skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a kid, I kinda took hypnosis for granted largely on the basis of cartoons.

It wasn't until I was in my twenties and had read up a little on human cognition and evolutionary psychology that it occurred to me to ask, "Wait, is hypnosis really a thing?"

I found a Scientific American article around that time that gave a pretty good summary of the state of scientific inquiry into human hypnosis. One of the things it pointed out that I thought was interesting: apparently, in controlled studies, there's no strong correlation between a person's predicted susceptibility to hypnosis and their observed or actual susceptibility.

I find the idea that Bugs Bunny could take control of mind by swinging a pocket watch in front of my face a little unnerving so that finding worried me. I always thought my naturally skeptical predisposition would serve to protect me.

Based on my reading, I've come to understand hypnosis neurologically as a composite or intensification of other more mundane phenomena. As the Wikipedia article on hypnosis puts it, "Hypnosis is a human condition involving focused attention, reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion."

I've never been hypnotized. Well, beyond the general everyday forms. (The SA article pointed out that reading a book could be regarded as a form of self-hypnosis.) I have talked to people who swear they've been entranced by stage hypnotists.

I'm still largely puzzled as to why it might have a naturally selected basis. A vestige of our origins as less cognitively and culturally complex social organisms perhaps?
The problem with Etsy is these days it's flooded with Chinese sellers hawking the same products they would on Amazon but at a markup.
Show how PC and stupidity have riddled some police forces...
Yes but slirp isn't used in a production grade setup. It's more of a simple slow default that's guarantees to work, so it's used mostly in development setups.
Low interest rates are a signal to people to spend money on income/value generating assets. Maybe even borrow to spend. Low interest rates means you shouldn't store money. You should store wealth in productive assets. Buy things that make your life easier and more productive.

And you know, the oldest investment of all: have kids that you raise to be loyal to their parents.
I kind of resent the notion that green = Android. The distinction is actually quite important. Green means it’s an SMS message. Green May very well cost me money (I don’t have unlimited SMS on my plan). Green means it’s going through the phone company. Green means it shows up in your phone bill. Green means it’s logged by the NSA.

These are the reasons I despise green messages. Has nothing to do with possibly being an “Android” phone. I could be a misconfigured iPhone for all I know, but the above are still true.
That's on the high priority list of things to do when I get a chance.
Source of free energy? 180 degrees down there so can pump water down and get pressure steam back up?
Why does that bother you so much?
I wrote my own one-off static site generator.

It is freeing. Anything is possible, and nothing is in your way. It really doesn't take that much time.

https://github.com/pauldotknopf/pauldotknopf.github.io/blob/...

https://pknopf.com/
Seattle mass transit usage is up. I ride the bus where these vans are operating, to/from the Rainier Beach light rail stop. There are a slew of neighborhoods in this area underserved by buses where these vans fill the gap.

What is needed, to my mind, is a lowered expectation of what a private car is going to be able to do for you in a densely populated city. I got picked up from work Friday to go on a trip and after an hour we'd only gone eight blocks.
The Dozenal Society of America: Promoting Base Twelve Mathematics
Total objects: 17,642
Status non-operational: 15,389

Yikes?
Rust, Mithril v2, business, Japanese.
The trick here (and in someone else’s “Thrilla in Mozilla”) is that you don’t need to understand the humor or reference to understand the code. It’s just a nice little bonus, since threader is already a perfectly reasonable[0] name.

This is different from insisting that helper functions in brains.c be of type pinkyfunc_t.

[0] I was tempted to undercut my own point and write cromulent there instead.
Fair as in "I had both, and chose that", as opposed to "I took the free-as-in-beer option because I was cash-strapped" or "I chose the only variant that could run my critical apps".
After years of trying different things, I found something that works great for me, though I suspect you’ll have to try a few things until you find what is comfortable for you.

