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You don't have to practice meditation to get into meditative state. Some people do that naturally (this natural ability is traditionally explained by previous reincarnations as advanced mediator).

Some children can do that and then loose this ability as they grow up. Some people can do that because that's their job - try mathematician focused on solving complex problem. And some get into that state doing gardening for example.

The practice of meditation is simply put learning how to get into that state of mind at will not at random.

[0] This is my personal view based on experience so I cannot provide any source to prove it.
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As the article suggests perhaps we are in need of an updated alphabet, different writing style, or a different type of pen. If we were to return to using fountain pens we would reduce waste of plastic pens. People would have a greater incentive to keep track of their pens as they are more expensive and can be used for many years. And our hands would benefit from less fatigue. My friend from France uses fountain pens for everything and i'm beginning to think she's got it right.
Can you give some examples? I'm curious.
And 9/11 was still a prelude to a shooting war.
The tide of people leaving because NYC is becoming completely un-afforable if you make less than 60k a year.
Can you elaborate on how exactly you're "using SQLite for data visualization?"
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> How about six American Carrier groups against the other six??

How will you divide them equally and pit them against each other?
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Schelling 1971: Dynamic Models of Segregation [pdf]
What is with all these posts that just assume that 25,000 new humans are going to be plopped down in NYC?

Has Amazon come out and said that they’re going to be relocating 25,000 employees here? If not, then I suspect a solid majority of those hired will already be living and working in the greater NYC area. In those instances, any gain in income tax revenue will be meager.
Ego resides in mind. Isn’t it?
> Bricking every intel cpu,Using a likely 0 day in JunOS and ASR routers to make them all inoperable for a few days,similar wipe outs of cloud provider infrastructure come to mind.

The packet flow ASICs and fabric on an example router like an MX960 or an ASR9006 are quite separated from the control plane routing engine. Just passing packets with the "zero day" through the router wouldn't do it, somebody would have to compromise the engineering/admin interface to the routing engine(s). If you have the equivalent of root, configure or enable on a Cisco IOS-XR or modern JunOS system you could run a script to brick it anyways, by overwriting the boot OS image and then reloading the router.

I personally would be much more worried about a "brick yourself" magic packet that is hidden, hardcoded into the ASICs of Huawei or ZTE routers sold into the networks of major carriers in NATO countries.
Damn, with 64core/128 threads becoming widely available a lot of Windows software will have to be updated to use that because of "64 bits should be enough for everybody" kind of decision in Windows when implementing affinity. You can't get more than 64 threads in OpenMp when compiling with MinGW and you can get it with Clang but the implementation wasn't very efficient when tested it.
I suspect the problem is there in most Windows thread pool implementations.
> You guys have the best subway system in the US if we're being honest here.

The biggest (in the US), certainly. "Best" depends on your perspective. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/nyregion/chicago-l-train-...
I'm glad they rejected the Shuka Design, that thing was over-designed and bad on so many levels. What is the version. What are you referring to by "only kept the arms tangled up"?

I really like the ones from [1], now that's what I call great design.
It's not about the monetization system, it's the business model, meaning what they sell, not how they sell it.

Google and Facebook are ad networks (not advertising companies) because they sell advertising space to customers. Netflix is a media company because it sells original and licensed content to consumers (subscriptions just being a method of payment).
According to the ChessNetwork yt channel, Alpha zero does not consistently beat stockfish. But when it does, it does so in a very interesting manner.
The 2014 branding reminds me of the best of mid-century graphic design. Very rare to see it today.
Systemd, the ‘single open source project to rule them all’ which is not necessarily a good thing.
Thank you for explaining. Would you happen to know if he is still involved with the project (as an employee or something)?
While not a federal, or even state issue it is very much a locality issue. One which is unique to a given locality and is well within their rights to legislate.

It's for the same reason right to farm laws exist, no community wants to give up its right of self direction to outsiders. Even if in many ways it's not to benifit of its neighbors.
I grew up in LA and left because it was unaffordable. So I don't understand the "crisis." Why can't people just move. Seems like the crisis is that maybe people have no mobility and are forced to work in over priced cities. But I don't understand why that is the case.
That's because ELO only gets updated at the end of a tournament, not every game.
Eniac equivalent computers available for $25 in 1980. Do tell me more.
In a 100 game matchup, AlphaZero had 28 wins 72 draws and 0 losses. I'd classify that as orders of magnitude better.

https://www.chess.com/news/view/google-s-alphazero-destroys-...

But yeah, it would be interesting to see a side by side comparison of alphazero and stockfish's live analysis of these games.
I've only read this story on it.

I assumed the patent information based on other commenters, perhaps those were incorrect.

