skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would recommend anyone interested in this topic read ‘Dawn of the New Everything’ by Jaron Lanier, which is really quite honest about both the positives and negatives of VR. Having only recently had a chance to try it out, I feel like it’s really just another medium (a rather intense and currently flawed one I find), like other interactive media, with potential for expression, utility, unique communication and imagination, but also for disconnection from reality/escapism, addiction, dystopia, tracking, control etc. A lot of pronouncements in this article and the Wired one feel as overblown and one-sided as the hype is on the other side of the fence…
There are perfectly good use cases for VR/AR whereby we could save on travel/pollution by telepresence collaboration, help people with eg. disabilities, perform remote work in hostile environments, offer therapeutic treatments, experiment with identity etc. or just as another form of daft escapism or art (and a potentially more active one than some at that). Nothing stops people from using it for short periods and then enjoying rich and fulfilling real lives, in the same way that you’ve got couch potatoes vs. people who just enjoy the escapism of occasionally watching a couple of tv shows/playing games etc. …I do find FB’s closed/sign-in etc. subsidised uber-tracking thang is worrying though…
Yeah I get that from a demand perspective. I guess I don't quite get why there isn't more competition from a supply perspective. They are small loans that are secured. Why not offer the cheapest rate and dominate the market? It almost seems like the stigma around paycheck loans as being predatory is making them more expensive.
Maybe some people are so desperate to escape cities and endless commutes that they are willing to take the risk. My anecdata is that I spent 17 years with one megacorp because they allowed me to WFH back when there were very few places I could jump ship to and not have to move back to the Bay Area.

The small town I live in has seen a large influx of Bay Area remote workers as well. Again - all anecdata, but it is noticeable.
Google sheets used to be broken `BASED ON USER AGENT`.

https://support.google.com/docs/thread/18235069/google-sheet...

After i found that spoof browser agent fixed it. They locked the thread coincidentally and the bug is also fixed coincidentally a few days after.

I don't know if it is really a coincident, but I definitely have 0 trust of them after it.
The EU is banning single-use plastic.
> Like many environmental initiatives I worry that we’re more concerned about making ourselves feel better than actually solving the problem.

Either way, instead of reifying the relevant facts and statistics and iterating on them (or upturning them when invalidated), we tend to debate them repeatedly, even over decades as manufacturing methods and trends in society change.

(this is me pining for a system like arguman[1] with the critical mass of wikipedia to help forge these debates into more reliable, long-term results)

[1] - https://github.com/arguman/arguman.org
Youtube on iOS is deliberately changed in a way that it breaks playing video/audio in the background. iOS is capable of that by default with HTML5, but Youtube sells background play as a paid feature.
Fatalities are near zero without a "vaccine", too.
Show HN: (Vy) Brain forgets but not fingers. Vim in Python/TK
Planetary ‘vital signs’ show extent of climate stress – and some hope
Bitcoin, and other blockchain like devices, are simply a means of locking human consensus into a virtual object that can be manipulated under certain conditions, which are agreed upon by the same consensus. It is a type of stored human causality, similar to fiat.

Bitcoin is a special type of Ponzi scheme that uses energy input from miners to create the illusion there is a return in value over time. Like Rai stones, immutability comes from the work and risk, but the value of the object is itself held in the population's mind. This only "works" if everyone agrees it works. If everyone agrees it doesn't work then it doesn't work and isn't worth anything and the risk taken to "make" it is lost. This is why an allegory can be told that indicates it is the faith in such an object that brings it value.

Without enough people using said blockchain, it is both worthless and empty of meaning - no different than a scrape in the mud. A killer use case for crypto will make its utility valuable and inventible. A road is formed from wear of people agreeing the road goes somewhere.

