jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>let me assure you - a simulated race car has almost nothing in common with the real experience

Once again, random person on HackerNews, or the words of someone who has successfully made the leap:

"Of course you feel the G-force which you don't in the game, but you're so tightly strapped into the seat, that it's not really an issue."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2014/apr/07...

Here's another eSports star on the track:

https://futurism.com/sim-racing-virtual-motorsport-beat-form...

https://f1esports.com/news/esports-star-enzo-bonito-defeats-...

These guys are not down at the local track on the weekend, lapping grandpa; they are racing competitively at a high level. Obviously sitting in your living isn't the same as the track, but stating "almost nothing in common" is certainly not the case.
Original title is "Emergency mask for hospital ventilators". The title on the post is misleading.

A ventilator is a machine with electronics, moving parts, and sensors that pushes air into people's lungs and pulls it back out. This is an improvised replacement for one of the less- or non-reusable accessories in short supply, the mask that goes on the patient.
Obligatory - Also navigator excitement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9-voINFkCg
Bats have some distinctive life-history traits which may be relevant to understanding why they are reservoirs of these viruses, including the fact that they form the largest known mammalian aggregations. The fact that in general they don’t succumb to viral disease suggests adaptations of the immune system. One of the most interesting recent suggestions is that daily flight, which elevates metabolism and body temperature analogous to a fever, provides a selective force for coexistence with viral parasites.
1. I took a work trip to SF in November of 2018

2. I was riding next to a man who seemed to be sick on my flight home

3. two or three days after arriving home my wife became suddenly Ill, within another day or two she had severe breathing issues

4. went to an urgent care (we walked and had to stop every few blocks because she couldn't breath)

5. was immediately put on oxygen and an IV -- stayed the whole day and was sent home with an inhaler and antibiotics

6. health got worse and we went to the ER the following day

7. was again put on oxygen + IV, lungs collapsed, ended up getting a bronchoscopy

8. had non-bacterial pneumonia, was told she had developed asthma

9. after about 5 days in the hospital was finally released

10. after taking inhalers for almost a year her prescription ran out and now she seems (mostly) OK again

We still have no clue what was wrong with her. Doctors ran loads of tests and everything came up negative.

I'm not saying she had Covid-19, but this virus has me on high alert after seeing my wife struggling to recover from non-bacterial pneumonia.
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/depression-re-examined-a...
Is there a paper or code associated with this?
Best of luck with that stunt.
I don't understand how this bet proves anything either way if we can't see the adjudication methodology.
This is fantastic news--mostly because of the sandboxing. Once burned, twice shy--I'm not allowing 3rd party plugins in my main browser any more. But I'm willing to trust Google to sandbox these features correctly. (Don't let me down, guys.)
Welcome to English where we've been turning nouns into verbs and vice versa for quite a while now.
we do basically just build up the response in memory (using a Rack::Response object), but the largest response is generally the size of the latest checkout, which is rarely very big, and only has to be there for a few seconds.

if it becomes a problem, we can figure out how to buffer it differently pretty easily by replacing the rack response object we're using, but i doubt it will come to that.
Depends on what you're using it for. I plan a lot of big group trips, and coordinating logistics with Google Spreadsheet has been a lifesaver.
I suggest a new, combined form: looose. The meaning will be drawn from context. I anticipate efficiency improvements world-wide.
Don't worry aboot it.
Cute, but English has tens of thousands of "phrasal verbs": Stand up, stand down, stand out, stand over, stand against, understand.

Even more remarkable is that native speakers use these constructions all of the time, yet the idea of a phrasal verb is apparently not taught in school.
'Magnanimousness' is not a noun. It's simply not.
Oh, okay. Do you think you could share some specifics of it at some point (in a blog post like your architecture posts perhaps) so that open source clones could be made?
Yeah I thought the same thing too - on a larger scale with a couple of smoothing algorithms one could end up with some interesting city landscapes.
I'm not convinced about 1. entirely, but for the rest - I agree. Especially the Cool Room part.

Another thing that has always helped is going to bed 8 or so hours before wake up time, consistently. Even, yes, weekends.

It's a bit boring and 'old people' in my mind, but the ideal schedule IMO is 10:30-6:30, every single night of the week. Really killed late-night hackfests though. :-/
Google translate is certainly a good start to help with this problem. Thanks google.
http://translate.google.com/#zh-CN|en|http%3A%2F%2Fbaike.bai...
There are many, many bitcoin speculators. I know because I was one, sort of. Large bitcoin holders currently have in excess of $250k in BTC value, much of it purchased at $.02/BTC -$.05/BTC originally.

There are a few people making their daily living trading, generating and exchanging BitCoins. Just the top of the iceberg, I imagine.

