skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, small world. (Give M my regards?)

Logistics like international shipping are both a financial infra problem and an infra infra problem. I do think that the cost of small-scale shipping is going to come down to approach the ratable cost of volume in a shipping container (which, as you are aware, it is orders of magnitude higher than now), which will likely come from improvements primarily on the infra infra side.

Two companies to keep an eye on in this stack are Flexport and Shippo, among others.
I'm with you, but the vaccine is like 32$ per dose, so 64$ total and completely blows out of the water all of those in their effectiveness. A lot of those drugs also have quite the side effects, I don't think it's clear to me they are more/less safe than vaccines.

And then there's the issue that look how many choices there are? And it's still pretty unclear which of all of those is most efficient and how efficient exactly are they, so if you get Covid what do you do? Take 35 different cheap and maybe slightly effective drugs together in a big cocktail?

The other issue is they all mention requiring early treatment, but tests and other ways to detect Covid early aren't readily available or cheap, so do you now take this giant cocktail of mixed drugs every time you have a cold in case it turns out to be early onset Covid? Do you just take them all on a regular basis as a preventative?

My current personal assessment is that the vaccine still absolutely outshines all of these in every single dimension. I really wouldn't say we've found an actual cheap treatment that is truly effective and realistically easy to implement quite yet. While it does seem that we've found multiple vaccines that are.

P.S.: Side note, that website you link is the most random thing, they don't divulge anything about who they are, what's funding it, what's behind them, I only found an FAQ saying: Trust us we're a bunch of smart PHDs not looking for fame and remaining anonymous. Now I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that they are truly well meaning expert in the know, but I also find it sketchy as hell, why not actually disclose who you are and how the operation is financed?
It's really hard to use much of what Zuck says for reasonable analysis. Examples:

> I care about this existing, not just virtual and augmented reality existing, but it getting built out in a way that really advances the state of human connection...

> I think we’ll have hopefully an opportunity to shape the development of the next platform in order to make it more amenable to these ways that I think people will naturally want to interact.

I mean, how can you read stuff like this and not laugh?
Which means one should not trust that new and existing buildings are safe because of the mere existence of code or that there are competent people that exist to review and report.

The safety regulation did not work because of the 71 people that died in Grenfell. What would you say if you lived there yourself "ah thats just bad luck for me"? what would you say if you lived there yourself and were one of the people that was reporting to the regulators about the problems in advance "I trust this system, I'm glad this system is based purely on trust, trust works so well, all should trust building codes because they are CODES, I like codes, they are infallible, its so cool that people exist to review the codes as well. This happens so rare due to the codes and not from simply being an uncommon occurrence that challenges building standard."

I don't really understand what your perspective here is to be honest. Not being wrong?
This is a PR strategy from Patagonia. And it’s one that will play perfectly to their customer base.

There are a million businesses they could target as bad for the environment. Like, I don’t know, oil companies. Oil companies whose product they use to make their fleece.

Instead they go after a company that is moving to carbon neutrality, why? Because they don’t want to pay for advertising and would rather get free PR from the media, who also hates Facebook.
I think bicyclists are nuts trying to mingle in with relatively high-speed heavy metal boxes (vehicles). I think pedestrians are nuts to try and mingle with high-speed heavy metal frames (electric personal transport).
The problem is mainly with 99% of towels being ultra symmetric (up/down, left/right, front/reverse). When your towel is asymmetric, you can split it into zones for various things :)
I understand the negative reactions now.

I was not really interested in the confidential content of depositions, but rather on whether they were inadequate for a child/teen to be transcribing. Boolean-valued question.
as someone pointed out in another thread, and based on this other rendering, the bathroom-to-person ratio looks like 2 to 8

https://www.independent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/dormi...
The Amazon comparison is apt, but I think Apple shifting revenue from hardware to services is a better one.

Apple was able to catch the paradigm shift of us starting to use our phones for everything, and make loads of money by offering services to a captive audience and sharecropping opportunities to app developers.

Facebook tried to become a platform during the last paradigm shift and failed. Selling users to advertisers has been lucrative but clearly isn't as sticky as the platform model (which is why they have to keep buying up their competitors). So they're trying to push another shift to VR and be the platform for that.
I'm sure you could find some crazy ass on the internet preaching that. Patagonia isn't saying that. Plastic used to improve a product isn't bad, it's bad if it's made and the raw materials are gathered in a environmentally destructive manner. That's EXACTLY what Patagonia is trying to criticize. Environmental destruction as part of their supply chain. Do as little harm as they can and still make the best products they can. I'm not even a patagonia customer (sizes run too small for me) but their history of environmental activism should be celebrated IMO.
Ads on the Sacred Google Homepage
The famously ad-free google homepage has finally been violated by an add for pixel phones.
Remember that the Facebook renaming was for a very good purpose. It became clear as the company aged and grew that the initial name choice was quite poor, unfortunately in a lot of areas around the globe that name has a very negative association that wasn't obvious to Mark when he chose the name. The problem is that the word Facebook just happens to have a historical association with companies that don't respect your privacy - thankfully changing the name to Meta will let this company stand on its own merit. It's so Meta.

