skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your point is correct, but the example is not good, because neutrons interact electromagnetically, due to having a non-null magnetic moment.

While the total electric charge of the quarks composing the neutron sums to 0, their movements are such that the magnetic effects do not sum to 0.

The particles that we know do not have a random collection of properties, they all belong to a consistent system.

For example in the set of 8 particles containing the 6 kinds of u and d quarks, the electron and the neutrino, the sum over the 8 particles of all the kinds of quantum numbers, e.g. spin, electric charge, color charge is null.

If some new particle interacting only gravitationally will be discovered, it will not fit in any way between the known particles so it must belong to some class of particles totally different from anything we know about until now.

Moreover, while it seems natural to assume that the dark matter if it exists must be composed of particles, like the matter we know, there is no evidence for this, so the dark matter might be some sort of continuous gravitational ether, for all we know.
I disagree with picking on the financially illiterate as a negative to UBI.

Your post took great care to state how much you support welfare/safety-nets, but then oddly decided to take issue with a corner case.

Yes, everything has issues, but why point out the financially illiterate as causing issues? It seems like such a small nit compared to the much larger problems with how existing welfare programs are more at risk for becoming extinct; there is a constant onslaught from Republican politicians to dismantle anything related to welfare. In terms of numbers, that is far more an issue.

Perhaps I over-reacted because I am so used to conservatives looking for a handful of people who spent money on big-screen TVs instead of food as proof that the system is broken.

Perhaps you meant you were truly concerned that the financially illiterate would cause issues because they will need help to use the money correctly. And you weren't actually using that as an objection to UBI?

Did I misunderstand you?
The new Meta site doesn't make me think they are at all considering removing that forced integration.
> In the last 130 years there have been two world wars and two global pandemics.

Delays on intercontinental shipping and lack of availability of a few durable goods is a perfectly fine price to pay on that frequency. Optimizing to surviving a global pandemics without any problem would be ridiculous expensive.

Yes, specifically on the subject of cars, the manufacturers seem to be accepting way more risk than what is sensible. But that's their decision to make. If they were just left to face the costs of their decisions, they would stop making bad ones quite quickly.

(By the way, there were 2 flu pandemics similar or worse than this one on the last 100 years. That's one more than you are counting.)
Much of the problem with understanding what GP means is that 'the shutdowns' is a very hazy term. Implicit in the comment seems to be the idea that there was some small set of authority figures who decided to shut down the global economy and if only they hadn't done that things would be better.

e.g., The induced demand from work from home you mention I wouldn't count as part of any 'shutdown' at all. It has been largely driven organically by the decisions of individual firms and workers. My office was ordered to work from home by company HQ, not by any government authority, and at this point staying WFH is an individual voluntary choice. Does this count as part of the 'shutdown'? Certainly my sector of the economy (software development) was not shutdown, quite to the contrary.
Rebranding to try to appear diverse, but...

Income: 99% from advertising on the social media apps?

All this other stuff is cute hobbies they blow some of their profits on.
Maybe we should not build extra widgets just to support events that happen 1 out of every 100 years.

Except the COVID pandemic is probably not a 1 in 100 year event, the last SARS epidemic was less than 20 years ago (and fortunately was not as disruptive as the current one). I wouldn't be surprised if the next one is within a decade. And we've done little to prepare for it.
Why would it be by magic exactly correlated with the exact figure provided by UBI.

In addition you are using turing complete in a completely nonsensical way as nobody is using cost of living to compute with.

Based on what you are saying any economic change would be completely unpredictable and the entire human race would be paralyzed by the decision on how to price a Taco. In reality we muddle through while making general predictions about the effects of our actions and reassessing as we go.
I asked my pediatric dentist (our city was flirting with de-flouridating), and he produced a number of studies where cities with unfluoridated water had significantly higher rates of those tooth issues mentioned. It also impacts lower income communities more, possibly because the supplies of and access to dental care aren't what middle class and higher communities are accustomed to.
> 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 don't think we should take that at face value; Zuckerberg of course has strong motivations to appear completely committed, including a desire to motivate employees, partners, etc., and a desire to distract from FB's current bad news (which might explain the timing - why now?). If we take it at face value, we are part of the messaging.

For one thing, FB's metaverse is an over-the-horizon technology and product, very much vapor at this point and one that may never happen. The iPhone went on sale months after Jobs' announcement (IIRC).

More interesting is that FB possibly has lost so much confidence in its brand that it's de-emphasizing it, which seems like an overreaction to me.
Banks are in the business of giving loans and they pay professionals to evaluate the assets of borrowers.

That is in contrast to me and everyone else who just gamble collectively.
>How much would it cost to just send every one of them an Oculus headset for free?

