skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "Smith Glitch" is a fascinating mystery, very curious how they ended up together on the map
On most maintained trails in Washington this is all the time, practically. The little trails nestled in canyons in my area are so packed I don’t go near them anymore.
same reason you would lie about the total amount of vessels in the first place.

here are 1/10 of the Chinese fishing fleet - 1/10! just outside of the Galapagos Islands. the Chinese say they have 2,600 vessels - weird how exactly 260 of those are just off the coast of a UNESCO World Heritage site fishing illegally. yes, the boatrs in international waters, but their fishing lines aren't.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ariellasimke/2020/08/09/over-20...

it's not "inconsistent propaganda" it's under-reporting and outright lying, which is par for the course when it comes to the CCP.
Carpenters still use harvested, dried, milled lumber. Chefs still use harvested, dried, milled flour.

Frameworks are tools and building blocks like this, but for software. Not using them is not like an artisan carpenter using lumber from the store. It’s like a carpenter making their own boards, or a chef making her own flour. It is not really relevant to efficient, performant software, it is more like an art for the sake of it.
I'd be very curious to see relative rates of repetitive stress injuries in stenographers vs regular typists, controlling for amount of time spent typing, etc.

On the one hand, when I see something like this I think: Maybe this would be worth looking into to reduce chances of RSI.

On the other hand, when I look at videos of people typing like this, it strikes me as being ergonomically weird. Very low keyboards, hands locked into a relatively small area of space, etc.

I see the author is here. Would love to hear about this from an insider!

Disclosure: full-time programmer, working jazz drummer, amateur pianist who is always terrified that it's all gonna catch up with me one of these days.
I'm wrong about what? The grandparent made a joke about dangerous animals killing people in Australia, I made a joke about guns killing people in America. Also picking out a single data point is a strange way to prove your point and try and start an argument about gun control in the US vs Australia, a debate I don't care to have since I don't live in either country.
>It's important to bear in mind that meditation is a religious practice specifically aimed at causing ego-death.

This is true for far Eastern styles of meditation, but it's not true for Christian meditation[1]. It aims to fill the mind rather than to empty it. In general Christian meditation is practiced more by the various Eastern Christian Churches, but there are Western traditions as well. I'm by no means an adept at the practice, but it has benefited me pragmatically and spiritually.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_meditation
When this has been brought up about the PinePhone, the answer I've heard is that high spec hardware suitable for the project doesn't exist.
The only tools/processes that can't do harm are the ones that don't do anything. Knifes cut stakes but also fingers.
Meditation is a blade with no hilt.

I _accidentally_ fell into a vipassana state of mind after the first time trying a particular religious chant, seriously, from out of the pains of boredom as a 20 year old.

At the time I lived nearby mountains, and after 'coming to', I saw them through the window. I cannot describe to you the overwhelming feeling of beauty and awe that crashed over me. It was as though this was the very first time I had ever seen mountains. I think the best description I can manage comes from 'Both Sides Now' by Joni Mitchell.

'I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all'

The experience was so disorienting. As if I was seeing the mountains for what they were directly through my senses and not mediated by my knowledge of what mountains were like, linguistically.

It changed my entire life -- weeks later later I lost my job and fell into a 5 year extreme depression / anxiety spell in the attempt to reconcile my adolescent religious upbringing with the continued insight from that experience. Absolutely worthwhile, in hindsight, but it cost me near everything for it.
Well, kind of.

If you do metta (loving kindness) you can cultivate equanimity and other positive qualities. These can act like resources that can help you deal with trauma resurfacing in a healthier way. They can also reduce the aversion towards the parts of you that carry the trauma and this can be beneficial.
Eliminating Static Overhead of Ranges
The existence of higher temperature records from the past does not invalidate the basic science of anthropogenic climate change.

It's the same with, say, the massive fires in Australia that were in the news late last year. People rightly point out that there have been large fires in the past too. That's correct, and no one is disputing this. People then conclude that, since there were massive fires in the past, there's nothing new about it and therefore the climate crisis is just pointless alarmism. That's totally incorrect. It actually has absolutely nothing to do with how dire the situation is.

The thing about climate change is that what were once extreme freak events are now becoming commonplace. Extreme temperatures are becoming normal temperatures. Massive wildfires are far more likely to occur. Warmer oceans means more heat energy available for the formation of tropical cyclones.

I mean, honestly, do you really think that the entire scientific community of the planet did not consider the fact there were extremely hot days in the past?

If you want to ridicule the basic science behind climate change, you'll need to understand it first, instead of assuming you've found a loophole that invalidates everything that everybody in the world missed.

