skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you disallow negative values of k then you break the symmetry argument, and you do indeed get quite a bit of information by opening an envelope.

I assume you meant to use a exponential base <0.5 so that the mean is finite
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Yes definitely. No analogy is perfect.
Yep. And here in Canada my understanding is the $40k (US) variant won't even be sold to consumers. Fleet vehicle only.

This is an ongoing switcheroo with EV manufacturers unfortunately. Targeting the high margin luxury segment only. They announce lower trims with cheaper prices only so that they can bait consumers but also get in good with various government subsidies.

Likely it all has to do with battery supplies. There's just not enough of them.
Zulip has long been popular with open source projects (https://zulip.com/for/open-source/), as well as a bunch of other non-business use cases (teaching, research, conferences, etc.). One reason folks might feel like it's new is that we recently reworked the Zulip website to discuss these other use cases for which Zulip is popular.

We have always had a practice of prioritizing feedback and feature requests from open source communities, because improving the productivity of the global open source community is an important part of our mission as an organization.

One of the largest such investments has been the native public access option (no account required!) that we released earlier this month:

https://blog.zulip.com/2022/05/05/public-access-option/

(I lead the Zulip project)
The larger pack gets you a much larger towing capacity, in exchange for less cargo capacity (weight, not volume). You don't get much cargo either way, so for the commercial market trailers seem like something you have to have, and the extended range battery is thus required.
If you built 100 blocks worth of Khrushchevkas we're looking at 25,000 to 100,000 people. That could be a city on its own and does not have to be in SF proper. Funnily, Khrushchevkas were affectionally known as Khrushchev slums.

The Singaporean take on this style of housing is anything but affordable coming in at ~500/sft -after gov't subsidies. Contrast that with ~150sft for most new housing in the US.

Singapore proves it'd doable in a dense city, but it's cheaper to build outside cities and if you're going to house that many people you might as well build an altogether new low-cost city.
I don't think this is a concurrency problem. It's a closure capture problem.

I guess the problem in python is different though, it's about having some data structures that are immutable (like tuple) and others that are mutable (like list)
Coercing elevated rates to pay for keeping it open would be a deal as bad as paying federal taxes to help prop it up. DC cannot compete on price even already built, ignoring capex.
It does give you some sense for how you shrink the problem space fairly quickly--even when you're trying to avoid doing so.
Right, but as far as I know those preserve language semantics and are stricter in debug mode than in release mode. The way I interpreted ncmncm's comment was that the suggested build-even-with-borrowck-errors was the opposite - different language semantics, and something that compiles in debug mode won't compile in release mode.
That did not last long.

November 1993, Mosaic for Windows was brand spanking new.

https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-033/USGS_3D/software/pcwindow/...
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/1995JulAug/002... but it was on Win32 by Summer of 1994, when it was also supported on DEC Alpha, MIPS, and PPC versions of Windows NT.
I agree with you. What I am taking issue with is the article presenting a multitude of (unnecessarily) complex refutations (as if one wasn't enough) and suggesting that there is no consensus on which one should be believed. This is not how people do mathematics!

A better article would first introduce a more precise version of the switching argument and then precisely identify the flaw in it. The more advanced mathematical and philosophical discussion that explores variations of the basic argument should be separated and contextualized clearly.
Usually I can solve a Wordle in a few minutes, but sometimes it takes a really long time, like 20 minutes if I don't give up. Two days ago I started playing during the last few minutes of the NBA game and didn't get the right answer until after the game was over. It took me 20 minutes and in the process I entered a word I didn't know about but that was in the dictionary. The correct word was a word I knew about but that was quite different from other words, including the one I guessed just by iterating through possible words.

I still got it though. Those ones that rhyme with other words, especially if I blow through some of my guesses before finding most of the letters, are quick to answer but are typically the ones where I lose.
Missed opportunity to recap all the basics/values of Firefox over other browsers.

What's the 101 on Firefox?
gl;dd ;)
It's been several years but I also had the pleasure of meeting Rusty down at the studio once. My dad has now made it a habit; he's been to SF for work and pleasure four or five times now, and met up with him each time, I believe.

I have been listening to Soma for at least 15 years. Definitely a great place to have bookmarked.
Yup, this is not an acquisition of any kind; Rocket.Chat just went and independently added native Matrix interoperability into their core product. It's basically celebrating this PR: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/pull/23688 :)

tabbott: we should so do this with Zulip - I think Matrix almost has all the threading primitives needed to bridge successfully now!
> That's the best I can do with a written description, you could also try listening to the song "Ölürüm Türkiyem" on YouTube ... Yaren Doğan has a fun version.

