skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But, what if we have a protocol where you simply open a network socket and write some messages on it that says 'write this text hear', 'draw a line from X to Y'? Well, that is how X clients work."

I mean, that is also how the Web Canvas API works. If you want to control this with some messages on a TCP-ish socket then you can use websockets. The web browser already appears to be a superset of all the networked functionality of X.

"One of the main advantages of Linux/UNIX systems in the past was that X was a userspace application"

Wayland still is a userspace application too. The protocol itself is what is at a lower level of userspace than X was, of course the compositor can also implement high level features as it sees fit.
Yeah. Of course the actual law would be several hundred pages long and reference large volumes of existing work. Like any law. And the degree to which you believe the letter and spirit of the law are each used to counter-act each other is a separate discussion.

But, to answer your flippant questions:

Legally possess.

Land and buildings.

Physical and temporal occupation of space and time on the "property" above some reasonable threshold.
There’s plenty of economy scale to having more children. The bare necessities scale quite rapidly with sleeping space (one more bed costs less than one more room) and large pot cooking (one trip to the store and buying in bulk). Most children’s clothing can be handed down to at least one other child.

The child rearing also scales when you have a single earner family unit as even the stay at home parent’s eyeballs can be shared. And after a few years the older children themselves provide some of that as well.

What doesn’t scale are things we used to consider luxuries. Plane tickets, paid summer camps, or private school tuition.

I think it’s more selfishness on the part of higher income earners than anything else that prevents them from having more children. Both in time commitments and the thought of having to give up or pare down an expensive vacation.
As the article points out, the big change is in the production levels and the price. If meth is cheap and every dealer is flooded with it, more people are going to be using it and in higher quantities that will produce more visible (and negative) effects.

The random apartments are probably stash houses used for storage of bulk quantities that would be broken down and distributed to dealers.
Its cheaper only because container storage isn't priced correctly. If the containers were charged at $HIGH_RENT/day storage fee the owners would pay someone to get rid of them.
Welcome to Meta
I'm not surprised, but I think most people would find that concept equally off putting.
The market fit is existing TE fans that buy anything they make. Their page doesn't even say why you want this over something else or its functional features. Its not really a market product so much as low run TE fanservice. That's why it sold out - because they didn't make more than they expected to sell.
why shouldn't school be more like work? IMHO, we get educations so we can get a job and live well.
Launch costs are not the end-all be-all of space exploration/exploitation. There are a large number of extremely difficult problems to solve beyond just throwing shit into space.

1. None of the current public Starship designs include payload doors. So none of these are in any way useful as launch vehicles for orbital payloads. Payload doors a huge structural weakness and requires a lot of engineering effort. None of the current public Starship designs have an obvious "payload doors go here". A Starship-based delivery vehicle will likely be a separate design from the manned vehicle.

2. In-orbit refueling is not just an unsolved problem it's a largely unexplored problem. Moving fuel between two vehicles in free-fall is going to be a monumental challenge. You'll basically be running the same pump mechanisms you'd use for the rocket motors but feeding into a flexible umbilical between vehicles. Starships are huge so you're talking about docking two huge vehicles (one of which is nearly empty of fuel for maneuvers), connecting an umbilical between them, pumping fuel through the umbilical (in free-fall), then undocking and the two go their merry ways. None of that has been done and involves hundreds of individual challenges.

3. Musk (not necessarily SpaceX engineers) is making grand promises about the turn around time for Starships. I think they're wildly unrealistic. A large vehicle undergoing a lot of extreme dynamic forces in a flight is going to need a lot of examination before it can be safely relaunched. SpaceX is likely going to need to construct hundreds of Starships to maintain anywhere close to the promised cadence of launches. The manpower to refit vehicles is going to be expensive. There's a big difference between reusing a booster core and a vehicle that had to survive orbital reentry.

