skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lots of love, playful interaction, encouragement... and chicken treats. but it was mostly time, i'd say. she needed to know for herself that her environment, and most importantly i, was safe. even though she was scared, she was a willing participant, which was crucial (she was always very attentive, like she was always trying very hard to understand what was going on). sometimes, it was just ignoring her while i did my usual activities. other times, it was exhibiting positive attention on her, and minimizing opportunities for the negative.

i also worked on desensitizing her to certain triggers that would bring out fear aggression (which was rare, but as such, surprising when it happened), like reaching for her head, by doing it over and over at spontaneous moments to show her that it wasn't dangerous to her (and giving her treats for good behavior, and a tiny, gentle scolding for bad).

mind you, she was a mild case as far as all this goes, but it still required focused and prolonged attention.
It has changed my life to some degree- very clearly and significantly.

Yet, I read only one chapter and following the advice and instruction to the letter for almost a month.

I am feeling the deep joy from meditating just ten minutes. I know I am not supposed to get attached to this deep bliss feeling, but it validates my efforts.

I read the first chapter a few months back, but did not really start following it until I started reading W. Rahula's What the Buddha Taught and Bhante Gunaratana's Mindfulness in Plain English.

I am deeply attracted to the Theravada Buddhism philosophy. And there is no place of blind faith in it.

So, my serious attempt to meditation started after I learned more about Buddha and his way. I had to try it.

I much more calm and composed. With better concentration and more self-control. Procrastination has left me. And I have insights much easier than before. I am an overally better thinker, now. And I give the credit to meditation.
I don't know how to break it to you, but the system you're looking for that does all the things you're saying is capitalism.

Have the talent and desire to be a heart surgeon? Go for it, and you'll be rewarded. Want to make life sized statues of the Beatles out of used printer cartridges? Eh, fine but maybe also get a day job.
Makes sense. We had it lying around when I was a kid (in the 1960's).

We used to make impressions in clay with ordinary objects then fire up the shop gas torch, melt lead chunks in a forge pot, and pour it into our clay molds! It cooled in seconds, you could break the clay and have a lead toy. Fun!
Thanks! We're trying to find the sweet spot between flexibility and ease of use, by adding features where you could dive deeper into metrics if you are an advanced user.

BTW, you can also setup Livedocs documents to automatically send to a slack channel and/or by email daily.
People may want to see the appendix to our RAND report on areas related to DARPA's focus, for more depth on the relevant uses of automation, ML, and AI -https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2489.html
Climate change... not so cold anymore. Last two years we barely even had a winter
I agree and almost put in discussion about induction in my first reply. But I think the difference is one of economics for most people. I realize HN probably skews towards the higher income range, so sometimes I feel like this discussion comes across as tone deaf when the median household (not person) income in the U.S. is about $67k.

The newer induction ranges are awesome. But they are very expensive by comparison to a comparable gas range. For an average person, they are probably out of range (ha) in terms of price point. Add to it that your existing cookware may not work with it, and it's a deal breaker for a lot of average people. For someone like a landlord, they will almost always go with the cheaper option. If I was renting and had the choice between an cheap electric range or gas, I'd always prefer the gas. I hope the tech progresses enough to bring the price down to be competitive in the future.

It's a lot like the discussions around heat-pumps. I love the ideas of heat pumps in homes. But I also realize the initial sticker cost is too much for people to bear. When natural gas prices have been as low as they have been in the last decade, it's hard to blame people for selecting a natural gas furnace.

I love the more efficient options, but I do think people don't always recognize they are, to an average consumer, a luxury and a hard sell when they are just trying to make ends meet. That's partly why some of the talk comes across to some as elitist and it hurts the ability to convert people.
Same goes for me. Changed my outlook towards any intellectual matter or pursuit.
I don't think a dog is worried about losing his job or his significant other getting pregnant.
And continue to worry about scientific consensus as if the mechanisms for piles of known positive feedback mechanisms aren't numerous and straightforward. The comment a few up is textbook 90s fossil fuel company except having ceded ground on the trivial, trivial reality that climate change exists at all.

