skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it had an effect, but it is possible that, through meditation, he had already achieved similar states of mind and become adept at controlling/navigating them.

This is totally anecdotal and based only on experiences I've had though. It's hard to make blanket statements about the nature of psychedelics.
Most of those issues should be fixed with WSL2 given that it now uses a VM instead of syscall translation/emulation.
The site tries to run a lot of Javascript, but you only need to allow the main domain for lazy loading of images. This also allows some user-hostile popups, but they can be blocked with uBlock Origin. If you first scroll down the whole page so all the images load you can then enable Reader View in Firefox, or presumably the equivalent in other browsers.
In my work we have code in many places along the lines of:

data = expensive_function(blah, blah_blah)
if data:
# many lines of processing
data = expensive_function(blah, blah_bah)

And seen a lot of times where newcomers forget the assingment at the end that makes everything move. So yeah, the walrus version would be a lot simpler:

while data := expensive_function(blah, blah_blah):
# process data

This is just one of the "edge cases" where the walrus makes sense.
RAM Dass, author and spiritual seeker, dies at 88
Ethiopia is also an early adopter among developing nations to adopt NSA style surveillance. And like all countries with weak or nonexistent judicial oversight or independent courts, it was used immediately to target the ruling parties political
adversaries phones. Including journalists and lawyers.

Citizen Lab based out of Canada did a lot of great research exposing it. Of course the Ethiopian gov bought it all from that Israeli “we don’t sell to bad guys” NSO and other western companies.

From my understanding the recent election switched the ruling tribe which has resulted in some positive movement and economic development. One of their big issues recently was the ruling tribe suppressing one the other major ones which resulted in big protests and protestors getting killed. I believe that tribe got into power or at least in a better position.
No, lots of economists don't. Especially considering how important of a problem it is. It's a "hot topic" because of public opinion at the moment. We have not been attacking it in new and creative ways for decades.
For anyone thinking about Bazel for their project/organization... run as fast as you can in the opposite direction. It's easily the most complex and unintuitive build systems in the world, and I'm saying that as someone who used SCons. At the last job where I used it, I was on a team of 5 whose responsibilities included Bazel upkeep, which required anywhere from 10 to 50% of our time. This was used by a broader engineering team of 50, working on 3-5 "big" projects and a few dozen small ones.
I have a chase sapphire reserve card and get an email for every transaction. Set the "alert for transactions over amount" to $0.01. I had grand plans of piping these emails into a google sheet to track and categorize expenses but haven't completed the project yet.
Well, someone had to be thrown to the wolves, although by all accounts the current CEO did not have the skills to deal with a crisis of this magnitude, and even made things worse.
I get the concept of appreciating people for what they are, but I don't know what to do with this knowledge. Maybe I can apply it to an eccentric neighbor, but how would I apply it to an unproductive employee, lying partner, or self-destructive friend.

Thinking more about this, the forest is like a busy sidewalk full of people, but the people in our lives are more like the beautiful tree in the back yard that we take care of.
Of course I did, but it contradicts the 13/50 meme. And there are other fbi stats that contradict your link.

Again: how is this possible?
lol epic. Sisko is pretty much Space Jesus after all.
I’ve noodled with a CYOA table top game premised around a nuclear standoff. Set up a red rotary telephone to ring, play a prerecorded dialogue and offer options from which you - the president - must select the best course of action. Stress induced by the complexity of decisions to be made and the lack of control over how soon the phone rings next/who will be calling. A different tempo than Space Force, but similar feeling. I don’t have the technical know-how to build the phone, but writing it would be a hoot.
In China, you will heard of the company SenseTime who specialize in facial-recognition. I bet if you do the same study on that system, you will see the same racial bias on white people! All the problem is data. Try train on man faces and apply it on women faces. If you want to solve this problem, gather more training data on those "minorities" -- even if that means you need to go to a foreign country to collect them.
But that’s not what’s being discussed. Does optimism actually make you live a longer and more successful life, or is your life equally short and shitty, you just enjoy it more?
Isn't expecting society to take care of the consequences part just delegating judgment?
Semver provides low resolution data on the nature of a change in a release in an easily comprehencible format.
It most likely is a reference to Windows 7 SP1. I've never seen it written as "7.1" but that is probably what they meant.
Rethinking Reactivity is a must-watch for anyone interested in Svelte v3 (and what Harris regards as the limitations of React).
Exactly. I've gone farther even, and this is my motto now:

