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If you are doing 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes sessions every day you don't need teacher. It’s a simple mental exercise. You may feel no effect on your mind to caffeine kick kind of effect.

But if you are doing more 30 minutes per day or specially more than one hour, you need some one guid you.

Best teachers are people spending more time in meditation than you are.

How to find these people are different from region to region.

I’m Theravada Buddhist and we have some monks living in jungles or border of jungles, they are full time meditators, wake up early -> meditation -> breakfast -> meditation -> lunch -> meditation(no dinner) -> sleep. we usually go to these monks for instructions when doing series meditation.
Exactly this. If IAP was a different cut, all apps would go "free" overnight and require an IAP purchase to unlock most of the app.

Apple could try something like giving "consumable" IAP a different cut, but I'm sure devs would still try to game that too (e.g. having a consumable that unlocks the app for a set amount of time, rather than a permanent unlock).
> What would change if we could live for even just a million years? ... First, tenure in academia would have to be capped. Universities would have to limit faculty appointments to a century at most in order to refresh their talent pool and mitigate old-fashioned education and research dogmas....

> An extended life experience could make us wiser and more risk-averse since there is much more at stake....

> Increasing our fertility period in proportion to our life span will bring the risk of overpopulating Earth. With the current birth rate per person, the number of million-year-old people could increase to the untenable level of a hundred trillion. Moderating that would require a public policy that limits the birth rate to the desired level.

So basically, social ossification and stasis. You'll also have voters who made up their minds on all the political and social issues half-million years ago, and see no reason to change their minds (just like you have people who did the same a half-century ago).

I think any kind of extreme longevity scenario will result either ossification or a re-invention of death under another name (e.g. a memory reset). A finite thing can only go on forever by settling into some kind of repetitive cycle, otherwise it will quickly exhaust its memory.
TD Ameritrade and thinkorswim (their client they bought out) are both quite good. But not great for novice investors, which is where Robinhood crushed them.

I think it's a net positive thing for people despite the doom and gloom stories we hear.
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actual harm => consumers end up paying more for the apps because the app developers have to increase their price to cover Apple's cut (which is more like a shakedown).

I don't see any reason why a company needs to pay any percent of their revenue instead of a flat fee. You pay a % of revenue when someone is your partner or an investor in your company. Apple is neither. In fact, they've shown to be the opposite of a trusted investor/partner as they've copied successful apps and integrated them into their own platform.

The App Store should be a fixed fee, something like $19/month, for your app to be on sale there.

On another note, regarding your first comments, in the late 90's Microsoft went through DOJ depositions and demands for breaking up simply because they bundled Internet Explorer with their operating system. It didn't charge Netscape money for access to Windows and IE wasn't generating any income. But the furor at the time was huge and the anti-MSFT attitude has prevailed to this day. Why not the same feelings for Apple who's made this far more extreme and far more anti-competitive.
Find me a FAANG company that didn't start out simply.

The trick is to shoot a lot of shots and double down on the ones that hit.
By the same argument, chemical engineering belongs with biology, because the chemicals produced (and their byproducts) impact biological systems. Which is true, but it still doesn't mean that the two disciplines should be lumped together.

Computing may need more exposure to social sciences, but it absolutely does not belong within the social sciences. (More accurately, product management or program management needs more exposure to the social sciences - those who decide what programs are going to do and how they're going to interact with people and society. Computing in general - algorithms, programming techniques, and so on - doesn't even need that.)
As with all numbers coming out of the CCP - a healthy dose of skepticism is required. Just like with the Soviet Union's Politburo - all stats and numbers are curated to fit the public face the CCP wishes to present for global consumption.

A good rule of thumb when dealing with the CCP - multiply or divided all publicly-released stats and numbers by 10 to get closer to reality.
I'm not sure if they're the same people or not -- but I don't think it really matters. There are pros-and-cons to any system of organization. Whether you have chosen the right one depends on the goals of the organization.

Be wary of anyone who fanboys too hard for anything in particular without discussing its merits and weaknesses versus the alternatives. They likely don't have a full understanding of either.
People who do not know better and people who make money out of people who do not know better.
You'd have a 50-50 chance of dying from an accident in 960 years in current US society. My guess is government would get more serious about safety if we live less than percent of our lifespan.
Ask HN: What is a task that would convince you AI has reached human intellect?
This is not a serious article. There are many topics they could have discussed in depth but the biggest miss for me is that they did not talk about human psychology. Human brains are not evolved to handle a million years of noise and notifications. There would be an incalculable amount of damage to a person's personality from all the ups and downs and vagaries of life.

