skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does pass the old WebAIM contrast test, although that test doesn't consider font size or font weight.

The proposed WCAG 3 contrast test, the Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm, does consider font size and font weight. If I'm reading this correctly, the minimum recommended font size for normal 400 font weight with these colors is 16.75px, and the 11px seen in this 98.css demo is indeed laughably small: https://www.myndex.com/APCA/?BG=dfdfdf&TXT=222222&DEV=G4g&BU...

That said, what I was referring to primarily was the blue text color (#007AFF) against that grey background color (#dfdfdf), but reviewing that now it appears that blue text color is the default button color in iOS Safari, and likely not the intention of the 98.css authors. I'm only seeing this blue color in iOS Safari, so it likely merely indicates some CSS bug somewhere between 98.css and iOS Safari. But for reference, this blue color scores a dreadful 3:1 on the old WebAIM contrast test, and according this this APCA Contrast Calculator is only suitable for 400 font weight at 37px font size: https://www.myndex.com/APCA/?BG=dfdfdf&TXT=007aff&DEV=G4g&BU...
Unpopular opinion (on HN at least): A Chromebook, under locked down mode to prevent installing any plugins, is best for non-tech savvy, casual internet users.
Why do you think their organization “should” promote recycling? Recycling is not the end goal in itself, it’s a process designed with the supposed intention of reducing waste.

If the outcome of recycling isn’t doing a good job of achieving that goal — which it arguably is not - then we should not be overly attached to that. Recycling shouldn’t be be a quasi-religion, accepted on faith as a solution with no regard to its actual outcome.

Right now, putting out recycling to be collected every week makes people feel better about themselves and their consumption. The numbers indicate it isn’t working to reduce waste though, despite how happy we are to pat ourselves on the back.

Is it gloomy to point out the emperor has no clothes? I’d argue someone needs to say it.
The Quest Pro will be (very soon) on shelves for customers to purchase. It's a product that exists with an app ecosystem and other users. As far as I can tell, SimulaVR won't have a product ready until at least Q4, and even then I'm sure volume will be low.

Imo the most damning part of this article for SimulaVR is this annotation:

>[6] There are lots of tradeoffs involved in battery life vs. headset weight that we still need to decide on.

The Quest Pro has already made these trade-offs, and exists as a real device with specs that are available, while Simula is still trying to figure out the balance of your device?

It's unfair to compare a released product to something that might be available to consumers sometime in the next year.
This is pretty neat. I loved it.
This. I am a garbage human being and even I pass on working on 'solutions' that just make the world a worse place.
Construction costs are construction costs, none of that would change if I was still struggling to pay for food and utilities for a rundown apartment, as I have in the past.
> I thought one of the central ideas of quantum mechanics is that space is discrete? Or am I misunderstanding what the Planck length is?

Yes, that is a misunderstanding. The fundamental idea of quantum mechanics is that certain properties of matter are quantized, but space is not one of them - they are spin, charge, electroweak charge, color charge, and perhaps a few others.

Space and time though are continuous. Planck's length comes in when we discuss the maximum precision that can be measured, as it's related to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle (and to other fundamental concepts, such as c or even black holes). So, the Planck length is the smallest unit of distance that can be meaningfully discussed, but that doesn't mean that distance between particles is an integer multiple of the Planck length.
Sure as long as nothing ever goes wrong, like an accident leaving you with a disability, a change in employment, a chronically terminally ill family member, things like that never happen to anyone though, well they happen to other people, just not me.
ELI5. What does it mean for magnetic field to have sound?
It was an in silico experiment.

But regarding your broader question: there's no reason to believe that thesse viruses experience any selective pressure for the number or location of cutting sites of the particular enzymes being investigated here. They're bacterial enzymes, entirely unrelated to coronaviruses.
Crypto currencies solve a legitimately interesting problem, which makes it a fascinating technology. My professor called it the "nuclear science" of computer science.

