skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have quite a lot of experience with meditation. I've done thousands of hours, including more than ten retreats that involved sitting for as many as 18 hours per day.

I've also done many healing modalities, including somatic experiencing.

From my perspective, we have taken "Buddhism" and "meditation" and we have done what us Westerners almost always do: we boil it down into "stuff that does stuff" and "everything else".

We are so intensely and impatiently interested in "doing stuff".

So, we have taken a tradition/religion that has existed for thousands of years, includes many practices and parts, and we have pulled out the part that "does stuff", and we call that mindfulness.

But, if you really look at the tradition itself, particularly in non-Zen forms of Buddhism, what you often see is what are called "preliminary practices". Used to, if the Westerner goes east in search of meditation instruction, he or she has to get special permission to skip the preliminary practices.

And what our preliminary practices? In the West we call that therapy.

So, this really important thing, that one must do therapy and what they would call in the East "purification" before one is ready to start meditating has been tossed aside because it doesn't yield immediate results like a few days of mindfulness.

In addition, the traditions are almost totally unaware of our understanding of trauma and the best they can do is use the language of "demons".

So, I'm aware of "mindful-based stress reduction", but I'm not intimately familiar with it. It doesn't make sense to me why someone would use mindfulness to reduce stress or in place of a therapeutic or trauma modality.

I mean, sometimes it is way more comfortable to not be aware of things than to be aware of things. And, in my experience, becoming aware of oneself is just a bunch of not fun realizations, including realizations like "I'm a people pleaser" or "I always sabotage relationships in a similar way".

These realizations are not fun because just seeing the truth or the pattern doesn't change it, so you sit and watch yourself doing the same shit over and over and not quite having the power to change it... That requires much deeper meditation and awareness.

At any point in this process, one can become too aware and too burdened with one's issues, and that can result in all kinds of stuff including breakdown and psychosis.

At the end of the day, meditation and mindfulness and all the rest is basically just the matrix movie... Don't take the red pill unless you really want the red pill because sleepwalking through life unaware of one's issues and happily eating the steak that isn't there is sometimes more pleasant.

Meditation is for those who want the truth, regardless of whether it feels good or not. For everyone else, there's therapy.
Personally I feel that Scheme (Racket or some other implementation) is in many ways better language compared to e.g. Common Lisp. Simpler and more intuitive (at least IMO) compared to Common Lisp which is in scale of Java or C++ when it comes to the size of the standard/language. This can be of course explained due to the nature of Common Lisp and how its, according to its standard's author, more about politics than art, since when Common Lisp was being planned they needed to accomodate many features from many different Lisps before it. But despite that, when it comes to real-world code, in my own experience, Common Lisp and especially SBCL takes the cake.
In my experience, rich people are rich because they know how to manage their money (in addition to earning it, building it). It's only the people that care about status (i.e. appearing rich) that flaunt their money around.

That's before you even add in customers like startups that need to budget with other peoples money (burn rate).
It's a myth. See: https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap2200/ch2200-notice.pdf on page 9 "Variants for the © Symbol".
Meditation is empirically associated with some degree of danger in some subset of the population:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-science-behind-b...

Doesn't sound unfalsifiable to me.
Way to go! This looks cool.
On almost all yes, but the stop sign has a unique shape.
The Audi Q4 and the VW id.4 are basically identical cars. The Q4 has a lot more buttons than the id.4, but the reviews I've seen say it makes it worse, not better.
“Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment chop wood, carry water.” We need the mundane earthly activities to balance any inward quests.
They may think they have the same diet, but I bet they're eating less, simply due to different portion sizes. If they're going to the same type of restaurants and ordering the same thing as in the US, they're almost certainly consuming fewer calories simply because they're getting less food pr. order. Even when buying food at the supermarket, portion sizes can differ dramatically. "1 pork chop" or "1 chicken breast" is much smaller on average in Sweden for example than in the US.
There's probably a modest financial incentive in interactive agencies to avoid dynamically updating dates so a client comes to you at least once a year for some cleanup work where you can try and sell them on new work.

But from a legal perspective (IANAL) my understanding is that dynamically updating copyright dates in and of itself is probably never a legal problem, but the issue is dates in other legal boilerplate (random disclaimers under a financial services company or health disclaimers on a pharmaceuticals ad, for example).

I think the lawyers' thought process about never wanting dynamically updated dates anywhere is that if the web workers get in the habit of dynamically updating copyright dates, they're going to apply the same logic to any of the other legal disclaimers on a corporate site, which could turn out badly. There might be a financial regulation active in one year that's not required in the next. There might a change in FDA regulations and updating the year with the old regs still on the site might be seen as a false health claim, etc. A dynamically updated date in a legal disclaimer can be a major problem.