The payment problems are exactly as you describe. Interestingly, it would definitely be possible to run an above-board US-based exchange for BTC; it's called a money transfer business, and they're regulated in a specific way. Getting fully registered and compliant is likely around $1mm USD.

When the BitCoin economy gets big enough, expect someone to try this. I have no idea if it will succeed, though.
Can you elaborate on how an LLC is a rip-off? (It may also be useful to mention your state). So far, in Pennsylvania, I've had a different experience.
If you send a mention to someone, no one will see it in the timeline except for the person who you addressed it to, and people who follow both you and that person (If that makes sense.) You're generally not going to annoy your followers by sending out @mentions.
Exactly. The choke point is the same as it for poker: you need the retail banking system to convert your bitcoins or your poker chips to and from something ordinary people can actually spend. Underneath every technical system is other ordinary people who need to pay their bills and mortgages and taxes - you can't not have this capability. And the banking system is highly regulated and will do whatever the govt requires it to do via the regulator.
This is called a 'know your customer' plan, and it's already in place and the law for all banks and money transfer businesses.

Accepting BitCoins won't be illegal if you have a know your customer plan. Of course, it won't be pseudonymous at that point, either.
It is not "very common" at all.
> The traditionally conservative regions you tell me have different values besides abstinence as well.

When we look at the dominant religion in those regions I was referring to, we see that Islam places strict guidelines on sexual relationships. So there is a strong causal relationship there. Furthermore, to your point, Islam does promote strong family relationships which can also strongly reduce the problem of single family households. Those two factors are not contradictory.

> Also, it would not explain the difference between Europe and the US

Looking at the map, the vast majority of Europe is still in the orange shade, compared to the heavily blue shade of the countries I'm referring to.
Great response.

Sometimes they don't even craft devices, even shoddy devices would be better than other options some take. Sometimes it's just a matter of someone in the muni saying 'hey, we can fix this, let's put this on a password protected wireless network'. Sometimes it's not even password protected.

Sometimes it's not the muni, but the vendor, who decides for remote management and puts the device on the internet.

I agree with the other poster who said they thought data diode was the way to go. Make it so the companies and munis can get data, but cannot send data to the devices unless they are physically on site. Of course, that means the site has to be secured - a lot of times security through obscurity is relied on by putting in remote locales, fake locales, etc. This also includes securing the device - it should detect tampering and default to a 'tampered state' if tampered, one that is encoded at manufacturing so it cannot be changed. While I'm on it, I would love to start seeing TPM 2 chip and Sel4 OS a mandated minimal requirement for all SCADA devices. The cost would go through the roof - strike that, the atmosphere - but it is so necessary.
I am currently compatible with two kinds of keyboards.

- ThinkPad 7-row laptop ANSI keyboard (like in T420)

- 87 keys ANSI keyboard (does not have to be mechanical) [1]

All other keyboard layouts literally does not exist for me - not matter how 'hackable' or 'open source' or configurable they are ...

[1] https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/images/products/large_9...
If you were a parent you wouldn’t ask this.

I find it interesting talking to adults who have never married and never had children because their concepts of time and finance are so utterly different. For example I ask them why they aren’t multimillionaires driving something like a Ferrari and they look at me like I’m crazy. If I had the time availability and financial freedom of a single person earning at the same rate I would easily be a multimillionaire, numerically speaking, off salary and savings alone due to lower expenses and greater saving/investment principal over time. Single people somehow always find that confusing.

I also find it interesting how older (30+) educated adults are somehow surprised by the time and money commitment involved with children. How could that possibly be a surprise... yet it generally is a complete devastating shock. Baffles the mind.
Easier to blame the seemingly nameless technology and completely change the conversation by using some other stack entirely that accounted for your lack of due diligence.
For when you do, abraunegg's OneDrive is useful: https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive

Office 365 in wine is still hit-or-miss, I will admit. I got it working but only with a great deal of pain, and apparently setup is broken for a lot of people right now.

(I use arch btw)
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>perhaps some day one will replace the USD

USD is fiat currency.
Fiat simply means by decree.
USD is a currency by decree of the US Govt.

It's highly unlikely Bitcoin would ever become a fiat currency by the US Govt. It's also highly unlikely the US Govt would allow a free banking system and allow a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin to fill the void naturally.

Also, Bitcoin can evolve overtime through consensus of it's users. So it is highly unlikely it would be surpassed by a cryptocurrency that is like Bitcoin but marginally different, it would have to be something radically different.
Hi - I am the subject of this article. I don't know how to prove that other than tweeting a link to this post, which I will do right now (renewiltord already posted my Twitter account here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30247543).

