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Meditating every day before bed is the best lifestyle change I've made in the last year. I think it's as important as brushing my teeth twice a day.

A few years back, I was almost killed in a shootout between two rival gangs while in my house. A bystander walking by wasn't as lucky and he was shot to death in front of his wife. Major US city, not in a bad part of the city either, just bad luck, bad timing. It took a while for the PTSD to hit but eventually my therapist and I realized that a lot of my anxiety symptoms were stemming from a constant feeling of danger / feeling that I wasn't safe.

I started meditating every day about 3 months ago and the difference has been night and day. My friend started the journey with me and he's had similar results. I feel so much better every day, and I would estimate that my anxiety symptoms are down about 80%. Therapy is helpful too, and I would encourage anyone who feels like anxiety affects their life at all to do both CBT and meditation.
Weird, it's always been fast and responsive for me - I haven't noticed any pausing issues. Never tried using RSS, though.
It'd be even better if it allowed us to turn it off completely.
Foss?
Can confirm, the year I turned thirty I bought a dairy farm in the middle of a national forest, hours from a Walmart and moved my family across the country to experience a quieter and hopefully more holistic life.
With confident bullshit or an explanation that the question is inappropriate.

Seriously, I think it means questions which don’t yet have community answers.
Just in case: “The kids are alright” is a The Who song from way before when.
It breaks legit uses of cookies. We need standard non-cookie based authentication. All browser features that enable violations of privacy need privacy respecting alternatives. Adoption cant happen until they exist.
I have tried a number of things over the years to cut down on my Internet addition.

For example:

- Getting rid of my smartphone and going back to a flip phone (lasted a year)

- Limiting my use of email to a few specific windows during the day (lasted a month or two)

- Requiring myself to write things down before looking them up on the Internet (lasted a month or two)

- Took the Facebook app off my phone (pretty much permanent)

- Periodically giving up Internet news for periods lasting from a couple of weeks to a month or two (works whenever I'm actively doing it)

Some of them have worked for a while, but I seem to eventually go back to the default.

The experiment I'm currently running is turning off the web browser on my iPhone. I started that about a week ago, and really like it so far. I don't have an email app on my phone (I use the Gmail web interface), so it really reduces the urge to pull out my phone and check email or look things up.
It's just sad. The Manhattan project was necessary and it was successful. It also developed the technology for clean nuclear energy. But at the end of the day the reality of this world is that technology is a two edge knife. US government promptly bombed Japan, and other countries rightfully rushed to develop their own bombs.

I feel the same with AI. Most people struggle to make ends meet. Meanwhile our brightest minds are developing AI and will hand it over to people who don't care about the rest of us. Models will be closed, data will be closed. Why? You get my point?
Agreed, it's very hard, that's why GFS and HDFS had give up some parts of POSIX compatibility.

Per CAP, it's addressed by different meta engines (CP system, Redis, MySQL, TiKV) and also different object stores (AP system). When the meta engine is not available, the operation to JuiceFS will be blocked for a while and finally it returns EIO. When object store returns 404 (object not found), which means it's not consistent with the meta engine, it will be retried for a while, may return EIO if it's not recovered.

The file format is carefully designed to workaround the consistency issue from object store and local cache. Any part of data is written into object store and local cache with unique ID, so you will not go stale data once the metadata is correct [1].

Within a mount point, JuiceFS provides read-after-write consistency. Across clusters, JuiceFS provides open-after-close consistency, which should be enough for most of the applications, also provide good balance between consistency and performance.

[1] https://juicefs.com/docs/community/architecture/#how-juicefs...
I've had a few issues with recently.

1. Seller listed an item they had already sold on another platform. I had to wait several days for a refund.

2. Item was sent, but not properly packaged and damaged. They re-sent the item but it was also damaged.

3. Ordered an antique from Europe that didn't ship for 4 months and now they're sending me letters from FedEx and asking me to return the item I never received...

