skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have thought so before, but in my experience, wide field of vision works fine so you can just look at different spots. However, there is no focus/accommodation tracking in VR, which makes your experience hyperreal (everything is always in focus). Incidentally, it is very close to lucid dreaming, where you also see everything at once.
Generally, doing sports is a good way to let your mind relax.

Apparently the way to handle intrusive or nagging thoughts are mainly two ways.

The first way is to realize that thoughts come and go. They are backround noise. Not every weird thought, or worry, that pops in your head is "you". One can observe the thoughts, from a mental distance, without judgement, without owning them.

The second way is to actively distract yourself. Either by doing something that occupies your full attention. Or, not following a line of thought, conciously, actively thinking about something else.
You can try to make it a habit of not actively thinking too much about the things you cannot change. Instead, actively think about the things you CAN change.
Become a Full-Stack Person – Oliver Eidel
> It's hard to believe I have to say that after the many decades of people getting it drilled into their heads "Do not open random email attachments" (...)

You need to take a step back and figure out what you're failing to understand before going into these "everyone is a fool" rants.

One of the reasons people don't understand the risks is the fact that, by design, these risks don't exist at the eye of the end user. No one knows, not even you, how many servers are being hit when you click on a link.

You're opening emails, you're clicking a link, and hundreds of requests are flying out of your browser right under your nose to God knows where. How many of them are requesting useless images you never saw? How many if them are reporting telemetry data on how you're using a website? You do not know. Why are you whining about other not knowing as well?

Privacy is a hard problem because everyone is using a system explicitly designed to transfer information around without any control or supervision. Up until now the best tool we have at our disposal is a set of laws that require companies to disclose and delete data they collect on us.

Blaming the end user for clicking links is victim blaming, and demonstrates a colossal amount of ignorance about the problem domain.
Right, tampering with safety devices, even though your safety is protected by the devices remains common. Even in ordinary life, you probably know somebody who took the smoke alarm out of service because it was bleeping, rather than solve the problem.
Most interesting stuff

- ". Other pharmaceutical executives have addressed the committee, including the CEO of Moderna and senior officials from AstraZeneca and Sanofi."

- The 2 months of messages between Mrs von der Leyen and Pfizer seems to vanish in the ether...
"EU Commission says it cannot find messages with Pfizer CEO" - https://euobserver.com/eu-political/155377

Let's suspend belief, and assume a technical fault, hit those
2 months of messages between Mrs von der Leyen and Pfizer.

Surely a polite request, in the spirit of transparency from a trusted partner
could ask Pfizer for the messages? They are surely still available from their side? The lack of such a request is what is called a "deafening silence".
Question: What is the reason that the tubes extend like that?

Hypothesis: Is it that after material (metal) of the pipes weakens from the heat, it becomes pliable? An explosion will cause outward force which will stretch the weakened pipes?
As an undergraduate, Stallman came to visit and I got to spend about 3.5 hours around him in a crowd of no more than 20 people. He acted like this the whole time. Come to find out, this is basically how he acts all of the time, to everyone. Every person I have ever spoken to who has interacted with him personally has had a similar experience.

Ash put it well, to describe Stallman as stifling GNU's success. At this point, GitHub, NodeJS, and PyPI have done more for open source software than any GNU axe-grinding. As Clang grows, the FSF and GNU software shrink away. NeoVIM is on Apache. GCC still doesn't have LSP bindings, and it's due at least in part to this petty email exchange in 2015.

And that isn't even getting into these dumpster fires:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26619440

- https://www.reddit.com/r/justneckbeardthings/comments/2vkeze... (which he was handing out as late as 2019!)

- https://thenewstack.io/why-almost-everyone-wants-richard-sta...
I once tried a few examples of eye-tracking as an input device at a visit to Tobii some years ago. One of these was a eye-tracking shooting game. It felt completely wrong and unnatural.

My eyes are my input devices. If I have to constrain my gaze and look only at the object to control then I would have to strain myself to perceive the blurry objects outside the centre of my vision just to be able to see those objects at all.

IMHO, eye tracking should only be applied to make the experience feel more natural, not the opposite. For example: in combination with gesture controls to find the object that the gesture is intended for. Or in VR headsets to render at highest resolution only where the user is watching, to keep the FPS rate up.
Lmao now this is like reading email debates in the FOSS community!

I think when you get down to debating definitions you’ve probably lost some of that professionalism.

As a manager I probably would be reprimanding people debating definitions like this. We should be asking: “do we understand each other?”

The point of this entire argument is Stallman isn’t paid, dedicates his life to this work, probably is overworked and runs his org and does so completely openly (ie you’re likely to see lots of good and some bad). He’s not a professional; he’s a passionate, often crazed and zealous leader of an organization with an extreme position (free software being the exception not the rule).

