skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is actually pretty close to one of the possibilities I see.

I am so uncertain about what’s coming up that if someone asks me, I say:

“Roll a D6.

Roll 1, UK cancels Brexit

Roll 2, UK goes into the EEA

Roll 3, UK does whatever it takes to get a deal because the alternative is uncountenancable

Roll 4, the cost of a deal deemed to be too high, no deal Brexit. Flights on hold until separate airspace law agreement produced; 2 GW HVDC link with France switched off until separate agreement arranged; shipping slowed by customs checks resulting in tailbacks containg essentially 100% of HGVs in the UK; brain drain and capital flight, possibility including the physical relocation of all equipment from certain factories in the UK to (say) Slovakia.

Roll 5, same, but UK attempts to respond with the solution that worked in the Opium wars. UK military says “no” on grounds it would have to declare war on itself, much to the surprise of whoever is PM at that point.

Roll 6: UK military says “yes” and then (the scenario you recalled happens to the UK).”

I literally cannot make a better than even estimate for these outcomes, but I would be surprised if they are actually all 1/6 odds.

Six months ago I was expecting all options would result in rioting and attemped arson by at least one group, possibly multiple opposing groups at the same time. Now, I am starting to think the mood is more mellow, as one pro-Brexit demonstration drew 4 people, including the 2 organisers.

On the other hand, my response to Brexit has been to move to Berlin.
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HN has always been super negative towards FB and their products (with perhaps the exception of Whatsapp) because HN has never been FB's target market. It's a lot easier to criticize a product that's never provided any utility to you personally. You don't really hear about the spread of racist, divisive, Russian sponsored content on YouTube or Twitter nearly as much here, and when you do you also don't get comments sections filled with moral grandstanding on how if you work at FB you're human garbage that should burn in hell.
Second this recommendation, here's a link for further reviews and breakdowns of why this textbook is so useful: https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Illuminated-Meditation-Integrati....

I dabbled in meditation for years but it wasn't until this book that I was able to see the complete picture and why it's such an important area of study for all reflective minds, and start making real progress. There's so much snake oil out there regarding meditation. It has changed my life for the better in so many ways. It's also simply a great manual for how to approach learning just about anything in a happy and healthy way.

Fwiw, Culadasa (John Yates PhD) taught physiology and neuroscience before retiring and that's very much reflected in his approach to writing the book, using modern understanding of the brain. People think kids should start learning programming from a young age? Meditation as I understand it now is even more important! For personal growth and understanding, general awareness, EQ, and more...
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They've just changed the goal posts.

"We always said there would be a period of adjustment"

etc. etc.
It's the algorithmic selection of the most shocking posts that aggrevates the problem. They know what ends up getting promoted, and they don't care about the damage.
Yep, the skill is "refocusing." I thought it was going to be the skill of "focusing" at first, but as the parent notes you first have to develop the skill of noticing that your mind has wandered, or is locked on something you don't want it to be, then you expend effort to refocus and then maintain that new intentional focus. I also had no idea how damn hard it is.
You are stretching now. There probably are some chipsets that have issues, but most drivers are built into the Linux kernel. There are always going to be issues with drivers, but this is not across the board.

Your argument is that Linux cannot be easy, not that there isn't any issues.

Anyway, I'm cool if you don't want to use it and if you want to maintain your worldview, but you haven't presented me any real arguments or evidence to back this worldview.
I haven't bothered to delete it because I'm not very exposed to privacy issue there (I don't given them much of anything to sell) I don't actively post much of anything at all, but within my family it is considered a social norm. I'm expected to occasionally check in and give a like to some posted photos, and send the obligatory "Happy <something> | <congratulations>" here and there.
It's a meme, not something literal. Of course it's not all russian bots, and that's besides the point.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/11/15/faceboo...

Verified by multiple sources. "Facebook said it had found and removed roughly 1.5 billion fake accounts" surely doesn't suggest they're all literally Russian, or bots, but they sure were fake and spreading propaganda.
> Nobody should ever be deemed the arbiter of truth.

Except for you and your comment, right?
Is btrfs still a thing? Reading other people's experiences, atleast a couple distros dropping it as a default, and my personal experience of it crashing completely. I'm surprised anyone would even consider it as an option. It simply isn't a reliable file system.
A bunch of very talented pop musicians moved there, and made pop music. That’s why you’ve heard it, and that’s why you like it. These people were very good at making music designed to appeal to you.
Facebook is implicated as a major cause of more than one recent genocide. That is, sadly, not hyperbole.
There is an alternative to Meditation. If all the problems & thoughts happen due to our mind. Take mind out of the equation and become mindless instead of mindful. Do not listen to your mind. Do not trust it. Just watch it. Rely on a solid process to make decisions but do not let your mind inject bias into the decision making process.over time, things will come naturally to you as a second nature like riding a bike where you don’t need the mind. Just chuckle when your mind tells you something because you now know our mind operates from a place of fear and uncertainty.
Cycle is really cool, and I'd love to see reactive programming become more popular, but after trying it out for a project it has a few ergonomics issues that keep me from using it as my primary web framework.

