skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with the colloquial 'conspiracy' (as opposed to the standard legal definition of people working together towards a generally nefarious goal), is that they are impossible to disprove, for the most part. Evidence to the contrary is disregarded, and the lack of supporting evidence is used as additional evidence ('the real evidence is being hidden by those in power').

What I see in these documents, and based on responses, is that the case is strong. I do see that it is from states that disagree with me philosophically and politically. This information is irrelevant and is categorization error and outgroup bias; the same things that I would request my current political opposition to give up, without success.

If we all suffer from these cognitive illusions and refuse to abandon them, then we cannot grow as a society or a people; we can never have a shared understanding because the experiences I am basing decisions on are not a real.

Discussing a "Vast right-wing conspiracy against Google" might be falsifiable with perfect information, but what percentage of 'right wing' conspirators must there be before it is determined true? How many 'right-wing' members - of which there are at least 74M - would I have to poll to find out if the conspiracy is vast?

I don't deny that we are in an [mis]information war, but the boundaries of that are much better known and are often discussed by security experts.
I mean, kind of, but the style of quoting at the head of your comments is typically used on this site to address specific points as part of a back-and-forth, not just "I'm introducing my own thoughts to this discussion, divorced from the course of conversation this has followed so far." You don't need to quote the comment you're replying to because your reply hangs off my comment already.

If you had posted your comment without that header I would not have immediately thought you were part of the conversation, and instead taken the comment as an aside and not a direct reply.
Thanks! I might have to install SideQuest just for this.
But if they are doing that, then why do they need to use the Mac Hypervisor Framework to setup the VM? That wouldn't be required if you were using qemu, would it?

(How you mention it would be the simplest possible thing that would work)
I think that banning Diesel propulsion for cabs is a great idea; first, cabs have high usage and big impact, second they are replaced faster than regular cars so the negative financial impact is minimal, they just buy electric for the next iteration and keep using electric.
The Ford Transit Connect is an awesome, just slightly larger version of that if you want to be a bit smaller than a full-sized van or a Metris.
I don't think that there's a TCG backend for all of the architectures in the frontend. So it's probably not quite any-on-any.
I guess I consider it DIY as it is combining the Bike, Tablet, and Sensor together instead of buying an all in 1 package that restricts you to a specific service.
As a VIM user I completely understand the sentiment of just having the machine do what you want it to do without having to engage the brain. Thank you for the recommendation.
I believe that the idea is that if the ad is amp, you can be sure it will load fast and not impede the ux of the page, whereas if it's html/js, you can't. It isn't about whether it is cached or not.
When I say mobility, I'm referring to mobility within the game. Within a non-VR shooter I can, in one continuous motion, run into and knockdown a guard, shoot his friend, jump through a window, run across a room, leap over a crate, parkour up a wall, grab a rifle, and shoot another flanked enemy.

VR gameplay isn't remotely comparable. Perhaps it's due to VR linking us with our real-life limitations. In real-life, I doubt many untrained people can turn 90 or 180 degrees, raise a rifle, sight in, and fire accurately in a under a second.

I'm not saying there aren't great VR games but VR doesn't appear to add new elements to the genres or gameplay beyond "now try this without an accurate mouse/keyboard/controller" or "you can now see a virtual representation of your hands... and use them to awkwardly manipulate the environment".

When you say "Blaston.. (provides).. gameplay that would not be possible in another medium", I think that's what you're referring to.. the awkward manipulation of the environment. Blaston is a very simple 3D game that absolutely could be played without VR but wouldn't be nearly as goofy and fun. Perhaps that's it, perhaps the "akwardly manipulating/traversing the environment" is the unique gameplay that VR adds (similar to Kinect). The human element I guess you could say.

It seems as though the trade-off is a boost in immersion for a simultaneous reduction in game and gameplay complexity.
I've using Vercel since 1.0, when it was called ZEIT now. it's amazing, especially for next.js. It's great to see that a lot of other people agree.
Do you think that working out entirely alone vs. with a trainer is the same thing? Do you think there are some people that would derive a differential benefit by going with one vs. the other?

Do you think that working out entirely alone vs. with a group is the same thing? Do you think there are some people that would derive a differential benefit by going with one vs. the other?

Do you think that emulating being with a group would have value for those that would otherwise value working with a group?

Do you think that anyone who falls into the "works out better with a group and a trainer, or an emulation thereof" must be an idiot? Or do you think that category simply doesn't exist?

From my experience in competitive powerlifting, working out by myself, working out with others, working out with a coach, working out with an app yelling at me, are all very different endeavors, with different outcomes. Maybe I'm just an idiot.
Vijay Pande, the professor they’re interviewing here for commentary, spoke at a guest lecture of mine while I was doing a semester abroad at Stanford in my university years.

