skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sample set is small, but I remain dubious about this study.

Accomplished meditators are very rarely couch potatoes; they tackle things that need to tackled with calm, wisdom, and efficiency.

True, motivations like "I don't want to yelled at.", or "I want more money.", or "I want to look good and smart to everybody." will go away or at least have less impact. But they are replaced by "How can I make this happier place?", or "What's the right thing to do for the company?", or "How can I take my ego out of this and do what's right?", along with better behaviour under stress and time constraints "When you're in a hurry go more slowly...", etc.

Also what kind of meditation are we referring to? Sitting and just breathing can also just be a relaxation exercise... not meditation. Those effects more or less just vanish when you come out of the sitting. Once some basic insights are there, the relationship to work changes and becomes more relaxed and practical and ... more effective.

As I said my sample set is small.
I may be biased by the selection of physicist I watched lectures of, but they would probably tend to disagree with the statement that physics got lost in mathematics. Especially Nima Arkani-Hamed convincingly argues that we are fundamentally looking at the universe from the wrong perspective. Relativity and quantum theory are build around a few very fundamental principles like locality and unitarity and somewhat surprisingly those principles single out a very small set of possible theories that are compatible with those principles.

But on the other hand those principles seem to obscure a more fundamental and simpler truth behind them. For example calculating scattering amplitudes may require hundreds or thousands of terms from different Feynman diagrams with more and more virtual particles but in the end they all cancel out. Surprisingly again there are ways to arrive at the same results - BCFW recursion relations and the amplituhedron - but with comparatively extremely simple calculations. But unlike Feynman diagrams, which suggest a picture of particles interacting locally in space, those calculations provide no picture that can be easily matched against recognizable things.

The results are the same but there is nothing that looks like locally interacting particles in there. This then suggests that things we currently considered fundamental, for instance locality, are not fundamental, that they emerge from something more fundamental. And this is where mathematics might be really useful, you try to reformulate existing theories in new ways and maybe you find a representation that is much simpler than what we have and maybe that is what the universe is really like as compared to what it looks like to us. And maybe that will also suggest new experiments to be done and which do not require energies far beyond our current reach.
As long as MS Windows still has 89% market share on the desktop/laptop market [1], as long as Google still keeps core parts of Android under lock and key, and as long as all my friends still communicate with Facebook and WhatsApp, I think the claim that "the majority of consumer devices are open source" is a bit early.

Look, guys, I'm not saying open-source isn't important! And I'm definitely not saying there aren't any great open-source programs out there! All I'm saying is: on the current market, most companies that produce software choose to distribute this software under a closed-source license. What's so hard to accept about this simple observation?!

[1] https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share
Good to know. In that case, I’m not concerned by the first n (n<5000 ish, varies by nation), but the relative ease by which an attcker can just keep going until the target run out of missiles to shoot at the attacker’s projectiles.
Right. And if they don’t do that, then the phone will just get thinner. We already have incredible energy density compared to a decade ago, but that budget is used up by shaving millimeters off the thickness.
Oh, yeah apparently you can import contacts from your email to find friends. I never noticed that.
If serious, consider offering an early retirement package and see who bites.
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> I agreed to work for an employer, so to accuse them of bad data practices is not the right move.

It's the ethical move. Just because you agreed to work for an employer doesn't mean you have to accept everything they demand from then on.
Results:

$ cargo uninstall rustfmt && rustup component add rustfmt-preview
Removing /home/alex/.cargo/bin/cargo-fmt
Removing /home/alex/.cargo/bin/rustfmt
info: downloading component 'rustfmt-preview'
info: installing component 'rustfmt-preview'
$ bindgen bindings.h -- -I/usr/local/include/libr > /dev/null
Custom { kind: Other, error: StringError("Cannot find binary path") }
$ rustc --version
rustc 1.28.0-nightly (29f48ccf3 2018-06-03)
$ cat bindings.h
#include <r_lib.h>
#include <r_asm.h>
#include <r_reg.h>
#include <r_anal.h>
#include <r_bin.h>
Though, ugly software very much does run and can turn a profit despite it.
> For example, if you encourage someone to steal a car tomorrow you're not doing anything illegal until they actually do it.

No, you've committed the crime of solicitation at the moment you encouraged a particular person to commit a particular crime. And, if they agree and either of you takes any concrete step to implement the agreement (even short of completing the theft), you've both committed the crime of conspiracy.
At Risk in a Big Quake: 39 of San Francisco’s Top High Rises
Thousands of passengers' flights / holidays have been affected:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&...

And that's just one airline - how is that not disruption?
My theory is that (correct) meditation makes people more aware of what's good for them and what isn't. One result of this could be that they realize that most of their goals in a company are BS so they lose motivation.

