skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep seeing the word 'democratizing' used online applied to stuff where I don't understand its relevance. Surely Internet Archive is not 'democratic', but also why would that matter? Do we all need a vote on what they do? It feels like some kind of buzzword.
From a superficial look, I hope that Meta fails and that it does it badly.

We're already living in a walled garden whenever we use the web, I'd hate that reality became like that as well. It already is with restaurant chains and Amazon killing local venues' diversity.
Meta would make it even worse.
Building a Todo API in Golang with Kubernetes (2020)
- Using MS office pricing to push corporate to MS Cloud.

- VS Code as gateway drug

- Linux as first class integration

--

I would like to see

- Office on Ubuntu

- Open version of Active Directory
Is the fentanyl death rate or trafficking of underage girls harmless?
>Less than you'd think.

I am in favor of numbers in a discussion like this, even if wrong, (and I am not a physicist) they're more interesting than without.

- The asteroids considered a threat to the Earth start at about 460 feet in diameter. This is about an order of magnitude less (in diameter, not mass) than the impact that got the dinosaurs but would still probably be a lot worse than anything in recorded history, if it hit land or sea. It's said to be about a 10,000 year level.

- Density is uncertain, but I found a figure of 2.7 g / cm^3 as a mid range.

- This equates to 3.9 million metric tons or more being probably what we would want to do something about.

- Freeman Dyson wrote a paper in 1968 or so, about nuclear pulse rocket design, that described a hypothetical spacecraft that would mass forty million metric tons.

- It would, however, accelerate very slowly; at 0.00003 g (supposedly).

- But that's really not so slow.

- Ignoring orbital mechanics, because I just can't right now, if something is headed for Earth, it should be enough to move it by one radius in some direction...right?

- Earth is something like 7926 miles in diameter, and 6.4 megameters is ~half that.

- d = 1/2at^2, 1/2a = 0.000147 m/s^2, so divide the radius by 0.000147, take the square root, and I get ~209,000 seconds.

- That is...2.4 days!

- However, it presumes a one megaton bomb going off every 100 seconds, for a total of around 2,100.

- That sounds like a lot. On the other hand, it's less than 3% of the nuclear bombs the US has produced since 1945.

- However they would have to be custom designed, is my impression, as "nuclear shaped charges" and not just recycled warheads.

- The asteroid might have to be reinforced on the size that was being pushed. The spacecraft design included a 1mm thick sheet of copper to absorb thermal energy.

- However, if the asteroid was four and not forty million tonnes, then less time and fewer explosions would be needed, I would assume. Would it be ten times less? I'm leaving that as an exercise for the reader.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_of_the_United_...
>the entire real number line

I'm not a mathematician but perhaps one could confirm, this is wrong, no? Irrationals e.g. Pi, sqrt2, cannot be represented. The floating point numbers are like a finite number of teeth on a comb pressed against the continuous real line.
Thanks for that link, I really do enjoy his writing. "Relatively tame" isn't something I expect to see with a health rating of 4, but I suppose it's an accurate statement when you're talking 4x3 ratings.
>A number of NFT promoters have made the argument that other video games could support the WoW NFT and then that content would be portable across those games!!!

As the article points out this is a dumb idea that doesn't make any sense. You could port an ownership token from one game to the next, but the receiving game has to implement some semantics for that item that are completely divorced from the originating game anyway.
Are we "talking" about 2040 or 2140?
Asking as someone who lived there until the first dot com crash: Does anyone actually need to live in San Francisco anymore?
> Kids can do video calls with their smartphones but prefer texting.

Kids massively play and pay for games, games are the core of the appstores. They also listen to music and watch crazy hours of youtube.

Text won't die, but it's not the prime interface. Even texting is more and more sending gifs and stickers around.
I think that you can keep systems simple and HA if you forget about multi-master components and design active/passive solutions instead, whose behaviour in failure scenarios is much easier to understand and much less likely to go wrong, especially if you also forgo attempting to autorecover failed components after a failover event.