I vividly recall how prescient his thought process and research was at the time. And unfortunately, it has always made me somewhat envious at the opportunities of students who study full time at universities in the U.S, especially so in places like Stanford/MIT/Berkeley/etc. Though I suppose, I ended up here in the same place as everyone else regardless, which is what ultimately matters.

I wonder what it would take to build up something like Silicon Valley in my home country, or even just within the EU in general.
>Block producers (miners) must find buyers for the blocks they produce, if they don't find buyers, they go bankrupt.

In a buyers market. With the small block size, bitcoin is a seller's (miner's) market and refusing to upgrade preserves their market power - hence the tragedy of the commons.

>You've got it backwards, changes to Bitcoin need to be accepted by block consumers (node operators).

The number of bitcoin nodes has been dropping for years. The rational actors who are incentivized to support the network are making the decisions right now by choosing which forks to support.
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Actually, I think it's not Preview bug. I use gramarly plugin in safari, and double copy-paste issue is happening there also. It's something more generally broken. I run 11.1
And what's worse is that the most accessible version of "VR", google cardboard (or equivalents) is actually a terrible representation of VR. So people will try that, dismiss VR as a gimmick, and not revisit it again.

A proper VR rig is likely going to cost you >$2000, and it's going to need a dedicated room of your house. It's really inaccessible.

But man when it works... Playing skyrim, or fallout in my vive was such a pleasant experience for me.
The scientific method enables us to rigorously build models.

But it takes effort, so the model only expands in the directions where a person chooses to the do that work.
Scientific models are a communal human artefact, flawed with the bias and inattention of those that built them.

The is a lot we know about the world, from history, from our experience, that we are not able to express with
enough rigor to include them in a scientific model.

So we can be confident that our scientific understanding of any new compound, will not gives us a complete understanding of the impact of that compound in the world. From history we have a partial map of our ignorance. We know from past experience that there are realms of unknown - ecological effects, decomposition products, birth defects, health impacts - associated with new products. We know there is a very big difference between safe and no known adverse impacts

Rather than an alternative to science, we need a more vigorous meta model, better appreciation of where the model ends, and a better model for how we should act given our ignorance. I don't think we lack the ability to do this, it's a matter of will and power.
Building Sailscasts
I am building a platform to teach fullstack JavaScript with the Sails framework through practical quality screencasts focusing on what a creator will need to know to build out their ideas using the Sails framework. The platform is still in the works and the debut date is set for March 17, 2021.

We do however have the blog running on https://blog.sailscasts.com
At least it was not a ‘life hack.’
... and what are the potential consequences for google? I slap on the wrist and a fine that is 0.01% of the amount of profit they made from all this?
I tried to use different kinds of app, joplin, onenote, simplenote, etc, even physical notebooks, nothing sticks.

But this idea of a single text file is interesting, I'll give it a try. Thanks for sharing
> life begins at 40

Can confirm!

But not in the way people usually think, being younger is awesome while being 40 is not as much.

But I am completely self aware and don't think anymore that I am missing something like I did before.

It doesn't really has to do with 40 as a number, it has to do with the moment one starts accepting himself and lives life the way it was supposed to be lived.

Of course things change with age, but as someone that still is a night owl and still sleeps like a baby and can't easily wake up early in the morning, there is also the fact that you get treated like an adult with their own personality and accepted for that (or not accepted but you learned to not care that much and to move on)

Daily activities are boring compared to what I did not long ago, but they are also more fulfilling and I spend most of my time with people I've been knowing for a long time, that I trust and love and that I can count on.

So, if you ask me, middle life crisis was worse at 30 than at 40.

When I'll be 50 I'll know more, but until now everything has been better in terms of accepting those things that would depress me or make me angry 10 years ago.
I've yet to be sold on tabs. I sometimes modify the user chrome to hide the tab bar - although it is problematic.

Currently, I have the hn comments in one window, and the article in another window, and hn front page in another window on a "smaller" 2K monitor. Customized for compact density, os tab bar moved to the right, menu bar off (the default) and still the 30 links on the hn front page don't fit on the page. Why can't the tab bar be hidden when there is only one tab? I don't need to see a tab with a truncated title that already appears in the title bar. I guess I am supposed to hide the title bar, and learn to love a Lotus Notes era "Tab" interface. In my opinion, tabs are not cool.
In addition, the CPU settings to have the high performance cores do TSO memory management are not supported under the hyper visor/virtualization layers.
Thank you. My query was not only to you but also to the HN crowd in general, and a few people have answered back. It is interesting seeing the different use cases. Thank you.
Out of curiosity: why do you ride without a helmet?
It's fashionable to criticize (correctly) the current administration but let's not absolve stuff-that-isn't-that-administration like the WHO https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-masks-r... (reversed in June)

The CDC has more an ambiguous relationship but they came out against masks in Feb and reversed course somewhat in April. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/05/22/mask-w...!

