skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't mindfulness the opposite of concentration? Concentration takes you away from your place in space and time, because you are absorbed in something else. Mindfulness is usually described as being fully present.
I'm against circumcision because foreskin can be used to make a vagina, if your baby boy turns 18 and decides to be a woman instead.

It's part of my "Weird hills to die on Grand Tour"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_reassignment_surgery_(male...
Anyone know if GOG will process refunds? My cloud-sync has been munted from the get-go. Via Geforce Now the files have gone missing between sessions. Not to mention the numerous bugs I've encountered making certain missions unplayable (unable to advance, AI stuck behind cover etc.)
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The easiest "psychological technique" in this case is to simply understand the pain is likely not caused by any obvious identifiable physical cause. Just have people go through all the information. Pain usually signals something's wrong. Once you truly understand there's no basis for that pain, you will process it in a different way.

Many reports of chronic pain completely going away just by reading. Psychotherapy sounds like a much less efficient way with potential to create new problems.
> In chess, if you play a bit, you need patience, you need to imagine next possible moves, you need to manage your time and perhaps also your emotions.

someone passionate about gardening can put it the exactly same way you did.
California has had it on its black list for many years now. Backdoor.
Exactly. The human species mirrors its expectations and technological limits into the parameters it uses to conduct the searches for extraterrestrial species. Implicit guesses on the details of the alien species are done: for example, use of radio signals implicitly assumes the aliens prefer to use radio over lasers or some other technology.

Like the Ashen Lights (small glows on the unlit side) of Venus: these were theoreticized to be big fires used for agriculture or a form of celebration of the Venusian Emperor... Think about that for a second: a civilization on another planet would 1. use a slash-and-burn method of agriculture (why not hydroponics), and 2. would have a hierarchical society with an emperor (why not autonomous cells), and 3. require/facilitate celebrations of their leader(s) (why not leaderless), and 4. use possibly some evolved form of fire worship (why not water, why not nothing), and so on.

All these are Earth constructs. An alien race would likely not understand those concepts at all.

So, suppose we made contact, there would not be a common frame of reference at all, except by using mathematics, physics and chemistry and the like. Describing foundational things like numbers and carbon chemistry would be possible, but at some point that language would reach its limits. Anything abstract like "hate", or "love", or "exploring" would be impossible to describe.

Also, the technology levels of the two species would have to be close to each other. I mean, just try describing a transistor to a pet, or describing a cloud-based service to a person from the year 1700.

I'd say the chances of any kind of contact are very, very small, but still non-zero.
I just tried to read that code, and perhaps I'm missing something, but wouldn't coroutines/generators be a much better approach of keeping state confined to a local process, and wouldn't that make the code for managing state look more like normal code?
I like the piece but the author might want to update it for distributed repositories where 'DRY' might mean you inherit a CVE from some other developer, and it also may mean that you've got code in your system that nobody who works for you knows how it works or why it was written the way it was written. Both situations are "sub optimal."
How does he know? Was Dongarra completely misled, and how come it appears nothing like the Alphas I used, which certainly didn't just have a small scratchpad? Dongarra must have been pretty familiar with Alphas, of course.
I think thats going into the right direction. Rationalism is a dead end on the individual level. Some thoughts in this direction: https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/trad-the-final-frontier
Amazon EMR on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Of course, the programs couldn't render as many pixels or colors at once, couldn't insert photographs, videos, or complex tables and charts, couldn't load complex fonts or otherwise handle nuanced typography, etc etc.

There's a heck of a lot of pointless bloat. But at least some of the extra power has gone to useful features!

Today feels different. If Slack really have any significant features that couldn't be done on computers 15 years ago?
Beyond individual focus, the divergence -> convergence cycle also works well for getting group alignment and buy-in during project planning.

> To earn confidence (and the focus that comes with it), we need to explore our options, try things out, open all the different doors in front of us, and then say, “this is the best option for me, so I’m going to do this.”

Build team member confidence and focus by brainstorming a full list of pain points and possible projects then discuss those ideas within the context of given goals and constraints.

> Paradoxically, this means attaining focus requires us to become less focused for a little bit, exploring our options enough to develop some conviction [...]

This is the hurdle because there are usually some teammates who want to dive straight in and start "working on things".

It takes practice and effort to drive the process and avoid getting stuck in the brainstorming phase but the resulting team buy-in, ownership, conviction, etc... are worth it. People feel heard, involved in decision-making, and they understand why they are working on a specific project.

