skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe in other countries, but in the US the only real consideration is health care. Most people who want to start a business are cool eating ramen, couch surfing, and sacrificing a big salary if they have to, but don’t want to risk going completely bankrupt because they fall and break an ankle, get in a car accident, or get diagnosed with something chronic.

At least this is the only concern I or anyone I’ve talked to about doing a start up has risen. I work at a not quite FAANG company and we all have decent salaries and benefits. I’d give it up in a heart beat if I didn’t have to worry about health care costs.
I disagree - the audience of one's speech doesn't necessarily dictate point of view.

I can tell myself "I can do it!", "You need to settle down", and "solumos needs to remember to lock the back door" without breaking any rules.
No. Apples and oranges. I presume the guy running the local AutoZone doesn't aspire to be acquired by Google or Roche for $2 billion. You could make the case for expert chefs or restaurateurs pursuing Michelin stars and fame -- going through relatable struggles, aspiring global success.
Meditation isn't something you can just "do" or "not do", and it's also not about suppressing thoughts either. Like any exercise, practice will improve it. You wouldn't expect to be able to run for 30 minutes solid without practice so you shouldnt hold your brain to the same standard.

Personally, I found mindfulness (Headspace) helpful and accessible, and I've found that yoga gives me the same mental stability I got from the mindfulness
They had a rather ambitious roadmap, seems like they didn't make much progress past J2 (as least in terms of what has been released)
Royal capital to smart city:Mandalay gets high-tech makeover,sparks 'spy' fears
The context of the question was this the last machine designed to be a time sharing machine, ie it had hardware directly on it for the express purpose in design to be used for terminals.

I do not think so but the meat memory storage is not working fully right now. I do know that things (not a PC type) like the AS/400 had physical terminal connectors well after this.
To be totally honest, I have no idea what order things happened in there, but it would be very Commodore like to reuse the molds for the plastic that way.

We have never compared the C900 physically to the A2000 in datamuseum.dk, we should do that some day.
Who is “we”? A Grand Unified Law for a devout Muslim in the Middle East will look very different from a west coast technocrat.
Even if we accept your premise - people have limited mobility due to benefits - that is nothing at all like being a government.

Governments by definition have a monopoly on force. A government is a government because people with guns say so.

You might want to argue that employees have power, but they are nothing like a government. They don't have force, they don't have jails, they can't enter your home and give you orders. The worst thing an employer can do is to stop employing you. That's hardly coercion IMO.
I always had the impression homoiconicity could be used to do interesting machine learning applications, becauee the programm could easily modify itself. Did this happen?
That’s an insane argument that will just be continuously abused to erode privacy until everything you do is under surveillance by the government.

Oh you’re against DNS over HTTPS? Oh so you want our children to be abused? You’re for encryption? Sounds like someone doesn’t care about child porn. Oh you won’t share your Password with the government? Hiding something?
I agree with the others. While these may be options, they're all activities or events, not just a default place to hangout or be and where you're not there because one specific thing ties you together
Of the estimated 100 MILLION people that watched the GoT S8 premiere, you think even a million of them are paying attention to the drama of some writer-production team-showrunner drama? And that this will hold over and significantly affect the commercial success of whatever they do next? No matter how much Netflix throws into marketing?

Somehow I doubt the executives and PR flacks at Netflix are too worried about this possibility.

For the record, I've never watched an episode of GoT and I only vaguely remember hearing that some of the fans were angry at the showrunners for the finale.
Notice the year of the final commit of any of those branches?
Rather than get angry when your thoughts intrude, be proud of your brain for noticing these intrusive thoughts then redirect your attention back to your meditation.
Even 10 euro a month per user is nothing - their salary + insurance + taxes is probably 3-4 thousand euro at least, these 10 euro are a statistical error.

We use Office365, because we need Office anyway. We initially used a hosting provider email server, but it's not trivial to get the email DNS configuration right, and you risk going in spam. Even after we got our configuration right, we still had occasional "spam" issues.
Right. For anything dynamic, an interface that can redraw itself in milliseconds has enormous advantages over mechanical knobs and levers.

For managing permanent properties, I think mechanical interfaces are the best option, though of course vastly more costly.
Judging yourself (and maybe the world) is holding you back.

For meditation purposes, try not clearing your mind but just focusing on breathing. Endlessly counting your breath from 1 to 10 can be really useful, then forgive yourself every time you get lost and just start again.

