skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very unpopular idea, but I'll say it anyway because it's relevant: With a modest amount of meditation practice you can cause your awareness to exit your body. I say this from personal experience but it's also in the yoga texts.
Typically you come back, but if not, it's called yogic suicide. That's why a lot of monks are burned "alive" in a meditative posture--they're not actually in there being roasted, they hit the eject button.

It's a much nicer way to go out than many alternatives, and once it becomes more common knowledge I'm sure we'll see much more of it.

Sadly even the idea tends to make people angry, esp. if they have invested in a worldview where the brain is the sole originator of consciousness, death is the end, etc, even though all they have to do is try it for themselves, though for some reason most don't. Just don't tell me it's a hallucination until you've done it successfully yourself. I'll say I was certainly surprised. It is like sticking your finger into an electrical socket and then being shot out of a cannon out the top of your head into another world.

If you're interested look it up, it's not nearly as hard to do as people make it out to be, though I still can't do it exactly on command, I am getting better at it with practice. I don't claim to know everything about it, but the world you enter has some strange properties and its not as simple as
just waltzing around as a disembodied spirit with x-ray vision or something. There's some overlap of the objective world and this other world which is not as rigidly objective as this one. Future researchers will figure it out I'm sure. It's a fascinating frontier of human knowledge, and I will say as far as hacks go, hacking your consciousness is a pretty good one.

<Holds up flame shield>
No, we still want brexit. Your arguments are nonsense.
Sympathies for all the victims and their families, incredibly sad.

Many of us have heard the phrase "If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going." In reference to Boeing's perceived safe planes. This phrase has lost any meaning to me, and in fact, I'm feeling the opposite way right now.

Boeing's response to the first 737-Max Lion Air crash was abhorrent, in my opinion. While they were taking the time to blame the Lion Air pilots reaction to the plane's issue, and stating how safe the 737-max was, they were also working on urgent patches to their software. The patch is still not yet deployed, but the planes continue to fly.

If initial info of this crash points to a related cause to the Lion Air crash, anything less than a full grounding of all 737-Max aircraft seems incredibly dangerous. I get the feeling that Boeing executives have checked their better moral judgement at the door and are thinking solely in terms of dollars.

I can't help but feel that Boeing and US regulators would have taken the issue identified after Lion Air much more seriously and been much more likely to take action and responsibility if it was a US flight. That thought leaves me with incredibly sour taste in my stomach.

For those who may come to Boeing's defense, take a look at how pilots of the 737 Max responded to the Lion air crash - often with anger.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/03/world/asia/lion-air-plane...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/11/13/pilots-un...

[3] https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/regulators-push-for-clarity...

[4] https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/boeing-and-regulators-delay...
the content is very narrow on iphone6 as well, but safari readability view suffices
I use Docker Compose for running all the things for my dev environment (RabbitMQ, Postgres, a few others), and it works really well. We'll, now it does - I had no end of networking troubles with it in the past, on both Linux and Windows.

I love how easy it is to spin up something new with a simple YAML file, but I've no idea what it would be like in production - how are rolling updates handled, for example?
I like Debian, but I agree it's become too slow and bureaucratic.

Sadly, like most big organizations, it is hard to implement changes from inside.

In my opinion, most Debian's issues stem from a centralized imperative package manager where all packages need to be carefully kept in sync for things to work. Moving to something like Nix would greatly simplify development.

This is far from a new idea. In fact, it was quite thoroughly discussed in debian-devel mailing list back in 2008, 2013 and several other times [1].

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/12/msg01007.html
I call that self healing system.
That would still fall on Boeing, it would be their responsibility to make it clear that what was acceptable in the past (broken AoA sensor) is not anymore.
Something I just learned about JavaScript: the semicolon is an empty statement, so this is an infinite loop that does nothing.
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A messenger of Manwë pulled it out of the sky.

It was clearly marked speculation. If we are not allowed discussions about possibilities we can kill off comment fields right now.
Worth a watch - Winning with Simple linear models https://youtu.be/68ABAU_V8qI
Reader mode in Firefox works like a charm.
I try to pace myself down, and think about the general idea for a day, making notes and sketches.

I also check what solutions already exist, so I don't feel like I wasted time reproducing something that already exists without added value.

Exceptions are programming problems I'm just interested in solving myself, to get a better idea about the specific problem
How long does it take to ground an aircraft assuming the decision to ground is made?
Carbon pollution isn't the only think to consider, but also ther physical pollution of that instead being put in the garbage (and it's decomposable).
JavaScript shares this trait with a lot of languages that borrow syntax from C.
Yeah, you could make the same complaints about jpeg compression.
It is a little off topic, but I hate flying the 737. The way it is shaped makes it feel tiny on the inside even when compared to the much smaller Embrarer E175. It seems to be the only large airliner you will find on domestic flights in the U.S. and it makes me take the bus or drive if I had a choice.

