skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're misunderstanding the point of these apps, which might very well be intentional on these companies' part to get you to spend money on something that you might not need.

Therapy doesn't "solve" anything by itself, you must see it as a tool to help you put your mind in a better position so that you can solve your problems. Lots of people see these as magical apps that will somehow magically make them better with no effort from their side and then proceed to get disappointed when this obviously doesn't happen.

So to answer your question:

- Will these apps provide "scientific benefits" (whatever that is supposed to be)? No.

- Will these apps assist your own effort of improving mental health? Yes, as long as you're committed to it and keep going.
> apparently understands that it is its own reflection

No, cats do not recognize themselves in mirrors. Very few animals do.

It's just very easy for us to see all sort of human behaviors in our pets.
Another property is that there is only one solution.
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It’s going much better than even the most optimistic assessment. I fail to see how selling more American weapons (many of which are being given away?) is more economically advantageous than like, not having a destroyed Ukraine. Maybe you can walk me further through the logic here. Who is making these decisions? Was it Trump when he fought to get Nordstrom’s 2 cancelled? Or is it Biden? Or…?
It's hard to say if that's intelligence or just one dog more interested in what your are saying than the other.
Honestly curious, but of all the things I've heard people say about QT it could never be about poor performance, it's generally consistently regarded as the fastest complete GUI toolkit out. Even more so because the Linux desktop environment KDE is built in it and is consistently shown to be both the fastest and lowest memory of near all Linux desktop environments (and certainly among all the big ones), including ones designed to be fast and low memory. Where did this poor performance thing come from and am I missing something lately?
The bit that quote is from is about how people (particularly media reporters) use unnecessary filler words to dress up and dramatize what should be a simple statement.

I guess OP is saying that the BBC would obviously not be publishing the speculation of an unqualified layman, so the "scientists claim" is unnecessary. But doesn't seem to be to be the same thing Carlin was critiquing.
Shamelessly using this to promote my product:
https://recalllab.com

It's build with the vision of what I'd want a project management tool to be. Simple to use, useful to help manage between teammates and ultimately reducing the time I need to spend on it.
Ok - maybe it's more clear if I phrase it this way:

You paid 2022 dollars for a mattress priced in 2021 dollars. Because of inflation, 2022 dollars are worth less than 2021 dollars (each 2022 dollar is worth ~93% of a 2021 dollar, if we have ~7% inflation)

The mattress would have cost you $2000 2021 dollars if you paid for it immediately. But because you paid the 2021 price tag with 2022 dollars, you are receiving a discount: 2000 * .93 = $1860. You are only paying $1860 2021 dollars, vs the 2000 you would have paid.

Now - and this is very important - none of this matters if you're just shoving those dollars under your mattress for a year. You have to be taking advantage of the inflation by buying an asset that holds its real value over time, and then exchanging it back for the nominal value in 2022.

As an example - assume that we have ~7% inflation, and the total stock market is exactly flat: it neither gains nor loses value compared to inflation (its real value stays the same). You have exactly $2000, and the mattress costs exactly $2000.

Option 1: you pay right now. End result: you have 0 dollars.

Option 2: you pay one year from now, and invest the 2000 in the market until then. End result: after 1 year, when you sell you investments, you have 2140 dollars. you pay 2000 for the mattress. End result: you have 140 dollars.

That's the discount.

Now - the Corollary to this is that you have taken on risk. It's possible that the asset you buy won't hold real value compared to inflation. So while you stand to potentially make 140 bucks in a neutral situation, you also might end up losing money on the assets you buy, and not being able to pay the 2000 dollars.

Such is life.
Personally I’ve found even 10 mins a day can be helpful, but absolutely it does have to be a regular habit.
Absolutely not. Cats do not have a theory of mind.
Same here, recently watched a movie that released here(The Kashmir Files) which essentially showed how kashmiri muslims organised genocide against kashmiri hindus in their own country. Dont think the problem is the Quran as you said but islamic fundamentalism is a serious problem that needs to be tackled.
I found it hard to tell if standard notes is fully open source, as well.

My bigger gripes are that it doesn't support (markdown) formatting without a subscription, and I can't figure out how to put notes into folders.
>"First full day as Twitter COO tomorrow. Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power."

He's making a joke. You're not meant to take it seriously (2009)
Wow a lot of unhappy silicon valley folks downvoting. Still haven’t heard a good reason why this proposal is bad?
"Don't do it" can be an acceptable answer to "what's a better solution" depending if, from your viewpoint, doing nothing is better than doing the proposed. E.g. Q: "what's a better solution for schizophrenia than lobotomy" A: "Not lobotomy, that's sketchy as can be".

