skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So 5G may end up protecting us from chemtrails? What's a conspiracy nut to do?
Vaccines reduce the spread of disease, full stop.
https://web.archive.org/web/20171130000415/https://about.com... was one 5+ years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11281700 https://github.com/commonsearch
> If everyone did that, then there wouldn't be enough currency in circulation to actually do work.

That's just not true. Money on its own is useless to people. People want to buy stuff and services. Deflationary currency just makes them think - do I really need this stuff? Inflationary currency makes you think - I better buy at least some useless junk than lose my hard earned money.
I know that this has nothing to do with anything, but every time I see a word document I just want to scratch my eyes out. I mean, it seems to have gotten much better since the last time I used it, but still, jeeez...

Of course that doesn't say anything about the content of the paper, but I don't have any real opinion on that, just childish excitement about the idea. :)
Question for you OS geeks: did we take the good things learned from BeOS and implement them in Windows/Linux/macOS?
And also staying within the original hypermedia model of the web.
> We set the "default" price (the one in the price box, that can be edited) based on your IP address and OECD data about the cost of a mid-priced meal for 2 without alcohol in (roughly) your (apparent) location.

Nice idea. Which data source do you use for that?
ya my first thought was how hard are reagents to get, but probably not that hard. i wasn’t in the lab, i was in bioinformatics so i’m generally clueless on reagent acquisition.
I did OK in the snow on the hills there with a standard/stick shift (though front wheel drive) Jetta TDI, although it did have traction control
jmount has an explanation elsewhere in this thread linking to https://win-vector.com/2021/12/26/how-to-read-sourav-chatter... which does a great job of explaining the intuition, but in a nutshell the normalization factor of 3 comes from the fact that if you select two random points between 0 and 1, the mean distance between will be 1/3 (which is pretty easy to write down and solve, boils down the the fact that a pyramid of height 1 that's 1x1 at the base has volume = 1/3).
You can absolutely use VR for more than short periods quite comfortably without getting fatigue and eyestrain, assuming you're not running at a low FPS and your tracking is accurate.

I often use it for programming, and I'm able to stay quite comfortable for around twelve hours at a stretch multiple times a week.

I also play some reasonably competitive, fast-paced games, and there's no discomfort from playing those at long intervals, either.
I think he didn't quite understand the depth of Girard's thought. It's not like that you can really fight mimetic desire, especially not by following any kind of tactics. Reproducing behavior in a certain way is nothing but mimesis.
I get the argument, though I wouldn’t call it unique given how long JS fatigue has been a thing. HTMX is just one piece of the puzzle though so a more correct comparison would be a mature application built with htmx vs say sveltekit, not a list of cherry picked htmx features.
People believe the whole thing is a scam.

In particular people don't seem to believe rents follow classic supply and demand, but instead believe that high advertised rents cause the "level set" for what people think rent is to rise.

For instance they built this dollhouse village in my neighborhood

https://schickelconstruction.com/boiceville-cottages/

and the rent they charge for one of those dollhouses is astronomical compared to the rent I charge for the two units in the other house at my farm. As a landlord it is hard to fight off the feeling that I am ripping myself off. (Though unlike a lot of landlords I feel like I am running a community as much as running a business. If I can get people there who can run a horse farm for a weekend it makes our life better.)

People don't believe the argument that "people with money will spring for the luxury apartments and make other apartments cheaper for other people" but rather that renters and homeowners will see some eye-popping number in the newspaper and that will become the expectation for what rent is.
"Tens of thousands of year ago, before the internet..."

Writing is such crap all over the place. Really? Exposition about when the internet wasn't?

Idk what the story says, but wild canines followed mankind as they mastered the domain of nature with hunting. What could more taming than free bones and gristle left behind a pack of wild and free humans with no natural predators, gobbling up prehistoric beasts?
I know poor people getting into 200% APR loans because of not getting a job during COVID and no math knowledge for refinancing smartly. If you think the bottom 50% is not anxious all the time, you are lucky to live in the 1st world.
Well, using Hypermedia As The Engine of Application State doesn't seem too... outside the lines of the web.
> but even streaming video as long as not everyone on the tower is trying to do it at once

5G Broadcast solves that. Radio, live TV, popular Netflix TV shows etc. could be broadcast and save a lot of bandwidth.
> You do realize that the 75% reduction is from your insulation improvements, not changing your furnace to a heatpump.

Yes I realize that. In fact, I designed it that way to allow me to downsize the heat pump significantly.

> Given the current construction/remodeling costs it's not very cost effective to insulate. It's financially "better" to just burn more heat.

If you are undertaking a major home remodel that involves removing drywall, then it makes a lot of sense to upgrade the building envelope.

Short of that, there are also products like blown in wall insulation and Aerobarrier that can be done without a major renovation.