I would take a step back from partisan politics for this issue, something people have a very tough time with even in the best of times. We should criticize all institutions when they're wrong on questions of public health.
Askii: TUI based ASCII diagram editor
VR Headsets comparison table:

"VR System Guide Summer 2020! Updated with Reverb G2, and all recent info. By Evanlyboy"

https://imgur.com/a/QVbyeA1

https://old.reddit.com/r/SteamVR/comments/hzkl36/vr_system_g...
I sort of consider it two different types of workouts. Trainers for sure are great if you are comfortable putting it on and off. For me this was an at home spin bike with a nice heavy flywheel for resistance. You can totally accomplish a lot of it with a trainer, but they can range in price, sometimes much more than just a indoor cycling bike like I put together.

You also put additional miles on your bike with a trainer. Kind of depends on what you are looking for. Totally viable.
Moving a server from Ubuntu to Debian doesn't seem a very arduous task? I've got a box in a rack that came from the factory with Ubuntu installed, but there are Debian addresses in /etc/apt/sources.list.d

Besides isn't that pretty much the exemplar of FUD?
> Signal isn't just more convenient; it's also more secure than your PGP encrypted emails. https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypted....

since when does Signal support emails? Sorry but a chat application is no replacement for async messaging.

> * Anyone who replies to your email unencrypted (which is the default way to reply, because email is insecure by default) will leak not just their own message but your encrypted message as well

This is major bullshit as they would have to know how to setup encryption to be able to decrypt your message in the first place, and all email clients I know will default to making the reply encrypted if the first message was encrypted in the first place.

> Every archived message will eventually leak

Even if that were remotely true, and it's not, the point is that you are able to TRANSMIT it over email in a safe way regardless of which provider you use. Archiving is besides the point.
Ask HN: Can the Apple M1 Be Compared to the Sony EE?
Maybe it's oversimplifying, but is is there any valid comparison to make from a conceptual standpoint? One of the distinguishing features people have highlighted with the M1 is a 128-bit wide bus, much as the Sony/Toshiba Emotion Engine has (though it appears to have 128-bit wide registers, while the M1's are 64 bits wide), as well as custom supporting hardware (the M1's Neural Engine and image signal processor, as opposed to the EE's two vector processing units and hardware MPEG-2 decoder). Can someone who understands more about processor hardware provide some input?
I used i3 for about a year. Tiling wasn't for me. But what was for me where the docs.

The docs for i3 are great. The read well linearly as you are learning the ropes, but were also very searchable once you mostly knew what you were doing.
I read that article, and it doesn't seem like some grand revelation. It even explains in the article that people with Down's syndrome are more susceptible to respiratory viruses

What would be vastly more interesting is if someone, somewhere with some medical expertise was wondering why people with Down's Syndrome are, in fact, dying at high rates while people with Cystic Fibrosis -- another genetic disorder and infamous for killing people at young ages via respiratory infection -- are not:

Does cystic fibrosis constitute an advantage in COVID-19 infection?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7537774/

Edit: And I say it would be vastly more interesting because of the potential to cast light on the pathology of the disease and thereby cast light on how to treat it effectively.
I guess it also depends on what openings you play as black. For Caro-Kann or French defense you probably only need to know some good spots for the pieces and some typical plans, but if your reply for 1.e4 is e5 (which seems to be the most popular response among beginners), then you'd better be prepared for King's and Danish gambit, Italian or Two knights defense and so on, because in all of these openings it's easy to get mated in 20 moves while making only seemingly logical moves or get into a situation when you have to find the only defensive moves, while your opponent just throws pieces at you and keep making new threats.
Genetically there is. There is something that is genetically human, and is a different individual from either parent.
Nobody mentioned Blue Origin, what do they have to do with Kuiper?
> what they actually said was, we don't recommend masks for the public

There is no reasonable explanation except that the misleading statements were intentional - there's no way they didn't notice how their statements were received. And infamously the US Surgeon General made a pretty clear statement with his "Don't buy masks" tweet.

> I was confused, since N95s come in two sizes, regular and "small."

As I understand it, if neither passes the fit test, you need a different brand or can't do work that requires one.
Using state is not functional programming, so you're really saying that functional programming is all about being mindful when to use functional programming versus when to abandon functional programming.
Firefox must obviously be the core product, the one that people know, love and trust and can easily use - although this doesn't mean that Mozilla can't try other projects as well, maybe with with more constrained resources so projects that don't get enough momentum don't linger for too long.

And the writer has a point when he says that the weight of Firefox has allowed Mozilla to be a heavyweight at the table of the standards of the web.

