skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Eleven" is a bonkers good table tennis (ping pong) simulator - it's the closest to the real thing of any VR sport I've played so far. It's 1:1, but if you have voice chat on, it enables almost the same social experience as actually playing ping pong with someone. Highly recommended (if you're on Steam, remember to switch to the beta, it's much improved and multiplayer compatible with the Oculus versions!)
You're missing the key word, "valuable"
> Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

?? OP doesn't mention this at all. Also, it's a great book--read it!
CBT is based on stoicism, lots has been written about it from psychologists. It also has a lot in common with acceptance based therapy.

EDIT: "inspired by" is probably more accurate to say than "based on".
There's no reason to pay rent if your lease expires. My current company has no office because the lease expired in the shutdown. There's no new office lined up, because they don't know when they'll need one.
What is your opinion on dev.to ?
No-Budget Film Contest
It’s wasteful if you assume it could be automated, but helping customers find things is just “service” most of the time.
I don't think I've ever seen anything stating that. He much preferred the later tv adaptation.

A big part of this is that he felt Jack Nicholson was just playing a crazy character. But the character in the book was a father first. And you could feel that. Not to mention this book had a lot to do with King himself and how he was lost in drugs and alcohol. There was a lot of internal and external struggle for him in the book that King felt was mostly ignored. This meant that by the end, the viewer had very little sympathy for him.

Personally, I love the movie and I love the book. But I completely understand King's criticism.
You might actually be right, server-to-server IRC is good for finding an efficient path between all the servers in the network (ie it considers the network as a whole, not just a series of 1-to-1 connections) and send the minimum information required, so we should be able to keep that and make the client-to-server protocol different.

In short, make the relay/bouncer part of the server itself, and tell clients to connect with the relay protocol, not the IRC protocol. If there were some common standard for this second part that would actually be a great thing.
I can't speak for or against WordPress in specific but there is often a need for patching even if you somehow had mythical bug free code and keep things simple there may be compatability with say IPv6 to maintain or what was good enough for the day may now be a sick joke like relying on passwords for cryptographic security.
They can also be updated in the sense that they're removed from my device. I've had that happen to my apps, it happened to people using Microsoft's service, I simply can't trust any proprietary software to do the updating unfortunately, I'd love to have a few typos fixed in 50-year-old books however.
Never accept charts at face value - try to go to source and look at gotchas. In case of EuroMOMO data the gotcha is that European countries are not done counting yet. Compare numbers in bulletin for week 15 and 16: https://www.euromomo.eu/bulletins/2020-16/

The numbers will grow further.
> If you don't own your platform, you don't own your content.

Not entirely true. You can generate nicely formatted content using a centralized service, and then self-host the files it outputs. E.g. we support this with FWD:Everyone, folks are free to use our tool to format any email thread for publication on the web, and then self-host published threads elsewhere by just saving our API responses.

IMHO this is a much better deal for folks than either hosting Wordpress, using a simple static site generator, or using a purely centralized service. You always get the latest tech that we’re investing in, but also the freedom to go nuts and do whatever.
Yudkowsky's explanation[1] is the first one that worked for me. I later found Quantum mysteries for anyone[2] helpful. The latter has less soap-boxing.

1: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AnHJX42C6r6deohTG/bell-s-the...

2: https://kantin.sabanciuniv.edu/sites/kantin.sabanciuniv.edu/...
> dolphin emu

Is this because everyone is older millennial and Gen X finding nostalgia in the early 2000s? out of curiosity?

I'm trying to see why thats an option, unless I'm missing something

one of these is not like the other
> I don't want to host something that needs patching and sysadmin and all that.

You mean like running your own webserver? Why would I do that instead of just getting a web host that'll take care of all of the sysadmin for you?

With a lot of web hosting platforms all you'll need is to just press a button on a web site, then all you'll have to deal with is the wordpress interface
exactly. I've proven that in a scenario with a certain number of zones and workers, the invariants and temporal properties cannot be violated.

With more work, I could prove the invariants for any number of workers and zones using TLAPS rather than TLC, though I couldn't prove the temporal properties in this way (since TLAPS doesn't support temporal logic, it can only prove invariants.)
Very interesting topic. I've noticed that whenever I wear my favorite perfume on my beard, I'll spend the following 4 hours touching my hands to remember good memories attached to that smell.

For people looking into the effect of self-face-touching with virus spreading,

"We note that this behaviour offace-touching may be responsible for transferring nearly 25%of respiratory illness."
Sometimes zoom-out perspective, "right now the whole western world [your point] is like a dystopian Gibson novel" is deeply meaningful.
Ask HN: Can “Show HN” be dangerous?
Imagine someone submits something they have been working on "Show HN" to get some feedback.
For example they developed a low latency HD video chat app (FastChat), where the person's face is modeled beforehand. Then during the chat only the movements of the face are transmitted, thereby requiring less data to be sent.