In terms of judging try thinking about this: mistakes/errors don't exist, they are only a meaning we as humans have given to stuff that we dislike. In any situation, try figuring out how that situation is perfect for you at that moment, how could you have chosen that situation/moment ahead of time on purpose? It's not easy, but it's simple. How is everything in your life just perfect right now?
Agreed, I really enjoyed it.

I only clicked for name recognition, but it could have been an actor I've never heard of and the story would have been just as interesting.
My first reaction is to ask who Common Dreams are, and where their funding comes from. Fair questions for a bold claim from an unknown company.
That seems unnecessarily pedantic. Someone who cares whether the servers are open or not knows perfectly well that a Discord server is not a server per se.
The very idea of a touchscreen on a ship is mindboggling, at least to a landlubber. Ships are on oceans. Oceans are kinda famous for making things tip around, as are torpedoes, collisions, and such. I can't fathom trying to press the CORRECT area on a touchscreen during a critical situation when I may have just been abruptly knocked aside moments earlier.
This is pretty normal, and majority of people experience life that way.

I remember first reading about this in "the power of now", which describes this alter ego as a protection mechanism as well, like that little voice will always come up with reasons why not to do something.
Yes, Venice has had flooding since at least 1900. But now it's 60 times a year.[1]

[1] https://theconversation.com/venice-flooding-is-getting-worse...
Speaking of Deloitte, they were the auditors when the Spanish bank Bankia (then a newly formed conglomerate of 6 saving banks, with Caja Madrid as the cornerstone) went public. A report was produced by Deloitte saying that the financial statements provided by the bank were accurate and that going public was a viable strategy.

The moment the bank went public their valuation went down and months later the Spanish central governement had to inject 23 billion euros (of EU money) into the bank.

We know now that that Deloitte's report was based not on actual independently collected and analyzed information but on "possible future scenarios" outlaid by Bankia's executives.

In court, Deloitte's representatives argued that they really hadn't had access to the necessary information to produce the audit. So what did Deloitte's dozens of employees worked on for months? Why did they produce a report that couldn't possibly know if it was accurate?

Bankia, Abengoa, Livent, Standard Chartered, Carillion... the pattern is always the same: "we can make it go any way you want".
> Nitpick, but booleans are perfectly ordinary scalars.

I think most people use 'scalar' to mean something like "real number" (maybe "complex number", or maybe "real number in a specified interval"). In this context, a Boolean is not a perfectly ordinary scalar. That is to say, it is certainly easy to coerce a Boolean to a real scalar in [0, 1]; but this is a transformation, and not the identity—the Boolean True is not the scalar 1, nor is the Boolean False the scalar 0.

As evidence for this, I'd point out that there is no reason that we couldn't coerce the Boolean True to the scalar 0, and the Boolean False to the scalar 1. But, you'd point out, I'm wrong; with these coercions, the nice identities x AND y = xy and x OR y = x + y - xy would fail. I agree! But these nice identities show once again that Booleans, even once coerced, aren't scalars, because the algebraic operations on them differ from the algebraic operations on real scalars.

(Or maybe your point was that Booleans are perfectly ordinary scalars in the field with 2 elements. I guess I can't argue with that, except to say that I don't think that most people envision "perfectly ordinary" scalars living there.)
Italy’s Biggest Economic Problem? It’s Still Italy
Airbnb host in Seattle offering 'experience' of mock Amazon interview for $4,600
In practice, and talking from my experience, unless you're one of the lucky few this is what it really means to do DevOps in 2019:

- Forget what the books said, theory, semantics and idealism. You are a DevOps Engineer, working in a platform specific team.

- You deal with Jenkins or similar, and consult other teams or developers to write scripts for it, or worse, do the work for them since they're too busy doing actual programming.

- Contrary to what they say, other than tiny scripts you are not programming much anymore, unless you consider configuration management to be programming.

- You are not allowed to come up with your own abstractions. Proposals to develop anything are automatically declined by your Product Owner, who simply points you to whatever tool with a fancy logo he could find listed in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

- You pride yourself for being an engineer, but decisions end up being only made in terms of getting free open source labor and ease up hiring, so you end up doing what everyone else is doing.

- Half of your team co-workers are perfectly fine dealing with churn, software updates and other sort of manual, classic sysadmin tasks.

- You are repeatedly being paged at night for problems that your fellow developers won't feel responsible for. You hear buzzwords and talks about this SRE thing or "you built it, you run it", but it never seems to materialise due to politics.

- You are getting a feel that cloud providers are not really making things easier nor cheaper.

