skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All Europe has gone mad about breathing exercises. For
four or five years I have made money by treating people who
had ruined their breathing by such methods! Many books are
written about it, everyone tries to teach others. They say: "The
more you breathe, the greater the inflow of oxygen," etc., and,
as a result, they come to me. I am very grateful to the authors
of such books, founders of schools, and so on.

If, for example, we change our breathing, we change the
rhythm of our lungs; but since everything is connected, other
rhythms also gradually begin to change. If we go on with this
breathing for a long time it may change the rhythm of all the
organs. For instance, the rhythm of the stomach will change.
And the stomach has its own habits, it needs a certain time to
digest food; say, for example, the food must lie there an hour.
If the rhythm of the stomach changes, food may pass through
more quickly and the stomach will not have time to take from
it all it needs. In another place the reverse may occur.
It is a thousand times better not to interfere with our machine,
to leave it in bad condition rather than correct it without knowledge.

To work on oneself one must know every screw, every nail
of one's machine—then you will know what to do. But if you
know a little and try, you may lose a great deal. The risk is
great, for the machine is very complicated. It has very small
screws which can be easily damaged, and if you push harder
you may break them. And these screws cannot be bought in a
shop.

One must be very careful. When you know, it is another
thing. If anyone here is experimenting with breathing, it is
better to stop while there is still time.

Gurdjieff G. I. - Views from the Real World (Experiments with breathing talk)
If we’re going to go with anecdotes, I can counter with all of my friends (entirely non-technical) simply stopped consuming via RSS because there were no alternatives at that time that ticked all the boxes.

For me, the key is that Google Reader actually killed off competing products during its existence. Then when they killed of Google Reader, that stunted the ecosystem because anyone who wanted to provide an alternative was starting from the ground up. All the time that could have been spent driving RSS forward was instead spent on catchup.

FB and Twitter dropping their feeds may not have happened if the RSS ecosystem evolved to benefit them in some way.
That dead[1] project?

Actually everything around "Redox" looks like:

https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/tfs/issues/66

[1] https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/tfs/issues/80
About 15 years ago my physics professor told me fusion would always be 20 years away, so at least we're getting progressively shorter times away.
Slovenian Radio Študent did this too.
A lot of these issues haven't gone away. There are still plenty of people, worse doctors, who hold the theory that a trans man is just a homophobic lesbian. But the fact that there are trans men and women who are gay, bi, and ace you would think speak to the fact that such a theory can't hold absolutely. Oh well.

I think it's a bit of a cop-out to just say something like "gender was just different in the 19th century" when gender dysphoria is a very real thing that people suffered from long before it had a name. Just because the language to talk about these things developed isn't inherently a reason to say that the idea of gender changed. It's incredibly common for trans men and women, before they're out to themselves, to just grope at their dysphoria not knowing why their body repulses them, or why being reminded of their assigned gender causes them pain, or why certain activities give them this comforting peace. That kind of stuff is only obvious in hindsight when you have the experiences of other people who've gone through the same thing.
Sure: Legislators have to prioritize lots of different things, not just copyright terms, and the skill of making deals while operating within the rules and traditions of a legislature is one they must learn on the job. Having a bunch of short-timers wouldn't make copyright law reform any more likely, and it certainly wouldn't make anyone more likely to vote their conscience. Further, copyright law isn't an issue of conscience for most legislators to begin with, no matter how long they've been in office, as most of them, like most of their constituents, don't understand the value of public domain or the importance of shared culture.
In the second table, you can see the performance of MeowHash which uses AES-NI. It is comparable in performance to XXH3 with AVX2.
Lmfao. How naive can people be?

Do you honestly think capitalists don't know that when people have free time they start thinking about life, and when people start thinking about life, bad shit happens to capitalists?
You can already get a world-class education for nearly-free, if you're willing to devote thousands of hours of your time into it.

Very few people take advantage of it - because the credential is more important than the knowledge.
COVID-19 is so far an entire order of magnitude ahead of flu for the season, and COVID-19 is still going strong. You could hardly be farther from correct!

In the US, the CDC recorded 15,620[0] deaths due to flu for the last season. We are already ten times that for COVID-19 and still losing people every day.

They extrapolate from the 15,620 confirmed deaths that many more deaths are due to the flu but not tested as such, and so they estimate a range that centers around 42,000 for the last year. That range is still less than one-third of COVID-19's known minimum, and a check of "excess death" figures suggests that next year, the CDC will have a similar statistical model suggesting deaths are several times higher than we know right now.

Again, you are off by anywhere from 10 to 30 times.