I never watch the trailers before I go to watch a movie.
In my fund we do, even our CEO reminds us that it’s ok some of our bets will fail, but the rest of the organization is a bit less in tune and thinks we just are a new stage to the M&A process
Threadripper’s 4 die variant had to be “neutered” to remain compatible with the TR4 socket without splitting memory bandwidth. The new I/O chiplet would solve that issue entirely, assuming it comes to Threadripper 3.
Chevalier d’Éon, who left France a male spy in 1762 to return a Christian woman
Microsoft collects personal data about everyone on a large scale [pdf]
Suppose you could teleport an iPhone XS back to 1983...I doubt that anyone would find it underwhelming.
> A raspberry pi is $25 and far exceeds the home computer of the 80s and most of the home computers sold in the 90s.

But what Moore's law giveth, web developers taketh away. If you want to use a computer to participate in the modern society, you need much more than a Raspberry Pi, due to web bloat.
The business model defines the business, in terms of what it produces for sale.

"Tech" company is probably the most meaningless term. Technology is knowledge, strategies, and processes used to solve problems. Every company creates and uses tech in some way.

Google and Facebook are ad networks as they primarily sell ad space and targeting software. Apple and Microsoft primarily sell general computing hardware and software. Wikipedia is not a business.
It's worth nothing that he talks more on the earlier meditations, less on the later ones as students gain more experience.

Also, my approach is to use the app sometimes, but not all the time. I don't think it's necessary to be guided every time, even as a novice. Learn something, then practice on your own.
Yeah, well when the outcome of the game is riches and the outcome of not playing it is being able to pat yourself on the back I think those patting themselves on the back are going to find they are in an extreme minority.

And odious is just hyperbolic. They are getting tax allowances, not sacrificing babies.
Those (Anandtech) benchmarks were performed on Windows. All threadripper benchmarks on Linux show that it is nowhere near as awful a performer as on Windows and most compute workloads do scale okay. Seen multiple ideas thrown around like Windows not being NUMA aware with this processor or just plain bad core scheduling
Reproducible Beliefs
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If you’re wanting a storage box usually it’s just less headache to buy used server gear off eBay. Plenty of bays, DDR3 RDIMM’s are cheap, and power efficient ivy/sandy bridge systems are finally in affordable price ranges.

I’m the kind of person that lurks in /r/homelab though - so I’ve also got a 25U rack to keep all my gear. If you want a tower to stuff in a corner things get more dicey.
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I haven't looked at the newsfeed or added new posts in over a couple of years. It's only used to access Pages, but I see activity stalling as quality declines. US growth is stalled and I hear nothing but negative sentiment against the Facebook brand from regular users. It's the equivalent of MySpace now, but will always have its diehard users—those who don't like change, or those who just don't get the anti-privacy and adtech poison it's built on.

We should be asking why those who left Facebook still use Instagram which is feeding the same machine.
GP didn't say that.
I had a meeting at a major UK broadcaster in London the other day. Arriving at reception I had my photo taken, a visitor pass printed, and put in a pass with a guest RFID enabled card, and to top it all a voucher for a free cup of coffee from the canteen.

No reason that such a system can't be done for the first week or so, even if you don't want to have the facility to print permanent cards in every office.
Where I live, Wal-Mart sells groceries and other goods that are life-sustaining to lower-income customers.

We've got other stores (Kroger, etc.), some of their goods might even be of better quality. But the price difference is remarkable.

I don't see how de Blasio can really justify denying shutting Wal-Mart out while letting Amazon in.
"You will never be able to trust any government again." which is itself prone to lead to you accepting misinformation.

That's the point though. You can't escape these things.
So who are these groups of people with morally irreproachable ancestors who've contributed so much to our world?
Hard Landing in Cupertino. Steve Jobs Gets Fired
Lion poaching: the brutal new threat to Africa’s prides
I'm not a fan of the book. I mean, it's all correct, the illustrations are beautiful, not much to bicker about.

But it fell flat for me, maybe because I already have Twenty and a few other books.

I did not find really new concepts, and none of the recipes really jumped out at me and made me want to cook them, I returned the book.

It's fine, really, but I think there are better ones. Twenty for concepts, Ratio for "show me quickly how to do X" and, my special tip, How to Cook without a Book by Anderson.

Just disregard her list of ingredients you should always have in stock, because you'd probably need to convert one of your larger rooms into a pantry. It goes on and on for pages.

But the recipes and the whole presentration is top-notch. Including a short rhyme at the beginning of every chapter that tells you Ratio-like how to do a basic whatever the chapter is about.

If you read German, get Nahrungszubereitung Schritt für Schritt by Schlieper. It's a very thin book, full of illustrations, because it is for school use (including special-needs schools). Very basic. What parts of the beef or pork are there. What kinds of rice are readily available in the supermarket. Basic recipes like pancakes, roux, Bologna sauce. They tell you how to cook pasta.