(Also, /s)
"Yes! And by whom was it reviewed? And what happened when they reviewed it? I'm guessing the answers are "government regulators"

I think you misunderstood the poster - 100 people burned alive because the regulators were asleep at the wheel. That tragic disaster is the only reason his building was checked for adequacy, and it failed, along with thousands of others.

Right now there are thousands of buildings which were built and sold in breach of fire regulation, and the apartment owners are being saddled with 100% of the bill even when they own 25% of the apartment. In some cases the cost of repair exceeds the value of the property.
English, for example, has two pronoun genders: animate and inanimate. The animate gender is further subdivided into two subgenders: masculine and feminine. Of course, none of this has anything to do with sex, unless you prefer to attempt reproduction with inanimate objects as many have instructed me to do using the imperative mood (literally "fuck it").
I think it's a business problem rather than a technical one, how do I get people to even know my website exists? Google Maps, Facebook pages, Instagram are your immediate choices.
Show HN: File Based API Mocking with Camouflage
My prior is that Proof of Work is a solid basis for an (inefficient and tautological) form of digital scarcity, or even a public random number generator, but nearly every crypto application outside of that seems to range from trivial, to mania, to downright fraud.

Assuming I do want to understand the DeFi landscape (and willing to suspend my disbelief some amount to do so), where is a good place to begin?
Came here to say the same thing :-)
Anyone know of a free(ish) software based on a very fast hashing algorith for checking large number of images?
My intention is to check for bit-rot and other unforeseen data corruptions between backup disks, I assume many others must have a similar use case.
I don't see automated everything becoming possible in our lifetimes, instead I see dystopian societal collapse due to climate shifts being much more likely.
This article is crap. It's impossible to even say what the author means by computation. I kept reading expecting to find some kind of there there (after all its in IEEE), but nope. Just abruptly ends with him calling himself a kook. Wow, did Rodney Brooks really write this?
Holiday is a good first step, but as others has said, go to the classics. Senaca, Marcus Aurelius etc
Fluvoxamine has been part of some (criticized) protocols

https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/math-plus...

https://www.treatearly.org/fluvoxamine
Yeah, but there is nothing guaranteeing that the common area amenities (rec room, multiple food options, libraries, etc.) won't be reallocated to additional dorm rooms or storage.
I wasn't making an exclusionary statement. Might-makes-right can also enable this behavior.
All three, but the last two are schwas: /ˈlʌfbərə/
TLDR, if you don't believe every conspiracy theory you're infantile.

Too absolutist? Goose for gander.
can you elaborate? I have a kid that soon may want to start with it.
should all phone companies now be able to advertise on it?
C with valgrind can be relatively safe. Sort of enforcing the safety outside of the language and into the surrounding tooling.

And sticking to some common heuristics goes a long way towards safety. Some people think it's impossible to write safe C, but you can.

So the answer is C.
Let's keep in mind that these micro revolutions apply mostly to the archaic US system and have been somewhat standard in other parts of the world.
Has a huge company ever rebranded themselves like this to a dream that they're so far away from delivering on? The Metaverse isn't an unfamiliar or abstract thing, it's well represented in movies and TV, and it's a pretty dramatic territory to claim: full sensory immersion in an infinite, interactive world. No one has gotten even a fraction of those things "right" and a social media company is gonna bet the farm on it because they bought a company that made VR goggles?
Recycling plastic drinking bottles into something useful, like a vest, instead of letting them go in a landfill sounds pretty needed to me. They aren’t creating plastic.
This is a problem in general (not just FB) but, here are some apps I'd like to run on a VR device (Quest) but I don't want FB/Meta or anyone else to record that I'm running them or how often.

NSFW

https://www.patreon.com/meshedvr

https://sexgames.citor3.com/

http://www.illusion.jp/preview/honey2_dx/

This is also a reason I will personally never buy an adult game from Steam. I don't want my gamer account and my sexual preferences to be linked.

Let me also add that inside out tracking means effectively the device is filming me in various states of undress and I have to trust that they aren't collecting any of that data for "quality assurance" etc...

And with FB/Meta, that same data is data that's used to connect me with my Mom and family on FB. No, just, no!
The dorm I lived in undergraduate had a suite system and it would be my preference though not all rooms were singles (and they generally had usable windows).

