skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is the pattern recognition section is the real boost here.

If you are good at pattern recognition, then you may subconsciously realize that people who do X get result Y.

If you want result Y for yourself, then you may attempt to do X at a greater likelihood than your specific cultural or ethnic background would otherwise suggest.

Living longer, being richer, happier, healthier, etc. are all things that typically come to fruition for a person based on their activities and the choices they make.
I've been noticing an increasing trend of people saying things like this, and I don't get it. Meditation has many forms and traditions, within and without Buddhism. Which ones are "safe" and which ones aren't? Is using Headspace twice a week enough to be dangerous, or is there some lower bound where meditation practice without Buddhist beliefs switches from harmless to dangerous? And are Hindu or Christian meditation practices dangerous, or just the secular stuff? What precisely is the nature of this danger?

> I personally know two people who went into severe psychosis and depression by trying to practise meditation in a secular context.

Sorry, but I simply can't believe this. I mean I believe you have two friends with mental health issues, but I don't believe that psychosis can be triggered in a normal person by practicing "secular meditation". That's an extreme claim that requires a lot of evidence.
When it's not being spammed into a standstill, Solana is a potential candidate that could facilitate micropayments in a trustless fashion. I'm not completely sure but the new Solana Pay might be a step in that direction
Absolutely meditation is just one part of 8 part Hindu Yoga system objective of which is to be one with the ultimate reality and live a good life no matter what. Person grown with strong Abrahmic values with find it confusing any strange.

After reading Bhagwad Geeta I realised that yoga/meditation is all about discharging your duties with no expectations. I won't say I am transformed but my life do change for good by a huge margin after realising this.
First Public UFO Hearing in over 50 Years to Be Held by Congress Next Week
Yeah, based on the issues that might be a fair assumption:

https://github.com/curusarn/resh/issues

more expected issues from relying on a big JSON file:

https://github.com/curusarn/resh/issues/171
>Left unanswered is: What is China?

State capitalism.
Thank you for mentioning Shinzen Young, I didn't know about him and just checked his website. It looks like there's some crossover with Sam Harris' "Waking Up" [1], do you happen to know how they compare?

[1] https://www.wakingup.com/
If someone pay people to collect data you could outright sell the data to them.
The problem isn’t so much the total number of cars overall (although that’s a problem) but the number of cars _in use_ at any one time. It’s not really solvable to have individual cars once you reach a certain density, you simply don’t have room for everyone. Density has lots of advantages, so it emerges nonetheless, leaving you in a bind.
A Problem Solving Framework to Boost Your Engineering Growth
https://archive.ph/IY3fL
CloudFront vs. Fastly: Pricing Considerations
> Parag says you cannot get a reliable indication of bot/not bot without this internal private data

That's convenient isn't it?

This report made headlines because it aligns with everyone's experience with Twitter: almost everyone on Twitter is either a bot or a corporate managed account.
I was in a similar rut for a while. I had a sense that meditation could help me deal with various mental health issues, but I couldn't do it: I just spent my sessions being bored and annoyed with myself. I tried picking it up many times but never got momentum.

After a few years of this I finally bit the bullet and went on a 10-day meditation retreat. ~12 hours a day of meditating, no books or talking or exercise. The first days were tough, all that boredom and irritation was still there and I had to sit with it for many, many hours. But I felt like I'd made a big commitment in going there, so I sat it out. The solidarity of a couple dozen other students going through the same thing helped a lot too, even if we weren't supposed to acknowledge each other's existence.

On the third or fourth day a switch kind of flipped in my brain and it was no longer hard to sit perfectly still for an hour.

At that point I guess I had learned the basic skill of meditating, and it's stuck with me. As long as I'm somewhere reasonably quiet and distraction-free I can get back into that state within a few minutes.

