skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best practice I've found to date is like this:

First, I learned how to do breath-attention meditation, where I put my attention on my breathing.

Then, I committed to doing this meditation immediately upon being annoyed by something or waiting for something.

It's all internal, meaning I don't sit down in Lotus or close my eyes or change anything about my outward appearance.

At the time, I would have semi-pointless meetings at work, which I didn't have to do much participating in, so I would do it then.

Even for 5-10 seconds or 30 seconds, it has a huge payoff, because it taught me the habit and process of entering a meditative state.

I've since had this idea reinforced by a teacher, who said that in the beginning you should practice entering meditation more than staying in meditation or exiting meditation, because you cannot do one without the other.
To what extent is Tether "out in the open"?
I made a video of these toys, which were hilarious to play with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhJye7Xfmys
I think the idea is, if humans were held to the standards machines are, we wouldn't let them drive.

If you offered me a car that drove itself, and statistically, it killed people at the same rate as humans, but let me not have to drive, I'd take that. Nobody everybody agrees.
Right click works! I'm using a touchpad, so left click is much easier.

I once appeared in the middle of 4 objects, and I couldn't move until someone send me a Wave.

Some path finding may be nice to go around obstacles (at least 1x1 obstacles), but I don't play these kind of games too often, so I don't know what most people expect.
How is the price comparison with just ESP32?

The S2 is more of a direct upgrade as it has ULP and only wifi. Surprising the c3 is that much cheaper, the release is also much more recent. Wonder why that's the case?
Black page. Multiple javascript errors in console.

Open in a different browser, and more than half the page is covered in flashy junk.

Good story though.
Theranos was a scam, but I think Coolest Cooler wasn't.

It was just a stupid idea and they underestimated the difficulty of getting them made. It cost far more than they thought and they tried to dig themselves out of that hole by selling them on Amazon and trying to use the profit to pay for the copies they owed to their Kickstarter backers. This caused all sorts of drama, but my impression that they did their best to try to deliver what they had promised.

Theranos was very different in that they were clearly lying about their capabilities, and hid the truth at all costs, up to causing serious problems for people that needed a real analysis and got a fake one.
Contact your senior U.S. Senators office. They have contacts that will get things moving for you.

Works much more often that you would expect.
If you've got thick enough skin to hear a bunch of highly offensive and hilarious Canadian cursing, AvE on YouTube tears down a Juicero machine.
Fun fact, one publisher AMA I read reported that a picture is literally worth one thousand words, ie.

(per word rate) * 1000 = estimated price of an illustration.

Of course pictures don't mean anything without context, but then, neither do words. It's much easier to understand a complicated layout with a map than with a description of all the possible exits, for example, and neither provides much information if you don't know what room/building is being described.
Trash talk: Are waste-to-energy plants a sustainable solution?
As Louis has shown a number of store fronts have simply closed shop, and the landlords don't care to fill the spot. Some have just outright sold their buildings and they just sit there without occupancy for years. It's a very unnatural market that shoos away normal people that don't have a few million lying around.

I don't believe NYC will ever become a "ghost town" but it certainly will look more like a pale grey image of brick and mortar where you just live in a box, go to the office, and repeat.
I had an OLPC. My children liked the apps, but struggled with the keyboard because they kept fat fingering the keys. They were little at the time, younger than the target audience. I can't imagine bigger hands trying to type on that keyboard.
> "The question out there for parents and educators is why should our kids spend any time doing handwriting," says cognitive scientist Brenda Rapp from Johns Hopkins University.

On one side, more data is better, whatever the subject is (42 volunteer subjects though, and at no point in the abstract it’s explained how they sampled them).

One the other hand, it looks like yet another of these studies, that has a very clear agenda, with a very small sample, completely focused on a single issue.

If at least it was adressing it directly and focused on kids at school, but here it’s still a small proxy supposed to represent a bigger trend.
I was expecting a well-researched collection, instead there are a whopping six items. This website is like a startup: promises something exciting, delivers a dud. Feels more like a grudge page.