It's conventional. None of the higher-level stuff like "let your steak rest after cooking" or "more salt into your pasta water". But it's great for all those little things like roux that "normal people" don't do often and forget the details.

I just hope they added a real index in a later edition, because I don't find anything in their botched simulation of an index.
The data is either stored in a SQLite database or can be imported (either permanently or temporarily), and then queried (including with a WHERE clause and/or various other stuff, if applicable), and extension for graphics can be use for making the graphics (sqlext_graph), display on screen (sqlext_xwindows), or save to disk (sqlext_pipe and Farbfeld Utilities). Mainly, I fail to see why should I need a different program, if SQL seems good enough? (Of course, if other programs are more helpful to you, you can use those other programs, either instead of or in addition to, SQL. For example, I think sometimes SQLite is combined with R for statistics and graphics.)
There aren't different ratings, but there are women-only tournaments, championships, and so on. The reason is just that there are a lot fewer women in elite chess than men.

For example, Hou Yifan, the #1 woman in the world in terms of rating, is 91st overall.
AlphaZero was playing Stockfish 8. This is done using Stockfish dev which is more than 110 ELO higher than Stockfish 8 (see https://github.com/glinscott/fishtest/wiki/Regression-Tests) and higher than what was reported for AlphaZero.

Check out the Leela project, which is trying to reproduce and improve the AlphaZero project to also beat Stockfish dev: http://lczero.org/ (at this point they are about equal with Stockfish 9)
If Alice only knows that Bob is the same one who talked to her a second ago, that on itself doesn't break the anonymity of not knowing which one of 7.5 billion people is Bob.

It only becomes a problem if Alice can cross-reference that with some other data to narrow down Bob's identity.
Just run 2 Windows instances. Problem solved.
>Why not? Fame has a dark side. When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the font of least resistance.” Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color. To look at Times New Roman is to gaze into the void.
Yeah, I am referring to Ricci notation. TF and PyTorch don't use it. The new version already has relus. This version is targeted at standard formulas (has abs as a non-differentiable function), next version works for deep learning. Never wanted to work on this but there is just no way around it.
I learned to program on a used pentium that I had brought from a friend and a copy of Delphi 3 that was included on a cd 2 that shipped with a computer magazine 2 years earlier...

Neither would have been possible if the prize had been as high as it was back in the day.
Right, if people who live there want to prevent apartments from being built, that will drive up costs. Why does that need to be prevented? Why is the lack of affordable housing a crisis?

Eventually it seems the market will level out. If people can't afford to live there then industries will leave. At that point people living there will have to decide if that's okay or they should change policy to be more accompanying.
AFAIK, there remains no clear policy or line on what sort of cyber incident would warrant escalation to a “kinetic” (blowing things up) response. This is a serious problem, as it can lead to unintentional escalation.

For example, if Turkey and Russia got into a spat over access to the Black Sea and Russia triggered blackouts in Turkey that (perhaps unintentionally) killed people. Would that trigger Article 5? (NATO Mutual Defense Treaty?)

What if a state sponsored (but not state controlled) group managed to do a massive uncontrolled release of dam water, drowning hundreds. Would the US be justified in a kinetic retaliation against the sponsoring state?

This is one reason why people are calling for a cyber version of the Geneva convention- we need norms to help make the signaling and consequences inherent in these actions clear to all parties.
> btrfs, which I do use nowadays but I'm absolutely aware of the high risk of data corruption because the underlying code is terrible.

Is the underlying code terrible? I haven't heard any particular concerns about code quality (aside from the original implementation of RAID 5/6). Most of the issues I've heard about were due to people using features that weren't ready yet. I've heard a lot fewer of these issue since BTRFS started providing clear statuses for individual features[1]. Do you have a different impression?

[1] - https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status
Do you think 25,000 positions are going to disappear from the rest of the local economy?

New York City's population growth from 2010-2017, without Amazon, averages out to 64k/year [0]. Adding 25,000 humans to New York is an entirely ordinary and expected occurrence that's been playing out every 4.5 months, not some sort of outrageous hypothetical.

[0] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning
As someone else said, Groups.

Would I prefer them to be hosted somewhere else like a forum? Yes, Groups on Facebook are quite terrible to use with the non-chronological ordering, the comment system that encourages everythign but in depth comments, ... but the reality is that for a few subjects that I'm interested like development projects in the city where I live, .. they're the place where I can find the most up to date info and discussion
Is there a place where major scientific findings are searchable to easily see the level of evidence supporting, whether they have been replicated, etc?
> You may not be in that population but you have to solve for them as well. Removing rent control is only going to price them out.

