skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, on the subject of hypnosis I recommend two books: "TRANCE-formations" (sic) by Bandler and Grinder, and "Monsters and Magical Sticks" by Heller

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/956297.Trance_Formations

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/447454.Monsters_and_Magi...

If you're going to learn to operate your bio-computer, please don't stop at typing faster, eh?

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One of the basic "exercises" or "techniques" that people often do with (self-)hypnosis is to set up a simple binary yes/no signal from the subconscious mind to the conscious mind, e.g. a finger twitches for yes, wags for no (non-response is a kind of "does not compute, please rephrase" message.)

From there you can "leverage" the connection for more structured communication. E.g. the Six-Step Reframe algorithm https://gist.github.com/calroc/4719702 (deprecated in the 80's BTW.)

In re: these chorded input devices, the basic idea is that you set up with your unconscious motor programs to wiggle the chorded keyboard the right way, letting your conscious subjective experience be that of "pouring" your words from your inner voice (or imagery) directly to your machine.

Once you've got good communication with your subconscious mind, it's pretty easy. I used to do it w/ a just a Dvorak layout.
Ah yes. The freedom to choose what I'll be punished for.
In my case 500/500 fiber @ ~$40-45/month, somewhere around $20-25/month for 100/50 4G and something like $60-65 for 1000/1000 fiber. Semi-rural areas are usually not far behind.

With neighborhood deals you can push those prices a bit.

Most (major) train lines have fiber buried next to them that is leased by the various telecoms which helped the expansion.

[Edit]
Looked it up and a rural town in the southern parts where I used to live offers 1000/1000 from 5 different ISP's who are apparently fighting. They've all lowered prices recently, cheapest is at ~$30/month.
I had this exact issue then found out either my cable or port on my router was bad, and was only initiating a 100mbps link.

Steam can hit 40MBps (over 300mbps) regularly for me.

I find what you say to be true though, most services can't saturate my link - but I'd double check because exactly 100mbps is suspicious.

Also don't use speedtest.net, try fast.com (run by netflix) - ISPS are known to "cheat" on speedtest.net (they can host a speedtest server inside their network) but fast.com downloads actual movie fragments from netflix's cdn.
It’s where electricity and bandwidth are cheapest due to economies of scale. Colo’ing at HE is fun/etc (and they have an amazing team!) but you pay a pretty penny for physical proximity.
Nigeria has a narrative problem when it comes to cyber crime and fraud
Git was once fast for my use too. Then I returned to Microsoft to work on building Windows. Even after 2.5 years of improvement,[1] "git is slow" is still one of the most common complaints about the Windows engineering system.

On my Skylake+SSD desktop, it takes over ten seconds to switch branches with git checkout, several of which are used just to calculate the "your branch is ahead of origin/your-branch-name by N commits" value.

We are making many great strides here at Microsoft to improve git performance, such as with VFS for Git which my Windows repo clone uses. But with hundreds of gigabytes in a unversioned download of the source tree, there is only so much we can do.

[1] since https://devblogs.microsoft.com/bharry/the-largest-git-repo-o...
What is interesting about this and the Apple post[1] is that no one is actually taking responsibility or signing their name. It's just a generic blog post with a list of issues. Where is the GNU's "open" log of who is publishing this info? Without a source, I can't really verify if the author has some ulterior motive.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html
200 feet is tiny in the scope of the American West. If anyone else wanted to build a railroad, telegraph line, etc. somewhere else, they were free to do so, and there were plenty of routes to choose from. Many did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcontinental_railroad#Subs...

The reason the UP/CP right-of-way was attractive to telegraph lines, fiber, etc. was that they had already done all the hard work of clearing, grading, building infrastructure to make it accessible, etc. It makes sense that they were allowed to charge for others to benefit from the improvements they made.
In a poor country, how are economic development and stability/security not pragmatically the most important values?
Couple more factors:

- much easier to access gyms or play pick up games in the city

- poverty is higher in rural areas
The important corollary to that is if you want to look good with your shirt off you should probably spend some time in the gym as well.
> There are Turing-complete languages without conditionals, though...

> ... giving a straightforward encoding of not only conditionals, but also (one-layer-deep) pattern matching.

So you wrote a conditional out of something that didn't have one? But for that to work, something in the "If" has to decide whether to evaluate the first one or the second one. That is, there is something that is equivalent to a conditional somewhere in the parts that you use to build the "If".

This may come down to what the definition of "conditional" is, though...
Which social media company would you believe regarding privacy?
Austerity, is it really? How about not increasing spending at the same pace as other countries. Many countries could be come debt free by simply keeping spending increases under the rate of inflation.

