skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are no proven benefits to meditation.

There are so many studies with proven benefits the topic has its own Wikipedia article:

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

Meditation is much more than focusing practice. Playing video games is not in any way equivalent.
Not particularly safe for work, but this [1] had me spit out my tea I laughed so hard.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/4HO389e
There’s a difference between a policy that’s just enforced by an honour system and a policy that is enforced with strong access control, alarm bells, and a paper trail. It’s very possible to encode the sorts of policies that we need to protect peoples data into real restrictions that are strongly enforced. A police officer might need to do some routine queries, but they should probably have gone through vetting about people they are close to and not have access to their data. Additionally, there should be audits performed on a regular basis.
maybe you did mean that postponing scheduled downtime looks nefarious to some

You got it.
Yeah, I was there when it happened (and it was a fairly big deal internally). He was an SRE with pretty high-level access. There's relatively little you can do for this kind of threat - the nature of their jobs usually requires that they have root on the box. (Though a sibling comment suggests that there's even more rigorous procedures now.)
You are misinformed. MicroK8s and K3s can get a full-fledged Kubernetes setup running in less than a minute. I run a five-node cluster at home and it is a breeze.

Edit: I forgot about HyperiotOS, which is another viable option. MicroK8s has Canonical’s backing so it has quickly become the most well-supported option. It advocates single-node clusters for development but it supports multi-node as well.
Some say that's how they got the idea for MongoDB:

Snapchat for Databases
It doesn't mention it because it's completely irrelevant to the research they're doing. They're looking at gluons in the structure of protons.
AMD vs. Intel CPU Market Share: 7nm Makes Landfall as Price War Begins
Will online world solve moral issues?
We are at desperate times where moral values are threatened.
More and more people these days say 'That's not my problem', 'I choose to live this way, I don't care about the rest'. In other words we are very individualistic.

I'm not concerned with Donald Trump but the people who think its ok to win at any cost.
How can internet / social apps help uplift moral standards of human kind?
I thought it was called “second mover advantage”.
Isn't that literally the test described by FB economists in the article that showed that selection effect was 10x the impact of advertising?
If you don't own the keys.... :( Condolences mate. Stick a couple of hundred in bitcoin and a hardware wallet. Sit on it for 10 years and pay them back.
This article says 1.5% of Japanese males are hermits [1] which shows the desolation that faces the Japanese young. This article [2] outlines the declining marriage rates.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190129-the-plight-of-japan...

[2] https://www.meiji.ac.jp/cip/english/research/opinion/Akihiko...
Could Jamal Khashoggi might have been a victim of this?
I don't find any of this persuasive, but I'll just say: If Win32 were actually more ergonomic than modern UI development, then you'd actually see people using it for apps. Instead, Win32 is basically only used for maintenance of legacy apps at least 15 years old and low-level plumbing. Developers want something better.
I'm in the process of acquiring a facility in which to build my prototype fusion reactor. If all goes well, I'll start working on it at the beginning of 2020, and hopefully start testing it within a year.
I thought the title here read: "In praise of the 5-day Workweek and other 'radical' ideas" and I just assumed it was from the 1890s...
Well, what is your solution? Have Sentry go bankrupt because AWS takes their service and offers it at a scale Sentry can't?
I imagine something like this:

https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/

(this website generates parody git man pages)
Medieval and previous people were always at the limits of the resources they had the technology to access. The past was a Malthusian world. No economic growth and no population growth for thousands of years, in a world without birth control. The difference was paid by death. This is life when you're at ecological carrying capacity.

We managed to find new ways to tap resources better, more efficiently, deeper, and so on, so we revealed new carrying capacity which we haven't reached yet.

If we don't advance again the way we did before, a return the Malthusianism is possible. That should be your null hypothesis. However, spreading past Earth or transcending to entirely new ways of existing (e.g. computational life) are also possible. The future resists past-based analysis because the rules are always changing.

But there's no reason in principle that we can't tap extraplanetary resources, any more than a Roman-era tribe in Britain couldn't pump for oil in Texas. It just took a lot of steps to get there.
> Would it be smart for companies like google and twitter to publish how they vet people for these roles?