The safest thing to do to avoid a big screwup is to tell the developers "no dynamically updated dates" ever.
"we don't hire the unlucky"
What? But we just make eye contact and wave to let someone know they can start to cross? Also I thought when you were turning off a main road onto a side road, pedestrians already had right of way?
Being mindful can open scary doors for sure... but something about the article gives me the vibes of depersonalization opesode of sort. Perhaps the effect of Marijuana + Mindfulness + Other stuff?

I say that because a while back I started using CBD oil (yes, I bought into awesome benefits in listicles!) AND it triggered the worst 3 weeks of my life ever! Endless stream of panic attacks, paranonia and Depersonalization-Derealization [1].

I'm never touching CBD again!

[1]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization-derealizatio...
There are often first-hand comments about the dangers of mindfulness practice here on HN. But when the commenters describe their practices they are so extreme that it was almost inevitable that they had negative effects.
No one is betting on this. The implied interest rate for end of year based on market data is 5%
Was going to post this. There are reasons we have brains with selective attention instead of constant mindfulness, and a whole spectrum of disorders that arises when that sort of a filter breaks down. (I am lucky. I don’t have it bad.) Unfiltered mindfulness of this sort sounds like basically the same thing.
> People seriously underestimate just how much disinflation there's been in food prices when compared to the rest of the market. And that actually means there's more food. For everyone.

Definitely. In 1900, the typical American family spend 43% of its income on food. In 1950, it was 30%. By 2003, it had dropped to 13%.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/04/how-ame...
Oops, disregard the double title.
Pretty cool that all three of your customers[0] have also tried their hand at modeling!

* https://pixabay.com/images/search/womanpower/

* https://pixabay.com/photos/old-man-people-pensioner-wrinkles...

* https://unsplash.com/photos/W7pk4FfrSY0

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[0]: https://dropover.cloud/d018d9#ca9916e1-b91c-4818-a6c3-92a644...
(Crystal Lang) Athena Framework 0.18.0
If anyone visits LA I recommend hiking to the sign. The trail goes right behind the sign and the view is amazing on both sides.
Twitter’s checkmark scheme is a mess
Realisation of no self (anatta) would be canonically fit into vipssana meditation whereas mindfulness (sati) is something done for concentration practice
Your comment made me wonder if there's anyone out there with regularly-taken long-persistence (tape, optical media, etc.) backups in their personal basement.

It seems a very specific Venn intersection to utilize technology to a high degree, but also to imagine and prepare for its worst case failure.

Maybe the NZ tech-prepper crowd?
When the iPhone launched (all display), journalist said it’d fail due to lack of tactile buttons (Blackberry).
Responding to someone actively expressing interest in your product by offering them a demo definitely doesn't qualify as "turning it into a greasy sales pitch". They've clearly built the product to be a low touch experience so offering to run through it with someone is actually very pro-active of them.
Your work is copyrighted no matter what you put in it (at least in countries that have adopted the Berne Convention). The reason you want to put a copyright line in source code is to remind the reader that it is in fact copyrighted. I think `(c) ACME Ltd.` is a perfectly reasonable formula for that purpose, but `Copyright ACME Limited. All rights reserved` or `© www.acme.ltd` should also work – pick whatever feels more suitable. IANAL
Please do. I'd much rather see a system built in React with explicit logic, math, and names, than an implicit pile of obfuscated rules that are impossible to tweak without causing a cascading failure.
Basics of Systems Thinking and Causal Loop Diagrams
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Eu

Creating a "maps" website and not even knowing EU stands for European Union, then listing many countries from Europe but not from EU under top 20 EU, is the peak disinformation and lack of understanding of basic geography.
Some feedback:

- I skimmed the whole page and screenshots and I still don’t have a clue how it actually works. You need a video/gif of the thing being used.

- I hate the title font, it’s too wide and doesn’t fit the aesthetic

- The info text below one of the carousel things kept changing with the carousel, making it impossible to read.

- The quotes and photos are clearly fake, which makes the whole thing feel kinda scammy
So they're likelier to crash and likelier to kill other people.... we need regulation for this.
What a weird process. What other weird processes might they have? This is potentially a big reputation hit.
It's not just cars. Other places I've seen this is large home appliances, with recent examples being inwall ovens and washer/dryer.

On the oven front, the high end GE ones[0] have a display. It looks fine from pictures, but when you're trying to interact with it, it's just slow. It has a design flaw of just an unresponsive touch screen. But buttons you want easy access to aren't always there. (This can maybe get better if they fixed the implementation, but right now it's terrible).

