skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In fact, today mindfulness meditation is primarily used as an off-label treatment for mental health issues

I think this perhaps goes too far; MBSR is pretty well documented and is not “off label” — I’m fairly sure there are FDA approved apps for mindfulness therapy for example. If you are meditating 30 mins a day and it’s helping your symptoms, I don’t think this report should be justification for you to stop.

This is not MBSR. If you are going for Jhana, you are way off piste from the “mindfulness meditation” path. The authors retreat was full-day meditation for many days in a row.

This is the DMT of mind altering substances, where light mindfulness meditation could be compared to a glass of wine.

I do strongly agree with the authors point that the western conception of meditation omits the scary/mind-altering stuff that can happen when you go deep, and it’s important to have a full picture of the risks and benefits before you embark on that path. I just worry that this sort of article without appropriate caveats might make people unjustifiably scared of light meditation, which as far as I’ve seen doesn’t result in this kind of dramatic reaction and does have clear benefits.

I’d recommend “Mastering the core teachings of the Buddha” for a no-BS deep dive on what going deep looks like. Particularly the section on “the dark night of the soul”.

https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-iv-insight...
Your numbered points stand - no healthcare, no retirement, or other benefits a FAANG employee would have, but your numbers are low for a high end restaurant. A good steakhouse for 4 might cost closer to $500, $800 for just food at the highest end, with booze being another couple hundred on top of that. And then there's the cash aspect of it. Each night's tips are required to be declared to the IRS, and not reporting it would be tax fraud, but the reality is I'm sure not everything gets reported, boosting take home amounts, making the numbers incomparable without further analysis.

I've heard of bartenders making more than $100k/yr, (but still with no benefits).
In California they just issued "relief" to a bunch of random (often very high class, fancy) restaurants in the order of millions per restaurant.

I really dislike the "bailout" concept and really think a risky, non-vital business like a restaurant should be the last one to receive such a consideration, but if I were a restaurant owner and knew the government would cut me a multiple millions dollars check and all I had to do was wait out employees till they'd accept low wages again, I'd try my hand at it.
I don't see why we need to end tipping. Keep it, and raise wages. I get that it's the flavor of the week for people to rally around, but I don't see a problem. Let's let the market solve the problem. The last thing we need is even more bureaucracy and laws to police something that doesn't need policed.
I'm sorry, but I find that hard to believe when the linked posts are from a Microsoft employee, who says repeatedly that the problem isn't a simple as "NTFS is slow," that they spent a release optimising NTFS, they've gotten rid of all the low hanging fruit and so on. I don't see why they'd be making excuses for NTFS when the underlying problems seem to be much more fundamental to Windows, which is much worse. You say you discovered the MFT contention issue when you were working on Subversion a decade ago, but these posts are from 2018, so I'm inclined to believe that the MFT contention issue has been mitigated and the real issues really are things like filter drivers, like they say.

I'm also not sure there's two paradigms here, if by that you mean there are workloads more suited to Linux and workloads more suited to Windows. Are there any file system operations that are actually faster on Windows? I'm still inclined to believe, like they say, that "file operations in Windows are more expensive than in Linux," even if large files are less impacted than small files.

I really hope Microsoft can improve this, rather than just throwing it under the rug and saying to use Linux VMs, even if they have to make drastic changes like deprecating filesystem filter drivers completely. I think a lot of us depend on the performance of software that was designed for fast filesystems and ported to Windows (not just Git, either.) I also think a lot of tasks fundamentally use a lot of small files. After all, what is source code?
> And roaming negotiations to let other electric cars use Teslas charging is still not a thing

But soon:

https://electrek.co/2021/07/20/elon-musk-confirms-tesla-open...
As a non-American living in the US the way people talk about tangible public-sector benefits (or lack thereof...) led me to think otherwise. The only significant "benefit" people do talk about is job-security, I guess because people are hard to replace if they're being underpaid...
Culturally at GitLab we use numbered lists so that it makes it easy to link and reference someone to a spot on the page.

see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/communication/#writing-sty... number 13:

If you have multiple points in a comment or email, please number them. Numbered lists are easier to reference during a discussion over bulleted lists.
They also require a huge amount of capital for new franchisees.
On the contrary, it is inappropriate to pander to silly people who have “sensitivity to where information comes from”. You just have to read that phrase to see how wrong it is. The very nature of information (as opposed to opinion) is that its provenance is irrelevant.
It's not a missed point among the paranoid rednecks I know; who also include people who know the numbers on rabies vaccines, for example, and choose to embrace the risk of the vaccine.

There's also this huge gap in "antivaxxers are bad!" propaganda about people who had this. I wonder if the "study" had a category for "I had this and don't want a vaccine"
>The best way to do this is to accept their behavior — annoying as it is — and realize they’re simply psychologically incapable of apologizing.

