skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 62 and if I'm understanding you, it's been the same for me the last four or five years. I received a lot of benefit from Sam's work, as well as from Alan Watts, Francis Lucille, Robert Wolfe, and other Advaita Vedanta / non-dual teachers.

This journey has greatly increased my ability to feel compassion for all people, even people that I think are acting unkindly and doing great damage in the world.

Just for grins, here's a YouTube channel that I think you might enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/c/SamaneriJayasara

I get chills when I listen to her version of the Bloodstream Sermon, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_DzXYI7xRU
> First off, the article itself states that Google is giving a lot of flexibility

> But it get's very difficult to manage a large company without at least some sort of consistent policy.

It isn't a contradiction but these two statements seem to at least be in a bit of tension, right?
Am I the only one preferring good old-school, "boring" stacks that I can run entirely on my own machine if needed and understand the sequence of operations as opposed to relying on dozens of third-parties, services, APIs, etc just to do what a stupid PHP script on shared hosting could do 20 years ago? I don't consider the modern complexity as convenience.
2593m/s or 2.6km/s. Not sure if they're more common in the industry, but they certainly are in Kerbal Space Program.
There's somebody who perceives Biden as a strong leader?? In the US, divided as it is, polling would suggest that even his supporters don't feel that way.
Does your company have web app where employee can choose what they prefer, submit it, and done?, or bunch of management have to approve that request?
each template on the left is a separate thing basically. When you lock a color, then click "generate", the next palettes take your locked colors into account - if you lock the background to white, then click generate, the foreground colors should make sense for the white background.
> Then you could be a false negative, in the sense that you might have not finished your degree but be able to commit 100% on other things.

I'm not projecting my own experiences on others, I just take issue with your claim. Studying and working are very different beasts, I think it's very much possible for people to not finish degrees yet be really good employees that finish their tasks as agreed upon. The incentive structure is so different that the two can hardly be compared. Not finishing your degree, ignoring personal/financial issues, tells us nothing about their work performance.

> However, as we all know, spotting false negatives is very hard and who hires don't like these bets if not in very particular circumstances, as it is going to be their fault if the person is then not a false negative but a true one.

Yes that's hard but that's a very different issue from your original claim. It's a good reason for a recruiter to go for the person with the degree instead of the person without the degree, but that still doesn't mean that the person without the degree can't commit and finish their work.

> I think is no coincidence that as far as I can see the OP basically got the "finish your degree" as first and foremost comment.

He has 3-4 months left of a 5 year education, of course people will recommend him to finish his degree. There is very little opportunity cost downside.
It is far ago, but being occupied for 400 years and not being able to openly practice your religion leaves a lasting memory.
Plenty of people work more than one job. As long as someone does the work that's expected of them and performs their job duties well, it isn't any employer's business what someone does in their time off.
I learned the word decades ago from WTTW in Chicago late one Sunday night when the Doctor and Romana were seeking out the forth segment to the key of time.

Dr Who - The Androids of Tara

Princess Strella (Mary Tamm), nor Romana(also Mary Tamm), would ever willingly pledge their suzerainty to Count Grendel of Gracht(Peter Jeffrey), which is why he tried to set up a shotgun wedding.

DOCTOR: Romana?
ZADEK: That's the Princess Strella.
(Grendel moves behind her.)
STRELLA: (deadpan) I, Princess Strella, descendant of the Royal Kings of Tara, Mistress of the domains of Thorvald, Mortgarde and Freya, do humbly offer my loyalty to the King and do hereby recognise his SUZERAINTY over me and all whom I command.
(Strella kneels. The Doctor grabs the sceptre and runs down the steps.)
DOCTOR: No!
(Everyone gasps as he hits Strella over the head with the sceptre!)

The word seemed to define itself fairly well in that context. Putin is Count Grendel in 2022
Love your newsletter! It's been very insightful and informative!
I am mostly on the SPA-hating camp. There are two issues that annoy me the most. They are not a framework's fault but some kind of "mental model" fault:

First. When doing SPAs, APIs tend to leak a lot more info than needed, opening the door to attacks not commonly seen on server-rendered pages.

Second. Applications' bundle tend to have way more than users needs, even UI's they should not have access due to security/permissions. Most developers are not even aware of this problem and don't know that sensible info/features/endpoints are leaking.