Also, a friend of mine was lucky enough to get a Coolest cooler. It's actually well made and still works.

EDIT: I'm a dingdong: this site is actually selling scale-model replicas. Duh.
The saddest part is that we could still limit the damage to the future of our civilization by actually doing something, instead of like , perfomatively banning plastic, while leaving cars and oil/gas power plants alone.

I mean, how many thousands of years of plastic utensil avoidence equals an oil well operation over a year?

It’s not really fun to conclude that it would be more humane to not have them, than to bring children into a world completely consumed by its egotistical inhabitant’s desperate desire to please Moloch at absolutely any cost.
Fortunately, nobody has to care what Ballmer thinks anymore.

IMO he, even moreso than BillG, was the animus behind the insanely cultish POV that MSFT had for a long, long time. As recently as 2009, working there led otherwise smart people to say really dumb things for, I guess, political reasons.

I'm in the project management space. We have a product that compliments Project Server, and early on we did lots of joint deals with MSFT's Proj Server unit. Even well after the introduction of the iPhone -- which, for most phone makers, was a serious wakeup call about what you could do with a phone -- they acted like it was a personal insult every time they saw a professional associate using something other than Windows Mobile. "Get one of these! It's just as good!"

Keep in mind that, in 2009, WinMo was a complete dumpster fire. App availability was awkward (no built-in stores yet), but there were MONSTROUS gaps in capability in the devices out of the box. For example, the native mail client couldn't do IMAP. But sure, it's "just as good".

iPods -- which were really ubiquitous -- set them off, too. And if you mentioned having a PlayStation, they'd want to know why you didn't have an XBox instead. They had "amnesty barrels" you could throw away your non-MSFT tech in. It was really, really, really goofy and rah-rah and honestly creepy.

You notice how, today, MSFT actually understands they're part of a diverse computing landscape? Sharepoint actually works on non-MSFT browsers, for example. Office 365 runs like a champ in pretty much ANY decent browser, on any platform. I can run a real iOS build of Office on my iPad, and the Mac version is really great.

ALL OF THIS is post-Ballmer.
This will get easier if you summarise the main points, write quicker (a skill you can practice), and do it with minimal looking down at your page.
That's a casino, you expect cash to be there. And they're being busted ... so there goes your super laundering operation.

You will never buy property and pay for it in cash (in developed countries, obviously).
Any app that supports RTSP will work too, you're not stuck on the official app!
> But to be fair, the US pharma sector spends roughly as much on marketing as it does on R&D.

Spending money on marketing lowers prices by increasing volumes.

If you spend a billion dollars on R&D and then spend nothing on marketing and sell to 200,000 customers, they would each have to pay $5000 to fund the R&D. If you spend a billion dollars on R&D and two billion dollars on marketing and sell to a million customers, they would each have to pay $3000 to fund both the R&D and the marketing.

And it also does something useful, assuming the new drug is actually beneficial, by making people aware of the existence of something that would make their lives better. It helps no one to invent a great new thing that then nobody uses because nobody knows it exists.

> And a huge chunk of that R&D budget goes into analogue drugs to either sidestep patents from rivals or maintain profit margins when their own patents expire (they can then use that huge marketing budget to get the newly patented drug to take over for the old one with the nearly-expired patent, despite small or non-existent benefits from a medical perspective).

It doesn't actually cost that much to do that because you already know what you're looking for in that case. It's the real R&D that costs money.

> So long story short, there's a pretty good case to be made that public research with somewhere between 1/10th and 1/5th the budget of big pharma is all it takes to match or overtake them in innovation, as measured by actual benefit to the patients.

The biggest problem with public research funding is how to allocate it.

With a profit motive and market competition, the people who allocate research funding inefficiently go out of business and the people who allocate it well make a lot of money, and then have more money to fund more research.

