skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One exception for me is Nile Red, I love watching his 40 min chemistry videos

I have dozens of "exceptions" like this on Youtube, slowly accumulated over years.

A lot of the content on TikTok is being funded by TikTok themselves. If this is sustainable I suppose it could keep going forever, but I wonder if the way Youtube turned out in the long run has an inevitable monetization reason behind it.
It is worth correcting, because I think most people haven't heard of wet-bulb, just as the methods and formulas that give us humidex "feels-like" temperatures aren't common knowledge.

A lot of ways we measure and describe the human experience of humidity and temperature are not standardized from location to location, so the non-local methods and terminology can be arcane for anyone who isn't a meteorologist.
Wet bulb 35°C, which feels like 160°F dry bulb for those of us who are in the USA with varying amounts of water in the air.

> The wet-bulb temperature is defined as the temperature of a parcel of air cooled to saturation (100% relative humidity) by the evaporation of water into it
...
The theoretical limit to human survival for more than a few hours in the shade, even with unlimited water, is 35 °C (95 °F) – theoretically equivalent to a heat index of 70 °C (160 °F)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
Yes, that would be ideal!! However homeowners in the late 1970s wrote into the state constitution that property taxes would be based on purchase price, and never increase more than 2% per year.

It's called Prop 13, and it needs to die. However, I fear it won't until there is a generational change.
Sit in the water instead? The ocean water tends to be cooler than the air due to oceanic currents.
> That's quite a leap from what I said, not to mention a personal attack.

Isn't this what you just said? This is you:

> TikTok's algorithm has introduced me to my (now) favorite neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ content makers. Some of them have hundreds of thousands of followers, some a few hundred.

> All the people I interact with there get me. I've never felt this anywhere else.

From [0] 'Viewers or listeners come to consider media personalities as friends, despite having no or limited interactions with them.' [0]

Do they know you personally as if they are your close friends? If not, they will just see you essentially as a fan in a para-social relationship on a platform like TikTok. That is not a personal attack, that is the definition of what you are describing.

> Comment [0] doesn't make any factual claims about TikTok (please, go and read it).

So you are saying that there weren't any leaks happening about TikTok then, which suggests that they can suppress any content they want to or shadow-ban tags? So you trust them that they won't do it again then, since you think in your opinion that 'TikTok is the best thing to have happened to the Internet.'

10 years ago, another social network had the same accolade.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
Ooh,"excitement"! Like every other one of these Truman Show ideas, it will fail miserably.
TrevorJ says>"Opinel #8 pocketknife. Inexpensive. Timeless design that was last tweaked circa 1960's."<

It shows! The Opinel has a lousy locking mechanism, is clumsy to open (especially if you're left-handed) and the wood swells if wet making it stiffer to open/close. This is a knife worth passing up unless you want to cut yourself.
As did Emory: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emory-apologizes-for-past-discr...
You still own your property when there’s an HOA. I wonder why they didn’t do that here.
Take entomologists, bird watchers or those who identify mushrooms. In each, there are instances that are fiendishly difficult to tell apart. If you ask an expert for advice, they'll tell what features to look for and where, sometimes not even on the item itself and some requiring specialists tools.

While explanations are far from sufficient to instantly close the gap to expertise, they provide a massive boost that you might not otherwise have found on your own. The justification comes from the fact that their explanations are a reliable source of increased performance in making fine-grained distinctions. It's further demonstrated by answers to questions like "If they are so difficult to tell apart, why make these distinctions?" or "How did they come to be so similar?".
I would be very interested in integrating this into an upcoming art production.

How would one go about finding engineers that can produce functionality similar to this, but recommending sentences from select news articles instead?
You’re both not wrong. I’ve seen both. I’ve lived both. One of my earliest memories was being chastised by my family for spending a tiny fraction more than the lowest price on something; same brand, twice the volume, didn’t have a shelf life, wasn’t over budget. I got in trouble as a poor kid in a poor family for listening to advice my family had given me to shop smart.

I also got the same in reverse for being less thrifty and more considerate.

Big shrug emoji. I know poverty so much it scares and traumatized me. I appreciate that not everyone does, but I also don’t think it should be represented as something uniquely rational.

Poverty is duress. People make all kinds of good decisions because they have survival instincts, and all kinds of bad decisions because they have a bunch of incentives. They often do both and everything in between in a single outing because, yep, gas is expensive. And they’re tired. And the world is hard and expensive.
Shipping people to other states against their will, and away from their connections, support networks, and whatever else they say need, is both unethical and counterproductive.