The danger is the requirement for increases in power to the network, which both drives and is affected by the current value to fiat. We may yet wrap our planet with solar to drive our economic desire of "wealth".
As an American, one of the things that shocked me the most in visits to Europe was how much litter there is. I lived in Italy, and it was astonishing how there was just trash everywhere, even though Italy is a wealthy nation. I’ve traveled all over Western Europe and the only part that felt relatively “clean” to me was London - clean as in comparable to NYC or other major US urban centers in terms of litter level.

By comparison, I’ve lived and traveled all over the US, cities and rural areas, beaches, forests, etc. Litter is rare. Where you will find it are freeway underpasses, neglected urban or near-urban waterways and railways: places where people aren’t really “supposed” to go, and are therefore loitered in and rarely cleaned.

There are many areas where the US lags Europe, but in my experience when it comes to litter, we have far less of it.
IPA is an amazing tool, but learning how to pronounce unfamiliar words without consulting a dictionary (to look up IPA transcription) is also a useful skill.
> And a regular truck driver can be trained in a few months. It's not rocket science.

I get why you've said this, but I'm not sure this kind of flippant remark is helpful -- what exactly isn't rocket science? Is it the actual act of training a truck driver? Is it the act of writing down the things needed to get more truck drivers?

Actual process is non-trivial, expensive (you need to persuade people to leave their families), time consuming and involves a chain of other non-trivial time-consuming tasks that currently doesn't really exist (or is at least regionally bottlenecked).

Sure the market will probably eventually sort it out, but that seems neither a quick nor an efficient way of doing things in this case, where this was widely predicted years previous + is now critically required
Or it traps them in a cycle of poverty where there’s never enough time or money to make the skills necessary to advance. When I worked as a dishwasher or landscaper, I wasn’t building valuable skills to progress my career. Maybe your point holds for some careers, but I’m doubtful it’s relevant to most low-wage (especially non-skilled) labor. I think the point is also diluted when considering there’s almost always more people at the lower end of these jobs than the higher, meaning everybody can’t always be advancing. There will always be more dishwashers than restauranteurs (ignoring automation)
There is definitely a shortage of decent CEO's, which is why companies are forced to hire and try to work with the charlatans they have today. That is also why the salaries are increasing, they try to get one of the few good ones.
Time blocking is one. If one doesn’t structure time and context, then todo items can’t get done.

Edit:

Here’s one implementation by Nir Eyal, author of “Hooked” and Indistractable”:

https://www.nirandfar.com/schedule-maker/
Get back the extension API (not the exact same but a modern equivalent).

Keep bugging competition authorities to punish Google harshly over the abusive behavior we've seen lately.

I'm using Firefox for now but I admit the moment someone forks it and have a good security foundation I'll start using it and donating to it.

I'm fed up with Mozilla thinking everything else they donis more important than their main income source and main contribution to Internet.

(Yes, I keep posting like this against both Mozilla and Google in the hope that they will one day improve or more realistically to increase the chance that someone else steps up. As WhatsApp proved before they were gutted by Facebook there is a large market that wants privacy and is willing to accept smaller problems and also pay for it.)
Yes, agreed. I lived in Matsue a couple years ago and found a couple nice spots that were covered in ocean trash. Loads of plastic bottles both from Japan and other countries (there was a milk carton from Australia), styrofoam, polyester apparel, some random other stuff.

Pic: https://blog.qiqitori.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DSC0249...

Boring blog entry: https://blog.qiqitori.com/2017/08/beach-cleaning-in-matsue-j...
The economy will recover once all the democrats and liberals have been summarily shot.
Still on Yarn 1 with no plans on upgrading anytime soon.
It's a bit more nuanced but you're generally right. Intramuscular vaccines do not provide long term protection from infection of the mucosal tissues of the upper respiratory tract. So they can be infected and shed virus but the lungs themselves get IgG antibodies seeping in from blood serum and protection from serious disease.

If you want to have resident B and T cells in the upper respiratory mucosa generating IgA antibodies and generally killing infected cells right away you need to use an intranasal vaccination. In the UK they have already realized this (and it was known in the 1960s).

