skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> your first thought after dealing with an anxiety attack by breathing deeply is "okay, but what if it doesn't work the next time?"

It always will. Practice choosing various thoughts in your focus (thankful, calm, happy, etc) and watch how the feelings seem to follow ~15-30 minutes after. It will always work (in time) because it's literally a neurochemical reaction with physical laws equivalent to the guarantees of gravity. You're basically asking "what if the laws of physics and biology stop working for my body?"

Admittedly you can get yourself stressed enough over months or a single impactful event to really require some dedicated relaxation time, but the body will always over time respond to relaxation. And recovery is not linear, but moreso analog with ups and downs.

In my experience people struggling with anxiety (and everyone gets anxious) can be impatient and want their feelings to resolve in seconds to minutes. And typically that comes bundled with some perfectionist desire to avoid a past fear ("if I do X I'll never experience Y terrifying thing again") which winds themselves up further in the moment as they monitor for a calming outcome that takes longer than they wanted ("Oh God, I'm trying to relax but I'm not calming down!"). Literally start a stopwatch and give yourself 20-30 minutes to sit with the pain, focus on breathing/calm thoughts, and watch as it dissipates like the steam off a car after you turn it off.
when comparing driving to flying between destinations, it's highly likely that the flight will have a shorter duration.

The big wrinkle in this comparison is that planes burn most of their energy in the ascent to cruising speed/altitude. Energy consumption per mile is likely to be much higher on a short hop flight where cruising altitude is never reached than a 12 hour transoceanic flight.
The AirPods Pro can do that
I’ve been reading HN for a while, and just recently made an account. This is my first submission of my own. I was shocked as well (I thought it might get 2 votes).
It isn’t something you hear about every day, though, virtualizing macOS, even if it isn’t too difficult.
> then allowing it to exist on a blockchain means ownership can be traded with no additional infrastructure required

The same is true of the Chicago Board of Options, established 1848. The blockchain adds nothing. It’s the snake oil of the modern age.
Glad I scrolled down far enough to see this! Need to upvote this to float it to the top...
A lot of people don't really measure things out. And except for a few items, you don't need to be precise.

I mean, how would you measure eggs, down to the gram? Oh, I'm off by 5 grams, let me crack another one.

Sugar, you can usually use half of what the recipe calls for without much consequence.

Etc, etc.
On Android at least: https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/09/03/firefox-update-face...
Thank you, that's a great, practical answer. "We have to do this to make lazy evaluation, memoization, etc work" is very sensible and not ideological at all. That makes sense.
yea for sure - nuke engineer here - is it an established startup or just getting started?
It's difficult to argue with ideology amd frankly the shenanigans of the less ethical parts of the digital ads industry haven't helped, but if you get the chance or inclination to research advertising from the early days of invention of newspapers to the present day, you may find that it is largely advertising money that paid for democratising access to information, culture, communication and entertainment which was till fairly recently in the history of civilization the privilege of the rich. Not a few social revolutions have been enabled by wide access to information and communication by organisations whose bills arr paid by ad dollars.
The Fascinating History of Noise-Cancelling Headphones
This is exacerbated by the fact that Julia's Pkg.jl does not yet support conditional/optional dependencies [0]. A lot of these meta packages tend to pull everything but the kitchen sink.

[0]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/1285
Anyone have recommendations on virtualizing windows for gaming? I'd like to keep my main desktop linux. Nvidia recently whitelisted direct gpu access, but I've been given conflicting advice as to esxi, virt manager, proxmox, etc. Surely this is a solved problem by now?
Out of curiosity, do you mind sharing what medication you're on? I feel like i have a strange vagus nerve dysfunction as well.
Diff.blog
quite the contrary. it works fine. it just doesn't work how DHH believes it should work, and he'll tell you all about it while hanging out with his "Coalition for App Fairness" friends. And Epic Games.
It’s also worth noting that Alex Masmej, the person mentioned in the article, has commented in this thread.

