skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Jeff Katzenberg, the co-founder, has been 'making content and selling to kids' for 40 years to the tune of literally Billions. Star Trek films, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Shrek, How to Train your Dragon etc. etc. - just huge, monster titles.

My argument against this point is simple: few of those were original content conceived by Katzenberg/DreamWorks/Disney. They were existing stories (most already successful as books). The only things I can see in his filmography that are possibly original and hugely successful are Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Kung Fu Panda, and Madagascar, Road to El Dorado, and _maybe_ Chicken Run.
This law can't even be enforced because the criminal can easily generate a new addresse for every new victim.
You might want to look up who owns Foxconn and what nationality the company is.
This piece of taxation engendered tidbit is getting too much attention in India. Now it’s on HN front page.

It’s seems unlikely but I wouldn’t put it past Apple.

OTOH I don’t mind these high taxes, for a country like India an iPhone is indeed a luxury, if only the tax money didn’t go directly to party funds and offshore accounts one way or the other.
There are two very different ways to use breath in yogic traditions.

One is what is discussed in the article (prāṇāyāma) controlling breath for health benefits and calm. Slowing the breath, holding after exhale. Often as preparation for meditation.

Another is focusing on breath as meditation practise. In that practise breath is not subject to control, it's subject of attention and focus. The breath usually calms down during meditation but it rarely slows down as much as during controlled breath exercises.
It's technical advertising and probably they wrote it as part of a bigger project which a customer paid them to do it. If you wrote the white paper which was used to teach the officer. The officer is going to assume technical competence and better trust you on other technical aspects.
Exactly. The Coleen Rooney effect. Most people get away with it until they don't.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/nothing-to-decla...
Wave was, Google+ failed, Hangouts got merged into Duo or whatever they call it now, Reader was.
4-7-8 is better than 4-4-4-4 to help fall in sleep to my experience.
Dutch researcher accesses Trump's Twitter account using password “maga2020!”
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I think the general consensus is that you have to publish on YouTube regularly.

Given that, what could one specifically automate on the production side to help with this effort?
> It is no secret that the taxes and duties that are applied to imported phones are highest in India. The taxes are so high that for an important iPhone that you will end up paying an average tax of Rs 24,000 for something like an iPhone 12 or iPhone 12 Mini.

> However, despite the sky-rocketing prices, iPhone still sells best in India and the buyers give whatever price Apple asks them to pay. So for a business, that is not a bad deal at all.

Not really a good deal for Apple. More like an amazing deal for the Indian government.
Because nothing is getting strangled.

In the end, if any of these companies are forced to change some policies or split from an acquisition or two, they'll still be massive institutions.
Isn't frequent LSD usage not good for the heart? Surprised there's nothing mentioned about it.
> That's almost all taxes.

I mean, that’s a good thing, right? Smokers should pay for the externalities their habit has on society as a whole.
Thought-provoking essay by Taleb. Worth the read, IMHO, despite Taleb's usual confrontational style, which may put off some readers.

These passages, in particular, caught my eye:

> ...the notion that religion determines attitude and culture fails historical logic. And trying to change the theologies makes absolutely no sense. You need to change the mentalities, and cultural norms — if you can.

> The robust alternative, that people imitate the (contagious) mores of those of their group, tradditionally defined by religion, makes vastly more sense. People like to dress, act, even think in broad terms within the style of others members of their group, people they identify with — what we tend to loosely call “identity”.

The same logic, I think, applies to groups in the US who self-identify as liberal or conservative. People in each group dress, act, and yes, even think in broad terms within the style of others members of their group. Trying to change either group's theology with reasoned arguments and proven facts would be... a fruitless exercise.

This logic reminds me of Paul Graham's essay about keeping one's identity small ( http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html). Quoting from it:

> I think what religion and politics have in common is that they become part of people's identity, and people can never have a fruitful argument about something that's part of their identity. By definition they're partisan.

> If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.

> The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you.
I'm a little more sympathetic.

I took the GRE this summer. Because of the pandemic, I used ETS's new (and temporary) at-home testing option. Someone from ProctorU watched me through my webcam the whole time, and it felt totally invasive and creepy.

But, what else was the ETS supposed to do? For a high-stakes exam like the GRE, I don't think "trust people to not cheat" is a viable option. That isn't to say these remote proctoring solutions will necessarily prevent cheating either (and having now used one of these services, I think cheating would have been relatively easy), but it at least should make test takers think twice.