If you are changing the siding on your house, one should consider add a vapor permeable air barrier material to the outside.

Air sealing and (re)insulating unconditioned attic floors are another cost effective way to improve the building envelope performance.

Also, bear in mind that these sorts of improvements are investments in the longevity of the house, and also can create far greater comfort due to more consistent temperatures. Those things have a value also.
US church founded in 1800 holds last service
It is legal in the US to yell fire in a crowded theater. It is not legal to intentionally create a false emergency situation, verbally or otherwise.

Similar to threats, it’s not the speech that is illegal but the intent to commit a crime. Like any other criminal trial, your words can be used against you.

Not sure what more you’d mean when you say “freedom from consequences” (or how this relates to the article) but youre arguing against a point no one is attempting to make it seems. None of what you’ve mentioned is what’s meant by ‘freedom of speech’.
What hellishness. Hope the world gets it shit together to end such immiseration someday.
I had a similar issue with a Honda. Given the mileage that it happened at and that it was otherwise practically flawless I’d buy another no problem since the repair was expensive at ~$3k but the only major repair necessary.
I have no idea if VR is really going to change the computing world, but it definitely is an area of technology that, once the challenges are solved has a lot of potential to change how we interact with machines. A lot of those challenges are now on the brink of being consumer tech (high res 6 dof sensors, high framerate densely pixeled displays, spacial tracking of objects, etc). It's possible that the time for VR is now.
Show HN: Create React App Zero, a no build tools way of making a React app
Oh God, I would not want a distributed group of actors with limited trust to sequence my DNA. Maybe it's a project for close group of friends that would be interested?
This is a little hobby project of mine. An exercise in trying to eliminate all of the build tools from Create React App while trying to keep as many of the developer comforts as possible.

I'm curious to know what the HN community thinks about this approach to web development. Before you starting asking "but what about..." make sure to read to the bottom of the readme. I tried to answer the most obvious questions there.
Imagine if instead of every building having parking spaces, we required a mandatory water store and used that non-potable water for watering green spaces, flushing toilets, etc. Doesn't remove the impact of agriculture but it does make residential areas more resilient in times of draught. But that would require public transit and California is rather lacking in that regard. Even LAs plan for metro expansion is going to take 30-40 years.
The FAA is objecting to the use of the 3.5GHz band, as it's supposedly too close to the 4400-4700MHz radar altimeter band.
This band is the primary one for 5G deployment world wide and interestingly no planes have been dropping or crashing due to it's use.
Strange how the same planes landing in European capitals with widespread 3.5GHz 5G deployments seem to do fine there, but will experience dangerous problems on USA soil.

3.5GHz is also exlusively 5G and not used for anything cellular before.
Outside of some old wimax deployments here and there, but those ware usually for fixed users not mobiles.

3.5GHz is also firmly in the centimeter bands. :)
Interested outsider here; I work with a lot of HCLS research customers but don't have a biology-related background. Can you explain the problems with the Nanopore sequencer accuracy in more detail? Basically, I was wondering if I could get one for myself and sequence my own genome, then user the data to learn about life-sciences computing techniques. If I were to buy one of the USB-attachable devices and run it, is the data simply not viable for use in a genomics pipeline, or is it just that the results would be questionable? Also, if accuracy is an issue, what about just running the same sample N times and doing some error correction?
Somewhat ironic albiet not as explicit matching of a Chinese program of "common prosperity".

It feels very hard to keep industries behaving competitively. Big powers arise & gain massive market leverage. Anti-trust feels like a band aid, an acceptance that wealth & capitol will accumulate, & that we must regulate the overpowerful that arise. It feels like giving up on letting there be new players come in & exploit the high margins, compete freely.
What annoys me most is advertising on highway and in traffic. I am not allowed to use a smartphone because it distracts me; fair enough. What about safety on the road though? All these signals are pure noise, irrelevant to traffic.
True, but $50-100k for a Tesla is much different than $500-5k for anything Apple.
The article should have clarified one more assumption: In a Landsburg's queue, it is compulsory for everyone arriving at the scene to *join the queue immediately*. Otherwise, people would just swarm around the head of the queue, fighting to join the queue as soon as the current customer gets served. In the following discussions, I assume such swarms are successfully prohibited.

# For those who end up going home

For those who end up going home, a traditional queue is still more efficient.

In a Landsburg's queue, if you decided to go home, it must be that there has been too many people joined the queue ("the queue got full"). *Their arrival takes time*. You would have waited for quite some time when you decided to bail out.

A traditional queue, on the other hand, allows those who end up going home to choose to do so immediately upon arriving at the scene. You arrive at the scene, look at the queue, judge that it would take unacceptably long period of time before you can get served ("it's currently full"), and decide to go home. You never join the queue. You wait for zero seconds.