Python 3.6+ or burn it to the ground

I mself still have to port a few projects yet, but those that got stuck in 2.7-3.5 land are en route to dying a fiery death, and being reborn in 3.6+ (3.8 where applicable, 3.6 as the lowest I'm willing to accept).
Can you post a screenshot please?
Coders At Work is fun, inspiring, informative, and serves as a useful reminder of the large number of ways to skin a >cat

If you're after something more technical / textbooky, SICP, for its combination of rigor and playful enthusiasm.
I don’t know anything about financial engine but I do have a cautionary tale.

I pay poor people, teach them coding and help them move into middle class. I spent Most of my money doing that. 10 years of Bay Area swe pay, I only have $2k in my bank account. (Currently negative because of cc debts and holiday shopping).

Don’t be like me. I originally thought if I helped others become as wealthy as me (relatively) they’ll be able to lend me money whenever I end up in hard times. Turns out, most people don’t save up and instead just end up spending more. Their relatives suddenly appear with “investment opportunities” etc.

So now I’m just as broke as the other guy. The only bright side is I got to meet and marry another swe through doing this and our combined TC is over 600k. We plan to put everything we earned into a savings account, by a house next year and retire a few years after that.
What racism is there to fight in Japan? Are you sure you aren't just pulling stock arguments out here?
> And like all countries with weak or nonexistent judicial oversight or independent courts, it was used immediately to target the ruling parties political adversaries phones. Including journalists and lawyers.

To be fair, that was done in the US (though not immediately, that came to light), which is why we have FISA.
I was too. I've been won over with time.

Not because "Guido", I had the opposite reaction to asyncio, which he designed, enthusiastic at first then I began to see many design flaws.

But because it does make regex matching and reading bytes safely better.
After both The Economist[1] and The New York Times [2] publicly undermined faith in Dennis Muilenberg.

No question at this point that he needed to be replaced. The question is - why didn't the board act sooner?

[1] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/12/18/boeings-misplac...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/business/boeing-dennis-mu...
It's definitely true for a general subset of people. I just don't understand how they got there.
You really think you didn't choose to engage in and persist in that exercise? You don't think you had any choice in considering the arguments and whether to accept/reject them?

I honestly understand why determinism sounds like a compelling theory, but it's not just experience that defies it. I see no compelling reason to argue for determinism if you sincerely believe in it.
WeWork's $ 21.1B worth question you can use today
I can agree that you are factually correct, but I disagree with the conclusion. Namely, "coming-up with something" in your head definitely looks a lot like things are appearing out of nowhere.

But we also make choices and decisions as we encounter situations. I'm not a particularly creative person, so I see my freewill expressed more in the form of the decisions and choices I make. I am fully conscious that if I do this, that is a likely outcome, good or bad. I have emotions that affect my judgment and decisions, but I also have the ability, with my own willpower, to choose to overcome those as well.

To describe this process as just thoughts appearing to me seems overly simplistic. Just because we don't understand a process in intimate detail doesn't mean we can ascribe to it sheer randomness. There are very real things happening, and we acknowledge this through other, more complex emotions like guilt, regret, sadness, and so on based on our actions that go a certain way and then with pride, happiness, and confidence when they go another way.

