skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that there needs to be a separation of meditation's tangible benefits from both the religious associations, such as seeking nirvana or psychedelic experiences, and the social & financial ones stated in this article that either view meditation as a genuine secret superpower or are see it as a backdrop to take advantage of people simply trying to find mental peace.

My belief is that the idea Kabat-Zinn had, which is paraphrased in the article, is good. "Pay attention to the present moment, on purpose, without judgment" - stop, take some time to reflect on your feelings, process them. Maybe just take some time and not "think", where you give yourself some away time from the world. The anecdata from countless people seems to vaguely support the notion that this view on meditation works; I wouldn't call it concrete by any means, but it's as solid of a scientific start as one can get with something like meditation.

Software developers and those adjacent love to tout acronyms like "Keep It Simple, Stupid", why does the buck stop at software? The further one gets into the article, the more outlandish things get: electronic stimulation, microdosing various drugs (mentioned a lot on HN, which I've always found disturbing), cranial ultrasounds, even the stock photo of the lady meditating with a VR headset?

At the end of the piece, Laukkonen provides the following rhetorical question: "[W]hat is liberating about chasing different states of consciousness, and not enjoying the one that you have?" I think a lot of the comments here and the research presented towards the end of the article are in too deep in either side and are unable to see the forest for the trees.
Agree re struggling with implementation.. Zero knowledge stuff seems impossible on the surface so explaining it to political folks is extremely difficult as I have first hand experience with. "Guaranteeing I've paid my taxes without revealing anything else about my finances" tends to get them to listen up long enough for me to explain it to them most of the time though.

Re govt distrust, not uniformly. As my older leftist friends remind me they grew up in a time were they thought anything was possible for their government to do, with enough protest they could get the civil rights act, the voting act, the infrastructure spending , etc with all their dreams on the horizon. Then a few people got a little too loud about ending poverty and other more ""radical"" progressive stuff and got killed for it. But it is possible, we've just been beat down for 50 years by neoliberal austerity politics.

Very interesting stuff re SSL. Any book recommendations you might have on the history of stuff like that? How security standards manifested and became adopted? from https to aes to pgp I vaguely know about all these things but would love to read more. I thoroughly enjoyed chip wars and master switch and stuff in that vein.
yes, in most cases

the maya codices and the khipu were lost in very nearly their entirety, and the more abundant maya hieroglyphs carved on stone have been only partly deciphered. the khipu are entirely undeciphered except for arithmetic

of carthaginian literature not one book remains

the khwarazmian empire is known from the accounts of its neighbors and destroyers

qin shi huang ordered the burning of the history books for every kingdom he conquered; consequently what we know of most of them today is little more than legend, except for what the histories of qin tell us

in countless smaller-scale examples we don't even know the names of the nations that perished along with their language and books
It’s crazy to me that in todays remote first climate, many engineers still can’t effectively make diagrams without an actual whiteboard and marker. A great way to stand out as a senior contributor is to get the hang of using a virtual diagramming tool, both for design documents and live discussions.
But if your response is "I don't like this comment" definitely use your time to tell someone else how to spend their time.
I don't live in Seattle, so I don't know what it's like there, and nor am I an expert in physical security. However, if it's a social norm to pay for human parking attendants, it's not a stretch to assume that there would be human police officers around too. Ultimately, you can't have people doing some jobs without other people doing supporting jobs, but the same is kind of true for digitalisation too: the reason these parking systems are so disliked is that we don't have a conventional or standard parking charge infrastructure to support it yet.

I'm sure people would be much happier with paying for parking via the internet if it was done with an open, reliable and secure protocol with plenty of easy-to-use implementations. But given how impossibly far that is from the digital systems that are used for parking currently, human parking attendants seem to me to be an attractive option. My original comment was 'radical' when seen from the current standpoint of industries being so 'anti-human' that they won't employ workers even when labour is cheap, the work is humane, and it improves the experience for the customers.

So I've no idea if it would be a good decision for Perfectly Profitable Parking LLC, but I think it would be a good decision for the world :)
> How about instead we get a system that doesn't just flag livelihoods of other people with ML and if so, at least provides some meaningful way to appeal?

I think this is what they were suggesting. It isn’t clear to me how this level of mistakes with basically no recourse to appeal is at all sustainable. The only way out is to literally build the alternative, which means, building outside the current…blob.
Words often have multiple different meanings :)

I have a strong memory of being very confused in a classroom in high school once when our teacher was trying to get us to understand this meaning of "ownership" over our own education.

I get it now though!
SD Maid terminated from Play Store due to 'Stalkerware policy'
qq, can you explain a few noob thoughts. Why is surprisal defined as `log (1/p(X=x)`? I'm lacking the intuition for 1. why did someone think to use 1/p? 2. why do we have a log term here.