I disagree that the best way to interact with intransigents is to psychologically diagnose them as non-compliant with your norms.
He was also an amazing team builder and motivator.
https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/how-steve-jobs-got-the-abs...
Well, I can't disagree about this title... but I ain't gonna Subscribe just to read it.
I think what was meant is that digital payments like you find in games were a really innovative idea back in the day, when the poster mentions discovering them. That is the genesis of all crypto projects. (Remember Flooz, anyone?). Clearly lots of people wanted in on it and it became the hot mess that is NFTs, crypto Ponzis, etc.

I think the takeaway/contribution was that those aspects of digital currency (in game) have done very, very well and made lots of money. So, there might be other uses of digital currency that are also viable.
Note: efficient algorithms (one by Bill Gates) estimate minimum flips to be between 1.07n and 1.64n.

On lucky random draws I've come close to 1.64n, never 1.07. but I also have been doing it by eyeing it up, I haven't tried following one of the efficient algorithms.
Some tips are under the table. You'd be surprised how well it's tracked in most places though. Tax man tends to get his.
Like I said, you're not very bright.

> > Libera.net was registered in 2000.

More specifically:

Libera.net:

7,868 days old Created on 2000-01-04

Pay attention to that Created on date.

What I said:

> Registration/Creation date does not change when a domain is resold or renewed by a different registrar.

> Here's my domain: Created on 1999-01-22

I never said my domain was Libera.net.

By example, I was demonstrating that with my domain, the created on date does not reflect when I bought it.

Using simple logic would have made it known to you that my domain being used as an example PREDATES THE EXISTENCE OF LIBERA.NET.

Fuck, pay attention to the chain of comments next time.
That's a consequence of rent control laws, which limit the percent that you can raise rent by per year. Ever lowering rent in a place with such a law is penny-wise but pound-foolish.
The article seems to promise to explain the fundamental uncertainty of physics in simple terms, but it accepts axiomatically that physicists describe physical properties with probability distributions. Too bad.
In which their role was 'sit there, when sign says you can unbuckle, dso that, then get clicked back in when it's time.

Christa was legit trained how to spacewalk.
Space Plane Startup Promises One-Hour Rides to Anywhere on Earth
It's not that businesses stubbornly refuse to raise wages - it's that they can't afford to. A lot of local small businesses were barely staying afloat even before March 2020.
"Some of the least enjoyable trips I've had resulted in the more profound positive impacts in my life"

This is something that really needs to be understood and appreciated more -- especially among those who have little experience with psychedelics.

So many people are afraid of "bad trips", but those kinds of trips can be some of the most healing and instructive of all, if we can bear to face our own demons and try to learn something from the experience instead of just running away.
This is certainly a good argument and I use it myself (for nuclear fusion, space stuff, etc.), but, in fairness, it did take a long time (100 years?) before regular paper money was widely accepted. So, there's that.
Show HN: Sunflower Editor – like adding console.log to every line of your code
credit and debit cards are rate regulated in the EU to a 0.2% maximum fee and moving money between users these days is usually free completely with almost any payment service or bank account. Cryptocurrency fees are significantly more expensive, and process a fraction of the transactions.

The ability to have a monetary policy is a bonus and it's the reason centralized money is price stable. If you were paid your salary in bitcoin on May 1st this year you would've lost 50% of that at the end of the month, good luck paying your rent

In addition to the original crime and legibility discussion as a practical means of transaction crypto is volatile, expensive and slow.
Naive question: why not raise prices?
As mentioned in TFA, the author has both written and spoken about software engineering research and related topics in some depth before. Though fiery, I think it does its job as a more informal cautionary tale on accepting research in the field without a critical gaze.

Analyses like [1] and [2] (from the same author) are extraordinarily valuable because they help us wade through the firehose of published studies to find what (if any) conclusions may be gleaned. Without such a filter, we are fated to a) repeat work by slogging through the torrent ourselves, or b) taking stuff at face value. Certainly there is no shortage of the latter happening on forums like this, and I wonder how many misinformed decisions are made as a result.

[1] https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/
[2] https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/
You generally need to reserve at least a pointer sized block of memory for a Java object because they can be used as locks with the sychronized keyword. Very few objects ever get used as a lock, so they make use of the bytes for other things like the hash.

Of course, that does imply the synchronized keyword has a fairly substantial memory cost.
I can't see any definition of "full" or "self-driving" that do not require autonomy. This is similar to the case where wireless networks tried to redefine the term "unlimited data" to mean "really a lot of data." The courts ruled against them when they throttled data above a cap that they considered very high usage.
The Science of Habits
Can you buy a Qualcomm SOC to create a Pinephone with the state-of-the-art hardware specs? It's not a matter of money, they just won't sell them.
Love the meta
I highly doubt that, I used to sell software on Envato marketplaces (ThemeForest/CodeCanyon) and even Envato can't do much as you are still the copyright holder, unless you give away all your rights to the seller.
"A sufficiently advanced compiler will optimize all the overhead away" is the standard line for all high-level languages with automatic memory management. It works for tracing GC too, you just need "sufficiently advanced" escape analysis.

