skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a spectrum, on one end well adapted, psychologically advantaged individuals, and at the other end people who are more prone to suffering or various difficulties. I cited ray dalio as one of many examples of same, wise stable people. That there is a bell curve is obviously the case. Most people do not meditate daily. Of those that do, the tendency to have psychological issues is greater than in the set of individuals that do not.
Peter Zeihan – US Policy: Russia Gets Blacklisted [video][7 Mins]
Apple is the world's most valuable corporation, they can deal with some criticism.
> There's more than one kind of mindfulness, and more than one kind of vipassana

Definitely true, by itself sati/smrti is a hard-to-translate term.

> Shamatha is "calm abiding", which I think is what the McMindfulness crowd are trying to teach. It should really be treated as a sort of universal preliminary for most other types of meditation. But it's perfectly reasonable to treat shamatha as your main practice (as I did).

I am mostly focussing on some breathing mindfulness meditation and some metta, not much, but enough that I feel a calming effect, and I overall am trying to foster some 'buddhist values' in my life.

> I was told that chöd is a specifically Tibetan practice; I don't know what it would be called in Sanskrit. It's a visualisation practice, in which you imagine chopping up your body and your senses, and make an offering of them. I've never tried it; I was told it's scary. I was also told it's sutrayana, although the visualisation makes it sound vajrayana. I guess chöd is a kind of vipassana?

I heard of meditating on your 'own decaying body' definitely from a theravada context, but was overall warned that meditation objects from the imagination are more risky overall for psychological emergencies.

> sutrayana

That sounds like Bhante Vimalaramsi?
It's not particularly deep or thoughtful, I just realized that the browser interface is not a good place to manage a large list of links. Almost anything else is better. I have tried a few different browser-based bookmark management tools, and they have always been lacking somehow.

I started using Obsidian recently, so I am moving my bookmark archive into there. It's neat because you can right-click>copy a bookmark folder, then paste into Obsidian as markdown links, with the page title as the link text (I think it's Firefox doing this, but not sure. I had to get a "copy as markdown" extension for Chrome). I also use the multi-select "bookmark tabs" feature, and Firefox Sync to move tabs between devices. These three things in combination enable me to make closing tabs a regular, routine thing, because I now know that I can find them again when I need them. Instead of going into the black hole of my bookmark toolbar, they go into an Obsidian vault, a single folder full of markdown files. This means I can use my normal CLI tools and text editor (keyboard instead of mouse is a big part of the appeal here) to search, sort, and organize things.

The detailed organizational principles vary based on the purpose of the bookmarks, and I think that's mostly a personal thing. I don't have some sort of well-defined technique, but for example I now put the "project research link dump" into the "project notes file" (where it obviously belongs, but I was too lazy to do this previously). I have a few different "optimistic learning links" lists, like one for productivity software tools, which I might randomly browse when I have some down time at work. Another for interesting-but-not-important-for-work videos on math, physics, CS.

Now, instead of thousands of links and hundreds of folders, my bookmark toolbar can be used for just a handful of "webpages that I use frequently" - the intended purpose of the bookmark toolbar, as far as I can tell.

Well, now I want to expand on this a bit in a blog post, but I'll have to come back to that.
It's getting better every day!
The study period is from 1999 to 2014.

IF wasn't a mainstream practice then - meaning that the bulk of people who try to eat healthy may have been targeting more meals in that period than recent years.

Just a possible hypothesis.
> horrifically bad TN panel screens

The only 'great' ThinkPad screen is the 14" WQHD (2560x1440)

The others are just...bad. So dim, dull colors, and the low-end screens are sad, terribly washed out TN panels
> So that's interesting. What are advertisers going to do to lure me into watching ads for longer than 6 seconds? Tiktok makes it extremely easy to flip through videos instantly and I'll often (not always) judge I don't like a video in under two seconds.