20-50 times what they earn per user.
Probably look for HTPC cases?

For example https://www.thermaltake.com/core-g3.html or https://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?area=en&pid=488
So if the Whatsapp and Instagram brands are stronger than Facebook / Meta, what will the point be here, to distance and separate the sullied Facebook brand from the not-yet-sullied Whatsapp and Instagram brands by using an intermediary vanilla Meta brand?
Depends on what we mean by "work". My impression is that Google didn't change its name due to shame or for consumer branding, but rather to better reflect the company's structure where not everything is Google anymore. In the case of FB, the change could be in part due to bad reputation and in part consumer oriented.
Damn, I love the term "meta", and generally enjoy meta concepts (metamodernism, metacognition, metaverse, metamorphosis, etc.). This taints the term terribly.
Some "Chun, David INDIVIDUAL UNITED STATES" owns the meta trademark. No mention what industry it is for, not even sure if it's possible to trademark a common word.

Which shows that FB is using this meta thing to distract from their brand but not for much else.
That "cringe" your feeling could be how people felt about the Internet in the 80s. Just keep that in mind.
The ironic thing is the sheer drop in price is probably due in part to the P2P route taking over. It's a more involved process than Sudafed meth, but it's easier to scale, since you aren't bottlenecked by the pharmaceutical supply.

Once you establish the facility and pipeline, you can crank out industrial amounts of crank. The precursors are cheap and used in huge quantities by legitimate labs.
Sounds like you guys haven't established any work boundaries. It can be impossible if both of you work. But if not....

I've worked at home for about 17 years now. I have a 6 year old, two 3 year olds, and my wife is a stay at home mom. I don't get interrupted, and there's never been an age range where I would regularly get interrupted. At the most frequent, maybe once per week. Definitely not even once per day though.
The average lifespan of a company is 10 years.[0] The average lifespan of companies on the S&P is maybe a little more than twice that. Each year you have a 1/100 chance of seeing a hundred year flood. With a short lifespan the odds are decent that your company simply won’t see one. The question is then: how good of an idea is it to spend to be robust to them? Of course it is viciously circular: planning to not be robust to white swans is probably why the lifespans are so short and shrinking.

Tim Cook doesn’t have voting control of Apple but it is sitting on a massive shock absorber made of cash earning insanely low rates of return. The idea that you need control of the board to be robust doesn’t seem to be necessary. It is probably helpful but it isn’t necessary.

[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150401132856.h...
I vote for 3. I've been thinking about doing something similar because it has become obvious to me that most software these days is a net negative and actively hinders progress (both personal and societal).
> as every engineer knows nothing good ever comes from a committee.

That's a common adage, yet some of our most used technologies are created or maintained by committees - the Internet, web technologies, ECMAScript (enemy though it started out as a single person project), C++, OpenSSL, Unicode - these are all design-by-committee projects.

Regarding your point about democracy vs oligarchy, this is to some extent a spectrum. There are few truly democratic (one man one vote) organizations, that is quite true. But I still have much more of a say on how my city is run than my company.

And there are some examples of huge co-ops with a great degree of success. The biggest is the Mondragon corporation in Spain. They're by no means an example of a perfect democracy, but again - workers clearly have much more of a say there than in most similarly sized corps.

Also, some of the countries on Earth with the biggest quality of life happen to be some of the most democratically run as well - Switzerland perhaps being the most striking example.

The sheer amount of effort put by those in power in making sure those below them don't get any ounce of power also shows that they see the potential risk to their status if some of these things happen - thinking here specifically of the huge union busting industry, and of efforts to discredit any leftist candidate that makes it onto the world stage (like the disgusting accusations of anti-Semitism against Jeremy Corbyn, or the insinuations of being anti-black against Bernie Sanders).
Download the original Red Hat Linux 0.9 “Halloween” release
Gha-runner, a Rust crate for running GitHub Actions locally (or elsewhere)
Is it just me, or is that logo a little unappealing and distorted?
It’s very solid in my experience but does have a memory and performance hit. For something like Dropbox which is running constantly in the background that’s not great.
Show HN: Marketplace Metrics SDK for Mobile (impressions, clicks, conversions)
Containers are not made to be stacked on end like that and won't always support their own weight if stacked on end.
The Toyota system got a lot of attention in the DevOps world because basic principles such as empowering workers resonated with the movement. Reducing waste throughout the system doesn't get as much attention--given that computer software doesn't really have inventory as such (at least not literally)--but inventory/WIP reduction was an important motivation behind Toyota's system.
The assumption that stock prices don't matter, because company ABC doesn't necessarily depend on it 'for now' - is just wrong I'm afraid.

If Apple crashed to 1 cent it would gut the entire market. Even just that crash alone, the amount of money wiped out, retiree savings etc., other companies would be valued lower and then the mass selloff would crush them as well.

