skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tibetans talks through all the different stages of heightened awareness as you meditate deeper. In fact, one of the meditative technique requires you to visualize the Tibetan alphabet letter for AH sound, sort of like the OM sound in Hindi, and it goes into great detail about what sort of sensations one might feel, so its very possible that you've reached a mental state that is just void of the ego that you used to have. It's the ego that fears death most of all, because it means losing attachment to the material things in the ego's mind.

I remember one Hindu guy telling me after a long discussion in the sauna, "Ego is your brain trying to protect you from truths you cannot handle".

It left a lasting impression on me.
I'm the same. I was heavy into Linux when it first came out, but I've been pretty much 100% Windows for about 20 years. I still help my kid out when he has to use Linux for a project or whatever, but I could never see myself using it as my "daily driver".
The New ‘Dream Home’ Should Be a Condo
‘Idea Guys(and gals)’ are fine if they have ‘ideas’ that translate into successful business and have skills to execute them. We generally call these people ‘serial entrepreneurs’.

The difficulty is that it’s not hard to identify that people would like flying cars, it’s much harder to wield physics to make that practical.
>> I don't know if the same thing could happen in my new life as a web dev,

Doubtful TBH

"Front-end dev" here in the Midwest. Even when the economy tanked in 2008, I barely noticed and I was working as a contractor. I still had recruiters calling for contract work. We had a lot more people come into the industry via the banks and small businesses who went under in the crash, but even then, it wasn't a huge deal.

I'm always hedging my bets the bottom will fall out eventually. Even when people thought our roles would drop off, whoosh suddenly everybody wanted to convert all their stuff to Javascript apps and everything took off again.

Right now, more back-en devs are getting into the JS scene and "full stack" development is back in vogue. I still concentrate heavily on the UI/UX side and have been picking up JS work more and more. There's such a shortage of good JS developers that if you're a mid to senior level JS developer, you're going to have tons of options and a solid future.

If you don't want to do contract work, land a stable role at a large corporation and hunker down for a few years and see which way the wind blows then.
The article is not even wrong. That first yellow highlight is … ugh.

If a programmer from another language asks for an array, I'm going to point them at the `list` class in Python.

As some other sub-comments under your original post note, some uses of an array want the actual data to be contiguous. But Python `list`'s values are references to other values, not the direct values themselves. If you're familiar w/ C, it's closer to an array of pointers to objects. That matters for some niche cases. But in basic tutorial? No. And Python has some built-in types to account for some of the niche cases. Sure, that pointer is not free, and the overhead of a Python object is not free, but Python is a high level scripting language, and generally, `list` provides a random-access ordered collection, which is what most people want when they say "array", and the overhead doesn't matter for many things.
hn has become such a dumpfest of cryptofascists thinking that they are 9000 IQ brain geniuses and that no one can see through what they're trying to do.
I don't think that's true. There are many cases of this happening where the person could not be called a fascist at all. (Look at the case of Sargon for instance). If you asked the Chinese government, i'd bet they feel 100% justified that the people on their blacklist are subversive and dangerous too.
This is correct. The $27B also counts income taxes paid by employees, property taxes based on rising valuations, and so on.
$90 for a "smart" lamp, $2600 flip phones, ...

Man if this isn't a symptom of gadget/tech bubble on the verge of bursting I don't know what it is.
The same First Amendment that protects that baker also protects the rest of us from being forced to say things we don't believe, which is why the Supreme Court ruled in the cakeshop's favor.

What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you — where would you hide, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast — man's laws, not God's — and if you cut them down, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
As a newcomer to it, I found this book extremely helpful and instantly impactful to my daily life. That said, I find that you need to keep up the practice continually as its impact has a half life and fades over time.
Wealth may not be a complete 0-sum game, but for at least a couple decades virtually all the economic gains in the US have gone to the top 10%. So when people are cheering that wealth is (finally) starting to flow from the investor-class to the wage-earning class, it feels disingenuous to me, or at least willfully naive, to blithely argue "why are you rooting for someone else's income to go down?"
I have more ideas then time to implement them so for me I need to manage "work-in-progress" so undone projects don't stay undone for too long.

For instance last year I bought a bunch of Phillips Hue
hardware, ZooZ sensors, etc. I never got them all working. I also have a collection of Denon HEOS speakers
and receivers so I can have "whole home music" but also have "battleship style" surround sound in that the system can target messages to different zones.

