skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like the movie might actually be bringing in some of the critique I had been hoping for from the book but never was satisfied with. I wanted something, anything that would address the big question as to why the players in the VR world were just living in past pop culture rather than creating their own new culture. Here's a bit I wrote several years ago about this:

>It seems like, despite the protagonist's fears about IOI turning the OASIS into a soul-less amusement park, that's kind of what the OASIS already was in the story. There wasn't much talk about players generating new worlds and new experiences -- most of the time characters were enjoying the pre-packaged "Lord of the Rings", "Star Trek", or "Dungeons and Dragons" VR worlds, reliving existing ideas again and again. The gunter protagonists weren't off creating fantastic new landscapes or generating culture, they were poring through the ruins of the old trying to find some arcane clue -- and I didn't get the sense that they would be doing that if they didn't have the Hunt to focus on.

>These are interesting things to think about -- and definitely a worrisome part of dystopian visions of VR that turn the ultimate communication/creation tool into a trough full of pre-packaged feed for consumers -- but I don't think that RPO's author was attempting to focus on that. Rather, the sterile emptiness I felt from the OASIS seemed more a result of the author just not describing much that wasn't necessarily "just so" for the plot.
The situation is ironic, but there's an even higher level of irony in relation to cancer. In some contexts, NOT detecting cancer gives statistically better life quality and/or expectancy.

According to current statistics, testing methods (X-ray) are slightly harmful by minutely increasing risk of cancer, and the resulting overdiagnosis of benign tumors unleashes harsh medication on some people who'd otherwise have had happily lived their lives to natural lifespan without any significant symptoms or discomfort.

Plenty of literature on the internet, first few hits from Google:
https://www.city-journal.org/html/stop-overscreening-cancer-...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4415291/

and a recent discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16500924, in particular https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16502246
This Nonprofit 2-Year College Is First to Be Kickstarted with Crowdfunding
It's funny how all these replies are almost an answer in an of themselves. You laid down a basic truth: the only thing technically distinctive about a blockchain is the trustless consensus algorithm. The rest of it is perfectly run of the mill tech. And yet the deluge of replies is completely focused on the run of the mill tech like merkle trees and distributed datastores. Some good ideas maybe but nothing to do with blockchains.
These people are nuts. Equating leaking memos to wife beating and the rest. Shameful.
And now add 'no child left behind' (aka 'no child allowed to get ahead').
Go to bed earlier.

I get up early and have since High School. All I do is make sure I go to bed at a reasonable hour.

Going to work, lunch, home early is friggin awesome. Avoiding rush hour, saving me roughly 1 hour a day in traffic, is fantastic. Plus it gives me time to do any personal things in the early afternoon without affecting my work schedule.
Antora: an Asciidoctor documentation toolchain for multiple versioned repos
It isn't all or nothing. European food is generally much better, their internet is faster, and their public spaces tend to be much prettier. On the other hand, you tend to make less money, living spaces are smaller and infrastructure isn't quite as modern (though the US is now lagging in this regard as well). It really depends on what your priorities are.
$ brew install vitetris
$ brew install caskroom/cask/not-tetris

Those are tetris'y enough for me.
There are several countries in Europe that give maternity/paternity leave and vacation time to all full time employees by law. The result is not a massive drop in productivity, on the contrary studies have indicated higher overall productivity in many cases. There are things besides short term business gain that societies can invest in that can end up with everyone better off in the long run, even economically.
Azure virtual machine serial console
I've always wondered why people want to decentralize hosting of content. This, IMO, is a much harder task which leads to such restrictions as

> Please don't install PeerTube for production on a small device behind a low bandwidth connection (example: a Raspberry PI behind your ADSL link) because it could slow down the fediverse.

Why not simply decentralize the content index and let other people worry about storage for videos? When I go to Youtube, I'm there because it's a platform where I can find a large variety of entertainment without putting any effort into it, not because Google is hosting them. I'm picturing the backend here being a decentralized database of video metadata (including where and how it is hosted), and some sort of frontend where every video in the index can be viewed through a unified player.

