skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started meditating using some written guide/books and Headspace.

An app is helpful to guide you at the beginning, but past a certain point having someone talking during most of the session seems a bit detrimental to your actual focus or awareness. I even wonder if there isn't some sort of Pavlovian response, whenever you listen to Andy Puddicombe voice, you want to meditate.

The core of the issue is that there is a conflict of interests between an app that want to keep you subscribed forever, and the idea of teaching something universal. In any app, I have never heard the teacher saying that you don't need the app to actually meditate (which is obviously true). By making you dependent of an app, you are actually less free than before.

Understand that these meditation apps (Headspace/Calm) are mostly VC funded , and they don't only want to teach you something, their investors also want some hockey stick curves. There is nothing wrong with that but it also explains how some features are designed.

That being said I think it was helpful to use them, they provide some value so I would rather recommend them, just not forever.
Here in Toronto the GO Train used to be one hour apart. If you missed your train you had to wait an hour for the next one. Of-course people drove in to work.

Today the train is every twenty minutes, and every run is half to completely full.

Why? Because on average people have to wait 20 minutes if they just missed the train, and if they just randomly arrive they often do not have to wait more than 10 minutes for a train.

Result, people use the train more often and for more than just work since the train is available so often.
To what extent should social anxiety, social awkwardness, and the associated inefficiency due to extra sociocognitive demands be accommodated then?

For example, if it were hugely distracting and performance impacting to have normal office activities occur simultaneously with a regular meeting, should being able to call in be considered reasonable? And for contrast, if it were annoying to have regular office activities take place during periods of work that require concentration, how much annoyance should be considered reasonable and when would it be unreasonable to work remote most days?

Where is the line between discomfort and disease?
Google employees should be hanged by the neck until dead as required by treason law. Everyone of you at google are traitors. Google is the enemy of the people.
Do grass-fed cows produce less methane than corn-fed cows?
Run Saltwater over This Nanofilm to Make Electricity IEEE Spectrum
Xsnow for christmas time and coding fun projects with christmas music :).
We managed to stop using freon, thereby rescuing outselves from ozone depletion.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/5/100505-scienc...
First they came for the anime babes sitting on my window decorations and I said nothing…
It's this actually a student license in their terms? If it is, then there's no difference (legally) to getting a pirated version if you're not a student.

(Checked - it is for students/educators)
Remind me never to do business with State Farm, they seem to over the top at least in this story, I would hate to have Hail Damage to my home then be put in prison if I expect to have that damage fixed....

Wow
Video Friday: This Wearable Robotic Tail Will Improve Your Balance IEEE Spectrum
Everyone knows you're an apocalyptic death cult.
You'd think beefmonger states would be tripping over each other to finance a larger proper larger study if this made any sense. It completely nullifies the environmental need to nerf their business.
Something about it is just fishy.
There is another lawsuit involving TopTal in Collier County (where [redacted] lives):

https://www.filebin.ca/4rhKFRhk9bk9/11-2019-CA-002689-0001-X...
> I wouldn't expect any free service that involves a paid employee from any service I don't pay for (with money, not privacy).

I expected at least one response suggesting this. I, and many others would consider email access my absolute most critical asset, it's also extremely difficult to switch providers. It's not like your real estate goes 'nope sorry you can't prove yourself, we can't replace your lost keys without validation, sorry, go buy new stuff and live somewhere else' - I imagine that would be illegal in many countries even if the place was rent free.

I understand that Google support, if it existed, would be inundated with bad tickets. However, I don't imagine having a skeleton set of support staff and a support workflow that requires users to climb mountains to communicate with a human would really impact on googles bottom line. It would have stopped me venting in various places about the issue, and might end up losing potential sales when I/others push our employers to use $not_google because their support sucks.
So it would be like old terrestrial over the air television. No?
I actually thought they had the potential to keep more mud out than a conventional chain.
> free

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre
Nah, big brother must keep watching ;).
If anyone else is open to the other point of view, I could use some help. I'm struggling a lot at the moment with how little relevance seems to be given to how significant HK was in defining China's modern identity.

How many people actually know how HK came into being? That the supposedly democratic state of Britain who had already violently colonised India, used Indian land and serfs to grow 1000s of tons of Opium to keep Chinese people addicted and thus in sustainable trade. Queen Victoria ignored a letter from China exhorting her to stop. When Britain didn't stop, China took it into their own hands, destroying all the imported Opium they could find. Britain took this as destroying their "property" and thus went to war with them, easily winning and requiring the handing over of the port of Hong Kong so the trade would not be impeded again.

I know that was over 150 years ago now, but surely that has to be taken into account? If you don't think that's relevant to today's innocent HK'ers, then at least we have to realise that the handing over of HK was a defining factor in the ultimate end of the Qing dynasty, the closing of over 2000 years of China's political tradition and precipitating the radical changes that thrust China onto the world stage as we see it today.

