skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought sonys physical quick access camera button was an underappreciated good idea.
"Consumers," "government," you both are saying are responsible and should pay.

That's us - you do realize?
You wouldn't have this still up somewhere like GH would you? I'm currently writing a toy ECS implementation and have somewhat similar needs, and I've been trying to build up a reference library of sorts covering novel ways of dealing with these kind of JS issues
> Sometime later the alert went off, so I anxiously jumped into AWS to see what kind of disaster was happening, and found that I got billed a few cents... for the alert itself.

They charge for billing alerts? I've never used AWS in production and I suppose it's a miniscule cost, but, wow, that seems really pedantic to charge for that.
Note that this is an article for physics teachers and the conclusion is “we can warn our students that this is not the meaning of the word “entropy” in physics.”
Yes, absolutely. I linked this elsewhere in this thread, a Fresh Air interview [0] with the author of Why Buddhism is True [1] explains better than I can why having happiness be a permanent condition would not make any sense from an evolutionary perspective:

> I mean, natural selection built us to do some things - a series of things that help us get genes into the next generation. Those include eating food so we stay alive, having sex, things like that.

> And if it were the case that any of these things brought permanent gratification, then we would quit doing them, right? I mean, if you - you would eat. You'd feel blissed out. You'd never eat again. You'd have sex. You'd lie there, basking in the afterglow, never have sex again. Well, obviously, that's not a prescription for getting genes into the next generation. So natural selection seems to have built animals in general to be recurringly dissatisfied. And this is - seems to be a central feature of life, and it's central to the Buddhist diagnosis of what the problem is.

A key Buddhist teaching is that dukkha (often translated as "suffering" but I believe "dissatisfaction" is more accurate) is caused not just by pushing away negative feelings, but by trying to not let go of positive feelings.

Going out for a beer with my friends brings me happiness. If I chase that positive feeling, I might end up with a vicious hangover the next day, or long-term with a dependence on alcohol.

As an oversimplification, you can view any addiction through the lens of taking an ephemeral positive feeling, wishing for it to be permanent, and pursuing it over and over again, rather than accepting the nature of its impermanence.

0: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

1: https://amazon.com/Why-Buddhism-True-Philosophy-Enlightenmen...
I got a TS/SCI when I was 21. Filling out that SF-86 and hearing from tons of people I hadn't talked in 10+ years was eye opening.

FWIW, if you are honest, they really don't hold much against you. This is someone who had legal run-ins in my younger years.
As memorably recalled by U. Ruckus in the Boondocks episode “Invasion of the Katrinians”
Then if you think you are worth that much, you can call their bluff and go somewhere else. And what happens in the union scenario? The manager hires an unproductive person for exactly the same wages?
This s pseudoscience. Working with large consumer brands in the last 10 years, I’ve never seen any of this applied to real life. This has no value and I’m surprise it was voted to HN frontpage.
If you have an ABET certified computer engineering degree, you can become a licensed engineer. Admittedly, I'm surprised that isn't a requirement for these things sometimes.
The unaudited thing is definitely raising questions but, come on, let's not act like people being from a certain country should automatically discard them. Signal is made by Americans and so is Briar, I'd hope neither are thought of as NSA stooges or something. Telegram creators got essentially run out of the country and the app itself was banned in Russia, that's a pretty good sign that there's no cooperation with the government.

Not suggesting we put blind trust into it, just saying it's unfair to judge an app by where its makers come from.
If it’s some other “secret” test then we’re no longer discussing the polygraph are we?
Beating yourself up over "failing" only causes more delay and more suffering. That goes for not meditating as much as you think you should and not trying hard enough when loosing awareness. It's just practice, if you're not failing now and then you're not learning.

I had to sort of force myself by going to live in an ashram full time for a while.
Since corporations can pass changes in cost onto consumers by raising prices, if the government held corporations accountable for the costs of their externalities, then those costs would also be shared by the consumers.
Not helpful when you're trying to grow/protect your savings to put your kids through college.
It doesn't matter if the stock market is "reverting to the mean" if we don't know what the mean is supposed to be.
what's it like living down there? do you work in tech? remote? went jet skiing off Key Largo recently and really enjoyed the area...
Mine is showing as roughly twice what I'd expect it to be on the billing home page. It looks about right on the cost explorer though.

I got an alert for crossing a billing threshold only five hours ago, as expected for this time of the month; now the total is just under double that.