The fact of the matter is that we're all in extreme trouble. So are you. So is everyone. It can not be overstated how bad the situation is. But rather than face that, people would rather choose to believe they're such geniuses that they can invalidate the entire scientific community's decades long work by a gotcha.
Not GP but if I may also contribute: greater metacognitive awareness (I get sucked into binge YouTube/Reddit sessions much less; I'm much more aware that I will probably regret saying something I'm about to say and can just not say anything), greater self-control, much less fretting about chronic pain flareups and generally decreased concern about bouts of ill health, more of the occasional moments of appreciation for beauty in the outside environment. Subtle and gradual changes, so far for the better.
I would say no. It’s different though. You have your hands full when they are young. You get to have at most one hobby if you are lucky.
This isn't actually 'news'. But Pinephone is ruling the roost where Purism dropped the ball, sadly.

PS: I love both companies, it's just sad about Purism :)
Reading through the comments I'd like to help clear up some of the misconceptions/confusion when it comes to the use of the terms meditation and mindfulness:

There are different meditation practices, mindfulness meditation is a special type of meditation (popular are Headspace, Calm, the work of Jon-Kabat et al. and many more).

There are other types of meditation not aiming primarily at mindfulness, popular examples being Transcendental Meditation, visualisation type exercises, and many more.

Mindfulness (in the scientific sense) refers to a state of mind characterised by various qualities (which are slightly different depending on the author), in short being in the present moment, or "not on auto-pilot".

In a mindfulness course, meditation refers to the formal practice of catching your inner auto-pilot. This is usually complemented by applying mindfulness to every-day situations as well as some form of psycho-education.

As a last comment, a 10-day Vipassana retreat is a completely different beast than doing a 10 minute guided mindfulness meditation every day, especially in terms of risks. As has been mentioned by variosu posters, there is a small, but real risk, that the retreat can trigger psychosis. In my understanding this is significantly different to the worsening of a pre-existing condition as described in the article.
Meditation will make you more sensitive to whatever you are feeling. If you are anxious or depressed you will feel it significantly more strongly and it will be extremely uncomfortable. As you continue the practice you will become desensitized to the negative aspects.

The whole point of vipassana is to break down what exactly is happening into its component parts. If your feeling anxious then you try to break that down into mental imagery, bodily sensations, mental chatter etc

You are essentially exploring your depression, anxiety or whatever else you are feeling and over time you'll be able to handle all these states of minds calmly.

One positive aspect of meditation is that it can start to make you feel very good. You can start off your meditation session with extreme states of anxiety and as you explore what it means to be anxious - anxious feelings all over your body can suddenly turn into extremely pleasant sensations sliding up your body. The more you do it the more persistent this feeling becomes.
Do you live in Australia, or follow Australian politics?

If not, it may interest you to know that we once had a carbon tax. It wasn’t stalled in the house or amended into nonexistence like a lot of politically charged law, but was repealed. The influence that the coal industry (leveraged by NewsCorp) has in this country is insane.

It may also interest you to know that Kevin Rudd, a previous prime minister, was (is) the subject of a relentless smear campaign on the part of NewsCorp. He was removed from power not by an election, but via a leadership spill brought on by the pressure exerted by Murdoch.

It may also interest you to investigate how our second wave of COVID-19 is being reported in Australian media. The second wave began in Federally funded and operated aged care facilities; however has been branded entirely as the “Melbourne wave”, pinning the blame on the Labour Party (the opposition to the party controlling the federal govt) and its state leader.

We are misrepresented. The Democracy Index is published by The Economist. They may not be owned by NewsCorp, but you can be damn sure they feel their gaze.
Google evil etc etc aside, they have been decent custodians of their users data

Maybe, but can you guarantee they will be good custodians tomorrow, even if they are good custodians today? Privacy is a unique problem, in the sense that it only takes one incident (intentional or not) to ruin reputations/lives etc. The best course of action is not to look for good custodians, it is not collect even one piece of data that is not absolutely necessary.
> where the conservative side of politics have made climate change a massively politically polarised topic

Not to side with either part, but it always takes two to tango...
The draft does not explicitly name foreign companies, it only refers to generic "digital platforms", so it's not a free trade issue. Free trade agreements tend to only be concerned with equal treatment, e.g. Most Favored Nation status.

If, say, a country requires mining companies to implement certain minimum safety standards, that's totally acceptable from a free trade perspective if it applies to all companies, even if almost all mines are operated by international conglomerates. Such a law might make it more difficult for foreign companies to keep operating, but without providing an advantage for domestic companies who have to abide by the same regulations.