Log shows up a lot but I don't think I ever really understood when/how do people decided to use it in their formulas. One KL divergence youtube video said, `let's normalize the p(P)/p(Q) using (log(p(P)/q(P)))^N` and then shows how to derived the KL formula. I'd also appreciate if you know how the N (sample size ig) is being used here.

For a lot of math stuff I endup being confused about how people use operations. Like using 1/p(X=x) is like magic to me because I don't understand what the context is when someone thinks about the problem and then decides to do something. What's their thinking process here, what tool or process do I not know about that makes me confused?
No, you're misinformed if you let this person persuade you that driving into wet cement is a mistake only a robot would make.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2021/0...
"Populism" is only defined by its self-declared enemies, and they define it as any policy that they oppose. Just as we're still avenging the Czar in Russia, and Batista and the mafia in Cuba, everybody is still slandering the People's Party. Never let go of a grudge.

So somehow, China's economic policies can be identical to what is domestically ridiculed as "populist." On the other hand, everything authoritarian that Westerners do gets referred to as like what they would do in China.
The game that I play is called Crystal Saga. And while technically it is cheating, you don't get any real advantage doing so because the game it's designed in such a way that you can but pretty much every item with real money and many systems used to upgrade yourself can only be used by spending more money.

As such even if you were to automate every part of the game that's you can do as a free to play player you couldn't get close to those that support the developers with their money.

The gap is so big that you can't even hurt those players where as they can pretty much kill you in one shot.

But I personally play the game because of the people and the community, so none of the automation or money spending really matters to me.
Not one of those. They got the microservice database isolation correct. But nothing else. Well the coffee is good and the toilets are clean.

As for lifers, everyone I work with knows how many days until retirement. Sad sad people. I am merely hopping between frying pans until I can slide out into academia and get old and rot somewhere hopefully with tenure.
Reminds me of the era when dual-core processors started becoming generally available. Suddenly the bugs in multi-threaded software were much more apparent.

Vendors replied to complaints with: “We don’t support those processors”.

No buddy, you don’t support stable software. It’s buggy even on a single core, it’s just less obvious.
I remember this book as being written for teachers and was about about prompting students as you help them solve problems.

I read it as a student, and felt it was somewhat formative even though I don't think I ever explicitly applied anything it said.
Ask HN: Do programmers still print code to review?
Back in the day, programmers used to print code out on continuous form green and white paper.

It seems like this has mostly fallen out of fashion. I wonder if eyeballs on code not on a screen might have been useful in spotting bugs?
This is why I love my Apple Watch. Haptic vibrations are really handy!
Meet your damn neighbors! Know who has what skills. Collaborate on things, like a community garden. If the shit hits the fan, people are often scared and think they're on their own. But if the framework for a mutual aid network is already in place, it's that much less time to "get resilient" together.
There's a pretty funny sketch about that: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
I wouldn't mind if people would just use headphones for the music they want to listen to rather than putting it on loud for all the neighbors to hear, so I kind of agree with the general "be conscious of others". But, yeah, conversations at a normal tone in a bus or train should be perfectly fine, including the ten seconds of ringing which that includes... it's those that are trying to talk directly to the communication mast, or people bringing loudspeakers to public places to play their music, that I find bothersome.
I think most companies do this pretty well when deciding what projects different teams are responsible for. Those are usually pretty good business joints to cleave the domain.

People just lose their mind when you say the microservice.
IMAP notes still works.
There is a grimy call center where politicians go to dial for dollars. Call books, now databases and dialing programs, filled with people of means, are used to connect people with money to politicians.

There are handlers too. People who make sure those calls get made.

The DNC, and likely the RNC, has a party quota, and that runs in addition to whatever getting reelected will require.

On those calls, everyone knows what needs to happen:

Those people of means need to be heard. They also want stuff to happen.

The politicians need dollars, favorable press, testimonials and help paying for staffers who take the incoming calls, faxes letters and whatever else comes in from the/ public. Those staffers often write laws and do research too.

The lobbies play off all that and are able to bring money and whatever else may make sense into the equation.

You are right in the strict sense of dollars not driving choices directly.

The system that does drive choices is packed to the gills with grift, old money, corruption, and in general, people of means and corporations driving most decisions.

Transactions called bribes, that are criminalized in much of the world, happen here daily!

We are among the most propagandized people in the world too.

I forget the study, but it basically showed how voters feel about an issue can count, except economic issues where we basically do not count in all but the most extreme sense.

My take after a good decade of activism and some access to this stuff is a fair bit less charitable.

And yes, we both miss the mark, and that is not good news.

