skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
just to expand on the meditation side, I recently had a huge breakthrough with my focus from regular 10-minute morning meditation sessions. After a couple of months of attempting to focus on my breath while dealing with a rapidly fluctuating train of thought/attention, eventually that part of my mind "detached" from the attentive focus that I control during meditation.

I can still "see" it if I pay attention to it or don't have anything to actively attend to, but there's a higher level focus which I'm in strong control of. Since then, a 10-minute meditation in the morning leaves me in near-total control of my attention for most of the working day.

This is just from a couple of months' regular practice, so this just goes to show you can achieve revolutionary as well as evolutionary progress from meditative practice.
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Everyone is different but for me it’s about being driven by something I deeply believe in, while getting quick results along the way (to maintain the momentum for a long period of time). As an example, working for someone else in order to get a paycheck is a recipe for failure. Hard to focus and be motivated enough.

So again, it’s different for everyone. Another thing I usually do that works super well for me is to go for a run (30-40min). I solved some of my toughest problems while running because I focus on breathing and nothing else. Not by reading forums or books or even watching videos. Everything gets sorted in my head and I come back home, write down my ideas and chill for a second.

I read that running is one of the best therapy for ADHD people.
Can't stand Trump, but this is not ok
It seems like no one wants to run Linux or its applications lately and they seem happier when Microsoft develops Windows applications and operating system things to handle Linux things. Now Linux apps run on iOS and it's starting to sound like Linux people are happy to see their stuff built by others and running on everything but Linux.

Now, in this day of so much fake news, I wouldn't be surprised that all the happy comments I read are by Microsoft and, now, iOS shills but it's an observation I've made.
Siri Shortcuts can natively run SSH commands now, so that is actually a real possibility.
Yes, but, how non-technical are people who rather write in Markdown than in WYSIWYG?
It's not $10 bucks a month but $1 or $6. I am a paying customer myself and very happy with the service.

They are generous enough to say that if you don't want to pay them money or have a different idea of what a blog should be, then take their software and make it into whatever you want it to be after inspecting their code.

Don't like that either? You can always come to HN and impugn their motives. Never let a good deed go unpunished.
Thinking of using Open MCT on an ATV.
Corporate Surveillance in Everyday Life
I haven't said anything about desktop or big 42" monitors. I'm not going to give up my laptop for a tablet. This is just utterly ridiculous.
Unless they consider this a transitional generation to future MCP processor modules.

Launch early, assess market fit and plan accordingly. Intel did differently with Phi and it didn't quite work the way they (and I) expected.
Here's the source code: https://github.com/writeas/writefreely

As mentioned, it's an open source project.
Neat! I had no idea something like that was available so cheaply.
>While that is valid under GDPR, I bet the EU will come a knockin for a fine if the site gets big enough

Why would you think so?
HAL did not have a baritone voice.
What does federated mean is this context?

(from a non-native English speaker)
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> Note that any builds that go through TestFlight are subject to a review process.

Only to the static analysis part, not to human review.
I'm 100% sure that you are too.

I trust their bias more than yours[0][1]

[0] https://fullfact.org/about/funding/
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=diazon
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If you work in a government or state university staff job, your salary is already publicly available. It's not really a big deal, since those types of jobs have rather strict salary ranges based on position classification and job responsibilities. So you pretty much know going in that everyone doing the same thing is probably making in the ballpark of the same salary.

It's also a good place to look for baseline salary information when you're negotiating. You can pretty easily find out what software developers in your state government or nearest university are making. The numbers will be on the low side compared to the private sector, but benefits and time off in those jobs are usually quite generous so consider that. And layoffs are almost unheard of.
guess: doing away with very poor user-interfaces. Most survey systems are downright horrible.
Privacy as Intellectual Property? [pdf]
> not the least because it seems to be designed around everything going in /usr/local and breaking violently if you don’t stick everything in there

This hasn’t been true for a long time.
getline is POSIX, but not C. I feel like the functionality is so fundamental to writing C as securely as the language allows that it ought to be promoted to being in the C standard.

arc4random is in complete POSIX limbo as far as I can tell. First started as a rename to posix_random[1] and then OpenBSD slammed the door shut by withdrawing it and now we're at risk of getting the worst of both worlds with Linux's getrandom[2].

[1] http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=859

[2] http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1134
How does this work with transpilation? Say I have typescript or a just different js than the end build, how does the debugger know which line to put the breakpoint on?