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/long-term-evoluti... page 5, #8.

>"Whilst we feel that current vaccines are excellent for reducing the risk of hospital admission and disease, we propose that research be focused on vaccines that also induce high and durable levels of mucosal immunity in order to reduce infection of and transmission from vaccinated individuals. This could also reduce the possibility of variant selection in vaccinated individuals."

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6553/397 - "the ideal vaccination strategy may use an intramuscular vaccine to elicit a long-lived systemic IgG response and a broad repertoire of central memory B and T cells, followed by an intranasal booster that recruits memory B and T cells to the nasal passages and further guides their differentiation toward mucosal protection, including IgA secretion and tissue-resident memory cells in the respiratory tract."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-021-00550-x "Prospects for durable immune control of SARS-CoV-2 and prevention of reinfection" - any of it.
The 69% figure is out of “eligible” people according to the report. As children aren’t eligible, I’d think they aren’t included in the denominator.

Your hypothesis about anti-vaxxers being hesitant to go test is definitely promising, but having a hypothesis alone isn’t enough, this kind of stuff needs to be looked into and not ignored/labeled conspiracy theories as it so often does.

Edit: just realized that even if the 69% was out of the entire population, that would still imply (on the surface) that being vaccinated is worse than not, since COVID doesn’t discriminate about who it spreads to which makes the whole population eligible to get it.
This might not be the fault of Firefox. The problem is that Chrome is the most used browser even amongst web-devs, so you tend to profile/benchmark your site in that browser and optimize for it.
Plastic recycling is a scam designed to lull people's conscience with the illusion that it will be taken care of, when the reality is it ends up in landfill or worse.

I think we should phase out plastic for aluminum instead. It's estimated 75% of all the aluminum ever produced is still in use because of recycling. Instead of wasting time and effort in trying to make material that is inherently hard and unprofitable to recycle recyclable, use one that has a proven track record of being profitably recycled.
I interpret this to be due to large scale gatherings or reduced mask and social distancing combined with a more aggressive variant.

To me, your comment read like being vaccinated itself is some disadvantage to the infection rate, is that how you intended it?
https://archive.is/YxrEB
Get rid of the covid nazis - you'll see an instant depression regression.
I am very well aware that Taoism is thousands of years old. I have an undergraduate honors thesis on the confluence of Taoist traditional thought and Buddhist influences expressed in the Lieh Tzu. I have spent considerable energy trying to convince Western military fans of Sun Tzu to teach it in its proper context, such as by requiring reading Lao Tzu first. You can stop being condescending at any point.

Your argument appears to be that modern Chinese actions should not be judged against the rubrics of Western philosophy. I disagree because I do not believe in moral relativism. However, if their actions are to be judged only against the rubrics found in, e.g., Taoism, then judge them against those rubrics.

Do you have anything approaching a good faith argument that the actions of China with regard to Uyghurs, Tibet, greater Guangdong (including HK), or any of the countless ethnic or political minorities in China comport with an ideal of harmony?
In the case of this specific country, relatively easily since the country has enough clout to impose reporting requirements[1] on financial institutions outside of its borders.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...
> With most languages the spelling gives you enough information to figure out how to pronounce a word you've never heard before. Not with english. My last wrong guess: the writer Malcolm Lowry (/lauri/ instead of /louri/). Danish, same problem.

I think names are always going to be a source of orthographic irregularity. Even if English were an orthographically perfect language—which of course it isn't—it would still have to be able to deal with people whose names derive from any other language.
You’re complaining but not giving a better option.