If we're trying to give oppressed people the ability to host their controversial content, just have them host it behind Tor or over the bittorrent network and then add it to the index. Otherwise we could just let people link to videos on other video hosting sites or on their own personal websites.
Know the World Your Product Lives In
"The production of cancer warning labels for California produces as much pollution as one large charcoal power plant."
He's talking about Local Leaf. They're at the Mueller Farmers Market on Sundays from 10am-2pm. They're super nice and chatty. They cold brew theres to the caffeine strength of coffee. Come check us out too, Lost Pines Yaupon Tea (http://lostpinesyaupontea.com), we're also at that market. We also do the Downtown (sat 9-1), Lakeline (sat 9-1) and HOPE (sun 11-3) markets. We sell loose leaf, tea bags and brewed tea. Ours is pretty different than Local Leaf. It's closer to green tea in caffeine and tastes a lot like (delicious) iced tea.
Facebook 'ugly truth' growth memo haunts firm
The AM4[1] socket (for consumer processors) is PGA-ZIF.

The TR4[2] (for enthusiast Threadripper processors) and the SP3[3] (for server Epyc processors) sockets, however, are LGA.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_AM4
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_TR4
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_SP3
There’s this thing most countries have called the post office. I suggest it look into providing secure email.
Matrix is everything I want IRC to be
Exactly what I was going to say.

Moderation doesn't just mean you should have 100-200g of something every day.

The effects on your body from a daily dose of 200g of broccoli vs 200g of fish vs 200g/ml of Coke vs 200g of sugar vs 200g/ml of whisky are going to be very different.

Doctors used to (still do) say that 1 glass of wine a day is fine, and that is considered "moderation" but others now say that you should probably drink alcohol at most once a week to give your liver time to recover and heal completely, because alcohol is toxic. So basically no amounts are really "fine" or should be considered as "moderation". But at least if you give it time to heal that may just work - but still not ideal for your body.

A video expanding on this:

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/everything-in-moderation-ev...

And another article giving some examples for why "everything in moderation" is a bad idea:

http://www.trishamandes.com/blog/2014/5/5/3-reasons-why-ever...
How would a self driving car be impacted by a failure like this? Can the onboard computer still drive the car (and has a sense there’s something wrong w/ the steering) or is it just dead in the water?
We need an educated populous that takes interest/supports the development and use of decentralized alternative(s, remember competition?!) to Facebook.

If it's federated, that helps completion even further.
Segway actually produced what they initially set out to produce. ML is a mass of bullshit patents and claims that eventually led to a Lite version of Holocens.
How is this being up-voted? Reading through any such list would be a loss of potentially productive time.
A better mantra would be: electricity takes all paths in inverse proportion to their resistance.

So with a single low resistance path, give or take, all the electricity will go that way. But with two paths of equal resistance, half the electricity will go each way.
Time for developers to address the chaos of Node.js and NPM
Seastar/scylladb is looking for custom filesystem for per-core dbms https://github.com/scylladb/seastar/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Co...
Outcompeted in what sense? Making money? I mean, I guess if you argue that the people who did it will on average have more political influence due to having more money then it's plausible, but there's an even more plausible argument: People in charge of major organisations don't like worker flexibility because it's logistically difficult, and "more work-oriented == better productivity" is the most intuitive meme ever, so it caught on.
The Crash of 2018
Mailerlite is good: mailerlite.com
I'm in the EU, it would be 35€ or something to get a bit of this :)
This frustration arises from the situation that there are places where there is already more poison in the air than what comes out of the tailpipe of a modern, warmed up petrol vehicle. Los Angeles and Beijing are two examples where I have personally seen this situation on bad days. We are at the point now where mixture control and exhaust treatment leave nothing but carbon dioxide and water being emitted from a properly running automobile.

