skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The IDK docs list several supported Roku TB models (not mine, though)...
Yes but you just can't sell it as a mattress
Censorship is also bad when communists do it, yes.
Yesterday, about an hour or two after the incident began, my kids and I were able to get into a Roblox instance with some unusual processes. (Logging into an account wouldn't work and some other website functionality was screwy, but if you were still logged in, you could do some things to get into some Roblox instances.)

A couple hours later, when trying to play Roblox again, our tricks no longer worked and we eventually gave up. But at least at the start, some could still play.
Is there an intrinsic relationship between n-dimensional spherical harmonics and the quantum mechanics of atomic electron clouds? Or just hydrogen?

Check out “the orbitron”: https://winter.group.shef.ac.uk/orbitron/
Facebook wants more power to censor ordinary people while platforming literal terrorists(Taliban associates, Iran proxies etc) at the same time.
My dog does this 100% of the time when I whisper the word treat. Probably has to do with sound.
I thought it's a clone of classic video game, Worms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms_(1995_video_game)
Likewise, I'm doing web stack consulting for several defi projects right now and the vast majority of what comes out of HN is straight up uneducated FUD.

This forum is pretentious on its good days, and when it comes to crypto it is just willfully ignorant.
This is significantly explainable in part by the steep decline in interest rates. People care more about the payment-to-income ratio than the price-to-income ratio.
What is the model # of your TV? I tried searching several of the TV model #s listed in their matrix and nothing came up.
Twitter and telegram are where most of the communities live.

There are thousands of people there more than happy to show you the ropes.
It tells you a whole lot about the composition of either end of the bell curve. It means that in a given population the shortest people are much more likely to be, say, Taiwanese (average aheight 5'3"), and the tallest Dutch (average height 6'½").

Edit: To your point about group taxonomy, usually precision is only available to a level where genetic markers are present and distinct. This in turn comes from groups not interbreeding. For instance, using 23andMe's taxonomy, Sweden belongs to the "Scandinavian" group and Austria belongs to the "French & German" group:

https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/212169298...
Hilarious and possibly true.
Thing is, you don't need a ton of "income" to buy real estate if you're e.g. Black Rock, and money is ridiculously cheap right now. And Black Rock knows inflation is coming so they're looking forward to paying an inflation adjusted dime on each borrowed dollar. This is the "Russian Oligarch" strategy through which all of them have gotten rich in the 90s. Borrow eye watering amounts of money, buy assets, pay back with currency inflated into nearly nothing a few years later. Voila, you now have an insane amount of assets for effectively free.

I bet it's also not just Black Rock that's doing this, and other 0.01%-ers with access to cheap, effectively unlimited, QE funds are pulling similar moves.
+it's quite nice not to have to fiddle with your TV inputs.
The CRPG Book starts shipping
Land is cheap in that part of South Africa, but certainly not that cheap. For reference, [1] is 231ha of almost undeveloped land listed for about $100000.

I suspect it is tax evasion or a nepotism deal.

[1] https://www.property24.com/for-sale/bloemfontein-rural/bloem...
Can Modern Monetary Theory finally be put into the coffin? We printed barely any more in comparison to their recommendations and the economy overheated immediately, so much so that the democrats are likely to be swept in 2022. Stephanie Kelton, the major figurehead of the money printing theory, has been totally silent. I heard her on NPR repeatedly:

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/20/958854717/modern-monetary-the...

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/09/02/rethinking-americas-...
"We found that since 1965, average home values have skyrocketed from $171,942 to $374,900 — a 118% increase. Meanwhile, median household income crept up just 15%, from $59,920 to $69,178 in 2021-inflation-adjusted dollars."

1965, you say? Real subtle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968#Title...

Here in California where I can't afford a home we amended the state constitution in 1964 to specifically overturn a 1963 state-level fair housing act and reinstate racial housing discrimination that wasn't overturned until a 1967 decision by the US Supreme Court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_California_Proposition_14
offtopic but are there any software modern library that allows you to transfter 56kbps data over any 8khz audio?
Thanks for those numbers. As a contrast, the lead content in lead-based paint can be up to 50% by weight for really old paint, down to 0.5% before lead was banned. A single house full of old lead paint can easily contain many kg of lead.

It's true that as long as that paint is in good condition and isn't disturbed, it's not harmful. However, paint deteriorates and chips, is disturbed when remodeled, etc. One tiny paint chip of old paint can easily have more lead than that Cessna dispersed around the airport, and it's concentrated in a single article.

There's a crap ton of lead paint still around and sooner or later it's going to be mobilized. It's a fiction to think that an EPA-approved hazmat team will be dispatched whenever one of these old houses are torn down or remodeled. I'm much more worried about paint than a little avgas spread out evenly across the landscape.
That’s just a “Meta”-discussion I’d say…
Finding Transcendental Numbers?
There are an infinite number of transcendental numbers in (0..1].

