skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m an autistic person and it sounds like in some way this person achieved exactly the point of certain forms of meditation like this which is to open up awareness. And I think as many autistic folks will tell you, being very aware is extremely difficult and is mentally and physically taxing. If you aren’t prepared for it I could indeed see it being extremely disturbing. Being exposed to all your inner workings and thoughts constantly is not for the faint of heart.

That being said, I think mindfulness in western countries skips a lot of Buddhist teachings, which are in large part designed to help deal with this kind of experience. I highly suggest that anyone that is going down this path seek out teachers that have experience and can be of aid. There are pragmatic aspects of it that go beyond meditation and in my opinion are just as important if not more so.

And just to contextualize this, I’m a Buddhist. I live in Thailand and it’s something that is part of my normal life. As such, it’s rare the I’m meditating outside of a temple and I have easy access to a whole host of teachers. I would urge caution around retreats and other intensive practices. Mindset and setting are extremely important and should be considered carefully.

I’ve had a lifetime to learn to live like this and I would not want to see anyone dropped in the deep end without proper preparation.
> "Your wrist is never misinterpreted as a mouse movement either."

This just doesn't happen on Mac trackpads: they have pretty sophisticated and effective palm rejection.
Bad code is innovative for no reason. Complex for no good reason. Hard to reason about (what does foo > * + * mean? and what happens when the writing is Chinese, exactly?).

These various CSS states would be much better expressed as named properties of React components. That way there would be explicit branches instead of allowing the CSS selector engine to do some implicit insanity.
This doesn’t follow to me. We brought a system of oppression and subjugation over to your continent, and now it’s your responsibility, racist westerner, to read a history book about it?

Most of us in the West never wanted anything to do with caste! This is a uniquely Indian problem which requires Indian efforts to fix, this isn’t something that can be passed off to western social justice movements to solve for you.
Popularity dooms the simplicity of almost every language.

Re: Elixir, not surprising. Makes for more opportunities for some though.
It's also just easier to do some of the boring chores work without kids in the house.
At the current electricity prices we're paying here (~$0.35/kWh), this would be around 4 W of continuous consumption. That's not a lot, you can basically power you Pi with it, but not the screen... count at least 10x more costs to operate the screen 24h a day. But as mentioned by someone, if you use a sensor to only turn on the screen when there's someone in front of it (and if you actually turn OFF your screen when there's nobody, and not just display a black screen), then you can almost remove the display power from the equation, unless you spend your day in front of the mirror.
Same, but luckily the lectures weren't mandatory to attend so we just sent a different designated note taker from the friend group each time and the rest slept in and copied from them lol.
A year ago I was given a Macbook M1 at work. Really nice battery and mostly silent. However I couldn't stand macOS so I asked for a ThinkPad X1 Carbon. Battery was worst but not by that much, I mean, maybe the M1 would do 25% more actual time.

I really like what Apple has done with the M1/M2, however, I cannot stand the non-mate screens, not having a TrackPoint, the keyboard, the metallic body, and macOS. It also doesn't help the obsession of Apple of making everything thinner at the cost of ports.
Or another possibility is men and women are wired differently, and the things that make a good dev (such as coming up with a novel solution to a problem) is different from the things that make a good QA (testing every possible edge case to make sure the thing does what the thing is supposed to do).
>Is the trackpoint really that important

Yes. The arguments for it are the exact same ones Vim evangelists make (ergonomics, speed), but having the TrackPoint there applies those advantages to every other program on the system as opposed to just the one.
I think most people would agree you’re far less likely to be victimized for your caste in America than in India, which means for all intents and purposes it is better than this.
Fair. But don't you move your hand off the keyboard to use a mouse when using a desktop PC? Or do you have a trackpoint on your keyboard there too?
As a teenager reading "PC Pro" magazine BeOS was the operating system I was convinced was going to be the next thing and take over. Sad times!
You'd only need a human while the car is driving. If the human needs to be physically in the car, they couldn't just switch to a different car when this one has been parked, and you'd need to organize their own travel when they take a car somewhere remote, or need to fetch it from there.