I support the rights of all people to self determination. But HK is not Taiwan, it didn't naturally come to its anti-CCP ideology through an organic, internal and independent process. In fact, somewhat ironically, it came to it precisely because of an unaccountable, authoritarian regime, with no other agenda but self interest.
They give you impossible requirements and expect you to come to conclusion that these are impossible requirements AND zero in one specific part of the impossible requirements and implement that bit?

Come on. It's not completely unheard of to be given confusing or impossible requirements while working for some companies and while in those situations I would probably just communicate back to the Business Analysts what's broken about the ask, you aren't given that opportunity in a take-home with a new company. Presumably a bunch of other people have been given the task and successfully completed it, so I would probably try to power through it.

I'm sorry, but that's an asshole thing to do to someone. In an interview setting it's more okay, because you have a chance to mention it after a few minutes and talk it out and get feedback on it or they can stop you if it's clear you're not pointing that out and you waste a bunch of time, but with a take-home you won't get that quick feedback, even if you send them an email, and can waste hours and hours on that thing.

Interviewers reading this, don't do this, please. It would leave a very bad impression on me and probably a bunch of other people about your company.
If you close public transport 5~10km around the protests, there wouldn't be much public transport operating in Paris. Rather there were a handful of closed subway stations, around where the protests were (like Etoile was closed, but not the closest stations). I understand the idea, a stampede in subway corridors would have caused casualties.
I work at Coralogix https://coralogix.com

We're a relatively new, relatively small player in this space, differentiating by real-time anomaly detection and tooling to help our customers keep costs low (by filtering out logs known to be irrelevant).
Public transport / trains is just one of the most obvious aspects. Of course there are others (public schools, public universities, quality of streets, public healthcare, general safety, food quality, nature, many many more ...). Often they are very much correlated, though.

Do I understand you right that you claim that while train service is bad in USA, there are other things / aspects which are better developed in USA, which are at least as much important? Can you give some examples?
Disrespectful of the leadership team and of the establishment and/or workers, in general. The general idea is that everyone should be in the office out of respect to meet face to face but I presume also in fairness through sameness.
The Problem with Private Prisons Is Not That They Are Private
Interestingly, in his book outlining the technique he teaches, Andy doesn’t directly recommend people do any sort of guided meditation. Rather, he talks about it like a sort of skill people can learn.

There are probably diminishing returns once you are able to focus through the technique, however, even in monasteries with experienced meditators simple cues like bells are used because everyone gets distracted once in a while!
Aha, so it's targeting "CCU". Then OK, I can maybe see there is a point initially, but not at anything near the scale we need.

Global graphite production from mining is at 1 megatonne/year, while synthetic is a few hundred kilotonnes/year. We need CCS to operate at tens of gigatonnes per year, that's four orders of magnitude beyond all the graphite the world needs.

This is the problem with anything CCU - there just aren't viable options with consumption at the gigatonne scale.
In other, less flashy news, this is just a website with some documentation hosted by a third party that is not connected to any banking system whatsoever.
Imagine you are taking a walk in the forest. The forest is a public place (where I live anyway!) – anyone can walk anywhere they want. Eventually, later in the day, you might need to take a leak, so you do what everyone normally does – go behind a tree.

Do you in this situation expect to be photographed and have high-resolution pictures of your genitals posted to Instagram? Don't you think this, if it were a regular occurrence, would interfere with people's age-old custom of enjoying a quiet walk in the public forest?
That's not the user acting as though it's a dodgy site, that's the user acting "learning is hard! let's go to youtube".

If you are actually doing research on some subject and are actually prepared to read and obtain new knowledge then yes, your cursory first look is going to be about the content and sources/references, and if you're still going to bounce on the looks then either you're not really trying or you are still just looking for a simpler bite sized easy answer (which pretty much do not exist in this field of science).

By that logic, Google could penalize every site that has in-depth knowledge about some subject.

And now that I think about it, these are EXACTLY the kinds of websites I've been missing from the Google search results in the past years. Most people first stop for "in-depth" knowledge would be Wikipedia (try defending THAT one, 6 years ago ...) and if you really want to, maybe that PDF of a publication is not behind a paywall. The web used to be full of pages that just were made by people crazy smart about a subject and they wrote about the thing they love ...

Just for illustration, I went through my old bookmarks, the original link was dead but the page still exists: http://gernot-katzers-spice-pages.com/engl/index.html Just browse a few pages and see what a quality site it is. It even has each page in both Germand and English.

This page used to pop up all the time when you searched for spices way back in the first half of the 2000s. Try googling "fenugreek" now and cry ...

