skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The average price of a house in Ontario, Canada is $922K:

* https://wowa.ca/ontario-housing-market

When purchase through a lawyer, title insurance in Ontario is around $250:

* https://www.getwhatyouwant.ca/what-the-heck-is-title-insuran...

250 / 922000 = 0.000271 or 0.03%. I've had bar tabs larger that $250.
Newsgroups got pretty crazy with some of the uuencoded files people would post. That’s definitely an improvement. For a while there were warez groups with massive files split across a lot of posts.

Telnet text based muds are one of my favorite things we used to have. You’d telnet to a host and play a text based game where you’re trying to make progress walking through a world solving puzzles.
> the original reasons given for emergency use was vaccines prevented infection for 90% of patients.

The vaccine does prevent serious infection for the majority of patients.

Deaths are so much higher in unvaccinated COVID patients that it's not even a close question. The vaccine works.
Every artist I know enjoys making art. Time enjoyed is not time wasted.
Because of mandatory minimum sentences keeping people in jail for a long time. Just because that’s a bad policy doesn’t necessarily mean that sending people to jail at all is a bad idea.
> Using bitcoin I can send money to someone in Chi no a who's social rating was degraded by the CCP and who is forbidden from using banks.

Okay, let’s think about this even a little bit: receiving that Bitcoin requires them to have software and access websites which the Chinese government has restricted. Assuming they successfully get a wallet app which isn’t compromised, they then need to connect to a well-known, trivially blocked high-volume network service without the Great Firewall triggering. Having done that, they then need to pay a substantial processing fee for any transaction. Since their landlord, grocer, etc. need to be paid in real money this person will also need to find someone to convert it, again requiring a substantial payment because accepting something banned from a pariah is high-risk.

All of this is not only expensive but incredibly risky since you’re leaving a lot of electronic records of illegal activity and you’re forced to trust various third-parties who can be compromised without your ability to easily tell. Bitcoin is perfect for state authorities, too, since it leaves a signed record of intent to break the law for each transaction — if they bust a business which does a lot of cash sales, it’s a lot harder to prove where each bill came from and there’s no way to do so if they only start monitoring after the fact like there is with Bitcoin.
If I remember correctly, the author started an improved version of 0mq by developing nanomsg(now nng)?
That's some real dedication. I would have just gotten a tablet and a keyboard case.
> You could very well have a proof of authority ...

> ... by a further authority if keys ...

As soon as your blockchain solution requires proof of authority, your trustless solution starts requiring trust in some form of central governance. At that point, what utility does your blockchain solution provide that the DMV database does not?
This wiki page is pretty good for getting started.

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Software-defined_radio
The other day someone mentioned FTP and I asked them "what is that" because I have completely forgotten about FTP
Ask HN: How many times MATIC is cheaper in terms of gas fee in comparison to ETH
I have an induction and the heat has been far more even and controllable than it has on gas. Maybe it has to do with the quality of the burner or of the pans?
What if the person continuously says “smoking isnt bad for you. It’s actually great for you” on their podcast that is delivered by Spotify to hundreds of millions?

What about they say something even more egregious like “seatbelt laws are against freedom and they do more harm than good and so we should stand up against them?”

I dont care either way. But i think its not clear.
> Because everyone else around them would help defend the validity of the deeds, as they all own property in the same way.

That feels a bit like saying that everyone will pitch in to stop mugging since we all carry physical cash in the same way. Maybe some civilians would intervene some of the time, but most will not risk their own bodily autonomy to defend another's property.

Issuing deeds and currency feels like the easy part of creating an agreed upon land registry or economy. I have a printer and know how to use SQLite, so nothing is stopping me from issuing my own physical currency or deeds today. I could even save paper and put them on my own personal blockchain. Convincing others to honor my currency or deeds sounds like the hard part.
Government shouldn't silence speech.

If you say something society considers awful, other private firms and citizens are well within their right to shun you.

The problem with Rogan is that he's actively advertised despite being a ridiculous moron who peddles conspiracies just to sound contrarian
Normally Tsunami algorithms start calculating/warning when there is M7 or higher. As an "airquake" the registered magnitude is negligible.
Woah. That calculator and file tree _look_ like native widgets. Impressive indeed.
Unless there were serious unmentioned complications, that is a ludicrous amount of money to pay for a new 40-amp circuit. Upgrading the entire panel costs less where I live.
utf-8 emojis are legal in URLs, so i've been trying to use them instead of adjectives or random characters to obscure image uploads to my personal domain. Had to create a shortlink / redirect since HN strips out emojis entirely, but I don't seem to have your back button issue on Chrome nor Firefox.
Are those fire extinguishers in your pants Trevor Jacob?
Hm, considering X-COM, the only missing important piece is 5. Non-modal. Hack-n-slash and grid/turn-based are not inherent to the X-COM genre, and are broken only in geoscape anyway.

