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Yes, this. There's almost an inverse "no true Scotsman" element to the way mindfulness and meditation are taught and spoken about. No such thing as failure, no such thing as doing it correctly, doing it at all is better than not doing it. All based on the unproven premise that it's a positive thing for everyone and/or that everyone will be able to get stronger at it with practice. Seemingly no consideration to divergent neurotypes, psychological trauma, physical limitations, or deep cultural differences.

It reminds me of: years ago I came across a book profiling the journey of a young western Jewish man seeking a path in Zen Buddhism, studying under gurus with other seekers in monasteries. As he progressed through his meditative practice he couldn't avoid feeling unsettled by the sense that none of it was "working" for him no matter how deeply he understood and how much he practiced. The gurus all just kept trying to help him improve his practice. Until he came to the most enlightened and compassionate guru who basically let him off the hook, saying, in essence, that this stuff will never stick to him and that he's just meant to practice Judaism.
I'm really glad I don't live in a country like this.
It's a similar shape but with quite different conclusions

- low drive + low aptitude: never hire

Hammerstein thinks some use can be made of these folks

- low drive + high aptitude: hire for targeted use cases where you need expertise

Hammerstein has this group as high leadership positions

- high drive + low aptitude: hire, train, and foster aptitude growth

These are the ones who Hammerstein avoids

- high drive + high aptitude: hire on the spot

These go to the "General Staff"
> Anglo societies absolutely have a problem with committee veto.

They have bigger problem that is opposite. Lobbing. Like when proposal for golf resort in natural protected area was vetoed by committee in Aberdeenshire. But then after lobbing, decision was reversed by local government. Argued that it would create 6000 jobs. Result? There are no 6000 jobs and protected are is lost.
But if it was done that way, wouldn't the placebo effect be weaker?
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Yes. Even in Canada they already have something similar with their carbon taxes. IIRC, tax is collected all year and returned at the end based on income rather than consumption.

Not sure if it would technically be considered a negative tax, but the effect is similar.
> Since Overcast is a one-person company that can’t possibly review and monitor all known podcasts for spam, adult content, hate speech, and other problematic, controversial, or illegal material, Overcast uses the human-reviewed Apple Podcasts directory as its filter for what should be included in search results and recommendations.

There's basically why. You can manually add RSS feeds to various podcast apps, but Apple just slurps up those same feeds unless not submitted for some reason.
FB has many scam adverts that get reported but never taken down, I know as I got scammed from 1 and the company is listed online as a fraudulant company, but FB just dont care as they make advert money.
Iran hasn’t directly started any wars, but has been fighting proxy wars across the Middle East and Africa for over a generation. You are seriously misinformed here and should not be discussing this stuff until that changes. The entire spectrum of conflicts in the Middle East right now are all coordinated by Iran and its revolutionary guard.
With the approach you're proposing, we'd possibly start to see titles like "AMD Ryzen 5 8500G: A Surprisingly F*$cin@ting Sub-$200 CPU".
How do we convince people to pay for the more expensive chips? More automation? Government subsidies? Other?
“They could have made a headset sooner, it wouldn’t be the Vision Pro“

Hmm I guess. Vision Pro seems rushed from vantage point. Odd battery pack … only 2 hour charge … limited field of vision. Also the screens that show a picture of your eyes are off putting and strange.

Think Apple may have rushed here too quickly. We need more battery life.. think we may be looking more for an Augmented Reality mode which works on top of what you see with your actual eyes rather than your eyes just looking at high def screens inside of a headset that is relaying a video captured from cameras of what is in front of you.

Looks more like a Prototype IMO
> A decade of crappy Palm, WinCE, and easily forgotten Java based mobile devices came and went before iPhone

Including the Apple Newton, arguably the first handheld device.
I wonder if the scammer is using emails and passwords from a breach against Facebook to access "reputable" accounts and then posting marketplace listings.
I just needed a reason to throw money at him ;)
Was HN headline editorialized from "Adam Neumann is trying to buy back WeWork"? This version makes it sound like A.N. went bankrupt.
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> It seems like they are biding their time and avoiding the hype knowing that they don't need to get their first

This idea that Apple gets to things late to "perfect them" is an artifact of the iPod/iPhone era. Nothing Apple put out since then has met this bar.

Apple does things low-key these days because it has to. Remember the Apple Maps fiasco? A few memes was all it took to send everyone scurrying back to GMaps for a decade.
I remain convinced that something on my phone listens to incidental conversations. Yesterday my wife was asking about the difference between our (past) Plymouth Voyager and the current Chrysler Pacifica. Today I get an ad in my Google (Android) feed for the Pacifica. I haven't looked at mini-vans in decades and neither of us searched for anything related.

We had just visited the Sloan museum in Flint, MI which has an extensive Buick display so an ad for a Buick would not have been unexpected.