Without that, research funding turns into defense contracting and then we waste trillions of dollars and have nothing to show for it. Or worse, politicians say we'll only need 1/10th of the budget even though the incentives aren't actually there to improve efficiency, and then we get 1/10th of the research.
> "I'll do 99.90% of it correctly, you watch and catch the 0.1% when I screw up!" style systems that rely on the human to catch the mistakes shouldn't be permitted to operate in any sort of safety critical environment. It simply doesn't work.

Right, because it actually relies on the human to catch 100% of mistakes _anyway_. The human can already do the 99.90% of it correctly with a reasonable degree of safety.

I wouldn't be surprised if the increased cognitive load on the human in such a system is an actual overall decrease in safety and strictly worse than a human operator alone.

At least with an unreliable system that Tesla demonstrated here.
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> What about candidate.can_work_in_a_team? Or follows_requirements_instead_of_doing_their_own_thing?

In a way, all these are part of `!candidate.isAsshole`
If it costs a billion dollars to develop a drug and pharma spends 6.5 billion on ads, that would mean an implausibly small number of drugs being developed, no?

I don't see any reason to believe that pharma spends more on ads than R&D. Do you?
This is astroturfing. The biggest threat to internet freedom is the company that Mr. Pichai is in charge of.
>far better than Apple's authoritarian hold on what software can be run and distributed for that platform.

No such hold exists on MacOS. You're confusing it with iOS.

Windows is better for gaming, but that doesn't matter to everybody.
> Lentils (Lens culinaris
Medik.) are produced on
over 1.5 million acres
throughout the world. They are
primarily used for domestic consumption in casseroles, salads,
soups and stews. Lentils provide an
excellent source of protein (20 to
35 percent), but are limited in the
sulphur-containing amino acids
methionine and cystine. However,
consumption of lentils with cereals
provides a balanced diet high in
fiber, protein and essential amino
acids.

> Lentils in the United States are
primarily grown for export.

Growing lentils is a great idea, but the developed and developing worlds' palates also need to also change course toward consuming less climate-damaging foods like meat and more lentils, chickpeas, and other pulses.

Already today, pea protein is a major constituent of the newer
more realistic meat-substitutes, which is a good trend, but if most lentils just end up being exported and used as some sort of livestock feed, it will make little differences to the climate and environmental issues we are experiencing.
I always appreciated CueCat because years after they failed I bought one on ebay for $2 and used it as a barcode scanner to categorize all my books. Worked great for that. :)
Movements that depend on being at the forefront of peoples’ minds are precisely what people don’t want.

Human activity of every kind is going to have environmental impacts of some variety, and part of that impact will increase atmospheric carbon dioxide. Given that there are now more people alive today than at any other point in history, seriously, every single day we’re breaking that record, human activity will remain high, and so will our environmental impact projected out into the future. When there are more deaths than births on a consistent basis, environmental measurements will be lagging indicators of a decrease in human activity.

That does not mean we have to depend on combustible hydrocarbons in order to continue or advance our industry, if the concern is actually carbon dioxide, but we are almost entirely unwilling to build the one kind of power plant that would short circuit our carbon dioxide output in the shortest amount of time: nuclear plants.

Instead we spend our time and waste our energy arguing about consumer uses of energy rather than how we can produce more or the same amount of energy with less carbon dioxide output because at the end of the day it always comes down to: how can we control our neighbors and make them live down to or below our standards?
Gas taxes are extremely regressive. All consumption taxes for non-luxury goods are regressive, and lower income people typically own old cars with worse gas mileage and/or use trucks to work blue collar jobs.
I know a lot of people here use Linux or dual-boot with Windows.

Question: I have some automated testing software I wrote which uses user32.dll to perform mouse clicks, so is there a way to make that work on Linux? It's the only thing holding me back from switching to Linux permanently.
If it, and netbooks as a hardware category, failed, it was because in the end they turned out to not have been worth it. I used a netbook happily for about a year or two, it cost ~$400 if I recall correctly, and afterwards I donated it to my sister who I think used it for a while as well.

