skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try one of these

1. Try to live with out spending any money.

2. Donate plasma for a fee and then drink your earnings.

3. Buy an instrument and attend a music circle.

4. Pretend to have an instrument and attend a music circle.

5. Go to the library read one book from each shelf and repeat.

6. Travel to one city per state. Except jersey.

7. Try being a matchmaker and setup people with people who are really bad for each other.

8. Try learning a new dance.

9. Volunteer at the Zoo and try to kiss the animals when no one is looking.
Nitrous oxide abuse is really dangerous

> Hi Everyone,

> I have quite probably taken more Nitrous (at least in Whippit form) than anyone else alive. So I feel compelled to share with all of you - my experience.

Read more: https://www.bluelight.org/xf/threads/nitrous-oxide-experienc...
What it is the alternative to the current just-in-time regime?

Warehouses filled with stuff to be sold. Overproduction. Stuff getting destroyed because it expires or cannot be sold for whatever reason.

We may get there, hopefully only temporary, as a reaction to the current situation. For most companies, the amount paid to the factory in China or elsewhere, is only tiny fraction of the price the product is sold for.

That is why companies now are double or even triple ordering. Most of that stuff will just ending up getting destroyed.
I can appreciate this. I've seen similar things come up in the OpenBSD community. A lot of thought is given, but often times a decision is made fairly judiciously by the benevolent dictator, Theo.
Facebook radicalized my father and ruined our relationship.
For most people, IPv4 is a solution to a problem that didn’t require change or learning. It’s just what is used behind the scenes to make the web and chat and email happen. And happen it all does, without trouble, so why lots of money to replace it?

What is the sales pitch you would bring to the CEO of a Fortune 500?
It can get a lot worse when you have the money to enable drug use, have money to be parasitized, have lawyers for any arrest to pay a meaningless fine, or house-arrest on your compound(s) instead of jail time, pay for any accidents and pay to do dumb(er) things.

So yeah, rich people can get wayyyyy deeper in any and all of those than poor people.

A rich person is just a better resourced poor person. I’d argue their quality of life isn’t much different except one can buy their way out of any problem while the other has to suffer it directly.
My town (~500,000) stopped putting fluoride in the drinking water in Jan 2013.

According to the Oral Health 2018 [0] report released by the health unit, the percentage of children with tooth decay or requiring urgent care has increased by 51 per cent in 2016-17 compared to 2011-12.

[0] https://www.wechu.org/reports/oral-health-2018-report
The key is to slowly become rich. Tony Hsieh died at 46, around the time most pre-rich people haven't even made it out of upper middle class. Amass wealth slowly and your poor grifting friends will slowly be replaced with rich friends whose grifts will at least have a chance of return.
E-commerce did it.

We operated with little head room in a very very big system for a long time without these issues, and the major change was online shopping, which really took off during the pandemic.

This worked, mostly because there was suddenly slack in the system to accommodate this changed purchasing pattern, caused by a slow-down in practically everything else.

Now that the everything else is back online though, there is massive contention for space on ships etc, so retailers hoard more in warehouses, and that backs up into container yards, and then into the parking lot at the dock.

Adding more capacity in the middle (stacking some containers) doesn't do anything to materially solve this problem.

https://www.census.gov/retail/mrts/www/data/pdf/ec_current.p...
Say what you will about Mark, no informed person could claim with a straight face that he's not one of the savviest business-people in history.
All nice and logical, and the stark lack of long-term planning is a huge part of the problem, but this:

> Only founder led companies and family owned businesses can stand up to the immense pressure from the dogmas of modern finance.