The reality is likely more insidious and toxic to ordinary people.
"odhi Linux 7.0 ships with Thunar’s archive plugin pre-installed by default, a web browser manager tool inspired by the Zorin OS Browser Manager tool to make it easier for users to install their favorite web browsers, support for notification actions, and support for application instances in the iBar module."
Another interesting open letter from Jobs was "Thoughts on music"

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/15878/open-letter-07

I seem to recall a third open letter on another subject but search fails me at the moment
It has always been that except for the constant onslaught of misinformed idiots who have no clue about architecture (especially here on hackernews) trying to convince people otherwise.
This is how you end up bald very quickly.
That's a little better but still tantamount to having it given to them. Investors are parasites who make their living off of other people's labor.
A fair point, but then you might as well just administer a simpler placebo without the woo :). In the case of homeopathy that would be asking people to just drink a little water.

Anyway... IIRC the current consensus is that the "more extreme" the intervention appears the more beneficial the placebo effect is, so...
It all sounds a little too "Software services as a software service."

Python -> Excel sounds great.

Cloud Python -> Cloud Excel sounds too much like a privacy and security disaster waiting to happen.
When would someone use this over libsodium(Or libhydrogen? Is that considered secure yet?)? It seems python-specific. I love python, but I'm a fan of universal standards.
Fukushima: Wastewater from ruined nuclear plant to be released from Thursday
Anaconda distributions aren't exactly small. I'd also assume there's some sort of environment isolation, so you're getting multiple copies. Maybe one per workbook?
I'll be the one to lament that with Flash, a very accessible authoring system died that hasn't been replaced yet. Lots of creative laypeople built fantastic stuff because Flash was so easy to use, yet powerful.

This comment is mandatory for every post mentioning Flash, and although the Flash player/plugin was a resource hog and an absolute security nightmare, it's still true.
> So in other words, we don't know what their elites did.

They didn't do enough.

> And I'm not denying climate change.

Climate change is just one symptom of the overshoot of the environment's carrying capacity (planetary boundaries).

> Is it obvious? Isn't it the subject of intense scientific research?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries#Nine_boun...

Climate change, biodiversity loss and deforestation (land use change) are our biggest problems, I'd say.

> This article just seems like it's taking advantage of peoples anxieties to harvest clicks

No, it's just an early bird in the mass media. We'll hear about it more often going forward.

Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01157-x

Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2108146119

Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1810141115

Ecological doom-loops: Why ecosystem collapses may occur much sooner than expected

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-ecological-doom-loops-ecosyste...

The Human Ecology of Overshoot: Why a Major ‘Population Correction’ Is Inevitable

https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4060/4/3/32

Chances Of Societal Collapse In Next Few Decades Is Sky High, Modelling Suggests

https://www.iflscience.com/chances-of-societal-collapse-in-n...

Ecological Collapse Could Happen Much Sooner Than Expected, Study Finds

https://www.ecowatch.com/ecological-collapse-tipping-points-...

Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy

https://jembendell.com/2020/07/27/debating-the-pros-and-cons...

Collapse - the only realistic scenario?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPb_0JZ6-Rc
Hi @kzhen, did you use a template for your website? Which template did you use?
I think you underestimate just how small most businesses are. In the US, something like 90% of businesses have fewer than 25 employees. Dealing with setting up in another state is a significant burden.
It would be cool if, for people you select and obviously trust well (the type that you typically need to pick up a call from) they could record 3 seconds of audio and that would be the "ringtone." This feature would have to be completely 100% opt-in.

It would be cooler and better if this was reliably transcribed to text and displayed with the ringing screen.
Should have a look at espruino and banglejs
DBeaver 23.1.5
OpenOffice is limping along, about a gazillion commits and bugfixes behing LibreOffice. To match your Internet Explorer 6 experience, try OpenOffice today!
Interesting, I used to use word processor that aren't cloud based, but many years ago I've lost to many of my writings due to crashes or power loses, do that when I finally discovered cloud based word processors it was like magic to me, because it didn't crash and if I lost power I didn't lose any of my work!
It's not even about pockets. I will NOT feel my phone vibrate in most cases, even if it's in my pocket and I'm sitting down so my phone is laying on top of my leg.
Yes, the first things called "emoji" (a Japanese word) appeared (unsurprisingly) in Japan.

Custom monochrome pictures that can be put inline with text date at least back to ATASCII and PETSCII on Atari and Commodore 8-bit machines respectively.

MSN Messenger had pictures that could also be put into text (they were called smileys, but included plenty of non-face pictures), this happened the same year as NTT DoCoMo launched emoji in i-mode; yes the J-Phone had them in 1997, but it wasn't super popular.
That seems to lead to an endless CAPTCHA loop.
> You check their LinkedIn out and they have a B.A. in Library Sciences or something. Yeah. Those guys have the upper hand now.

