skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I Mettamage, first of my name (yes! Always wanted to do that), declare on the interwebs as a random person that I was a test subject in the following study:

https://www.pnas.org/content/111/20/7379

True story :)

I guess it helps that:

- My name is mettamage (metta = loving-kindness in Buddhism). So I'm into this stuff (read search inside yourself for the science on meditation).

- Like Wim, I'm Dutch: Nederlands is mijn moedertaal en ik ben pienter genoeg om Engels te spreken ;-) Soms ben ik een flierefluiter ^^ (Google Translate won't get that right, haha)

- I have mentioned it before (it's somewhere in my HN history).

TL;DR - what I did in Poland for 4 training days:

1. Breathing Techniques: the most important one is a lot like hyperventilation but not the same (!). Explanation: I couldn't find a good YouTube video quick as even Wim himself isn't explaining it well on YouTube, IMO. He explained it way differently than me. The WHM is a lot like this video, except it's quite quick and not this seemingly relaxing breathing stuff: https://youtu.be/nzCaZQqAs9I?t=137

2. Cold exposure training (including breathing technique)

3. Walking up a mountain for 2.5 hours (-7 degrees celsius) in my shoes and shorts. I was fine. It was a lot of fun as well. The adrenaline was high and insanely awesome. Thrill seekers love this stuff.

Then afterwards we got tested with an endotoxin. Normally you get an immune response. People who did the WHM had a 50% reduced immune respons and a lot of adrenaline. They think it's because of the shit ton of cortison that we produce while doing the WHM. A lot of cortisol --> weakened immune response.

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A YouTube video about the science of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWHRumILOOk

The WHM made me a 10% happier person because I never have to worry about the cold ever again. The cold can be uncomfortable still, but it's a lot of fun because I have some control about it now!
It is true though, that the longer you live, the longer your life expectancy.
NASA Seeking US Citizens for Social Isolation Study for Moon and Mars
Only start counting once people start moving.

Surveys (especially anonymous ones) don't tell you much – clicking an option in an app doesn't take any effort. Managing a move to a new city is a bit more difficult.
> They rejected our appeal to have the video reinstated

Yet the video is up and working just fine...
When you start meditating, 10 mins a day is bullshit. You need 30 mins before you can get the hang of it. When you start out, go to a retreat if you can afford the time and money and sit there for 3 days and watch your mind. If you can't do this (I myself couldn't do this btw), then start with minimum 1 hour everyday first thing in the morning. At the 2 month mark you will see changes. After that you can bring the time down based on how much you can commit, still not less than 30 mins IMO. But give this a try with min 1 hour. It is life changing simple thing to not be able to give it at least a shot. I tried it for 10 years on and off before it finally clicked.
We have a systemic problem, our economic system is based on productivity and that is a opposite goal to efficiency. Every time we gain efficiency we have a choice of keep our consumption and pay less for electricity but we choose to increase consumption, for instance any improvement in phone batteries is counter by more powerful chips. Home appliances have improved but we choose to have more appliances instead of less energy consumption. This is called jevons paradox [1] and it needs to happen otherwise there is no profit or job creation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
> arguably shouldn't even be considered part of our stack at all

Why not? If your registrar screws you over, it's game over. It's a critical dependency.
Defination of systems programming language is really contradicting. Go was sold as systems programming language in beginning.
It's not BS although a little too much selling. It's basically breathing exercises and exposure to cold by cold showers and ice baths.
Really? I have an old Yahoo mail account I give out for companies I know will spam me. I use an ad blocker and have not had any problems with Yahoo mail. I don't use it daily, and it's not my main email client, but it works just fine. I'm on Safari with 1Blocker.
I coded[0] a very simple CMS for my blog around 8 years ago. I wanted something fast and I wanted to use python instead of PHP. so I went with nginx + uwsgi. The website[1] runs on an old laptop. 8 years later I've edited maybe a handful of lines of code.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't get why these articles pop up so frequently as if making a blog was some super complicated thing that required the latest CMS, etc. Most people here (including me) would suffice with a nginx and plain html/css, no CMS required, based on articles like these, at least.

[0] https://github.com/sfttw/avanti
[1] https://blog.sailingfasterthanthewind.com/
You’re certainly free to clear up what you were referring to versus being intentionally vague, but instead of a protracted debate over unclear drafting versus poor reading comprehension, let’s just get back on topic:

Do you think collective worker action is a valid path to take during this pandemic to improve working conditions as areas consider reopening and lifting quarantine restrictions?