Thanks for the kind words to those who posted them. For everyone else, feel free to AMA.

Edit: Here is the link to the tweet that links to this comment: https://twitter.com/sTeamTraen/status/1491041770217811977?s=...
Was that before or after January 6, 2021 ;-)
We are losing this battle because very few people care about privacy any more.

Rephrase: "We have lost this battle because privacy disappeared a long time ago." This isn't a new concern: I remember Usenet discussions over ten years ago about the loss of privacy due to the amount of personal data stored in large corporate databases and how easy it was for that data to be stored and transferred. It's increased exponentially since then. Look, 2 months ago I wanted to send a friend a snail-mail letter but I couldn't remember her whole address. A quick hop to Google Street View and I just "drove" down her street from my computer 120 miles away until I recognized her house and got the address off the sign.

Seriously guys, find another battle to fight: this one was lost a long time ago. Database Nation http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926530/ was written a decade ago!

Oh, and Merry Christmas :-)
Have you looked into 80legs.com? It seems like a good service to use if you want to start your own niche search engine (I'm not affiliated with them, just curious).
Huh. Hopefully they are now elderly libertarians? Have their political views changed since that experience?
> If you are reading this SpaceX, here is my suggestion for capturing more data in future flights. Install quad copters on the barge which launch once the barge detects the landing stage is inbound

I'm sure they will do that - once the landings become predictably successful.
Great Scott!!
there's clear and well stack-traces at the lua level. there's great debugger (in fblualib, called fb.debugger). there's an inbuilt profiler into LuaJIT. too bad you've had a bad experience.
Representatives http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

Senators https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_...
I was forced to use NUCs for a project. They were under powered for me. All I needed to do was draw 5 fullscreen quads at 1920x1080 but all they could handle was 4 fullscreen quads at 1280x720.

I'm sure they're great for some things so YMMV
Maybe bomb detectors but the explosive detectors ('puffers') are relatively new as far as I know.
...and what does this have to do with Ramadan?
Exactly. So you have to go back yet another step and look at who has power to change the electoral system.

You might think the only answer is a constitutional amendment, which requires a supermajority of Congress, but in fact there's a backdoor: if you have the cooperation of a majority of state governments then you can certify any electors you like. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstat... for an attempt to change the U.S. electoral system in this way.
That sucks.

First of all don't speak besides identifying yourself by name. Then the only thing to say is "Am I free to go?". If the answer is no, then ask "Am I being detained?". If no, then ask "Then I'm free to go, yes?".

Back and forth. Personally, upon hearing I'm not being detained, then I'd leave.

Second, you can't be refused medical attention. "I feel nauseous, perhaps because I've been refused water and now I feel faint. I need medical attention".

The more you say, the worse you make it for yourself.
Oh man, I would not handle that situation well. I'm quite sure I'd have clammed up as soon as I found out I wasn't making my flight.
Have you ever read the site? Like, actually read it, not just glanced at something someone linked you or the front page?
so your friend ties up the 911 line over some petty bullshit like someone doing +5mph? Just fyi, the cops hate your friend, and I'd bet that they've never acted on a single one of his tips
True, but the effect popped more because your eyes were physically closed and your brain knew it.
There are processes in place already to keep one accountable while driving. We can debate the effectiveness or lack thereof, but this is not the solution.

Generally, traffic citations and tickets are only reported to the DMV and insurance companies after someone has been convicted in court or paid a fine. There is almost always the ability to show up in court and contest the citation.

DriveMeCrazy seems to circumvent this due process.

They recognize they have 'noise' in their data. That noise is going to cost time and/or money to sort out if an innocent driver has their license plate entered by mistake or by some jilted/angry/petty person.
Yes, but school ground bullies don't kill thousands of people per year, unlike bad drivers.

And compared to some of the predictors that insurance companies currently use (age, sex, income, marital status), number of complaints seems like a much better predictor to me.
Summer 2005.
The best hope humans have for space colonization is increasing the wealth of human civilization (which is already happening at an exponential rate). Over time the relative cost of manned space exploration drops, more so as technology improves. It's just a matter of time until it hits a threshold of self-sustaining criticality (we may already be past that threshold today, but it's a little too soon to tell).
Since the silent box can run multiple VMs, it can be the equivalent of a small rack from yesteryear.
> Did you look at the screenshot? This is an attempt to make something look like MacOS, …

It's more than that; the documentation might help you.
"Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future. Then it disappeared"

I did not read TFA because I know I'd just be ticked off - the hoopla and sloppy reporting around GME trying to fit it all into a simplistic narrative really was quite annoying and has caused me to revise my understanding of modern day journalism.