Is there a way to find these numbers? If so, is there a way to compute the first 100 digits?
Both of those are not literal terrorists as terrorism is defined as the use of violence on a civilian population for a socio-political purpose by a non-state actor

That last distinction is how the US itself doesn't get classified as terrorists but can classify Al Qaeda, etc. as terrorists.

But Iran proxies (who are government actors in Iraq at least) and the Taliban are government figures of their respective countries.
I don't find this a problem on foam mattress that aren't overly plush. On the other hand, I find that spring mattresses will occasionally have an undesirable wavelength that isn't conducive to sex.
The wolves of wall street know they're doing something bad and at minimum try to avoid getting caught, the wolves of crypto will tell you its fabulous medicine that'll save you from the big bad fed while simultaneously screwing you from all sides.
The 'allowing someone to take money from my account' mentality in the US has always struck me as weird framing and prone to abuse/trust issues.

In Australia, I initiate all of my payments on my side to the target account/company/etc. I am giving the money to you, not 'authorising you to take it' from my account. Having someone's bank account details only allows you to pay them, not request payments from them.
I think it's pretty daft to not consider an investment (by all of humanity, which I get is hard) which can improve efficiency by a lot, for all of time until we direct BMI.

At some point in the sliding scale it becomes worthwhile to care about and implement
If there were no coherent notion of physical & material, then we wouldn't have words for them.
I'm not clear on when the house as investment began. It seems clear that from the quality of the 50s era construction I live in that housing was though of in more utilitarian terms (ie put up cheaply and quickly). It seems like it was in the 80s in my area that you start to see much more custom and luxurious homes, but I'm not sure if the transition was more a cultural or economic one.
> "The metaverse is bullshit because it already exists, and it's called the internet

> Being 'inside' a virtual world was never really the important part"

Well, the facebook keynote presents a compelling argument how social interaction with VR can be more meaningful than through a 2D screen in many situations.

However, what IS bullshit, is the display of obviously fake demonstrations with highly experimental and expensive technology.

The reality is, most of the tech, won't be accessible or even productised for a long time, as they didn't even announce any planned dates...
And the good news is 4 foot LED tube lights are cheap, inexpensive to run and easy to mount with just two-sided tape. It’s a simple DIY project to mount LED tubes on the underside of a table and put that table on top of another table…and you can grow whatever you like. Plants won’t just survive but actually thrive and flower. Doesn’t look half-bad either.
Well based on the names you would think so.
But in fact BCCLA fights at the federal level regularly, and is far more active than CCLA.
BCCLA is way more effective and aggressive in pushing for meaningful change in Canada.
You would think so, but see my comment above
Thanks. I searched 'CDL Internet archive', saw the first link was https://archive.org/details/cdl titled the California Digital Library, and assumed that was it.
I'm convinced we're already living in a period of hyperinflation or we're very close. Governments can be quite creative in hiding actual inflation numbers (e.g. by not taking house prices or stock prices into the equation).

Once people realise what's happening with their income and savings, perhaps there might start a large movement towards crypto currencies. Also, with crypto ETFs available soon, I suspect institutional investors will also want to divert part of their holdings into crypto, if legally possible to do so.
Without even reading the article: you don't say! color me surprised!
Not a bad point! Similarly why dont we have electric heaters doing useful work rather than just jumping that energy immediately?
That would be twitter
Though a lot of the footguns in C are not due to its lack of safety but rather due to the decades of historical baggage it carries.
It would only be fair to write the Java version in JVM bytecode, in this style:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29036245
> I used hydrogen cyanide for the balloons at my birthday party, and I didn't hear anyone complaining afterwards

Wow, that got dark quickly.
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Maybe your kids are already reading books from The Uncensored Library server in Minecraft :)

Edit: son to kids.
> I'm not clear on when the house as investment began.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OEHRENWBSHNO :)
Is the innovation in this space for the individual trader or for the other firms that are buying the trade order data to frontrun the market?
My understanding is that higher dimensions have more “space”/“freedom” to perform moves and operations.

And of course, we can visualize anything 3D or less.
pretty sure there is a store in cryptovoxels
Yeah, people miss the good old times with “affordable” houses, forgetting that back then mortgage rates were 9% or something like that, making the payments just as unaffordable as they are today.
When a comment like this[1] with a complete historical account of the origins of C has to be written in order to explain a weird behavior, you know you have footguns.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28954260
I wonder, will they do this while simultaneously broadcasting my real name (as per RealName policies)?
Years ago, I used a Linux script from the vendor to upgrade my us robotics "56k message modem" from V90 to V92.

The result was a brick. Lifetime warranty or not, the vendor did not honor warranty. Thus I do recommend getting your modem elsewhere. By now, I'd expect OSHW solutions to be available.