And every time I see the acronym IANAL I pronounce it as “I, ANAL”.

edit: Why would someone flag this??? It’s funny!
Grovara Raises $5.5M and Launches B2B Global Wellness Trading Platform
Saudi Arabia bought the iphone exploit to hack Bezos from an Israeli company.

Fun fact, the text message with the malicious link was sent to Bezos by MBS himself
ML practitioner here.

Step 1: write out the steps you do to manually clean up.

Step 2: Depending on: (1) how many samples you have, (2) what is defined as "before" and "after", (3) what performance level is acceptable, there are many algorithms to choose from. Transform learning may be the target, reinforcement learning or CNN as well. It really depends on Step (1) and (2.1).
If you have a managed instance of an entity, like something returned by a find or a query, calling a setter will modify its state and the state change _will_ be detected and persisted automatically on the next flush, without explicit persist or merge.
> The power footprint of miners is easy to find. it could be shut down probably overnight.

This only works for single large-scale miners after you raided all factories/households with above average energy consumption. Many small miners would continue to mine from home (with average energy consumption levels) while collaborating in a global mining pool.
Most hit pieces don't
Sounds like you want to convert raster images to vector. https://vectormagic.com/ is a commercial version.
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/14/us/police-drop-bomb-on-ra...
Ask HN: About to Be Acquired by MSFT
For those who have gone through this - what can I expect: pay, layoffs, politics, length of time to integrate into HQ
It won't vanish.

Acceptance just makes it hurt much less.
You need to have have a computer with integrated graphics / 2 graphics cards, and so can use a discrete card as a passthrough. Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/
Make sure you get the clause in that you get a % cut of any future resales.

That feature is about the only thing I really do like regarding NFT's for artists.
Obligatory SMBC [1] and xkcd [2]:

[1] https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2999

[2] https://xkcd.com/2170/
I'm 45. Unemployed for more than a year now. Been in Software Development all these years. Unproductive 2020 - Got stuck outside home during Covid lockdown without a laptop and couldn't be back for 8 months. Was watching training videos online during that phase. It looks like a dead end for myself. Not much opportunities coming my way. Software still excites me.

Focus on what makes you happy and start working on it. Good to work on stuffs that you may not have tried out before.
I truly hope Mozilla survives the next decade. They need leadership with opinionated direction, and I don't think this is it. Right now they're looking to be lead without a good funding avenue.
Funny enough, it's a rather common trope in fiction, which loves to stereotype people into stratums by any imaginable criteria. IIRC blog posts were pointing out the geographical specialization in Hunger Games and saying that it's pretty ridiculous because not fault-tolerant. Basically, if California were to break off and fall into the ocean, a huge chunk of US tech and entertainment sectors would disappear.
They aren't just spying for info. They are spying to manipulate US policy. so they should be more careful about how the US electorate feels about them.
If we define hard drives and optical media as "memory based on periodic rotation" then the technology has been around for generations, in fact, with specific materials and mechanisms serving to update the paradigm. Tape, drum memory, magnetic discs, and optical. Periodic rotation trades blows with periodic refresh - tubes, DRAM - and phase-change - relays, core, flash - as the prevailing memory paradigm, with hybridization of features often occuring.

Von Neumann wouldn't be too surprised at the memory paradigms in use now, because they haven't changed, even though the implementation has become considerably more sophisticated.

But, of course, that can't dismiss the idea that a better implementation is a substantial technical advance either.
He had a lethal dose of fentanyl in his system so it’s irrelevant anyway

https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-...
Good to know there's another homonym: Closure, Clojure, Clozure CL (CCL)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clozure_CL
Maybe they should all those features it under
patronizing.*.Network.security.ports.banned.override?
Looking forward for patronizing.disable.old.addons=false
patronizing.copypaste.shenanigans=false
https://youtu.be/gzrCjeo-bO4

The summer is hot, the nights are still cold

Here in Philadelphia, in the city of soul

And we can let our hair down when it gets hot above

'Cause nothin' ever happens in the city of love

But someone should tell 'em there's a fire in the sky-y (hey-hey)

