skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a new trick I found that's been working out pretty well for me recently.

To backtrack a bit, I've been having decent success with meditating to fall asleep. Namely, the basic technique is to simply focus on my breath -- specifically, on the very point at which I can feel my breath entering and exiting my nostrils (or wherever the outermost point of my body is that I can feel my breath going in and out of), and whenever I notice my attention drifts away from my breath to just gently, without reproach, to focus it back on my breath again.

That technique usually worked for me, if I wasn't too agitated. The problem was that sometimes I'd have thoughts really rushing through my mind when I tried to fall asleep, and then even meditating like that wasn't enough. I analyzed what was going on and decided that just focusing on my breath was too monotonous, and gave me too much time for my mind to drift away to thinking about other things. What I needed was a better way to keep my mind busy with something monotonous, but not too monotonous.

So I came up with a small modification which has worked better. It's basically the same as above, except on every other breath, instead of focusing on the breath, I'd focus on whatever sensation in my body that's most noticeable.

For instance, I might feel a lot of pressure on a body part that I'm lying on, like a certain part of my left arm or something. So every other breath, I'd focus on that. Whatever that is that is most noticeable might change from time to time, so I'd just go with whatever it happens to be. And every other breath, I'd focus on the sensation of my breath as usual. So effectively, I'd be alternating from focusing on my breath on one breath, and on the next on whatever sensation in my body was most noticeable, and then back to my breath.

Wearing earplugs and a night mask (blindfold) helps too.
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Installed on an old Thinkpad X61s from the xfce4 live .iso (< 600Mb) dd'ed to a usb stick. Boots into an xfce live graphical session with network-manager recognising the Atheros wifi card. Minimal install - xfce 4.12 plus Web browser and image viewer (1.5Gb on hard drive).

Ran the installer script from a terminal in the live session - result is an ncurses dialogue that walks you through the steps. Disk already partitioned and skipped the network set-up stage and selected install from local. Rebooted into (graphical, xfce4) installed system in a few minutes. Network manager up and running, needed to log-in to local wifi again.

Probably because I skipped the network stage in the installer, I needed to set a repository for updates.

echo 'repository=http://repo.voidlinux.eu/current/' \ >
/etc/xbps.d/00-repository-main.conf

(somewhat reminiscent of OpenBSD's 6.2 new installurl)

Now installing some applications. LibreOffice is version 6 'fresh'. A bit like OpenBSD, installing Libreoffice brings a metric tonne of dependencies.

Edit: you need to install alsa to get sound

xbps-install alsa-utils

gets you basic sound functionality. The 'stem matches package name' logic is very reminiscent of OpenBSD pkg_add (I've never used NetBSD).
At what point do developers question whether they chose the right framework when their solution requires a large blocking call for many milliseconds in a single threaded server:

> SSR throughput of your server is significantly less than CSR throughput. For react in particular, the throughput impact is extremely large. ReactDOMServer.renderToString is a synchronous CPU bound call, which holds the event loop, which means the server will not be able to process any other request till ReactDOMServer.renderToString completes. Let’s say that it takes you 500ms to SSR your page, that means you can at most do at most 2 requests per second. BIG CONSIDERATION
>"The quintessential moat Facebook has is its strong network effect facilitated by ease of use. Facebook is simple. To the point where my elder relatives refer to Facebook as "the Internet"

I don't think people actually want the Internet, they want a walled garden.

Facebook is the new Compuserve, or AOL.
The fundamental problem is economic. It's not that Facebook is invulnerable or that it can't be disrupted—of course it can! The reputational risk Facebook is facing is existential, if it reaches a tipping point things could go south very quickly for them.

The bigger problem is that making something like Facebook requires a lot of resources. You can't achieve that scale, feature-set and UX quality without a lot of engineering manpower. Users expect these things for free, so there will always be some monetization strategy a couple steps ahead of the current cultural standard for ethics.

Startups with high-minded ideals can certainly start strong, but they will inevitably sputter since capitalist incentives overwhelm at scale. I mean just look at Google, it could be the poster-child of disappointed expectations, having come out of academia with their "don't be evil" slogan, but inevitably all large companies come under the thrall of a Wall Street mentality sooner or later. This goes triple if there is no monetization strategy and they are relying on VC funding.

I'd love to see some of these decentralized or other high-minded social media efforts succeed, but even if they overcome the fundamental technical challenges, polishing up the UX to what the masses have come to expect will require a ton of resources that will require funding that seems incredibly difficult to obtain in the current economic culture.
I wish people would stop using Medium, especially for programming blogs. The UI is terrible (footer bar, animated pop-ups, monoculture design, paywalls), and I don't like landing on Medium sites. Publishing on the Web is supposed to be decentralized.