Because there's certainly *not* scientific consensus that there are negative (technical sense) feedback loops that continue to stabilize the climate (well enough) far away from the steady state climate and a lot of good reason to think that they will fail to keep up.
I can’t find the reference but I’m pretty sure the majority of childhood lead exposure was via leaded fuel in cars.
> The original proposal from Rep. John Kavanagh made it illegal to record within 15 feet of an officer interacting with someone unless the officer gave permission. The revised bill was approved on a 31-28 party-line vote Feb. 23 and lowers the distance to 8 feet.

And the exception for recording when in a car:

> It also now allows someone who is in a car stopped by police or is being questioned to tape the encounter and limits the scope of the types of police actions that trigger the law to only those that are possibly dangerous.
There have been real scientific experiments done on pets, their remarkable abilities disappear once you remove the owner from the picture.

What dogs and other social animals are great at is reading humans and acting accordingly. So what happens is that the owner is unknowingly instructing their pet to behave in a certain way in certain situations and the pet just acts accordingly. The pet doesn't know X, the owner knows X and signals that to the pet.
I'm always weary of "legislator/body proposes <thing that seems obviously bad>" headlines since many politicians fundraise via grandstanding bills that are DOA. This passed the house, though, so it's not that sort of thing. And it passed by a party line vote, so with one party having a majority of the senate and governorship, I guess it's going to become law?
Generally speaking, if you can smell it, it’s not good for you to inhale.
Yes, In a lot of ways Sagan was a forerunner of the "New Atheists" like Dawkins and Dennet, but I think The Demon-Haunted World was more effective because it didn't go the confrontational "religion is evil" route rather than just gently point out the flaws in the religious world view and so could actually convince some people who weren't already atheists.
Is that more or less sensible than the position of "here's another social land mammal of roughly similar size that evolved on the same planet, yet I'm going to assume they are completely different and inscrutable and don't have any real sort of consciousness or emotion"?

(Especially in response to an article about academics studying animal emotion and mental states. If you want to disagree, let's not anecdotally say "dog owners are silly lol", let's rebut "Twenty years ago, Overall and other experts began to suggest the dog be used as a model for human psychiatry. The same types of mental illness don’t occur naturally in rodents; researchers have to induce them.")
How is this different from Coda? Our team has a Coda doc that connects to Jira and GitHub to pull live data on open tickets/PRs.
I don’t know. They don’t give much information. It works, but it’s format leaves a lot to be desired. It is like struggling with DOS instead of using Windows.
There are papers/studies that show that dogs have facial muscles that wolves lack that effectively give them expressive eyebrows. You could argue this is the result of human selective breeding but it does allow them to portray emotion in a way wolves can’t. Not sure how one would define “new emotion” but certainly their ability to communicate emotion to people at least has changed/increased.
Manipulation in the sense of being able to physically pick things up and manipulate them. Which is a difficult problem. StarCraft is moving a mouse pointer and clicking.
No - those systems simulate "control" at the level of giving commands, not actual motor control. So practically, current AI can win at Go and play at superhuman levels, but still cannot drive a car as well as most adults.
Three Novels - Samuel Beckett

The Upanishads - Eknath Easwaran translation

Season in Hell - Arthur Rimbaud

Modern Man in Search of a Soul - Carl Jung

Abandoned Fragments - Franz Kafka

Philosophical Grammar - Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Gay Science - Friedrich Nietzsche

Hapworth 16, 1924 - JD Salinger

The Dream Machine - M. Mitchell Waldrop
I'd bet most mammals have the same types of emotions, just tuned a bit differently for survival.
Why would it be random? I have seen people describe this as related to performance anxiety, and maybe some part of it is that.

