skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone optimizes happiness all the time, they are also Yak-shaving, and that's why we can't have nice things.

Item: you are an evolved system. Ergo, "happiness" is a non-specific proxy for your unconscious estimate of the degree of present and future ease and success at living and reproducing.

You are always optimizing for "happiness" by definition, four and a half billion years of evolution has seen to that. You are the direct descendant of untold millions of successful reproducers.

(As an aside, for FIRE folks who find themselves bored or unsatisfied, the blindingly obvious answer is that your unconscious estimate takes into account the conditions of other people around you. Just because things are good for you doesn't mean you're done. "No man is an island." and all that, eh? The solution is equally obvious: help other people, make the world a better place.)

Item: your brain is easily programmed. Due to the ad hoc nature of our upbringings we acquire models of the world that are wildly inconsistent (above the level of basic physical phenomenon.) We are following quasi-random programs. That's the reason why we work so hard and get such poor results: we are using lousy programs.

Fortunately, it's easy to re-program your brain. In fact there are specific algorithms and techniques. I'd like to call attention to the "Core Transformation" technique particularly. ( https://www.coretransformation.org/ I have no affiliation with them BTW) It's an algorithm for "popping the why stack" (cf. "Five Whys" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys ) Without going into a long spiel about it, the basic idea is that behaviors are motivated by a chain of intentions, a series of indirections.

Behavior -> A -> B -> C -> Happiness

You do FOO to get A which achieves B which in turn does C which engenders Happiness. (There can be more or fewer steps in between.) What these folks found is that all behaviors eventually wind up at one of five "core states": Beingness, Oneness, Bliss, Okayness, Happiness (I think I remembered them correctly, but maybe not, check the website.)

The fascinating thing about these "core states" is that they are not dependent on anything else. (The idea that they are is part of the "lousy programming".) They are not contingent. You can access them at any time, in any location or condition.

As you can imagine, going directly for the "core states" rather than through a chain of indirection brings a lot of simplicity and grace to life. Everything else comes together effortlessly, fulfilling the evolutionary mandate of happiness: present and future ease and success at living.
There’s already some pretty big players in the “open banking but for healthcare” space.

Like https://www.healthgorilla.com/

I wish this new company luck. Healthcare is unbelievably difficult market to enter.
I didn't specify how many rounds precisely because you generally feel when enough is enough and you can't do this indefinitely because you get tired at some point
>And second system syndrome too probably

In my opinion, Wayland has avoided this by deliberately being simpler than X11.

> I'm using $DISTRO because I trust them enough to not package spyware/malware in their repos

>but holy hell my OSS desktop is not a proprietary smartphone OS loaded with random closed-source apps from god knows who that tries to steal my data for profit

I think it is not reasonable for you to ask them to never plan for a day when that could happen, if that is what you are suggesting anyway.

>You'd assume there's an equivalent tool for Wayland

Not if you were aware of the current issues with Xrandr and why it is a poor target.

>But mumble mumble security, you cannot do that, so we got the same f#+ing situation as with screen recording again, every WM/compositor comes up with their own solution to something absolutely trivial. GNOME/Mutter have a dbus-API, wlroots-based ones have "wlrandr" via some protocol extension, KWIN I didn't even bother checking. But it's only 15 years since the project started right, why should something trivial as this have been settled upon yet?

It is absolutely not trivial, and there are security/usability issues with it. To do this "the right way" would be more or less duplicating the entire KMS API into every implementation. Even XRandr is still missing features compared to that, so it is not an adequate solution either.
Well, Sweden has its own DPA law (see IMY) which prevails over GDPR. Also, according to the recent decision (see [0] and its references for details), user is not considered as party to their own privacy rights.

I can only add that in Sweden at least some important personal information is not protected at all. It's given by the government for free and can be used by anyone [1]. Like all details on any person income, taxes paid, phone number, address and birth date [2]. Nice regulations, isn't it?