- Dynamic lists of components are really annoying to create. In Cycle, the happy path is calling every component function in your app at startup to set up the data flow graph, and then your reactive operators handle the actual logic. With dynamically added or removed components, you get a stream of "sinks" and then have to splice them into your data flow somehow.

- Circular dependencies are cumbersome. If a parent passes a value to a child which can change that value in the parent, you essentially have to create a stub stream in the parent, use it to derive the parent's state and then "imitate" the output of the child as well.

That said, Cycle has a lot of great ideas that I want to become more mainstream. If you have a free weekend, try it! The creator André Staltz's blog is also a good read: https://staltz.com/
Amazon negotiated in bad faith and as such any deals should be voided. I'd like to NYC mayor call out Amazon instead of allowing the good people of NYC to be railroaded.

What the cities have submitted were nothing more than proposals, they are not contracts and are not binding. Considering the new information that has come to light mayor de Blasio.

More than anything Northern Virginia should withdraw their proposal, Amazon wants the Government cloud business so bad that Virginia has Amazon over a barrel.
I believe the correct solution to this problem would be that the installers would snapshot the system, install all packages without any fsync()ing at all, then finally one sync() and remove the snapshot. Optionally keeping snapshots if user want to roll back from a broken upgrade (for whatever reason). Again, as others have written here, btrfs is great if your software plays along with it, otherwise it might not be so great.
It's pretty far apart to be honest.

What FB and Suu Kyi do in Myanmar is terrible, but they would have to replicate the same genocide in every nation across the globe to match the body count of the tobacco guys.

(Which they may manage to do in the future. Who knows? But to date they are just not there yet to be perfectly frank.)
Which country are you from, that is such a beacon of moral righteousness on the global stage?
Almost exactly the same thing was said in the US between the Apple II family and the Commodore. _Anyone_ could own a Commodore. My folks couldn't afford a IIe, but they could get a 64 and all the trimmings.
This is what the first line says 'One of the best ways to learn advanced level meditation' btw
I would absolutely disagree with that assertion. While we're hypothesizing about the long-term effects of FB on democracy, I would argue that generations of smokers that die early and impose a huge strain on an already overloaded healthcare system have a much greater effect on the health of our democracy. I think that at this point it's ridiculous to compare FB to those very real and significant effects.
Maybe it’s because I’ve already been using it for years, but I don’t really consider ZFS any more difficult to manage than the DM/LVM/*FS stack I work with on most Linux systems.

Compared to just running gdisk and using raw partitions - sure, but I’ve been using LVM for over a decade now.
Yeah, AdBlock disables the OneLink functionality.
And yet it happens like clockwork, with 200+ additions in the past several years and 100s more in the pipeline...

http://unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html

Except if you mean that some layman proposing a new emoji for addition to the Unicode standard is difficult -- but I'm talking about the big companies...
This pretty much is what Dhyana has said in Hinduism for a long time, a branch of Yoga. Dhyana and Jnana Yoga are all forms to enlightenment of opening channels in your mind to concentrate on a higher purpose and using meditation is one practice. The effulgence/aura of the people who do this in Hinduism is equated to bliss. I wonder if this is related to these brain wave changes.
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Facebook treats our Whatsapp message content just like it's feed.

Here is what happened few weeks ago : I exchanged whatsapp messages with a well known founder. Lo and behold - news about him and his startup are all over my facebook feed. Some which was published years ago.

We live in echo chambers.
7 comments in, and it's all ragging on this. Good job everyone
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You'll like MetaFilter if you can stomach the weird ideas which seem to be required to join in, like their weird definition of "racism".
His dev coworkers would ask him dev questions and look up his online identity.
> Sure, human face comes in all shapes and sizes, so its tricky to judge the effectiveness since every modification is a possible real person.

What I wanted to show you is that you can walk through the 'latent space' of faces and generate intermediary images between any two images, thus they are not simple copies.
>> consider buying "Programming Rust" by Blandy & Orendorff which is easily one of the best language books I ever read

Agreed. Excellent book; very well paced and has a wonderful flowing narrative.
My point is that the platforms haven’t replaced something important that the newspapers were doing, which came not from a profit motive but from a motive of journalistic duty. There is not much money to be made in raising awareness of how local government works. But it’s important for society.

Your examples are cases where global brands met the need exactly because the free market works well in those cases.

