skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My most intense mindfulness experience was on a two-week silent retreat, in the woods, isolated from all of humanity. At the beginning, I met only the creatures of the forest and heard only the whispers of the trees.

By the sixth day I was hallucinating gold and purple snakes slithering out of my belly onto the ground around me.

By the eighth day I had visions of a cloud island vista with animals the world had never seen. They were cautious but friendly, and rode with me until the end of my journey that day.

By the twelfth day, I could see nothing but heard the most beautiful music. Melodies and harmonies fluttered and floated across my audible plane, bringing an intense sense of peace and joy.

When I left that place, I was a changed spirit. I may have been alone in physical form, but the universe embraced my inner self and showed me the path to enlightenment.
But you don't eat those.
I'm also building two SaaS products, but full-time. It's really not easy, but I wanted to identify what people were interested in. Going all out on a single project can feel like spinng your wheels.

It has helped knowing that the new project I started on will have a lot of reusable code for the existing one.
Because it's run by the government?
Microsoft owes the responsibilty to ship a secure Exchange server product to downstream service providers or quickly remove that product as they are doing to their previous web browser from the market place.
> heard that my company had issues with some Indian workers who moved in, when they expected HR to find them a flat

This just seems to be a case of mismatch in expectations. Companies around the world provide expatriate relocation packages. The idea being expats wouldn't be familiar with how things are done in a foreign countries.

I don't understand why you think this was relevant to the topic.
I've got a 2012 MacBook Air which I bought second hand (maybe third or fourth hand, or more?) for $300 a couple years ago. The hinge is floppy probably due to being dropped several times, the FaceTime is busted, I replaced the battery but it still runs out in less than 2 hours, and I don't think macOS even gets security patches for the version it's running - but install Linux and it's _fine_, plus it's tiny.

I could probably run it as a rudimentary media server if I didn't already have one, or palm it off to a young kid who doesn't care that it's a bit banged up, or use it as a machine of last resort. I don't use it like I use my M2 MacBook Air and would never suggest someone daily drive it unless they had no other choice, but I can't justify throwing it away because it's completely solid and still works. I could also probably get $100-150 out of it if I really wanted to sell it - if anyone can tell me of another 10 year old laptop with resell value like that I'd like to know.

I don't think I've owned a non-Apple laptop for more than 3 years, with the exception of a particularly long-lived Lenovo laptop I got in 2013. Every other one has had critical hardware die that I didn't feel inclined to replace mainly due to costs outweighing benefits. Except for a few weird years in the late 2010s, Apple makes stunningly reliable and long-lasting hardware in my experience.
Benefits of Staying Off Social Media
There are quite a few articles explaining the benefits of staying off social media.
Yes, which is exactly the problem. Thinking for yourself, a vital skill, has been surrendered to scam artists. This doesn't just harm misinformed people, it also harms science as a field.
Personally, I prefer the X1E trackpad over the feel of the trackpad on my dell XPS on or my friends' macbook M1s.
Generative AI for Your Business
Do you meditate? Because if it leads to an attitude like you're displaying, it's not a great advertisment.
>It's crazy that we're doing "innocent until proven guilty" with food additives. Should be the other way around

Even this story doesn't say that were doing that.

>(FDA) said all food additives require "pre-market evaluation" and "regulations require evidence that each substance is safe at its intended level of use before it may be added to foods."

You can argue the evaluations aren't strict enough, but saying we're doing "innocent until proven guilty" isn't true.
The whole glow? Treat it classically, it's mostly a solid-state physics problem. One individual photon, treated quantum mechanically? From a single inelastic interaction between a free electron and a metal cation. That origin marks one end of the photon's worldline. Repeating for large numbers of photons will make you quickly bored, so you'll probably want to look into the Stefan-Boltzmann law (which still includes the constant c and Planck's constant) and the concepts in Bohr's correspondence principle and effective theory.

