skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true. I haven't heard of people cutting LSD with other research chemicals. I'm not an expert, but from what I've gathered reading around is that other drugs that are effective at that dosage are sometimes easier to get ahold of but not necessarily cheaper. It's not like cocaine where it's very lucrative to cut the drug with fillers. Coke, after all, is sold by weight while LSD is at such small amounts I'm not sure what cutting it would really gain you. I feel like they're more likely to give you something under dosed and call it a day.

I think it is possible to mail in a dose to a lab that can analyze it on a molecular level. Personally, I think if you can prove the existence of LSD, I would feel reasonably confident that that's the only active ingredient. But you're right, there's no way to know for sure. In any case, one should be careful with these types of things.
I don't engage with purchasable wearables (or super hero movies) but I do like the Captain America example buried in this post. A more practical offering like the choice to pay a tiny fee to unlock a few supplementary scenes about a character's back story while streaming something seems like an inevitability - unless I'm missing something and it's already been done?
I heard the phrase "Yuppie food stamps" meaning ATM-dispensed $20s, a long time ago, and didn't people start using the term "Yuppie" in the 80s?
Ironically, automating it would mean that cross-data-silo joins were automated. This would be a net decrease of user privacy.
This is very interesting, thank you. I didn't get this line

> As it happens, 00101 is also binary for the number 5. If you start counting at 0 (A = 0, B = 1, C = 2, and so on), then R is also number 5.

R is 17, not 5. You might want to reword it. Stopped here to ask you this and haven't read further yet.
Hyperbole, like sarcasm doesn't come across well on the internet.
I didn't read the article, but I scrolled through it until I found the place where he answers the question in the headline:

What is money?

Well, the answer to that question ties into the difference between currency and money. Currency is some other entity’s liability, and they can choose whether or not to honor that particular liability. Money is something that is intrinsically valuable in its own right to other entities, and that has no counterparty risk if you custody it yourself (although it may have pricing risk related to supply and demand). In other words, Russia’s gold is money; their FX reserves are currency. The same is true for other countries.
For context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lan_School
If the vacancy rates are too low for a vacancy tax to have an impact, then the other dial to turn would be creating more supply via higher density zoning, yes?
Whoops this was a reply to wrong comment.
cheers indeed, have a read first.

https://concernedamericandad.com/2022/03/27/us-funded-biowea...

https://helenaglass.net/tag/zelensky-pandora-papers/
I love Yurichev's books on assembly language, and he gives them away (CC-BY-4.0).

https://beginners.re/
What's he like in person? It seems like he's a considered person and definitely an acolyte of Rob from the outside.
Apple actively discourages and tries to get in the way

This is false.

Apple doesn’t actively discourage anything. Apple put all of options in the operating system for a reason and ships with a Terminal.

The GUI allows regular people to get shit done without requiring them to be experts.

Meanwhile, developers, hackers, tinkerers, can tweak to their heart’s content on the things that matter to them while getting the benefits of the Apple ecosystem. It’s never been an either/or.

Editing a config file on Linux isn’t inherently “better” than doing the same on macOS.
There are plenty of houses that lose money, even in super nice locations, not factoring in maintenance / not tracking inflation.
We may finally be adjusting to the fact that it isn't reasonable for the average household to be paying someone else to make their food most days.
These days it feels like the real value of kubernetes is not the ability to "planet scale" but actually the control-plane API. With tools like kind, it actually is really easy to get going locally, no cloud needed.

I see no reason to not use it, even if your deployment cluster lives on a single vm. The API is worth it.
Have you tried Canadian? Something wrong with our sturgeon?
Current in a resistor will raise the resistor's temperature.

Current in a diode also raises the diode's temperature.
These are very congested cities that need multiple new mass transit lines and freeways (at least) to accommodate the influx of new residents that would come with a massive housing boom. I'm not defending zoning laws or NYMBYism. If anything, many of the same laws restricting new housing are also restricting the ability to build new infrastructure quickly and affordably.
Intel will never catch up because Arm's business model is much better. Intel is not competing with Arm, they're competing with every large tech company, who are all sharing many design costs via Arm and mostly sharing manufacuring costs via TSMC.

Arm has a much more efficient and also much less profitable business model, and Intel will never catch up unless they adopt it. They'll never do that so they'll fade away like IBM.
Hungary is more open to refugees from a nation that it shares a border and cultural heritage with. News at 11!
Probably a typo for E, given that R and E are right next to each other on the keyboard and E is number 5.
On the contrary, I've had a pebble and two Apple watches (You think I'd have learned after the Pebble, but no)... after few months of wear the smart watches languished in the back of a drawer until I eventually sold them. I'm connected enough without my watch being connected -- for me watches are jewellery and a mechanical marvel that I take personal pleasure out of wearing.
TradeCast Screenshots
TradeCast screenshots are now available: https://tradecast.one. Scroll to the end of the page to see them.