If no HA is fine 90% of the time, simple HA is fine 99% of the time.
>Cute, but trivially falsifiable. Wearing a Freddy Krueger mask on Halloween doesn't make you Freddy Krueger.

That is true enough for most, but not all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gonzalez_(spree_kille...

Daniel clearly could not separate the Freddy mask from fiction and made it a tragic reality.
They became speculative assets (not investments) when prices started appreciating faster than incomes.

Government subsidised mortgages are the cause of this. The technical implementation varies in different countries.

House prices are "levered" on mortgage interest rates.
I thought of a remark a day or two ago, but I have no idea, other than your remark, whether it applies at all:

"Does Zuck have Second Life second-system syndrome?"
> Munger maintains the small living quarters would coax residents out of their rooms and into larger common areas

Looking at the floor plan, the living quarters are not small, they are microscopic, and the common areas are not large, they are extremely small. If two people are sitting opposite at the table it becomes impossible to move past them. This is the stuff of nightmares. 4500 students packed in windowless closets sharing a room too small to breathe. People are going snap.

> Munger Hall […] is a single block housing 4,500 students with two entrances

This sounds like a novel building up to the most horrible school shooting massacre in history.
It’s a very small thing, but ~I suspect that~ “Unix timestamp” means they actually send the epoch number, without even bothering to do the conversion to Gregorian data format.

PS: I didn’t notice the attachement. Yup, that’s _exactly_ what they send. Curious whether the suspect could recognise their creation date and know that they are being investigated that way--and whether that exposes Signal.
Are you actually serious? You don’t know which race the US discriminated against in the past 100 years?

Japanese people.

Who got their expensive real estate in places like Santa Monica seized during WW2 and were placed in camps?
It is possible to build new houses. It is possible to scratch zoning policies that prevents building more houses in one area.

Housing does not have to be fixed amount resource.
I could not find much data but it seems that the finale of Games of thrones had 19 million viewers [1], while the books sold 90 million copies [2]. Since I guess the latter are cumulative over all the five books, it looks like books and series have a similar performance.

Looking at something similar, the Lord of the Rings had around 80-90 million viewers (very rough estimation from the global box office [3]) while the book sold 150 million copies [4], so the books seem to have fared better.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_of_Thrones_episod...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#cite_no...

[3] - https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0120737/?ref_=bo_tt_ta...

[4] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-arts-tolkien-novel-idUSL1...
This is why I roll my eyes when people say we understand the human brain. We don’t even fully understand what individual neurons are doing.
Any game that implements a form of fast travel finds 95% or players use it all the time or most of the time. Sure you could run to Stormwind - but even the tram was completely dead one griffon flight points were usable.
I’d give everything I own and everything I’ll ever earn if we could make the 4500 richest people on the planet live in that building.
The tl/dr might be:

Moving an asteroid is a lot more plausible than you'd think, but it would require "normal" sized bombs, not super gigantic ones.
Do these community supported SDK/APIs ever work? In my experience (Strava and Spotify APIs) it's an excuse for the company to release a load of half-baked crap and then wash their hands of supporting it. Allowing them to tick the box that they offer a public API and make themselves look better. Despite members of the public donating their time to help each other, without participation from the company itself it's all trial and error development with everyone running into the same bugs that never get fixed.

It's great that some companies have finally recognised the value in providing public SDK/APIs but they should be investing in supporting them also.
All good points and makes sense. Whoever gives the smart glasses its killer app with a great UX and ecosystem of apps wins.

This 'killer app' will likely come from Meta, Apple, Alphabet or Microsoft and unlikely that it will come from Snap.

Then, there's always surprises.
You have a fairly complex logic being stuffed into a binary operation — NaN == NaN and NaN != NaN are both irresponsible. The same with comparing to INF. The correct answer is that boolean operations don’t successfully represent the possibilities, and shouldn’t be offered in the first place.

