skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The intro course in Headspace is amazing. I had to experience with meditation and Andy really explained it well. It completely changed what I thought meditation was. But then, afterwards, he made it so simple I didn’t need the app at all.

You’re right about his story. His book is great, simply for the first quarter where he tells how he got where he is.
Programming is just a tool, a means to an end. Use it to create something you enjoy. A project you care about will drive you to learn and explore widely and is usually as "fun" as programming gets.
Suppose you ran 20 trains per day each way between those city pairs. What do you guess the average passenger load would be on each of those trains? Could you average even 100 pax per train? Would whatever the average total fare collected be enough to cover just the direct operating costs of that service?

I don’t see any non-stop airline flights between those cities for the smattering of dates I checked, suggesting that the airlines don’t find a lot of direct travel demand between that city pair.
Bicycle wheels, airplane wheels, and office chair wheels are all pretty different for pretty good reasons.
What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?
Quora: How does the NYT determine which articles have comments?

Bassey Etim, Community Manager for the New York Times:

The vast majority of NYT comments are handled by a human moderator. This means that we have to make an editorial decision about which comment threads we will open for comments each day. Also, we adhere to a sort-of "slow moderation" theory, which posits that the best way to respect the commenting efforts of our readership is to ensure that their comments exist in an urbane, literate environment. (Definitely not an approach that is good for everyone, but it works fabulously for us, for reasons you can probably divine.) Our goal is to have every NYT comment thread offer tangible added value to each article for our readership.

The costs to this approach are obvious -- it takes a long time, and many stories do not get comments. But NYT readers expect the highest-quality everything from us, so that's what we deliver.

To answer the root of your question, these are our general criteria for opening a story for comment, generally in order of importance:

- News value of the story

- Projected reader interest in the story

- Have we recently had comments on this issue?

- Whether we can moderate the projected # of comments in a timely fashion.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-NYT-determine-which-artic...

https://archive.ph/D6Oc8

Why No Comments? It’s a Matter of Resources

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/reader-center/comments-mo...

https://archive.ph/Deota

The Times Sharply Increases Articles Open for Comments, Using Google’s Technology

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/insider/have-a-comment-le...

https://archive.ph/dZkUD
Open source project for creating voice lines for games using neural speech synt
I got the most lasting value out of the free UCLA Marc guided meditation sessions[0] which now have an app. When I first used them years ago it was only a list of recordings on a web page. In that time I've tried a few of the other apps that have popped up, and was grandfathered into the Waking Up lifetime membership, but I always think that MARC gave me more lasting benefit than, for instance, the guided meditations in Waking Up. However, this could be due to MARC being my first real introduction into meditation practice that I stuck with, and the others would never have that chance.

[0] https://www.uclahealth.org/marc/mindful-meditations
Depends on your phone. But it’s also WAY more likely that your phone gets stolen than your desktop does.
You could start with positions that are one move away from from mate, then 2 moves, until a practical limit of maybe 4-5. I think with the objective being to avoid checkmate, it might be possible to train combination moves that require the prior repositioning of a supportive piece.
Not that difficult if still laborious when following the construction of IETF HTML and W3C HTML 4.x as an SGML vocabulary ab initio which already covers the vast majority of what people coming from XML have problems understanding, such as tag inference eg automatically ending span-level markup on block-level content. Plus some irregularities introduced with URLs, and with CSS and JavaScript to prevent those from being displayed as content in old browsers. Then add some more oddities introduced with WHATWG HTML 5.1+ arguably by accident and due to ignorance and lack of a formal grammar.
The value of old-growth forests (at least in the secular world) is ecological, not spiritual.
Deno Experience
On my first day at my current company several years ago I was told to refactor something that was very poorly designed and written by the tech lead who had written it. The code was impossible to work with and it took months to add the features they wanted, both because the PR process demanded small deployable PRs and because I had to avoid breaking the thing while working on it. Because I was new and because the tech lead I was working under had written the terrible code I was working on, I didn’t immediately say ‘This code is awful and the entire thing needs to be rewritten, both backend and front end.’ Instead I attempted to introduce right patterns to the data shape, etc. Suffice it to say the code was even worse and less maintainable at the end, only now I was taking the blame for it being that way because now my name was all over the git history.
It was eventually rewritten anyway by another team. Suffice it to say, DO NOT touch code if it is designed in such a way as to be impossible to change. Throw it back up the chain and say , This needs to be rewritten, now. The consequences will be worse for you if you try to work around other people’s bad architecture as you will eventually be blamed for both the original mess and whatever you did to work around it given whatever condtraints on process you have.
Years later. I am fixing another massive architecture mistake by the same engineer, who has since been promoted to higher levels. Over a year in, another data design mistake at a fundamental level that makes the system impossible to change without a huge refactor.
Sigh.

