skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every major calamity was predicted by someone (or group) on some level, with relevant credentials.

The US military runs China-US engagement scenarios all the time, of a variety of flavours i.e. S. China sea flare-up, Tawian invasions etc. You know we are running Europe/WW3/Russian nuclear standoff drills and simulations - all the time, right? Any one of those scenarios is very unlikely to happen, but somewhere in the world, something similar will happen.

The Fed and large banks constantly 'stress testing' and producing models for relatively unpredictable things?

Insurance companies are constantly doing fairly complex modelling built with really good data?

And academia is rife with all of those activities.

After the 2008 crises, there would have been an easy handful of individuals of credibility who were predicting much of what happened. Dot-com crash. 9/11. Saddam's Invasion of Iraq. If there's any likelihood at all of something happening, someone is talking about it in a meaningful way.
Wow I disagree. If you look at the US as a whole, it is clear we are much better at critical thinking and even thinking in numbers than ever before.

YES lots of people get things very wrong. But we are now throwing data, charts, statistics in front of the general population. People are seeking out data and trying to make decisions for themselves (even if they are not doing a great job yet, it's far better than before!).

I know it is fun to be doom and gloom but the reality is our society is better than it was before. People are calling out the media and politicians on their BS faster than ever before.
Why some covid-19 patients crash: The body's immune system might be to blame
The end mentions that it's supported by GBE+ ... though getting paper for the Game Boy Printer is a bit of a challenge for enthusiasts. Some have taken to cutting non-official thermal paper to the right size.

While, we're on the topic, GBE+ just had a birthday (both GBE and GBE+ were released on April 1).

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/GBE%2B
The phenomenological impact of poor diet and harsh glycemic index ASDR cannot be overstated. 'refined sugars negatively impact mood and emotional well-being' might be one of the most rock solid universals of human nature.

All medical interventions should include the no-brainer diet, vitamins, exercise, self-esteem interventions.
It would be great to have some sort of Dewey decimal system-style classification of content. I'm sure it would be controversial to assign a true/false or fiction/non-fiction rating, but having a finer rubric/methodology could be beneficial. Although, for a classification system to succeed requires curation, which may effectively be a filter.
> Ha, yeah, agree they should do just soda water with no taste!

You mean La Croix? :P
very cool blog
If that is the lesson that businesses learn from this, the recession after this will last a lot longer than it needs to, as companies hoard more emergency cash than they need, instead of it flowing through the rest of the economy. A better solution is to cover higher likelihood emergencies and for governments to step in (as they are doing) for very rare emergencies like this one.
The interface is intuitive enough and I must admit that the series "Most Dangerous Game" is so far engaging (only 2 episodes in, but I am invested). Without spoilers, Christopher Waltz gave an engaging enough performance for his role in the first episode. But the short timeline is what is really going to hinder a lot of the series on Quibi, and it will be almost entirely depending on the show-runner.

If they are going to stick with this approach they are going to have to rely heavily on "showing" not "telling", which can really make details explode throughout the story or alternatively, reveal how shallow the content really is. I think it's too early to write it off completely, the niche will still be there when the world resumes turning, but they will need more engaging content to be successful. I think there is a chance to explore low cost/high talent sources, maybe find some diamonds in the rough. Or even just the right person who maybe doesn't excel with a 45-90 minute run-time but can blow 15-20 minute sessions out of the water.
SFU?
Indeed. Updated. Thanks for asking!
This is not the time for fascism, either.
I have an old R710 with 24 cores and 32GB I got on ebay for $200 in my dining room with 10mbits upload/100 download and it works great. bought my .me domain for $5. It's a wonderful time to be alive.
Imposters used drones to track and kidnap children
I try to saw the bright side of the current situation. I really hope the pandemic will be over and we can go outside as before but I think that we need to take some preparation. What do you think will changed after COVID-19? and stay safe for all of you out there!
How to Enhance the Emotional Customer Experience (Medium)
Git changed the way we code
Educate 5 billion people to not be idiots, or stop a few dozen media companies from spraying shit at them. The level of effort is very different.
I'm running Mattermost and Jitsi for my employer on a $20 droplet (2 vCPU/4GB RAM) and it works like a champ. Meetings of 5-10 are common, but we've run meetings larger than that too. As a facilitator of 1:1 adhoc meetings, it's basically zero overhead, because the server just coordinates a P2P connection then gets out of the way.
American, Delta, Southwest, and United have about 60% of the US market. They have a combined market cap of about $45B.