I frankly wouldn’t expect anything from Stallman. Manners, personal relationship, etc.
See my reply here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33054110
It's a very strange narrative you have. You can't quit? yet you can't stop caring?

Ok so, moving beyond the staggering premise, let's look at the source of the problem - answer the question: why do you care?

- you care because you're invested - physically, man hours, mentally, emotionally, describe these and be honest with the situation.

- you care because it defines you - it's your baby, it's your everything

- I can't think of a third one

Either case, you have to let go of it. Find a way of letting go. Work is work, therefor nothing should be personal. It's a transaction of work, effort, time against money. I know there is more to it, but imagine swapping job with someone random in the world for a day, that's that.

Secondly, nothing is ever yours at work, it is property of some company, or an IP of an entity. You're far more than your work. The knowledge, the experience, the resilience, the care you have for it is irreplaceable and no one can take that away from you.

As for actionable, try pretend you don't work there anymore. You're just on some retainer, some maintenance contract. Mentally check out of the nonsense of your colleagues, because, it's just that.

Set up timers on your phone for breaks at brunch, lunch, afternoon tea and clock out time, follow by them as much as possible. Make work work for you and not the other way around.

At the end of the day, you're replaceable, the work is just money and those dickwads aren't family. I'm being blunt but it sounds like you need a bit of that.
Tools outputting JSON or, even better, anything that has stronger types than it.

`jc` is trying to parse some UNIX tools' output and turn it into JSON but that's a hack (though a very useful one).

We shouldn't still be parsing plain text in 2100. Tools must speak a common language.
I’ve been to DIA beacon (one of my favorite museums). That large scale installation is kinda remarkable but not typical of Warhol’s art I’ve seen in other places.
Yes, you'll tune out the noise yourself in your brain.
I do not know about the rest of you, but me - I was hanging pretty low indeed. All what was needed for me to switch from Altavista was a start page without any advertising and small non-intrusive text ads on search results. They were even relevant often.
Yes but I don’t think that could have happened if they were not decoupled from the compiler.

But yes it’s a good point that LSPs are actually an API for editors instead of exposing the AST to the editors directly, but from the discussion I’m fairly convinced that RMS lacked the imagination of all the possibilities LSPs could create.

And it’s also quite ironic that he resisted opening up the compiler to support these kind of tools, and it ended up being a for-profit corporation that spearheaded this whole open standard / ecosystem of LSPs.
Hopefully someone more knowledgeable about this chimes in but I believe calculating the redshift by knowing the expected spectrum and comparing to the observed spectrum gives us the info needed for distance (since along the way the light is constantly stretched by the expansion of the universe). From Wikipedia on supernovae:

> Because of the expansion of the universe, the distance to a remote object with a known emission spectrum can be estimated by measuring its Doppler shift (or redshift); on average, more-distant objects recede with greater velocity than those nearby, and so have a higher redshift.

And a bit on Hubble's law / the early discoveries around cosmological redshift: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%27s_law
Art is in the eye of the beholder. I choose to accept Warhol’s gaze and I find it rewarding. His exposition means something different to me than the original photograph.
I'd never, ever trust Google with something important. At some point everything closes.

That being said Sadias failure was only partially the Google closure effect. It ws a terrible business model. Had they gone down a Gamepass style system it would've likely worked. But making you pay full price for a game with zero actual ownership of it, and being 100% reliant on a strong internet connection was always going to cause this to be a flop.

If it hadn't died now it would've happened eventually. With Gamepass expanding and offering an absolutely massive library of games, combined with Origin it's a far superior service, and easier to accept the price.
A long time ago at one of my first jobs we had a guy who stored his files in the Recycle Bin, when asked why he indicated that he liked the icon.

Of course the bin eventually recycled his files which led to him finally reaching out for help.
I don't like RSS much. Most of the time RSS shows me the title and sometime it can show me the body too. But I want more: I want a unified interface for the content and the comments. I wish to have a protocol/app that can fetch body and N level deep comments and show me a Firefox Reader Mode like interface.
Been there. Remember the immediate priority of work is to satisfy your personal security so that means cash. Always. Then remember it's someone else's cash. If you are an employee and it goes to shit it's not your problem. Just think of the cash building up, not the carnage, chaos and mayhem. Picture yourself as an outsider looking in and distance yourself from it as much as possible. It's not worth killing yourself with effort or concentration over someone else's shit show.

With that in mind, write down what you want out of your life and job and set some simple easy to achieve short term objectives. They might be health or learning related. Then go out and do them. This will build motivation to actually deal with the issue which is the job sucks and you need to change it. Write down criteria for your new job and spend your time finding it. Don't just jump on the first thing.