If Boeing were to give the 737 the 787 treatment the benefit to the flying public, airlines, environment, etc. will be huge but as long as Boeing can sell the 737 without a real upgrade it is a cash cow for them and they'll never stop making it.
So for someone who is familiar with it, why hasn't Datalog supplanted SQL for relational querying? What's its limitation?
That would be interesting, I wonder if that will build new nonlinear theories.
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It's often unwise to draw assumptions based on what is likely an extremely biased view. You might find this information [1] surprising (Google translate will work fine). The organizers themselves chose to ban a number of media organizations from covering or attending the rally. Among these were RT/Ruptly.

[1] - https://russian.rt.com/russia/news/609659-rt-miting-moskva
Ubuntu LTS distributions have been the perfect mix of new-ish packages and stability for us.
I think Ubuntu suffers equally from every single pain point that Michael describes in his post.
> yes, everything is signaling.

Cynical observation. Not every human action is automatically designed to impress upon others.

> If you get a brandless tshirt, you are also signaling that you are too smart to buy the luxury brand.

As a matter of fact I buy "brandless" shirts -- actually I own about four black woolen shirts from Costco. It is simply a fact of the matter that a) I am smart enough not to fall for luxury brand marketting, and b) I prefer not to have to choose which 'design' of shirt to wear every day.

A fact is just so; it does not need to be signalled. I perfectly understand that some people value fashion more in line with their values. To each their own.
My prior comment did get a bit ranty.

Personally I'm a Wikipedia maximalist, it should record everything. They seem to have decided on a different path, partly on notability grounds, partly on the basis that its done elsewhere. That's fine as far as it goes but be consistent.

Lists make sense in a lot of contexts, lists of songs, albums, monarchs great. List of 'best' songs, 'greatest' monarchs, 'emerging' technologies, less so.
Honestly, as both a Mac and a Debian user, I’m not sure which one I prefer. I understand your frustration, but random strangers not being allowed to push updates to my operating system in 5.34 seconds doesn’t sound all bad. To me.

(Obviously not that TFA paints a rosy picture..)
This is a very interesting idea. I've been thinking that one of the big problems with government today is that most people do think of it as a 'they' instead of an 'us', but I think the reason is more complex than personal relationships being broken.

At the core, whatever the reason for it, government is not, in fact, a 'they'; it is an 'us.' Many of us insist otherwise, and give many, many different reasons for it, but at it's core government is the mechanism we have for figuring out how to live together.

I don't have proof of this, but I suspect that any other mechanism we come up with is going to inevitably converge towards becoming a government.
As per the article, the law is already being changed and it will be legal. The laws seem very "fixable" in this specific situation. I am not advocating for people to follow immoral laws.
I used to pay for pro to have flickr as my cloud photo backup (with bonus ability to share some of my photos with friends and family). had to switch over to spideroak after flickr did its restructuring.
MySQL always had a really good, free GUI, Postgres didn't. There is pgAdmin now, but a lot of people really don't like it (I've had lots of problems with it myself).

MySQL also had (relatively) straightforward replication features since way back, something that is much newer to Postgres.

For info, I used MySQL for over a decade, and am a relatively recent convert to Postgres - and I love it!
I think scala is short for "stairs". I know salespeople who think it is scalable but the rest of us know better.
It seems like you're suggesting the added complexity of complex numbers makes visual understanding unhelpful; do you care to explain why visualizing complex numbers or multidimensional spaces is so impossible?
Read your profile, would be interested in links to the books you've authored.
1. GitHub was struggling badly. They had lay-offs, etc.

2. Google still makes the lion's share of it's money from search/ads. Google Compute is struggling and being subsidized by search/ads.

IMHO, Docker's only exit strategy is to sell. They don't have enough time left to grow an organic business. Silicon Valley money always wants paid back, sooner rather than later.

The layoffs and new CFO at Docker, IMHO, are all about cleaning up the finances so that a sale is possible at a good price.

Their last round of investment barely averted a down round. The value bump was minimal and the investors are mostly from a bank in Brazil that likely doesn't understand exactly what they bought into (a lot of uneducated money out there right now because there is no place to put it). None of the original investors participated which shows they don't believe in the company anymore.

Their most valuable asset is Windows support. Hence, the most likely aquirerer would be Microsoft. I'll bet a paycheck they sell for somewhere between 1.5B and 2.5B. Keep this thread for posterity :-)

It's painfully obvious to anybody that has been in this game for a while...

(opinions and analysis my own)
The article spends some time rationalising the navigation techniques used so it is not clear what the deal with "spiritual practice" is.
More like experience a "subset of the environment". We can barely handle more than a few digits at a time, a particularly small square of vision, or a particular song. We can focus our mental effort at really only one thing (the other has to be learned/unconscious so that it can go parallel).