I publish my blog as a static site served by nginx on a $5 / node (which also hosts a dozen other things—I don’t get much traffic). Every once in a while I ssh in and run an apt upgrade but no updates to manage beyond that. I use https://getstatik.com/ to generate the site from markdown files. I’m surprised it hasn’t caught on more given how flexible it lets you be with defining how your site should work. The whole thing is stored on git and I can deploy with a push to my server remote.

That said if you want to focus on writing I would start with something as simple as ghost of medium to see if you’re actually as into writing as you think.
I intend the exemption to patent protection for poor countries as an example of people defending Indian patent theft.
At least some forms say explicitly evaluated or not.
I agree. Gatsby is one of the worst products I have ever worked with. The code itself isn't bad, but the tech stack and UX is horrible. It's the epitome of hipster JavaScript.

I'm amazed that they got funding for it...
"Obsession" ay? The old guard newspapers make more sense if one notes their framing often tends towards increasing dependence on central power structures.
It isn't real hypnosis. It is the brain being hit with unusual or overwhelming stimulus and is basically blue-screening, locking up the entire system until something kicks it out of the loop and causes a reboot. Similar things happen to sharks if you put them upside down, or to deer caught in headlights at night. Unable to process what is happening, their brains just lock up.

Drawing the line probably forces the chicken's eyes to follow the object out of its stereo vision. Birds have amazing stereo vision right in front of their faces (so they don't smash their beaks when pecking at things). Trying to track an object moving directly out of this space might be just unusual enough to cause a system crash.
Wow. 590 CHF seems incredibly inexpensive.

I'm a bit confused about the term 'date' in this context, though. What does it mean, here?
There will be no place for high levelized cost baseload generators. There will be intermittent sources, short term storage, and various chemical fuels (natural gas with carbon capture, biomass, hydrogen) for long term variability. Additionally, overproduction w. curtailment, dispatchable demand, and long distance transmission be used to ameliorate variability of supply.

By 2060, or likely well before, if solar continues down its historical learning curve, solar should be absurdly cheap, so cheap that resistive heat will be cheaper than burning any fossil fuel. We might even see artificial geothermal, where excess power is just dumped into heating rocks and water underground.
I feel...... spuriously invoked
You absolutely should know your tools so you can actually trace problems and troubleshoot by yourself, which saves you time from researching and finding expert opinion. This is the exact reason why I don't use linux. I know my tools pretty well (macOS and bash), and I can troubleshoot my own problems.

But there are always going to be exceptions, new problems will arise that will slow you down. That's another reason why I'm on a mainstream OS and not linux, because when I do encounter a problem that slows me down, devs work at breakneck speed to fix bugs and there is extensive documentation because the community is much larger than the linux community. I'd be spending waaay too much time in the weeds on ubuntu, sifting through pages of SEO crap search results to find the one sage forum post from 10 years ago with now deleted screenshots, just trying to run the software and workflows I know like the back of my hand on macos. I don't want to start over and be a dumbass again, I've found my niche.
Knowledge that compounds in such a way becomes useful in the long term. The Y and Z mentioned may be tangential in a current situation, yet as a technology stack evolves they can become integral parts to more complete and better fitting solution.
"I built in an older style, with windows on every side, with a mind towards ventilation and light. Inexplicably most houses in the area, even $500k+ houses do not have these two things."

Many people do not have exterior walls on all sides. You must be generally aware, because your next sentence mentions a condo (in my case I have a townhouse).
Risk is a huge factor in costs. Adjust for risks and early SpaceX was more expensive than their competitors.
The Network Effects Manual: 13 Different Network Effects (and Counting)
You can use bootcamp to set up a linux partition if you wanted to mess around with that.
I got tired of dealing with WordPress. I moved to Jekyll hosted on Netlify. I use Forestry as a frontend. You can read more at https://dev.clintonblackburn.com/2019/03/31/wordpress-to-jek....
Germany recently changed the law so you have to pay capital gains on unrealised gains so even that is expensive now.
This will be great when I grow 2 more fingers. Until then, maybe not so much.
I would love to be able to buy more game meats.

