skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm interested in this as well. I had a friend play Beat Saber for 3 hours straight, burning literally thousands of calories. He said he felt amazing for the rest of the day.

On the flip-side, I personally experienced some serious post-binge depression after playing Talos Principle VR for a few hours. It's not very physically engaging, with a somber atmosphere throughout. I felt so weird taking off the headset and jumping back into reality.

Though I think both scenarios just go to show how powerful VR could potentially be in the medical field.
"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong." - Arthur C. Clarke
Original Article author here - happy to help with any questions people have.

Also sorry about the paywall - you can get the article either through sci-hub here http://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30227-X or you can email me and i'll send you a copy direct!
Yeah, I know in this scenario there are ways around - though I'm pretty sure hiring random people on the street is how Project Mayhem succeeded. I was trying to use that as an example for the logistics - if you come to me and ask me "I want a AAA video game" I'm not going go to be able to do that for you as I don't have the resources available.
If there is no comparison to Bitbucket, is it possible that Bitbucket is cheaper - or is that possibility ruled out?
That's why trick
puzzle questions are bad interview questions. Some people have read the centers algorithm
How to Manage LVM Volumes on CentOS / RHEL 7 with System Storage Manager
They are just a bunch of grifters IMHO. They have no connection to the Frank family nor to any other aspect of the Anne Frank story.

It is the same as if I started the Nikola Tesla Research Center (I have no connection to Tesla).
To the people who will say that Facebook is a private company, the first amendment doesn't apply, etc: I get it, you're right.

These affronts to freedom of expression are concerning. It's important to allow Holocaust deniers, Sandy hook deniers, 9/11 truthers, anti-vaxxers, Christian Scientists, flat earthers, etc to have a platform, for them and for us. You can't protected people from stupid ideas, and more and more we are just forcing these people into echo chambers.

Ideas need to see the light of day, especially bad ones. The more discourse and dialog (and not insults) we share, the more quickly misaligned beliefs will fade.
A better way to visualise the differences in features of the two services would go a long way to help people. A TLDR would also help.
I've seen this years ago when incentive schemes were such that this made sense. Modern organizations I've seen pay sales and pre-sales engineers with some accelerated actual profit from the delivered product. This aligns incentives across the team. In fact, it over-aligns sometimes, because sales goes for low-balls they know the engineering team can deliver.
I thought AndrewFS was supposed to cover that case. But I have to admit I never saw it in action, so this is hearsay at best.
The Kiev Metaphor – Hardware vs. Wetware
Plankalkül looks like a mashup between APL, typesetting and visual programming. It could be interesting.
>I've worked in consultancy for a couple of years now and I've worked with sales people that say: "sure, we can do this", without having a clue and even asking an engineer. These projects, more often than not, run out of time and budget.

A lot of people here say this, and no doubt it is indeed a real problem. Yet none of the books I've read on negotiation ever suggested something as inane as the orange juice test. They all have sections or a chapter on "OK, now that you've got the deal, how are you going to ensure the counterpart follows through?"

The solution will depend on the situation. Some of it is your responsibility for monitoring. Some of it (probably a lot, actually) is putting penalties in the contract. Some of it is being proactive and exploring what constraints the other person may be under (Is he under-resourced? Are there other decision makers than him who can screw it up? Can he outline a plan so you can see potential flaws?).

But nowhere do they suggest playing opaque games.
Dissonance mitigation is a fascinating and scary thing. Observing it happen in oneself is a real treat. Kudos for being so honestly reflective.

Cognitive dissonance and how we respond to it is the main topic of the first episode of Sean Carroll's new podcast Mindscape. I found it very interesting.
Is the insinuation that Nazis wrote Anne Frank's diary?
> only one country which doesn't want to adopt English

What? You've never been to Europe have you? Try travelling here and speaking English in any country other than the obvious champions like Norway / Sweden / Danemark and you'll come to the crazy realization that people like speaking their own language.
> It seems like a regional thing though. In many European and Asian countries there may be animosity between some cyclists and some drivers of cars, but not the extreme polarisation seen in American (perhaps Australian and a few other countries too?) communities.

As a German, I say: you hang around with the "wrong" cyclists and motorists to perceive the strong polarization. I know people of the more militant kind from both sides.

Let me tell you: these cyclists typically know the exact subtle details of the road traffic regulations (Straßenverkehrsordnung) much better than most motorists (who had to do an exam about this topic to get their driving license). This is also very necessary, since lots of motorists feel so much entitled and do not actually know the laws. In this case only knowing the law exactly helps and if discussions are futile (they often are), the only thing that you can do is to file a criminal charge against the motorist.