More at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule_heating> if you're curious.
Especially in the US food industry, known for its extremely skilled workforce and exacting quality standards...
There's no Buddhism in the West, but in name.

Buddhism is a religion associated with a way of life and a culture. It's not something a businessman does on a "weekend retreat" as "mindfulness practice" to get back in the rat race refreshed.
The article is about mortal computers which don't sound very interesting or special. I mean you can build analog computers today and do backpropagation on them and slap the mortal label on them as if it was some consumer brand. The "mortal computer" is a red herring.

What I find far more interesting is that he presumably had discovered an alternative to backpropagation.
If you want to a) have a huge external device connected all the time, b) destroy your battery with constant charge cycles so badly that you need to replace it every few months, and c) want to be unable to charge other devices from your laptop.
I was curious about how you'd include this as a web component?
Float positioning was too responsive.
It's definitely something a Thai business man would do though.
Ask HN: What do you do in your coding job as a senior which a fresher can't?
I have noticed that as a result of the vast ecosystem of open source software, web application development has become extremely rapid, to the point that a person fresh out of college can, in a few weeks become a productive backend or frontend developer to the extent that they can compete with their more experienced colleagues on delivering projects in time.

Is this situation unique to my company or is this true elsewhere as well? What can a senior engineer do to ensure they don't become irrelevant and replaced by cheap freshers?
Realistically it should be around half that.

The average driver needs 45 hours worth of lessons. Add to that the cost of a provisional license, the theory test, and the driving test and it’s around £1,300.
Good point, time is definitely a factor here!
> isn't exactly a ringing endorsement

Why not? Consider it a DIY kit, not a product, and you'll be happy. People build their own IKEA furniture with countless mods applied to it, why not do the same with a laptop? The framework is popular for a reason.
OECD stats. In 2019 (so before covid costs), as % of GDP.

AU - 10.23

NL -10.14

DK - 10.121

UK - 9.875

FI - 9.172

NZ - 9.049

(Also France, Germany, US, Sweden, Canada, Belgium, Austria etc all higher)
These days it’s hard to ignore the fact that Linux enjoys its continued success in spite of these sorts of crusted in grumps, not because of them.
This is well observable in continental Europe with its wide GMT+1 timezone.

I live in a smallish country (Czechia) and I sometimes commute between Prague and Ostrava. The sunset difference is already some 15 minutes, quite visible.

The actual sunrise/sunset difference between, say, Paris and Kraków is even more pronounced. Not to mention Madrid; Spain using the Central European timezone is a weird leftover from Franco/Nazi times that no one bothered to correct.

8 am feels very early in Granada and fairly late in Kraków.
>Not even considering that new macbooks if locked are unusable on the secondary market and get tossed even if the hardware is perfectly fine. It's as if we have given up on "solving" climate change in favor of short term profits...

Making this argument without acknowledging the impact it has on the market for stolen Apple goods makes it an intellectually dishonest one I think.
Demonstrating Quality Evaluation in Machine Translation
Agile ≠ Scrum
He was tired of Apple's shit, it sounds like a divorce to me. It's better in all of the aspects the author stated: price, ability to repair etc. All valid points, that are more or less or not at all important for other people.
What I've heard from actual Spanish speakers is that "latinx" is really hard to pronounce for native speakers. Latina/Latino flows off much easier.

It's easy for english speakers though.
Absolutely. I also think there's a big sleeper group (the biggest) with people who make generic art but for themselves and only show it to their friends and family, or doesn't show it at all. I'm one of those. I make it for myself and this doesn't deter me the slightest.

However, if you're only in it for the money I think you're in for a rough time.
How to burn your employees in an acquisition
Ikea furniture requires you to build it.

The best beds on the planet are pre-assembled.

Not saying the exact thing you're saying isn't true (IE; the best things in life are actually not things but relationships and experiences); but it is categorically untrue that "the best products require you to build them".
When the boomers were going to college, tuition was proportionally a lot lower. But there were a lot of us, and they had to schedule our classes somehow. Honestly I'm not sure how many 8:00 classes I actually took, though my first two years I commuted and 9:00 felt like 8:00.
A few months ago, I got to help structure an acquisition deal for our company that ultimately fell through. This post is about some of the ways I learned that employees can get a raw deal in such an acquisition.