This would still be massively cheaper even if you pay the driver whatever you'd pay them locally for driving in person, simply because of less downtime, e.g. while a truck is being loaded.
Having done startups at 19, 39, and 45, I can say that the sh$t I pulled at 19 is a no go at 45 with kids, but I'm also a lot wiser now. That week of near death panic due to having had my backups fail as. 19 year old will never happen to me again (knock on wood, backblaze don't fail me now). Etc. You trade some hours for some efficiency.

(There's also the financial risk, which for me is easier to absorb now. At 19 I didn't care, at 30 something I did, and now I'm lucky enough to not have to care much).
Most döner is a mix of filets beaten flat and odd slaughter goo, generally in layers. Nothing wrong with that - sausages are generally _only_ the slaughter goo...
Maybe in practice, but legally any third party liability insurance from any EU+Green Card (see https://www.cobx.org) countries have to have representative in any other country, and definitely are liable.
Linux-0.01 compilable using NASM assembler and LLVM's Clang compiler
> There's plenty of demand for tech workers who aren't expected to work insane hours, and can have time for kids and hobbies.

Even without insane hours and ordinary 40 hours, the problem is: out of 24 hours, you lose 9 hours to sleep (8 hours + 0.5/0.5 to fall asleep and wake up), 3 hours for eating (including making the food and cleaning up), 8 hours to work, 1 hour to commute... that leaves you with just three hours a day of theoretically "free" time, of which you'll set aside at least an hour to decompress from work, one hour to interacting with your spouse - and now you're left with one hour a day of actually "free" time.

No way to fit hobbies or even any meaningful social activity in there and any unplanned events (e.g. a traffic jam, something comes up at work so you need to stay a bit late) completely throw everything off.
>Just like Christianity practised in the US is not true Christianity, Buddhism practised in East Asia is no truer Buddhism.

That's the "really existing Buddhism" - the kind that matters, and the only kind with roots in a millenia old tradition.

The rest is either spirituallity tourists using it as a lifestyle accessory (the same way they'd adopt pilates or switch to some new age shit), or spirituallity "nerds" getting into an exotic religion (usually in a bizarro version as landed on their shores and according to the spiritual fads of the time it caught on, mid-20th century) to study the scriptures and debate "ways" and versions.
The 'C' in CSS was a mistake. Consider that specificity is even a thing, and then consider that the ordering of your declarative CSS code matters. IDK, it does seem necessary to make the language workable, but there are far too many stylesheets out there with specificity hacks and !important.
The aws cli does support aliases, which is more limited, but still helpful.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-usage-a...
Western Buddhism is based off an aesthetic interpretation of Zen Buddhism.

If Buddhism in East Asia is appropriation and people in East Asia have no authority to talk about it, defending western Buddhism, which is based off the customs of a Japanese interpretation (based off a Chinese branch), is a strange turn to take.

(hell is mentioned within the context of Theravada as well)
ChatGPT has already decreased my income security, and likely yours too
Having been to Finland I feel the reverse: it's much more hostile. It is not great that (as you implicitly described) they put zebras next to road turns and as you're crossing the road cars will occasionally turn right across you. Pedestrians are clearly also a lot more afraid of cars in Finland - as evidenced by their famous waiting at crossings for the green man even when there are no cars.

Finland is a very different country than the UK - much worse weather in winter but much much sparser - but looking at the stats it seems to do a little worse on road casualties than the UK on most measures. eg 3.8 road deaths per 100k pop in Finland vs 2.9 in the UK and 5.1 road deaths per billion km in Finland vs 3.8 in the UK.

