skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I can't speak for them but it seems that they are aware. I think overall teaching kids to be aware of these issues and addiction in general is a lot healthier in getting them to make long-term positive choices.

It is one thing in general to tell a kid they can't do something because it is bad for them, but helping kids and teens understand how they can be exploited and to recognition their own addictions may help them build some longer term experience in the future that they can then reflect on if they encounter the same obstacles as opposed to only hearing the negatives but not having any real less harmful experience to build from.
Metaverse seems backwards because it’s adding skeuomorphism back to social networks.
TL:DR sheltered billionaire thinks that giving someone a shitty place to live will make them get out more.
Why does Signal has an organizational entity in the US? I thought they were Swiss or something.
Aw - I remember Cow Clicker. I wonder what happened to all that stuff.
Your original point was that a country doesn't "decide" to make an asset class appreciate or depreciate. I just gave you an example that the country can decide it can make an asset appreciate. In Australia's example it can make investors take more risks.

Did you also forget that the US govt created Fannie_Mae so that banks could issue more home loans, guess what happens when you issue more loans to more people, house prices go up.
What a snarky reply. Don't know if you get off on things like that, but I hope it increased your mood.
Wuhan Institute of Virology has been performing and publishing bat coronavirus research. The research used to (at least partially) be funded by US NIH grant money through an entity called EcoHealth Alliance.

A decent summary, albeit a lengthy read (published this summer, but so far still correct AFAIK): https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...

(Personally, I’m not so sure the grant is so damning. Perhaps this research is banned in the US, but as one of the papers published said it “could help prevent a future pandemic”, and either way it has nothing to do with potential BSL-4 non-compliance that could have caused a leak. What is unfortunate is the apparent obstruction of the study of the origins of COVID outbreak.)
>> Corcoran had trained Molly to sit when the dog detected the odor of human remains ... the team went to Redwine’s cabin, which was unoccupied. Molly sat down in a nearby stream and indicated at five other locations outside the home, according to Corcoran. Then she saw her dog looking up at a window. An investigator climbed into the house and opened the door for Corcoran and Molly. Inside, the dog made its indication—a sit—near a wood stove, in a bedroom, on a brown sofa, by a washing machine, and elsewhere.

insert "this is worthless" spongebob meme template here. Convicting someone of murder because a dog sat in their house is worse then fake science, it is worse than superstition, that dog handler is blatantly creating fake evidence. Has that dog ever cleared someone of an accusation their handler believes in by refusing to sit near their stuff?

Edit: to clarify, a cadaver dog is useful, if one searches for a cadaver: when the dog indicates a specific place one should dig there. But that is not how the dog is used here.
Because government policy heavily influences the price of housing, which is an essential good?
For the past 6 months or so I've asked myself if this is all so hard... because from looking at how long it takes me to do stuff and how often others fail at it, or the questions they ask me, it MUST BE HARD, because no one around me is all that good at it, and it takes us ALL way too long to do stuff that looks like it should be simple and easy.

I think that acknowledging that something is hard gives you some power over it. Like if we acknowledged that writing documentation was hard, maybe we would apply more resources to writing documentation.
tl;dr ban GA outside of very wealthy
The same dog was used in all occasions: 1) sniffing of the clothes 2) around the house 3) inside the house 4) sniffing the truck.

I would question if the dog was essentially trained to recognize the smell of the suspect, and if so, did the dog really indicate it was smelling odors from a dead body or the odors from the suspect.

Also, only clothes of the suspect from an evidence room? Only one truck?
I, and a lot of other authors I know, am in favor of reducing the United States' extremely long copyright term, which largely benefits large corporations and the estates of the few creatives who make gazillions of dollars. For instance, I'd be comfortable with going back to the term that was in place 100 years ago, which was 28 years, with the option to be renewed for another 28 years.

But you can both be in favor of reducing the maximum copyright term AND believe that it is unfair to authors to just steal their works outright, which is what the IA effectively did through its "Emergency Lending" scheme.
https://NOYB.eu are doing great work.
You mean accept as evidence a dog's reaction which has been criticized and known to be directed by officers/handlers for illegal searches (by providing fake probable causes). A dog that you can not ask what they detected or even statistically test as we have seen in the article like you could do an ML model.

A whole field has been sprung on if and how ML inference could be used to make decisions, with lots of issues of racial profiling. And the judge and jury decided to accept a dog's reaction whose handler's new career was on the line.

I am not sure why one should trust the justice system these days.

P.S. A bunch of posts about Donziger and how UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has stated to the U.S. he detention and imprisonment is against international law. I just find the sequence of articles ironic.
That, plus the original leak. Whether there was any source of US funding that made it to some research done in the Wuhan lab or not, letting a virus escape is first and foremost the fault of those running the lab.