It’s the same with NULL in SQL.
> by supply and demand.

The relevant unit of supply/demand here is mortgages, which are indeed controlled by government policies.
True, yes I meant instead of purely gyro orientation.
This is reeeeeaaaaalllllly hard. Remember that protein folding was unsolved five years ago. (I'm not an expert at all, and I can't make a ruling on whether AlphaFold is now generally considered a "solution".) Protein folding is just one small part of physics.
Facebook's mobile website works well enough. They keep pushing me to use their lite app, but I suspect it's not in my benefit. The web app is a bit buggy (only the first few photos load on an image post), but there's no reason to think that couldn't be fixed if they tried.

Given the choice, I'd use Facebook messenger in my phone's web browser but they block it.

I don't agree that a native app is a better experience, as it gives less control to me the user.

Maybe it's a better experience for product managers who want to increase my engagement and collect as much information on me as possible.
not just tor, but also the increasingly common cgnat or regular nat with a lot of users (soho, institutions, dorms, libraries ...)
And won't be for long long time. Which I believe is one of the key points to understand. Ofc, we have nice fiction with fully immersive VR. But in general we are far away from it. And on other hand tools we have to interact in VR are quite lacking compared to usual ones. Not to say there isn't some specific very nice use cases. But in general VR-controls are likely always be a compromise or purpose build one.

For example for most work at least in office, keyboard is pretty damm useful thing. And I don't think there is any good solution to replace it.
The reason people want the $1.5M houses rather than the $300k houses is likely because they're nicer places to live (ameneties, greenspaces, schools). If you build a new nice city 30 minutes from San Jose (apologies but I don't know how far you need to go out of SJ to have more space to build) you don't inteoduxe 300k housing, you just introduce more $1.5m housing.
Can you define what “white supremacist behavior” is? I’ve heard that leveraged against African immigrants due to their meteoric success.
> Meanwhile vaccines are about 80-90% effective against hospitalization and death

And falling. Remember how people were parading around 95%?

Just like ‘99% of people in hospital are unvaccinated’. While now in some areas it’s ‘70% vaccinated’.

Vaccines are not a magic bullet and delaying covid using measures that make people fat is not a smart move. Not to mention stealing 1.5% of peoples lifetime to delay a disease that less than 1% would die from.
Black History Month: The First Black Manager in the English Football League
Ada was the programming language used when I took computing science in Glasgow, Scotland in 2002.
>> (1) New houses are 2x bigger on average than they were back then, and the average American family is smaller [1].

This is good, because it means people can afford more.

>> (2) City councils, and by extension zoning rules, in major metros preclude construction

This is good because unregulated growth is a net drain on society. No one wants to buy a house if the property next door can be turned into a 30 story apartment building. More people own property now than at any time in history. How about that? Stop making babies, right now, and there will be plenty of space for everyone. I don't have babies, I own a house, everyone who has babies wants not just to pollute the world with their offspring and tax me to pay for their spawn's upbringing, they also think they deserve free property. Just don't have babies and problem solved.
I see there are also very interesting inputs in previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8949408 - Jan 2015

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8745251 - Dec 2014 (OpenWorm in Lego)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7613732 - Apr 2014
Pandas’ distinctive black and white markings provide effective camouflage, study
We might be thinking about different things here, so let me first ask this: What do you want to measure?
This is a straw man.

It’s perfectly possible to be for vaccinations and against mandates.
Lead author on the deletion paper here. Thanks for the feedback! I agree it would be cool to talk about the Ent APIs some more; they have a lot of obvious and less-obvious benefits. (For example, we are only able to add deletion constraints to Ents as described in the paper because the Ent specification language is expressive enough to do it.)
I feel nobody “likes” video chat beyond small children and grandparents- I know I always endeavor to have connection issues.
Your translation is correct. This billboard is a reference to the home of former ayatollah Khomeini. Regardless, the hackers are trying to point the finger at the clerics.
Yeah I'm not saying it's easy, I know I can't do it now haha. I'm a JS kiddie myself, still have yet to get into this kind of stuff like making a basic 3D simulation, best I got to is 3JS at this time. I'm working on it when I have time.