I know a lot of Buddhists including monks and they certainly are very active and motivated people. They are just a little pickier about what they put their energy into.
That has the same problems with the extra class definition: extra lines of code, choice of scope to define the new class, and maybe issues with pickling.
Then, there you go, that's part of the sketchiness of Airbnb: a public policy decision was made to limit the number of short-term rental places (hotels, b-n-b's, etc), and part of what Airbnb is doing is simply overriding that by overwhelming the enforcement capabilities of cities.
I've dipped into it, but haven't had the opportunity to do much with it yet. My impression is that it's fantastic for preparing academic presentations (where it's all about the content and you want to be able to create some decent equations), but not necessarily what I would use to create a fancy product pitch or anything like that.
What's My Color IQ?
Ah - maybe a better way to phrase it is, if Harvard is pitching itself as a place a person can learn to lead global teams, set optimal global government policy, guide diverse groups toward a common solution, then the student body should probably not just be high test scorers pulled from high test affluent suburbs. It should be pulled from a variety of sources with a diverse set of socioeconomic, academic, artistic and cultural experiences.

I think that's actually a secret of Silicon Valley. If Apple needs to ask how a UI should be setup to handle the nuances from a certain country, they can go ask a person from that country. It'd be much harder trying to do that in Asia or even Europe.
The title is total clickbait.

From the article:
"Then we tracked everyone’s actual performance on the tasks. Here we found that on average, having meditated neither benefited nor detracted from a participant’s quality of work."

They found that people who meditated were more calm and serene, reported less motivation, but performed similarly to people who had done non-meditative activities.

It seems to me that having a calm, relaxed workforce who performs just as well as your normal stressed workers is a pretty big positive. I'd find the study more interesting if it studied the long term effects, like do the two groups tend to diverge in productivity over time? Does it prevent burn out? Increase job satisfaction?
Almost nobody lives anywhere near a frat house.

Craigslist existed (and was probably more important!) long before Airbnb, and the nuisance tenant phenomenon seems to track Airbnb's popularity, not Craigslist. So that's not a very persuasive argument.
Mac OS came from Mach, an open source microkernel from CMU in the 80s. Although Objective-C was originally proprietary, NeXT implemented it on GCC and open sourced it.

The origin of modern MacOS/iOS is definitely open source.
The role of a landlord is parasitical by nature. I expect your tenants were just redressing the balance.
The belief most people have that Mozilla puts things in the browser they expect to be useful to users is mistaken and needs to die. They didn't decide you needed Pocket in your browser. They wanted Pocket in your browser, so that they could sell story spots (read: ads) to the highest bidder.

They discuss advertising in the browser chrome here: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/04/30/a-privacy...

Note the PR-speak in that article. Advertising, by its very nature, cannot "provide value to users". If a publisher is paying to promote a story, it's because they want the story to capture more of users' attention than the users themselves want.
Provisional patent for app development?
I am developing an app that I think could be far reaching and very successful. In order to release a beta, I feel the need to protect the idea somehow. Without having a lot of funds currently available, a provisional patent application is the best solution I've found so far. Does anyone here know if this actually does protect technology IP and/or is there a better solution? Thanks.
Nuclear responses aren’t possible if the rocks were dropped by unknown attackers who hacked or invaded the launch site, if the target isn’t a nuclear nation or in a defence treaty with one, or even if the attackers are the legitimate owners deciding to do a Sea Of Tranquillity Tea Party in a fight for independence because the nukes can’t easily get up there and are surprisingly rubbish in space anyway.
Hendrix 3.0.0
Arsenic trace elements are found in very low quantities in our food as well. That's OK, since its nowhere near LD50.

Another example to add to your list is Botulinum toxin (aka Botox) which is produced by a bacterium; hence "natural".

The "natural" hype is horrible. E-numbers are replaced by vague/different terms causing more complex ingredient lists while the point of them was to make it easier, and all that because of hype.
I’m unclear why it was flagged. It’s a legitimate question and problem I’m facing. I totally recognize these improvements are better overall, which is why I’m doing it, just wondering a bit about the people side of it.
It's also the reason for Hollywood - Film companies set up in LA to make it harder to enforce patents against them.
What's with all this hate on gossipers, HN?

You could argue most conversations are gossip (two people talking about an absent third). How many of you have talked about Donald Trump or Barack Obama? Did you politely wait for them to come to dinner before discussing whether you like or dislike them? Obviously not.
Interesting point about publishers producing a cheap and a "classy" version of their books already way back then. I seem to remember reading somewhere else that when paperbacks first came up, they were a huge success, yet were criticized by the more snobbish educated elite as a virtual blasphemy...
The HTML page takes an order of magnitude less time to load than the PDF (1 vs. 8 seconds) on my phone.
In the article it mentions the once popular book 'Principles of Leather Tanning'. This probably sold really well but not as well as shoes, belts or other finished leather goods. People would probably have at least double the amount of shoes as copies of the book. The book was for the trade audience not the end consumer.