During the "Show HN" some bugs are discovered and issues with scaling, but overall the feedback is extremely positive. So they know, that it is worth working on and continue to make it a proper product (dealing with scaling, privacy, security, pricing). Since they are a sole developer it will take time to do this.

Wouldn't it be possible that Skype, Whatsapp, Zoom or some other actor in that area would copy their idea? Given that they have explained on some level how it works in the "Show HN". In addition, now that it has been shown to be possible, the big companies can assign a team to reverse engineer it.

Two weeks later, the original developer has fixed the problems and launches the product successfully. A few days later Skype introduces a new video chat feature that essentially does the same thing. No one bothers to switch to FastChat, since it doesn't have any outstanding features.

Is this scenario likely? Can it be dangerous to post your MVP on "Show HN"?
The obstacle is not the format but the ease of sharing. Yes, I've had a blog since ~2000, I know there are some ways to share others' content on your own blog, but it never became as easy or readily consumable as a retweet.

Ironically, I think the reason is recognizable from epidemiology. The network of twitter followers is just denser than the network of bloggers ever was or likely ever will be. Even the very best blog posts still tended not to spread even an order of magnitude as well as a good tweet thread. As much as I hate the format, I don't think blogs can or will displace it.
IQ testing gets a lot of flak because its usefulness is misunderstood and overstated, and because historically it has been used by adherents of scientific racism.

I get the sense from the comment about BMI and "axe grinding" that you're really trying to make a dig at what conservative leaning people might call "SJWs". If that's the case, you're doing yourself a disservice by letting ideology obscure the very real scientific problems with IQ testing.
It seems to me the idea of premise liability should probably be re-evaluated. When a place is not open to the public, and especially when someone is trespassing, the bar for liability should be quite high.
If we didn’t have immunity it would be unlike any other respiratory virus known to man. All other corona viruses have non-insignificant periods of immunity.

Further Fauci himself says it’s very likely there is immunity: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/fauci-really-c...

There was also a study performed on monkeys showing immunity: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.13.990226v1
Looks like (b) is the answer. They released this tweet on Aug 7, 2019 (the next day after announcing they were targeting an LSE-listed company):

https://twitter.com/muddywatersre/status/1159009866020618241

Pretty amazing that they went through and took a look at all the companies whose stock prices dropped from Aug 6-7th on LSE as a sort of "business development" opportunity.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar.

Crossing into personal attack is not going to have good effects. Maybe this comment didn't quite do that, but you certainly went there downthread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Everyone likes to make fun of furries, but they have an uncanny ability to maintain a robust, cohesive social network irrespective of venue.

I'm not surprised that a subculture that mostly exists in a stratum of friendship by correspondence or socialization via avatar, as it were, would beat everyone else to making good use of VR to meet and share experiences.

The only thing that the pandemic really changed for them is, well, everyone else being asked to shelter in place has led to some very interesting VR chat worlds to explore and document with friends.

If Twitter is any indication, it all seems like good fun. So, yeah, I think furries got this one right.
docker is like nixos for 2yo
>> ... and not have it installed globally is amazing.

Yah, the more I think about it this is the biggest selling point to me.

>> Of course, you can use the nix package manager on any Linux distro and even macOS if you want a gentler introduction.

I actually never thought deeply into nix NOT on nixos (I've probably been conflating the two). As an infra/devops-y person I can think of a lot of cool use cases off the bat in the server-space (theoretically anyways, I've a feeling the details would be quite the devil). But, except for the case of developing for such a system, I'm struggling to see a use case that warrants it in the desktop realm. (I need to meditate on this one..!)
> To actually disprove the theory you need an experiment that can detect changes in cancer rate on the order of 40k per billion or 0.004% which have simply not been preformed.

If the LNT model was correct then you wouldn't need such a high level of precision, only a sample group with more radiation exposure (i.e. a medium level rather than low or high), so that the LNT model would predict that enough people would get cancer that it could actually be measured. If the people in those areas don't have an incidence of cancer which is linear with respect to the very high doses currently being used as the baseline then the LNT model is falsified.

> Saying ‘we can’t measure it therefore it does not exist’ might be acceptable if it where the oldest theory. Except it’s not, people want to overthrow the existing idea with zero direct supporting evidence which is simply unscientific.

By this logic we should be operating under the assumption that the Greek Gods actually exist because the theory is very old and it is difficult to measure.
The same guy at univ, a plan 9 aficionado, who suggested forming a LUG also suggested Haskell. In 2001.
Google “wontfix” a “panic pin code to wipe device” issue in Android
Please don't react by making the thread even worse, regardless of how provocative another comment was or you feel it was.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not using behavioural economics ideas
The problems with Cynicism, Scepticism, Epicureanism and Stoicism is that they don't really adhear to the notion of 'everything in moderation'. The logical extremes either can lead to some genuinely useless approaches to life.