What is striking to me is that most people do not even understand what cryptocurrencies are. I sampled some of my (not so technical) friends about how anonymous bitcoin/etherium are, none of them knew that it essentially publishes the bank records of everyone as a fundamental part of how it works...

A blockchain essentially is just a database. And so many times I have heard people proposing a "novel technology" where they just replaced a regular database with a blockchain, e.g. "why not track logistics through a blockchain".
The trouble is that in every case using the blockchain made things worse. In what application do you have to defend against mallicious attack and can not rely on a central authority? In how many cases do you even want to not have a central authority? Money is basically the only semi-plausible use cases where just replacing the blockchain with a normal database doesn't improve the system.
The exact same thing happened 15 years ago.
Let me offer the more blunt materialist analysis: Data engineers are being deskilled into data analysts and too blinded by shiny cloud advertisements to notice.

(In this view though, "lack of tests" or whatever is the least concern - until someone figures out how to spin up another expensive cloud tool selling "testable queries".)
They're native to Northeastern United States and Southeastern Canada, although there is a peninsula in Mexico that has a different species of turkey.

The reason why turkey is traditional at the US Thanksgiving holiday is to honor the first Thanksgiving, celebrated in Plymouth, MA. I live near Plymouth and there are tons of wild turkeys running around here. (Yesterday there were 11 grazing in my back yard.)

It's a very beautiful animal, the male makes a display similar to a peacock.
The title of our blog post ("Meta's Subpoena Dropped; Simula One vs. Quest Pro") is different than the HN title: I think HN might discourage dual titles? (We weren't the original submitter of this post to HN, so didn't choose the title).

Also: originally our post was only going to be about the Quest Pro, but then we found out that Meta dropped their subpoena, and so we just ad hoc attached the news to the beginning of the post as an update to our preorderers.
The lumber commodities prices are close to historical trend.

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/commodities/lbs
How do they generate data at that rate to transmit? I assume it's synthetic data and probably duplicated a lot? But how do they generate it and receive it to count it?
All time high prices and rising interest rates for new loans should tell everything. If you have even basic understanding how average people are estimated for their capacity of taking loans.
Having switched from a classic EU home (concrete) to a new one (wood frame) I can say:

- now I feel the homes without a VMC, BUT wood based homes are (far) more dusty than concrete based one;

- humidity and temperature controls are better, but they eat energy, and they play well with renewables only in the sunny days.

Long story short: something is improved, but that's FAR from the "pure mountain fresh air inside as outside.

Not only: for those who live in cities, but in general for everyone, filtrating fine particulate (at the maximum home tech available, electric filtration) do something but not more than something, just try look at skin/dress regularly between cities and nature to spot the difference.

The modern model push the idea of a home like an isolated environment where people live inside, and that's nice to a certain extent, but we live on Earth not on a sci-fi starship, witch means we ALSO live outside and outside, also in nature, it's not necessary ideal for us all days long in an year. So, better avoiding the idea of the perfect paradise, improving with a realistic vision, without exaggerations like those who are scared by a socket nearby the bed because it might emit a certain EM field but the smartphone no, MUST get super-good signal, Gb+ WiFi, ...

Est modus in rebus.
Ssr to improve a static app performance? Sounds like madness to me. More complexity plus much larger surface to secure.
Alteryx in particular seems to focus more on analytics. You can build dashboards and charts with Noloco but our focus is more on CRUD operations - enabling you to give other team members access to data and control the permissions they have (read-only, update, create records) via permission rules at database level.

In general, we tend to see that existing enterprise-focused tools tend to be more low-code rather than no-code and often more aimed at developers rather than non-developers.
Anyone aware of any open-source projects that use a similar approach? Love to learn from it
>That's left me wondering: will there be a point at which I struggle, after having spent decades writing code that powers the web?