That definition of money applies to a physical Sestertius in 50 BC just fine. The same physical coin may be worth more as a collectors item today, but it’s no longer money. That’s what makes the definition so convoluted, stuff can go from money to not money very easily.
Meanwhile, one of the great shocks that I experienced when becoming a manager was that I had no better solution to keeping a large group of people aligned and unblocked than a bunch of meetings. Sure, I tinkered around the edges a bit, but it's not fundamentally different. Solutions welcome!
Well, we only just recently developed a technological society, in evolutionary terms. Therefore were at the lower bound of being able to do so, otherwise wed have done it sooner.
English Pronunciation: "Primer" meaning, as here, "an introductory text", is pronounced "primmer".
There is no value to it, this is what happens when you don't know what bookmarks are for.
anecdotally, I think there is a fairly widespread belief that people can move to the country side for X years during covid then switch the property to AirBnB afterwords.

I'd also bet that many individuals are making long-term bets that they can continue working remote even if it means (slightly) less pay.
Seems like a bit much to me. It’s pretty clear that the issue is no one maintains the router firmware section.
The fact that someone wrote a parser that's hard to follow doesn't mean that parsing HTTP/1.x is extremely difficult. What is really hard is to construct a parser that is at the same time (1) fast, (2) complete, (3) secure. It is much easier to choose just two, compare e.g. the one based on Nginx[0] vs picohttpparser [1].

[0] https://github.com/Samsung/http-parser/blob/master/http_pars...

[1] https://github.com/h2o/picohttpparser/blob/master/picohttppa...
You can just burn plastic though, lots of places do for energy.

And if you put it in context, you’re already “burning” the carbon in the food you eat and plastic just adds a little bit of overhead to that.
I hope Fauci gets a five iron to the head walking home today.
The EV fires look worse from a public perception perspective. I am sure there are plenty more fossil fuel car fires, but seeing a full EV car engulfed in flames multiple times is not a great look. I'm just saying they need to do better if we want people to go more green
1) People who are vaccinated are more likely to get tested.

2) People who are vaccinated are more likely to be in positions where they are exposed to COVID (remember who got vaccines first?).

3) People who are vaccinated are probably more likely to be around other people in general because they are at low risk of severe COVID reactions and are following guidelines (multiple state health officials: if you're fully vaccinated, it's ok to not wear a mask).

I don't see why this is a story.
I think like a lot of this stuff it is virtue signaling by stores and local governments. To be fair it does cut down a bit on them flying around the neighborhood though. The plastic bags in grocery stores aren't the real problem. The real problem is plastic recycling is a joke and that we need to get people more involved in reusing like we used to with glass or just using your own containers. The fact is that Asia is the one dumping 80% of the plastics into the ocean. Obviously Asia has a lot more people than North America so the amount per capita might not be all that different. We all need to adjust our ideas of consumption.
In the US, under 400 kids below the age of 18 have died from Covid since the beginning of the Pandemic. Many had comorbidities as severe as leukemia. What is the case for exposing them to the greater risk presented by the vaccine, when it has been shown that vaccinated adults will still get Covid either way?

Edit: And just like that, the CDC link has been flagged for presenting inconvenient information. Talk about a cult.
Typo in the title, ought to be “Skeptic.” Unless, that is, his skepticism is also directly tied to handling sewage.
MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor Bullish about Bitcoin Despite Paper Loss
> My understanding is that they were doxxed by piecing together multiple news stories.

Murray deliberately published information to doxx the sexual assault complainers. He doubled down after being warned multiple times he has breaching the court order

> Looks like Murray has been categorized as not a journalist

Whether Murray is a journalist or not is entirely irrelevant. The court order Murray broke applies to everybody.
How about get rid of all the fucking liberals in tech?

These people caused the fake ass "pandemic".
Tried it, didn’t work. (Now I want to try system(argv[0]) for some reason…)
> Do not follow advice on HN

Except for yours I'm guessing?
Step 1: Learn It

Step 2: Practice It

Step 3: Do It

Step 4: Teach It

Step 5: Repeat

“If you don’t use it you lose it” has been true for me.

With each step you’re evaluating yourself and repeating steps as necessary until you feel like you’re ready to move on to the next steps.

So for Cold Emails, maybe:

1. Learn - Research techniques online

2. Practice - Send some cold emails to friends or marketing colleagues for feedback, or post to a marketing / sales subreddit.