Also, as a side note, some of the Buddhist philosophy was also helpful. I originally perceived mental illness as similar to physical disease: people are generally healthy, and sometimes there's something wrong with you that needs to be treated and corrected, usually by a doctor of some kind. In Buddhism the script is flipped: existence is suffering by default, and most people require some kind of deliberate work to come to terms with their own existence. I get that it won't resonate with everyone, but in my case it helped a lot to view what I was going through as a manifestation of ordinary human suffering rather than some special, unusually intractable mental health condition.

EDIT: Also, shit gets intense when you keep ratcheting up your concentration and introspection. Getting past the boredom and being able to sit still for an hour is just a first step.
Shenzhen currently tests almost everybody every 48 hours.

"Whenever someone asks to see my health code, I feel embarrassed. On the lower left-hand side of my code, in the “nucleic acid testing” section, a green code with the words “within a week” flashes up – not the blue “24-hour negative” or the purple “48-hour negative” codes needed to enter most public venues in Shenzhen."

My residential compound even installed a new electronic door, linked to a scanner. When someone enters, they must scan their health code, and that will open the door if it detects a test result taken within 48 hours. Otherwise, it lets out a loud screech: “Unqualified, unqualified!”[1]

Yes, it takes a surveillance society. There's phone tracking. There's face recognition. There are checkpoints. But there are not mass deaths.[2]

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3176014/sta...

[2] https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3172642/chinese-tec...
This actually brings me to one of the few (current?) limitations of rust that drive me nuts! In all the other modern languages I work with, my big projects end up with a utility RAII class that wraps a closure to execute when the scope expires. It’s great for cleaning up logical operations as opposed to what is traditionally done by RAII destructors in oop languages.

Eg if I’m creating a temporary file or directory in a function to handle some IO logic, I’ll create a RAII wrapper around a closure that deletes that folder when the scope expires - this might be a one-off thing so instead of creating an actual RAII “TemporaryFolder” object that wraps around a path, creates the folder in its constructor, and deletes the folder and its contents in the destructor (and have to reference the inner path instead of the object itself when needing it, etc), I can just stick a closure to delete the folder in my wrapper and call it a day.

You can’t really do that in rust because you’d have to give ownership of the file/folder/whatever to the closure - meaning you can’t use it yourself afterwards! Technically the compiler just has to guarantee that the object persists to the end of scope (isn’t destroyed or moved out earlier) and then there would be no borrow conflicts (since it’s only run after everything else has finished and can’t be used for anything else in the RAII wrapper) but it can’t really know that, so you’re disallowed from sharing it between your actual code and the cleanup closure.
Apple is very close with the media entities that receive royalties from MPEG, h.264, etc, so I wouldn't hold your breath.
Raising code quality for Faire’s Kotlin codebase
"The book of the golden rules" is what you're looking for.
"everything is a bit oversold right now on negative emotions"

No!!!

The Fed is raising rates. That is reality. That is not an emotion. That is absolute economic fact. Inflation is high and will remain high for at least a year (maybe longer). The period from 2008 to 2022 is going to be remembered as an abnormal period when we experienced abnormally low rates. The low rates fueled speculation, and bid up certain stocks and assets.

The era of low rates is over. It is possible that you might live another 100 years and never again see a 14 year stretch where rates average as low as they did from 2008 to 2022.

Emotions? No. These are not emotions. Rising rates are a material fact that people need to adjust to.
FWIW I quite liked the trading card games on Blockchain because you could sell cards you didn't want, buy those you did, and packs became like 'real life' in that you could get a really cool legendary and make some money (just like Pokemon/YuGiOh, but that you lose in games like Hearthstone where you just convert them into some in game currency). I've commented on this before and people have said "Oh, why does everything require a financial incentive in Web3?" but let's be fair, it exists just the same in most IRL TCGs.
Why not buy a Brother WP-95 Word Processor?
Until there are enough devices with an av1 hardware decoder, any storage and transmission saving is lost to the higher energy usage and worse battery life for the end user.
Just wanted to add that Hermann Hesse is a wonderful writer, and that I thoroughly enjoyed his other works as well (except, for some reason, The Glass Bead Game).
I've been a Linode user since 2011, my only minor complaint is I wish they had kept the 10% annual payment discount. Seems like they jumped over to hourly billing to match the competition (I suppose if you really are spinning up VMs for less than a month, hourly is nice. But if you're running your VM 24/7 for 11 years... you just get to pay slightly more than you were previously.)
The difference is between posting a tweet everytime and going through the friction once. That's what he's talking about. You are comparing different things.
I missed the part where the paradox was explained.