TikTok will push ads that grab people attention. That will cause ads to become more extreme, what will create a race to the bottom on grab attention ads.

If you though that ads have gotten more obnoxious during the years wait until they are hyper-optimized by the second.
Perhaps he's right but it's a very depressing view of the future.

> "Coding" becomes "I need something to do a thing," rather than "def doSomething: ..."

More likely, corporate overlords will decide that you cannot just "do a thing" but rather that you are allowed to do X, Y and Z things for which they have pre-trained commercial models for.

> As long as the output gives you what you need, the code quality ultimately is an efficiency play. But as AI coding improves, it can refactor itself, so it's a short-term problem.

Have you ever debugged a problem with generated source code? Or even a compiler bug? Now imagine leaving your AI to go find the bug or iterate until the bug disappears hehehe...

> In my own experience coding with an "AI assistant," I've been able to mentally stay in "architecture mode," which makes me feel twice as creative, twice as productive. That alone is a net positive.

IMO, if your work benefits from an AI assistant then your work is to produce many lines of code and you would benefit equally from creating high-level abstractions than from using pre-trained black box models (or as some call them "new hires").
The reason why I can agree with this post, and find it useful, is that the author purposefully limits it to the "mid-career" phase. I think that if you want to grow from the "mid-career" phase to the "end-career" phase you have to put aside your elitism more and more. When you read the Nature papers as an expert you do so in a way that is both extremely directed and, at the same time, extremely open-minded to what you find. You can't truly grasp open-mindedness if you think you are better than other people.
Don’t worry, the AI can write the tests too
Thinking for yourself doesn't mean blurting out things that'll get you clubbed. Think for yourself, construct the most accurate view of the world and the people in it you can, run little trials and experiments if you have to, and then say the string of words that will get the leader clubbed.
Disagree. The appendix is (supposedly) useless, but faith does bring some utility, just in an oblique way. Faith drives common belief systems, which drive social cohesion.
Exactly, that's what I'm talking about. It's much easier to take a niche on land than ocean.
Your bodies requirements will constantly be changing based on your age and lifestyle. Fine tuning your diet is a personal experiment that never ends so any absolute is dumb.
Of course. I was wondering how eating less could cause death. That "academy" is sponsored by Wendy's and Coca-cola.

The organization also publishes nutrition facts sheets for the general public, which food companies pay $20,000 to take part in writing the documents.[77] A list of these publications for the general public include:

What's a Mom to Do: Healthy Eating Tips for Families sponsored by Wendy's.[78]
Lamb: The Essence of Nutrient Rich Flavor sponsored by the Tri-Lamb Group.[79]
Cocoa and Chocolate: Sweet News! sponsored by the Hershey Center for Health and Nutrition.[80]
Eggs: A Good Choice for Moms-to-Be sponsored by the American Egg Board.[81]
Adult Beverage Consumption: Making Responsible Drinking Choices sponsored by the Distilled Spirits Council.[82]

This industry funding also gives food companies the ability to offer official educational seminars to teach dietitians how to advise their clients in a way that advances the interests of the food company. For instance, in a Coca-Cola sponsored seminar for dietitians, the speaker promoted free sugars consumption for children as a healthy choice.[83]"
"IMPORTANT: BY USING YOUR MAC PRODUCT, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THE APPLE 1 YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY (“WARRANTY”) AS SET OUT BELOW...."

If the product is that reliable, why not offer a 3-5 year warranty?
I can choose to believe that graph, or I can choose to believe it's getting something wrong and the majority of people want to get up relatively early. For whatever reason that may be. If the early risers were indeed such a minority, how exactly are they forcing the vast majority to conform?
There’s zero actual genetic evidence the lineage talked about in the article started with him or even that he had it.

As to estimates, going from 4 sons to ~40,000,000 people in ~30 generations is going to take a lot more than slight bias.

