skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my curiosity in college led me to discover vipassana meditation. (which btw is just a technique of meditation, my understanding is that there are many of them...)

it was a series of audio, 5 to 10 mins each. mediation did a great deal for me back in college. and no one was supposed to go anywhere for 10 days.

curious how vipassana has turned out today so that people are comparing them to a sect... the audio i listened to was by a guy called Jack Kornfield. pretty sure youtube would have them.
How about educating people on the overlap between colonialism and tourism?

What if tourism wasn't solely focused on one's own experiences, as though such things exist in a vacuum, and was a spiritual practice in connecting with and respecting other cultures?

Maybe what we need to fix tourism hell is cultivating global cultures of interdependence, respect,community, and service?

Educate tourists to make their effects less hellish; trying to control people is old school management-oriented nonsense. It's time to start respecting people's autonomy more than that.
And the expensive designers are better skilled to make it part of a branding system, consider issues like scalability from logos to tradeshow backdrops, etc. But, yeah, in many cases they can spend a lot of time developing concepts that are an immediate "No" from your perspective.

>hampered by the limitations of creative brainstorming as much as anybody

That's as good a way of putting it as any. Maybe they're better at thinking "outside the box" than someone within the company or off the street. But that hasn't really been my experience working with branding and design firms--especially if you already have at least some idea of the direction you'd like to take things.
I don't think you can turn off all mitigations, since the retpoline (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48089426/what-is-a-retpo...) stuff is generated by the compiler. You'd probably need to recompile the kernel. How much retpoline is responsible for the performance hit, I don't know.

Also the kernel flags, don't block intel microcode "improvements". You have to do this with:

sudo apt-mark hold intel-microcode

and look for what's currently installed.

Mitigation isn't a fix, it's a bandaid.
This is how diagnosers work, which is an important part but not entirety of medical doctors. Research medicine is an extant thing.
Metasploit for the Aspiring Hacker Part 4
> A sailboat stranded in calm water can move forward using an on-board fan to blow air into its own sail.

That’s surprising! I’m guilty of spreading misinformation. :)
"The West was sure the Chinese approach would
not work. It just had to wait. It’s still waiting."

Waiting, crossing fingers, thinking wishfully, hoping, and acting upon it. China is doing something right..

or maybe West is indeed helping the Chinese success?
In the US, after just taking into account Federal (24% more than likely) and FICA (15.3% including the employers side). $10K is only around $6000 after taxes and that doesn’t include state taxes. How many good developers would be willing to put work in for that amount?

If I’m already making enough where I am already over the SS maximum and I wouldn’t pay the 12.4% on SS, the extra money is probably not worth my time.
Nope, simply giving context
> These would be better served by two separate types of institution.

For a long time, they were. A technical school certifies someone to do something. A university teaches you how to think about hard things (supposed to, anyway).
Amateur meditator here, who had the trippiest experience from meditating in the World's Quietest Room (anechoic chamber at the Microsoft lab) for two hours.

tl;dr: multiple sensory streams completely merged. I "lost" the t-region of my face. All breathing relocated into my auditory track (can't be a coincidence I was in a -22db environment, right?)

I'm still curious to try to get a veteran meditator or neuroscientist to explain what might have happened. Closest I got was being third in line at a Sam Harris event.

Post-event description follows.
Most peaceful event of my life, x1000.

Wave 1: uneventful. Wasn't trying to force anything, nor did I have any expectations. But the experience was an ordinary meditation experience. Getting settled.

Wave 2: after a few rounds of body scans, imagined sphere of light expanding outward from the heart, and breath focusing, I had a rather spontaneous, surprising, and effusive wave of gratitude -- visualizing the faces of loved ones (family, friends), one at a time, smiling and happy. Flowing gratitude for them and their happiness. Accompanying this was a deep somatic attunement.

