skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A large floor area in a tall building means windows can only exist on the perimeter and almost definitely can't open for ventilation. Also the larger the floor, the more natural light the windows have to allow in and the more heat from the Sun they'll trap. In that space there will be lots of computers, screens, and lots of other electrical systems (even just for the lighting) generating a lot of heat.

So HVAC is anyway needed for the building to operate properly and the people to be comfortable even before you factor in the outside climate.
> The data reveal an ugly truth that we all need to face. While there are several ways to capture this ugly truth, my favorite is just: The typical man disgusts the typical woman.

This is the wrong conclusion to draw from this data, given its source.

The right conclusion is, at best, "The typical OKCupid male user disgusts the typical OKCupid female user". Men and women use dating apps for different reasons and in different mindsets, and many refuse to use them entirely.
Why? I'm curious. What's wrong with making information on deceased service members searchable?
Of course not, but the language police don't care about disabled people.

These are the same people who publish "inclusive language guides" with garbage like "don't use the term Brainwave because it's dehumanizing to people with intellectual disabilities".

It's an entire R&D field dedicated to finding new and creative ways to be offended.
My best guess is that we need to become project managers, code reviewers, test writers — but that's based on the assumption of relatively slow performance improvements in coding specifically, that aren't also matched with improvements in all those other tasks.

We may very well go the way of the professions of "computer", burlak, lamplighter, postilion, samurai, seneschal and reeve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_obsolete_occupations
> THIS IS UTTERLY FALSE!

So you can read a section of code and immediately know what it’s doing and why it’s written that way? And the decisions and context that led to it? And you have no further questions?

furthmore you are familiar with all techniques your coworkers might employ?

Wow!

> Write comments to remind the experts

What if I want images in comments or a math formula? What if want to refer to another section of code?
I don't mean to advocate for Discord (they sure don't need it!) but if the requirement is to host an exclusive space for a dozen people, Discord does that.. you just make a "server"/guild and only invite trusted friends.

This doesn't solve any of the other problems (what happens when Discord enshittifies? Is it acceptable that Discord updates basically every single day? Is it OK that they constantly advertise video games in the form of little notifications saying "stream 30 minutes of _____ to a friend and unlock an avatar for your profile!"?) but it does seem to solve the 'how do I have a platform for my friends and I to talk" one.
The mental model is pretty easy. It's effectively a markov chain text predictor, only big.

Your takeaways are good and fit that model
It’s surely not what they meant!
Love the student metrocard as the favicon :)
What ever happened to 'you do the crime, you do the time'?

For 50+ years Exxon et al knowingly did everything they could to prevent a better world.

Every year the world gets hotter, and they just keep getting richer.

You want to give them a pass because people like and use the stuff that's killing them? We didn't use that logic for tobacco companies, and it worked out. We used it for banks, and it didn't. We use it for military spending, and it's another decision that could kill the planet.

The 'too big to fail' argument is a cop-out, just kicking the can. It's astounding that in a world 1.5C above what it should be there are people arguing against holding the people responsible to account by legal means. Just because we use their product to drive life on earth off a cliff faster than we could without them? That makes no sense to me; I don't buy it. Can you explain it to me?
While having some merit, I think it's worth remembering that most dating websites have disproportionately high numbers of men. OkCupid, in this very example, has 50% more men than women on the platform (1.5 women for every man). On other platforms like Tinder, it's much more drastic with 75% of users being men (3 women for every man).

There's also the secondary benefits of being on the platform. It's no secret that women get far more validation, offers, and interest for being on dating platforms than men do. For women, just being on a dating platform can provide self-validation, even if there is no interest in selecting a partner at all.
All this AI-generated stuff really should just go into the public domain automatically. That'd immediately not only resolve any possible copyright disputes but also make AI usage much, much less appealing for the large orgs.
> Exactly how many people have fallen for the scam, out of all computer users

Who the fuck knows ? And how is that even remotely a useful question to ask - it's not answerable, those who commit the scam are the only people with the figures, and there's no "register of fuckers who scam other people" where they have to tell you how well they do.

> how exactly does device vendor lockdown stop this particular scam

Premise 1: All (for a suitable definition of "all") computer users are clueless when it comes to internet security

Premise 2: You are not trying to help any given individual's security, because some of them violate premise #1. You are trying to raise the bar for the clueless hurting themselves.

Premise 3: It is not about "personal freedom". It is about preventing the clueless (by no fault of their own, this shit is complicated) becoming drones and mules for attacks on others. It is an attempt to increase the greater good at the expense of placing restrictions on what any individual can do on their own phone. Those restrictions can be mitigated mainly by coughing up $100/year, which is a sufficient bar to prevent bad guys from doing it en-masse, but not so high as to prevent the people who want to do stuff from doing it.