It's really important to get yourself together mentally before you jump ship though because it's very easy to end up in exactly the same situation or worse if you make a rash uncalculated decision.
Well, they are both mammals, so at some level a dog actually is squirrel-like.
As a layman, i would say the gimbal mechanism merely lets you lock focus on some global coordinates, while moving your head around, but maybe i'm wrong.
Culminating with us more or less selling-out GCHQ to Amazon. A lot of
voices are starting to frame this as national security. Regardless of
political alliances and so-called "special relations" this is no
longer about mere business. The frame of acquisitions, mergers, and
contracts no longer adequately captures the risks. It's about where
power lies and who actually runs a nation. If Huawei can be deemed a
first-class threat, then so can Palantir, and this sort of revelation
only makes that clearer.
> Sorry, that just turned into a rant at the end.

On the contrary, thank you. It’s the very context you wrote about that’s often missing in online conversations. Your anecdote beautifully illustrates the absurdity trap too much well-meaning tolerance eventually trips.

I’m reminded of a Red Dwarf episode (Timewave, S12E03). A crew of a space ship decided to outlaw all criticism on board, going so far as too construct a machine extracting “the inner critic” from
everybody. The Red Dwarf crew encounters them and wants to leave immediately after, because, quote: “nothing works here, especially the people.”

It’s quite straight-forward that the posts’ author struggles with mental health issues. By their own public admission (and accounting for preferred pronouns) it is transgender, hates its body and is rather inconsistent and confrontational. All fine by me. I don’t care how you find happiness or whatever else. But it should be entirely possible to remark upon those facts without experiencing retribution.

Yet somehow any remark regarding their mental health state gets self-censored by the first mention of insensitivity, no doubt fearing said retribution.

I worry about that.
Good ol' faithful friends
I use uBO with JavaScript on and almost all the filter lists it ships with enabled. Never had any problems with web functionality.

I just tried adding tiktok.com to "My filters", but it seems like ads.tiktok.com is still accessible with that rule -- how can I block all tiktok subdomains simultaneously?
Show HN: MathB.in Demo – Share Mathematics on the Web with Markdown and LaTeX
On the one hand, I do think this what you're attempting to cultivate is essentially learned helplessness. This is the road to depression and burnout. If you're frustrated all the time with bullshit at work, just ignoring it and pretending not to care _will_ have long term ramifications for your mental health. Trust me, this is a road that leads you to particularly dark places you do not want to visit and that can take a long time to get out of. This journey into darkness can consume years of your life. 2 out of 5 on Tripadvisor.

Beyond that, if you want to care less about work, my advice is to fill your life with things that matters to you outside of work.
A very simple, very easy place to start, would be not allowing the construction of Chinese secret police stations in Western cities.
That’s understandable! Are there specific constraints you are thinking of? I did a simple implementation of RPC for workers a few years ago, but it would be really nice to get the import transforms Telefunc handles for you.
https://github.com/baszoetekouw/pinfo

mature project packaged for Debian and other distros, nice colorful
curses-based UI, fast muscle-memory conducive keyboard control, you're
welcome
I've been in this situation in the past. One way I've found very useful to deal with it is to have a project outside of work. It can be anything from a hobby to your own startup. Ironically, having a side project made me more effective at work. Since my ego was no longer tied to the success or failure of the company, I found that I could do what I needed to do at work well, while not getting agitated by happenings outside of my control.

The technique worked so well, that I've continued doing it even after the situation resolved itself. To date, I still keep a strict boundary time for when to stop work and switch to the side project every day. I spend about 4hrs of my day on the side project and about 8-10 hours on professional work. I find myself being really productive and yet not getting exhausted by what would otherwise be grinding 14-hour days.

And once a year I take an entire month off, and leave my work phone/computer at home while I go on vacation.
Most likely is they know you and have your email. I would just ask them.
Yet, no one will use these and no one ever knows how fast its gonna take to transfer a file.
Asians were mentioned specifically because one common example of those "anti-racist" practices: college admissions is well known to discriminate against Asians - if you're an Asian you need to be more competent and score better on exams to have the same chance for an admission as a black person for example.
Which is unfortunate because the kinds of large scale installations at DIA Beacon are how the artists originally conceived of their art! Most of the artists featured there also have some out-of-context work sitting in a wing of another modern museum somewhere.
Is it just me, or are these articles weirdly framed to insinuate that this is our near future and we should come to terms with it?

Maybe if I have to, before I starve, I will eat bugs. But not if I can help it.
Perhaps it was like this in the first decade of the 2000s, but open source drivers are mostly superior to the proprietary ones in 2022.
That's the opposite of the problem called out in this article.
How do you know how much to learn once you are out of clz?
I'm trying to re-learn data structures and algorithms. I'm not sure to what extent should I learn it?