While I can buy farmed venison, it's always red deer, and I vastly prefer fallow, far more tender and far less gamey.

But as I lack the time go hunting these days, farmed red is really my only option.
I, for one, downvoted it because at some point it becomes really tiresome to see the same stale apologia of "baaah, you all just don't understand Marx properly" (and neither, apparently, did any and all leaders of any and all countries where marxists of any ilk ever came to power, because it always ended up the same) from people who had never seen it up close and personal. And this being HN most likely enjoying the lifestyle that is only enabled by "capitalists" willing to pay quite ridiculous amounts of money for poking at the keyboard all day...

Calling it well-written and informative is very much akin looking for kernel of truth in whatever logorrhea comes out of Stomfront or that Flat Earth Society.
Based on everything I'm reading in IP Law and contract law texts online, that is not the case. Here's one from Cornell Law School that specifically says that "Regardless of whether the parties call their transaction a license, sale, lease, or something else, the Principles would apply", where said "Principles" are those of software contract law. And then they discuss how they fall under contract law.

https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

Here's another from UChicago Law that takes it for granted that the legal reader understands that licenses are legal contracts, since it's full of quotes like "all licenses are vulnerable to the usual attacks that can be leveled against all types of contracts".

https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
Deer in headlights is probably a much simpler explanation - their eyes+pupils are adapted to the dim light, and sudden application of headlights is blinding.

If you were suddenly blinded, you probably wouldn't respond by running either.
In my experience Hugo has been really nice and simple to work with. I just push markdown to git and it shows up on my site.
Multi-Stream Single Shot Spatial-Temporal Action Detection
What is the benefit of wordpress over hosting yourself?
What's the suggestion? Hire Alex Jones?
It's weird for Intel to be falling behind against AMD. Intel has about 10x the revenue and 10x the number of employees. Yet AMD is able to compete directly, and even beat Intel in some areas.

Good for AMD, but I'm more interested in an explanation of how Intel allowed this to happen.
I created something for myself to use https://www.logbook.my

I can both back date and future date entries.

I keep a tag called "Daily Entries" with a timestamp on the day of what I use, I can automatically add a timestamp with the shortcut "CTRL + T"

Future dating allows me to plan ahead as well.

I write an entry about a future event (ie a meeting) and prefill some information. Then when the meeting happens, I just open up the entry and start entering.

I've been using Logbook since 1st May, and personally now have 1139 entries, and 576 tags.

I've been recording:

- Recipes
- Meeting notes
- Shower Thoughts
- Career timeline
- Car maintenance
- "Best Practices" on a variety of subjects
- Many more

I also use timestamps a lot, and have a preference for how they are formatted so I created https://timestamps.aizatto.com

I hope some of these may help people here
I've had burnout a few times in my career. I think it happens to anyone who really enjoys their job. It's like being placed in front of a pile of candy -- just one more piece!

But burnout is an awful feeling. You aren't able to work. For me, I would stare at the screen for hours on end without being able to get started.

I found that 2 things helped me the most. First the pomodoro system. You are probably familiar with it, but just in case: you have a 25 minute session, where you devote yourself to nothing but concentrating on work. For me, it's unbelievably important to get my first pomodoro in as early in the day as possible. I also found that it is just as important that this pomodoro is coding: not reading mail. Not doing a status update. Not having a standup meeting. Not investigating some bug. I've got to write code as soon as I can in the day. That flips a switch for me. Very important, especially if you are burned out: show up for work significantly before your fist meeting of the day -- the meeting will suck the life out of you and you need some life to suck.

The next thing, strangely, is a TODO/log of what I'm doing. Being burned out means that everything is a barrier. Usually the barrier is too high, so you are stuck staring at it with no idea how to get over it (because normally you would just step over it).