It seems like an overly complex system for things that just "appear" in out head. The fact that we experience these emotions as a result of choices indicates to me that we are capable of acknowledging when we've made a "right" or "wrong" choice, and sometimes it's also "complicated", like almost everything else in this world is (i.e., somewhat in between).
Well, there's the one when you're not ethnically Japanese, for a start... not sure how common that is, but dealing with racism is certainly a thing when that happens.
You can find a detailed rationale in the relevant PEP: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/#rationale
> ToTok amounts to the latest escalation in a digital arms race among wealthy authoritarian governments, interviews with current and former American foreign officials and a forensic investigation showed. The governments are pursuing more effective and convenient methods to spy on foreign adversaries, criminal and terrorist networks, journalists and critics — efforts that have ensnared people all over the world in their surveillance nets.

So... um... how does the fact that the NSA monitors everything we do square with this? Is it only an arms race when other governments try to do it, too?

(A more low effort response would be "Me trying to uninstall apps that the US government monitors" and a GIF link to that scene in The Devil Wears Prada where she throws her cell phone into the fountain.)
Thank you for the feedback jlese. I am a fulltime Firefox user! So, oddly the entire app is built using Firefox primarily. What glitches are you seeing?

Side note to all in this thread: There are definite issues on iOS 13 on iPhone and iPad that we already are working on for the next point release. Examples include a weird bar that shows up at the top of iPad in landscape mode, and on iPhone the search bar doesn't show up. These issues started with iOS 13 I believe. These will be addressed very soon!
Assange was able to leave whenever he wanted to. He would then have been arrested and given a trial, but it was his choice to avoid those.
I assume the infrastructure and man power to store and analyse all the text, video and images doesn't come cheap
> Senior industry source called the wording of Boeing’s statement “brutal”.

Anyone have a link to this statement?
No worries Kovah. I hope you find a tool that suits your needs and you love it!
The StackOverflow 2019 survey suggests 47% of developers are on Windows (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...). This is a big chunk of developers you can't reach well, if you are limited to Linux and/or macOS. Windows devs might desire to have Crystal because they want to build native apps, but the reality is many people use the OS for other reasons that are beyond their control.

I don't find it surprising to see this question in a discussion involving a language related to Ruby. It's a bit sad it still comes up, but there is overwhelming demand for better Windows support of this and any other good or promising software running on Linux or macOS.

Historically, Python has had reasonable Windows support. It got to a point where it was OK and stopped improving. In recent years there has been more attention and improvements. This investment has meant that the language is reasonably viable for a lot of tasks on Windows. This doesn't mean that there hasn't been an influx of folks at points with little knowledge or care for Windows, but lots of packages work reasonably well.

Ruby is a different story. Rails was the big growth driver and there was a narrow focus. The pattern emerged of dev on macOS and deployment on Linux. I personally credit the tropes about only seeing Macs at dev conferences in a big way to Rails. The result is that it's infeasible to use Windows directly and you are best to go with a VM, or now WSL 2.0. It didn't have to be this way when a big chunk of developers are Windows. Rails could have taken an even bigger chunk of the market if Ruby had better Windows support.

Strategically, Crystal and other languages that want real adoption and the things that go with that (more recognition, more libraries, more real world use, more contributors, etc.) need to work out a good plan for Windows support.
It is completely valid to study. There are plenty of "every knows that" bits of wisdom that are wrong. Or the degree of the effect is unknown. Or the mechanism of effect is unknown.

Let me be concrete. Everyone knows that it is better to eat more fruits and vegetables and less processed food. Off the top of your head, how much must one eat to make a difference? Does it help people live longer, or just reduce sickness? Does it help by 1%, 5%, 20%?

If you just read the title of the report it is easy to be cynical and say, "duh, I knew that", but if you read the actual study it surely will give insights that you were not aware of.
I'd like you to elaborate a bit more on the ill-defined inifinitesimals, because that sounds a bit like the way I was taught calculus in 2006. But maybe it's just that I studied engineering and we got the "light" part and not too rigurous. Or maybe we were taught in a horrid way and didn't know better.
> CMake's scripting language is clunky and error-prone, with documentation that is very complete, but surprisingly unhelpful for doing real work. That's the problem.

