skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I didn't even say anything controversial, a glance at the wikipedia page would list a bunch of criticism.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness#Concerns_and_criti

Nothing in that Wiki link supports your claim that mindfulness doesn't fight the root cause of distress. The 'Scholarly Research' subsection says reviewers want more reproducing studies with larger sample sizes and better randomization (they always do), the 'Shortcomings' subsection claims it's too commercialized and departs from Buddhist practice (so what?), and the 'Risks' subsection describes some side effects that are proven rare in the literature.

The Buddhist critiques are closest, but are largely framed as a critique of authenticity rather than efficacy.
What happens when a company has to undergo discovery in a civil case or needs to investigate am employee for sexual harassment or leaking trade secrets? E2e encryption is not a desired feature in the corporate setting at all.
Yeah pixel line phones are the only decent android devices but they aren’t as good as iPhones and they cost the same. 6 or so years ago they were competing at the 400-500$ range and were actually a good trade off
I'm sorry, but - "for the same price"? You must live in a very different place than I do.
Are there any app that uses the Tor network and existing hidden protocols to provide anonymous chat?

This could be an alternative to some of the instant messaging systems that provide privacy but not anonymity.

I know that some chat messaging systems can use Tor as the transport, but they have problems of their own.

What I'm thinking about is something along the lines that each user app hosts a hidden service that receives messages through a standard HTTP API. Users need to hand their hidden service address to friends. The protocol itself already handles payload encryption and routing but messages could be further encrypted at the app level before being sent (using the other user's public key once an initial exchange has been done).

Granted, sending a message would require all parties to be online at the same time, but there could be a set of relay servers to hold messages until they get fetched.

I'm sure there are lots of hairy issues to take into account, but I would expect the existing protocol to mitigate some of these compared to a ground-up approach (like Session is doing). Tor is fairly mature and, despite all attacks on its infrastructure and protocol, it is still standing.

I'm also wondering if such a messaging system couldn't be useful for some IoT types of scenarios, as it would protect the location and communication of the source of the data, so the devices could not be easily physically found and hacked.

None of this would be useful for high-bandwidth real-time data, but you can get reasonable latencies and traffic sent this way.

Maybe it's all just a dumb idea...
> I've been recommended to "just get a GPS" -- they're like $300, and I'm cheap :)

Get a second-hand Android device for those tasks, install LineageOS and F-Droid/Aurora Droid, don't put in a SIM card and you're set for much less than $300. You'll be running free software - e.g. OsmAnd for mapping using off-line maps, no connectivity necessary - and you won't be feeding Google (et al) your data as you will using that Nokia. The battery will last a long time with connectivity disabled as well, longer than that on those $300 GPS receivers.
13 years so maybe
You can have a non-ios non-android device for maps, visit a non-requiring a smartphone gym, use a plastic card instead of NFC and a website instead of bank app. Also use phone/email for voice/text conversations instead of 14 apps every one of which are full of ads.
Even the cheap folks in my extended family are starting to switch to iPhones. The TCO is better, as is longevity and use experience. The only way to be cheaper is to stick with awful budget android phones and then you give up on the experience and extended software support. Get burned a couple times by that, and pretty soon a basic iPhone SE starts to look really appealing. Especially for people who don't want to upgrade every couple years.
> lots of things that just work between devices

Only if those are apple devices. Between an idevice and a windows or linux laptop the "just works" factor has been quite unimpressive.
The original linked report is far less biased [1]. It seems the only reason there is demand for iphones right now is the heavy subsidies offered by carriers. I think few people are paying retail for those phones.

1: https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-smartphone-shipments...
Sure, but those average users are my family and friends. I don't think their privacy deserves to be invaded either. Average users purchase apps too.
There are plenty of opportunities for unskilled labor in Sweden. We import labor from Thailand to pick berries, just as one example.
This seems accurate to me. I've lived in the Bay Area and currently live in the southeast and have noticed that those who are very wealthy in the southeast don't seem to have the same interests in style, food, or fashion as those with equivalent wealth in the Bay Area (not saying one way is right or wrong). For the wealthy in the southeast, houses tend to be larger but constructed in mostly the same way as regular houses rather than having different architectural styles. Like housing, food tends to be "the same but nicer" instead of more exotic, e.g., a Ruth's Chris rather a Galician steakhouse.

Related side story: when I lived near SF, I saw in the news that the lone Olive Garden in the city (in Stonestown Galleria) was going to close. I asked out loud "Who on earth eats at the Olive Garden in San Francisco when there are so many other options for authentic Italian?" My wife, who was sitting next to me, got a sheepish look on her face. It turns out she drove into the city all the time specifically to go to that Olive Garden. She said it reminded her of home and she liked the nostalgia of it haha
I wouldn't worry too much about the average salary. Those numbers usually include people working part time.