When I first start a pomodoro, I write a TODO of what I'm going to do for the next 25 minutes. I find it's best to spend as little time as possible doing it. Just write down the first thing that comes to your mind about what you need to do. Write 3-4 items at least. Then start tackling the first one. Inevitably, you will find that your TODO was not good -- because you didn't spend time thinking about it. As soon as you realise what you need to do, update your TODO and then do it.

It's tempting to write the code and then write down what you did. I find that it works best to do it the other way around even though it breaks the flow. When you are burned out, flow is quite hard to maintain and any distraction is going to grab you hard. By focussing on making sure your TODOs are correct, it means that you can easily jump back in.

The biggest thing to realise is that you will often be punted out of the zone and will be staring at your screen. What you need to do is to say to yourself, "Just one more" -- which means, making an easy TODO for yourself and writing the code to fullfil it. Then "Just one more". Eventually you will get distracted. When you finish being distracted, turn on the pomodoro timer and say, "Just one more".

At first you may find it hard to do more than 4 pomodoros in a whole day. Don't worry about it. Just try to do as many as you can. Then the next day try to do more than the previous day. I have found that I can claw my way out of burnout pretty quickly like this. It doesn't take long before I'm enjoying my work again. After that, the productivity starts coming back and things start to feel easy again.

Hope this helps.
Haskell. A couple very solid books for Haskell came out in 2019 -- Get Programming with Haskell by Will Kurt, and Practical Haskell by Alejandro Serrano Mena -- and I was lucky enough to find a Functional Programming Meetup group in my area with some guys who write Haskell code every day.

Currently falling, albeit very slowly, down the rabbit hole of FP -> category theory -> HoTT.
Web developer, working on user stories for a marketing company that tracks its users, of course!
Ghost https://ghost.org/ https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost is best for the need you've described, it's no-nonsense fast as lightning, unlike bloated WordPress.
We’re working on a security focused managed Wordpress hosting platform with custom email and templates included. If you’d like to beta test it email admin@ sitebay.org and we’ll put you up for however long you need free. Thanks to YC summer startup school for hooking us up with some compute credits.
Yes. Any vet will tell you: it works.
Not going into Nakagin today after all so will share these images, which give a sense of the interior space.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nakagin+capsule+tower+interior&iar...
Only to have a reusable header and footer.
It is definitely real hypnosis. The definition of hypnosis is so vague and nebulous that this absolutely falls within the umbrella of “hypnosis.” To be specific it is visual hypnosis.
there's references elsewhere on this thread.
Is this the where the Matrix got it’s spoon bending ideas from?
If it’s applicable to your role at your company, then it’s just a question of does the learning topic apply to your current priorities. If yes, then totally justified.

If _you_ don’t feel like it’s real work, try taking notes or writing a primer on the topic. Now it’s “legit” and potentially a new resource for your team.
You (yes you) could patch the toolkits to do what you want right now, all the code is free and open source. But if you lack the will to do it, and see it as unimportant in the grand scheme of things... well maybe that's an indicator that the keybindings really aren't that much better and are mostly up to a matter of taste. I personally don't really care much for "market authorities" trying to force me to do things.
He was a philosopher first, then an economist later -- not second. Later Marx broke with early Marx. Later Marx explicitly critiqued the Hegelian stuff that he started with. You won't find much Hegel in Das Kapital, certainly not 'world spirit' or even a notion of history proceeding in stages -- tho you might find versions of that in his early writings and even in the Communist Manifesto.
You can also combine the two and use a Ghost back end with an Eleventy front-end, fwiw: https://ghost.org/docs/api/v2/eleventy/
> I've endured the cycle of harassment that follows any credible attempt to fund development work in a new way, seen friends go through it, and saw Feross going into it. It's psychologically impossible for us to experiment our way to approaches that work with peer support.

I'm sorry to hear you (or any open source dev) has experienced harassment because of funding attempts. I disagree with Feross, but I condemn any organized harassment.

