skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing Rayiner's point. Stuyvesant kids have a 1466 ((<https://brainly.com/insights/best-worst-public-high-schools-...>)), not 1300; Rayiner understated it) average SAT score. Either

* families, often very poor Asians as stated, prioritized saving up for test prep, or

* the kids didn't need it and got the score anyway.

Which would you prefer to support your ideological priors?
The "making silicium" part is indeed similar enough to making aluminium that there shouldn't be much of a problem there. It needs lots of electricity, but isn't terribly hard. The complicated part is in growing silicium monocristals, slicing them up, doping them, adding contacts and concentrators, etc. Kind of like building microchips, only that the structures are in mm sizes instead of nm.
Somewhat ironic is that people seem to abhor the surveillance state and authoritarianism but the moment the culprit becomes social media there is an instant emotional reaction to the opposite:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27941805
Not specifically on self-poisoning hospitalizations in those age groups. But this is longer term data for completed suicides, for US teenagers: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/figures/m6630qsf.gif

And since someone may well ask, the enormous difference by sex in those two charts is because the first chart I linked is hospitalizations related to self-poisoning. The above CDC chart is completed suicides. Girls tend to choose techniques that are generally less fatal, like poisoning. Boys tend to hang or shoot themselves, while the latter of those is very rare with girls. It's rather fascinating, and disturbing, how intensely localized these things can be, and how they're driven by social factors and what's culturally familiar.
Ada can do that, but C++ arguably makes things even worse than in C: apart from supporting a subset of C's misbehavior, it introduces implicit-by-default converting constructors. Those make API misuse very easy.
But what is the “miles on straight-ahead, well-lit US highway” vs. “kms on random European regional road” ratio?
Without commenting are the article itself:

1. This quote is frequently taken out of context to mean something very different from its original intent.

2. More importantly, we give up a little "Liberty" for a little "Safety" all the time, it's basically a primary purpose for any government. I mean, should I be able to cruise down the highway at 120 MPH as I'm snorting a line of coke? Liberty-vs-safety tradeoffs are nearly all the tough calls in government.
I think the issues with American airports comes down to two things: money and control. Airports want to make money off of the shops inside, because they view passengers as a captured audience. The right business can survive in an airport, but not all of them. Especially in small airports. Really, I think it comes down to control. Airports view passengers as children needing to be controlled. They don’t need short term hotels, they don’t need showers, all of that is expensive and will lead to abuse, so the best way to control passengers is to give them as little comfort as possible.

In a way, an airport is a lot like a prison.
> actively engaged in behaviors that are abhorrent to the church

This is bigotry plain and simple. It’s the ‘gayness’ the church has a problem with.

Saying 'If he had sex, he's immoral and should resign as priest and the religious order' is consciously or unconsciously issuing a homophobic attack because it was Grindr for gay sex with a man. If it was a man that had sex with an adult woman, no one would care, The Pillar wouldn't have publicized the data findings, this wouldn't be an article on arstechnica, and you wouldn't care either. Also Priesthood isn't a job you leave. It isn't a job, it's for life. There nothing to go to after.

It would be like saying ‘if you smoke pot, you are “actively engaged in behaviors that are abhorrent to the“… country because it’s listed as a Schedule I substance, federally banned, so you should leave and go to another country. No I won’t. Will stay here smoke my pot, thumb my nose at you and change the laws. And we did, we’ll change the church too.
A good heuristics is that physics is usually not interesting for a non-physicist, if it is it's because of speculation.

Progress in physics should be more and more uninteresting, because it involves things we no longer have mental models for.
Are Wind Turbines a Danger to Wildlife? Ask the Dogs
> a result of kids not figuring out where they fit in

or a result of kids figuring out where they fit in and not liking it
Yes, the Quest 1/2 and Rift S do "inside out" tracking. They have 4 cameras (5 on the Rift S) on each corner of the front face plate that tracks the headset and controller positions in 3D space (in addition to internal accelerometers and gyroscopes).