The idea that the airlines could issue $50B in shares is a fantasy.
> they will never perform well on modern CPUs

Is this statement for indirect threaded Forths only? What about direct threaded, token threaded and sub-routine threaded Forths?
Vimeo is having performance issues
Digital Ocean Virtual Private Cloud
Went down that rabbit hole this weekend too, I got an HDMI capture device so I could stream my Switch on Zoom with friends and the lack of virtual cam in OBS was a bummer. Hopefully it will be added soon.
I think many TURN servers do this, but Slack's didn't.
Interesting. I've been working on automating some personal finance Google Sheet stuff trying to use watir to automate pulling stuff from Mint. Did you find watir useful for things like this? Or would you say there's ultimately better options for a personal Rails app?
Appeals to authority is the inevitable by-product of specialization.

No one understands even a small fraction of all branches of science, let alone engineering and the rest of it.

Freedom of speech is just double-speak for the idiot masses. You're free to say things and others are free to put you in jail for hate speech, inciting violence or the other 100+ laws that limit free speech.

The sooner you quit thinking in double-speak slogans meant for idiot masses, the sooner you'll realize you don't know what you're talking about, realize how much work it'd take to know what you're talking about, give up and live your life, relying on appeals to authority.

Try knowing what the hell you're talking about in your professional discipline of choice, intimate relationships, physical health and parenting. That's enough for a single human being - most are utterly incompetent at these matters of vital importance to their well being. When you have those under a solid grasp - you can venture out into contemplating politics, propaganda and law.
"Equally informed" isn't actually required. All you need is to be informed enough to make a reasonable decision. If you know one of the products is less secure but $10 cheaper, you know essentially what you need to know even if the manufacturers have a ton of information about specific algorithms used and electrical impedance that you don't know or understand but that don't change the high level conclusions anyway.

It's only when the customer doesn't even have the information that the product which is $10 cheaper is also less secure that you run into a problem.
This particular incident actually sounds like it involves pretty heavy "out there" stuff. But in general the term conspiracy theory means barely more than "not in line with government press releases". The average conspiracy theory guy is much less crazy than one might assume and a surprising number of now public revelations have been circulating in these corners of the internet way earlier. It can be quite informative and challenge critical thinking at the same time.
It is not binary. 5G doesn't cause coronavirus, airplane contrails don't contain mind controlling chemicals, vaccines don't cause autism, and the Earth isn't flat. Those aren't worldview choices, those are facts. They aren't subject to opinion. It is a shame that mental healthcare has been stigmatized, that so few resources in mental health exist for those who need it, and that modern society has created such a profound loneliness that otherwise well people feel the need to attach to groups like this to fulfill a sense of community.

But no, I welcome people I disagree with. 5G causing COVID-19 or it being a Bill Gates conspiracy is not something that is categorized by agreement or disagreement.
Hi, I'm Victor Ribeiro, author of the game. Yesterday I was let go of my job due to COVID-19. After I got the news, I sat down on my notebook and made a quick port of QUBES to release on itch.io

I understand that the game is a not a 5 stars game and there's room for improvement, some requests I may implement on the next update, but, I'm now working on a new game that I plan to release soon.

I think this new game is more fun. I suggest following me on twitter, itch.io, youtube or github to check it out.

As I told, I'm not working right now so if you liked QUBES and want to support me and the developing of other games, I suggest you make a donation you itch.io, paypal or consider becoming a patreon.

Here I go by atum47, but on all other platforms I'm usually victorqribeiro. On youtube I'm always putting videos of my projects, my english is far from good, but I'm working on my pronunciation.

On GitHub I'm always publishing open source projects that might help others or even serve as a starting point for a project. IsoCity is a good example of that. There are people working on some cool new things using IsoCity as a foundation. So, make sure you take a look at my projects at GitHub also.

Thank you so much for playing the game and for the inputs/feedback.
Off by Two
https://webrtcglossary.com/sfu/
Has anyone estimated how many months WeWork has until it collapses?
We are talking about private companies right? This has nothing to do with the government.
plan to be on ff 76
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Firefox-...
Do Brain Training Games Work?
Awesome. If you do ever write a more in-depth post, ping me!
Boeing will re-fly uncrewed Starliner mission
Right but converting a big application to .NET Core is hard. Is this project not sort of an emulator to allow a legacy .NET Windows app to run on .NET Core? I had better read TFA better.
Online Note Taking Without Distraction
Cue: Kenny Rogers music:

"...You gotta know when to fold'm.... know when hold'm.... know when to walk away... and know when to run!"
msandford is saying that you can only run an experiment like this and get good results if the treatment is administered entirely by a machine. PhasmaFelis is saying that as long as both groups get similar amounts of professional attention then you can still get good results. I'm saying that to make sure you get equal levels of professional attention you need to blind the professionals to whether the machine is enabled.

