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The article mentioned Holotropic Breathwork, which is a method Stanislav Grof came up with after no longer being able to use LSD for his research in the 1960s. I haven't taken a course in it, but it does seem similar to Wim Hof's technique, which you can follow along an intro of on his YouTube [1].

All of it is pretty similar to various pranayama techniques that have existed in the yogas for thousands of years though. Iyengar's Light on Pranayama is a good resource for the various practices [2]. While Wim Hof and Holotropic Breathwork are slightly different, the closest to them from the yogas would maybe be bhastrika pranayam (and here's a random guy on YouTube that comes up when googling it -- just skimming it and it looks basically like what I was taught [3]).

Edit: I realized I didn't answer your question regarding how pranayama/breathwork compares to meditation. It's different than meditation (dhyana or jhana), but it's complimentary and there are elements that are similar. For instance, during pranayama practice you'll often have breath holds/retentions and during that time you'll be instructed to bring your awareness to something (a point on your body, on the awareness itself, etc). This is generally what you'd do in formal meditation practice too, but in this case it's for a much shorter period of time (the length of the breath hold). So in a way it gets you used to working with your awareness, to bring it internal for short periods of time many times. Many people will practice pranayama before beginning formal seated meditation practice. I personally use nadi shodhana before meditation practice, and more vigorous pranayamas like kapalbhati and bhastrika before/during/after asana practice. They're also good to do in the middle of the day when you need a bit of a reset.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tybOi4hjZFQ

[2] https://archive.org/details/iyengar-bks-light-on-pranayama-o...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I578H4VoZiY
Hunting is just as necessary for life as breathing. Domestication of animals and agriculture are the unnatural ways that man has invented. So banning it is banning the most natural human behaviour. All other predators do nothing except hunt, breathe, drink, sleep and mate. And they don't keep slaves.

There's a lot of people who never drink water, but drinking water is still essential and shouldn't be outlawed.
Well, yeah. Controlling things with an app may seem like a sensible and efficient design given that the user already has a phone, but it seems outrageous to pull a whole phone's worth of complexity into the problem from a safety or security engineering standpoint. I'm genuinely surprised they're allowed to do things this way. Next you'll tell me the autopilot on a 737 runs as an app on the pilot's personal phone. The entire prospect seems to me approximately that crazy.
Given Dell's executives comments over the past decade on the effectiveness of remote workers, it seems like it would be difficult for them to make the case that remote work is not a reasonable accomodation for a disability affecting mobility.
>I don’t do much for fun besides work on things that need compilers, debuggers, dynamic analysis, linking, JIT execution, tracing, and suchlike

Why would you need a table for those things? Isn't a dektop/laptop optimized for those kind of things anyway?

Or you just want to hook some 11" iPad to a monitor and a keyboard, and just use it as a desktop unit?
In the comment section, the customer (who has Hertz President's Circle status) provides even more baffling interactions with Hertz:

> Hey y’all! Josh here! To clarify, I did receive an email that the quote in the article was pulled from, but I also had three interactions over the phone with people who were most definitely human (and most definitely rude) who confirmed to me that yes actually, the charge is legitimate. Yes, it’s also my fault for asking them to fill it up if I didn’t want to get charged. And yes, really, that was the cost to fill up the Tesla with gas. No, really, sir; the Hertz teams on the ground know their cars. If they say a Tesla Model 3 standard range takes $277 gallons of gas to fill up, it must have taken $277 to fill up the tank. So… there ya have it! There must be a secret gas tank that only Hertz knows about that all the Tesla owners have yet to discover. Maybe it’s an Easter egg? ;)
> I object to the current trend of minority groups trying to impose their views to the whole of society and to paint those who disagree as 'wrong'.

I'm curious what you mean by "impose their views" with respect to meat-eating. Has a vegan ever tried to stop you from eating meat for example through physical force, threatening your livelihood, making meat illegal in their state, etc?

