skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The required knowledge to fully understand how our brains work is very obviously not infinite.
Days since Sean Hannity proclaimed on his Fox News show that waterboarding is "enhanced interrogation," not torture, and volunteered to undergo it for charity: 3928
Do a ten day Vipassana meditation retreat. You will want to meditate any time you are bored afterwards.

https://www.dhamma.org/en/index

It was actually a post on HN that inspired me to do one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16842040
I had a spontaneous pneumothorax a couple times in highschool, so I ended up having a lung surgery to prevent them when I was 18. To this day my mom refuses to reveal the things I said to her while I was in recovery, and the following days when I was on Demerol. It drives me crazy because there is a lot I could have said, did I mention I was 18? I know she's probably doing me a favor, but it seems unfair.

I've since wondered if I have a big mouth when I'm dosed because that's who I really am underneath my impulse control, or if that's how everyone is.
Not saying it's accurate (or even on good faith / truthful), but the wikikeaks prisoner assessment on him paints a different picture.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/ISN_0146...

It certainly doesn't justify torture, but it also doesn't look like he's the completely innocent bystander he claims to be.

From my quick reading, looks like he admitted to operating an Al-qaeda safe house and being a high level trusted driver/messenger.

Also looks like majority of his life was spent in Saudi Arabia, but was expelled before going to Pakistan. Arrested multiple times trying to travel to join jihad training...

Maybe that's why no one wants to take him.
> And could you spare us the boilerplate reactionary moaning about outrage culture?

Not GP, but cancel culture is, sadly, a real phenomenon.
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if you BUY the entire whitespace above the first organic result (could cost north of 1-3 ads) then the first organic result would be the top of the list. It wouldnt matter if you are the top organic result or not, youve just paid not to have ads above that result.

If at some point you slipped down the organic list, you would have the option to buy a normal ad again.
I recently cycled some of the south coast of China. Some small towns there had roundabouts which served to slow traffic down but had a different pattern than westerners are used to. They drive on the right, but people who want to turn left would do so immediately, keeping the centre island on their right side. People turning right or going straight would use the roundabout the same as westerners.

I also encountered a T junction with three lanes in each direction and traffic lights. When the lanes coming from the bottom had green lights they were one right and two left, and at the same time the rightmost lane coming from the right had a green light to go straight. Three inputs and three outputs, but sure surprised me. Traffic patterns are very local and often undocumented. Just like code.
The language of the dominant culture will prevail. I don't see why we should invent other reasons.
Thank you for the mental image of an impulsive baby reptile in my brain.
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com is probably the best bet I can think of.
There are fixes listed for problems with the game here:
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Half-Life
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Battery size in laptops is limited by airlines.
Old Microsoft never went away, despite what the kids think. It just put on some new clothes and pretends it has been reformed.
I like duckduck, but their ads are even more intrusive than the Google ones. Since Duckduckgo puts the (Ad) symbol at the end of the title rather than the beginning, they are not lined up and so much harder to quickly scan and ignore.
Philosophy of science is more helpful than people give it credit for. For example, Ernst Mach basically laid a lot of groundwork for the General Theory of Relativity with his philosophical work about the nature of physical theories.

I have also personally had a couple of discussions with philosophers who worked on understanding scientific simulation and trying to approach an abstract, but accurate definition of its nature. Even just the attempt to do that forced a lot of introspection onto the scientists they talked to about their work. My takeaway was that these discussions uncovered a lot of implicit assumptions that were unknowingly made. So even if the results the philosophers wanted - a generic definition of what a scientific simulation is - might not be very useful in themselves, the mere process of getting there helped everybody develop a better understanding.
Well, any thoughts of getting rid of it are preposterous. We cannot allow a Doomsday Clock gap!
Oh, it's possible to attach the benchmark rating to a specific item. in my case I'm using https://schema.org/AggregateRating for that (since one meta benchmark result consists of several benchmark results). And the specific item is then just a Product, which is okay.

But how would you express that you have a list of those aggregate ratings, which are ordered on the same dimension? In general I'm struggling with how to create lists with the schema, and I'm not aware of them being used anyway. I might miss something.

But I think https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/2405 would cover it, a benchmark could be expressed as a ranked list type of a guide. It being an open and recent issue makes me think that probably it's really not possible to express yet.

Edit: I completely missed that this might already be merged, https://schema.org/Guide. I just missed it in the Changelog! It's part of the pending section.
Who is to say someone is innocent or not? In the western world there is still a thing called "Innocent until proven guilty", and that proof is done in court.