On the washer dryer front, I've been using two recently so I could compare. One is an old Maytag with a physical dial. The other is a semi new Samsung that has buttons but uses a display. With the Samsung, you always have to push and hold the power on off button. The Maytag you can just turn the dial and then hit start. The Maytag is just overall faster to interact with.

I feel like these large appliance makers see displays as a selling point, but then they produce very suboptimal implementations that are terrible and the downgrade from the previous experience. I really wish they would spend more time on UX, rather than style.

[0] https://www.geappliances.com/appliance/GE-Profile-30-Smart-B...
As someone who doesn't want to navigate the touchscreens, I love that my 2021 Highlander has physical climate controls.

But I also realized that you no longer need them. My wife set her climate control to 70 degrees and never touched it since. In the winter it warms her up, in the summer it cools her down. Her car is a perfect 70 degrees all year round.

So for her, it doesn't matter how inaccessible the controls are, she never uses them. I suspect at least in part, the less accessible design reflects the lower usage.
I'm sure somebody is making good money with the push.

Meanwhile, previous proponents like NSA are moving to "post-quantum crypto" (as in, non-quantum crypto that resists attacks by hypothetical quantum computers):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_key_distribution#Depre...
The Ford Maverick has pretty much all physical controls, but still supports Android Auto and Apple Carplay. They are pretty difficult to get though at the moment.
This has to be a joke. If you truly believe that you can make a killing by betting on it.
Who knows, maybe they stuck 65 mile/hour speed limit sign over a stop sign.

That wouldn't fool a person. People use a massive amount of contextual data, historical knowledge, and common sense to interpret the world around them. A random out-of-place sign like a 65mph marker at a junction where a stop sign might be isn't enough to trick someone.

Self-driving cars probably won't ever be as good as a person at this. That's fine because we're able to accept a small risk if the reward is enough of a benefit. Law-makers should be considering it and making "tampering with a road sign" a much more serious explicit crime that's worse than just basic vandelism though.
Just wait till you see how hard it is to use the arch repos on puppy linux!

The Redhat folks develop software for Redhat. The software will run fine on any other distro with up to date kernels and systemd versions, but there's no guarantee that it does because it's not Redhat's business to work on the OS of their competitors.

If Debian and Ubuntu are too slow to update, that's completely out of Redhat's control. They chose to pin an older version of a piece of software developed in a much more rolling release schedule, it's up to them to fix the incompatibilities their choice introduced. The whole point of an LTS is that you use one older version for several years.

I expect Podman 4.4 to be available in Ubuntu 23.10, as 23.04 is a bit close (current repos list 3.4.4, the version used in 22.04 and 22.10). If Ubuntu can't move fast enough to include it in 23.10, then that's Ubuntus's fault more than anything. You should also consider that Canonical sells their own competing container ecosystem (Charmed/microk8s) to businesses so not supporting their competitors' software may be intentional.

If you want Podman 4.4 but don't want to use Redhat distributions, Arch and derivatives already have it ready to go. You'll also get much more recent versions of the Linux kernel and systemd as a nice bonus.
> Explaining to ChatGPT what to produce will still be a bottleneck

And a specialised skill. Still cheaper than maintaining a fleet of coders.
SCOTUS Justices will decide if tech giants can be sued for allegedly aiding ISIS
Exactly!

The same thing plays out with psychedelics. Many cultures have thousands of years of passed down knowledge with a community of elders to guide people through a trip. In the west we think we can replicate the same thing, sitting at home with a friend who has no clue what they are doing when things go bad.
I found it funny. It’s a tongue in cheek opener and imho, you guys take it way too literal. I can relate to the feeling that people in the past (at least the vast majority) were kinda stupid, because they were uneducated in many things. Of course, stupidity and education are different things.

People in 500 years will probably say the same about us. "Look at these morons from the year 2023. Most of them were dumb and wasted their lives."
Apple offers one if i'm not mistaken.
I cannot tell if that was sarcasm, but in case not: so if a king declares, he has "unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty" and is basically a god and wants to worshiped as such, than this is demanding appropriate admiration and not getting laughed at as narcism?
Hey, you've got me! How about to try a product and let me know your experience?
I believe we can omit the copyright notice completely by Berne convention but there are advantages to keeping the copyright notice at least to show who the copyright owner is and what the first year of publication was, if not more. Explicit is better than implicit.
Previous high interest rate environments were accompanied by population growth and increases in labor productivity. I don't think there is any historical comparison to a high rate, no population/productivity growth scenario. I think at the very least those conditions won't provide for GDP increases but I also think capital re-allocation throughout the economy seems necessary to return to "healthy" growth conditions.
Most other EU countries have no-fault insurance; you don't need to establish whose fault the accident was in the EU.
Seems like a pretty good resource, but it's more of an aggregator than some kind of discussion board. The value in HN is the insightful and thoughtful comments.
Sure, and people lie on surveys used in studies too. Only some percentage lie like this though.
Show HN: A powerful prompt I discovered for landing page copy from ChatGPT
I had been procrastinating a lot while listing my micro SaaS to listing websites that needed unique descriptions.