The original estimate was clearly including both male and female dependents then removing duplicates. But, like so often happens people keep reporting vaguely inaccurate versions of the same idea so it mutates. This genetic group is simply close enough to the old story that it seems to vaguely fit.
An interesting treatise but I don’t fully agree with the statement that gathering data or stating a goal is easy. Getting quality data is arguably the hardest part of ML. Getting people to fully describe their intentions and all edge cases (“requirements”) in a clear manner is also the one of the hardest parts of software development - which is why things like agile exist. Maybe at the granular function or module level, but business requirements are not easy.
Indeed:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_paint

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
Spain officials quit over trains that were made too wide for tunnels
My read wasn’t a defense of Apple and in fact I agree with the criticism. My read was that it’s tired and dull to keep harping on exactly the same feedback for a decade as though it’s unique.

Clickbait headline “I replaced my MacBook with a thinkpad gasp” then people click thinking there will be something interesting, but it’s the same old stuff.
Because code is easier to verify.
Where I live, the police were told not to enforce the law to keep scooters off the sidewalk. Came from the mayor of Oakland, CA. I engaged with the Mayor's staff and they confirmed it, but soon after that they ghosted me. (Yes, I was always very polite.)
I think the ones that "go deeper" are doing so because they don't know what else to do, what the next step is. But they have achieved some "success", so they keep doing it. It also feeds the rise of new gurus that think they are helping by spreading the message, but they are merely feeding a new ego. There are so many teachers and online gurus hoping to turn it into a vocation.
My point isn't about how good or bad this is being done. Humans, at least some of the time, attempt to assess truth and accuracy of things. LLMs do not attempt to do this.

That's why I think it's incorrect to say they're bad at it. Even attempting it isn't in their behavior set.
As I mentioned above, an insult is not actually a form of rational argument.

Science works. Religion doesn't. When I want someone to fix my broken arm or build a bridge, or pretty well anything else I would want to do, I'm going to go with the system that works.

You cannot just brush that part aside!
I mocked Apple's focus on weight and portability and thinness until I got a recent Macbook pro for work. Holy shit they are heavy! Be careful what you wish for, I suppose!
Don't bother with that video, he completely ignores the software aspects of the boards.
The big difference is that WeWork spent a bunch of time arguing that you shouldn't value them based on the actual financials of their business. Whereas Uber pursued a risky but honest strategy of winning market share with the intention of recovering margins once they were the incumbent. The whole community EBITDA thing was just a transparent attempt to trick people into thinking there was financial value in the business when there wasn't. And to be clear, Neumann's new start up is trying exactly the same thing, waving his hands in the air about how fulfilling his tenants are going to be plunging their own toilets and how that will create financial value.
No, it's not a false dichotomy. Yes, you need to build knowledge via a body of memorized facts, but "the education system" currently hyperindexes on rote memorization, which only works for some types of learners, not all.

This assignments requires applied critical thinking and applying tools (yes, including memorized knowledge) to evaluate a paper. This requires working with multiple tools, and will also help the student retain more knowledge; perhaps more than just with rote memorization where you just "discard" the knowledge after your exam (by not interacting with or keeping up with it).
Eating three meals with a shorter meal interval has higher all-cause mortality than eating three meals with a longer meal interval.

It's not saying anything about 3 meals vs. any other number of meals.
A lot of people doing intermittent fasting are not obese. In fact a large portion of the people I know who do it are more athlete/biohacker types (I fall into this bucket myself)
How long until someone puts this into a Tesla and builds a level 5 FSD car?
Alright, so you get numbers from a json file in a ftp servers, you use scipy.newton to perform root finding on it, but needs the number of steps to be outputted as well (which newton() doesn't return), and you will save the result in a postgres table.

All this should be send to a task queue, triggered by a call to your REST API.

Good luck with purity.
Maybe the brain is smart, once you know meditation works, it then anticipates it to work. The expectation of it working interferes with the actual mindfulness and you take longer and longer.