Building this alignment and confidence at the start helps to avoid the situation the author describes:

> If your choice isn’t based on the confidence you have in that decision, your focus ends up pulled apart by the worry that you’ve missed out on the roads not taken.
I'm very skeptical of this because there is plenty of evidence that's explainable with dark matter but not with MOND. I believe one such thing is how the dark matter can seem to separate from the host galaxy in a collision with another galaxy. Someone can correct me as I might not be remembering that quite right. That's tough to explain with just gravity alone.

I really like the idea of MOND as requiring an invisible unknown particle to explain galactic rotation always smacked of the old ether theories to me. But my understanding is it's nearly impossible for a mond theory to encompass all of the current evidence for dark matter without being totally contrived.
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That's true for traditional object oriented GUI, but there are other ways to do it. Druid uses almost no interior mutability, and Arc is used sparingly, as immutable data structures are very handy for incremental computation. The Crochet prototype is even more imgui-like from the perspective of the application, and relies on Arc (and Clone bounds) even less.

I think doing this right will require some imagination, not just playing greatest hits from previous decades, only in a new language.
We had painful experiences with Windows containers, from being incapable to run CUDA through it to solutions that are not battle-tested and an ecosystem that is not as matured as the Linux one.
Should have named it "WearAMaskDuringAPandemic.js". No way that's going to turn political...
I ordered a 16GB mini for the kids, it won't make it here by Christmas.... We just need it for the virtual schooling.

Anyhow, I expect that ARM9 will be the hotness and this first generation will lose support a little more quickly and next years models. I guess it depends on ARM9 though.
We are looking at Electron as a potential way to write once for all platforms, not least to be able to run on Mojave, Catalina and Big Sur without a breaking change every 12 months. The software is in the 'run once every few months' category, so for me the optimisation required is not anything to do with speed or memory usage, and more about not getting nailed by Apple's latest change of direction.
The US CDC (Center for Disease Control) currently recommends male circumcision for positive health effects.
> If you're not sure about a recommended dental filling, just go to a different dentist for a second opinion.

This happened to me, probably twice. The first time I got rushed through the fillings and had them the same appointment as a cleaning because they were minor (they were). I still felt abused by it. A few years later, the same dentist found something else. I got a second opinion this time. It was basically that an aggressive dentist might reasonably want to fill it, but the second opinion was "don't bother." Five years and on a new dentist and it hasn't been so much as mentioned by the new dentist.

Unless something is obviously wrong or you have a known history of cavities, I'd always get a second opinion.
Yes, that's what I'm getting at. I thought it was clear.

The first story on HN about this linked to an article which said that investigators saw what looked like them to be clearly "Russian" in the techniques used, based on their own previous experience.

I will trust a reporter over a random HN commenter any day of any year.
Facebook’s Campaign Against Apple Is Against Users and Small Businesses
I’m getting so tired of Facebook and this new blame game they’re playing with Apple incenses me...felt this EFF writeup worthy of sharing, especially this bit:

“ Facebook claims that this change from Apple will hurt small businesses who benefit from access to targeted advertising services, but Facebook is not telling you the whole story. This is really about who benefits from the normalization of surveillance-powered advertising (hint: it’s not users or small businesses), and what Facebook stands to lose if its users learn more about exactly what it and other data brokers are up to behind the scenes.”
This really isn't true. (Source: I'm a psychiatrist who treats some forms of chronic pain, while also treating people with opioid use disorder who started with prescription pills).

Good psychotherapy for chronic pain explicitly acknowledges that pain is real and not just in the patient's head. Chronic pain is thought (at a grossly oversimplified level) to be due to nerve sensitization rather than acute trauma, but experience, co-morbid health problems, and life stressors all interact to influence this.

Psychotherapy for chronic pain helps people identify maladaptive behaviors that could be worsening chronic pain, and then help to set goals and learn skills to improve their overall function. On average, it's only modestly effective, but it's better than many alternatives.

Some people might say that opioids are a placebo. A more nuanced statement would be that most trials can't distinguish between opioids and placebo for chronic pain. That doesn't necessarily mean they don't work for an individual, it just means that it's an intervention based upon low-quality evidence. On the other hand, opioids come with significant (and occasionally catastrophic) risks, and so the decision to pursue a high-risk/low-benefit treatment is discouraged. There are always exceptions, but I've been really pleased with the results I've seen as we've moved further away from opioids for chronic non-cancer pain.
of course I can't find the original video I was watching, but since the slag is directly outside the steel mill, transit is about as low as it could get.