If every woman goes from having 3 children to 2, why did the rate go up?
>A referendum is a far cry from your original suggestion to "officially cede Crimea", though

The referendum already happened. My original suggestion was "respect the result" - what 90% or crimeans also want according to gallup - a western pollster.

What you want is for their votes to be "corrected" to fall in line with strategic imperialist objectives. This is a position Putin would understand and respect.

>There can be no legitimate referendum while a territory is under invasion.

Actually I believe there can under three conditions:

* The population want the referendum.

* The referendum wouldnt have happened without invasion.

* No vote coercion happened as a result of the invasion.

All three conditions held for Crimea, as well as certain other places. These conditions held for Iraq also, for example.

Once again: if you want to anull the results of a referendum because you dont like the result where there is no uncertainty about a free and fair result then you can only pretend to respect democracy.
A beaver-inspired method to guide the movements of a one-legged swimming robot
I don't have a Twitter account exactly for this reason.

No Twitter, you are not getting my phone number.
In regards to children, as in giving birth, "born" is correct.

>Both born and borne are forms of bear. Born is commonly used with the sense of bear meaning "to give birth." Borne is used in reference to carrying something (physically or figuratively) [...] [1]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/borne-vs-born-...
Almost no data here, the only new bit of data to me is that he is defending a system that classifies "FirstnameBunchOfNumbers" as human and not spam. Considering I can buy followers, and twitter removes tons of accounts as spam and he admits spammers are trying to constantly defeat their detection algorithm, some % of those are probably spam I'd guess.

https://www.denverpost.com/2021/10/27/buy-twitter-followers/
The point of micropayments is to make it cheap to charge for content, whenever, wherever. In that context, a $2-4 payment is not a micropayment because it's a monthly subscription fee. That fee has baked in the cost of transaction processing.

Micropayments should be like cash on the Internet. No transaction fees, no filling out payment forms, and instant settlement. This would allow us to leave behind the SaaS pricing models and ad-funded models that have taken over the internet.
This is only technically true, in practice GC languages have workarounds. C# is almost entirely GC but has the IDisposable pattern and using statements to make up for this.
The problem is you can't "defeat" COVID by isolating. It's going to be around pretty much forever (even if you vaccinated all humans, there are animals where it circulates, too. So China is going to have to keep the restrictions up until everyone reaches herd immunity, which will take years if everyone keeps isolating.
and you got it the easiest way possible: by marrying a citizen...
You could use docker-compose and context if you can live with the docker dependency

https://www.docker.com/blog/how-to-deploy-on-remote-docker-h...
66% python, 32% C - for cpython.

94% python, 5% C - for pypy.
I've been told that I'm a bot because I express views that deviate from the accepted consensus.
They only promise that their treasure bills "have a maturity of less than 90 days". That won't help them much if there is a run on the Tether bank.
“Birthed” might be the correct version.
My favorite shell keystroke saver now is tab-completion.
Its wonderful that it works for things besides files.
eg `systemctl iso<tab>` gives 'systemctl isolate`

Its great but it could be even better. For example if there is ambiguity the possible choices are shown but not as a menu.
> Afaict none of this is regulated in any regard

I'm not saying they're applicable here - but off the top of my head, money laundering, taxes, and fraud regulations still apply to crypto (at least in the US). The moneylaundering/taxes are rather explicitly stated, the fraud regulations apply regardless of what the thing is.
This. Not limited to cats either. I've noticed the same in dogs and even some cows.