With regard to parent's assertions:
1. The intake air cleaner is to keep particles out that will damage the engine (and eventually lead to lower performance and emissions control malfunction);
2. Whatever airflow meter, or not, on an engine is for combustion control, but its performance affects emissions output;
3. Exhaust o2 sensors, for 10-25 years depending on make and model, have already been telling the control system the results of combustion on each cylinder, for every combustion;
4. The catalysts are not magic. They are meant to react with specific products of combustion;
There is nothing in an automobile, nor should there be, to detect and react with things like methane and ammonia. The only time you see a dust/smog detection is in luxury models that adjust the cabin ventilation in the presence of this for comfort of the occupants. There are no adjustments happening at a rate of 8 kHz: combustion in a cylinder is not even happening at this rate.
5 Tips for Busy Startup Founders Seeking More Results
One senior physicist I worked with advocated alphabetical order whenever he would come first in it!
One strategy to airframe maint popularized by the USA would be a punishing maintenance load keeping all 72 operational.

Another strategy popularized by Iran and their F-14 collection would be realistically only a fraction will remain operational over time due to maintenance and parts logistics limitations such that in 20 years they'd like to be able to field, perhaps, 16 actual flyable aircraft, which is realistic for a small state, a couple CAP, a couple hot standby, a couple for training, maybe the occasional very small raid, 16 or so is about right. As a side note about Iran's F14 collection IIRC the Iraqis claimed in hundreds of press releases, added up over the entire Iran-Iraq war, to have shot down more Iranian F14s than the USA had delivered to Iran... so giving Qatar 72 planes means at least 140 or so claimed kills by someone, eventually, LOL. And we also sell ADA missile systems and A-to-A missiles so 140 claimed kills is good for business.
The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)
Another consequence of legislation by ballot initiative.
Very interesting. I drank mate with friends from Buenos Aires when I was a teen. We would drink it the traditional way, namely out of a small dried gourd with a metal straw. Are you saying that mate (pronounced mah-teh like a southerner saying "my tea" fwiw -- not an Australian addressing a friend) is not commercialized in Argentina? As in, people offer their personal mate and there are not "mate shops" that would equate to "coffee shops"(think third wave USA)? Or that they prefer Mate to coffee, hence there are no "coffee shops" while there may or may not be "mate shops"?

I guess I like the idea that mate is so personal than you wouldn't go to a commercial shop for their blendbut ratherwould share your homebrew with a friend on a park bench.
There’s no “right thing” here. These companies will do what they legally can to ensure their bottom line is as healthy as possible. If that means making broad strokes, cutting corners, and inflicting collateral damage on customers that are situated in fraud-laden landscapes, they’ll do it.

What if there were actual Nigerian princes who truly wanted help with currency exchange and were offering a real mutually beneficial business opportunity? Would you expect Gmail to hire a team to weed out those emails from spam? If they don’t, are they “lazy”?
NHL stunner: A 36-year-old accountant who has never played pro stars in win
afaik that info is not available from lsof, but I'm open to suggestions if there is more sensible data to extract from the output.
They are trying to get out of the way of the oncoming train of lawsuits and criminal charges that's going to hit us when the ICO/crypto bubble really deflates.
Yes, ksync and telepresence lets you develop on k8s cluster as if you were doing on the local system. Haven't looked at forge yet.

These tools are really useful when you're writing code dependent on other components or features on the cluster (like DNS). They save you a lot of port forward, environment variable hassles. Gives high velocity development flows, which were quite long build-push-deploy workflows earlier.
The EU's cookie-law is often made light of here, but there's a difference between essential and non-essential cookies.

The non-essential cookie warnings for most intents and purposes can be read as "This site will track you".

Sites using essential cookies don't have to put up a warning.

Following third party links, I now often decide that particular content is not that important when the warning pops up. It also serves as a rudimentary filter for lower quality content.