That's at least $150/yr for a low end product fun but uncomfortable product. After the netbook I upgraded to a Macbook Pro that was $1250, and I used it for 8 years, after which I also donated it to my sister, and she's still happily using it. That's a roughly similar $150/yr, but for a best in class product with great comfort and wide usability.

I wonder if anyone used a OLPC's for more than a year or two.
Biden is doing a fine job raising gas prices - and prices of everything else - without adding new taxes.
Baking the wheat crop this time of year is a good thing, not a bad one. Lower moisture contents during harvest increases value as it's easier to store for a myriad of reasons.
IOW, yes, you can disable it.
Chipmakers Getting Serious About Integrated Photonics
You can after you get a certain amount of upvotes (I can't remember the exact number though. 30? 50?)
I got one! It still works pretty good as a standard bar code reader. I have it integrated into my library cataloguing software
But of course, the server could reject no-cors requests, or any request missing an Origin header.
Totally agree that everything is about negotiation leverage. Even the employees making a big deal about Urs may be a form of that.

By channeling collective outrage at this special treatment, the employees are also increasing their negotiation leverage. This press is makes it more expensive for Google to force employees back into the office.
The thing I think that would differ is the vegetation that would normally survive the fires would be able to flourish again after, e.g. some pine trees in California have pine cones that only disperse seeds during a fire (high temps).

After spending a lot of time in the Sierra Nevadas growing up, I really can see how a lot more trees are dying. A lot of it is that pine beetle wreaking havoc, but the number of standing dead trees is astounding. Old bike paths I used to fly down I now have to be careful on in case I round a corner and have a tree down; 20 years ago I just never had that cross my mind!
In aggregate, HN hates Apple. It's that simple, really.
dinddingding.

Self Driving cars (Tesla; who is faaaar from it, among others) will kill people. But people are shitty drivers on their own; has to start somewhere and Tesla is the first to get anything close to this level in the hands of the general population (kind of, beta program is still limited in release))
Cryptocurrency has no real world utility. It's a tool for gambling, speculative investment, and pump-and-dump schemes. There, I said it.

I was an Ethereum enthusiast back in 2017, but it didn't take long for me to see that cryptocurrency as it stands will never work. Smart contracts are too fragile, trading is too inaccessible, and keeping assets safe is too difficult.

There has been barely any innovation in scalability over the years, and I'm wondering if that's because proof of work has become too big to fail. Too profitable for it to end.
I alarms went off when the author used a rather poor analogy and very little science to hand wave past the effectiveness of gastric bypass surgery.
Greece couldn't host the Winter Olympics now. While it has ski resorts which currently have fairly reliable snow, the FIS requirements for Olympic competition include a minimum 800m vertical drop for the downhill course.

While some ski areas, such as Bjelasnica in Sarajevo, were able to meet this requirement by building a raised start structure, there's nowhere in Greece that even comes close.
I was just about to post Little Printer. Because we need a machine to make receipt-paper printouts of all the stuff we can take three seconds to look at on our phones.

It was a cute design, though.

ETA: Of course, as this is a limited-edition marketing thing, they can't actually make toys for more than a half-dozen or so models.
>IRS doesn't care because I already have 100 million dollars in assets

Again, that won't happen, ever. The IRS is not going to just forget those 2 million, they don't care if it's "pocket change" for you or not.

Also, you are implying that somebody with 100M+ in assets is going to compromise everything to launder 2 million from some other stranger ...
If POS works, it can be implemented on Bitcoin.

Yes, but can you convince the hardcore PoW maximalists to join your fork? IMO Bitcoin is doing its best to be a raw, pseudo-physical element.

That means immutability, costs rooted in the physical world, etc. The community will change its protocols sparingly and slowly.

To some who prefer rapid change and development this is unattractive. But to Bitcoiners, decentralization and immutability are the foundations of this new type of property. They are uninterested in technical gains that come with complexity and risk.
Tesla fan here: The Tesla echo chamber is very real in online communities (here, reddit, etc.).