Is a law of diminishing utility thing and also a basic instinct for people to get used to stuff the more they are exposed
You could do that 20 years ago with RPG Maker.
Showing up on time for work/school/etc., early in the morning, is a sign of grit and determination. It's virtue signaling, from the Before Times when "virtue signaling" wasn't right-wing dogwhistle for "I resent anyone who puts in effort not to come off as a bigoted asshole". We live in a society, which judges us according to ancient agricultural-society standards according to which those who sleep in late when there's chickens to be fed and cows to be milked are lazy; and the health benefits that accrue from such signaling (i.e., the ability to feed yourself and your family and secure a more comfortable life for them) outweigh the health deficits of getting up early itself.
> They found that treatment restored the density of pyramidal neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain associated with attention and long-term memory. As a result, mice with methamphetamine-induced cognitive impairment treated with the drug also performed better on visual discrimination tests.

Interesting.
Compiling C for the Web
I was wondering when we’d see this.

There are so many variables in these things, that it’s damn near impossible to do truly neutral studies; especially if there’s any money to be made.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ahgjEjJkZks
It still feels like we are far from valuations normalizing back to earth.

I have a neighbor who co-founded a startup in a space I know fairly well.
It is something of a niche space, with some publicly traded incumbents.

The startup is over 10 years old, and has now raised more capital than the entire market cap of the comparable publicly traded incumbent.

So presumably someone has their investments in this startup booked at 10-20x the valuation of the public incumbent?

They even managed to raise another round of money in the last 6 months, equal to something like 50% of the incumbent total market cap.
It's the other way round most of the time - partners select / nudge based on social proof and "intuition" and the analysts provide ex-post analysis to justify it with "hard data"
The unique/new concern is less about legitimacy in the political/culture war sense and more about investment risk. Companies like Disney and FAANGs getting caught in the middle of political battles is different in kind and, if it accelerates, will make the US a much riskier place to deploy capital.
The historical record isn't saved as Adobe Illustrator and InDesign files.

Final products are saved in things like PDF's which continue to work just fine.
I don't think intermittent fasting is 'weight loss dieting'

In my limited personal experience, it's not obese people i see doing intermittent fasting - it's more like the keto crowd.
About 5-minutes into first trying a ThinkPad ever

The trick is to use the stick as a Force sensor, instead of treating it like a capacitive Position stick on console controllers. In other words, you use your skin to "pull" the stick transversely so that the shearing force maximizes the feedback to your fingertip's cutaneous nerves.

The common mistake for those who gave up after 5 seconds of trying is attempting to "push" against the stick which is very difficult to do because there is barely any height to the nub, and in order to reverse directions you'd then need to shift your fingertip to get leverage on the opposite side of the dome.

When you instead use the shearing technique, it enables considerable finesse over not just the magnitude but also rapid modulation of the direction you are applying it in, effectively using the skin itself as both a sensor and a transducer.

Also remember to turn off the operating system's mouse acceleration, and turn up the driver's pressure sensitivity to max.
Why would you start a startup in an economic downturn?
Just because Apple wants to increase their profit margins, by enforcing planned obsolescence and creating e-waste on scales that are beyond comprehension, does not mean that everyone else should just ignore it and shut up about it.

It's not Apple's way or the highway, there is room for criticism and change.

There are also millions of Apple customers who have no idea that Apple is actively going out of their way to ensure that the devices they own can't be upgraded. Pretending that everybody knows how strict Apple is about planned obsolescence is not a given.
Exactly. All those talks are always going to tell you the same things:

- limit side effects to your program boundaries

- abstract boundaries with utility functions

- mock program boundaries for integration tests in those utility functions

And then they pretend they didn't see the mock part.
My work-issued 2015 MBP is still going strong. But I have heard there have been models where they had more issues.
> No, it's not a false dichotomy. Yes, you need to build knowledge via a body of memorized facts, but "the education system" currently hyperindexes on rote memorization, which only works for some types of learners, not all.