I'd say it's not that tech will become too difficult to use, but the constant and frequent changes will start to annoy you to a point where you just don't invest as much time into learning how the new stuff works. YMMV, but I am less than half your dad's age and I'm already starting to feel it.
People like to hate on flippers, but they provide a service that the market chooses to pay for.

Buyers are all free to buy fixer-uppers. Most choose not to and instead look for move-in-ready homes. Flippers provide that service for a fee.
Everyone that bought this summer...yikes.

The place across the road from us sold for $315,000 two years ago. At 3.5% that's $1,512/month

They put it up for sale last week for $499,999. At 7.25% that's $3,271/month, over double. Even if the price was the same it'd be $2,100.
You in fact did write down "Graham's number" and "googleplex". Most real numbers cannot even be written down as a finite sequence of symbols in any way. However for algebraic numbers ("Plenty of irrational numbers"), every single one has a finite description.

There are uncountably many reals and only a countable number of "names" we can give them. This is a very real problem that makes people say that the real numbers are not real.
Light and Headache Disorders: Understanding Light Triggers and Photophobia
> Our food supply depends on using nitrogen at the moment.

And it always will, since all plants require nitrogen for growing.
I have no strong feelings either way but presumably the students need to be taught be teachers who are going to have a much higher fatality rate than the .001 number.
What I am saying is that, both in what I've seen and what you've stated, SourceHut is emphatically not trying to be "Github but just without the gamification elements", so if that's what people are looking for, they probably want to look elsewhere.
> Any chance you guys measured this speed difference?

No, but we actually can get some comparison, since as I mentioned we host preview apps on Vercel! I did some quick tests right now, and it looks like based on logs, the API request to our Node backend takes:

- From Vercel: ~300ms worst case, ~40ms best case

- From within GCP: ~120ms worst case, ~20ms best case

These numbers are very approximate, but hopefully still insightful! And I'm not sure about the cause of the variance, there are quite a few links in the chain that could be at fault.

> Was there a path considered to locally cache api responses on the vercel server or in middleware somewhere?

We do cache the responses using a CDN; adding another layer of caching beyond this wouldn't help much since at that point we need to fetch fresh results anyway.

> There's probably a simple way to cache hot backend request/responses to get static-like speeds?

Yes, the CDN cache I mentioned is almost instant in good conditions (~2ms on my internet connection) - the problem is sometimes you do actually need updated data, and having huge variance between the cached response speed and the uncached response speed could be undesirable for users.
> I don't see the issue.

I replied specifically to this: "Expecting individuals to think rationally at 18 is completely valid."

I quoted it within my reply to point out exactly what I was choosing to address; no larger issue, no hidden agenda requiring you to read between the lines.

I don't think it's valid to expect 18 year olds to think rationally about matters like this because it requires speculation.

18 year olds don't have 18 years of steady life experience to guide their predictions for the future. They don't have 18 years of clocking in and out at the same job. They have, instead, 18 turbulent years of childhood and adolescence, even in the best case.

With that out of the way…

If wall street can't time the market, then how can 18 year olds? Do you really expect them to sit down and accurately calculate projected inflation and the probability of various economic downturns?

What about the graduating class of 2022? Do you expect them to have accurately predicted a 40% drop in the value of the USD back in 2017-18?

What would be the value in their arithmetic if they hadn't?
Here's an excerpt from my cheat sheet:

# Output all logs since boot
journalctl
# Follow all logs in real time
journalctl -f
# Output logs for a given systemd unit
journalctl -u $unit
# Combine follow and unit flags to follow logs for a given systemd unit
# Easy to remember: You are saying F*** U to a broken piece of software
journalctl -fu $unit
# Output kernel logs
journalctl -k
# Follow kernel logs
journalctl -fk

# Tip: Use -b flag to see logs from previous boot cycles

# Learn more, including advanced filtering and formatting
man journalctl

You can also add that configtest command as an ExecStartPre to the unit, and it will run that before starting nginx and optionally fail early if it finds an error.
Screw batteries, just implant a nuclear generator inside the body instead. Perfectly safe :)

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-heart-pacemaker-dc-id...
College students regularly do this, it's called "not showing up to lecture and writing the final paper anyways" :P
Agreed. Even though I am way too young to have owned a house in 2006, I don't forget the stories from others about how they bought a condo for $90,000 in 2000 and turned downed an offer of $200,000 or more in late 2005.