And the majority of this quality content is not even ad supported at all. That is the worst part. So many people seriously argue that you need ads to support the internet. Well, THIS is the internet that I want, the good one, the promised internet. And look at that "fenugreek" search result page again, it's being fucking buried by this shitty ad supported internet of hollow articles about "fenugreek health benefits". THAT is the internet you get, you support by supporting ads. For every starving quality journalist at the news websites that argue they have to serve you megabytes of adtech with a two paragraph article, there are a thousand regurgitated content farm bullshit sites, easily consuming the vast majority of this internet advertising pie ... it's like cheering on mass murder because the obituaries make such nice haikus some times.
That's what 99$ per year can do, as opposed to a one-off 25$
> When the vote came on May 18, it was not, as some had predicted, a watershed climate change election. Australians, especially in coal country, voted to keep the incumbent conservative coalition in power.

> Within days, the Carmichael mine had new momentum.

One billionaire plus the Australian voting majority.

People like to say and act like, "Oh, I'm one person, what I do doesn't matter," but that's rationalizing the decision not to act. Individual behavior makes a difference. I don't just mean using less air conditioning to conserve power, though that matters too. People can influence and lead each other.
Or snowy with salt in the winter. For winter cycling the weight isn't really an issue for me, the bike is already sluggish with big studded tires and accessories and clothing etc. Maybe I will try it, the serviceability cannot be worse than the stuff I have to do now to maintain it..
I still miss a good debugging GUI with useful data visualizations. Sometimes staring at pointers and (multidimensional) arrays of numbers just isn't enough.
That husband that burned down his wife’s “she shed.” You know he did it...
Thanks for actually pointing this out, when I read the article I thought I'd seen the exact same concept bike in a Global Cycling Network (GCN) video last year. Makes sense.
Once again I ask: What do you mean with "works well". Just because some other ML method is better in practice doesn't mean that a NN can not achieve the same degree of approximation in theory.
The problem is that it's basically untenable for Google not to unilaterally try and solve these social problems; activists and the press have been putting pressure on them to do so by leaning on advertisers to pull out, with enough success that the continued existence of YouTube is imperilled if they don't. The other problem is that the activists keep demanding things which will inevitably backfire. For example, lately there's been this campaign for tech companies to eradicate far-right content the same way they did ISIS[1], often accompanied by claims that they avoided this because it'd take out a bunch of right wingers who'd get pissed off. In reality, that sweep ended up banning a bunch of respected analysts who were monitoring and reporting on ISIS's activity[2], and if they did the same to the far right it would result in a lot of anti-fascist campaigners getting banned.

I guess basically what I'm saying is that Google's content moderation problem is really a problem with our society, our politics, and our press.

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/will-sili...

[2] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mitchprothero/isis-rese...
The Kashmir issue is an impasse. Neither will Pakistan relent its stake, nor will India relinquish its position any further and unfortunately the Kashmiris aren't going to get their freedom from either of these nuclear superpowers, at least not without a lot of pain (they have been subject to too much, already). The blood-shed and injustice is simply not fair, and it can't go on forever.

Despite autonomy granted by Pakistan to mountainous region of Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, they have allowed settlement of Pakistanis from other parts of the country diluting the native population. Though revenue and governance is legally kept aloof from Islamabad, the overarching influence of the occupiers cannot be understated. Pakistani administered Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, for all intents and purposes, is a fully integrated territory. The Pakistani constitution doesn't allot right to independence and pro-independence political parties aren't allowed to contest elections. 'Azad Kashmir', as Pakistani administered Kashmir is commonly known, is a misnomer.

India, in comparison, had afforded more political and legal leeway to the Jammu and Kashmir apparatus. They curbed down on it heavily after the insurgency of millitants in 1990s by slapping the territory with a god awful special powers military act viz. AFSPA. Since things aren't going to change in the short term, it completely makes sense for the Indian interests to begin to integrate Jammu and Kashmir along with adjoining buddhist regions of Leh and Ladakh into the constitution. The protests from Kashmiris are valid, justified, and correct; but I can't see India backing down from this. They need to stabilise the region than leave it in a perennial limbo flanked by oppressive and terrible military control on one side and the insurgent, violent struggle on the other.

It is sad that erstwhile Indian PM, Morarji Desai and the then Pakistani President, Zia ul Haq couldn't put this issue to bed in 1980s when they had the chance. It will take leaders of incredible will, power, audacity, and sway on both sides of the border to bring this issue to bed for once and for all: Allegories will be written, songs will be sung, statues will be built, and peace will return to this beautiful land. Someday. The Kashmiris deserve it.

Refs:

https://rediff.com/news/2001/jul/11spec.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_(Special_Powers)_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azad_Kashmir

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_mediation_of_the_Kashmir_di...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir_(princely_st...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir
Of-course not - what do you expect them to say to their shareholders?