Coincidences like this have happened too many times to be coincidental.
Congrats!

I haven't tried unison, but it sounded like magic when I first heard about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adu75GJ0w1o (Worth a watch - Rúnar is awesome)
I didn't have a particularly horrific childhood, but every chapter title would be about social struggles, anxiety, and depression. The positive stuff was random events, and the organizing themes were negative. Isn't that true for most people?

I guess the question tests a person's ability to craft positive, attractive narratives about themselves. Maybe we're returning to a time when being outwardly happy is treated as a universal social obligation, like in the 1950s and 1960s. My parents' generation rebelled against the oppressive conformity of the post-WW2 era, and the tendency to value acceptance and emotional transparency continued through my generation (Gen X), but it could easily swing back the other way. Especially since all the stubborn problems in this country (resistance to awareness of racism, resistance to awareness of historic injustice, resistance to action on global warming, etc.) are seen as stemming from the unearned unhappiness of privileged people, I can see cheerfulness becoming obligatory, and lack of cheerfulness being openly stigmatized, instead of just passively and subconsciously discriminated against.

Edit: The rise of social media influencers as role models would obviously be a huge factor in this, and in the increasing pressure on people who struggle with something (whether it's a societal issue like racism or poverty, or a mental illness) to live up to the "positive representation" of the influencers who earn the power to define the public's expectations by presenting themselves in a charismatic, consumable way.
> the salary of workers doesn't affect the cost that much

It doesn't and that's why Intel still has foundaries in Oregon and Arizona.

The difference is TSMC's leadership doesn't want to play ball with American work culture and wants to keep pushing the 996 mentality (yes, even Taiwan has an extreme overwork and underpay problem).

The Foundary space is a very low margin industry. There's a reason why the only companies left are TSMC, Samsung, Intel, and GlobalFoundaries.

While the TSMC plant in Chandler has been plagued with bad press, the Intel plant right next door has been expanding with almost no hiccups.
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> There should be standards for EV chargers, so anyone can charge their EV of choice at the charger of their choice.

In north america, essentially everyone has agreed on the NACS [1] (starting in 2025). In Europe they use a "Type 2" aka CCS2[2], and in China they use GB/T[3]. So we're getting there in north america, it'll just be another couple years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Charging_Standa...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_2_connector

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB/T_charging_standard
> there is no rational reason to consider them to be a security threat in the region

Putin is a dictator. Actions irrational for Russia could be rational for him. Would NATO risk broad conflict if he puttered around in the Baltics? I think so. But do I know so? And wouldn’t challenging NATO like that play rather well domestically?
> Canada is one of the largest countries on the planet.

So is the USA but it's still very expensive to live in NYC or SF. This isn't a Canada problem, it's a Toronto/Vancouver/Montreal problem (and their wider metropolitan areas), which together account for more than a third of the country's population.

> Why can’t Canada build more homes?

Partly due to idiotic zoning laws, partly due to the "missing middle" layer of the housing market, but mostly due to "investment properties" that sit empty and may as well not have been built at all.

> why can’t we ban foreigners from owning homes?

We sure could! Or just tax the hell out of it. But it wouldn't sit well with real estate developers and the politicians they've purchased.
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> permanent ice caps formed for the first time 3 million years ago

This is flat out false. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_sheet#In_geologic_timescal...
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The code repo this article is based on - https://github.com/apple/ml-mgie - is based around InstructPix2Pix (which is based on Stable Diffusion) and LLaVA (multi-modal LLM that supports vision input).

It's research code, not a product. I don't think Apple would ever productionize anything with data lineage from Stable Diffusion.
The HN ethos is to cultivate curiosity, so the word "Fascinating" seems on brand, even if it does help a bit to draw attention.
> I wonder would the effect would be of extending HIPAA protections to information that you have inferred.

That would be helpful. Also, HIPAA itself isn't exactly a panacea and is full of loopholes. Having effective medical privacy laws would be even better.
Is it possible to get one screenshot from different periods of the same video like 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80% with just one command.

If yes, could you please share for me here, it'd be really helpful, thanks
> The average BEV is lasting just as long as any other car on the road

Teslas haven't even existed as a car producing company for as long as most cars last, Toyotas in particular. Model 3's certainly not.

> The used market for EVs is "barren"

I just pulled up hundreds in a 10 mile radius of me on craigslist. Probably most needing $20,000 battery services.

> You've been lead to believe some interesting misinformation

No, you.
Believe it or not, in most of the USA you can leave a backpack visible in your car and it won't get broken into. It's only some shithole cities where this is a serious problem. So, it's unsurprising that many people would be surprised by that particular type of crime.