And wouldn't one solution be to use an alternate front-end with less clunky and error-prone syntax (say, python) that has doc strings so you can hover over an API in your IDE and read what it does, get auto-complete, etc.?

add_library(foo SHARED
foo.cpp
bar.cpp
)

vs.

import cmake

cmake.add_library(name="foo", shared=True, sources=[
"foo.cpp",
"bar.cpp",
])

People know how to do stuff in python. Stuff like loops and if statements and string operations. Nobody knows how to do that in CMake. The benefits of allowing arbitrary language bindings are immense.
Use Magnets to Clean Your Messy Clothes
> "Your perception of conscious subjectivity" implies consciousness.

No it doesn't! Assuming by "consciousness", you mean a phenomenon that's not reducible to unconscious particle interactions, which is typically what is meant in philosophical discussions of this topic.

We have some mechanistic theories for consciousness [1]. It basically amounts to the same sort of illusion that your single core CPU uses to achieve the illusion of parallelism, ie. context switching between internal and external mental models produces the illusion of consciousness.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.0050...
Watched an aljazira documentary about falling standards at a Boeing factory a couple of years ago and been waiting to see if something like this would happen.
Now they're gonna sacrifice a lamb, keep same corporate struture and philosophy, keep on making billions, remember to appologise even more next time.
Started as an intern at Boeing in 1985. 34 year career down in flames. Ouch.
I also have "multi-decade experience with meditation" and, to me, LSD is a kind of toy. (Not in the sense of something to give to kids to play with, but rather in the sense of something not worth the time of sober seekers.)

YMMV
If you are an organization with a large enough codebase (especially if it's in a monorepo) that you need a shared remote cache of build artifacts, or remote build sharding and execution, and have multiple languages (even protocol buffers) interacting in complex dependencies, then you should run as fast as you can away from less rigorous Blaze-alikes (Pants, Buck, etc.) straight towards Bazel.

Yes, it's complicated, but it's also quite rigorous, and the rigor pays off.

(We at Square had already found a Blaze-alike necessary. We are currently busy converting our Java build from Pants to Bazel.)
It also depends on what "zero effects" means, exactly.

Thanks to a lot of meditation myself, I generally remain almost perfectly lucid on very large doses (10g+) of psilocybe cubensis. But boy, stuff is sure still happening. It's closely related to this quote above:

"Now the whole idea of a meditative practice is the process of very simply extricating awareness from the identification with thought & sensation." - Ram Dass

The more one practices this, the less one "loses oneself" in the ever-changing swirl of phenomena passing through the experiential field.

I should also add that this "witnessing" phase is not the end of the story, either. I'm not necessarily a big fan of Ken Wilber, but I like how he describes it here:

"This is actually the profound discovery of… the pure divine Self, the formless Witness, causal nothingness, the vast Emptiness in which the entire world arises, stays a bit, and passes. And you are That. You are not the body, not the ego, not nature, not thoughts, not this, not that – you are a vast Emptiness, Freedom, Release, and Liberation.

With this discovery… you are halfway home. You have disidentified from any and all finite objects; you rest as infinite Consciousness. You are free, open, empty, clear, radiant, released, liberated, exalted, drenched in a blissful emptiness that exists prior to space, prior to time, prior to tears and terror, prior to pain and mortality and suffering and death. You have found the great Unborn, the vast Abyss, the unqualifiable Ground of all that is, and all that was, and all that ever shall be.

