skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just don't get it.

It's difficult enough to spend 1000's of hours on honing my craft. How can I possibly justify that sort of investment in meditation?

If you tell me it helps those with sleep issues, mental blocks, psychological issues, or addiction, your point is well taken and understood. But for those of us blessed to be in relatively sound mind, how will we benefit from meditation?
Here are the 'cyber 9/11' scenarios that really worry the experts
Currently it's part of political science / politology mixed with psychology. It could change your worldview so much that it would completely destroy any trust in governments, media, political systems. Which is actually a necessary first step in order to understand how these things work. I guess this is the fundamental thing you are talking about. Once you get there, you can start learning more in depth about these things. It's something for life. You will never be able to trust any government again.
All great nations are built by theft of a valuable resource.

It's the sure fire way to get ahead in any game.
China has also totally rejected environmentalism and monetary discipline. Need energy? Burn coal with no scrubbers and fake the air quality data. Have waste? Dump it in rivers and bribe local officials. Economy slowing? Print money. Need infrastructure? Print the money to pay for it.

Western liberals say ignoring the environment will catch up to them. Western conservatives say you can't ignore fiscal discipline forever. So far both are wrong.

These go along with IP as things China is ignoring. They seem to be calling BS on all forms of large scale socioeconomic restraint that might restrain GDP growth. Strap a brick to the accelerator and go.

It's an interesting experiment and as others have pointed out not that different from America in the 19th century.
Now you are just grasping at straws :) but hey, everyone on the internet is a racist right?
Yeah. Just googling about Alibaba in Chinese and one would find articles about the IP theft culture within the organisation. There are tons of stories circulating in Chinese start-up communities about how project managers from Alibaba, Tencent, etc, pretended to be interested in funding (or collaborating with) a start-up before stealing ideas/designs/code/algorithms from them.

e.g. https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/29783732

Edit: elaboration
We had been planning on doing a couples MTB channel as my wife was looking for something outside of work to make up for a lack of interesting projects at work. In the end she landed up getting a job at Aston Martin and now I just use the gimbal for fun with our friends when riding.

I recommend BKXC and Seth’s Bike Hacks as good channels that avoid all the Gnar downhill stuff
Feedback on Learning Clojure: Comparing with Java Streams
No, it doesn't read like that at all. It appears you simply didn't like - and possibly didn't understand - the conclusion.
Which companies do you refer?

I am fine with other companies facing public backlash for their actions just like Facebook is now if they are doing things as shady as Facebook.
Maybe because it wasn’t the first to do so. There were thousands of pieces of software available that would run on all different CP/M machines from lots of different manufacturers.

Usually the only difference was the disk format, and in those cases you could often order the software on the disk type of your choice.

If you had a real outlier of a system, there were often equivalent packages written in BASIC or LISP or PASCAL that you could buy the source code for to run on your machine.

People today would laugh at the notion of paying $1,500 for an accounting program delivered in BASIC. But that’s how it was.
Seems like anything said about China by Chinese (anywhere) should be discounted, which leaves it up to the true experts on China - people not in, involved with, or knowledgeable about China!
You need to think broader. Hollywood is starved for ideas. How do you think 50 shades of grey became a movie?
That is unbelievable! How did you index the audio? What did you have to do to access them during a test, and how long did it take? Did you find that you had accidentally memorized some of the lectures after having read them aloud?

> I rejected memorisation on principle, that's not what an university should be about.

The lengths you went to to avoid doing it the easy way are incredible. You’re not alone, but I have to say I think this idea - that university should not involve memorization - is a common misconception. If you think about it, a good education requires memorization. What we’re learning in all fields in large amounts - even in math - is some degree of human history, and some degree of human notation and convention, neither of which can be derived by logic. Think about language, becoming a fluent speaker, especially the first time, is almost entirely learn by rote.
Thanks to the Hacker News community for the feedback they gave me. I tried to sum it up in a post, to benefit people like me who want to learn Clojure.
You've just described most advertising, ever.
Would Germany count? Obviously Post WWII without any of their acquisitions, debilitated infrastructure, and debt

Yet third time's a charm!
I don’t know about you, but I hardly transfer data from point a to b via physical means anymore.