The dorm was recently renovated. Curious what they did to the interior design.
Yeah its happening because fintechs are getting around the rules that were introduced on the traditional banking system. Anti money laundering, KYC, loan regulations, rules to open branches in certain demographics, dodd-frank etc - all this stuff isn't free, the traditional banks are drowning in rules and regulations. I know I used to work there.

Of course you can create a simple service that ignores all those rules and it'll be cheaper.
They all share extremely limited scope, which is helpful.
Overall this new focus suggests to me that Facebook (Meta) sees limited potential future growth of their social media properties as such, and needs to look to new markets to sustain future growth.

However, it is very rare for companies -- especially large, established ones -- to succeed in pivoting themselves to deal with new market realities and ways of doing business. The entrenched interests and culture inside these organizations tend to resist significant change. There's an irony that the bigger the company, the less power a CEO actually has.

Time will tell if they succeed.
For anyone curious about whether recycled plastics in clothing have less environmental impacts than primary raw materials, they do [0].

[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09213...
Most comfortable middle class kids who get nice tech jobs will have no idea what it's like. None.
It's worth pointing out that, in linguistics, grammatical gender can be seen as a specific type of noun class system. The term is mostly useful when talking about Indo-European languages where the feminine-masculine distinction is most prevalent

It's also worth noting that grammatical gender evolves over time. Originally, most Indo-European languages had the three classes of feminine, masculine, and neuter. But, for example, French's loss of the neuter class is pretty recent. We're also seeing modern efforts to drive these processes with, for example, the usage of the gender-neutral term "Latine" instead of "Latino" or "Latina".
Also needs someone with a stopwatch shouting “60 seconds…50 seconds…”. Ideally a blonde with large shoulder pads, but could be the second character in item 1.
>it's like, everyone still knows who you are

"Yes, we know who you are."[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOrbrjBQf7Y
If they would have just stuck to this strategy, there would have been a lot less drama around the Quest 2 and more sales.
Eugenics has obvious issues when applied to mature individuals or groups, but I'll need convincing that the same moral position is warranted if we're talking about cells.
Weren't BBS (Bulletin Board Systems) lame before Facebook, too?

BBS > List of features
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system

Metaverse > History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse

TIL there's a VR version of Flight Simulator 2020 and it has the best Earth model of any game. Is that a metaverse?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator_(20...

> Flight Simulator simulates the topography of the entire Earth using data from Bing Maps. Microsoft Azure's artificial intelligence (AI) generates the three-dimensional representations of Earth's features, using its cloud computing to render and enhance visuals, and real-world data to generate real-time weather and effects. Flight Simulator has a physics engine to provide realistic flight control surfaces, with over 1,000 simulated surfaces, as well as realistic wind modelled over hills and mountains

AFAIU, e.g. Microsoft Planetary Computer data is not yet integrated into any Virtual Game World Metaverses? An in-game focus on real world sustainability would help us understand that online worlds are very much connected to the real world. https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/applications

https://github.com/TomAugspurger/scalable-sustainability-pyd... describes how that can be done with Python code.
how does that work? genuinely curious. so sure, its a fake investment where you can hide money from the irs..but if actually does turn out that no one wants to 'buy' your number for 5m what have you gained?
Well, the page for MeowHash is written in 2018.

xxHash Performance Comparison page is last updated in 2021, and in that page XXH3 is faster than MeowHash:

https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash/wiki/Performance-comparis...
I’ve noticed Google maps building out functionality of listings — e.g. deals and news embedded directly in the little pop up when you click on it (at least on mobile). Would hope this might be a viable alternative?
As you note, students are at-risk for depression and suicide in today's existing student living quarters.

We don't know whether or not a community focused living design would help or hurt in this regard.

The covid/contagion question is interesting, because we DO know that designing for contagion safety is seemly inherently at odds with designing for social/emotional safety.

I think there's no clearly superior solution here, which tells me that building both types of systems would at least help further our understanding of the issues.
"Cookie cutter" apartment complexes are waaaaay nicer than this, including literally about 10X the square footage per inhabitant, and way more windows. Dunno what you're talking about.
>Being paid to do a job isn't public assistance.

It is when the government decided to outsource a core function (defense) to private industry, solely to enrich people like the CEO of Lockheed Martin.

The head of Medicare makes $450k, why does the head of a company who basically does a government function make 60x that, if not because the US has decided to offer MASSSIVE public assistance to a very small group of already wealthy people?

EDIT: And my point in all of this which you seem to be missing, is that why do you care SO MUCH about the tax revenue that goes to poor people, when you write off much larger amounts of tax revenue that go to rich people? Is it because you think that spending that money to reward people who enable wars in the Middle East is a less bad outcome than some dude doing smack?
> Meta is going full in on the metaverse... so that's going to be hitting some critical mass fairly soon (less than a decade).

