skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Embracing mindfulness practices literally saved my business this year. It has turned me into a machine, my productivity has skyrocketed. I work alone and from home most days, procrastination was a massive issue - but now just clearing my head twice a day through a simple routine ensures I never shy away from anything.

I am not interested in the religious aspect, as much as I respect the fact that the practice as we know it evolved through the ages thanks to Buddhist and Hindu monks. I don’t see a problem with it: one doesn’t have to be Christian to appreciate Latin calligraphy, or to be Muslim to appreciate algebra.

This said, the critique against corporate entities coopting the practice is predictable and inevitable. If any human technique or technology can be put to good use in order to make money, it will be. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t use it. A pen can be used to write a novel or a prison sentence, it doesn’t mean the pen itself is bad or that we are somehow “betraying” the intentions of the original inventors of pens.

(Edit: i also don’t think I could ever really meditate with other people... I bet most of these corporate congregations actually achieve very little and are just another social occasion for the people involved).
from a developer point of view, AMD does not support record/replay debugging execution
As someone who commutes by bike and has been hit twice by cars, the first thought that crossed my mind when seeing the CyberTruck was ‘ouch’.
I find it interesting that the top voted rebuttal to a CERN hosted article is a Forbes one.
but people are more concerned with relative success within populations than between countries
Show HN: Flashcard app to learn the vocabulary of English books/series/movies
Made this app because I was tired of not knowing 50 words/book when I read in English.

You can try it on the AppStore searching "Quicky app".
For Android user please use the web mobile version at https://quicky.app/.
The Desktop version has a shitty responsive design.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are not French, you will want to tell you are to try the features of the app (sorry it's only in French though)

I'd love to hear your feedback.
You probably could. I personally wouldn't attempt it because I mostly do software and wouldn't want to risk draining it dry overnight or voiding the warranty or something, but if it's a just a car battery it shouldn't be hard for someone with more EE knowledge.

Another option might just be to mount an entirely sperate power system just for the phone and any other devices. Buy a huge USB power bank off Amazon and mount it to the carriage or something, might not even need duct tape.
I was thinking about this the other day. Will they let a armored tank on the road?
Yeah, this is why semi-trucks have the Mansfield bar that runs level with the bumper of a normal passenger car. (Named after Jayne Mansfield, who died in a car crash with a semi truck.)
I mean, Vonnegut sure as shit knew that when he wrote those words.

30 years later he was in the basement of a slaughterhouse when his countrymen firebombed him and the rest of the city into slag, after all.

And I distinctly recall a rather large and conspicuously non-Western nation being involved in that particular war. Possibly more than that, depending on how you count.
Perhaps you are unaware that the term "computer" originally referred to a person who performed scientific calculations by hand (using their brain).

https://www.amazon.com/When-Computers-Human-David-Grier/dp/0...
> but I'm not really coming up with much.

War elephants are a slight exception - the best tactic against them seems to have been spreading out and killing the driver with arrows or javalins - but it's less that bunching up was bad tactics and more that it wasn't enough; phalanxes could repel elephants fairly well, they just weren't good at actually taking them out of the fight.
What is ANCAP? I only know this term as meaning anarcho-capitalism.
What Australia are you living in?
the dot com bubble at least had some good ideas and with it some of the foundation of what the internet would become. crypto has started with a set of ideals and promises but has been completely usurped by con men and bad ideas. you have to look really, really hard to find the good ideas.
In cities lifted trucks and motorcycles and cars without sufficient muffling should be illegal. Engineers have spent so much time and money trying to solve problems around noise, pollution and safety so that we can operate internal combustion engine vehicles in crowded cities without ruining each others lives. Then someone can just lift their truck and take the muffler off for vanity reasons? Seems insane
I live in Mexico and use Nord VPN (or I did at least, seems like maybe I can't anymore unless I want my computer to be a proxy for arbitrary and potentially nefarious traffic).
I have Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Now, Hulu, and Netflix. All work with Nord VPN running.
Since when can the public not have bullet resistant vehicles? There are several companies that armor civilian vehicles.
presumably it must pass the same crash safety tests as every other car sold in the US
Idexx Becomes First Corporation to Exploit Maine’s Global Corporate Welfare Act
I might be mistaken but from my college chemistry I believe this is referring to VSEPR theory. Where electron pairs around a nucleus will push against each other to maximize the distance between other pairs in spherical space. So two electron pairs would be separated by 180° (line) and 3 by 120° (3 lines on same plane), 4 by 120° (tetrahedron) and so on.