It’s all network. So all I need is working file-transfer protocols.
perhaps this is an incendiary comment, but i really do wonder what all of the HN facebook employees are telling themselves to deal with the cognitive dissonance caused by this latest scandal wherein facebook paid for smear campaigns to distract from their own dirty laundry.

every time i have encountered these people on HN, they've portrayed a cultlike naivety regarding their organization's actions. they always allude to the outside world "not knowing the whole story" or something similar. in other words, they've made excuses.

but i really do want to see what the excuses are this time. i imagine they will be particularly entertaining.

more seriously, it's time for facebook to wrap it up. we've known for years that they were abusing the public trust. while i doubt we will see any leadership from congress regarding breaking up the company or degrading their capabilities to hurt the public interest, the intense amount of flak that FB has been getting lately is immensely promising. plenty of people are leaving FB.

while it is true that many of these people are leaving for instagram, it's a critically different product. i think instagram has a much more limited ability to negatively impact the public good via propaganda etc mostly because it isn't as participatory as facebook.
Is it just me or is it absolutely insane that zfs and btrfs are the only common filesystems out there that do data checksumming? I don't want or need the extra complexity of either of them in a lot of cases, but I'd sure as hell like to know if my data is corrupt...
It's probably a deliberate strategy by the carbon industry to distract attention away from them.

Facebook et al all deserve the attention, mind, especially in mobile. The amount of information mining done via apps (and especially by pre-installed apps which you cannot uninstall) is a scandal.
It doesn't really work. It's just fiddly and often doesn't do what I want it to. I don't even understand how it's supposed to work. I tap at the top so the address bar shows up. I tap the address bar. It thinks I want to enter a URL, so it changes the view.
Wait until you get a 1-bit flip in a spacemap record.
Then you just won't be able to import your pool (insta-panic). And good luck with fining and fixing that flipped bit.
You know, I think that's a pretty wise point that I haven't really heard put into words before - a good teacher's goal is to prepare their students to be able to debate the merits of the teacher's own opinions on equal ground.
The idea is to remove people from power before they get to have a death toll. Generally it becomes impossible to remove them during the terror.
First you need to find a technical co-founder you can trust. I saw a few founders fail because they thought they can manage communication with developers alone.
These are not used for data but for the computation of the internal coefficients. Said coefficients would be stored as F32:s, and the job of modifying them involves computing a lot of multiplications, none of which need to be that precise.
Yes, they violated the license. [0] They just stole his commits and changed the name, like some sort of cartoon clown business. The license requires conspicuous copyright attribution and statement and explanation of changes. Meaning, not just some untrue one-liner buried at the bottom of a wall of text. What they've been doing is obviously not in line with the terms of their use of the code.

[0] https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/4577/does-gpl...
Are you f-ing kidding me? Until 90%+ of FB users start dropping dead because of lung cancer then that statement is complete garbage.

EDIT: a lot of people are taking my statement as meaning not to criticize Facebook. That is not it at all! It just means not to lose perspective. At least I still consider tobacco to be far worse, directly causing ~7M deaths annually with no visible benefit.

EDIT 2: Genuine question: has anyone studied the rise of fascism post-FB vs. pre-FB? It's not like dictatorships and far-right governments didn't get elected pre-FB. Obviously I am one of those who doubt FB's direct responsibility vs. it being simply a media narrative against a business threat.

[1] http://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tobacco
What's the association of complementary medicine with cancer treatment survival?
Huh, maybe I'll reconsider my kefir and yogurt habit. I have been having a cup of kefir every morning because of its purported health effects, and occasionally I add yogurt to the mix. I haven't seen any downsides, but I haven't been doing it that long, so if it only becomes a problem when it accumulates, I'll just reduce how much I consume.

I guess I need to find a replacement with a reasonably high amount of protein (I've been using it as a pre-workout drink). I'm hoping I can fit lentils in there somewhere.

It seems that one serving a day of yogurt is probably fine, but two a day (about what I have been having) is probably bad long-term. I'll probably continue having yogurt, but I'll only have it once a day and get my protein elsewhere.
"A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept" — China seems to have taken this to heart.

- The amount spend by gov and private sector on education is insane; high literacy rate is an amazing accomplishment.

- Requiring foreign firms to give up technologies for market access is more or less the embodiment of this idea.

- IP theft is similar, you're trading a reputational hit for the means of growth.
That makes sense about wondering where something is because thats one of the things I deal with when debugging. But that's also a problem in the backend, I've run into code that is split into multiple places with different versions of the same program all being used simultaneously.

Is it usually faster to do some logic like sorting and calculations in the clients browser than to do it on the server before sending the information? If so then I could see a reason to move some logic out and I may do it if the gain is appreciable.
There are generally more ways to lose than to win. Entropy is like that.
Wrote my first ebook about CSS last November [1]. With little marketing, I sold hundreds in the first few months, and after a year it’s still bringing around $500/month.

I’m thinking about writing a new one, but I’m not sure about the topic.

[1] https://jgthms.com/css-in-44-minutes-ebook
Bezos played these cities like a fiddle. They'll never offer deals to him like this again but he doesn't care because this was a one-shot stunt.

