skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve wanted to try D&D, but don’t know anyone else that plays. Are there other mediums to play in (i.e. is “by post” still a thing)?
Probably he's just rich enough so that his lived everyday experience suggests that everything is fine. I mean if you had assured access to excellent health care, easy access to testing, a large private garden to spend time outdoors in, and staff who take care of all the chores where normal people might get sick, then there's a good chance you also would feel more relaxed about this pandemic because it's likely to not inconvenience you personally.

Of course, he's still a acting ignorant / stupid, but I'd guess that a certain lack of social skills - empathy in particular - is quite common among startup founders.
Thanks for the response. It's valuable that they gave you detailed feedback. The post would be strengthened by enough specifics grounded in that actual feedback to have preempted my response. In any case, I appreciate the conversation.

My comment here should not be read as a personal judgment. It's more of a literary critique of your article as instance of a genre—with an extra helping of editorial critique of that genre.
Yes, and if you're a consistent loser you'll be treated incredibly well, with free tickets to football matches, free tickets to Formula 1 races, anything to keep you gambling.
I started WFH when the company I worked for had moved to a place where commuting meant 3 hours stuck in traffic each day.

I never 'missed the office'. I found most people that do are confusing work with having an actual social life, which they lack because they spend the time it would take to build one listening to podcasts while stuck in traffic.
Back/forward with b/B is built in, but I guess additional integration with history doesn’t hurt.
Instead of scaling the Legos up, assume that they're life size beings on a Lego sized pseudo-Earth. It's been years since I've done any physics so, I hope I'm not badly off, but I think the gravity will be around 1/900th that of Earth (if we assume radius of Lego world at 1/30 earth, mass of Lego world proportional to the cube). If we ignore the fact that there probably won't be an atmosphere on Lego world, I'm sure there are are various other applications of the square-cube law, etc. that will work in their favor as well.

I believe they'll make it.
You mean the time is right for a Google Reader alternative?
I was investigating the same last night. There's a reply in the issues though: "There are still people there but not very active on this project currently. But we try to keep it alive !" https://github.com/vscode-org-mode/vscode-org-mode/issues/16...
Low Back Pain Is Associated with Risk Factors: A Review of Longitudinal Studies
Well said. I'm a huge fan of Elon and Tesla and am optimistic about their future, but Munger's approach here is incredibly reasonable. I would love to see Tesla succeed, but I also know that I'd hesitate quite a bit to bet billions of dollars on their success.
How does this compare to gen? https://www.gen.dev/
It's true. The more you win, the sooner you'll be stopped, at least at the betting company I've worked at.
I also believe a price increase to prevent shortage is legitimate (or actually good). If demand goes up prices shd go up so the buyer themselves can prioritise (if desinfect prices hiked immediately (some ppl would call it price gouging) buyers might not empty the shelves or at least more ppl had the chance to get something. But this needs to be done with stock on hand.
The belief that they already has achieved the best society and thus there was no need to pursue progress. Combine that with a strong emphasis on cultural conservatism and authoritarian rule.
There's a huge difference between criticizing the people/science and criticizing the decision. We collectively need to have a real conversation about the pros/cons/risks of reopening parts of society. However, we're stuck in this rut of just calling the science bad (it's not) in order to avoid talking about the harsh reality of increased death rate.
> Some days I work 4 hours. Some days I work 12 hours until 1-2 am.

This sounds great, but is really only attainable if you're a freelancer. Unfortunately, this is not an option for many people, especially those just starting out in their careers.
Not buying the bad stuff is key. Passing it in the store takes orders of magnitude less 'willpower' than moderating your consumption once it is in your cupboard.
It’s hard to lift without equipment - nothing around the house concentrates that amount of weight into something liftable.

Pull up bars mostly work the back muscles but don’t provide enough isolation to work the biceps.