Don't get me wrong, I also dislike when strangers impose their moral, ethical, racial, political, or religious views on me.

But of all the groups that concern me, vegans are low on my list as their weapons mostly seem to be uncomfortably strong arguments on the internet and the occasional preachy Netflix documentary.
The writing has been on the wall for years. For every warning that we have to do something _now_, policymakers did nothing. It might not be too late for 1.5C theoretically, but it's not like now is the moment our politicians will get their shit together. Nothing will happen until it's too late and the consequences are unforeseeable. Will the gulf stream stop and kill Europe through winter? Will global warming make 80% of my country uninhabitable?

I wish I knew so I could prepare. I'm not a prepper, but I wish I could find a way to secure my family for what will happen after the climate catastrophe. Maybe it'll be ok for us rich nations because we'll build higher walls and more ACs and anyone trying to immigrate will just die? But maybe not. It really scares me more than I'm willing to admit
When I worked at Dell it was....not great. My org had a tendency to fire any manager who set realistic expectations and put in place anyone who would always say yes to the client.

It got so bad that my direct manager had a literal mental breakdown one day over someone resigning that was key to the success of a project. Like sobbing, throwing furniture at walls out of control break down. I got out of their right after that, last I heard my direct manager quit tech entirely and went back to his home country. That org was not setup for anyone to win.

But it was my first non-intern job out of college and it introduced me to the perk of WFH, we all had 2 WFH days a week and I loved it (especially since at home I could stream music, at the office 30+ people shared a T1 line). A couple years after I left, I got laid off, and desperate for a job, came back to Dell, but at that point almost nobody was coming into the office and I didn't have any teammates there so I just worked from home all the time. that was 9 years ago I think, and I've worked remotely since then.
Time and money are factors into wrongness, too. That's what differentiates software engineering from computer science.
This is the killer app elephant in the room. Removing the exploitation of people in porn is a net positive. There’s been attempts at ethical porn but it is a garden in a rainforest.
They're not "iterations", they're variants. It's not like they made a UUIDv1, then came up with a better idea to make UUIDv2, then improved that and made UUIDv3, etc. They simply have different purposes. UUIDv4, for example, is for when you simply want the UUID to be fully random. UUIDv8 is for when you want to use your own completely custom UUID generation scheme but still want it to fit in to the UUID format. UUIDv7 is for when you want UUIDs which are sortable based on timestamps and have a random component. Other UUID variants work well if you have a known set of machines generating UUIDs and you can give each machine a unique ID to ensure that no two machines will generate the same UUID.

Now some UUID versions do supersede others, for example UUIDv7 is pretty much just a better UUIDv1. But UUIDv4, for example, has not been superseded and remains a good choice for some uses.
I'd be more concerned about prions in this case.
It is indeed a small world.
I appreciate that what Jira is trying to do is hard. That might mean that it's trying to do too much and the industry would be better picking a different set of tools that don't try to do as much.

However, the biggest problem is one of misaligned incentives. Jira is meant to make a director's job easier at the expense of everyone else. It's a bit like Coupa: Coupa nearly requires an administrator, and increases the cognitive load of everyone in the org, but it makes the job of the accountants so much easier that people live with it.

(That said, I will be interested in how AI and Atlassian end up interacting. We all know it's coming.)
Well, for me being in UE with eIDAS docs I have just a response: implement eIDAS and I'll give you a certified ID out of my public docs, nothing else. If you want a proof of my identity you'll get the best proof. Otherwise you just want to scam me or you live in another world.

eIDAS could be simply described as "a smart-card in any documents" (so far some UE state have started with identity cards, some with drive permit as well, nothing different than classic/modern e-passports) you can use with a reader and a PIN to identify yourself. The main usage so far is almost only for public administration services but some example of private use are discussed and used ante-litteram for instance as a proof of majority for buying cigarettes on vending machines, some discuss the option of a public SSO identifying a citizen who allow send SOME (detailed in the redirect page) to a private party. Nothing exists AFAIK outside the public but it start to spread. The public became the guarantor of the citizen's identity.