Who the hell cares about homes nobody wants to live in? Build homes where people want them, don't let a few wealthy assholes hoard the best climate from everyone else. Why defend the interests of rentiers and landlords like this? It helps no one except the very wealthy.
Righto. A key change is pretty easy when you've got MIDI driving samples. Too much bother, I guess.

I've also noticed that most pop music today (not to blame any genre) is rhythmically flat. Not many examples of 'Take 5'. Same drum samples used throughout the whole of 5-minute pieces. Lots of studio processing to make the result seem more like music. Which it isn't.

It isn't the machines' fault; it's the 'producers' manning them. Drop a hit now'n then. Throw in an extra one. Too busy cranking out the candy? I just call it: lazy, lazy, lazy. And very, very boring.
What is Shelter First and Housing Earned? A quick search on google only yielded results for "Housing First". What's the difference in shelter and housing, and how does one earn their way from shelter to housing?
Sounds like insurance is one thing that makes it hard.
There are a lot of tech-related accounts. There is also a lot of marketing, ux-design. Some examples :

- @therubberduckiee

- @loewhaley

- @tony.aube

- @cassidoo

- @systems_analyst

There is also urban design tiktok with @mrbarricade.

Let's also be clear that the goal of the app is to entertain and I think it does this really well and cheaply. Then sometimes you learn something that you might use in your work or personal life.
Personally, I think Apple does indeed have an ethical dilemma here caused by government specifically, and society broadly, failing in their responsibility towards habilitating the homeless and the mentally ill.
It's so nice to be in tech where comparatively we let the free market figure out how to properly evaluate candidates; many companies have moved away from pure algorithm problems (the equivalent of testing) because relying solely on them misses a lot of important factors.

The fundamental problem with medicine that creates these dynamics is artificial supply constraints created by licensing regimes (I've yet to figure out how or why a MD is so much better than a PA for family medicine). Absent that, the market would just figure things out.

There's no particular reason to believe high test scores are 100% correlated with future doctor quality given that lots of other factors go into being a doctor - and yet medical schools have historically relied on this. On the other hand, there's also no particular reason to believe the best doctors will be equally distributed across whatever splicing and dicing of the population you perform.
It's a scale with a billion dollars on either end, and we were asked to believe a small office of internet trolls from Russia tipped it. BS detector engaged.

If we're so fragile that some marginal stuff can steer our culture, then we deserve it.
> So we take it as a given that a prisoner has no right to privacy?

Right to privacy has been gone since the iPhone was invented.
Or they experienced an out-of-context problem. Saw something which didn't fit into what they knew.

Yes, I really do mean ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS, or something like that.

Imagine someone from pre-industrial society. No matter where. And then something is touching down from the heavens above. Like some big fucking rocket. Or some tilt-rotor thingy. Or something with Ion-drive. Unloading a remote controlled all terrain rover with really strange wheels.

How to describe something for which you have no concept of understanding it at all?
@djrogers -- Ryan was also on the founding team of OpenDoor. I can promise you Steve Ross, Michael Fuchs, Steven Roth, and Jerry Speyer all describe themselves as founders. The greatest leaders in real estate do, because they have innovated to build something people want. And Culdesac is very much a startup.
Rotting trees are great for the forest.
They also don't burn. Honestly, try using a rotting log for firewood sometime. It's impossible. They suck up a lot of water, and release it slowly, as well as releasing a lot of nutrients into the environment. Most new trees start in fallen logs.
What's special about Parsec compared to competitors like
Shadow.tech that seems just as good? (if not actually a bit better - i think personally after trying both)

Both are impressive but the tech must be somewhat standard no?

Also Shadow runs its own datacenters which seems far more impressive team wise.

Can anyone shed some light on why this technology is worth so much in that context?
Ask the GOP.

Sane countries house their people.

It ends of saving huge amounts of money. Single unhoused person with chronic illness can cost a city in excess of a million dollars a year.

Some people can’t countenance the “wrong” folks getting help they don’t “deserve”. Or that somehow help will discourage entrepreneurship. If that truly was the case they’d tax inheritances, but it’s not.

The cruelty is the point.
People who move to these places will continue to vote for this crap… better for us as individuals not supportive of moral hazards at play here (these are not the only examples of some taking excessive risk, only to realize the costs of doing so onto others when it falls apart) to figure out a ways to not contribute financially to the racket so they can burn/flood themselves on their own dime.
We conclude that the virus becomes more contagious as it is screened through the vaccinated population and the resultant strain becomes the dominant strain and able to infect the entire population.

We recommend that: 1) universal vaccination should be administered as soon as possible to suppress the generation of virulent mutations;

Wait, I’m being punked.. right?

How is universal vaccination the solution, if it is literally the cause of the more contagious strain?