Online marketplace scams are prevalent pretty much everywhere because the scammers can use fake accounts and are often in another country.
Haha I had the same thought, I wonder if they have changed it to something else or at least when he talks - "pika pika"
Whoa, I just started building something similar for scrapscript!

Curious: Who is the target demographic for this service? Hobbyists?

I'm also interested in what benefits unison touts specifically. Is the only reason to choose unison over Cloudflare's workers the conveniences of functional typing and other ergonomics?
Got it working. Was easy to install on macOS just an .app file to download, and one line in the terminal to download the 3.8GB manifest. Took 44 minutes from making this post (35 minutes from your reply). Seems to work quite well (quite a lot faster than ChatGPT, but perhaps not as high quality, at least based on some of the leaderboards I've been perusing).

I added this web ui mostly to render code chunks nicely for easy copy/paste (web UI found via the readme): https://github.com/ivanfioravanti/chatbot-ollama

Getting chatgpt-like UX. Love that I can put in a system prompt so easily (if desired).
France and Poland are also US vassals lmao. France can make a better case but that’s because it admitted that all of these alliances subserve it to the US in the 60s and has fought hard to retain some semblance of independence.
Yes. But you know, Bellevue is almost as Indian (12%) as it is Chinese (14%), so HSBC is definitely specializing in this case. Not that I'm complaining. They also have a lot of customers who don't speak much english at all, obviously not techies (but maybe the aging parents of techies).

It definitely isn't Richmond though.
Cryptocurrency is kind of the opposite if escrow. Especially the complex stuff like smart contracts. It is more “technical wizard who hacks it takes all!” with zero recourse.
That may be true, but it doesn't mean that I have to submit to an interview with people like this who are lacking empathy. It also wouldn't be great if these kinds of interviews proliferate.

Empathy comes from being able to put yourself in other people's shoes. Reading fiction has been shown to increase empathy. If so then these guys need to do more reading.
What I meant is that Toyota electric cars are not popular inside the electric category. From range to charging speeds, they're behind other brands.
I got scammed for £60 the other day as well when I wanted to buy a Flipper Zero to play around with. I suspected it was a scam, but having never had a bad experience on Facebook Marketplace before (I only bought face to face), I figured I'd give it the benefit of a doubt.

The guy asked me to wire him some money and then disappeared. Once I knew what signs to look for, I realized that all ten people who sold a Flipper Zero on FB were scammers.
Yeah, Not sure you can call “dominating” at having a unique feature that nobody uses. Time will tell but I think Vision Pro will have similar retention issues to other headsets. Fundamental problems still there (weight, vergence accommodation conflict, isolation…)
Asocial? I guess autistic people are out!

I assume you’re young: there are many reasons people might be perfectly good at a job but not want to socialize with those people, or any other people.

This whole thread makes me sad as an unemployed autistic person. HN folks are horrible hiring managers!

Edit: and now downvoted for showing you losers that your personal model of the world and the people in it might be lacking; fuck vc tech bros.
Ah, well today I learned about ECS. I guess we’ll migrate to that once I need to add complexity to our EKS setup.

I’m new to this stuff, so it’s hard to dig through all of the possible different solutions.

I looked into Ray a bit but it seemed a little too complicated vs. just running a CUDA accelerated docker container. Most of the streamlined solutions in this space are not made for full stack web developers deploying a service that happens to need a GPU. They’re for ML devs who are trying to own the production side of their part of the product.
> makes all the discussion more appealing

Yuk.

> One of the code reviewers is a top Python community participant though.

Double yuk.
>Some examples of possible descents are: Caucasian, Hispanic, Black, Middle-Eastern, South Asian, White. They should all have equal probability.

I wonder why they included both Caucasian and White, but excluded East Asian.
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That's philosophy. Replace the word 'art' with 'philosophy' and it makes more sense.
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One of them is about five miles from me in Phoenix and it's going poorly. My read is that there are some legitimate labor concerns, some mismanagement, but also a lot of special interest strong arming in things like not bringing in enough Taiwanese workers.
The A2Z Typhoon ships for ~ $200, so this move will probably cost Ford around $27 million.

I suggest not buying any adapter unless it's been endorsed by your vehicle manufacturer. A2Z claims they're working with OEMs, but haven't said which ones.

Props to Tesla for adopting the CCS1 signalling protocol. Adapters would be more expensive if they required a microcontroller.
No it isn't. In my experience, there are few higher quality signals a codebase is utter garbage than having `if (arg == NULL)` checks at the top of every function... Almost nothing in libc does that, it is entirely unnecessary.

I realize that wasn't your point, but this is an enormous pet peeve of mine...
Words are defined by the parser, not by the alphabet. Letters are what's defined by the alphabet.

> Also, several of those codons aren't mapped to amino acides (stop codons)

Yes, codons are the minimal units of the genetic code, which is why they're called "codons".