I got some time off work so in the last few weeks I've
gotten the Linux server downstairs to control them all so I am now living inside a sessile robot, get woken up with bugle calls at sunrise, have lights "always on" a
certain zone, the system speaks up if a switch is in the wrong position, something important is not plugged in, etc.
I've taken "porting" to equally mean either. Besides, porting to another language is in a good sense "porting to another platform".
I agree. C# is wonderfully designed, only reason I haven't switched is the huge number of wonderful libraries available in java.

Also sad that C# went asynchronous. I mean, it works great, and it's better than what Java has now, but it's not backwards compatible like I expect fibers to be. With how many third party libraries we pull in, this is a gigantic selling point
I feel like the stats of how American companies are selling in China is not an indicator of the growth of the Chinese economy, of course the market and real estate indicators are still valid.
Nah man, you're misunderstanding. I mean a phone in which the OS does not give the user the option to access stuff. This is a self-restraint thing and there's a (small) market right now for phones that can only do basic functionality (i.e. message, call, address book and maybe an alarm), it seems to me that it _should_ be possible to permanently disable wifi on an Android ROM, and potentially (although probably much less likely) make data almost impossible to use.

It's far easier to not be tempted by something you have no immediate means of accessing than something that's a toggle away.
I think of this as a variant of Postel's law (for TCP/IP):

Be conservative in what you do,
Be liberal in what you accept from others.

Most major belief systems have the same concept of defining "winning at being human" as putting up with more crap and simultaneously taking the effort to overdeliver. As a society, this pulls us upward.

On a continuum, there are 3 states:

- A negative state, where we take/expect more than we deliver. At best, we require others to do us good before we ourselves do good, at worse we are unconcerned about other's good. It's also, at an individual level, the path of least resistance.

- A neutral state, where we attempt to balance what we expect and what we deliver. In that state is the Golden Rule (do to others what you want them to do to you) and eye-for-an-eye (don't return more tort than the tort caused to you). Very loosely, this is where justice lives.

- A positive state, where we attempt to give more than what we expect. This is the domain of mercy, stoicism and "turn the other cheek". It requires a personal cost/sacrifice in order to expect less yet still deliver what is good. This is also the domain of love.
The drop coincides with the market tanking at the end of last year, due to the Fed badly miscalculating their rate hike policy.

TFA omits this context, and glaringly doubles down on the omission when they state;

“The report from the Commerce Department on Friday also showed inflation pressures remaining tame, which together with slowing domestic and global economic growth gave more credence to the Federal Reserve’s “patient” stance towards raising interest rates further this year.”

The Fed caused tremendous damage at the end of Q4 with their breakneck rate hikes in the face of record-low inflation. They sucked over a trillion dollars out of the economy which is why the numbers are down.

To write that this gives credence to the Fed’s “patient” stance is wallpapering over the real story, and it smells politically motivated.
Yeah, I wish we had Ada experts fixing and optimizing them. That would be neat! It matters a lot to people, and Rust versions have been optimized to oblivion by many people. It should be done with Ada, too, to have a fair comparison. :)

And yeah, it is a valid and very serious issue. If we had more Ada programmers, we would not have to sit in trains or airplanes "powered" by C++, haha.
Do you have performance numbers, especially in comparison to json1? Wondering how much benefit you get from a binary encoding scheme.
A 'serial entrepreneur' executes, and does it multiple times. It's the execution that matters. Everyone has ideas.
No. Common walls and shared floor/ceiling sucks, thank you very much. Better to be in a trailer (which I quite like)
Do you take walks or exercise? I find walking/running and taking in the fresh air to be helpful to clear the mind.

Nature is full of wonderful things to explore and take notice in.

In other threads I came across mention of a very small book called Constructive Living. It may of may not be of help.
Insurer skips doctors and sends checks to patients
There's probably mutually exclusive options here. Either I can send my recommendations to anyone or recommendations stay private. If I can send them to anyone, I can send them to myself and read the report.
The sad thing is that the CEO is still there.
as if this whole processes hasn't been gross enough, do they think this boot-licking after the fact is going to curry some favor?
Last time I tried the full disk encyrption [sic] it was an awful setup compared to Linux.