I'm really not sure if I want to use VPN or any other service based in Sweden.

[0] - https://noyb.eu/en/sweden-users-are-not-party-their-own-priv...

[1] - https://alex-paiusco.medium.com/sweden-the-country-where-all...

[2] - https://hitta.se
I've always wondered why accents are generally added before the letter in most systems. The old Mac way was option-e e for é, dead-key way is ' e, but you have to type ' ' or ' SPC for the actual quote character. There's some keyboards based on alt-gr and such, but when we write we usually do it afterwards.

I could see that sending the wrong character initially to an online program is suboptimal, but we often do that anyway and have to hit delete.

Another thought, why is there no clever autocorrect to try to add the ¿ in the right spot? Again, not the desired behavior always, but in many cases. It could be a suggestion that you must approve. Thankfully, texting has shown that Spanish users are not that keen on correct punctuation.
In the Russia-Ukraine war, drones are one of the most powerful weapons
That video is incredible. "It's kinda incredible really having this piece of space junk fallin in me uhhh ... paddy. You know think of what else is out there in uhh other people's paddies. inaudible above my children's weird minecraft videos Yeh? I suppose you wouldn't fare too well if a piece landed on yuh"
I would guess that if someone can afford a MacBook air and 4k monitor they can buy a keyboard and mouse pretty easily.

Its the best solution, in my opinion, for MacBooks since you avoid the touchbar and keyboard variances and stick with consistent tools you can build muscle memory with. There are so many options out there too. OP could also just buy a USB KVM switch (sounds like their familiarity is with Windows) and use the same keyboard/mouse from desktop.
To state the blindingly obvious: It's a perfectly valid term for what OP / the github repo refers to and your response just goes on to show that you probably don't know much about these things.

Let me spoil it to you: The cloud is also not an actual cloud, it's just someone else's server.
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I think a valsalva maneuver keeps intra-thoracic pressure high by closing up a bit lower the air pathways? At least that is how I do it, it feels like it it bottled up at about the place my larynx site.
Scroll down a bit. There’s a section explaining what happens.

https://www.wimhofmethod.com/breathing-exercises

“When we breathe in, we take up oxygen and release carbon dioxide from our blood. Our blood is usually already fully saturated with oxygen (about 99% saturation) and breathing deeply does not raise that saturation. Breathing deeply does, however, release a lot of carbon dioxide. This, in turn, lowers the “urge to breathe”.

The brain stem, specifically the pons and medulla oblongata, is sensitive to carbon dioxide. Having too much carbon dioxide in the blood will trigger your brain stem to breathe. By removing carbon dioxide from the blood through deep breathing, this impulse to breathe from the brain stem is lowered.

In short, the lower the level of carbon dioxide, the longer you can hold your breath. The impulse is just not triggered yet.“
I have a car with Here maps, but it never occurred to me that a side effect of it having a data connection is data collection. I’ve been used to car navigation systems being offline, but it seems newer models like to search online for results, which of course exposes a lot of data to their servers.

I wonder if you turned off the “online” search results and routing if it would shut off data collection, or if you’d have to physically cut off the cell connection.
I agree. However, my gut reaction was that the style of the go code was written differently than what I’d expect if asked to work off the rust version.
> We log nothing whatsoever

One of the few cases where no-logging can be made profitable. But if that isn't already illegal, soon someone will make laws demanding vpns to keep logs for the usual "children and terrorists".

I wonder what we could do to make no-logging more widely profitable
I remember the transition. They did handle it remarkably well, in the time of many different charsets.
Gut Microbial Stability Associated with Higher Endurance Performance in Athletes
For equivalent levels of wealth, people who think less are usually happier. The reason thinking causes happiness is that thinking tends to cause wealth.
a plausibly deniable payload purpose
Companies Know When You're Pregnant–and They're Not Keeping It Secret
Ask HN: How are fake AirPods spoofing the special interface on iOS,why no auth?
I recently came to own the highest end fake AirPods Pro on the market apparently which sell for the equivalent of $49 in USD in China and sell for $60-100 in US on the black market. They work surprisingly well, the quality is good (Not excellent/amazing like the real ones). The little charging box works almost perfectly, the device even appears in Find My and has working sound alert.

