skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a country, of which there are many, that blocks most internet content of interest and heeavily logs and monitors the rest. However having developed this habit I quite like my ISP being unable to monitor me
Not that I know of, just ideas at this point.
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I've gone 51 mph (82 kph) on an upright road bike going down a 17% grade. Terrifying. 60kph is fun but scary. But sprinting is really exciting. It is a full effort acceleration from stand still to as fast as you can spin. It feels really intense and crazy with the bike flexing and twisting from the effort. It only lasts a few seconds but those feel like peak experience. I imagine the cheetah feels something similar.
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If you abolish all property rights, all social trust would eradicate. I also think intellectual property is nonsense, but you cannot easily extend that notion into all kinds of property.
Founder here. Also check out my blog post: https://rmmmp.github.io/2018/06/30/alternative-to-disqus.htm... to see the idea behind Cenchat.
Beware of DNS leak [0]! It is easy to overlook when one configures own VPN solution.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_leak
The US Military's adoption of metric units has a lot to do with NATO integration - it's not because the military decided metric was more accurate and efficient.
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> Cute asides: The meter is based on a miscalculation of the distance between the equator and North pole. The SI couldn't find anything absolute that actually matched their arbitrary size, so made it dependant on a bar in the SI building, and then realized the bar is changing sizes with time! (This is finally being rectified with some atomic measure.)

Actually the definition has gone through a number of rounds of increasing precision. It did have an atomic definition for a period of time, but now it's based on the speed of light. (IE the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299792458 of a second.) Too bad we didn't know the exact speed of light before coming up with the definition, or we could have a nice round 300,000,000 m/s!
Most cars have air conditioning (a lot of trains do too), and most people commute well before and after the hottest part of the day. If your office is a sauna for three months and you won't fix it, everyone who isn't unemployable will probably quit.
it's only outlook.com? you can't fix it?

i mean that's a rather large group of people you can't communicate with right there.

and it's the only one you know about.

i say this is the exact reason running your own mail server in 2018 is problematic. you just chose to not consider it a problem.
You can also run the VPN server at home. Then you dial in and you will be able to access all your home services!
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They are saying that most people use temperature to talk about outdoor weather.
Interesting point. I wouldn't have assumed that, because I've never had a good experience with Skype's handling of unstable connections here in Canada. That said, no I haven't tried Skype for web.

Regarding the rest of the world, WhatsApp definitely comes to mind. For chat, video, and audio.
What is the recommended way of UDP tunnelling wireguard? Is it necessary to run something like pwnat alongside it, or is there a better way?

Using a TCP based VPN there are services such as ngrok for exposing only the VPN endpoint behind a NAT, but nothing equivalent for UDP.

Unless it's possible to use the android and other clients to work in this way, it will limit the uptake of this, I believe.
> Unless I can rent the server anonymously

Perhaps if you used Bitcoins to pay?
> The only caveat is time - time for SMTP servers around the world to know that your mail server's IP is not sending spam - and filling out some forms to unblock the server's IP address.

You can save yourself a lot of hassle by using a mail relay with a good reputation for all outgoing mail. That's what I do: I run my own mail server so I have full control about spam filtering etc, all incoming mail goes directly to my server.

When I send an email my server does the DKIM signing itself and then forwards the message to an external realy (with SMTP Auth). I use https://posteo.de/en for that because it only costs 1 € per month, doesn't require any personal data to create an account and it lets you send emails with any from address (not having from address filtering is important here). Their servers have a good reputation so I have no problems having my mail delivered.
What?

E: NVM, you mean to access your stuff without NAT etc.
Breathing. I never think about the fact that I'm able to breathe without issues until that ability is compromised by a cold or flu. The science of breathing is deeply complicated and there are multiple processes that make it possible for you to successfully inhale and exhale as you're doing now. The human body is incredible.

https://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/Breathing.htm...
I really think it's what you're used to. I have an intuitive sense of what temperatures from around -25 to +40C feel like (roughly the range I've experienced, plus a bit), and nearly no intuitive feel for a temperature in Fahrenheit without conversion. Also, it's really not possible to differentiate between air temperatures with a difference of 1 degree C. Water temperatures maybe, with practice, but certainly not to a greater precision than 1 degree. So I'd say precision beyond that degree is wasted!
I agree that being employed as a regular developer gets harder and harder with age and with experience outside of dev world, but at the same time you are getting better and better at positions which require more business skills, like team lead (if your tech skills are still good enough) / product manager / CTO / tech cofounder / ... There are many companies that don't know they need this kind of person, and it might be difficult to find a match. But once you're in, you can make a huge difference with this skill set.
> The article brings absolutely no new information to the table.