So if it's 140° then something else is pushing against them as it should never be 140°.

Someone more knowledgeable correct me if I'm mistaken.
Here is a piece of bulletproof glass used on bullet proof cars that takes 18 rounds and isn’t pierced. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_FN5xzeVluc

I have a water resistant watch and I understand I can’t go diving with it, but I feel like maybe this glass is more than resistant enough to qualify as “proof”?
This is true of a lot of small cars, like the Smart Car and the Fiat 500. They have pretty rigid structures but no crumple zones. The car survives, but everyone suffers massive internal bleeding. If any part of the car itself touches your head or chest in an accident, you basically die instantly.
they let armored cars, dump trucks, snow plow trucks, cement trucks, etc... on the road..
I don't know why you got downvoted. It the exact same thought I had when I saw the comparison about how one door dented and the other didn't. A car that crumples will cushion the sudden stop in case of a crash.
It's still sheet metal, it's going to crumple in a collision with another vehicle.

The only thing they demonstrated is that it doesn't dent easily when hit by a sledge hammer swung horizontally.
A product owner that asked that the content of our poker site be impossible to copy, incase someone should try to copy it.

We explained that this wasn't a thing - even newspapers, whose product is the written word, publish each day's paper online and don't apply these measures. Reluctantly they withdrew the request but made it clear they didn't agree.

Later, that same product owner was asked to organise for content to be written for the customer help documentation. We received it in Microsoft word format and on closer inspection we could see that the content had been copied and pasted from a competitor's site.
I ordered one last week. I wonder how many of the specifications advertised will actually be met by the production version. 500 mile range, faster than a vette, 100cu feet of storage, seats 6, sledgehammer proof body, bullet proof glass, etc. It all sounds too good to be true for only $70k.
The other car is the crumple zone
>life’s not fair

“...and the you die”

Not my quote, heard it from a colleague
They let armored cars on the road.
I'd be interested in the model if you have the opportunity to check! Thank you.
Good. It's a small step. But barriers to entry can only increase the quality of content.
To me at least, it makes sense to introduce a complex topic gradually, in stages. But regardless, I still agree that the wording in the paragraph you called out could be improved for better clarity.
My guess is that what I'm asking for isn't that complex and could be done by a few serious mathematicians in a few years. The dynamics of tanh(Ax+b) is hardly more complex than Naiver-Stokes equation or the modern topology theory.
Crazy bright LED headlights at eye level of other vehicles need to be illegal too.
Its pretty much what it sounds like, when there are particle collisions or decays, the particles come off at certain characteristic angles relative to the beam that are signatures of certain types decay and energies.

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

In this video, look for the forks that happen in the vapor trails being generated, that is a particle collision, and the corresponding sort of angle being talked about here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B2cvZgLToY

This technique works because the air is essentially super saturated with moisture, so even very slight atomic level disturbances will cause the water to condense to form mini "clouds" (hence the term cloud chamber).

Its difficult to find videos about, but antimatter pair production will cause patterns that look like this for instance

https://i.stack.imgur.com/9CKRA.jpg

muons, electrons, and alpha particles of different energies will will cause patterns that look like this

https://i.stack.imgur.com/NwNcS.jpg

and so on.