As I said before, those are not faults at the framework level, but the development style that I seed used when making SPAs always led to them.
New mysterious Apple “Peek Performance” event on March 8
Vaccines have been widely available and used for about a year though. What I'm asking is what has changed so recently as to make April 2022 okay to mandate a return to work while November 2021 for example was not.
yeah that should be possible, just need to quantize the resulting palettes to the closest available thread color. You could possibly do it with the api (there's some instructions at the bottom of the about page)
I realize that wasn't clear and I'm too late to edit the parent: In the past, "I've always thought that the US fell far behind on information operations." Now it seems different. What changed organizationally? Can it be sustained?
An interesting tidbit about this acquisition is that Tencent owns 40% of Epic Games[1]. Tencent also owns 9.1% stake in Spotify and 10% of Universal[2]. Given the description of wanting to use Bandcamp for a creator marketplace ecosystem, plus both Epic's and Tencent's interest in licensed/streaming content, I wonder if they are going to downplay the ability for users to save copies of their music sometime down the line. The announcement from Bandcamp says that this won't happen, but when new ownership comes in, promises tend to fly out the window pretty quickly.

[1] https://wraltechwire.com/2021/12/23/tencent-40-owner-of-epic...

[2] https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/who-really-owns-spotif...
The goal of every venture-backed tech startup is to reach an exit. That's the whole explanation of "why." You can go back in time and ask them "why did you have to take VC money" in 2008 and that might be an interesting question. But once they did, there's no surprise whatsoever that they went for the exit today.
I think it’s a limitation on all extensions applied by Chrome/Firefox. My guess is to stop extensions from making you force install more extensions or something...

(Also what’s up Andrew! YC S09 represent :wave_emoji:)
Bandcamp is almost as old as Web 2.0. That's why people are so confused about this. Why does a profitable 15-year-old company need to sell? They didn't say in the post, so all we can do is be frustrated.
Nuns. Frankly, I don't know much about the rest of them.
> I rarely conduct a Google search without appending "reddit" to the query.

Same here. I added a custom search keyword to chrome that automatically puts site:reddit.com after the %s.
But he is correct in his assertion that the vast majority will not. America is a soulless nation that “just works” as long as we’re all making money from it.

The second push comes to shove and we need to mobilize the nation ala-WW2 our leaders will realize just how deeply they played themselves.
> users enjoy them far more than traditional hypertext web round-trip-every-change pages

"Major tech" often monopolizes its market so it's not really fair to say users enjoy it when there aren't any alternatives.
A complex number contains two components: a real number and a complex part which is a coefficient multiplied by sqrt(-1).

Quaternions have four components [0].

Has anyone discovered a kind of number that contains three components?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion
Because you're getting the elite of the elite.

I don't understand how this is still such a difficult concept for people.
0.0008649% the speed of light
The audience he is aiming at is less judgmental people. If you believe that what you do is consequential you can say that. Obviously if you think your work is basically meaningless you won't talk like you care about it and think that it's important. Adding caveats and explanations that show you're not actually attempting to usurp social status some people may think you're not entitled to can be instrumentally useful but you can also just not engage with these people if you don't need to or you don't find it worth the cost. You don't always need to genuflect to your betters. Sometimes you can just baldly state who you are and what you believe in.
In this case the person appears to be looking forward to being in an environment where they can be more easily managed.
Not sure how to answer your question, but US Covid 7-day average deaths is currently higher than at almost any point since the start of 2020. So nothing suddenly "changed" there, that I can see.
The impression is of self importance. The way it is stated it gives the impression he works at a company that allows the internet to exist.

It reminds me of a time when stripe was the underdog against paypal and everyone championed them. Fast forward we have thought leaders from stripe thinking they work at the internet. Even paypal never pretended that. By replacing paypal with stripe did we end up with a worse paypal?
Similar in some (minor) ways to the North and South in the US civil war. Folks in the North (winning side) learn about it in school for a few weeks and it's like studying ancient history. But in parts of the South, it feels like it just happened yesterday.
A different way to do it is to bring on contingent labor instead of hiring people as permanent employees. I don't know if that is better but at least people know what they're getting.
Oh man, forget about white supremacists, antifa and the rest of the fun-house gang, could you imagine if the state departments individually labelled every single US citizen as a potential domestic terrorist, to pre-emptively justify deploying whatever surveillance and psyops they wanted? There's something deeply comical to me about the notion. That seems more or less like the fear that justified the PRISM priapism anyways.
> Attempts to create modes of distribution that are even slightly different from maintainer-distribution (think Google Play) suck ass.

I'm not sure Google Play is a great comparison here. Package managers like Homebrew and Scoop are probably better ones; when I just want the latest version of a CLI tool, they make that experience much better on macOS and Windows than on Linux (I know Homebrew sorta supports Linux, but it's still early days).
Hi, I understand the doubters. Please note that the business address is the building where we currently work from :). As written on the website "This is not our full time job (may be one day), but we enjoy seeing others realize that they have options when it comes to their phone."; this is why we haven't specified the full address (with room/floor). We are based in Hong Kong but we have also have other people helping us from other parts of Europe and US. Cheers
> Europe will switch to a war stance.

