skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before working from home I had a routine that would be pretty regular till end of workday, but evenings were often as not totally spontaneous affairs, especially in summer. Without a smartphone a lot of that wouldn't have happened since we wouldn't realistically have planned those things in advance, and I'd have been lost in parts of the city I don't know well quite a few times, late at night and all. With my smartphone, I can just rent a bike (can't do that here without an app) and have the phone navigate me home. I'm old enough to remember quite well how difficult and frustrating these situations could get before smartphones.

I used to carry a real camera around (and I got tons of super spontaneous shots out of it that I'm very fond of), now the iPhone will do that too. It's become a bit like the small pocket knife I always carry, a minimal one with just blade, bottle/can opener, screwdriver, I feel naked without it because it's been so very handy hundreds of times. Same with my smartphone, I use it so much for things that would be a hassle otherwise that not having it on me is a real impediment.
Yes. I’d argue zooming was less likely, the AK47 that looked like a bottle of Chianti and you sprayed everywhere being a good example. It was really hard to try and use the aiming mode but key to levels (I forget exact name) where it’s a maze that people can end up on different stories. The one with all the hidden doors is what I’m referring to.
This is circular. If there was no reason to ban him then keeping the data for fraud prevention purposes obviously doesn’t hold any water.
If it's just about internal access, how is it any different from implementing access controls? Put another way, at Twitter's scale, any employee access to production data is intentional.
Perfect dark was such a great game. Heaps of innovative concepts.

Not sure screen cheating would work very well against the sniper that can shoot through walls though.
A common criticism of that high level view of US manufacturing is that it is a bit of a lie, and a lot of it is about hedonic adjustments for new Intel chips being faster than old ones. Without that, the graph of manufacturing output in dollars looks like a steady downward slope from the year 2000 on.
https://keypirinha.com/
Have you lived in a large city with a very apparent homelessness crisis, such as san francisco?

The homeless in places like SF are routinely experiencing serious emergencies, invariably need money and shelter, and are passed by tens of thousands of people each day who have the abilities to help them.

Of those tens of thousands of people who pass a homeless person who's clearly in need of help, perhaps 100 will give them some money, perhaps 5 will pause to ask if they can help, and perhaps 1 will actually take a not-insignificant amount of time to try and assist them.

These numbers are certainly not perfectly accurate, but from the people-watching I've done in the bay area, I can easily and confidently say that the average response to a stranger who has the class-signifiers of being homeless, even if that person appears to be having a seizure or other crisis, is to ignore them entirely.

I think my observations align closely with the parent comment's observation, and I absolutely believe it is representative of the people who go to meditation courses in the bay area.
They're probably talking about the fact that it also works on objects (JS equivalent of dicts)
Dalai Lama preches the need for performative poverty or something?
Yes, which is why I find the assertion not just incorrect but also kind of silly.
> Every policy in the last fifty years of the US government would be perfectly rational if its purpose was to destroy the nuclear and extended family.

How do you figure?
Is there any way to escape AMD's grip on your PC via the PSP
I've been wondering what the point is in using linux at all when underneath my OS lies a separate, ARM based chip with unrestricted memory access. This of course is the AMD Platform Security Processor. I've been wondering how to remove it. Would using coreboot/libreboot disable it? From what I can see it wouldn't but maybe I'm incorrect. If this is not the way to go, what alternatives are there. Is it impossible to start an amd cpu without the Platform Security Processor? Surely there must be someway to hack it, at the end of the day its just a black box with a lot of useful gates no?
I've seen a similar effect in a subset of people that get super into psychedelics. In some cases, they seem to lead to a hyper inflated ego.

> Yet a growing body of research suggests that such stories may be surprisingly common, with one study from 2019 showing that at least 25% of regular meditators have experienced adverse events, from panic attacks and depression to an unsettling sense of “dissociation”.

The 25% number is pretty striking, if true. You see people recommending meditation without reservation, and discounting adverse effects as "exceptionally rare". Over the years I've begun to see more and more stories of people having deeply destabilizing experiences with meditation, and it concerns me how quickly people dismiss that possibility. There's even an attitude of "oh, that's a normal part of the process, just keep working through it and you'll come out the other side". But there's usually no informed consent going into a practice that this might happen.

(And going back to psychedelics -- I have a similar complaint about people's attitudes around "bad trips". Psychonauts like to say "there's no such thing as a bad trip, only difficult ones", but I think that dangerously discounts how destabilizing trips can be sometimes.)
I use 60,000 to 90,000 IU's per day and have been doing so for years. The most I have taken in a 24 hour period is 140,000 IU's. There is no way I could have started off at those levels however. It would have induced major hypercalcemia had I done that prior to mobilizing all the stored/misplaced calcium in my gut and vasculature. I am not suggesting anyone else do this. One must have a specific need when doing this.