(I agree that this is what the "double" in "double blind" means, but that's not what we were talking about.)
You seem to be trying to contradict that it is legal to own corp.com, but actually you are saying that misusing collected data is illegal, which I never denied.

The point is that it would be hard-to-impossible to go after someone who owns corp.com even if they use it for nefarious purposes because the actual nefarious action would be so hard to discover or prove.

Besides which, the bad actor here could easily live somewhere without an extradition treaty to the US or simply remain pseudo anonymous (via shell companies, bitcoin, etc). So, it would be possible for an unethical owner of corp.com to find a buyer who intends to use it for ill.
For how many users?
I know, but it isn't a very useful feature, so why bother?
There are some things that have to be made clear to the team when moving to containers (don't use joerandom/alpine as a baseimage, build via digest instead of tag etc) but the speed at which you can onboard people is amazing.

I couldn't imagine deploying a Python application without Docker nowadays.
Is there a design document for this? I am curious about how this handles synchronization.
So your position is that if someone starts spamming Hacker News with hate speech, HN shouldn't be allowed to ban that user and delete their posts without shutting down the entire site? Because if web sites are legally liable for every post that's what's going to happen.
Within pure paths, you just don't have this problem. You only have this problem at the boundary with the storage system (where, indeed, you might have to retry, e.g., if you have SERIALIZABLE transaction semantics). So FP gains composability if you can express your program as purely as possible as compared to an OOP w/ ORM system. And if you have transactions, you can compose FP programs that construct them because transactions compose. But if your ORM deprives you of transactions, you won't have that composability in your ORM.
>> Personal opinion: I think we should all boycott Zoom until there is a guarantee

There can be no guarantee with a proprietary software. Just switch to free software...
I agree, if you have a good product people will flock to you, although if everyone basically has the same thing like say sneakers (Nike!) that are essentially the same across all vendors a brand can set you apart even though your product isn't really any better than the competition
SICP, Gödel Escher Bach, some theoretical works on computer science are a good start.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html

https://www.physixfan.com/wp-content/files/GEBen.pdf

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computer-science/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science#Further_readi...

Is there some reason why I am being downvoted? These are all highly-regarded books.
I've run 6 on jitsi.
> Perhaps it is time to apply some of these methods to other industries that might only survive with a taxpayer bailout

I feel as though the problem here is that we can't survive losing some of these companies. "Too big to fail" is the problem. There's so little diversity in these ecosystem that losing one company is an economic disaster.

Maybe the regulations around these sorts of things ought to just apply to any company that represents more than X% of a given industry, or any company worth more than Y% of the entire stock market. And these don't even have to be big X and Y values. If you're that big, you've grown beyond being just a simple company and you've become an integral part of society that must remain functional.

Go even further: tax those companies that meet these standards an extra small amount, and then reduce the taxes of their smaller competitors by the same total value. Incentivize competition to increase the diversity, so that there aren't many companies we can't afford to lose.
The only thing that matters is the global result, and the only policies that we know how they work at global scale are the ones that we know that they do not work.

There is an incredible lack of actual social and political scientists discussing those policies, and the few economists that are there seem focused on hitting known bad policies (what is easy to understand, since politicians keep pushing them).
I was a young teen when it first came out -- in retrospect, I think it's cool, but at the time, everybody I knew felt like it was baldly pandering to our demographic / 'disaffected slackers' in general, and looked upon it with mild disdain
Well not at all scales. Gravity at quantum scales is still not well understood.

Also the only way to claim it works as expected at any scale is to test it out. This allows scientists to claim that the theory checks out at this scale too.
https://medium.com/@corporatebullies

I've been documenting aggressive brand protection practices by various companies, and also general e-commerce commentary. Only have two posts so far but intend to continue along similar lines when I have more time. I've got a post planned explaining how one of the top 5 Amazon seller's primary business model is getting rid of other sellers and raising consumer prices. This kind of behavior is shockingly common across the industry.

Disclaimer: I do have an agenda and have been involved in some of the cases mentioned. I've also done extensive research, reading through hundreds of court cases, talking to many of the people involved in those cases, and am getting ready to publish further exposes. I'm not unbiased, but I am well researched. I did the research originally for my own legal case and felt it was interesting and important enough to start sharing.
It keeps popping up because it's very likely a bad idea and should go back to being illegal (which it was until relatively recently) because it artificially pushes up prices, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-24/stock-....
> It’s kernel-based which reduces attack surface and can be ran in virtually any device.

Excuse my ignorance, but can someone explain why a kernel based networking stack has less of an attack surface then a user-space based stack?

I mean logically user-space should be more secure no?
So ... You can integrate against compatible product using their GRAPH.