If one should never worry about things that they cannot possibly control, even if it directly affects one's life, because we are just going to cease to exist at some point anyway, how would one now whether or not they could alter it, if they never began worrying? This very idea lead to several prominent Stoics to commit suicide, because might as well hasten my eventual ceasing of being?

Perhaps if they had concerned themselves with things that on the surface seemed outside of their reach, they might have realised that some things are approachable, even if the solution is not obvious.

The idea that one should avoid worry about things outside one's control is not a bad suggestion in general, it just should not be taken as an extreme. I mean, there is probably a reason why philosophers went back to Aristotle and Plato after those other four Schools saw prominence.

Jewish, Christian and Islamic philosophers weren't trying to make their religions compatible with Zeno's or Epicurus' teachings, but rather Plato's and later Aristotle's.
Fishery and aquaculture sectors: 5 main types of ENSO identified
> Amazon had not offered better prices than the main brick-and-mortar shops for a long long time.

mayyybe outside of urban environments?

Where I live its a bunch of boutiques that have been hoping for altruistic charity from people that can relate to "the struggle". It only works on idealistic and impressional college kids and other small business owners in the 'cult of local'.

They've also sent comical emails for conveniently non-dilutive financing to any customer that Square leaked their info to "in these trying times".
What other subjects would simulation enlighten people on?
Yes telling people the virus isn't dangerous and to resume your life is how Italy got overrun. This is the misinfo being spread.
My knowledge of it is just through department oral history.

I did some googling though and apparently his time at Cornell is talked about in Lawrence Krauss's biography "Quantum Man". Here's a brief review of it [1]. Apparently as a professor he would pretend to be an undergrad to sleep with students. He also apparently slept with the wives of multiple faculty (I might have remembered it wrong and this was the reason he was rumored to have been forced to leave over).

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/may/15/quantum-man-...
It's more that puberty is when kids biologically become adults. We'd adapted to getting at least some additional responsibility around that age, and are now going against what our own bodies tell us is correct.
It was a surprise because I was not monitoring the relevant account.

The funds were being withdrawn month-to-month.
Just beware you actually practice stoicism, acceptance and the good stuff and not just dissociation ;-)
It's already been pointed out elsewhere in the comments, but the quote about "those bar girls are all bitches" is badly taken out of context, since that was something he'd said in connection with a thought experiment he was performing.
While not the easiest thing (it could be made easier though) I run a Wordpress instance in a local VM, that then publishes static to S3. Works pretty swell.
Same here. Unfortunately there are a lot of middlemen who want to get in between and filter that information. It’s a constant battle to be allowed to stay in touch with the actual users. It doesn’t help that a lot of devs don’t really want to interact with users feeding the stereotype that developers need to be told what to do.
Invoking “help -l” will give you a full list of available commands.
The infinite scroll addiction pipeline has segmented the online world largely into two parts: Drooling scroll zombies on twitter/facebook/reddit/etc, and people who don't partake at all.

The audience of people who might read your blog but who aren't stuck on a scroll treadmill is too small to bother, especially with the death of many popular rss readers.
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? You have a good point here, and this way of making it just makes everything worse.

We've had to ask you this kind of thing many times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22781294

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22543721

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22343386

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21740392

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19010638

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17822100

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20805021

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21667959

... and that's just for starters. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended from now on? I appreciate the good comments you make here and don't want to ban you, and at the same time, there is a problem.
Sale of defective parrot leads to Canadian lawsuit
Putting just my house number and ZIP code into Google maps just got me the outline of the ZIP code area. Using just the ZIP and ZIP+4 didn't improve the results. Google doesn't quite know everything yet. ;)
Puppeteer or puppet reading a script, it does not matter.

But well, maybe is like you say and the republican party is letting him run wild without any cordon sanitaire at sight. I don't really know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm just astonished with the current cuckooland of free, like the rest of the world.
Five Bullet Sunday #5 – helping you get ahead in life
This does not completely contradict what you are saying but you can only export limited number of messages (10k or 40k can't remember the amount correctly).
How 2 hackers met and became friends
And the presence of triangle shapes throughout the environment, the design team did an amazing job.
I've been mulling making a youtube channel with ten minute videos on immunology; what would be a good starter video that might interest someone like you? I thought I'll do something about antibodies as drugs!
This is a hilarious video that captures the state-of-play of open-source frameworks in Data Science:

https://twitter.com/wdaali999/status/1161973951565881345?lan...

