skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kind of hard to look there.
There’s an entire practice around this stemming from yogic philosophy called nadi shoodana—alternate nostril breathing—the theory essentially says doing this can regulate different male and female energies in the body, which are both responsible for different things, including energy levels (hyper vs relaxed).

I can’t personally attest to any of the deeper claims of the theory, but I have used the alternate nostril breathing as part of meditation practice and I can say that focusing on the breath in this way at the very least helps one enter a meditative state, like many other pranayama techniques.

I’ve never dug into the science attempting to prove the proclaimed effects since experientially it helps me enter meditation, which is what I value it for—I’m not so sure its a good use of time trying to validate the overarching theoretical claims of ancient sources—the practices can still be highly beneficial even if the claims aren’t correct, and I think the main benefit of controlled breathing practices relate to meditation. (that said the body is an interconnected system so its totally plausible that regulating the breath, thus the heartbeat, thus the flow of blood throughout the system could have system wide effects).

If nothing else, hopefully these terms help you in your research.
That second tweet with word usage trends of the NYT is shocking. It's like a phase transition.
To clarify, we do get access to your credit card transaction history. We do not get access at all to your bank username/password, credit card number, etc. - that's the part that Plaid handles.
I didn't realize from the article that it was so commonplace, though!
>What part of a wind turbine 'greatly poisons iur planet"?

The batteries they're going to be paired with unless some other storage tech becomes better or windmills become so cheap that we can use less storage or inefficient storage. The windmills themselves are mostly fine since they're just fiberglass, metals and concrete.

Mining for the things that go into batteries is just as destructive as the mining done for coal. It just happens in Asia so nobody cares. If you destroy the suitability of land for habitation or certain crops (likely by affecting the watershed) then you create many of the same problems climate change would/will cause. If you make mining less destructive to the environment batteries become more expensive hampering renewable adoption. It's a catch 22.

Don't get me wrong, it's better than fossil fuels and better than anything involving a solar panel (which has all the mining related dirtiness on the energy production side as well as the storage side) but compared to the bang for your buck you get by knocking atoms around it's a hell of a lot of industrial activity.
That seems ambiguous and non-obvious to me. A very underdetermined question.

Without the diploma, are you locked out of any job that requires it? Are you assuming that a GED is available? Do you realize some jobs that pay incrementally more than minimum wage in fact require you to prove you graduated high school even if it was, like 30 years ago and you've been in the workforce since?

Conversely, does "without a high school education" mean never having gone to high school classes, or does it mean being completely ignorant of everything those classes would have taught?
Hard question to answer because each solution is unique and has its own tradeoffs. Taking a step back QuestDB is a less mature product than the ones mentioned, and therefore there are many features, integrations etc. to build on our side. This is a reflection of how long we have been around and capital we have raised versus those companies who are much larger in size.
That's pretty awesome that the only limitations of life on Earth appear to be pressure and temperature.
Yes sure you can break it down like that. At larger scales (e.g. interstate transmission lines) you have to aggregate and then becomes baseload + surge again. Individual users want dispatchable, cities or counties becomes baseload +.
Appreciate the feedback. Could you clarify why that part was a dealbreaker for you? What would we have to do differently to earn your trust?
Let's build a Full-Text Search engine
Is it windy?
You can download a free high-quality epub at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marcus-aurelius/meditation...
> The data makes it plain that the NYT has abandoned its commitment to nonpartisan reporting. When the internet threatened their business they made a devil’s bargain to amplify outrage and us-vs-them psychology.

They abandoned any such commitment in 1946, when they introduced the still-active editorial rule [1] that:

race should be cited only when it is pertinent and its pertinence is clear to the reader. The race of a victim of a hate crime or the subject of a police search is clearly germane, an essential part of the person’s description. But the race of a person convicted of a crime is not pertinent unless the case has racial overtones;

It is left as an exercise for the reader to find out in which cases race was pertinent. Reuters and AP have similar rules.

[1] New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, 2015 Edition, pg. 2183 http://1.droppdf.com/files/bp7ed/the-new-york-times-manual-o...
Agree, this is the worst condescending bullshit I've ever seen.
It's better to just leave empty

Uber are pretty bad at it as well
Map of Clare's and King's https://map.cam.ac.uk/#52.205200,0.116065,17
https://primer.style/

Are you looking for this?
Could you point me towards what you are referring to when you say "boring techno authoritarian reeducation camps (like in France)"? As a French, I don't know about any program in France that would fit this description.
Note, of course, that the former increases your risk of accidentally visiting a phishing site.

I kind of wish banks didn't put links in their email.
It's true that it is much, much harder to trigger, and less predictable, but the information leak is still there. Both the bitrate and the signal-to-noise ratio are far worse.