Just because there isn’t a lot market demand for information about local state legislatures doesn’t mean that this information is not important or valuable to collect and report. It’s pretty important to keep local government accountable.
If anyone is interested in developing a shell even further, checkout rustyline[0]. It makes it very simple to add keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-C), completion, and even history.
There's also liner[1], which is part of the redox-os project, which also has a lot of the same features.

[0]: https://github.com/kkawakam/rustyline
[1]: https://github.com/redox-os/liner
The UK also did something similar with rubber - originally it was a product closely guarded by Brazil but a "bio-pirate" stole samples and they were then planted widely within the Empire - with Malaya going on to become the top producer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wickham_(explorer)
I like this tip. This can be applied to a lot of positive habits that I want to apply into my life.
> , wherein there is generally a larger market opportunity, and possibly higher growth ... this is startup.

Oh, so a startup is a business that continues to fail and hasn't screwed over it's users yet. Gotcha.
I'm glad to have met him before he died. He was at the CHM with Woz and many other luminaries were in the audience like Al Alcorn and Bil Herd. My PET 2001's manual is autographed by him and Leonard.
Well, it's always the case that the worst case scenario is apocalyptic (I don't think the superlatives add much, it's already The End).

You could invest in the UK, and tomorrow there could be a political revolution that kills half the population, or bombs could start flying, or whatever else completely unrelated to Brexit.

People don't take that in to account not because their fingers are in their ears or whatever, but because its' likelihood is essentially nil.

Things can get worse without it being The End.
Hitting DNS would probably take down credit card payments, but I think the worry about hitting electric/water grid is a step up in terms of how immediate the danger would be to actual lives.
> A trade war which the US is winning strongly.

If you're wondering about the American soybean farmers that China has targeted as a response, you'll see that they are... simply looking at the commodities futures markets and making rational economic decisions [1]. I'm sure that this is not at all what China was hoping to accomplish.

[1] https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-soybeans-chin...

The bags farmers are using are not new technology, they have been around since the 1990s:
https://extension.purdue.edu/article/6963
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> Oh, my God. Using an Android phone is like paying for dinner with a Discover card. It’s like saying, “Don’t have sex with me.” It’s the ultimate prophylactic that says “I should be ...”

> “I should be screened out of the gene pool.” If you use an Android phone or have a Discover card, your family tree should come to an end.

Yea I’m gonna go with purposefully inciting reactions online for more clicks.
ZFS is not dominated by Oracle, Open-ZFS is the source of record for anything other than Solaris and critical features are being added that Oracle cannot use without opening their branch back up under the CDDL.

The CDDL also includes a patent agreement, Oracle can’t retroactively waive it.
Google with YouTube and Twitter? Even though most congressional hearings are a farce, Google didn't even show up to speak with congress. The amount of racist, nazi propaganda I'm exposed to on Twitter every day far outnumbers what I've ever seen on Facebook.
Here’s de Blasio’s logic for loving Amazon, but hating Walmart
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVaDY0ChvOQ
It really doesn’t make sense to me that the argument is basically this:

“The x military shared anti-y Facebook posts, then caused a genocide of the y people.”

And Facebook is at fault?

Do we really expect Facebook to police speech at that level, or should we not place the blame with the military?

Those posts came from .0000066% of Facebook’s users. If you’re Facebook how do you effectively police that?
Hacking some financial system or industrial control isn't really the big threat demanded of 'cyber warfare' that is just sensible information security, building systems to best practice, reviewing them and updating as per normal.

The real danger is an idea that gets all too popular.

For instance, the could be a new climate change type of
group that comes along and gets too much mindshare. In fact there was a new group who closed five of London's bridges the other day. I doubt that they will be the group from which big ideas emanate from to take over the world but you never know.

So the case can be made for all of this extra spending on the basis that it is all there to do things that sound sensible - 'Internet Security' - but there is capability being built for the more nefarious 'cyber warfare', making sure ideas that threaten business as usual get taken out.
In Canada there is a law where you can't lie on the news. It's worked pretty well and I can at least stand the news programs we have.

I also think you're a bit too naive. Without proper governance look at what is happening in america. America from the outside believes climate change is a hoax because republicans are bought. No one is willing to go against the establishment and make laws to stop this when they're clearly INCORRECT ideas that are being pushed to the masses misinforming people.
Nothing new here really. Propaganda is as old as human communication. Finding new ways to distribute misinformation is the human norm. Afaik Facebook has also been praised for things like Egypt spring (not sure if good actually), Barack Obamas election, etc. It's not as if only bad things came out of new media outlets. Sure, they could do a lot better, but the scape goating of fb is a bit simple minded.
We all are going to die, and people prefer to put their dying relatives in hospital just in case they can be saved. So the amount of hospitalized people will not change too much if someone makes lung cancer disappear completely. People will die from other reason, like a heart attack, other cancer, aneurism, ... So banning cigarettes will make people live longer (that is a good thing) but it will not change too much the number of hospital rooms needed.
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> This is not a prodution worthy piece of software,it is only meant for demo purposes

It's a pretty cool proof of concept ;) Go easy!
Sails are crazy efficient, and are most effective when wind is blowing across the bloat. So if you point a fan across the boat you’ll get a forward force vector and sideways force vector.