It used to be a lot of fun back in the day, and a great chance to get paid to solve interesting problems related to system and infrastructure engineering instead of the boring CRUD work that plagued the last decades, but seeing the "App Store" that this turned into, if you are a creative individual with a software engineering background and you're considering a career in DevOps, my advice is to run away while you can.
Can there be a differential like in gravity assists?
Same as any other skill, like drawing, or physical feat, and the progression is much slower than most IMHO. It always feels like you are getting nowhere, but at some point, you'll marvel at how far you've come.

That said, also be aware that meditation isn't the panacea that it's often made out to be. It certainly sounds like it's what you are looking for at this moment, particularly since you mention that you 'can't meditate'.
> If emacs is so much more extensible, why is there so much better language support for mainstream languages in VSCode?

Writing language support like refactoring and stuff is a huge task, and emacs has a handful of volunteer maintainers, unlike the other tools you mention which have corporate backing behind them with programmers paid to add such support. So emacs could have the same level of support if companies would pay teams for years to develop such features.

But we have language servers now, because it became obvious there is no need to reimplement such support for every editor separately when a server can answer these requests.

Microsoft created LSP for Vscode, but it can be used by any other editor, and emacs too has language server support. I haven't tried it yet, but with LSP it can support the same language features as vscode.
This is a good idea but a recall is too much for this to be practical. At least the NTSB should be doing this for all new cars.
Old neighborhood bars are also in prime locations for real estate “redevelopment”. Many seem to get wiped out just for this reason.
I hope you make an artistic statement and patent some of these awesome ideas. 1) for conversation starter purposes, and 2) so that we can make sure auto manufacturers never actually do this, or at least you get fabulously rich in the process...
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That really doesn’t get to the heart of the issue, I’m afraid. It seems to offer a form of cover and protection for views that are known the be problematic and continue to spread. Partisanship and hyper-focus on views corresponding your identify are bad, we should not provide cover for it and partisan views not supported by facts via polite discourse. We should not allow these poorly supported views to spread. It seems HN has no actual stance or response that directly addresses this issue. Some of HN’s guidelines provide shelter for enabling unsupported views. Choosing to the focus the light inwards on yourself doesn’t really solve or address this issue in the modern age of misinformation, and the Tibetan analogy was chosen to illustrate the dangers by turning inward too much and ignoring the dangers. Does that make sense? I think I’m being fairly direct and specific here.
> Notice how the this obsession with "mass murder" is yours

Of course I am obsessed with preventing mass murder. People said never again, and they meant it.

You are the one saying "oh, they are just criminals".

> have people hand them in to police

People will not hand them in. You'd have to kill them, by the millions (oh, and also you'd have to kill the 10s of millions who merely oppose death squads)

That's the reality of the situation. Millions of people in the US aren't going to hand in their guns to the government, and would rather face the government death squads.

So you can either be happy with an ineffective law that millions aren't going to follow, or you can take the death squads option, and good luck with that, because that's also not going to work.
North Korea Claims It Has Found Cure for MERS, Ebola, SARS and Aids (2015)
So this reminds me of a joke. There are only 3 numbers software engineers care about: 0, 1 and 2^32.

The point of this joke is that as soon as the number of "things" (in this case input sources) is >1, someone somewhere starts looking at solutions as if that number might be 5, 10, 100, 1000, 1 million. Most monitors will have less than 5. Some will have up to 10. This number is known when you make the monitor.

Just let me buy a monitor with hardware input selection.
People? I think you meant authoritarian communist dictatorships.
It wasn't successful.

It seems that it's more important for the algorithms to be emberassingly parallel and so work on big data than to be flexible.
> Civil liberties groups are warning of a major threat to online freedoms and First Amendment rights if a leaked draft of a Trump administration edict—dubbed by critics as a "Censor the Internet" executive order that would give powerful federal agencies far-reaching powers to pick and choose which kind of Internet material is and is not acceptable—is allowed to go into effect.

Why doesn't this article directly link to the allegedly leaked documents?

The quoted paragraph (the article's first paragraph) contains a link to a Tweet which links to a blog post which links to a CNN article.

AFAICT, none of them link to the actual documents.

To future journalists: link to the documents in your article. Otherwise you run the risk of readers writing the whole thing off as a misinformation campaign. This possibility can't be ruled out at this point.
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Meditation takes practice and you've got to learn to forgive yourself for having your mind veer away. It's part of the process. Nobody expects to sit there without having them, not even those that have practiced meditation for decades.

It's not about shutting those thoughts up at all. It's about recognizing those thoughts as they begin to enter your mind and using the meditation as a tool to either embrace those thoughts (sometimes we need to) but recognizing they likely aren't our reality and are likely just thoughts from past experiences or future expectations. It's your reaction to those thoughts that is really important and a lot of us who don't meditate tend to ruminate on things that we know aren't beneficial to us. It helps you learn to control that better.