So many of our physiological systems and the way our consciousness works will have to change unrecognizably that the being that exists after these transformations can no longer be called human. If a thing thinks, it will be finite and want to be.
Find customers willing to pay. Actively. Not passively.
Artek is where many from the elite did go back then in 197x-198x. Their children though aren't near any Russian resorts/schools/colleges/etc, they are mostly in Western Europe and US. Even low classes in Russia prefer to go abroad - to Turkey, Egypt, Greece these days - it is cheaper and service is much better.
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Most people who are under mid 30's don't realize how cruel age bias is. With remote work there is a reasonable guarantee that it works against age bias and a huge blessing to developers who have crossed mid 30's. I lost about 1/3 of my hair due to genetics before i hit 30 and i look older than my age. I consider myself above average developer(passed FAANG interview after 10 years experience in the industry), yet I fear constantly of age bias.
I'm really happy with my closed hardware as the tightly controlled environment promises the customer that the software run in it will be high quality and on some level will be vetted before allowed to the platform. This also attracts other developers to create high-quality software, as those good enough will be highlighted by the platform owner, which in turn means increased sales.

And I really can't say the same about open platforms, which usually UX-wise are awful and for that I'm willing to give away the "freedom" some other platform might provide.
Ask HN: Does reading too much make you cynical?
Was wondering if anyone else felt this way. I tend to read a lot of nonfiction, mostly books and online articles. Books usually trend towards topics on sociology, economics, statistics, and politics. My online reading is usually within the rationalist blogosphere (SlateStarCodex, LessWrong, Melting Asphalt, Ribbonfarm etc.) and of course HN.

Taking breaks from these readings tend to make me feel better about the world but it's become such an ingrained habit it is hard to stop. Was wondering if anyone has experienced something similar?
There is also this: https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/app...
Let me ask you this: Do you think you are doing OK, or even great, comparing to your peers at your company? If yes, then I would say the hiring process is more smart than idiotic.
Part of the reason is that Apple & Google don't charge credit card processing fees. So for a $1 app, 30% is ~ their cost. Of course, that logic doesn't scale to things like $9.99/mo subscriptions and the like.

Apple could take out credit card processing fees and then charge 5%, but up until now they haven't had a reason to change. Perhaps we will see change here, who knows?
>I think you're asking why don't we just be the hosted kafka/rabbitmq/etc and offer all of this stuff in one place.

The other way around. If I'm not storing my messages today it's probably because it is too expensive in terms of storage or compute to do so. But, presumably, you can't do that any cheaper than I can. And now we are duplicating the work so even more resources are being consumed making it that much more expensive than just doing it myself.

It seems like your service is something I'd want to run pointed towards my Kafka/RabbitMQ/whatever servers. I don't see how duplicating that stream is cost effective.
Been homeschooling mine for 15 years now. The fact that you're concerned about #1 means you're going to be just fine. Engaged and caring parents make great homeschoolers. It's the apathetic parents I've known that fail to educate their children.
A 30% just seems wrong to me. It just screams: we have a monopoly, if you want to build something that everybody around can you use, if you want to be a successful startup, you’ll have to give us a third of what you charge. There’s no other way: we’ll be your middle man forever.
Exactly this. I want to play around with kubernetes but I know a big part of it's benefit is for big projects.

I also just haven't gotten around to it yet.
Those predators must be feeling foolish
Most Crimeans were speaking Russian as a first language well before the takeover (the Russian Empire took the peninsula directly from the Ottoman Empire and started moving Russians in after). You'd be about as likely to encounter Crimean Tartar as Ukrainian.
That’s a very packed schedule. Well done on managing your time.
Not to mention how much utter crap there is out there in tutorials-land. There are some great courses available, but for example, I would never hire a person if their coding education came from tutorialspoint-dot-com. It seems everybody learning a language they hadn't seen before feels this need to spew out courses and tutorials re-iterating what they were learning while they were learning it, but then give up before they actually reach a point of being at an authoritative level, and then failing for whatever reason to remove their unfinished garbage from the Internet where it muddies the puddle.

To be fair, I only started one tutorial from tutorialspoint, but I gave up on it because there were so many glaring errors that you could get through that course and still not be able to make a real world program that does what you hope it would do.

Look at Lisp, for example. There are dozens of unfinished tutorials out there. Usually a person taking the tutorial doesn't know it is unfinished until they get half way through and notice the details getting sparser every page, and then suddenly drop off a cliff, leaving you with lots of chapter headers, but no content. Then look at the Quantum Lisp tutorials and courses to see just how bad it gets. I think after the glow of being "the guy with the course" wears off, the incentive for finishing their work drops off, and everyone is left in a lurch. You might have noticed, this is a pet peeve of mine. Friedburg University's adaptive training is an example of code training done right.

Get your education where you can get it. But there still needs to be some real-world way to prove to yourself that you've actually learned enough to turn it into a career move.