4. Even if launch costs were hundreds of dollars per kilogram it doesn't make any other aspects of spaceflight less challenging. If you send people somewhere they need their vehicle and life support launched with them. A broken toilet can still kill the crew. Just because it was cheaper to launch doesn't mean you get to scrimp on other expenses. The Space Shuttle was expensive not because of the marginal cost of the launch itself but the operations/personnel costs of the Shuttle program.
The examiner rejected it as obvious. More limitations were added that made it no longer obvious. It's the new version that was ruled valid.

Consider (120 years ago) a patent on "using energy to move a vehicle quickly". Well, that's stupid and obvious. But using an ICE to move a car was not. So you add more details and limits until it's no longer obvious.
The article mentions the ban in 2006 of over-the-counter sales of Sudafed (pseudoephedrine). One of my favorite satirical articles is "A simple and convenient synthesis of pseudoephedrine from N-methylamphetamine". (The joke being that Sudafed is now hard to purchase while meth is readily available.)

https://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume19/v19i3...
ads on the tv
My experience with CBD is that it will knock you out and give you a deep sleep on day 1, but the more you use it the harder it is to sleep without it. Almost like the payday loans of falling asleep.
Worst, we spend so much time trying to prevent fraud, the programs don't reach their full potential to benefit the most amount of people that need it and are qualified to receive it.
Interesting. I think many people face the same problem and many people are trying new ways to solve it, but don't know why all failed.
The rebrand was introduced as a "One More Thing" during the event keynote.

A 2007 "One More Thing" was the announcement of the iPhone and the future of mobile computing. Now a 2021 "One More Thing" is the announcement of a company rebrand to avoid government regulation.
I don't understand why people think dark matter is "hairy." It's the simplest explanation imaginable - only one new particle. We used to discover particles all the time, and this idea that we somehow must have already found them all is a recent product of the end of accelerator growth.
https://meta.com is live as well.

...I can't tell if it's intentional that the page loads initially with the "facebook" brand in the uppper left and then quickly overwrites it with meta.
The subcontinent is one of the first places that will be hit by climate change. That's 1.5-2 billion people that will need relocating. Where are we going to put them? Bangladesh alone is like 200 million.
The article/podcast states that this specific record keeping was stopped due to safety.
A standards descriptivist is unlikely to agree with "make a new standard so everybody has to change their behaviour"
> No concern for the pesky 10% that take up 90% of the development time and make or break a product.

You're missing the author's main point and the whole reason Starship is a big deal. With current launch costs, all that equipment has to be designed, reviewed and tested up front to guarantee, as much as humanly possible, that it'll work in space the first time, because there's no money to try again. With launch costs Starship offers even under pessimistic estimates, even non-space companies will be able to afford to just send stuff to space to see what breaks, and then iterate until it works. That "10% work" becomes orders of magnitude cheaper.
Holy crap! I drunkenly guessed that lame-ass name. Somebody just got $1 richer!
Wish it wasn't unbelievably expensive. I have wanted to get one for sometime now. Rather amazing little device.
It's the home of the Seattle Krakens. We call it the Krakhaus.
lets see how this will work out
The daily and seasonal temperate variations are quite low. Seems like that would be good for smooth operations year around.

https://weatherspark.com/y/298/Average-Weather-in-Prince-Rup...
> That description is also doesn't correctly describe the behavior of the command if the shell has any aliases or built-ins of that name. If you have an alias that points to a different command, then `which` is distinctly not printing the executable that would have been executed.

I have some bad news.

