skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're more or less right on your reasons.

I do have add-on thought as far as demand shifts contributing to price increases; A lot of the demand was driven by people wanting to move into bigger houses. Those who didn't have enough equity built-up early on could just tack what they wanted onto their selling price and hope for the best.

One more interesting anecdote; In my neighborhood, housing prices have stayed relatively flat since summer of 2020. There are other nearby cities where the prices have increased more, however they often do not have the same property tax rates as where I reside. (prop Taxes are over 1/3 of my monthly 30y mortgage payment, lol)
Yes! we think alike. I am planning to implement a database to store this info. I think it would be super interesting to see the result! From an extremely limited data set (Twitter), I see many people are reporting Inconsolata being their winner.
I posted this here in hope more people would be aware of the long term risks involved with SSRI, which are often not discussed from the doctors. These symptoms might only appear after the withdrawal.

Some manufacturers and healthcare organisations are being to label this as a potential side effect. You can find a one line warning on NHS website now.

People take the drug are usually desperate and at their most vulnerable periods in life. It’s very risky to make life-changing decisions, more so without complete knowledge.

Doctors usually won’t even listen to cases of PSSD by simply attributing the SD as remission of depression. But there’re some recent studies on how SSRI could change neutral receptors in a non-reversible way, which could be the potential mechanism.
Interesting perspective and point.

Is there a potential risk there for companies with class action suits? Or will the arbitration clauses/class action waivers found in terms of services prevent that from happening?
Why not? I'd like to see them. I also think that if you're going to make grand claims like that, you should include links so that readers can make up their own minds.
This is highly frightening.

Run.

Don't let your kids get sucked into this. If they are already, rescue them. If your parents have been captured by Zuck and his minions, get them out. Go outside and look at a tree. Reality is fine as it is.
I wonder who they paid to come with that one. Now they'll further push into making humans slave to the machine. More ads, More AI. More human mining. More content pollution. It's just a big ass ad factory. Its very easy to control sentiment using content bots / farms and convince people to drink the koolaid under the false pretense of bringing them together when in reality all they want todo is serve you more ads and sell your views to the marketing companies who target you everywhere. 2-cent.
Saying bye to Facebook: why companies change their name
> This kind of cross-cutting issue is very challenging for even the best run organizations to deal with

Do you specifically mean local governments here when you say organizations? If he were the CEO of Long Beach, Inc, and you were a shareholder, would you consider any of this to be reasonable?

> Also consider for a minute how blindingly obvious it is, in retrospect, to know that containers can -- and should -- be stacked 3+ high

I don't believe that the mayor of Long Beach has never seen a fully-loaded container ship. A good first question might be "Why can we stack them 9-high on a ship that traverses the Pacific ocean but only 2-high on land"?
The Immersive Web, not the “metaverse”
I forgot to add ruining the "fabric" of society, as the media and politicians love to say about whatever X is doing that. I have no idea what the "fabric" of society is supposed to be. But I'm pretty sure it was already "ruined" by tv, rock & roll and video games.
I did not realize even the short term affects where that prevalent. Terrified of the long term ones now. It definitely happened to me on citalopram. And now on escitalipram. I have been experimenting with adding DHEA and ginseng from my doc and I think its helping a bit.
Thank you.

I didn't know that epicycles had the creative expressiveness to generate elephants, I'm impressed, and I'll have to dig into that - sounds interesting.

I thought that Ptolemy's epicyle ideas were defeated precisely because they were not able to explain observations.
I'm running my home network IPv6-only since some time and it works fine thanks to DNS64/NAT64. I think once more ISPs start offering DNS64/NAT64 internally the transition will be quite unnoticeable for endusers.

Software that still does not work because it uses hardcoded ipv4 addresses or sockets: Steam, WoW (probably many other Games too), node/npm (before version 17), but for the most part it works! The offenders can also mostly be fixed using clatd.
Have you heard of Dash? Makes it easy to download and search doc sets, as well as subsets of Stack Overflow.

Guessing you might’ve, given how much effort it looks like you’ve put into this, but if not, it’s worth a look. Integrates really well with Alfred.
I have never heard about ‘command -v’ before this article. Guess I’m just incompetent.
> It's that money from government came from my wallet

Did it though? Government spending != spending your wallet money. Because money is fungible, I can easily make the case that all of your tax dollars went to whatever you value in government, and that we borrowed the rest of the dollars to pay for these beneifts.
> How much would it cost to just send every one of them an Oculus headset for free?

That's the wrong question.