It's worth pointing out that JITs can and do get caught in deopt loops, and it doesn't even necessarily need to be a deopt loop in a JIT that is the information leak. Something as simple as interned strings can leak information about what strings a program is using. Also with hashtables; if you have control over some of the keys that go into a hashtable and some knowledge of its implementation, timing information can reveal information about hash collisions, and thus other keys in the table.

Fundamentally, side channels are unwanted information flows in a system, and the more complicated the system, the more potential there is for side channels. Moving complexity around might make a difference on the reliability and bandwidth, but it doesn't eliminate them. If side channels are a serious concern, the best defense is simplicity, not massive rearchitecting to a new and different kind of complexity.

(even speaking as a person who spent decades working on JITs--wrong hammer here)
> Hormones that are released by the gut
to stimulate insulin secretion and increase
feelings of fullness were changed the most by
overeating (e.g. GLP-1 and peptide YY).

I wonder if people who chronically overeat (hello!) develop insensitivity to these hormones, leading to a cycle where it becomes harder to eat the correct amount. Similarly, I wonder if people who tend to eat too little are hyper-sensitive to them, making it hard to gain weight.
Is this really that interesting? Overeating doesn’t appear to affect blood sugar beyond regular eating in healthy adults - seems normal to me. Lipids didn’t spike after a single meal - also seems normal. All they found is that these are linear up to the point of satiety and then the body’s hormones keep levels in check beyond that.
This makes sense to me since early humans hunted large game. Also, feasting seems to be present in some form in almost all human cultures. If it really were harmful, I would expect some cultures to have figured that out.
"Can't be ignored" meaning what precisely? This is a phrase that sounds like pure FUD, and despite spending a lot of time trying to quantify where this supposed environmental damage comes from, I haven't been able to find anything of substance.

Similarly, I don't think there's much reason to believe that fission nor fusion will be able to compete with renewables on cost. Even if fusion is a completely free source of heat, you still need to convert heat to electricity with a steam turbine and it won't be long before renewables are cheaper than a steam turbine and cooling infrastructure on a free heat source.

People have this strange faith in fission and fusion as being cheap, at some point in the future, but nobody can ever explain why it will be cheap. What is the mechanism that could drive this along?

Solar is the current cheap electricity that will drive carbon capture. There are even startups that have plans for using atmospheric carbon capture to generate synthetic fuels, that plan to be profitable with the current cost curves of solar and the rest of the industrial process.

The world is a very different place than 20 years ago when it comes to technology, and I think it's time to re-evaluate the potential promise of fusion as an energy source. I don't think it has much promise for terrestrial power, but as always, I would love to have my skepticism conquered.
Freeman Speech
Gordon Freeman in the flesh. Or rather, in the hazard suit. I took the liberty of relieving you of your weapons; most of them were government property. As for the suit, I think you’ve earned it.
The borderworld, Xen, is in our control for the time being, thanks to you. Quite a nasty piece of work you managed over there. I am impressed.
gman_potential That’s why I’m here, Mr. Freeman. I have recommended your services to my employers, and they have authorized me to offer you a job. They agree with me that you have limitless potential.
You’ve proved yourself a decisive man, so I don’t expect you’ll have any trouble deciding what to do. If you’re interested, just step into the portal and I will take that as a yes.
Otherwise...well...I can offer you a battle you have no chance of winning. Rather an anticlimax, after what you’ve just survived.
Time to choose.
It's time to choose.
Wisely done, Mr. Freeman. I will see you up ahead.
Well, it looks like we won't be working together. (If the player refuses G-Man's offer.)
No regrets, Mr. Freeman. (If the player refuses G-Man's offer.)
Was there any recordings of Alan Kay’s talk that day? Love to read these notes and hear the talk side-by-side.
> It turns out that most pages created in the 90s are now inaccessible

Some of that is because search engines have simply stopped returning them in results even though they're still online.
New York Times word usage frequency, 1970-2018
Are you referring to the hyperventilation technique? I ended up at one of his workshops randomly and tried that.

It’s actually an old technique to increase the ability to hold the breath. The hyperventilation clears carbon dioxide from the system (hypocapnia). That’s what the buzz is.

Never ever ever ever ever do this underwater or you have a serious risk of death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freediving_blackout#Shallow_wa...

Hof did not warn of this at the time, though I believe he does now after someone died using the technique while swimming.

As for the cold resistance, Hof’s twin brother Andre displayed the same physiological traits that Hof has, despite not having undergone the same training: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

The one interesting thing I have seen related to Hof is that he apparently was able to suppress the immune response to an endotoxin. Though it would be interesting to see that same study done on his twin.