Outside EU various countries have some form of e-IDs so... It's just about time to steamline them ALSO for contract signing instead of absurd SMS-based signature on third parties.
I think scientifically there are very good reasons to assume that ingesting carcinogenic products of combustion into respiratory tract is injurious to health. Normal cigarettes does that, and vaping does not. Thus vaping is a significant reduction in harm as compared to cigarettes.

While I don't deny that vaping companies and their corporate cheer leaders may have made the same argument, what exactly is the problem with this argument on merit?
I moved to the 7 and have no issues with the (iOS) software whatsoever. What issues are you having? If I had one issue with the 7 it's that it appears much more impacted by bluetooth interference than the 6. I suspect that this is a hardware, not software issue.
Well, beats most other forums where they’d simply be racist instead.
Java's FFI is currently a very low-level. As the article points you, you don't actually have to do this: the jextract tool will generate the bindings for you from header files.

I'm sure someone will come along and write annotations to do exactly as you describe there. The Java language folks tend to be very conservative about putting stuff in the official API, cuz they know it'll have to stay there for 30+ years. They prefer to let the community write something like annotations over low-level APIs.

Anyway, the GraalVM folks don't have quite the same limitations as Java, so they have annotations already (https://yyhh.org/blog/2021/02/writing-c-code-in-javaclojure-...):

@CStruct("MDB_val")
public interface MDB_val extends PointerBase {

@CField("mv_size")
long get_mv_size();

@CField("mv_size")
void set_mv_size(long value);

@CField("mv_data")
VoidPointer get_mv_data();

@CField("mv_data")
void set_mv_data(VoidPointer value);
}
> Smart, talented people just aren't valued anymore - it's more about prestige and authority now.

At the core of any corporation that isn't in the process of rapidly dying, between all the middle management and socialising and meetings with pretty graphs and interoffice politics, there needs to be someone that does some actual work.

This is where the nerd fits in a large corporation. That person is irreplaceable, and the layers around them recognise this (or else the company implodes). The may posture, but if you push, they will jump through hoops for you. Flex your muscles. You have more power than you think.
I was here to say exactly the same thing but about another insulin pump system.

A few months ago, an update to Roche's DiabetLoop (DBLG1) created a thousand problems with emails recommending temporary tricks, subsequent updates, etc.

It’s unclear how such a serious issue didn’t surface during QA testing for a system that is, ultimately, fully under the control of the manufacturer (hardware/software).

I see a lot of effort to ensure the ecosystem is increasingly closed, touting the need for security of devices that can be fatal, but, in reality, there's little attention given. (And I say this because bugs and issues that everyone reports are always present, they're known, and they’re not being addressed.)
I think git-bug[1] is the most popular project of that sort.

[1]: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug
Moreover, they have already been proposed by John McCarthy in October 1964, 60 years ago, for inclusion in the successor of ALGOL 60, which makes even more weird the lack of widespread support.

(And in fact Algol 68 had a better implementation than most later languages, but Algol 68 was missing completely any documentation suitable for newbies, like tutorials and programming examples, while not being promoted by any hardware vendor, like IBM or DEC, so it was doomed.)
Yes, C# is faster just because it's a faster runtime, but Python does scale reasonably well for this use case.
really? the apex? that's an interesting perspective, to me.

there have been lots and lots of advancements in IDEs since then, are none of those advancements useful to you? not everyone needs or wants a lot of those things, i'm sure, but they have utility which the Turbo* console IDEs lacked.
I would give the jextract tool a try. I believe it uses LLVM to parse the header files, so the generated bindings might actually be pretty good.
If you like Emacs (I use both Emacs and VSCode, for slightly different coding use cases), then the Emacs elamma [1]package is very nice. It is set up out of the box to use Ollama and to use M-x commands for code completion, summarization, and dozens of other useful functions. I love it, your mileage may vary.