Check out http://avtanski.net/projects/cc/virtual_cloud_chamber.html and https://www.nucleonica.com/wiki/index.php?title=Help%3AVirtu...
and see if you can identify some of the particles :)
What data sources are you looking at? According to this website which is basing their data off of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic, it shows beef is up 40% [0], bananas are down 5.58% [1], and milk is up 8.56% [2] since 2009 which is way less than what you are quoting and even the beef only averages out to 3.44% inflation per year.

[0]: https://www.in2013dollars.com/Beef-and-veal/price-inflation/...

[1]: https://www.in2013dollars.com/Bananas/price-inflation/2009-t...

[2]: https://www.in2013dollars.com/Milk/price-inflation/2009-to-2...
This was my immediate reaction when I first saw it: how is anything remotely like that design ever going to be road-legal here in the UK, unless it has some innovative ways to do better than standard, possibly even legally-required safety features that don't seem to have been mentioned?

There are certainly reasonable alternatives to things like wing mirrors. For example, it's not hard to imagine a camera-and-screen arrangement in a vehicle from Tesla.

However, giving the vehicle a solid shell pretty much implies that the full force of any impact is transmitted to the occupants on one side and the impactee on the other because physics, which is going to be a concern given the great emphasis on the materials used.

Then there's the angular styling, which appears to have edges practically designed to cause serious injury to anyone vulnerable that might be hit by the vehicle, not to mention the potential to act as a ramp sending the victim of a frontal collision up the front or even over the top of the vehicle.

It definitely looks like a case of form-over-function so far, but it's hard to believe no-one at Tesla has considered these kinds of issues, so surely they must have something up their sleeves to deal with them (unless <conspiracy theory>it's all been a very successful publicity stunt and they never really intended to bring a vehicle like this to market</conspiracy-theory>).
That's part of it. But I think it's bigger-- when it comes to topics like this, especially legal/economic ones, a community that ordinarily impresses on technical and scientific subjects as wise and timeless, displays a bizarre groupthink that levels at a secondary school-level sophistication. It's sad.
It would be cool to integrate the deep speech engine with home assistant. That's one of the big benifits of leon in my opinion.
Because they have to pass crash test ratings, and they'll probably want those ratings to be good. It's kind of silly to assume that a random Hacker News commenter has thought about this more than the company actually designing and making the vehicle
No it doesn't. Click [next] and leave the email address empty.
Interesting, I will have a look and test it, thanks!

For images to test, on debian I recommend you install libsixel. You can then just use img2sixel to convert a jpg to sixel. Alternatively, install gnuplot-nox and:

export GNUTERM="sixelgd size 1280,720 truecolor font arial 16"

then you can test with various screen resolution and sizes, like:

echo plot sin(x) |gnuplot

Yes, my approach does not solves all problems. It is just a quick and dirty fix to show sixels in the current window because I use gnuplot very intensively on remote hosts. As soon as I switch to another pane, the output is lost. But I use plots mostly to get a quick idea of how things are going, every few minutes or hours.

About https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21646398 :

1. yes I do not check for sixel capacity. My approach is that any sequence I do not know about should be left as is, because it may have been made for a good reason, and there will always be newer sequences and terminals I don't know about. For graphics such as sixels, your approach to check for sixel capability might be better as they will need to be redrawn

2. what to do if there are 2 terminals attached is linked to #1. I would by default output the same sequence, because I do not touch what I do not know! If you are checking capabilities, it may be best to show an empty block of the same size at the place where the sixel output would be (a placeholder). Another option would be to use a converter like libcaca to turn the sixel into a rough ascii rendition. It would add a dependency to tmux, but also add a feature for terminals that can't keep up, here because they don't know how to interpret sixel

3. and 4. saving the sixel image is what mlterm does. You could save the .six files in ~/tmux/%PID%WIN%PANE

If you want to be consistent with text lines, you could keep all images until the text line after the sixel image is thrown out of the history.
In an idealized economy, the owner of a dangerous-to-others truck would be paying enough for liability insurance to cover their negative safety externalities.