This observably does not compute. Unless those family owned businesses are the size of Samsung or comparable, they can rarely afford to invest so much in their prime, much less so now. Founder-led and family businesses seem to be the huge collateral damage in this clusterfuck. Or am I wrong? Are those businesses not hit with transportation growing expensive AF and energy shortages just as bad? Do they have enough lobbying power that their government simply will not let them drown one way or another?
This is your opportunity to get in on the ground floor of not using Meta. In retrospect, a lot of people wish they'd done this with Facebook, but of course it's too late now. Don't make any mistakes you know you'll regret.
I've used Debian since (I think) from late 00s and Linux from 98. Didn't even know what Which does. Maybe I forgot ;)
* 1 idea he stole as a 19-year-old

I'm not big on people complaining about "idea stealing", but zuck is in a league of his own with this shit, so worth pointing out that he didn't have the idea for FB.
I've heard Ryan speak at a dozen or so company meetings. He's genuine, knowledgeable, and has a long term focus not just on Flexport but on the whole freight industry and the global economy.

I'm not saying he's right about everything, but trusting his integrity and industry knowledge is a very safe first step.
FreeBSD with ZFS and being the backend of network CDN's wants a word or two with you.
idk i'd destroy facebook and tbh i'd view it as a neet +ve for society, hate seems like the appropriate word (at least for me)
Right? We even have electric toothbrushes now which are way better than manual toothbrushes. Maybe if it was the 18th century and we somehow had access to fluoride it would be justified.
All the information about the
Hamiltonian paths is encoded in your N verticies and N^2 edges.

Your arguement suggests the best solution to TSP runs in Θ(n!).

However https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Held%E2%80%93Karp_algorithm can solve TSP in Θ(2^n n^2)
He looks even more rendered than Roy Kent.
It's a valuation based on a bunch of mid-tier VC's panic buying an opportunity. They have nothing as a company. They have an Uber use case (guess what, every database has one of these!) and a few other things. But they have little to no revenue, they don't have a cloud service yet, etc. They have the "right" people but this is a hilarious valuation at this point in their lifecycle considering they just raised at a considerably less valuation recently and nothing has changed.
This 1988 document offers a review of the then-recent past and a peek at the future of illicit recreational drug chemistry and businesses. Synthetic amphetamines, hallucinogens, opiates -- it's all there, years before online "research chemicals" businesses, Operation Web Tryp[1], or the rise of cartel chemistry.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Web_Tryp
> the metaverse will NOT be a walled garden, tied to a social media company

> If you're interested in learning more or registering your intent ahead of our general availability launch, you can join our Discord here

This is award-worthy satire
Their metaverse is an extension of the physical world, except controlled perpetually by a single company with a history of trying to crush or buy out competitors, enabling a genocide, and doing lasting damage to some users' mental health. What could possibly go wrong?
When analyzing the storm I'm not clear are we talking about the power grid alone or the normal organic effects of Texas just not operating well at those temperatures and pipes bursting, frost heave, exposure deaths, etc?
Do careful research. Many have done that, but the negatives of containers for that purpose are rarely stated.
You are correct, that is the sense that I meant it. I'll edit my comment to clarify.
> by going how I am guessing native speakers think about them.

I can assure you that Han unification happened at the hand of native speakers.
More that breaking bad was picking up the story that was taking place at the time when sourcing their material. There's been a lot written about the superlabs in Mexico that produce hundreds of pounds of pure product a batch. There are probably thousands of facilities like this now making this P2P cook at industrial scales.
Quest 2 is 300$ and completely standalone
See my edit... I was asking about states with no sales tax. I agree that sales tax + no income tax is toxic. However, most states have sales + income tax. I'm asking if the states with income tax and no sales tax do better.
> I’ve seen it said (somewhere, sorry) that humans simply aren’t designed to interact on these mass social scales.

This is something I’ve said, though I doubt I’m the only one. One particular problem is the availability heuristic goes very wildly off-course when there’s an internet bandwagon.
Plenty of people foresaw it. California spent ~$200m on building up a stockpile of PPE and other medical supplies back in 2006, before Brown cut funding for the program in 2011.
Isn't that how franchising already works?