Krugman was having a hissy in 2014 about Germany for similar things, yet it worked for the Swiss. They have a cap! So staying under three percent paid off for the Germans and this upsets those who subscribe to the idea that government spending is never bad, well if you never plan to pay it off in your lifetime you can borrow against the future quite easily.
Did you use beorg[0] for iOS?
[0] https://beorgapp.com
Rethinking Blockchain: Should It Have Been Written in Erlang?
> your body will reduce expenditure to match the reduced intake.

There's a floor to how far your body can compensate for reduced intake - starvation. There's not such a simple ceiling to stop you from eating back up to what you exercise.
Snap: Next Twitter at Best
Ok, maybe that's just me, but I do not find that compelling either. I never really managed to work efficiently on a laptop or with a lot of strangers around.

If it was quiet as a library and equipped with real desktop screens (at least two) and good keyboards, my opinion might be different.

And if working on a laptop is your thing, you might as well do that from an actual library or a Starbuck...
During a recession:

Individual contractors and small teams (<10) will likely go back to working from home or out of cafes.

Larger, enterprise teams will have more, and better, options and may cut expenses by downgrading to cheaper accommodations either via less "hip" direct competitors (Regus) or taking on cheap/discounted leases directly.
>The bull case is that it is as valuable as Marriott which is about $43 Billion in market cap.

Apart from the fact that Marriott has 11.5X as much annual revenue?
While this maybe true, many of the people I know that live in rural areas locally have jobs involving manual labor rather than sitting on their ass in an office all day (like myself). I'd be curious to learn how commuting and travelling in a city with a desk job compares to not being as active while travelling but working a job involving manual labor. I'd honestly be surprised if people living in the city did more exercise overall
I use 1Password as my password manager, and add a tag to each login where I have a specific hardware key registered.
No Copyright Law – The Real Reason for Germany's Industrial Expansion?
The zipper of a down jacket I bought from them would get stuck. They repaired it twice for me, and the third time I took it for repair, they gave me a new one. This was 4 years after I bought it, no receipt needed. I would assume that the old jacket went into their recycling program.

The new jacket came with a sturdier zipper, so it also showed that they acknowledged the design flaw. I've been using this jacket for the last 5 years, and it is still holding well (and never again had a problem with the zipper).
Funny enough, their USB/NFC combination device is also USB-A only as well.
Recently downgraded to $35/mo comcast 60 down performance tier because I have low bandwidth usage (1-2 simultaneously connected devices, little streaming with a downloaded collection on a local plex server).

Really wish I had the option to pay for better latency and less jitter, which matter much more for my needs. I know the ISPs probably don't even have the infrastructure to offer reliable internet, which is 100% on them even if the general consumer only cares about Netflix getting throttled. Funnily, Verizon claims to offer "Fios" in my building with plans that are clearly not FTTH.
Facebook deleted a ton of the really valuable ad settings controls I used to prevent bad advertiser behavior somewhat recently. I'd rather have that ability to block advertisers uploading data I didn't give them than this feature.

And all they'd have to do is turn it back on.
For anyone reading this and not knowing this; since your post doesn't make it explicit enough, it uses a different APN because Google specifically made it do so. They could let it be hidden. Of course carrier would then mod it in anyway, but here Google did it for them.
If you have a family it means you get to spend the day socializing with people you really want to be around (spouse, kids...) instead of your coworkers (some of whom I may want to be around, but not really for most of them).

I also absolutely hate working with people who think that work is a place to get all of their social engagement. I don't need any more friends and I definitely don't need any out of work socialization with my co-workers or during work time that looks like socialization (parties, events...).
Hmm. I should do the pen and small paper notebook thing. I had tried to make it a habit once, but maybe I just need to try with a few sheets of paper in my wallet.

Notes on the phone - maybe I need to reduce the number of clicks to be able to capture them faster (Google Keep widget maybe?)
I really hate this list. Not because I hate GNU (I don't), per se, but because it's childish, mostly misleading, and at times outright dishonest or factually incorrect. I'm not in the mood to go through this one, but if I've done a line-by-line comparison of a similar list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18515395. The GNU should be ashamed to have this on their website and replace it with a coherent argument against Apple, which is really not that hard to write if you put a little bit of effort into it.
I have 92 mercurial repositories at my company that I'll need to convert.
Um, you can do the same with a memory card. Ask someone who knows.

(Also, you can buy tires online)
For whatever reason, I was struck watching the special on PBS, "Woodstock: 50 Years Later".

Everybody was thin. It was sort of amazing when you stopped and really noticed it, then contrasted it to what you see on a day to day basis out on the streets. There just weren't any overweight people to be seen, at least nowhere near approaching the magnitude you see walking around today.