I also disagree that China has driven a truck through the WTO, since it was China that had to agree to various concessions as part of WTO accession. https://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/iclr/vol27/iss2/6/ When people complain about hurdles for foreign companies in China, their information tends to be either outdated (e.g. joint venture requirements) or the same hurdles apply to Chinese companies (e.g. need to censor your website if you have one).
Pretty sure there are thousands of sites that will "quote" what you reported / investigated so there's no winner here. You can exactly copyright news entirely and people are faulty liberal when it comes to quoting someone else's work.
I know what FUSE driver is, but my educated guess would be that almost no one ever used in-tree kernel-space driver which you referring to. So when people talking about issues with old driver that's almost certainly NTFS-3g
MS doesn't care about fixing vulnerabilities in Oracle's JRE.

Someone else found out? The bug was publicly announced 2 years ago. (Per the article we all read.)
Bruce's take can be summarized like this: with a blockchain, you're choosing to trust code and cryptography instead of a person

It can't be summarised like that. He explicitly says: "Any evaluation of the security of the system has to take the whole socio-technical system into account".

His issues revolve around the fact that blockchain ecosystems have become centralised: "Just about everyone using bitcoin has to trust one of the few available wallets and use one of the few available exchanges. People have to trust the software and the operating systems and the computers everything is running on. And we've seen attacks against wallets and exchanges. We’ve seen Trojans and phishing and password guessing. Criminals have even used flaws in the system that people use to repair their cell phones to steal bitcoin".
That seems likely. I forgot about ClamXAV.
In case of Adobe PDF readers I think their point would be that Adobe should notify the users - not Windows itself. That's how I interpreted it.
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I've noticed that higher energy level seems to be the x-factor for some of the materially successful people in my orbit.

My sister simply can. not. sit. still. Not ADHD or whatever. I mean she always has to be in motion. On the move. Doing something. So whereas I'm a daydreamer, in the time I can imagine 3 ways to do a thing, my sister has already tried at least 6 options.

The Big Boss at one startup was a pretty good sales guy. Not especially smart, but good hustle. Yes, we had all the standard problems of a sales & marketing driven org. Over time you get to really know someone. Offline, holidays, birthday & release parties, etc. This Big Boss was always in motion. Never idle. I remember one time just sitting there, watching him in action, marveling at his boundless energy. He has at least 3x my physical energy level, and many people say I exhaust them.

The analogy I think of is higher energy people have more bites at the apple. So just by playing the odds, they'll succeed more often.

I've wandered about the psychology of this forever. Is it a bias towards action? Whereas I can think of 100s of ways something will fail, my sis just acts and learns quicker thru action. So is that a bias towards failing faster?

I dunno, but I'd love to find out.
This is not implying a charge.

It’s a positive adjective meant to fluff up/activate the positive association of using google when people read it.

Saying “the top quality services” “world class services” would come across as tone deaf.

Free here is not meant to be added as a veiled reference to negotiating items.
And then people get astonished when the righteous party doesn't get elected.
>meticulously fine-tuned

On what planet is a bang-bang controller considered a fine-tuned control system in an automation game? The only simpler system is proportional.

The point of doing it isn't necessarily for some maximum efficiency, but because it is the only problem in the entire game that could even ask the player to make a control system, which is a very fun thing to do.
Look at Detroit. It has farm land now. Soon a robocop statue!
>I have some dear friends who lived in San Jose for several years and then ended up moving back to rural South Jersey

That's a hell of a jump. What about rural South Jersey appealed to them?
I saw more used syringes on the street in my year living in SF than I have the rest of my life combined.
If you get an unconditional that you are happy with then that's it - you have 6 months where you can either work hard for exams that don't count or, like me (and indeed my son who recently went through this process), you can use that time to enjoy yourself and get a job to earn some money before going to Uni. Schools tend to be a bit unhappy about this approach though.

If you have a conditional offer then you face the prospect of being like everyone in the rUK.

It's pretty nice if you get unconditional offers!
Changing the IMEI is illegal in the UK FYI and has been since 2002.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/31/introduction

Perhaps this legislation gives you a clue about how on the ball some Govt's are when it comes to security matters?

What you are suggesting is a phone that changes its obvious identifiers, but the problem with that is some services may not work, maybe an app purchased from an app store, or the network services you get from your cell provider, like answer phone facilities when you are in a dead zone.
So if your phone is acting like a character out of Scanner Darkly, just how will it operate? How will your friends know its you calling if they dont recognise your number?