Hearing it would probably be best for me. Hopefully I'll remember to check that out later when I'm home. Thanks.
A Honda Accord with a 6000 lb. GVWR seems odd given its curb weight is < 3400 lbs and it only holds 5 people.
The highest paid educator at the private R1 research university I work for makes about $200k, the average director or higher level administrator makes about $350k, while the LOWEST paid athletic coach makes $500k.
Is it our obligation to ensure adequate quality of life for every human on the entire planet?

Why stop at improving their lives by reducing our CO2 emissions? Why not institute a 10% income tax on all Americans and send that money and resources to subsistence farmers in rural India? That would surely improve their lives and help their "real needs" even more.

How much of your income do you donate to subsistence farmers in rural India? For many people, the answer is "none".

Why is there an expectation that we are obligated to improve the lives of subsistence farmers in rural India by reducing our carbon footprint, but not an expectation that we should donate money?
Interesting still
A few years ago when we needed an on-prem chat tool (around the time Atlassian killed HipChat), rocket.chat had the benefit of being easy to set up. For Matrix you needed a Synapse (Dendrite wasn't ready back then) backend, a Vector frontend, some arcane backend for authentication, and you had to connect everything together by hand, while rocket.chat had a docker-compose file you could add Keycloak to and spin everything up with a single command.
I think that is what they mean—the 'acquisition' in Open Source land is just the successful integration of one open platform into the other!
The comparison to a lawyer or doctor doesn't work.

Your doctor may have many patients, but they are not making the same decision for all of them. Same with any lawyer you retain.

Your elected rep has to represent people with diametrically opposed desires. Also, you don't pay them directly and you have no principal-agent relationship.
GP argument is Elon's position as well that technology does NOT inevitably advance forward.

We forget how the Egyptians built the pyramids, or how the Romans built the aquifers or even how to land on the moon.

Unless we're actively working to improve and to build on top of prior advancements, technology will not inevitably advance.
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Rabbit Transit was an Atari 2600 game that is similar in theme to but not really the same as q*bert (I don’t think anything that isn’t an isometric pyramid would be “exactly the same”) - also there are no sounds other than beeps and bloops basically coming out of a 2600.
One of the more commonly discussed values is predicting where a major hurricane makes landfall. We can't reliably do that yet, but if we could, evacuation zones would be both smaller & more effective.
The only multi-line one I remember vividly was running MajorBBS. The inter-user chat was especially vulnerable to sending RIP commands as it didn't filter them out.
Along with these ones that are hard for me to get right are when the letters are repeated.
Fully agree. Seems like that will take decades however.
Yeah, I could have had today’s in two but it took me four moves because of the options with the third letter.
This post is a bit different, given it's actually giving the technical details and linking to the howto etc :)
Some Ottawa residents have been without power since May 21.

After the storm whipped through, I believe over 170K customers were without power.

That's not a time line I'd ever have considered possible in a major city in May.

Worst it's ever been, supposedly. Topped the 1998 ice storm and the tornado in 2018 for number of people in the dark.
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Picking very specifically on the builder pattern: the whole point is to solve one or more of the following problems:

1. creating complex objects and having them valid at creation

2. many optional arguments for an object's construction

3. similar types for object construction

For e.g. in Java you might see something like:

Point p = new Point(10, 0, 5); // (x=10, z=5)
Point q = new Point(10, 2); // (x=10, y=2)

which may be problematic because

1. y needs to be specified explicitly to 0, because you can't expose an overloaded constructor that takes x and z (that would clash with the constructor that takes x and y

2. It _may_ not be evident that new Point(10, 0, 5); passes x, y and z in that order

3. It ties the constructor to the implementation. You can never expose a Point(double radius, double theta) constructor because that would clash with the Point(double x, double y) constructor.

The builder would solve all of these problems:

Point p = Point.newBuilder()
.setX(10)
.setZ(5)
.build();

Python however doesn't necessarily need this pattern because idiomatically solves all three of these problems by providing

1. named arguments, and

2. default arguments

so you could have:

p = Point(x=10, z=5)
q = Point(10, 2)
t = Point(radius=5, theta=45)

I feel the post completely glosses over this by providing a single super-class with the appropriate constructor, and overriding the methods in the sub-classes. What if I just have a single class that I want a builder for? I don't think it showcases the builder pattern at all, just method overloading in classes.
That happened to me when I moved to the US from Germany. When my accent was stronger people talked slower which made it easy to understand. Then my accent got better, people started speaking at their normal speed and I didn’t understand them.

Same happened to me in Spanish. I can pronounce Spanish pretty well so when I was a beginner and said something to somebody in Costa Rica they responded with full speed Spanish. So I had to learn to mispronounce more.
If you think that will work, you should check out the storied history of community internet access in Wilson, NC.
Maybe I’ve got the terminology wrong, so please correct me, I thought unbundling meant you wouldn’t have things like “I can only get Comcast in my neighborhood / building”
> If it is truly the case that the second envelope has equal probability of having half or double the amount of money as the first, then you can prove that the probability distribution of money in each envelope is not well-formed (has total mass either zero or infinity). This means the premise is already contradictory...