17 years without a trial is not acceptable by any western values.
I struggled with procrastination through much of my childhood and young adult life. Like most real-life problems, there is no magic solution, but I've found the most impactful helpers to be:

1. Having others depending on me. Since I've been married and had children, I'm the one who has to support them. This adds a little anxiety to the mix, of course, but it's a net positive for me.

2. Removing things from my life that I do not need. Facebook, non-casual video games, unhealthy relationships, excessive <fill in the blank>. I find that this is not a one-time decision but rather a continual pruning of "bad branches" from my life.

3. Regular exercise. If I feel good about my activity level and my own body, I begin to find work and other responsibilities to be less of a drain.

4. Caffeine, but without overdoing it. If I drink a cup or two of coffee throughout the day, it allows me to focus in ways that are otherwise beyond my ability. Too much caffeine actually produces the opposite effect, and I'll get nothing done.
I'm just starting to get a handle on this now that I hit 30. We look to successful people to see how they manage their time, thinking that by copying their routines and habits as inputs, we will be also be able to yield some of their success as outputs; however, we will never be able to copy the procedure that returns that output (consciousness, mindset, motivations, neurology, purpose, talents, traumas, upbringing, values).

Ultimately, I think the answer comes from ridding yourself of distractions, and asking yourself the question - "What do I want out of life?"

If you can answer that question, you will also be able to manage your time efficiently, because you will always be directed toward that purpose.

Without knowing your individual purpose in life, you will go through life checking the boxes that biology and society put before you.

With that said, it can be hard to settle with realization that you aren't personally driven to do anything that will make you an idol among your peers; you can finally stop trivializing everything in your life and just enjoy it, enjoy the process, enjoy the journey.
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Ironically, procrastination is often tied to boredom (just because we have something to do doesn't mean we aren't bored). Boredom is no small thing:

http://www.toolsforhealthandwellness.com/negative-effects-of...
“Feyerabend, who defended astrology and creationism...” go ahead and stop right there, that’s all anyone needs to know, frankly.
> The country is slowly recovering from this.

The country was slowly recovering from this. All indications are that we're due for a reboot, if the brutalist-light towers popping up all over Manchester are an indication of things to come. The new government is also led by a figure notoriously thirsty for bold statements in public works (garden bridge, estuary airport, bridge to Ireland, etc).
Upgrades are just hard.

See perl5 to perl6
GWbasic to Qbasic to VB to VB.net

you either make a clean break or keep all the warts, Either way folks are going to be unhappy.

Keep the warts, COBOL, Fortran, C, C++, PHP, Excel
Or with a couple of mouse clicks it can be done with GA. Most people don't want to stare at lines of code, write cod, and fiddle around in logs for hours and hours. I have literally no idea how to extract that data in a comparable fashion and it would likely take me many hours of reading and trying to copy paste random bits of code I find in articles together to attempt to do the same. Obviously the company in question should have someone capable of doing that but most smaller companies and small business website owners don't, hiring someone to create that would cost money.

Stuff like GA you can copy paste an identifier or line of code, make it live and you're done. You now have a bookmark you can go to and see lots of actionable data in a nice visual form.

Most people don't care about a website tracking their OS/location/time spent on change etc so why would I, or someone else, put a bunch of extra work into fashioning something from scratch when there's a perfectly usable product that takes seconds to deploy and is easily blocked by those that don't want you to easily access that information about them?

If you need a knife most people would buy a knife. They would not buy a length of steel, cut it to rough shape, file or grind it down to the final shape, then spend an hour or more putting an edge on it with wet stones. Besides, the people that don't want tracked by Google are probably already blocking google via software and/or hardware solutions.
Well of course thats the case. The issue is that most people giving the choice would just relax all day.

You'll have a hard time convincing me successful people arent just born lucky enough to really enjoy something that the capitalist system values.

They don't view their work as a grueling exercise in self-motivation and discipline. They genuinely enjoy it and couldnt picture themselves doing something different.
Same here! I've read so much about it, I think i could write a thesis about the subject. But you know.. Before a project is finished, it needs to start first :)
Chrome literally did something like this. When the user searched the web from the Windows search box, it used to open their default browser to bing.com. Chrome started to inspect the url and redirect to Google.com. So Microsoft changed it to open Edge to block this bs.
I created an npm library for adding some basic Schema data (along with other data) for webpages and blogpages, but I have to admit it's quite a tangled mess to figure what properties you should and what are even important. It's nice that people at Schema.org try to figure out a way to describe every relation and attribute for a webpage, but I as a developer can only see an endless chore with little idea what actually benefits eg SEO ranking and what doesn't.

