skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It must be a terrible experience to have minutes to hours of thinking you're dieing and the suffering that comes from fighting that. My heart goes out to you.

There is this movie called Revolver written by psychologists who try to show the audience their ego is not them. Some people took to the movie well and others... When Roger Ebert reviewed the movie he wrote, "Some of the acting is better than the film deserves. Make that all of the acting. Actually, the film stock itself is better than the film deserves. You know when sometimes a film catches fire inside a projector? If it happened with this one, I suspect the audience might cheer."

Tripping reduces the ego. If you go too far, the ego disappears for a couple of seconds. But for those who mistakenly think their ego is them, when their ego starts to disappear, they think it is them that is dying. A good sitter will tell them they're not dying, and they'll relax and have a good trip, but sadly not everyone gets that treatment.

The ego processes language and concepts. It understands words and it speaks words. It is tied to the inner dialog. When the processing of concepts, like the word 'self' and the concept of identity temporarily goes away, sometimes people mistake that for them.
No details on the reasoning why?
There are ways you can 'force' attention. Things like semi-regular unannounced drills, audits, etc. I agree it's harder, and for things like the status of a medical patient or nuclear power plant the potential damage of someone going to the pub in the afternoon and missing something is far worse than missing a couple items in a sprint, but it is still possible to assess.
What stops people just watching cat videos on Facebook in those situations?
This looks similar to redline and blackline document comparisons[1]. We do this on our site[2] where we display large financial documents that average 100 pages. Identifying what text and tables were removed, added and changed from one year to another is useful information for predicting future company earnings[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_comparison

[2] https://Last10K.com/compare.gif

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-05-22/10-k-c...

Update: The site in reference is https://Last10K.com
I would argue that government is still doing that, because not everyone leftover from communist occupation has retired. I am not talking about senate/parliament, but mostly about local governments.

To me communism was a system that basically selected for worst scum, and put them in power.
Aren't all 3D computer games "simulated"?

There must be a better adjective.
Hmm, if they were truly experts at that then there'd be far fewer mistakes that people notice. And they'd have widely discussed, mature, sophisticated systems for catching errors, sort of like how the software industry invests so much into type systems and other quality techniques.

I think it's more likely you just remember that incident because it was so directly relevant to your life, so it gets magnified. I can add my voice to the chorus of people who have noticed a vast gulf between what gets reported and reality, especially when op-eds get involved.

This doesn't happen all the time. I've been involved in some stories which were pretty accurately reported. But it's completely dependent on (a) the skill of the individual journalist and much more importantly (b) if the story is relevant to something the journalist cares about. It's relatively easy for journalists to cover 3D printing or blockchain "reliably" (by the standards of the press) because they don't actually care about these topics. When the issue you know about starts to intersect social worldviews or power games within the political/journalistic sphere itself, things get crazy really fast.

And there's no consistency between journalists. The entire press industry is set up to consider journalism to be the act of a heroic and noble individual rather than the outcome of a process, a system. The "Jim Lehrer's Rules of Journalism" story that was discussed here recently is a good example of that. It wasn't actually a set of rules in the sense an engineer would understand it (i.e. something checked and enforced), it was a personal honour code. Journalism will never be able to increase its reliability whilst it treats the output as the product primarily of a writer + editor.
IIRC Zoom released a tailored "China" version.
Bayesian Networks. Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Probability
I'm part of a group that is developing RNAi-based pesticides [1]. One of the biggest advantages of such a technology (even relative to organic pesticides like Bt toxin) is the ability to target pests in a highly specific manner and avoid non-target organisms such as monarch butterflies and honey bees. There are likely many factors influencing insect population declines, but hopefully this and similar technologies as part of an integrated pest management strategy will offer a lot of benefit.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/chemicalsafety/pesticides-biocides/conf...
in which case it should be easy to measure performance
How much traffic from your machine goes to the cloud?
"Pand" / "pant" in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish. The English cognate is "pawn".

Nowadays the English word is seen mostly in "pawn shop" — the place you go to sell your TV and jewellery so you can pay the electricity bill, and where you can buy back your stuff if you can afford it next month.
Kimbal Musk's SpaceX Founding Blog (2005-2008)
All vote counting is made with the presence of people from multiple parties. Everywhere I've voted in, at least.
Yes, working from home has some drawbacks. That, and also some guilt over the fact that your employer is doing you a favour. I work from home and tend to worry that colleagues think I'm slacking. I don't think they do but it put some extra pressure.
How does knowing more about the physical world help me understand myself better ?