To give my private opinion (after having heard lots of arguments from both sides): The fact that there exist obligatory driving licences is a lot at fault for all these escalations. Their mere existence leads to a lot of the entitlement of the motorists ("I had to take the driving exam and learn a lot about traffic laws before, while the cyclists did not. So the motorists feel 'more entitled to know what is right and wrong in traffic'").
Somewhat related: VR exposure or immersion therapy is being investigated as a viable treatment in post-traumatic stress disorder.
Have their business is in picking the customer's picket on the way from booking to landing, with myriad trick fees.
Malloc does not fail under Linux unless you are in very peculiar circumstances.
I can only speak for myself, but when I was younger I never equated what I was eating to what my health was like. I really did eat whatever was prepared/purchased for me. I also did unwise things like placing a microwave burrito between to small microwave pizzas when I was feeling really hungry (not too often, mind). Never did I think "this is gonna make me fat!", instead "this is gonna taste good!"

Well, I'd say poor youth habits are where all this begins and they can be tough to break. Little by little I started minding my nutrition and started losing weight. I always read the nutrition labeling, now...to the point where it might seem obsessive to an observer. Not that I'm the paragon of health and fitness, but I at least pay attention to what's going in my body - both good and bad.
My thought on this is that how else would you compel change in the market? I don't think any other entity could do so. Of course I am no expert in this so I am willing to listen and consider what the alternatives are.

Also just want to clarify that I do not think that our state of agribusiness is perfect and not in need of some systemic change. There are tons of perverse incentives out there that have created some of the problems we face. However, I feel like a lot of that was caused by government intervention. I don't see this as a left vs right issue either, as both sides are guilty here.
I'm sure there are loads of confounding factors here, but for what it's worth, a study of tech salaries by Hired.com found that Paris had the lowest cost-of-living adjusted salary of all cities reviewed, at about $56,000 in San Francisco dollars[1].

[1] https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2018
It certainly doesn't help that more people type for a living, look at moving pixels on a screen for fun, sit in a car for an hour a day.

The US diet seems natural to me. I think it's the result of 100 years of evolution in food design and the fact that your body wants fat-adding easy to acquire calories. Fritos didn't grow on trees.

A more interesting question is to compare why countries at an equal level of wealth and technical development aren't the same. Ethnicity? Culture? Legal climate?
I agree although the healthiest diet has a name: vegan or better whole food plant based diet.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGJq0eQZoFSwgcqgxIE9MHw/vid...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJRjK20fHylJyf-HiBtqI2w/vid...
I hope that as time goes on more people are realizing the diseconomies that having a dual-income household creates. Chronic stress, outsourcing the maintenance of the household (cars, going out to eat, etc), higher tax brackets, childcare, a lot of it adds up faster than you think. Ambition for more fuels the dual income dream. Misplaced ambition is a killer.

Another reason to save a large fraction of your income- to pay off the house quickly and get back down to a single income household, or have both people go part time. Very liberating.

The big thing working against it though, is that land and luxuries are positional goods, and people will continue to work hard in order to outbid eachother in order to have more of these positional goods. This is why I'm afraid the dual-income trend will not reverse.
Ask HN: Advice for executing cloud computing CPU intensive task
Recently I build a .NET Core API where I handle basic CRUD operations. But now I have to integrate file processing tasks like image compression, Excel spreed-sheets and I plan to add more stuff.

On my dev machine (i7-3770) a 50mb Excel file processing takes around 20 seconds, I do lots of validation and then store it in SQL.

But when I deployed it to my Azure App Service, it takes around 3 or 4 mins and cripples the API response time.

I moved those CPU intensive task to an Azure Function so it will not affect my API performance, but file processing took around the same time 5 mins or timeouts.

I'm using Azure Function Consumption plan because these tasks are sporadic and it might be certain occasions that I need to run more than 1 file in parallel, so I don't want to have an high CPU config service running 24/7.

Basically, I'm looking into a more powerful version of Azure Functions Consumption Plan with more CPU/RAM assigned to it.

If there's a better way of doing this, I'm all ears.
If we truly have a marketplace of ideas then shitty ideas should be able to fail in the market.

Denialism has already seen the light of day. Why must we enforce that it continues to see the light of day forever?
I don't use Facebook, and I only log into Twitter once every couple of months or more rarely than that. I don't use any other of the super-popular social networks (I guess I have a linkedin profile that I haven't logged into in 5 or more years.)

My own access habits are in practice similar to one who is banned or suspended regularly.

I have never felt like I essentially have no voice on the internet.

