skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely...very important. Driving too fast on ice is very dangerous.

Although, I would argue it is even more risk to drive significantly higher or lower than the average speed being maintained by the traffic flow. If you do not feel safe at that speed...don't drive.
Stay home a few hours or days...let the plows get out there.

The main point of my statement wasn't about "what is a safe speed"...it was about the very clear difference of "speed of traffic flow" as soon as you get off of the pass. In the original case I was discussing...I had drove 300+ miles at 50-60mph (speed of traffic flow)...then the last 10 miles the average traffic speed cut in half (which was also the best weather conditions).

I made a comment about it to my friend when I got to Seattle and his comment was "yeah...people over here lose their minds when any snow falls"...up until that point I had no idea that was a thing.
What else would happen to the energy? It’ll turn into heat + some re-emissions.
Now you have your own mail server. Great!
But if you don't know how it works or if you don't have something that will help you maintain it, sooner or later it will break.
Any chance I could pick your brain on how I would start my own business and make it successful?
Can anyone recommend a good resource for comparing htmx with alpinejs? I’ve seen them both mentioned here but their differences are not clear to me.
No, they aren’t. They are saying you should consider if and how your privilege helped you out, because sometimes that isn’t transferable to other people; someone black in a job interview may not have the same experience someone white does, and that’s okay, but it’s important to recognize if and how being white helped so that someone who isn’t white can account for that and adjust.

It has nothing at all to do with guilt.
> The internet hasn’t been the positive life force many in the global south have needed

As someone who's spent a lot of time in the global south and met a lot of people whose livelihoods depend on the internet, I'm curious what evidence you have to back up your claim.
Maybe related [1]:

[1] Elon Musk Says the Metaverse Sucks and Neuralink Will Be Better
"Sure you can put a TV on your nose. I’m not sure that makes you 'in the metaverse.'": https://futurism.com/elon-musk-metaverse-sucks-neuralink-bet...
I know, and I was thinking about being more explicit, but Zamalek's comment was on resolution per-eye, so to keep it clear I decided to use resolution, too. Thank you for expanding on the comment!
Not sure it needs to be dialled in for social media. If you want to achieve a result like monetisation then yes, but then it's no longer social, it's just become an income-related activity (job!!) and is no longer social media -- it's now a tool to achieve a non-social media goal.

A counter case -- for sure as a consultant at McKinsey, umlaut or Accenture you'll write out a communications plan in which you detail and map project stakeholders, places/times of project news and briefings, publicity, dealing with external inquiries and so on. That's a very, very specific and detailed set of requirements for what boils down to social media at corporate level.

Way over the top for Jane and Joe Average. For whom "keep in touch with friends and family" is specific. For many the notion of not participating is unthinkable - becuase THAT's where all their family and friends are. And so it requires no additional pontification, I'd think.

What might an example of a loftier, more dialled-in purpose be?
I don't think anybody truly disputes the conclusions in the paper. Word is faster. LaTeX can make you feel like a pro. I fell in love with it at first. I wanted to do everything in it. It is indeed great software. LaTeX also does a lot of things to get text to look nice, though Word doesn't look bad either. I don't think the fact that figures needed correcting is much of an argument. At least in Word it's possible to move figures around around easily. In LaTeX the compiler places it for you and there's little you can do about it.

Personally the dogmatic choice of LaTeX is one of those things I disliked about the academic world. They deliberately choose the most difficult way when easier ways are available with few compromises.
Does that mean the Eternal September[1] is almost over?

We're about at what, September 20th or so? Maybe later in the month if we account for people too young to use the internet, or unable to do so for some reason.

Or maybe it has already ended, if we define it as a ratio of new internet users joining per month compared to the existing user base [2].

Question: What will be the effect of the majority of internet users being EXPERIENCED internet users, increasingly so over time, compared to the last 10-20 years where a higher proportion has been new, inexperienced users?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

[2] "Whereas the regular September student influx would quickly settle down, the influx of new users from AOL did not end and Usenet's existing culture did not have the capacity to integrate the sheer number of new users" (from [1])
Not in NYC where the AQI hasn't been above 50 for more than 3 years and often hovers in the mid 20s. Your indoor air-quality is almost certainly worse.
wow i didn’t know they were that “cheap” now. i used to work for a major competitor to the sequencer you linked, the SOLiD.

and i feel like nanopore is the VR of dna sequencing. it’s always just another few years off.
I would, but unfortunately I've already posted about it here from a profile I wish to keep anonymous. (This one is practically my name.)
Hello

I have finally finished the visualization of news topics in the year 2021. 300k+ news headlines were collected from various sources over the period of the year. Data was processed with Python and visualized with JavaScript.
Will be glad to answer any questions.
Commodity cycles and price inflation are tightly correlated.