There's got to be some cultural component to all this too. I'm not sure the built environment is really all that much different than from what it was when I was a kid in the suburbs. It's as if people just collectively stopped using their bodies and started consuming more calories.
If you're looking for an app, check out Orgzly. It uses org-mode files, which are pure text.
You are not legally allowed to get only one in for example Sweden.
>> So it is considered good for a country to go into debt if it uses the money for infrastructure

I dont agree. The debt still has to be paid back with interest, and the infrastructure will require maintenance (costs) in the future. If a country or municipality is debt free they can build new with excess revenue. If not, there is little hope of getting the budget under control by borrowing to create more obligations.
Most computer programs are, in practice, difference amplifiers. Conditionals are how they achieve that.

("Most" because you have programs like image classifiers that are trying to be similarity amplifiers. That turns out to be hard to do with the standard building blocks, which want to be difference amplifiers. Perhaps different building blocks would be more useful.)
Was wondering why you were picking on poor Russell.
I mean, anyone who bothers to take the time to do a Google Takeout and actually looks at the data in the JSON files can see just how much information they are storing, and it is quite alarming.

Thing is, companies keep data about you even if you don't have an account, which is impossible to GDPR.

Some of the sources here are questionable; there's a sun.co.uk URL which is obviously tabloid trash, so please apply critical thought, the article presents what appears to be a convincing piece but some of the "sources" are not to be trusted.

But even on Linux you can't escape Google's web, even if you really really tried, some developers use Google's APIs for fonts, jQuery/scripts etc, so it's really hard to use the web without Google knowing about it and building up their knowledge graph.
They're sold out :( If you are in SF/Bay area I have a few extra.
The article makes this exact point at considerable length...
When I was an intern at Mozilla 2 years ago the open floorplan included the CEO.
I think doing something positive with you life (e.g. advocating for people to make responsible procreation decisions) could give you a net positive existence. I think advocating people commit suicide isn't going to win you many adherents though (unless you have a really cool story about where you go after suicide, e.g. Heaven's Gate :P).
Indeed, but I still wouldn’t think of it as saying no. I look at it like, my employer bought my time, and if they’d prefer for me to work on X or Y instead of Z then that’s fine with me. Outcome independence, basically.
One more thing, freedom around the world is under assault from massive state sponsored attacks that have been well documented by a number of news organizations and now social platforms. Lies and fake stories have been discovered by these totalitarian regimes to be far more effective in undermining democracy and freedom than guns and bullets.

HN is an immensely popular community and most likely is facing similar assaults. If you have not found state sponsored attacks, it may be because you haven't looked hard enough yet. Dang, I know you are a talented programmer and with full access to the database, I think you could build tools to unearth this sort of behavior.
The above poster was making magical assertions as if they were well established without presenting evidence.
I would argue that "Apple's Operating Systems Are Malware" does not fall in line with their clear, consistent message.
Of course you should be penalizing for saving. Hiding a dollar away where it's not doing any good to the world economy? You should get rewarded for investing, taking risks and letting that dollar do something.
What a sad account.
Ultimately I think this is an outcome of asymmetric price elasticity:

People who are downstream limited tend to be on the consumer side. Even if they might be willing to pay more for higher bandwidth it's more a convenience than something they really need. So in order to actually get them on a more expensive tier, the ISP has to offer an upgrade with a relatively high bandwidth per dollar difference in downstream.

People who are limited primarily by upstream however tend to be be more of the productive side and, if what they have is not enough, there is probably some form of urgency for more. They will jump on higher tiers for much smaller upstream deltas than their downstream-limited counterparts.

I don't know if there is an actual technological or logistical reason forcing ISPs to only offer one up/down ratio per price tier, but if they offered selectable asymmetry or symmetric, they would either get less money from downstream users (not attractive enough to upgrade) or from upstream users (problem solved at a lower tier).
None, obviously.
Common practice is to set the throttling limit for a cable modem at 10-20% above your advertised speed. On my half-gig service with my current carrier I clock between 550-640 Mbps. When I had a 150 Mbps Xfinity plan, I regularly clocked 180 Mbps.

If you're regularly getting less than your advertised speed, either the local distribution is over-extended and badly in need of an upgrade, or the line to your house is trash. Either way, you should be complaining.

Also, note that if you have 1 Gbps service from Xfinity, you have fiber out at the street, they just bring coax into your home.
The Masons.
From the linked article:

"Following this, a series of orbit maneuvers will be performed on Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft to enable it to enter its final orbit passing over the lunar poles at a distance of about 100 km from the Moon’s surface.