I do, and I agree with others who say this opportunity is a good one to explore some of those options and begin having some of those dialogues to build effective coalitions.
They got it right initially, with ads being unobtrusive, but easily identifiable. Now, though, there is barely an indication that somebody paid for that link at the top. Moving the ads from the sidebar to the main results, slowly removing the yellow background, made Google ads be just as hostile, but in an insidious rather than overt manner.
Someone's gonna make a metaheuristic algorithm out of this insight. Probably call it "Swarm Sentinel Search" or something.
Hmm. It may still have been a motivator, if not the primary one. He still intends to host clips on YouTube and Spotify probably doesn’t want to be seen as a refuge for problematic creators, so he may have reason to downplay this angle publicly.

For some reason he has done a 180 from his earlier position on Spotify as quoted in the article.
Not the ad companies, and I'm not sure I'll miss the ad-funded internet. The internet services I use most often and enjoy are either paid or are essentially nonprofits.

The ad-funded internet seems to largely churn out a wealth of low-effort content mill sites polluting Google results. I won't mourn their death in the slightest.
If you're just hosting purely static assets why not use a free hosting with GitHub pages and a custom domain? It comes with free SSL (now) and I assume it could handle all sorts of traffic spikes. I might not be aware of any major downsides so I'm curious why people decide to use a paid (even if it's super cheap) option. I believe also Gitlab offers similar options.
Nearly half of the Twitter accounts discussing 'reopening America' may be bots
Goldsboro revisited: account of hydrogen bomb near-disaster over North Carolina
> Apple uses the same tools you do.

No. A special directory can be created at the root of the file system called /AppleInternal. Then, if you work at Apple, you can put some special files there that do stuff. I've read somewhere that they are able to easily disable all of this privacy protection crap and other annoying stuff.
Fair enough. I'm not a Mac OS X user so I don't know how it would compare. I can only compare it with my past experience with Windows, and I think it's superior (for me) to Windows circa 7 -- I stopped using Windows entirely at that point, so I wouldn't know how later versions of Windows fare.

Portability is also a fair issue to raise, but it's simply not a problem for me. When I say Linux "on the desktop", I literally mean it: to me a laptop is simply a slightly more portable desktop computer. I sometimes take my work laptop to/from the office, and the battery lasts long enough for that. I'm not worried about longer trips, since I don't use laptops for that. Again, if you do care about this (which is completely fair), I'm aware many Linux distros still have issues with battery life. You certainly can't compete with a Macbook Pro, that's for sure!

I do note that my experience with printers is opposite to yours. Like I said, when trying to connect to an HP wireless printer, Ubuntu autodetected and self-downloaded the necessary drivers; however, it took a lot of patience to get it to work with a Macbook Pro. Today, that I have it configured for my Ubuntu laptop and my wife's Macbook Pro, the Mac will sometimes fail to print (the print job simply stuck in limbo) while my laptop prints reliably. Who knows?

And like I said in another comment, I game (or used to, anyway) a lot with Ubuntu, and many games are even AAA (though they tend to arrive later than on Windows).

So I really have a hard time believing Linux is not "ready for the desktop". It is, and has been for many years now.

edit: one last thing. You mentioned HDPi modes, multimonitor, multilanguage... none of those are for average users. My mom would be comfortable browsing the net, reading mail and watching movies on Ubuntu. She doesn't even know what HDPi is, nor does she want external monitors. (Spoiler: she still uses Windows because she can't learn anything else at this point... I've thought of tricking her by themeing Ubuntu to look like Windows, but that would just be mean).
It isn't, in more than just the English-speaking world. See another user's comment in reply to my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23276920
Good intro to the benefits of Rust for a broad audience, but one important omission: the Use-After-Free and Double-Free protection he mentioned is provided by compile-time static analysis, but Rust also does runtime bounds checks to prevent classic stack smashing (with minimal performance overhead).

That may not seem like a big deal for the x86_64 world where modern mitigations largely make shellcode a thing of the past (hence heap exploitation, ROP/JOP, etc) but it is a BIG DEAL for embedded microcontrollers that lack OS/HW memory protection - an area where #![no_std] Rust shines.

As a security researcher and not a developer, let me be very frank: you should STRONGLY consider Rust in place of C or C++. But know that release profile builds don't do integer overflow checking, so don't get cocky :P
Generate RESTful service and swagger documentation with gRPC gateway
I can buy the "where the teacher was trained" argument. Though if so, then there's also a huge inertia, because a growing number of teachers, particularly in private English schools, is from my generation (~30-ish people), and we grew up in thoroughly Americanized world.

I don't buy the "move to UK/Ireland" justification. Someone knowing American English will handle the UK perfectly fine (the two dialects aren't that different). But only so many people travel or move to the UK; meanwhile, almost everyone in Europe is living thoroughly immersed in American culture and language - in movies, songs, books, technology, social media. From practical and economical POV, American English is a better choice.
> So they need a set bushiness and tech teams to build an internal ad stack

Somebody needs to take responsibility for the malicious and broken ads. I really don't care who does it; you can contract it out, or do it internally, just as long as the work actually gets done.