Next we can follow that logic to look at commodities. This chart shows the 5-year rolling change in CPI vs oil prices:

https://www.lynalden.com/wp-content/uploads/price-signal-cpi...

This is not a tight correlation at all. All the evidence she gives is weak.
>purely offensive technologies, like nuclear weapons

This is absolutely not true. Nuclear weapons have many non-weapon usages, and they would be really good for those, too. Like excavations, shutting down runaway oil well fires, protecting against stuff striking earth, etc.
> far from it

I strongly suspect that the majority of the kinks will be ironed out before the end of this decade.

Within the next 5 years the screen quality will be dramatically improved and will become a viable alternative to our monitors and laptop screens.
Why can’t farmers extract water from the air like they do in Star Wars? Or maybe from all the fog in San franscisco?
The gas station tv has never bothered me but I'm also able to tune it out completely. As I think about it, I struggle to even know which gas stations use it around me.
You are misunderstanding that paper.Snow <3000 feet in the Sierra is common. The paper looks at specific locations over time, not the Sierra at large. some locations in the paper have a snow Line <500 feet.

I agree that most people don't care about climate mechanics, but it is well understood.
Enough with the VR. Can't wait for this trend to pass.
Deludedly Deeming Housing Deregulation a “Disaster”
Index funds (S&P 500 up 23% vs 5% cpi)

Real estate, mortgages
The major downside is total inundation of all of the valleys filled in by the reservoir. The 20th century is littered with dams whose headwaters have completely destroyed unique natural environments, eg Hetch Hetchy [1]. They are technically “easy” to build if only speaking to their constructibility, but dams are incredibly charged from an environmental perspective.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetch_Hetchy
Key point here is that the VA donated the land. In the 20's in Germany, many homes were built on land donated by various churches. Churches, groups like the VA and others own a lot of land, if they can be convinced to help out it would make a big difference.
How do you stop a bad actor (e.g. CA) using up the entire country's water supply?
Many GA airframes are old, but have been refitted with "glass cockpits" from Garmin or other avionics companies.
That's beatnik poetry right there! [0]

Chicago was a balmy 55 on Christmas Eve

in the lower to mid 40’s on Christmas Day

No white Christmas here

Only RAIN!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fpH1cnAPIM
not trying to “fool” anyone, trying to get an opportunity. ive had to apply to hundreds of places to get a handful of replies.

been learning and growing for 3 decades starting on a IIe but highlighting that part hasn’t worked so why not experiment with my approach?
> I also used git without issues

I mean, sort of? Wouldn't a .docx file have all the same annoyances within Git as something like an image, or any other binary format?

LaTeX, I can look at diffs between commits, see if someone changed a specific line, etc. Is that possible with Word?
We do have real life targeted ads. The NYC Link terminals, for example, can detect tons of data about the devices people carry, and the comings and goings of the owners, and sometimes link them to their ad profiles. ads for display can then be selected accordingly.

This isn't even particularly new tech, they prototyped roadside billboards thay could infer what radio stations the cars driving by were listening to, and this was in the early 2000s
Jared Diamond's theory in the book Guns, Germs and Steel is that trade, ideas, and technology develop and disperse along routes where agriculture flourished. The basic agricultural package which works from China to England does not work in sub-Saharan Africa. The Bantu people developed one that did work, but it developed a lot later, and there was a sufficient gap between the two to prevent significant commerce, flow of ideas, etc. The result is that Africa was technologically thousands of years behind.