I understand that if some popular person with lots of followers gets banned then it seems like they would risk losing a lot of their audience that they may rely on for income etc etc etc, but that's hardly the reality of the average 10/100/1000-followers user, is it?

Just because the big social networks are really big doesn't mean that they are the only places you can find a way to have a voice on the web. I don't mean to diminish your feelings if you feel that way. If you love twitter or fb or whatever and you get kicked out, then I certainly get that would be hard. But there are other places on the web. Lots of other places. Maybe some alternative places let you have even more of a voice precisely because they're smaller and it takes less to cut through the noise.
This study was flawed from the start. They asked people if they were ever “diagnosed” with depression when there is no clear cause of depression. Depression can be lifelong, short term situational, caused by drugs, etc.

It also relied on self reported physical activity! Ha!

It is worthless to extract anything regarding mental heath and exercise from this study.
As a founder it would be, probably not going to attract great talent though
>It's a screening test you give to a consultant that you're considering using but that you know nothing about.

I'd suggest coming up with better strategies for that. You know, referrals and such.
Hi

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Rule of thumb is that half the salary amount (e.g. 120k USD to 60k EUR) in Paris will get you about the same or better quality of life as you have in NYC or SF, once you account for differences in how real estate, taxes, healthcare, and retirement work.
17% efficiency is a very nice result for OPV. I studied OPV tech for my PhD in 2010-2015. The field really started to shrink once perovskite solar cells were discovered and quickly beat out OPV in performance. Many people were predicting that OPV research was dead at that point. Glad to see that some researchers are still pushing hard and making progress!
Thank you for your kind words. Yes - Stackdraft was partially inspired by Cloudcrafts sole focus on AWS. I don't blame Tomas though, only on surface supporting multiple providers seems like an easy task - I'm sure it's not. At this early stage of Stackdraft I focused on diagramming and presenting and naturally plan to add more advanced features.

To answer your second statement - I think it's a matter of doing one thing only and one thing well. While I do plan to support sub-resource level items like containers, I doubt the tool will reach as far as UML/software modeling, at least not in the foreseeable future. Do note I received lots of feedback from a LucidCharts users, who draws architecture diagrams, and in general there's a few good parts of LucidCharts I'd like to take example from.

Regardless, I will always welcome any ideas for Stackdraft, so thank you very much for your feedback :)! I appreciate you took time to leave this comment.
Yeah, you won't be able to see the intensity, but you will be able to see what components of the spectrum are there. It's also and easy way to test filters.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that one.
Having read the comments here, I think it would be useful if we could see a realistic sample of the kind of content this would be hosting. My guess is that it would primarily end up being a repository of racial epithets, threats, doxxing, child pornography etc. I think the framing of this as being about opinions that are somewhere in the ballpark of the Overton window is maybe causing some commenters to present themselves more righteously than they might if they were mindful of what most actual banned content looks like.
It was wrong and s/he was caught, but that fine is just ridiculous. Sure, someone who stood there for 2 hours in a busy spot where disabled people were indeed turned away, then they definitely chose to risk that fine. But when someone was standing with the car (not even parked) for 2 minutes, I might (as police(wo)man) decide to give a warning instead. That fine is disproportionate. Most people on HN probably earn enough to sustain it easily, but for many people, that's an entire month's worth of food that just went down the drain. Sure, it's a good deterrent, but is it fair and just? Should we just give exorbitant fines on every petty crime just as a deterrent? That's not the kind of country I want to live in.
That would be the "fuck if I can help you" non-response. Around here it happens a lot because it takes so long to get into a psychiatrist that unless you admit to suicidal ideation, intent and a plan, you're not going to get help fast. A lot of family docs have their hands tied.
Out of curiosity, what would it address? The corn subsidy is, of course, crop insurance (~60% paid for by the government, the rest by the user), which is also available for vegetables. The payouts for corn are the highest because of how much corn is grown, leading to a much greater chance of crop failure in a given year, and thus more money directed towards those claims.

Vegetables are expensive because of not having realized the efficiencies of grain. Production of corn (and grains in general, and meat by extension) is almost entirely automated these days, while vegetables still require a fair amount of direct human involvement. Less efficient processes mean more cost to the consumer.
"dead in the water" is incorrect. SUSE's SLES (I believe OpenSUSE as well) uses btrfs on root and XFS on home for default install. And SUSE systems are very far from "dead in the water" as it's employed in lots of big servers around the globe.

Just because Red Hat marked btrfs deprecated on their systems, doesn't mean the technology itself is deprecated.

Also, from what I've read, they deprecated it because of resources issues rather than tech issues (seems like they had 0 btrfs devs and lots of XFS specialists on the team).
To give you an idea of how addicting this app can be for teens and tweens, kids in Hong Kong are risking their lives for likes:

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/community/article/214690...