People more than two millennia later still find what he said relevant. What is it that we have produced in the last century would meet that test ? How much of that will be due to our increased knowledge and technology ?
Hi guys, this is a pet project of mine I did just to put into practice things I had recently studied. I thought that someone may benefit from what I did or someone would be interested in contributing to the project :)
X60, the last of the 4:3 12" Thinkpads, complete with a real Ins/Del/Home/End/PgUp/PgDn block.

They're cheap as cheap on eBay, accept 2TB SSD and (sadly only) 4GB memory, and run crazy fast as a Windows 7 dev machine for the road.

I've had 3 of them, and will likely buy a couple more before they become too scarce.
I am not an expert on the hydrogen economy, but I've consistently seen a couple of important road blocks.

First, like you mention, the transport and storage of hydrogen is complicated due to hydrogen embrittlement of iron and steel. The Dutch gas companies seem to be very optimistic using the existing high-pressure pipe system crossing large parts of the Netherlands to transport H2. Question is whether long-term embrittlement might occur? how do we know? What about the smaller pipes leading to homes? The rate of embrittlement is quoted to be ten times higher. Do you have any wise words to add to this? Do you share my concerns?

2. Risk of hydrogen build-up in enclosures. Hydrogen's lighter than air property is often cited as a benefit, as it can evaporate into the atmosphere. However, in an enclosure, it might delay detection, since it is captured in the top of the building and presence might not be picked up with added odors. Some buildings open mostly at the bottom, such as distribution centers. Is this an unknown risk? We don't know, because it is actively being researched.

3. For powering vehicles, there is tremendous loss of energy from renewables due to transfer of energy and transport of gas. I think I've seen cited 30% efficiency.

4. There is an actual, continuous demand for hydrogen. However, for green hydrogen, we will need near 100% utilization of the electrolysis plants. That contradicts the premise to use excess energy from renewables to produce hydrogen. The electrolysis plants would shut down when generated electricity can be used to power industry motors directly.

5. Subsidizing hydrogen initiatives pulls subsidy away from Photo Voltaics, better electricity distribution and battery technology.

6. Long-term, we will end up with two infrastructures, with all the fixed costs associated. That might be more expensive than one (less efficient) infrastructure.

So, all in all, I am mildly skeptical on mass-scale hydrogen solutions. Perhaps you can make me more optimistic?
You do the same thing that you do in the real world. Have you ever noticed how sometimes security guards will walk around with a little key fob and touch it to a point on the wall? That's because in order to ensure they're doing their required patrols they physically have to log they've been to a point.

If you're requiring someone pay attention to a monitor you can do the same thing - for example put a square on the image and require the employee to click it. Obviously though, this requires someone to actually critically think about protocols for ensuring work is done to a standard.
Agreed. Nobody is complaining that JavaScript terminate parsing on syntax errors. Because it has been like that from the beginning.

The problem is introducing stricter rules which breaks existing content.
This is a horrible "experiment".

Duuuude I was just asked to stay at home for 2 weeks because I might have coronavirus (I was in Shanghai "recently"). Sure as heck I'm not going to be productive. (I'm a software engineer in mountain view, and my company has asked me to WFH for 2 weeks)

Following reasons:

- Emotionally it's a tiny bit scary. hard to focus.

- I didn't have ANY time to setup -- a lot of my gear is still at work.

- My team didn't have time to prepare -- we still have daily standups which are hard to join from VC.
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There kinda is, it's a two-step process: First you generate hydrogen and then methane out of hydrogen and CO2.

Problem is: Turning electricity into Hydrogen is inefficient, turning it into Methane is extra inefficient.
Don't forget we've spent a lifetime learning and perfecting the use of things like body language in face-to-face meetings. You can't just switch to video conferences and expect it to be flawless without practice. But if you do it a lot, you learn when you need to verbalize things you'd rely on conveying non-verbally in a face-to-face meeting, such as when you don't quite understand something.

I supervised an entire PhD remotely many years back. We made it work, and learned as we went. Over time we got better as expressing confusion, double checking understanding, and all those sort of things where we use non-verbal clues in face-to-face meetings. It worked, but it wasn't an easy path at first. But there was an unexpected plus side - I'd learned to vocalize my doubts and confusion better, and to double-check we're on the same page. And so ever since I've found I'm more effective in face-to-face meetings.
You can't, the "liaison" is mandatory between "quoi" and "est".
Perhaps true but after how many years of yoga? Does enough of a % of humanity have the patience to persevere?