Apple may not need to 'raise money now' but it very well could in the future - and - every company is somewhat of a proxy for every other company.

If there is no ROI, there is no investment, and there is no economy outside the government, it's that simple.

Taxes on unrealized gains are a separate thing, and probably a bad idea - just contemplate that they would have to be paired with tax-sheilds on unrealized losses as well. Due to speculation, it would open up the door to all sorts of shenanigans.

It's just a bad idea all around.

Elon Musk is a 'paper zillionaire' that's very, very different than someone with a zillion in the bank.

There are probably some very boring, old, already established ideas for increasing taxes on the ultra-wealthy that would probably work very well. Including getting rid of loopholes etc..
Thanks, hadn't checked it again since it was broken that first time. I'll give it another go.
You may have established boundaries, but you almost certainly have your wife to thank for 99% of the enforcement of them.
thanks for that, it’s been years since I tried xubuntu and “just works” is a big selling point.
> (MarkZ) I think a lot of times the biggest opportunity is you kind of just need to care about them and think that something is going to be awesome and have some conviction and build it. One of the things that I’ve been surprised about a number of times in my career is when something that seemed really obvious to me and that I expected clearly someone else is going to go build this thing, that they just don’t. I think a lot of times things that seem like they’re obvious that they should be invested in by someone, it just doesn’t happen.

I can relate. Doesn’t always work but with enough resources you can try.
Facebook tried to buy and takeover the term "Internet", but failed given its widespread use, so they knew it was important to not delay in taking over the term for the thing many early adopters believe will be similarly significant.
> Zuck posted a super bizarre video introducing it, being the first one and all. And I guess it was just him awkwardly staring into the camera, not really saying anything. Almost like someone who thinks it's a photo but it's a video instead - though he was fully aware it was a video. His wife was in the background waving and stuff too.

Maybe that was the point. People scrolling think it's just a selfie but then you realize his wife is moving in the background!
> Why don't expensive cameras just have 256gb of onboard storage and connect over thunderbolt?

People don't want to throw away their camera every time the storage runs out. They want mirroring between cards so the wedding shots don't disappear on a storage failure. So they can swap storage on the go.

Your strong assertions based on your limited understanding of other people's needs says more about you than Apple.
What do you mean - How are they different?
Facebook to Change Company Name to Meta in Focus on Metaverse
Urheberpersönlichkeitsrecht (what is called "moral rights" in English) is a subset of Urheberrecht.

UrhG covers copyright and moral rights, some stuff at the intersection, and then some, but on the other hand lacking a few bits covered by US copyright.

1:1 mappings between legal regimes seem to be quite rare.
The goods stuck on ships waiting to be unloaded don't help the overall situation. Containers sitting loaded on ships and ships waiting in an anchorage are containers and ships that can't pick up newly manufactured items elsewhere.
The average lifespan of a company is 10 years.[0] The average lifespan of companies on the S&P is maybe a little more than twice that. Each year you have a 1/100 chance of seeing a hundred year flood. With a short lifespan the odds are decent that your company simply won’t see one. The question is then: how good of an idea is it to spend to be robust to them? Of course it is viciously circular: planning to not be robust to white swans is probably why the lifespans are so short and shrinking.

As for the turn to founder control, one counterexample is Tim Cook who doesn’t have voting control of Apple but is sitting on a massive shock absorber made of cash earning insanely low rates of return. The idea that you need control of the board to be robust doesn’t seem to be necessary. It is probably helpful, apple may be sui generis, but it isn’t necessary.

[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150401132856.h...
The main take away from this article is doing FFI between two language (Ruby wrapping Julia), taking into account the particularities of their divergent runtimes.
The cartels are hiring professional chemists:

> The chemist, a burly man with a master’s degree in
biochemical engineering described the industry’s transformation, as the pair worked at an outside table.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/08/mexico-cartel-...
Good points, and I didn't mean to say that there isn't some placebo/nocebo effect. There's lots of evidence for the connection between mind and body, so it certainly seems plausible this happens (also not a medical expert).

I've always found the placebo effect fascinating, but does seem, at least in popular coverage?, to be puffed up more when there's a lot we don't know. And of course it can be very hard to untangle when some people will just get or feel better for who knows what reason. Medical and human research can be very messy, much as the physicist in me just wants to see the hard stats showing a strong (causal) relationship.
I don't know whether the GP intends this, but one fun way of understanding the GP's comment is:

If you believe really so strongly that P!=NP without actual proof, you're actually just making a guess, and then saying you can make good guesses. But the process of doing so implies you actually believe P=NP.
Havana Syndrome explained (Twitter thread)
Jeez dude, these were just random programs off the top of my head to illustrate industry distrust of launch vehicle promises. My comment wasn't meant to initiate a debate but offer the perspective of someone who is quite literally writing proposals about launch vehicle selection for NASA missions. But hey, you can read Wikipedia, so...