I only mention this to say that one can go well above the RDA/RDI that are highly contested to be far too low for modern diets, environmental inputs and lifestyles.
>>> single biggest predictor of someone's lifetime income is their parents income.

I would have guessed it would be incarceration. Do you have some numbers to support your belief? Wealthy parents likely were not incarcerated, so there may be overlap.
and seneca the stoic had 300 million sestertii total net worth, compared to the ordinary yearly wage of 200 sestertii, give or take!

lots of rich religious folks out there in history. when they expropriated the buddhists in the huichang expropriation during the tang, they took tens of millions of acres of arable land and liberated 150,000 temple slaves
Sure. Comments can only go to iirc -4 before they get killed and stop taking downvotes, and flagkills don't affect karma directly at all. So it makes sense that, from your relatively few comments that remain visible to the vast majority who don't turn on showdead, you'd see a signal that's skewed artificially high. I expect that'll remain the case right up till the ban.
Correct, but with everything in plaintext one just needs to read a file stored somewhere in a database. With encryption, one needs to perform an active attack.
How is this absurd?

Prohibitions on performance-enhancing drugs still apply, no matter why the athlete is taking them.

Anyone supplementing with testosterone would be banned from competing.

Even if it's supposedly for a 'gender-affirming' purpose, it's still cheating.
We are in charge of protecting our country. We choose who does it, and should hold those who don't do it appropriately accountable.
Pre-phones, you had functional payphones, etc, around to summon help with. People were more likely to be understanding and to make a call for you if you knocked on their door.

I had to hike to a payphone a couple of times when I was stranded. That wouldn't work anymore.

To reach the level of security that I had as a teenager, I need a mobile phone.
you could should their hats without damaging the guards! (which was great on facility (aka second mission) -- you could shot the hat out of a guard that was using the bathroom).
Have you checked BiteCode_dev's response? And still think meditation is a "scientifically quantifiable practice"?

Swami Vivekananda has a dedicated book on "Raja Yoga" in detail.

I recommend - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abdula.pra... app. I am a subscriber for years and this one has the authentic breathing patterns.
No.

If the efforts those parents are putting in makes those kids fundamentally better at whatever is important for success, than those kids will (statistically) do better than their peers.

If everyone had an opportunity to do that same education/training/effort, but chose not to do so, that isn’t an issue with opportunity.
the second mode on all weapons made perfect dark absurdly unique. the laptop gun was super fun and innovative.
Trying to just force outcomes without actually having the people learn how to be better destroys the entire system. Every system, really.
I want to just dive into a little bit of a tangent.

It's interesting to me that you're liberated by having access to everything all the time. Personally I find it pretty constraining. It makes me feel like there's nothing to discover, no mystery, no journey. If I wanted to find the best restaurant, I wouldn't have to go out and explore the local options or discuss it with friends. The more efficient and correct way would be to just search for it in the database. There's no excuse for going someplace without knowing anything about it, since all the information is so easily accessible.

While yes, google maps has allowed me to always know where I am, it does so at the cost of defining a "correct" path to any destination. Any deviation from the "correct" way is no longer happenstance, but a deliberate inefficiency that demands explanation.
Perhaps it didn’t look like it was from the hip - but for all intents and purposes it was. Holding down the Z button and aiming with the joystick was “down the sights”. I don’t recall if accuracy differs much in either scenario but the Z button version definitely did differ in accuracy when you were panic-shooting.
or just store it in a glass of oil. you loose the libricating strip, but the oil more than makes up for that.
I just mean shooting the gun without holding R to make the reticle appear.

IIRC Goldeneye even had horizontal-axis auto-aim which helped.
you can also take the opposite meaning from this signal. I haven't posted in 75 days, but a thread about ebay screwing people over was enough to get me to login.
A while ago, Biden announced that he hasn't selected a Supreme Court nominee yet, but that it was going to be a black woman.

I felt that was more vile racism than anything I have ever heard come out of Trump's mouth. I was appalled by the blatant racism that would have to thoroughly permeate your world view to allow you to proudly say something like that.

But, at the same time, Biden doesn't think he's racist. I believe that he truly despises racism. He's just got himself tied up into conceptual knots and self-contradictory values and beliefs, and rationalizations that he doesn't want to examine too closely. I don't think that's uncommon among academics and intelligent people in general.
No, it’s used as a lure by power hungry authoritarians because the only way such a system can actually exist, is if it is forced.