The work isn't getting done, right now.
Creating a SpaceX Crew Dragon Simulator Autopilot in Clojure
From the HN guidelines:

Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What did you notice?
Nobel Laureates Denounce Pulling of Coronavirus Research Grant
The JS performance in mobile safari is pretty incredible.

What can native do currently that js/html would have difficulty with?
I see what you're saying and agree with the fundamentals. I think we disagree on this assumption:

> they instead break their site's functionality and need to spend a bunch of "extra" time learning about CORS and the same origin policy before they can get it to work

In my experience, a very large percentage of developers don't do this. They try that, then find it confusing, and they only estimated two days for this task, which is already late, so they just sort out enough to get it to work. For most cases, this is importing `cors()` and passing it in as middleware. The easiest config... and also the one that makes your site available to all origins.

At the end of the day it will always come down to developer education. Someone will make something easy to use. So we might as well make it really simple to use and understand, so that it's easier to educate the right way to build things.
I run. I go before sunrise usually and enjoy the fresh air.
Thanks for sharing, looks interesting.

By the way, for some reason I have problems scrolling with the trackpad as it scrolls very slowly, while scrolling with the arrow keys works just fine.
I agree it's a little too much selling.
Smells a lot like a continuous second system syndrome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
But why do you care? This seems true bit backwards to me. Using a container with the same image as everyone else lets you all use the same environment, while each using whatever environment you want.

If you run on Linux right now but think you might one day switch to running natively on Windows server... Ok sure, but who's in that position?
throw1234651234 is simply stating their experience in earnest. I don't think downvotes are necessary here. Does their views on meditation threaten your own? Then go back to your cushions, meditate more.
Use DTube, spread the gospel and the gospel my brother.
Your comment makes me wonder why and how I can even do that! Read text in another voice, of my choice no less.
I have an office with a door. Its fantastic

You just have to remember that you're not confined to that space. So you close that door and you crash out what you need to do. Then you stand up, and you go for a walk outside that space to relieve the cramped feeling.

What also helps is to also have a Window that looks out into something green. If I'm sick of looking at my screen and need to think, I get to look out and watch dogs play at a daycare which is immensely relieving.

I am willing to put up with so much more shit having this peaceful environment, I feel like it is win win for my company+clients, and myself.
> And a longer piece about a forged first-century gospel from the same institution:

As a clarification to this comment, the article does not say that the fragment is a forgery; rather it says that the claims of its age were fraudulent, or at least misleading, and that the process by which it was obtained was likely criminal. (If it was stolen, I think it has been returned, since it's in the Egypt Exploration Society collection now.)

This is a different matter than the DSS fragments, which NatGeo says were created in modern times.
This is such a good video about 5G and rf in general.
I went on dialysis when I hit about 20-25% but I had been on the list for 3 years or so before that.

It maybe the NHS has different criteria for going on the list and it my depend on consultant and the individual - but I had been seeing the nephology team since 2000 ish
I heard about a whiteboard app that has fading gestures that were highly reviewed. Does anyone know which app has these?
> The spirit of GPL (and AGPL) was that you could do whatever you want but you have to release the source, but they have continually been handicapped by the evolution of software.

This was largely my assessment, as well. And the motive behind the work that led to Parity (https://paritylicense.com).
Buhari Bars Govt Officials, Others from Paying Sallah Homage
They mean chains of memes and call response waves and not just saying what you mean. eg the leading jokes about collective.
Sure, sure. I like an environment where I can socialize at work. I still work fine. Fortunately, I find it easy to find companies like that.
is it named in capital letters? I've noticed some systems will see capital letters and read it as F-R-O-N-T etc. Maybe try renaming the door to lower case
I've watched some of Sadoway's talks and they're definitely interesting. I'm curious to see if they play out favorably in the market. They're stationary-only from what I can tell, but if they're more robust that Li-ion the power-grid folks will love them.
How about just a scene-reference id/tag to look up anything about a scene or clip? The script, who appeared, when and where it was filmed, relationships to other scenes...
Most people don't get full pay on unemployment, it was a partial payment. $600 a week more for someone who was making min. wage is significant, that's an extra $15/hour.

Mass has a $12.75/hour minimum wage. I wonder how many people were making about minimum wage, there's always been an argument that min. wage was less than most adults make, but these owners are saying it wasn't true for them.
A look at how Jitsi became a 'secure' open-source alternative to Zoom
Tesla employees fear unsafe conditions at factory, call it modern-day sweatshop
Looks like we built a similar tool for the same purpose, designing system diagrams (https://collabuml.com).

Other than that, looks cool.
Building new towns and cities you mean right?