This is a very minimal UI, intentionally, for automated crypto trading. The MVP is nearly ready.
You're right for sure.

I probably should have clarified that when I said "Ethernet", I meant classic 10 Mbps Ethernet that today's kids probably don't know about. The Ethernet hub acted like a bus: anything one connection said was broadcast to _ALL_ other connections.

Of course, today we have far faster point-to-point switches. But it helps to remember that the Ethernet-protocol was built in the days of old: half-duplex shared communication broadcast to everyone on your hub.

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Today's wired 1Gbps or 10Gbps ethernet are way way faster than half-duplex channels that 802.11 / Wireless technologies are forced to use (after all: the physics behind 802.11 and walkie talkies remains fundamentally the same)

There probably isn't a need for CSMA/CD systems in Ethernet anymore (since today's networks are all dedicated wires). But still, the CSMA/CD system exists for a reason, a legacy of the old "shared ether network communications" that gives rise to the name "Ethernet". (One Ether that everyone on the network can hear simultaneously, like a walkie talkie)
American scientists have actually mathematically proven that it is impossible to detect sarcasm in the written word.
Simple, force yourself into the situations. If you’re scared of something, take it as a challenge.
> as safe as outdoors

Ah, forgot about Covid. I'm in Bucharest, and "as safe as outdoors" is pure masochism. Kids, stay away from corruption and incompetence, it gives cancer and lots of other stuff as well.
Ask HN: Do you know SaaS founders $1000 – $5000 MRR?
I'm the owner of a platform that helps founders scale their revenues. SparrowStartup.com/love.

Generally, founders at the same level, face the same ‘foundational’ types of issues with growth.

And so, I’m building out a Slack channel for founders in the $1000 - $5000 MRR range so we can help each other out.

What'll you get:

>> No-BS online resources on growth, marketing, product (e.g., Growth guide).

>> Weekly 30-min mastermind with the members to discuss your journey.

>> Monthly check-in with our vetted advisors as needed. Not linking to avoid coming off spammy.

>> A community to vent on and learn from.

What you're expected to give back:

>> Don't spam. Don't advertise garbage. Be real.

>> Engage 30-mins a week. Participate in conversations you find interesting

Comment here if you’re interested and I’ll invite you. Must be $1000MRR+. Pure SaaS. No exceptions.
Thanks, this seems much more detailed. I'll give this a good read.
I’ve personally tried projects in Ruby, Elixir, and node. PHP has been the best experience for me across both dev and production. Elixir has an excellent local environment story though!
> web apps having full native parity

What an awful idea that is.
>Adam Smith's famous "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest" thesis is wrong because shopkeepers of the time mostly sold goods on credit and thus the customers were in fact depending on their benevolence.

It's not necessarily wrong though. Giving credit can still be a self-interest motivated action, in fact it would most often only be that - generating a higher reward to the risk taken by giving it - as banks try to manage. So yes, banks aren't run by benevolence, and they aren't the most benevolent entities on the planet (far from it) - they're just economically rational actors, that are benefited by offering credit.
Yes, the submitted title ("Lumber prices fall 30%; housing market cools") broke the site guidelines, which ask "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

The article isn't about the housing market. The editorialized title triggered an off-topic discussion. We've reverted to the article title now.

Accounts that keep doing that eventually lose submission privileges on HN, so please don't do that!
An ETA automatic chronograph movement would have put this watch over $1000, maybe less if they kept all the other materials and manufacturing the same, but still a significant multiplier over what it costs as it stands.
It went a little crazy over in Singapore, crazy crowds form and reselling immediately, being non limited I wonder why people are rushing for it

https://mothership.sg/2022/03/omega-swatch-carousell-scalper...
It isn’t just the houses, the schools, the sewers, the highways, or the public transit also need upgrades. Even then, a city like Seattle has been building a lot more than SF in the past decade, yet still keeps approaching it in property famous (and yes, we mean land value, not just the structures on them). I live in Ballard. And tons of low density SFHs are being torn down for three story luxury townhomes, and then there are the 5-6 story apartment blocks being built. And this isn’t uncommon in the region. I guess as we approach NYC density, we will approach its property prices as well?
I'd be very interested in checking out your SE script.
I own a speedmaster, I don’t feel salty at all. I think these look pretty cool
I thought they're used for high current applications? Or did you mean mega rather than millivolt-ampere?
I don't want the TV itself to be connected to the network. It should be a dumb display device. The less brains it is supposed to have, the better. I've got an old Samsung 1080p HDTV that still hasn't needed upgrading all these years, and the more shit I hear about what is going on with 4k TVs, the less I want anything to do with them.