What? I can literally take 2 envelopes right now - physical envelopes - and I can literally put $10 in one envelope and $20 in the other envelope. Then I can shuffle the envelopes and hand one of them to you. Now the other envelope has equal probability of having half or double the amount of money as the first. How is this premise contradictory in your opinion? I can physically arrange objects in this fashion, so where's the contradiction?
One thing from that era that the web hasn't fully jettisoned is the completely unnecessary and redundant use of the www domain name prefix for web servers.

I expect it'll still be there in the year 2525.
There seems to be a repo for it here: https://github.com/intel/xpumanager

Contrary to the article, it does not seem to be Kubernetes specific, or from what I can tell have any Kubernetes integration at all.

The best docs I've seen are the CLI guide. Upgrading firmware, changing settings (frequency, xe-link port configs, power limits, schedulers), and controls (Prometheus) metrics reporting. https://github.com/intel/xpumanager/blob/master/doc/CLI_user...
Hi. Article author here.

No, I didn't. Also, if you wish, you can read my review of Elementary from a few months ago:
https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/21/elementary_os_61/

To counter your points:

• I tried to pick 10 of the most widely-used distros. I do not think Elementary would make that list.

• I don't think it has any more than a trivial cosmetic resemblance to macOS.

• While I admire the coherence of its design, I found its usability and customizability notably poor, and its UI rather annoying.
> soon or later even with multi-threading you are going to shard among N machines

In a world where cloud providers offer instances with terabytes of memory and 128 vCPUS (e.g. aws x2iedn.32xlarge family maxes out at 4TB, gcp m2 family maxes out at 12TB) is that really inevitable? Applications serving 10s of millions of users likely won't come anywhere close to that limitation.
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The point I'm making is that if you open the envelope you will always conclude that it's advantageous to switch regardless of what you see in that envelope. In the case where you see $1, you're guaranteed that switching is a good idea. If you see anything other than $1 you come to the same conclusion but you have to rely on a probabilistic argument using expected values.
Now, if you will decide to switch regardless of what you see in the envelope, then why even bother opening it? But, if you don't open the envelope, then you're back to the original problem where the symmetry argument is valid.
The lifecycle is more complex than this. Slash and burn agriculture is used to squeeze a few cash soybean crops out, this requires specific GMO soy, and these are 90% sold to China to fatten pigs.

When the land is only suitable for grass, it's grazed for awhile, after which it's basically desert.

South America also has some of the richest cattle land in the world in the Pampas, which has sustained beef production for hundreds of years on land which is otherwise unsuitable to food production.

Pressure on one company could stop the conversion of rainforest into soybeans. This doesn't solve the problem in a single stroke, nothing can, but it would help, and it doesn't require influence over the government of Brazil.
Howdy mherdeg!

I don't think I've heard of Gale, nor can I find it now that you mention the name... Which I guess is consistent with your "fell off the face of the Earth" theory. If you or anyone else can find a link, I'd love to read about it :).
Yeah it was eye opening for me too since my first degree was in 2000-2004 there was not such a high student health fee because it covered very basic things and I was under my parents insurance. The fees made a lot more sense when I was on campus and able to use the resources better.

I think all online degrees are over the top also because many companies will pay for them. I'm doing a CS degree right now that is online and it's more expensive (per credit hour vs. on campus). Not sure what the on campus fees are, but it seems crazy that not requiring anything more than some server hosting space to charge ~$2,000 for a 4 credit class. Luckily my employer is picking up 90%+ of the tab (maxing out at $5,250/yr).
Di.fm has a modern UI and going as strong as ever.
But how do you find new songs for you to put on your playlists?

That’s why SomaFM and online stations like KCRW are so valuable. They’re ways to introduce new music and even new styles of music to the listeners.
There's ~11,000 homeless people in King County right now. Getting them out of the park, the freeway onramp, the greenspace north of my apartment, the coffeehouse bench across the street from it, the doorway across the other street from it, and into shitty SRO[1] apartments would be a god-send.

> Contrast that with ~150sft for most new housing in the US.

You're telling me that we can build a brand-new, 600 SQFT apartment in Seattle for $90,000? I didn't realize solving the housing shortage was that simple! And I must be an utter idiot for paying ~$30,000/year in rent for a one-hundred-year-old, 800 SQFT one.

[1] Or, if we really splurge[2], and build some Brezhnevkas, actual apartments.