> and the codons are re-used to code for the same amino acids, so it's really redundant

Synonymous codons aren't redundant. They take different amounts of time to process, which affects the shape of the resulting protein.
Things are a bit different now, compared to the iPod. If Microsoft had released a competitor a year or two in advance of the iPod, Apple would have had a much harder time getting traction for their iPod because they didn't have a large walled garden back then. They only had a very small subset of the computer market, and iPods were only compatible with Macs (at first).

Apple can afford to be a much later mover, even against very well-resourced competitors, now that they have a huge walled garden. If they didn't have the walled garden, it would be very difficult for them to catch up.
> Iran has started no wars in recent memory, killed no civilians

By that measure, America’s never done any mischief in Latin America!
Very timely and helpful, thank you!

A suggestion: the pulse animation would look much better with ease-in / ease-out animation curves instead of the harsh linear curve it's currently using. EaseInOutSine from this cheat sheet would do fine: https://easings.net/
Arlington as in Arlington County, Virgina, to be clear... quite a few Arlingtons in the US.
I like the idea of haiku error messages (as in Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett's Good Omens). "Site not found" becomes, with some LLM assistance:

Amidst cyberspace vast,

Site elusive, lost in void,

Unreachable code.
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Meaningful and rewarding seem awfully easy compared to socially esteemed. (the Brave New World approach was to condition everyone to esteem their station, which —although we do do this currently via targeted advertising— is ... problematic)

I guess we could —slightly less problematically— provide generative AI claques?
In my experience, you can log in to Paypal/eBay by supplying your email address, then choosing "another way to sign in" (other than PW), at which point you're prompted to enter a single use code sent thru SMS. So: phone spoofing sounds likely, and it's my guess the scammers were operating without even having to use Paypal support to close the tickets.
Why? People could also do that now if they wish. You can't stop malicious compliance with a poorly implemented filter. And for that you have the flag button and dang who deletes them.

But if you do have a poorly implemented filter, why not let your users know the rules instead of them finding out through obscurity?

Openness is better than obscurity, no? Isn't that the FOSS ethos?
Yeah treat it like Gumtree, Craigslist, Newspaper Ad or carboot sale. Why do anything else?
What do you do with it? How often? Is it your first headset?
Some significant names from that world on the fly.io roster :) Like a lot of people I feel like Elixir / BEAM has a real value proposition that is unrealised in the wider IT landscape ... but maybe that's not such a bad thing from some perspectives.
Suggests what? SUGGESTS WHAT???

Apple must have got to him...
> "Our analysis of multiple surveys indicates that as much as 91 percent of U.S. manufacturers have reshored some production in 2022, up from just 7 percent 2012. " https://www.assemblymag.com/articles/98200-a-look-back-at-20...

With no numbers or rules for the numerator and the denominator, and no clear methodology, and no clear understanding of the biases and the agendas of the authors, these ratios are meaningless.
The HR people often seem to be the ones that ask the psychological questions.
I'm an anarchist communist. (Wait, hear me out, I'm not an anarchist in "The Purge" sense.)

It's interesting to see the hypothesis of authors like Kropotkin validated to some degree. Anarchist authors have long posited that if you emphasize "wellbeing for all" ahead of profit or productivity, the social nature of humans will result in a largely positive experience. People will, hypothetically, do good things if their basic needs are taken care of. The book The Conquest of Bread is a utopian look at this general idea.

It seems like study after study on UBI shows that when you take care of the immediate needs, people seem to seek self improvement and higher quality work.

You see this in open source communities as well, which are some of the most anarchist communities imaginable - take freely if you need this, give what you can back is a deeply anarchist ethos.

I hope that the rational in our communities continue to push for more experiments here, more programs that simply provide universal income to people. Continue to replicate these results and turn the best things into policy.
And prior to the app store, app writers dealt with carriers who wanted 70% of revenue, not 30%. There was no money in phone apps prior to the App Store. I had left the mobile industry by then because I'd seen enough to know that mobile companies were just a funnel of VC money to goods and services for carriers who looked a hell of a lot like Ma Bell (employed some of the same people, in fact)

While the iPhone was certainly interesting tech, that's not what made a bunch of devs learn Objective C. It was money.

That Apple has only lowered their fees one, one and a half times in that period is how we end up with all the grumbling we have today. but at the time it was much much better than the status quo.
I definitely didn't expect it to be so sub-$200.
Fake tracking numbers are a common occurrence in scams now. Somehow the scammers are getting access to a database of real time legitimate tracking numbers, they wait until there’s a shipment in their database going to the same city as the buyer, and then use that tracking number to claim that they shipped the package. Maybe they’re paying a real merchant for access to their shipping database? Or are UPS tracking numbers short enough to brute force?