skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The terminology is messy.

"Mindfulness of a thing" means samatha. "Just mindfulness" means vipassana. Sometimes they combine both and call the whole program "vipassana"...

Messy and inconsistent.

I like the terms "concentration" and "growing".
Agree. This is one of the 1st thing I fix when configuring an IDE.
I played through SC Origins and the expansion. It's a decently fun game and I'd say worth playing. But the writing is definitely not up to par with SC2.
Yeah, so much of golden age sci-fi is about relativity, its a bit baffling to say it’s not been dug into yet. If anything, it’s been overdone to the point of being tropey.
Specifically, every single user has to make that decision individually.
Google Drive answered:

"Hi Dr. Emily Dolson, thank you for letting us know about this issue! The Drive team is very much aware of this now thanks to all of you we're working on it!"
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22533484
That might be true, but the config would suggest otherwise.

`nix.optimise.automatic` is an option which creates a systemd timer. The existence of an option that creates a timer suggests that it is not automatically deduping the files (or the option is outdated).
If you go to https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html then there are repeated statements about how the rocket did such a good accurate job launching Webb onto its intended trajectory that the telescope hasn't had to use as much of its own rocket fuel as they expected, so the fuel is now expected to last 20 years instead of 10.
Not to mention typos, bad grammar, etc. that perhaps even mean someone actually said the bad thing, when 'clearly' (to a human reader) that's not what was meant, and it's fine.
You may have developed a tolerance.
What's the source of all the lead pollution in central Africa?
Show HN: Can code change our probation system?
Hey HN,

I made FinishProbation.com to help people who have to take UAs everyday. It's an app that helps people complete their probation sentence. The app will notify you when you need to take a drug test (supporting over 20 states) and includes a probation progression tracker.

My first experience with probation was when I was eighteen. My best friend's life was turned upside down by his marijuana possession charge. This charge would not have been as severe in today's times, but the punishment ruined his educational future and his emotional stability. He felt that he was trapped in a disorganized cycle and it was hard for him to see the end.

This would later drive me on a mission to code FinishProbation for offenders like my buddy who was overwhelmed by his probation sentence. To reduce the mental stress and toll that probation brings. And this is done by reducing the fear of missing a drug test with notifications, seeing the days left to finish probation and spreading the word on how to get early termination.

This app has helped the mental state of being on probation already a few people in Michigan and I trying to see if it can be adopted in courts across America.

I believe if this gets adopted in the courts, then it leaves room for other ways for code to innovate our courts and outdated government process like a newly wed changing their last name. (don't get me started on my wife's journey through that)

There's so much that can be updated with better processes in this world. If someone's head is on fire, and you hand them a brick, they will use a brick to put out that fire. So let's stop using bricks!

Jules
I backed their Kickstarter and have 5 to be shipped, hopefully in the first batch since there were only 148 backers at that level, which corresponds to 740 at the highest backer level. I suspect they will try to meet those orders first if at all possible, but regulatory approval and variance in shipping from Asia will make it unpredictable, but I’m still optimistic.

I believe the US is slated to get 20k of the initial 50k of the first worldwide shipment, of which 5k is supposed to go out ~February or so from the looks of it. I just got verified as a backer on their Discord. I’m pretty excited!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flipper-devices/flipper...

https://github.com/flipperdevices

https://discord.gg/uKd8ZrwGd3
Hmm, I wonder how the link got changed... it worked when I posted it? Pretty sure?

Someone else found the link.
Quick summary on why it matters that Nvidia abandons ARM takeover:

1. ARM doesn't own any factories. Its entire workforce publishes blueprints for making chips (like a software company where the entire asset is intellectual)

2. Buying this type of intellectual asset, means owning and controlling a technology.

3. This also means, all the other customers who depend on this tech (Apple, Samsung, Amazon, pretty much all big tech companies) are now at a disadvantage with NVIDIA as a competitor.

4. China heavily depends on ARM (Huawei, the company's biggest tech manufacturer rely on ARM)

5. This means, the after ARM gets owned by a US company, the US can possibly just cut-off ARM supply to China

6. Since ARM is basically like a software company, it's better to not be owned by a hardware maker. That way, it can prioritize demand from several hardware makers instead of being directed to cater to one market)

So, all-in-all this is a good thing :)
Excessive precision in crib slat spacing?
I'm taking Ritalin for years and it is super helpful.

It puts me much closer to who I want to be than who I would be without it: Im much more motivated to do things I enjoy doing.

I stopped taking it half a year ago because I started to get annoyed by my wife do to her slightly messines.

Now I need to find the right balance.

For me this is the same thing as glasses.

We should talk much more open about such things.