Another article about how children don't understand the implications of putting their personal information in this app:

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/214684...
It's easy to implement if you are the dictator who can just tell people that that's the way how things are done. Or you have worked with people for years and learned your lessons. If you have to convince people it's much harder. I find that a lot of people these days avoid writing code and just want to plug components from GitHub or npm together. They don't see the point of writing an API layer if it's not coming from GitHub.
Now someone please explain why this isn't the electron-killer to save us all.
So basically this is the new Vine?
I don't know how much has changed in the last 5 years, but "more" in the US was at least 3 (over 4 for me) times more. Computer programming (in the mainstream regard) was a "meh" position: something you do while trying to become a manager.

I loved it there and would advise anyone to do it (I'm thinking of doing it again!) - but if money is your goal... I traded an awful lot of "opportunity dollars" for "opportunity experiences".
It just takes so long. And sometimes you end up with the minimal api featureset across N platforms.
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> Chromium is awesome, it really is. But not for embedders.

> the API is currently available for C++ only and requires Direct3D 11 on Windows and Metal on macOS.

“Embedders” here seems to mean “people who want to embed a web UI in a desktop application.” This confused me at first because I wondered why an embedded systems UI framework only supported Windows and macOS instead of Windows and small Unixes.
It's an extension of Poe's law. The earnest ones cannot discern satire from their own, so they unironically join in on the irony.
They claim that the new scale gives a continuum from dark to light, but if you look at the example it goes dark at both ends with the brightest colors in the exact middle. Why the discrepancy?
Indeed, thank you :)
Is Tedium worse than Medium?
I've never had that experience traveling. Just knowing a few basic greetings and pleasantries is enough, smile a little bit and most people are forgiving
Which works on Windows via Dokan [1]

[1] https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokan-sshfs
I'm excited for this. I have a few small, low budget projects that would either require expensive RDS instances or awkward data management to force the use of Dynamo. Now there appears to be a low cost SQL solution for serverless projects.
Practical Web Cache Poisoning
Germany says games with Nazi symbols can get “artistic” exception to ban
How would you rate this wrapping? I mean how do you prevent the 'leaky abstraction' where you just wrap a method with your own which has the same signature and struct parameters? Or do you have your own language or domain to wrap e.g. the ps3/4 apis?
Accusing Vox of a hidden agenda and bad faith really isn't called for. And I don't see how the fact that healthier food, under some circumstances, can cost more, is a controversial statement. The chart for point 4 even supports your point, since meat is the highest cost per 100 g.

But I think your comment is misplaced because the points of the article have almost nothing to do with vegan/meat choices. Taking meat out of the American diet would not significantly change the facts presented in the article. This is especially true for point 3, where we consume way, way too much (vegan) soda and (vegan) sugary beverages.
Sorry for calling you cocky.
The same author to this library:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/functional-data-structures/inde...
I don’t think there is a pan-European set of free speech laws. These are per country.
There are a ton of healthy diets. You can pick pretty much any diet that is not the American standard diet and you will be fine.
I had used Mega since it was introduced, and I had recommended it before with its generous 50GB free space and Linux support. However, Mega had become unreliable about a year ago, when it started to delete files after bad syncs. Be very careful about putting important files. Also sometimes, upload speed is very slow (took me over a minute to upload 120k file) and the sync on the iOS became really bad - it always get stuck on "Downloading...", but fails to sync. I hope they fix the problems, but until then, I've decided not to use it.
great if you want a bigger house though.
I don't think the goal here is to secure the electronic voting systems; that's impossible, and everyone knows it. The goal is to provide ammunition for getting them decertified.
The 'main gotcha' seems like the common thing people always gloss over when using IaaS.

It solves already solvable problems (albeit with more specialised tools/people) with a 'magic' solution that works until it doesn't, and then requires even more specialised people to maybe solve it.

But that's the whole profit model for IaaS: offer 'magic' solutions that are worse than what a qualified ops team will build, for the same money, to small companies who dont actually need the bells and whistles, and hope that by the time they do need the bells and whistles they're locked into your platform too much to change when they inevitably realise they made a huge mistake.
"didn't pay for privacy"

If you don't pay your info is public.

What did you expect?
After 20 years of planning, ambitious Solar mission about to launch
OK. Based on what you said, I see numerous situations in which a user could receive very large doses simply due to software errors. Have you had external auditors test your design from an adversarial point of view?
How many times have people tried to get sites to be lighter and failed? There is no evidence that we'd just end up with small sites naturally.