In any case to those reasonable out there, don't worry. If SpaceX can prove reliable launch to orbit and deliver on their promises, change will come. It's kind of silly to write articles about how everyone should change the way they operate NOW because change is coming. Of course it's coming, everyone accepts it's likely, and things will move quickly once it does and is proven. What more do the fanboys want!?
Why was this downvoted?!
Of course. Not everybody is going to get violent. And it won’t affect everybody the same. But it does feel like it really brings out the violence in people who maybe are already prone to that type of behavior. In your case it may do the opposite.
Email HN mods at hn@ycombinator.com. They're quite responsive to such requests, if made when relevant (e.g., not two days after posting).

Mods aren't automatically alerted to in-thread whinges or even mentions by name.
FAANG → MANGA
> bit rot : the tendency for digital information to degrade or become unusable over time. This kind of data degradation or corruption can make images and audio recordings distort and documents impossible to read or open.

I'm not a huge fan of this definition. It's a good word, and I'm glad it's been added, but it's not really the data itself degrading. Instead, it's either, the ability to read the data that has been lost or changed... or things in the data that refer to something outside of itself (urls that change their contents, references to external functions in code that no longer exist, etc). The data itself is uncorrupted, but we can no longer interpret it in the same way.

Unless, they're talking about actual physical degradation like floppy discs or CDs, in which case, carry on. I guess I just find the other definition more interesting.
>The files were encrypted using Truecrypt and an unnamed algorithm, reportedly based on the 256-bit AES standard.

Glad to see indicators that TrueCrypt still has some efficacy even after the kerfuffle that ended the official project:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7812133

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7819727

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115607
Exactly, I think the most succinctly way I've heard it put is, "Everything is Marketing"
What suggests to you that between 2011 and 2016 there was a large shift in children's diets?
I disagree, but for what it's worth, in case you were not able to tell from my username, I'm an immigrant, from India.

While I have been here in the US for many years, much of my life, including college education and a few years after that, was in India. So, not sure if I'm afflicted by the American systemic racism.
You don’t ask for much ;)
It's difficult to say what an equivalent dose might be and this is just my experience, but...

Definitely cognitive tasks would be considered more impaired by weed than beer, at "roughly equivalent to a pint" level. Likely neither would be a big deal.

Weed is neither upper, nor downer really, it an hallucinogen.

That means less ordered thinking. Quite possibly an increase in creativity and lateral concept matching (say, making or appreciating witty comments) but also an impairment to short term memory and direct logical reasoning.

For motor skills and reaction times, beer definitely hits harder.
A large percentage of TypeFast's twitter followers won't.
You wrote a lot of wishful thinking here. Within a few years much of our day to day interactions with others will be modulated via sensory override devices, and Facebook wants to "win" at that. Ignore it at your peril.
grumble grumble Good artists copy... grumble grumble
If you’re actually at the point where you care about that kind of performance, you may want to shy away from the STL, and use (or write) something simpler instead.
I bet there are several Dutch on the team who decided to go to MIT instead of their local University.
I don't mind tools like React. There is a big learning curve but there are a few related things in the space that open up when you understand one of them. Low code tools seem to be very specific. So the time you invest is only applicable to that tool.
I sometimes think the most brilliant/creative people are often overlooked in hiring, and admittance to programs.

Whomever you are--you will do well in life.

I've know some brilliant people who seem to suffer from anxiety, and depression. Don't push yourself to hard.

I love the simplicity of your site.

I will now signup.
That's just a gentler way of saying: "Henceforth we will be permanently archiving all of your communications."
Apple Expected to Report Results That Mark a Record Year with iPhone 12
> I'm not sure I can think of an example of such a data structure?

C style strings are the classical example. Computing the size (strlen) takes linear time. Not saying that this is a good idea or anything, but it's extremely common.

One could imagine a binary tree implemented in a similar manner. It costs a little time and memory to keep track of the current size, but it almosy always pays off.
I’m so confused, why can’t you have a private network? It’s the best way to run it. You get a pool of public addresses to use from your ISP that you can use for anything! and then you give yourself the entirety of IPv6 private address space for your internal network.
I get that it's popular to shit on Facebook and its CEO, but a lot of you seem to be dismissing the metaverse vision out of hand.

It seems obvious to me that humans will eventually spend a significant amount of time in VR. The question is not if but when.

As tech advances, eventually, VR environments will feel close to identical to IRL environments. And, when that happens, there is no reason to bear the commute costs of travelling to IRL environments.