And, stating the obvious: Software developers tend to earn above average salaries.
Insane, never heard of overpass turbo before, or would know to use chatGPT to help code the info to copy paste into it
I wonder if Apple will use their increasing profit in subscriptions to keep dropping the price of the iPhone
This is exactly the route I plan to take :)
ah, fair point
Am I misunderstanding something, I think that gesture exists on iOS?

Swiping from the left screen edge to the right navigates back in any properly designed app.

Alternatively sheets are usually dismissed by swiping down.

Do you have particular apps or contexts in mind where this did not work?
Stockholm syndrome is an example of a phenomenon that is pervasive in society and nature in general and a basic consequence of trying to adapt to your environment. We can nitpick forever the specific Stockholm events, but they're just a noisy example of a pattern, not an ideal MODEL of the pattern.
Road A: Takes 2 minutes, chance of getting robbed is 80%

Road B: Takes 2 hours, chance of getting robbed is 2%.
Your hypothetical makes little sense and is difficult to parse. It first supposes that there are any similarities or the moral sort between myself and livestock such that substituting one for the other is a comparison worth exploring.

What if you put a slab of granite in that box? Or a helium balloon that yearns to be free? Can they suffer as well?
Long support (5+ years), physical first-party stores for support every 100ish miles in the USA, compatibility with Apple's proprietary iMessage and FaceTime protocols. An OS that's generally considered easier to use, with more walls in place to protect users from malware. A simple $400ish price point.

Not a huge difference from Samsung's cheaper offerings on paper, but a lot of little things that add up to a better experience for many older users.
There is Session which combines TOR message routing with a message encryption scheme which is inspired by Signal. Is that what you mean?
> But suppose a senior is someone who can work mostly autonomously under general direction from their management and tech leadership, which I'd say is a reasonable basic definition of what "senior" level has historically meant in software development.

That's where I disagree. A senior should do a lot more than that. Seniors would mentor and train juniors. Software or not - that's how it's traditionally been.

What you describe is more like an engineer (no senior). Juniors are the 1s that can't work autonomously. When you are recognized as fully fitting the role you're just that. A senior then excels the role.

> We would expect to see a lot more people reaching that level and sticking around on a tech career path now

What does this have to do with what roles are available in an organization?

I start a company. I have 1 CTO, 1 tech lead, 2 seniors and the rest are engineers. What level someone is at should not impact what I call the titles available, but to suit the current market, instead we have 1 CTO, 1 principal engineer, 2 staff engineer, 1 tech lead, some seniors and a few engineers. Same same. No 1 actually grew additional roles.

It's all a trick to make people think they've levelled up.
Enterprise level I assume some will buy commercial equipment with support etc.

The above mentioned I feel are good enough for home and SOHO(small businesses).
I have both types of phones, an Android one privately and an iPhone for work, and in direct comparison I honestly prefer the Android user experience. It's not that I love Android, but the iPhone feels so often clunky to me.

- There's a greater reliance on gesture-based tricks, which I find unintuitive and undiscoverable

- I often feel stressed when using the iPhone because I can't figure out how to do basic things while under time duress. This is as simple as hanging up on a call I had on speaker and left to navigate to other apps: There's the green bar at the top indicating I'm still in the call, but I cannot figure out how to get back to it. If I swiped it out it's gone from the multi-tasking overview (without ending it), and unlike in Android you can't drag down the notification tray and access the call via a notification bubble

- There's reproducable little bugs that annoy me. For example when I initially boot up the phone, I can't tap the password field to open the on-screen keyboard. It doesn't work. I have to turn the screen off and turn it back on, and then I can open the keyboard

- There's flows that admittedly are used rarely but that are enormously clunky. If you open a certificate file to import, you get a frigging dialog box telling you to manually go to the Settings app and approve it in some well hidden sub-section. Why doesn't the dialog offer you a jump straight into there? These kinds of flows of composing screen pages from different apps into sequences is something Android does extremely well with the Activities concept

- The Share flows feel underdeveloped vs. Android

etc.
What a wreck. Then, I'm never surprised. It's always been a rip-off built on having the "next best thing" at all times. Well, a price is paid for that, as you demonstrate. Blech!
All of those are downsides, yes, but platforms still need to be built for organizations that are at scale so the focus needs to be on how to improve the process of building them, not on how to avoid them.

Only small companies can silo everything into verticals.
What about it? Most of the big names seem to be switching to a paywall model, which is fine with me. A local outlet has an almost entirely reader-supported model that seems to be working for them[1]. There are options other than the global surveillance panopticon, and the more we support those options, the more viable they will become.

[1] https://racketmn.com/rackets-year-in-review-august-2022-july...
Legality and ethics are often disjoint, and for many people Sci-Hub is pretty clearly a case where piracy is the ethical thing to do.