Then there is the additional question of whether the virus was the result of gain of function research.
Lawyer's strawberry Pop Tart lawsuit is just one of more than 400 he has filed
This isn't for you. It's for the current generation of kids who've grown up having their attention spans destroyed by having a screen in front of them their whole lives.

A good chunk of them live online, having parasocial relationships with Twitch streamers and Youtubers, or buying skins to put on their characters in Fortnite. I have almost no idea what Roblox and Minecraft are besides world building, but kids get addicted to that too.

Lots of money to be made.
Yes, Justine's amazing. I have also been following and reading Nils M. Holm's books. I program in J/APL, and I picked up Nils' book on Klong, but I have not fully worked through it yet. It gives me a perspective on J/APL. His Lisp stuff is great.
Vocalist Explains Polyphonic Singing
Seems like it would, yes.
>Such a premise begins with the assumption the origin is natural.

Unless the virus was literally constructed using base chemicals from the ground up entirely artificially, something that as far as we know has never been done and the technology for which doesn't yet plausibly exist, the virus must have a natural progenitor from which it either evolved, was bred or was engineered. That does not exclude the possibility that the virus was engineered from a progenitor virus in a lab and is "artificial" in that sense.

So yes you are technically correct (which of course is the best correct), but could you be more clear what you mean by natural, and what alternatives you think are being excluded?
Probably means that certain parts of the US government are alleged to have funded GOF research in Wuhan because such research was banned in the US. Whether or not that GOF research created SARS-CoV-2 is far from definitive. Regardless of the answer to that question, the main question really should be if the US should fund research elsewhere that has been banned in the US if there's a realistic chance that the product of such research can end up leaking back to the US where it was banned for safety reasons.
There was basicly zero fighting. And slovenia was already before the breakup the richest state of yugoslavia
(6) - what do you mean by “should have the right”? Anyone has the right to buy a trailer park, including The residents.
Sorry, I may have missed some math lesson, but what means "exponentially faster"?
> Natural gas is what Stefano Marani and Nick Mitchell had on their minds when they bought gas rights on this 87,000-hectare piece of land in the Free State province in 2012, for just $1.

How can someone sell the gas rights for just $1? Whatever they find must be worth more, no? Is there a tax involved when someone extracts resources?
Interesting. How do you decide which school a child goes to? Presumably there are limits on how many places are at each school, and you need some way to make sure that a child doesn't wind up with the only place left for them being on the other side of a city - so you'd have some degree of locality.

Here in Melbourne, Australia - many schools allow some out-of-district students - as a percentage of their total enrollment - but pretty much all public schools are required to make a place available to any student inside their district (which are drawn based on distances between schools, so they're sometimes pretty weird for transport)

http://www.schoolcatchment.com.au/?p=5730
I firmly believe the metaverse is NFT-tier bullshit, but we should collectively recognize that whatever it is probably won't be for us HNers. We already don't understand why anyone would use Facebook. It's hard for us to intuit the likely future of products that are made for people who are not like us.

I was walking around the park a couple days ago, nursing a bit of neck pain, and I realized what I personally want. I want a Google Glass type side screen where I can develop software and analyze data with my brain while walking around the park. If the brain thing isn't in the cards, I'll put on motion-sensing gloves and use a virtual keyboard/trackpad.

That seems a lot easier than a fully immersive metaverse. So metaverse guys, let me know when you've got that one.
Flutter Bad Code Smells
> Volkswagen Beetle

Not a bad comparison actually. Between the airframe design era, air-cooling etc it's pretty apt.

Fwiw I think the overlap is also because the tech thing. Flying airplanes is a pretty technical hobby so it makes sense it appeals to people like us tech workers
The average person does not want a tiny house or van life. So it’s not a well developed structure built for “the average person”.

Tiny homes are the mobile home of this generation, except less widely adopted. But they will depreciate, widening the gap between those who chose to purchase a traditional house and those who chose a simpler approach.

Van life and tiny homes are not suitable for 99.99% of families with children.
As I feared, the author doesn't know what "exponential" means. You can't have a thing that's "exponentially faster" than another thing.

The title should be "US house prices are rising faster than income".
I was going to say the same. Not to mention how people are conditioned to trust cops and how prosecutors only need to get a person to say that they saw someone do something or heard them talk about it and a cop to say, yes this person is bad based on my interactions, in order to get conviction.. regardless if there is any real evidence, or evidence to the contrary in that matter.
> A hypothesis like "very bad architecture can damage humans psychologically" should not be dismissed out of hand

That wasn’t really my point either. We need to sort out which builds are damaging to human mental well being and which havevtrouble humans living in them.