This is, for the most part, what enables the Quest to be fully wireless. Because there is no base station or fixed position camera, you're not limited to where you can use it, nor how big your play area can be. If you're in a new space, you just draw a guardian border around your play area and you're good to go.

The "passthru" feature mentioned above lets you see the camera feeds composited together in the headset display. It's very helpful for things like moving a chair out of the way or finding your controllers if you put on the headset without grabbing them. This new API allows developers access to this camera feed and to interact with its display for AR applications.
There’s enough water for everything except agriculture. Local governments hide the ball on this, talking about toilets, pools, and even glasses of drinking water in restaurants but it’s almost entirely agricultural. To the great-grandparent poster’s point not even mostly high value agriculture like almonds but barely-profitable-even-with-free-water alfalfa agriculture.

The status quo is insane and is exactly the sort of thing that could be fixed by a price mechanism. People get scared because they think that they aren’t going to be able to flush their toilets, but water is priced in acre-feet. Any personal use will easily outbid agriculture without being at all noticeable to even poor individuals.
It would be insanely ideologically inconvenient, yet it's a known reality.

The only possible solution is to make housing a bad invenstment, but that's too unpopular.
> It’s called Amiga Denial Syndrome which is an infectious disease amongst computer enthusiasts.

Is this related to the Reality Distortion Field?
"Crisis" is the only way change happens. Politicians can't sell change without a crisis (for good and bad).
It's using https://www.khronos.org/openxr/
Does HE have anything to be afraid of?
A week, yes lol
Part of the spec, as sibling says implemented in Safari, was also implemented in a few specific other engine versions for testing then ripped out. Benefits didn't seem to outweigh the extra complexity: iirc the issue was to do with the semantics -- several engines wanted opt-in for proper tail call elimination (so, a syntax addition), rather than opt-out as per the spec (which seemed to involve a lot more work for what I'm guessing they saw as minimal benefit), so [again iirc] just sorta hit a stalemate.
Doubtful its for the same reasons as the original though. Maybe alcohol companies are seeing revenue decline?

And just in case you were wondering the original reefer madness was about racism.
I live in a small ag-town in Merced county and we are currently allotted 3 days a week to water our lawns. During the last drought it was reduced to 2 days a week. This is a city ordinance and I suppose it’s up to the different cities to enact their own limits.

2 days a week is not enough water to keep a lawn alive when the highs hover around 100F in the summer. Many people converted to “drought friendly” landscaping, and there was a boom of lawn painting services. (Painting your dead lawn green so it still looked alive)
Story time because it's too good not to share. In a Colombian city, in a nice neighbourhood there exists an ice cream store that sells openly cannabis helado next to their normal flavours.

The other day walking past, there were two cops standing outside talking with the owner (whilst eating ice cream). I was thinking that exactly this was happening, a shakedown.

Fast forward to the next day, talking with the owner, she told me they were trying the cannabis flavours. I thought it was a big joke, like surely that would happen jajaja.

No word of a lie, as I'm sitting there eating away, the two cops arrive on their bike. And my mind boggles, another free ice cream for them... No they were there to deliver their trip report to the owner.
Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, and other lies of physics (2018)
You can surely conclude his reasoning… If you shut up, there is nothing to be afraid of.
Which law should we abide by then? Didn't he sell his spyware all over the world?
Actually since it's a spacetime potential, it's a 4-vector valued. So it's related to both the (three-)vector potential A and the scalar potential V.
I’m not aware of the actual process they had, but it is likely they actually replaced or aided with the replacement.

I’m guessing the experience wasn’t some type of swatting, where the GeekSquad loudly breaks in at 4 AM with flash bangs, shouting “WHERE’S THE ROUTER, WHERE’S THE ROUTER!”.
Because it already is one.
That only matters to people who get vaccinated because they are afraid of COVID. I got my second dose ASAP, because I needed a certificate for travel, so I could go for well deserved vacation. I don't give a fuck about effectivness.
Same here.

I spent most of my time in front of TV and PC until I was 17.

The only thing that changed was getting Internet on the PC when I was 15. So, I could finally talk with people that had something in common with me.
Sucking at what you do != not being passionate.