It's quite an intriguing error. I'm struggling to imagine how it might have come about.
Their encryption is on by default, just not the end-to-end kind. I know that's pedantic but it's true.
The answer to the question probably depends on unfettered access to all of the Executive Orders (and Decisions and Memos) and White House Counsel interpretations of existing law. We mere mortals will likely never know.
Not a no-no at all as far as I know. It was explicitly recommended in The Mind Illuminated. It just needs to be an alarm that you'll hear when it's done so you don't have to devote any attention to it, you just focus on meditating until it goes off.
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Meditation is not just to do with stress, but it gives you the tools to deal with situations with more control, it's something worth doing even if you're not stressed.

It could be helpful treating mental illnesses such as anxiety, depression, and PTSD; ironically your goal during meditation should be to have no goal.
Having a timer is a really common practice. Try a search for "meditation timer" on the Apple or Google app stores.
Agreed, definitely more efficient and probably flexible, but two minor downsides:

1. not portable C

2. requires more storage for each continuation (4 bytes vs. 2)
Fair enough, license them to people who can demonstrate a legitimate need.
I'm agreeing with you. The state zones places that aren't suitable for housing. Banks loan developers money to build. And quasi-government agencies hold loans used to buy the houses. In these clusterfucks the owner is just one of many partially responsible parties.

I remember reading about a disaster in Washington State (I think). A geology professor been doing field trips to an hill side. To show his students an example of an unstable hillside. One year he shows up and there are now houses on it. Few years after that the whole thing comes down.

Another one. During the housing bubble in California they build a subdivision on farmland that was reserved as a flood plain. During heavy rainfall years it's expected to flood. Now there are houses on it.

Are the people that bought those houses responsible or are they more victims? Both?
For anyone else: "the highest point in the development of something; a culmination or climax."
Really? That was downvote worthy?
That's the point I was trying to make.
C's free() gives memory back to the operating system(1), whereas, as a performance optimization, many GCd languages don't give memory back after they run a garbage collection (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/324499/java-still-uses-s...). Every Python program is using a "custom allocator," only it is built in to the Python runtime. You may argue that this is a dishonest use of the term custom allocator, but custom is difficult to define (It could be defined as any allocator used in only one project, but that definition has multiple problems). The way I see it, there are allocators that free to the OS and those that don't or usually don't (hereafter referred to as custom).
In C, a custom allocator conceivably could be built into, say, a game engine. You might call ge_free(ptr) which would signal to the custom allocator that chunk of memory is available and ge_malloc() would use the first biggest chunk of internally allocated memory, calling normal malloc() if necessary.
Custom allocators in C are a bit more than just semantics, and affect performance (for allocation-heavy code). Furthermore, they are distinct from GC, as they can work with allocate/free semantics, rather than allocate/forget (standard GC) semantics.
Yes, one could technically change any GCd language to use a custom allocator written by one's self. But Python can't use allocate/free semantics (so don't expect any speedup). Python code never attempts manual memory management, (i.e. 3rd party functions allocate on the heap all the time without calling free()) because that is how Python is supposed to work. To use manual memory management semantics in Python, you would need to rewrite every Python method with a string or any user defined type in it to properly free.

(1) malloc implementations generally allocate a page at a time and give the page back to the OS when all objects in the page are gone. ptr = malloc(1); malloc(1); free(ptr); doesn't give the single allocated page back to the OS.
you had me at keras
Novice here, yoga was my intro.
Sure! But just because we don't fear something doesn't mean we necessarily want it. It's courageous to not be afraid of something you don't want.
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This is interesting to me because I don't meditate, but I also don't have "voices in my head" most of the time. There is a "voice" that is present while I am reading and I can summon it in order to work through something I want to say or write, also sometimes I "play music" in my head where the vocals are usually in the voice of the artist. By and large, though, my mind is usually "silent". Do most people hear voices all the time? Most of the time? I was under the impression hearing voices a lot was associated with psychosis and not the default way brains work.
It's being linked to climate change because small, low-lying islands are seeing serious losses of land mass. From the article:

Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana is trying to relocate the Native American settlement of about 100 people on the Isle de Jean Charles, a narrow island that lost 98% of its land over the past six decades to climate change.

My best understanding is that this is, in fact, a new phenomenon related to global warming, the defrosting of permafrost, etc.

Some regions of the world have always been unsafe for human habitation due to persistently unfriendly weather

There is no place without some kind of disaster. I've looked. It's a case of pick your poison.

Hurricanes in the Southeast.
Tornadoes in the Plains States.
Earthquakes and the ever-so-lovely Fire Season on the West Coast.

Etc.

But much of Florida is not far above sea level and some of the issues they are seeing can legitimately be linked to climate change. That's not just hand-wringing in this case.

This is especially true for low-lying islands, which are seeing new problems around the world. It isn't the norm for islands to simply disappear to rising sea levels.
I think that's only me in the sense that I am an employee, a consumer, and own stocks. Presumably if the government fined corporations for the damage they caused to the environment then I would be effected through those roles.