[1] https://github.com/s-kostyaev/ellama
Yeah, I"m planning on getting one as well - the switch has made me realize how great having "real" games on a portable platform is - just waiting for a hardware refresh.
>I have a MacBook from work so I do compare them. It’s a worse user experience. No touchscreen

And that matters for coding work because?

>screen is lower and further from my eyes.

The iPad screen doesn't have any fixed position, so what are you comparing it to? iPad propped on an Apple iPad keyboard (which would be even lower)? iPad handheld which would be unusable? iPad set flat on a table? iPad on a stand (if so, what prevents you putting the MacBook on a stand?)
Regarding accuracy, I don't know, because I never compare it to anything. Seems pretty similar based on how I feel vs readings when I'm low.

The hardware experience is indeed better. Bundling the transmitter with the patch and the 30 minute warmup are great, and part of the reason why I haven't got the energy to switch back.
This deserves to be on the front page.

The authors ask whether image-to-text and text-to-image models (like CLIP and Stable Diffusion) are truly capable of zero-shot generalization.

To answer the question, the authors compile a list of 4000+ concepts (see paper for details on how they compile the list of concepts), and test how well 34 different models classify or generate those concepts at different scales of pretraining, from ~3M to ~400M samples.

They find that model performance on each concept scales linearly as the concept's frequency in pretraining data grows exponentially, i.e., the rarer the concept the less likely it is actually/properly learned -- which implies there is no "zero-shot" generalization.

The authors also release a long-tail test dataset that they cleverly name the "Let it Wag!" benchmark to allow other researchers to see for themselves how current models perform on the long tail of increasingly rare concepts.

Go read the whole thing, or at least the introduction. It's clear, concise, and well-written.
I've worked places where the water fountains are taped off with notes saying the water isn't potable, and to get bottled water from the fridge. Another scenario is walking around town in the summer. Sometimes a park with a working fountain is nearby, but if not then bottled water from a shop is the low-effort option (you could also ask for a cup of water from a restaurant, always free in America although not necessarily in other parts of the world, but that requires a more awkward social interaction..) If a working clean water fountain is available I'm happy to drink from it, but often that isn't the case.
Show HN: I made uploading on the web easier for devs
Hey HN,

I'm Raymond, a solopreneur and hardcore dev.

After making hundreds of websites for clients, I realized that the traditional ways we manage files sucks. It takes multiple hours (or even days) to get something working, and it's not fun.

So I made uploadworks, a simpler way to manage file uploading on sites.

I'm eager to share it with the HN community and would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.

Raymond
If there wasn’t a market for alternatives, people wouldn’t spend their time building them or marketing themselves as them.
The 90s is completely and utterly hot right now for anyone born after it. Embrace the faux nostalgia or make a mint on Vinted.
Very nice. Since Hn data spawns so many such fun projects, there should be a monthly or weekly updates zip file or torrent with this data, which hackers can just download instead of writing a scraper and starting from scratch all the time.
Ghosts of OSI: the spectre haunting the Internet. (2021)
>I'm curious what makes you think the MBA is a more "full experience?"
The MBA is permanently affixed to its keyboard: so it can't easily be used for consumption (in bed, on the couch, etc.)

News to me, as it never prevented me from doing exactly that. Like hundreds of millions who don't own a tablet (and I do own some).
Why "exploitation of people" in porn is unethical? Are the porn actors forced to work?
Not sure what leads to this believe, we have lots of untouched and well managed forests in the US. Sure we logged most of the eastern states but we also learned their importance before we completely destroyed them, hence wilderness and national park areas that can’t be logged.
To substantiate your point, I was thinking about deforestation for farming in Indiana (where I live) and Ohio last week and learned that Indiana was 90% forest until taxes got in the way. It's crazy that something as silly as taxes can cause most of your forests to become farmland.

https://woodlandsteward.squarespace.com/storage/past-issues/...