Does the run config need to be something more structured than "run this gulp command"?
Of course I am not unbiased, I am a person with my own political leanings, like all of us. What I posted was my opinion, that's why it's called a "comment". It's not an article or a paper. But I'm not going to believe for a single second something like "fullfact" is neutral, the same way Snopes isn't, it doesn't matter to me where they get their money from. Those organisations aren't created and funded just for their love of truth and kindness.
Agree, Skype in MS era is just a shadow of what it was before. They completely destroyed the user experience. I don't even know how you can break something that working so well before, and not realize it.
> complaining to all of my bosses and HR about a gender pay gap

That is negotiating.
and the bank account.
If you’re going to use this against a site that runs in AWS, make sure to request permission first @ https://aws.amazon.com/security/penetration-testing

Thx for the oss contribution-Looking forward to trying this out
>Any smart tv could be doing the same thing.

And many have been found to, which kind of proves my point.

>Why do you think that Amazon in particular is likely to be conducting a massive, secret and illegal surveillance operation?

Uhm, because it makes money? Isn't that the answer to any "why" in our current economic system?
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It's very correlated to OCD but afaik it's not exclusive to it, it is its own thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusive_thought

> To me, these thoughts were just part of the normal what-if and should-i scenarios my mind plays all the time.

The problem is that sometimes they might become pretty disturbing, as you can see in the Wikipedia article.

But then again, the bottom line seems to be: as long as you detect them as weird, unwanted, unnormal thoughts, don't worry too much, it's more common than you think, and no, you're not becoming a psycho.
Awesome :) It stuck around till I was 7-8 years old in my case too I think. I still do it every now and then. Counting syllables and interchanging vowel sounds is another thing I indulge in frequently.

Vibrant looks really cool btw. Will check it out. I recently started dabbling with graphics and generative art.
If anyone wonders about the spurious link to Jungle Hunt, I originally pointed out that things like the hanging vine etc. is well represented in C64 games at the time, and Jungle Hunt is a good example. It's a good example overall of using multiple sprites moving together for a larger overall moving element.
For anyone else wondering, a Hyundai costs anywhere between $15000 and $30000: https://www.hyundaiusa.com/build-your-hyundai/index.aspx?int...
I read the Charter, yes.

Now, how do those error-related proposals violate it? Such as:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2289.pdf

It seems to be very delicate about being backwards-compatible.
Great to see this getting open-sourced but let's be honest: without support for PUS, CCSDS and other ECSS standards (or any alternative) this only covers a single-digit percent of the effort needed to develop a mission control system.
I know right! This sequence actually has a history of being discovered by people over and over again through out history. I am the linkdot chap btw :)
In any build vs. buy situation, "build" is driven by the desire to enlarge someone's empire, while "buy" is driven by personal relationships and other sales techniques.

The first maximizes "unique requirements" while the second minimizes them.

Between the two, I generally prefer "build", bad as it is, because it leads to fewer horror shows later.

(10 years at MSFC, 28 years in this industry.)
Could you point the pages where you saw where Gaussian is assumed. To me it talked more heavily about multidimensional non-parametric methods than parametric, let alone Gaussian. It does use Gaussian as a warm up motivating example in the beginning.

The rest that you say is pretty standard stuff and should be elementary knowledge for anyone working seriously in this domain( * ). Am I missing something ?

> For getting an hypothesis test from those algorithms will usually mean doing a derivation to find the probability of Type I error, and such a derivation is commonly difficult to not done yet

Sure its difficult, doesn't mean its not been done. This is bread and butter in ML and non-parametric stats. In fact type I is easy and type I is no where near enough. Setting up an RNG (random number generator) will satisfy the requirements of type I error trivially. The key is type II or in other words key is the proof that the proposed method is better than the bespoke RNG, stated yet another way if power is abysmal it counts for squats.

( * ) Gratuitous assumptions of Gaussianity and incorrect applications of CLT does not qualify as 'working seriously in this domain" for me
hehe this happens to me all the time...
Thoughts like let's go off the road with my motorbike, punching someone in face, moral dillemas like go to job but at the same time stay home and just get high.... brains are weird I just hope those thoughts stay thoughts and I'll be able to resist them in future
Terrible example as most dishwashers don’t run a Unix-like operating system. Spin that example to something running an embedded Linux OS (like my Samsung TV) and the answer is yes (but not in a factory supported way).
Are CEOs being bullied? Everybody knows they make an order of magnitude more.
Skype was far from crappy when MS bought it.
This is straight Taleb.

But I'm not sure the examples fit.

Entrepreneurs aren't judged by the market?

Skin in the game is all about having a p & l and surviving.
The poor are, in most cases, not qualified to do very skilled high-paying work. That is part of why they are poor. Are the jobs they can get really requiring non-competes? If I take a job at an Amazon distribution center, am I going to be asked to agree that I won't later go to Wal-Mart? And if I do, will Amazon actually bother to enforce that?