So cookie warnings being everywhere tell me a tale about the sorry state of the Web, and not a joke about bureaucracy gone haywire.
Wasn't saying CPU is hard just nerve wracking as it crunches. Heatsinks are annoying as fuck. The first time I did a CoolerMaster H212 EVO I botched install... Had to pull it off which is a careful exercise in and of itself as you sort of wiggle slide it off the top of the CPU which is glued to it with thermal paste at this point and seated to the motherboard.
If there was a will, teenagers would be allowed to come sooner or on bike or fully by themselves.

If raising children would be really considered important, caregivers needa would not be treated with "shut up and do the things the most complicated way".

For that matter, calling school that starts an hour sooner then optimal "calous" is overly hyperbolic, manipulative and dramatic.
maybe they made an analysis which option looses them more money. Hiring 200 moderators, or losing all blockchain companies.
People are getting real confused about "blockchain" as a technology and several specific use cases (cryptocurrencies and ICOs). The article seems to only draw a distinction between crpto and news about crypto.

Is Mailchimp banning all blockchain related content, or just cryptos and ICO-related content?
Cool! More interesting, I didn’t know the dot utility for creating the visual representations of the graphs. I can think of a bunch of uses for that.
But in reality no one has ever held a gun to your head because of taxes.
Can you imagine someone not understanding a clearly worded UI that they use to do the things they have to do to function in society?
No, about self-medicating severe depression.
Econtalk with Chuck Marohn of Strong Towns: an eye-opening discussion on why American towns and suburbs have their car-dominated form.

Conversations with Tyler -- Ben Sasse

I recommend listening to lots of econtalk, strong towns (I prefer the earlier ones), and conversations with Tyler.
Strongly disagree. A cornerstone of Mailchimp's value proposition is its email deliverability, and its one of the best in the industry at landing emails in people's inboxes. Anything that could compromise that reputation would be a huge blow to their business. ICO and blockchain emails can make spam filters go crazy, I've seen this first-hand. Mailchimp can't control how spam filters work, but it can control, in a broad sense, how it permits customers to utilize their platform.

Mailchimp shouldn't fall on its sword and harm the delivery of its thousands of customers because some people like the blockchain.
Not to be confounded with the other project of the same name (and with the same purpose) https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl
Or you just

alias sl=ls

and have productivity reach unseen levels!
Wise words. Productivity comes from within. Not from external tools.
> ibuprofen

What source motivated to start using ibuprofen? Aren't you worried about liver and kidney damage on long term. (And the more obviously annoying side effect to becoming habituated enough to a good OTC available antiinflammatory pill that is otherwise great for headaches and works wonders on random joint aches during hikes too, but will stop working for you in these cases :) ?...)

Just genuinely curious about why you ended up with such a seemingly suboptimal combo of substances.
Could somebody please declassify those silent UFO engines? We need them for the environment! /s
Anecdote Alert!
A very knowledgeable Chinese doctor (acupuncturist, trained on the mainland)warned me of this decades ago.

She said that for my body type, coffee was extremely bad. She explained (in her broken English)that the coffee contained "fire" due to the way the beans were processed and that this could make me more susceptible to cancer. Grilled food was also a no-no (for me). Baked & fried foods? For most people, fuggedaboudit!

I can't help but notice the latest research is beginning to show exactly what she told me all those years ago.
Actually, if you run a modern engine in a closed garage now, your eyes won't burn, you won't choke and it won't kill you. While this is a stupid thing to do, the bad stuff is only coming out before it's warmed up (meaning closed loop and catalyst warm enough to function) and if you back your car into the garage you can tell the difference the first time you do a cold start.
IANAL, is this a real risk? This sounds like suing a paper company for a ransom note written on it's paper. You can bring a suit for nearly anything but it feels like there would be a lot of precedent to immediately dismiss it.
Apple details eGPU support in macOS 10.13.4 High Sierra, notes no Nvidia support
Literally every person below you mistook your post to be about the flavor or quality of bread, instead of being about the health of the consumer.
This is the part that I find somewhat unfortunate about Peertube. This means that only ActivityPub clients that support WebRTC will be able to access Peertube media. Right now, I think this basically means just modern web browsers. It bothers me somewhat that an early, potentially major ActivityPub service is going to limit full functionality to the few existing major web browsers. That's the opposite of what I want from a federated protocol. (Someone correct me if I've got any of this wrong.)