Even joking (I hope), I can see why it's possible that you may have had so many rejections. I have a BA in History and a MPA. I have worked in Analytics for 20+ years and work in a highly technical, hands on keyboard, data engineering leadership role.

Non-traditional education backgrounds can still warrant highly effective folks.

YMMV.
I'm interested at what rate tritium will be tracked as appearing around the world.

it has a half-life of 12 years. Presumably it's been in decay in the tanks, but will have a known radioactivity. So, we should be able to track this by its specific energy-decay rate, as it flows into the ocean currents.

I do not adhere to the belief this is the worst thing they can do. I think its the least-worst choice for them, given all the other circumstances, and current technology for both holding radioactive water, and decontaminating it. It certainly is a tragedy/trashing of the commons, the oceans being a shared resource.

If tritium is concentrated in the food chain over the 12 year half-life period, there might be some ingestion risk but I have yet to see a source which says thats likely. Brine shrimp will (apparently) take it up selectively. So, there would be an coastal/saltpan water risk. If the outflow dumps into a high enough current it might not remain in inshore waters. (a lot of seabirds feed off brine shrimp but they aren't part of the food chain to humans mostly)
I’m not sure how that made it here, but I wish there was an HN for music. Interview was fun, but I’m definitely going through and creating a playlist of everything he mentioned…
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Intelligent vs. Smart
They'll quickly find device manufacturers moving to riscv with that tactic
I despise the feeling of wearing a watch (or almost anything else around my wrists). They're also a significant added expenses that many can't afford, and not nearly useful enough to actually justify that expense.
To walk a fully connected graph with a prime number of vertices you can walk first to x+1, then x+2 then x+3 etc. edges by looping around. This a fun special case to prove (basically if you loop by x+i where i coprime to n, it loops after visiting all the vertices, and if n is prime every i is coprime to it)
I tried to learn Fauna and FQL a couple of years ago; their documentation was hard to trudge through with few examples, and their pricing was hard to grasp.

I think they also recently nerfed the free tier.

I've been using CouchDB and Pocketbase.io much more successfully for my mini web apps.
> laws that target specific companies or individuals are unconstitutional

Do you have a link for this? If you're referring to bills of attainder, my understanding wasn't that they're as broad as just "targeting".
You'd need to spend at least 110kWh to convert CO2 back to propane, maybe much more. No matter what you do, LPG -> CO2 -> LPG cycle has to be energy-negative.
But how do they not realize that not everyone wants to have the cloud required for a feature in Excel?
Subpar is really stretching it. With some care, Flash content could behave quite well on the iPhone. It was not 100% proprietary. Of course it wasn’t 100% open either, but then I direct your attention to the Apple App Store.

Edit: Flash Paper was hot garbage. Definitely not going to defend that one lol
Tell me: if a space elevator on the Moon is theoretically possible, using materials which already exist, then why do you conclude it definitely can't happen?

Because on Earth there's a real problem: you need carbon nanotubes to do it. And not just, the ones we have, but perfectly formed, seriously long carbon nanotubes (depending on weaving techniques you can get up to 80% UTS, I can't remember if this is enough).

We don't have these. We may never have these. It may be energetically impossible to build and maintain these.

But the moon space elevator doesn't have that problem. A number of existing materials in use today meet the necessary strength/weight requirements for lunar gravity. You can just go and buy them. If you went to the moon with them, you could drop a very long tether from orbit down to the surface and it would work.

The main reason we don't have a space elevator on the moon is the feasibility of moving materials to the moon to build it. But that's a limitation which applies to...all things Moon related. Moving thousands of tons to build a Lunar base or research station has exactly the same problems. It is theoretically possible but logistically infeasible at the moment, but not insurmountable.

That's different - in an important way - from requiring materials which don't currently exist in sufficient quantities, or purity, using manufacturing techniques which don't exist and may never exist.
Excellent article which lists the facts without hyperbole. It is, alas, a sad indictment of our collective failure to act fast enough to advert the worst.
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It was one of a French startup - it did pretty well in the market, and I liked what they've been doing.

It was something like a fifth or sixth interview, and CTO told me they decided to offer me a position requiring more solid technical skills. I was happy to hear it, and I didn't think my boss should be also a different person and didn't ask about it.

Later I realized my boss was awful at management and speaking with people, so I understood why no one wanted him to interview me. If I had an interview with him - I wouldn't take the offer.

I left the company in a couple of days, and it was the worst scam in interviewing I have ever had.
That’s a bold claim. Here’s a fuel filter being replaced in a 240sx, which has an in-tank pump:

https://youtu.be/rWopnBcWs1g