If you're going to write a tech blog use a static site generator like Metalsmith, Hugo, Hexo, Middleman, Jekyll, or Pelican, and deploy it for free on Netlify.com.
I hope you can take a step back and realize that this is one of the most blatant examples of mental gymnastics / cognitive dissonance that I personally have ever seen. In the face of direct, first-hand evidence that the Obama campaign did exactly the same thing that the media and social media ecosystem is now very angry at Trump for doing, your response is literally to go into denial about it, and insist that the evidence is inaccurate. You are essentially just yelling "fake news". This exact behavior, denying reality when it goes against what you want to believe, is how we get people insisting that climate change isn't real, and discrimination doesn't exist. Shame on you. I truly believe that you're better than this, please use this as a growing moment.
I'm unconvinced that the US population cares enough about its data to get rid of Facebook anytime soon. The media goes berserk with every new breach, but even the Equifax debacle barely registered in the minds of most Americans. I don't see Cambridge Analytica as a tipping point, because most people are oblivious to the fact that people are deleting their accounts in the first place. Their infinite newsfeeds will be just as full of crap as ever.
I run a Mastodon instance and I’ve had a few users ask me when I’m setting up a Patreon to help cover my costs because they want to start paying for it. YMMV.
"If you outlaw freedom, only outlaws will have freedom."

Mass disobedience is probably the only way.
> CBD appears to counteract Δ9-THC-induced psychotic symptoms and cognitive impairment, and may even have anti-psychotic properties.

It's not good that cannabis on the street has almost nonexistent CBD content. Even worse is synthetic cannabioid epidemic that we see. Legislators are to blame here. Make it legal and educate people about medicinal values of CBD instead.
Kind of off topic but I recently realized that after searching for the exact same thing multiple times in a short period google was giving me different results (presumably assuming I had not found what I was looking for). Which was kind of annoying since I was just using google as the entry point to those top results.
For those of you who read this article and believe there may be a thread of a good idea within, go read Neuromancer.

Gibson had a vision of an Internet with decentralized social media, including decentralized code execution, 35 years ago, and we have not yet realized it - or anything remotely close.
The blockchain is a potential solution. But deep down I have high expectations for IPFS — I think a workable, usable alternative for Facebook there could be the beginning of a real movement towards a decentralized Internet.

Also, for anyone in this space: the Facebook killer app is Events. I can share photos & statuses in myriad ways, but I truly only have one way to access a complete events calendar for my city, organizations & social groups.
Jerks do jerk moves to move as jerks.
Zuckerberg Takes Out Full Page Ads to Say “Sorry” for “Breach of Trust”
Standard reminder that Markdown, while having no formal standard, tends to be implemented in broadly compatible ways across various systems. Yes, there are edge cases -- yes, I've seen the lists comparing different renderers; yes, I've run into differences once in a while myself -- but in general, it turns out that the Markdown documents I wrote 15 years ago are still perfectly readable today, no matter what Markdown engine I drop them into. Or, you know, even if I don't drop them into a Markdown engine, because the entire point of Markdown is to be easily human-readable, without "looking like code," before rendering in the first place.

Markdown isn't the be-all and end-all of markup formats, and there are valid reasons for using formats with strict specifications (e.g., AsciiDoc or ReStructuredText for certain kinds of technical writing). But the chances of Markdown documents suddenly being woefully unreadable in 20 years are roughly in line with the chances of plain text Unicode documents being unreadable in 20 years.
It would be free on netlify.com.
Another nice feature is first class support for ZFS.
I did some work for a major Australian Federal government department. They had a very secure environment and couldn’t (well, wouldn’t) allow webservices or anything else of that nature between themselves and other government departments. However, they did allow for email.

Luckily the ITSM system I had took incoming and outgoing email. They had a stored procedure “hook” for email. I reimplemented the SLA functionality by inserting the relevant data into the database, calculated the SLAs via the procedure.
Well, it looks to me to be very similar to the obesity epidemic in the US. Both countries are developed. France is not a "foreign mysterious country". Its doctors are actually as good as US ones, it offers a better life expectancy and a better health coverage. And it's true that nearly nobody takes Ritalin in France.

But that does not mean the French situation is perfect. There are several recent articles pointing to ADHD being under-diagnosed in France - with many doctors reluctant to accept it, and/or being very cautious with regards to its dangerous secondary effects.

So it's probably somewhere in-between.
Because there's no social confirmation for their posts. They have no idea if people read them or liked them.
It does look like an obvious mistake, based on the cached content Librapay posted as an example and others I could pull up in Google's cache. Hope they get a quick turnaround with support.
I didn't get the totally preachy vibe from the article that you may have.