There is a suitable way to phase this out. First, never create another new rent controlled apartment -- they only exist as preexisting, can't be transferred to anyone but a spouse, and can't be transferred more than once. Second, allow the landlord the option to provide a comparable replacement apartment in a different building at the same rent, so that buildings with existing rent controlled apartments can be replaced with higher density ones.

Then in general adopt long-term policies to keep market-rate housing prices under control, so that they don't rise faster than inflation and future generations have no need for a ridiculous price control because the market price becomes and remains affordable.
Of course, that is true (although it is also possible to lie without admitting it!). I am only saying how I might do (depending the kind of job).
It’s 25k new jobs though. Not replacing existing. So the relocation aspect doesn’t really matter.
The Vox article you linked has three sections about the "links." The first's conclusion starts

>This isn’t a direct link between Assange and the Kremlin,

The second is the TV show, and the third is just ridiculous. Russia is the place where it is most difficult for the US to access Snowden, basically the same for the bodyguards, and one tweet showing both Assange and Russia are antisemitic? They even follow it by saying

>Again, none of these even hint that Assange is a Russian agent. What they do show, when put together, is that Assange doesn’t see Russia as an enemy or a target.

Which seems fairly obvious. He's not a Russian agent, he just views the country that has passed a law calling him a "non-state hostile intelligence service" to be a bigger enemy.
The version of Times New Roman shipped with Windows is not true to the original and looks kinda disappointing. The originals from Monotype/Linotype are fine.

Arial is a poor clone of Helvetica. It only exists to avoid licensing it.
Windows can use more than 64 hardware threads, but a single process kinda can't.
They did a follow up changing the scheduling policy for thread 0 (again, still on Windows) and it didn’t make a difference for almost all their workloads: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13446/the-quiz-on-cpu-0-playi...
I never said you couldn't have a genocide, just that you couldn't have a genocide whoes goal was to remove from the face of the planet some knowledge.

The combined cultural knowledge of every tribe in the world would fit on one hard drive.
Your assuming the government made the city desirable. An argument can be made that geography made the city desirable and government made it less.
It was a problem with a clock domain crossing with IP from another company into ours. There were testbenches/simulations for verification, but they didn't test every packet size. In hindsight, everything can be caught, but it's a matter of how extensive the testing is. For example, passing every packet size through would not have showed the symptom. Everything looked normal, and all packets succeed. The key was that the meta data saying whether a buffer was free after transmitting was incorrect and never showing that it was free. So to really see the issue you had to send enough packets of that size to totally deplete the buffers. With a standard packet distribution, such as imix, you never hit that size.
Thank you for posting, it's interesting.

I wish a good blind programmer would write a book. I really think there are great gains to be made in programming, when we find ways to optimize the way we build and maintain our mental models of an application. I suspect blind programmers have some good insights to share.
Yes, it is an ideological preference. Rent control is conservative, market distribution is liberal. I just point that people really really want to be called progressive without being one.

You can't be progressive and conservative at the same time! You can barely be progressive if you hold conservative view on one of the most important issues. You can only be centrist that way.
Interestingly enough, that record was just broken by Chinese GM Ding Liren, who played 100 games before losing to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave at the Shenzhen Masters tournament.
2011-1 systems really aren't that power efficient. 16 DIMMs, 2 sockets will draw ~120 W idle.
Tsar Bomba Detonation
As wonderful as those fonts may have been once, now merely because they're defaults and ubiquitous they will come across as you not caring about the medium of your message, and by extension not caring about the message itself.

Messages are defined not just by their content but also by their medium, like it or not.

It's the same thing as wearing the same shirt and pants every day that was what K-Mart had on sale: you don't care and it wasn't chosen to flatter your body. Apathetic and sloppy.

(And I personally find great aesthetic beauty in Times and in Helvetica, Arial's original -- it's sad to me that they're simply no longer viable choices for design.)
I like watching that series when I just want to chill and zone out a bit. I like seeing how food was originally made. The episode where she is making pesto properly (ie not with a blender that just chops instead of crushing and leaves you with crap oily rubbish - what I used to do) made me really want to visit Italy and just eat everything.
It is very fun but I think that to fully follow Chess24 commentary real-time you need to be FIDE 1900+
I get your point, but the regular US military is a culture and organization apart from the mainstream.
Yes, America stole the fruits of European theft....

We all should realize that Pre-15th century most of Europe could barely do basic math. All the books about advanced sciences and mathematics were translated from Persian (which were compiled from Ancient Greek, Chinese, Indian, and Arab knowledge).

The biggest thieves in history are just mad that the involuntary investors in their societies are coming to get a return on their investments.

Don't forget when Europeans basically stole land and labor from whole continents, resulting in enough wealth to develop certain technologies.

This is all part of the cycle empires go through and we in the West are on the tail end of one hell of a ride.

This isn't controversial, this is history.