There is a limit to the number of skyscrapers within a square mile before you've reached a dystopia. People confuse sane citizens not wanting a dystopian skyscraper-city with nimby-ism - wouldn't you rather drive with half the number of people on the roads? People who live somewhere feel the same way about their neighbourhood.

Who's supposed to build new towns and cities? Gasp I'll say the forbidden word - government.

Gasp the government can be a solution, not a source of problems? Yes my dear friend - you only need to implement a few laws, such as public hanging of corrupt politicians and businessmen. Gasp but aren't those the same people who decide the laws? No my dear friend, we the people decide, and we've decided to be a bunch of selfish, lazy, pathetic losers lately.

Maybe this pandemic will be a wake-up call to some of you.
This and, either way, you shouldn't care.

Heuristically, save yourself time and energy and snap to the game theoretical conclusion. You'll go out of your way and incur personal cost to be a good citizen and prop up this poorly-conceived system that relies on such good samaritanship, but will most people? LOL no. So it's futile anyway. Get the best deal you can and let come what may. :D If all podcasts go belly up and there'll be a post-ad-economy afterscape where all pocasts are somehow paywalled, so be it -- that would have happened anyway, regardless of what you choose to do, and it's hopefully a more resiliently-designed system which doesn't shoulder users with cumbersome ethical dilemmas.
Tailscale.
> Do you know which ones?

No and that’s irrelevant trivia. What I know is if the state I live in is on that list. Oregon and it is. Don’t care what the other 13 are if I’m asking for a time in the state I live in.
Paywall workaround: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23275949

It really is quite amazing the number of human limits free diving tests. Herbert Nitsch is able to dive over 350 feet deep essentially unaided, and has gone to over 830 feet in what they call a "no limits" attempt, in which weights and fins are allowed, and weight can be dropped to aid in the ascent, although he did suffer from nitrogen narcosis and needed to spend some time in a decompression chamber [0]. He can hold his breath for over 9 minutes, whereas I can barely make it to 1 minute. The guy's lung capacity must be incredible.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Nitsch#Achievements_an...
Interestingly, Reed Hastings agrees that (viewers * time watched) is the metric that will really matter in the end: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/06/netflix-ceo-reed-hastings-su...
I'm not who you're responding to, but I agree with you completely. I just wish the posts upthread hadn't cluttered up the thread with vague dance-around-the-subject language, instead of just stating what they thought and why they thought it.
That’s not what “outlier” means. If every country attempted to implement Singapore’s system, and only Singapore succeeded, then you would be correct that it is an outlier. Instead, other nations settled for different systems and are generally satisfied. There lacks a political will to move out of the local optima.

Singapore’s path to its current system wasn’t by accident. It tried an NHS style system, which failed due to overuse, then tried a US-style system, which failed for obvious reasons, and then settled onto the system it has today.

The US is in the unique position that someone else has tried this model and we have enough data to prove its superiority. There also appears to be enough political will to reform the current system. There’s no point in settling for local optima when we have more than enough information to be able to go all the way...

There’s actually no evidence whatsoever that it “cannot be replicated”, there is little about Singapore, geographically that uniquely lends it to such a system. Suggesting otherwise is just ignoring an inconvenient data point. You’re also conveniently ignoring Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Germany which have a significant degree of privatization in their healthcare systems. Pure socialization isn’t the only way, it’s not even the best way.
I wonder what % of their users are developers only begrudgingly sticking around for iOS builds.
Using someone's name like that crosses into personal attack and even harassment. That's not ok on HN, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't see the distinction. The "lesson" to be taught is that large entities should not use the legal system as a bludgeon to suppress smaller entities - i.e. to deter this kind of behavior.

This happens all the time, not just with copyright law, so doesn't that seem to imply that the penalty for the larger party is insufficient?
Wouldn't a sandboxed Zoom downloaded directly from them be equally secure?
Quickly deploy ML WebApps from Google Colab using ngrok [simple hack]
> nstead of the current style in which office buildings have huge rectangular floor plates with elevators in the center

I think you hit the nail on the head, this is why cubicles were hated, it wasn't the cubicle, it was the sprawling cubicle farm that was hated. Even a private office in the middle of that farm is not pleasant, so the the private offices went around the outside and made things even worse in the inner cubicles. Hopefully this campus style building dies.

At least around me the trend has been towards much thinner but taller office buildings for a while now, partly out of necessity as city plots of land get smaller. These accommodate cubicles and/or offices with natural light really well. The often derided glass and steel architecture also helps because you get floor to ceiling natural light.
The isn't specific to the article, but another place that can be interesting to look at system activity on Mac OS is the console.

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/console/cnslbf30b61a/m...
As a suggestion, it would be nice to be able to try it without registering an account.
As I've pointed out upthread, using someone's name like that crosses into personal attack and even harassment.

But piling on with more, like you did here is even worse—it is mob behavior. That is seriously not cool. No more of this on HN, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?