skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is not that humans can learn to cope with urban environments, like you suggest - The point is that humans weren't meant to live in them. Everything the parent poster says is true, and you're just saying "Humans can get to a point where it's tolerable." I for one think I should not have a verbal and visual barrage of bullshit hit me with full force everyday, powered by the interests of multinational tech companies or governments. Peace and quiet is something that should be treasured, not lost and then made up for with mental tricks.
Indeed. That ttle broadcasts the message that "I don't meditate and I have no clue what it's about."
> What choice do sites have?

Offer better experiences on their websites and apps, the technology is available but publishers choose to shovel crap in with food and call it beef tenderloin. Now Google is offering something better.

What did you expect Google to do when Apple News Format and Facebook Instant Articles are creeping up? Both offer impressive experiences and this isn't even nearly as impossibly mind-boggling.

AMP is an open standard that any publisher and any search engine can implement and if all search engines get on board then users win so much -- pages load faster, they require much less network bandwidth, they're easier to read. Nobody, absolutely nobody, will have sympathy for publishers after all the bullshit we're being forced to experience both now and historically.
I know, right? This clearly proves I am more special and intelligent and... aw, crap.

In all seriousness though, the constant contrarianness on display here is tiring. Not sure how else to put it.
> and then purging the content such as code, mockups, assets, etc.

Why? I would never destroy anything I'd created like that. Unless you're doing it for some sort of closure, the way people throw things into the ocean in books and movies, I don't see the benefit. On the con side, you never know when you might start it back up, or just have some use for it. More than once I've gone back to a project I hadn't touched in years and either used it again (e.g. a "one-off" utility script), or just copied pieces of it to use in something current.

I think open sourcing something you're done with (that wasn't already open source) is a great idea in general.
Not really as you can't play longer than like 100 turns because your browser will be so overloaded thanks to WebGL...
Between two people, it's just called sexual selection. When I think eugenics, I think of it happening on a more systematic scale like the sterilization of the poor. (http://www.salon.com/2016/01/29/americas_secret_history_of_f...)
Civ1 was the same, you gotta know the basic hot keys A, S, X if you got them down things get a bit easier.
Once about half a month into a retreat, I was staring at blank space in a hut in the middle of the forrest, constantly distracted by fantasies of "a better blank space" - perhaps a nice cave with a walk in, or how I could make a little hut at home and go there every morning. It seems like once I had let go of everything, the mind even had a tendency to want to imagine better blank spaces. lol. The cases of people fantasising about better houses or cars are easy to see, but the fact that I saw it's possible the human mind can do this with blank space means it can do it with anything. :) It's just human nature. Denying things like this can create shadows and so on :)

Saying this though, it's watching the mind. We aren't built to live in the moment, but never the less, something can see this! Something watches all this going on in the mind! What is that? Mostly we make a 'home' in attention and identify as our attention. But whatever was seeing 'me' fantasising about nice little architectural meditation huts in the middle of the forrest, that was indistinguishable from objective reality.
Why do you expect Google provide a good experience in iOS? Heck I can't even connect to my Apple calendar in Android. Does Apple care? Is there a apple mail app for Android? AMP is fine in all browsers except Safari. AMP is great for browsing with 100£ cheap phone when I was in Thailand.
Dark matter theories absolutely do theorize invisible mass-bearing particles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Composition_of_dar...

It might be ordinary matter hidden from us somehow (maybe inside black holes) or something new like sterile neutrinos or WIMPs.
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I really don't get the US hating all Asians part. Where does that come from?

Many of the cold war era wars were proxy wars with Russia to stop the spread of communism. A natural place for that to occur was where Russia was attempting to move neighboring governments to communism, which was Asia.

Also we were at war with Japan, they attacked the US after all, so I would hardly call them allies at that point in history.
The author explains well that pledge(2) is all-or-nothing and that this design is intentional. Indeed, as more cap-safe APIs are designed, this sort of edge will only become sharper. Cap-safe languages can do even better fine-grained restriction of capabilities, but require a total rewrite instead of just an extra syscall.
Just because it has been an evolutionary advantage for our mind to be constantly active, doesn't mean that this can't change.

That's the point of evolution: we adapt to what's necessary and, for millions of years, constant thought was the factor that made us smarter than everyone else, and the humans in whom this didn't occur weren't smart enough, thus their genes disappeared from the gene pool.

This, however, doesn't mean we can't keep evolving towards a state of consciousness where constant thought isn't required, it just means that -- as is always the case -- existence is challenging, because there's millions of years of inertia behind the mind. It has a strong pull, because it was needed for survival. But we can keep evolving.