We are still alive. I wish we had the forests, but we have survived and the environment has adjusted.
> You're not doing a whole lot to explain why there is nothing wrong with eating meat and breeding cattle.

Why should explain why something is NOT bad ? It's up to you to convince him (or others) that it is bad, and the reasoning "according to MY ethics it is bad" is not a good argument.

There is a good argument to be made that in the West we should eat less meat, but that doesn't mean removing it completely: it is harder to make a balanced vegan diet, so for most people that would mean a less healthy outcome that just eating a moderate amount of meat.
This sounds great but I just can't get by the oxygen deprivation and potential harm to your brain. Not to mention the hypercapnia induced tetany is very uncomfortable and seems a clear signal from the body that "this isn't good!".

[As part of a psychedelic retreat we did breathwork the day before the trip to "open the mind". I faked it because I was worried about the above unanswered questions I had. I still had a great trip and feel no need for another one or similar (ie. via breathwork) to this day. :) ]
You could use Quorn instead and just eat more of it. It has less protein by weight, but more for the same number of calories. Also beans are very good.
Do we expect everyone and their grandmas to 'diversify investments without Tesla' and 'know what date Tesla entered the index'?

The government incentivizes retirement and investment. I have plenty of that thing the government hates because it doesnt produce value, it just stores value.

These bad actors have me thinking more and more about these non-producing assets that continue to grow because they are scare and necessary.
I would love to find one of these that does the opposite -- provides heating instead of cooling.

...also known as... clothes, I guess?
Writing an SDK in Zig, Part 1
I think a lot of the criticism of jira really boils down to bad practices and being a bit careless with it.

However, jira’s performance when it comes to load times, query times, opening and updating tickets, etc. truly does warrant criticism. It introduces a substantial amount of friction when trying to manage multiple tickets, or just get things done.
It's pretty easy to spot when the candidate goes from canned answer to actually having to think. "Thank you, that looks good; now I need it to also do this extra thing" - keep tweaking the question until they have to think.
I'm not GP, but I'm pretty sure this is it: https://github.com/vidarh/rubywm

I remember seeing this on HN a few months ago and thought it was super cool.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39087609
Right, there are also SEC rules. Elon broke a bunch and still got into the top 500 companies forcing everyone to buy.

He broke the rules first. The indexes had to follow the rules.
The Wim Hof method is explained here:

https://www.wimhofmethod.com/breathing-exercises
CRitical path works well when you have a clear idea of how long tasks generally take. with software its much harder to evaluate the length of the work for something you implement for the first time.
One of the things I’m doing at work is working on an agent that checks the documentation against the ticket and attempts to confirm the spec in the ticket is correct. Another flow is to also check the ticket and check if a “rational” software engineer had enough information to make an informed decision to complete the task. If not, provide suggestions as a comment on how to improve the ticket.
It’s probably time for a pro publico bono stack overflow alternative. When money is involved those things tend to destroy themselves sooner or later.

And why would SO even profit from the hard work of thousands of volunteers. It doesn’t seem very ethical.
One could find the part design in a library, and print it at a coop hackerspace or order it online off some pay-per-print shop. It doesn't have to be as complicated as you put it.
Make the generation realtime VR and Meta Quest might have its killer app!
Everyone who hasn't used ADTs and pattern matching doesn't get what the big deal is all about. Everyone who is used to ADTs and pattern matching doesn't get what the big deal is all about, until they have to work in a language that doesn't have them. And everyone who just found out about them can't shut up about them being the best thing since sliced bread.

:)
Given that the AI in question is trained on the products of human exploitation (as you put it), is it accurate to say it’s been removed? The exploitation is laundered here and not truly removed, to my eyes.

(Intuitively it’s even worse in some ways, since performing in adult media doesn’t necessarily imply that the performer wants their physical attributes merged and re-represented in ways they would not have consented to.)