skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an extremely weak study that basically launders Huberman's "mini interventionism" and abuses west coast's fascination with what is mostly "breath-themed magic". The idea of hyperregulation of breath is a cousin of hyperregulation of dietary intake, which is a western "top-down"ism, latter of which induced more disordered eating than it achieved/preserved health.

Regarding the criticisms of this study;

Firstly, the small sample size is based on volunteers, so folks already believed there was going to be a payoff from something that is 75% breathwork.

Secondly, there is no "sham intervention" class to counter the placebo effects from this.

Thirdly, their mindfulness instruction is atypical; it should have been passive focus on breath rather than a visual/somatic cue on the forehead to be comperable with breath work vs breath focus.

Finally, their exclusion criteria makes it too restricted;

> For health and safety reasons, we excluded those with self-reported moderate to severe psychiatric or medical conditions that could be exacerbated by study participation, such as heart disease, glaucoma, history of seizures, pregnancy, psychosis, suicidality, bipolar disorder, or substance use disorders.

I find it annoying that the list is not exhaustive but we could reasonably assume they also had to exclude moderate and above depression and anxiety disorders, not to mention panic disorder[1]. Anxious folks are particularly sensitive to breathwork, and even 10% of their "healthy" population reported anxiety as a result of these practices (highest ingroup rate is 17%, in the favorite "sighing" group)

Besides the anxiety inducing vs reducing effect of all breathwork had more variance than the mindfulness intervention, which puts into question whether the cost/benefit of the intervention (not to mention it's wide scale applicability) is sufficient.

What Huberman is popular for is known as a "nutrientism" of sorts; as in assemble vitamins a, b, c..., this and that macronutrient plus this and that micronutrient and you will have a full nutritional profile. Not saying he is all bs at all, e.g his circadian light stuff is solid, but more often than not after the 50th episode these turn into bite sized oversold interventions mostly as an illusion of "doing something good for me so that I don't have to do anything else".

As a final note, mindfulness meditation traditionally has never been an emotion regulation tool, it is an education tool as a part of wisdom traditions, none of which had "good affect in one month" as the primary metric of their success.

[1] The panic disorder population is even more interesting. 50% of the panic disordered people do not suffer from hyperventilatory or otherwise respiratory phenomena. Not only that, the hyperventilators are suffering from hypocapnia, as in a drop in CO2 and not O2, which is completely opposite to Huberman's "dumping CO2 and therefore relaxing" magic/logic.
I definitely agree.

My original point, that was not well articulated at all, was more that there should be a middle ground. The choice shouldn't be only between "homegrown engine" and "Unreal/Unity oligopoly".

I'm saying there should be much more competition when it comes to third-party engines, but also in third-party tooling and third-party middleware.

And this competition should be more specialized in order to demand less of the "train and maintain a proprietary engine" but also less of the "dealing with roadblocks in UE".
How does that help the implementor of a subclass?
Stripe seems to be hurtling on the evoluionary path towards becoming Paypal, which may just be an inevitable process.
> their work was extensible to any radio frequency client (cell, Bluetooth) and used for targetting missile strikes

Good. I didn't work on such tech, but I would be excited and proud to, if I was working for a country like US, which I believe in.
Ah, I suspected you were talking about Canada, but wasn't sure if it might be Australia. I guess your situation is more absurd.
My guess is that you come across as either a eeyore or an asshole. I do not know you and you don’t give enough information in your post, however I can’t think of any other reason you wouldn’t be hirable, unless you are unrealistic about your own skills and capabilities. If you are open to suggestions, I would recommend spending a significant amount of effort on the “how to win friends and influence people” side of the equation.

I will hire the nice optimistic less skilled engineer over the mopey, pessimistic, more experienced engineer every day of the week.
I have a theory shittier search results are so you try 2-3 times to find what you're looking for so they can give you 3x the ads, or so you click ads because they're probably way more relevant now than the actual results.
FYI: Morgan Stanley owns E*TRADE as of Oct 2020.
A long time ago, I made some Flash games. I recently converted some of them away from Flash and released them together as a desktop game for modern computers.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1458090/Hapland_Trilogy/

I am currently making more than $500 a month from this, although I don't necessarily expect that to continue. Games are a crowded market. It was a fun project, though.
It’s my understanding that Reddit video was PoC’d by one person using aws lambda.

Severless often gets touted as being the best way of doing things rather than just a way. My comment was a dig at that.

But it seems like my comment somehow exposes multiple levels of ignorance, would love to know what they all are!
I was there earlier. It's always great, even when busy (which Parliament Hill very much was this afternoon).
He briefly mentions dietlibc ("not evolving anymore") and ulibc. I think he'd be better off contributing to those projects (or musl). You might start off thinking you only need system calls, but at some point you'll want to print something, and even a basic 'printf' will be very handy.