I have however seen a video recommending bicep curls where your arms pull against a towel folded across your foot, which pushes in the other direction. By locking the elbows, isolation is achieved and your leg which has larger muscles than your arms provides the counterweight. It’s not ideal but it’s better than nothing.
> tiger repelling rock

Mitigation tactics like shelter in place, ppe, and physical distancing are working. Tiger repelling rock would make sense if there was no data supporting this thesis.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coronavirus-cases-drop-by-...

> decide for themselves

They elect officials to represent them. That is what Alameda County is doing.

> We could even have free clean food delivered to them, at a fraction of the cost to society.

Sounds like an interesting proposal, but that is another topic altogether.

> And who's going to suffer most when he pulls his factory out of California?

I don't have any data to tell you who that would be.
Hackers Turned Virginia Government Websites into Elaborate EBooks Scam Pages
My PhD supervisor used to say: "one week of programming easily saves an hour of thinking"
The quote speaks for itself. Please do not stoop to ad hominems.
The single-purposeness and simplicity of non-digital tools is important, I think. Paper doesn't have a web browser hovering behind that icon, waiting to be easily clicked at any moment. Our brain knows that infinite oceans of content and stimuli are lurking there.
True. It was such a pleasant community with very helpful people. Now even in completely non-political posts you have people bringing in politics (granted, they are usually down-voted). And then there is r/indiaspeaks...
Note to self: ask this question in every interview for the rest of my life, to make sure I don't end up working with someone who thinks that the "professionalism line" means not asking about something as normal as lunch...
Check the prices for example on Hezner or some other company which provides dedicated boxes. They are totally different from big cloud. Like 6 cores and 256GB memory for 150€/month (one older server I have there).

Of course these don’t scale dynamically. And you don’t just create copied of the servers. And they don’t have 100 security certifications like Azure/AWS. And no data centers in every jurisdiction.
A lot of comments are debating the important of physical reading versus screen reading. I think that’s actually missing the point.

> “Behind our screens, at work and at home, we have sutured the temporal segments of our days so as to switch our attention from one task or one source of stimulation to another. We cannot but be changed.”

This part rings true for me.

Last summer I read Cal Newport’s “Deep Work” and then “Digital Minimalism,” in which he gets very into this topic of hypermedia and distracted living. It greatly influenced my thinking about how I use my time, and made me more conscious of the need to focus and actually be present with one activity at a time. This has greatly increased my productivity and lowered my stress level, so I highly recommend it.

Newport argues that a lot of what is “wrong” with today’s computers (in every form factor) is the very thing that makes them so useful: they can do so many things. So unlike a paper book, which is really only for reading, a screen is for displaying all kinds of things, and if we are reading on a screen with notifications turned on then we’re probably reading distracted which means we aren’t reading well.

I read almost exclusively on my iPad or phone. I find it quite comfortable to sit on the couch and read from either device, but I prefer the iPad (mini). When I occasionally still read a paper book I find the experience is really no better or worse than reading on the iPad, except that the iPad has hundreds of books stored in the space and weight of a single magazine.

However, I do think one reason the experience is qualitatively equivalent it is I don’t do a whole lot else on my iPad, so I don’t find it to be a distracting device. I associate it with reading.

Another relevant book on this topic, “Moonwalking with Einstein,” is all about memory. That book essentially makes the case that (educated) people in the pre-internet era had to hold a lot of material in their heads, because you couldn’t google stuff, and so everyone practiced using their memory more, committed more “important,” things to memory, and generally did a better job retaining things they learned.

All of these are interesting, complex side effects of the internet and the ever more ubiquitous computer, and I think there is a lot for us to think about here. On a personal level, we have some opportunity and perhaps obligation to ensure our lives are enriched by these technologies and push back on the negatives that come with them. But just FWIW, I don’t think trying to switch back to only reading on paper is, by itself, the answer :)
Same here. I’m so much more productive whenever I write down my todos on a simple sheet of paper. I have a very elaborated online todo list. But still, paper works more effectively. I have no clue why and it frustrates me
Sweden has 2x the projected per capita death rate of the US from the virus. I think saving 135k lives are a substantial consideration for action.
I use server side only, and that is also what I recommend. If wanted, you can program it to reduce what things are logged if the "DNT:1" header is present (and I do this too).
Interestingly the AI remastered version of that video has quite a few views. https://youtu.be/3RYNThid23g

Might an AI capable of remastering DOS games have a similar affect?
A further thought...