Subsequently, the lander will separate from the Orbiter and enters into a 100 km X 30 km orbit around the Moon. Then, it will perform a series of complex braking maneuvers to soft land in the South polar region of the Moon on September 7, 2019."
Strong advise anyone considering putting one of these on their keychains to consider otherwise. The actual connector of my usb-c version has warped in my pocket over time and it’s now not recognised.
Seconded. I used to bike frequently when I lived in a small town. Now that I live in the suburbs of a big city my bike sits unused--there is exactly one place that I normally go to where I would feel safe biking and I drive past it enough that there's no reason to bike there.
I guess this is a good a time as any to ping Jacques about getting the photos back on his windmill build page. Still one of my favourite build logs...
Hammering the extremely malleable lead into thin plates and mixing with some sulfuric acid seems the most easily solved of my technological problems. Now, the author isn't wrong, grabbing golf cart batteries would be a hell of a lot easier, and would make for better batteries. But making the tools needed to fill those batteries seems to be a much taller order, IMO. Solar panels and generators are the things I "won't be able to re-make for a while".
Ooh that's interesting! Coincidentally my very close relative works for their F16 program! Yeah they're one of the largest military contractors - not a company anyone wants to have a breach.
> but I feel very much more in control of my Microsoft box that I am of my Apple or Google one.

Hahaha, you haven't seen the data MS collects on Windows 10 users? Try enable full telemetry and download their tool, every damn URL gets logged and even some of the "basic" data might reveal trends when combined with other data sets.

NO "big tech" company is to be trusted. Cambridge Analytica and co taught us that.

Data and information is being weaponized, the 2016 election proved that, go read the Mueller report for more information on this.
> your body will reduce expenditure to match the reduced intake

No, it won't. You need about 2000 kcal/d just to maintain body temperature. That's assuming a constant heat output of 100W. A bit less is surely possible, muss less isn't. Reduce food intake below that, and you will lose weight. Because physics.
A "no" can appear to be anything between an unemphatic response to a request to assistance to outright defiance.

This seems like a good opportunity to practice the power of assuming positive intent?

https://knowyourteam.com/blog/2017/12/01/the-power-of-assumi...
> but assume that the initial blunt "no" was deliberate disrespect or disregard for the manager's request... and after a series of interactions like this, come to an erroneous conclusion that the employee desired to be uncooperative or doesn't care about showing any regard for our feelings.

I'm probably on the spectrum the way I read that is it's the managers feelings that are the root of the problem. The manager learns to manage his/her feelings and the problem is resolved.
propose the original comment was more about the behavior of Facebook being mechanized both at interface and internal product culture to be anti traditional Western/free thinking human from the bleeding edge of our ever emerging attention capital economy.
It is not their responsibility to ensure you drive at a pace such that you can stop before striking an obstacle that was hard to see. Should we require pedestrians using the road (like the one without shoulders) to dress in bright colors as well?
> Without a source, I can't really verify if the author has some ulterior motive

Is it actually something you need to appreciate the points the post is making ? I actually very much like raw things like this, that you can appreciate without letting yourself be influenced by who said it.

I often wish for a timeline where we could see the community's reactions to some things Jobs or Musk said if they didn't know it was their words, for exemple.
The author has an ulterior motive, which is that to advance the agenda of the FSF*.
Different people have different expectations for that sort of thing. Sometimes a request isn't and the requester is expecting a certain bend-over-backwards mentality to make the lightest of requests. Other people are blunt and direct to a fault, the exact opposite of that, erm, "spectrum." In either case a manager needs to understand and accept differences between people, because that's kind of their job in most cases. Of course, I'm an introverted programmer, so my empathy tends to lie with the dude that has aspbergers.
If it's not fiber to the home, I don't believe the advertised numbers. Most households don't need a garbage coax connection that can't provide a consistent bandwidth, but imagine if households had decent connections. Then you can create hardware and software that let people host their own media and backup their own devices, instead of handing it over to giant corporations with government backdoors.
It's an interesting thought experiment, but it's hard to say whether a low prevalence was specifically selected for, or just not harmful enough to a population to select against.

Though in either case, I agree that society today is probably better for having some autistic people around.
> Not my experience, let me explain:

>> Experience and anecdote does not substitute for real scientific evidence. My research suggests that...

Can you cite your research. It's hard to criticize someone for giving an anecdote then going on to cite 'your research without citing it.
I do, continually, particularly when communicating with the less technically inclined. Slack conversations can drag on, email chains take days, conference calls are great when everyone's paying attention but that's not often (IMHO).

Tem minutes in a room discussing an issue with all interested parties can sort things out far faster, in my experience.

Which may not be universally applicable - I'm not claiming it is, or that fully remote working doesn't work for others. Just that I've seen it be less than perfect on a few occasions.
One thing I love about git is how it makes it almost impossible to lose work once it's committed. That's why I commit early and often.
On principle, monocultures are not desirable as compared to diverse cultures. Resilience. Thus, bias towards preservation of diversity.