The accelerating technological dynamic that put Europe ahead of everyone else along the Silk Road had a different dynamic. One of whose key ingredients was the lack of any central authority who could suppress discoveries and lines of research for whatever political or religious reasons. And once that turned into a runaway train of progress, well, everyone was backwards compared to them!
I’ll decide what’s ‘novel’ and ‘of value’ for myself thanks. Which will require the right of ppl to express their conscience. Don’t need Boris Johnson’s (or anyone else’s) govt deciding this for me under threat of jail time.
The one I linked to is a decade out of date and OEM discontinued.
Although when receiving a weak signal with strong out of band interference, you may still need a lot of dynamic range to successfully filter it out digitally.
The difference is not having to touch NPM.
Not really. By definition, a blacklist is a list of things to block, and things not found on the list get a pass. Most use IP address or domain. Unless someone has reported something, they don't get added. The only real exception I can think of is "residential IP addresses, " as some blacklists will try to keep up with multiple ISPs' residential assignments to block them. Even then, they still have to he added to the list to block. Most have forms easily accessible to request review or unblock. Even Spamhaus has a very easy process, and I find them to be rather more aggressive then the others.
seems like author is imagining the use case is more for gaming than for work. But I suppose if it had a fast charge during lunch break, that'd solve the problem.
?!

Please explain further lol

My guess is my legal experience isn't yet extensive enough for something like that.
Of course you can always start up a successful company, but that's not really relevant in this thread.
There's a simple way to ensure that you're making something that people want - just solve an existing problem instead of finding a new one.

Search for your problem on google. If the top results are blogspam with ads for monetization, that's a bad sign. Are there existing products in the niche and are they doing well? Is there a lot of search volume for related keywords? Do you have a better or unique understanding of the niche that others lack?
I've dealt with snow in the PNW (including Vancouver, BC) and the region really isn't great about how to deal with it. Hell, WA and OR can barely deal with driving in the rain.

If you want some humorous questions / etc. regarding snow, at the moment, check out the CHP Truckee Instagram account. 70ish miles of Highway 80 from Colfax to the Nevada state line is closed at the moment, and may be until Tuesday. All the people that "relocated" during Covid are experiencing the first real winter up there.

Driving around, slow and steady is the rule. Knowing the capabilities of your vehicle (and your driving skill limits), being prepared in case you get stuck, etc. are important.
"Dogged", "hounded", "doggy style"... this became annoying pretty quickly.
yeah, I wonder if there's anything we can do about this situation

All I can think of is to spread the word about zoning laws, since currently we're still in a situation where renters mostly just get angry at foreigners, rich people, corporations, etc.

Tokyo probably takes things to an extreme that Americans wouldn't like (all the zoning laws are restricted by the national government, as I understand it). I just think it'd be nice if everyone stuck renting overpriced crapholes in the SF Bay Area would start showing up and voting for denser housing
Link: https://ndi.tv/tools/

AFAIK it is not free.

NDI captures the entire screen, so I open Kodi, and it captures both audio and video. There's no need to integrate it with Kodi, it just works.

Then it can be seen in other computers in the same network.
ad blocking would absolutely be a thing still. Fundamentally an ad blocker is just a filter on what portions of web page get loaded. It is my intention to increase the signal to noise ratio on the things I experience, so I would filter these things out myself at the brain level. I'm just automating the process and offloading it to the browser, and there will always be strong incentive to automate things.
This is one of the most pretentious and ironic pieces of writing I've ever seen on HN front-page. Maybe only surpassed by pg's "How to think for yourself" being #1.
I feel like validation is less of an end-state and more of a process of increasing probability.

Like you might start with one data point ("hey, it's really annoying when I try to do X" or there are a couple posts in online forums from people describing problem X).

Then you get more data (see if more people have that problem, talk to the users on forum posts about their specific needs, find out where potential users hang out and how many people might have this problem).

Then maybe you build something simple to address the needs and see if people are interested / use it / pay for it (landing page or minimum valuable product).

Then you get feedback from the initial users about what they're really needing and iterate lots of times to get it right while figuring out where and how to market/distribute.

Throughout this process there's an increasing sense of confidence that you're on the right track (or not).

But also sometimes you build something just because and it turns out that lots of people like it (Minecraft). But the risk of wasting a lot of time and effort is a lot higher without continuous feedback.
As a meta point “whataboutism” is a very stupid concept. We obviously evaluate things by comparison to other things and by their relationship to other related issues. Cars and scooters compete for public space and are directly comparable. If you’re locked in a room with a kitten and a lion and I hear you complaining about the kitten, then it’s not “whataboutism” to explain to you that you’ve got bigger problems.

Second, roads predate cars by thousands of years, so, no, they weren’t “made for cars.” Some actual roads existing today predate the cars on them by hundreds of years.

Third, the supply chain argument is very lazy and easily refuted. Most of the problematic car usage in my neighborhood has nothing to do with the supply chain. We can get your products delivered without building cities primarily for individual automobile traffic.