> https://why-openbsd.rocks/fact/meltdown-spectre/

Uh, yeah. They did that, just like Linux did before them. I especially like the reply to the announcement that was "uh… I hope you didn't spend these two months coming up with that solution. We already did that for Linux, so you could have just asked".
Finally a social network that respects privacy and security. I will most definitely sign up my family as soon as this goes live. I want to be able to share on social but I also want my data and privacy to be handled with respect!
I believe this is done on purpose because it's not in the company's interests to have your data encrypted. There's no incentive for them to make it easier. It's certainly possible though.
You'll get there. I'm at the point where my accidental nano sessions look like jkjkdd:q! because I can't remember how to exit it and I can't stand navigating an editor with arrow keys anymore.
Methane in the atmosphere is surging, and that’s got scientists worried
Jeff Bezos isn't a a billion times more productive than an average person. He's leeching off the productivity of amazon's workers.
It's weird they chose the image format, maybe it's because they want to show the signatures(?), instead of Portable Document Format.
But the meme lasted for a few weeks tops. I never hear people reference the “does it bring you joy” thing anymore.
was the "room of couches..." trend immediately after an episode of The Goldebergs aired with exactly that scenario? (except the 80's version)

also the "stuff we never use" is probably mostly just parents fed up with their kids breaking stuff just by looking at it and they'd like to emerge from parenthood with at least some sentimental items still intact. (source: a parent with 7 and 2 y/o energetic, clumsy boys who I'd very much love to share my own personal memories with lest they be destroyed on contact with one of the whirlwinds of destruction...)
Without wanting to unnecessarily stoke the hyperbole, I'm struck that the Facebook/Google beast is a level more powerful because the effects of its "scoring" are implicit and emergent, rather than China's being explicit and contrived. I assume the Chinese system could be dismantled relatively quickly without overturning the fabric of their society. Facebook/Google on the other hand is so engrained in the nature of Western society I find it difficult to imagine how we transition away from them.

China's system is hand-cranked and top-down. The Facebook/Google system has a life of its own that pervades the very foundations of its host.
What I don't understand is how w3fools got onto their first ranking position for every single web dev topic there is on both ddg and G.

1) meaning w3schools not the w3fools parody site
> Everyone would love to switch to linux, except "I can't do X on linux, and I must have X". People are literally addicted to PCs, I think it's unhealthy.

It's not just about spending all your time using computers or addiction.

I would like to switch to Linux but there's no screencast video editing tools that are comparable to Camtasia that run on Linux.

I wouldn't call that an unhealthy addiction for sticking with Windows. It's a necessity for my line of business.
And in communist countries its for being bourgeois imperialists who are pushing an ideology that directly leads to oppression of the working class.

Unless one basically says ”But the difference is that our ideology is actually correct and theirs is wrong”. That leads to the conclusion that there is nothing wrong with that kind of oppression in itself, but only if the targets are the wrong targets.
Can't wait! Does the form on the website put me on the beta list?
Some b-brands are junk; not worth the price of admission. But I've also seen - and checked - a bunch of really good fakes, especially 'Blox' is so good that it passes almost every test that I can throw at it including aging in sunlight over long term exposure.
or just mdn.io/regexp
That's not true - the decision was not on any sort of free speech basis.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2018/06/opinion-analysis-court-ru...

> The opinion seemed to leave open the possibility that, in a future case, a service provider’s sincere religious beliefs might have to yield to the state’s interest in protecting the rights of same-sex couples, and the majority did not rule at all on one of the central arguments in the case – whether compelling Phillips to bake a cake for a same-sex couple would violate his right to freedom of speech.
In the US, you can lose your driver's license for failing to pay fines. This is much more restrictive, since you basically need a car to get anywhere in the US.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/more-than...
First off I don’t know what you mean when you keep saying “bought on down payment”...

Second one of my cars is 4 series, I don’t own a 3 series. And it’s a 440i which is faster and more luxurious than a comparable Model 3. And I can put the roof down when I feel like it.

Third, why did you make an alt for this?
You may see logical stopping points, but I see a slippery slope. And at each such stopping points there will be someone having good arguments for going down just a little bit further. Interestingly, starting down that path always seems to start with something relating to pedophilia. It's unfortunate that one always has to defend scoundrels in the first stages of what will otherwise naturally snowball into something nobody at the starting line ever intended for.
The commentary on this kills me.

This isn't some check to Bezos. This is a rebate off their tax bill. These are taxes that you will not get unless the business moves to New York.

Taxes incentives are incredibly common, so common that the deals that NY offered Amazon work within existing programs like Excelsior.

Finally, it's not a backroom deal. Part of Amazon's competition was for each city to sign an NDA in the process so cities can't see the bids of other cities. This would have created a bidding war that, surprisingly, Amazon didn't want.
> Wealth isn't a zero sum game.

Wealth isn't something that be quantified objectively, so at some point you need to put hard parameters on what qualifies wealth or thresholds of wealth. At some level, "money" (which is the representation of wealth) is at any given point finite. This makes it inherently a zero sum game.

The "any given point" allows us to avoid arguments about fiat and monetary policy. At any given point if I get $1, that value comes from someone else (or elses) down the chain.
Generally yes, but those are formal announcements, where the title is not ,,Let me set the record straight''.

