops at the bottom and housing at the top, anyone in that building can walk to any of those shops, or any of the ones across the street.

There is enough land that we could build all of that stuff across a hundred square miles, but then everybody needs a car. And many people don't want that, but restrictive zoning prohibits the thing they do want.
There's a rumor going around that they're heavily discounting arm64 instances in order to put negotiating pressure on the x86 manufacturers. 'Nice arch you have there, would be a shame if people stopped caring.'

I would be careful about estimating beyond how they view arm64 given that these are the highest perf/core arm64 devices they can put their hands on.
Translating programming languages and computer science concepts is IMHO a terrible idea. That creates fragmentation, which makes it very difficult to get access to the broader programming community and provides very little benefits for students understanding. Based on my personal experience, in the French speaking world almost everything is translated, which makes it hard to find online references and creates a lot of friction when you start to be confronted to the English terminology. As an example, "a thread" is a term I can easily search online and that everybody is using, where "un fil d'exécution" is used by absolutely nobody. You basically have to learn everything twice.

Regarding programming languages, one of the first job I had was with WinDev, using the French dialect. It was a horror to deal with it, and makes it especially hard to switch to something else if you get too comfortable with it. Something that people pushing for translation miss is that a programming language isn't an actual language where you have words that you compose. It is a set of operators/keywords to express a logic or to produce an effect. The actual operators/keywords do not matter that much when you're learning: "for", "var", "while", "if" are just keywords that you map in your mind to the actual effect they produce. They could technically be replaced by shapes or emoji without creating too much learning issues (terrible idea, please do not do this). By learning the same English keywords that everybody is using you can at least easily switch between technologies and get access to the wider international community.
A limiter might work for the purpose even better.
The special sauce is probably WSUS, which allows them to control the update process for everyone and determine which updates they get and which they don't. Additionally, the WSUS channel for updates is behind Microsoft's normal updates, which allows for them to prevent problematic updates from reaching WSUS servers in the first place. Of course, home users get none of this.

I personally believe it is arrogance to say that non-technical users shouldn't be allowed to control their own PCs. And besides, a lot of users of PCs at home are technical. So I strenuously disagree with you.
Hetzner's offering is competitive too. 58 EUR/mo at https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-apple
My neck hurts just reading this
This is exactly what I was thinking! Wonder how it works in practice.
> "Docs" is broken

Yes, I'm building it, you can see some examples at https://codigo.so/editor.en/
[Ctrl + Enter] list all built in functions

> by other solutions (codepen, stackblitz, replit, etc)

No, codigo.so is a pseudocode interpreter specially designed for people who don't speak English.
For years I ran triple monitors side by side. Then I tried dual widescreen monitors stacked vertically. This has been game changing. It is much easier on my neck to look up 10 deg vs turning sideways 45 deg

I can split VC code into three columns on my main monitor, then have two zones in the top monitor for other apps.

10/10.
> walk scores basically don't matter when people actually shop for a house compared to other factors (price, size, location, schools, etc)

This is not supported by home prices in many housing markets. The walkable parts of cities tend to be among the most expensive in every metro area. Realtors even have a phrase for not being able to afford to live in the dense metro core: "drive until you qualify" (for a mortgage, given your income).

This is also weird thing to note given that real estate websites pay to license walk scores presumably because they believe that home buyers want this information.
Cyber Monday online sales drop 1.4% from last year to $10.7B, fall (cont)
I find it interesting that the majority of democrats were in favor of the duplexes, republicans were split, and the LA city council (14/15 democrats) were all opposed to the new law.

This matches my experiences in SF and other parts of the country. I’ll ignore the irony that republicans are voting against expanded property rights and transparently are voting simply for class interests…

I am not sure why democratic elected officials are so opposed to these rules, whether it’s not in the lawmakers’ best interests directly (ie maybe since they are on average much wealthier, they think the law will hurt them. Or result in redistricting, etc.), bog-standard graft and corruption, or whether they legitimately think the measures are unpopular and likely to result in non getting re-elected. NIMBYs are certainly loud but they actually aren’t the majority. I am so tired of hearing tortured, nonsensical explanations for why new housing must be denied or become onerously hard to get approved. So at this point I’m leaning less towards thinking politicians are (incorrectly) following what they think their constituents think, and more towards suspecting some kind of inherent conflict of interest between lawmakers and the prospect of expanded housing.
Agreed 100%, many companies never really went remote. They tried to replicate f2f office work, just not in an actual building.
That link is horrible, it's all posture and no content.
upvoted - and MPC-HC isn't really available anymore - MPC-BC is a good replacement
Seems like single family homes are going to skyrocket in value. Especially ones that are on bigger lots. The law removed the owner occupancy requirement, so the ones that will be making the most money is investors and developers, like always.
That's an occupational hazard, one they accepted willingly when they started working as a recruiter. It's not my fault that they have to deal with bad apples.

In the meantime, a lot of us want to improve and be told what we did wrong. It's the least you can do if you used several days of the candidate's life, don't you think?
Every time I questioned basic assumptions, my life got better. Not suddendly, but in the long run.
I came here to ask the same thing. So if Apple don't make a rackable M1 server, what do they themselves use? It seems a bit unlikely Apple would have racks of minis as well.
22 degrees? celcius?

Currently im trucking 4 monitors. I am planning to buy a 43" 4k tv and drop down.

Anyone else try this? Does it work out?
This is completely repulsive. I love it.
Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE. It gives many such examples, including a very similar scenario than the one you brought up.