The right question is "how many FB users would accept a free headset that advertisers paid for in exchange for access to your data and exclusive rights to place ads in front of you?"
It was predicted by a lot of people with experience in supply chain management or business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect

Basically - complex systems behave in complex ways. When you have a small shift in consumer demand, it gets amplified up the supply chain, such that you need potentially big shifts in the production of intermediate components. We had a big shift in consumer demand. The supply chain basically can't cope, and so we get chaotic behavior until consumer demand normalizes and revised sales forecasts get propagated up the supply chain.
$180K puts you well within the top 20% in income. pay is not the problem. in fact, trying to solve politician quality by increasing pay would likely worsen the problem by misaligning incentives even more. also the assumption that the best and the brightest are managers at tech companies is amusingly naive.
It's nicest when people don't nominate their own posts, but plenty of users do that as well.
I currently have a massive full tower PC that's water cooled and to be honest I hate it. Its great for gaming but otherwise I think I would much rather have a small mini-ITX pc like this that can be portable, and when I need to run demanding code I can just use a VPS.
> To make it clearer, you could imagine an alternate version of C that aborted the program if an integer overflowed. Then there would be no undefined behavior at all - but the optimization is still possible.

The optimisation wouldn't be possible in that case because then the program wouldn't abort when the integer overflowed. It would break the defined behaviour that overflow=abort.
Often, Hacker News sentiment winds up terribly wrong. With that in consideration, Metaverse will probably be huge and is worth considering.

Is it going to be a walled garden? To what extent will it be open?
Final 2 were JetBrains Mono and Fira Mono for me. I chose to hide the names until the last 2. The winner was Jetbrains Mono.
heck, I have an epyc on an almost-ITX (https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=R...) board now, and any of the noctua TR4/SP3 tower coolers will cool it fine.
Probably Fahim Saleh:

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/police-arrest-assistant-tech...
Is "NIFO" really the right way to do accounting? If you sell the government one aircraft carrier, the cost of producing a second one will be much lower, so NIFO doesn't seem to fit there.
At least now we know that public health care experts cannot be trusted to make predictions
I think maybe a Roku Streaming Stick 4K will do everything there except the USB? (I don't have one but have been considering one; I have a 5-year-old LG Blu-Ray player that covers USB and DLNA pretty well).
While you are not wrong, it isn't 100% true either. The problem has long been recognized in various forms and solutions have been developed. I did a factory tour a few years back for a local major manufacture (I work for them but I won't say who...), and there were signs all over "stop the line: you have the power!" to remind workers when they see something wrong they have the power to stop everything until it is fixed. It doesn't happen often, but more than once a worker has seen a part that looked "off" stopped the line and had a full investigation done. Sometimes it was determined things were okay, but other times the wrong alloy was used if the part had gone to a customer it would have been an early failure.

Of course the above is only able to fix local issues. It doesn't really leave any way for someone to say "we will have a bottleneck here if something else goes wrong"...
Fahim Saleh:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/nyregion/dismembered-body...

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

> links to a Discord server
Must also take into account that many industrial processes are not easily restartable. Even if only shut down for 1 day or 1 week, it can take multiples of that length of time to ramp back up to 100% output rate. Complex factories do not switch on and off like a lightswitch.
I wouldn't pay for reviews. I feel that it's wrong, sort of like fraud. I have a couple small apps. I like to see the honest feedback. I have even used the comments to help me add new features.
You can still be damaged by a drug even if you are not addicted to it.
you can also use rollercoaster tycoon to model the collapse of the human psyche when trapped in a haunted funhouse

Turn on infinite money cheat

Build a cool park, make sure it has lots of wild rides

Clone the save file

Let park A run for a year and change nothging

Remove all exits, food stalls, and bathrooms in park b and runf or a year

post results for a year. be sure to show that the happy meteres.
oh, you wanted the metadata and not the Meta data says Zuck on his next congressional grilling
> > the whole process of understanding one's personality, how they think, and whether or not they'll be a fit for the company

It's a chute you shovel crap into (or out of), with no justifiable expectation of useful results. The interview process as a whole is a crapshoot, but the process of understanding the candidate is a crap chute.
Yeah, this is probably because macOS has done something very, very weird, and added an executable `/usr/bin/command` to the system. These are the contents on the old MacBook I have for work right here:

#!/bin/sh
# $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/alias/generic.sh,v 1.2 2005/10/24 22:32:19 cperciva Exp $
# This file is in the public domain.
builtin `echo %{0##*/} | tr \[:upper:] \[:lower]` ${1+"$@"}

If you have SIP disabled, try renaming `/usr/bin/command` to `/usr/bin/command.wtf` and see if `tcsh` still acts like there's a `command` command.
Fear is normal when is justified! Fear prevents people to get killed by avoiding doing dangerous shit. But feel free to be courageous and go visit someone with COVID and then visit your entire family/friends, prove them all that is all fake and there is nothing to be afraid.
The pandemic may be the proximate cause. But Petersen is saying the sufficient cause is

Modern finance with its obsession with "Return on Equity."