None of the online "tutorials" (which are more like loose language descriptions) I've seen will get you there, and only a precious few I've seen present actual real-world cases that would get you to the point that you could pass an actual coding interview.
Employee would be fired.
Should a parent really get their children iPhones?
They've made huge changes since those days, getting rid first of x86 laptops and desktops then servers then chip fab. None of those decisions ever seemed particularly wise to me, especially the last.
> This is an interesting idea, are you suggesting that sometimes what manifests itself as decision fatigue is actually stemming from lack of a deeper understanding of the problem?

This can easily stand on its own as a general reason yes. But I meant specifically in combination of having some "rough diamond" (please excuse the pathos) that is nagging you in the back of your mind and blocking decisions because you are not pursuing to find and polish it.

Often the pragmatic or "boring" approach is just right. But sometimes it isn't because of a reason that is hard to articulate and it just doesn't leave you alone. I think this is the nature of the creative process. Being brave and exploring it would be the "right way" in this case to figure out whether the idea is feasible or sound, (which it often isn't, but you can't help it and figuring this out is valuable in of itself).
Debian turns 27 while Arch turns forever. This is not a shpost obviously.
I remember living in the middle east (UAE) and seeing the temp over 120 pretty regularly, so 130 as a world record struck me as pretty ridiculous.

After some searching around, the hottest I could find was "Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, when it reached 81 degrees on July 8, 2003".

This is 177.8F.

Sources:
https://time.com/3981478/ira/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/weather/ct-wea-0814-asktom-20...

I'm not sure if this record in particular is 100% valid but these are modern articles about temps above 160 and using the 177.8F as a comparison. I'm pretty sure no one would think to record 130 as a record over in the middle east, as I remember people would speak about 130-140 as a "bad" summer just in conversation (with no verification though, I just remember that was what people said).
But, they are not. They go all 4 days, all day. So, completely senseless and half-hearted like most of the COVID rules out there. I can only think that they may be doing deeper cleans on Fridays, but they haven't said that they are. So, who knows.
Here's the thing. Even if you're OK with Apple (or whoever) controlling what you can run on your computers, this is a centralization of power that will be co-opted.

Let's say that Australia wants to ban consumer encryption. This would currently be difficult to enforce for PC software. But on mobile, this is easy. Just make Apple and Google enforce it! Make them ban such apps from their stores. Now you've achieved perfect enforcement on Apple hardware. Even on Android, where people could in theory side-load the banned apps, this would prevent those apps from achieving any scale or network effect.

That's what I think people are missing here. No matter how much you trust Apple, once the mechanisms for this kind of power are in place, you won't be able to control what happens next.
There's nothing stopping you from putting a Blu-ray player in your rack next to the Prima box and the cost is trivial.

There's nothing stopping an iPhone owner from also buying an Android phone, and the cost is trivial.

There's a common-sense argument that a person is only going to have one phone, one phone carrier

There are hundreds of thousands of people in the United States, maybe even millions, who have more than one phone.
i haven’t found that utopia you describe on either the apple of google play store.
What better way is there other than online to find the smartest person or any group ?
Raises hand.

I don't wanna have to worry about stupid computer shit when I'm just trying to use my iPad or iPhone as a tool to accomplish something else. Drawing, playing music, reading, writing, edutainment for the kids, very occasionally a game. Maybe the odd SSH session. If I decide I want some software to help me with any of those things I just want it to be in the App Store, and I just want it to use the App Store payment system. I don't want competing app stores because that might mean that sometimes what I want isn't on the Apple one, following Apple's rules about spying on my and otherwise behaving as badly as desktop software and webapps do these days. It means I have to search more than one store. Now we're veering into the stupid computer shit I don't want to have to worry about, again.
It looks like child-child and child->adult transmission is very rare. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200710100934.h...

We don't know why yet.
When I was tracking flights some years ago (use case was determining whether speed monitoring aircraft were in the air, and a prediction model of their schedule) I learned that the ADS-B transmitters didn't need to broadcast GPS co-ordinates below a certain ceiling. You could get the signal that a given tail number was in the air, but if it stayed below a certain altitude, you couldn't always receive its location.

The FAA has guidelines on what kind of data you can receive: https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/equipadsb/research/airspace/

I lost interest in it because I just don't speed that much and I don't have a sport bike fast enough for it to matter, but useful to know that ADS-B doesn't cover all aircraft.
On every discussion about this topic on HN, there has been at least one but typically many more commenters saying they love the walled garden and they would pay a premium for it. They trust Apple so they are OK with paying them 30% more instead of paying the app developers directly. They would never dare recommend Windows or Linux or Android to their parents but they would happily recommend them to get iPhones and iPads because they would not end up with a virus-ridden device.