My personal opinion is this: tax dollars pay for a huge proportion of the research that is then reviewed by volunteers (whose pay also comes out of taxes) and then published in journals that charge insane prices to host a PDF of this taxpayer-funded research. Sci-Hub takes this publicly-funded research and makes it available to the public like it always should have been.
You aren't the average user. Most users can't even afford decent housing or food. Let alone $250/year for apps, and they will never pay. I'm sorry, but I think we just have fundamental disagreements about what software is.
If you think MS doesn't have bug bounties and more red teaming and appsec auditing than most orgs you'd be mistaken. The fact is, this is victim blaming plain and simple with a logic error (likely) in code that was exploited by a nation state. It was the government who does not retaliate against China. I have seen no evidence of negligence or anything MS could have done better. Or any evidence that similar vulns in gcp iam, okta,etc... isn't possible.

Americans are scared shitless of a conflict with China and here you have politicians following suit, blaming MS and Biden for getting attacked instead of finding ways to retaliate -- not in kind but in an escalating, public and humiliating manner. Even if it means seeding an armed conflict.

Ask yourself wtf the NSA and CIA are doing other than spying on us and doing their best to help make minorities' lives unpleasant. If the US IC is capable and potent then they are absolutley incompetent by the fact that they keep their exploits secret because they very damn well know how pulic knowledge of a hack affects mass paychology, diplomatic relations and people's confidence in their government. CCP party members should be blaming Xi and tencent for a retaliation instead of our own politicians against our victims.
Would you give the same advice to someone who was blind or in a wheelchair and asking for reasonable accommodations at work? ADHD is a legally recognized disability in the US, just like other, more visible disabilities. There are a number of accommodations that OP could ask for that an employer would be obligated to provide.

In pragmatic terms, disclosure is probably best kept until after you've been hired somewhere, since discrimination during hiring is commonplace.
Yup, there are plenty of MVNOs out there that operate on your choice of network. I use US Mobile, which I'm generally happy with. I haven't even had to think about it really for the past 2 years. Better yet, there was a recent price reduction, instead of a price increase as I was almost always dealing with on Verizon or AT&T. I think I went from $25/mo to $21/mo.
there was a project https://blog.torproject.org/tor-messenger-beta-chat-over-tor...
but I don't know what the status is, quick google searches make it seem abandoned
Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noria
Your missing one crucial element, the cold light of day, in other words exposure for all to see, much like what the media do when looking at their activities and role within society.

Of course, that doesn't draw any attention to their pre-emptive spying activities or the fact they seem unable to give up their sources and disrespect for privacy or thorough investigation.
They said for active lifestyle.
Att prepaid 16gigs at 300 a year is a deal.
90% of people I message with use WhatsApp or Signal (and most of them use iPhones). I keep hearing about iOS messaging lock in, but I've never experienced it.
Yeah, but this reason to hesitate (they didn't want to get in trouble for directly endorsing her) is the same reason why it was important to directly endorse her. I'm glad they made the right choice.
Actually I think its pretty rare to even have a junior title nowadays. You can claim anyone with less than 2 YOE is a junior or whatever but when jobs require you to “hit the ground running” AKA run migrations in prod and resolve things when shit hits the fan then you’re not really doing junior level work.

Of course, there are also junior level jobs by responsibility but not title.
Film Review: Oppenheimer
Interpret it as a figure of speech, otherwise there's going to be someone from the great depression who shows up and clicks his tongue at all of us.
And whether an online shop uses Shopify or WooCommerce also makes no difference from the point of view of that shop's customers ;)

> your old links will stop working

As long as your main website hostname is the same, you have 404s set up such that you land on a page that links you back to the main landing page... nobody really cares.

> order histories will be lost

For online shops, invoices anyway need to be exported to accounting software so that taxes can be filed correctly. I seriously doubt that a transition like this causes order history to truly be "lost".

Look, obviously switching managed providers is rarely a seamless experience... but neither is it impossible or even necessarily fundamentally difficult. Indeed, it's not unheard of for managed providers to help people make transitions by offering import options... https://www.shopify.com/migrate Shopify have guides to help with migrating, as does Ghost: https://ghost.org/docs/migration/
The opposite here, whenever I encounter a cashless-only shop it really weirds me out. Like, legal tender anyone??

(haven't been to Germany)
The platform team was developing the core framework that a few applications ran on. At one point this was either a C#-based GUI framework for Windows apps, extending WinForms and later WPF with various business-area specific controls (e.g. network topologies, protocol stacks etc.) and various communication frameworks to talk to some shared embedded hardware or to do cross-product integrations. At other times it was a Java based web framework to help move these Windows apps to the cross-platform world of VM HTTP servers, handling things like authorization in a unified way, apart from some of the same concerns as the original C#.