It has nothing to do with "good" or "bad" ownership. It's about limiting the wealth-storage potential of real estate and promoting more decentralized/egalitarian access to property.
I can't rule it out, but it's unlikely. Unless the meth cooks are doing something really bizarre, it's unlikely anything in the synthesis route produced as a side product is going to be as biologically potent as the meth itself. (This is not true for other street drugs, see MPTP). P2P Meth synthesis is pretty simple and straightforward if you have the reagents, it's Organic Chem 2xx-3xx level stuff. And it is really easy to crystallize to high purity.

I think it's actually the opposite of impurities. The tech and supply chains have gotten so good, the purity had gone way up and the cost down, that people are just using way more of it.
By this logic, we'd also rename awk to something more "meaninful" because the names of Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger are just historical artifacts. They are indeed, but we're talking about a real-world "we all talk UNIX" language here that's been around for a long time -- perilously close to 2.14 billion seconds in fact. Lots of people and programs speak, read, and write this UNIX language. It's creeping up on natural human language status. This "which' is a vocabulary word of that language.

Heavily used languages evolve. And you know what? They never evolve healthily when they ban the use of "obsolete" vocabulary. Languages embody history. Even PowerShell!

This language won't benefit from an Académie Française - style iron-fisted rule.
Because that’s too obvious and also Facebook’s userbase’s ideologies lean the opposite direction from the establishment, and Facebook is their best tool for sharing information that happens to run counter to what the establishment (media, government, etc) finds to be ideal.

Besides, there are only a few sites that most people ever visit. The internet is “small” now. Tackle the biggest threat, the rest will fall in line - likely with glee since they already enforce pro-establishment censorship policies as it is. Twitter, for example.
> Infinitely stacked containers would probably be an eyesore to be honest.

Also, how high of a stack of containers do you feel safe working around in the next major SoCal earthquake?
Thanks, I didn’t dig deep enough to find the editblog buried at the bottom. That definitely clears things up.
I worked with a group whose office was basically a big supply area converted into an office to hold around 7 cubicles. Zero windows, and while I am sure the HVAC system cycled in fresh air, I doubt it was enough because by lunch time I was ready to fall asleep whenever I worked in there.

Biggest perk of working from home was having control over my environment. Because of that, I think I feel the best I have in years.
Jabs do not reduce risk of passing Covid within household, study suggests
This makes me sick. LG seems to do the same.

At this day and age, it's getting harder and harder to buy a TV, that is just a that, a TV. Now you have to agree to ToS and as soon as you connect it to the internet to access any service you subscribe, your data is sent to the manufacturer so it can be sold or monetized through ads.

Not everyone is able to block this (with a PiHole or with other tools). Does anyone know of a brand that sells quality displays but doesn't have this kind of "crap"?
M.2 is possible on the compute module, but there's iirc only a single PCIe lane on the pi... so it's not as speedy as desktop and also you'd need a PCIe switch to get M.2 storage and networking/USB which just increases costs further and in the zero's case, probably not possible with board space.

pi3/4 can boot straight from USB.

In my case.. I have a couple of old gen1/1.2 Pis, no boot straight from USB, but an SD card with only the FAT32 /boot partition that's got the read lock on card set, and boot config set for a USB stick in the side of it. They're still slow, but not gonna brick the SD card.
The interconnected supply chain is a headache right now, but on balance it’s still a good thing for the world if it prevents some country from starting a global war.
I wonder how they know whether it’s specifically from a lack of fluoride or because of diet.
You may find interesting that Pfizer erased the control group for the 5-11 EUA study. Probably for your study too. There is no longterm data & analysis by design. The practices of BigPharma are questionable at best.

> Pfizer intentionally wipes out the control group as soon as they can by vaccinating all of the kids who initially got the placebo. They claim that they are doing this for “ethical reasons”. But everyone knows that Pfizer’s true aim is to wipe out any comparison group so that there can be no long term safety studies. Wiping out the control group is a criminal act and yet Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, and AZ do this as standard practice with the blessing of the FDA/CDC.

https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/ten-red-flags-in-the-fdas-...
Meta-comment: Corporate press releases are poor OPs; it is only the facts and spin they want to present, rather than good journalism which covers more facts, other analysis, multiple points of view.