I miss what Etsy used to be. It's definitely degraded as it expanded.
I had the same reaction The Guardian article just says:

"The letters reveal Mary’s distrust of Walsingham and Sir Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who was a favourite of Elizabeth’s. In the letters, many of which were sent to the French ambassador to England, Michel de Castelnau de Mauvissiere, Mary complained about her poor health, the conditions of her captivity, and spoke about her efforts to negotiate with Elizabeth for her release. The letters document her attempts to win over some of Elizabeth’s officials with presents. Mary also expresses her distress about her son, referred to as “mon fils” or my son, later King James VI of Scotland and James I of England, who was taken away from her at the age of one."
Turbopack is currently only supported for the local dev server (`next dev`) but we plan to solve `next build` after.
Surely, you're not saying that the system is rigged to say "You're Not A Winner"?
Who is this? Why do I care? I'm sorry, but the amount of absolute tripe people post on the internet is absolutely baffling to me.

I don't give two shits about some 20 year olds ideas with absolutely no credentials. Who wants to read this crap? I don't get it.
What brands/products?
Sometimes when people get too old they lose the ability to clearly tell truth from fiction. Seymour is 85 at this point.
(I promise this is going to pay off to your point, because at first it won't sound like it.) I started fiddling with self-hosting around the time the pandemic started. I didn't try email, but I tried everything else, from cloud file storage to password management to home automation. I kept at it for a while. Then a docker image needed to be updated. An SSL cert wasn't autorenewing. Nextcloud was dog slow, though I could spend time tuning it.

Now I still self-host a lot, but it's stuff that requires absolutely zero maintenance overhead. I admire people who are into self-hosting the whole stack, but it's not what I want to be doing. So I never moved off gmail, and I pay someone to host my cloud files. Life!

(Now ask me how many hours I spent getting a tiling window manager into a usable state. The number is a lot, and I feel bad about it, but now I have SUPER POWERED PRODUCTIVITY.)

/s obviously. But at least it's more like a really involved interior decorating project than reinventing power delivery to the home.
Airbnb Lying: Lauren Southern's Parents Banned FM Airbnb for Ties to Daughter
What HN did reasonably well was to train its own users to do a bit of moderation themselves; the "bad" behaviour have good chance to just get flagged or have some user complain about your comment.

I saw that behaviour few times in some other forums and for mid-sized communities it seems to work, provided you cultivate that culture in the members
Close Encounters Mothership Scanner
The 24" monitor on my desk is about to be retired since it’s way too small. Currently looking at ~32 and above. The 35" looks like it’s the new standard, but that 49" has me intrigued.
I have a lot of thoughts on this as well and I'm not sure. I definitely felt like my mental health got worse when I started therapy, but was it because my mental health was already doing worse?

The times in my life when I've been the most anxious or unwell have been when I'm questioning my mental health. And I think that the society we live in does encourage people to open up more. But if you have ADHD / obsessive compulsive tendencies, and your brain works like mine, that opening up can just look like obsessing over why you aren't feeling 100%. Then it's a self fulfilling prophecy.
Waiting for the day in AR when you get loading spinners above people's head as they are trying to remember who you are and why they know you before giving up and just saying "Hey man! Good to see you again!"
What’s hilarious is the idea that Reddit users are worth influencing in any way shape or form. But I suppose once you roll up the niches you end up with a big number.
This post is a clear example of the dangers of Dunning-Kruger and how it can drive someone to insanity.
Yea this pretty much sums it up. Although it seems clear to me that the nordic states were either in the loop or involved in the operation. As for the rest of NATO and the media, it took them a few days to assess the situation and shut up.
> in 2050 it will be an accepted fact that focus on psychological health (including meditation) was one of the biggest biggest disasters for the advancement of humanity ever

> Get minimum possible sustainable amount of sleep

Wow those original opinions were some seriously hot takes. Please don’t hustle and grustle yourself to the expense of your mental/physical health.
As I understand it, part of the issue is that Paxlovid interacts with a large number of other medications. This is a problem because people at high risk of dying from Covid tend to have preexisting medical conditions, and thus are more likely to take medications that interact with Paxlovid.
I think thats fair but again, it's over an order of magnitude difference. https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/search-engine-market-share....
I wonder if the full prompt is actually this long, or if GPT-3 is just predicting the 'most likely' next 5 sentences when asked.
I went from post nasal drip to very hairy symptoms within 8 hours. Started paxlovid and was back to postnasal drip overnight and better by afternoon.

