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jossclimb··on Ask HN: The new wave of AI agent sandboxes?
I would recommend nono - it's practically 0 seconds of latency, developed by the creator of sigstore which is used by google, github, and secures a lot of the open source software supply chain.

What I like most is, its like a runtime `nono run ... agent` and there is not managing vms, containers ,mounts.

jossclimb··on Secure Secrets Management for Cursor Cloud Agents
This sounds like the approach the nono project took: it injects a phantom token, so the sandboxed agent never gets to see the real key, it has a session scoped, time limited dummy key https://nono.sh/docs/cli/features/credential-injection
jossclimb··on DeepFabric – Generate high-quality synthetic datasets at scale
How is the diversity, duplication?
jossclimb··on How to find time to learn after work (2017)
Don't find the time to learn after work, learn during work (unless you work in a different industry, such as construction).
jossclimb··on Improving sleep
The withings sleep mat analyser seems very accurate (Its approved by the European Medical council). It diaganosed my sleep apnea.
jossclimb··on Improving sleep
So the biggest improvement was likely more from you stopping eating of junk food (ice creams, bakery et cetera) than set a time window for eating?
jossclimb··on Growing scientific interest in vagus nerve stimulation
I feel down this rabbit hole after reading Breath by James Nestor. Got serious about practising 5.5 second inhales / exhales and started forcing myself to adjust to nose breathing (even during exercise)

It did a total number on my anxiety levels and pulled me out of the constant cortisol fuelled fight or flight mode I found myself as I slowly crashed and burned into the ground

I wish someone had taught me as a child, it would have made a marked difference on my life, I am sure of it.

jossclimb··on The new science of meditation
> Mindfulness and breathing where you see the thought come and let it go is preferred for anxiety sufferers

That was exactly the approach I was doing.

> If you tried to follow all your anxious thoughts and delve into their "meaning"

That is the opposite of meditation, I've never heard of that being described anywhere as meditation, that sounds like daily rumination / churn.

jossclimb··on The new science of meditation
Not OP, but it happened to me. Started meditation to deal with anxiety and the introspection that came with it, ended up with me on the verge of a complete breakdown. I started off doing Sam Harris and then progressed to doing an hour or more each day. I had some moments of insight and then hit some dark night of the soul which wrecked me, I was close to admitting myself to hospital for psychological help.

What fixed me was finally reading Breath by James Nestor and how you breath has a direct impact on the parasympathetic / sympathetic nervous system. I learned to take long slow breaths into the diaphragm and too nose breath all of the time. Basically my vagus nerve was fried from burn out and being in the fight flight mode of the parasympathetic system, as opposed to the 'rest and digest' chilled nature of sympathetic nervous system.

My own view now, is that mediation should not be attempted (at least by anyone with mental issues) until the parasympathetic / sympathetic system is balanced and stress is significantly reduced. This should start with the breath.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbaedd/meditation-is-a-power...

jossclimb··on Wheat gluten spurs brain inflammation in mice
This makes sense. We tend to think of wheat as being a wholesome natural food source, but modern wheat is far from that. It's genetically engineered and drenched in herbicide far beyond its original easily digested form.
jossclimb··on Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples
Coincidently this is the first time of hearing of nitter.net, do I need to open an account there too?
jossclimb··on Remote workers are increasingly less productive, anxious, depressed and lonely
I find people in general are increasingly less productive, anxious, depressed and lonely. It seems to the sign of the times, everyone seems burnt out.
jossclimb··on The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide
The whole thing will fail once they realise how impossible this is to implement.
jossclimb··on Show HN: Continue – Open-source coding autopilot
How are you going to monetize this? I would be very nervous building a business around an extension calling someone elses API. You only have to look at the drama that played out at reddit a few weeks ago, to see how risky it is.
jossclimb··on Team management tips: 10 ways to kill a team
Making a decision, but not explaining the rational behind the decision. Just saying 'that's it, we are doing this!'.
jossclimb··on Guide to running Llama 2 locally
Seems to be a better guide here (without the risk curl):

https://www.stacklok.com/post/exploring-llama-2-on-a-apple-m...

jossclimb··on Llama 2
A lot of this coming up on twitter, anything remotely regarding race or gender (not derogatory) and it wokes out.
jossclimb··on What's wrong with enterprise Linux
There is unknown and unreported, a large amount of unreported vulns are sold on the blackmarket or hoarded for exploit by foreign adversaries.
jossclimb··on What's wrong with enterprise Linux
less tested..the vulnerabilities have not been found yet.
jossclimb··on Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go
> No language servers.

Why is that a good thing?

jossclimb··on That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job
she has free speech, and they are free to fire her too.
jossclimb··on That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job
They are a business, not a social club, and so they will do whatever safeguards that business (maximises its profits). If an employee tells a customer to 'fuck off', they are going to fire them, as its not good for business.
jossclimb··on That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job
Engineers with unicorn / my little pony avatars is a slight red flag to me. I am as socialist as they come (I am not even American, I am Brit and a left wing), but I always try to not engage with those folks on twitter, to easy to get caught up in personal attacks if anything you say is remotely misunderstood. It can quite easily turn into a digital lynching.
jossclimb··on Canada’s new tech talent strategy
It's really not far off ageism. I can't ever imagine them giving points for a whiter shade of skin.
jossclimb··on Mathematicians Have Found a Shape with a Pattern That Never Repeats
This is not mentioned until half way through, but I find fascinating..

> David Smith, a retired printing technician and nonprofessional mathematician, was the first to come up with the shape that could be a solution to the long-standing “einstein problem.” He shared his ideas with scientists who took on the challenge of trying to mathematically prove his conjecture

jossclimb··on US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles
It's for the same reason when you find yourself being forced to enter a 'state' on a website address form , yet you're not from the US.
jossclimb··on A push to bury a weedkiller’s link to Parkinson’s disease
Through the process of phytoremediation, plants will absorb the chemicals and pass those onto whatever ingests them (us)
jossclimb··on A push to bury a weedkiller’s link to Parkinson’s disease
Lock them up and throw away the key. Imagine the amount of people desperately trying to figure out why they are sick, and all the time the very food they eat has been poisoned.
jossclimb··on In every country people think others are less happy than they themselves say (2017)
I expect the same sentiment holds despite the geography.
jossclimb··on OpenAI CEO's threat to quit EU draws lawmaker backlash
and hopefully unlike openAI it really is open this time.
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