If you search on YouTube for "deskulling slag pot", you'll find a bunch of videos showing slag trains going maybe a couple miles from the mill to a pit to deskull?
I don't know if it is a placebo, but many births by cesarean section are medically unnecessary, and can cause harm.
Ask HN: How important is the Solarwind story really?
Intel is definitely in trouble but five years way too fast of a prediction, even assuming Intel is utterly unable to do anything in the interim.

Take AMD. AMD doesn’t have the volume or capacity with partners like TSMC to produce at the rate Intel does, even if demand justified it (and I’ll go on record and say there isn’t demand for AMD chips that will match demand for Intel chips across segments and there won’t be for five years, to use your timeline).

Intel is truly on the ropes and is getting screwed on all sides, but AMD is less than 1/10th the size and in this sort of commodity market, size absolutely matters. AMD can’t reliably take the sorts of orders Intel can. It doesn’t have the clout or cash flow to buy the wafers. It doesn’t have its own fabs and is fighting for space and resources against Nvidia and Apple, who are both larger.

It’s great AMD has had such a resurgence (I’m a Mac user but I’m finalizing a build on the first AMD system I’ll have owned since 2003), but they aren’t a real factor in Intel’s decline, outside of adding to the narrative of all aspects of Intel’s business being challenged.

Apple is a threat insofar as it shows the limitations of current Intel hardware, but outside of smartphones, it doesn’t do the volume to pose a real challenge for many of Intel’s markets. Apple isn’t selling into the same places Intel is and across the spectrum of requirements and it is a vertically -integrated company who wants to sell its hardware, software, and services. Apple doesn’t want to sell into the data center (the recent AWS deal proves that very clearly). It’s similar for Amazon. Amazon having its own custom chips for certain workloads doesn’t change the fact that most of AWS’s millions of servers are and will continue to be Intel. Could that change long-term, sure! But it’ll take more than five years for them to get to a point where they can produce those chips in a volume that could match Intel (assuming Amazon even wants to be in the business of making large volumes of its own processors).

Intel is facing massive challenges that will likely be most visible several years from now, and I’ll go as far as to say that the company is wounded right now in a very real way. But economies of scale and R&D cycles necessitate that we’re not going to see a collapse in market in five years.
my brother had never water sky(ed) before, so after a month of vacation doing it, he felt his knees. he talk about it with two doctors and they both wanted to perform surgery on his knees. he went and got a third evaluation and the third doctor told him the truth: that he didn't needed surgery and the doctors were after his money. the doctor proceeded by putting my brother in physical therapy, which healed both of his knees.

this is a real history. but there are plenty of other medical shows about the same subject - surgeons trying to force surgery on people that don't actually need it.
Snack expenses are no joke, I've seen them as high as $1k/month per person.
> Nothing lasts forever, but Oxford and Bologna have been around a while.

Neither Oxford nor Bologna would be recognizable as universities when they started out. They became universities many years after the initial founding/charter, but they didn't start out as universities.

> Perhaps one should ask: how can we create an educational (or other) institution which will last for 1000 years?

By allowing the institutions to adapt, grow and change with the times. Or maybe in certain instances, it's simply better to shut things down and start anew.
A team that believes it is working on the right things > a team working on the right things > a team working on things.
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Using a throwaway here since every time since every time I've asked this people seem to get really offended at the thought of it...

But was my class really the only ones that hated every single moment of their post secondary education? Granted we were a small graduating class, only 15, and it just some back water college, not a university. But our graduating ceremony was cancelled because literally none of us signed up for it. Most of us were just so sick of seeing that campus and everything about it. Even thinking about today makes me feel ill at ease.

Just seems as if everyone else I know seems to have some happy moment from those years. Never found anyone else that disliked their time in college and makes me wonder what made it so happy for others, and what was so different for my class specifically for us to hate it so. Only thing I can think of was that ours was the last class to be the last to be run through that specific program, but that's the only thing particularly unique about it AFAIK.
Biology is about finding a productive exception to the rules.