This paragraph in the article says it all:

As a result, the world’s largest funder of mental-health science, the US National Institute of Mental Health, changed the way it funded research.

Like so much in medical research, efforts are governed by what research will be funded, and ideally what will lead to the discovery of a drug or intervention that can generate billions of dollars of revenues. Those researchers who figured this stuff out decades ago don't need to be considered.

Beginning in 2011, it began demanding more studies of the biological basis of disorders, instead of their symptoms, under a programme called the Research Domain Criteria. There has since been an explosion of research into the biological basis of psychopathology, with studies focusing on genetics and neuroanatomy, among other fields.

"Focusing on genetics and neuroanatomy" is the perfect way to miss the forest for the trees.

But if researchers hoped to demystify psychopathology, they still have a long way to go: the key finding has been just how complex psychopathology really is.

Complexity doesn't have be difficult to understand.

Sigh.
I don't think Raft is more clearly specified or presented than Multi-Paxos in, say, "Paxos for System Builders" or "Paxos Made Moderately Complex" or "Paxos Made Practical".
Cannabis, and Ambien? Oh, the horrors.
"Admit you’re passed your prime and move on." sounds like something a junior programmer would say before suggesting something hip but incredibly stupid.

Like reimplementing a distributed multithreaded C++ processing cluster in NodeJS to make the codebase more accessible.

Or like those fashionable people that try to replace a grep shell script with a multi-node ElasticSearch cluster in the cloud, at only 100x the operating costs.

The knowledge that novel does not equal unquestionably good ages extremely well. The "innovator" of today may well be a "debunked hype" by tomorrow.
... it gives me little to no signal whether I can do it, because Linus is a legend while I have in 35 years not shown any signs of being one.
Solaris is different from most scifi in which aliens are presented in largely anthropomorphic terms. They're either humanoids, monsters from our nightmares, or they take on the form of humans or human communication. What they lack is the quality of being truly alien.

The Solaris ocean is utterly alien to the point that the humans are unable to understand and communicate with it, despite it clearly possessing some form of intelligence. The alien isn't a mirror for the human reader. It also presents issues for science, since Solaris can't be understood, implying that science is limited by our being human. And that kind of mind-blowing.
kudos! That "naivité" reminds me of when i stepped out of class after learning how to write an "OS" for the ATmega328 and checking out LFS (Linux From Scratch).

I thought I was a kernel developer for sure!
Inline comments can be written as,

cmd --longopt=val `# opt does foo with val` arg

instead, which I find more readable.
The saturn 5 model is not lego-city/minifig scale.
> Even when compared with other cloud providers, AWS is super expensive.

Well this is not true. I don't think Azure is much cheaper in that regard. In reality, the big clouds are watching each other very closely. Do you have data other than anecdote evidence?

Also if you are big enough, you can negotiate better deal with AWS separately, and I believe that is the norm.

Disclaimer: I worked at AWS before.
US government turned down offer to manufacture millions of N95 masks in America
There is a clone in development: https://github.com/wtimme/OSM-Completionist
Wikipedia has he moved to Canada June 1989 and Musk entered Queen's University in 1989. So the banking must have been brief. He then studied physics, worked in tech and made his first money in Zip2, "a web software company".
Yes, the drop shadows introduced in Win98 (IIRC) really helped readability of filenames on top of desktop wallpapers. It was a much nicer method than just backgrounding the text with a fixed colour like Win95 did.
My issue is mostly with the raster graphics themselves that companies used to try and enhance their sites, rather than the layout or typography of the sites, which is pretty easy to explain away due to the technical limitations of the time.
Just lots and lots of head-scratchers from otherwise competent organizations.
Can the effect of capturing and sending more enegry to Earth from space (than Sun does now) be compared to global warming effects from currently burning fossils?
You can use Emacs just for org mode even if you use vscode for coding.
Yanking another projects name is more than just 'inspiration'. I would consider it a very hostile action.
That’s whataboutism though.