It doesn't need to continue like this forever. It just means that, as opposed to earlier, the people in whom thought is too strong and uncontrollable are now the ones whose genes are removed from the gene pool, through mental illness and anxiety.

If you're willing to spend some time watching your mind, you'll realize that it already stops all the time, it's just a matter of noticing this, thus strengthening its absence. But don't expect there to be a button to push to make it stop. It was needed for survival, so its cessation has become associated with fear. But, while you are conscious of this fact, it's not a problem, just a challenge.
I often comment without reading the articles because on an older device it's impossible. 90% of links will just crash the browser in 10 seconds. I can watch an hour long youtube video just fine, but trying to load a newspaper article will make it keel over and die.

Disabling javascript does fix a lot of it, but then I can't vote on HN, and I like doing that.
there({class:'is-no'},extra('Mental Step'));

<there class="is-no"><extra>Mental Step</extra></there>
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Let's be real though, those who need it the most won't go live in another culture exactly because they're so attached to their own. Education is a cheaper way to get the necessary exposure. Regarding your second point, I did make a disclaimer that educated people aren't above this, but in my experience at least higher education encourages more independent thinking, reasoned inquiry, and study than is done in high school or by the uneducated. Opposing opinions are encouraged and healthy debate is pretty common, even with the professor.
They somehow managed for hundreds of years prior to the Internet.
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It's obvious that 7 is bigger than 2. So we should be more scared this time.
I do too. Does it make much difference though if it's a centralized or distributed decision? The end result is the same but people are selected for different traits.
Humans being what they are, the actual benefits don't necessarily come into the equation. :) Sure, Rust's manifold qualities contribute to its popularity, but post-purchase rationalization could still be one of the reasons that people get excited about it.
WHY MANY STILL  LIKE THE DEAD DIANA THAN THE LIVING PRINCE CHARLES?
The internet is going to be all AMP and PWA soon, so everything is served from google or on the app store. Enjoy! /barf.
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Hello. I'm the author of the PC Perspective story that this post cites.

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/General-Tech/Breaking-OpenCL-M...

I am currently writing up another post, which is based on an interview I did with Tom Olson (Chairman of Vulkan) and Neil Trevett (President of Khronos Group) on Friday. While the implications of the announcement are smaller than I speculated (ex: the Khronos Group weren't concerned about Apple's ownership over OpenCL's trademarks and a few necessary patents) the announcement is correct.

Neil: "Congratulations. You win the prize for finding the extra press release hidden in the quote."

I'm still digesting the dense, ~40 minute discussion, but OpenCL's roadmap is to merge into Vulkan's. There's a bunch of reasons for it (ex: OpenCL pushes FP32 support onto hardware where it doesn't make sense, like DSPs and deep-learning applications) but I'll elaborate on that with the follow-up. Might take a few days though.

Also, here's Neil's presentation from IWOCL: https://www.khronos.org/developers/library/2017-iwocl
Makes me wonder if I should feel encouraged or not! Thanks for the note.

I'm on a team with somebody who studied CS at the same university where I studied English for a time, and just the same we tend to have a reciprocal knowledge share occuring just the same.

It's getting that initial in where the degree seems to cover a great divide.
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You have to compare IKEA furniture to other DIY assemble furniture. Some manufacturers are catching up but IKEA's instructions are super simple to follow and are correct.

I've had multiple pieces of DIY furniture where there were obvious errors and you could tell instructions were translated, sometimes very poorly.
like many other things, it's pretty easy to make bad "AI"
Off topic: I love all the great longform NYT stuff HN posts, but can never find it on my own - where can I find it on my own?
California's a pretty damn big state. The total area of those five states is only ~70% more than California, and that's counting all the central and northern bits of Michigan that definitely aren't part of this, and eastern PA.
Archive folder works. Disc space is cheap and plentiful!
The results are great and I'm not even sure I'd call them "wrong".
>Hits the nail on the head. Our brains are back propagating, recursive neural networks that are consistently making predictions about the next input in the stream of input signals as it changes over time. When the prediction results are correct we save a fuzzy recording of the higher-order-pattern that resulted in our correct prediction. Each time our predictions are correct that "memory" is reinforced so we're able to make faster predictions, at earlier points in the pattern.

I'm not sure that I could ever be so confident in anything as you are to be stating so unequivocally how the brain works given the track record of previous attempts to model brain function and the current state of neuroscience.
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I dunno... the polygon the author drew is only about half the area of California.