Never have had that type of experience with any drug.
I'm not a doctor, but I had this exact thought when Molnupiravir came out. I left a comment on HN Jan 11 2022 about how I was worried about how Molnupiravir could create new variants. Also, I'd love to see the long term data on cancer rates of the people who took this drug since its mechanism seems very carcinogenic to me.
>I also have a uBlock configuration that removes 280 domains from Google Results because they're all auto-generated spam of Stackoverflow answers.

Can you describe exactly what you mean? If there is a way to hide specific domains from showing in search results, it would be an incredible boon for me.
Funny, for the last week I've been trying various self hosted photo apps every night on my home server. Tonight was going to be Photoprism and then I see it pop up here! I've just wanted something that allows me to organize and tag photos, but that also has some sort of API or easy access to the database. I've been looking for something because I realized it'd be nice to see photos on a regular basis in my house: I want to set up a photo frame to display random photos from my family collection that have a particular tag. Otherwise I feel like I'm not going back and appreciating them enough, just taking pictures that are never seen again. Though photo app "memories" address that. I really like Photostructure's approach of always displaying a random sampling of photos when you're at higher organizational levels, that's a fun way to see different stuff.
I don't install a huge number of apps, I plan on mostly just using Fennec + music on an SD card + a couple of messaging apps. So hopefully I won't fill up the 32GB of internal storage. My current SE only has 64GB of storage for all of that combined, and apps only take up one or to GBs tops. I'm sure the situation will be a bit different on Android, but hopefully it won't be too bad.

Sadly it sounds like Adoptable Storage isn't quite functional enough to solve the problem, but in a pinch, it might work. I'll have to investigate if it's compatible with Telegram, which is probably the most storage-hungry app I use thanks to years of media and messages.

Appreciate the warning and transparency, hopefully my situation is more compatible with the XZ1C than yours. Keep your eyes peeled for a "trying LineageOS on the XZ1C in 2023" post on HN in the next couple of weeks, if I'm successful. Otherwise I just purchased a slightly expensive MP3 player.
I found that it's really beneficial to me to have one monitor where the task I'm focused on is maximized to reduce distractions, and a second monitor where I have distractions and supporting information. So for example I typically have a web browser maximized on my right monitor, and at work I've got Outlook, Notepad, and Teams on my left monitor. At home I've got Notepad, IM windows, and folders on my left monitor.
> Google Cloud is a worse clone of AWS

This certainly hasn’t been my experience. I’ve found GCP products to be much better/easier to deal with than their AWS counterparts.
Companies basically never get forced to hire a white person to make it more diverse even if doing so would. These laws are not uniformly applied. Understand that.
Ok. How does that compare to the number of lives saved by good drugs?
Kinda sounds like you could benefit from some meditation. :) I jest. Kinda.

I didn't find the content of the article to be deeply insightful, but I did find the writing style to be comical and the purpose of the writing to be, at least partially, noble.

I don't think I'm better off from having read it, but I certainly found it entertaining enough to read as to not experience the concerns I feel you're expressing.
The ars article shows an image of an original encryption table used in some other letters by MQS. It's a quite detailed manual. The researchers apparently did consult that and other known tables in their analysis.

Also mentioned,

"... The authors noted that seven of the eight newly decoded letters turned out to have plaintext copies preserved in British archives, adding, "It would seem that the leak from the embassy was quite effective and comprehensive" ..."

, as there were some spies at the time in the French embassy that were leaking the decoded texts.

