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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

After Andrew Ng's original Stanford AI Coursera, what?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

is Chrome recording keyboard inputs and passing them to YouTube?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Video games that will make me smarter and are addictive?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: How do you search your Google MyActivity takeout HTML file

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

DigitalOcean billing infinite loop edge case

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Free psychological tests, that don't need to be licensed

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

Videos released by the Police are no longer welcome on YouTube

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: How did free people in USA thrive in high heat before air-conditioning?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What should MBA students learn about info tech?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What's the significance that Senators used Zoom and not an American tech

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Gmail as a threat to data access: forced 2-factor login, random lock-outs

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Chrome bookmarks search results with folder path hierarchy breadcrumbs?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Drinking Alcohol While Working?

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twitter.com 5y ago

Academic journal editor allegedly steals paper for himself

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

I've never seen MicroStrategy software in the wild

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: How can I help startups exploit my state's zero income tax?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Resources for checking if writing sounds contemporary

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: how you increase cognitive load of an activity

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Changes at YC 3 years ago

Makes me question their hiring.

If they were good, surely these people could be absorbed in other areas of YC?

Curious about this. Could you give me some idea of hourly and yearly* wages for cook, pedicab, junior software dev in your area please? I want to understand this phenomenon better. Thanks.

*The reason I mentioned hourly and yearly is that I'm wondering if a pedicab driver can put in 8 hour days like a cook or dev.

Polynesians are Asian in origin.

Easter Islanders are believed to be Polynesian.

Here's a strange thing: there's some Asian-origin DNA in some of the indigenous people of Latin American. For some strange reason this is not discussed much.

Most of India is not Upper Caste. It is telling that the vast majority of India finally had functional sewage systems reach their village (99.9% coverage), electricity reach their village (99.9% coverage), cooking gas reach their village (100% coverage), and is now having clean water and fiber optic cable reach their village (currently ~75% coverage for each), only after the first non-Upper Caste person became Prime Minister (Modi).

For what it's worth, caste has fortunately ceased to have meaning in a tiny number of social and geographic circles.

But upper castes are in denial about how caste plays out in the rest of India.

They will claim it was something in the past. Wrong. Upper castes still often whisper about so and so being a *** (impolite way of referring to someone of a lower caste), or about such and such work (e.g. cleaning dishes) being the work of a *** and not a Brahmin like themselves.

Some now claim that caste was created by the British.

Wrong. Al Biruni (traveler from Persia) in 1020 wrote in Tarikh Al-Hind (History of India) about how when there was a communal meal in the village, a barrier needed to be put up between people of lower castes and people of upper castes.

My own personal experiences with caste (as someone exposed to it very late in life) were described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31035615

For what it's worth, caste has fortunately ceased to have meaning in a tiny number of social and geographic circles.

But upper castes are in denial about how caste plays out in the rest of India.

They will claim it was something in the past. Wrong. Upper castes still often whisper about so and so being a *** (impolite way of referring to someone of a lower caste), or about such and such work (e.g. cleaning dishes) being the work of a *** and not a Brahmin like themselves.

Some now claim that caste was created by the British.

Wrong. Al Biruni (traveler from Persia) in 1020 wrote in Tarikh Al-Hind (History of India) about how when there was a communal meal in the village, a barrier needed to be put up between people of lower castes and people of upper castes.

My own personal experiences with caste (as someone exposed to it very late in life) were described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31035615

Look up "The Twitter Files by Matt Taibi".

Twitter uncritically and submissively followed directives from FBI and CIA.

I read some headlines that Meta/FB too uncritically and submissively followed the same directives.

The West is butthurt that China produced an app that their kids love more than homegrown ones.

Companies like TWTR, FB, IG are probably secretly pushing this ban.

Some years ago, France tried to enforce some law that at least 75% of the content available on the internet in France had to be in the French language.

The day Tiktok is banned in the USA, that's the day the American decline starts.

Regarding the "cyclic sighing" technique (called "Physiological sighing" in the graphic):

I have been doing it for a couple of years without knowing it was a thing. I have studied common Pranayama techniques, and I stumbled upon it via trial and error. I do it because I find it anxiety-reducing. I used to refer to it internally as "double inhale breathing".

After reading the OP article, and noting that they referred to "Yogic breathing", I decided to do a little research and discovered that this technique is called "Dirga Pranayama" or "three part breathing". The authors should have mentioned it in their article.