I do have adhs and hard sleep issues just as a side note.
These are some properties I see bad code having

* insecure
* doesn't work
* lack of checks and validation leading to unhandled states
* inconsistent style and method
* difficult to understand for wrong reasons
* spaghetti with too much coupling
* poorly optimized and inefficient
As mentioned in further reading section, see also:

Comprehensive Ruby 3.1 changelog: https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/3.1.html
With an increasing number of countries worldwide using their powers to prevent the sale or merger of companies, will we see a devaluation of these companies? After all, owning something is only of value if you can sell it, and if you can only sell with permission from 10+ country governments, all of whom can say no for strategic reasons, then it isn't such a great purchase.
Is there actually a good way for Gemini as a protocol to make linking to an HTTP site harder? I don't think the protocol actually limits the type of link on a Gemini page, and if I click on an HTTP link in an app my OS will just pop it up in a web browser without a problem. Yes I'd know the app changed, but I'm not sure that would really help guard me from following a link to the current web
Multi-seat is supported by systemd, and both X and Wayland.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/loginctl.ht...

It can be done without systemd too, kmscon for example supports multi-seat.

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/
The economic system forces the employees to work at some location. Their skill set and the timetable make A and B the only reasonable options. The injunction removed A as a possibility. Therefore, the injunction required them to work at B.

If an order, taken within the context of how the world works, leads to the employees being forced to work at ThedaCare, then it is an order forcing them to work at ThedaCare.
> Horses and dogs have been used on war for about as long as humans have been fighting

Domestication of horses is surprisingly recent [0] - perhaps only 6000 years ago - compared with fighting between humans, which likely goes back to before we were even human.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_of_the_horse
Only two weeks ago SoftBank / Arm / Nvidia made a submission to the UK competition authorities with a singularly pessimistic view of Arm’s prospects as a stand-alone company [1]. I wonder if this was wise given the where the deal seems to be now.

Whilst this is a bit overdone, it does highlight the challenges that Arm faces. If the Nvidia deal is dead - which seems likely - then floating clearly seems unlikely to offer the prospect of the return that SoftBank was expecting when it paid a premium for Arm.

The key question from an Arm user / customer’s perspective seems to be ‘Can Arm as a stand-alone company finance the investment it meets to stay competitive?’

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/61d81a458fa8f...
It is an European project, it is to be expected
It is VERY expensive problem to fix. Cleaning environment, replacing old pipes... Other issues like smoking can be milked on taxes.

EU went quite far, even banning lead from solder.
Isn't it a little odd to demonstrate the originality of indie games by explicitly equating them to a popular title?
Recovering 2M from a Crypto Wallet
I might just be good in SQL but I haven't seen anything which is easier to read fore than SQL.

This example looks so weird and it only is getting worse.
This blueprint about Database Lab from GitLab is quite interesting to understand the use case and what benefits it brings:
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/architecture/blueprints/database_...
There are several public Case Studies of real users (from small teams to quite large companies): https://postgres.ai/resources/

For more real-life feedback, welcome to the Database Lab Community Slack: https://slack.postgres.ai/
No, and I suspect many miners will do this because they anticipate the same thing I do: PoS will be a catastrophic failure with myriad exploits, vulnerabilities, and philosophical paradoxes that arise with popularity.

"Decentralization" in crypto is a myth.
Given Node-RED is intended as a low-code programming tool, hand-writing the flow JSON has never really been a requirement - certainly not one I can recall being brought up in the community. It's certainly possible to generate flow JSON via other means as the format is not hugely complicated once you know the format.

It's an array of objects, each representing a 'thing' in the flow. Each object has a unqiue id (which can be any randomly generated value), and other meta data that defines what the object is and what its configuration is.

Given most nodes have been implemented with a graphical UI in mind for configuring the nodes, you'd have to refer to individual nodes to understand what node-specific properties they require.
Twitter Close Friends Feature in Beta Now Called 'Flock' with 150-Person Limit
1. When it fails at being a function abstraction; though this is a language issue, that is, you can't write good code in most languages.

2. Incorrect, including such issues such as insecure, not filling the specification.
Thedacare sued, successfully, in that they successfully initiated legal proceedings and are presently litigating their case. The verb sue means to initiate legal proceedings; it does not mean to prevail at such proceedings.
> This means, the after ARM gets owned by a US company, the US can possibly just cut-off ARM supply to China

But IP is very hard to control the supply of, especially one like this where hundreds of companies have a copy of the IP. If the US won't license it on fair terms, China will just stop enforcing IP laws and allow anyone to copy it for free.
True - it will have a chilling effect on anyone and everyone who is critical of Israel, not just Palestinians, but definitely including Palestinians, who wish to raise the issue of their continued repression with the rest of the world.

All it takes now is to claim victimhood in the form of 'suffering mental health as a result of online messages', and nobody will ever have to hear the cries of Israels' victims ever again.