Throw people under the bus if necessary. Don’t accept ownership of code that sucks.
I think this look interesting from an ergonomic perspective, but I feel "peek programming" has almost nothing to do with your keyboad.
The key word in the above three posts might be “she” - my two female cats seem much more intelligent and playful than the male ones. (Perhaps because as adults they have to mother and train kittens, unlike more the solitary males?)
As the average wage divided by the average living costs continues to go down, while the price of commodities stays the same or goes up, we will start seeing more and more ridiculous thefts like this all across the world.

In a few decades I don't doubt that Limestone, aggregate material etc. theft will be equivalent to today's copper and iron thefts.

I hope that the person paying the price for these crimes isn't the average person, or a very local government.
Exactly! I think headspace ran out of Andy content and so did my interest after that!
Turn-based strategies.
By holding a stance that only Russia bombing innocents

Who is holding that stance? Must every conversation start with a comprehensive list of all unjust things currently occurring anywhere in the world?
Putin’s been threatening to nuke or invade its neighbors about once a week for the past two decades already. Nothing but hot air, just a brand new audience who aren’t used to hearing it all the time.
From your first link: "While SARS-CoV-1 probably persists as a potential zoonotic threat in its original animal reservoir, human-to-human transmission of this virus may be considered eradicated because no human case has been documented since four minor, brief, subsequent outbreaks in 2004."

This is the same effect in play for SARS-CoV-2. It also persists in animals. It's a matter of time and chance before it reemerges.
Dealing with denial of service attacks in a way that doesn't involve needing to own more bandwidth then the attacker can saturate would be something to look into.
To add to this, there was a pretty large consensus among X developers probably 10-15 years ago that X was not a viable future direction and it needed to be abandoned. The alternative to Wayland (or Mir, or whatever) is not going back to X, the alternative is do nothing and bitrot sets in and you just don't have a functioning desktop anymore after a while.

I wouldn't even say the network effect matters that much, a huge part of the work has been disentangling the drivers from X. It's not very visible work to userspace developers but it's probably even more important than any work on the window system. The DRM/KMS/GEM subsystem is now widely adopted for kernel drivers, that work took a long time but doing it correctly means userspace is now freed up to implement any windowing system they want without having to deal with the driver mess caused by X.
Both of those topics are fraught with gaslighting ("nobody is teaching X") and misrepresentation ("don't say gay") along with outright fabrication ("it's a right").
Graham has forgotten his own essays if he thinks that this is a rebirth.

"What you can't say" [http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html] is one of the first of his essays I ever read. It eventually directed me to this site.

At the time, I thought it was brilliant. 18 years on, I think it's a good piece of writing but he's only got half the story. Sadly, today's essay suggest to me he hasn't found the other half in the intervening nearly two decades.

Taboo is a powerful tool. Some taboos, to be sure, outlive their usefulness. But some compress lifetimes of experience into easily remembered lessons for people who have not yet had that experience so that we can ever progress... If every generation has to keep relearning the same lessons over and over, there's no time for more.

The counterweight to the philosophy Graham is espousing here is this one (https://www.ted.com/talks/ernesto_sirolli_want_to_help_someo...). A taboo is a social analogy to a fence. Someone built it at some point for a reason. That reason might be gone, in which case the fence is unnecessary. But if you're going to tear down a fence, understand why it's there.

18 years on, I don't think Paul is wrong, but the repeated mistake I see people in my field make is assuming that they're the smartest person in the room when they encounter a heresy or taboo and falling right into the consequence that taboo was intended to protect against.
Those companies were not created to solve those problems, but to profit by them. Do you think that, say, Cloudflare would like a better web protocol which would be impossible to DDoS?
Jailed Canadian pastor alleges mistreatment in prison
Isn't Amtrak a government-run operation? Why is it "beefing?" Why is everything so stupidly infantilized these days?
I've used headspace almost everyday for meditation for years - I used to do there programmes but now just do the daily meditation. And every night, I put on the sleep stories. I also put on pooch palace sleep story for my son each night.

Absolutely love it - well worth the money for me.
When you say or do socially unacceptable things, there can be consequences. Is that “heresy”? I always associated that word with religion, myself, but it’s interesting that religion is so out of favor right now that you can use it as a comparison to argue that any action not explicitly illegal should be free of negative consequence.
This thing where people want to say horrible things without consequence is just so weird. I have the right to judge your statements just as much as you have a right to say them. I have the right to leave jobs when it turns out the people working there hate people like me, and companies have the right to hire people who aren't going to alienate future potential employees.