Should anybody know how to possibly get past the brick, please let me know. A cursory glance inside years ago didn't yield anything that looked like a PROM.
Good lord, that graph looks far scarier than the 2008 bubble.
At least in my working history “prototype” is explicitly designated for the trash heap. Everything up to that point in your description sounds really good. Just… file your learnings, put all of the materials that lead to your findings in a graveyard, and make digging graves exactly that much effort.
Is Zuckerberg even any good at PHP?
The peninsula gets Hetch Hetchy water, San Jose mostly uses Delta water, and the East Bay gets water from the Camanche Reservoir. Mostly, anyway.
suprised that no one is talking about neosvr[1], even though I don't use it I definitely can see the appeal.

They have metaverse in their name. Their avatar system is beyond phenomenal and they keep adding new things [2].

[1] https://neos.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXdgnQ0cEKU
Background noise reduction in Google Meet
Nonsense. Investments should be profitable, but that profit doesn't have to take the form of capital gains. Plenty of businesses are profitable by using assets rather than by reselling them.

The exception of course is if it's impossible to make a profit using the asset. Rent controls are very effective in this regard: If you ensure that being a landlord yields no operating profit, the only incentive to buy property is if there's hope of future capital gains.
there's no net money transfer to these operations, and no one possibly believes that this was a real transaction.

it's much more likely that this was a practical joke, or an attempt to turn punk #9998 into a meme
The current state of gestation was the same state as of 10,000 years ago. I don't know how you can term it as untenable.

I wouldn't be so optimistic for lab-grown humans. If we are going to be selecting for the best physiological characteristics, we will inevitably end up with a far more homogeneous species. That, apart from all the genetic restrictions the powers that be will create in such an environment.
UK bank Lloyds announced plans to buy 50,000 houses and become one of the nation’s biggest landlords by 2030 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjkdyy9xgn3o
While I am familiar with many useful (or potentially useful) properties of different cryptocurrencies, avoiding investment crashes is most definitely not one of them.
You can buy a home with 3% down and a government guaranteed mortgage. Lending standards were much higher in 1965, with LTV limited to about 50%, meaning you needed a 50% downpayment. Mortgage rates were also around 6% then.

Obviously what you can afford with 50% down and a rate of 6% is very different than what you can afford with 3% down and a rate of 3%.

That extra borrowing power meant house prices were bid up, and with that houses became much bigger[1], roughly twice the size today than in 1965, and with more features (more bathrooms, more bedrooms, better wiring, more forced A/C, better insulation, etc).

I really wish people's knowldege of U.S. history would go a bit beyond civil rights.

For example, in inflation adjusted terms, new automobiles cost $23K in 1965 (today's dollars) but today it's about 40K, or nearly twice as much. I am hoping that this is also not explained in terms of the civil rights act, but rather it's understood that cars have a lot more features today than in 1965 and it is much cheaper to obtain credit for buying them.

[1] https://www.newser.com/story/225645/average-size-of-us-homes...
I think this post suffers from lack of imagination, but it is very right in two things: portability in the metaverse will never really work, and virtual interfaces won't really be pervasive because simply put they're not better.

We've had video calls for decades now, but people still use text messages because not everything needs to be a video call.

Likewise, we'll keep using text chats because not everything needs to be VR.
> how does it handle ever-changing business-requirements that can retroactively apply to existing objects and associations

If the change is backwards-compatible:

1. Update the schema definition

2. Run codegen

3. Done

If it’s not:

1. Create a new field/assoc

2. Double-write data to the new and old fields/assoc

3. Backfill data from the old one to the new one

4. Delete the old one

5. Done

> I assume each TAO object can be treated as a keyed blob with type-name (i.e. a 3-tuple of (id, type, blob) ) - in which case using an RDMBS is overkill and introduces many overheads, so why use an RDMBS?

I believe data is stored in tuples, same as most other graph DBs. I can’t speak to why MySQL in particular.
Plenty of investments lose value, so that isn't a working definition.
Years ago I had a conversation with my brother, when his son was a few months old. At some point I mentioned something along the lines of "he [the infant] thinks such-and-such", and he countered with "he doesn't think, he doesn't have any language".

It's unlikely that this statement was informed on any sort of linguistic basis, as he's not the kind of person who would read such things (he's more of the artsy type, not the "hacker" type), it was just intuitive to him. I think it is for many people, including me, but the human sense of "intuition" on these things is not always equally accurate.

This is kind of similar to how many people have an intuitive sense of dualism, that the mind and body are two separate things. This concept is highly unlikely, but for almost everyone – myself included – it's very natural, hence the gazillion stories about people swapping bodies and whatnot.
3 hour video with no timestamps, a minimal description, and comments turned off?
You join those dots like the arrival of "Avatarism" is something obvious and inevitable, but reading that blog post doesn't give me that idea at all. Instead, it makes me think the author is way, way too deep into a too-long list of very niche technical and sociological obsessions.