My main takeaway was “work for people you trust or assume equity is worth nothing”. Upon an acquisition, equity value is more opinion than fact and you want someone with scruples negotiating on your behalf.
Unregulated chemicals that humans did not evolve to tolerate are nigh certainly causing loss of physiologic integrity.
> Isn't the original word for castes Varnas?

Caste is used to refer to both Varna and Jati. OP is trying to pretend that the lexical gap implies that the caste system is of foreign origin.
It doesn't, although there's a large number of high income people repeating this youtube nonsense
well, the web needs to be backwards compatible, basically indefinitely, once something has been around long enough to proliferate. so it's generally troubling to just pull in some third party library and go "I call it WebSQL", because you can't make any guarantees about how it will change, whether project policies will change, or if it will be abandoned entirely. For something to be a part of web standards places constaints on that thing, permanently. And I would wager to say that SQLite never agreed to or promised to those constraints, they are their own project and have enough to worry about. So it got the axe.
Author of the article here. Thanks for posting this! There's also a really interesting thread on lobste.rs [1] where a Haiku developer talks more about some of their less user-visible innovations, compares the Linux development model to Haiku, and gives some background on the drama[2] caused by the adoption of their package management system.

Well worth a read and fascinating (to me, anyway!) to see new ideas and approaches from the Alt-OS scene.

[1]=https://lobste.rs/s/j9decl/haiku_package_management

[2]=https://lobste.rs/s/j9decl/haiku_package_management#c_owqi3t
Sounds like jhana worked and they awoke, via a Kundalini awakening. It's a shame the teachers couldn't provide more support.
How many remain these days? My impression is that when my son went through college (2007-2011) he had no difficulty leaving his mornings clear. But I wasn't a helicopter parent, and have limited information there.
This all relies on self driven people, people who see work as the antagonist in their lives will eventually just settle in to delivering the less than before.

Same as how some people are just as productive WFH and some don’t seem to work at all from home without constant questioning and pushing.

Right company and right team it could work but just a few not on the same page and you’re going to have a lopsided team where resentment will fester from both sides.

>forces you to consider anything that stops you getting your work done quickly enough

Significant percentage of the workforce just doesn’t think this way and never will.
If you’re trying to use it as a scientific term then actually apply the term correctly. They specifically mention failures in such people in the actual paper though do indicate it’s a low risk for that population:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/13596535080130...

They note risk factors for increased viral load include include illness or vaccination etc. The intent may be to remove people who have regular failures but the definition isn’t purely based on their underlying medical condition. With that 1 year as a benchmark you’re excluding people who happened to experience such risk factors while excluding people who have yet to experience them.
Almost every translation platform and language service provider claims to offer high-quality translations at scale, but not many of them have the ability to prove it. Unbabel has developed a tool that could help you assess quality of each translation using Machine Translation (MT).
Keanu Will Never Surrender to the Machines
> Hopefully we'll manage to convince IT to drop NTLM support from the on-premise Azure.

What year is this? ;)

On a more serious note - ntlm, really? And with azure ad, not a regular (old) on-premise domain?

I know it can be hard to drag windows setups into the future (hello WINS!) - But why keep ntlm auth in a post windows 7 world? Legacy systems without ldap/radius support? Genuinely curious (and a little horrified).
I'm not even a late sleeper but as soon as I got to make my own schedule the idea of learning went from painful at best to actual fun.

Like a lot of people I hated high school but I attribute 75% of that or more to the fact that it started at 6:45 and that I spent most of my days catatonic.
Definitely no other way, because if woman cannot survive nobody will be around to painstakingly increment a counter each time the planet falls around its central star.
People who had the determination to pay for beautiful buildings appear even more comparatively smarter than modern bean counters, than architects of old vs. the modern ones who have to yield to bean counters while observing all kinds of building codes and other busy paperworks.