Open source is a bit like that. Much like a book has to be read rather than merely used/worn, Open Source Software has to be cloned/forked/apt-get-ed/'make'd and so forth.

Now if you were to buy a pair of leather shoes then the particulars of what chemicals and processes were required to tan the leather may well be learned from the 'Principles of Leather Tanning' but tweaked a bit to a proprietary recipe that could be kept 'under wraps'.

Regarding the Open Source desktop applications, Libre Office is not a clone of Word/Excel/Access/Powerpoint. Same with Gimp, it is not a feeble clone of Photoshop. These tools may be able to use the same file formats but there is a different ethos to them. For some people the UX of Libre Office is far superior to MS Office - no ribbon and therefore no need to Google search the simplest of tasks. If you are dealing with data - as in CSV files - then OpenOffice is your friend, MS Office just ruins it. This does not affect people doing glorified to-do lists and glorified receipts in Excel but if you are reading in data from some code you have written then OpenOffice is the more productive tool.
This Week in Programming: Is Code Necessary to Coding?
PDFs are hard to read on phone. The abstract page is better if you just want to read abstract. Some PDFs can also contain large images, which is again bad for mobile if you only really wanted to read abstract.
Who are the clowns who decided the LED should be illuminated when the device is off?! So that I know where to point the remote? Never had that problem before.
Absolutely. My point was that, absent open source alternatives, Mac OS [EDIT: OS X specifically] could have been created on top of a proprietary UNIX. The lack of open source Unix alternatives would likely not have had much of an impact on Mac OS and certainly Apple hasn't taken advantage of the open source development model for Mac OS.
> I thought perpetual motion machines claims were automatically denied.

I think the current policy is they are only patentable if there is a working unit that runs for at least a year when left alone in the patent office.
> I came home and investigated – the option to "subscribe to page" when the page has an RSS feed is gone from Firefox, or at least I couldn't find it.

Actually it's a lot easy than others have said. It's just Bookmarks > Subscribe to This Page. If you don't have the menu bar enabled (I do), you can just press alt to see it.
PG is absolutely correct in my experience. The best founders are Chaotic Good on the alignment chart.

> Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties.

Holmes does not match that description at all.

Lying to investors, lying to the FDA, secretly using your competitors' tech to mask the fact that your core product does not work.

She did not care about getting the big questions right.
Are you sure you’re spending triple-digit Billions in dollars for datacenters? Or are you just trolling?
> "Don’t shit where you eat" is a warning against office romances.

It's a warning against poisoning an environment on which you depend that has been applied to lots more than office romances, though that may be the most common use in some social circles today.
Does a narcissism epidemic exist in modern western societies?
Python stores the captured variables in __globals__ which is shared with all the different lambdas for some odd reason:

>>> fs[0] == fs[1]

False

>>> fs[0].__globals__ == fs[1].__globals__

True

>>> fs[0].__globals__['i'], fs[1].__globals__['i']

(9, 9)

Kind of weird?

--edit--

>>> def f(i):
... return lambda n: i + n

>>> fs = [f(i) for i in range(10)]

>>> [f(4) for f in fs]
[4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]

It works if it has somewhere to store the captured variables so just don't pollute the global environment and all is fine...
Scott Walker Finally Gave Foxconn Enough Handouts to Get the Company US HQ in WI
Typing something you know is there, is awesome if you know what you are looking for.

The traditional hierarchical tree that showed you what was available, by grouping them into narrower and narrower groups, is awesome if you don't know what you are looking for, as exploring is neigh impossible.

Guessing search terms in wider and wider circles is very unsatisfying.
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I don't think it's failed us in a sense that there is no finality to progress.
Paying for certs will pale in comparison to paying for inefficient infrastructure costs.
Over 400 Scientific Papers Have Cited a 'Phantom' Reference That Never Existed
Firefox's new extension API is Chrome's extension API + a few extra APIs. There's a handful of APIs that are actually Chrome/-ium specific, which made no sense porting to Firefox in the exact same way, but those should not be critical to the functioning of a password manager.

The only way in which Firefox is actually more restrictive with extensions, is in requiring user opt-in for internet connections that are not necessary for the functioning of the extension (so that's usually telemetry or ads).

But if LastPass refused to function because it can't send data back home that's not actually needed, and which it can't reasonably explain to users, or because it can't load third-party content from the internet, which would be a massive security hole, then I strongly advise using a different password manager.

Overall, though, this sounds to me like LastPass is just too incompetent to port their extension, which again should not be hard as Firefox's extension API is essentially a superset of Chrome's.
> If Photoshop doesn't work on the latest Windows version, do you blame Microsoft or Adobe? It'd depend on the nature of the issue but generally Microsoft allows developers to plan ahead.