Last time I had a decision to make on a non-compete, I did consult with a lawyer and he basically said there are no guarantees, but generally a non-compete cannot be enforced if it prevents you from earning a living.

Edit: the article implies that places like McDonald's do this. I worked there (albeit years ago), and at that time it was not true. We would have been rightly laughed at if we asked for a non-compete on a minimum-wage job like that. It was hard enough to hire people who were reasonably well-groomed, punctual, and energetic. We would not have added unnecessary barriers like that.
It is a certain thing vs an uncertainty for one - aside from skill set differences you could get something better or you could burn several times it worth trying and failing to compete as a late mover.
On iPad, this keyboard comes by default for all apps (including iSH), since it’s provided by the system.
Yes, there is a way and it’s already in beta. It’s called sealed-sender and you can read about it in this signal blog post: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/
Same question.

I have heard it used to mean there is no one central server but a lot of people put their servers together. I don't understand it in this blogging context because you can always put up your own blog on your server.

How is running your blog or blogging platform on your own server different from other blogs or platforms?
My guess would be this was added after another app started hitting their endpoints? Otherwise there would be no point to doing it like this.
That was a price per year and it's been a while since you paid that.
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It means your blog can communicate with other software that supports ActivityPub, so you aren't locked in to one community. For example, I can follow your blog from my Mastodon (a Twitter-like project) as if it were a Mastodon account.
It's basically the easiest way of treating data as instructions, sort of like executing a compiled program as you would with an interpreted language?
UML: The Positive Spin (1997)
Unfortunately on Android you have no choice.
Care to show how to do this or even an example of this being done?

Extraordinary claims require proof.
Hi there,

This is mostly for emails related to tasks with hard deadlines(5% of the emails I send). Obviously not for all emails, that would drive people crazy. What I am looking for is a way to send an emails which requires a 1-24 hour turnaround and a reminder to the recipients to respond and resolve. I am looking for a solution for Gmail and Outlook, although client-agnostic would be best.
Publicly Available Standards
You're describing the Borg.
I'm pretty sure SpaceX is just Elon Musk reproducing his KSP campaign IRL.
> I knew more and played the market game better, yet because of my gender I then make the same as a less productive worker?

Sounds like you didn't play the market game as well as she did after all.
I've had these kind of intrusive thoughts since I can remember. I would never act on it and now, after having had them for so long, I am confident enough to play along sometimes if I don't have anything better to do.

They are apparently very common and most people will have them, to a various degree.

I just see them as weird thought experiments and don't read too much into them.
I’m no machine learning expert, but it seems to me that neural networks just don’t really work like people do, as much as people would like to claim that they’ve created something that works like the human brain.
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"Interact with the decentralized social web via ActivityPub."

It directly speaks to Mastodon and other Fediverse software.
We do an approximation of the same, macrocosmically, with little to no satisfaction. And they remain in balance with their ecosystem. And as far as we can tell their mind or conscience or consciousness is uncluttered by any of their acts.
The main defense against tracking used to be (in addition to more modern anti-tracking features) to configure the browser to remove cookies when exiting it.

With the big dialogs that one systematically finds at websites now, in practice you are being forced to accept those cookies, if only to avoid seeing those monster dialogs again.

So in practice the EU is massively driving people to accept permanent cookies. That's IMHO a valid reason to complain about GDPR.
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Ask HN: Canonical form for blog content?
Suppose you want one canonical form for all your blog content. I assume it would be a variant of markdown.

However, you want to preserve tags, table of contents etc.

And you want to be able to submit this content to a static site engine (Jekyll etc), or the major private platforms (say, Wordpress, Medium, Ghost) and also the closed garden blogs (Linkedin).

What would be the best form and structure to store them in? One folder with all the posts? How would the meta-data be stored?

If that is not possible, is it possible to have one target (say Wordpress) which makes it easy to export to others?
There are plenty of successful bootstrappers on HN, myself included.

Dozens of us!
In fact, I think WG14 was in favour if the N2289 proposal.
I mean, the reason this works is generally because there is some information which Google does not have, that's why they are asking you to provide it. So, for instance, in the case of words, they used to present two words which were scanned in, one which they knew was correct and one which they didn't know. As long as you enter the one they know correctly, they assume you've also answered the one they don't know correctly. (Maybe they do some variant of this, but that was the general idea.)

I assume they're doing something similar with the image segmentation tasks, so if you randomly select two tiles and click "next" there are some images where it actually doesn't know if you are correct or not, so it ends up storing your response and lets you through.
Is this for sales or personal emails?
Wait, that's not normal? :D
This is a hot take, but Qualtrics seems like one step lower than a full-blown CMS that collects the same data but doesn't manage web pages or content (this includes automated management and 'personalization' based on statistics you collect), e.g. Sitecore or Adobe Experience Manager, two big, leading CMS products.
Personal emails for partly internal team use and partly for communications with external vendors
The problem with political ideas (and ideals) is that you can always argue both ways.