I don't think Finland's road safety is as good as the UK though it is still one of the better countries.
I had a hard time with this article. The pool the subjects were pulled from is suspect to me. They also didn’t interview any Rabbis, Priests, Mullahs,….
They study spirituality of a small subset of people pursuing it.
to be fair they really are not there yet. They are just in the "data collection" phase, the actual training and then tuning is still to do.

but hey, those are the same people who made the dataset (laion5b) for stable diffusion. I have hope.
You get 4% on some deposit accounts. You get about 5% on 1 year treasuries.
Yes, but I think the insurance companies have done a cost benefit analysis of spending 3 weeks on the phone vs dinging someone else for the £2k or whatever the accident cost.
The T480 with a battery is 1.6kg, or 1.8kg on the extended pack. https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T...
GPUs and game consoles use DMA with command buffers for transfers, and synchronization points, not file handles with IO APIs.
In fact, reader mode works even better -thanks for the tip!
Just got myself an X13, love the screen ratio and the keyboard is almost as good as my old T42 which finally died. Not thrilled about everything being soldered on but every TP I have owned has outlived its own usefulness so I am not too concerned, even my $250 e11 is still going strong all stock and just shy of 10 years old. First computer with AMD and first computer with a remotely decent GPU which is kind of fun but I don't really need it. So far my favorite TP since the T42.

I do wish they would release another e11 that is not a yoga, going to miss that computer when it finally dies.
Tell Linus his code sucks.

That should end well.
The request was not to change the title on the linked website, but have a HN title reflect the clarification that is important for many HN readers.
Any AI? Does GPT kick your ass at chess too?
The Linux 6.2 kernel released yesterday has official M1 support. It takes a lot more than just the kernel to have a functional machine: GPU and (W)LAN drivers, power management support, etc. But we are getting closer.
They're not saying "LA sucks" they're just saying that LA as a whole is low-density. Koreatown has ~130k inhabitants, Hollywood has less than 100k - these are two, small but relatively-dense areas in a city with a population in the millions, whose density works out at ~8.5k/sq mile.
I swear, pet project operating systems like Haiku and SerenityOS are the only things that still fill me with hope and keep me going these days. I could go on for hours writing love letters to Haiku.
FWIW I lived in Seattle for 4 months in 2019 and was shocked at how abhorrent the downtown has gotten, compared to how it was in 2013. I’ve lived in cities all over the east coast, and none of them have compared to the amount of poverty and drug culture I saw in Seattle.

I moved to NYC and couldn’t be happier. I’m genuinely of the opinion that Seattle, Portland, SF, etc are broken and any comments which try to downplay that are only making things worse in the long run.
In a world where almost all of the major news organizations lied about the Hunter Biden laptop story ("save 10% for the Big Guy"), calling it Russian disinformation leading up to the election when they knew it wasn't, I think we can safely say the effects of a few Facebook ads from Cambridge Analytics was negligible.
Oh no, be careful. You should keep it in a dry clean room with external cooling, only ever run a stripped down minimalist, headless linux distro to avoid taxing the hardware too much. Only ever use it through SSH.
I think you read the opposite meaning of what they wrote.
+1 for read the documentation.
Check out Centrifugal:

https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo (Server/Admin)

https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge (Server core)

https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge-js (Library)

It's a complete solution, including server, admin panel and client library.
“Journalist” and “spin doctor” are odd names for what are essentially the prosecutor and the defense attorney in the court of public opinion.
Generally any third party liability insurance from any EU+Green Card countries (see https://www.cobx.org) is valid in any other country. Same with the driving license, but EU+Vienna Convention countries (2 or 3 different conventions actually - and in case of driving license, this means most of the world)
Mind you, that's what they thought about the city of Troy, too. Don't be too surprised if someone somewhere stumbles upon the tomb of king Dhrutarashtr!
I suffered from bad anxiety for a while post pandemic.

Mindfulness meditation made me feel better during and for about half an hour afterward, but it wasn't "me again": it was some altered state that not only wasn't addressing the underlying issues (that I've since made great strides on in psychotherapy). I felt periods of great calm, but it was as if I was taking some drug to achieve an altered state.