When people bring up posts like this they never say what the "heresies" are. People aren't getting "cancelled" for their takes on taxes. People aren't getting fired for picking nomad over kubernetes. People are getting called out for denying the existence of people who aren't like them. When someone gets fired for, as an example, purposefully misgendering their colleagues- that isn't getting fired for having a bad opinion, that's being fired for making a hostile work environment.

What's always interesting to me is that these "free speech absolutists" are explicitly calling out the left here, when the right is the one passing "don't say gay" legislation and refusing to allow trans children the healthcare needed to save their lives. The right is also kicking everyone out of their party who doesn't bow before Trump. To say that the left is creating heresies while ignoring that the right is literally creating new dogma is just delusional to me.
I think solving the "last mile" problem in the US is our greatest problem, especially in rural areas. Too many state and local governments have been paid off by lobbyists to pass laws to block any competition from offering cheaper and better options.

Too many people are stuck with slow, expensive, and unreliable cable and/or DSL ISPs. Some have no choice whatsoever. Some others get to choose only from two equally awful options. We need legally available competition EVERYWHERE.
Anything that involves emotional intelligence such as empathy
I just use Brave, that blocks most tracking, and click whatever,
for the majority o sites those banners in the "real" world, mostly likely dont't change anything behind the curtains anyways.

Most sites probably just put it as a cosmetic to adhere to policy laws.

I can trust much more my browser to block the tracking or data collection, than a"don't agree" button on any site".
I am! Thank you!

This is a very, very interesting video.

There are other interpretations (that it is for example mum/dad's favourite toy too for example). But it is worthy of discussion.
w3m displays images using w3mimgviewer by default, which is kind of a hack but works pretty well with xterm. It also supports both the kitty and sixel protocols;[a] I wouldn't call either of those a hack.

In fact I find it very strange how they're introducing the only terminal web browser with inline image support as one incapable of displaying inline images, then writing an entire paragraph about why you don't need inline images in the first place.

[a]: Only in the debian fork, mind you. The website seems to link to an unmantained version for some incomprehensible reason.
Ah, I think I get the point, but is it really like this? The attacker would have to do everything through the endpoint, isnt this cumbersome for the attacker?
I thought the rule was to inject a personal connection to everything.

As a frequent reader of HN, this has been my experience.
Leaning towards that or Mantis
When I lived in Asia I "adopted" a lost kitten near my house. As I now had cat food in the house, the local streetcats know how to find me!

I had these two little kitten siblings; no idea where their mother was but they hung around the house, because food. If the food was out they would meow and whine for food, so I would get up to bring them food and they would hiss at me for getting too close to the food bowl before I even had a chance to put any food in.

I never thought that was especially intelligent; "biting the hand that feeds you" and all that.

After dealing with many cats for two years I don't rate cats as very high on the intelligence department. They're basically autistic dogs. They are cuter though. And they don't eat poop off the street.
YouTube blocked in the US based on copyright grounds.
> and misrepresentation ("don't say gay")

Exactly like you're doing here when you rode on in to "both sides!" this argument.
Whole thing boils down to "I've always been in the cultural in-group, but man it sucks here in the out-group," as he notices for the first time what life has been like for most people, for most of history. Hilarious.
You need to bone up on your history of China bud: Tibet, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia were all direct interventions by China.

Have you heard of the Sprately islands?
I think a cat's brain would be a great model for intelligent robots. Pattern recognition is what they do well but their brains are better at detecting moment more than anything for humans it's colours.

My cat knows when it's 9pm since that is treat time. She can be sound asleep but at 8:59pm I hear thump thump as she hops down from her sleeping spot. It's not that she is detecting me doing something. I watch streaming video at random times stopping and starting it. There is no obvious cue that I can think of that is allowing her to know the time. Not even sunlight is a cue since the light is wildly different here due to being on the 49th parallel and the seasons. She even adjusts for daylight savings and standard time but it takes about a week.
If Google spent less time worrying about their guidelines and more time hiring people that don’t wish to turn the company into their political playground they could certainly be a lot further along than where they are
it won't because the counter culture will always lose against the technological system it tries to resist in the long run. resistance is allowed and encouraged because it helps to strengthen the system 8against dissent). any dissent is only a blip in the radar in the grand scheme of things.

La Technique (Jacques Ellul) https://ellul.org/themes/ellul-and-technique/
I'm using GBoard.

Suggesting "tired" there is clearly probably nonsense ("I tired of something" is not a very common expression, even if grammatical), if it had a choice between "tired" and "typed" in that context, having just typed "keyboard", only one is likely to be intended.
It's like the fondness of bullies in high school until you realize that other people are indeed people and not cardboard popups.
Personally, I'm more peeved by the "am I the only one" framing.
> The risk that someone who is vaccinated and boostered is at any point in time spreading infectious SARS-CoV-2 is lower, than if they are not.