And someone should tell 'em

This is still nineteen eighty-five, (nineteen eighty-fi-ive)

Here in the city of love (it's so hot)

Sixty-second street and it looks like Beiruit

Like, like something you would see on the picture tube

You-ou-ou can watch it happen right in the cool of your front room

'Cause nothin' ever happens in the city of doom

Listen, let me tell ya, that the fire's real in the sky (hey-hey)

And copper understand

This is still nineteen eighty-five
>trans siberian railway

>edmonton to calgary

I think think there's a slight difference between the things we're comparing
Depends which country's side, I guess.
Maybe something like Chia (chia.net) that "farms" from pre-computed "plots" as proof of work? There is still an energy intensive cost to the initial plot creation phase, but it is soon amortized by the low cost farming phase, where the precomputed proofs begin to do their work. As SSD storage is expected to become less $/TB than HDD storage in about 5 years, this could make for a very energy efficient PoW scheme.

I don't understand enough to know if it's a design decision or a technological limitation but the barrier to entry for something like chia also seems much lower, hopefully democratizing the ability to participate in the creation/validation side of the network. Chia requires a single ~100GB plot file (and 332 GiB scratch space when creating the plot) to start farming, which is a pretty low bar. I don't have to buy an expensive special purpose bitcoin ASIC and I don't have to stake the equivalent of 68,416.96 United States Dollar (32 eth) to get started and start contributing.
It was clear when they forced Brendan Eich out for having a mainstream political opinion.
if, by bitcoin you mean "all cryptocurrencies" then we would get cheaper electricity, CPUs, and especially - GPUs.
OT: I sub to Matt Stoller but weirdly didn't receive this newsletter. Checked spam, nothing.

Was there maybe a substack outage?
The compiler has nothing to do with the runtime checks. The quoted sentence makes it seem like there's a rust runtime, which there isn't.
> If you think VMware makes "most of its income" from supporting Spring, then I think I'd encourage you to spend some time at the investor relations site[0] reading any of the annual or quarterly reports.

VMware is a huge company with its fingers in many pies, but I suspect if you rewrite the sentence as "most of their income attributable to that open-source project" then it would be true of such companies. Presumably VMware sees a return on investment for its sponsorship of Spring (otherwise why do it?); if that's not coming via support or non-free tools that build on Spring then where is it coming from?
This list seems to have been written by a journalist type extrapolating from very visible consumer trends and completely uninformed by actual engineering or physical realities. I’m no expert but from what little I know about how complicated wireless standards are and the ever increasing bandwidth demands I can predict continued wired communication. And the mouse and keyboard vs touch thing should be pretty obvious for anyone who has done office work.
Depends on what you are cleaning. I have a hunch you wouldn't even need anything ML related. Just the right computer vision pipeline using OpenCV should get you really close. If you really want to use ML/DL because its cool and fun, I'm pretty sure Autoencoders will do what you need [1]. If you're lucky, the denoising autoencoder should do the clean up automatically. Alternative is to use a VAE which goes really far compared to GAN since its much more sampling efficient and easier to train. I think(?) it's what was used in the original deepfake.

[1] https://www.mygreatlearning.com/blog/autoencoder/
Nutritional deficiencies should be part of this conversation.

A majority of Americans are magnesium deficient. Magnesium calms the nervous system.

“In healthy adults, magnesium sits inside the NMDA receptors, preventing them from being triggered by weak signals that may stimulate your nerve cells unnecessarily. When your magnesium levels are low, fewer NMDA receptors are blocked. This means they are prone to being stimulated more often than necessary.“
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/what-does-magnesium-do#...

Mg L-threonate has helped my anxiety 2x more than years of talk therapy.
Some beliefs and values are personal, and thus, intangible. Try to recognize that not everything good in life has to be (or even can be) quantified.
I run a retro games business.

Trinitrons are still to this day the best tech for displaying old games, and people will pay over $100 for even a consumer-grade unit without SCART.