Did you read the paper? It's not a paper that "brings new information to the table", it's a paper which presents recent experiments and tries to show that there is little scientific evidence of loss aversion.

> The basic principle behind loss aversion is simple.

Huh? I don't understand what you're saying? You're saying that "loss aversion" is simple, but then you give examples of losses not being universally more impactful than gains? What you're describing here is exactly the point of the authors: Both modes are important

> … swayed more by greed or by fear.

And you should be aware that "loss aversion" is very careful to not talk about the psychological process behind. Loss aversion is not about greed, fear or any feeling and/or instinct. Loss aversion is a measurable effect. None of the papers that claim that loss aversion is a general principle claims that "greed is stronger than love" or anything similar to that. In fact, they are very "chicken" and just shrug it away.
With the paradox of choice, most people are hypersatured with (the paradox of) choices, opportunities and distractions... so any “loss” seems inconsequential at the time because no one seems any more valuable than another. The key fallacy of this attitude is that the world is a small place, life is finite and will end. It doesn’t imply feverishly hustling every tiny opportunity, but filtering and carefully exploring choices with a sound decision framework.

Also, most people rarely make rationally-beneficial decisions based on other a myriad of fears, prejudices, laziness, negative cognitive distortions, distractions or inadequate future-planning. Worse, most people are sold on hype, feelings, gossip, peer testimonials and appearance when they can’t be bothered to do due-diligence.

OTHO of gain avoidance/scarcity: You can put a “free” sign on a decent household good, set it out, and it won’t move... put a price-tag of $100 on and watch it get “stolen.”

tl;dr: The human condition is messy and imperfect... there’s no firm solution except thorough qualitative hypothesis testing via experiences.
That's what you get for putting unicorns in a product.
This technology could not come any sooner. I lost my 37 year old wife to metastatic cancer. We were able to arrest the spread and even shrink the primary areas with established treatments but due to the vascularization of the lungs, could not get them disease free and that's what killed her. The thought of having had the chance to replace her lungs and let the biotechnology wipe out the malignant cells everywhere else is a prayer for patients and caregivers alike. Keep up the good fight dear scientists.
yeah i guess i meant a list of companies that fucked up big time - like bayer with HIV contaminated transfusions for hemophiliacs etc.
Currently in the south of France.

I’m not sure what’s more unbearable:

1) The number of people (age 22 to 70) that claim air conditioning makes you ill

2) The heat

3) The lack of screens on windows in a city built near a marsh (mosquitoes)

At least i’m by the sea until today.
> If you status, commit, diff often then you don't want to leave your editor, because every little things (switching to a terminal just to do git stuff) adds up in the long run.

That sounds like limiting the functionality of the whole computer to what the text editor can do. That doesn't make sense. Next, you'll want to browse the web from the editor because you don't want to leave it (just because emacs does it doesn't mean it isn't absurd).

Anyway, I think it's better to configure the system so using multiple programs is as quick and effortless as possible. For your example, I use i3, a tiling window manager, and have the screen split with a terminal window on the left and my editor on the right. If I wanted to check `git status`, I just type `<super+h>git s<enter>`. To go back to the editor, `<super+l>`. There's really not much difference with a single character shortcut.
It remains funny for a non-US-resident to read about office temperatures of 78 degrees. :-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit#Usage
35C is way too much, but my optimal working temperature is 22-25C. I find anything below 20C too cold to work in, even with extra layers of clothes. I am incessantly surprised by people putting AC down to 16C or 14C.

This may have to do with the climate you grew up in. For example, I absolutely love outside temperatures between 28-35C, provided a dry climate and access to water (sea/river/lake).
so as long as you don't explicitly establish that the speed with which you move is the key, then it doesn't count if each player independently assume that speed of movement is the key?

I think the game is fun, but for only a few rounds. A game needs to have competition between players imho.
Something along those lines is what I recall reading in Kahneman's book. I just double-checked the 'Loss Aversion' chapter, and indeed he writes, and elaborates further:

"What is the smallest gain that I need to balance an equal chance to lose $100? For many people the answer is about $200, twice as much as the loss. The "loss aversion ratio" has been estimated in several experiments and is usually in the range of 1.5 to 2.5. This is an average, of course; some people are much more loss averse than others. Professional risk takers in the financial markets are more tolerant of losses, probably because they do not respond emotionally to every fluctuation. When participants in an experiment were instructed to "think like a trader," they became less loss averse and their emotional reaction to losses (measured by a physiological index of emotional arousal) was sharply reduced. [...]"
Ding, ding, ding. I have always heard this "explanation" and it amuses me to no end. I also heard the version that human height is more intuitive in feet and inches and weight in pounds. Fortunately this is harmless.
It's weird how different graphics cards are from pharmaceuticals. Both have big startup and research costs, but GPUs are basically obsolete in a couple years, they run the supply out and constantly plan to move to the next model. Pharma you can do that, or build a portfolio and collect rents for a while.