I have myself come to conclusion that this is largely due to brain architecture. Notably the same part of the brain is responsible for coding as for speaking. Asking people to explain their thinking to an unknown person with unknown criteria takes a huge amount of brain capacity exactly from the parts of the brain one needs to program.

Additionally, the normal way experienced programmers approach these types of problems is to utilize background processing in the brain. They first encounter the problem, then they aim to understand it well. Then they go take a coffee, or even sleep on it, while the brain is working in the background unconsciously, and then at some point an innovation comes almost unbidden. The coding interview set up doesn't measure this real problem solving capability in any way. This is why experienced people become stumped, because it is not the way they actually solve the problems in the real life, and they might not even be aware of why their brain seems to not work suddenly.

This might even flare up their impostor syndrome which is a common professional hazard if they think they have failed in something they should have succeeded in. It is not only a bad way to interview and screen people, it is discriminatory and materially abusive.
Sending or receiving an internet full table (and potentially applying filters/aggregations) is still quite performance intensive, since it needs to happen quickly.

A one-second GC pause won't hurt you but managing the necessary data structures in memory can be challenging.

Anecdotally, gobgp is quite a bit slower than hand-optimized C implementations like frr (not that it matters for most gobgp use cases).
>Russia has been reduced to economic rubble already

Sure, this is what Obama said in 2014. Since then Russia modernized its military: deployed the new MBT, 5th gen fighter, hypersonic missiles among many things (and actually used the latter in combat just recently) and waged two successful military campaigns (Syria and Ukraine). What did the Western military do in the same time? Managed to screw up the retreat from Afghanistan and the West-backed forces in Syria lost/defected. Any successes of the Western military might I had missed?

And the WH Press Secretary had been telling us that the inflation the US is suffering is caused by Putin so I am guessing it's the effect of the sanctions since I doubt very much Putin is in control of the US economy just yet (that's assuming WH is not blatantly lying and there is some link between Putin and inflation).
What do China or India have to win by choosing a side ?

Yesterday the US was waging war across the Middle East for the nearly the same reasons as Russia and they kept for themselves quite the same still...
Awesome, I’m actually spending the weekend building a personal project that’s very similar. Right now it goes from 3rd party api > database > website that presents all the data with chart.js

I’ve spent quite a few hours on it and am nowhere near done. Looks like this will save people some serious time. 1-click live data entry is a really powerful selling point.
In which you have convincing demonstrated that libertarianism and lead poisoning are locked in a mutually-sustaining cycle of brain damage.
>KDE connect does what the Remote Hippo app did a decade ago, from what I’m seeing of it’s documentation - let’s you use your phone as a trackpad and maybe share files and such. Yes, it’s more advanced, but it’s not a rethinking of things.

It does way more than that:

It will pause your PC music/movie when you get a call.

It lets you sync clipboards.

Syncs notifications, SMS, etc and can even reply to SMS from your PC.

Remote view of photos and files on your phone from the PC.

Take phone call on your PC.

And I might be missing a couple.

But, yes, the fact that Microsoft hasn't delivered such features on Windows is baffling. They did try with the Your Phone app, but that's worse than KDE connect.
Thanks! (https://github.com/adam-lynch/back-of-your-hand/issues/18)
I would disagree. Just like an airplane copilot, GitHub Copilot really shines in rote work: when it can correctly infer what you are about to do, it can and will assist you correctly. It’s not able to make big decisions, but in a pinch, it might be able to give hints.

In short: Write your class methods or functions headers-first and then start working on the bodies. Add step-by-step comments to a body before starting to add code. These are, of course, good habits to foster even without Copilot.

Copilot will pick up what you do in the first method/function/whatever structure and suggest adapted completions for the rest.

In general, when there are multiple similar things to write, name your cases, then write one of them in detail, move to the next empty one and watch magic happen.

If used right, Copilot can give developers a significant velocity boost, especially in greenfield projects where there is lots and lots of boilerplate to write.