Does that play out in reality?
As a disabled person, I couldn’t even begin to describe how much of a tangible improvement HA has had in my life. Being able to turn all the lights off from my bed before I go to sleep, or have the heater in the kids room turn on automatically if temps drop, etc etc, has quite literally saved me immeasurable amounts of physical pain.

Thank you so much.
I have a Kobo Clara HD and it's is fabulous. It is a little tricky getting it attached to your computer to download the open source books in your collection but once you're past that it's smooth sailing. Battery life lasts for weeks if you're not using it. Very easy to resize text or change books. And not too much at around $100.
Maybe he wants to make this be the first colony grade vehicle. It might not be legal here, but the steel thing fits a mould with the stainless steel Starship. We’re further off with that than the truck, probably, but they seem sort of pieced together.
Imagine a slow moving blob heading towards a target on a wall, a small charge causes it to explode at some point along its path to the wall. The larger the charge the wider the splatter. In this case, the mass is the analogy to that detonation charge. If that blob was photons alone (which are the standard model assumption) you'd expect a smooth decreasing amount of splatter as you go away from the center of the target, what they seem to be seeing is an unexpected increase around 115 - 140 degrees.
The build system is a mess. Recently switched from GNU make to CMake and it’s still doing all kinds of weird stuff.

Uses Devicetree to configure drivers but doesn’t use it like Linux, stuff gets munged into C #define macros and there’s no runtime access like a DTB section.

Scheduler is still doing bad stuff, preemption is broken on certain architectures.

There is no mainline Cortex-A port yet. Some chipmakers have done it but won’t share it.

Drivers are constantly in flux.

Ugh I could go on but won’t.

I would label Zephyr as “FreeRTOS for when your boss says you can’t use Linux.”
I did mean "nontrivial enough". That is, hard enough.

I mean, I've used Bitcoin since the start, and I don't know how to reverse transactions. I don't believe that it's easy, even in full clients.
News flash: all trucks and large SUVs are unsafe for other road users.
I have always explained it away in my head that the hand held phasers have some kind of feedback loop you learn while practicing. I.e. they have some kind of guiding or balancing mechanism, but it's not automatic, which is why you have all these training sessions on holodeck with Riker or whomever.
Meanwhile Intel is still the only good option for laptops and I haven't used a desktop for 5+ years. Not saying this to bring down Intel success just wondering how much volume is in desktop vs laptop and hoping AMD can transition here as well.
Why wouldn’t the “volatile” approach be valid? I mean, the only way to guarantee that you can write to memory without error (or to make sure it’s backed by actual memory pages) is to actually write to it, and the way to guarantee you’re doing that in a platform independent way in C is to use volatile, right?

Are you really saying that this is not possible with malloc, you have to drop down to platform-dependent system calls like mmap?
This is why I hate Canadian ISPs.

Their in-Canada peering is so terrible, it's common for local Toronto traffic to have round-trip through Chicago or NYC.
I think on average people on HN don't put as much worth on appeal-to-authority arguments.
I've definitely been thinking the same thing. It's super heavy and has a massive battery..
Thanks for the answer. Honestly, that definition feels contrived to me.

I think the premise is simply not correct - that involvement of luck undermines personal achievement. Especially when many people get to be in the same lucky conditions, but only some of them achieve success.

I understand that instinctual reaction of many will be to significantly downplay others' personal achievements based on perceived involvement of their lucky circumstances. We see that sentiment often here on HN. But it should be countered by asserting that it is a silly way to look at things, not by defining "luck" in a weird way.
My take is different b/c like millions of other people I’ve been watching the series from as soon as I was old enough for it to catch my eye. Let’s just say that was decades ago.

Watching a string of these films as they have been released has been more profound, I suspect, than catching up in a condensed period of time.