% command -v which
Unknown option: v
_______
< which >
-------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
% alias
command=cowsay
run-help=man
which-command=whence
%

Interestingly, at least one shell will not let you do this, but it's not entirely POSIX compliant anyway:

[I] ⋊> ~ echo $FISH_VERSION
3.3.1
[I] ⋊> ~ alias command cowsay
- (line 1): function: The name 'command' is reserved, and cannot be used as a function name
function command --wraps cowsay --description 'alias command cowsay'; cowsay $argv; end
^
from sourcing file -
called on line 70 of file /nix/store/gwc21f4ra55h0x0b8xbwnpjlc6223z3q-fish-3.3.1/share/fish/functions/alias.fish
in function 'alias' with arguments 'command cowsay'

It's also probably worth noting at this point that portability isn't the same kind of issue for interactive shells as it is for scripts, and you should probably not expect to be using or encountering aliases in scripts at all, if you can avoid it.
Since you don't have a goal, it's hard to recommend anything specific. Some good pointers

- Khan Academy is great because it covers a lot of material at school and some at college level so when you find that you have a gap you can always drop back a little and learn about stuff from school that you've forgotten. The explanations are very accessible and it's a great resource for re-learning stuff.

- MIT Opencourseware has courses for university-level mathematics. This is if you want to learn things more rigorously and the material is a bit more advanced obviously. Watch the lectures, read the textbooks, do the exercises. It's free world-class education. And once you have a foundation, you can always grab a textbook on a topic you want to go even deeper in.

- Youtube math channels like 3blue1brown are wonderful. I don't think they're for learning really but for exposing you to new ideas, giving you a different perspective on things or just allowing you to enjoy a nice explanation. It's infotainment.
As someone dating in their 20s, it is getting hard to find people who aren’t having SSRI-related dysfunction. Recently met an older (early 30s guy) and it was seriously cool having a sexual experience that didn’t end with “don’t bother I’m just not going to finish no matter how long we go.” They really seem to be handing out these serious, almost-impossible-to-withdraw medications like candy on Halloween.

They don’t actually solve the problem long term, you can’t really come off them ever (I know a lot of people who have tried; only one who succeeded and they were on an exceedingly low dose to begin with - it took six months before the frightening neurological symptoms subsided), and they permanently damage ability to have human connection (I don’t understand how that doesn’t worsen depression and anxiety long term).

I get that I’m the asshole for suggesting that people take a second look at the side effect profile and consider whether these might be overprescribed. I get that they do make life better overall for some people. I’ve also seen my friends become psychotic and ruin their lives when they try to get off them (because the sexual side effects and weight gain were unbearable). So IDK, it feels urgent enough to raise as a concern. Especially when so many people are taking them.

I see a lot of people given SSRIs for anxiety that could probably be better treated by e.g. not smoking so much weed. It is hard to manage the underlying factors that drive people to alcohol and drug use, but I think probably easier than being rendered impotent by SSRIs.

I get that seemingly everyone is depressed these days, but I really question giving SSRIs, which have poor efficacy and devastating side effects, before demanding lifestyle change. Walking 10k steps and CBT are useful interventions that can be easily monitored by physicians with modern technology.

I guess good for half the 20-something cohort for not being able to orgasm really ever, but it’s not great for building the physical aspect of human connection, which I maintain is important. IDK what society looks like when half the prime age population isn’t able to have a fulfilling or enjoyable sex life.
Large investors represent 1 to 2 percent of purchases. The number of home purchases from all investors has been FALLING since 2013:
https://www.vox.com/22524829/wall-street-housing-market-blac...

Housing prices (in certain areas) are high due to low interest rates, covid related demand changes (moves of high income earners from core cities), and wage growth for high income earners.
Stamps had a function, now they are mostly decorative.

You can print postage with unique number. Stamps are just one method for postal service to identify your package and its payment and transportation mode.
Exactly. "Public transit" should cost nothing and "Private transit" should pay for it.

Unless of course the system doesn't require the distinction of Public vs Private, which it seems inevitably leads to parasitism.
The photos show it powder coated flat, then bent. I wonder how they kept the coat from flaking off at the bends?
Meta. and Meta Trademarks
Just tweet at the 1.1.1.1 account, it‘ll resolve for you on Twitter. ;P
See https://twitter.com/1111Resolver
Hmm. So you have two conflicting conventions; and the solution is a third convention. Now you have three conflicting conventions.