Passionate people can also suck at their jobs. I did some terrible things when I was inexperienced.

There's nothing special about software. It's like asking the builder of your house how passionate they are about building houses. What I care about is how professional and experienced they are, not their passion.
>On the other hand, the theory of gravitation is rather well understood

I thought it was the other way around. Gravity is not well understood.
There are actual economists who think rent control doesn't hurt supply. And there are actual economists who think the opposite. Given that, saying "we now know rent control isn't bad" is quite a stretch.

Personally, I don't understand how rent couldn't hurt housing supply. I do understand that there is empirical evidence suggesting it doesn't but I'll remain skeptical until there's some theory explaining how that could be that I can understand.
I'm surprised to not see "Pushing Ice" advanced as the leading Reynolds recommendation.

I think his other works are good, but in my view Pushing Ice is an usually good stand alone work.
I recommend reading the Peering Playback. It will open your eyes to the reality of the situation. It sounds like you want lower prices, that’s fine, but don’t latch onto the swill that cloudflare are peddling. It’s a super distorted, self-interested view.

In fact, given the scale disparity, peering with Cloudflare likely increases AWS’s marginal costs.

Ultimately, Cloudflare are a rent-seeking middleman, and antithetical to the end-to-end architecture to boot.
This is a well designed web site. Kudos
I've been into this for a long time. I think that 50-250 families can support their own sysadmin, someone who works directly for them and manages all of their tech and interactions with the internet.
Haha I shouldn't have included it, it was petty.
Show HN: Lingo Journal – Language Learning Activity Tracker
Rent control doesn't just benefit current residents, any sane rent control policy carries forwards when tenants change. Those that don't are ineffective on purpose.

Beyond that, lowering rents benefits even future residents and homeowners-to-be as they lower property values and dampen speculation.
In a dense urban environment the LVT wouldn't cover this case well because the land value of a rectangle of the same area of a square is roughly the same. It's access to the street that is valuable, at least for reasonably sized blocks.

This isn't really theoretical, I've been to cities where this type of taxing system was in place and it's completely different than what I find in, say, Toronto where giant big box stores take up a huge chunk of major downtown streets like Queen St.
Which should open the door for regulating agricultural water use in California right? If California mandated that crops requiring more than X water per acre couldn’t be grown would that be a taking?
I thought the entire point of the complaint is that it's being used to target journalists and people not breaking any laws.
Not worried about long covid? Other article on HN suggests that even mild cases might cost you some IQ points
I have even better - for every country, just covering all their operator's prefix and then 99999-9999999 numbers in that range. Definitely the biggest dataset around, and bigger is alwyas better, right?
> Nigeria is in this case more like China during the opium wars - the western companies are taking away their oil from them with bribery, political and economic threats.

What western company is using what political and economic threat? I think if we are specific about this we can work together to bring accountability to it.
With Unix sockets you can even have in-order datagram semantics, which I think is just neat!
Here's about the same idea with formulas: http://estfound.org/quantum.htm. TL;DR if we assume that the ds2 invariant oscillates a bit, and apply the lorentz transforms, we'll get the stationary Schrodinger equation. I can't judge the math or physical soundness of the approach, but it looks legit.
Excluding novels and such.
South Park, season 3 episode 11, "Chinpokomon", covered how this really works:

Kyle: [enters] Mom, Dad, can I have money to buy Chinpokomon?

Sheila: What's a Chinpokomon?

Kyle: I'm not sure.

Sheila: Well, why do you need one?

Kyle: I don't know.

Sheila: ...Well then, the answer is no, Kyle. You just got money to buy your Cyborg Bill doll.

Kyle: Yeah, but Cyborg Bill is totally gay now. Please Mom? Everybody else has Chinpokomon.

Gerald: Well, Kyle, that's not a reason to buy something.

Ike: Neah Kyle doh.