It's similar to the reason that Wikipedia doesn't allow primary sources (last I knew), only secondary ones. The primary source has a strong bias and can say anything.
The 'lack of chips' has nothing to do with US preparedness, it's entirely an overseas issue.

China & Co. did a big over-correction during the start of the pandemic, and that put a lot of things into chaos.

You now have chip speculators entering the foray, jacking up prices, not very helpful in letting the market clear.

10% padding in US operations I don't think would have made up for anything, the problems exist in shipping and on key/acute issues from the suppliers in Asia really.

I don't think it's reasonable to imply 'We should build all the stuff here to avoid delays during 1 in 50 years pandemics'.

I'm not blaming so much as pointing out that's where the underlying issues are.

Of course exacerbated by other things.

I think working out solutions to transportation, buyers paying for things like guarantees, plant and supply chain risk analysis etc. will become a thing now.

CEOs will hire consultants and firms to measure the likelihood in supply chain failure and make ammends.

I actually think we'll get adapt past most of this.
Goodness, that was pretty patronising.

I didn't do maths past 18, so I'm not doing your math exercises (and you're rather obviously bandying jargon around for purposes of belittling). Doesn't matter.

Your opening remark hooked me; I thought you were going to tell me something interesting. Disappointment ensued.
>> However, this issue is much more than the difference between, say, the lowercase A with the overhang (a) or without (α).

Yes but actuallly "α" is the Greek character alpha, whreas "a" is the Latin character "a". So if you displayed "α" as "a" to a Greek person that, too, would look αλλ ωρονγ.
Interesting that they don't own neither of https://meta.org or https://meta.io domains.
Brazilian banker's crypto baffles FBI (2010)
I’m just a sample of one, but I’m way more likely to flip my shit when sober — all my fights or verbal altercations I have in fact been sober.

Granted, I’ve been diagnosed with various mental health disorders related to emotional regulation, so perhaps this is dependent on individual brain function.
This question is so apt that it gave me a chuckle. I've done it before, but I had to think about that one for a second. You have to edit the file while the SD card is plugged into a separate computer.
> There have been studies that our typical interview process gives us 17% predictability of how they will perform, but if we do a contract-to-hire (of just one week) that improves to 80%.

The pool of candidates interested in full-time jobs is not the same as the pool of candidates interested in doing contract-to-hire positions.

Contract-to-hire selects for people with the ability to risk working for a company for a period of time without a high risk of near-term unemployment if it doesn't work out. The people willing to take those jobs are usually more qualified to begin with because they have more career options open to them if the contract-to-hire doesn't turn into a contract job.

So you're basically pre-selecting your candidates.
In my experience with a rift s, even though the oculus touch also has gyroscopes and accelerometers, they only help for a few seconds at most when the controllers leave the camera. Those sensors are just not accurate enough (I know little about the details of the sensors, but accelerometers are tracking the second derivative of the position, so any small error will accumulate fast when you want the latter), and you don't want to have your hand all over the place when you're trying to interact with things in VR, which is why, at least for now, you need to measure position directly for it to work, such as the camera/LED devices that are most popular with VR headsets and controllers (and even stuff like the PS Move controller).
I have an LG TV and never seen an ad. Just don't go into their store or home screen. Launch the app you want directly.
I can't say for sure on this particular case, but the usual reasoning is this:

Using Newtonian Mechanics (I'll skip the derivation.) you can calculate escape velocity as follows: v = sqrt(2GM / r)

r is the distance to the center of mass, G is the usual gravitational constant and M is the mass of the body.

So, now we can reason about an object whose escape velocity is c.

c^2 = 2GM / r and rearranging a bit:

r* = 2GM / c^2.

Thus, IF we packed a mass M into the radius r*, we would have a Newtonian blackhole.