It is still a ”copilot” though so keep an eye on it, lots of ”wtf is that guy doing” moments ahead for sure.
"The original proposal from Rep. John Kavanagh made it illegal to record within 15 feet of an officer interacting with someone unless the officer gave permission. The revised bill was approved on a 31-28 party-line vote Feb. 23 and lowers the distance to 8 feet."

Requiring an eight-foot filming bubble around a working cop seems reasonable in terms of not disrupting their job, and unlikely to trigger a federal first amendment slapdown. With a modern phone you can capture all of the detail that's typically needed at that distance.

I'm a first amendment absolutist to most people, and this bothers me little.
I think we've been in the "Golden Age of Politics," like in the 1880s, and we're seeing that break open into a new age.

We might very well see a stronger Russia come out of this if it leads to reforms of corruption, military investment, and the benefits of real on them jobs training for it's soldiers.

It's not like anyone's going to harshly correct these mistakes... Unless the sanctions prove lethal.
> tell me that starting PayPal

He didn't do that.
I think such a law would clearly violate the first amendment.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/1/23/21078810/kansas...
I will be curious to see on what grounds the current right-falling-over court will justify this abomination against the First Amendment.
What book is he talking about?
Bits are not a bug. – Aaron Swartz
They also got rid of everyone that spoke Qhapac Simi, creating another unsolvable historic mystery.
I'll take "hilarious conservative bullshit that will be tossed out in the first court case" for $500, Alex.
Not the norm
I do not see how incorporating mass transit is over design for something expected to last 100+ years. Especially for a region that has been adding tens of thousands of people per year for 10+ years, at an increasing pace.
https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/right-to-record-police-...

well, good luck.
Ubuntu is very closely related to Debian. I'm not sure I'd count it as a "different distribution" so much as "a weird variant of Debian".
Wow, what the...
>Requiring an eight-foot filming bubble around a working cop seems reasonable in terms of not disrupting their work, and unlikely to trigger a federal first amendment slapdown.

Nonsense. There's already a ton of laws on the books about not impeding emergency services in public. This would do nothing but give cops carte blanche to arrest anyone with a camera.
> I think a lot of people on forums focus on the difficulty and gameplay aspects because they're easier to have a conversation around.

I think that's true for many topics. Some people evaluate developers based on lines of code because it's hard to evaluate the value of the code. In sports, athletes are evaluated based on how fast they run, because it's easily quantifiable and understandable, even if that's not especially important to the job. People tend to focus on flaws, IMHO, for the same reason.

And I think it's especially true in the arts. When people don't know what to say, when it makes them uncomfortable, they find the flaws - easy to talk about, and it dimisses the uncomfortable thing from the conversation. What makes art art is hard to define, unquantifiable, and often challenges our understanding.
it was stressful for the first few weeks, but that's adoption, even with other humans. she's much better, and it was a rewarding experience for me, so win-win in my book.

she didn't want to poop uncontrollably, and knew it was 'bad', but she couldn't help it until she could get her own fear and anxiety under control. human babies poop uncontrollably too, for much longer even. eventually i learned to put pee pads everywhere in her (initial) sleeping area, and just threw out the ones that were soiled in the morning. it wasn't that big of a deal, and certainly didn't "destroy" anything.
Possible Devils advocate - you can easily gather evidence while not being within 8 feet of an officer. This could be more to do with interfering with police activities than preventing evidence collection. Potentially unconstitutional either way but i imagine there are legit concerns with people/press being that close to officers.
And if they're filled up, they're not beautiful.
Yeah... Bird configurations are a little rough to learn. The examples they have on the website are pretty lacking. Their mailing list is usually helpful though.

Quagga is usually easier to find examples for since it's modeled after Cisco switch syntax for configuration (same basic syntax of arista switches).