It's weird that patent durations are one sized fits all, even though how long you can capture value is completely dependent on the industry.
To me, loss aversion was amply illustrated by a "King of Cars" episode, a reality show at a car dealership. The manager would hand out $100 bills to the salesmen in the morning, with the proviso that if they sold a car that day, they got to keep the C note on top of their commission.

He'd found they worked much harder to retain the note once it was in their hands, than if he offered a bonus of $100 at the end of the day.
I'm mostly using plain Git, but there's one thing for which I needed a TUI: line-by-line selective committing.

After trying to find something I liked, I ended up porting crecord extension for Mercurial to Git: https://github.com/andrewshadura/git-crecord
To save a conversion, that's 48°C.
At least Germany does windows right.

I have been impressed staying at hostels that had, what I would call, “suicide windows”.

In Toronto apartments, you have to take invasive action to let the window open more than 10cm.
Not everyone plays games in order to win them, the “spirit of the game”, the fun, the camaraderie, is often times more important and it’s what one will remember in 20 or 30 years’ time, not the fact that on that particular night he/she won a specific game.
From context, he probably meant most conversations involving temperature are discussing the weather. I’d think it’s more weather and cooking that people discuss.
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Why not use fontforge to grab the characters out of the proportional font and add them to the monospace font?
How do I find the best Advanced excel institutes?
I'd love to see Amazon push for its suppliers to offer a low environmental impact packaging option. If you buy a camera on Amazon, the box isn't selling anything on Amazon, so you can use a basic recycled board box with minimal to no plastic for your new camera. Would select that option every time. I have opened my MacBook box since removing it from the box the first time. It may as well have been made out of lowest energy to produce and recycle material or something naturally biodegradable.
Is there a way to do something similar for a phone's lock screen background?

Or maybe even for a laptop
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To be fair about this, the time window in which a large proportion of papers were online but gated was about a decade (depending on field, obviously).

Was this worse than before? The option of going to a suitable library did not suddenly vanish. The web just let you know what was there.
> I personally find Fahrenheit more intuitive when discussing outdoor/environment temperatures.

I personally find Celsius more intuitive when discussing outdoor/environment temperatures, because that's what I grew up with.

Seriously, don't try to invent reasons why Fahrenheit might be more intuitive than Celsius, it's not. Neither is superior, no matter who you ask the more "intuitive" will always be the one a person grew up with.

I just wish the whole world would use a single scale because that's less confusing. And here the argument is on the Celsius side because only a small minority of people in the world (<5%) use Fahrenheit.
Agreed, sell people on it - including the noobs.
It's just a unit of measurement, neither is more accurate, they both mean what they mean. Also it is surprisingly easy to switch. In Ireland we moved from speed limits in miles to speed limits in kilometres. It was easy and people adjusted without any problems.
> The fundamental dilemma is this: how should this person examine the available evidence to maximize their chances of coming to the correct conclusion? Should they abstain from trying to discern the truth of the matter, and strike out any opinion they could have as unqualified?

> There are a few dimensions here which (from my view) make the dilemma nearly intractable unless you 1) abstain from an opinion

I think the majority of the time, you should abstain. I mean, you can certainly debate things, it's fun to do and improves your thinking. But you should be sure of very few "controversial" things. You should be very ready to change your mind about most things. There is value in just saying "I'm not sure" about most things.

How do I define controversial? Well yeah this becomes a circular problem very quickly. As others have said, practically speaking, you usually don't really need to use the latest social science research for practical purposes. Sometimes you do - but hopefully then you are an expert.

However, sometimes there are things you need to decide. E.g., what diet maximizes your health/fitness goals? A classic case where there is a huge lack of expert consensus, etc. In these situations, I usually try to defer to who sounds smartest in general to me, but keep a very open mind to the idea that I might be totally wrong.
Not really

A difference smaller than 2C is usually negligible, unless you're close to the freezing point. So even Celsius is "overaccurate"

The intuitiveness of a measuring system is mostly people growing accustomed to it. If you've lived in a child place you probably couldn't tell the difference between 30C and 40C
Does a service (api?) exist where I can run my own email server but all email is forwarded to this service and it returns a Boolean for "is spam", then my local email server files it into a spam folder automatically. This way I always keep full control and can exclude forwarding emails from my contacts list.
In a general sense, yes, of course. Here are more examples.