The logic is a bit circular, no?
> - allowing true ownership of assets

What is ownership and how is it true? This is philosophically on the deep end, as the evil powers can seize your wallet just as easily and you may have no (legal) recourse, https://xkcd.com/538/

Seriously if I own a traditional asset within the current legal system (e.g. stocks, bonds, real estate), "the system" can help me protect and enforce my ownership rights, if you're in good social standing. In crypto "the system" cannot help you as much.

However if you are in bad social standing, the system can seize the wallet or the stocks easily.
My take would be that actively working against both equal opportunity and equality is unethical. By giving your children a giant leg up, you're taking from all of the others.

Imho society should be liberal in letting people acquire and enjoy their wealth, and strictly limit the passing down of wealth to prevent dynasties and having someone's opportunities decided by their parents' means. This would solve a lot of compounding problems. However, people are generally pretty terrified of not being able to let one's own kids inherit the entire fortune and sharing it with other random kids too. We'll likely continue along those lines for a long time coming, whatever your stance on ethics doesn't stand a chance against family bonds and their voting power.
Buy something well supported by OpenWRT; that typically correlates to at least OK hardware that is known to work well enough. Ideally you'd also install OpenWRT on it, or another choice of OSS rather than factory firmware.
100% agree. I pin the version we use because you never know if it will come with even more bugs.
> they are due to an escape mechanism sprung from the vaccinated

Hopefully you're aware that viruses accumulate mutations randomly by chance over time. The only way mutations can be outright stopped is through an immune response that completely neutralizes the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Determining if mutations originated in a vaccinated or unvaccinated host is a pretty useless endeavor that would only serve as fodder for divisive discussion. The fact is that mutations are expected to exist in high numbers due to neutral genetic variation alone.

With that said, worrying about viral evolution undermining the efficacy of the vaccine is a valid concern.

In general a leaky vaccine is one that keeps the host alive without necessarily stopping further infection and transmission. These conditions contribute to an environment that can allow the virus to accumulate mutations which eventually lead to immune escape [1][2].

Because the current mRNA vaccines are leaky and also induce an immune response highly targeted toward the spike protein RBD, there is concern that mass vaccination may create tremendous selective pressure which further enhances the fitness of the virus [3]. It's difficult to predict if such selective pressure will lead to enhanced virulence or infectiousness, but so far many variants of concern have mutations impacting the spike protein RBD. These mutations result in partial immune escape and manifest as increased infectiousness, reduced vaccine efficiency, and also reduced immunity in naturally infected individuals [4][5][6].

[1] The adaptive evolution of virulence: a review of theoretical predictions and empirical tests
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26302775/

[2] Why does drug resistance readily evolve but vaccine resistance does not?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2016...

[3] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/

[4] SARS-CoV-2 immune evasion by the B.1.427/B.1.429 variant of concern
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/06/30/scie...

[5] mRNA vaccine-elicited antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and circulating variants
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03324-6

[6] Reduced sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 variant Delta to antibody neutralization
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03777-9
No one tries to get the compiler to inline code? What?

Doing a function call is quite expensive! If you're not worried about that level of performance why are you using C these days in the first place?
Zoom out and center it around the pacific ocean if you want to actually compare them.
The claim of pure rent-seeking is easily disproven by comparing bid-offer spreads before and after the advent of computerized market making and seeing how much bid-offer transaction costs have shrunk for the average investor.
Ask HN: Does Facebook tombstone unsent messages?
Facebook has an unsend feature for messenger that no longer requires a 10 minute deadline. They do say unsent messages can be reported up to 14 days after being unsent, but do they delete after this time or does it just hang around their servers until someone inadvertently hacks them. This has previously been an issue around a year ago, where Instagram was reported to not have deleted "deleted messages and photos" from their servers for over a year.

Their data policy doesnt state whether they keep these messages or not and how they are handled. Is there any way to find out what they do with them?
A wet-bulb temperature of 35C is equivalent to a heat index of 70C (160F).
The liberty cap is not a distinctive mushroom (small, round cap, brown). The amanita muscaria is beautiful and distinct enough that we recognise it in paintings hundreds of years later.

Perhaps the painter chose it for its beauty, or perhaps because it was both distinctive and psychedelic. No way to know. But the academics claiming that "the plant in this fresco has nothing whatever to do with mushrooms" are embarrassing.
> the internet is fun again

My opinion is, things happened on the Internet are mostly the reflections of what happened in the real world, +amplified. You got people from all the corners and they all got different backgrounds. The common is probably that they know how to buy reliable&comfortable keyboards.

During the years, in China, Chinese companies has developed some sophisticated strategies to allow them to grow and sometimes thrive under the rules that should have killed them. One of such strategy is to provide only fun and nothing else.