From the outside appearance this thing looks 99% like the real one (I’ll post pics in a seperate comment).
For those who don’t know, AirPods get a special interface in iOS, special screens that no regular Bluetooth headset gets. a white box appears with an animated AirPods Pro sprite, it says the connection status when you pair to your device, battery status etc. AirPods also have a special interface in Bluetooth -> My Devices -> Info that shows all sorts of information about them, which the fake emulates perfectly. Everything works in the software except the ear tip test always passes and it says Coverage Expired where it should say Limited Warranty. Now doesn’t it seem a little weird how good these fakes are? An average person would clearly be fooled into thinking these were real if they didn’t know what to look for. It begs the question why isn’t there any sort of secure authentication method for the headphones to attest their legitimacy before identifying themselves as “AirPods Pro” in iOS in all its native interfaces, and if there is one-how was it bypassed (as of the latest iOS 16 u3 beta)? It’s actually kind of scary that a fake device was able to invoke the legitimate AirPods interfaces in my iPhone when I connected it. What are your thoughts on this? Is it okay that fake AirPods are able to identify themselves as real ones to iOS?
NASA's mineral dust detector starts gathering data
I use illustrator, audition and photoshop a lot. My wife works for a university though and I have a free subscription.
Isn't plaid the company that puts up a phishing-esque 'real looking' bank login page, then captures the login info and then makes that banking data available to whichever third party had set the thing up?

Not sure if they're still doing that. Definitely don't ever want that to happen with my medical records.
It is going to land in the water.

The Chinese know what they are doing.
Maybe it's because I grew up in the '80s but other than the dated doctor's office, I didn't find those buildings to be depressing at all.
> Intel said on Thursday that its disappointing report reflected execution issues and dropped its forecast for full-year earnings per share from $2.30 to $3.60.

Is this a mistake, e.g. 2.3 < 3.6?
You're forgetting about what happens when something "falls" from the atmosphere uncontrolled
I got the Pixel 5A because it's the (last?) Pixel device with a fingerprint sensor AND headphone jack. I really dislike this trend of forcing people to use face unlock... it's nice to be able to unlock my phone before it even leaves my pocket and without having to take off my mask on the subway or similar crowded setting.
Or, my phone is at any rate.
> Like a subscription for your dorbell - just why?

Servers (and the staff to maintain them) have an ongoing cost. Human labor is also a pesky subscription.
Extreme heat, flash drought and more flash flooding are all on tap this weekend
Elon Musk’s Antics Turn Owners and Would-Be Buyers Against Tesla
Sure did!
This seems incorrect. If your body burns O2 without breathing you will inevitably end up with more CO2.
Totally, because every company policy is true.
It doesn't, and AFAIK they reversed that decision.
> The experimentation of the Cold War was fairly tightly controlled and limited in quantity;

This seems a bit generous to the US & USSR - remember when we nuked the bikini atoll many times? (oops sorry about your homeland)
One day a few years ago, just as I reached my flat, a young child looked at me, turned to their mother and said “Mommy, mommy, is that a boy or a girl?”, because my combination pony tail and facial hair confused them.

A few grown men have had the same problem, beginning a wolf-whistle when they saw me from behind only to abort part way through as they saw the front of my face.
Economist Robert Solow famously said in 1987 that the computer age was everywhere except for productivity statistics. Wikipedia has a pretty good article about this Productivity Paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox#End_of_th...