I think we can all agree that an in-person exam would have been better, but the state of the world made that untenable.
Same for Canada, often buying in the US is cheaper.
But with the current spec, IIUC, it's up to the AS to provide handles for future client reference - so the burden of allowing for smaller requests in the future falls on identity provider software, not the client. And when a side 'MAY', experience says, they almost never do, unless it makes things simpler for them. And having to store extra, global data is something no-one really wants to do.

Not to mention handles introduce state, not allow for statelessness: not only the AS now has to keep a global state across all endpoints that may serve a given request, but also the client must keep a local cache of resource -> handle(s). Retry/restart logic has to be implemented, cache clearing logic must be implemented, state has to be kept between restarts of both sides, etc. This is definitely stateful.
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Dutch reporter finds Trumps Twitter password was 'maga2020!'
Not everyone is able to breathe automatically.

Brainstem structures located in the medulla are in charge of the automatic mode, whereas cortico-subcortical brain networks - including various frontal lobe areas - subtend the voluntary mode.

Patients suffering from central congenital hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS), a very rare developmental condition secondary to brainstem dysfunction, make themselves breathe consciously while awake, but require mechanically-assisted ventilation (MV) during sleep to overcome the inability of brainstem structures to mediate automatic spontaneous breathing (SB), which is unreliable.

This study used EEG-fMRI to compare patterns of brain activity between voluntary and autonomic ventilation during wakefulness. It found that the CCHS patient was more efficient in cognitive tasks requiring executive control during MV than during SB. Mechanical ventilation freed up the brain to perform other cognitive functions.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Sure they're expensive, but it's something you're going to use often and keep for over 10 years. I don't know if they're actually so good that they're worth 3-4x the price of other options, but the cost isn't that absurd.

Gaming chairs definitely are not ergonomic though. That's why some of them come with pillows for your head and back. I've yet to see one that doesn't have a very stiff, flat back. Not to mention most of them are a rip-off. They're private labelled chairs marked up 3x.
Taxation is theft!
In EU, telcos (and energy, etc.) are regulated. I don't see a reason why IT services shouldn't, given that the market is in a dead-end situation. Regulation can cover professional IT services (VMs/pods) as well as social (portability of social accounts, similar to mobile number portability), in addition to DNS, mail-, and web-spaces which are already de-facto regulated. Goal, among other things, is to break verticals, platforms, network effects, similar to net neutrality principles.
Looks like you are either incredibly unusual or a bit deluded. Either way this misses the point.
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"I will send details over email" should be easy to say over a phone.
Prāṇāyāma: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranayama
Unfortunately I think this is a limitation of experience. I personally started by racking servers, doing desktop support and similar before moving on to system administration, programming etc. Having the ground up understanding especially when you're supporting sales people for an end user product gives you great insights into the entire pipeline and flow of the system. Experiencing similar things at the juggernaut that as Google its hard not to end up with this sort of end to end understanding. I'm not sure how you give it to people in practice without actually making them do the work and go through all these stages or to at least be part of that process.

On a more personal level, I have always enjoyed building things from nothing whether it be bikes, PCs, systems. So it might also just be a personality thing, where deconstruction and building for an end user experience matters.
Plus, if you write COBOL code, chances are it's running on some mainframe, which are the coolest computers you can get, for any amount of money.
slow breathing is one of the things that helps with breath-focused meditation, but there are other techniques with varying intentions and benefits.

Broadly speaking, mindfulness-type meditation can make you aware of thoughts or emotions that you weren't previously aware of that could be affecting you. Has something ever bothered you, and you didn't realise how much until later on when you got irrationally annoyed at something else and thought "wait a minute, this shouldn't bother me this much"? Mindfulness practices can make you more aware of that emotion sooner so you're not carrying it with you all day. There's nothing inherently odd about it.

There are also other forms of meditation that are intended to increase your sense of love and gratitude (metta), to come to grips with your own mortality (maranassati), and surely other psychological exercises I'm not aware of.
How exactly do you avoid customs when flying back?

Electronics is cheaper in US but every time I fly back to Europe they check my bags.
Nice name and idea. Two suggestions: 1) Tell the visitor who's behind this; it makes a big difference who this advice is coming from. 2) Show the archive, because people tend to look for operational advice only when they need it.

Personally, I find it fun—not boring—to run a business. Though I get that many just want to focus on product or customers and dread the operations side.
Yeah, pretty much exactly that.

The only time I've had to deal with it in the wild was a terrible experience. As a consumer, you couldn't make any decisions with confidence without first making a careful study of the documentation. For every. single. decision.
How is that better than an accountant?