On the other hand it's kinda cheating to put the major cities at the corners.
It is hugely different. How decisions are made is different. What decisions are made is different. The only similarity is that they both involve decisions.
Long-form NYT stuff is generally in the NYT Sunday Magazine (and its online equivalent).
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This language is coded in Go. Just recently I was wondering if there were any Go-coded languages out there which were inspired by Haskell, Clojure, and OCaml. I have read that the Go compiler includes design choices from Plan 9 which make it both fast and simple to manage. I wonder if inheriting this supposed advantage will help Tisp in the long run.
We weren't built to pay taxes... but for some reason, someone thought it was a good idea and everyone else followed suit.
I personally have a repo full of old code and move projects there once I'm done with them: https://github.com/Xe/code
I used to use Evernote, but it just go so slow, seems like a larger app than necessary, and had a bunch of functionality I didn't use get in my way.

I tried OneNote, but it didn't stick.

I've been using Bear (Mac platforms only) and have really liked it so far. Free to use, syncing is $1.50/mo. Evernote migration worked pretty well for me.

http://www.bear-writer.com/

http://www.bear-writer.com/faq/Import/Migrate%20from%20Evern...
I suppose they do this because some html processors do stupid things with `amp` - because it might be part of the ampersand html entity.
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Well, we built the device you type them on to fit our body, not the other way around.
Isn't this called "Cognitive Dissonance" ?
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> The quality of life in metro Detroit is horrible compared to the Bay Area

I don't know about that... I pay less than 1200 for my own apartment in a literal mansion in downtown Ann Arbor--11ft ceilings, marble fireplace, etc. My friends are UM grad students and staff, I walk five minutes to work at my job at a YC company's HQ, shop at a local food coop across the street, fly anywhere out of DTW, and spend my free time boating on the river that's a 10m walk from my front door.

Can you do that in SF?
As you can see in the linked issue this was implemented in GitLab 9.0 3 months ago.
I've never seen that anywhere in the United States. 10k miles is the highest I've seen for BMWs & if it isn't that, people say the typical advice is "once a season" depending on how you drive.
Repost your original comment so I can see it.
Looks like they just came on board as Reddit debuted the new user profile format [0]. I just got a message to turn it on as a user this past week. It seems like it'll be a nice feature for not just users, but brands/organizations as well. I hope it sticks to user engagement/meta-type posts (IAMAs) rather than being an account that acts as an auto-submitter of WaPo headlines to r/news/politics/worldnews.

That said, one of the challenges of having an official Reddit account that constantly engages with users (it's been actively commenting and replying to users), I would imagine, would be having to be in IAMA mode 24/7. That's fun until something a controversial question/challenge comes up, in which case hours/days of silence will be seen as an admission of guilt/coverup (see r/AMADisasters).

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/6bu4vg/what_a...
I don't. Mine just lapse into torpor, sometimes indefinitely, but more often I end up cycling back when my interests cycle back around to whatever they were about. They seem to be roughly seasonal. So if I look at created/modified dates on one of my old unfinished projects I'll see something like:

file_a 2014-05-04

file_b 2015-04-17

file_c 2016-03-23

Clearly that's something that my mind gets interested in around springtime (for no consciously apparent reason). I wrote it in one language in 2014, redesigned it in 2015, and rewrote it in a different language last year. Who knows what I'll do with it this year or next?

I don't purge because I know I'm likely to want to take it up again, or at least pluck part of it out to use in something new.
I do wonder where this fits in with meditation. Perhaps it's "clearing the cache," letting us re-explore options.
You don't have balls left. You are just delusional.
Why would you say that? Other than an occasional article like this they seem to have pretty good and in-depth stuff on space, cyber security, in-depth reviews (they're horrible at times I'll give you that)
pretty interesting, seems like one of the first examples of news organizations "advertising" on reddit. I wonder how it will go down and if any others will follow.
As a news organization, I would hope they understand the implications of PR and how silence can be very damning. I can't see them falling for it especially considering how many times they have sen others do it and it not go very well for them.
> That said, one of the challenges of having an official Reddit account that constantly engages with users (it's been actively commenting and replying to users), I would imagine, would be having to be in IAMA mode 24/7

Is that really different from Twitter?

At first, for the first organization that does it, maybe. I have to believe that over time people will get over organizations' inability to respond immediately to things on Reddit just because it's Reddit.
Yes, one way to restate my post is that dark matter could or could not be a new particle. The important part is that dark matter proponents assert there is something(s) whose mass we can detect, but whose other properties we can't measure as it doesn't fit into our current physical models.
Part of it is probably because of Christianity and Christian values which see pagan/animists as pure evil. Though Americans are no more as Christian as they use to be the values perhaps have sunk deep into psyche.

In past people of Chinese origin were barred from voting, Citizenships revoked retrospectively, during WW-2 Japanese origin citizens of USA were put into a camp (but Americans or German or Italian origin were not).