Wave 3: At first I thought the silence had pronounced some mild tinnitus. But after a while the silence took on a pulsating dominance of its own -- as a dominant object of consciousness. Later doubted the tinnitus, as the chair on which I was sitting would occasionally make a tiny crinkle, and those crinkles I heard loudly and completely. My fixation on breath became impossible as the rhythm of my breath slowed enough, and remained steady enough, to merge perfectly with the slightly pulsating dominance of the "loud silence" (oxymoronic, I know). This was the deepest level of somatic attunement I reached in the two hours. At one point, sensory awareness of the middle rectangle of my face (eyes, nose, cheeks) seemed to vanish. This wasn't numbness, nor disassociation, but ... something else. A crowding out of consciousness (?) due to the dominance and deep observation of the pulsating silence. Incredibly peaceful and self-possessing.

When the lights came on, first words out of my mouth were, "no way!" (was that two hours). I swore not even an hour had passed.
What are "Olympic level meditators"? For me sounds like a very inefficient form of plant
Ah, now we're on to insults, plus the "great man can't be wrong" theory.

Eich's a smart guy, no doubt, but that's not proof against error.
That and poor/nonexistent syntax for macros are about my only 2 serious gripes I have with OCaml. The third was missing multithreading, but IIIC this seems to kinda be workable now with lwt IIUC?
While it's probable that formal education levels correlate with political choices, it doesn't necessary imply that higher degree leads to better ones, or even reduces possibility of being manipulated.

Also, every major player of every political fight knows, and has tools to "play to their advantage", it's not like some bad vs good fairytale.

And if you are against all major players then you may want to consider that it is exactly yours opinion which eventually will be censored if the idea about mandatory purging of "bad information" wins.
Have mercy.
What are people's thoughts on when this will actually be usable? UI eng is just another labor intensive automatable step for creatives. Next will be to automate the design part too. Don't draw your UI, generate it from user stories.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, infringement of British patents was stated U.S. policy. In contrast, China keeps saying one thing and doing another. For example: they deny any involvement in industrial espionage, yet keep doing it. They are a member of the WTO, yet they consistently flout its rules. Then they have the chutzpah to complain about U.S. tariffs. If you ask me, it's the malicious and persistent dishonesty that irks other countries almost more than economic competition.

https://www.itif.org/publications/2015/09/17/false-promises-...
I have used Alan Watts guided meditation every other morning for 10 months now. It has changed my life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPpUNAFHgxM
Do you think it's okay for educated people to compare some of our current political leaders (and not some of our other recent leaders) to Mussolini or even Hitler?

It seems like an unfair comparison to make, yet I see "educated" people do it a lot and have started taking anyone who does this less seriously. What I can't understand is how one reconciles the idea that "education is the solution" with "educated people keep saying dumb shit." Or even worse, some educated people are simply okay with dishonesty.
You've misunderstood me. I'm saying AA itself is very extreme / fringe. I consider it to be a cult (and Orange makes a convincing argument for that position).

AA doesn't always manifest as obviously as Synanon, but that's partly because it has a legacy of very effective propaganda normalizing it for the past 80 years, and partly because the local manifestations that are nearly as extreme as Synanon are swept under the rug of "well, OK, but on the whole it's doing so much good for society!" There are many examples of AA meetings that have perpetuated a culture of exploiting people for sex, money, and power. Orange has some well-documented examples.

As an aside, I have met some former Synanon members in AA rooms. Most of them miss Synanon and consider AA to be weak tea. My point is that it still has enough of the tea that they go there rather than somewhere else.
> Censorship is bad. Free exchange of information is good. Unless we're talking about IP, then suddenly the opposite is true.

Alright, let's torture your false equivalence a little more: you shouldn't have privacy because that's prevention of the free exchange of information.
I wish other companies could get the same kind of scrutiny as Facebook. For some reason while most scandals are pushed down and quickly forgotten, Facebook is being dragged around for all its worth. Maybe they weren't planting enough stories.
> the device's traffic is still going through the carrier's network in plaintext

The only traffic moving on this network will be encrypted traffic from the tor daemon.