I'm not trying to give you a hard time. I guess what I am getting at is "Why do you think there is an underserved market?"
New Limits Urged on Americans’ Sugar Consumption Amid Rising Obesity Concerns
> Linux is head and shoulders above Windows on the desktop

When plug-and-play, drivers, and power management work correctly. When business software is compatible. When you don't have to search through obscure forums or jump on FreeNode to figure out why your wireless card doesn't work. When your filesystem corrupts and won't boot because you didn't shut it down correctly. When your font anti-aliasing and resolution scaling doesn't look like shit. When you have several hours a day to set things up, rather than getting work done.
Check out eatyourbooks.com. It's a digital, searchable index of your paper books so you can look for recipes featuring "ras al hanout", for example, and it will tell you which books you own have recipes with that ingredient.
Depends on the legitimacy of government
I'm sorry but other than brand value, what do Apple products get Indian users that simply cannot be got from other companies?

If the price from a trillion dollar company is this costly, then vote with your wallets for god's sake. Simply don't buy. There are (fortunately) plenty of viable alternatives to Apple that are more reasonably priced.
Didn't look at it running or the code (yet), just the language page for the .60-syntax - and damn, that impressive;

I know Qt/Quick/QML since Qt4.7 and I must say:
They avoid the quite some problematic stuff in QML:

- no dynamic scoping (YES!!)

- dedicated syntax for binding (which means it's much easier to distinguish between value assignment and an actual binding that will/can be reevaluated)

- dedicated two-way-binding (including dedicated syntax)

So far - so awesome! Will take a closer look soon!

For when is Vulkan support planned? ;)
You make a very good point...
Doesn't that issue come from the fact that OAuth2 state mostly lives in GET URL data (redirects/callbacks) and request headers (bearer tokens), vs. POST body (which is something OAuth3 does seem to get right)?
I disagree strongly. Look at the 3rd and 4th amendments. They are rooted in privacy. The problem is at the time such rights were being enumerated, such as done by the founding fathers in America, they never imagined a world in which a third party would read every letter you send to another party, a world where a man who chooses not to identify himself in a city he's never been to would be tracked with cameras and facial recognition, a world where camera automatons automatically catalog his whereabouts based on cameras & license plates, a world where he has on him at essentially all times in order to function in society a tracker that records his location data to be sent off to a powerful third party with ties to government intelligence agencies for analysis.

I find it greatly detached from the reality of what is known about the historical personalities that framed the constitution to imagine anything other than them being absolutely horrified.

Privacy has been an assumed right for a LONG time. And if you, right now, went up to someone on the street and offered them $20 to learn their GPS whereabouts for a day, to learn what their voice sounds like and record it, to learn what their face looks like and be able to search it in photos, to learn when they are menstruating, what kind of condoms they like to buy, who all their friends are, who they hook up with, and where they live, hiw many kids they have and where they go to school, I assert that you would find the vast majority of the population would be deeply offended you even had the audacity to ask such a thing, and a few might even call the police.

Privacy is deeply ingrained in our basic social interactions and assumed by most. I think most people just don't have a clue how much it's being invaded because the collectors of such information are careful to hide it behind free gifts, and bury the truth in long, overly broad, complex, highly veiled and obscured EULA's. Then they are more careful still to try and never quite reach the level of using that information in a way that creeps people out by carefully hiding relevant advertisements in enough noise so you won't notice, trading and selling all that information in secret, all while carefully trying to systematically normalize ever more collection and otherwise creepy uses of that data.
Right, but the "specific type of device" is defined more broadly than that -- so if I code a "lie detector" that tracks mouse movements during an online interview (my hypothesis would be that liars and cheats move their mouse more sporadically), could I use that code as a part of an interview process?
I don't think the Catholic Church has abandoned supersessionism, as you say. What it has abandoned is a particular type of supersessionism, one that was fueled, in part, by anti-semetic bias.

In this First Things piece by David Novak, he talks about a distinction between "hard" and "soft" supersessionism:

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/02/supersessionism-...

You can see a defense of this soft supersessionism in this piece by the late Avery Cardinal Dulles:

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2005/11/the-covenant-wit...
There, to save you a bit of clicking, the pdf:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7274476/Ghislaine...
Can't you just buy some electronics, throw away all receipts and such and simply claim to customs that you had it already for a while?

For example, when I bought my Audio Technica ATH-M50X in the US for about $100 (while in my country they were about twice as expensive) I just had it around my neck as I was listening music through it. No one asked a thing.

In all fairness, I went to the US for fun and got a chance to use them at a demo and was immediately sold.
I have been through the same issues.