It would be nice if Google could shed some light what properties they consider the most useful and what can be used for special SERP widgets. One thing that I especially was mystified by were the Actions eg ViewActions or SearchActions. Are ViewActions just specifications for viewing the page in some app? And SearchActions for showing that you have search implemented, which might be shown in the SEO result as a search bar?
In this case, because the storage device that's there by default is optimized for low power and not high speed, so RAM is dramatically faster. They implemented swap as well but only as a last resort when the compressed RAM runs out.
Here's how you can run your python2 code using python3 in one easy command:

mv python2 python3
Also seems broken on Chrome 79 on Windows 10.
I disagree. You can still compare. There's nothing that requires the US to subsidise corporations. They just choose to do so by not negotiating lower prices.
I'm Canadian. We had a work trip to the UK. My manager kept saying "I think I can handle driving in there, how bad could it be?". I told him we'd die.

As we went through the Hemel Hempstead magic roundabout in the back of a cab, he turned to me and said "Okay... you might have been right."
I've recently started treatment with lisdexamphetamine and I feel like sometimes there's certainly a sense of being less restricted than when I'm not using it. And sometimes I feel a sense of (maybe unsubstantiated) confidence that I don't have without it.

Sometimes that's for the better, and sometimes it might be for the worse. I also feel very interested in doing good work, and learning more. Which means I'm not the most social person on our team, although I think I'm well enough liked, I'm not after-work friends with that many of them.

The social aspect is probably the most important aspect of success at work (moving up, political support, getting that money etc), but for now I'm really enjoying being able to focus my energy on a task and not get distracted by every little sound,thought or movement happening around me.
By the end of the day, "philosopher" is nothing more than a more fashionable word for "writer". And like "film critic", "philosopher" is an unprotected, self-appointed title. In principle, philosophers (apart from having to compete for an audience like writers) have a pretty simple life. They can simply claim something without ever providing any proof. And with a bit of luck and charisma, they find disciples who continue to represent their doctrine and help their master to gain social prestige. And as you correctly say: this concept predates science and enlightenment.
My original statement was that I am skeptical of knowledge whose origins are a specific person or group of persons ("schools"). I hope to have clarified my point after this excursion. In the case of traditional philosophy of science there is even a contradiction in terms: the statements are dogmas that defy falsification. So according to the own criteria of the philosophy of science of that time they do not differ from religion.
7% is the usual figure quoted for annualized stock market returns, so I guess that’s what they mean: xyz% annualized.
I am, but honestly, i actually feel this is worse.
If you want a new domain and to keep your backlinks you can 302 the old domain to the new.

> One answer in my view is to remove the maximum length of prepayment for domains. Let us buy a domain for 100 years.

Makes sense to me but I don't think I have seen anything more than 10 years.
> I can recommend Ellsberg's book on nuclear war planning if you have difficulties staying awake at night.

Are you implying it's boring?
Google's browser is Chrome.

Microsoft's is Edge.
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Great write up in the project document!
Zend is now Laminas, just for clarification.
There were around 6 different incompatible lines of computers sold under the TRS-80 brand. Within each line there were multiple models with varying degrees of compatibility with each other.
On that second link, I don't see any roundabout at all. It looks like a regular intersection to me.
We built a product with an embedded Jython interpreter. Jython is stuck on Python2 and somewhat abandoned. So that's nice.

Re: packages, one of the huge advantages of the C ecosystem has been that compiled packages are usually fine across language transitions, not only between major compiler version numbers but even from C to C++ which are much more different languages than Python2 to 3. How different would the Python transition have been if it were possible to load Python2 packages in a Python3 program?
Entirely correct.

My question is: if there really is a crisis (e.g. nuclear war threat, climate change, etc.), these days, how do you get the general population to notice and act accordingly without fear mongering? I'm not sure I have a better solution, unfortunately.

I tend not to support fear mongering and typically lean on providing education, but that requires time that some situations don't allot for. In the case of the doomsday clock, it makes some sense. The problem is the fear factor has really disappeared and few today experienced the fear of real nuclear threats like those during the peak of the cold war.
Many working scientists are also not very well versed in social sciences and humanities and tend to just get angry when anything outside of their fields get mentioned.
When I first started Escitalopram (Lexapro), I noticed a marked improvement in my ability to get things done. I was a big exploiter of "productive procrastination", where I would work on smaller jobs to procrastinate bigger ones. With the anti-anxiety medication, that stopped completely, and it became pretty clear that it was feelings of anxiety towards that big/unknown/unbounded/boring/detestable job that was fueling the procrastination.