Historically, both modern capitalism and the industrial revolution were born and raised in monarchies. The forefathers of modern global corporations were royal charter companies.
I worked out that sequence while ignoring my assignments in elementary school, and I've been mildly obsessed with it since.

I don't think I'm OCD, but this thread is kind of freaking me out.

[edit] I also use my fingers to count binary on each hand independently, starting from different numbers and moving them forward in lock step.
This is the correct answer in theory, but in practice, I've never seen a company that was very good at paying/promoting people based on output.

It is difficult enough to measure output, especially when there's often many issues around politics and luck-of-the-draw for project assignments. Compound this with the fact that employees don't always scale with the company, or contribute at a high-level when promoted.
>C++ is not a strict subset of C.

I think you flipped this :) ?
Doing any Swing UI apps in Clojure is a breeze, and its very interactive during development, I rarely need to write any java code for any of my personal apps, also JEdit is a good fit as an editor/ide for Clojure , using Jedit Macros gives it a Java...ish emacs feel. if only there was debugger.
Apartments for sure, mostly the ones by the beach, at vacation spots. I came to learn, that in the city, owning an apartment is not gonna bring you money, the market can get crowded with many many offers.
Analyse survey responses using machine learning
The problem with Intel is that they are too worried about competing with themselves. Every bit of their server pricing is designed to prevent people from finding a "bargain". That works really well when you're only competing with yourself, but falls down when outside competition finally arrives.

Right now, the AMD Epyc is the only game in town in terms of I/O bandwidth if you want to build a single-socket box that can serve 200Gb/s from NVME to the network. Part of this is because Intel has categorized heavy IO as something where they want to force you to multi-socket, so they limit the PCIe lanes to 48 lanes per socket (which is enough for only about 150Gb/s).

So, I'm really looking forward to seeing where this chip falls in their pricing structure, and whether or not it has more than 48 lanes of PCIe wired out of the chip.
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To explain a little more behind this project: this started out as a simple, privacy-focused blogging platform called Write.as.

We've been running a Mastodon instance for a while and keeping up with the fediverse, so over the summer as it got much easier to implement, we added support for ActivityPub (the protocol behind Mastodon, PixelFed, Funkwhale, etc.) The fediverse has a strong FOSS culture, so after releasing AP support, I got to work on opening up the source for Write.as, and this is that final result.

Write.as has existed for 4 years, so the application code is very stable. But right now I'm getting the code to a place that works great in any configuration, installs easily, etc.
https://writefreely.org/hosting shows $10/mo and up. I guess the OP would have to find the write.as site instead.
If you have any facts to back up your opinion though, that'd be helpful. Otherwise divisive horseshit comments with no substance, meant to instil an "us vs them" attitude to people who contribute more to the UK than they take out, and have a net positive impact on the country as a whole, will be treated with the unreserved contempt they deserve.

It's some people's opinion the world is flat, there's evidence to the contrary, but they don't believe it as they see the scientists as biased. Think on that one for a moment.
I manage IT for a number of small businesses, so I routinely reformat my devices and also monitor traffic on my network regularly so I am fairly certain there is no malware. (Well, to the extent that one can be confident, at all, nowadays.)

That said, the idea that Google can hold my time hostage in this way is concerning. The suggestions you presented are not feasible for most users. Who has money to just go buy a new phone because Google's reCAPTCHAs are taking up their day? Why should that be acceptable?
I think much of this is Microsoft and Apple attempting to retain marketshare. Niether has well maintained, vast software archives like Debian, or instant rollback after a package install or update like SUSE (thanks to btrfs and zypper).

Meanwhile the non-phone computer market is shrinking each year, and what remains is mostly a market for devices that are good at running browsers.
Interesting how Finland is handling this. I think taxes payed by person can bee looked up() and from that you can infer how much one earns. Basically making everyones salary public.

() might be wrong here.
>Google's mature products like Ads, Docs, GMail, etc are amazing.

Until something goes wrong and the only recourse is to post an angry Hacker News thread or call up people you personally know at Google to get it fixed. For example https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/22/that-time-i-got-locked-out....
If we judge based on engagement? Can we be sure who is more invested? Regardless of the unknowns there, can we ascertain intrinsic loyalty and/or belonging and/or commensurate reward to investment and will/self contribution? I'm obviously attributing a lot to their mode of being. But if it's even remotely close to true, you don't think we have a lot to learn?
Twitter is considering an edit feature: CEO Jack Dorsey
Why can't you just track opens? Why the automated email or phone reminders? Will your peers respond well to this?