Stopping people doing stupid stuff because they don't know any better is the goal, and that inevitably gets more and more restrictive as time progresses, because an arms race is instituted between the truly evil arseholes who prey on the clueless, and the manufacturers who don't want their produces seen as vehicles leading the clueless to the slaughter.

Personally I don't give a crap. The iPhone is fine for me as-is, I can install my own software on my own phone, and sure it costs $100/year. That's not a big deal IMHO, in terms of outgoings it barely registers above the noise floor. YMMV.
Social science is pseudoscientific enough without drawing conclusions from okcupid data.

(fwiw the author Bryan Caplan is an economist and should know better)
> is this a case of operational costs being ignored in favor of capital costs?

It’s driven by demand for “office spaces with high levels of daylight” [1].

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03601...
Actually, “op and crew” were the Plaintiffs (well, really the Petitioners, to be pedantic) who already sued the VA for this database in federal court (SDNY), and won that multi-year lawsuit, and even won our attorneys fees too. If you had checked our website, you’d see we even posted the court papers online for free, from both sides — and the judge’s order in our favor, of course.
Microsoft MFA outage blocking access to Microsoft 365 apps
The usual use of the term "black box" is just that you are using/testing a system without knowing/assuming anything about what's inside. It doesn't imply that what's inside is complex or unknown - just unknown to an outside observer who can only see the box.

e.g.

In "black box" testing of a system you are just going to test based on the specifications of what the output/behavior should be for a given input. In contrast, in "white box" testing you leverage your knowledge of the internals of the box to test for things like edge cases that are apparent in the implementation, to test all code paths, etc.
It's so annoying when that line is used to defend applications with poor memory usage, ignoring the fact that all modern OSes already put unallocated memory to use for caching.

"Task Manager doesn't report memory usage correctly" is another B.S. excuse heard on Windows. It's actually true, but the other way around -- Task Manager underreports the memory usage of most programs.
Honestly, as someone who has used the term quite a lot, I think the conclusion here is correct but the focus of the article is less on making the case and more on the inaccuracy of the basis of the metaphor, with a few other issues mentioned in the introduction and the conclusion.

(1) the metaphor is not to something actually readily popularly recognizable (despite being an image from "pop culture"; its true it comes from pop culture portrayals, but it is not the case that it is to a phenomenon which, outside of familiarity with the metaphor, lots of people are currently familiar with), which is why the (inaccurate) basis of the metaphor typically needs to be explained two people who have never heard the metaphor before.

(2) while neither the term nor the reference is that recognizable, for those too whom the term is recognizable, the use in the metaphor will often refers to a different thing than they are familiar with, either because their knowledge comes from the real phenomenon described by the term, or because they are used to different metaphors to the same inaccurate image. It therefore is not an aid to understanding even where the term is familiar.

(3) It doesn't actually, the way metaphor can, provide a concise way to describe a concept which would otherwise require a complex explanation. It's an exclusionary term that, because it requires explanation, makes people feel like part of an in-group, but it doesn't do anything to facilitate communication. It describes a practice being done by habit without an understanding of reason, or, more concisely, by rote.
10 years ago people said the same about KiCAD and Blender :) No guarantee that FreeCAD will be the same - but you can be pretty confident it will never go away.

However, if the goal is to be a full time employee doing CAD, I would of course going with one of the most established tools. Potentially even get some certifications.
Scrutinizing is one thing, spreading deliberate misinformation is another.

Think about the asymmetry here — if there were a single fact wrong on that page Newsom released, he would be criticized and castigated and he’d have to correct it and apologize. All the people that he highlights spreading misinformation, are any of them going to apologize or correct the mistake? Of course not.
So feudalism was a general collapse of social organization and economic exchange? Your analysis of capitalism is blinded by your obvious ideological bias
That's likely quoted from Red Green, a 90s TV show where the titular character always says that phrase while making absurd contraptions out of duct tape. (For example, converting a car to use gull wing doors, using only duct tape.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvgS2numBo0
I just copy/pasted your exact logic puzzle into Claude-3.5-sonnet and it solved it right away. Here is the response:

Let me help you solve this step by step.