My point was just that we can’t just dismis a build style, because some of the builds happened to be filled with trouble people. Some would still have had issues if we had put the in luxery appartments.
This is how the TechnoCore got started.
On the other hand, Western researches and intelligence have to corroborate how the hypothesis of an exclusive origin in or near Wuhan around November 2019 works out with the finding of Covid-19 in blood samples from mid-September 2019 in Italy (according to Reuters reporting).

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-tim...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-italy-...

[3] there has been dispute about this, as well: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/dispute-over-italian-co...
Housing is more "consumption" or "speculation" than "investment", since a house generates a negative cash flow. What defines an investment is generally expected future positive cash flow.

What makes most house buying decisions speculative is how the market price is justified. And today the "residual value" (value of the asset when you sell it) dominates buying decisions. This is defined as speculation (in future market price).

Without residual value, the market for old houses would be like the market for old cars or bicycles.

Imagine if government legislation enabled lenders to lend random amounts with old cars as security: it would put a price floor on second hand cars. Since second hand cars are of limited supply, and ownership of such a car enables you to borrow at minimal rate, therefore the market price of an old car becomes the value of the getting that loan.
I found it lots of fun!
Any kernel based wmo is bot going to work well for fastpathed primitives. For example on windows you can't wmo for critical sections or keyed events.

But you can implement an pure userspace or hibrid user/kernel wmo even on top of something like unix poll just fine, so saying that the standard lacks it because of POSIX is wrong.
Unity Slices: Table, a look into the future of social mixed reality
The Shark Tank Effect: Keto Strong
It's sad that a bullshit system that the accused and the accuser can easily game is one of the "successes" of forensics. At least there the accused can do something.
Or even better uniformly at random imprison some possible suspect -- you avoid the cost of the trial and you are fairly certain that an honest person is in jail -- that seems to be the goal of the system: let the jurors, judge and cops sleep at night. Who cares about justice anyways...
Why is obtaining phone records not "real actual detective work"?
Why does that rule hydrogen fuel cells out? How are FCEVs any less "all-electric" than BEVs? Both kinds of vehicle are driven by chemical reactions that directly generate electricity.
"Murder rates are skyrocketing" Do you have any source to support that?
I don’t understand the logic here. Schools are funded primarily through local property taxes. The town with the higher priced houses collects more property tax and can therefore allocate more funding to their school. This means they can pay higher salaries to teachers which means they can select for the best teachers. This attracts teachers that can’t afford to live in the town they teach in.
I agree with this. Terraform is definitely the least-bad tool, especially in that it integrates with so many more services than CloudFormation and has far fewer bizarre limitations than CloudFormation (e.g., you cannot pass objects in CF, and arrays can only be simulated as comma separated strings). Terraform isn’t great, but CF is awful, and even the AWS folks will point you at the CDK instead.
I did not say anything about your statement ‘that the vaccines remain more than 80% effective against death’ apart from that being down from the claim it was 95% effective. And dropping.

But from the typical ‘I endured lockdown just fine’ tripe it’s clear what you think:

I have no problems with restricting others from doing things I don’t care about and I think it’s fine to force others to adopt my position. Because I think I know better than them.

And those first few months of peoples basic human rights being taken away based on ideas that clearly were never going to work? Oh, they were just a few dumb months. Pfft who cares. We’re over that now, there’s a new battle to fight. Who thinks about these measures that were going to be the end-all solution? There’s a new measure that’s going to be the end-all solution. To force on others because clearly we know what’s best for them.
> I was similarly baffled when in a recent discussion someone suggested starting a sentence with “I might be wrong, but ...” is perceived as aggressive.

That's a very standard phrase to signal you're not being confrontational. I don't know how they could perceive that as aggressive.
Nevermind open source developers building the software world we rely on via email for decades.

While this may work, some companies insist DevOps means involving the entire organization and all processes, rendering the word meaningless. So in face of such inflexibility, open source software developed for open source developers works a bit differently, much more flexible.
I think a highly conscientious developer might feel all these emotions. However, I am sure we have all worked with the developer that is absolutely shameless.
You can be happy and feel fear, or be happy and excited.
What is the point? The chinese authorities are untrustworthy and they know it. I am not particularly conspiracist, but if the chinese were to open the Wuhan lab for international inspection, even my reaction would be that it will prove nothing because surely they will have destroyed any incriminating samples and records, and briefed (threatened) the staff. So if they don’t get any benefit from coming out clean, why would they?
LiPo is extremely safe.
$40bn which is still an awful lot. I can see punting on a VR metaverse could make sense if the spend is only 25% of their profits.
you purposely ignored the biggest name? or is matrix not as popular as I thought?
I assume rotating isn't for the health of the plant but for giving it a more symmetric and fuller appearance.
Question for the HN people: how would you bet on house prices going down in a near future ?