Same rules apply to humans as well. Interaction early on develops personality and intelligence varies genetically by a wide margin.
This looks interesting, I'll have to try this and see how I like it compared to fzf's fuzzy history search.
>Unless you're one of those americans for whom "communist" reflexively aliases to "bad"

it's usually people who had actually lived under communism who have that reaction
> Fraction of tasks started that never reach a customer

If you optimize this down, you punish any kind of innovative or ambitious task.
You might be interested in using uBlockOrigin and https://letsblock.it/filters/search-results to easily block these domains. In addition to your own domain list, you can use the community-maintained SO / github / npm copycat lists.
Shopify was founded in 2006 and I'm sure (having never worked there) there are things in their codebase that are that old.

What were the options in 2006 for languages with both a fast runtime and reasonable DX? I honestly can't think of any. Ruby at the time was pretty far ahead on DX for mainstream and up and coming languages. It was known to be slow but DX for Java was really not great and mired in "enterprise" features and mindset.

Edit: python was of course around and I don't remember the Django timeline well enough to say if it was viable in 2006 or not. PHP was of course around but again there was a mindset issue at the time.
Require a stake to setup an account, say $10, and if a spammer is too spammy and too many people complain they lose the stake. Or maybe it's just paid out on a long delay. Now spamming costs quite a bit. Add to that a blacklist feature and a shared consensus on spamming addresses and it starts to work a little better.
I'm...a good deal more anti-China than the average person, but from what I've seen of that channel it doesn't seem very credible. Most of their takes seem correct on the broader level (e.g. yes, China in the next few decades is on very shaky ground for a host of complicated reasons, and decision making is slowly getting less sane), but the specifics seem maximally sensational/fearmongering. The only thing I like of him is some of the discussion of Chinese internet counterculture, which is genuinely fascinating stuff (e.g. the levels of irony, euphemism, and meta-references people use to talk about banned topics and get around censorship is unreal).
The nice thing about Chrome is that any and every feature is implemented.

The bad thing about Chrome is that any and every feature is implemented.
Completely true

But also, if you have no backups, incorrect ragged backups of only non-changing files are a _hell_ of a lot better than no backups at all.

And if you get in the habit of doing incremental backups every day, you might be lucky enough to find a non-corrupted version of a file that's a few days stale.
I added it to my list of search engines on Firefox... your favicon is really small, that's on purpose?
Hmm my dog acts like a cat or i suck since i definitely cant tell between "No, I don't understand you." and "I understand you perfectly well, but I plan to ignore you completely until I feel like responding".
I don't understand the first part of your comment, why do you compare different commands. My complaint is that ansible runs external command, always internally collects it output, but doesn't display it.

Thank you for the "-v". I've run ansible with various amounts of -v in the past but I didn't notice that it does display stdout_lines with it!
> Oh, your pickup has a lift? That's cute.

My favorite fact about land trains is that the tires were later reused on Bigfoot monster trucks[0].

[0] http://bigfoot4x4.com/blog/bigfoot-5/
I'm not claiming they don't exist.

I'm claiming they're not universally bad, and that the claim they're universally bad is absurd - if unsure about the interpretation, please do refer to the initial post - you might want to start applying that charitable interpretation thing.
> The story also turns out to be in part about why California, which had a growth streak dating back to the gold rush, saw it broken in 2020, when the population shrank by 182,000 and caused a first-ever loss of a congressional seat.

Everybody seems to have a personal theory about demographic change in California. My conservative parents think it's woke social justice warriors, my activist friends think it's the lack of housing, and apparently this author thinks it's legal bureaucracy run amok. It would be really nice to see some evidence the next time this claim is made...
See the original comment: the point is that there's no actual way to verify the central claim ("$3B in Bitcoin was sold [...]"). We're expected to take everyone's word for it. This is in marked contrast to how two arbitrary users are expected to transact via a blockchain.
He means that the system doesn't doesn't know whether or not there is an obstacle there at all. "I can't see anything" is treated as "go for it!".