It's like saying that I'll be honest with you, and continue lying.
Running a nonprofit, the expression that most gets my hackles up is "What you ought to do is..." I'm not lacking for things to do. I'm lacking for hours in the day to do them.
The article links to this, though it's buried so I figured I'd resurface it here. How ideas affect value:

https://sivers.org/multiply
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I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Common Lisp, and Clozure Common Lisp (CCL) in particular. But all the cool kids seem to be using Clojure (with a J) nowadays.
Interesting, Polish and Czech are so alike and so different :D I guess the word Polish "mama" is pretty much the Czech "mamka" which similarly declines to "mamky" in the genitive case, but "do mamky" here is "into mum" which is ... rather odd (I think Czech would use the Dative "mamce" - so “zavolej mamce” or “zavolejte mamce” depending on your relationship with your phone!)

I get tripped up when, for example, talking about getting presents from people and never seem to use the correct preposition - "od" or "z". I seem to use the one that would implied "came out of" not "came from"
Show HN: Upload files to AWS S3 directly from the browser (crazy performance)
Burn out and tired of writing CRUD all day in an office.
In Beijing, You Have to Win a License Lottery to Buy a New Car
>I ditched Revolut last year and moved to Starling, pretty much entirely because I was sick of them trying to fucking sell me stuff in a "banking app" (they weren't a registered bank at the time, AFAIK)

It is a common mis-conception to assume Revolut and Starling are the same. Revolut and Monzo probably have more in common i.e. they both started out getting crowdfunded as pre-paid cards. Monzo acquired a banking licence and migrated their customers over to their banking product. Revolut only acquired the licence, at the end of last year [1]. It has yet to offer a banking product.

Starling was built from the ground up as a challenger bank.

[1] https://blog.revolut.com/we-got-a-banking-licence/
When we need to make an s3 upload solution, we tend to make the client application upload the file to our server and then upload from it to our AWS S3 bucket.

In some cases, this is a good approach but when we are dealing with large size files the upload can be slow and painful four our clients.
In this blog post, we explore the different solutions to make an insane boost on the performance and reduce a crazy amount of load from our server.
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Indeed, this information often even makes it into the app store. You can sometimes decompile (or run strings on) an app and see a developer's home directory, for example.
While I agree, I think it's getting worst globally. Canada, for example, now has a $600 million budget item dedicated to "helping the media".

There is no amount of process, bureaucracy, or impartiality that makes me think this doesn't change how journalists report about the government, even if it's unconscious.
> pplease sir, can i have some more :(
If you automate it, is it still research? Research implies some sort of hypothesis testing, yes?

I suppose OP means there will be two groups: people who use AutoML and people who try to make AutoML better.
Here is the best dose of Finnish I can recommend:

Go to YouTube and search for Korpiklaani.

Finnish Folk Metal! Your life will be better. :)
a breath of fresh air compared to the existing networks on the market. psyched for this!
"Tommy, Frank, and Susan burned their homework and fed it to the dog."
"Who fed it to the dog?"
"That person."

Overhearing this conversation, you don't know who they were pointing at. If they said "She did.", you know who they were pointing at. There are many other situations where gender provides extra data, which is convenient.

Our languages keep having gender, so it's clearly been advantageous from an evolutionary perspective. The problem is when we let gender become more important than the data it's trying to express, like when a society lets gender dictate your social class. That shit needs to stop.
Yes a no-fly list that you can't do anything about is fascist and totalitarian. We in the free countries, ah never mind.
Signed, the vocal minority.
Why OpenBSD?
https://rgz.ee/openbsd/why.html

See also:
https://rgz.ee/openbsd/
I like how they list W^X as an innovation.

1) It's not W^X. W^X implies read-only pages are not possible, and they are.

2) They "invented" that, what 5-10 years after Linux?
Do you want a referendum for each business that wants to move in New York?
Google in NYC shares a building with the FBI, shares the other one across the street with Internap (and is part of a fiber loop out to all of the big datacenters in New Jersey) and the entire building across the street from the first one belongs to the DEA.

I'm sure that the government chose Google as an occupant for those buildings just as much as Google's money did.
Revolut is a UK company, and this attitude is rampant across the British tech sector
Dirge+Of+The+Dead+by+Xaphan
And why would you choose a slower, more expensive, more cumbersome and less secure method of payment when you can just use a credit card?
Probably more a message to some politicians than to amazon.

The political divide in this country is insurmountable. Just listen to Ben Shapiro's opinion on events, and then NPR's. Stark, polar opposites. It is impossible for the average American to take an informed position on something in so polarized a climate.
it was a settlement, genius.