This means that when circumstances say no you cant, biological entities find a work around.

as a cover your ass practice, even the smallest chance of occurence means non zero chance.

in this case an mRNA would have to be captured by a reverse transcription system most likely due to co-infection with a retro virus, that complex would have to be functional and would have to be transported into the nucleus.

this is a very remote chance but non zero, thus :

"minimizes potential risks of genetic transformation"
Exactly the opposite; Selenium and friends have prevented the kicking of countless dogs I've never even met. Thank you!
> Perhaps when discussing items of moral importance

The scope of free speech protections (and, on the other side, the scope of personal property rights as well) is a matter of moral importance, moreover the scope of free speech protections is a matter on which there is particularly active current controversy in which a sharp partisan divide on the issue is part of a central political narrative, and this is a significant factor in modern American politics.
Uncle Bob covers this by talking about how real duplicate code should change for the same reason. If the two pieces of code look the same, but from a business perspective can change for very different reasons then you have incidental duplication and should be treated separately.
I dunno. A lot of people jump to the conclusion that things are partisan political decisions these days even when they're not.
Well, I think it's fair. If there was no subscription model, this would be the same as buying the version that was available at the time of your purchase. Everything that gets released after that is only a teaser that nags you to continue your subscription. You don't need to update.
China, the most populous country on Earth, reported 12 cases yesterday. They achieved this through a ruthless and unyielding lockdown that lasted many months. You may not believe their stats but they are having concerts unmasked in Wuhan. If you want to stop the virus from rebounding you have to eradicate it completely.
Corruption or influence from local industry isn't supposed to affect the decisions of federal judges, but it's hard to not notice the trends. Everybody knows that the place to file patent infringement suits is East Texas, and the place to file copyright infringement cases is San Francisco, because that's the place where you are most likely to win.
Had the same thought. Saw this same scenario play out many times between services at FB, and I'm still really not sure there's a good "one size fits all" answer either there or at peer companies like Google. For every "just do X" I've seen here I could probably identify the incident where that fix led to or exacerbated a different outage. Sometimes teams don't collaborate well, and that requires a specific fix beyond outsiders' view instead of more platitudes.
I had a meniscectomy a couple of years ago. When I looked at the monitor during the procedure, my meniscus was looking as if someone just threw an egg in boiling water, spread all around in thin strands.

Kind of hard to say you'll just do PT when a night of dancing leads to locking the knee at certain points.

At the way it was looking on the display, there is no way I did not have mechanical issues because of it.
See the series "No Fear Shakespeare" by SparkNotes, e.g. King Lear starts here: https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/lear/page_2/ The full set is here: https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/#jumpTo-no-fear

Ignore anyone who may look down on using this. The “plain English” version is often redundant, and of course the language in the original has metre and sometimes rhyme (take a look at the opening of Macbeth: https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/macbeth/page_2...), but the “plain English” version is occasionally genuinely useful, and overall I find it valuable. Most of the time (at least after you get the hang of the language, if you haven't read anything from that period before) you'll be reading just the original, but having the “translation” right there can help.
Robot Chicken should call their bluff.
I kinda thought the sentence within the parentheses explained it all.
AMD ROCm v4.0 Released
> In fact, something they could have done is to flip a coin, and split with a copy of the result, which they only look at when they launch the attack. It would have the same effect.

Yes but the difference is that in this case, the plan already exists from the moment the coin is flipped until the result is revealed to the generals. In the QM case no one (not even God) knows what the result will be until it is actually measured,but once that happens the result is known "instantly" at both places (assuming both coins arrive at the same time), so in that sense is a FTL communication (of course it is not real communication)
> While this is true, DeepFold’s algorithm is only applicable to extant proteins having enough evolutionary information,

Didn't the challenge include predicting previously unseen/unsolved proteins? Based on that, I would wager that what DeepFold learned is an evolutionary "language" that maps out a large useful subset of the entire possibility space. Natural evolution tends build upon previous successes so it seems probable evolution has mapped out a fairly useful "language" of patterns for useful protein shapes. Especially given only a portion of the shape is critical to function for many proteins.

But agreed, de novo protein design based on DeepFold's successes probably will outperform a naive approach by orders of magnitude. But why wait if even a naive approach is already orders of magnitude better than current methods?

Either way, I'm excited to see who comes up with the first custom protein(s) to catalyze industrial processes! Get some yeast/bacteria to mass produce a protein based alternative to platinum catalyzer's for fuel cells using an active site with organically available (and cheap) metals. Design half of it to stick to a polymer so it coats nicely. Bam, no more trying to get some weird polymer/perovskite with the right properties. Not sure mRNA is needed at that point versus CRISPR, but maybe it's more effective.
My wife has a 2013 mba with 4gb of ram. She’s never hit the limit doing office365, Firefox, and Citrix. I have a 16gb dev machine at work and I’ve only OOM a few times. I can’t actually tell you how little ram my phone has but it’s certainly less than 4.
> The reality is if a black death like disease hit the modern world civilisation would likely more or less totally collapse.

Why do believe that? It didn't collapse medieval European civilization.