skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a bit different in the 70s. My first day as a freshman, the cool guy next door kindly approached me and muttered "Hey kid, you want a hit of hash?"

The one inviolable rule for university housing was "no growing of pot plants in a dorm room facing the street". Otherwise, cheerful anarchism prevailed, mixed with some anti-war near mayhem. Good times, indeed.
One thing young people don't understand (probably because they didn't experience it) was that the introduction of LSD to engineers and other technical people was a revelation and very inspiring. The mindset back then was formal and rules based. LSD taught people to think outside of the box. We now live in a world that has benefited from that thinking and also a world in which a lot of people have taken LSD and it's old news. It's hard to capture the excitement of that time.

It's the transition or inflection point that was inspiring, like movie goers in the 1930's who were only used to black and white movies going to see Wizard of Oz and being amazed that it turned into color, something they had never seen. But it was much more profound than that because it felt possible to rewrite the world to be a better place if enough people took LSD. Nobody feels that way today.
Were you a sophomore in Toyon 2006-07? I think you may have been my roommate…
Happy Holidays! Sad today that my mother has COVID so my wife and I can't go and see her, but we are already planning a badass holiday party for after the new year! Spending the day sending messages and relaxing with my dog. :) OP and the entire HN community, hope you have a great time to spend with friends, family, loved ones, online communities, or just relaxing with some well deserved time off, with hopefully some great food or snacks in the mix.
> they would have seen the guy get arrested, extradited, and charged for a crime, which is exactly what was supposed to happen.

Funnily enough the conspiracy theorists, who know exactly how it all works, said it would never happen.
As a non-white Londoner I'd say it's far more likely they didn't like the way you dressed or your first impression rather than the colour of your skin, given that the city is one of the most diverse in the world.
Can you recommend me any newsletters?

Thanks in advance.
It’s interesting that nobody in this thread has yet mentioned the numerous range tests showing that Teslas achieve less than EPA range in many “real world” (warm weather) tests.

Part of the EPA methodology is to penalize EV range using either a fixed constant or measurements of performance at reduced temperatures. Because Tesla cars perform better in the cold, they use the measurement method when calculating EPA range.

That results in the perceived under-performance of Teslas compared to the competition in the so-called “real world” tests. But when cars are tested at low ambient temperatures, we see the results…
Tailwind has `@apply` from postcss
I drive a Renault Zoe which has a heat pump and air-cooled batteries, and I can tell you that the Renault engineers were very protective of the battery. I've never had a problem with the cabin temperature, but it's clear that the HVAC system is sized and optimised for the batteries. For example, when charging cold batteries, the blower revs up much higher than it would ever go for the cabin.
While it’s true that having a better proliferation of hardware accelerated displays in use is a net win, you can’t discount the need to be able to bring up a GUI on generic hardware without knowing the underlying stack in advance.

While under X it was possible to install a dozen drivers and - mostly - be able to cycle through them (auto detection sucked and continues to suck at matching drivers to hardware via manufacturer/device ids), DRM/KMS drivers are unfortunately another story. You often cannot bring up a KMS driver for one hardware on another and expect to be able to gracefully unload if it’s not supported. There KMS drivers that can’t be installed in parallel (you have to choose which set of cards to support over the other a priori), and there is a ton of legacy hardware that will never get KMS drivers working, ever.
Transit could solve that
You're misunderstanding - it wasn't random RAs; it was university policy for RAs. Same thing in every dorm. They were taught in RA training to focus on safety and not to call the police or report to administrators if underage students were drinking but otherwise fine.
Hi! Thanks a lot for this comment (: The sentiment you share is exactly where I was coming from when I was working on it.

Huge thanks also for the suggestions, especially #2 seem to make a lot of sense. I thought about using #!, but having sensible defaults for shmuxfiles is very smart too.

I'll keep this thread posted if I get to work in it reasonably soon. Thanks again (:
I think the way Greek life operate at Berkeley provides a study in contrasts.

I distinctly remember attending a party at a Stanford frat during the "crackdown" timeframe. As I was walking up to the house, I noticed a small scrum of people gathered on the front lawn. It seemed that a cop was in a discussion with several of the brothers. He had his Maglite out and appeared to be writing them ticket. But as I got closer, I realized the brothers were grilling hot dogs and the cop was using his flashlight to illuminate the grill. A marked contrast from our house's interactions with Berkeley's police.

All Berkeley frats/sororities have houses on private property, meaning they are subject to the City of Berkeley laws and regulations which are enforced by Berkeley police (as opposed to the UCPD which only operates on campus). As you can imagine, the City of Berkeley (often egged on by NIMBYs living next to the fraternity houses) were less than enthused about Greek life and tried to pass several laws/restrictions to effectively outlaw them.

