thenobsta (u/thenobsta)

thenobsta commented on Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music journals.plos.org/plosone... · Posted by u/gnabgib

mettamage · 2 hours ago

Hmm, I didn’t have time slowing down that much. But I definitely was in an altered state of consciousness

thenobsta · 2 hours ago

I think many different states can arise. In deep meditation you’re epistemically open and experientially vulnerable. You're softening your priors so much that both your way of knowing and your way of experiencing can manifest in manifold ways.

thenobsta commented on Can an email go 500 miles in 2025? flak.tedunangst.com/post/... · Posted by u/zdw

robin_reala · 2 months ago

If you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000 and haven’t heard the original 500-mile email story, you can read it at https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles.

(discussed previously on HN 5 years ago – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23775404 – and 10 years ago – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9338708)

thenobsta · 2 months ago

Thanks for letting me be one of the lucky ones.

Obligatory xkcd 10,000 lucky people explainer: https://xkcd.com/1053/

thenobsta commented on Engineered Addictions masonyarbrough.substack.c... · Posted by u/echollama

thenobsta · 2 months ago

I was talking with a friend who is a camp counselor for a small summer camp the other day and they said that 4 of the 35 or so kids at the camp left because they couldn’t be away from their devices.

This power intermittent reinforcement in the on-ramp of addiction is scary powerful.

Do we have any ways to innoculate ourselves and the future generations against it?

The author poses changing the game which is support. I guess the trendy “dopamine fast” is a tool against this or weekly screen free time. Maybe more education on intermittent reinforcement or a D.A.R.E-like program for apps (a this one is a little tongue-in-cheek, but not really).

thenobsta commented on Biff – a batteries-included web framework for Clojure biffweb.com... · Posted by u/TheWiggles

jacobobryant · 3 months ago

Hey HN. Since this has showed up here maybe a status update would be interesting? This continues to be my main side project--amusingly it's had more traction than any of the startups I tried to build with it. Over the past year I've been working on some experimental features for Biff that are meant to help with medium-to-large codebases[1] (I've been doing this as I rewrite one of my Biff apps from scratch). There haven't been many code releases in that time, so I've got a decently sized backlog of things I'd really like to get to. E.g. XTDB v2 is almost out of beta; once I finish the app rewrite, that's next on my list.

[1] https://biffweb.com/p/structuring-large-codebases/

thenobsta · 3 months ago

I've played around with Biff. It's an amazing project and a great way to get started with web-development in Clojure. Clojure can be kinda confusing because of the community defaults to orthogonal libraries. Biff, makes it easy to see which libraries are useful to connect up.

Thanks for the great work!

thenobsta commented on ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC home.cern/news/news/physi... · Posted by u/miiiiiike

thenobsta · 4 months ago

Nuclear physics wants to move everything towards Iron, right?

Lead to gold could be an economically viable target for a fission. Produce a little bit of energy with a final product of gold. Buy the lead, sell the electrons and gold.

This is way better than alchemy. We get real gold and a black gold alternative. ;)

thenobsta commented on What Is "Induced Atmospheric Vibration"? physics.stackexchange.com... · Posted by u/belter

SoftTalker · 4 months ago

Wonder how much complexity using AC adds to this? With DC you would not have to worry about frequency and phase matching. But then you need to convert the DC back to AC at some point.

thenobsta · 4 months ago

All of it, I guess. That phasor is always complex.

thenobsta commented on Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python runpyxl.com/gpio... · Posted by u/hwpythonner

thenobsta · 4 months ago

Amazing work! This is a great project!

Every time I see a project that has a great implementation on an FPGA, I lament the fact that Tabula didn’t make it, a truly innovative and fast FPGA.

<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula,_Inc.>

thenobsta commented on How the U.S. became a science superpower steveblank.com/2025/04/15... · Posted by u/groseje

jimbob45 · 4 months ago

We have to dispense with the silliness of comparing the US with countries a tenth its size. If you want to compare Britain to the US, pick a state of comparable size and do so. Otherwise you’re comparing apples to much larger apples.

thenobsta · 4 months ago

I wonder if the analogy might be more like comparing an apple tree evolving in a forest vs breeding varieties of apples on a farm.

Even if you pick a state, science in any single state has still gotten federal funding and had the ability to easily cross-pollinate with other very good researchers across state boarders. The federal funding then gets redirected to areas of success and the flywheel starts.

That's harder on the scale of a small country.