FWIW I have built a program that needs a tiny initramfs[1] and we've found that dietlibc and musl worked really well producing very tiny binaries. glibc is terrible - it links huge amounts of code into even the smallest program.

[1] https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin/blob/86fd6f3e86ab99d5...
I don't need to know who the original creator is, I just need the smart contract or smart agent be created via an LLM then I will know exactly with what intent it was created and whether to trust it or not. It's literally written in plain english.

It's not obvious I know, but once you accept the idea that LLMs will become the tool we create with (and tokenize) and that smart agents becomes the mediators then you realize that there is in fact a way to allow for this and that blockchain is going to be fundamental.

In fact if it's not created via an LLM on the blockchain we know we have to be much more careful.
I am not motivated by money. That's why I am not looking for another, better paying job. But I will if you take from me what I already earn.

Advice to reduce the wages of all individuals is disconnected from reality and likely originates from someone who is insulated from the practical implications of such a decision, such as those in an academic setting.
If you held YC liable for its user content it would be broadly alright because YC has very very good moderation and for the most part bad stuff gets taken care of very quickly.
So the altenrnative is the idea that capitalism and hieararchical societies is an inevitable outcome of civilizzation progressing, and there are no other ways to arrange societies?

While this is still a popular idea in society at large, I don't think this is in fact an idea supported by mainstream archeology/anthropology/history/whatever other fields would comment on this.

It's not in fact a big outrageous thing for the authors to be challenging this, it's very normal mainstream scholarly consensus. If anything, I think they are getting too much credit for being responsible for something groundbreaking in that basic challenge.

But I agree with your summary of their basic thesis/organizing narrative approach right there. I think it's curious that you first summarized that as an "attack on modern society" though. You feel that to suggest the way society(ies) are organized now was not teleologically foreordained and could have gone other ways -- is to attack modern society?

I think almost anyone writing an account meant to be popularly accessible like this one has __some_ narrative agenda, a point of view on the overall big points or organizing principles.

To compare to Harari... yeah, it would be hard to argue that he has less of agenda, or sticks more to facts over his preferred narrative or ideology.
I’d be okay with this option too. As long as people are who they claim to be and it doesn’t turn out that I’m in some horrible non-VR Matrix.
Tell HN: Outlook webmail on Android requires Chrome or Edge, not Firefox
One of my employers used o365 with fairly draconian rules. Trying to log in with my free browser of choice yields the lovely, monopolist message:

>You can't get there from here
You cannot access the resource from this browser on your device. You need to use Chrome or Edge.

> Error Code: 530001
>App name: Office 365 Exchange Online

Why? It's a static website in accessibility mode and the "request desktop site" slider works as intended. What reason could be behind this? Didn't the EU literally fine Microsoft for exactly this sort of behaviour?
How much do you spend on likeness rights for the people or the similar thing for famous monuments?
"Series of unfortunate events" is an understatement, but I would say it gets due recognition--it's an indie game over a decade old and still earns its slot at major fighting game tournaments and (after said events' hopeful end) still has support from developers and community alike.
I keep confusing this book with "The Dawn of The New Everything" by Jaron Lanier. When people started to talk about it on Twitter, I got excited that Lanier's excellent book was having a mini resurgence. Made for an awkward argument with a friend because we had vastly different opinions on the quality of "this" book, until I admitted "maybe I'm just a Lanier fan", to which he replied "who's Lanier?"
I’d say FGPM for fairly good pattern matching would be a nice descriptor.
> there's a lot that had to go right with the Earth for it to support not just life, but complex, high-energy life, which enables (expensive-in-energy-terms) intelligence

Like what?

> It's way more than just being the right size, the right distance from a not-too-dangerous star, and having water.

Besides that and having carbon (and nitrogen, I suppose), perhaps some small amounts of other elements, what are you referring to?
why dietlibc and uclibc instead of the modern musl?
Correlates nicely with their location on the economic parable. Korea started to grow later than Japan (because of the civil war) and is now where Japan was about 30-35 years ago: still booming, with insane real estate costs, etc. Japan has had 20 years of stagnation - people got poorer, so now they're making kids again.
I had 3 sources of side income last year.

1/ Started a niche dating app in 2017. Revenue ranges form 700-1,100/mo. Hosting is about $50/mo.

2/ Bought a house and rent our spare rooms for $3,100/mo.