That's a stretch. Tech history is littered with big companies who went hard on a technology only for their attempt to flop. See: Newton, Virtual Boy, Windows Phone, and most recently Google Stadia. There's also little reason to think that CEO Mark Zuckerberg of 2021 is as in-touch with the what the public wants and tech trends as college student Mark Zuckerberg was in 2004.

Edit: Another way to look at is: Has Facebook ever launched a product as successful as their primary business?

They've acquired some wildly successful properties (I'm thinking Instagram & WhatsApp) - but their in-house product efforts outside of Facebook itself have either flopped or been marginal at best - Facebook Phone, Facebook Portal. Oculus might be the exception - for now - but there's healthy competition in the VR headset space and the market isn't yet big enough for a "metaverse" to be widely accessible like the Facebook website was in 2004.
I have used this for some of my web apps, and it has been really great to have them in the store. However, Apple has given me a hard time on some of my apps since it is against their rules if your app doesn't provide additional utility over a website.
Meaning that it loads quickly, doesn't mess up scrolling or history, has no paywall or obnoxious popups etc etc... ?
The same happened with a hand full of cryptos with either "meta" in their name or ticker. Funny how one can utilize this as a trading strategy.
Same thing with verb agreement. While noun classes/gender are relatively rare and many language families do not have them, verbal agreement is much more common. Most though not all languages have verbs that agree with the subject, and quite a few with the object, too. Even English (which lost its Latin-style morphology long ago) retains a trace of this with its single verb inflection: "I run." vs "He runs." So in a partially heard phrase like "I would like to meet the ... who run the company", you know that the grammatical number of the noun you missed must be plural. Grammatical gender for nouns is doing something similar.
It means the CDC recognizes that the vaccine is not effective for 14 days, so other known treatments (e.g. fluvoxamine) during that period can be helpful.
See this comment I wrote 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17398314

Her brother was a good, hard-working, enterprising dude. The situation basically broke him, and not just financially. He was always a "manly man", a strong head of his household, but he and his family had to go live with his mother. The whole situation was so sad, and for nothing - a handful of Modesto cops saw an opportunity to get free shit.
I assume he means cognition without classical computation, but that's non-controversial already-- we mostly agree (minus some holdouts) that processing units are also memory units. Whatever else he could mean is not clear to me.

Also, there is very good indirect evidence that cognition is computational: https://direct.mit.edu/jocn/article-abstract/3/2/190/3022/De...

You can multiply these sort of examples dozens of times.
Something I feel more and more is that a lot of our brain capability is related to whatever form of memory exists in it. Things are hard if you can't remember them fully, you're smart if you can absorb a lot.

Space/Density/Regularity (self similarity helping here) are somehow universal I believe.
:( it's the second time today I've read the 'F' word on HN. I usually don't encounter it here which makes me like this community more.

I'm not a leader of this community so my opinion doesn't matter but as a fellow human I'd like to request that you use another word to express yourself. I know this is subjective but I wanted to share this with you. In any case, I hope you have a good day :)
In your own network usually
Gender in German is an incredible pain. There are rules for about 50% of the words, e.g., a word that ends in "ung" like Beleuchtung is always feminine. The other 50%? It's a guess.

After a while I concluded it must be a defensive mechanism designed to detect and repel foreigners. As evidence I adduce the fact that some words change genders between regions. Well-known example: die Butter and der Butter depending on where you are from. [0]

[0] https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Butter
> We want to help parents have kids when it otherwise wouldn’t be possible.

Sounds to me like those eggs are bound to become mature individuals.
Whats the advantage of this over Capacitor (https://capacitorjs.com) from the Ionic team?

Capacitor supports notifications and would be more extendable going forward I think. Although maybe more work upfront?
Um… nope: Most european states have much bigger governments than the US, and none of them that I know of have these ridiculous civil forfeiture laws. This is just straight up corruption.
The Sgaw Karen language from Thailand and Burma has a system of what I've always called classifiers, but reading this, it sounds like they might be properly called genders too?

Everything is classified into one of a bunch of classifiers, where a bunch might be a few dozen? Maybe hundreds, I'm not sure.

Some really common ones:

Rational beings like people, God, angles, etc. = "gha" (but not spirits, demons, ghosts, etc.; they are animals)

Flat things like the earth, plates, leaves, fields, the sky, etc. = "bae" (but modern Karens sometimes use "round" for the earth and moon instead)

Round things like balls, houses, rocks, a person or animals head, eyes, etc. = "pler"

Long skinny things like a stick, snake, road, etc = "bo"

Most kinds of animals = "doo" (but fish and birds are flat, and insects are round)

These words show up all over the place in basic grammar. Like "5 cows" would be "cows 5 doo". Sometimes they stand in for the actual name of what you're talking about, for example you might say "this cow" as "ta doo ee" and drop the word for cow entirely.