>I'm not too familiar with Tor but surely this can't be good for security right?

The whole point of Tor is that this is perfectly fine.
Not only that, the political rhetoric just massively overstates reality.

From PIIE [1],

> Overlooked are the data that suggest the popular narrative exaggerates the magnitude of China's forced technology transfer and theft and does not allow for the possibility that China's protection of intellectual property is improving rather than worsening. […] Since the subsidiaries of these holding companies using the licensed foreign technology are located in other jurisdictions worldwide, China probably ranks second globally in the magnitude of licensing fees paid for technology used within national borders.

From MMC's Brink [2]

> In the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, Western firms such as Apple and Intel made large profits by investing in China to take advantage of the cheap labor, often at terrific human cost. As China’s economy grew and the population became wealthier, Western firms were then able to profit by selling their products back to the wealthier children of the same labor force that made them. The Chinese government saw this happening and wanted Western firms benefiting from the Chinese market to give something back. It established a system of approving foreign investments on the condition that the businesses involved agreed to partner with local firms and transfer knowledge and skills to the local Chinese market.

and [3]

> …Paul Goldstein, an IP expert at Stanford. Instead, it’s given away in negotiations with Chinese businesses, officials and investors.

[1] https://piie.com/blogs/china-economic-watch/china-forced-tec...
[2] https://www.brinknews.com/why-china-is-a-leader-in-intellect...
[3] https://www.brinknews.com/how-much-american-ip-is-china-stea...
>Why aren't you calling for them to receive the same treatment?

Becasue I don't know who they are, and AFAIK, there's nothing comparable to the links established in the Vox article I linked to.
> Nobody cares because they're more interested in their team winning, by whatever means necessary, than being charitable.

I'd say that few people have a reason to care about the truth at all at this level. Take natural world: people will believe whatever bullshit someone sells to them, because unless you're a scientist or engineer in a field that requires you to be right, the lie has zero first-order impact on your life.

What people do want to do in general is to be likable, feel accepted in the groups they belong to, and feel OK with themselves. If a belief helps facilitate that, it doesn't matter whether it's true or not.

I'd say at least half of the problem is that most of the information people need to vote well - even for their own interest - has little first-order impact on their lives. I.e. it's an artifact of specialization. Because when you look even at those uneducated people, in the areas of life they deal with daily, they turn out to be pretty smart and have accurate beliefs.
Why doodle? What difference does it make than to simply type the name of the widget you want?
Exactly. I was referring to formal education. And I didn't mean that a higher degree leads to better choices. But it does reduce the possibility of being manipulated through fake news. And while talking about education, we should also overhaul the way it is mostly taught - from simple memory functions to actual critical thinking and understanding. Go check any authoritarian or reactionary government - they cut spending in education, fighting poverty and social welfare. For exactly that reason: gaining more voters in the long term.
I used to feel the same way. But it’s importamt to remember that the VIC 20 wasn’t so much a contemporary of the 99/4A as it was its predecessor.

The VIC was somewhat out of phase with the rest of the computer industry at the time. It was more akin to being a step between CP/M machines and the full-on 1980’s home computer scene.

Amazingly, people are still producing new VIC 20 carts today. And the quality of the games is quite impressive.
Then you neglected to include the ethnicities/nationalities of the photographer, contributing authors, and editorial staff of the NYTimes. Wouldn't that be similarly useful context?
I feel quite the opposite. Outside of hackernews there is almost no scrutiny as far as I see. (In the eu anyway)
All those symbols are necessary for readable math though. For millenia people did math as you describe, and it worked very poorly compared to modern math notation.

For example, how would you write something like a tensor H_i^{kl} (pretend those are rendered sub and superscripts)?

Looking at that symbol, I immediately understand that H is a tensor with one lower index and two upper. Now, it precise words, it would probably be something like:

"Let H be a tensor with lower index i and upper indices kl."