Yoga is great. Meditation is great. Both are slow, and humanity wants / needs to wake up now.
>5) Rail Transportation is awesome. Travelled around the country from city to city by train, and airplane once. Each city has its own distinct architecture and feeling. And only a few hours away. Closes thing I can compare it to is if Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, where all two to three hours away from each other. And you can hop on a train that will get you there in an hour. 200km/h trains. Very developed railway network. Probably inherited from Communist past.

It had to be severely renovated and upgraded for the 200km/h trains. Sadly most things inherited from communist past(or occupation, because lets face it - it was an occupation) suffer from lack of maintenance.
For most modern work it's difficult to see if the work is being done, whether people are at home or in the office. For the stuff you can watch it's mostly impossible to do at home.
I am using the crossover app now and it works but it feels painfully slow compared to running Wine. Not sure exactly why, I am running a very simple text editor.
> Airdropping battery packs would appear to be safer than gas right?

This is the most absurd statement I've read on HN in the past week. Just take 20 seconds and think about the logistics of a 60+ ton tank in the middle of nowhere doing a battery swap.
Best tips to networking, especially at events
Great to know that the SIM numbers are not re-used across customers. Would this also mean that I have no way to re-claim a previously owned number?
It refers to a 2017 study where they examined soybean oil, olive oil, and coconut oil. They also talk a bit about lard.

https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/49169
Ooohh... I haven't heard of that one. Lack of workers makes sense for this change.
What modern FPS lack are modability and LAN mode without an internet connection. I would extend this to most multiplayer games.

Edit: and recording actions so you can do some hi-def video recording later.
The reason monks played a role in the hand-transcribing (and error-inducing) manu scripts was because mechanical reproduction didn't exist.

Estimates are that in all of Europe as of 1400 there were on the order of 40,000 titles or editions, and about 15 million volumes, total. A large library might have a few thousand volumes (University of Paris ~1200 CE: 2,000, the Vatican, ~1400, ~5,000). As of 1800, the British Museum (now the British Library) contained only 50,000 volumes.

Individual books, scrolls, parchments, and cuneiform tablets (https://cdli.ucla.edu) can survive thousands of years. The larger problem for more recent woodpulp paper texts is one that's common to many digital storage media: poor chemical stability. Acid-treated paper will crumble to dust. Archival-grade cotton rag will last centuries or more.

So long as you're talking flame and heat, you might care to check the ratings of your CD, DVD, Blu-Ray, HDD, and SDD media before feeling too secure.

Quality of current-gen paper print media is indeed low. Hardcover, for a price, delivers markedly better durability. Keep in mind too that you're applying survivorship bias to your sampling of 30-year-old paperbacks -- the ones that wouldn't survive 30 years ... haven't.

(I've numerous old books which are now in pretty sorry condition. And others which remain robust. Details matter.)
Road traffic deaths per capita:

...in India: 22.6 per 100k

...in the US: 12.4 per 100k

...in the UK: 3.1 per 100k

...in Norway: 2.1 per 100k
In my own case, TM lost the ability to make new backups to an USB-connected HD. It doesn't report errors. It doesn't explain. Trying to find something useful in Console is a PITA. The only visible symptom is that a few minutes after each backup starts, it ends without copying all that it promised at the start of the process.

I suspect the root cause is some 3rd party software interaction. But since the 3rd party software I have is installed and required by my employer, it's hard to do an A/B comparison.
For working for home you need a system in place designed for remote work. Nothing to do with work ethic.

And this system will provide the feedback that controls the worker works or not.

In fact with remote work done right you control productivity much better, because you measure the real work or output a worker does.

With remote work you are not as influenced to subjective bias like how young or beautiful someone is, the neckline or skirt(if you are a man) that could affect you without you even realizing.

You don't need to reward someone looking productive, going early to work and leaving late, staying in place but pressing a key to watch facebook when nobody is looking.

You also don't need to punish someone who is productive, using way less time for doing the work and then leaving home or whatever.

This "theater of work" is very real and as a manager it could trick you.

With remote work you can measure the work what is critical for your business to succeed and demand it.

Someone told me once: How do you know your workers are not masturbating while working from home? Playing games or watching TV? Playing with their kids?