In all honesty, I thought he was going for slight moralization but mostly just wishing there were realistic civilization-type games that have a complex endgame and are not based on an endless growth model. I'd welcome some of his propositions-- they seem more challenging and consequently more engaging and fun.
I remember that video. Playtesters would simply load a previous save when struck with serious calamity.
ProtonMail Plus (the lowest paid tier) is $48/yr. And you do pay for Gmail with your data, so let's at least get the comparison right. The final cost/benefit analysis is your choice of course, but Gmail is not free
You stay up-to-date with Thinderbird releases? I do and I think about 1 in 10 of the ads-ons I have installed still work.
Similar but inverse to this, I was fixing a critical server and it usually came up in a minute or less. 5 minutes later I get concerned, I walk into the server room and it’s still trying to boot. I scratch my head and see a usb keyboard attached.... with a screwdriver sitting on my space bar.

Yup, I IRQ-DOSS’ed myself.
Where will climate change be the root cause of mass migration?
Just so I understand, the suggestion is that collecting and profiting from user information be illegal? I'm not necessarily opposed to that but it's certainly radical. Might be easier to just stop using services that do this.
wayback machine's archive of reddit isn't perfect but it works. just give the IA more money
> Unfortunately, googling decriminalization vs legalization gets me articles that state the exact opposite of my understanding. As I understand it,

Can you see why some people are frustrated by conversations with you? You've decided you know what these words mean, and even though you've done a web search and found out that most people don't use these words in the way you do you've decided they're wrong, and you're right.
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Did you consider the point about code being defined only at build-time, not being available for inspection by the developer? That sets it apart from most auto-generating code scenarios I've seen.
Early attempts were pretty ham-fisted and only really useful for backoffice web apps with captive users and LAN connections. The past few years have seen a lot of advancement in tools like webpack to streamline how much code gets served for a given page.
There's nothing special about a game compared to any other form of media, or any form of fictional storytelling which make them immune to having an influence. You have to suspend disbelief in any novel, nevertheless no matter how outlandish the material it always communicates some ideas about the way the world works. I'm actually really looking forward to people giving up on the implicit idea that video games are just fancies or toys, because it's at that point that video games which set out to communicate interesting or unsettling ideas or perspectives will become mainstream.
Have you ever read the following?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/risk_intuitio...
I wrote that previous functioning civilizations purposefully restricted male sexuality, enabled utilizing energy that would be otherwise evaporated by sex into building society and its civilization structures instead. So that might be intent of some groups pushing these changes. Other groups might be pushing it for moral reasons, but those rarely had any tangible effects.

Whether you like it or not, it is politically incorrect or going against the Zeitgeist, males still do most of the difficult, manual work that keeps the world running and is invisible to most women. There is a very little hope females would step up to the challenge as what we see so far is cherry picking high-income jobs isolated from crushing challenges of manual work and heavy robotics is not there yet. So if you tell those males they aren't desirable, they can't be entitled to have a partner, you allow them free access to cheap sex/sensory satisfaction, gaming etc. what you'll get is they just wouldn't care about work anymore, live minimalist lifestyles, working only to pay their immediate expenses, your society will be on a path to decline. By removing this "carrot" of a desirable woman, you neutered one of primary motivations of males to do anything at all. As they see 5% top guys getting all the girls and girls being fine with it during their desirable ages, and being interested in them only when their desirability wanes, and that only for financial reasons, why would they even bother being involved with society? So they simply drop out, do whatever they like, don't contribute to taxes, don't do any menial work, refuse to be slaves and disengage from society. I see it on my cousin, who was a top graduate of the most prestigious university of my country, and since graduation he is not working (a few years already), disgusted by women, and playing some stupid online games all day, without any way to poke him to do anything at all as it all seems pointless to him.

So please keep closing your eyes, let's have another completely lost generation and see how our civilization tanks in front of our eyes.

I would suggest you to study reinforcement learning, which even if using really stupid models, could show you how small changes in rewards can completely reshape environments, not mentioning complete removal of rewards, as is happening these days.
Good point. There are probably other like services. I don’t really get much traffic!
Nothing says 'trust' like buying off the media to end the bad publicity.
You know that little nub sticking out the bottom of the mirror? Flick that and your mirror will flip to another angle so the lights are no longer pointing at your face.