Oh wait, we've already had to define all the variables anyway (since we don't want to specialize it to an individual tensor, because that would be useless). Why not just use a bit more notation and write it as H_i^{kl}?

If we ran out of letters, we'd have to use Greek ones. Now we are back to where we started.
Patrick Gaspard, the president of the Open Society Foundation, just saying, “The notion that your company at your direction actively engaged in the same behavior to try to discredit people exercising their First Amendment rights to protest Facebook’s role in disseminating vile propaganda is frankly astonishing to me. It’s disappointing to see how you have failed to monitor hate and misinformation on Facebook’s platform to now learning that you are active in promoting this distortion is beyond the pale.”
Like perpetual motion machines, some are scams and some are just run by sincere fools. And it's entirely possible that there are some real businesses run by smart people who needed funding and the blockchain bits are just window dressing. So not scams, exactly, but more the kind of marketing fraud that, in the marketing world, barely counts as fraud at all.

If you have proof that one of them is a) a real business, b) is likely to succeed, and c) is using a blockchain in some way where it's both necessary to the business and superior to other ways to store and verify data, then please share it. Otherwise you're the one making hazy, unsupported general statements.
Haven't used it, but Yotako seems similar: https://www.yotako.io/
I'm sorry, but this is just completely wrong. Traffic is torified on localhost when it goes into the Tor daemon.
I guess that link is down because Terry didn't pay the bill. Here's an archived link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20161202185738/https://www.orange...
Can you please spell out your technical critique of the equipment? You are saying that they don't reliably measure gamma waves?
I think China "scaled" really fast and they're too big to fail. But as an asian foreigner non-ml tech guy, I don't plan to stay here. Things look good on paper, but the working condition, environtment is not the best in the world and i don't think it is ideal place to start everything from scratch as there are big class gap and the need of guanxi.
You'd probably like MetaFilter.
> Do you think it's okay for educated people to compare some of our current political leaders (and not some of our other recent leaders) to Mussolini or even Hitler?

Yes? So long as the comparison is based on actual facts, both about the fascists and the present day?
> Olympic level meditators ... gamma very strong all the time

These gamma waves have high frequencies, and point to a LOT of things happening in one's mind at once. I'm not sure if that's the goal of meditation? Also, a meta analysis of ASD (autism spectrum disorder) showed that "The most consistent result that could lead to a generalization is an increase in absolute gamma power in ASD compared to non-ASD subjects", and that conclusion was based on 4 different studies

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5506073/
I've been a zen student for maybe 12 years now, my meditation practice is not 100% consistent, but conservatively I average 30 minutes a day, which wolfram alpha tells me is a little more than 2000 hours. Pretty far from Olympic level. A few years ago I borrowed a muse (a low cost eeg that connects to your phone to help "train" your meditation) from somebody and played around doing direct captures to make spectrograms. I was curious about if I could actually see any correlation between what I subjectively considered samadhi and the spectrograms. Didn't see anything. Granted the muse only has 4 contacts and the guy in the picture has many more. Anyway I did the math and to get to 62000 I think it's more like 12 hours a day for the next 12 years..
edit: Yes, we have UX.
Or maybe in the short term China will "win" (America declines, Chine's influence rises). Only to find that they are unable to develop their own tech, come up to solutions to keeping said tech running 10-20 years down the line, etc etc.

I could totally see a future where America gets embroiled in a civil war and China's experiencing a sort of "island syndrome" ala Japan where all their tech was advanced at one point and now is stuck in time.
> It takes more to be labelled fringe and justify censorship for left-leaning speech, than it takes for right-leaning speech.

That's because there's more harm-promoting speech, and more incoherent lies, from the right? Saying there should be equal treatment of left and right speech regardless of the content is nonsense.
> Can you try again at different point of entry?