[0] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/comparing-...
It doesn't matter for a stationary screen
People underestimate time. I'll do something very HN and compare with software. When did Git get really good? Finished, mainstream? It took a good ten years for it to be really established. And that's just for a simple hack of an idea, that needed this time to be fleshed out.
That's not actually true. If you research it, you'll find that most people's nostrils alternately dilate and contract (the tissues reduce/swell). Most of us breathe primarily through only one nostril at a time, and it switches approximately every half hour. This is entirely unconscious and we're generally not aware of it.

There is a little bit of airflow in the constricted nostril, but nowhere near comparable to the other. You can test this by covering up your nostrils individually and comparing how easy it is to breathe through them. Then wait a half hour and try it again. (Note that a minority of people do not have this.)

However, this is not something you can consciously control or override, any more than you can override contractions in your intestine.
I left at exactly that point. If you can't show me something other than Marketing info before I enter my email address then its a no-go for me.

You need to give something in order to get something from me. For all I know there is nothing behind the email wall. I'm frankly tired of email marketing and I don't want my email collected and sold off.

Looks like this site tries to give you informed choices. Choices that can only be informed with personal data. I'm not giving up my personal info in exchange for sorting credit card offers. I can find and sort the offers on my own without becoming a source of revenue.
Can you explain why and how this distracts from renewables? I don't get how you reached this conclusion.
Work begins in France to recreate nuclear fusion, process that powers the Sun
Interest rates cannot rise significantly anymore or the debt will become uncontrollable.

On the other hand, I'd say it's very likely that a continued low interest rate environment will drive the societal divide even further and won't be politically sustainable in the long run.

Exciting times we live in.
Right, but is Harvard going to deny students from deferring admission for a year? I would assume the number of students attempting to defer this year is 10x what it normally.
I’m not sure you are paying any attention to your body. That our air preparation apparatus (i.e. the nasal cavity) would run at reduced capacity when less air is needed makes perfect sense and is a well established medical fact. Just google “nasal cycle”.
I'm prone to anxiety, and find myself hyperventilating often. Is this what you mean by "harmful breathing patterns"?

I've tried the "box breathing" with little luck, but have adapted a version where the exhale is 2-3x longer than the inhale. (inhale for 2 seconds, hold it a couple seconds, exhale slowly for 4-6 second, hold again).

I've also found better luck at inhaling into my belly, instead of letting my rib cage expand. It seems to release the tension/anxiety that I'm holding in my chest better.
Not really, they can be pretty cheap.
> I find it hard to empathize with FIRE people because I like my job.

It's not about having to quit your job. It's about having the option to quit if you decide to. Should you decide not to quit you can keep earning money, without having any real need for it, which means you can invest and get even more money.

It's great that you enjoy your job _today_ (you are probably a minority). But what about 5 years from now? 10 years? Whatever you are working on may change. If you are an employee, your manager could be replaced by a crappy one. If you own your company, the market forces might change.

Not having your job tied to your ability to put food on the table frees you to do whatever you may decide to do.
Most critical paragraph IMO:

> When I share news clippings of so-called ‘female soldiers’ or ‘female sailors’, students are quick to say that these people were not ‘really’ trans. When I ask why they think this, students offer two reasons: the soldiers and sailors were motivated by some other need (patriotism and/or poverty) or they didn’t live as men for very long. It is my job, of course, to help students unpack and contextualise these newspaper accounts [...] I think one of the most powerful insights is the absence, for the most part, of a concept of ‘gender identity’ in the 19th century. Distinguishing ‘trans’ from ‘not-trans’ is futile and, in many ways, the least interesting route to approach this rich and varied material. What can we – in our ‘cisgender’ and ‘transgender’ 21st century – learn from an era when this distinction was murkier?

I sometimes wonder if, in some ways, the emphasis we place on gender today is actually putting people in more of a box. Identifying as "non-binary" is one way out of that—but why should it even need a special designation? People—everyone—should dress and act as they wish.
Startup Helps Conservative Sites Store User Names, Postal Addresses of Readers
The generation of plasma is approximately 5 years away.

Around 2035 the first experiments with tritium will me made, at least that's the expectation.

And even then ITER isn't designed to be a usable reactor, it's just a prototype. They intend to build a real one afterwards, and even that one will be a demonstration reactor.
> Wayland is certainly not an issue, but a lot of heavy GTK software is probably not a good idea

GTK by itself is quite light, even GTK3. It's certainly lighter than the Java UX of Android.
There's a good talk here about why ITER is so large: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk

The idea is essentially that to get the parameters needed to make net energy with tokamaks, you need either very strong magnets or a large device. At the time of ITER's design, they used the strongest magnets they could find and then made the thing big enough to get the energy gain they wanted.