I think much like anti-hacking and anti-fraud efforts, publishing information about how they vet candidates would just make it easier for attackers to figure out how to game the system.
Ancestry’s genetic tests can now tell you about your health
Oh, very cool. And now that I think about it, this can be used to make all sorts of builders. E.g. SQL comes to mind. Something like:

let query = Sql {
Select(["baz.foo", "quux.bar"])
From("baz")
InnerJoin("quux")
On(Eq("baz.id", "quux.id"))
}
Taking an open source project and closing it is not being a "good open source citizen". It's actually the opposite of that.
Yeah, well, I bought a Porsche for barely more than a third of a GT-86.

How does it make any sense to say "I bought this car rather than that car for all these reasons" as a follow up to saying cars are interchangeable?

X and Y fill the same role is not in any way a claim that X and Y are indistinguishable (except for marketing), especially when you obviously chose one over the other.
It gets even better. := is an abandoned assignment operator in R (derived from ←). It is still in the syntax with no default implementation. A few packages use it (data.table, dplyr, wrapr) for quoted assignment tasks.
You do not need 2 factors with this solution, which is the whole point. This isn’t a 2FA token anymore. 2FA was a mitigation against phishing and credential theft. This solves that problem with a single factor. It is a password replacement.
That is pretty funny, I spent time writing market optimisation for energy companies.

The reason people use Julia in that area is JuMP code is VERY easy to write, and maintain.
Imagine this use-case:

1) Copy some text to be plagiarized.

2) Feed text to AI so it's rephrased.

3) Present result as own work.
Which part of the US were you in?
Lots of people die in car accidents.

I doubt anyone would refer to those as silly mistakes either.

My point with the second part is that humans have proven driving in snow storm and places that aren't fully mapped is possible, something that self-driving cars have not.
That is difficult to believe. I unpacked Linux version of the app, Electron binary is 120 Mb, resources.pak is 8 Mb, ICU library is 10 Mb. How can a whole Electron app take just 74 Mb? The numbers don't add up.

To test it myself, I started the program (with --no-sandbox because it requires root privileges otherwise) and measured memory usage using smem:

$ sudo smem --userfilter=nobody -k --totals

PID User Command Swap USS PSS RSS
23365 nobody /tmp/.mount_markteqQvqZF/ma 0 6.3M 14.2M 37.7M
23388 nobody /tmp/.mount_markteqQvqZF/ma 0 46.6M 59.4M 90.9M
23363 nobody ./marktext --no-sandbox 0 53.3M 76.3M 118.4M
23392 nobody /tmp/.mount_markteqQvqZF/ma 0 121.1M 142.3M 183.0M

PSS (Potential Set Size) [1] numbers are additive unlike RSS, so we can sum them and get around 291 Mb of RAM. This counts pages, that are shared between several processes, only once.

Either MacOS uses RAM several times more effective than Linux, or Activity Monitor is showing incorrect numbers to make impression that Mac apps take less memory than apps on competing operating systems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_set_size
Approximately what percent of the average population is predisposed to psychosis?
Ate there any good reasons to assign things in an if statement?
> Since you seem to be more or less pro-censorship, I’ll assume that you’re a bit left leaning

What gave you that impression? I was raising questions to show that any censorship (or definition of civil discussion) is problematic.

It's a tough problem because bad ideas can lead to bad things, but stopping good ideas can lead to bad things too. If we all agreed on what's good and what's bad this would be easy, but we don't.

I'd much rather live with the consequences of free speech than live with the consequences of censorship. But neither side should project claim it's a utopia.
That's not the decline of the nuclear family - it's the lack of a family at all, and it's hard to see that this would have effects on child suicide, when children aren't male hermits. It's not as if hermits become that way because women turn them down. The children haven't reached the age at which they'd worry about it being too late to have a family. Even then, 1.5% isn't a big enough number for people to worry that it's actually their fate. The rate of divorce is higher than 1.5%, as are a huge number of other risks. Becoming a hikkikomori isn't something I suspect most people, never mind children, are realistically worrying about. Even then, hikkis aren't suicidal, they find some contentment in being hermits.
I like the idea of keeping things similar to what people are already paying as a starting point. Although I hadn’t realized that it would end up being a head tax rather than a payroll tax.
Being "valid syntax in other contexts" is language dependent.