Regardless, Peertube seems awesome, and I hope we keep seeing more and more services built on ActivityPub.
Yea, that's the "compatibility mode" I'm running on: strictly going to bed at 11pm. I sadly really miss the nights and have to force myself to do this daily.

Here in europe daylight saving time just ended, now I have go to bed an hour earlier from one day to another. It took me out for 4 days (really bad performance) and the first 2 days I stayed awake in bed so long I became more awake again before managing to fall asleep.
This is a discussion about low bandwidth. Why are you talking about latency?
> Consider this code GPLv3 licensed.

is this actually valid? Does it mean the code _is_ GPLv3 licensed or not?
There were significant restrictions and weird PR "no go" topics with the Hololens as it was being developed. For a long time they didn't even allow photography of the physical hololens (as it was still in flux).
Why have follower count anyway, I'm perfectly happy not knowing if someone with a username of monsieurbanana is a regularly commenter with a huge following or not; I know you can look at a profile to get an idea of someone's participation, participation count is a much more important or useful metric anyhow.
That’s not the OED, though. There are multiple dictionaries using the Oxford name.
Well for one you would have to show that Carl knew that the tariffs were coming. Otherwise he started selling the stock within a couple of days of earnings when the stock had already experienced a pretty large price drop. Unless there was proof that he knew and used that to trade it would be a pretty hard case to bring. Mark Cuban was found not guilty of something similar.

https://www.thestreet.com/quote/MTW.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-sec-cuban-verdict/bil...
Content discovery sucks nowadays. The search results bring up mostly bigger channels instead of relevant ones. Recommendations are based on view history and likes, which means you get more of the same instead of someting new. I constantly get videos I've seen already in my recommendations, these stay there for weeks until I click on them.

The major feature I used for discovery is long gone - it was the ability to add video responses, which allowed me to not only find small, niche channels with great stuff but also built a sense of community. I don't get why did they remove this,but ever since they did the site just never felt the same.
How is "I'm going to lock you in prison" remotely similar to "I'm going to take away your profits and leave you as you were before the trade"?

If you don't see a difference between the two... we have very different views of the world.
Presumably yes. The site of the guy who sued FB has a template you might be able to reuse[1], although it mentions the Irish implementation of the Data Protection directive, whereas Under Armour Europe B.V. is Dutch, so you should probably change that.

[1] http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_data...
Yup, I worked on a hardware project at Google that eventually became Android TV, and when we sent out hardware units they were hand-delivered by Google employees in GPS-tracked, locked Pelican cases. Upon receipt, devs had to keep it in a safe when they weren't working on it, and if I remember correctly, we gave them little decoy cardboard boxes to put over it to hide the case design from passers-by while it wasn't in the safe. Sending out devkits always feels very "briefcase handcuffed to a dude in a suit".
This is exactly what I assumed caused them to make this decision.

Who knows, a lot of Mailchimp employees might even really like blockchain tech, or be intererested in ICOs, but at the end of the day, if serving ICO/blockchain mail results in lots of emails marked as spam, it puts their whole business at risk.
Scientists Find Mini Gastrointestinal Tract Growing Inside Tumor
Could it be built so that the user data was encrypted / hidden / not usable for the developers?

(And open source so we could all know for sure this was the case)
It would certainly streamline the UK's current practice of jailing people for hate speech
Same here, and I think it’s great. The console’s failure to implement some protocol has not affected my enjoyment at all.
Try https://vk.com, a lot of people in London using it
One person's issue with work is worth compromising the learning of all the other children? That's not exactly what I'd call fair.