It turns out, quite incredibly, that this r* is in perfect agreement with the swarzchild radius from a non-rotating blackhole calculated using general relativity. Exactly why these two are in such agreement has never been explained to me other than as a coincidence. But it's quite incredible since usually r^3 terms pop up prior to the event horizon (at the same radius) which make GR make different predictions about orbits. (Such as the precession of mercury)
Apparently this has it: https://forum.radxa.com/t/introduce-the-radxa-zero/6550
Read my comment about this before: the only (best) way to fix this company is to go private and have as part of that a new executive team.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23453963
Facebook has literally shaped our world, and often.. the people we encounter in it.

Meta could do a bit of that, too.
> Doesn’t stop them being terrible though.

Well, it depends on if they want to keep the Meta name clean from scandals. But I doubt they manage too. It’s a company DNA issue at this point.
It just occurred to me that Zuckerberg is always running away from reality. It's kinda weird.
Fluoride supplementation in water is less of a concern for me than chloramine. All my friends strongly defend the quality of Hetch Hetchy and I just don't get it. Fish can't even live in the water you're drinking. It affects plant growth too. We're showering in this stuff and vaporizing ammonia directly into our lungs.
Everyone keeps saying metaverse, but meta makes me think of metadata, which is about the worst name they could have chosen.

"Are you worried about FB storing all your data? Okay, lets rename to a word that is about scooping up all relevant data."
Wow, it seems like they severely lag behind culture. Some of these words are quite old already.
> analysis revealing a fully vaccinated contact has a 25% chance of catching the virus from an infected household member while an unvaccinated contact has a 38% chance of becoming infected

Reference is to https://www.thelancet.com/lancet/article/s1473309921006484

> The analysis further suggests that whether an infected individual is themselves fully vaccinated or unvaccinated makes little or no difference to how infectious they are to their household contacts [...] the peak level of virus in infected individuals was the same regardless of whether they were jabbed or not, although these levels dropped off more quickly in the vaccinated people, suggesting they cleared the infection sooner
So the article seems to imply that fluoride is effective when applied topically and need not be ingested. So isn't fluoride toothpaste enough? Does it really need to be added to the water supply? How many studies have been done on the effects of bathing, cooking, watering plants, ingestion by pets, etc. with fluoridated water?

One thing the article doesn't mention is where the fluoride is sourced from. Is it true that the fluoride that goes into the water supply is a waste product from fertilizer production? If this "waste" wasn't being put into the water how much would it cost fertilizer manufacturers to dispose of it? Is there some perverse incentive here?

https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/engineering/engineering-sho...

>The three fluoride additives used for water fluoridation are derived principally from phosphate fertilizer production.
What is the evidence that the reason is aesthetics? Other posters have claimed that it is a fire department ordinance.
Curious, how often do you see a flaky test in your system? In my past experience at one of the mid-size startups, we used to get a new flaky test almost on a weekly basis in a monorepo. We started the process of actually flagging them as ignored (we created a separate tag for flaky tests), but later realized that the backlog of fixing flaky test never came down.

In another case observed, devs just got used to rerunning the entire suite (the flakiness here was about 10-20%)
Or just make collapsible containers. Bolt the corners (where all the strength is) on right and then take them apart. Needs careful engineering work, but it seems like it should be possible to standardize then and then machines at either end can take them apart and stack into a standard container dimension.
Except it's run by Nolan Sorrento from day one.
Just you wait until China pulls a Crimea on Taiwan.

There go our semiconductors, this time for real.
HN is still v4-only, the only site I use super regularly that is.
This article suggests that the twitter thread about the boat ride was just a story that could be told. If so, it's harmless, but I'm left wondering, is it true?
How about building one of the largest companies in the world? Would others be able to do that if they had that idea as a 19-year-old? Let's not reduce all his accomplishments to a single idea. Ideas don't matter, execution matters.
Netflix was always to small to be included so now the acronym is MAGA
You can get edibles now that are dosed at 5mg increments and are the size of an antihistamine.
The black art of concurrency