So whoever promises the wonderland has to get ultimate power, of course, to guide everyone to utopia.

It’s literally what keeps happening with communist countries.
Map of a Downturn
Would a bus factor of 0 not also be extremely bad, meaning that the project is in danger even if no one is actually killed by a bus and all developers are fine? :D
It’s easy to set sail for equanimity and run aground on indifference.
What’s the difference between alfred and spotlight? I always yse spotlight for launcher and app switching and it’s great
You were able to call them? I used online support and was told I had to call, but they can't give me the number, just refresh thier account help page until a.number comes up. That was 3 months ago, I start refreshing a few times a day, now I don't bother.

I have some obscure electronics I'd let fo cheap, but I guess I'll have to scrap them. I'm sure the right person would want my stuff asked spares but there is no way for us to connect.
Show HN: I built a social network for closed conversations
The idea that more power in the hands of local governments seems attractive. Even knowing better, it still seems attractive to me...

You imagine people knowing the lawmakers better. You think that the lawmakers will be more connected to the community. That they'll be more likely to protect the freedoms that they also want to enjoy. At first blush, this all seems reasonable.

However, if you look at history, the actual practice is the opposite of that. When power is mostly exercised locally (at the town level), over time, laws are passed to regulate the minutia of daily life. When shops can be open. Laws about who can work in which trade. Laws about who can use "public" infrastructure and when. Laws about what you can do with your pets. Laws down to what colors and fabrics your cloths are made of. And, of course, laws to protect their hold on power.

It turns out that people in power at local levels are nosy parkers who will try to force everyone they can to live the way they think is best. And they become generationally powerful. Sad but it's the historical reality.

Personally, my speculation is that it's because most people try to exercise all the power they're given. And since those local lawmakers don't have to think about "big" issues in a broader sense, they just make laws about "small" issues and deal with big issues only when they are pushed in front of them.
If We Succeed
I never really got mindfulness. I mean, yes: Being somewhere and juat being there in the moment and recognizing it in all its detail and on purpose can be good. Just like it can be good to look out of the window when all you do all day is staring out of the window.

But I think a state of no thought, where things just flow in your absence is just as (if not more) important. Be it when you play music and stop thinking and just do. Or when the same happens in sports, coding, painting, walking whatever.

The thing about mindful people is (at least judging from the small sample size I know) that they like to be mindful about everything. And they don't look well or relaxed. Just like this behavior is yet another form of escapism.

Mindfulness, sure. But it is by far not the only state of mind that you should bw in.
The ruling specifically allows for a federal level ban.
Most projects I'm involved with require measures that go a bit further still. Got to be honest though, it can be frustrating at times.

Just sprinkling bits of awareness around by bringing some of these considerations up whenever I can. It's an uphill battle, although, the general carelessness around extension and dependency use I'm seeing - and that even after all the shit that's been going on in that space - makes it one worth to fight.

Edit: Regarding the chain of trust you mention, that one has sort of come and gone, and there is not a whole lot of trust involved in the processes I'm saddled up with.
yep same here ebay has lost me as a customer forever, it feels insulting to be banned when you know you are a honest customer … must be a bad management choice of being led by the wrong KPIs
I've tried Bitwarden, pass, and KeepassXC in the past. 1password is by far the most polished. If you consider how big the problem space is (interoperating with every possible broken website out there), support for TouchID/Apple Watch unlock, etc I think I'll take it over having access to the source I will never read.
I wouldn't leave the house without my wallet and my phone is vastly more useful and important than my wallet in most cases. I would rightly feel uncomfortable without either and be glad that I did! That way I'd notice and go back and get them (or decide consciously I don't need them at the moment).

As for feeling "uncomfortable" without something on your body that is almost always on your body, the same is true of an almost endless list of items. Jewelry, clothes, lotion, facial hair, piercings, makeup, keys, watch, wallet. I recall the feeling I'd get when a car would vibrate just the right way and make me think my pager was going off, years past when I had last owned a pager.
I agree. It's FUD on a hot-button topic as an attention-getting tactic.

(As I wrote the above phrase, I realized that I could have abbreviated it to "tech journalism." Sigh/ugh.)
Thanks! It's good to hear that they are prioritizing delivery to people whose livelihood depends on them. I tried that locator, but there were only a couple of international choices that were still pretty expensive. I see some additional ones just came in stock.
Twitter has a fraction of the user base of something like Whatsapp. Do we really care how DMs work for a platform like Twitter?