Until I thought of using ChatGPT as an intern to create the copy. Hoping this prompt helps someone.

"Write landing page copy using the '6 W's' framework to convert leads into customers. Identify [ideal customer persona] as the target audience, clearly describe our [product/service] and what it does, highlight any time-sensitive aspects of our offer or the problem it solves, specify where the product or service can be purchased or used, clearly explain the benefits and value of our [product/service], and explain how the product or service works and how the customer can obtain it. Include variables such as [product/service], [unique selling point], and [desired action]."

Here's how I used the prompt - with information about my SaaS - <https://hirevire.com>

Write landing page copy using the '6 W's' framework to convert leads into customers. Identify business owners who are hiring as the target audience, clearly describe hirevire and what it does, highlight any time-sensitive aspects of our offer or the problem it solves, specify where the product or service can be purchased or used, clearly explain the benefits and value of our screening automation software, and explain how the product or service works and how the customer can obtain it. Include variables such as collecting audio video and text responses from candidates, buy once and get a lifetime deal, and having more time to talk to the best candidates.

Here's the (slightly edited) response
<https://twitter.com/hSanat/status/1627533893871214592?s=20>
Also, several European countries approved thalidomide, while the US did not.
I think these things work in tightly knit societies where everyone more or less knows each other and these “criminal” behaviors were found to be universally unacceptable.

In a modern society with a high degree of anonymity the after effects of having to wear a mask would be minimal. Unless you have some kind of a formal “social credit” system. But even these it would only affect certain stratums.
Artcore – a music download site I built
Hi,

At the beginning of 2022 I decided to have a go at building and running my own music website.

As a hobbyist producer and DJ, I spent a lot of time browsing and buying music from Bandcamp, Beatport, Juno etc.

I felt there was a lot of room for improvement and that's what inspired me to build Artcore.

It's a music download platform/marketplace, similar to Bandcamp but with more features to suit DJs and electronic music (although any genre of music is welcome).

The areas of improvement include search and metadata, a more full featured player, multiple carts and label/artist royalties.

After 9 months of development, I started a closed beta launch at the beginning of the 2023 and I opened it publicly last week.

The url is https://artcore.com.

Please check it out!

Happy to answer questions about the website and the journey so far and would also love to hear your feedback and suggestions.

Peace!

Tom :-)
You can set a ceiling on temperature or just simply dictate a low setting to insure repeatable performances by the LLM. This could be on your reading list as well: https://sites.google.com/view/automatic-prompt-engineer
Amazon pulls Geert Vanden Bossche's new book without explanation
My personal hypothesis is “night owl”-ism is not as widespread as it seems (not to say it is not existent), but instead, our society makes it easier to be a night owl. I have had times in my life where I am out of bed at 5, at 8, at 11, and all have felt reasonable at the time. But definitely it is harder to be out of bed at 5 in today’s society.

Artificial lights, entertainment, modern lifestyle, and socializing all keep us up later than we ever would be in our natural state. How many night owls do you think there would be if we did not work indoors all day, had no light past sundown, no television or sporting events to watch, no bars or parties to attend, and no addictive activities to engage in? When considering this, it is easy to conclude that one is a night owl.

Just as the night owl feels ostracism for being unable to perform at early meetings and suffers throughout their youth, many early birds feel similar ostracism, because they want to sleep when night life is coming alive. I imagine these “coincidences” create vastly different outcomes in life for people based on their biological inclinations. It’s something we should be cognizant of.
Or heaven forbid, browser-native controls. So many building blocks in a SPA are required because you are not using the browser's native functionality. Instead everything is re-implemented worse.
> are safe—as long as

This does not sound like "safe" to me.
dups:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34876082 (>= 241 points )

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34877249 (>= 72 points )
The day Steve Jobs sentenced Flash to death.
> Clock time and sun time don't always match

This. I made an app to help: https://sunclock.net
Heya, thanks for your feedback. I definitely make a demo video showing how it works. I will look into UI as well, there's surely a lot to make it better!

As for quotes I think that's really bad idea, probably remove them until I get a real ones
Yeah, I agree. It starts out all "Woah, I was arrogant as hell to believe that everyone who lived in the past was very dumb" and moves right on into "these ignorant backwards spiritualists believe in nonsense, but purely by coincidence that nonsense happens to actually be effective and if I reframe it in the clearly superior terms of secular western society it can make sense".
Some seeds can't survive such deceleration.