Let's say you own your house and want to hedge against it losing value, or you are an outsider just interested in taking this side. In the financial market you would buy a put option or short the stock (among other possibilities) but I can't see myself borrowing a house to sell it and buy back when the market is lower. REIT stocks maybe ?
Yes, that was the idea. Matrix does something like this for messaging.
Here are a few of my reasons, but I have many more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29048297
> If the population of this country stopped growing and started shrinking, a lot of real estate would be freed up. Demand for housing in the densest cities would drop, and it would be cheaper to live.

Without a policy to disincentive it, couldn't large asset holders purchase freed up real estate and artificially control the supply?
Ask HN: What does HN think about the future of psychedelics?
I'm interested in your experiences with psychedelics wrt. mental health, and whether you consider / are pursuing working in the field (wondering about opportunities as a coder).
Imposter Syndrome: Not an emotion per se.
Buying an asset that you anticipate increasing in demand is the definition of speculation (and you are correct if you point out that is what most people are doing on the stock market and crypto).

Investing is lending your money or other assets to an entity with an expectation that it will use those assets to generate more value.

One is increasing value in the world, and the other is riding coattails.

Also, I'm sure parent poster was suggesting taxing of real estate capital gains, not every dollar of every sale, and particularly not the initial sale by builder.
I think some of them don't have much weight but I actually agree with what he is doing. Companies are lying nonstop in their marketing and the government does nothing to prevent it. The government could care less about the impact of obesity in children or the amount of artificial ingredients that later get linked to disease. At least someone is standing up to the manipulation, but like the recent imprisoned lawyer who took on Chevron.. I wouldn't be surprised to see the same thing happen to this lawyer at some point.
What really baffles me is how handwavey proponents of the Metaverse are being about the technical challenges, and I'm glad the article brings this up.

It's pretty much unfathomable that you could build a standard that would allow for the kind of seamless interoperability that's being promised. You'd either end up with an outrageously complicated standard that's completely impractical to make use of, or you force people into a very stringent set of artificial limitations. That's assuming you are capable of tackling the unknown technical challenge that lies ahead, which is entirely in uncharted territory since no one has ever been stupid enough to try this.

Someone was telling me earlier about how in the Metaverse you could, for example, get a character skin for Fortnite and then use that in Roblox too. When I hear that the alarm bells start ringing. Even if we assume that this just works, and all issues related to implementation magically don't exist, Roblox looks absolutely nothing like Fortnite and any skin carried over from there will look totally out of place.

Actually, what if you have an avatar from a more adult oriented game and use it in a kids' game like Roblox? Is there gonna be a standard for what's acceptable that we should assume every vendor will follow to the letter?

But no worry, I'm told, this Metaverse annoucement just means they're going to start researching these problems and working on them from an architecture and standards viewpoint, and so the answers will eventually present itself. So, basically, this amounts to a promise to commit resources to an R&D project of unknown scope and duration to ROI, with largely uncrystallized use cases and exclusively commercial entities as arbiter of how the standards will look and lots of investor cash, all just so we can do things we can basically already do better with conventional technology at a significantly lower CO2 expenditure.

It's really nothing more than a giant investor cash sink that's going to keep a lot of people busy for decades and then fizzle out. Years later people might ask why the hell we ever fell for this nonsense, but we didn't: this is just how capitalism works now.
It can be considered an insult to get the sex of a baby wrong because males are generally considered more valuable than females. It's socially better the refer to an infant as inanimate than to mistakenly refer to a male child using the female gender. That said, as soon as one knows the correct sex (often indicated by the colour of cloth used in swaddling or clothing, or other markers like design patterns of trucks or ponies, as appropriate) it's important to start using the corresponding grammatical gender otherwise the early indoctrination lacks the enforcement required for a lifetime of identity with arbitrary social constructs like masculinity and femininity.

It's not a grammar rule, it's a social rule.
No one ever entered into any agreement where they were expected to buy stocks at reasonable prices.

It is like when Kim Kardashian gets paid 50M for a 30 second add on Instagram. I may think that is unreasonable, but I don't have any contract with anyone implying that she be paid a standard actor's wage.
Perhaps you can see a parallel to your comment? And I do get off on things like that, thank you!
Hi, author here. On one hand I wholly agree with you. Ubisoft has absolutely no right to go around selling products that don't work - it's abysmal. In my other "how to fix it" post, my first suggestion is to just buy it from GOG, with a link. Don't give Ubisoft your money (I'm pretty sure we won't from now on).

I could have also just pirated it. If I gave up, that's how we'd have done it.

That said, if we'd have done that, I wouldn't have had the fun ripping this piece of software to bits. :)