I would add that it's fairly predicable that any funding that hinges on innovative uses of ad technology are going to run up against heavy resistance in our communities. There's just not a lot of patience for advertising among techies.

But outside of advertising, I hope developers do experiment with new funding approaches. It's greatly needed.
I feel the opposite. You need to develop a broad range of education on different life topics rather than obsessively implementing a small number of things. How much you implement from a smaller number of books is what I think would be useful for eg learning how to play guitar or invest better.
It's more complex than that. If I shine a light at you in the dark it will hurt. You will close your eyes, look away or shield your face. The deer don't even blink, the most primitive response to bright light. They are transfixed like the chicken.
It's Kei (romaji) meaning light. I don't remember where I get that name, but I think I was listening to some random music.
I spent Christmas in Florida and noticed that many people who lived there seemed to find temperatures in the 70s chilly enough to wear a hoodie or something while I had just a t-shirt on.

Conversely, I've noticed that when it first gets cold in NY, it's very biting and unpleasant, while late in the winter, the same temperature doesn't bother me at all and near freezing temps actually feel a little warm.

So I find that the timeframe for me at least is more than a week or two, but no more than about 3 months.
This might be also because while our writers (I am not really sure about poets (Pushkin just does not seem to travel as well as Dostoyevsky, or Shakespear) from the 19th century on actually are "world class" so to speak, Russian painters, composers and architects up until early 1900s were really quite derivative and second rate. With all the complexes Russians tend to have aboutr being compared to Europe, or being considered (or not considered) a part of Europe, idolization of writers is quite understandable.
It also says

> Just five years ago, prices soared after a drought shrank the U.S. herd to a six-decade low.

so the $81 high mark is probably more to do with the weather than the consumer trend.
Wouldn't that cause even more distraction as you see all the people walking behind you?
Marketing Rebellion: Book Review
The game changer for me is the multitasking on macos. I pile windows of all shapes and sizes on top of eachother, and I swipe 3 fingers up on the trackpad and there it is like I've laid out all my papers on my desk. I use multiple desktops as well and sometimes assign things to certain desktops. command+space is also fantastic and saves me boatloads of time.

I had a PC at my old job and it was painful to use. All you have is alt-tab really, and that felt like a little half assed script an undergrad whipped up on a lark. Also everything was on network drives which were never indexed for search, so that was painful too. As well as all the usual pain points from every new windows version functioning as a reskinned windows xp in practice.
Thanks for the submit. I learned something today. Roy Hertz wasn't bad either.
100% with you on this. I find the replies to your comment here remarkable.

Namings should be descriptive not idiosyncratic.

It might be just like the guy I spoke to last month that said he just makes everything public when writing Java. Some people can have opinions that differ from best practice, it doesn't justify them, however.

Express your personality when you speak to people face to face, tell a joke, make witty observations at lunch, or in a code review meeting, don't express your personality in manifest idiosyncracies in your comments and code.
It's not bad in winter though...
Static is great: more secure, stands up to very high loads, minimal maintenance.

I'd actually recommend writing in plain html+css at first, and then moving over to a static site generator once you have ~10 posts. You'll have a much better idea about what makes a good system at that point.

(I wrote my own static site generator after ~100 posts, which is longer than I'd recommend going!)
http://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/lab/orbital_decay/

If you want to see how long it takes for satellite orbits to decay in LEO, check this out. Illustrates how quickly some of these satellites would reenter without station keeping.
When classical Marxists speak of "scientific materialism" or "scientific socialism" they're using a 19th century convention ... not speaking of Science as we understand it today, the whole toolkit of empiricism and the scientific method. They're talking about science more generally as ordered knowledge, and in contrast to a more 'utopian' socialist view of their French predecessors.

It's an outdated phraseology that doesn't mean what it sounds like in today's context.

It's also not really Marx's term, but Engels', and borrowed from Proudhon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_socialism
> What purpose would that home serve?

Save on rent? Not every asset is a commodity to be traded.