There's also a bunch of low-value factors there: 2. Enemies are similar to players, 3. Tactical challenge, and perhaps 6. Numbers.

This is something that hasn't clicked for me before.
Vaccines are 100% about trust, since you’re supposed to take them when you’re still healthy.

Could the governments have done more to unsure vulnerable people got it, while at the same time not bypass every core rules western democracies stand on ?

Here’s a few tips :
1- make the EU contracts with pfizer and moderna public (i can’t believe they thought this was a good idea)

2- don’t pretend vaccines are 100% safe, report about side effects, and communicate about ongoing investigations around them. Saying « everything’s fine » when you can easily find online testimonies of people having horrible side effects, is NOT the good approach.

3- admit that there are still unknown unknowns about mRNA vaccines, as there is with every piece of new tech. We still have 0 statistics about >2 years side effects. By definition.

This is an adult way of communicating. It doesn’t rely on fear but rather providing the maximum amount of quality information, so that everyone can make its own decision about their own health.
Not a Rogan fan, but hes not anti vaccine (has said that in those exact words many times) and he is vaccinated.
> We’re in a global heath crisis and the average people have been convinced that they need to be concerned about big pharma’s “bottom line” instead of doing what’s best for humanity.

You know that pharma companies aren't literally paying for their own treatments out of their own pockets, right?

The government and insurance companies are paying the pharma companies to produce these things. It would be the pharma companies' dream come true if the government paid them thousands of dollars for monoclonal antibodies for every patient instead of a < $20 vaccine.

This is what I meant when I said that the conspiracy theories aren't even logically consistent. Baffling that you think the pharmaceutical companies don't want to produce the more expensive drug.
Usually there's little documentation about SDR, but Analog Devices has "recently" released a book, which is available for free: https://www.analog.com/en/education/education-library/softwa...

Also can be bought, but has a quite hefty price tag: https://www.amazon.com/Software-Defined-Radio-Engineers-Trav...

Other good resources are the books and courses on WirelessPi: https://wirelesspi.com/book/
In the US you can't order a Bosch induction top off Amazon. The cheapest 4 field Bosch induction cooktop at Home Depot, Lowe's and Best Buy (stores people frequently buy appliances at in the US) is $1700.
if people are that gullible, why not just tell them everything is fine?
I don't think that comment was implying those measures are to blame for rising deaths. I think it was to argue that they haven't had the impact they were expected to have.
I’m not sure if I ever met a successful adult who also happened to be a child prodigy growing up.
I took it back in 2012 at a fairly large but run of the mill public college, but it seemed like a fairly mature class. I would imagine that given it’s prevalence in intelligence communities, it has probably been offered for a while, but maybe not everywhere.
Can anyone recommend an NO2 detector? What was used wasn’t mentioned in the article that I could see.
Buying drugs on the Internet. The penetration might be low now, but the TAM is sizeable.
Then in the end, we all live by the rules established by whoever has the largest band of thugs. Good thing we got rid of government and created this libertarian utopia.
If using margins is wrong, I don’t wanna be right
Even if you used such a bijective hash, your hash table would have to have 2^32 available buckets in order for the hash match to be all you need for lookup. Or 2^64 for 64-bit… which is why nobody really does this. (And if you did this, why even hash the input? The input integer could just be the key, and you’re basically using a really big sparse array.)
We didn’t track infections as well in march 2020. We basically have 0 data for that period other than hospitalization.
He's referencing the induction cooktop. It's $1499 MSRP.
It's about SysJoker, which was actually discussed a few days ago on HN and Reddit, so not literally "now" now.
As of today how many people in (say) the US are actually locked down?

Anyway, what if it just too costly vs. vaccinating early? Rogan says he won't take the vaccine but then takes, like any rich person would, a giant concoction of experimental treatments. That probably doesn't scale when you can have thousands of cases a day in even a relatively small area.
Fancy shell prompts, often requiring patched fonts. Something like powerlevel10k[0] or starship[1]

[0]: https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

[1]: https://starship.rs/
Same, good ole BATNA! No better BATNA than being able to walk away from the table.
The food itself can give off emissions — obviously less so if you're doing something like, say, boiling eggs in water, but if you're using high temperatures and oil then it could be significant.
You're right, he is wrong. But you're also wrong. Intramuscular vaccination only will never prevent sars-cov-2 infection or spread. Just like it doesn't with influenza a. It isn't just about people not getting vaccinated. The problem is that we're not following up the intramuscular vaccination with an intranasal vaccination booster.