This is a reasonably good article: https://www.pepijnvanerp.nl/2016/01/wim-hof-method/#andre

I think Hof is well intentioned, sincere, a poor communicator, and prone to both mystical thinking but also interested in scientific verification.
I like a few actors, directors, screenwriters. I watch what they did, and watch movies when one of them makes one. I can't watch anything else. It limits the movies I can watch to one or two per couple of years, but it's okay.

I used to be a voracious movie consumer when I was younger, but it's due to the fact there was a backlog. Now there is none.
No, it's a native mingw-based GCC toolchain(cross compiler for an embedded platform), and everything is noticeably slower than on Linux or even macOS. I think it's because GCC is designed as relying on a multitude of separate binaries instead of being a single process. For each file it compiles it spawns a truckload of separate processes (collect2, cc1plus, as, ld...) and if there's something that's slow as heck on Windows, is spawning processes.
For me, Fenix on Android is the worst update ever. I use Firefox as my main browser on Android since almost 10 years and my whole mobile workflow depends on the awesome Tab Queue-feature (new tabs from other Apps like Twitter/Slack/Mails are opened in the background).

With Fenix, Mozilla decided to just abandon that feature. Issues are closed, it got removed from the feature list [1] and further questions are ignored.
I fully understand that you can't keep every feature everywhere, but this was THE main benefit of Firefox (besides ublock) for me and if you look at GitHub/Reddit/Twitter I am not the only one.

Now I have to stick to an outdated browser because of an (for me) completely unnecessary, degrading update :/.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/470
Exercise will certainly accomplish similar objectives. After a few months of intense circuit training, I started to realize that I could get away with breathing a lot less frequently. Once my resting heart rate dropped below 50BPM, it was like having a mental switch I could throw on demand to enter into a state of calm. Just a few seconds of focus and I could deal with a monster of a stressful situation with ease. I really need to get back into it. The time investment is substantial, but exercise always pays really good dividends.
The planet should be managed for the centuries, plural.

But we're just not smart enough to understand that, never mind make it happen.

Instead we prefer to cling to the bizarre delusion that billions of individuals with competing interests will somehow spontaneously self-organise into the best of all possible worlds.
>This seems a bit tautological to me

I meant it in the sense of: given any reasonable definition of "understanding", finding a mapping between the sequences of words and the structure of the world must satisfy the definition.

>I think it is a fairly common intuition that one cannot understand something just by rote-learning a bunch of facts.

I agree, but its important to understand why this is. The issue is that learning an assignment between some words and some objects misses the underlying structure that is critical to understanding. For example, one can point out the names of birds but know nothing about them. It is once you can also point out details about their anatomy, how they interact with their environment, find food, etc and then do some basic reasoning using these bird facts that we might say you understand a lot about birds.

The assumption underlying the power of these language models is that a large enough text corpus will contain all these bird facts, perhaps indirectly through being deployed in conversation. If it can learn all these details, deploy them correctly within context, and even do rudimentary reasoning using such facts (there are examples of GPT-3 doing this), then it is reasonable to say that the language model captures understanding to some degree.
In that case, your post was a complete non sequitur. Drew is responding to this aggressive and misleading Google page:

https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/

He is not responding to a random post from a Googler on HN, or to Google's internal policies or decision-making processes. Google has a bunch of scary-sounding public-facing FUD about the AGPL, containing a bunch of legal nonsense, which is scaring a lot of people. That's out-of-line with Google's former policy of not being evil. This whole discussion has that as the overarching context.

That a reasonable Googler posted a reasonable argument somewhere about why Google made the internal decision has no connection to this discussion. If Daniel's rationale is why Google made the decision, Google should by all means post it on the page above.

As a footnote, most companies I know which use AGPL code keep a clean bright line between AGPL and non-AGPL. That's a pretty sensible policy. AGPL is mostly used for things like stand-alone apps, which don't link to anything, rather than for things like libraries which link to internal systems. People contribute code to AGPL projects without hesitation if there's a bug.
What if you want to make jam-filled cookies?

Also, it seems like the subtext is sugar is evil and gross, but then I see the picture of a waffle captioned "...with nutella".
Really appreciate it; we had fun writing it. More of this to come.
How are big corporations preventing a web server from serving content over HTTP in old-school HTML?
Doctor advises only using soap on your hands and nowhere else
Good answer. It's referred to as the Lawson criterion for those wishing a deeper dive:

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

Regarding simulations, plasma physics can in a very real sense be viewed as the predominant driver for supercomputing research and funding. Ratio of fusion budget allocations to total global energy demand remains woefully pitiful. On order of something like 30B / 100T or 0.03%.
A lot of ordinary people don't post in public, or if they do it's not under their real name, and there is a growing trend of deleting it after a few days. They don't want you to have any data about them at all.