# Arranging early arrivals is important
*Filtering for fans.* In the book _The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life_, Landsburg himself stated that some businesses would prefer to serve fanatic patrons over mediocre customers. In an ordinary queue, customers can prove their loyalty by *arranging to arrive early*. On the other hand, by attaching the probability of getting served directly to the probabilistic nature of when one arrives, a Landsburg's queue does not allow/support proving patronage with early arrivals.

*An ordinary queue is an auction.* One of the main arguments that Landsburg proposed is that an ordinary, first-in-first-out queue is inefficient because it is not a market. I disagree to some extent. Let's re-examine the act of arranging early arrivals. By arriving early, you sacrifice the liberty of arranging the day's tasks liberally, often risking postponing a couple of other chores to the next day and/or losing opportunities for spending the morning somewhere else. This *cost of flexibility and opportunity* is a bid[^1] for guarantee/priority of service. Yes, it's still not a market where you trade spots in the queue, but its auction-like nature makes it a much closer implementation than Landsburg's queue.

[^1]: Well, it's technically a payment, since you don't get your money back should you lose the auction (i.e., decide to bail out from the queue). However, since it's not a game of chance, I can't call it a gamble either.
Practice Leetcode for a couple a months. Then apply again to Facebook, Google and similar companies. There is a lot of luck involved when passing those interviews. So to increase your chances, increase your interview skills and increase the number of interviews. Good luck in your search.
Golang generics change my mind
Just do it, ask for money and see what happens. We just did it and it worked, there was no previous research.
Why is your car not a compact econobox?

If you have reasons other than social/virtue/fashion signal then perhaps your statement is not true at all?
> there were solutions to these problems before

Are you talking about the global south?
I mean, if you're developing a missile guidance system or something that you do not intend to be used by your country's military, then I'd hope you have a very good explanation of who you do intend to use said technology. And if not, "shut up and get lost" seems like a pretty mild reaction...
I think CA often gets a bad rap from jealous people but your message is a case that is 100% right on. California's agricultural practices are unsustainable and exploitative.
I don't think dialed-in has to be lofty. Keeping in touch with family is a perfectly fine reason. My point, and I think the point of the author, is that thinking about it before, not after, offers an opportunity to deepen your understanding.

For the longest time, those in my circle who used Facebook to "keep in touch" really didn't. Sending me an apple on the latest farm game isn't a genuine interaction to me. It was only after I quit that close friends finally got the hint that Facebook was not a good way to reach out to me, despite explicitly saying it many times before.

For those for whom not participating is presently unthinkable, maybe thinking it over would do some good. That doesn't necessitate changing one's choice in the end, but considering it can be useful in and of itself. Family and friends are not only on Facebook. They have a real presence in the real world. Even if one chooses to stay on Facebook or whatever social media du jour, realizing this can be immensely helpful.
Instead of being 'seriously upset' you could ask yourself if posting this kind of stuff:

https://www.mobile-solarpower.com/diy-beginner-friendly-sola...

Is going to bolster your reputation as safety conscious or harm it, besides your general attitude in this thread. You are quite clearly advising people to copy this design, you make money of them doing so. Even a one-off should be better designed, let alone something intended for duplication.

I had you down as well meaning but a bit out of your depth at times, let's just say that that didn't improve based on the interaction here and your various comments.
I think the Ogallala is an indication that industrial farming cannot work long term. The immense increase in yields from advanced machinery and GMO crops effectively means that rich farmlands are basically shipping out vast quantities of water and disrupting the local balance. The underground aquifers don’t have much more left, so we will have to confront this at some point. Maybe that means a new advance in farming technology and reduced consumption, but I also wonder if we just need fewer people and a lot of other problems go away without needing to roll the dice on the possibility of new advancements.
No. I'm not going to put one of those on my fucking head just to use a computer. I'm NOT. I already dislike wearing glasses (and contacts, etc).

To think people are going to do this in mass, it's just stupid thinking.

Edit: Okay drive-by downvoter(s), I get it, The above didn't "add" anything to the discussion. But you know what, this has been discussed and THE MASSES AREN'T GOING TO WEAR THAT SHIT.
The problem is that QR codes are not information dense enough to encode large amounts of data efficiently. I have been trying to build something similar to this and using various encoding methods. So far, I have trouble getting more than about 64k on a printed page such that it can be optically recognized. The number of symbols in your encoding alphabet is important, and this reduces recognition.

I like this project and gives me some ideas on how to enhance my solution.
Thank you!
Relevant - Researchers forecast a hard-to-imagine West – one without snow:

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/dec/26/shawn-vestal-r...
Having written SPAs in multiple frameworks over the years, I am finally starting to favour the author's perspective.

That said, the one criticism I can lob is toward the assumption that JavaScript / TypeScript will be the only path for SPAs, creating a full-stack monoculture. Web Assembly is on its way to negating this point long term.