Should you become a powerful startup which SAP enterprises love to use, how much does it take for upstream SAP to change the API or remove API features, which will kill your company? (Rhetorical question)
I asked a question about a similar idea on Stack Overflow in 2014. https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/22317/does-there-exis...

They did not have any idea and they were dicks about it as usual.
Are we actually under obligation to listen to everything a crank says and then evaluate each statement? Once I find out someone believes in "reptoids", I don't see a lot of value in wasting my time with them, and it's exhausting to make that effort when they clearly aren't.
It's not really a bug in old coturn, just a feature in the
protocol. According to the article newer versions just disable
routing to 127.0.0.1 by default but there are still other network
addresses you might have to consider (see article for a
recommended list of "denied-peer-ips").
Breakthroughs Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy [pdf]
"It is good to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others." It is good to destroy incompetent, short-sighted management from time to time, to caution the others.
Yes? Do you approve of the idea of using any combination of therapies found effective to cure people of believing in their religion, or to 'solve' political dissidents?

Intellectual freedom,literally in this case, is important.(1)

1. Die Gedanken Sind Frie
2 random examples that would be useful corrections from him:

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion aren't a legitimate historical document laying out a plan for world domination"

"No world leaders are human/shapeshifting-alien hybrids"
What does damage the container mean in this context?
As a provider, supporting old tech stacks sucks. They're clunky, have all kinds of warts and annoying workarounds for stuff that got improved in future versions.

As a consumer, being told my light bulbs won't work with the new fixture is a great reason to no longer work with that provider.

As a provider that knows this, I'd rather support the old tech stack right up to the point my ability to keep the lights on isn't at risk.
Yeah.

Or doing a PhD.

After that, any non-academic job is super easy.
Sounds like it is a lot more like what AbeBooks used to be then. (Before Amazon bought and gutted AbeBooks.)
Don't the issues of intent only come up after some legal kerfuffle? What law-breaking event would cause an investigation here?
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As someone who has schizoaffective disorder, I take offense to your assertion that psychosis=murderer. Your claim only serves to perpetuate the stigma attached to psychosis, when the disease itself is already bad enough. Coincidentally, I happened to have taken ketamine infusions for depression long before I was diagnosed with schizoaffective.
Csaba Szepesvari of DeepMind on TalkRL
Docker is how you put your widgets into a container, docker-compose is how you put a few containers on a ship. How is separating those responsibilities overengineering?
Yes. Jiffies (the main linux counter) rolls over either 10 or 20 minutes after boot. Yes. It is to ensure kernel modules as code can handle the roll over.
> Not really. Plenty of theories ended up being revised when humanity's understanding of the world improved. They still had real world applications: even though they were imperfect, they were good enough for a wide variety of uses.

Those imperfect theories are applied today, and still work in lots of contexts. They are complete, but subsets. We can make predictions, given certain initial conditions, with accuracy as close to 100% as you require, the only issue is measurement. Comparing psychology to physics in this manner is pretty embarrassing, and shows a lack of understanding of physics.

Applying imperfect physical theories causes bombs to explode where they shouldn't, nuclear plants to react when they shouldn't. We don't build fusion reactors today because we still need to determine the safety of isolating the plasma.

> We have no choice but to apply these theories. The alternative would be to do nothing until they are perfected. That would be negligence. Antidepressants do not have a 100% success rate. Nothing in medicine has. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be used.

I didn't say they needed to have a 100% success rate. You just need to find the mechanism. I'd be happy with a 0.1% success rate if our determination of the mechanism implies that there is no cure once it reaches that stage.

Let's do a study--I think drinking alcohol has cured my depression. It doesn't have a 100% success rate, but it would be negligent to tell people that they shouldn't get plastered if they're depressed.

edit: Don't drink alcohol to cure your depression. I suspect the mechanism is related to the gut flora. Alcohol kills the gut flora.
What does this comment even mean? In my comment, I was putting it bluntly what he/she was basically saying. I agree it sounds harsh, but that was my point. My point is that it's not acceptable or productive for a society to suppress someone else's right to be heard just because they are disagreed with.
Working with Slices in Go
I definitely am in the "not public forum" camp. Let me explain. The second you allow a private company control over a public resource, you are creating an expectation that a private company cannot meet. Public access tv and public streets are examples of public forums, and for example, I am very against free speech zones. But Youtube, Facebook, Reddit are ultimately private for-profit companies and - as indispensable as they feel in modern life - we shouldn't conflate them with public platforms.

To your other point, they are responsible for content on their platform in many cases (violent threats, illegal adult content, allowing access to adult content to minors, copyright violations, dissemination of classified information, and so on) so I don't see a problem.

edit: please don't downvote the parent poster? This is a perfectly fine response and good faith dialogue. We don't downvote something because we disagree with it.