Go works by taking <- as an operator at a higher priority than the alternative parse, if indeed the "alternative parse" is even possible in the grammar (I'm not checking for a HN post); if you start with https://play.golang.org/p/S_XOiKdyj1A and remove the space after the less-than symbol and hit run, you'll see it no longer compiles properly. So <- only has one interpretation in Go. By contrast:

$ python
Python 2.7.15+ ...
>>> x = -3
>>> if x<-2:
... print("Hello world")
...
Hello world

<- appears in a perfectly valid context now that Python parses, in what happens to be the very place that is under discussion, so changing x<-2 to be "set x to 2" would be a non-backwards compatible change in Python.
I'm not sure where you got that impression. The lowered attendance rate of in-person chess clubs is more than made up by the enormous amount of chess played online, high-level professional chess is doing better than ever, and it's seen by many parents as one of the most generalizable skills for a child to learn.

(It's possible I just took a joke too seriously, but "chess is dead" is a common and incorrect take.)
Having built a lot of react apps with and without flux/redux, I would say the best part of GraphQL is the simplification of SPAs. Building up the query with fragments and colocating data fetching with the component that need it, is a huge win. If you have lots of micro services or even a few SOA apps, GraphQL is “developer ergonomic” win.

Majority of the latency/bandwidth wins can be achieved with a well architected jsonapi. This should not be your only reason for choosing GraphQL.
Would this fit the bill?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_SR-72
Yes it's nice, but there is also multiple Python libraries (Pyomo and Pulp) as well as numerous domain specific languages for solvers such as (GAMS, AIMMS, AMPL...etc). As someone who really likes Julia, it probably isn't enough of a difference here to justify a new product. It is an excellent choice for them to make I think.
Yet another Google project resigned to the trash heap. Remember all the reviewers who acted as if not being Google Daydream compatible was a huge black mark against a new phone?
"What they're missing is the brand."

I have to believe you're wrong, given how awful Subway is compared to every other sub place, particularly Jersey Mikes, Jimmy Johns, Potbelly, DiBellas, even Firehouse Subs. Without doing in depth research, the differentiator has to be their franchising model.
APL's assignment operator is very strange to me; simple array of numbers assigned to 'nums':

nums←1 2 3 4 5

Then catenate (append) a 6 to the right side end of it:

nums,←6
nums
1 2 3 4 5 6

Now use position-reversed catenate to append a 6 to the left side end of it; how does that work?:

nums,⍨←6
nums
6 1 2 3 4 5 6

Now use addition-assign to add 2 to each item; how:

nums+←2
nums
8 3 4 5 6 7 8

Now assign a single value into non-consecutive locations using array subscript notation on the left side of the assignment; that's unusual:

nums[2 4]←99
nums
8 99 4 99 6 7 8

Now do a max-assignment to replace values which are less than 7 with 7:

nums⌈←7
nums
8 99 7 99 7 7 8

Nums reset to 1 2 3 4 5, laminated with 'hello' to pair each number with a letter:

nums←1 2 3 4 5
nums,[0.5]'hello'
1 2 3 4 5
h e l l o
nums
1 2 3 4 5

Want to do that and update nums? Stick an assignment in there:

nums←1 2 3 4 5
nums,[0.5]←'hello'
nums
1 2 3 4 5
h e l l o

It seems so odd that this can pull values out and modify them with the value being assigned and put the result back, assigning to 'nums' and modifying it, while keeping the shape and structure of it.
> if you believe every criticism is related to Russian campaigns.

That’s not the claim, and you hyperbolizing that way is a classic technique for muddying the waters.

> everything is shilled on you

That’s simply not true. There are many shills, but not everyone is a shill.