Btw, there's doi link at the end of the ars article.
> unless there is a way to decompose something back into useful molecules

There is, and it's called "plasma gasification". The main reason it hasn't become popular is because it's not profitable. But it is a legitimate technique that can enable actual recycling of plastic.

Couple plasma gasification with green energy, and we can use all the plastic we want, as long as we're willing to pay the cost of properly recycling it.
Haha my thinking exactly. I actually read some of Guzey’s crazy ideas on sleep last year, and I am happy to discover he was just going through a phase.
What? Calling Kafka a queue seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding what it is as a tool. Why would you be polling in Kafka for real-time updates to a UI? That's not necessary at all, a topic subscriber will automatically pick up new messages and can send them via web socket. Kafka doesn't mean databases go away, so there's absolutely zero reason for any sort of issues submitting transactions from a user-facing app. It's almost like you're not really talking about Kafka.
Google doesn't run my computer.
Wow; appreciate the transparency dude and thanks for helping build autopilot and fsd.
The only one I know about is Nancy’s, but I think there’s a few of them. The key is to look for "live probiotics" on the label.
I think this is straw-manning the argument.

Imagine it's 2020. There's no vaccine, you are immunocompromised, you caught COVID, and now you are dying.

If I'm dying, is it unethical for me to, with informed consent, try whatever drug I am interested in, regardless of origin, to save my life? Even if there is not evidence for or against such a drug? At that point, I don't care if it's mixing herbs grown on the seventh peak of the Himalayas, I think I should have the right to try whatever I damn well please. Even if Ivermectin is useless, at least my family won't get wrapped up in conspiracy theories that I was denied lifesaving treatment for political reasons.

Obviously, this is different than for people who have COVID and are not dying, but we used to emphasize personal responsibility for stupidity.
it seems that there were plain language versions of some correspondence from Mary to her French contact using those ciphers. However the total number of glyphs is said to be nearly 150,000 ? the article says nothing about combinatorial elements of those glyphs.. it must be that they combine, to get such a big set. also interesting to see that many or most common glyphs like greek were recoded
Totally. I think a year will show the direction but 5-10 years is also fine. AI is a feature, not a product.
Well what do you think about this then: Open a linkedin account, use high privacy settings where you don't show your photo, or use a blank color instead of a photo, and engage with people in the comment sections when it comes to discussing ideas that you are interested in

No hellos, no posting, no BS like that, but eventually you get to know people that way
I'm a colorist. It's dramatically cheaper to emulate than to capture on film. Not even close except for massive productions (tens of millions) where camera dept is a small line item.
I very much doubt it was written by a GPT.
Have you seen the White House refutation somewhere other than in the piece which is the subject of the questioning you’re responding to? If not, that’s a null point.
Yes, the simplest example is crashes being reported.

Developers can see that a specific crash is being hit by 1% of their userbase and then check the logs to see what went wrong and where the cash happened. The fix is made the program is indeed better.
> Spring Boot is the boring and dependable choice, it does basically everything you might need and is not too hard to configure.

Not sure I agree here. One needs to know a good amount about how Spring works before they can start configuring Spring app. Methods annotated with @Bean would look strange to any newcomer, or how about trying to figure out how messaging libs set up works (let's say Kafka) would be very confusing.
Always happy to see more open source options in this space. I maintain a list of similar tools (including OpenZiti) here:

https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
Productivity is for people with no leverage.

Folks in their 20’s usually have little choice beyond grinding harder. In your 30’s you not only have more resources, you’re also more effective with their deployment. But you do have less oomph to give.

I say use the oomph while you have it.
I don't see incentive to host a bunch of stranger's stuff on your machine. The moment you make it easy and "bulletproof", the bad kind of content nobody wants coming from their IP will come with it.
No-one opposes stopping the genocide. The argument is generally that bombing Belgrade was unnecessary (and if anything, a distraction from the UN's failure to prevent the genocide).
If you're down to try new systems you can pick up a Fujifilm xe2 for about 250$, plus a good prime for another 250$, then shoot jpeg + raw and play with Fuji's built in film sims and in camera raw conversion settings to get remarkably film like photos.