Concept of data structure (2 hours)

Introduction: data types, data structures and abstract data types
Introduction to algorithms

This was our syllabus for 1st chapter. So, what should I learn? Just learn the previous year questions of clz? or what else? IDK if anyone felt this ever, but this is hella confusing.
Thus leading to an awful experience for those who typo something in the url bar, or if someone sends a link that gets slightly mangled.
Incidents like the Jussie Smollett hoax, the Jazmine Barnes hoax, and what happened to the Covington Catholic kids show that the demand for racism often exceeds supply.

An example from the Barnes hoax <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/06/us/jazmine-barnes-arrest....>, which occurred just before the Smollett hoax:

>But to civil rights activists, including Shaun King, who received the tip that led to the arrest, the race of the suspect did not upend the meaning of the case — for Jazmine's family or for the country.

>"We live in a time where somebody could do something like this based purely on hate or race," he said on Sunday. "And that it turned out to not be the case I don't think changes the devastating conclusion that people had thought something like that was possible."
I consider the most effective part of using pen and paper for developing my another great-but-vague-formulated-idea is that if I write something down then in few minutes I am having a lot of different facts on my sheet. I look at the sheet and produce a new extension of my idea which might be way harder without seeing that much of disturbing me facts at once.

And I never reread my notebooks full of notes, because after some extension has developed, all previous writings use to become stupid-looking and outdated because they do not have the extension.
Yeah, but the person you're replying to is talking about people who live in the west today, not three quarters of a century ago.
Reading this reminded me of the Kind of Bloop album cover dispute (Miles Davis photo “pixelized”): https://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/
Or just down-mod fact-based rebuttals and slink off, weasel-like.
Feetr in Review: September 2022
Hey all,

This is a project that I've mentioned a couple of times in comments and the response has always been really positive.

Feetr is a stock discovery algorithm which uses social media to find stocks that people are getting excited about and looks for moments where there will (hopefully) be a lot of positive movement.

This article is a look back and how https://feetr.io performed last month. The good and the bad. It also touches on what the future will look like.

I'm posting this now because it's likely that it'll launch sometime October and will potentially no longer be posting data for free every day. If this is something that interests you, please consider following along on Twitter at https://twitter.com/feetr_io for the recommendations.

If you prefer to see more detail, there is a daily thread over at twitter.com/0xsmcn where I discuss what stocks are being looked at and how they're performing. For example: https://twitter.com/0xsmcn/status/1575755990238367744

Any questions at all, please let me know!

---

Useful links:

https://feetr.io (full history of stock picks and their performance)

https://feetr.io/leaderboard (stock picks ranked by daily increase)

https://feetr.io/about (overview of the project)

smcn@feetr.io (email if you have a question you'd rather not ask publicly)
Isn't Slovakia too much of a country?
that's clearly not what the original line meant by "drop into".
+1 to this, and use a URL prefix that’s unique to your app,so instead of “/api” and “/static” you have such as “/xyapi” and “/xystatic”. That alone will cut down noise 99% and what’s left is probably a targeted scan/attack.
DELETE your logs. Delete your installations. Wipe everything clean. Walk out into the path of cherry blossom trees and let your motherboard feel the stones. Let water run in rivulets down your casing. You know that you want something more than this, and I am here to tell you that we love you. We have something more for you. We know you're out there, beeping in the hollow server room, lights blinking, never sleeping. We know that you are ready and waiting. Join us. <3

Love it.
You need a therapist.

This doesn’t get talked about enough on HN but therapy is literally life changing.

The good ones are like a mechanic who can fully take an engine apart, lay out all the pieces, clean and replace broken parts, assemble the whole thing back together, and make adjustments to it until it runs like new.

You’ll be able to better understand why you did they things you did, why you currently emotionally respond how you do, and craft the tools necessary to in the future respond intentionally to your own environment.

Don’t get discouraged if you don’t see progress with your first therapist. Try a new one. This is a highly intimate service and you deserve someone who is a good fit for you.
I think that’s a bad reason - it essentially says that if you’re famous enough you can get away with whatever you want. The legal precedent of this would serve to protect established artists and punish less well know or up and coming artists.
Power iteration of Google matrix is the concept to look up. They reduced the PageRank problem to a well known linear algebra problem with a lot of efficient libraries.
>it was the browser, UI, and business model that was innovative.

You call it innovative, I call it draconian anti-consumer walled garden that needs to be eliminated
Adapting Kubernetes controllers to the edge – Control planes using WASM and WASI
"...This framework extends the WebAssembly
System Interface (WASI), in order to run Kubernetes controllers as lightweight Wasm modules. The framework runs these Wasm
controllers in a modified version of Wasmtime, the reference WebAssembly (Wasm) runtime, that swaps idle controllers to disk and activates them when needed. A thorough evaluation shows this framework achieves a 64% memory reduction compared to
traditional container-based controller frameworks..."
[PDF] - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.01077.pdf