However, corporations are not me in the sense that I neither make the decisions nor receive the pay that corporate executives do.
While I can see the logic there, I would strongly recommend against alarms. The deeper you go, the more sensitive you become. Being pulled out abruptly is very uncomfortable, to the point where knowing what's coming will stand in the way of even trying.

I would say sit as long as you feel like it, except that doesn't really help initially. Maybe put on a non-intrusive background track that fades out when time is up? And do take your time when coming back; start by listening, then opening the eyes slowly etc.

Same goes for waking up from regular sleep, but refusing alarms in this society is a pretty serious compromise.
250k kilometers of Saturn's rings animated as a perspective fly-over [video]
Sam Graves is a commercially rated pilot.
Unless they are just talking about personal projects?
The Mind Illuminated is a fairly comprehensive one.
No amount of wealth (which is a fancy word for lots of money) can buy health. Therefore, health is not wealth. It is, as you say, more valuable than that.
I'm more than familiar with the quote.

There is the matter of degree.

Sounds like you're trying to say "yes" without actually saying "yes", though, in truth.
It's not literally hearing voices, but rather observing the flow of thoughts. You feel hungry, there's a thought. You suddenly realize you forgot someone's birthday, there's a thought. You think about that chocolate bar you ate last week, boom there's a thought. So that's the "voices" or "monkey mind" that meditation practitioners will talk about.
There is no “Big 5” in tech
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21035986
Are the hours in my local TimeZone, in GMT or in the timezone of the developer?
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I'm pretty sure that I've taken more risks than most entrepreneurs. It's a mistake to assume that if someone is not financially successful, that they haven't taken risks. This kind of logic was never accurate and it's getting even less so over time.

There is a lot of talent and there are many really great projects which go unnoticed these days. Our entire economy is founded on hype and misinformation. It's no longer possible to compete based on merit; the only way to win is through cheating and deception (e.g. the focus is not on value creation for customers, it's all about social scheming). Maybe that is why people are increasingly turning on entrepreneurs.

Social schemes which allow entrepreneurs to make money don't add value to society, they take away value. The VC funnel, corporate acquisitions, IPOs, social media advertising, etc... All these schemes don't create any value and yet that's where most of society's money seems to be going.

I think the financial system has failed. TBH I still can't believe that cryptocurrencies are worth so much money after so many years. The ongoing success of Bitcoin is proof that fiat money and the entire economy is completely speculative.

In a proper functioning economy in which money has real value, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies wouldn't have been able to last a single year.
>> The reality is you still have to free resources,

Not exactly. Here is how the early PC 3D games I worked on did that: They would have a fixed size data buffer initialized for each particular thing you needed a lot of, such as physics info, polygons, path data, in sort of a ring buffer. A game object would have a pointer to each segment of that data it used. If you removed a game object you would mark the segment the game object pointed to as unused. When a new object was created you would just have a manager that would return a pointer to a segment from the buffer that was dirty that the new object would overwrite with data. Memory was initialized at load and remained constant.

One problem with doing things like that is that you would have fixed pool. So there were like 256 possible projectiles in Battlezone(1998) in the world at any time and if something fired 257th an old one just ceased to exist. Particles systems worked that way as well.

What was good about that was that you could perform certain calculations relatively fast because all the data was the same size and inline, so it was easy to optimize. I worked on a recent game in C# and the path finding was actually kind of slow even though the processor the game ran on was probably like 100 times (or more) faster. I understand there are ways to get C# code to create and search through a big data structure as fast as the programmers had to do it in C in the 90's. However it would probably involve creating your own structures rather than using standard libraries, so no one did it like that.
The Moon and ISS are pretty easy to see almost everywhere.
I worked as a games programmer for 8 years in C/C++, and spent an accumulated 2 years just doing optimisation, during the time of 6th and 7th generation consoles. Freeing resources in a deterministic manner is important for the following reasons:

FRAME RATE: having a GC collect at random frames makes for jerky rendering

SPEED: Object pools allow reuse of objects without allocing/deallocing, and can be a cache-aligned array-of-structs. Structs-of-arrays can be used for batch processing large volumes of primitives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AoS_and_SoA

RELIABILITY: This is probably applicable to the embedded realm too, but if you can't rely on virtual memory (because the console's OS/CPU doesn't support it, or once again you don't want the speed impact) then you need to be sure that allocations always succeed from a fixed pool of memory. Pre-allocated object pools, memory arenas, ring buffers etc. are a few of ways to ensure this.

There's probably a lot more, but those are the reasons that jump out at me.
So you're saying that you never have anything going on in your head that you didn't choose? No uncomfortable thoughts that you have to push away? No egos lashing out at other people or telling you you're not good enough?