The university administration tried to assert some control by officially "recognizing" fraternities that complied with university policies. But at the end of the day, to the average student, it would be impossible to separate the sanctioned frats from the unsanctioned ones: they all held parties, conducted rush, held formals, etc. Having frats located on university property does have some serious advantages. One big one is forcing someone to leave entirely. Berkeley frats had to deal with people showing up from all over the Bay trying to sneak into our parties. They were never happy about not being let into the party, but there was nothing we could do to stop them from standing out on the sidewalk and causing issues.

As they say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Berkeley has an extreme housing shortage. The university realized that having several thousands students willing to cram as many as people as possible into a single house was actually hugely beneficial. Ultimately, the administration stood with the fraternities against Berkeley city council because they realized that they had nowhere else to put all these students.

So if I had to chose, which system is better? Having everything controlled by the university? Or ultimately being subject to the whims of cantankerous old people with too much time on their hands?
There are other winter issues as well. Door handles freeze, LCD screens fail, cameras and headlights are iced up, stability control fails

Complex systems are convenient in ideal conditions but they suffer in extreme conditions.

Expect more extremes winters in the coming years (as mild winter trends reverse).
Yes but how would you give a downtown Boston experience driving test in North Dakota?

I still remember the time my mom almost drove into a tram tunnel! She wasn't used to the city.
I don't believe so. There isn't enough wood in them. Some cultivars can grow to be small trees, but are usually pruned and kept as little bushes.
Ironically Gmail is one is the largest sources of spam hitting me at Fastmail.
These stories weren't really tied, more like intertwined.

Maybe both of them were interesting, but I couldn't follow either.
If you plug in every night and miss a night you can almost certainly make it to work the next day, unless your a supercommuter with an older EV that had a small 24kWh pack.
Happy holidays y'all
As someone whose been bullied in the workplace later proven to be based on sexual orientation (but not at a time where I had any weight behind any prejudice accusations), I’m gonna ahead and say piss right off with your ‘are you sure’ junk. Modern racism is much more under the covers than to kill a mockingbird.
All of the dispensaries in Illinois and Michigan at least are doing the cashless atm thing now. Costs $3 extra but well worth it for me, and certainly for them since I don’t think it costs them anything.
Merry Christmas Ya'll
> In the United States we have a Constitution that enumerates a set of Rights about which nobody gets to vote

No, it doesn't, since people actually do campaign on changing the Constitution. I mean, unless you specifically and exclusively mean “the right to equal representation of your State in the Senate”, and even that is debatable, since you could vote for someone who proposes removing that limitation on amendments from the Constitution.
I feel the same way about people and their media and culturally powered "truths" which are rarely substantiated as fact, and often conflict with conspiracy theories.

Although, I find talking to all sorts of people about their "factual" beliefs about "reality" to be an immensely enjoyable experience. Smart people very often hold the most interesting beliefs.
Yes. This is a well known tactic. Although the people complaining in this article are usually the demo that perpetuates it.
It can't help you reach suicide prevention services. If you tell it you're depressed it blows you off in an especially cruel way, it can write code for you but will do nothing to help you find help when its prowess makes you extremely depressed.
My friend you have come to the right place.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34079497
Thank you. I can see how, say, asking students to notify campus police in advance with a simple online form would make sense for large parties. But here we're talking about asking students to submit an application with a known list of attendants two weeks in advance. That doesn't seem right.

Something feels really off when I read that for 16,937 students, Stanford lists 2,288 faculty and 15,750 administrators.[a]

[a] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-stanford-guide-to-acceptabl...
You can see your mom if you want.
I wonder how much of this can be addressed with active versus passive cooling of the batteries.

One of the folk tricks with cold starting regular vehicles is to run the radio for a little bit, in order to warm the battery up just a little to help with cranking the engine. If you conserve the waste heat in the battery banks until the batteries hit 50ºC for instance, then they would spend less time at ambient temperatures once you start moving. Some of that could offset/be offset by the cabin heating system, if you did it right.

But I think the math comes down to the question of whether cooling a battery to freezing reduces the potential energy in the battery, or just the recoverable energy. I think it's the latter, and if so then how much recoverable energy can you increase by converting a given amount of that energy into BTUs to warm the battery?
They have contracts in place that promise savings in exchange of shutdowns at peaks. You can't get more normal and regulated than that.
This is embarrassing and antithetical to what a university should be.

The whole purpose of an undergraduate education should be to build young people into having the knowledge and skills to really be free in society. A literally “liberal” education in the original sense of the word.

Instead adults have to ask permission to have guests.

That’s how you manufacture consent for a police state, making people live in an environment where the authorities have to approve of everything until their mid twenties.