The fact is that I don't care if they remain productive and generate the work. In fact if they do the work, enjoining life is a bonus.

There is this Puritan mentality that for doing work you have to suffer and people that believe in that demanding not just work, but watching other people suffer while doing that. Because they actually do suffer, they need everybody that works for them to suffer too. They are sadistic.

I have seen that attitude in entrepreneur or managers colleagues: "Someone who works for me is enyoing the work and I can't stand it""I have to show him what real work is"

They prefer showing their workers how hard and miserable life is that earning money!!
As a city dweller I'm learning to cook like that now, and it is giving me great satisfaction. I also learnt to ignore most consumption dates on packaging, judging for myself whether the food is still edible. I hardly have any food waste to speak of.
Thanks for this mindset! As a Python developer, I appreciate it a lot!
> wild boar

Where's that? Eating wild boar is quite common in Germany. I'm not sure if I'd eat imported wild boar from the Ukraine but never heard of issues with German wild boars.
People who can prove they have had the virus and recovered will be in demand.
I've just made an Ottolenghi recipe-based mushroom lasagne with 2.4 kg mushrooms the other week. Eaten over two days, very delicious and wouldn't mind it more often.
Having 32-bit pointers doesn't mean that ASLR becomes much less effective? I can suppose that for V8 is not a big problem, because they use compressed pointers where necessary, but if it was a compiler directive (like Knuth wanted) it would affect the whole program. I would not use that option for any program that have to process untrusted input.
>I have no idea why American unions collapsed

I learnt a lot about that unknown history from Alex Carey's classic Taking the Risk Out of Democracy (1987). It was no accident but a huge and deliberate campaign. The story is pretty horrifying.

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=Alex+Carey&column=autho...

A small part of the story, from p31:

"The American Advertising Council represents large corporations and large advertising agencies. In April 1947 the council announced a $100 million advertising program which, over the next twelve months, would use all media 'to "sell" the American economic system' to the American people. The program was officially described as a 'major project of educating the American people about the economic facts of life'.

Daniel Bell, then an editor of Fortune, provides a perspective on both the scale and the anti-union and anti-New Deal purposes of these campaigns:

"It has been industry's prime concern, in the post war years, to change the climate of opinion ushered in by...the depression. This 'free enterprise' campaign has two essential aims: to re-win the loyalty of the worker which now goes to the union and to halt creeping socialism [i.e. the New Deal] ... In short the campaign has had the definite aim of seeking to shift the Democratic majority of the last 20 years into the Republican camp ..."

Bell sketches some of the resources, created to sell goods but now used in an overwhelming campaign to sell ideas. 'The apparatus itself is prodigious: 1,600 business periodicals, 577 commercial and financial digests, 2,500 advertising agencies, 500 public relations counsellors, 4,000 corporate public relations departments and more than 6,500 "house organs" with a combined circulation of more than 70 million. Of the opinion-shaping product Bell observes: "The output is staggering. The Advertising Council alone, in 1950, inspired 7 million lines of newspaper advertising stressing free enterprise, 400,000 car cards, 2,500,000,000 radio impressions ... By all odds it adds up to the most intensive "sales" campaign in the history of industry'
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There's been a bunch of work on it in the last 10-20 years... Here are some (disorganized) links, including the one by Chris Lattner mentioned in a sibling comment:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Compact-AST-Representat...
It's a ~username website, it looks exactly as you should expect it to.
> 5-MeO-DMT

Some friends had to hold another friend down to keep him from scratching his eyes out while on 5-MeO-DMT.
Raytracing is pretty beautiful in minecraft.
They're already hongking all the time. If they're now only honk during green light, that's already an improvement.
So I just don't see that. To me the original doom is always more clunky than fast and fun, and the game has the annoying habit of releasing enemies from behind you.

But yes, I think Mega Man X has aged fantastically, as in - the developers spent a really large amount of time on good level design and on teaching the player how the game works, so you could pick it up for the very first time in 2020 and get into it immediately. And no, I haven't played this when it came out first either.

I think this highlights exactly what I'm talking about, look at the little things they are doing design wise, it's truly brilliant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpigqfcvlM

(Sorry, I know the video is meant to be a "funny" one, but it does make some very very good points about video game design)
What about the macs which shipped with magnetic drives? What should the owners do, when Mojave support runs out?
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What's up with the commas in 10,00,00,000?