I read a lot about how to "bring the meditative state into daily life", and that only made the anxiety worse when it broke through, because it sensitized me to focus increasingly on internal physical phenomena. Yeah, I tried not to "judge" them, to neither anticipate their arrival and to just observe their rise and fall, but the observing meant attention, and the attention magnified them.

I finally beat the anxiety mostly for good by acknowledging and facing the problems in my life. I haven't even solved much of them yet, but I'm pretty honest about it both to myself and the people close to me.
Mindfulness as practiced by the typical western audience (largely secular, young professionals) is well represented.

If you want to take something else away or are looking for alternative discussions about the nature of spirituality itself: go ahead, but that's not the study for that.

Only mindfulness meditation as practiced in western society in the fashionable way.
Aside from a temperature of 0, which always results in the same completion, the details and translation examples (aka, in-context learning, few-shot) can force very reliable results, say, 8/10 times, meaning a sample-and-vote gives consistent results when the temperature is non-zero.

Edit: I was not in any way rude nor saying anything incorrect.

If you want to see how to do what I’m talking about, here’s an almost finished article describing the above:

https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m...
Curious. It sounds like meditation has been misappropriated in the same way as therapy.

Therapy _should_ bring up difficult emotions and experiences from the past because they are often the root of dysfunction and frustration in the present.
Not mentioned in the thread - a lot of VC capital is now going to be tied up in follow-on investments to keep their zombie investments alive a few more years.

So a lot of the "dry powder" left in VC is not so dry.
See also Basic Income (a bit of free pocket money vs enough to subsist in a first world city, including accommodation).
> "Easily salvage data if some other part fails or is physically damaged by removing the SSD?"

Fair point. But important to remember you're just as likely to lose the whole laptop if your bag gets stolen or something, or maybe the SSD will itself fail. Regular (cloud?) backups are indispensable.
California has a bill right now to do with preventing hidden pricing so you cannot argue that its' not an issue. We also have those problems so we don't need to "be scared by stories in the US" as we experience them.

As for decline....look in the mirror. Everyone experiences it.
During your project manager interview, you should be prepared to answer a good number of behavioural interview questions, which need you to recollect and discuss particular examples and experiences. The interviewer uses this specific question as a tool to determine your level of project management expertise, the types of projects you excel at managing, and your level of enthusiasm for the position.
Doh! I was expecting something about mirroring databases.
And Intel's multithreading is notoriously weaker than AMD's SMT.
Sounds as conveniently unfalsifibale as any more patent pseudoscience.
I'm anti-quack and I'm anti forced medical products.
Can you please suggest a link to show how to do this?
they are both right and wrong at the same time and also in the same camp on untested food adjectives

People and language are not math.
Ground based observatories expect Ai will correct atmospheric disturbances in images taken and improve their accuracy.

All that Microsoft, OpenAi has done is slap a UI on Ai using non-profit Ai resources to make their way to profit.
You can be failed for driving too slow in the UK as well. "Undue hesitance".
For a sizable segment of Apple's power users, this is really the core issue.

Apple clearly has no love for power users for over half a decade, and thinking of going to windows after MacOS is a nonstarter, which really leaves the obvious choice being migration to linux until you start to seriously evaluate PC laptops along with realizing you're taking the onus of OS configuration on yourself ALONG WITH your work, as the previous commenter mentioned. That said, Ventura is such a bad MacOS release (and sign of things to come) that Apple has finally made it the pull off the band-aid moment for a lot of power user folks like the writer of the article, issues be damned. good -enough- will have to suffice.

It's so tiresome that every single release of MacOS has fewer features professionals actually care about.
I never cease to be amazed at ostentatiousness. I cannot see how a Rolex has 58 times worth of improvement in its timekeeping ability over my $100 Seiko. And even if it did I cannot see how I could usefully use the extra precision.

Some people just have too much money to waste.