Rear view mirrors actually contain 2 mirrors, so when you flick it you get the same image at the same angle, but only with 10% or so of the light actually being reflected towards your eyes.
I agree, I just don’t think it matters in the 3rd grade. Find the high performers in middle school and high school. If there are students that really need help earlier than that, or have learning disabilities they can either be pulled out, or given extra attention if possible, maybe a tutor. I’d lean towards a bit of extra attention. And yeah, it’s definitely a chip on my shoulder, it’s a motivator for me. When someone tells you you’re not smart, you can accept it or prove them wrong.
Wow. Thanks for sharing your story.

The way you casually explained this to me really threw me off. I remember trying to do some AOSP hacking on some older phones and always gave up. For different reasons

Locked Bootloaders

Huge sources to download

Confusing device configuration (all those xml files were and still are magic to me)

The farthest I ever got was to compile a kernel and flash it unto a phone. I was so happy for so little. The only difference was the change to the build version / name.

I remember back in the pre Ice cream era graphics drivers were the most often quoted reason for older devices getting "stuck" on older versions of Android. It never occurred to me that you can write a graphics wrapper.
Ah, but

> ...you have to restrict sexuality and force desirable men to keep a single wife and vice versa.

is not a dystopia but just a necessary evil.

It's a subtle difference. I understand.
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Very much me just musing on the results! Thanks for sharing.

Would be interesting to see the same on a much bigger data set - and different hardware.
One lightweight solution I've found great for blogs is Pelican with m.css, it's really nice and could be served even from a toaster.
I think I use the same technique with another variation you might want to try out. Focus on your breath like in meditation but, at some point, slow it down as much as you can. So slow that you are on the edge of the body forcing you to breath again. You may calm down and shift into sleep quite easily.
Can they inject javascript even in an https connection ?
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I this this between mac, linux, and windows machines and it functioned perfectly every time

What OS did the profile start on?

I copied my profile from Windows to Mac, and everything is fucked up. Because of the different line ending characters, as far as I can tell.
Those users are mastodon users? Then they aren’t in the category I mean. I mean the 90% of Facebook users who will not have heard about #deletefacebook when it’s over for this time. And all those people are the reason I use Facebook.

That’s the key to this problem:

- making the product isn’t the problem. Technically it’s been done (e.g diaspora)

- attracting integrity-conscious users isn’t the problem. But they won’t drag the rest along easily.

How to attract a billion Facebook users that won’t even hear about the alternative?
I think in this instance it's also a matter of tools. Visual Studio/Visual Assist would have been able to find the class definition, and that's where the comment would go. For cscope it's a matter of configuration, which should be auto-generated by the build tool.

If the class is being used, then the definition has got to be somewhere, hopefully in a header. It's simply a file that is included somewhere. And it will be human readable. There is no magic.
lol, never smoke without fire
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15854216
It's not actually trustless, though. It's just less clear whom you're trusting.

With Bitcoin, the people you're trusting are miners, and they are highly incentivized to preserve the correct functioning of the system because they get paid in bitcoin and they want it to stay valuable.

With a federated social network blockchain, there'd have to be an incentive to preserve privacy greater than the incentive to do any other bad thing like manipulating elections.
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Microservice Antipatterns: The Queue Explosion
Yeah, that's the biggest difference between GPL and AGPL
Show HN: Dapp Insight – DApps List Website. Just Updated to Responsive UI
Every time I check HN I see increasingly dramatic headlines about Facebook, but I have a feeling that when I check Facebook’s stock a few weeks from now it’ll be back up like nothing ever happened.
Second real job I ever had, in the IT division of an investment bank, all the devs (about 15?) had color X terminals, which all booted off of one shared development server which was a mid-1990s era HP9000 box, and it supported the load and worked well. Everyone else had either a PC or a dumb vt100 type of terminal.
> Medium offers the potential for an audience who will read your work.

If you write good content and are consistent, it isn't that difficult to drive traffic to your own blog.

Blogging is easy with a good static site generator and netlify (free).
> So because some things are a bad experience, we should make more things a bad experience?

I don't see how disparate experiences are bad experiences. Those are two entirely different things.

> if I were Uber or Lyft, I wouldn't want to deploy my app on a platform where another app with root privileges could, for example, change the GPS lookup location to something adversarial whenever uber was in the foreground, leading to bad end user experiences

Is there any reason this can't be done today? I already have root on my platform, and, afaik, I can spoof my gps coordinates. Besides, if you don't like how a platform has set up its permissions, then don't develop for that platform.

> But that's not what happens, since you can turn that off

You can flag a button, that tells you that it is turned off. There's no way of knowing whether or not they actually keep my data.
CMU has a really neat research project on programmable automotive headlights to help solve some of this (and other problems): http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ILIM/projects/IL/smartHeadlight/

If this became commoditized, we could even standardize on invisible markers on cars to make the problem of identifying where the driver is even easier.
And an increased price hike to go with the “discount”