There are many forces and policies that control housing prices in the US but one thing is obvious: it's subject to insane booms and busts.
Is the real answer here some form of radical transparency?

I’ve seen some decent arguments that spies prevented the Cold War from becoming hot, because both sides thought they had good info on whether the other side was going to strike.
Google offered several times to work with Apple to get full compatibility with their messages. Apple refused every time. This is Apple's deliberate choice.
My apologies I was not meaning to be flamebaity and actually put that "boomers ruin everything" in as a joke.
> No this is not feel good policy like 'recycling'. If the EU and the US ban single-use plastics, the world consumption of plastic would fall an order of magnitude.

>It doesn't matter if 'developing' countries mismanage waste, their total plastic waste is still fractional in comparison to where most of the consumer spending is happening in the world.

Why focus on total plastic waste, rather than mismanaged plastic waste? Surely you must agree that a plastic bottle that's tossed into the Ganges river is orders of magnitude worse for the environment than one that's sitting in a properly engineered and monitored landfill?

>Also it adds friction to the business model of theses giants like: Coca-Cola, Nestle, Pepsico, P&G, Unilever, etc.

>A big part of their savings is in economy of scale. If they now have to keep packaging solutions exclusive for a market but not another it will likely move the needle to single uniform packaging that abides with the strictest standard. This is a well studied effect in many industries.

I'll need numbers for this. The factors working against your argument are:

1. while economy of scale is a thing, the gains you get decrease as you scale up. If you only have bottle factory and it only produces glass bottles, it would be tremendously expensive for you to start producing plastic bottles, because you have to build a whole new factory from scratch. However, if you have dozens of bottle factories around the world, then having separate plastic/glass bottle factories effectively cost you nothing. Yes, there is small efficiency gains to be had, but I doubt that they're significant enough to drive plastic bottles out of business.

2. as developing countries get richer, their plastic consumption will go up as more people can afford consumer products. The same isn't true for rich countries. After all, you being 10x richer won't cause you to use 10x more shampoo.
Yeah, it's like saying "this spaceship can go 10% of the speed of light per second"
I would not be surprised if the Fed oversteers in both directions, and rates start coming back down as fast as they went up. If that happens, this could all be another pump fake downturn that heads right back up. Especially since the labor market is more than fine and this correction seem to be purely due to lever pulling vs actual market dynamics.

I think there's a long way to go until the excess gets cleared out. Maybe not a long way down, but a long time period with poor returns to put things back in balance.
It's very unclear to me that anyone is more productive under these new tooling stacks. I'm certain they're not more productive commensurately with new costs and long-term risks.
My wife had a horrific time in her old job trying to wrangle a completely nightmarish budgeting spreadsheet that even I as a tech person could barely unravel. She now works in an office where Excel is a glorified list tool, with the occasional SUM formula for the real power users. I'm undecided as to which of these extremes is the greater tragedy, nor if there is some Zen or discipline that can be imparted to regular office folks to enable them to reliably get the best out of Excel.
I just updated the style of these buttons, I hope it feels better for everyone now
It is also true that this a 500fold increase in prevalence when compared to the general population.

The 5-year survival rate of lung cancer noticed due to e.g a sore throat is below 10%.
Who knows, maybe depression will be answered by eviction moratorium. Can't let the people on the streets, so let's allow them to not pay rents...
Is the integral a "thing"? - No, it, along with the reals, is the method (we call "analysis") that we humans invented to solve a certain class of problems in science and technology.
> finite description

Oh jeez, its like the space of rational numbers is well described by Arabic Numerals or something. And that anything that's a non-rational number cannot be described by Arabic Numerals + decimal points.