Imagine one day, George Carlin come back to life, expect this time, he only tells fun jokes, jokes makes nobody angry, jokes that only generate laugh. Of course it will be pleasant, even become a "place to escape to".

I believe the word here is tittytainment (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tittytainment).

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Of course, platforms such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook has problems of their own. Those big techs are trying to do something that they are completely incapable of while trying to make money out of it. Moderating is hard, they just can't do it, even with their discriminating stupid ideas such as keyword scanning and profile rating.

I have this feeling, that is in the future, the Internet will become circlized -- Communities will be small, specific and private, just like those in the real world.

Of course, few "Town Squares" will still exist, where talks there probably remain toxic.
There was no such exhortation. I used the word "could", not the word "should", for a reason. That reason was to illustrate that he can afford a tax and should be levied one.
I wouldn't mind seeing a federal law stating that any internet company doing business in the USA has to pay workers minimum wage.

Only large companies. Small companies would be exempt. I despise most regulations, but wouldn't mind regulating big companies a bit more.
> The logic is a bit circular, no?

Yeah the paper is littered with these kinds of gaps in reasoning, see my other comment for a more detailed critique.
Can’t choose make / model / trim on an iPad.
Internet Archive Seeking 10 Years of Publisher Sales Data for Fair Use Defense
Nyc does do it: housing is a right in NYC. You need a place to sleep, we give you one.

It’s not great, because again, GOP, but it’s better than sleeping rough.
The double-speak of "clean-up" in these articles is just the cherry on top.
No, it wouldnt work as the heat would have nowhere to go. And the mid east people didn't do it - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher

Instead you build and live in highrise/towers - that gives cheap ventilation which is a half the solution.

And I liked the siesta and the following it very active life till deep night in Spain - another natural adaptation to hot climate. It makes for much calmer and steady life rhythm and feeling.
Huh. https://www.weather.gov/hazstat/

That's of course cherry picked. But I think the sucky part is increasing the variance of the temperature distribution. So the hot is hotter and the cold is colder, and both ends really suck.
Naming things are hard :)
I’ve heard of nuclear bomb propulsion before but I had no idea that 30 million hydrogen bombs we’re proposed. That’s insane!
I never heard of wet-bulb temp until carrot weather included it in a recent update.
TikTok is a phenomenal app technologically and design-wise. But it does seem like the ultimate "social media as a drug." I'm not zoomer enough to enjoy it either. But the app itself is very good.
I don't know that it is, IMO.
Have you seen the rents in new Zealand? They did not crater as much as in SF. ;-)
Okay great, let's discuss the ethics of twitter banning the sitting president of the united states. This is ridiculous. Those of concerned by the ridiculous excusal of this behavior as being okay because they're 'private companies' made this argument many months ago only to be told we're in favor of overriding human rights.
Then maybe it’s time to move to something different, like

https://calyxos.org/

or

https://e.foundation/
> So we take it as a given that a prisoner has no right to privacy?

Yeah, they're in prison. It comes with the territory. IIRC, the only person they have any right to privacy with is their lawyer, and only about legal matters.

It's not ideal, but it's a common enough problem that prisoners try to coordinate criminal activities with the outside while in prison (e.g. give orders to their gang, coordinate an escape, get orders to shank someone one the inside, etc).
Who has more power... the government or some tiktok influencer?
Roblox is working on that for in-game censorship. They want to be able to block bad words within 100ms.
*better time
I just discovered his videos yesterday. His series “What Makes This Song Great” is helping me better organize my thoughts around rock music production.
Especially a company with the Nerve to have a slogan of “Don’t be evil”.
The business model means nothing from a user experience point of view if the network effects needed to make it profitable don't work when the true cost of service is applied.

Uber, in its current pricing model, is unsustainable, period. You might be willing to pay an increased price for Uber's service, but you still need a minimum density of drivers to make the service not outrageously expensive.
Might as well, the jig is up. Apple has shed their privacy facade, why not go all in on surveillance?
Have you looked into Fiasp? I found it to be faster than Apidra.
The terrible truth is that so much of industry relies on the precariousness of its employees: Walmart is the largest beneficiary of food stamps in the country.
I don't know. Every time I try TikTok, I just get teenagers "sexy" dancing to whatever is the popular TikTok song of the week.

Now I understand why someone might find sexy teenagers interesting, but I find it quite boring and mind-numbing.
We can distribute blankets and warm clothes to practically anywhere at scale. You can't scale air conditioners the same.

Your "homework" doesn't matter if super heat waves are a new phenomenon since data was collected.

You can't even glean anything useful from total deaths of heat vs cold. You'd need an equal number of people in equally hostile hot/cold environments of the same size. And even then there's still so many other variables can contribute to a result.