I think the question becomes: Why are we conscious in the first place?
Enjoy every day like it is your last one?
Ask HN: What email client do you personally use on dekstop?
The gmail UI is sluggish at best and I was recently introduced to the concept of third-part email clients.

A friend recommended Thunderbird, on my work computer - Windows Mail app. I'm willing to explore more, where do I get started?
To be fair, this is how people build applications. "Oh there is this library let me just pull that in"
I wonder how your family took this? I had a similar experience with an elderly person on my wife's side of the family. At that time of our lives, I couldn't understand how someone could refuse medical treatment and seem to yearn for death. Now that I'm a decade older, I see that her actions were not without reasonable cause...one might even say they were courageous and bold. She was simply done. She'd lost a child earlier in her life. She loved her family but everyone was well off and content. She didn't like doctors and hospitals. She was in near constant pain from arthritis. And she was just...done.
I know how long it takes me to accomplish a task given spherical cows. Since nothing is stable (test environment, content, other fires), the story points are irrelevant.
Perhaps our voting system should change such that technologists votes/opinions count more on technological issues rather than just making them lawmakers. What good is a computer technologist's opinion regarding anything other than computer tech? That is why I think many lawmaking bodies are broken to begin with. The people who have the votes on most matters are mostly not the ones whose opinion should be counting?
And things like this make the educated and ambitious young move abroad.

Good for the economies of Western Europe but not so good for Russia.
Well I'm one of today's 10,000[0] so thanks for posting anyway!

[0] https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
Reproducing a deck I've seen before exactly makes no sense in limited.

Maybe it's too different of an idea, but in I draft I absolutely evaluate (part of) my skill by how well I've reproduced important components of a good deck. Did I find my seat? Good curve? Enough removal? Then there are format specific things - did I include enough 1/3s for 2, knowing that I'm likely to lose to fast decks with 2/1s if I don't?
"If Boeing were to give the 737 the 787 treatment the benefit to the flying public, airlines, environment, etc. will be huge but as long as Boeing can sell the 737 without a real upgrade it is a cash cow for them and they'll never stop making it.'

The MAX 8 is very literally the 737 being given the 787 treatment. What are you asking for here? 10 abreast seating? Then it would just be a 787...
And considering most all docker containers are based on and continuously updated from a GitHub repo, a docker acquisition makes a lot of sense. Gitlab already has its own container registry.
How do you spend time? productive?
This isn’t needed for browsers newer than 2011:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16289894/is-json-hijacki...
It certainly felt that way. Did design firms eventually ask whether they could showcase their work on your site?
"'Audible subscriber' was a nice identity to have"

If your identity is tied up with your affinity cards, you have a problem.

There's a whole industry out there trying to convince you that what brand you buy is important, beyond what value you get from the product itself. This is a promoted delusion. The classic paper is "Brands as symbolic resources for the construction of identity", out of Oxford.
Building a scalable service on top of that is not free, nor easy :)
Given that ubuntu depends heavily on debian maintainers and governance, what exactly does this improve?
Messenger messages are used for advertising targeting, which works much like GMail one. WhatsApp messages are hashed in its encrypted form and also used for targeting, not for ads but for real identity research purposes.
I've now cared for two elderly relatives, both dear to me, through to their deaths. One, in extreme pain despite copious amounts of medication, begged and pleaded for death for a number of days before finally passing. The other, while still lucid, expressed her desire to go quickly, that she was ready. But she, too, went through days of agony before passing. I watched on as both these people became nothing but their pain until they mercifully died.

There are other forms of horror I've witness family members live through, like slowly losing your memories. Forgetting your loved ones and yourself bit by bit.

I'm fine with withering away, even in an old folks' home. But at some point you lose who you are. I'd rather be dead than linger in a state in which I have no concept of who I am, or who I once was. No memory of what I find precious, or of whom I love. The moment I'm just a scared animal in pain, with no hope of ever being human again, please just kill me.
Can you reference any significant 'opposition' meeting (such as this) that was not covered by RT for less than justifiable reason? E.g. - in this event the organizers prohibited RT from covering the event, which is a pretty decent reason for the lack of coverage!
http://www.aeonmagazine.com/oceanic-feeling/tim-lott-zen-fre...
You should see the Bluetooth spec

4kilopages, before you even get to actual profiles.
No true scotsman. If everyone is working efficiently, why would the team need another layer of overhead to do the job they are already doing?
Ethiopian Airlines Crash Kills at Least 150; 2nd Brand-New Boeing to Go Down In
I've been using Debian / Ubuntu for many years, as much due to inertia and familiarity as anything else. And I have a lot of respect for the project.