It beats doing nothing at all, and using some of the things you cite (oil, made in China) is close to impossible to avoid (for now at least), but that doesn’t preclude anyone from saying they disapprove of Tesla and won’t buy one of their car because of what they think of the ceo. Especially when the ceo is the brand.
spot on.
also the lack of bars and clubs forces people to be more with themselves. seems to be pretty hard for some folks.

i personally enjoy this period and wouldn't mind if the lockdown stays up for a few more months/years lol
This assessment completely omits an important source of impulse -- the kid driven by imagination. This has to be scaled up too!

I've been locating some of our Lego models at home in places that defy traditional notions of gravity, can only guess what was the intended target of our little Commander at launch.

So the base assumption should be that the tanks are filled with Magic, and the main stage houses a warp-core. The destination is indeed Deep Space! (Picard to the Bridge)
You can be sure Tesla was as cautious developing Autopilot as they are resuming production during the lockdown.
I said that it is more deadly in many places, and you're talking about a single place (NYC). Let me remind you that it's not actually the centre of the world.

And I think you're reading a bit too much into my post. I don't think I'm a conspiracy theorist or whatever (and may I suggest you take your condescending tone and shove it deep down where the Coronavirus won't reach it?)

Now, I'm actually following the advice of scientists. I'm not more an "expert" than you are an "expert", of course, that is correct. I'm French, and our foremost (actual) expert on the issue, Professor Didier Raoult, whose advice I'm listening to, has been saying that it's just another respiratory disease epidemic, like we have regularly. He's not advising to do nothing; quite the opposite, for many years he's been asking the government to do more to fight seasonal flu. Now, the irony is that he finds himself in the camp of people urging the government to calm down a bit...

As for my evidence regarding morgues:

One (French) article from 2017:
http://www.leparisien.fr/archives/une-grippe-meurtriere-13-0...

"FACT OF THE DAY. The number of deaths largely exceeds the seasonal average. Like emergency rooms, funeral services are overflowing"

This happens every other winter here, and it's generally worse in Italy due to their older population. It's bad, we need to manage those epidemics, but not start shooting a catastrophe movie every time that happens.
It hasn't even been necessary to break the encryption. Police can just run Freenet nodes, which serve child porn, and then log IPs of peers that download chunks of those files. While it's true that Freenet does a good job of obscuring data routing, arguably providing plausible deniability, it's in practice nontrivial to convince juries of that.
Better get a Diesel from a respected vendor then. They’ve not done anything questionable for the past 2-3 years. ;-)
Yes, play by post most certainly is still a thing. Most RPG forums (e.g. https://forum.rpg.net/) have a play by post subforum, and https://rpol.net/ is a forum dedicated to play by post.
Agreed. I still remember best when I take notes on paper. (I was a voracious reader as a kid, still read a lot now). I bring notebooks to meetings and write notes. It helps my recall immensely. I've tried so many other todo and note apps it isn't funny. None of them really worked as well as me keeping lists on paper of things to do: A list of what I want to accomplish today, a list of key things I need to do, and a big sparkfile (half on computer, half on paper) of things I want to remember.
Could someone a little more familiar with buying their own hardware tell me how much hardware equivalent to a c5.12xlarge (48 cores, 96 GB) would cost?

Spot prices are around $0.80/hr, which puts total compute cost at $7k/yr.

On demand is $2.04/hr ($17k/yr), reserved is 1.20/hr ($10k/yr).
Interesting suggestion.