Both of these really suck to learn as a programmer since you're usually coming into these without much of a network engineering background. I remember struggling a lot with both of these config syntaxes until a network engineer took me under his wing and taught me basics, principles, the engineering challenges of packet switching at scale, etc.
Sacsayhuaman is not the most mysterious place in terms of construction techniques.

https://www.geopolymer.org/news/geopolymer-in-south-american...
>They’ll dream up motivations for their dog’s behaviors, often with very little basis in reality.

Not any more. Take a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJYpXDMPlKA
and others in the series.

This dog and the whole process of teaching is fascinating because it highlights how much we depend on verbal communications and easily discount other types.
Another way of saying composition is king. IIRC is another classic photography instruction/lesson.
I've heard that it works fairly well on Proton already. In fact, perhaps even better than it does on Windows in some regards as a result of Valve having implemented some mitigations for things the engine does incorrectly in Proton. (Thanks to a desire to have the game work properly on the Steam Deck)

I haven't tried yet, though, as I'm playing my way through the Dark Souls series proper before giving Elden Ring a try.
That’s quite strange. There s a very rigorous certification process such terminals are supposed to go through.
Russia claims first use of hypersonic Kinzhal missile in Ukraine
I agree, get rid of algorithms.

Damned algorithms, they ruined programming.
“Orthodoxy” G.K Chesterton
Streak (YC S11) Is Hiring a Head of Operations
I think leaving the law at "don't interfere with the police during their job" is good enough. Making static rules like this is normally a bad idea. And we won't know why until there's a scenario where we regret passing it.
AC would help because the air coming into the car would pass through an air filter.
Wait, sending tanks into a peaceful neighbour wasnt ending the peace?

Blowing up cities isn't ideology, it's peoples lives
> limits the scope of the types of police actions that trigger the law to only those that are possibly dangerous.

And that means the entire law will be applied at will, by the sole discretion of the officer involved. It's the same nonsense they've used for decades to harass anyone they claim "smelled like marijuana".
that's something similar to my situation.

While I'm not "resisting" (I'm communicating that this is the organisational preference) I'm making it clear to the team that as long as they stay highly functional and get work done, there's going to be no mandate and people can make their own choices. They are all choosing 80% WFH.

But our office space sucks. I think it would be a little different if we had really nice space.
I already said I am back in the office full time, go to restaurants sometimes, have flown on planes, have gone to a concert, and am immunocompromised to boot.

Argue with someone else if you're going to make up a position for me to defend instead of reading my comment. Your argument style is indistinguishable from an antivax bot.
In the 70s I made a pair of barbells melting 15 kg of the pipes that were replaced. Definitely fun!
Super cool! There are some tricky challenges to solve under the hood to make one-click data entry work, for sure! Curious to learn what prompted you to build this..
Have they tried not being poor?
What would impress me is if each of the devices knew spatially it’s own position and that of all of the other devices. A local 3-D model of local radio emitters.
I survived the dot-com bust. At that time I had 20 years of experience programming. I worked at a cool hip marketing/multimedia company when the bottom dropped out. The programmers who only had experience doing .com startup nonsense and very little tech background ended up working at Borders and Starbucks (actual examples). I went to a logistics company working on an Oracle code base. Lesson: don’t over-specialize, don’t self-limit your career. I have worked steadily as a programmer for 40 years, always plenty of demand even if it shifts around business domains. Watch out for fads. Old things like relational databases and Unix/Linux hang on for a reason.

Younger less-experienced programmers I worked with who got laid off in 2000 when their startup tanked struggled for a long time to get back to their pre-bust salaries. They were probably overpaid in the first place, hired in as fresh talent in an overheated VC-driven job market that was not sustainable. When that happens it’s disillusioning and depressing. I see that happening again, kids fresh out of college hired at Facebook/Meta at crazy salaries that no other employer will match if/when Meta tanks.
Note that this makes it impossible to film a police officer while they are confronting you.