3. Send cold emails to a real contact list

4. Write about what you learned and how to do it

5. Keep finding ways to improve and new optimizations
Where are these right wing dictatorships you mention? If you are mad about the US supporting dictatorships just wait till you hear about USAID.
You are so boring, then we are not only jumping off buildings in China, you are already very happy!
That's clearly what the parent commenter intended, look at the comment history, they're an insane antivaxxer.
lefties downvoting cause they hate america so much
Uh that just releases more carbon dioxide faster, how is that a solution to anything other than maybe landfill issues? I would personally say that's worse as it is contributing to our biggest problem of all which is climate change. At least if it's buried it takes centuries to break down
From the top comment and others like it, it seems many of us are looking at this from a non-systemic viewpoint. Example:

> Plastic waste really isn’t a big problem unless you’re talking about developing nations. North America is responsible for about 3% of mismanaged plastic waste. Asia and Africa account for 86% of it.

Except when you look at the logos that are on the waste, you see that they are all products made by Global North/Western companies (Coca Cola bottles, etc.). So is it really fair to blame workers who buy things in unsustainable packaging that is produced by a big company?

I love the short movie 'The Story of Stuff'. It does a great job of illustrating that we should focus on the point of production (and the pollution caused there by big companies), instead of looking at the point where we meet the products for the first time (on a shelf in a store).

The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM
That is indeed a powerful tool that gives you the god view of everything what could happened.(Which normal web devtools definitely can't) However, it is also sometimes really hard to interpret the results. There are so many data there, some of them comes from Firefox internal, some of them comes from 3rd extension. Something in different thread actually chains together, but the ui does not show. I think it need some improvements to help the user reading the results.
C++ is very hard to parse. For non-parseable C++, it is even harder to recover, that is, figure out where to restart parsing.

The classic example is forgetting to end a typedef struct foo with a semicolon, at the end of an #include file.

The compiler will happily combine that with whatever follows the #include# statement in the file including it, and report an error with a line number in the file doing the #include.
You can't increase your odds of winning an Olympic gold medal in running by increasing your chances of becoming a quadriplegic or suffering a traumatic brain injury. However you can for sports like gymnastics, snowboarding, and cycling.
That really resonated with me. I basically stopped using Twitter because of the reasons you outlined here. This tool, however, might make Twitter useful again for me!
How is this related?

I mean I get it targets the BEAM, but Gleam is a programming language, Lumen is a VM.
No, both spellings are good. The sewage thing would be "septic".
As I understand it, MVC is just how Smalltalk built its GUI toolkit: for each widget, the view did the rendering, the controller responded to user events and the model held the data. All the GUI toolkits that followed combined the view with the controller, which is why MVC seems to make no sense.

As for structuring your code, someone (I don't remember who) offered the suggestion that out of all the parts that the framework gives you, your application logic doesn't belong in any of them.
Jack Butcher- One-person business earning $1M+ per year with 99% profit margins
Lol this is exactly what I preemptively alluded to - how we (as a culture) enable this kind of behavior. It becomes even worse when you realize that at least the ultra wealthy pay people for the right to abuse them and von Neumann et al are abusing, frequently, poorly paid junior scientists.

>That gets old quickly no matter what level you're operating on.

If you can't handle being around people that are differently abled from you then the answer is not to take your frustrations out on them. The answer is to stop being around people. No community/culture/society owes anyone, not even people at this level, some kind of pampered sphere of existence that revolves around them.
Seeing Anything Other Than Huge-Civ Is Bad News
Theoretically, redis-sentinel would be perfect for a clustered system like kubernetes. In practice, I've always found it a nightmare to deploy and use due to its hacked-on service discovery (which is redundant in kubernetes), and lack of client compatibility with vanilla redis
Human Profiling Using AI “Voice Forensics”
Not sure how you’re arriving at this translation of what’s on the slide. Can you explain?