If that's the case then congratulations are in order, most people have to put in some effort to get there. Maybe you're a natural, depends on where you came from. Being left alone to do your thing in a sane environment makes it easier to stay in touch.

Whatever the case, there's never any harm in sitting still with closed eyes for ten minutes.
I guess that what "hearing voices" was pointing at in this case were thoughts and thinking.
Including the landscape architecture professor in the article who said, "If we don’t, it won’t matter, because much of America will be underwater or on fire."

No hysteria at all there.
Would "fits twice in a modern web page" be a better description?
Seems like lifeguard could solve this: https://github.com/zslayton/lifeguard
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/06/12/proposition-47-cr...

https://www.ppic.org/press-release/proposition-47-linked-to-...

http://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=9417

https://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-prop47-anniversary...
You don't hear them, unless you have an auditory hallucination, but you have thoughts, which you can verbalize or materialize to a greater or lesser degree. These thoughts are something you do, not what you are. You'll hear them if you start listening to them.
The computation here is actually not done in Rust. The Rust code is performing stages of compilation of the original source code, into an intermediate representation that LLVM finishes compiling. The fully compiled code is what does the computation.
Yes, I'm aware of orgmode and find it helpful, but I don't think I think it only provides partial features in this instance.
>> I had to sort of force myself by going to live in an ashram full time for a while.

That's amazing to me, really! I've considered doing 10-day sits before (vipassana most likely) but never got the courage to do it. Part of the reason being nicotine addiction (which would add a whole other dimension to the challenge). Once I sort out that bug out (and get a few levels higher in Hindi on duolingo) I want to look into it again.
The app referenced is a nice encapsulation of the formula in a form that is immediately usable without significant understanding.

If you find this interesting and want to know how these things are calculated, you can find the full calculations in a blog post I wrote a few years ago:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/TheBirthdayParadox.html?si21h...

There are some previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19296265

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4753014
AWS is a gigantic exercise in figuring out how to gouge customers. Case in point: charging API gateways per HTTP request.
What does the Pi offer that Linux doesn't take advantage of?
So which feature can you not implement? The only I can think of which you'd have real problems are anonymous functions/lambdas. Most other features I think you can implement. It won't look the same, but it will serve the same purpose.
To really make a dent, put a stop to H1B. It is an unnecessary program. All people doing work here should be citizens or green card holders. The employer should not have any say about this or sway over the employees about their status. People should be free to choose their employer and change their employer without entanglement of H1B.
Interestingly you can also practice ignoring the deciding process.
I wonder why this isn't more about caffeinated coffee where it's an actual problem than with the shitty pastries? Running out of donuts isn't a tragedy - it may be a good thing. Running out of coffee is inevitable and tragic.

Like donuts it's plainly visible that there's almost no coffee left, there's a little pipette thing showing how much is left. Why is this situation different than the donut situation?
It also reminds me of Qt's qDebug macros
Mindfulness meditation
you can turn off the gc in Go and run it manually. you can also write cache-aligned arrays of structs in Go if you want to. you can allocate a slab and pull from it if you want to. the existence of a GC doesn't preclude these possibilities.
Yellow: so, both friendly and warning.

It depends on how it is used and the exact shade of yellow.

Bright yellow is a really strong color. If you use it in large swaths, yes, it is alarming.

It is why we use it on buses: So you can't miss them. They have researched this. Yellow is the easiest shade to see without trying. It's the hardest shade to overlook.

But touches of a less-strong shade of yellow as an accent color do help warm things up and signal "friendly" and "happy." So a trustworthy shade of dark blue with small touches of yellow can be a good color combo.

I have read research-based books about color and had a class in Cartography for GIS. There is research on various aspects of color -- it's literal perception (like yellow being hard to overlook) and it's subjective perception, which can be influenced by culture. For example, some cultures wear black to funerals and others wear white to funerals.

So you do have to be aware of cultural context when trying to brand something. If you only ever try to brand stuff for Middle Class American Consumers, you may not realize that. But if you ever try to branch out to Asia or whatever, stuff that works here may not work there.
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I mean, a lot of women do enjoy it. Human sexually is incredibly diverse. There's not one shred of empirical evidence that shows that looking at sexual material is damaging or affects life outcomes in any way, shape, or form. And honestly, people don't really seem to care. They just have this puritanical morality for others, while at the same time engaging in these behaviors in private. It's total bullshit.
I've always wondered why banks would finance the deals and insurance companies would insure them.
Yes, seeing the same on the Billing & Cost Spend Summary; but the correct amounts are displayed in the AWS Cost Management dashboard [0].

[0] https://console.aws.amazon.com/cost-reports/home#/dashboard
Or IronPython...oh, wait. ;-)