It's a whole thing in the Fuji world, see http://fujixweekly.com/

I'm not sure if the xe2 is compatible but you can also edit "on-computer" by having the camera plugged in and using its on camera raw conversion but with the UI on your computer: https://fujifilm-x.com/global/support/download/software/x-ra...

For system agnostic, there's also tons of plugins, profiles, dstyles, LUTs and whatever else you'd like

https://github.com/jade-nl/dt.styles

https://marcrphoto.wordpress.com/

https://onecameraonelens.com/2021/01/12/why-darktable-is-per...

I basically don't edit photos anymore now that I'm with Fuji. It's not like I'm artistically opposed, the extra step was basically ruining photography for me, I simply don't have the time.

I still shoot jpeg + raw though because I may be lazy but I'm not insane :p
But the most important purpose of this app is not to network lol, so it seems to be necessary to think of other ways.
Users sometimes want a factual answer. Usually they want to go to a page. Pages are not just sources of information. People interact with pages to do real stuff connected with off-line activities. E.g. chatty paragraph won't connect me with the government/medical/banking/restaurant/shopping/whatever page I'm too lazy to search for through its own URL and portal.

At best, you can have this: if it looks like the user is typing a question into the search box, an AI-generated side bar can complement the answers.

The web search side of it cannot go away, otherwise you just have a sophisticated Eliza.

If I'm going to see a factual answer, I want external references for those facts before I trust it. I'm likely not a subject matter expert, if I'm asking about something; I can't tell when the AI is bullshitting.

Now if the AI-powered search engine had an intelligent index of all the texts of all the crawled web pages such it could do some basic reasoning about it to serve up those pages based on sophisticated questions (and not simply serve up original prose based on those texts), that could be a game changer.
This sounds simplistic/naive, but have you ever tried just starting a project?

With every project I have an initial reluctance to start. But once I start I usually feel compelled to finish it (these are usually woodworking projects).

Just start. Choose something realistic. Make it consistent. Even just 20 minutes in the morning or evening.

And if you abandon whatever it is - maybe "it" wasn't for you, but you probably learned something. Now do something else.
No good will come from the business model offered by "Open"AI. It is not like the personal computer revolution that created tremendous wealth and opportunity. These companies are not developing "tools" like the personal PC. The models are closed, trained on closed data and cost a fortune to train. All they will ever offer is a paid prompt.
I did use Transmission up until a few years ago. Forget exactly why I switched, but there was some issue with it at the time. qBittorrent has worked great ever since, and I certainly never configured anything more complicated than speed limits.
A different take:

Given who authored this, and who is referencing it, this is now a “thing.”

This being published is for sure going to have an impact on diplomatic relations. Removing it from HN doesn’t stop anyone of relevance in this from seeing it. Presidents, ministers, ambassadors, senators, etc. are probably being briefed on this. The White House is going to have to deal with this regardless of its truthiness.

I suspect countries are going to want answers. The U.S. saying “this is not true” probably isn’t going to cut it for the countries involved.

This story has relevance regardless of its truthiness.
Spodumene mines in Australia already exist at scale. So, the landscape in question has already been opened up for mining, and the question was asked (and answered) in time past.

This isn't really as big a deal as some people like to say here (Oz) where greenfield but plausible coal strip mines are a valid high risk question, and are being aggressively opposed and with good reason.

TL;DR its like the PETA campaign against Kangaroo meat/leather: misplaced activism. The lithium mining environmental concern isn't the problem.
The thing is it isn’t 2020 and we have a lot more data to work with.

Also, medications both useful and not cause harm. Thus the default is to not use them unless there is some reason to believe they are actually useful or you’re conducting research. Yolo it is just a really really bad idea.
It's all Andrej's fault.