To have a cellular network that allows random identifiers, you would need a system which accepts prepaid communication time, but in todays age, just like bitcoins is a public ledger how would you convince someone to build a cellular network that accepted untraceable communication time tokens?

Whether you like it or not, Science stole your privacy the day you were born and continues to steal your privacy including your thoughts. Perhaps your best bet for some privacy is to limit your contact with other entities whilst also trying to change the laws for the better but as this requires interaction with other entities, it seems like you want a paradoxical situation to exist.
I don't understand why we eat carnivorous fish. It'd be like feeding on lions...

I read some of piketty's book, capital and idéologie, and he sources work that show that if India and China have historically had a greater population, it's because Europeans love meat. And feeding a population on meat requires much more agricultural space than feeding on veggies and cereals alone. I had always wondered why it was, and I liked this explanation!
If your government has the power to force what the majority doesn't want then your countries' democratic institutions must be very broken.

In a healthy democracy, government's enforcement is mostly a force for good.
I think the problem here is tooling. There's a lot of bad tooling in use, it seems to be a universal problem across most if not all domains of software development. I can't really relate to not wanting to write software as a hobby, only doing it as a profession, if anything, for me it is the opposite. And the reason is the same: hating to deal with bad tooling. Fortunately, I get paid to do it when writing software professionally which makes it bearable. In my spare time, I don't, so I don't deal with bad tooling and use only good tools or make my own tools when there's not a good one to grab off the shelf.
Yup, the actual wording of the bill uses the awkward term "registered news business corporation" specifically for this reason, since ABC/SBS are not "business corporations".
You mean within companies? Those are defacto planned economies.
I mean, it's a game, though. A lot of the things I do when I play games "isn't worth it." But I have a lot of fun, anyway. :)
Bars are loud. People smoking outside of bars late at night tend to be very loud and sometimes get in fights. If you're trying to go to sleep, it's annoying to have a crowd of drunk young men screaming at each other outside your window.
The thought just crossed my kind, will they have to institute hazard pay for office workers?
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I really love the strong connection between statistical mechanics and information theory.
Before attending a statistical mechanics lecture I was not able to comprehend why entropy was a relevant quantity, beyond the definition of the second law of thermodynamics. My statistical physics professor motivated entropy, by saying: "We need something to measure how much information we can extract from a system. Let's call it entropy, and it should reach its maximum value in a closed system when we are only able to extract the minimum amount of information from the system". And this opened my eyes on how intertwined information theory and statistical mechanics is. In my opinion one of the most beautiful connections in physics!
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It would be a really interesting world if people could pick where they lived based on where they wanted to live rather than where their job is. For a long time: we've had this dual blight of people having to leave places they love for work AND pushing out others who want to stay in the place they're moving to.
Empty blogs don't get traction here. Wait until you have written an article, and submit the article.
Yes, you still have to make sure the underlying commands work because Make doesnt provide anything to isolate the commands. But that is also sort of my point: make is nothing but a generic task runner on top of what you are already doing. Its just about having commands and conventions that dont change depending on the underlying systems.

I agree that blaze is the better option, but all the benefits it provides comes with a greater up-front cost, where its not necessarily possible to drop-in on a project and run with. Also notable is that blaze is inspired by and is a replacement for make. So in a lot of ways, make is a poor mans blaze now.
Thy believe Gates is behind COVID because he wants to inject us all with AI. This is not harmless. This is an attempt to dissuade people from vaccination. People will die. Stupid people, sure but those stupid people will still infect others. Many still have kids who don't know their parents are lunatics. (I have family who subscribe to this garbage. It's insane.)
The problem with linux phones right now is not the price, but the usefulness/software. The UB Ports edition of the phone doesn't have a working camera, and the Mobian can only use one camera at a time, with a script to switch between them. In about a year when these issues are resolved I'm going to recommend them to everyone I know and probably buy them for my family.

As far as high end goes, Librem 5 from Purism has better specs (still a lot worse than high end Androids/iPhones. That's open source firmware for you).
> I think HN just has a large pro-google crowd

Really? Google seems to get torn to shreds here quite regularly.
Great comment, although Judy Collins’ recording (which came first) is far better than Joni Mitchell’s :)
This whole comment is a red herring that turns into a straw man. No one was talking about News Corp, and most of what you said about them is false besides.

And then you try to divert attention away from the real discussion by making it seem like the argument is about “the rule of law” which really comes out of left field, but is a great boogeyman to pull up if you wanna quiet dissent.
Don't forget behind China, you got India, SEA, the rest of Africa which will experience a population boom this century. How we going to feed all these people when their living standards go up? We need to get to mars fast.