Lasers themselves would likely be inefficient. An LED emitting at a speficic frequency tuned to the H-O bond strength ... might ... work. First question is: what is that frequency, if it exists at all?
Not true (unfortunately). Transfer within an AZ is free, but go outside that and the pricing is a minefield:

https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1172239124251709449?s=1...
> successful companies

How's the Boring Company? Hyperloop? Funny thing is ~all of his companies involve heavy government subsidies.
Covid-19 vaccine: approved for phase 2 by FDA on May 7
Looking at the screenshots and the CSS in question, and presuming that before it just wasn’t specifying fonts at all, I prefer the “before” result if I’m the consumer, mostly because I like the fonts I set in my browser, and consider Inter and Incosolata a slight regression. Also most of the other styles I disagree with; capping the width and reducing the line-height for headings is about all I actually agree with in there.

But really I think that if this is all you want to change with org-mode HTML output, it must export pretty decent HTML. (I’m not familiar with it.)

(Analysis of the things I particularly don’t like: 1.6 is too large a line-height; I prefer #000 to #444, though I’d settle for #222; image should use max-width instead of width, and have height: auto added, and what’s with the 700px instead of 900px, especially if you’re not going to block and centre it?; border-radius on images seems a bad idea; I dislike gratuitous fiddling with ::selection colours—only touch it if you have actual brand colours that you’re making it align with, like https://wesbos.com/, and be cautious even in that, as is demonstrated in the .highlight on that page which thwarts selection styling.)
Yet for more time stories were essentially oral and the oral tradition of being read to while working, and of reading aloud to one another kept knowledge alive for many people. Oral story telling and reading aloud presumes high literacy when a shared activity
I made an ECS in JS and have been using it for some time. It's not particularly designed for the kind of rollback you're talking about, but you might find it useful as a comparison:

https://github.com/andyhall/ent-comp

In mine I store each entity's state for a given component as an object (e.g. `{ mass:1, velocity:[0,0,0] }`, so the internal storage of the ECS for a given component is an array of such objects. To really optimize for the "cache and rollback" kind of behavior you're talking about I guess it would be ideal for the internal storage to be flat arrays of numbers, but at first blush it seems like that would make the implementation of the ECS itself kind of hairy.
I think he would count innovation in finance as innovation but really 95%+ of people in finance are not doing that.
Unless you're talking about cohabitants? Seems to me
that excessive contact would ruin the strongest
relationships even faster than no contact would.

Yeah. Depends on living situation, really, right?

Folks cohabitating in cramped living conditions 24/7, particularly in the city where they can't just easily go outside and enjoy some fresh air and open space? Yikes. I mean, even in prison they give ya outdoor time and you get to mingle in the yard.

At the opposite end of the spectrum you have people living out in the country or the suburbs in houses with multiple rooms. My partner and I fall into this category. We each have our own work spaces and outside of work hours we can spend time together or we have plenty of space in which to avoid each other. Plus we can go for walks and get fresh air and some minimal social interaction with neighbors and fellow dog walkers from a safe distance. I call this "social distancing on easy mode." Our relationship is doing okay.
Leading economists: Green coronavirus recovery also better for economy
You're talking about whether companies should reopen. The parent was talking about whether

> There's hundreds of thousands, probably millions of businesses that have been shuttered by COVID-19, and yet, of course, who should it be but the constant media circus that is Tesla--whose hit is miniscule compared to the restaurants, hotels and other businesses that actually can't earn revenue--that decides to publicly take it to the courts.

is a fair complaint. It's clearly not. It's basically the Starving African Children argument. Throwing bad arguments around (even to support a good cause) is not conducive to quality discussion, and your criticism (via emphasizing how good the cause is, with an attack on Tesla thrown in, neither of which is pertinent) of someone pointing this out doesn't help.

I think it's important to argue precisely on Internet forums where our discussions don't directly translate into policy decisions and this is the hill I will die on.
I get the feeling you're reading this too literally. I think eyelidlessness is talking about using a technique that is analogous or similar to that of a virtual DOM. Nobody is talking about an actual DOM.
Godot is really good. Loving the games that have been created with it so far.