Absolutely reprehensible. A truly free people do not repress the voice of their victims.
The problem I see here is that there is no alternative to an algorithm. What do you expect Twitter to do? Twitter's users want to see the content that is most interesting to them, and to do that Twitter has to design algorithms to achieve that. Maybe that algorithm is literally just "Here's everything anyone you follow has posted chronologically" - but that's got problems, firstly obviously you're more interested in what some people have to say than others so you're going to have a low average value reading all the tweets, secondly it'll incentivize people spamming the timeline because they know their tweets will be buried by other tweets if people aren't reading live and that will damage how much influence they have. So, I don't think Twitter using such a simple algorithm would be good and I think a competitor would likely beat it with a better algorithm. So a state where Twitter doesn't use algorithms is likely to tend to a state where twitter is bankrupt and some other company is using algorithms.

I think it's pretty clear you need some algorithm. Ok, so maybe the line we draw is that we don't make value judgements on the content and only prioritize by meta data. Ie, your algorithm looks at engagement, reach etc. This is basically what Facebook did, and what they found was that it was much easier for people to produce highly engaging content by playing on peoples fears, misrepresenting information, and all the classic "click bait" tricks. High value content is expensive and time consuming to make, and since it doesn't get rewarded by the algorithm it gets priced out of the market. So sure, it's possible to draw that line, but again, I don't think that that's actually a neutral position, we know the type of content that benefits from content neutral algorithms. And remember - engagement at the end of the day is just a way of measuring what impact the content of the article is having, you're saying you want to promote content that is "engaging" as opposed to other priorities that you might have such as "truthful" or "High quality".

It's difficult not to think that what we're actually seeing is that the beneficiaries of the previous algorithms - the voices that were raised up by the facebook style algorithm are simply angry now that the algorithm has changed and not to their benefit. The author cites how popular their facebook pages used to be, but that wasn't a neutral algorithm either - they were just happy when the algorithm was rigged to benefit them rather than harm them.
I had a Nexus 5 here in Brazil, back in the day - probably the smoothest Android experience I ever had. Exciting times!

Nowadays they are expensive phones that you don't really see around here, with the same price as iPhones.
6000 years ago is hardly recent. Cavalry is nothing new.
I actually asked about this 3-4 years ago and finally got an answer from [1] jedberg @Netflix. Basically they are not interested. I do wonder if they think the same now that their subscribers base has somewhat saturated and are looking for additional revenue.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18954868
Only Gmail/similarly important websites.
> These impacts are thought to be largely irreversible

I'm noticing this claim made a lot in various contexts these days, most notably relating to the pandemic (about both the virus and vaccines).

In those contexts as well as this one, I feel like it's used in a weaponised way to emphasise the seriousness of the harm caused, but by doing this there's some abandonment of those who have been harmed and consigns them to a future of having to carry on living with the harm, without being empowered or supported to heal and recover.

I have some experience with toxicities of lead and other metals, which I wrote about here several years ago. [1]

As this article suggests, diagnosis and treatment are not widely available in mainstream medicine, so in order to get help you find yourself in the world of fringe medicine, which of course is a minefield.

But there are absolutely treatments that work and that can enable many (most?) people to recover or improve a huge amount, as the linked article from that comment thread documents. [2]

This article is right that the problem is neglected by mainstream society, but not so right that harms are irreversible, and if we were more willing to believe in the potential for the human body to heal when given adequate treatment and support, far more people could be living much more full and empowered lives.

That's not to say more shouldn't be done to remove lead and other toxins from the environment; of course that should be done too.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19573098

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/magazine/lead-poisoning-m...
> the idea of highlighting a specific part of the expression that can't be resolved jumped from one language to another within the last year

CMUCL/SBCL must have supported this for decades.
> It's a great laptop part, proof that a BIG.little architecture is a good idea, and it's massively energy efficient, but it's not 'destroying' Intel parts on raw performance.

Raw performance does not matter for 99% of the market (which is PCs for corporate drones shifting data around in Word, Excel and a data warehouse application). Your average Snapdragon is performance-constrained on mobile anyway because of cooling and power usage concerns - put that flagship CPU in a laptop or a NUC-sized case, and you will get more than enough to satisfy said corporate drones. Especially those who have some KPI target for "corporate sustainability" - claiming to have halved your IT fleet's energy consumption will net your average VP/C-level exec quite the bonus.

All the market needs to do is provide the environment for that.
> Since Bangor, Washington, now houses the largest single nuclear weapons site in the world, it needs protection from all sides, including the seaward side.

Well crap. I just can't seem to catch a break.

When I was a kid from ages 12 until I went away to college I lived within 3 miles of Castle Air Force Base and from ages 8-12 within 7 miles of it. Castle was home to a ton of B-52s and KC-135s and probably was a prime target in most all out nuclear war doomsday scenarios.