Intramuscular vaccination for upper respiratory aerosol viral diseases does protect your internal body from serious disease. It does that partially with antibody neutralization (via B cells) and with variants, mostly with cross reactive T cells which kill any of your infected cells.

But those B and T cells are in the body serum immune compartment. The serum igG antibodies generated by intramuscular vaccination do seep into your lower lungs a bit and provide protection. But they barely get into the upper respiratory surface tissues (mucosa) and for less than a couple months even at those low levels. And none of the T cells (or B cells making antibodies) become resident in the upper respiratory tissues where infection happens.

This means the upper respiratory mucosa immune compartment can and is still infected and spreads sars-cov-2. Even if sars-cov-2 has 70x less chance of killing you now. It means that tests for infection in the nose/throat/etc will return positive. And it means the intramuscularly vaccinated can and do spread sars-cov-2 and have to wear N95/ffp2 masks like everyone.

The intramuscular vaccination is only the FIRST STEP. The second is intranasal vaccination so that there are tissue resident B and T cells in the upper respiratory mucosa to prevent infection and spread.

It's incredibly frustrating to me (and probably others in the know) that no institutions or governments have acted on this well known historical fact (been known since the 1960s). If we go based off the time it took governments to realize everyone needs to be wearing a proper fit mask with no gaps then they should realize the value of intranasal vaccines about 2 years from now.
None of those have permadeath even close to their core, and a tacked-on "ironman mode" does not change that. Star craft was even centered around an authored linear story campaign.
My wife and I have a $200 two burner induction cooktop (Duxtop) and it definitely leaves a bit to be desired. You can tell it tries to keep temperature as conditions change, but it definitely struggles, and the adjustment is pretty coarse. I imagine $1500 Breville one someone else mentioned here is a different experience!
I'm not sure why you think car emissions aren't important.

https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-...

Transportation accounts for nearly 1/3 of the US's greenhouse gas emissions and has been the fastest growing contributor. The vast majority of that comes from light and medium duty vehicles so personal cars and trucks.

If we stopping building our cities to require driving and electrify where we can, we'll see a huge reduction in GHG emissions.
His IQ is directly proportional to that of the interviewee, as is his ability to spot grifting.
It's worse than not serving any purpose. It's information about your life that is forever stored out in the open. Except for some limited cases, it's no ones business to know whether I am insured and for how much.
The problem is that when a space becomes dominated by the insane people, it's the insane people who drive its future. Any hope for a sane web3 depended on the hype starting after there was an actual use case. As it stands, web3's Eternal September began before the foundations were even laid, and it's going to be very difficult to retrofit them.
That’s still not a wok.

A wok has 2 important features: it has a round bottom and it’s thin. The thin sheet steel allows it to heat up and cool down quickly. Maybe you can make a thick-bottomed pan that has a rounded bottom on the inside. And maybe you can pump enough energy in it to make it heat up quickly, but you can’t suck the energy back out. If it’s that massive it will not cool down quickly.
Torrens title is the boring have a database solution. It solves messy issues like courts having to determine if a lien is valid and recording it if so by changing the DB.
I have a cast iron one sorta like this https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/lodge-cast-iron-wok...

Yeah, it is heavy. You cant really toss things in it like you would a carbon steel wok.
I have this setup. Gas is for wok cooking, roasting directly on flame, some pans not induction capable. Induction for 95% of cooking tasks. We use gas so infrequently I’m not sure it’s worth it for us.
The connection speed varied from 1200 bits/s in the 80s to 56600 bits/s in the 90s

As my username will attest to, 300 bps modems were very common in the 80s. I got my first one in 1985.
Anatomy of a Moderately Complex App
Joe Rogan:
“If you’re like 21 years old, and you say to me, should I get vaccinated? I’ll go no. Are you healthy? Are you a healthy person? Like, look, don’t do anything stupid, but you should take care of yourself. You should — if you’re a healthy person, and you’re exercising all the time, and you’re young, and you’re eating well, like, I don’t think you need to worry about this,”

Also Joe Rogan:
“(I) threw the kitchen sink at it, all kinds of meds, (including) monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin, Z-Pak, prednisone — everything. I also got an NAD drip and a vitamin drip, and I did that three days in a row. Here we are on Wednesday, and I feel great.”
These companies don't sell personal data. They use personal data to target ads.
>The ruling allows dating app developers to avoid the commission fee between 15 to 30 percent Apple charges

Was this actually confirmed? I remember in the epic vs apple lawsuit (in the US), the media reported something similar, but if you read the decision more carefully, it explicitly says that apple was still entitled to their 30%/15% cut. The logic was that the 30%/15% cut wasn't the fee paid for processing payments, it was also the fee paid for access to the ecosystem, SDK, and placement on the app store.
Could the latency problem be solved?
I'd be surprised if they don't have async mechanisms.
Low quality content marketing page
I think the intention of the poster before you was to highlight that monoclonal antibodies (likely) actually make more money for big pharma than a course of vaccination. A lot of anti-vaccine rhetoric revolves around vaccines being a big pharma cash grab.