The most important detail in this discussion is that cars existed when you were born and you were raised in a society where they were normalized. Therefore, you regard them as a natural, unchangeable feature of the universe. Scooters are new, so you expect a lively debate about their use. This is the detail that informs everything about our disagreement.
The debates over the type of schools are about school governance, and what sorts of school governance are best suited for "quality education".
My own experiences disagree.

I have friends who started out in middle-class families and sunk lower. I also have friends who started out middle-class and rose.

IMHO, the biggest factors seem to be raw intellingence, willingness to move & chase money, and some 'luck' factors. But I can't imagine a world where nobody could change fortunes given reasonably common circumstances.
I won't deny the importance of luck.

There are things one can do to increase their apportionment of luck in life, but outcomes are not guaranteed.

I don't mean to be glib. Equanimity is required for lasting contentment. Equanimity comes more naturally with age.
No, it doesn't. Electronics is pretty much a deflationary market, and it's hot. Think about it, if you wait a year, you can buy the same PC or a smartphone for much less. Yet people buy them like mad.

Deflationary grinds stupid chachki markets to a grind maybe. The stuff that pollutes the planet.
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.
I’m not sure how that fits with Apple pursuing services.

Without cellular the iPhone is just an iPod Touch and carrier exclusives are what the carriers often forced on manufacturers. See first Android phone with T-Mobile and Moto Droid with Verizon.
"The common wisdom would say it heats up but that's not guaranteed."

If it does something other than turn into heat the laws of thermodynamics are wrong which is somewhat unlikely.
I've read Girard, but I don't think everyone in my life has the attention span or interest to dive into him. I'm imagining what the conversation of me recommending THSTFOTW to my bro would be like LOL.
Cytological Utopia And The Rapture Of The Eukaryotes (2016)
Well, China indeed can do unpopular stuff but they don’t have mechanism to identifying and promoting right and unpopular stuff that must be done. Actually they changed some things recently where this is strongly discouraged (something about reporting to party bad things I don’t remember exactly). In Lithuania we at least know what must be done.

I agree about universities in Lithuania, but I think some stuff was already done with financing in that regard and some universities might die naturally in Lithuania. Question is if that is enough.
3D TVs were trash. Starring at a tiny rectangle with your head perfectly fixed to have a fake sense of depth was never going to fly. VR is immersive – you are in the environment and not starring at it through tiny rectangle. 3D TV is a subset of VR – watching a stereoscopic movie in HMD is a bit better since you can have IMAX-like image size in your tiny living room.

You having a tiny living room was just my assumption/prediction. It might be wrong as everything I am saying.
Lots of phones were carrier exclusive. Or had different radios for different carriers.
Interesting. I haven’t talk heard of any of those.
Companies that use server-side Kotlin
So there is no labour shortage, there is a local labour shortage.
What do you do in order for your crawler to not accidentally weer into some naughty-naughty site and yield you a visit from your friendly FBI squad? That concern why I decided to stay away from yacy
Yes, because cars and scooters occupy and compete for the same space and the difference between them is so large that anybody who thinks scooters are the bigger issue is in my view either totally blind to the problems with automobiles or lying. I don’t acknowledge a third possibility. Cars are orders of magnitude more problematic in cities than scooters. That’s not hyperbole. They are literally orders of magnitude more problematic.

If you’re locked in a room with a lion and a kitten and I hear you complaining about the kitten, then I’m going to think you’re either very confused or lying.
The internet has made a lot of things more convenient (sending mail, ordering goods and services for example) but there were solutions to these problems before (postal mail, catalogs, phone/mail order, etc).

The new stuff (social media in particular, and the instantaneous, always-connected nature of things in general, and the privacy-invading tendencies of online providers) is what we haven't figured out yet, and where most of the negative effect is coming from.
I love real world, but my employer expects me to deliver stuff in a tiny rectangle sitting on my desk.
The two complement one another well: htmx for exchanging HTML with a server and alpine.js for pure front end stuff (e.g. toggling a class)

hyperscript, our other project, is a more direct competitor w/ alpine:

https://hyperscript.org
Today's good guy / builder-of-society is tomorrow's slumlord.

It happened to lots of people who are successful today. I don't see why it won't happen tomorrow.

(To be clear: The business person doesn't change positions. It's jealousy on the part of the non-doers.)