This is also how you waste student money, state money, research money funneling it away into entirely unnecessary jobs.

University of California students just got done with a strike, maybe Stanford students should strike until the administration stops wasting their money.
You could simply do nothing with it and let nature take back the land. Natural restoration.
I like to think of HN as a family of its own. Sure, we're all different and we come from all sorts of different backgrounds, but we all come together and get along. It's really amazing, and it's hard to find in other places online.
I hope everyone is able to enjoy a few actual days off and has a great new year!
Just feeling a little left out.
Bloom filters, skiplists, tries, recursive descent, etc. are actually used in many systems and I think it’s important to understand how they work at a high-level

Now, implementing one of them on a whiteboard or without access to internet, knowing all of their intricacies and edge cases…that is stuff I doubt anyone needs to know except a very specific type of developer. If i want an optimized trie I use a library, and when it breaks and i need to fix the low-level implementation, i look it up online
What exactly was university policy? Approving of drinking parties or minimizing damage done by students who had drank?
Arc Is the Best Web Browser to Come Out in the Last Decade?
This is my first summer Christmas (down in Chile), it feels quite different! They also celebrate more today on the 24th and do presents at midnight
But that's a thing you learn. Just like you learn to check your oil level before starting in a conventional vehicle. Everything has its own set of things you have to know
me, it is cwm :)
Same here. Currently I don't read my feeds in the RSS reader, but I mark what interests me and send it to Pocket to read later in this application or directly on the original website.
Oh, you can find opportunities. They just don’t have the RoI and scalability that hedge funds are looking for. Sometimes bigger scraps reach the ocean floor and it’s a big day in bottom feeder’s life to stumble upon one.
If the "guess-o-meter" is so bad that it leads reasonable people to wildly wrong conclusions, I'm hesitant to blame that on the user.

If all the factors you described are understood by humans, why aren't they factored into the display algorithm? If the car is going to drain battery for an hour getting warm before it can start to charge, then say that on the display.
Merry Christmas! This post hits pretty close to home, particularly the bit about how ephemeral life is. My father passed earlier this year after a long battle with COPD (encourage your friends/family to stop smoking if they do!), but because it was expected I was blessed to have the opportunity to prepare and have many conversations I will remember until my last day.

The material can come and go. Family and friendships, relationships, and what blessings you can bestow upon others are ultimately what matters most.

If you know someone who will be alone this Christmas, and you have the means, please consider ensuring they won't spend it by themselves.
> The thumbnails themselves are stored in extended attributes of the files themselves, which means applications can create their own thumbnails for custom filetypes, if they want (for example, a screenshot might be the thumbnail of an emulator’s save-state.)

This is pretty neat. Is it something that script-type applications can do, as opposed to more formally-programmed applications?

Or for that matter is there that kind of system scripting language for the OS, like an ARexx for Haiku? I've used Haiku but not at this level.
I can! That is possible. She's not comfortable with that and wishes to quarantine.
Interesting, but so far so good:

https://p.datadoghq.com/sb/5c2fc00be-393be929c9c55c3b80b557d...

I think that the problems of almost 2 years ago are causing TX to be more proactive, this time.
Narcissism is caring about how you appear (to others)- remember he's looking at himself reflected in the lake? It's caring about appearances and others opinions. That's face, precisely.

Selfishness is a different word entirely.

Also, Chinese culture has always cared immensely about face; the CCP not only didn't invent that, they've toned it down a bit (not much.)
Exactly. You can go into a museum, take a photo, and do with it whatever you want, legally, even though the museum usually claims that you need their permission to publish it.

The problem is of course that you can't take photos of stuff that isn't exhibited, so you need to get their permission to check out the stuff in the basement.
Like clockwork. When it comes to claiming Europe has always been diverse and its countries have no identity, and demographics trends must be obfuscated, different European ethnicities are looked at separately, as if they have nothing in common. But when it's time to blame white people or claim some profession isn't diverse enough, they're lumped into a single group.
Core CPI, which is what the Fed typically uses, excludes food and energy.
The "war on Christmas" was always bullshit, a meme deliberately propagated by cultural conservatives to make other cultural conservatives feel threatened.

A very merry Feast of Isaac of Woolsthorpe to you.
This. Tbf i think this is a generic problem in the frontend tooling side.

The build tools documentation and DX all seems built with the idea your html come from js or as static assets too. When in reality it is probably handled by a server side framework like Laravel, Django, Rails, Phoenix, etc

I stopped having hopes on mixins. Now i just try to make a product successful enough that i can fund someone or a team to work on the problem in a decade. It feels like the most probable solution.