First, let's identify what we know about Samantha:
Samantha has 2 brothers
Samantha has 4 sisters

We also know that:
Alex is one of Samantha's brothers
Alex and Samantha share all siblings

Now, from Alex's perspective:
Alex is one of Samantha's brothers, so he has 1 other brother (since Samantha has 2 brothers total)
Alex has Samantha as a sister, plus her other 4 sisters
So Alex has 5 sisters total (Samantha + her 4 sisters)
And Alex has 1 brother (the other brother besides himself)

Therefore, Alex has:
1 brother
5 sisters
> anything resembling acceptable audio quantity over consumer IR tech

I don't know what you are on about. You can go to your local walmart and get IR headphones off the shelf that work exactly this way.
I am starting to think that part of the reason we have a reproduction crisis is because both genders find the bottom 80% of the opposite gender physically unappealing.
Today, yes absolutely.

I won't bet on how quickly or slowly that will change, in part because I want it to be a slow change so I don't have to worry about learning a replacement trade.
The VA is obligated to follow the law as it relates to open records. Broadly speaking, America actively chooses to treat vets poorly. Call your Congressional rep (who directly controls policy that controls funding) versus taking your feelings out on your fellow citizen working for little or no pay to encourage government accountability as it relates to their legal obligations.
Windows templates work great for me! I think a big part of the reason I didn't pick it up for daily use before was assuming windows support was not that great. It's definitely specialized, but pretty well supported IMO.

1. I have completely offline templates that I use like vaults, mostly to run rufus and create USB sticks.
2. I have templates to test and build software for work where I baked SSH and VPN keys into the template, but the system drive (including my user account data and settings) get reverted every reboot and the only persistent data, like version tracked project code, is on the extra D: drive.
3. I have FlareVM template setup to do dynamic analysis in disposable qubes without any network connection. They have the integrated file and clipboard transfer to get samples in and keep notes externally.

The only real issue I have noticed is resizing the screen repeatedly seems to crash the GUI driver somehow. The window disappears and I have to kill the Qube. Usually I just resize once when starting, if at all, so it's not a big deal.
> I'd argue that there's no better value right now for a basic computer than the Mac Mini M4 standard for $500

Doesn't that come with an anemic 256GB HD expected to hold both OS and user software?

In the meantime, you can buy cheap miniPCs with Celeron/i5/Ryzen5 with 16GB of RAM expandable to 32GB and 500GB HD with multiple SSD expansion slots for less than $300.
What? Paul Graham has been making statements that people found "too right wing" for at least 20 years. I have never seen him express pro-censorship or radical DEI views like the big U.S. corporations did.

We see now that all these corporations are A-grade hypocrites, which was already clear in 2020 but forbidden to say.

You cannot accuse Paul Graham for suddenly changing his views.
When I started programming most of the world that I encountered seemed to be written in C++. I don't think Haskell and C++ are hugely different in terms of how long it takes to become proficient in them. The programmers I come across nowadays don't seem to be much different in terms of their ability from those C++ programmers. I think that if Haskell hasn't succeeded then the idea that workers are too dumb (or don't have the time) is not the cause. There are many smart people in industry who know about Haskell but do not find it attractive.
Reasons We Have Prison Gangs
I'm not saying all EU regulations are terrible. The impact of their AI regulations have resulted in Europeans either receiving new models or features later than other regions, or not receiving them at all.

There has to be a balance between a complete free for all and potentially snuffing out Europe's ability to compete.
GP is not criticizing a two party system. GP is criticizing spreading misinformation. Having two parties that honestly find faults and propose fixes would be great.
Because this is the "Russian Collusion!!!" nonsense all over again.
>When capitalism falls, we can reevaluate those laws.

If it falls, "we" won't get to reevaluate them, because neither of us will be allowed to express any opinion at all, let alone anything resembling political influence.
I love Julia Evans’ zine! Bought several copies when it came out, gave some to coworkers and donated one to our office library.
This is solved by the Pluto notebook, which makes presentation order independent of execution order. Only works for Julia, but shows that such a notebook is possible.

https://lwn.net/Articles/835930/
Anything that is already in another languages, is nothing new, is just a translation.
That makes it easier, but no. Many implementations of both servers and clients (both closed and FOSS) exist, for example AirMusic adds AirPlay casting support to Android and I’ve heard of people using rPi’s as receivers. The protocol is entirely local, there’s no remote server component at all.
> Why do you trust an unverified "leak" over statements made by
multi-billion dollar multinationals?

Less incentives to lie.

Edit: I had a think, and what I picked up on was the idea that sheer
concentration of money might stand in as a signal for trust, and so
whether somone with more money would naturally be more honest or
dishonest than someone with less, is really more of an interesting
question.
Natural disasters requiring emergency aid isn't really something that requires two parties scrutinizing each other, imo
So I know the meme explanation for this where women are unreasonably picky or something by nature, and that does make some sense in the context of sexed (in the sense of gendered) game theory.