Unfortunately, after about a year and a half, that all went away. Those baseless feelings of doom towards nebulously defined work creeped back. I found myself getting irritated at little things again. And on top of that, my work life had gotten significantly better, so it wasn't like I could blame stress anymore. The drugs just seemed to stop fulfilling their beneficial purpose, leaving me only with the side-effects (insomnia, teeth-grinding, anorgasmia). So I weaned myself off.

Still irritable, but at least I can get to sleep at night, which is having a bigger effect on the irritability than the drugs did.
Why do any of these people care about internet ads tracking them? Are they bored? Yes, random corporations and political groups are compiling personal dossiers about you. What is it you fear? That they'll be successful at selling you something? That "ominous entity" will do "bad thing" because they know "that thing about you that everyone else you know already knows" ?

If you have a real reason for serious concern for your safety, I get that. If you're just afraid of people knowing things about you, yikes.
SNI (Server Name Indication) leak is still present and your ISP may know what website you're asking.
I've built a similar thing in Django.

The importance of SEO for search engines is always not known, we just guess what we should do to it more pleasant for search engines.

I guess, they never tell exactly what is important because of abusers and SEO spammers, otherwise a simple library could take care of it completely. We would see web frameworks to static site generators that get the most out of it automatically. That could be a really easier world to live in.
This is so cool! Doesn't find Cape Town, South Africa, which does show up on OpenStreetMap.org, though.
The only "downside" with these is in case of an emergency vehicle entering the roundabout.

In a "traditional" roundabout, all motorists could perform an extra round and thus clear the roundabout fast and easy. This doesn't work that great in these kind of roundabouts, I guess.
This style exists in the UK too: near where I group is https://maps.app.goo.gl/hjhi3gQijUGnuXha7 and a bunch of others like it: five roads in and out, with lanes that naturally flare out (though with the option to cut over right to continue further round). Quite intimidating when you're learning to drive.

That said, my recollection is that the default in the UK is that lanes flare out from the center, so that once you get into the lane you don't have to switch to another to exit.
I thought that was because he wanted/believed in a correspondence between colors and music, and the scale had seven main notes, A-G (the white keys on a piano). Also note that this scale is called the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_scale, which is surely not a coincidence.
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Why is a browser a search engine but an office suite isn't?
> > Chrome is not part of the OS.

> Legally irrelevant. If that was relevant, Microsoft wouldn't be attacked for bundling IE.

I would argue that this shows that it is legally relevant. Because it is possible to say that IE is not part of the OS but an application, we can talk about “bundling” products together at all. If IE and Windows were one indecomposable unit, I don’t think the EU would have had a case.
"in any country of the EU" thats a very broad statement. A poor eastern EU country will not have remotely the level of surgeons and facilities that say The Johns Hopkins Hospital has this would be true even for many richest EU countries.
You should seriously consider shooting yourself in the head with a large caliber handgun.
Yes, this is normal.

Any server exposed on the internet will be probed constantly by botnets.
I wonder how people with a terrible sense of direction (like me) handle this roundabout. Seems like a nightmare.
Anyone got a link from a more reputable outlet? I’m surprised the Daily Mail hasn’t been banned from HN.
Ask HN: Advice on meditation for anxious, restless, distracted mind?
I have a monkey brain. Unless I am extremely interested in a topic/task, I find it quite hard to concentrate for longer periods on it. Planning to try meditation to calm down and improve overall.

Other than taking a retreat like Vipassana (which I understand I need to take 10 days off from work), what advice would you give me to start? I have never meditated before. I am willing to try anything, including headbands, mantras etc.
When examined and compared, Maslow's Self-Actualization -- the top of his pyramid of needs -- and Nietzsche's Will To Power are practically the same thing. Both exist to, in some part, address the emotional problems at the top levels of the hierarchy, as well as the more practical implications of personal growth.
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I can't speak generally, but specifically for me, procrastination is more about perfectionism than avoiding something I don't want to do.
Awesome work, I just installed it and I'm already a fan! +1 for being "offline first". Any chance on adding markdown support in the future?
If that's what you're interested in discussing, why don't you start your own discussion about that? It's not constructive to arbitrarily require every single comment on X to give a perfunctory acknowledgement to people who can't afford to do X. You're commenting on a website yet don't acknowledge people who can't even afford electricity. Let people talk about what they want, and if you want to talk about something else, you can do that too.
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For greenfield plays, the benefits of being market leader are so extreme that "grow as fast as possible" is almost always the right strategy.
What you're describing is more like general uncertainty of the future. Procrastination is when those uncertainties have collapsed into pressing realities that need to be handled. And then you don't do them anyways.

Putting off learning a new framework because you're not sure if it will be useful isn't really procrastination. Not preparing for your interview tomorrow is.