You think crypto is on the net positive side of nothing. A great number of HN do not see it as such they see it as a constant source of scams, funding hype source, fraud, speculation, laundering, and so on with little to actually show in the way of being the world changer it is always promised. The point of that isn't to bring up a debate about if crypto is or isn't so, that conversation has been rehashed a thousand times here and nobody really wants to touch it with a 10 foot pole plus much better resources on the topic exist than comments, it's mentioned as why that portion is wary of a product which puts a lot of spotlight on crypto payments being a core part of why it exists instead of just focusing on the initial crypto based revolution it is already promising: a p2p decentralized browsing experience. Combine the two and you've got something that for many is squarely in the "I'm not going to touch this until it is shown to not be like the other stories and wish it wasn't about payments" camp.
> A coup supported by the west in 2014, a color (orange) revolution before that. In both cases there was overt support for the anti-government protests and vetting and planning for the US favored successor (“Fuck the EU”).

And what were the events that led up this revolution? Walk me through the details.

> In turn there was a lot of planning by the US happening to slow down Nordstream 2.

And now Nordstream 2 is cancelled. Are you saying Putin is working with western oil and gas companies? Had Russia not invaded Ukraine last month, Nordstream 2 wouldn’t have been cancelled and gas would continue to flow into Europe.

Maybe you can walk me through this one too?
Finally an interesting comment, thank you. Seeing how blatantly detectable a lot of shitcoin spam on the platform is, one does wonder where the staff are spending their time. Even if it’s hard to algorithmically detect a spam, it should not be so clunky to report it when the spammer repeats the same thing 20 times. It’s like they learned their work ethic at Google or something.
Every unstable, libertarian-leaning tech founder is really just one tax bill argument away from going McAfee.
Restored F80 compiler code for CP/M
I am forever surprised that Evernote is still functioning as a company.

It is just a note taking tool, something that can easily be done with a git repo hosted on github.
I tried a related app for weight loss (Noom) and have lost 40 pounds so far. I imagine the cost is a filtering mechanism. People who feel it is worth it to pay past the 7 day trial are the ones who will get the most benefit from what the app offers.
The US has only one model of nonstrategic nuclear weapon (about 100 gravity bombs); most US, Russian and Chinese nukes are large strategic “city busters,” due to the dynamics of the Cold War. If one country genuinely believes that a strategic counterforce salvo was launched, the only “winning” (!) move would be to empty the silos in a mass countervalue attack, depopulating the enemy state. This, of course, implies that if you’re going to launch an attack and you think your enemy has a robust second-strike capability, then you go all the way first, because they’ll do the same to you.

There’s a rich and horrifying literature on nuclear bargaining that’s suddenly relevant again, right up to a bunch of people (particularly in Russia) rehashing old HAK theories about being about to control the nuclear escalatory ladder in the midst of combat. It’s not a comforting time right now.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1513045405029711878

He's also suggesting that they rename Twitter to "Titter"
By the sounds of it it seems (without having all the details) like there was poor communication & expectation setting which at least in part contributed to this outcome.

Having him hired behind your back is obviously not his fault. Wedding/honeymoon should be a non-issue as well as long as management was made aware. Being expected to show up to work regularly and in an environment free of distractions should be a no-brainer, but for lots of people (especially juniors), working from home is something they aren't used to.

As far as the work itself, as a junior, why was he starting any projects at all without supervision/guidance? All of his code should have required PRs (maybe they did - again not enough details?) Juniors generally don't know how to write production quality code, it should be expected that code will be reviewed and issues addressed before being merged into the codebase. They're juniors because they don't know what they're doing and as seniors/staff engineers it's our job (whether it's fair or not is irrelevant) to help them get up to a baseline of proficiency.

Seems like the company and the junior were both contributors to his failure.
On the plus side, it seems pretty likely to dramatically reduce anthropogenic carbon emissions? That seems like the most pressing existential threat we're facing at the moment.
They can quit if they don’t like him.
>I agree that discussing who should and should not be in the government of an independent state is wrong."

If you think that involvement was limited purely to "discussion" I have a nice bridge for sale.
You can also have WebKit embedded in Emacs.
I'm old enough to remember when jokes were funny.
I did headspace quite regularly for a year. I think its asmr-like sleep talkdowns helped me much more than the meditation parts. Of those, the “active meditation sessions” (walking meditation, commuting meditation) worked better for me than the more “traditional” sit-down-and-close-your—eyes ones. Those made me more aware about how easily distracted I was, and how easily my mind wanders, but I saw no improvements on that department despite practicing regularly for many months. After trying the mindful eating one, I now enjoy eating meat less.
It hasn't failed to advance as a discipline. I'm nowhere near retirement and even so I've seen massive advances in my lifetime:

1. The widespread adoption of unit testing and associated techniques like continuous integration. A massive boost to software engineering reliability and productivity.