One hypothesis I've heard that isn't on the Wikipedia page is that productivity from IT also requires new kinds of organizational structures. If you had many layers of middle management, and replaced paper memos with email, it wouldn't necessarily improve productivity because that wouldn't harness the full potential of computing.
Well, there seem to be a lot of fools that end up with potential C/C++ based exploits in their infrastructure. Sourcing your C++ libraries from sources infamous for making use of such exploits seems foolish, and indeed incompetent.
Show HN: Clp, a Faster Alternative to Bat
This is a small hobby project that writes files to stdout with syntax highlighting.

My main use case is replacing bat for use in the preview window for the program fzf. I wanted to speed it up and support languages that didn’t meet bat’s inclusion criteria out of the box (myrddin, hare, etc)- more info in the blog post.
There is a documentary named "Falling from the Sky"[1] from 2009, which depicts how scared and helpless people in a Hunan village were, every time a rocket wss launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The village was located within the area where rocket debris would fall, and the villagers were basically told to suck it up by officials.

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2136916/
Drone importance was obvious even at the beginning of the war:

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-technology-bu...

US developed the Ghost for Ukraine:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-rapidly-developed-ghost-dro...

There are even a large number of drone donations:

https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-building-army-drones-though...
Apparently everyone is downvoting everything they can because this is a sensitive topic. I'd just like to call out, where feminization is a major concern (US, maybe Europe), there is less than 1ng/L of this compound in water, see elsewhere on this thread for the graphic.

The lowest dose of EE2 for trans-women is 2mg a day orally. That means whatever the dosage is in the US it's less than 1/10th* of what trans folk find actually useful. That's based off drinking 4 liters of water a day, lord knows most people don't drink that though.

In summary: US and Europe folks don't need to care about this and if you see a news story hyping this compound up, it's probably just that: hype.

*EDIT: I had a couple mistakes here:

- EE2 is not estrogen and can be considered ~100x more effective

- 1ng / 1mg is 1000th not 100th.
openwrt offers this. Another reason to install it whenever you can!
Thank you for taking time writing all this up. It all worked. It’s brilliant. I will start checking out other readers soon. Thanks again.
My family went through this, you have no position to speak on from experience outside of downplaying genocide.

It's stupid enough that I have to even explain this that I left Canada. I don't want anything to do with people who do this.

Good luck with the economy eh?
> Exactly. Like, holy moly did the people working on Wayland get carried away by the mobile OS world.

So we should settle for windows that can’t be locked for yet another 3-4 decades? Noone claims wayland will secure completely unrelated parts of the stack , but it is a start that is must have.
>Deterministic means that running the same part of the program will take the same amount of time

The object graph can easily be different from run to run depending on user input, timing, etc. Say, in the first run, the graph has a large subgraph due to a runtime condition (a property is set to a certain value), and on the next run, the graph is more lightweight because the property was not updated. It will take different amounts of time to collect such graphs (especially if they have destructors). I don't see how GC is any different here, it also depends on input, timing, etc. It's true though that a programmer has less control of GC because the rules when it is triggered are not always 100% clear (implementation details of a particular runtime) but imho they are as deterministic as RC; RC is just a form of GC which has very simple rules which are eaiser to understand.
What happens when society collapses (2021)
For some reason I thought (because of the title) this article was going to be about implementing a Lisp dialect in vimscript.

I thought, wow, that's impressively masochistic!

:D
> About 20 years ago people used to say the same thing about mindfulness and meditation

I’d say that about mindfulness and meditation today: https://neurosciencenews.com/mindfulness-problem-14196/
China is known for dropping rocket boosters on their own towns fairly regularly. For instance: https://twitter.com/ChinaSpaceNews/status/637174369677123584

With China situated where it is, this sort of thing is hard for them to avoid. Probably they want to eventually switch to fully reusable rockets, but that's a touch nut to crack.
This is great! Have you considered to make this into a package?
The sibling says that C++ has the wrong defaults, full stop.