But there's a point he misses (and he was nearly there when he mentioned Gecko).

What do Chrome, Safari, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, Edge and basically every browser on Android and iOS have in common? That's the web engine - and that's WebKit/Blink, with Chromium usually being the foundation.

That wasn't a big problem when the guys at Google were still pushing for better web standards, but that's no longer the case. Gecko may have a big window to become a really modular engine that any browser can use on any platform, and it could advertise itself like the modular, corporate-free, privacy-aware, fully standard-compliant solution that can power the next generation of browsers out there - or at least be an alternative to the WebKit/Blink/Chromium monopoly. I know that a while ago Mozilla had considered exposing Gecko as a browser-agnostic engine, but at some point for some reason they dropped the plan - and that's quite a shame.
This is ridiculous. When I read that FineReader is not supported on Big Sur, I understand it as I cannot run FineReader to _produce_ PDFs on Big Sur. But I expect Big Sur not to trash PDF files that were produced on Catalina, for example.

By the way, I was forced to purchase PDF Expert since a few years ago because of all kinds of problems with Preview (blurry text, wierd bugs with annotations, removed ability to print PDF with annotations and the list goes on).
I think the parent comment meant -- why not use Rosetta to run an x86 qemu process? Then the architecture emulation (translation?) would be done by Rosetta (potentially faster), as opposed to software emulation by qemu.

Now, this might not work, as I'm not sure Rosetta covers all of the x86 instructions/settings that qemu would need, so you might be stuck with ARM64 qemu emulating x86 anyway.
> it's also not directly damaging anyone's health

I completely disagree. Have you noticed how much targeted advertising has sold out our world and affected peoples ability to rationally think?
> Andy Ngo

He's already been exposed as a fraud, alt right collaborator, doxxer of innocent victims.
That is beyond hyperbole. These are people implementing a caching feature not individuals leading human being into death camps. A false equivalency seldom matched.
The Pacifica Hybrid is wonderful. We buy very little gasoline (even less this year).
Yep, and in that case it's because those PDFs were often generated through really horrifying pipelines (e.g. TeX to DVI to PS to PDF). Under some workflows, the resulting document wouldn't even contain any characters, as far as PDF was concerned -- it'd just be a bunch of vectors.
>Whoever is responsible for that should be ashamed.

Isn't it the CEO?
Actual full size vans from that era had horrible crash safety records, perhaps they built a bad reputation because of that?
Yeah, I don't consider my post a hack or constructing the bike from scratch at all. That would be super impressive IMHO. I just did a bunch of research, found the lowest minimal requirements in what I was looking for in a spin bike and wrote about it :)
I'm dying for gaming PC parts to become more available to build a new rig. I hacked together my OG Pixel XL to play E:D on my current potato via the Daydream headset and Riftcat and got to enjoy a very pixelated experience for all of 10 min before my phone rebooted so it wouldn't melt. It was still night and day.

How are both those games with the Quest 2? Those two are my primary interested for VR but I worry about the resolution, frame rate, and controls with my motion sickness.
These are good starts, yes.
How common is this? Aside from the initial news that this happened I haven't heard much. Any studies looking at a larger scale?

Friend of mine got COVID, the health department told him he could get reinfected and to continue taking percautions. He was sick enough with it that he's taking the threat of reinfection seriously.
Yeah, Opera 12 is probably better than today's Firefox...
It's not really surprising that a project that companies use since they don't want to pay RedHat licenses will not get any money at all...
I just finished reading “Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear” by Elizabeth Gilbert (of Eat, Pray, Love fame) and she brought up a related and interesting idea I can paraphrase:

In midlife we’re concerned with status and our outward appearance, which can hinder creative output. Then we get older and realize that we don’t care what anyone thinks about us, which can lead to more creative risk taking and accomplishments. Then we get even older and we find the truth: nobody is thinking about you (except you) so it’s not worth concerning yourself with status or outside validation.

In the midst of my own midlife crisis in the making I often find myself coming back to these types of concerns: How do I look to others? How do I compare to others? What am I missing out on?

Thankfully I’ve been able to, so far at least, keep any real crisis similar to what’s described in the article or otherwise from occurring. I try to remind myself of what Gilbert explained, that no one really cares about me so I should live my life without worrying to much about what they think.

I read a lot of books about creativity and most aren’t great, but I think “Big Magic” is a decent read. I also enjoyed the audiobook of “Creative Quest” by Questlove.
You may find Neos very interesting. It's an online metaverse with a turing-complete scripting language called Logix built-in. Here are some demos:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWbm9AzgDxw

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqI_j6pDdjg (start here if you're a developer)

3. https://youtu.be/STZN6qTGRbQ

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XafA4WeppxM
I think they are awe full for right to repair, but, really pretty good at protecting their customers’ privacy.