Basically, anything not open-source is not cool any more - SAS, matlab, SPSS. Kids are not learning these frameworks in school and don't want to use them. I see open-source taking over Data Science by the time this recession is over: Jupyter, conda, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, RStudio, and even PySpark.
> it just is able to not crash when printing their usernames to log files

The usernames could be from a variety of locales. If showing them in that form is seen as valuable, they'll each have to be decoded in their appropriate locale. Using LANG=C doesn't prevent this, it encourages it.

Beyond that, as you point out, Unicode provides lots of new opportunities for crashes. Indeed, one of my favorite ways to crash software (software almost invariably running under a "proper" locale) is to feed it a string of (non-ASCII) Unicode. Boom.

No matter the approach, you must code for correctness and deal with all input. For Unicode, you must always allow for decoding failure.
You ignore what I said and ignore reality. I gave real examples of two real gambling markets, one legal and illegal, that demonstrated how much worse the effects of the illegal market were.

Instead you claim countries have successfully banned gambling completely. OK name one so we can correct your misapprehension.

For example Sports betting has been illegal almost everywhere in the US for a long time. Illegal sports gambling has peaked near $150B a year.
Or, he knew most of those things, but has become so senile that he can't help spouting his stream of consciousness during live press briefings. I appreciate your optimism, but even if he was speaking intentional fluff, the approach was childish and poorly informed.
Dream on. Most business processes are convoluted and complex. You can only provide simple solutions if the customer works with you to also change their own processes. Some do, many don’t.
Well the fact that I wasn't using any services, wasn't logging in, wasn't running anything except a default t2 instance is indicative.

But also there is IMO a reasonable expectation of a confirmation moving from free to paid service.
If you're into the narrative, I can't recommend Mankind Divided enough. Its premise is hokey, but its world building is second-to-none.
In my experience willpower is less like a muscle and more like a habit. Right now I'm in the habit of working on side projects every day, so it's easy. Since habits come naturally, what once required willpower now requires no willpower at all. Surely there are studies that confirm habitual tasks are easier to perform than non-habitual ones?
Personally, I've always had a car since school but I've been in on things like a ski house with people from NYC and I lead hikes in New England on the weekends. People can (and do) carpool, rent cars, etc. but it's quite a pain if you do it regularly. Most of the people I know who liven in Boston and are active in weekend outdoors activities own a car because of the hassle of renting.
Condor did this in the early 90s.
Perhaps you can try the following article, as it was the simplest and clearest explanation I've found anywhere:

https://www.physics.wisc.edu/undergrads/courses/spring2016/4...

AFAICS it was published in the American Journal of Physics in 1981 but it's addressed to the general reader. It requires no knowledge of quantum physics.
>> If I want to know how I configured my nas three years ago, all I have to do is read the nix file I checked onto github. Thats powerful.

Have you had to deal with breaking changes in the config language? (Does this ever happen? Are there versions/specs of the language that can be pinned?)
From what I can tell, very little of that is true. This anti-KryoFlux sentiment seems to come from one or two high profile people disliking the way the KryoFlux people do stuff. They are a company and it's not open source. I get it. Sounds like it's down mainly to bad PR more than anything.

Misinformation from some quarters is just not helpful, and reflects badly on them IMO.
Unpopular opinion but to me this reinforces the massively important role of short sellers in free markets. Yes they are often on the wrong side of these "exposés" (Tesla comes to mind) and can create some harm in those cases, but being able to uncover frauds affecting tens of thousands of people is extremely valuable. These frauds may have lasted years and years longer and caused much more damage if not for firms like Muddy Waters.
Miners Trick Stablecoin Protocol PegNet, Turning $11 into Almost $7M Hoard
That is, despite all the fuzz, not something you jump into from maintaining CRUD apps.
That's a false dichotomy. They could be totally fine with the intent of this app, but concerned with its potential secondary effects. And "something they did in the past" suggests they have stopped doing it.
>so we know most ICU patients are ventilated

This is where your logic fails. Most patients in the ICU at this point in time are ventilated. That doesn't (necessarily) mean that most patients that went to the ICU were ventilated. Those that are ventilated will stay in the ICU for weeks. Those that aren't might only be there for a few days.
What would you like to know about protein folding? How it even happens, or how we are trying to "figure it out"?
hindsight is always 20/20.
Funny almost exactly one year ago I was desperately trying to learn about and demo a Linux cluster.

I happened upon ClusterKnoppix and used that LiveCD as my demo which uses OpenMOSIX. And MPI as well but I was having a lot of trouble getting it all in my head and having to explain it during a presentation.

I'm glad that over with! But it was still fun.
That makes it worse. A well-intentioned, well-meaning government org could create something with proper privacy controls and then another part of the government with worse intentions could get their hands on the data.