I'd recommend following guided meditations, I specifically enjoy metta (kindness) meditation. Your instructor will occasionally tell you to allow those thoughts in so that you can get better at recognizing them as what they are, just thoughts, not something you have to act upon or believe. Then they'll typically have to go back to focusing on your breath which will make those thoughts disappear, even if only for a short time.

It takes practice. Don't fault yourself for not being a meditation guru. Nobody is. Just be kind and accepting to yourself as it happens. There's no rush. Some of my meditation sessions are much worse than others, just like my workouts.

After a month of daily meditation (which I'm unfortunately not doing lately) I become such a calm person. I still get that twinge of anger when someone cuts me off or traffics bad but I notice it as soon as it starts to enter my mind and I can control my output FAR better. Usually I just go "oh, that happened, it's out of my control, what I can control is my reaction to it."
Pride is a hindrance to meditation as much as anger. Notice the thoughts and move on.
+1. If you find it difficult to actually go to therapy, I'd also recommend the book 'Feeling Good'.

A negative voice is really just a bad habit that is hard to even see you have or that there's another way. It sort of just boils down to faking it for a while -- each time you criticize yourself, stop, think about why you are being way too critical and that it's not a really fair logical analysis, and speak to yourself kindly the same way you would to a friend. It feels super fake and pointless, but fake it for a while and all of a sudden you've developed a good habit instead that no longer feels so fake and actually works.
This reminds me of a tulpa.
You could do one of two things. First, a heated windshield like I believe some Landrovers have. It’s about $5000 to replace, last I heard, but it works. Second, a double pane windshield like house windows or some motorcycle helmet face shields. These work 100% of the time, but would definitely be more expensive as well.
You've got a voice? Man, that's awesome. I've got half a dozen assholes all screaming what they want. It's really hard to get anything done this way.
following as I too want to know about it!
What would you classify as "real" science? Be cautious of dismissing research because it doesn't fit into your personal definition of reality.
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Have you tried thinking about how your toes feel? The point isn’t really to still your thoughts but to experience the present. Stilling your thoughts via force of will is impossible (where is the will coming from?) but fully concentrating on sensory perception to the exclusion of thinking is more possible.

You are describing a completely normal frustration with intrusive thoughts and are being entirely too self critical.
I took it to mean that the voice is hyper-critcal. It's also the thing that means something that works isn't good enough until it is perfect/elegant/efficient even though the end user would be satisfied. It's also probably pretty judgemental on menial problems, like "only a friggin moron would make that mistake", or "how dumb do you feel for taking 3 hours to debug that stupid issue"? Mine uses much more colorful language. Mine loves to make fun of me when I reverse the angle of a miter cut, and then have to cut from new stock because the corrective cut would make the piece too short. Most co-workers have come to realize I'm only cursing at myself, but it's much more embarrassing when I do the "I'm invincible" line from Golden Eye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXW02XmBGQw
I don't see why self-reflection can't be learned. It's a matter of building the right habits and processes to make it a natural thing for your mind.
Your car likely already turns off the AC when you accelerate hard. Most of them do that.
Heh, I just had a vision of some car manufacturer making the steering controlled by a touch screen. (Is there a reason that that would already be illegal?)
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Hmm it doesn’t feel that way to me... Only 2/30 of the front page links right now are startup/business related.
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I really like how the last words read:

"It is possible that there are wide variations in the mental adaptability of contemporary mankind. It is possible that the mass of contemporary mankind may not be as readily accessible to fresh ideas as the younger, more childish minds of earlier generations, and it is also possible that hard imaginative thinking has not increased so as to keep pace with the expansion and complication of human societies and organisations. That is the darkest shadow upon the hopes of mankind.

But my own temperament makes it unavoidable for me to doubt, as I have said, that there will not be that small minority which will succeed in seeing life out to its inevitable end.

THE END"

I'd say he was right, knowing the capacity and the planned acitions of the nuclear arsenals today.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c8uSaUkat8Q
Numbers in title are a good indicator that the article is 1. Opinion based and that it 2. Lags detail.

At least it's enough for me to know to avoid it when I'm searching for a solution to a problem.
He's saying that at times the point is to demonstrate to an opponent that your side of an emotional narrative makes sense to broad numbers of others. Just about everyone is rational according to their own systems of reasoning, and it's the reconciliation of those oftentimes implicit systems that the subreddit is about.
Arthropods can tell us about the causes of animal extinctions