Honestly, that's not how I recall it. Maybe it's changed, but I internalized "memorization is a waste of time," and I'm pretty sure I picked that up at a young age from teachers (though I could have misunderstood/overgeneralized).
It's always sad to see this attitude. Copyright is pretty much the only tool that artists and software coders have to protect their rights and get paid. Do you think someone will pay large amounts for software if they can make a copy for free?

Now, you'll probably bring up open source. It's a great example, but it proves my point not yours. Copyright law makes all of the open source licenses possible. Without it, open source languishes and often fails.

So quit being a jerk. If you don't like some company's product enough to pay for it, don't steal it. Just go find some that's either free enough or good enough. Quit hating on the artists, the writers and the coders for wanting to eat and wear clothes.
" .. no funding to disclose" tells me all I need to know about this feeble attempt as mis/disinformation that the food cartel is orchestrating.

yawn .. next.
Of course there can be evidence.
Very few people actually manage root programs: Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and maybe one or two others in smaller niches. Everybody else either uses the platform's store or ships an approximation (the certificate list and some basic constraints, but missing the more complex policies implemented in mozilla::pkix) to Mozilla 's store.

That includes Debian, so probably also Ubuntu. Dunno about Red Hat but it's probably the same.
Rather unfortunately, the paper is behind a paywall but the results use this phrase:

the multivariable-adjusted HRs for participants

That suggests to me that they controlled for BMI or other proxies for obesity.
This is the elephant in the room with MUCH of the healthcare system. They report drug X or treatment Y resulted in a 40% improvement of outcome for patient.

But what they don't say is people who didn't take the drug but avoided obesity and excess Alcohol, Drugs, Tobacco had a 70% better outcome.
Microsoft's Pluton Security Co-Processor Support Merged into Linux 6.3
BINGO.

There are probably some genetic night-owls or something, but I bet 95+% of night owls would be "cured" in a week flat if they were allowed no glowing screens past sundown and their typical stupid-bright room lighting were replaced with warm-temp handheld lights at ~2-4 candle equivalent (actual, not "candle power")

Modern sleeplessness is an epidemic born of hyper-palatable on-tap nigh-infinite entertainment, and far-too-bright nighttime lighting, more than anything else. It's mainly due to how incredibly stimulating our home environments are now, unprecedented ever before. Even an emperor didn't have this kind of entertainment available 24/7 on a whim—the closest equivalent would be an emperor in the middle of hosting a huge, expensive festival, but we've got that at our fingertips every hour of every day. No fucking wonder we can't sleep!
Not fair to blame Zuckerberg for this.
> I think we need to train people to write formal specifications

I don't think that is really a matter of training. You have to start with people who can think clearly; if they can't think clearly, it's hopeless to expect them to produce formal specs. Very few people can think clearly about difficult subjects.

Of course, you can train people to improve the clarity of their thinking. I think that should be the main purpose of an undergraduate degree.

Writing a formal spec is analagous to writing a program; if you can't program, your program won't work. So writing a formal spec proves that you can think clearly; but if you can think clearly, you can write a program without first writing a formal spec.
> a laptop that you can upgrade

When you want to "upgrade" from a broken SSD to a functional one, you still need to replace basically the whole device. So yeah, we need to continue to complain until companies stop being anti-user and anti-repair.
A lot of people are way too ready to believe that meaningful gatekeeping exists on the internet and the modern world more generally whether it's dot-org, publishing a book, publishing on Medium, having a slick website, etc.
How does it work when they are embedded in a PDF?

Does the renderer have explicit support for these fonts or are they embedded in a way that transcends the format itself?
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evolution is not exactly intelligent. It's close, but doen't quite make it. It doesnt take an intelligence to guess at an intelligent solution if it doesnt require intelligence to test that solution. Intelligence, in such a problem domain, is basically a measure of how many wrong guesses occur between correct ones.