Unfortunately it means there are always performance cliffs: you make some change to your code that looks innocuous and suddenly your performance collapses (e.g. because a function is now too big to be automatically inlined, so certain optimizations don't work anymore) --- and you don't understand why.
I use the New context menu exclusively to make new txt files. Everything else is open the app first territory.

Explorer is weird in a few ways.

- doesn't show NTFS alternate data streams.

- hides "copy as path" behind a shift-rightClick context menu. This is handy for running scripts, but why the "shift" modifier? Same for "Open commandline/powershell" when right clicking whitespace of directory.

- copy and paste a file listing. IE a simple "dir". Or checksums to verify downloaded files. Nope, that requires 3rd party extensions.

Thankfully newer explorer has much better UX for copying/overwriting/deleting files these days.
So, I’m from Hilton Head and that is a fairly accurate telling of the issue (though the 2.5 hours commute is a bit uncommon.) They’ve attempted to alleviate it with shuttles from Bluffton and even Northern Beaufort County to little avail.

We have similar issues up in Charleston, with my girlfriend ‘s restaurant in an HCoL (Mt. Pleasant) really struggling to find staff beyond the 16-26 “living with mom & dad” crowd where HCoL is little of a factor.

I would add I have at least a half-dozen friends in BoH that intentionally (an)used our state pay benefits for a free vacation to smoke weed and play X-Box though sadly citing it as their first vacation in a forever. There’s definitely a problem a multi-faceted problem here.
They probably intend to apply this clause (under Termination) to terminate ChessBase's license: "Any attempt otherwise to propagate or
modify it is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License (including any patent licenses granted under the third
paragraph of section 11)."
Normally a work visa requires a local "visa sponsor" or employer so Gitlab would only be able to offer relocation to countries where they have a fiscal presence.
I think that most animals are non-assholes by default, doing mostly what it takes to survive and live as peacefully as possible.
Another reason why build maglev in parallel with current Shinkansen is because current Tokaido Shinkansen was built in 1960s so the infrastructure is getting old. After the maglev built, old Shinkansen line can be used to different use case like cheaper HSR line, and backup.

* Shinkansen is Shin/kan/sen, shin means new, so old shinkansen is a bit funny.

Another reason was Tokaido Shinkansen was extremely utilized (it goes every a few minutes) before covid. Now this era with remote work, big companies (primary customer in workday) become realizing that they don't have to pay for train to meeting but just able to use Zoom. There are doubt is before-covid level demand reviving while we're in population decreasing situation..
Time is money, and cooking is a lot of work. We cook a lot, have a kitchen that's better than what the average restaurant has, and have eaten at some of the most prestigious restaurants in the world.

Yet sometimes I crave a fried chicken sandwich and to hell if we're going to spend the time doing that ourselves. Life's too short and that's way too much work.
I'm not sure about that. It's been thirty years since I waited tables, but our restaurant required us to turn in tips (they were pooled and distributed to everyone who worked that shift). The withheld taxes on them, and if we skimmed tips and didn't turn them into the pool at the end of our shift, we'd get ratted out by coworkers and fired.
So that means they are disqualified from commenting on the problem now? It was not clear how bright these things were going to be on orbit with the publicly available information at the time, and SpaceX obviously did not consider the impact.
ER=EPR entanglement could be realized as a non-local distance mapping
As far as I know, A lot of people will never have access to an analog space based telescope that they can look though with their own eyes. There will be a lot of people who wont like that.
That’s exactly what’s happening. The States that ended the extend benefits have lower unemployment rates. Ex: https://apnews.com/article/business-health-alabama-coronavir...
I thought someone in Shenzen would already be making telescope sats and selling them on AliExpress. Apparently not.

Yet...
Amazon Broke Free from Oracle
Kind of disagree. I know waitresses in high-end casual sit down restaurants making $30-50/hr with a large fraction of that going untaxed.
So what happens if a US government entity issues Protocol Labs a cease and desist order (they are the YC-funded, Palo Alto California based creator of IPFS)? Do they just roll over and go out of business? The network might be decentralized, but the company and people behind it are not.
Yep, but that doesn't matter. It's another item they can advocate for with absolutely no impact to their lifestyle at all, so they can virtue signal.
To add to my own comment, more realistically this happens if the variable is used in the calculation of an index, rather as directly as the index. Though if the array is sufficiently large, and/or the smaller type sufficiently small (short or even char, which are most often 16 or 8 bit nowadays), then at least accessing the wrong element is still common (out of bounds less so). Well, you get the overall idea.
Food Myths You Should Stop Believing (2018)
CSW is a fraud. https://github.com/vbuterin/cult-of-craig
Does it, though? Is the total addressable market for internet access large enough to support Starship development?
Rural internet access for a minority. Granted, it's awesome for those that now get high speed internet for the first time, but if rather we didn't pretend this was globally relevant.