I think I've come across this somewhere else.
For better or worse, it does seem Zuckerberg is as invested in making the "metaverse" the new future of Facebook as Jobs was with Apple and the iPhone
I like to use YouTube so I have a standard player across all browsers and platforms. I never know what the user is going to see when I use <video>.
I may be going against the grain here, but making fun of people and/or publicly shaming them, while it may temporarily make you feel better, tends to be counterproductive in the end.
Whoa, not sure what kind of folks you have around you and relationships with them, but when we travel (or on christmas, easter, etc) we send postcards to our closest friend and family. So do they.

Its personal, I always draw little figures of me and my wife on the picture side, climbing mountains, swimming from sharks, paragliding etc. depending on situation.

My parents have them all on the wall, so do some friends (well not all of them). Its a small gift, showing we think about them not only by bombarding them with photos/videos all the time.

Its a nice tradition, the best kind of mail you can get, and I see no reason stopping it.
Congratulations for your rebranding! Now, can you respect us?
MANGA sounds more fun then FAANG so that’s nice
Transmission according to the CDC involves prolonged close contact. Not very likely that you are going to catch it by a random choice encounter at target
No it does not because the person who they buy the stock back from has to pay cap gains still. The wiki page even has an example of how a dividend effectively reduces the shares price whereas buybacks effectively transfer the money into the share price which raises it over time proportionally and you will have to pay cap gains on it when you do sell.
They want to own the SEO around the "metaverse", so renaming their company to half the world means they dominate all search around it. Genius move, Mark.
It is been finally admitted.

Facebook Inc. aka Meta Inc. is going to kill Apple and put an end to the iPhone.

Going to watch this.

To Downvoters: Here's a reminder of how wrong the HN bubble was back then: [0] [1]

This is the same place that reacted to Facebook acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp to being the dumbest decisions Mark Zuckerberg made and now it became a $1T company with billions in profit and billions in monthly active users.

If users cared about privacy, why are they still on WhatsApp and Instagram and failed to move elsewhere? Exactly because the money, creators, social inertia and followers are still there.

We'll come back in 10 years and we'll see if you still like Apple and Google's walled gardens and 30% taxes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840&p=2

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7266796
So is this like Google -> Alphabet where it's mostly a behind-the-scenes type thing?
Yes! On one hand, very little snow (and if there is snow, it melts soon enough). On the other hand, no real summer, either. Just rainy season, and less rainy season :-)
The keynote video redirecting to a Facebook login screen is hilarious.
Once upon a time, size() wasn't required to be constant-time. This showed up in some standard library implementations of std::list::size which actually did count all the things.

The painful ABI break at C++11 is a big part of why implementors were so opposed to allowing another ABI break in C++20.
> What about workspaces?

> What about shopping areas?

> Entertainment?

What about them?

> There are lots of pieces of property that aren't residential that are owned.

Agreed.
Reading about this company just drains my energy and enthusiasm right away. Can't put my finger on why.
The timeline seems so short, it makes me suspect. I would hope that the Mayors office would do some form of diligence before making the order.

8 hours just seems really fast for Tweet> Mayor notices > Expert review > Draft proposal > Order signed.

It seems at least as likely to me that the timing is a coincidence or ,more cynically, Flexport knew the stacking was under review.
I think, we should not call a conversation we hear "noise", it disturbs our focus but it's not noise. Noise has no pattern and no meaning. But the most disturbing sound is the sound that repeats in fixed intervals. I believe repeating sounds in high volume is even used as a form of torture. So airplane noise is torture because it's loud and it repeats.
Wow. I didn't realize he had died. In early 2018, I came || this close to working for Zappos as a Cloud Architect to get them moved onto AWS. Presumably because Amazon had owned them for several years by then. I wonder what it was like working for Zappos at that time.
Dissociatives (e.g., ketamine, nitrous oxide, xenon, phencyclidine, dextromethorphan in cough syrup) are too addictive, too pleasurable, and reliably produce long-lasting delusional states (e.g., as observed in John C. Lilly and Marcia Moore and Tony Hsieh).