Gerald: You see, son, fads come and go. And this "Chin-po-ko-mon" is obviously nothing more than a fad. You don't have to be a part of it. In fact, you can make an even stronger statement by saying to your peers, "I'm not going to be a part of this fad, because I'm an individual." Do you understand?

Kyle: Yes. Yes, I do, Dad. Now let me tell you how it works in the real world. In the real world, I can either get a Chinpokomon, or I can be the only kid without one, which singles me out, and causes the other kids to make fun of me and kick my ass.

Gerald: Hm... Good point; here's $10. [hands it to him]

Kyle: Thanks.

Gerald: Wait, here's 20. Get one for your brother, too. [Kyle receives the other $10 and walks out]

Ike: Hey, Chih-paw-ko.
> they can pay for their own damn phone.

What do you do when they mow some lawns and do just that?
Yes. Social media use is correlated with anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts, particularly in girls, in a growing number of studies. And in the studies that compare different social networks, Instagram usually ranks the most negatively.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jan/04/depression-i...

https://journals.lww.com/co-psychiatry/fulltext/2019/11000/s...

But of course, an isolated, depressed, anxious child is likely to withdraw and spend a great deal of time online. Whether it's a symptom or a cause, or both and to which degree, seems unclear.

That said, just anecdotally, as a man in my 30s, I cannot look at the typical popular Instagram profile targeted at my demographic. It evokes horrible feelings. Jealousy, image insecurity, sexual insecurity, sexual frustration, FOMO, social status insecurity... all bundled up in a nasty ball. And quite reliably induced after ten seconds and three photos of inhumanely sexy men in implausibly photogenic homes that cost 10x as much as I'll ever make. No thanks. I believe that walling that whole thing off mentally, has been good for me.
> making sure they are emotionally equipped to deal with the problems that come up

This is a terrifyingly difficult prospect. I guess almost nobody in the world is so well equipped for that. There are really hard problems that nobody can "deal" with alone, like the death of loved ones, or social ostracism from your whole peer group. No matter how "well equipped" you are, some things may be simply overwhelming.

EDIT: I learned this the hard way. I am well off economically and emotionally, always had a cushioned life, I became the father in a happy family, really felt totally invincible. But something happened at the age of 41 (sudden death of my dad, in very bad circumstances) that I was not prepared at all to deal with. I used to mock people who couldn't cope with their own problems, but as an adult I learned that some problems may be really too big to rationalize off. I guess many teenagers find themselves in such difficult situations that cannot really solve (like being a victim of overwhelming social pressure), regardless of how loving and close their parents are.
Indeed, that problem (ambiguity about where to put matching delimiters) is what motivated tylr. The solution is: when the location of the closing parentheses isn't unique, as in your example, tylr puts it in the "backpack" above the cursor and enters "restructuring mode", letting you select where it should go (within the valid region).
st_goliath improved a widely used project. What did you do to earn the right to criticize?
No, and that's why they're so transparent about their work.
No, I had the Dev Kit 1. It was called Oculus Rift.
Yeah but it was quite diferent back then, a lot more niche and photographer-y. Its a totally different network today.
The key fact here, buried in the middle of the article, is that the cost of shipping modules from Asia to Europe accounts for about 10% of their cost†. So, if protectionist measures are imposed, or if war breaks out and container ships start sinking, or if module costs keep falling, locally produced solar modules are the future; otherwise, they're not.

It's possible that the German factory that paid for this PR puff-piece will be able to bring their cost to within 10% of that of Chinese vendors, or even lower. If that happens, the result won't be a world of locally-produced solar modules; the result will be a world of German-produced solar modules, and there may be articles in the Chinese press lamenting how China is now importing PV modules from Germany.

Generally things are locally produced when shipping costs, tariffs, or risks would make overseas-produced versions economically uncompetitive. Potable water (0.03¢/kg) is usually locally produced at the 10km scale. Construction sand (3¢/kg) and aggregate (1¢/kg) and liquid oxygen and nitrogen are locally produced at the 100km scale. (The liquid gases are expensive to ship because they boil off during shipping.) Portland cement (10¢/kg), natural gas, and electrical energy are locally produced at the 1000km scale. Things that cost more than US$1/kg are, by and large, not locally produced.