Pricing eliminates starlink for poorer regions where it'd be needed most (by a factor of at least 10). Personally, id really rather avoid it because who in their right mind would trade eu privacy for us rules by switching to a us based isp.
Where in Colombia may I ask? I want to experience this, and I'm already in Colombia (urban area). Much easier for me than going to Tanzania hehe.
As someone who doesn't know any better than the explanation you have a beef with, I would love if you could explain in layman's terms why it's wrong and what a more accurate understanding is. I always thought that analogy was exactly how it worked, but it seems I have been misled unawares.
A "good steakhouse" doesn't charge $200 per customer unless it's selling Kobe/Wagyu. And the percentage of customers buying Wagyu over the $50 ribeye is very small.
Buffer overflows are older than C.

One of the reasons for the decline of the British computer industry was Tony Hoare, at one of the big companies (Elliott Brothers, later part of ICL), implemented Fortran by compiling it to Algol, and compiled the Algol with bounds checks. This would have been around 01965, according to his Turing Award lecture. They failed to win customers away from the IBM 7090 (according to https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Bill...) because the customers' Fortran programs were all full of buffer overflows ("subscript errors", in Hoare's terminology) and so the pesky Algol runtime system was causing them to abort!
What all the critics miss is that Lein is "Easy" but tools.deps, tools.build are "Simple". Rich wants all of clojure to be built from simple orthogonal parts that compose together. Ideally a multi-purpose tool like leiningen should be built on top of those simple parts. Other tools can re-use those parts in different ways. With Leiningen - its a great tool but it's a complex thing that you take on an all-or-nothing basis.
What Is Azimuth (Urbit)
Democracy is based on interest groups. They form around issues and pressure politicians in an organized way. Interest groups could be unions, business groups, social justice groups, or broad demographic groups that are not organized but potentially respond to messaging.

The interest groups that support Bitcoin mining have leverage with politicians because they represent a certain number of voters, political advertising and advocacy muscle, and donations to parties and candidates. This is how democracy works in every country on earth.
Explorer-as-a-Service (EaaS)
In plain english, events "happen". E.g. "If this event happens, then...."

If you want to emphasize that the event has just been created, in plain english you would say the even has been "caused". E.g. "The user clicks the mouse button, which causes a GUI event...."
What is the goal of SpaceX to be the ones actually doing the exploring, or just hiring themselves to be the means to which others can do the exploring? If the latter, then the hiring of SpaceX should be the source of funding. If the former, then they are going to be needing a helluva lot more cash than monthly subscription fees for internet service will ever provide.

As a sidebar/tangent, I see SpaceX/Starlink being the first company to actually get close to putting their Adams-esque customer service department on a different heavenly body than earth. "For all Starlink service requests, please visit our offices in person. Our offices are conveniently located in the Sea of Tranquility, practically visible to everyone one most nights."
I remain unconvinced that race proof programs are nearly as big a deal as memory safety. Many classes of applications can tolerate panics and its not a safety or security issue. I don't worry about a parser or server in go like I would in C.

(I realize that racing threads can cause logic based security issues. I've never seen a traditional memory exploit from on racing goroutines though.)
A number of companies have been nailed over OSS licenses, especially GPL.

The losers probably thought the license terms were just some of Stallman's psychodrama and not actual enforceable obligations.
Hasty Googling gives a bitrate of 85 Mbps for 8k video streaming with HEVC. Presumably if a physical media comes out, it would be closer to 400 Mbps if it was a similar compression ratio as 4k. I'm not sure what the bitrate of volumetric data would be, but I would guess less than or equal to the video stream.

So your gigabit connection would be getting close to saturation if you can find someone to stream you 8k volumetric video at the same bitrate as physical-disk media. At streaming rates, you'd be nowhere near saturating a gigabit link.
If you can show me that simple google searches won't show reasonably correct information, that would be a good point.

Besides, it seems weird that the senior class would never notice that the class that graduated just ahead of them is working at the car wash?
Not a lawyer, but I think there's a weak argument for actual financial damages here.

There was only one legal way for ChessBase to do what it did (rebrand stockfish without attribution), and that was to acquire a (non-gpl) license from all the stockfish developers. That was almost certainly possible, for enough money. Stockfish developers could arguably sue for those lost licensing fees.