Like sports teams, the impact on the local economies will be negligible. Lets see how many of the 25k jobs even show up...
The actual title is far too long for HN's character limit: Complementary Medicine, Refusal of Conventional Cancer Therapy, and Survival Among Patients With Curable Cancers

I did my best with the first para: What patient characteristics are associated with use of complementary medicine for cancer and what is the association of complementary medicine with treatment adherence and survival?

But there are probably better titles. Sorry.
>‘the last line of defense will always be citizens who are willing to question what they see and hear’

no. that is the first line of defense. realistically, it is the only line.

silly corporate attempts to prune information are the last line -- the line that nobody should depend on or expect to even exist.
Still. Your friends are not a representative audience, when speaking on a global internet forum. Even though "you can leave at any point", Vipassana, for all its benefits, is absolutely not recommended for first timers! Please refrain from generalising irresponsibly.
93 $ a month, how much rate of interest does your bank pay ?
>it does reduce the possibility of being manipulated through fake news

I'm sorry to say, but there's no evidence it's true. Formally more educated, and formally less educated belong to different social tribes, and react to different information stimulants, and that's all. Advertising industry successfully pushes peoples choices of all sorts of education.

Also, I believe your idea of authoritarianism is not wholly correct. I was born, and raised in a real dictatorship which provided free tuition (probably, at least partially because it makes a great influence, and control apparatus once nationalized) as well as cheap health, and communal services. In fact, all left dictatorships did/do it to some extent to have an ideological selling point. Also, dictatorships often care less about one's voting pattern, because they can count it properly. What do they always care about? Information. They all restrict freedom of speech.
Clickbait. I think the actual story was already posted a few days back.

I'm pretty sure tabbaco has killed a few more people than Facebook, so this is a ridiculous comparison.

Facebook does a lot for which it should be criticized, but it feels like we're just beating on a dead horse.

It's also hilarious that someone would be so critical of Facebook all while including their share button in the same article. Apparently they're evil, but not evil enough to stop using their service. I think that says a lot about the author.
What if 90% of democracies start dropping dead?
I see what you're saying, but it's also true that cigarettes didn't fundamentally weaken the structure of democratic societies. The long-term consequences of that (heck, even short-term) could be much more severe.
How about genocide? Would that work for you?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
That strategy is not uncommon for big companies, think about Facebook, Microsoft.
Oh, you think people should get together and pay for drug development and medical treatment of people with rare diseases? Good idea. In fact, maybe we should create some sort of system where funds are collected widely and then distributed through systems that judge merit, utility, and cost effectiveness.

Oh, wait! We already did! This literally exists in most countries. In the US the government funds about half of all basic research. In many biomedical fields, that number rises to 80-90%. Treatment too is covered by "crowdfunding" through government-supported health care systems.

The guy's grumble here is that he doesn't like the system. And there are plenty of fair arguments to make there. But his complaint isn't, "We need to do better funding cures over treatments," or "The government should support rare diseases better." It's a confusion of of free-market slogans inside a context that not only has little to do with a free market, but one where he only has something to sell due to extensive government funding and a government-granted monopoly.

Free-market approaches work well when figuring out the price of beans that you buy every week at the market. They are of very narrow utility in exotic, life-critical treatments for rare diseases. I'm still all for applying them where we can. But this guy's gripe sounds more like free-market fundamentalism (or straight greed) than any thoughtful understanding of how to fund public goods.
You have given little information so probably you don’t have anything valuable, on average. If you have real customers, a number of people who have committed to pay for something well defined via a letter of intent or real expertise in some business then by all means go for it.

If you work with freelancers it could work out if you’re good, lucky or both. Don’t do that. Find someone who doubles your chandlcebif success and work with them instead.

You could
A. Get a job
B. Work on upwork or some other Market for Lemons
C. Do Lambdaschool.com
D. Do open.appacadenmmy.io
E. Sell a technical cofounder on you

E means showing how great you are, how much you know about your target market or how big it is or how many potential customers you have for a _detailed, particular_ idea.
It's a travesty that so few people care about moving to more reliable filesystems. A decade later and we're still stuck with ext4 and now btrfs, which I do use nowadays but I'm absolutely aware of the high risk of data corruption because the underlying code is terrible.

Windows is even worse with NTFS, which is a complete pile of garbage. I've fixed hundreds of computers with NTFS corruption over my lifetime and it's mind-boggling that Microsoft is fine with this shit.
I hope nobody takes this comment seriously. I don’t know a single good designer who uses a template for anything. They may draw inspiration from samples provided by the client but definitely no templates.

If you hire an enterprise firm who fails do deliver a product that fits your target market then the fault is on you for not doing your due diligence.