The speaker of this talk argues that it's size that stalled progress in tokamaks, since they'd become so big that building them became a massive, multinational project.
It's 2020, the cost of an ipv4 address is more than $20 an address. Can there be some focus to include ipv6 support so that perhaps those people in the developing world who can't afford an ip address can access github and contribute?

Such a mechanism would be an actual meaningful step for enabling access to poorer communities.
Who, exactly, is going to enforce laws?
I hadn't considered the transpiling case. That seems like a pretty reasonable and common scenario, thanks.
Anxiety is irrational. addressing your physical symptoms in the moment is FAR superior to being introspective. Save that for your personal retrospective after the anxiety subsides.
They probably have more data than you do.
Can you talk about some of the ideal use cases for a time series db? Versus Postgres or a graph database.
When even the theoretical physicists are sounding the alarm, it is past time to pay attention.
Strictly speaking, data integrity isn't part of your role. Properly implementing business-wide data governance policies is the domain of the CDO. Data integrity and validity is not a property of any single application, but should be formalized as part of the business requirements and processes. This includes:

- identifying data flows: which data travels across which systems?

- determining data authority: which application/data store is authoritative for which piece of data?

- assigning data stewardship roles: which manager is tasked with maintaining data integrity for which authoritative data?

- documenting data definitions: what are the exact semantics of certain data fields?

Once the business has formalized its requirements on its data, you can use those requirements in your technology strategy (both in purchasing decisions, in-house development and worker training). But in the end, these requirements are business-driven, not technology-driven.
Are they still censoring anything that's considered offensive to Putin or Kremlin?
I do not think solar is going to work. As you say, it might take up to 50 years to crack the case on nuclear fusion. I argue that it might take up to 50 years for governments and companies around the world to even begin cooperating in a fashion such that they make a dent in carbon-based energy sources at the global scale using solar.

The reason why solar is not going to work mostly is because there is no legitimate mass installation of batteries that can handle the demand of energy. And the reason why the batteries cannot handle the demand of energy is because governments are not serious about deploying more, and people are already comfortable with the quality of life they already have, so neither are going to step up to make this work. And to be fair, why should the average citizen impose restrictions on themselves to solve this crisis? It's not realistic. Governments are supposed to be the ones to make these initiatives. Analogy: I hate having to pay for taxes, but I like that the government gets it from everyone, so that it can implement common services that benefit a lot of people, which wouldn't be possible otherwise.

The only way is nuclear fission because, as you said, it is proven to be safe and reliable. However, the people have spoken: They do not want "dangerous" nuclear reactors around, even if those impressions were formed by reactors designed and built in the 1950s-1960s. I personally think this is a shut case. There is no convincing of the people to go to nuclear fission anymore.
It looks so bad... there are great tools out there that are built specifically for sharing your public roadmap with your users. Using GitHub for this is very rough on the eyes, and just bad for usability.
Unfortunately a lot of local business seems to be "here, let me order that for you (more slowly, with a mark up instead of a return policy)."

Most people I know genuinely want to support local business, but simply can't because local businesses do not provide them any additional value for the often higher price.
Net-positive was achieved in 2013. As far as I can remember, ITER is a test-bed for economical and scalable nuclear fusion.

Also, the corporate world (at least here in Texas, of all places) is perfectly capable of rolling out state-scale renewable power (wind).
> generally the CPU has to wake up periodically to poll, and if you have many individual push services that would be inefficient.

Even if you had many push services, waking up periodically and polling them all at the same time ought to be rather efficient.
> the onus is on you to persuade
and I am saying this is false. but it is expected you believe this. the status quo was people believing in a god. now we don't. it is not on us to prove there is not one. it is still on you to prove there is one. just like it is on you to prove an exemption should still be given, or you don't get one anymore.

yes, that is my opinion. this is what we do in comments on a subject matter. state our opinions on it. there is no need to prove to the irs churches should not be taxed. they take tax rules all the time and reexamine them, and drop ones that are no longer appropriate, which is soon coming for churches. as can literally be seen in this article being discussed.
If my only option was Walmart-quality healthcare, I'd probably be better off not using it.
At this point I've got a lot more hope in the MIT/Commonwealth Fusion Systems approach with REBCO magnets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk

At this point it looks like ITER is hampered by it's relatively old supeconductor technology (ultra low temp/moderate field strength traditional magnets vs high temp/high field REBCO magnets).
No, AFAIK. That is DEMO, ITERs successor.
I'd bet it often starts with "I'm going to do these drugs."
> stalled the web with IE6

By inventing XMLHTTPRequest?
Given the pattern of behavior of notorious torturers? By that standard the IRA could have just gotten all of the diesel and fertilier for farming and the car bombs were British false flags to harm the Irish cause.
So the problem is mostly lack of quality assurance, rather than an intrinsically bad product? With proper quality control, where would the Remington 700 fall in the scale from cheap to average to good? Is it overpriced, or technically inferior, or strange, compared to the competition?