For the professional grade PVM and BVM monitors, people will pay thousands for a large (21"+) one and they sell like hotcakes.
> I'll have to fly into Paris and add 3 hours to my already-long trip and make a totally separate train booking, and worry about if lose the train ticket if the flight is delayed?

I don't know if you're American, but I think you've just got funny ideas about how trains work. You don't really need an advance booking - you just turn up, buy a ticket, and take the train. It's not a big deal - they go every hour or so between major locations so you don't have to wait long. Trains are more like busses than aeroplanes in most places - Amtrak is an outlier in trying to be like an airline.
Holy shit that demo is amazing. Are there more demos like that? I was wearing AirPods Pro and nearly jumped out of my seat, I thought someone walked into my room. That’s better than anything I’ve ever heard using so-called “spatial audio”, and it’s just surround sound.
The article talks about the plausibility according to linguistics while entirely ignoring the reality according to toxicology.

Occam's razor suggests that he said "I ate too many drugs" because that is the logical thing for someone to say if they were panicking that they overdosed
Given the attendance rate at private schools (low) and their divergence from the normal public school schedule (low) this doesn’t seem accurate. People may complain but they don’t do anything.
This is not remotely unique to capitalism in the slightest. Those wonderful socialist "democracies" were just as exploitative, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, the lot of them exploited groups for the good of the state.
Outside of media heavy applications such as video conferencing software, do websites explicitly do specific things to “support” Firefox beyond complying with the specs?

> many ads get blocked because those ads bundle tracking code within them

uBlock filter lists can provide fallback shims that would be loaded in place of ad scripts to deal with this exact problem. The shim implements a neutered version of the original script so that all the surrounding (non-malicious) code can continue to run without errors.
Have you formally managed people before?
I was born in 1996 and have never used a fax machine. Unless you live in Japan, you are being extremely conservative with not being comfortable predicting that until 2030.
My understanding is that economically it was usually a mutually beneficial arrangement, and servants often ended up better off than a normal immigrant. The second-class status of servants is somewhat hard to stomach by modern standards, but honestly it is not much different than the way members of the military are treated (source: I served five years enlisted in the US Navy).
Great quote, thank you for sharing.
I've been on the keto diet for several years and one aspect of that is that you have to pay a little more attention to your sodium intake than you do otherwise, for various reasons I won't get into here. Suffice it to say, about two years into it I thought I was getting enough. I added salt to my meals, etc...

However, one day I noticed I had been getting REALLY anxious for no apparent reason. I have a history with panic and anxiety and have seen a therapist for it so I was able to sort-of detach and observe it, but it was still odd that it happened the way it did. Often, the causes of panic and anxiety aren't readily apparent and will only become so days or weeks later, but this felt different in a way I can't quite explain.

I decided to get some over-the-counter salt tablets to see if that might help. It was the craziest thing. The second that tablet touched my tongue, it tasted soooo good. Not at all what I was expecting! Within about 2-3 days of taking that supplement my anxiety went away almost completely. Now, interestingly, when I take the salt tablet, it is pretty bitter and almost overwhelming. Clearly my body was in need at the time.
How ironic that the forks of Bitcoin with bigger block sizes appear to be the coins more likely to be manipulated by "influential leaders" - resulting in numerous and continuous coin splits.
> It changes nothing that these platforms are not the sole means for distributing speech or information. A person always could choose to avoid the toll bridge or train and instead swim the Charles River or hike the Oregon Trail. But in assessing whether a company exercises substantial market power, what matters is whether the alternatives are comparable. For many of today’s digital platforms, nothing is.