Contests are by far the worst way to go about making a design decision. You are asking a bunch of people to design something they put little thought into so they can make a big impression with little tact. Might be ok if you are doing a shitty logo but for a project that requires understanding your target audience you’re shooting yourself in the foot.
Honestly, I feel this position is morally bankrupt.

When someone pays for your product, gives you sensitive information, or interacts with you in any way, they have a set of expectations. When purchasing medicine at a pharmacy, they expect to receive something that has a chance of making them better. When they deposit money into a bank, they expect that the bank will try to have the money there when they want it later. When they drop their car off at a mechanic, they expect the mechanic will try not lose the car. Anything less is called a scam.

So when someone purchases a product, they expect that appropriate measures have been taken to ensure that they will not be hurt by that product. The average consumer doesn't know about proper electrical grounding, the interactions of their prescription medications, or XSS. They shouldn't have to, they're paying to not have to.

"security people" overvalue security in relation to _your_ bottom line. In truth, they aren't just there for you, they're also there to advocate for the people who will actually be hurt when your garbage security gets circumvented.
I'll add that the differentiating factor between a startup and a small business (or freelancer, contractor, etc.) is the ability to scale and do so quickly without increasing the company overhead, initially at least.
People are dying because of Facebook and even one death is one too many...
I think this makes light of the fact that lung cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world. Every year millions of people die. Millions. And this is just one way cigarettes have negative impact. I’ve heard doctors say that we would need far fewer hospitals in the U.S if it wasn’t for all the negative effects of smoking.
This isn't genetic programming at all.

What's being described here is a kind of sample-based stochastic optimization which, if I were pressed, is most similar to an algorithm known as a "(mu, lambda) evolution strategy". This is in the general subarea of evolutionary computation. Another algorithm in this area, for example, is the Genetic Algorithm.

Genetic Programming (GP) is the application of stochastic optimization techniques to a specific problem: the discovery and optimization of small computer programs or procedures. Because GP is famously associated with candidate solutions in the form of tree structures, it's also applied to non-program optimization as long as the problem involves trees. That's the rough boundary for the community.

The most famous example of a genetic programming system in Clojure is Lee Spector's Clojush (https://github.com/lspector/Clojush).
What I am interested to know is if meditation correlates with increased ability to cope with life problems. Because many people treat it like a refuge from the hardships of life, not a super boost in mental powers.

I have hardcore practiced meditation for 20 years and some of my colleagues who were doing the same were in a pretty bad state - unmarried, with a low level job and not owning their house. They weren't on average happier than normal people.

I attribute their failure to the philosophy of detachment and switching from normal life goals to 'spiritual goals'. It was all a bust. They were exploited by the school under which we practiced. I had the good sense to keep my life separate from the practice so I wasn't affected as much.

Maybe it's a problem of the school I followed, but the same idea of detachment is part of all schools. In the end what matters is survival, and in today society, it means building your career and family, not just sitting still.

To the down-voters: can you contradict me after 7000+ hours of meditation, where you actually achieve the experiences mentioned in the ancient texts? Meditation worked very well for me, it was the general direction that was bad. We're supposed to maximise our rewards, including having children, not replacing this with an artificial abstract goal. Our rewards are selected and chiseled by evolution, they are what made us survive and thrive.
> I am not against conservative people and also not against people with different views. … It becomes a problem when some of those people can't tell the difference between truth and lie.

Perhaps we should create camps that educate these people on political issues.
Happy Fastmail user here. Thank you for providing a quality service!
We have always had control over the Proton brands. Proton has just two outside investors, FONGIT and CRV, and neither has anywhere near a controlling interest. We do take your concerns seriously though, and will aim for even more transparency.
So true. Just write an innocuous automation script that will fail on privs generating massive logs and then use debugging as an excuse when you try to systematically audit capabilities. Often helpful IT staff will open up vulns for ya to put an end to the noise. Of course in many orgs it’s necessary to do this in order to get legitimate work done too...
How do the switching happen? You just allow a node in one language to be some root of another, or is it more complicated?
That video was released a month after I fixed mine! Could have done with that.
> I haven't investigated invisible watermarks yet. I'm definitely interested in those.

AFAIK, a tool called "Convert to trusted PDF" in Qubes OS should make sure there are no invisible markers. It just makes pictures from the files using a disposable VM (yes, the file sizes become larger...).
I wondered about this too. I'm someone who won't work in any adtech at all for ethical reasons.

I asked my friend who works at FB, and he said, "I don't know about all that. I just want to work on cool tech."

I think that's how most humans feel about their role in orgs like Facebook, so I don't judge him at all.
and then there is depression and the market fell off by 50%