You miss two things: the first is that vaccine by definition immunize, witch means if you are vaccinated you are immune. If that's not the case those vaccines are failed products (and in general we do not have ANY vaccine for viruses exactly because they all failed). So SARS-CoV-2 prove to be failed vaccine and are declared as failure even before experimenting on them. They are just another pandemic scandal, one per declaration of pandemic, bye the WHO, just read the history: H2N2 (1957), H3N2 (1968), SARS-CoV (2003), H5N1 (2004), H1N1 (2009), MERS-CoV (2012) and SARS-CoV2 now, always the same scheme, always the same scandal, enough years in the middle to make people forget the recent past.

Measles vaccine are another proved scandal because they fail to immunize for life, for an illness not dangerous when child but dangerous when adult, exactly when vaccine inducted weak immunity drop.

But vaccines are one of the biggest source of income for Big Pharma so they push them, those who are effective AND those who aren't helping narrative against them by people who believes in chemtrails, flat earth etc to pass those who criticize with scientific reasons as the aforementioned ones.

Accepting that it's not being part of actual civilization but being accomplices in crime against humanity. Learn science and so being able to distinguish science and propaganda is being part of our civilization witch formally is based on science.

Beside that, back in topic, yes some EU countries have some childhood mandatory vaccines, but not new ones, those who are tested in decades, some of proven ineffectiveness, some very useful, some just dangerous, some useful but not mandatory and in Germany few days ago the Parliament reject mandatory covid vaccinations definitively...
There was a widespread video of a cat trying to save it's owner from "drowning" in the bathtub

https://youtu.be/Y1GMlXuvdic
Same here. I fire up Otter during longer car rides and it’s great for just dumping out thoughts and clearing my mind.
> While you can get some benefits from simply practicing meditation, it can feel a bit aimless

Isn’t that… the point of meditation?
Housing first has failed SF. The homeless would just trash the place. Don’t get sucked down into this mire Elon.
How do you then fight the dreaming about that hobby becoming your full time work? This happens to me every time and I end up getting competitive about it and losing the blissful enjoyment it once provided
You dropped your /s. You can use this one.
Oh cool, I'd almost forgotten about those guided meditations! I used to listen to them a fair bit, not sure what happened to that habit. But good to know that they have an app now, thanks for the info!
I've always held a strong opinion about meditation apps, especially something like Headspace, which was founded by an ex-Buddhist. And, the fact that these apps also charge _money_ is just dumb. The strawman argument is that, "Yeah, but some people need guidance.". Which doesn't make any sense. You have to learn to guide yourself.

For a lot of people, these apps are an excuse to go and poster themselves as "spiritually aligned", "woke" and all kinds of other nonsense. And yet they fail to sit down with themselves, completely unplugged, and find that moment of peace that will come once the mind slows down.

Those scientific benefits can be achieved without apps. They just throw that stuff in your face to make you pay them money for a service that doesn't need paying for. Seriously.
I did Headspace daily for awhile and want to get back to it. Even though I don't do it daily or even regularly anymore, it made me infinitely more aware of how I can deal with stress and other negative emotions by slowing down, focusing on my breath for a couple minutes, and taking a break from the dramatic and spiraling emotions that can feel so consuming. I now find myself subconsciously calming myself by regulating my breath when I'm in an argument or feeling great distress or grief.

It's been a nice positive in my life :)
Here's one: I don't believe that gender identity is a valid concept. Does that make for a hostile work environment or "deny the existence" of anyone? I submit to you that the answer is no, except for die-hard adherents of the new ideology. Well, that simply isn't my religion, and I resent attempts to force it on me.
Is there any solution to pc typing? I mean on mobile there is a suggestion what word I probably want to write but on pc there is nothing like that on os level. However Google (suite) and Microsoft (365) have something like that in the products.
Learning how to bail the "right" way is fundamental for sure, and the type of skating and obstacle that you're skating are important variables in how you fall. I'm not very good at falling yet, so I wear full pads and a helmet.

Good luck if you decide to give it another go! There's tons of great beginner content on YouTube. Here is one of my favorite channels: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCriJKZI1CjMOlDb8b32JpJg
I’ve been practicing without a piano teacher for several years now and was embarrassed to find out from another musician that my control over timing/rhythm is pretty bad. So my roommates and I made Rubbrband, which helps users track and improve changes in timing/volume! Right now we have a metronome that tells you when you’re rushing/dragging, and a Flow mode that tracks your rubato without metronome.

Your feedback would mean alot to me. Building real-time tools for practicing is super important to me as a self-learner since it’s hard to both be expressive and technically sound, so I’d love to know if this is useful and what direction to take this.