Now, the equipment that takes that display device and actually connects it to things like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, etc.... that IS a device that I want connected to my network. It's called an Apple TV, and definitely is connected to my network. And it connects to the Samsung TV over HDMI.
One way that I've been thinking about this is to define money as something that facilitates economic activities that's some multiple of its total value and use it as a litmus test to see if something is functionally money or not. If it's the other way around, where the total value exceeds the economic activities by many multiples, it should be classified as an asset.

For instance in some situations, cigarettes or packs of ramen are performing the role of money when it facilitates some economic transaction denominated by it. For dollar, you can see how the US GDP is many multiples of total value of dollars available and the same goes for the Euro too.

On the other hand, stocks, real-estates, and gold are all assets by this definition. For instance, gold has market cap of ~$10T but the global gold market is perhaps something like $500B/yr - say from extraction to retails.

By this definition, Bitcoin is closer to asset than money. If it were close to being money, the value of economic activities facilitated by Bitcoin would be in multi-trillion dollar range and I just don't see that happening anytime soon. Of course, this doesn't say anything about its value as digital asset of some sort but I think the rhetoric of cryptocurrency as money doesn't really hold.
while there is certainly merit to choosing a language with a large talant pool. It drives me nuts how so many employers optimize for hiring juniors. Hiring a Junior is like getting a puppy and now you're picking a language that minimizes the scale of their messes.

I'd rather hire someone that knows what they are doing and give them tools to maximize the scale of their strengths.

2 good devs working in elixir, rails or clojure will accomplish far more than 10 juniors working in javascript or go.
Learning to use zap proxy, curl or burpsuite community has a profound effect on my understanding of L5/6/7 (ish) communications and how http works at a high-ish level.
The author titled one of the sections "Midpoint circle algorithm".

There happens to be a Wikipedia page on "Midpoint circle algorithm":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midpoint_circle_algorithm

The page claims, "Bresenham's circle algorithm is derived from the midpoint circle algorithm."

The author of this blog post even made it clear, at the end of their article, that... "many explanations of midpoint algorithm use the final, optimized version. But I added several unoptimized steps."

I think there's a lot of value in a blogpost that demonstrates how someone could re-derive a widely-used algorithm from scratch.
This looks like a PDF of PiHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved):

https://dailydialectics.com/education/pihkal/PIHKALAnthology...
I don't see the issue is with that, especially when the mistake being made is overgeneralizing a specific term. Suppose we were talking about jury trials, and someone said "I believe the correct term for it is common law". That's wrong, because even though many common law systems have jury trials, common law deals with a lot more than just jury trials. It's also very expansive, with a lot of topics to cover, so you can't reasonably give a summary as a comment. In this case I feel it's totally fine to scold them with a quick summary with why they're wrong (ie. "common law refers to a specific type of legal system used in certain countries, not just jury trials"), without having to write an exposition about every feature of common law.
I just installed Kaspersky, today. After seeing a similar post for the 15th time.
Shanghai starts lockdown due to Omicron surge
Err? I'm not saying Adam Smith is wrong. I'm saying Graber's characterisation of Smith's argument is wrong.

Or did I misunderstand your comment?
The WordPress core team does a great job of updating to support new PHP versions as soon as betas are released. Hell, in the most recent version, they even patched in some of the new PHP8.1 functions so they can be used before the official release.

We all know the tech is out of date at its core, but I don’t think it’s fair when people say they’re holding PHP back when there is an active effort to keep things compatible.
FWIW, I'm very comfortable with nginx, but preferred something with Acme built in.

What I struggled with most in setting up things with caddy was the context for a config statement.

I could usually find the config parameters I needed, but I had no idea at what level of nesting it was and in what context it was used.

I would have found it incredibly useful to have a reference caddyfile for every parameter so I could see it used in context and then just strip that reference file down to what I need and go from there.

In the end, I just went back to nginx and dealt with Let's Encrypt myself since that was what I was most comfortable with and decided learning this new thing wasn't worth the benefit at that moment for the specific project. I'll probably revisit it later this year.
>"...what I really want is a completely open source parametric cad program that is as good as Solidworks or OnShape..."

I will sign this with my blood. Why on Earth every free solution is trying to reinvent the wheel when it comes to proven and ergonomic UI is beyond my comprehension.
They did this a long time in the past (See: Rocket League Rocket Labs) and it was near-universally disliked.