The alternative is to require the car to be able to see everything all the time and treat gaps in its view as "might be something there", but doing that in the dark is really only possible with LIDAR at the moment.
> Everything has correctness issues somewhere.

This is fallacy of gray. The blog post isn't complaining that there are non-zero bugs, it's complaining that when you use the language you hit a lot of correctness bugs. More bugs than you'd hit using e.g. python.

Also, to the extent that Julia uses LLVM, a correctness bug in LLVM is also a correctness bug in Julia. So arguing "LLVM has lots of correctness bugs" is not helping the case...

> because the code is all Julia, it's really easy to dig in there and find potential bugs.

The blog post is about bugs hit while running code, not bugs found while reading code. The fact the issue can be understood and pointed at is great, but it's the number of issues being hit that's the problem.
Algorand was the first blockchain I ever used without knowing it - to hold the results of games on the official FIDE chess online tournaments - and I found that pretty cool. No costs etc, just a log on the chain with my matches and scores. This is coming from someone who spent 18 months working on Cardano, too.
I don't think "fast" languages are automatically better, they have downsides for sure:

* Rust - I do not understand the borrow checker at all and I'm a senior engineer at FAANG. I can barely write a simple function in Rust. I've struggled more learning Rust than any language (and I can write C and C++ just fine!)

* Go - I like Go, but there is a ton of boilerplate involved with writing it. Ruby is far more concise and you can get straight to business logic.

* Java - Even more boilerplate

* C/C++ - I think Ruby clearly wins on productivity here
Musk responded to Parag's thread with a poop emoji. Not going to lie if I worked at twitter I would be a little nervous about my career at this point. For several reasons including what appears to be the potential for a very hostile work culture in the near term. Musk is being openly antagonistic towards twitter leadership and denigrating the people that work there. Although it does seem more and more like the deal is not going to close. I don't think Musk wants it anymore and is seizing on anything to get out of it.
Cats destroy the assumption that animals should do what we tell them to, because that's how it works.

Of course they have agency and their own goals. It's fascinating that humans are surprised and sometimes baffled by this.
No they didn't. I talked with friends at Microsoft; what they did is increase the "merit" budget by up to double, and increase stock ranges by about 25%.

Merit is their annual increase in base pay, which is usually 2% - 4%, so doubling that means an increase in base pay of 4% - 8% which is still below the inflation rate.

Also, stock ranges are roughly 1/3rd of competition (see levels.fyi) so an increase of 25% is insultingly low (might as well be nothing at all).

None of the folks I talked to over there are happy about this and they said they'd been happier with no announcement at all instead.
Yes, computation "costs" energy and increases entropy. The demon must compute its decisions before it can carry them out.
This was specifically a group who practise based on Daniel Ingrams book MTCB, which is largely imo based on generating intense insight experiences as quickly as possible. Perhaps you did not have experience with such people
> Inflation is high and will remain high for at least a year (maybe longer).

Is it? Month over month inflation numbers are only slightly elevated, in the annualized 3% range. This isn't particularly high - the high inflation already happened, it's over.

CPI and PPI numbers both came in good. PPI of particular note, services were up 0% month over month, and commodities 1.3% for a blended 0.56% (in line with expectations). Commodities of course are likely to correct hard and fast once the geopolitical situation resolves.

The market is forward looking, so don't get stuck on a dead narrative!

> The era of low rates is over.

I'm not sure we know this either. If the hikes play out, we'll land around what, 2-3% for the fed funds rate? That's low, historically. And that's a big if, IMO, since inflation is showing signs of being quite well controlled again, and the Fed's goal isn't to achieve a specific funds rate - just low inflation and high employment. High funds rate hurts the employment goal.

It's fun to speculate but important to remember, you're just speculating. So am I. There's no certainty here, and it's pretty easy to construct a compelling counter-narrative.

All we know for sure right now is the Fed funds rate is 1%.