The products using the shared frameworks had slightly different histories and were mostly addressed to different market segments with different conventions, but still neede plenty of common scaffolding that a platform provided. A common platform team seemed to be a natural fit, and to a great extent in worked, but the problems I was discussing earlier were also pretty constant throughout its lifetime.
For private VC tech, interest rate increases mean the next funding round will be much harder to get
iPhones end up being cheaper in the long run. They get software updates much longer than almost any Android phone, and at least here even small cities have local shops that repair them. It's also just a superior user experience.

I wish they kept on making the mini models though. I'm using a 13 mini, which has been really nice. Most modern smartphones are uncomfortable to carry in the front pocket of slim pants.
Here's a novel thought: take the money you give to the commercial VPN provider and donate it to Tor instead. They can spend it on running more exit nodes themselves, which fixes both the issues you say you have with it.
I'm curios how much time per day do you dedicate to your contemplative practice?
Sounds like it should be illegal. That said, changing my User Agent to IE+Win7 changed the identifier for me. Looks like Firefox's "resist fingerprinting" setting also works. I wish there was a separare setting for private browsing.

That said, that was enlightening, thank you for pointing this out. It's disgusting that there are companies selling this.
I use Tor occasionally to see what's going on in the flip side of the net and to contribute to routing, but honestly you aren't going to convince anyone who isn't ideologically inclined to support it. It doesn't help that Tor itself is full of scams and dark markets selling who knows what. It seems to have gotten better over the years, but normal people aren't going to put up with that. Nobody wants to see that stuff.
It should say "could you speak up?" People are more likely to hang up if they find themselves yelling at a machine (in a one party conversation).
I don't think it would be useful for me to speculate about that. I'm just attempting to clear up some apparent misunderstandings about regenerative braking.
Ha, what a world! I've known that Apple's actually been fairly competitive from a cost benefit analysis wise for a long time at the hardware level but it's very funny to see a comment associating Apple with being the cheaper option.

Edit: I see you answered below ;-)

Which dumbphone are you getting? (Nokia) That's awesome. I've been doing a PHONEVORCE lately... it's been several years in the making as I've shed all social media, and deleted and blocked nearly everything that I can waste time on with my phone.

Now my phone use is for looking at maps, checking which aircraft are nearby, email, and direct messaging.

It's pretty calm! I'm reading more, mental health seems very good, I learn neighborhoods really well cause I don't use GPS.

It's really nice not staring at that fucking box all the time.
At a large company? Yes.

On a small-medium vertical team at a large company? Probably-maybe not.

Many, many engineers (and managers maybe even more so) immediately jump to micro-services (often resume-driven development) where most companies have poor tooling and poor security knowledge that turn them into a living productivity-crippling nightmare to work with.
Well I was replying to this:

> I wish python and it’s libraries wasn’t so inefficient.

And it seems like Pulp isn't a solver by itself so comparing it to gurobi doesn't make a lot of sense?

I see gurobi also has a Python interface, so comparing it to that makes more sense. Does the gurobi Python interface run out of memory? I suppose it matters what part of Pulp is running out of memory, the underlying solver being used or is the API itself taking up the memory?
Well you could've stated it that way from the get go. As it stands your comment reads like a strong denial of helping others in favor of helping yourself.
> The EFF endorses piracy?

Q: Do content creators (the scientists and researchers) approve or disapprove of Sci Hub?
Maybe we should have a Bejerot Syndrome.

This is where an “expert” impugns the intellect or morality of the people who disagree with them instead of trying to understand the very real reasons why.
I was disappointed too, this article was very light on details about the subject matter. I wasn't expecting a blue-print, but what was presented was all very hand-wavy.

In large systems (albeit smaller than S3) the way this works is that you slurp out some performance metrics from storage system to identify your hot spots and then feed that into a service that actively moves stuff around (below the namespace of the filesystem though, will be fs-dependant). You have some higher-performance disk pools at your disposal, and obviously that would be nvme storage today.

So in practice, it's likely proprietary vendor code chewing through performance data out of a proprietary storage controller and telling a worker job on a mounted filesystem client to move the hot data to the high performance disk pool. Always constantly rebalancing and moving data back out of the fast pool once it cools off. Obviously for S3 this is happening at an object level though using their own in-house code.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_computing
Ask the authors of those papers she "pirated". IIRC there's overwhelming support for what she's doing in the scientific community.

The pirates are Elsevier etc.
>> I don't disagree that there are benefits to running your own servers, just that it's not worth the cost unless you need it.

It depends on the size and funding of your organization.

For larger organizations with plenty of funding, it is easier and cheaper to just pay someone to run your servers for you. There will be monthly bills, but "it's operating costs, not capital costs" so no worries.

For smaller organizations with less funds, it is cheaper to buy a server, put a LTS OS on it, and self-manage it. If your IT budget is inconsistent, then monthly costs are too much and do not make sense.
I think the price is silly but https://www.ebay.com/itm/275969869915