With a more robust economic system not so beholden to return on equity, this may not have happened even given the pandemic. Without such a robust system, other proximate triggers can cause similar effects.
I mean that they'd switch to chronological mode

They 'd have to moderate somehow. In this new world, if it is OK to force porn sites to get the ID card of everyone who posts videos, then HN should also be able to moderate user submissions.
I can't emphasize this enough. When I see dang gently remind folks to not engage in ad hominem, or post thoughtful explanations of why controversial comments or articles were left up or taken down, I am encouraged to be a more thoughtful contributor on the internet.
Meta Founder's Letter 2021
A fallacy that might be at work here is comparing the shutdowns that actually occurred with a counterfactual world where business activity remained essentially unchanged.

We'll never know for sure, but I doubt that's the correct comparison. Even without government-mandated shutdowns, many areas--especially major urban cores--would still have experienced massive shocks as people voluntarily shifted to working from home, stopped going out to eat, etc. In other words, much of what the government did through law would likely have happened anyway out of fear and individuals exercising their common sense.

Sure, it wouldn't have been exactly the same, but I think the counterfactual is much less rosy than you assume. And then there are the benefits of the shutdown which helped to direct the drop in activity towards less essential parts of the economy and increased predictability, to say nothing of the benefits of reduced viral transmission.
Hopefully this does irreversible damage to Facebook and they have to sell off chunks of their monopoly to survive.
> The Lancet letter was very effective in terms of defining the narrative and branding lab leak as a conspiracy theory. It took a while for the letter to be recognized as more advocacy than science. Proponents of the lab leak theory (Tom Cotton) were unattractive to the Washington Post and other media sources who were happy to label them as conspiracy theorists.

A certain foreign government might have had interests in having the lab leak theory dismissed as a conspiracy. I'm wondering if The Lancet and Washington Post might have been swayed in that direction by investors/employees with double allegiances who were interested in said foreign government "saving face" so to speak.
In normal times, people mostly shrug off biological transfer with other people. Maybe you avoid the odd symptomatic person who comes to work anyway, but you don't act as if everyone else is trying to get you sick. This allows for close working conditions, less sanitary practices, etc. The pandemic invalidated this assumption, requiring workers to become less efficient in response. This is the fundamental dynamic - the secondary effects of denial/overcompensation created additional problems.

It also didn't help that everyone was expecting an economic slowdown, and then the government gave trillions of dollars to corporations to juice the stonk market. The resulting price signals induced a ton of aggregate demand for production capacity that simply wasn't there.
>what 3D engine is this going to run on?

>Is that engine open source?

That would be up to the implementers similar to how there are different browser engines.
> Sending random crap to space without understanding the environment or failure modes would be extremely foolish.

Well, of course I'm exaggerating, but the point is: with low enough costs, you can afford to iterate on designs you previously had to do perfectly up front. Learning from failures becomes cheaper than having to predict every possible failure mode up front.
> I hope all the other players in this space band together and form an open, federated metaverse.

Seems unlikely. Google, Apple, and Microsoft would surely each want their own proprietary metaverses. Mozilla is experimenting in the metaverse space linking VR and web with Mozilla Hubs: https://hubs.mozilla.com/
It's their metaverse. A walled garden metaverse. So maybe that isn't really a metaverse, but what they want you to think about a metaverse.
The keynote feels like I'm watching an episode of black mirror.
Is a massless neutrino an axiom of the standard model, or is this somehow a simplifying assumption?
Can anyone here convince me AR/VR isn't a fad? If FB is headed towards a metaverse where our insane uncles can embed themselves further in a false reality, how is it that the rest of us sane individuals want to join their conspiratorial matrix?

Even taking out the crazy uncles, VR makes me insanely nauseous. What's more, it's very expensive to get solid VR that doesn't, nevermind it still looks terrible even if you have a high powered rig.

I could see solid VR occurring in the distant future, but it has so many ethical and technological downsides currently. I view it mainly as a fad to inflate stock prices, a fun toy for tech enthusiasts, but not a serious game changer.
He's lived a different life than nearly anyone else. Certainly so caught up in his responsibilities to Facebook that he's been unable to grow and change and branch out and fail, and be rejected and forced to reinvent or repurpose himself the way most people do. It's impossible to imagine what my life would be like or how my perspective would be different if I was caught in a bubble of a project I started in my late teens turning into a near trillion dollar success that only grew and grew from the moment I started on it.
Where I live the vast majority of people were deemed "essential" for the purposes of working and then not "essential" for the purposes of receiving the vaccine.

The places which were closed were not producing things used in the supply chain.
Their biggest achievement is that they made all those things so cheap and accessible. It really reinforces that newer, innovative or edgier tech (ie: Kinect) isn't always the right approach.
Have you forgotten the state of Italy and New York (among others) at the start and middle of 2020? There were literal trucks full of dead bodies in the streets because they couldn't be buried fast enough.