As of today Chinese and Indians have to wait anywhere between 12 to 20 years to get a mere green-card despite doing much better than average American. Democrats don't like Asians because they don't live on welfare and Repupblicans don't like them because they are not Christians or white.
I'm not sure I've ever needed to do that in all my life. But about three times a day I accidentally lose my place on a long webpage and there's no Undo.
I use a mixture of Zim Wiki for personal stuff, Dokuwiki (the portable wiki on a stick install) for my own work-related stuff, and Confluence wiki for work-related stuff shared with the team.

I just find that the wiki format works really well for me.
That's a higher level of awareness. Often when someone says we need a paradigm shift in conscience this is what they are talking about. They've achieved this state, a higher level observational level of the world. The neocortex is hierarchical, the output of one level being fed as the input to the next higher level. Learning to consistantly station our awareness at the highest level in our brains is a result of meditation practices.

I hypothesize one of the most efficient paths to solving most of societies hardest problems would be to focus our education around mindfulness concepts about conscience. I feel the pairing of meditation and evidence based science used as a new institutional rock(our "mandatory" educational system needs replacing) will lead humanity into the next golden era.
My cousins always want to play Civ III, and after several ~10hr games, I still don't really know what I am doing.

It's a game of decision-making. Each decision leads you on another branch of the tree. To make it more unpredictable, your decision-tree is mutated by each other player's decision-tree.

Like any traversal-oriented game (RPG, etc.), it just takes a lot to understand the effects of your choices, and what goals to make.
AMP was born dead no need to kill it. As the webmaster of many websites, the last time I heard customers complain about rankings in SRPs was ten years ago. Their main concern nowadays is likes, follows and shares. I keep telling them: put some effort on your website, own your audience, you do not own your FB page much less the fans and likes there. They don't listen. Trapped in the hype.

In this light, how do I sell to them the idea that investing in AMP content (same trap different server) will help with rankings/performance where they do not care?

Sadly enough, the Internet is happening inside social networks, Amazon and mobile apps. AMP is late to the party, no?
Why not just move to public key authentication then?
> From my readings of CIA memoirs and spy novels, CIA Agents (aka sources or informants) are really foreign people reporting information to the CIA Officers which are US Government employees

Yep. If you haven't read it, the Billion Dollar Spy details the efforts the CIA made in Moscow during the Cold War. Pretty good read.

https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Dollar-Spy-Espionage-Betrayal...
I'm probably in the minority here but I found the writing be borderline sensationalist. Some parts of the story were clearly manufactured and twisted to add more flare and "omg" moments. Leaves a bad taste after reading.

Onto the article: I can't help but sympathize with this girl. Obviously her sentence is justified, but some people are completely oblivious to the types of mental deterioration one goes through when raised under such dysfunctional circumstances.
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This reminds me of an old story I read in an anthology called "Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box"; it was a series of modern-day hacking short stories loosely tied together through an overarching theme, and each chapter was written by a different professional in the security field. Fun reads, and an interesting introduction to many of the tools and practices of security pros, if a little fanciful at times. :)

The particular chapter I was thinking of was named "The Worm Turns".
That exact caching has to end.

They can offer to do a CDN like CloudFlare, but make it optional.

I want to ensure that not a single bit of my data ever runs through Google's infrastructure, while still getting all the same benefits as if it did.

If Google treats sites different just for using an AMP Cache, then I'll have to send another complaint to the EU Antitrust committee.

My pages actually increased their loadtime tenfold when I tried them with AMP — they're tested on a HUAWEI IDEOS X3 on 64kbps GPRS. AMP increases load time to over a minute. (On a modern phone, with a modern connection, my pages are obviously also faster — I'm also testing with a Nexus 5X on 100Mbps 4G)

I can't just massively increase load time for pages just for a better ranking in search results, this shouldn't even be a choice.
> Marco Arment recently changed Overcast to make features more visible because it seems many people, including power users, weren't even aware that gesture existed.

So that's what that was all about. I noticed the changes because for me they reduced the usability of Overcast massively. The features I used the most were resuming the current podcast, playing a different podcast, and setting a sleep timer. All of these things now take double the taps they did before, with much smaller controls that are hard to hit in the car. You tap a podcast and some miscellaneous options jump out. Ugh, when I tap a podcast I want it to open and start playing! The sleep timer durations move around, so it takes 7 presses and some squinting to set a 25-minute timer. By this time my retinas are seared because the UI for that is white even in night mode.

I know full well about swiping in tables and I'd love the old behaviour to be an option. The author could probably make some good coin by making it available as an IAP.
Why not DDG? I switched to it recently and I am enjoying the !bang searches.