But is it possible that modern lifestyle (diet, inactivity, etc) simply disrupts male sexual signaling more than it disrupts female sexual signaling? That would be a simpler explanation, in a way, and it seems plausible.
Why anonymous? If real, then there aren't that many people who fit the description (recent leaver with H1B visa who also participated in the mentioned activities), Twitter can easily pinpoint him, and send the Teletubbies to teach him a lesson. Otherwise, if he shared his name to be a real whistle blower, then that would change things.

But I have my doubts. About every statement in this article.

(Don't get me wrong, though my veins are not filled with Musk-hate, I believe that him entering politics is the one of the worst and stupidest things in this century so far)
> What kind of "evidence" beyond the content of the signalling itself it would require?

"Virtue signaling" means someone is acting only to signal their own virtue, and not because they actually believe in the thing they are doing or expressing.

There is no evidence of that.
This is absolutely insane. If they want to know where potholes are, throw up a basic site with a map for reporting, people are very motivated by issues on the roads. Or just ask Google to share Waze data - many potholes on major roads are tagged there. "Feeding AI through cameras" makes so little sense it's laughable, in the most depressing way.

As you've pointed out, I might let it slide if issues were actually being addressed, but they aren't. There are potholes that have been sitting in major city roads where I live for years, and nearly all the street markings around the whole city have completely eroded - junctions are becoming scarier as nobody knows what lane to be in. But I'm sure throwing money at AI can solve these problems.
The context is a personal blog. You don't have to say the word "opinion" explicitly. If it's on your blog, it's your opinion.

The problem with saying it's virtue signaling is that when you resort to ad hominem attacks, you're conceding the argument. Attacking character concedes the argument being made. Well I don't concede. I have a good argument against it. My argument is that nobody cares about the etymology or morality of a word. They care about its meaning and context. People don't learn language by reading etymologies. Nobody cares one way or the other about the morality of the first person who said it or popularized it especially if it happened a hundred years ago. We don't need to look up the etymology of every word or phrase before using it, and asking people to do that is unrealistic and unreasonable.

Is it virtue signaling? I don't know, and I don't care. His character doesn't matter to me. It doesn't affect whether or not his idea is a good one. It's a bad idea, and leave it there.
Acquire a rubber duck. Teach the duck how the system works.
There is a psychology paper waiting to be written about humans perceiving intellect as the ability to communicate knowledge convincingly and thus being amazed by LLMs. I’m by no means immune to it
That's just pre-provisioning by another name, auto-scaling implies on-the-fly provisioning

E: I can't even load the fly.dev website, it keeps timing out. I guess they forgot to pre-provision/under-provisioned it
Is the TypeScript vs. JavaScript debate overblown?
Yeah, I agree. The character file is kind of convincing, though.

https://github.com/elizaOS/eliza/blob/develop/characters/tru...
If you don't see why the distinction is worth preserving, then you are free to simply stop using the term yourself.
No. My 4 year old will bring up a book to me at 11 PM and force me to teach him how to read. My other child used to cry at 4 years old whenever she got second place, and that includes being the second person in the house to shower that morning. My eldest scores some of the highest grades in her school or district and that's mostly from us just giving her the resources she needs (books/tutors) when she's struggling with a subject.

My kids are already punishing themselves if they get an A. I feel like paying them for an A+ is just further punishment.

Sometimes we encourage them to enter competitions so they know it's okay to fail, as I want them to mentally fortify against failure as well.

I think it's important to celebrate though, just don't make it contractual. We normally take them out somewhere nice after exams are over. My daughter asked for overpriced pancakes, and she got really good grades that day, so we let her have the overpriced pancakes. They were not worth it (did I mention overpriced?), but it's the thought that matters.
It seems you have bought into the idea that climate change is caused by plastic straws and pickup trucks and not caused by corporations exploiting the planet and its people for shareholder value and profit.

If we really want to combat or even stop climate change, we need a total revolution of the economic and social order. Unfortunately at this point it would need to be authoritarian, as we obviously can’t count on billionaires to do anything in good faith.

We need to count on worldwide class consciousness, but starting in the West. I personally believe things are trending that way. The more climate related catastrophes, the more wars, the higher prices of groceries, rents increasing will cause massive civil unrest in the US and Europe.

The time of fancy cars, fancy houses, and unlimited wealth is coming to an end. The wealthy are the few, but the good news is the rest of us are many.