3/ Contracting projects for a small dev shop earned $3-10k/mo (depending on how many hours I worked).
Yeah, to my understanding you can currently be held liable for what you post online, but the platform can't be in trouble for distributing it.
Out of curiosity when you say you hired someone to take over production and shipping, do you mean you outsourced it? Or like that from craigslist is producing them now?
>As far as non technical people are concerned

But this is hacker news so for us, here, the distinction is important.

Which is what this whole absurd subthread is about. Redox pointed out that the article attributes the issue to the wrong product and you all are saying that it doesn't matter.

Well perhaps you are not interested in the topic and it doesn't matter for you. For me it matters.

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Imagine an article about a Google Chat issue was posted on hacker news. Redox99 points out that the issue is actually in Google Meet. And then you, bob and boucher appear and you reply that it doesn't matter which one it is, both are google chat apps. Well I believe it matters a lot.
> but it's still just a computer program

Maybe you are not impressed by the answer to "how does it work?", but we need to think about "what does it learn?". What data, what skills, what limitations. It's not just any data, it is our whole culture as a dataset, does it have some kind of special properties?
You're right. It is an issue and a lot of players and researchers are already into it in an area called "Trust & Safety". However, these are problems that pertain to platforms as opposed to other tech enterprises, and as such, they are mostly dominated by these companies interests and strategies. E.g. it can be argued that misleading advertisement is still good business for GoogleAds or Meta. Refer to a discussion here on HN along the lines of "the optimal amount of fraud is non-zero" to get a better idea of the sort of thing I'm talking about. Moreover, aside from being problems of the closed platforms we chose to be the "winners" of the Internet most people use, it looks like the companies don't want any help in solving them, or won't make it any easier. A lot of people has done research on fake instagram accounts, for instance. It now got almost impossible to have API access to followers/following ratio or even scrape it, which is a key metric in that research. Anyway, I digress, but yes, it's an issue, it's a proper issue of platforms that take human input, and it's one they don't want our help.
Of course he did, hell is a Christian concept that isn't accepted by modern Judaism and was a divisive topic during ancient Judaism
Take a few deep breaths and you'll feel calmer and sharper.

I heard that somewhere before.
Who's to say that a brain is not a kind of a computer and that all humans are a sort of a computer program? Going from "computer program" to "not sentient" is a leap of logic I'd like to hear more about.
> A far better option is to rely entirely on a transparent algorithmic model, in which automated tools like lists of trigger keywords and contextual analysis that cause posts to be flagged for further review are clearly visible to the user audience.

This is the worst idea I've read on HN and shows you've never actually dealt with users at scale.

The moment your algorithm is visible, users will know how to beat it. Your list of 'trigger keywords' becomes a weapon both to harass normal users (by potentially tricking them into writing the trigger weapons) as well as by trolls because they know exactly how to modify the word to get around the filter.

Social media is no different from a game, and when people figure out how a game works, they learn how to break it.
The issue I have with AI artists is they seem to love copyright again as soon as it comes to their works or their prompts.
Asking citizens if they believe there are social problems so bad that they want to leave also has selection bias, and lots of it. I would hazard a guess that most people anywhere are not considering leaving, are not prepared to, and can't fairly speak to the merits of one place vs another, for lots of reasons such as national pride, friends and family, and language and cultural familiarity.
> Eastern Europeans don't have a history of colonisation and slavery

...except full-blown in Russia, which perpetuated slavery until 1861.

...except serfdom Poland (and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) until 19th century.

Regarding anti-abortion politics, see modern Poland :(
Why does super need to go in a specific position? Isn’t “super calls the parent classes constructor” simpler than “ super calls the parent classes constructor and it must be the first statement in the child constructor.”
This is the evolution of nearly any language... It begins simple and easy, and over time more and more features and syntax are added, and it becomes very hard to learn from scratch, which in turn means beginners end up using other simpler languages.

I think python is a classic example of this - python 2 was pretty simple. Python 3 just gets more and more complex.
Just noticed that Dr Andrew Huberman is one of the authors of this report.
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> How is this responsibility defined?

If it does not start with a 28% reduction in all areas of compensation, and full elimination of all bonus opportunities for the current calendar and fiscal year, then no responsibility has been taken.
12 hour days? That seems way too long. How did the participants handle the amount of information over the time period?
why are you rebasing a branch that has tags?

in my opinion (the one where i don't care what anyone else thinks kind) you shouldn't be using tags on your working branches and your mainline/release branches should only be the ones where tags exists.

This then means that the only place you should be rebasing is your working/feature/pr branches and that when you merge your working/feature/pr branch, it should get squashed into the target branch... No one cares about your fifty gazillion 'wip' commits.
This is almost useless for now. In real world, people are using openapi generator to generate all kinds of rest clients.