2. Introduction of crash reporters and associated analytics, this enabled huge improvements in software stability. On the server side, good logging and monitoring systems provide an equivalent.

3. Sandboxing going from unheard of to relatively widely used.

4. Design, development and then open sourcing of extremely robust and well engineered runtimes like the JVM, .NET etc. This has huge benefits throughout the entire industry.

5. Open source and the huge code reuse it made possible.

etc etc. All these things have been drastically more impactful than bureaucratic central planning a la certifications.
Please tell me more about how Boko Haram was trained by America?

Can you see a pattern of ignorance?
We Might Be Seeing the Other Side of the ‘Bullwhip Effect’
This is just trolling. He doesn’t have any control over twitter, he’s just a regular shareholder. Sure he could maybe try and get on the board if he wanted to but the other major shareholders would have to be pretty dumb to allow that the way he’s behaving.
I'd just find another job - and put more emphasis on finding a place that can absorb juniors well, use the fact that the market is still relatively hot...it might not be a year from now.
I read comp.lang.lisp from 1998 - 2006. Lot's of interesting technical material. Many of Erik's technical posts are insightful. A few of these quotes make him look like a doofus keyboard warrior, but I could tell after reading his writing for so long that he was a genuine good guy, albeit at times a bit abrasive.

Can't believe that it has been twenty years since I was introduced to common lisp. Think that I will go back to it after I retire.
He refiled as active.

Taking his full 15% allowance within two years wont be an issue, i expect him to continue pushing.
I agree with the lack of rigor in software development, but I don't think that it is much better in other traditional engineering disciplines. I know from my own experience that you can go quite far in electrical and mechanical design without any rigorous engineering. Usually, all the hard math-y engineering things are done by software and its users don't understand how the software works. You have to know a bit more about physics and such to understand the data sheets, but that's not much different from knowing the complexity of elementary algorithms and data structures.
Because chess is 99% tactics and those involve getting ahead in material or mating in max 4 moves or so.
Yep, try to catch an Amtrak out of Phoenix and you have to drive about an hour to Maricopa instead of the old train station downtown because of them not getting priority over freight traffic.
Normalizing deviance has been the name of the game for western society for a long time now.
Don't believe the marketing for our many stupid wars. It's never about democracy or women's rights or education or business or terrorism or even oil. (You know this, because none of our wars have ever improved any situation with respect to any of these supposed values.) The only point, ever, is to sell more weapons manufactured in USA. All of our stupid media and stupid politics are subordinate to this tawdry motivation.

For this purpose, it's actually better if Africans can momentarily imagine better lives, before their hopes are dashed again by more violent coups.
Yea this whole thing is hilarious. A lot of folks on here without a ounce of humor in them.
I have a pet peeve when someone names a technology like this. A zine is an existing concept for cheap printed magazine like material. When you name your tech the exact same thing then there's no differentiation when I search something like "Zine how to".
Whataboutism is a natural consequence of regarding double standards as something negative
Do you know of any current vulnerabilities in w3m? The last one I saw was in 2010 and fixed. Is it just not studied enough and there could be many undiscovered vulnerabilities? Beings up an interesting question of how to evaluate unknown vulnerabilities to determine if something is horribly insecure.
My 6 year old has gotten into chess in a very unexpected way. He was spending a week with his grandparents and I guess grandad got bored and decided to teach him chess and suddenly my kid wants to play chess all the time.

So I play him one day. Now, I'm not a good chess player, but I know all the rules, even the obscure ones, and I my attention span is a lot better than a 6 year old's. And he almost beat me.

We signed him up for chess classes with an instructor over Zoom. He's beating kids with a lot more experience than him. And I find myself trying to train to stay ahead of him. I sit in the room with him during his classes and pay attention, did all the lessons on chess.com and lichess.org, and am constantly doing puzzles on lichess (even using the training dashboard to focus on areas in having problems). I train probably 5x more than my son.

And he's still giving me a run for my money. I let him do chess puzzles with me and he frequently gets frustrated with how slow I am on some of the puzzles. He "sees" the 1-move and 2-move solutions almost immediately. The only place I have advantage is anything 3+ moves. If he doesn't see the move immediately, he doesn't know how to develop to a position that he can solve. I'm not much better, but I can occasionally get it, and that's the only way I'm staying ahead of him right now.