“Europe” will fight to the last American.

You have a continent fat on decadence and social programs that has neglected military for 50+ years, content to let others protect them.

Germany has less than 20 functional attack helicopters ffs. Russia is garbage but come on.
There's definitely room for a hybrid where teams (or whatever org-unit) are able to determine which days will be in-office and what hours people are expected to be physically available for during those days. I don't really need to go into the office 40 hours (plus the 5-8 hours of commute time), but I'd have no objection with 3-5 hours, 2 days a week to facilitate meetings, teambuilding, etc.
Jesus christ, it's 2022 and you're legitimately arguing that BJP is helpful towards Muslims.
No, it's not bad unless you are Nvidia. Personally think they should be open, but nvidia won't do it.
Agree.

I mediated an average of 10-15 hours/week for about 10 years, and... it didn't do much for me.

What instead did a lot for me was Zen Practice:

- going to the temple

- going to retreat

- Zen reading

- Dharma talks

- Interview with the Zen Masters

- Working at the Temple

And then, meeting the inflated ego of some - but not all - the Zen characters in low-level leadership.

I still practice Zen, but I do it as a Free-Agent LOL

Recently I realized something, not so much achieving Nirvana, more like a DUH-moment: mediation is practice for mindfulness, and at any point in time, no matter where I am, no matter what I do, I can practice mindfulness. Here, I am doing it right now...

And don't get me started in all the pseudo-meditation practices and "applications".
That's right let's not forget about the famous Ruby and Javascript desktop games that have outsold Minecraft...
Somewhat off-topic, but does your PsyOp experience help you in Cybersecurity? I imagine it's valuable for social engineering or (possibly) getting management to accept that it's needed.
you can do this by setting the background to black, then lock it. When you click generate again, the subsequent palettes will then take the dark background into account.

there's also a dark mode preset in the (gear icon) menu.

I concede this is not totally obvious just from the UX, maybe it needs a tutorial or something...
Going by the numbers in the article: $200,000/ton, 2.2lbs/day production in two years; this yields $200/day. Fine for a lab, perhaps not so for a financial concern.
It’s interesting that everyone who has had a bad experience seems to
have really tuned their practice up to 11. Silent retreats etc. seem to show up in these stories a lot
This is equivalent to a really poor white person saying "nah man, them blacks don't have it any harder."
I disable all browser extensions- I don’t trust them… I figure it’s more likely for the browser extension to be compromised then the browser itself or the few sites I visit …
>Also, one thing with those in person interactions is you have no artifact of the interaction. Slack or tickets are great for documenting how decisions are made.

Not exactly.

Some organizations have limits to how long historical chats are stored.
I fail to understand the 3 days a week concept. If a company needs in-office interaction, why not make it 5 or 10 working days a month in office, and then let the team decide when they want to be there?

Some teams might prefer being in office 5 days straight and then 25 days remote in their hometowns.
> the enemy could analyse your strategy and tactics and predict your approach; and worse

Encryption won't encrypt the shell going through the wall, which could just as easily be analyzed with the constellation of spy satellites focused on the region.

> the enemy can impersonate command, say "approach through there" and have the tank go through an anti-tank ditch

This would be uncoded communications that would put them at a disadvantage. If that did happen, then yes it would be incompetence. Is there any evidence that this is happening? I find it unlikely that they would believe any voice coming over the line, considering what you're saying is an "attack vector" that has been present and known for, literally, the last 131 years.

Do you have anything that supports this very negative view of the intelligence of the average Russian soldier/commander?
Snowflake is basically GCP BigQuery or AWS Athena, but they charge $40/TB of (highly compressed) storage and have a decent margin on compute too. It's also completely proprietary, so you're not exiting their platform anytime soon. The other big player in this space is DataBricks, which is a reasonable product, but their pricing is based on both instance type and volume of data consumed by a query, which can get pretty insane quickly when dealing with large amounts. Again, they rely on lock-in to a significant extent.
1.56*10^7 furlongs per fortnight
How does just walk out work with produce?
I've always been left-of-centre, although drifting more towards "centre-with-a-slight-lean-to-the-left" these days, but I enjoyed O'Rourke's cutting wit as a teenager despite ferociously opposing his politics. Which says a lot for his capacity to write.
"I think that an environment where someone can tap me on the shoulder when they need help leads to overall higher productivity, even if individual productivity suffers temporarily"

Disagree, I think this leads to poor productivity, generally speaking. When I'm in the office, I'm honestly amazed anything gets done at all. There are so many disruptions, side conversations, etc. that I treat it as a "week off" on my schedule any time I have to go into the office. Once back in my home office, I can get back to writing code.