There is a difference between responsible marketing and lying. Every institution has to choose which they engage in.
These people aren't having children and therefore have nothing to do with child suicide?
There are a few reports of Thiel trying to improve his image over the last couple years.

Pressure appears to have been applied to suppress the association with his interest in transfusion of blood / being a vampire. https://gizmodo.com/someone-is-trying-to-discredit-the-story...

There are also articles from the same period casting uncertainty on his extreme libertarian beliefs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-20/peter-thi...
It says we need Peter Thiel, or rather, funds to back lawsuit everyday people can't afford to pay upfront. Which have been growing the past few years.
When they say “We’re going to verify all our listings” I fucking expect them to verify listings.

When listings cost hundreds to thousands of dollars and they skim a significant fee off every rental they need to take some significant steps to eliminate fraud on their platform.

Craigslist is a horrible example because they don’t profit from most sales, and they don’t process the money between buyer/ seller. If AirBnb worked like CL, you’d be pay your host cash when you show up and if your host tried to pull shit like this you could just walk.
1924 Copyrighted Works Enter the Public Domain in 2020
In addition to rapid tolerance buildup (which in a dopaminergic drug would be a danger of rapid progression to overdose), in my experience psilocybin and other psychedelic tryptamines have an inherent moderating effect in many people. I don't really feel like having psychedelic experiences often; it's just not a useful state of being most of the time, and it's not so neurochemically rewarding and physically comfortable that it's highly likely for addiction to develop. It's far less likely to become addicted to psilocybin than THC, alcohol, or caffeine.

I do agree that always combining meditation with any substance could lead to a dependence on that substance to experience the deepest meditative states. However, used once in a while (which is the most I really want psychedelics anyway), I can agree with the findings in this paper, the experience sticks with you and can be remembered.

pazimzadeh's analogy is spot on.

> Right. If you're trying to metaphorically reach the peak of a mountain, psychedelics are like a helicopter that lets you fly around, find the path and even reach the top.

> It's possible that you'll grow to rely on the helicopter to climb the mountain, but hopefully what you take away from it is that there is in fact a path (or accept that there's not - and you might has well climb a different mountain).
This is a scary trend, it's bad enough that anytime I talk to someone online I question if they're a real person. Now we might be transitioning to an era where I can't trust my coworkers either.
AirPnD
Perfectionism and analysis paralysis are common obstacles to progress. Also fear of failure. In June of this year I decided to learn music theory and to play piano, almost on a whim, and write a blog post daily about what I learned that day[1]. I've named this year-long project "Poseur to Composer".

I'm almost halfway through and realise I have no innate abilities in music. Fortunately the application of music is very broad and there are many kinds of composers, so I can still achieve my goal. Also taking a lot of personal analytics with DailyDiary.com that I can learn from once the project is over.

[1] http://poseurtocomposer.com/
And the integration of religious rituals and beliefs into supposedly secular governments? Many us government ceremonies begin with a religious guru (e.g. congressional chaplain opening prayer) and have for decades. Occult iconography and religious inscriptions appear on instruments of government like banknotes, buildings and the like.
Scope the assigned variable to the if statement.
Doesn’t matter, it’s in your possession. If you lose it, you revoke the yubikey.
I always thought the self driving car was an excuse. Something like "We are loosing money now, but if you invest in us we will magically be profitable in the future."
But isn't digital advertising substantially cheaper than traditional ad buys (e.g. print, TV)? If clients can spend much less to reach the same number of potential customers, why is it necessary for them to spend equal to or more than a traditional ad budget?
Ask HN: How to apply for jobs when I dont fit into any specific openings
I've found it extremely difficult to find positions to which I am interested in and completely fit into.

I'd consider myself a "generalist", I have a BS in mechE, but I've taught myself a ton about electrical engineering, built embedded systems, self-taught R, Python, C++, and have spent the last 4 years diving living with Linux. I've been working as a perception engineer building out sensor based systems for aeronautical applications. I'm going on 5 years of experience, while taking on more leadership responsibilities.