The issue with tRPC, is it couldn't be generated from a specification.
I’ve noticed a distinct lack of caring regarding social responsibility in the tech industry even though we are some of the most privileged workers in the entire labor force.
> compromise your router

No compromise needed. This was one research project looking at the current world where your existing router is happily beaming location information out of your home, which can be read by an attacker with a passive receiver. If an attacker is forced to use their own transmitter, that can potentially be detected.

> wi-fi isn't the bogeyman here

Wi-Fi is the lowest cost modern application of ancient doppler imaging radar that has been around for decades. There is code for ESP32 devices, https://wrlab.github.io/Wi-ESP/. Many years ago, through-the-wall surveillance was primarily used by military and law enforcement with devices costing thousands of dollars. How many people are aware that the capability is now available for $20?
What's the programming language and environment to run it for the non-flash version?
No-one ever told it the rules, it was just shown a load of game-moves.

If you explained Othello to a human using _only_ example moves, they would think they probably knew the rules, but they wouldn't be 100% sure either.
He doesn't mention musl in the article, but in my experience musl would also be an excellent choice.
Pirates of Silicon Valley reference? :)
Can you expand on this. does this change make it easy to communicate why a program was rejected?
Excessive caffeine can be dangerous, it may increase your blood pressure.
Used to suffer occasional dizzy spells which eventually found to be caused by it. Decaf (and removing caffeine from diet) proved to be the cure!
>Then just use the lan ports on the device, but also make sure the LAN cables are shielded because it could be using them as antennas given how compromised wifi router firmwares usually are.

Those shielded Ethernet cables better be properly grounded.
I don't think we need a metaphor to understand the relationship between humans and AIs; AIs are tools used by humans like many others.
macOS applications https://loshadki.app $1,500-3,000 USD /month
If it hadn't been for the K-T event wiping out the dinosaurs and creating a niche for mammals and eventually primates to thrive, we probably wouldn't be here.

It doesn't get discussed enough how much of a factor blind stupid luck was in the one example we have of the evolution of intelligence in the universe.
You can call methods from constructors, including methods overridden in unknown subclasses, or methods in superclasses whose implementation may change later, which complicates things. You can also pass this to foreign code from a constructor, which in turn may call arbitrary methods and/or access fields on the instance.
Large scale lay offs are generally done blind to avoid accusations of bias: they don’t lay off low performers, they use some other fixed criteria (like laying off teams, people under X tenure, etc…).

Performance based layoffs have to be well documented and take lots of time, so they just happen continuously but in small numbers. At least, that is how it seems to me.
I really wish useful quality of life things like "?." would get added instead of this kind of stuff that really doesn't improve life all that much for most development
Can it write a complete paragraph, instead of a sentence with the incorrect use of "-" ?
> Compare them to any other religion, and they are quite close.

Apples and oranges are quite close when compared to chairs and tables, but they’re different.

Regarding the “same God” thing, you’re two thirds right, Islam being the other third.
Why are you bullying this user?
>The reactionary conservative movement, with its campaign to politicize everything

I'm sorry but which movement came up with the slogan 'the personal is political'?

Which one has entire academic departments dedicated to 'problematizing' everything from the skin color of LOTR orcs to dog walking?
> ChatGPT isn't sentient

Perhaps, perhaps not.

Although I lean towards you on this, we don't have a definition good enough to test against, so we can't tell if it is or isn't.

I was recently thinking about the philosophy course I took 22 years ago; Descartes saying that every experience he ever had could be illusions or insanity, the only thing he could know was "I think therefore I am", and A. J. Ayer a few centuries later saying no, all you can say is "There is a thought now" because any memory or certainty you have of the past is also capable of being insanity.

So… how can we be sure that LLMs or image generators or any other AI don't have the feeling of an instantaneous now? That they don't have "a thought now"?

We can't rely on the fact that they will, if asked, hallucinating a story about when they were switched off: we also do that, not just with dreams when we sleep, but with our tales of reincarnation and afterlives.
has someone taken this to its logical conclusion and made a way to run models from PyTorch etc?
The way Swift handles this is that you can’t do anything that involves the self pointer before calling super.
I guess the Eastern Europeans are not all the same and don't have the exact same history. Almost as if the point of the post :)
What tech companies are even doing dividends anymore? I guess Microsoft has a small one?
> "simple existing idea with technology"

Probably not as those get knocked out on invalidity. Why not read the patent's claims and find out?
To be fair, Subversion had plenty of serious limitations. Local commits are a really good thing. It's just that Git itself is a terrible UI around a bunch of decent ideas.
Doesn’t colour film have different layers of emulsion sensitive to different wavelengths of light?

That’s not so different from digital having RGB filters right?
can it write markdown correctly?