Personally, this is so different from the way I think that I find it utterly surprising, much more so from the tech savvy audience of HN. But apparently preferring walled gardens and being willing to pay extra to obtain one and even more every time you buy something on it is not an uncommon opinion to have.
Not versed enough in law to argue about this, but from a customer point of view, I hope that Apple wins as I would hate the iOS ecosystem to end up being a Wild West like the Android.

I am happy to pay for a premium to have peace of mind. To give an analogy it’s kind of like gaming console vs PC gaming where I am happy to sacrifice a bit of performance in exchange of getting rid of all shady game-specific launchers
Sorry I don’t catch the question. Can you share the link of your blog, I’m interesting in?
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Yup. I have never used it indoors.
Show HN: Dropbase 2.0 – Turn offline files into live databases
Strongly agree. Just started reading it myself. One note for people picking it up: the English translation for ‘The Last Wish’ is not great but, if you power through it, all the remaining books are fantastic.
I assume their costs are just, Credit Card Fees, Infrastructure Fees (Bandwidth, Storage), Reviewers Salary. Not sure this adds up to 30%.

I think the real reason is that when the Apple store was started, they looked around at the current prices for "software distribution". Retail was like 70%, and other app stores; for example the Danger Hiptop / T-mobile Sidekick charged 60% for their apps store, and the carriers were worse. At the time, 30% was actually a lot cheaper than everyone else. Then I assume Google just copied Apple.
Hoping to not catch it and die from my kids bluntly.
Closed hardware should be opened when unsupported... meaning if apple cannot support old hardware anymore they should open it by law. There are so many ipads and phones that could still be in use but arent because you need to run their software. We need to stop the planet to be an electronics garbage bin. Same when they start with the new chip on apple computers.
>Is there a reason mammals don't/haven't evolved this way?

Zebra is likely the closest adaptation. That's more of an optical illusion than eye logic.

I suspect it has to do with how fast big predators learn. If you put a fake snake in a fruit tree for example it takes about a month before the birds learn. Big apex predators learn even faster presumably. So that's just too fast on a evolution time scale.
How big of a cut do they have to pay on closed hardware consoles?
I’ve been using Xarray recently (mentioned as an implementation of named tensors in the article) and I have to say I like it a lot. It’s really a game changer and makes my code a lot more readable.
"prohibited employees from working overtime"
Cause they can't pay them overtime rates.
Try to avoid generic phrases like "causing harm".

"Google is the champion of circumventing long established norms, such as the prohibition on wiretapping, and evading responsibility for doing so" says a lot more than "causing harm".
Me for one. I don't want to deal with several different terms of service, different ways of payment, lack of clarity on if an app is trustworthy or not.

Apple is simple. I trust Apple to protect me and honestly based on the stories I read about Google's Play Store I feel more confident in Apple to do the right thing for consumers in the long run. Their incentive is aligned to my needs (good safe hardware that protects me from making potentially poor choices -- even as someone who is in the "tech" world)
A well written short summary. +1 :)

I learned that trying to explain this topic to others is like forbidden fruit. Unless asked for. But I am going to write some anyways, because this why we are at this forum anyways.

There is no thing like ego, its not somebody. That's the problem itself. Its just your mind, which is forgotten that its just your tool given to you to put it to good use. And than there is something else behind it, that comes first. That perceives the output of the mind. Emotions, memories, all kinds of perceptions, everything.

After reading a lot of stuff, not particularly mindfulness but about anything, it really changed how i view the world. And i feel like it really comes down to the level of awareness you have about your inner working as a human.

One great example I experienced and got me speechless, more than once or twice:
Little children, who barely able to talk, just about 3 or 4 years old, got a question about about who did something bad in the past? And they are going to say their name. And the "adults" in the room are going to laugh, because it sounds funny to them. But the child did not intended it to be a joke, that`s obvious. Its that they does not yet identified themselves with their memories. And the adults laughed because its so obvious for them to say: "I did it". But its really just a memory at that point.
I feel like this is going to be the go to Halloween costume of the year.
Me.

I buy Apple products not because it's a walled garden per se, but because it's Apple's walled garden. Apple has been the only vendor to provide me with a consistently top-quality user experience, so I trust them to make decisions that benefit me. I don't have the same trust relationship with other software and hardware vendors, so their walled gardens I would protest against.
What's funny about this is that it used be be true - Whatsapp started on Softlayer, and didn't move away until Facebook bought them.

If IBM had even just kept pace and stayed behind AWS with Softlayer after they acquired them, they would have a healthy cloud business by now. It might be because I maintained a system on Softlayer both pre and post acquisition - so I was really close and able to see what was happening - but they squandered a huge opportunity there.