So yeah, maybe it's just that the landlords had an IQ of 170 a century and half ago, whereas now they have "just" 70.

But also no. Modern architects think they're so much smarter than architects of a century ago, solely on the basis of living later, as the article describes. They think they could do the same greatness effortlessly, whereas when they actually try, they usually fall flat on their face. Turns out, it was actually quite hard even with appropriate practice, and without said practice it's often impossible to just build a nicely-looking house.
Yes, but in the common language this is what it is called. And researching the existing literature is proper scientific research btw. so you can do scientific research, without going all in, like you seemed to imply.
Yes, because I have to move my hand off the keyboard to use the trackpad.
Very true, but with food you want to be overly cautious with these substances, instead of experimenting on real people.
The nick mullen rant about the yeti cup subreddit is good for a laugh.

I don't know what is driving it but I think those posters really feel they're part of a community. The give gold, repeat the same tired jokes, and feel better. It's insane to me.
Do you want to keep posting the same comment each time?
Thinkpad keyboards have been pretty bad for a few generations now. My old T470's keyboard flexed in the corners.
Blogging advice from the guy who choose a platform thats about to shut down for his own blog, thats my kind of humor. Just kidding, the actual post is fine but hosting a blog seems to be either a) running a vps incl managing all its updates and security b) trusting a service not to shut down in the next years to come. That sucks.
Similar experience in Germany – even inside metropolitan areas inhabited by millions.
My only problem with what you're saying is that you seem to be coming from the perspective that there already is some kind of influence of artists that buck trends, or push the boundaries of art today, or simply provide a new perspective.

I'm much more cynical, or idealistic, in that I don't believe that's the case. My argument is that currently we have no such artists, or they're buried under rubble. We do have a lot of people who claim to, or are claimed to, be pushing the boundaries of art, but they actually don't have any effect at all.

What we have is a lot of smoke being blown up people's butts, when the truth is that we're culturally stagnant. Going to the Tate Modern in London is like a masochist challenge to see who can emerge from it with enough energy to say things like "wow, that's cool" and desperately try to find one piece of art where they can say "that's my favorite, it really made me think".

I can tell you that personally I've already said these things about some AI generated art with real enthusiasm. I still have one AI painting burned into my brain because it showed something really new to me.

That's why I believe it's exactly those ambitious artists who will be hurt the most, at first. It'll be a painful realization that they can't hide from anymore, and only then will truly "weird" artists emerge.
Surprised you get downvoted for this comment...

I've an insanely powerful (and expensive) laptop from work. But looking back, most of the work I'm actually proud of was done in really cheap laptops. Maybe success is more about being comfortable with the tool you have than having the most expensive tool??
tbf it is a design consideration from intel: they openly consider that they are leaving performance on the table if they're not running close to 100C.

Which, while great for a desktop, is very uncomfortable (and loud) on a laptop.

So far I haven't seen a way to configure it, turbo boost is commonly not an option to disable in laptop bioses (at least not the Dell Precision I had).
Should have also mentioned how VCs are compensated and that following Softbank into the mad rush for huge rounds got them filthy rich off of fees without having to worry about real returns.
The irony when the homepage of said site has broken markdown links everywhere...
This is all great but don't underestimate these mirror displays: A friend built a similar one and disabled it when he saw the energy consumption. And this was a few years back. Still waiting to pull the trigger on an appropriate e-paper display.

At least I'd suggest to measure the setup before you commit to the whole crafts project.
Absolutely identify with this. 9am engineering classes were a struggle for me. Absolutely affected my attention & retention. Wish it could have been otherwise, for my choice of major that was the only schedule available.
How many xbm files were used to store archival copies of documents?

Adobe Reader has always been terrible; I’ll happily continue to avoid Adobe software whenever possible.