I'm similarly frustrated with the training on lichess. When I play games, I find I'm completely lost on the middle game. I play the openings that my kid's teacher has been drilling, then try to sit in a holding pattern of not making egregious mistakes until the other player makes a mistake I can recognize. I'm basically incapable of moving the game in a direction I want, and my simplistic play is easy pickings for a lot of people as they bait me into--in retrospect--rather basic traps.

I've just about resigned myself to living vicariously through my child on this issue. His classes being online, the instructor is often distracted with the other children being noisy to give real attention to training. My son recently moved up to a new class level (and he's now the youngest in the room!), so hopefully that will get better. I try to fill in that in-person coaching by just parroting what his teacher says and pointing out where my son isn't following along quite right.
He is on the board. :p
I miss people like Erik in the Internet.

Erik was like a predator who contributed to the ecosystem. He ate frequent low quality shitposters from comp.lang.lisp and then swam in circles preventing them from emerging.

His rants were educating or entertaining. Usually both. They came from deep technical knowledge. When was the last time you followed a Internet flamewar and learned something?
Does "manipulative" describe the behavior itself, or certain internal processes (but not others) which can produce said behavior?
It is my suggestion you try to formulate questions on your own before reading the concrete examples I have given below. I have learned recently that being challenged when learning is good for learning.

That written, there are two pages of one book I recommend for everyone that wants some pre-made questions. The book is 'How to solve it' by George Polya. The two pages are at the start of the book. It is called the 'How to solve it' list in the contents page. The jist of it can be found on the wikipedia page of the book(1).

Here are some example questions I have made inspired by the book:

To understand:
What is the feature?
What is already there?
What are the links between what is there and the feature?
Is it sufficient?

While planning:
Have I seen this situation before?
Do I a know a related problem?
If so, can I use this previous experience?
Can I imagine a similar and simpler problem?
Does this fulfill all requirements of the feature?

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It#Four_principle...
I feel like these apps are much like 24-hour gyms. The profits are because nobody uses them but says they will use them one day.

I love the headspace story and the founder Andy Puddicombe. His mission is a real one of literally "spreading awareness" to everyone.

I've had a subscription to headspace for over 3 years now(corporate discount) and used it tons when I first started to learn about meditation. However 3 years wiser, I realize that I don't need a guide and do it all myself. I forgot I was subscribed until I saw this!

Much like exercise if you don't do it everyday, you get bored of it quickly. I really enjoyed the NBA series on headspace that I would use to kick-ass at work for awhile before I finished it and nothing else seemed interesting.

I also used their sleepcasts for awhile when battling insomnia. I enjoyed them but then found myself able to fall asleep naturally because I changed my habits to work out more and would be physical tired by the end of the night.

All in all, I think headspace can truly change your life. It just depends on how you decide to go about it. Meditation, awareness, mindfulness, and many of the skills it teaches are some of the most important skills to be getting accustomed to throughout one's life. I don't think I'll ever stop meditating or practicing in my life, but I am at the point where I no longer need these apps after 3 years.
On Tuesday, Twitter announced that Mr. Musk, 50, would be appointed to its 11-person board in a term that expires in 2024.*

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/business/twitter-elon-mus...
Try “threads” next to “new”.
Optimistic if you're one of the productive employees, particularly if you still believe in free speech.
> I don't know but if the military didn't dominate Pakistan, I wonder if there would be such a regime right now.

Based on what, exactly?

Your thesis was:

> Muslim-dominated countries tend to be caught in a stalemate between popular Islamist regimes and military dictatorship.

And you cited Pakistan as an example. When it's pointed out that the situation in Pakistan is the opposite of your theory, your response is to double down on it?

> Even actual Arab countries (as in the Arabian peninsula) have dictatorships that are far more secular than the population and exert violence to control Islamist sentiment.

Like which ones? Most of them try to co-opt Islam as way to bolster their legitimacy. And they crackdown on any movement they see as a threat to their power, Islamic or otherwise.
This guy is unhinged in like the best of ways. First found out about him on /g/
I Paid for the fabulous app for some time, honestly, it helped a little only at the beginning and I think it is because we are committed to getting better and kind excited about it.
But it seems not to be that helpful after some time, even with those thousand features (That for my country is really expensive).
"In my case" what really helped was consulting with a psychologist every week, committing to get better with a person that also is committed to helping you.
I think the apps really help if you use them as a secondary tool for improvement, commitment, the problem is that they sell it to us like a miracle, which is not (because is easy to ignore a cellphone notification).
I can’t keep up. I guess the other shareholders are pretty dumb. It's pretty clear he's motivated by some ideological crusade, rather than increasing profits.