I watched some protein folding stuff from the Comma AI guy I didn't even know what was going on there but it looked cool.

But we do have computation readily available, my 3060 is just sitting there while I sleep, I could do some things with it maybe. Granted it's not a super computer, lower end.
They raise property taxes and tell you your house is worth more to justify it. How is that not manipulative?
I'm not going to be alive in 2140 but I'd bet we won't have broken the laws of thermodynamics by either 2040 or 2140.
well put.

thou for non-technical users, rooting a phone is a bit like going back to windows xp.
Thanks for sharing. I was looking for such examples
We already have games almost entirely like this, and the market is clear: no one plays them, to a good approximation. People play games to compete or cooperate on specific goals. This idea of sandbox multi-player interaction is only a gimmick that's interesting a few weeks tops, then the vast majority leave to play Candy Crush or Fortnite where they have clear goals.

If they want to meet with friends and hang around, real life contact just can't be beat. That's the reason why virtual persistent worlds are ultimately bullshit (as opposed to game worlds where you have an actual game to play, be that chess or matching colored gems or killing other players).
How much time did they actually buy with the meta-shtick?
I think general public doesn't have anything against being spied. They are already convinced that it is for their own good and for catching the bad guys. They are sure they have nothing to fear.
Others have answered the question already, but I want to extent on my comment: Long standing water, same as boiled water loses some CO2. CO2 in water forms carbonic acid in part, which dissolves calcium salts. Removing the acid, will make some of the calcium salts insoluble (that’s why you get a buildup in water boilers). Most other salts are unaffected by that. So the disposal of collected water under the pot is without an alternative. Even if you’re using demineralized water, you need to flush the plant’s toilet.
So if I just use every window in maximized mode, what's the big advantage of i3?
I love this project and I love its name even more…!
Games already allow transfers in some cases - and usually in the exact opposite of decentralized - for example Nintendo and their Amibo or Pokémon with loading previous generation saves.
Interest rates act as an incentive or disincentive, but ultimately a government can't forever lend infinite credit to a population that doesn't pay its debts. America has certainly tried to extend her credit infinitely, and our parents and their parents got the best of that, but ultimately our credit as a country is tapering off.

Are you suggesting credit should be loosened again so you don't need 20% down to buy a property?
VR is the next 3D cinema. In theory it should be a better, more immersive experience. In reality, it just isn't.
> it's not a depreciating asset

Yes, they depreciate, and much faster than you imagine before you have seen it. This can be experienced in buildings in depopulated towns that have been vacant for only a few years. Houses that are not heated/vented/repainted/repaired become complete write-offs in just a few years. (and remodelling bathrooms and kitchens doesn't count.)

Maintaining a house at equilibrium is a negative cash flow that grows over time.

The same is true for infrastructure such as roads, water, sewage, and so on.
> Or if they may become a psychopath who wants to see you dead - in the name of self-defense, of course. Or if they think that you are a psychopath who wants to see them dead. Or if they think you may become a psychopath who wants to see them dead.

These assumptions better be strongly supported by evidence, if one's going to decide to get their country annihilated by attempting a first strike.

Striking first won't protect the country from a hypothetical future attack, it will just make it happen now. I don't really see a sane reason to do it if the threat isn't considered immediate.
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I guess my main question here is: why will it be so close to the real experience?

Why wouldn't everyone make it the most engaging virtual car driving experience they can find, what incentive is there to make it "real" in this useful way?

I mean, I get that it's necessary for this to happen for the whole pitch to make sense, but it's just nonsense. Why these weird religious beliefs about 3D stuff, including product placement, which seem to magically behave differently than the 2D versions we've been living with for decades now.