[2] Somehow an impoverished, paranoid, hopelessly corrupt, backwards-thinking communist country that spent half of its economic output on tanks and nuclear weapons managed to afford building them...
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Kermit is way more complex than XMODEM and many of its best features were just not relevant for my case. For instance Kermit could communicate with computers that used strange charsets like the EBCDIC used by IBM mainframes and also communicate over networks that weren't transparent to binary data.
People of principle vote as intended, to defend individual rights. People who don't belong in the US vote for whatever else.
Not mentioned in the talk, among the onslaught of media and merchandise following the success of the game was "Q*bert's Quazy Questions". It was one of my most treasured books as a kid because of the cute illustrations and heavy cardboard pages. The jokes are only superficially related to the game, of course.

http://mirrors.arcadecontrols.com/arcade/qbert_questions.htm
After using WordleBot [0] for a few days, it became clear that my last "random" guess was often the only choice left, so from this sense, this anti-wordle seems impossibly hard.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/upshot/wordle-bot.h...
Believe I used it last year to transfer files between a Agilent J2300E running Win95 or Win98 and a modern PC. Slow, but convenient given it was already implemented in the terminal emulators used on both end.
Hi. My contact information is in my profile if you'd like to talk about general and specific ways to improve your quality of life.
Sure, but I have propane for heating anyway. My generator is already pretty old and should last a lot longer, meanwhile cars rust and wear out after about 10 years.
That's probably not the best example. There are a lot of brands on the shelves, but very, very few companies. The grocery chains don't produce those items. Store-brand stuff is more of a white-labeling situation with the goal of capturing more of the price curve. It's pretty much a single producer for all the stuff, occasionally with slight variations so people don't catch wise. If you were to start an independent producer, you'd have a very hard time finding shelf space.
I noticed this recently in the Amazon Shopping app. Yes, you can buy everything except digital books in the app.
It's most akin to email list serv.
So, since the author was only asking for a few thousand dollars, it's probably not worth the company fighting it -- it's just a matter of them quickly finding out how much money they have to give you to make you go away. The exact series of events would probably have occurred if he had filed in small claims court. Even though the company could likely win a motion to compel arbitration, it's not worth it to them.

Arbitration may be cheaper and more informal than the courts, but that doesn't mean that defending against this type of claim economical. On the whole, courts aren't that expensive, it's the cost of lawyers and their time where the costs pile up. Small-claims courts also often have simpler and more streamlined procedures just like arbitration does. And the Judge's salary is footed by the taxpayer.

The author's conclusion is that arbitration isn't all that bad because it worked out OK for him this time. But this ignores how arbitration puts the thumb on the scale in favor of the company when real money is on the table. Just to name a few:
* Arbitration usually requires secrecy regardless of the outcome. This guarantees that the company will not face a repetitional hit even if they lose, and it also means that your case has no precedental value for others who were similarly wronged.
* The process often places strict limitations on discovery, which can make it impossible for a prove your case.
* The agreements usually prohibit class-actions, which prevents redress for widespread but low value abuses.

Sometimes, the less-formal nature of arbitration can be a good thing. But if it's truly balanced and better for both parties, it should be something that can be opted into after the dispute arises. The fact that there have been so many high-profile disputes about arbitration that have been taken to the Supreme Court is pretty solid evidence that companies see the ability to compel their customers into arbitration as exceptionally important to their bottom line.
Yes, I agree they are equivalent, which is why I was able to see the same solution allows all three games. The last one gives the puzzle solver more things to fiddle with, even though it does not matter, perhaps making the puzzle more difficult or interesting.
Yes, very silly to deliberately choose the mode that makes those words nigh impossible to guess, and then blame the word choice. If you want to make the game harder, try to bring down your guess count.
Out of sight out of mind perhaps. It's possible that they got housed somewhere but that would be unusual in my experience. Like I said I'll go take a look for myself in a week or two - despite its problems, there's still some stuff I like to go do in Austin, and some occasional work too. Perhaps I'll remember this thread and reply back.
Agreed re ROX, by the way.

ROX Desktop on top of GoboLinux, with self-updating AppImages, sounds like a great combination to me.
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That's great, but certainly not what most people are thinking when they are pushing for "free college".
> no, if I type std::totally_ordered, I mean "whatever the language is supposed to do for std::totally_ordered", and exactly nothing else

That's easy then, if you mean "whatever the language is supposed to do for std::totally_ordered" you could say what that is exactly, right?
To your point, almost all high-visitor (winter/summer) based community will have the above amenities. Places like Burlington, VT or Truckee, CA.
Lisa Su joined AMD in 2012 and in 2017 the first Zen chips were released. Good people making good decisions.
I run mine out of my garage with the garage door cracked and a fan pointed to push the exhaust out the crack. Have monoxide detectors in the house for safety.
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> If a stablecoin issuer has trouble compiling a list of their assets that's a red flag.

I agree.