IIRC they have some kind of system to lookup the passport numbers and see if the entry has been refused before. It's better to consult some kind of visa expert.
Agreed completely. The only way for someone to be "a neutral observer" is to be wealthy, incapable of bias or persuasion, and not tied to the industry in question. In other words, not a human being.
I was going to go to bed (it's 2:29 AM here), but Richard Hammond is a fantastic orator and a delight to listen to

Also he looks so YOUNG in that video
>I've known more people comfortable with SQL and thrown by typical programming languages than the reverse.

Non-programmers often find SQL queries easier, and simple SQL queries are intuitive. Programmers, who are likely to do more complicated ones, usually don't like it. At least in my experience.

The issue is that it is hard to quickly visually parse complicated queries, like big CTEs. Having it in a less English-like notation would go a long way to fix this.
The best thing they could do for news is just go to a chronological timeline.

Cuts out a lot of the bullshit.

They don’t need to censor. They need to stop curating.
Just set the default to 'no' and you won't get any requests, then specifically allow those sites you want to give access to the feature. I never have these problems on any of my (Android) devices. I use a few alternative browsers (Firefox/Fennec, Lightning, Privacy Browser) as I don't trust Chrome to do my bidding knowing it makes exceptions for Google-owned domains just like I would not trust Safari where it concerns my choices towards Apple-owned domains.
> Take natural world: people will believe whatever bullshit someone sells to them, because unless you're a scientist or engineer in a field that requires you to be right, the lie has zero first-order impact on your life

There's a substantial alternative medicine / anti-vax movement where believing this bullshit will have real negative consequenses for people's health.
“Business Wars” is a podcast about market competition
Na BrO. You are probably not on the social often enough to see the ephemeral ads that (that have been paid for) to target specific opinion clusters. It's a sophisticated attack on common sense, by appealing to gut instincts. How do you think a bunch of old people were able to harness the power of the internet in 2016,17,18? They paid private firms to figure this stuff out. People love trading money for control, and you should not be so naive as to think the opposite.
We Are the Only Developed Nation Without Online Protections and More Tech Blurbs
Here are some more:

https://github.com/ericlagergren/go-coreutils
Yes, there are sites geared towards getting proposals first, with designers that are fine with that free work with the possibility of landing a contract.

This would have replaced your fiverr exploration and gotten to the same result of using any designer more effectively.
Microsoft was definitely disrupted by Google: by Android. Everyone used to have a Windows PC on their desk, now everyone has an Android smartphone in their pocket. Discounting the affluent minority of Mac and iOS users of course...

Windows used to be at the very heart of Microsoft strategy. They seem to have successfully managed to pivot away from it, but I still call that being disrupted.
Allow me please to ingratiate myself with pity. I know exactly what sort of (negative) energy I have pent up in me.

Resentment.

I get triggered for being short-changed a penny just as much as being robbed of of hundreds. I boil to illogic, stammering incoherence when I see injustice against my fellow helpless. I foam at the mouth with silent trembling rage when after borrowing money to put food on the table I see the corrupt fat cats get away without paying for crimes of fraud, of tax evasion and unfair commerce. I spin in dizzying bitterness when my honest work, my products, my services are overlooked for incompetent, more expensive and even non-existent alternative deals done with buddies and the small-time mafia-wannabe (rigged tenders). I am maddened with incipient indignation when I find out that my seemingly legitimate medical insurance claim was denied on a technicality in the small print. I jump at the chance to chastise anyone over zealously, anyone who's nursing the erroneous thought we live in a meritocracy.

I am resentful. That's my pent up energy, right there.

I have tried meditation. Believe me. I've read over the years through a calm eye and an at-ease mind the Buddhist teachings of compassion. And I think it is all a lie. You cannot sell compassion to the poor. To the strugglers. To the down-trodden. To the have-nots. That would be Jesus and his religion all over again.
The more pertinent facts in making such a comparison would be the tremendous death toll and brutality as a result of their leadership.

I thought it was not okay eight and sixteen years ago, and it still looks to be not okay today, or not an argument with any intellectual weight to it. But "educated" people sure like it.