That said, it likely depends greatly on the job, but this is tech, and coders and engineers need a lot of uninterrupted time to think. It doesn't mean there can't be collaborative time, and in fact it can be helpful when scheduled appropriately, but I think productivity is better when you have a way to turn off interruptions when needed.
Depending on your perspective, it may have been working for considerably less time than that
Life of an Airline Flight: What Systems Get You from Here to There via the Air
You are completely right, as we write on the website the most secure and private way to degoogle your phone is to do it yourself. The phones we sell we the pre-installed OS are more for people that are not technically able to do it themselves.
I’ve scanned that 5 mile long article and can’t find any description of what their predictions where other than “it’s going to be worse than what people are saying in March 2020.” What am I missing?
I definitely saw this in bigger areas. Mountain villages really focused on what people were buying, which was about 70% grocery and 30% prepared food.
Thousands of people have been arrested in daily protests, many celebrities, scientists and public figures have come out against the war.

There are plenty of independent Russian news sources that you can follow to give you a good take of what’s happening, https://meduza.io/en is a good one. Ironically, opposition news outlets like “Echo of Moscow” are being censored in the some parts of the West even as they were forced to shut their broadcasts in Russia. It really is an info blackout and all info coming out of Russia is being treated like propaganda.
I believe you can call functions through a table, which makes it trivial to switch out functions at runtime.
True, but still it seems like some records are preferable to no records?
Curious why you dont recognize the obvious. The different runtimes each have their own behavioral/configuration quirks, library incompatibilities, and workarounds. This leaves stack traces as being less than helpful without full context.
What's with the Wordle obsession? Why is everyone so into this? I don't understand why this is sweeping the fucking nation right now.
When a citizen becomes _passport holder_.
Most Washington Voters Agree: Repeal Parking Mandates Near Transit
Why I can see losses of Ukrainian army, while you cannot? They are not hidden by Ukrainians, because it's impossible to hide them in time of TikTok and FB. They are recorded and posted by civilians to YT, FB, TikTok and reported by Ministry of Defense. If MoD lie in FB, then users will correct them in real time.
That's a fair question. Basically, don't call fork() in Java (JNI or alike), or Java classes that do, and you might be fine, and if ever you're not, you'll know where to start looking.
As someone who watched KIR-D get constructed from his desk and later worked right next to the infamous desks-in-the-stairwell spot (and made it a point to detour around so as not to disturb the poor souls seated there), I find this thread wonderfully nostalgic.

Makes me want to drop by and crank that giant net up and down a few times just so everyone in the south wing can hear that soothing creaking sound again.

That said, let me know if you find yourself again stuck in KIR-D and want to escape while still working on the eastside.
Both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are highly correlated with family history. There is a clear connection something genetic causes them. What that is… we don’t know.

Fortunately, we don’t need exact answers to do science. :)

Psychiatry (and therapy) is far more advanced that it was just a few decades ago. It’s incredible we are where we are today. American culture is starting to accept and talk about mental health.

Where will we be in another 30 years? :)
Bye Google lol
The flow won't balance out. One side will run a deficit, as that grows the other side will see growing credit risk. At some point you need to settle.
Yeah, and I think all of this brings us closer to the truth as you say - that ultimately we are responding to cellular/electrical activity. I'm inclined to believe truth-finding is good overall, but we also have to buckle up for some weird stuff then.

Sam Harris, while I never followed his meditation talk much, had one example recently that really drove home the "can't predict thought" concept. Something like "think of a song, any song", and then he challenged you to think about why you picked that song, and not one of the other songs you know. And then, despite whatever explanation you concoct, think about all the songs it didn't even occur to you to choose that fit the same criteria. It's kind of magical.

I do think all this can make us more tolerant towards other people, but it's still a bit circular. If it's all meat and electrons, they're destined to commit the crime, and we're destined to lock them up. (edit: I mean: if they commit the crime, you can't blame them, and if someone jails them, you also can't blame them)

As far as I know, the trend is that older people tend to mellow out - usually! And I think that having a sudden realization that you're not so in-control can be tough. It can catch you off guard if the time isn't right. But after a few years, hopefully people course-correct a bit and start to give themselves more buffer and steer away from activities that exacerbate those anxieties. Or at the very least, one may become more numb to it as the novelty wears off.
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If employees can apply for fully-remote or a closer office to them and, according to the article, about 85% of those applications are approved, then this doesn't seem as ominous as the headline makes it sound.
That would be a completely different situation than what I described.