A solution either works or it doesn't, and if it doesn't, blaming people doesn't solve anything.

For example, if I needed to use Photoshop for my job and it did not work on Windows, I would have to use a Mac. I would have to do this even if it was solely Adobe's fault that Photoshop did not work on Windows. Deciding who to blame would not solve my problem.
Show HN: A simple real time file logger with Python and Tkinter
There is a danger to this. While Netflix is producing more and more shows, I find them to be more and more "samey". It's as if their algorithm decided there are only X number of categories for shows and they're trying to make everything the most SOMETHING of its category. Good shows have that (call it originality), but great shows also have nuance, and I can't recall the last Netflix show I've seen that had anything resembling that.
This experimental design is... weird. The participants were assigned tasks that "were similar to everyday workplace jobs", and asked about their concomitant motivation level to complete them. But why would they either group have any intrinsic motivation to do a purposeless simulation of busywork, except because it was part of the study?
As noted in other comments: viewing PDFs on a phone can be a hastle, and PDFs take a lot more data & time (on slower/mobile connections) to load.

I logged in on a desktop just to respond to this comment in particular, even though I almost always use my phone, if that helps put this in perspective.
The Importance of Sex Education in Schools Remains Controversial
Yeah thanks I think I'll stick in an SSD. It's not even the Unity part which is particularly slow though, it's the Xcode and exporting to IPA parts.
Your competency is eventually going to do the same and save money and have advantages over you if you don't take advantage of the awesome cost savings. Then you may cease being competitive and would have to close the data centers anyway.

As others said, you could retrain them.
I believe there is a key difference between Amazon and Apple that is worth mentioning.

Amazon is largely a reseller(bar it’s in house developed products like Kindle/Alexa and store branded products) with far lower gross margins than Apple.

Apple has the highest retail gross sales(and associated high margins) in the world.

Many look to Apple/Google/Facebook as leaders in compensation, benefits, perks.

But they are the exceptional companies that have wide Warren Buffett “moats” to protect their high margins.

McDonalds and Amazon(distribution operations, not software dev)have far more in common in value proposition and business model in terms of margins/compensation than Apple and Amazon.

Just my 0.02c
That sounds like a problem with the processor running the code, not the disk image format.
Wait, I didn't realize the basic principal of comparative advantage was in doubt. I'm a bit confused by your worldview - do you think that every person should produce exactly what only they need and never trade with others? What is the purpose of trade between individuals or groups?
> With the extra money the Army will pay him now that he’s married — an estimated $1,200 to $1,400 a month

Anyone know what/how this is? Is this just blatant discrimination against unmarried servicemembers, or what?
Heh. It told me it was 70% sure I was a rhinoceros beetle
Yes, this is the correct answer.
Being a total art ignoramous but clearly interested in the technical aspects behind the site, I quickly googled the painting and learned that it was a triptych (had to google that) whose dimensions were 87 in x 153 in.

A few questions to anyone who can shed more light:

1. What would be the likely dimensions of the source image in pixels to reach such a zoomed level of detail?

2. What kind of camera equipment would I need to photograph such an image of similar size? Can I get away with a run of the mill DSLR such as Nikon D3400/D7500 or Canon EOS 80D?

3. What kind of lens is suitable? Macro?

4. What would be the process of photographing such an image? Taking a single high-res image or taking a series of high-res macro images under suitable lighting and stitching them together?

5. What would be the tools to host the image that would allow this kind of interactivity?

I have a project in mind that could make use of the same technology.
Well, sounds like movies and TV in general, though.
> Authors are only motivated to write, runs the conventional belief, if they know their rights will be protected.

This is absurd. How stupid does one have to be to think this? Copyright serves only one purpose: to make profits for the author and, more importantly, to make profits for the publisher and distributor by exploiting the author's work. These days it almost exclusively does the latter. Copyright is not about contributing to or advancing society. It has nothing to do with that regardless of the original intentions behind it. Copyright is about making money for a few individuals or groups at the expense of the wider society. The sooner the idiotic conventional thinking quoted above is replaced by a proper analysis, the closer we are to fixing this atrocious system that's holding us back.
Not only that, but the tasks these people were assigned are not good models for work tasks. In a real professional workplace, the tasks are usually related to systems or processes over which the individuals feel ownership. Random tasks about which they know nothing are convenient for a study, but not a good model of actual work.
I never said I supported what they did or that it was someone else’s fault. But if the main argument is that they ran a few vacation rentals at once but did nothing else wrong, then “sketchy” isn’t exactly the label most people would apply. The sublets section of Craigslist is significantly sketchier (it’s often mostly clear scams) than a professional host with five star reviews who lists multiple apartments.
My observations about effects of meditations agree 100% with this user's.