The complication when it comes to adding new features is that Rocket League is built on top of a bespoke scripting engine that was discontinued after Unreal Engine 3, so they have to fully recreate RL in UE5. Because of this they don't want to put any additional resources into new features for UE3 since it's wasted effort once the game transitions to the new engine.
While it may have 1 less bump, the bump is bigger. What you want to do is minimize the size of the bumps. You can improve your design by instead of basing your wheels of triangles, base them off of a shape such as the Reuleaux triangle. This will essentially remove all of the bumps.
Steam is the best thing to happen to gaming. My library is always updated. I'm able to play most of my catalog of games on Windows, Linux and here soon on Chromebooks. Since I started to use Steam I have amassed a HUGE library that I periodically have dig into and find stuff. It's really is amazing.
Yep, I can't sell old games and yes there's a bunch of freemium games that are focused on addicts but who cares. Yep Rocket League you changed. I still play it but if I decide not to there's a ton of other games for my attention.
Show HN: A tool to make strong passwords that are easy to remember
I am a high school sophomore interested in security. I built this tool to help people learn how to make strong passwords that are not only hard to guess, but also easy to remember. I built this using Python, Flask, and Bootstrap.

I would love your feedback, if any!
This measures total value circulating. In terms of market cap, Tether still has a pretty clear lead (though I suspect USDC will flip it within the next 1.5 years, and UST in the next 3-4 if it doesn't go into a death spiral before then)
Halt and Catch Fire:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(computi...
It probably wasn't even a choice some person at Google made, it was just a computer program deciding that this show is over.

There's no sign at all that Google has the slightest interest in its many years of abusing its customers and users.

When true competitive choices arise to Google products, people will jump at them.

The real outcome here is that Google must offer creators the ability to backup/download their videos. Does that exist already?

There might be an opportunity for a startup to create a service that downloads YouTube videos as backups for the owners of the channels.
> Their point is that no amount of proof is sufficient for some people (the fringe).

But how is that relevant to this conversation? Some amount of proof is sufficient for most people. Where does convincing the "fringe" come in? Is he accusing his parent of being "fringe" for noting a lack of evidence in a context where it should be trivial to gather?

> It'd be cool if there was any evidence at all.

> You can't convince the fringe with evidence!

It's non-sequitur.
In plain English, you're a conspiracy nut.
>I don't understand this sentiment.

You are paying a substantial premium for the name Omega on the front of the watch.

Here is one website that can give you an idea of how much a watch should cost built out of premium materials, but not with a luxury brand name. Steinhart watches being a great example of quality from a non luxury brand. [1]

No one really believes the parts that make up a Rolex Submariner are worth $12000. It's worth that much because it's a Rolex. You can actually buy quality forgeries for under $1000 that you'd likely need to take apart the entire watch to prove it's a fake.

[1] https://us.gnomonwatches.com/
It’s amusing if you don’t know the context in which it occurred.
Is this a joke? You shouldn't have to create an AMO account just to install an addon.
Everything is limited edition in 2022.
I did this a lot for the last few years, but I just have seen those kind of deals for a few months now. At the very least, they are a lot less common than they used to be. That store brand cereal that used to go on sale for $1.99 is going on sale for $3 instead, but that’s if they are able to stock it at all (so I’m often paying full price and I’m just happy they have it).
So I started a Tell HN about this two weeks ago as it was pretty easy to see this coming. Feel free to revisit that.
I was neglected and it has made things difficult for me. I learnt how to smile by practicing with a mirror and have no reference point for what a genuine relationship is. Never been hugged and still am terrified of getting touched affectionately. Anti-social and feel lightyears behind my peers in social aptitude. Don't know how to respond to affection and tenderness and have responded with angry outbursts in the past. It's a hole that takes some getting out of.
OpenSCAD is mentioned in the first article in the website, “The world needs another CAD program” [1]:

> The most popular Code-CAD application, as far as I can tell, is OpenSCAD. While programming your CAD models, like you would program software, provides a lot of flexibility, the feature set of OpenSCAD is otherwise very limited. This makes many CAD modeling tasks tedious.

> I want to use something more powerful, and that rules out OpenSCAD and a whole bunch of other less-known alternatives.

[1]: https://www.fornjot.app/blog/the-world-needs-another-cad-pro...
I have a question. Do these programs exist in other countries? A cursory search (I honestly am not sure what I should be looking for) couldn't find any here in Australia. Is this a uniquely American thing? Surely not, I assume. If it's not, do these programs have the same horrible stories coming out of them elsewhere, and if they don't, does that not paint a picture that the approach taken in the US isn't a good one?

I freely admit to being pretty ignorant about all this. I do not have the best view on these "programs" though, from everything I've seen.
4G Setup for WFH
Bizarrely there was a time when I had the perfect Gnome 2 installation on Ubuntu (16? 14?) and it was better at working like a computer than anything else I’ve had.

But as soon as I upgraded, everything went away. I remember something weird like I could “pick up” a window and swap workspaces and drop it and it was perfect.

I can only guess that that feature was some emergent property of the implementation and not a design goal because I never really got it back.