PV modules cost about US$2/kg, so if shipping costs stay the same and war doesn't break out, we shouldn't expect to see them locally produced in non-protectionist countries until their price falls by another order of magnitude or so, maybe in 8–16 years.

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† I think the real number is closer to 5% than 10% (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26598814), but the article carefully avoided including any objectively verifiable numbers so we could find out whether I'm overlooking something.
And that's why there's a huge gap between ideas and execution.
In my abnormal psychology class, we learned that men had a much higher success rate in suicide, except in places where women had ready access to highly lethal poison.
I guess it depends on what you call “language-level”; I mentioned these libraries because they all make use of macros and/or AST manipulation, which I would put somewhere in a grey area between language and compiler.
I imagine "the encyclopedia - beep-beep-beep-squawk - Snake - iPhone - Facebook" generation doesn't roll off the tongue quite as nicely.
Create a good community encryption policy that protects members from each other. The kind of thing a larger org would never do because it might be legally prevented, or wouldn't want to completely exclude the possibility of future monetization opportunities.
So adjusted for inflation, NASA's budget is merely half what it was in the peak of the 1960's, whereas the statistic quoted makes it sound like it is 1/10th.

Cherry-picking a peak date is a bit dubious though. If you average over the duration of the Apollo program, you get a number much closer to today.

So most, maybe even all of the difference in budgetary size is due to increase in size of the rest of the federal budget.
Since that's a violation of the TOS, you're taking a bit of a risk with that approach
F-Droid builds in batches, about 3 days per batch (see monitor.f-droid.org). All the APKs are signed at once and published together so it should show up soon. Per the dev, the last beta is essentially what became the stable release so you could start today and just upgrade in a bit.
Sure, but they were still called an Oculus Rift.
The "afraid of" or fear is bad framing. Plenty of (justified) distrust and privacy concerns do not fall into this rhetoric. Not yours to view and judge != it's hidden with bad intent.
Thanks for the detailed explanations ^^.
I have plenty of IQ points to spare. Also, I did get vaccinated, just didn't care about the few points of effectiveness I lose from a fast vaccination.

EDIT: also, what you claim is illogical: you say that even mild cases of COVID cause IQ loss, and yet no know vaccine protects against mild cases, best case scenario they turn severe cases into mild ones. So getting vaccinated is useless in that regard.
It’s a little better than it used to be with at least dedicated buses to Woodside and Jackson Heights instead of having to take some random local Queens bus. Still bad though, and Cuomo’s AirTrain route is beyond stupid.

JFK’s story isn’t great, Jamaica and the LIRR aren’t designed for tourists, but it’s much better than LGA.
Is there a distributed system like that for static websites? If so, I would be actually happy to use it.
Indeed, it would have been mostly C++ based, and not offer the scenario of buying Apple systems as pretty UNIX, as big alternative universe.

Ironically there was a group of engineers at Commodore that was big into trying to merge Amiga OS and UNIX.

"VCFMW 11 - Bil Herd: Tales From Inside Commodore"

https://youtu.be/-Zpv6u5vCJ4
Meritocracy is no match for the alpha couple
I have no idea what you mean or what your example is all about. You basically couldn't have given a worse analogy or example.
Interesting that the California government approach to COVID was completely opposite: lots and lots of measures, most without even any idea about effectiveness, much less cost-benefit calculation.
Maybe now he does…
I do not know if this gave results compatible with prior calculations, or whether the size of the setup was too large for calculating an expected outcome, but either way, if they had found something unexpected, I do not know why they would not mention it. All they say in the abstract of the paper is "Our experiment allows the verification of physical laws in a quantitative manner and reveals the transport dynamics in great detail", and to me "verification of physical laws" seems to be the opposite of finding anything unusual.

There is value in demonstrating that our suppositions hold, but, by their very nature, such confirmations are unlikely to herald breakthroughs. They do not seem to have demonstrated anything specific to the Penrose - Hamerof hypothesis.