I think if a bunch of CSS experts got together and created a SCSS library with great naming, this would take a lot of the magic and lore out of what people struggle with day to day.
Scalene triangle breathing?
A good physicist has the ability to grasp a large fraction of all physics that has ever been done. And there is a pretty good directed knowledge graph. The action principle and some ideas from quantum mechanics are enough to anchor almost all other results.
New tool for engineering managers to run effective 1:1s
The importance of 1:1s are widely understood but unfortunately that does not necessarily mean 1:1s are being used effectively.
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OMG. How did we survive without colonoscopies in the past. What people miss is that these treatments are invented by out of work surgeons. In this case, out of work surgeons who used to do open heart surgery but were obsoleted by catheters, statins, and blood pressure medicines. They had to find something to do to pay for the wife's Mercedes. Hey. Guess what we found. Colon cancer ! Anyway, by the content of this thread, everyone is more interested in the finest pain medication available by prescription.
If you'd read the article in its entirety you'd have seen these points discussed.

Those old Super Nintendo games could be played for as long as the console lived (to this day for some of them) without an online store being nixed or capability reduced to drive sales of a new console.

The main point of your comment 'existing games and systems will continue to work' is patently false. When games are no longer made/sold physically and online stores are eventually taken down, your product has vanished into the aether. Hard and disk drives fail and if you cant read a disc or download your game, how then does one play it?

I think the larger issue is Sony's outright lies and anti-consumer behavior
I came to say this, but since you already said, another information:

Some years ago a lawmaker calculated the taxes for game consoles and concluded they are 273% of the US price.

Also when Sony was heavily bashed for the price of Playstation 4 at launch, people claiming they were price gouging, Sony blamed taxes, so I went and calculated the taxes myself, as if my store would sell it (I own a store but sell other stuff). End result was that Sony wasn't lying, 71% of the final price was taxes.
RMS started giving software away for free (or, helped push for open software) which gave countries like China a jump-start. As someone else said, I've never seen nationalistic views on OSS before but it is absurd.
Which country? My friend just told me that the stuff they ordered in bulk from China to Europe entered the customs area in Hungary. In theory the customs rules are the same wherever you enter the EU, but I guess these companies have found a "port" where the checks are more lenient or less rigorous (saving time and money, not go to around the law).

From anecdotes only, German customs are thorough, they check every parcel, and this is not the case all across the EU.
No idea if it is the cause or not, but there are strong physiological links between breath control and heart rate. Do some reading on "heart rate variability", see for example https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6189422/#s5titl...

vargas nerve, parasympathetic nervous system, etc.

(sourced from a quick google search; it's been 2 years since I was active in this and I don't have my sources in short-term memory).
Any examples of what the product is? I question whether I should give a site my email if I don’t know what they are going to send me - which I think could be an impediment to Growth for you.
Another basis for the Chrisitian (also the Jewish and Islamic) view on homosexuality is the story of Sodom and Gomorrah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah#Religious_v...
If you value you time at zero.
Lovely - I can't wait to see how horrible something like that is to implement in a language like Go.
High speed rail needs a seed to start growing the network, but as soon as you have that adding other cities becomes increasingly viable. Initially you might build each of these city clusters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis#/media/F... Afterwards, running/maintaining the high rail is more economically viable due to network effects.
... and I feel that less than $1 per cigarette so somebody else enjoys 2nd hand smoke doesn't come even near to covering it.
Oh for sure. Distributed routing like this is complex!

My main point is we have no idea what AWS' SDN looks like under the covers. Traditional rules about routing may not apply and each node in the path may have a lot more information about traffic than a traditional router would have.
What do you use?

Why don't you use something cheaper instead?
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I didn't google, but I thought they monitored and prevented banks from interacting, but not everybody in general.

There needs to be widespread buy-in from many countries at a granular level for it to be particularly successful. Otherwise bitcoin makes it too easy to turn day-trading into laundering.
> is for google to compensate users for their metadata using a price that is derived from the commercial gain yielded from harvesting the metadata

But then the compensation users receive depends on whether Google gets a good deal or not, and it still leaves Google with immense power and control.

And what about the users who value their privacy higher? They might decide not to use Google, but that's only useful if there is an alternative that can actually compete with Google. Maybe the compensation thing will increase Google's costs and make it easier for others to compete, but that seems unfair; why should Google have to compensate users, but not others? Any ruling would have to apply to everyone, because that's how common law systems work. So if everyone has to compensate users, then no one will gain an advantage over Google. So the end result is just that Google makes less money while still maintaining their monopoly, and innovation doesn't happen.
Is it a good thing that paying OFAC sanctioned extortionists and thereby illegally financing further ransomware attacks via cryptocurrencies is a "solved problem"?
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