And that is not a high probability of success...
Yeah, the biggest thing EV proponents seem to miss is that you don't need to force it to be 100% for everyone. Confine any mandates to urban centers where it makes sense, you can get buy in from everyone and solve 95% of the problem. At that point there will be lower hanging fruits than the last 5% or w/e.
Just checking in to say you take care too and it’ll be tomorrow before you know it. Your kid will get to be super excited a second time tomorrow when he sees you at the front door!

Congrats on getting back to floss. I keep trying to but it’s been hard to make the time this year. Hopefully 2023 will give me a little extra time for it!

Happy Christmas mate :-)
The new problem is "hurt others" has been expanded to include microaggressions and other trivial differences of opinion between groups. In order to hold all these groups together in a unified whole, they have to eliminate all uncontrolled "fun" situations where differences could break out into the open in an uncontrolled fashion and cause a huge PR disaster, or worse a rift between groups that have very little in common with each other and are only held together by the thinnest of intersectionalist bonds.

BTW, for all you downvoters. How is closing down the Stanford outdoor hiking club not proof of this kind of thing? You have hikers and they are accused of violating some sort of diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice protocol. It's because there's some other group that has some sort of grievance with people hiking and in order to prevent conflict they have to layer on more rules and bureaucracy to keep all the grievance energy from crating a big dust up, scandal, someone suing the school, etc. They have created all these mobs of enraged activists marching around everywhere looking for someone to enrage them so they can feel validated. The school, to defend themselves creates more rules, more bureaucracy, less controversial fun, etc. Banning Halloween in the Castro was just the kickoff event to the long downhill slide since then.
> It has come to the Courts attention that the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, at which my husband is a partner, advised FTX in 2021, as well as represented parties that may be adverse to FTX and Defendant Bankman-Fried in other proceedings (or potential proceedings).

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP have clients that lost money in the FTX mess. Seems a very reasonable recusal and a major conflict of interest (not at all a minor connection as some are suggesting).

Anyway - its a shitty case to preside over, it will either be over in a few days/weeks or get pointlessly dragged out.
Can someone please explain to me what’s special about Christmas for those who celebrate ? Is it special symbolically ? To me it feels like you get to see your family and maybe have 2-3 days off, which is something most people do many times a year, usually during the weekends.
Also their desktops. My point was just that they’re similar but not the same and everything in that space was evolving in the same directions for the same reasons. If Apple was ripping it off I’d expect them to be more similar and further apart in time.
I was speaking to the issue (that you raised) of whether SBF has allies motivated to help him. On that issue, I responded that there were people still willing to have their entire net worths wiped out to help him.

Whether they actually have some arbitrarily higher figure is not relevant to that point.
It also struggles with language... i.e.: give me 10 synonyms for the word "mobile" that don't end with the letter "E".

Portable
Movable
Transportable
Flexible
Adaptable
Agile
Peripatetic
Roaming
Traveling
Wandering

or: Give me 10 antonym to "full" that starts with the letter "f".

I apologize, but I am unable to provide a list of 10 antonyms for the word "full" that start with the letter "f" as there is only one antonym for "full" that starts with the letter "f", which is "empty".

I was trying to find a good word that start with F so that Tesla can keep using "FSD".
> A government doesn't actually need to be the director or curator of a country's culture

A government, particularly local government, will strongly direct community culture whether it seeks to or not. Particularly zoning and construction planning will influence the space people do or do not have available for meeting and socializing. The trend in the US seems to be to spread people out and privatize most or all "public" social spaces. I wouldn't attribute this shift to governments intentionally trying to shift culture to being more isolated, but that is the outcome regardless. This means that the only real counter to this shift is to get governments to consider the social impact of planning and factor it into their decision making.
For what you're describing, it's important to understand how the FDA and the laws are set up. As things are, package labeling is required for consumer packaged foods. The FDA inspects those facilities. That would seem like a good environment for your suggestion.

But there are other food businesses the FDA inspects that aren't subject to the labeling requirements. For example, this could be a local wholesaler, like a producer of pastries that supplies area coffee shops. That wholesaler will have maybe brought a daily box full of muffins to the coffee shop, whose staff then moved them to a display case.

Those situations have no labeling requirements, and no matter how much information is shared by the producer, nor how often, the café staff as a whole can't be trusted to get it all correct. I don't say they "can't be trusted" because that's an unwise procedure—and it is that—I say it because my business may as well be that local pastry producer.
Gas is underneath the price of everything. And anecdotally, it seems to me like grocery prices have dropped a lot compared to 8-10 months ago. Back then, I remember over and over seeing the prices in the store and being dumbfounded. But now a lot more stuff seems back to a “normal” range. Seemed like once the supply chain crunch eased[0], prices dropped.

[0] https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/policy/gscpi#/interactiv...