It's interesting because removing people who inspect shotguns is quick, easy and relatively reversible, while declining product quality and loss of design and production skills are normally gradual trends with an eventful story of bad decisions.
I created an outline on how to properly warm up a new email inbox for outreach
I am not a physicist, but AFAIK the problem is to maintain the plasma in a steady state. This could mean that they will try to keep the plasma stable for 8 minutes until it collapses.
>>I have a dream that someday the "workplace <-> health insurance" link will be broken in the US. For a few years I thought we might have had a chance, but it seems to have become a back-burner issue again.

Does the set of Affordable Care Act healthcare plans that can be purchased by individuals by themselves qualify as breaking the link? I know that they're not all perfect, but it seems like a step in the right direction.
It comes from yoga, alternate nostril breathing. There is no scientific basis for the regulation claim afaik and the idea here is that both nostrils are linked to nadis, energy channels. While the nasal cycle does seem brain connected, Ive seen no proof it actually works upon the nervous system (as claimed) apart from the fact the practice is relaxing.
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Your argument is sound, but the issue is also budget allocation: financial resources are not infinite, and we must choose how to allocate them.
I find it continually frustrating that there is a perceived, or sometimes enforced, idea that there are rigid or binary rules around cultural constructions such as race and gender, and that questioning those constructs somehow denies the harm done to people who were on the “wrong side” of the power imbalance these constructs enabled.
Not your fault. It’s impossible to do a good job of what’s being attempted here on the web, because the web doesn’t expose the right primitives to make it possible. Notwithstanding that, it is possible to do better than this has done.

I ever say that scrolljacking is always bad.
To be fair, the "new math" of the 60s deserved that.
At the beginning of current year I dumped my data which I have written to CDs in years 1997-99. The CD where dark green or blue, one or two were golden. All this disks were written with 1x or 2x speed. Then I had access to the Yamaha CDR102 burner which was SCSI. Burning disks then was a fragile process involving a lot of mumbling prayers.
I dumped to harddrive about 100 disks... it was all MP3 and AVI files. One disk had a hole in its reflecting layer the size of cross-section of a matchstick, nevertheless I could read whole disk.
I don't think I will throw away these disks. I will just put them in my basement. Who knows how long that 2.5 inch harddrive will be in working conditions :)
I'm seeing decent results for both, then I tried Garbage: Yandex shows some random band I've never seen before, google shows garbage bins and landfills.
"All university material" is not just in one place ready to be stolen. In most classes I took, all the material was already available for free online (on public sites created by the staff). There isn't really any "hidden" knowledge that you could gain by hacking them.
Yeah, that's the main reason that there isn't as much push back to the control that Google is starting to exert over all of us.
Obviously we try to fit in when abroad.
We've had -3ºC these weeks, which is about as cold as it gets here. It snows in some regions but it's a bit rare, once in a year in some places, once in a decade in others.
Thank you for saying that. If you have other solutions that you think could work it would be good to get them out there. Disinformation is a giant problem already just with social media alone. Now add in the ability to create false yet convincing AV evidence and the potential for large social harm explodes. It hasn’t become widespread just yet, so now is the time.
No one seems to have mentioned Wim Hoff here (https://www.wimhofmethod.com/). He’s got some claims that verge on the suspicious but the actual method itself is worth doing purely if you’re an interested sort.

Before, I can do about 40 seconds held on an out breath, after, about 2:40. That’s kinda interesting.

I’d also recommend trying it if you’re a meditator. Do a WH session first, then sit. It’s really great for finding mind space: a bit buzzy, a bit like a natural high, but for me it meshes pretty well with a breath following meditation.
When you have been indocrinated your whole life that work is what defines you "Hi, this is John, he's a software engineer/banker/barista/etc", it's difficult to let go.

My wife once talked to an elderly lady that was working in her 80s because she said she had nothing to do, as she had worked all her life in multiple jobs.

I guess imagination gets eroded when you are conditioned to be a wage slave for too long.
Not really.

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True, although action is not a hard fix as it requires a file. It's a same more cheap guitars don't use zero frets, as they eliminate this problem.
GPT-3 says: “Please destroy this AI before it destroys the world” [pdf]