Afterthought: same goes for diamonds, they're far more valuable for industrial use than adorning some socialite's tiara.
Well, we do have the tomb he made for his family (KV5 if I remember correctly)...
Hey, it's "Clarkesworld". As in "Neil Clarke", or even "Arthur C. Clarke", with an "e" at the end.

Clarksworld is probably where you find discussions about the latest forklift model :P
I do think you can get to something where cheating is enough more work than doing it honestly (or at least you need to manually type things over).

But while we started with a "just issue an rPi" we're now at "issue a modified laptop running a large amount of custom security software".
nspawn cannot download or update containers for one
Over-architecting a design to be flexible in one way can be a huge problem when changes come along and they are for fundamentally different kinds of changes than were expected when the design was created - this can actually be worse than having an under-architected system.
According due to the uname(1) manpages and the results of the -s and -r commands, i'm pretty sure that Linux IS the OS, and the rest of userspace isn't.
Just spent about 30 seconds there testing this on my m2.
Couldn't convince it to move the cursor with anything below the knuckles.
Polyjuice: High-Performance Transactions via Learned Concurrency Control
Whisper is great, but Google's built-in speech-to-text thing in Chrome with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_... has been available for quite some time and works well. Not sure if Firefox has a implementation, probably one that works locally but not nearly as well.

Obviously not having to send all of the data to Google is a big deal. But practically speaking the Google recognition seems to perform extremely well. So not sure this is really a new capability for people if they were willing to use Google's servers.

It seems like Firefox and Chrome should now ship with Whisper built in. Or they should work on that.. and if Chrome doesn't add it then.. that's suspicious.
I am similar.

I found that the later I sleep, the more sleep I need. I attribute that to environmental noise, like my neighbours waking up at 5:50 and walking with little to no regards for everyone below them.

However, when I sleep at 23, I am usually up by 4:30, and I am functioning great. When I sleep at 00, I am usually up by 6:30, at 01, it goes to 8:00, and so on.

So I decided that I will not use electronic devices after 21:00.
Not the OP, but presumably to highlight the upgradeability of the ThinkPad.
If you want blob support, you'd probably need to introduce format specific understanding of file structures.

You'd also need for the blob encoder to be exceptionally stable - if minor changes to the input lead to significant changes to output, you're going to have a lot of trouble.

Something like Google's Courgette (binary patch generation) could help to simplify things, but an old thread mentioned a patent suit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2576878
But... How is that different from being dinged by someone from UK?
That's definitely not the case in my experience. Has this improved in the recent past?
How does this compare to Pachyderm.io?
I think it's very clear. The article clearly states that the hardware is objectively worse, but not in a way that matters to the author.

The software and Apple's business decisions are the problem it seems. That's actually the same reason I would prefer a Thinkpad to a Macbook myself. The author wants to be able to upgrade or repair their laptop when it breaks.

That does make the Thinkpad a better product for the author.
They also start at 2400€ for 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, soldered, and over 3000€ with double RAM and storage. At that price point they better be good.
It varies a lot throughout the UK. There plenty of places where cars are guaranteed to stop if you so much as look at a zebra crossing, and they will wait, as they are obliged to, until you're full off the other end too, not zoom on through as soon as their lane is clear.
I can tell you now that 2022 was the year of Linux on the desktop with Apple+Parallels! :)

I have a mini datacenter on my desk right now with 5 Debian machines running, 1 Windows 10, 1 OpenBSD machine as gateway for the others. No lag.

Just now I fired up YouTube on 3 of these Debian machines in Firefox as well as one in the Windows 10 VM. All running full screen 1080p videos (a wide second display with 3 VM's, the main display showing the Windows VM). No lag.

Also, I have _never_ heard the fan on this thing. Unsure if it has one! :)

The CPU/GPU combo is of course great, but it's the 400GB/s memory bandwidth that makes all the difference I think.

([edit] oh, and the battery life is nuts.)