My opinion is that "the journalist" in a lot of cases wrote things up in a simplistic way so that they could understand it for themselves - or they just slapped something together in an ad hoc fashion following all the other lemmings - or the intent was to spew more propaganda about whatever they think is important.

All this has convinced me the "Right" do have a bit of a good point about the MSM being sloppy, unfair, and trying to control the public's interpretation of reality (not that the "Right" are correct about much of anything...) But whatever happened to trying to really comprehend all the different angles to a story? Or understanding the worldview of the subject? That takes a lot of work aka empathy and the economics of the MSM nowadays precludes that, I guess. Louis Theroux and Adam Curtis are the antithesis of this sort of journalist.

Geez... the implied connotation of this lede makes it quite obvious the angle taken on this topic was predetermined just like Scott feared. It all fits in with the general fad going on now about how Big Tech is so evil now and out to enslave everyone. I've been in this industry for 30 years and yes there are problems, but just like with any other technology or shift in society. A mutant version of capitalism is the real problem now but you'll never see the MSM writing articles about that.

I'm not even a Rationalist or part of that community; I read SSC occasionally when a topic came up that I am interested in. In general, I think they are a bit short sighted and blinkered in a lot of respect - though the angle taken is useful. To really grok something, you have to look at all of the angles and to believe only 'this angle' is the real Truth is stupid. The idea that SSC was the coffeehouse for "many tech leaders" is really .... I want to say ludicrous but that is perhaps too strong of a word. Not all engineers are autistic robots.

Counterpoint: Zuckerberg has a degree in psychology so he can't automatically be lumped in the Rationalist community; he certainly knew from the beginning he was building a digital Skinner box and how people would behave given the right stimuli.
I have recently been in, what I think is this situation. I didn’t speak to my boss from April ‘20 through to last month. From my POV he trusted me to work with other teams and choose my own priorities - he’s in quite a unique place in our organisation where he’s pretty high up but has his own “branch” where he hires people directly. However, there are definitely people who he does ignore because it’s easier not to have to deal with them or their problems (and can’t remove for other reasons), but from the outside there is little to differentiate the situations.

However, although the freedom was nice, it didn’t really do anything to focus my career, challenge me to improve, or advance in the organisation politically - so I switched over to working directly for one of the teams I had mostly been working for anyway, and a boss I already have a good working relationship with.

If you don’t have the working relationship with your boss that you feel you need, and don’t see them having that relationship with others - then maybe you need to consider a change. Hopefully it’s not so completely hopeless that you can’t tactfully discuss it with them, at least.
The people who predicted 17 out of the last 3 recessions are still less wrong than the ones who think there will never be another recession. Just wrong more often.
I agree with you on the weaker / avg. responses this question, but you have no way of distinguishing a polished BSer you want from the sincere fanatic on these topics who will be absolutely toxic to your org.
Was diagnosed with IBS just after university, then (similarly) spent 10 years suffering and experimenting when I ended up switching to an ultra-low carb diet for unrelated reasons. Within weeks, I started to feel better and for the next 12 years felt great - so much so, that my family (wanting me to enjoy something sweet) started buying me "Keto-friendly" bars with < 2g of net carbs, but also with erythritol. That was a mistake, as within weeks of enjoying the bars, I was back to dealing with IBS. I'm six weeks into trying to undo the 'damage', and starting to feel a bit better, but I'd definitely advise people who have IBS to always be cautious with trigger foods - certainly the ones that personally cause them issues, but also others on the list.
I second the recommendation for Fastmail. Forward your email, gradually change your accounts over.
Try http://hn.premii.com/ or download ios/android client http://hn.premii.com/about/
True.

On the other hand, how often do people use this?

I, for one, don't lock my phone at all. And most people I know don't change their PIN/gesture ever.
It's really not easy to guess what you meant as you can see from number of people who responded to your comment with their guesses. Maybe you don't a function call or maybe like semi-colons or you don't like double quotes for a string...
From what I've read, he's a fan of personal liberty and his argument is that personal gun ownership is part of that.
What better way is there to drive that point home than to show that people in both parties committed this particular wrong?
Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund
http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html

"27. Hardware/software hybrids. Most hackers find hardware projects alarming. You have to deal with messy, expensive physical stuff. But Meraki shows what you can do if you're willing to venture even a little way into hardware. There's a lot of low-hanging fruit in hardware; you can often do dramatically new things by making comparatively small tweaks to existing stuff.

Hardware is already mostly software. What I mean by a hardware/software hybrid is one in which software plays a very visible role. If you work on an idea of this type you'll tend to have the field to yourself, because most hackers are afraid of hardware, and most hardware companies can't write good software. (One reason your iPod isn't made by Sony is that Sony can't write iTunes.)"