:-p

Don't confuse our current way of writing down numbers with alternative writing methods. That's my point. "Rational numbers" are simply one-and-the-same as "The space described by finite-length Arabic Numerals + decimal points", no more, no less.

EDIT: To put it another way: you're describing a limitation of Arabic Numerals. Not a limitation to math in general. Much like how Roman Numerals are a terrible representation of modern math, we need other representations (ie: Algebraic notation) to represent other concepts in modern math.
I don't think I'd recommend that subreddit to anyone who wants to get in to self hosting. They're quite gatekeepery unless you're doing things the way they want. Just look up any email self hosting there to see what I mean.
And also, don't look to get into furniture making where the (previously affordable) good looking, high-quality, easy-to-work-with material is 97% imported from... Russia. Baltic birch plywood, I barely knew ye.
Yeah the same author has a reply to that since the per-capita emissions point is brought up a lot: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-per-capita-emissions-i...
Can you also acknowledge that 1 and 3 of section 3 are false? It absolutely does not need a PC/wifi to use. Source: I have one on my desk.
That matches my experience to a T. For years I was getting a spam SMS once a month, at most. Recently I've started getting a few per day, mostly for dick pills.
Yep, experienced this a few times on their consumer products and even older Thinkpads licensed with Windows 10 Home. It is possible to neuter all (most?) of the bloatware by deleting the associated binaries and wiping all of Lenovo's background processes, but it's still a royal pain-in-the-ass when reinstalling Windows on it. They're easy to shut up with Linux, but my heart weeps for those who insist on using Windows.
Realistically if enough value exists a secondary-market selling "successful" accounts will crop up and anyone wanting to harvest leads on the forum will purchase one of those.

The site sounds cool but there are huge systemic problems with web based reputation systems. The reputation system can never be bullet proof, so maybe focus on other facets of the project IMO (unless your passion is the reputation system and fraud prevention).
Correct. However, the "NFP" in that paper refers to a specific drug regimen, and bears no resemblance to the nonsensical dosing methodology described in the book. (I mean, come on, "Eastern methods of measurement"??)
> One of these premises is that their work properly models reality, there seems to be a lot of well informed doubt by subject-matter experts.

The model is fine. There's no more "well informed doubt" than for any other paper. You can certainly debate the details of what they did, but none of this debate is substantial enough to invalidate the work.

What you're seeing is a group of people who have largely pre-judged the outcome, inventing reasons to reject an experiment that disagrees with their prior conclusions. This always happens, in any scientific domain. Nonetheless, there are also a large number of well-informed people who see this as an interesting result. If you don't listen to both groups, you will be misled.
this is not my experience in new england, where i can't even stand out in my backyard without getting swarmed with all variety of insects, and my truck is absolutely plastered from them, even though its been cold for a month now
> It's the same reason they told us inflation wasn't happening, and then it was transitory, then it was because of Putin, now it is actually a good thing.

Who is "they" here? Because this is a very strange timeline/explanation of inflation and bears very little resemblance to what people who matter were actually saying.

The only part that Central banks really got wrong was that inflation that was originally driven by pandemic driven supply chain issues would be transitory. And they openly admitted they were wrong and course corrected very rapidly.
Because in "downturns" the wealthy accumulate more wealth. Since there is still stuff they don't own yet, it's time to have another downturn. Just a small/short one though, as they don't want to be too greedy. That's just rude.
Housing prices are set by mortgage payments. If interest rates go up, prices have to eventually go down, and vice versa.

So, if you plan on sticking around to the next interest rate swing, buying at an unusually high interest rate allows you to eventually refinance, saving significant amounts of money. Buying at an unusually low interest rate offers no advantage. You’re stuck.
"Literally every Android app that doesn't directly require GPS" is quite a few native productivity applications.