A quote:

What is Avatarism?

Avatarism is a movement to recognize and protect the fundamental human right of freedom of form

Yeah, except that right doesn't exist, and no-one thinks it exists. At all.

The idea that an entire civilisation is going to agree to all use VR goggles full time to preserve some non-existent "right" for a very small number of weirdoes to only ever be seen as their cartoon fantasy version is, frankly, laughable.
Maybe try thinking about it for a moment instead of resorting to the boring heuristic of assuming Americans are dumb zealots treasuring rights because they are brainwashed.

People like you need to stop saying things like "I understand citizens need the right to voice their opinion without fear of government repression" because this is exactly the opposite of what you want. You want views that you consider objectionable to be subject to government repression. You don't have to qualify it, just admit it.

The reason people oppose restrictions on freedom of speech are fairly obvious to anyone who has thought about the question for more than 5 minutes. The moment you start deciding which speech is and isn't legal, you have now established a mechanism to censor. Ban 'hate speech', those who define the term now control the boundaries of allowable speech, and you can guarantee bad actors will seek those powers and abuse them.
*meta is excited
As the article says, it doesn't make sense to have a virtual world that replicates the real world where there is only one "spacetime" entity, so to speak. The author is right, the metaverse is already here and it's called the internet.

I disagree with the author that I can see a lot of value in improved social interactions and virtual workspaces in VR once the technology gets there. You can already see glimpses of it with today's hardware and software. And, it makes sense the VR/AR will be the medium to contain all other mediums. But, that doesn't mean that we need to live in "metaverse" as defined by Neal Stephenson or how Zuck imagines it.

Yes, you'll be able to create your Facebook (or Meta) avatar, and use it to log into work meetings and social events - but that's not much different than using Facebook Login today. There are already a bunch of siloed social experiences in VR, like Facebook Horizon, VRChat, Altspace and Rec Room.

I don't see FB or any other of these apps moving to open protocols that would allow decentralization and federation, just as todays "2D" social media companies, including all the ones owned by FB, aren't doing it.

If Zuckerberg is serious about a federated metaverse and open protocols, he should start by opening up Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.

In the end, the metaverse will be the internet, but mostly experienced through the medium of VR/AR.

Edit: Typos
Needs log scale. Inflation is exponential.
I much prefer Stratechery analysis than this type of low-blow entertainment.
As economist Michael Hudson explains, banks will lends as much as they are able to, and that pushes property prices up. They're now 40-50% of income in places like San Francisco and New York.

Paying more for housing means less for other expenses, so it's a net drain on the economy. If we can lower costs to people the economy could be more competitive.
Rooting your phone means you obtain root access to the device, bypassing carrier restrictions. It does not mean you run it as root user day to day. That would indeed be insecure.

Rooting is not incompatible with security. Trusting carrier distributed software on a locked down device is far less secure than using a custom install of something like Calyx or GrapheneOS.

In my view, trusting Google, Apple, Verizon, t-mobile, or at&t is incompatible with security.

The idea that people having administrative access to their own devices is inherently insecure is vicious anti-consumer nonsense.
There are two adult brothers somewhere in New York City. They have both of the same parents. One of them is 5'3" and the other one is 6'½". What's the probability that one of them is Dutch and the other one is Taiwanese? If your answer wasn't zero I would like to see your work.
Florida Bars State Professors from Testifying in Voting Rights Case
Yeah flying clubs and/or experimental aircraft are the way to go, cost wise. There are some complications for learning to fly that way, but it can be much cheaper. We estimate the hourly cost of operation for our Sonex (https://www.sonexaircraft.com/) is $35/h.
What is it that seems technologically advanced about life in the US? Last time I visited (5+ years ago admittedly) this was not the feeling I had. Buildings and transport resemble the 1970s or earlier, and phone / internet / payments is way behind the rest of the world.
Technically correct, the best kind of correct when talking about inflation curves
My main question is, how many of these products are actually safe to be using to grow food? How many contain heavy metals or dangerous particles that just haven't been tested for?
The '50s was a bit of an aberration, because the massive influx of soldiers coming home caused an extreme housing crunch, especially if you consider that there wasn't a whole lot of housing being built in the decade before the war due to the Great Depression. It was also exacerbated by moving from multigenerational living in the 30s to the nuclear family in the 50s.
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Six by nine. Forty two. That’s it. That’s all there is.
Yet you're still here commenting.
As if we didn't have similar problems in the entire developed world...
Facebook's database is distributed - it's not as simple as "updating the schema definition" because that process-step alone is non-trivial with many cases to consider.