At best, for secure messaging I would expect someone to use twitter DMs to arrange a switch-over to a platform like Whatsapp or Signal
Properly managed, a team with members in multiple time zones can be enormously productive if the work is such that it can be handled in shifts. Software can actually be done this way. You have to be culturally willing to do it.
Ask HN: Do you like recruiter spam?
Have you ever received a cold email from a company and ended up interviewing? What made it stand out?
Which prevents any wannabe Stalin or Mao from doing much, since everyone is busy feuding instead of pulling together to accomplish a disaster more effectively.

Everything is always done in the name of ‘the people’ if it helps sell the lie. Always has been that way.
Ask HN: Looking for Junior Developer Vacancy for a University Level Maths Tutor
My friend is looking to pivot careers from being a maths tutor for university students. He's been a tutor for a number of years and has a very high level of maths but he's looking for something a bit more stable.

He likes the idea of coding and has started down the route of being a web developer. I'm sure he'll be a rockstar developer with some experience under his belt but getting the right first job is the toughest.

Anybody out there hiring junior web developers, ideally in London UK? Or recommendations where to look?
I've seen this too; guy had a bipolar episode. Teacher told him he'd ruined everything, and would have to start again.

More generally, Buddhist medicine would be a good thing, as Ghandi might have put it. The heart of Buddhist medicine is that life is short, suffering is unavoidable, and that the best treatment is to teach and practice Buddhism.
"good vibes only"

"higher vibrations only"
> Which would include things like names, email addresses, IP addresses, etc of people who are banned (to prevent them from returning).

I'm not sure about that. The company might reason it needs this data to operate, but you should be able to contest that with a data protection authority.

The data that you can not request to delete is for example money transaction data, which the company has to retain for 10 years or so due to other laws.
Not exactly what you describe, but I saw this in theaters and thought it did a great job of showing the horrors that these humanless systems can create.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnbDNv3uAl0
I’m the past I could provide whatever address I want. The bank wouldn’t care or check it, because why?

The new thing is that you have to prove you actually live at the address.
Russia wont dare start a war, was said up to last year. We saw the EU/US relationship detoriate under Bush and then again under Trump. Extremism is on the rise on both sides of the relationship, with insane leadership popping up everywhere in at least the west. This is the kind of political shift that seems impossible until one day it becomes inevitable.

Besides, having big dependencies makes a country vulnerable to pressure and weak in negotiation. In the long term, not having a plausible alternative is just being dumb on this scale.

Also there is China appearing as a new superpower, there is the climate change that will cause political instability. Things are going to get rough for the Pax Americana in the next decades.
It took me a while to realize that if people with experience do not agree with something but cannot explain why, you shouldn't ignore them, particularly if the area is complex. They may just be wrong but also they may have an insight that you yourself might have found hard to articulate.
Yes, {**{'hello':1}, **{'world':2}} === {...{hello:1}, ...{world:2}}

The name "kwargs" is unimportant, I'm referring to the ** operator itself.

Edit: worth mentioning this applies in the consuming named arguments sense as well: ({arg1, arg2, ...rest}) => {}
Trying this:

Without a terminal, you were never more than a question or a shout away from almost anything you wanted to know

It suggests results that don't include terminal (but of course that is a critical word for this quote), selecting must include terminal, gives the quote as the top results.
I expect your correct, wealthy parents tend not to be incarcerated. Also more likely to be able to supply their children with high quality care if they are.

As for numbers, here's some: https://www.businessinsider.com/parents-determine-child-succ...
The new best launcher app for mac is raycast.app by miles though.

Alfred was king but no more
> VSCode has an editor experience that is hard to beat

VS Code is a text-editor focused on coding. Obsidian is a markdown-editor focused on knowledge- and self-management. They are each hard to beat in their own specialty. For example, the WYSIWYG-Editor of obsidian is not something that VS Codes raw text-view can beat, especially if you combine it with add-ons for code-blocks.
Depends --

As a remote team, once we have someone, we don't want to lose them: we are mutually invested. Likewise, overlapping timezones help, esp for our more R&D areas. So if you are good, you are good. At the same time, we are trying to grow our team in ways that that reflect our customers: over half North America (gov, finance, enterprise, tech) but now growing intl too.

And... #hiring #visual #graph #ai: js, webgl, sales/solutions engineers esp for graph neural nets / pydata / BI :)
But that also means you have the administrative headache of dealing with tax laws and other personnel regulations in other places — is your company large enough that it’s not a problem, or do you outsource the payroll/accounting/HR aspects?
> There's a variety of reasons why OP was banned, email, risk management, using vpn, shared ISP where people have been doing frauds from, other reasons.

And ebay shared none of them. I don't understand the need to jump in to make excuses for them when you have no more information than the rest of us do. Why make up reasons out of whole cloth?