Edit: Based on the summary of the episode provided it looks like mythbuster didn’t exploit this property of modern sails.
Probably because your comment did Not contribute to the discussion.
''I've been in retailing 30 years and I have never seen any category of goods get on a self-destruct pattern like this,'' said Everett Purdy, senior vice president of merchandising for Service Merchandise, which sells home computers through its catalogs and showrooms. Since fall 1982, T.I.'s list price has tumbled from $400 to less than $100.

That price plunge turned an unaffordable extravagance into something I could actually buy and start using every day. It wasn't just the computers that became cheaper, but the peripherals (disk drives, modems, printers) and software as well. Suddenly, a home system that was never going to happen could be picked up piecemeal at a fraction of the price.

I wonder how many programmers owe their current careers to this early shakeout and price collapse.
As you noted, you would still miss many recommendations without an Amazon link.

But even so, that would kind of defeat the purpose; I don't just want to aggregate recommendations. I want to include, more so, the ones that are interesting than frequent.

Additionally, besides books, I'll be posting other types of recommendations (travel, hardware, etc.).
Good tip! There are lot of meditation meetups in the area where I live. I will plan to attend.
> you are "not too familiar with Tor", but still state everything with an almost absolute certainty.

When it comes to security I'd rather err on the safe side and call it insecure until proven otherwise.

In any case, even if we assume the Tor part is secure, this is still unnecessary at best, since it requires you to run a local Tor daemon. You can run one on a normal SIM, and probably end up better off since you're not putting yourself on a hypothetical watch-list by purchasing such a product.
Do you have links to those YouTube videos from Jon Kabat Zinn?
At the time there were still a lot of people who wrote their own stuff because the majority of purchasers were still enthusiasts. I think TI failed to foresee that the market was changing to people who were primarily users than tinkerers, and ignored the need for a robust software library at their peril.
On the one hand, it is a pretty light article. On the other, the names dropped are fairly respected in their fields. If you have a genuine interest in the topic, may I suggest you check out this podcast:

https://samharris.org/podcasts/111-science-meditation/

It involves the people mentioned in the article and is quite illuminating as to what they've done over the previous few decades regarding this research topic.
I made about $4000 from my newly created product https://archbee.io with very little maintenance. Not exactly passive, but close.
With the knowledge earned I'm launching V2 early next year hoping to build a solid company :)
Couldn't that be covered with a decently written contract though?
This is definitely a possibility, but if a feature has 90% malicious/bullshit use and 10% legitimate use then there's a good chance it should either be removed or disabled by default (so the iOS situation regarding web notifications is perfectly fine by me).
People are also dying because of google (you can search for informations that expose agents p), they die because of apple (iMessage is also used to coordinate killings), they die because of Tesla (cars kill), they die because of Coca-Cola (bad nutrition kills more than tech), they die because of Boeing (huge military contractor), they die because of us government (all the wars fought by the government), they die because of Starbucks (according to California coffee is a killer)

Everything has bad consequences, each technology. Just saying that someone dies as a consequence of a company product isn’t enough to disqualify it. If you want to apply that logic we need to shutdown basically all worlds economies.
What you’re saying is still true in a constitutional monarchy. Being a republic or democracy doesn’t matter. Its the constitutional part that’s important.
> "The internet is destroying existing power structures, and giving control to alternative media sources/platforms/whatever that people are starting to trust more than the 'mainstream' ones."

Yes. But not only sources of info but __more importantly__ ways for people to organize into groups. I'm not talking about protests and such but getting shit done. Traditionally, this was the role of gov and other power structures. Yes, there are now viable - and likely more effective - alternatives to such traditions.

To your point, this explains all the divisiveness. Things are being taken to extremes (by the DNC, Mainstream Media, GOP and their associated Big Inc partners) in order to maintain a belief that they need to exist and continue to hold so much power. The show also serves as a distraction.

Something has to give. But I feel history says it's going to get worse before it gets better.
It's really quite difficult to find a vehicle newer than say, 2000 that has a stick shift in the USA.
Nice straw man.
I share the thought that Olympic is an unfortunate word to describe long term meditators. At least in vipassana one does not meditate to get better at it, because there is no getting better at, only the act of meditation. You get better at not letting the mind wander of, but that is not the goal, just a consequence of practicing meditation.