For context, each dose of most of the covid vaccines is about $40 while a round of monocolonal antibody treatment is around $1,500. The vaccine has a dramatic effect in limiting the affects of covid and (as far as I a non-doctor know) stack with monoclonal antibodies if needed. Its just dramatically cheaper if people are vaccinated and not as many people need this treatment.
What? The vaccine is free and widely available. None of this is making any sense. Do you know what it costs to treat someone on the ICU?
JFYI in Italy (in the North) there are a number of ham-like products that are essentially "covered" in pepper, example:

https://www.menatti.com/en/prodotto/peppered-prosciutto-crud...

But usually most hams have the "cut" part covered in ground salt and black pepper anyway.
> I do not believe anyone will ever find a legal use for blockchains that cannot be more easily served with traditional technologies.

One does not blockchain to build a product in the cleanest, most efficient manner.

One blockchains to have access to investors/speculators that control the gigantic pile of on-chain wealth that has accumulated over the past ten years, who would never sink $100k+ into a poorly drawn picture of an ape with sunglasses if it was running on Rails+MySQL.

This may sound like I'm being dismissive, so let me be clear, I am not - this is an extremely valid reason to chase this technology, and the existence of these (maybe ridiculous and shady, maybe not) massive stacks of digital cash is going to drive a lot of investment in the space, so if there is anything that can "break through" and prove real value beyond just targeting this wealth, someone is going to find it, likely as a side-effect of targeting these whales.

Web 1.0 couldn't have happened without the late 90s tech bubble, and as ridiculous as the Pets.com era hype was, when the dust settled there was much broader connectivity and a real market for the Internet companies that did live up to the hype over the next two decades.
Single Spider-Man comic page sells for $3.36M
Video from Space is equally stunning: https://twitter.com/wonderofscience/status/14822800417993850...
Cornell Ornithology's "All About Birds" is handy for overviews, and the Sibley guide, published by Knopf, has been my go-to identification resource (in either the paper form or the iOS app) for many years now.
The are several insidious problems with trashing code are:

1. It becomes an impulse and ends up cropping up in places where code is not just perceived as shit, but also misunderstood. And once devs aren’t taking the time to fully understand code before judging it all is lost.

2. It takes mental resources to form the useless judgment and clouds the vision with its bias once it is made. Suddenly it’s more difficult to see the nuanced angles in the code since you’ve got a useless judgement taking up mental space and resources.

3. Again it’s habit forming and becomes a barrier to thinking freshly and creatively when faced with new code.

4. It’s negative.

5. As seen here in all the comments it is rediculously faulty.

6. ALL old code gets to be shit with varying degrees of speed. ALL code bases get old. If you want to work on an old codebase, it comes with the territory. You can be a grumpy old man about it, you can be a grumpy old man about anything, but the net effect is just making you a grumpier shittier developer.

In a similar way I have some coworkers who I know do not code as well because they don’t have the patience to be detail-oriented or pursue optimal solutions by any measure from code efficiency to maintainability. That’s about the worst thing I can think of to say about another programmer… and here’s the thing, they still occasionally write solutions borne of their own perspectives that I can learn from, their code still needs to be maintained, they sometimes do improve etc. If I let the author factor in I’m still going to miss things even if the prejudgment is right 90% of the time.

Finally, I think it is healthy to like people and find the good in them even if they are paddling against the boat, if you can’t lift them up or fire them it’s making the best of the situation. If you can understand that they are humans with their own things going on, that other humans could look at you exactly the same way, I think it lifts us all up.

This is my first HackerNews comment.

EDIT: Formatting. See previous line.
They said you get a data race if you use read() and write() without file locks.

You asked "Are you saying that without mmap() there will be data races??".

No, they are saying you get a data race if you use read() and write() without file locks.
Would you find any utility in an app, or a service, or something ... that would interact with recruiters on your behalf, screening offers so you only ever see the 2% that might be interesting?
> You know that pharma companies aren't literally paying for their own treatments out of their own pockets, right?

Yes that is my entire point. The average person is paying out of pocket for this pandemic and you’re saying we can’t force corporations to do the same.
I usually use the context of a multi tenant SaaS platform with enterprise features. This will stress the tools and find the rough edges or gaps
That’s cool! I have an induction stove (it’s fantastic) but no woks. I’ll probably just end up getting a flat bottom one myself but it’s really cool that those curved induction burners exist (just googled it) - I’d never heard of them until now.