I don't think this affects the position on MPAs, but weakens that one particular argument against SPAs.
Well, it's not exactly unsustainable - the Github CI continues producing those builds without me having to do anything for it (it in fact didn't break even once in the past year, compared to several breakages on the "backwards-compatible" Ubuntu 18.04 deb which happened whenever Github changed something about the package bundle available to that image). If someone reports a bug on Windows, I will look into it, and/or spend some time walking them through a workaround (since I do in fact have access to Windows setups). As I see it, in the most natural sense of support, I do have support for Windows, even though it is what I guess you would call Tier 2 support.

To nitpick a little, I also didn't say I don't think that those who care about licensing issues would use [the Windows build]; rather, I think that those who don't care about licensing issues and are on Windows would not use it, because there is a Windows-only product that is closed-source which I am unlikely to be able to compete with on that ground.

I'm not really advertising Mac support beyond having some files merged from people who did get it to work (https://github.com/blackhole89/notekit/blob/master/screensho...).
> Somebody can walk in off the street and get a job at the local gas station making $15+/hr, a bonus, and a guaranteed raise if they stick with it. And yet they still cannot find anybody to work

What do you mean? They can't find anybody to interview? Or they won't hire anyone they interview?
> and i feel like nanopore is the VR of dna sequencing. it’s always just another few years off.

Is this also true for nanopores in protein sequencing? This HN comment from a few weeks back [1] pointed out recent progress but perhaps the tech is still not quite there.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29481075
"one has a hard limit on possible upside, whereas the other does not."

Thats plain wrong, the gloval market for cars, bicycles and what have you has a limited size. Every large company that's a market leader understands that.
This - I played Vader Unleashed and at one point I was on a platform that was hovering hundreds of feet up and damn, I felt wary of looking over the edge.

It's also led to much faster laptimes in my sim racing, you can judge breaking points much better and the proper depth just makes driving more realistic.

Finally, I've done meetings in VR and found it to be less fatiguing, even with an HMD strapped to my face, than zoom.
I'm unclear from this what kind of equipment you need to extract and analyze the material?
One Jesus of Nazareth is tolerable, a million people preaching their opinions everywhere would be truly awful. Therefore what Jesus was doing is immoral.
Yea, actually they do. Assuming your swap doesn’t break the diagnostics I haven’t come across a dealership mechanic that would just refuse.

You can even bring your Mustang to a GM dealer.
> Your dog will now be with you forever so you can happily put the meatspace version to sleep.

Remember this phrase.
My only complaint about the RP2040 is that it doesn't have an external SPI ram interface.
As soon as AR glasses take off some bright fellow will make an adblocker for it. And as soon as that happens I will want AR glasses and reward the dev for their work.
Musk saying a company he owns will deliver a better product is marketing. It could turn out that it's true, but whether it is or not he's going to say Neuralink is better.

Musk saying VR is good would be like him talking about how great the newest BMW is.
Scientist's Study of Brain Genes Sparks a Backlash (2006)
A lot of BeOS veterans ended up at Android.

Any direct influence would probably be felt most on the mobile side rather than desktop.
I ran BeOS off and on from the Intel transition to the end, I still regret not joining the party early enough to experience their custom hardware.

I'd say mostly not.

Sure, you can browse the Internet and play music at the same time on any platform today, but a lot has changed.

Much of what was good about BeOS was breaking with the past and starting from zero based on today's desktop needs, a modern take on the Amiga in many ways.

Existing platforms may be able to steal an idea or two, but that's different from being built from the ground up to solve a specific class of problems.

To begin with, absolutely everything was multi-threaded, there was just no way around it.

Fast file system queries that could be stored as shortcuts were nice, still haven't seen that implemented nearly as well elsewhere.

I wrote some software interfacing the system C++ API's and found everything very convenient, clean and tidy compared to any other platform I've programmed.
> But I have to respect your brand loyalty, even in spite of fatal flaws and less than a quarter of the packages available elsewhere.

Again, since you don't seem to be reading what I'm writing:

The primary reason I use Homebrew is not because I think it has a superior design for package management or because it has the absolute greatest number of packages but because I have never once encountered a dependency that was not in its registry. It always has what I need. The same is not true of MacPorts. It is immaterial to me how many MacPorts packages exist that I don't need, because it doesn't always have the ones I do need.

Here's a good example that I just found randomly right now:

MacPorts Erlang: version 23.1, from September 23, 2020 (https://ports.macports.org/port/erlang/).

Homebrew Erlang: 24.2, from December 15, 2021 (https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/erlang).

Yes, when encountering something like this, I could take the time to update the port definition. Or I could just install the version that already exists in Homebrew and get on with things. Can you understand why I would choose the latter in the absence of a need for multi-user functionality or any other real issues with brew in day-to-day usage?
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