I am just incredibly confused by this. Is it like NFTs where we aren't supposed to believe the cover story and the wink-wink acknowledgement of the grift is a in-joke/cultural thing?
Anyone who thinks denser housing will lower housing costs has not been to cities with dense housing.
Because everyone told me to blame the government.
Or perhaps they just aren’t that good? Because they might have poopoo-ed the risks at one time, at another time they have also inflated the risks to the point of making people think a positive test is a death sentence.

In addition to flat out lying about that Chinese lab, of course.
I think they are discounting that there would be anything new at all in a "Metaverse" offering driving compared to what exists today in gaming. Of course you can have fun with virtual driving, there already exists a plethora of ways, from realistic-ish high speed racing in Gran Turismo to wacky racing in Mario Kart to realistic-ish long-form driving in Truck Simulator.
> why not try something out?

Because there is no other choice, so if it is a bad one everyone will be stuck with it.

But most importantly, because the ones that are pushing for it do not get to suffer the consequences of its choices. If Munger was the first in line saying "I believe that this design is so good that I want to live there myself", I would at least say that he has the right to try.

I'd more than willing to hear about Munger's investments, where he has Skin in the Game. This project though is just plain bullshit.
People already drive cars in VR, in multiplayer with force feedback steering wheels and chair based motion platforms with a fairly decent but not perfect simulation. My main gaming activity right now is flying WW2 aircraft in VR in big multiplayer fights.

This is one of the articles main points this decentralised universe of cool shit you can do already exists. The question is whether interoperability actually brings anything useful.
Prepfully – get mock interviews from experts
That set is easily satisfied by giving up dynamic memory allocation. Barring compiler bugs or hardware errors, COBOL and Fortran in their original versions never ran out of memory (applications might report that a data set was too large to handle, but the OS knew how much memory the application needed and gave it to them), didn’t segfault, nor had double-free issues.

With 64-bit CPUs and virtual memory, that might even be a viable approach for some applications. You would have to decide up-front how many Foo’s, Bar’s, etc. to support, but you can set those limits very high (the old solution to that was to replace a card dimensioning some arrays and recompile)

Weird? Yes, for current thinking, but you would get a simple language.
I’m curious whether there’s a big overlap between people that the FBI is interested in and people who care about grammar. That’s not a flippant response: I’m genuinely curious if that is part of a shift towards white collar crimes (which could be welcome) and more generally criminal psychology.

I’ve been watching _The Wire_ and Idris Elba’s character sounds like a good overlap, but he feels very unusual (in fiction)--and definitely too careful about OpSec to use that kind of service.

More generally, there’s a lot of anecdotic evidence between problematic behaviour and low-level spelling details: one that is apparently better documented now is a correlation between insurance fraud and whether you capitalise properly the name of your employer on registration form.
>by definition, it has to become less affordable in the future.

Whoa. "By definition", investments have to go up after accounting for inflation?

I've never been convinced that any investment can go up faster than inflation forever. But you say they all do?

Also, I'm wondering what the phrase "you make housing an investment" means. Who makes it so? What do they do? How does it ensure it goes up?
I have seen this work in Panama City, Panama for one where zoning is almost all high density. Apartment prices have been flat to down for nearly a decade there despite high economic and population growth.
In a lot of ways web apps are more native and a better experience.

"Native" apps often bring their own file picker and their own camera control for no good reason.

Web apps use the native versions.

It's easy to run multiple instances of a web app simultaneously (maybe you need multiple logins or to refer back and forth between different screens). That functionality is likely missing in the native app.
Do things with them - not “go out side I want to use the computer” but actual activities involving you working hard - and not just the things you like. Kids playing Minecraft? Go visit an actual mine. Kids like racing games? Go to a racetrack or a monster truck rally. Rent a bobcat if you have land to use it on.