I personally enjoy playing with the progress of autopilot over the years and I'd be sad to see it more restricted.

I understand that it can be unsafe if left unsupervised but in reality I've never met someone who drives like that.
Lisp Machines could also implement lists using vectors [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDR_coding
I agree. He'd probably be delighted just to hear

>> I remember sitting on his lap while he'd play Larry Adler tunes
I'm saying that the phenomena of fat shaming should not be used to suppress the fact that calories in/calories out is how you lose weight and works.

Would I run up to a morbidly fat person and shout "Calories in/Calories out"? No. Would I contradict an obese person who said "Calories In/Calories Out" was wrong? Yes.
I'm not sure how much time I could commit, but at the very least I could help spread the word.

What kind of involvement are you looking for design-wise?
Some of the issues shown in these videos make me wonder about Tesla's strategy of using non-professional driver (customer) data to train FSD. Things like changing lanes at the last second is a thing that (obnoxious) humans do, and would be a bad example to learn from. There might be a lot of subtle garbage in Tesla's dataset.
Yes. I still have mine and I didn't pay for it. I don't remember how/where I got it but it was free to me.
Farmers have known about climate change and accepted it for years [0]. What's missing is the acceptance that it's anthropogenic. So instead of supporting any sort of helpful policies most farmers (which are really just huge agricultural concerns) just bitch about water rights, "city folk", and stick their hands out for government subsidies.

I don't expect much self reflection from that group. They finance state and federal representatives to double down on subsidies rather than any meaningful changes.

[0] https://www.arborday.org/media/mapchanges.cfm
No OUYA?
Thats why I talked about using renewable energy. If we could have a closed loop system where the plastic is turned into oil and then turned back into plastic, we could minimize excess plastic waste + not use any more oil from the ground.
what's the "something" here? I'm assuming you intend it to mean "polluting through corporations" but it could also very well mean "saving the environment" (ie. people saying they're pro-environment, but then start hand wringing when costs are brought up)
> Ultimately they wound up delivering a very weird product that didn't actually do the thing it promised to do. That's very much in the spirit of a failed startup.

Also, it had the typical techie issue of "solving" a problem by trying to force more tech into it. Tech people are often like the proverbial person who only has a hammer so sees every problem as a nail.
I don't like Emojis too much, but I'm fascinated by Unicode, it representations, and how creatively people abuse it, to create faces for example. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Please take a look at a program called `keynav`. I use it for clicking things with my keyboard instead of the mouse, and it works almost flawlessly, except in VirtualBox.

It's source-included, so you can figure out the method they use.

https://github.com/jordansissel/keynav
That's great. Alternatively, after a few decades of wishing otherwise, I've accepted that for me the decision is between take notes via typing and don't take notes.

I fully get the value of handwriting things. I wish it weren't physically painful for me to write more than a paragraph, but it is, and has been since I was a kid. (And I've tried literally everything I could find to "fix" that. It's not from lack of trying.) Instead, I'm stuck in the second rate world of typing my notes like a peasant, shackled with vast tooling that lets me selectively encrypt sensitive parts, sync them across all my devices, instantly search through everything, turn notes into reminders with a tap of a button, and otherwise just barely scrape by.

I get it. I'm cheating myself by not scribbling my thoughts onto a dead tree (or a Remarkable, etc.). I'm OK with that.
The best part is when you go to mschf.xyz there are a bunch of links, and when you click one it logs `TypeError: n.setAttribute is not a function` to the console and then doesn't do anything.

millions of dollars to build a homepage with some links on it that spit out JS errors is the ultimate commentary. i think it's genius.
That's one way to keep Greece from defaulting or requiring a bailout every few years.
I guess any driving instructor worth its salt would have the required skills to correct the vehicle if it attempts to do something weird. After all FSD is a still-in-training (maybe for an unusual long time) driver.