Build for the web. App stores are overrated. They will continue to make the same mistakes until they are irrelevant. Eventually.
Readit Newsspacebacon commented on Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps · Posted by u/nativeforks
It's like you're doing meditation, and thinking "I shouldn't be thinking". But you can't be conscious about being unconscious. Or something like that.
Yes, thank you for your attention on this matter.
This is a really strange comment section. The average person sharing their experiences seems very unlike the average HN user.
I feel like I can barely relate to those people, and understanding what they're saying is nigh impossible. The definitions of most things are really vague - even the article of this thread only defines breathwork as "cyclic breathing without pausing, accompanied by progressively evocative music". So... faster breathing while intensifying music is playing?
One issue for me is how anything connected to these topics seems to attract a healthy mix of rational observation, psychedelic users and religious people (old and new). Deciphering which is which is really difficult without already having a foot in the door on this topic.
Let’s talk about the willingness of so many to hijack an unconscious process (breathing),
This forces you to reflect on control,
and then plunges you into a recursive semantic loop:
Did I do this? Or did this happen to me?
This is the basis of consciousness hacking through sign activation. It only gets stranger.
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spacebacon commented on The real data wall is billions of years of evolution dynomight.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/walterbell
Lots of good thinking in this article. A few things come to mind before we hit a data wall.
1. Sensor all things
2. Waves upon waves
3. Dynamic or Living Semiotic Graphs. Bring your own terminology.
4. General Artificial Synesthesia.
“How ‘knowledge graphs’ became a thing in CS,” more like.
Needless to say, perhaps, but that usage of ‘knowledge’ is domain-specific, not something a non-CS person would recognize as or admit to be ‘knowledge.’
Semiotic graph may be a better term?
Ok. But 0 would be: obvious (to me) facts.
Fact: The US economy needs the headcount, esp since birthrates are down.
Fact: When we "win" the best & the brightest, the country they came from loses. Imagine if instead of fighting the American Revolution, everyone picked up and moved to (e.g.) Canada. The US loves to brag about the win, but never comes clean on the countries that lose.
These key facts are too often not mentioned in the context of this topic, because they alter the myth and change the narrative. So the solution is... DV'ing?
Anywhere else, that would be funny. On HN it's sad.
There is a place for us bottom readers on HN’s too. Honor the downvote.
Down voted? Why? At least stand up and counter. HN ain't what it used to be. Sad really.
I don’t know the exact algorithm, but I can give you a good idea why this might have happened. I hope you feel I’m not being critical, but rather trying to help explain that this is probably not personal…
1. Sensitive Topic
2. Rhetorical Questions and Ambiguity
3. Implied Criticism
4. Complex Sentence Structure (I’m guilty of writing in the same format as my thoughts too)
5. The Typo (“own country” instead of “on country”)
This effectively describes why you were likely algorithmically downvoted.
At this point, having proved that can do something commercially valuable a couple times now, I think they should run with it. Start a YouTube channel. Keep racking up views. Then, eventually, do partnerships and sponsorships, in addition to collecting AdSense money.
If you like to write or perform for other people, you can monetize that now. This person is good at it. They should continue.