But in all the other NON-automotive industry sources the idea of a car that drives itself and acts as a taxi suggests 4-10 times less cars needed.
I might be a bike fanatic, but I'm no professional athlete and I can sustain more than 200W for hours, so my guess is the pro's are quite a bit higher again. (Your point still stands, though)
>But devastation seems much more likely than sustainable colonization of space.

Those aren't mutually exclusive outcomes...

At any rate, I think global warming is overrated as a threat. Market forces will soon greatly reduce CO2 production - it mostly depends on how quickly China and India can be weaned off of coal.

The other big issue is having a worldwide massive nuclear buildout so we have reliable, zero-carbon energy to back up unreliable "renewables". Eventually, it might be fusion, which will also produce plenty of radioactive waste. (None of the current designs are aneutronic.)

Regardless, permanent human colonization of the Moon is relatively easy, and the technological gains there should make asteroid mining feasible. At that point, there'll be so much money to be made that there'll be an explosion into space.
This is one of many reasons why whenever a recruiter from Google/Amazon/Facebook tries to connect with me I tell them to never contact me again, because I don't want to work at some place that's so unethical.
Cruise Automation handling double-parked cars with LIDAR.[1] They show the scan lines and some of the path planning. Busy city streets, lots of obstacles.

Waymo handling city traffic with LIDAR.[2] They show the scan lines and some of the path planning. Busy city streets, lots of obstacles.

Tesla self-driving demo, April 2019.[3] They show their display which puts pictures of cars and trucks on screen. No difficult obstacles are encountered. Recorded in the Palo Alto hills and on I-280 on a very quiet day. The only time it does anything at all hard is when it has to make a left turn from I-280 south onto Page Mill, where the through traffic does not stop. [3] Look at the display. Where's the cross traffic info?

Tesla's 2016 self driving video [5] is now known to have been made by trying over and over until they got a successful run with no human intervention. The 2019 demo looks similar. Although Tesla said they would, they never actually let reporters ride in the cars in full self driving mode.

[1] http://gmauthority.com/blog/2019/06/how-cruise-self-driving-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8R148hFxPw

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfIelJYOygY

[4] https://youtu.be/nfIelJYOygY?t=353

[5] https://player.vimeo.com/video/188105076
> had entered a few sweepstakes that caused his name to appear in a database advertised by infoUSA, one of the largest compilers of consumer information

> InfoUSA advertised lists of “Elderly Opportunity Seekers,” 3.3 million older people “looking for ways to make money,” and “Suffering Seniors,” 4.7 million people with cancer or Alzheimer’s disease. “Oldies but Goodies” contained 500,000 gamblers over 55 years old, for 8.5 cents apiece. One list said: “These people are gullible. They want to believe that their luck can change.”

> Vast databases of names and personal information, sold to thieves by large publicly traded companies, have put almost anyone within reach of fraudulent telemarketers

> Mr. Guthrie’s name first appeared on a list used by scam artists around 2002, after he filled out a few contest entries that asked about his buying habits and other personal information.

This is a good argument against the cancer that is advertising, marketing, etc. Even if you truly have nothing to hide, are happy to receive targeted ads and offers, it's just a matter of time before the information falls into the wrong hands and gets used against you.
> Does anything in copyright law entitle Apple to impose conditions on the use of software it gives away for free online (e.g., that it may be run only on Apple hardware)?

No. Nothing in copyright law allows this. However, everything in contract law allows this.

Copyright law forms the underlying background situation only. Under 17 U.S.C. § 106, the default is that only the copyright owner may make copies (including, e.g., the copy made when installing the software or the copy made into memory when running it).

However, those exclusive rights may be licensed to others. (Under 17 U.S.C. § 117, a software licensee, or the lawful owner of a copy of the software, may always copy the software to install/run or to make an archival copy.)

Licenses are governed by contract law. Contract law typically consists of an offer, acceptance, and some thing of value traded by each side. Restatement (Second) of Contracts, § 17(1).

The thing exchanged can be a promise, a forbearance (i.e., a license), a conditional promise, or any number of things. Restatement (Second) of Contracts, §§ 71-81.

In this case, the license to copy the software to your internal storage and from there into RAM is offered conditionally. In return, you promise not to run it on non-Apple systems. If you break your promise, the conditions of Apple's license to you are triggered and your license terminates. All of that is governed by contract law.

The backstop to that, though - the legal stick - is that now you're using an unlicensed copy and continuously copying it into RAM to use it. That is what opens you up to copyright violation liability.
And the five demands are not treated equally among the people:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1384380751713433...

Some of the core protesters (I don't have any objective figure) consider them a take it or leave it deal though.