It is disturbing to read Marcia Moore's "Journeys Into the Bright World" (http://pdf.textfiles.com/books/journeysbrightworld.pdf) where she recounts that John C. Lilly warned her to stop using ketamine. She died in the woods not long afterward, hypothermia after injecting ketamine, trying to hide her addiction from her family. John C. Lilly himself went clean after decades of delusion, but never fully recovered, mentally.

For a frank summary of the dangers, see D. M. Turner's "The Essential Psychedelic Guide". Before he died in his bathtub (after injecting ketamine), he wrote the following (https://www.ketamine.co.uk/dmturner/index.html):

"A major concern regarding safe use of Ketamine is its very high potential for psychological addiction. A fairly large percentage of those who try Ketamine will consume it non-stop until their supply is exhausted. I've seen this in friends I've known for many years who are regular psychedelic users and have never before had problems controlling their drug consumption. And I've seen the lives of several people who developed an addiction to Ketamine take downward turns."

"After about two years of once-per-week Ketamine use I even found that I had developed an addiction. Although it was less severe than what I've described above, it took considerable effort to break the cycle of repeatedly using it, even though I was aware of detrimental effects that it was causing. Since that time I've used Ketamine only occasionally, but find that I must continually exercise a high degree of will power to prevent myself from falling into a pattern of regular use. Amongst those I know who use Ketamine, I've seen very few who can use it in a balanced manner if they have access to it."

So, all the dissociative psychedelics (NMDA receptor antagonists) seem to be bad. They should be avoided.

On the other hand, there are other classes of psychedelics that are unambiguously good: tryptamines (e.g., psilocybin) and phenethylamines (e.g., mescaline). These drugs produce informative, useful, introspective, challenging mental states and are NOT prone to abuse. These are the valuable psychedelics.
Correct! If we simply let the person die of cancer, we can properly investigate the tumor when they are dead.
> government contractors

I’m not sure I follow? I know drug fear-mongering is a favorite tactic of politicians but I’m not sure I understand what government contractors have to do with it. Are you alluding to private prisons? Or perhaps some other piggy-back industry that I’m unaware of?
Nicely translates to "(shes's) dead" in Hebrew...
Someone got to add "Advanced JS" to their resume!
I also wrote one of those scripts, bin/tarinstall (https://github.com/efrecon/bininstall). It even doubles as a GitHub Action to install stuff you need for your pipeline. binenv usually performs better and handles versions more easily, so ... I sometimes install binenv using bininstall and use binenv to install the rest... hmmm...
Still a faceless corporation though.
This Jennifer “Mimi” Pham seems like a real piece of work. Real scumbag behaviour.
This article doesn't seem to have corroborating scientific evidence.
If we didn't change G to A I don't think we'll change F to M either.
At least the acronym that includes microsoft isn't offensive anymore, just a nice MAGMAN.
My god, if you get it, you get it.

They are going all in on metaverse / have decided that the future of oculus is the primary long term bet, not facebook itself.

And they have the money to make it so.

This is incredibly scary, and probably a good investment.
And Einstein hated von Neumann playing German march music next to his office.

The question asked in the title pushes a false premise. Humans are different, I for example work fastest in complete silence.
In London, in the area around the London Eye, there is a tourist trap that offers a very poor 'haunted house' type of attraction, usually something having to do with zombies. As each iteration of this tourist trap gains a reputation for being total rubbish and gains one star reviews online, every few months the attraction rebrands to another name.
It is so dumb it might work.
Is this a change of company name or is the Facebook product/app/site also changing?

(As an aside the GDPR popup still asks me about “Facebook” cookies)
It's definitely intentional
> Airbus sued the Air Force after losing the KC-X contract

You have it backward. Airbus won the contract initially. Boeing sued and managed to get the bidding process restarted from scratch. Boeing won that second bid and Airbus decided to not protest, probably because they knew they had 0 chance against Boeing lobbying power in the US.