Well said. Hopefully the legislature can address the problem before the courts have to step in. Or even if the executive would just apply the anti-trust regulations already in place.
"But then say goodbye to the consistency of your second level cache"
- Gavin King, probably
Great summary, thank you for sharing!
I would like to address just one point made in this article. The author claims that the phrase, "I ate too many drugs," is

> highly implausible

I disagree. In numerous parts of the US the act of "eating drugs," would typically refer to taking a pharmaceutical pill with recreational value, taking an illicit "ecstasy" pill, or orally ingesting amphetamine/methamphetamine. I've heard this phrase used in the northeast, the south, and the south-east, in both privileged communities and inner-city neighborhoods.

This [0] is a recent thread from Quora demonstrating the commonality of "eating meth" in drug-user parlance. Meth was one of the drugs found in Floyd's system, at amounts that suggest he had recently consumed it.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Does-eating-meth-get-you-just-as-high-...
Sort of. The "Patriot" Right and the "Progressive" Left are less pro-Israel than the mainstream Republicans and Democrats that cater to the donor class (and Republicans who cater to the Armageddon-seeking class.)
Reno gets hot but nowhere near as bad for as long
> Not only did all that talking not do much to alleviate anxiety, but it could also even have made it more acute.

If you’re going to go counter to a large body of scientific evidence (re efficacy of CBT), ya need something stronger than the thoughts of some people trying to hawk products, ya know?
It seems very common to blame the money from Google (and Yahoo for a bit) for Mozilla's failures 18 years in but how exactly is it causing this collapse? Mozilla is raking in 3x as much off this deal today as it was during peak Firefox usage share and success around 2011 and any collapse is unrelated to where the search box directs you. Mozilla has been trying profit making products to diversify income so it doesn't have to worry about this money in the future but they've all failed to generate that income. In the meantime they still exist.

What could they do by disrupting this cash flow? Or is it just nice to imagine a world where Mozilla found a way to become the next trillion dollar tech company that could spend tens of billions on its browser per year and we need something to blame other than it being hard to do so as the reason it hasn't?
It's true. There are subdivisions going up everywhere in Hays and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. And you can't be more in the nose than a place called "Caliterra" unless you called it "CA Expats Welcome Here." I have 2.8 unrestricted acres in Driftwood that I bought a year ago and after I sell the other house I tent out in a Subdivision up the road, I'll squat in this alone until I can avoid the capital gains and likely sell it for a significant profit. The greater Austin area is exploding with houses and it still can't meet demand. They sell fast and generally over asking, even in the off season and during a pandemic.
DRAM would like to have a word with you. And I can't say laptops have improved much for a decade now (you'll see an increase in quality per euro still, but it's very marginal and not a single component made leaps), I was rather disappointed when getting a new one after my 2011 model. Back in the good old days, three years would go by and I'd love the speed of a new one, or of ssds, or the gigabit ethernet, or the 802.11n.

Smartphones too. 2011->2017 changed big time - in hardware at least. But now it doesn't really matter if you get a 250 or a 1000 euro phone. You'll get a better camera and some gimmicks like oled (objectively better, I went from oled to lcd and it bothered me for weeks, but honestly I'll use a phone for years, I'm used to it now, and don't miss it at all anymore) or usb-c. Can't do much more without reducing battery life or other aspects. And sometimes they do -- make a worse phone with better specs I mean. People don't mind because it's all the same anyway, the tech is stagnating there.

As a rule, you're right, but the exceptions and limitations are also everywhere.
I realized that after looking at the result for ~5 seconds, but I still think its a dark pattern and it could easily induce someone into installing that app by habitually clicking the 'get' button. I guess it just shocked me that the one of the first things I saw on an iPhone was an Ad.

But yes, looking at ads on the Google Play Store recently tells me I made the right decision to switch to an iPhone.
It's not "branding". They sell stuff buyers want.
The main problem that remains with emulation and virtualization is that there are few legal ways to acquire ROMs.

It is possible to purchase hardware to pull images from cartridges and/or adapters to read old magnetic media, but most solutions are expensive and difficult to do compared to the ease of pirating.

What is really needed is global copyright reform to make it legal to share/acquire ROM images of games that you own in some form.

Additionally there needs to be some solution that allows sale and resale of licenses to games without the particular medium mattering.