The true art of these films is in what they help us to see about ourselves, as we live our by and large unexamined lives, and demonstrably short, lives.
Hack-a-Mol
I've gone through it 3 times. It really depends on the kid I think, but the minute they ask you and are past 8 IMO you shouldn't keep it up. In general the 8-11 yr old range is when all three figured it out, and friends seemed to have the same experience. My step daughter was the only semi-traumatic kid when she found out. She had learned around 9yo or so and heard it from some kids at school and started defending us and went into the whole my parents would never lie to me etc. That one was tough on my wife, my personal take was yea, she was upset but she'll get it as she gets a little older (which she did). My step-daughter has always been a little more creative and has a crazy good imagination so it didn't shock me she was more disappointed.

My two kids, son and daughter both figured it out around 10yo or so, and both had heard it around school and then asked me, so I just didn't lie once they asked me at that age. I had this rule in my head saying by like the 6th grade if they didn't figure it out I was going to tell them just cause in middle school kids can be kinda cruel.

One thing I think makes it harder on kids now is like for my step daughter my wife had used the Santa online, where Santa sends video messages to the kids and is talking to them using their name and you put in stuff that happened during the year and what they want etc so it is wickedly personalized. I think that makes it way harder on kids that have great imaginations since that makes Santa seem so real.
> No need for EC2, you can use Digital Ocean or Hetzner Cloud (GDPR ftw) to cut the costs.

Throwing GDPR and `ftw' in the same sentence. Hmm. No GDPR does not work that way hah. At least not in the global context.

GDPR only applies to you _if_ you happen to be a European Union citizen.
continuing with the poker analogy, in life you play multiple hands every day

You’ll get your share of luck, but get to make decisions every day
The root of the issue is that licensing costs, the only costs that open source is guaranteed to reduce, can be a small percentage of operational costs in practice. If open source makes little effort to optimize the vast majority of other operational costs at scale, and this is largely the case in my experience, it can literally be economically uncompetitive with a closed source product that does optimize those other operational costs even if it has a license overhead or creates vendor lock-in.

I see this dynamic more and more, companies have figured this out. Sure, buyers prefer open source infrastructure without vendor lock-in, but they don't prefer it enough to spend 2-10x the OpEx, which is often the case in these discussions. The poor optimization of operational costs (except for license fees) is a critical weakness in open source, and it is increasingly being attacked successfully. Open source is a nice idea that most companies love, but they aren't going to spend mountains of extra money in operational costs to get it.
They always say allegedly. It does not reflect a lack of strength in evidence or belief that they said that in this case.
The value they are delivering with this truck seems uncharacteristic of Tesla who’s product line is largely dominated by “expensive but you’ll love it anyhow” vehicles.
Tanks are legal to own in the US IIRC (with a federal permit). Arnold Schwarzenegger has one. They are also street-legal in some jurisdictions if rubberized tracks are installed and the tank is less than 50 tons. Here's a dude buying some fastfood in one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvkLaa9bogU. Here's an APC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5tTSfWMeNo
> Gas prices are a huge political issue in the US, to an irrational extent.

Is there a country where this isn't an issue? I know its a super big deal here India. There are protests, strikes and political agigatioins on regular basis on this issue. It might actually be the number one issue here.
He's presumed innocent legally. The presumptions of the legal system are not binding in most other contexts, internet discussions being one example.
you don’t think people are successful in Africa?
Australasian New Car Assessment Program https://www.ancap.com.au/
Could you please briefly explain the way you cam calculate your cycle based on average time sleeping? I have to get up using alarms at times that are not related to how my body is feeling about waking up, so I don't see how tracking that would help.

I tend to start sleep later and later until I reach some dynamic equilibrium between sleep deprivation due to fixed wake up times and the tendency to delay sleep onset.
I don’t think software understands anything
Works great until the first cyber truck on cyber truck accident...
Jordan Walke – ReasonML: React to the Future
Those _are_ illegal already. It's just that in many places the police don't actively enforce the laws because they have more important work to do.
All of these commercial VPN providers seem a bit sketchy to me. Roll your own on a VPS with Algo.