How do you envision the time between march 2020 and the point where herd immunity through vaccines / infection would have been sufficient would have gone without a lockdown?

I'll take a lack of a few non-essential luxury goods for a year or two over a world where everywhere looked like that, any day of the week.
VR and AR is still in its early adoption phase. It's too early to make any predictions about which VR/AR platforms or products will ultimately have mass market appeal. As an analogy, none of the biggest smartphone manufactures in 2004 really ended up mattering in the long run.
I also blinked at that. But then took it to mean constitutionally in a pure sense - whether they can keep a strength of belief enough to follow through. Unrelated to 'The Constitution' from a US citizen's point of view. Although now I'm pondering just how misplaced and powerful our reverence of that cobbled together document is.
Such experiments have been going on for decades.
https://ko-fi.com/ - one-off

https://www.patreon.com/ - recurring

https://github.com/sponsors - you can use it while contributing on other sites

https://www.paypal.com/
There are some great larger cases though. I’m a big fan of Lian-Li’s cases, although they can be massive, its design is good.
I just want to repurpose all of Yakov Smirnoff's jokes about Russia for the metaverse.
Not just assemble but actually bend/form the corners yourself.

Without the benefit of seeing it in the flesh, I fear either I would struggle to get accurate bends (which would annoy me for the rest of it's life) or the case has been made flimsy so it bends easily.

Beautiful web site and digging the orange though.
If you set a price and multiple people are willing to pay it then it can't be exclusive.
Glad to hear they're at least claiming their contribution to the metaverse will be built on open standards and protocols, I hope they follow through on that. Pretty sure nobody would want a walled meta-garden.
I might be a little more forgiving to their cause if they didn't drastically increase the price after it became popular.
Visualize Your JSON files
Mods, could we remove this? There isn't really any proof this the title is true, and there's actually quite some evidence that it's not.
Some of you may enjoy this website: https://www.helioviewer.org/ (use . and , to move through time)

Helioviewer.org is part of the Helioviewer Project, an open-source project for the visualization of solar and heliospheric data. The Helioviewer Project is funded by ESA and NASA.

Also this one: https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/

SDO: The Solar Dynamics Observatory is the first mission to be launched for NASA's Living With a Star (LWS) Program.

And that one: https://www.lmsal.com/isolsearch

iSolSearch -- a window into the Heliophysics Events Knowledgebase (HEK). iSolSearch and HEK are designed to guide heliophysics researchers to relevant solar data, and primarily to that acquired by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) with the Atmosperic Imaging Assembly (AIA) and the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI).

.nasa and .edu websites are my favorite rabbit holes to get lost into.
Ongoing related thread:

An unexpected victory: container stacking at the port of Los Angeles - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29026781

The previous stack:

Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28971226 - Oct 2021 (483 comments)

Flexport CEO on how to fix the US supply chain crisis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28957379 - Oct 2021 (265 comments)
It makes perfect sense, we are (most humans) visual creatures and color adds an extra dimension of information. Your issue sounds quite legit.
Nothing it’s just hysteria. There were some companies who made awful decision of canceling existing and future orders.

The suppliers and wholesalers have moved on to different products and customers.

Absolutely scummy companies like GM,Ford,VW and Stellantis are the culprits.

Also it doesn’t help the fact that California the most corrupt state in US history is fighting with the most corrupt dock workers Union in SF port.

Corruption, inefficiency and stupidity are creating mass hysteria.
According to their website, "Meta.org will sunset March 31, 2022".
They have a legal obligation to maximize shareholder profits. See Dodge v. Ford Motor Co.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
Peter Henderson on RL Benchmarking, Climate Impacts of AI, and AI for Law
I keep a pretty sharp eye on the apple job postings to see what type of people they're hiring. I think they've been working on something similar since about 2014. Around then I noticed they posted for, then hire a lot of optical engineers, (I'd look to find the hire on linkedin a while after the posting was gone) but people with odd skills for apple, contact lenses mostly, lasers, and then a bunch of people who had done PhDs around putting gas/liquid between plastic that can react with projected light.
UK study finds vaccinated people easily transmit Delta variant in households
When I read stuff like this I can't help but wonder how anything ever even gets done on this project. The amazing thing is 'which' was working perfectly fine for everyone. Just leave it alone? The amount of time they wasted on debating this is staggering compared to just not changing it.
Isn't it as simple as: to concentrate well - you need to remove distractions. Too much noise is distracting but, having zero noise is also distracting because inevitable something will cause noise and your attention will be drawn to it.

Hence why white noise is so effective because it's the middle of these two things.
Any new product announced? That's a long video.
Oh damn, didn't know that they stopped production. Seems like I got lucky then when I ordered mine last month. It is truly an amazing case!
The live-at-head model really only works well in a cloud computing or JIT environments. It really shouldn't have been a surprise to find that this model is unpopular outside of those narrow use-cases.