Ideally I'd like to move my career into space systems (space is the place!), although this is difficult in my geographic location (Boston, MA). I've been keeping an open mind and know the local 3d printer companies have some options, as well as biotech and robotics companies. Self-driving car companies are a turn off for me. I'm looking for a fulfilling career, not a fat fast paycheck.

It feels as if my resume gets passed over since I don't fit perfectly into the square peg that these companies are looking for. Presenting myself as a generalist seems to be detrimental. While I personally see myself as one of the most important members in my current group as someone who can practically do everything. Although to others it seems I'm too much of a jack-of-all-trades, master of none, therefore companies dont want to spend time on me.

How do I showcase myself as an integral member of a team, someone who understands all aspects of an electro-mechanical/embedded/software engineering effort, while not seeming useless because I might not meet every requirement of a particular position I find interesting.
Super awesome answer, thank you! Im glad you validated what I thought about how insane it is to read about it without drowning in buzzwords so much that I stop reading. Thanks again
Although I'm pro-psychedelic I can warn against going this way as hallucinogens can screw the whole point by distracting you from what you are to find.

What I can recommend (to whoever can do this legally) is to try doing a Buddhist meditation while on weed + amphetamine. Amphetamine can augment concentration and weed can intensify the experience. Chances are you will get it (satori or whatever you call it) and won't loose it ever. It can't be unseen and you only loose it temporarily every time you loose mindful concentration.
Um, no it doesn't. It claims that dissolved U would be replenished faster than we'd u se it (but that claim is wrong, I think); it doesn't say the U that us currently dissolved would last a billion years.
Is there a version of this article that is not Adblock-blocked?
Get rid of Bananas?
Yeah - a vigilante commits violent crimes to punish crimes that go unpunished by the authorities. This is... a person using above board methods to expose junk science.
Yet in reality almost no business software will 'work' on newer versions of a platform be it purely due to licensing, support or version check restrictions. Heck, get a SIMATIC PC and randomly upgrade that 'platform' and watch a whole system stop functioning.

The theory that a platform as 'backwards compatibility' is only good for lazy developers and lost source code. And yes, not doing maintenance saves time, but so does not upgrading your platform. I mean, if 8 inch floppies work for nuclear installations, OS/2 works for subway passenger systems, and Windows 3.1 for radio servers and other flight control systems, might as well not maintain anything at all. Heck, why not use relay logic in the subway control rooms.
> Which is why if you want to make a broad social decision like changing how money works

No, I don't want to force you to use any money that you don't like.

It is pretty silly for you to argue that people are infrindging on other people's rights, just because they prefer to use a different method of voluntarily exchange with other people.

It is interesting that you are jumping to this argument, because you previously tried to pretend like you didn't want to force other people to make certain decisions for themselves, and now you are totally backtracking on that.

It seems like you didn't really mean anything by those statements previously then?

If you cared so much about what type of paper that other people are using voluntarily, so much that you are willing to compare it to dumping chemicals in water, then why didn't you just say that from the beginning instead of pretending like you didn't care about what voluntary decisions other people were making with their own means of exchange?

Freedom is a valuable property in and of itself, and that is the only justification I need, to say that this is a good thing.
Graphiti is based on the JSONAPI standard. While Graphiti is an awesome library (the author is one of the most supportive devs I’ve experienced with OSS, rivaling most paid support I’ve experienced), JSONAPI has existed longer than GraphQL, and has virtually no relationship with GraphQL or how it functions.
Anyone who publicly supported Trump can't be too concerned. But considering he has Palintir he must have to keep a relatively clean image.

Overall I think the Gawker lawsuit may have had an antifragile effect--it's improved his image over the longterm.
Generally speaking, I would say the quality of the bread or the cookies. But I don't really go looking for a generic sandwich (like a ham or turkey sub) most of the time. Instead, I go to a place that might be good, find one thing that they do well, that probably doesn't have a direct competitor, and order it over and over again until I'm tired of it. Or alternate with whatever another place does best.

It's my belief that almost all worthwhile restaurants only have one or two things that they do particularly well, so having a huge menu is a negative.