And now, many years later I'm within 5 miles of Bangor, which I'd guess is currently a prime target in that scenario (or in the North Korea tries to nuke the US scenario).
This looks like one of my points: "non-neccessary complexity". Why using "echo" statements if PHP is already designed as procedural web-templating language? If it's not a function that dynamically renders template based on some params.
Shortly after launch there were quite a few articles talking about how well the launch went on the Ariane and how that allowed the mission to be extended to 20 years or so.

I'm not sure who it was anymore (possibly Scott Manley on youtube), but apparently ESA had been setting aside the components for the Ariane 5 that tested best to be used for the launch of JWST to lower the risk of failure and that might explain in part why it was able to launch it so precisely - it was not your average Joe's Ariane 5.
I'd be happier in a world where individual universities, or at least consortiums, could have their own space telescopes.
I replayed it in 2008 or so, and it still held up. But then I am not much of a gamer, so YMMV
> That said I've appreciated drinking red wine more after drinking an IPA

Sort of like the run-up that red wine gives you to a glass of whisky.
The space shuttle blows my mind every time I see one. It's huge - the size of an airliner - and would glide back at Mach 25. It's a humbling level of accomplishment.
> I've been watching this shift in acceptable standards in America move from intent to perception with considerable consternation.

I think that both intent and perception are important, and they are both judged in the more modern understanding of "toxicity". Malintent is a direct "strike". But, lack of malintent doesn't mean that perceived offense should be entirely ignored.

Let's imagine a scenario: as in the example above, an English person says "can I burn a fag" and an American person believes they are casually thinking about hurting a gay man. The English person meant no harm; but, the American person is not at fault for not understanding this. They can complain, and the English person should explain their intent. The American person should learn and remember the meaning of this expression in British English, and the English person will need to remember that this expression may sound offensive to American listeners, and avoid it in such scenarios.

Basically, the important aspect is that a misunderstanding is not always the fault of the listener (which the intent-only model suggests: you took offense, but I didn't mean that, so you're silly for feeling offended). It is of course also not only the fault of the speaker (which the perception-only model would suggest: I felt offended by what you said, so it doesn't matter what you meant, you owe me an apology or more). Both parties are involved in a miscommunication, if indeed there was one.
I'd argue that incremental change strikes the balance between tearing something down and being paralysed by potential consequences. Also, you can only learn so much by passive observation. Eventually you have to apply a small stimulus (incremental change) and observe the response. If the response is bad reverse the increment.

Caveat is that if you reach a local maxima a more drastic change may be required, but the journey to the local maxima has probably taught you enough about the system that you can safely make the bigger jump.
Relevant parts:

> Nvidia Corp. is quietly preparing to abandon its purchase of Arm Ltd. from SoftBank Group Corp. after making little to no progress in winning approval for the $40 billion chip deal, according to people familiar with the matter.

> Nvidia has told partners that it doesn’t expect the transaction to close, according to one person, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private. SoftBank, meanwhile, is stepping up preparations for an Arm initial public offering as an alternative to the Nvidia takeover, another person said.

> The U.S. Federal Trade Commission sued to stop the transaction in December, arguing that Nvidia would become too powerful if it gained control over Arm’s chip designs.

> The acquisition also faces resistance in China, where authorities are inclined to block the takeover if it wins approvals elsewhere, according to one person. But they don’t expect it to get that far.

> Both Nvidia and Arm’s leadership are still pleading their case to regulators, according to the people, and no final decisions have been made.
> non-neccessary complexity with regards to given model (problem, tools)
Caffeine and modafinil shouldn’t be compared, as they have vastly different activity, history of use, and understanding of effects.

This is merely an anecdote, but I was prescribed modafinil for narcoleptic symptoms. Compared to traditional psychostimulants, I found it to be ineffective with a more severe side effect profile. Of course, YMMV.
We were young and yes, he did trust I wouldn't give him poison. I certainly didn't have a reputation of using illegal drugs, he knew I dabbled with supplements like Piracetam / Ashwagandha etc.
Polymorphism in GraphQL (2020)
Does anyone know why they decided to go for buying Arm in the first place? If they needed tight integration with their GPUs and wanted to move away from x-86, can't they come up with Arm-based solutions like Apple did?
Honestly, I think one of the biggest reasons is that it just became easier and cheaper in the linux world to throw a stack of raspberry pis at the problem. Windows, multi-seat became advantageous because the cheapest Windows box was at least a couple hundred dollars. Linux, however, why bother messing with a stack of $100 multi-seat adapters when a pi, memory stick, and power supply is $50? Had the pi and similar super cheap boxes not come out, I imagine you'd have seen more work polishing up the multi-seat experience to be extremely seamless, but a lot of that work just wasn't needed.