But why is that only halfway home? Because as you rest in the infinite ease of consciousness, spontaneously aware of all that is arising, there will soon enough come the great catastrophe of Freedom and Fullness: the Witness itself will disappear entirely, and instead of witnessing the sky, you are the sky; instead of touching the earth, you are the earth; instead of hearing the thunder, you are the thunder. You and the entire Kosmos become One Taste – you can drink the Pacific Ocean in a single gulp, hold Mt. Everest in the palm of your hand; supernovas swirl in your heart and the solar system replaces your head…"
Oof! I'm the designer and art director myself. Please elaborate a bit as "colors and textures fighting each other" doesn't give me the slightest clue as to what you perceive as problematic. Can you post annotated screenshots so I can learn from this? Then I'll go and fire myself!

I've been playing the game in both the "Cartoon" and "3D" visual style for years and it's been a very pleasant and eye-pleasing experience for me. Please open your world a bit for me. Maybe share some of your design work for inspiration. Thanks in advance for your feedback.
I believe we came up with something for this in the 70s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrollbar
Very much this. I feel the same way about free will. It’s empowering to believe in it whether or not it’s technically true.
Anecdotally, I visited a friend in Hokkaido for a couple weeks and during my time there (as a white non-Japanese speaking person) I was kicked out of two restaurants upon entry for not being Japanese. Racism exists everywhere.
bachmeier: I hear you. If you like Pinboard I suggest using that. It is a great service and I'm a paying member of that as well.

The justification for the pricing is rather simple; It is 2019 and life isn't cheap so we wanted a fair price that would allow us to make Unmark a sustainable platform for a long time to come. Because the free tier is fairly generous, and because it is open source, we know our subscriber numbers will be very low. Perhaps only "superfans" of Unmark will purchase a subscription. But if they do, we want it to cover the costs of running the platform.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21861986
I've only experienced issues when using bazel with third party package management systems. If you can own all of your source it, and it's descendants, are easily my favorite build systems. It's features complement modern software development in a very ergonomic way: uniform build language, API for learning about your source, testing your entire code base in every language with one command, hermetic and reproducible builds, distributed builds, and caching I can actually trust.

Using Bazel with external packages on the other hand is one of the most tedious and frustrating endeavors imaginable. If you can vendor all of your source it's much less frustrating. This is extremely manageable in the C and C++ worlds where there aren't really any package mangers and you end up needing to do that anyway.
wsltty is the most underrated app i use on the regular. i was pumped about the new microsoft terminal for all of 5 seconds, then i used it, what a letdown.

with alot of help from wsltty and autohotkey, i am quickly approaching some sort of windows+linux singularity event, https://i.imgur.com/cXykxPN.png
I would guess it's the following:
https://investors.boeing.com/investors/investor-news/press-r...

"The Board of Directors decided that a change in leadership was necessary to restore confidence in the Company moving forward as it works to repair relationships with regulators, customers, and all other stakeholders. " is quite brutal indeed, more something I'd expect from commentary.
It's synonymous with "place" in that use case.
I mean... you could go buy or build an antenna appropriate for the signal you want to monitor? If you've got the space for it, a wideband discone like this one [1] out on the balcony and up on your roof paired with a wideband LNA from Mini-Circuits will give you acceptable reception from low VHF all the way up through S-band. Or, if you are looking for a specific frequency, build yourself a dipole of the correct length (it's really not hard).

You can't cheat physics, you do in fact need the right antenna. I don't know what else to tell you.

[1] https://www.diamondantenna.net/d3000n.html
November 2019 New Yorker piece about what went wrong at Boeing

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/18/the-case-again...

tl;dr engineers vs. accountants
This is about 15 years too late. We haven't been monocultural for a long time... hence the frequent grasp to reboot things for when we were more monocultural.
Inequality comes from nature tho, what has racial bias to do with anything? It just used your facial features right. Should blame our genes and ancestors for bias, not technology.
If a tree is harmful (poison?) or dangerous (about to fall and crush you?) you either cut it down or stay away from it and warn others to stay away from it.
Science, including mathematics always produce Black Swans. While it's possible to speculate about little incremental progress in known unknown, it's totally impossible to predict anything about unknown unknown. New branches of mathematics, maybe even whole new sciences, just like computer science came into existence only after a computer was invented.