The modern alternative to Usenet is private Facebook groups that never get indexed.
Basic on a Vic 20. Those were awesome days.
There's an offhand comment about the first remote demo day failing - is that true? And what does a demo day failing mean? Were companies unable to raise money, and if so, is that because of the macroenvironment or the new remote setup? Fundraising on demo day is a huge part of the draw for startups, and a failure of that is a pretty big deal. Is there any more information on what happened?
> If celebrities (with their fame, reach and money) can't bother owning their own domains, what chance does a normal guy/gal have?

This is a matter of demand, not capability. It seems most celebs just don't care about setting up their own stuff, and, really, why would they? There are free platforms out there that give them huge amounts of reach. Most of these people just don't need their own website. They may come to regret that decision later, but it's their decision to make.

If a normal guy/gal wants to set up their own domain and website, it's not hard for them to do so, certainly no harder than it was in the 90s/00s, and probably a lot easier. The "no-code" stuff certainly has lock-in disadvantages, but you can simply choose not to use them if you want. Yes, it's more work, but it was always more work to do it yourself, and always will be.
Many very successful mathematicians “only had a few tricks up their sleeves” when they developed their life’s work. They reused these “tricks” over and over.
Don’t feel like you have to know everything.
I’ve never been more satisfied (and validated) when I have achieve a great solution to a problem, only to find out that I’ve re-discovered a theorem. You’d think this would be a waste of time, but actually it leads to a sudden explosion of knowledge and gives insight into the edge cases you wouldn’t have thought of without a lifetime of effort.
The banks could verify if the user is checking their mails by asking them to reply to the email or click on a link explicitly to confirm the receipt? Tracking with pixels... there's so much wrong with it that it needs a blog post of its own, and thankfully someone did just that: https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2019/07/superhuman-i...
Counterpoint .. you will NEVER get rich on a salary. A 25% bump in salary (e.g. via yearly cash bonus) vs. options ... with options, you can get rich.
:)

Eventually both. We are starting with baby steps, e.g. get data from A to B quickly and reliably. Replication/HA will be first of course. Then we want to scale queries across multiple hosts. Since all nodes have the same data - they may as well all participate. Sharding will be last. We are thinking of taking a route of virtualizing tables. Each shard can be its own table and SQL optimiser can use them as partitions of single virtual table. We already take single table and partition it for execution. Sharding seems almost like a natural fit.
Is there a successor to iter already being worked out on paper that takes into account new developments?
Add Brazilian Steakhouses to the list of anecdotes.
I also really enjoyed Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. Looking back on it now I felt like it captured a more hopeful / innocent time in the way it technology and the ways it has changed our modern society.
There's a huge gap between paying a couple hundred dollars for a pretty good model and investing hundreds of thousands (or millions) in hiring a team.

Certainly if you're building something mission-critical, like self-driving cars, you want to get the best possible performance (regardless of price).

But there's a whole other set of use-cases where "pretty good" is good enough (eg finding people sharing your company's logo in social media posts).
Why this anti-intellectualism? Are studies only worth doing or reading if you personally find the results surprising? If we don't have data about something, we should get it, rather than just assuming our intuitions are correct.
>>nuclear power is the only realistic way to solve the looming energy crisis of the 21st century while still maintaining the same standard of living for everyone

This is also not true if we dealt with the massive overpopulation of the earth instead of acting as its some sort of moral crisis not to stuff as many people as possible onto a planet with finite renewable resources.
Yeah, what I learned during my brief time in the porn biz was that, while being a sleazy jerk isn't a requirement to work in porn, it seems to help.
Is it actually fermented fish? I happened to be looking at its ingredients earlier this evening before I saw this post (really! wild evening) and it merely lists 'anchovies'. The top two ingredients are vinegars, which suggests to me the flavour's approximated by pickling (cf. cucumbers, kimchi/sauerkraut/coleslaws, etc.) rather than merely a preservative.
Define living.
With all this talk of the colossal ITER project merely being a warm-up for the even bigger DEMO one to follow which, in its turn will be but a pre-cursor to the real thing, I can't help being reminded of Douglas Adams's 'Deep Thought'

“There is no problem,” said Deep Thought with magnificent ringing tones. “I am simply the second greatest computer in the Universe of Space and Time.”

“But the second?” insisted Lunkwill. “Why do you keep saying the second? You’re surely not thinking of the Multicorticoid Perspicutron Titan Muller are you? Or the Pondermatic? Or the . . .”

Contemptuous lights flashed across the computer’s console.

“I spare not a single unit of thought on these cybernetic simpletons!” he boomed. “I speak of none but the computer that is to come after me!”

Fook was losing patience. He pushed his notebook aside and muttered, “I think this is getting needlessly messianic.”

“You know nothing of future time,” pronounced Deep Thought, “and yet in my teeming circuitry I can navigate the infinite delta streams of future probability and see that there must one day come a computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate, but which it will be my fate eventually to design.”