1. BNF notation. Yes, it could be surprising, but in a BNF-like language we use function-level representation and white spaces here denote sequential composition of functions -- nonterminals.

2. In a some Lisp-like language one may use spaces to describe "abstract" composition. So, for sequential composition: "(seq func1 func2 func3)". And for parallel composition, for example: "(par func1 func2 func3)".

But in the case of real concatenative programming, which has its origin in Forth, you mostly deal with stacks and stack machines.
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My first reaction is that Venus is awful no one would go there, but I really love that Asimov would never say no to a premise.

Fantastic Voyage for example, he was like, ok, this is crazy, but here's what would happen at those scales. And he proceeded to patch logical flaws from the movie in his novelization, which turned out far better.
I've always worked on side projects, even before being exposed computers at school. So for me, it's been and still is a hobby, which fortunately I can make a living doing.

Given that, I choose pretty much the same way. I'm always looking for new languages, frameworks, apps and try to come up with some app ideas myself. The best ones are the small ones you wish existed and would/do use yourself.

The only general pattern is novelty. I typically use things that I don't get to use at work. I learn different things that may not immediately improve my work but eventually the cross-training as much higher value bringing in wider views that might otherwise be missed in discussions.

One time, I tried to make an app idea using a new language, back-end framework, and front-end framework. I realized that I might not even make much of a dent, so switched to using what I use at work (Spring Boot I think it was) to save time so I could get to the visible parts of the app. That was a first-hand internalization of the 'faster beats better' startup mentality.

The opposite also happens. I ran a Chef server and recipes to create a master-master MySQL DB to host a Ghost blog on a third machine. I haven't blogged much afterward but obviously I enjoyed the process and learned a lot.

Another time, I set out to make an app and get it in the app store. I chose Android since I already know Java and had watched an online course that described the lifecycles and layouts/views. It was surprisingly straight forward googling and pasting.

As you can tell, I do a lot of back-end/devops, so I did take the time to try out Vue just to have a modern SPA default. I picked it because it looked simpler to me than React. I'm currently looking for something in between Java and Go, imagine Elixir with static types, fast compiles, and small/fast. I'm hoping Crystal might be it but can't decide between Lucky or Amber frameworks to try out.

Lastly, side projects keep me sane at work. I can try anything on a whim without the (valid) constraints of choices at work. It's interesting by definition so balances out periods of powering through work I already know but needs to get done.

One last tip if you don't feel motivated. Rather than doing the thing, just get started setting up an environment to do the thing. e.g. install software, pick a name, make a repo. (I usually lose a bit of time picking, registering, later abandoning a domain name, but it's fun = worth it). More often than not, it seems so ready to use that it's irresistible.
WireGuard is simpler to configure than OpenVPN and there's much less to tweak.

A real-world config file can be under 10 lines for the client and under (10 + 5 * n_clients) lines for a server.

Private and public keys are short base-64 encodings of 256-bit keys and can be generated with the wg command line tool. These live inside the config file.
In my (German-made) car the temperature can be toggled up/down by one degree Fahrenheit. If I switch it to Celsius, an additional digit is displayed which shows either a 0 or 5 that lets me select the temperature in 0.5C degree increments.

To me, this is a pretty clear indication that people can feel the difference in half degrees Celsius (otherwise, why would the manufacturer bother with it?). And because of that, Fahrenheit is better for human-scale temperatures, as only two significant digits are required instead of three.
You say red flag, others might say 'how the world really works'. There's a lot more luck and talking to the right person than we'd like to admit in this world.
On the face of it, and with the benefit of hindsight if the paper's presented theory is valid, if loss aversion as dominant motivation were a thing wouldn't human civilization have never progressed beyond hunter gatherer nomads?

Doesn't the fact that we keep growing and progressing as a species even tho the getting of these gains exposes us to risks, not just in the getting there, but once we have arrived, the "curse/paradox of development", suggest that loss aversion is not a majority principle of human behavior?

But... maybe...gain attraction / gain pursuit is a general principle...perhaps of all life, not just ours? Maybe that's one of the characteristics that tautologically has to define life. Life exists in an uncertain environment and couldn't continue to do so without taking risks / experimenting into that unknown.
Interesting! I might try that
Easy, use the smae counter measure they used in Iraq against phone acitivated road side bombs. They make man portable versions.
Keep an eye out for backpacks with big antennas
Git integration in IntelliJ is terrible IMO. It conflates staging and committing, and unstaging with reverting. I don't use it because it is a PITA, but what is even more annoying are the PR's from team members who do use it, which I have to send immediately back due to random files.
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