If I wanted to start being a contributor to a distribution, which one would be the best to dive in to?
Yup Boeing has lost its way and is another typical bureaucratic hell hole of a company like IBM. I’ve heard horror stories about the 787 development process as well.
This seems like the appropriate response to the article. In fact, the article is even factually wrong on the matter of what we're born with, and it's even wrong on what it considers "information".

I suspect this misunderstanding of "information" is the core of the confusion. He needs to revisit physics and learn some computer science, because information and physics are inextricably intertwined, so the brain very much operates on information using rules.

Edit: and further, the brain is a finite state automaton due to the Bekenstein Bound, a physics theorem.
Did you notice I mentioned celestial angles? That predates the invention of an accurate time piece as a nav technique.

My point is that navigation is an analytical process. I'd go further and say that it is the ultimate in holding yourself accountable. If anyone here has ever done any kind of nav, you'll know this to he true because you're responsible for the lives of others. Whether you're navigating a Polynesian canoe using celestial angles or using a GPS on a cross country VFR flight.

That's why I was startled at the quote from the writer I included above. No navigator would write that because they hold themselves more accountable than that.

Curious that my post has been downvoted so heavily. At -4 right now.
I'm not sure I understand the piece either, but I think it's trying to say that human memories are associative, sequential, and distributed rather than localised.

So there isn't "a representation" in the discrete sense. It's more like the entire system changes, and it's impossible to physically scan specific elements of it to retrieve selected content.

You can trigger selective recall, but you're triggering a complex and noisy process which generates an experience that may include remembered elements - not pulling out a predictable bit pattern.

There isn't an exact equivalent in CS. Traditional binary memory is obviously nothing like human memory. Neural nets have some superficial similarities, but they lack generality.

I'm not completely convinced by the argument, but I'm glad someone is making it.

The problem with it is that we can remember specific discrete facts quite easily. If you ask me how many flats the key of F major has, I can tell you without being distracted by other memories.

What we don't know is how that fact is represented, how exactly my brain changed after I learned it, how similar those changes would be to changes in other brains learning the same fact, whether everyone has similar subjective experiences on recall, or how to scan someone's brain to check whether or not the fact is known.
The difference between an exposition in text(like this one) and videos(3blue1brown) is how people prefer to build knowledge and more deeply with how one learns.
The quality of both of these is excellent. And one can test what works best like explaining to oneself(or a rubber duck) after reading/viewing the material and how one can recall things.
I suppose if you reason from some other criteria than avoiding downtime and data loss, a different conclusion was possible at the time.

To each their own.
I noticed a mistake in a comment in a default file in the /etc/ directory - pretty certain the file is part of Debian (although this was on Ubuntu).

I thought I would try to fix it.

Two hours googling later and I couldn't even work out who the maintainer was. I don't like eating other people's time, but I even tried using IRC.
Thank you for putting into words the thoughts that I have had for quite some time. The "panicking" I experience is also similar, more accurately described as horror-fueled panic.
A rake only works on grass. But if you have taller bushes and other types of plants it's pretty much impossible with anything else except a leafblower.

Also, good luck raking on the side a small, but steep, hill - you can't even stand on the hill without lots of pain and damaging the surface. But you can use a leafblower from the top.

i.e. just because you have a limited experience in the world, doesn't mean others do too.
I’ve never seen that xkcd before.

Very meta.
This is such a ridiculous saying. Nobody does this.
It really is the only thing that, when I catch myself thinking about it, requires me to forcibly do something else. As a nonreligious person, there is no answer to it other than "that's the way it is". Maybe it's something an older me can tackle. For now, it's a topic that leads to existential panic in a matter of minutes, ha!
A good start but you forget to add any arguments or salient discussion points based on exactly how the voters were mislead.
And by sheep, surely! The dogs aren't predators, but (I believe) they do sometimes nip the sheep to let them know it's not just barking. The drone is going to need a cattle-prod or something too.
Those changes are reviewed by maintainers. The fact that a random stranger is able to push a change and get it reviewed, approved, merged, and available in minutes should be the goal of most open source projects. On the contrary, older projects tend to be too reactionary when it comes to infrastructure tools, so in turn they get very slow interactions. This becomes a demotivator for anybody who is used to more efficient workflows.

It is not a coincidence that the author became demotivated after doing some professional experience.
They have to stick that in along with the ole racist European trope.

The "noble savage with lost spiritual wisdom" thing speaks to certain crowds I guess.

Other than that claptrap, the article is pretty good.
Palo Alto, CA has banned gas-powered leaf blowers since 2005.[1]

[1] https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/news/displaynews.asp?NewsID=6...
Hmm. I didn't understand you to be speaking specifically about your family above; in fact, if you read it again I'm sure you can understand how it came across as a sweeping generalization that simply isn't true for the 2.3B users of Facebook (vs ~2B for Google).

Edit: wait, you aren't even the person I replied to. I think that person's point, although I disagree with it, is more relevant than yours, and I'd like to hear how they came to their conclusion.