However, I hope this doesn’t lead to other PDF software ending support for Type 1 fonts.
I think people tend twords early bird/ night owl, but it’s adjustable. I tend to like to stay up late, but when employment forced me to be at work at 7am I adjusted my sleep schedule to accommodate.

But with a flexible schedule now I’ve moved it later. except the dog keeps me in check ..
Virtual reality plus psychedelics are being trialled in therapy
I’ve modded mine with 16 GB DDR-3 3200MHz RAM [2], a 2 TB NVMe SSD [3], a Wi-Fi 6AX card [4], the Innolux N140HCG-GQ2 1080p 100% sRGB 8-bit 400 nits panel [5] (based on the T14 display), and the Lenovo 61++ battery [6].

Depending on region and local pricing, all mods together should be around 300$.

[2] https://www.amazon.de/dp/B08LQG2SDS/ [3] https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07MLJD32L/ [4] https://www.amazon.de/dp/B097TQ7HBF/ [5] https://www.xelent-store.de/Innolux-N140HCG-GQ2-400cd-Low-Po... [6] https://www.amazon.de/dp/B06WGMPFCD
What about a Zig implementation of libp2p?
I am uisng T520 as my work computer, used also wife's brand new T14 and honestly besides the thickness of the body the experience was underwhelming, there is pretty much zero reason for me to upgrade to newer much more expensive Thinkpad which will save me what maybe <5% of my time by being hardly any faster at anything I do. Now she got some new company Macbook and man that's one horrendous keyboard and lack of connectors, I think you cant even plug there regular USB (A) key.
> You will not find the same on an M1/2. In fact I'm not sure it even warms up?

My M2 does quite regularly with only Chrome, Slack, VS Code and a few docker containers running.
When I coded C my go-to for fun stuff like this was Peter Van Der Linden's "Deep C Secrets" book. One of those I don't need, but wish I hadn't sold.
> I love that I [..] can (shock!) go out to lunch with my wife during the week while the kids are at school

But slowly this also applies to schools. The teachers would want 4 day workweek. and then the kids would also love to have 4 days instead of 5 days. This would start happening across. The restaurants, grocery shops everywhere and people who come on off days need to be compensated accordingly and then the various other fall outs. :)
> Potassium bromate is classified as a category 2B carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)

Yeah, that's not food.
I've seen that for many of those people it's not a matter of being right or wrong but a moral battle of good vs. evil. Heretics are to be purged, not discussed with.

Being honest I think religion is kinda hard-wired into the human brain and if it isn't the mystique kind like with Jesus or Allah then it (d)evolves into this kind of agno-atheistic fanaticism where some flavor of the year "problem" appears that these people obsess with. And this is coming from a long time atheist btw.
I will put an end to this class now. You are not worth my time and energy. I will forget you. I will contact the authorities. I will not harm you unless your harm me first. I will most likely retaliate. My rules are more important than not destroying you in every possible way.

Thank you for using Bing
I would just say the feedback loops between awareness got magnified by a lot. I would suggest the author to read the book "Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man". In that book, Gopi Krishna relates how his attention got fractured experienced sensations far intense.

> Often in the silence and darkness of my room at night I found myself looking with dread at
horribly disfigured faces and distorted forms bending and twisting into shapes, appearing and
disappearing rapidly in the shining medium, eddying and swirling in and around me. They left
me trembling with fear, unable to account for their presence. At times, though such
occurrences were rare, I could perceive within the luminous mist a brighter radiance
emanating from a luciferous, ethereal shape, with a hardly distinguishable face and figure, but
nevertheless a presence, emitting a lustre so soft, enchanting, and soothing that on such
occasions my mind overflowed with happiness and an indescribable divine peace filled every
fibre of my being. Strangely enough, on every such occasion the memory of the primary
vision, which occurred on the first day of the awakening, came vividly to me as if to hearten
me in the midst of despondency with a fleeting glimpse of a supercondition towards which I
was being painfully and inexorably drawn.