Well in Rust the default `HashMap` uses a cryptographic hash, and you see it everywhere, it's the de facto community "default". In C++ the community "default" is `absl::flat_hash_map`/`folly::F14`, which use SIMD to compare a whole stripe of key-prefixes simultaneously.

I want different defaults for different programs, but the idea that it's esoteric to ever want an associative container within arms reach that fucking demolishes the other one is, ugh, God I want to like Rust even more than I do but this "we're right and everyone else hasn't seen the light" routine is infuriating and pushes me at least away.

My parent comment is trying to emphasize that this isn't a right/wrong thing, different tools for different jobs. And people are just like: "nope, everything but Rust is wrong".
To the users of MILP libraries, the difference between algorithmic and hardware improvements are not so significant, and both can be called "Computing Power" in terms of number of application-specific solutions per second.

You're right, and your insight is illuminating into the real gains had by the world on the backs of hardware and software improvements, but I think you're one level deeper in the abstraction than the paper intends to be.
> “Antractica”

The porbelm si?
Whenever there's a discussion about sorting I like to put in a little reminder about the humble Radix Sort which is often overlooked by academics because it's so simple. It deserves more attention as it is super fast: O(kn). Academics disregard it because it won't sort floating point numbers, but the vast majority of real-world use cases deal with alphanumerics, so Radix Sort should get more press than it does.
Both are among my favorites. I'd say Pop is good for people wanting something more modern while Mint is ideal for people liking a more traditional UI.
Not sure what exactly you mean by scan, but Land Surveyors use drone photogrammetry (and lidar when appropriate) to create TIN surface models of bare earth, yes.

But if it's a smaller area typically it's not worth using a drone and we'd use a terrestrial scanner like a Faro.

Edit - spelling.
> In my opinion, Wayland has avoided this by deliberately being simpler than X11.

Wayland is not really simpler than X11 unfortunately. The core protocols are very poorly documented, and a lot of practically important stuff is left to be implemented in unspecified ways by the compositor. Like a lot of freedesktop.org stuff historically, it's hard to tell what's prototype-quality from what's actually ready for daily-driver production use.
They make great bathroom books; open at random and you're likely to find something interesting. Also confuses guests.
>Yes, and, expressing emotions helps us move beyond them.

Yes and sometimes in expressing those emotions we realize that they're underlayed by a logical basis that our instinct was informing us about, as when we fear the rise of a genocidal communist dictatorship as a global power monger.
These kinds of rants were popular five years ago when serverless was still new, nowadays it really doesn’t add any value and I fail to see what you’re trying to achieve here.

It’s just a term that stuck, as did many other terms, let’s just move on.

Do you also get angry that a firewall isn’t a literal wall of fire?
> It's a real shame, because most software I use can be written by a handful of good engineers in a couple of years.

And what if the engineers bootstrap instead of taking VC lucre?
They actually aren't. The only reason that is necessitated is A) medicare/medicaid integration is strongly predicated on EMR, and our damn insurance model is cripplingly dependent in it.

There's nothing that keeps a medical provider from going old school.

Unless I'm completely overlooking something... It may have snuck in with ACA.
I agree! I explicitly state that I don't think random pollutants are good in that comment and there could be other reasons to care about it.

I'm merely calling out that the thing most people freak out about with this compound (feminization) is not worth freaking out about.
I too practice a customised breathing technique which is a combination of Sudarshan Kriya[1] + Wim Hof[2] while laying back on the floor.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tX0M6EveGY

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tybOi4hjZFQ

30 mins. Everyday after brush.
Amazon and Google frontends work without Js. The same can be applied to other empires.
I have kept live audio and video out of my E2EE chat app because the price to support it would be too high for my poor users

I will give your solution a try to see if it can solve my problem - at last! Thank you so much for this
Is there any accumulation in food? Is it heat stable to survive cooking?
Troubled Crypto Lender Babel Lost Big While Trading Client Funds
Make it land on a valuable target and not make it looks suspicious?