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Being a Buddhist born person living in a mostly Buddhist country this saddens me. It seems all this hype with so called Buddhist retreats and meditation apps in the western world is pretty much twisting the teachings of Buddha. Monks have practiced meditation for centuries without any adverse effects as mentioned in the article. It seems like they focus on _state of being mindful_ than really being mindful. Meditation is not that difficult. And certainly does not require an app or a spiritual guide. Try learning a little about Buddhism and read up on meditation.(maybe avoid the best sellers and go for something written by a real monk?)
Looks pretty cool, I was surprised to see the microphone feature and ability to hide the chat.

Couple of questions:

- what video formats does it support?

- Is it open source? Couldn't find it in your Github

- Is it possible to add subtitles? Would love that and can PR
I now live about 5 minutes from where the Vietnamese monk burned himself alive and drive past it all the time [1]. It is now a very busy intersection with probably hundreds of thousands of people passing by daily, there is a temple on the corner. I'd say that the majority of people passing by have no idea what happened here in the past.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/A1BeFPr9nuA2
> the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances

I believe current law is that people have the right to peaceably assemble only for the purpose of petitioning the government for a redress of grievances.

It sounds wrong, but there it is.
My spouse worked at a ~150 headcount (c round funding) tech startup and hated it.

She now works for a massive revenue, mid-size firm and ... mostly hates it.

At one time in my life, I worked for a company that would have been considered a tech giant of its time (one of the 100 most profitable firms in the US at the time), and it was OK-ish.

My opinion is that I would do it, if I had the opportunity to do it. If you can afford to take the chance now, then consider taking the chance now. You never know if you will be able to do it in the future.
It's a shame that the Matrix website listing clients[1] don't mention weechat-matrix and instead mentions the outdated Lua plugin[2] that doesn't support Megolm at all.

I've been using Riot for a few years and it's nice, but it would've been nice to know that there is a modern Weechat plugin implementation (I was half considering writing one myself).

It's also super neat to see that they wrote their own Python Matrix client library[3], which is something I also needed for another idea I'm working on (the library linked to from the Matrix site also seems to be less suitable than this one).

[1]: https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now
[2]: https://github.com/torhve/weechat-matrix-protocol-script
[3]: https://github.com/poljar/matrix-nio
I guess you'll have to be in such a situation to find out. I have an ancestor who moved to America as an Orthodox Jew in the early 1900s. He would find work on Monday, and work until Friday. If the employer wouldn't let him take Saturday off, then he would quit and look for a new job. This cycle eventually stopped when he got hired by a seventh day Adventist.
The US can impose tariffs on trade with the US.

If they wanted to impose it on China's oil trade with Saudi or Russia, it would have to be done militarily.

And that still leaves the question how to impose a carbon tax on China's domestic coal and oil.
I've been doing 2 to 3 week long meditation retreats every year for the past 10 years or so. I don't disagree with anything your are saying in particular. However I do think there is value in them (otherwise I wouldn't keep going), but I also think people should ease their way in. Do a 1 day retreat first, then do some three days, and then do a week. Have a regular meditation practice, preferably with the same people you are doing the retreats with. So in my specific case I've known all of the teachers for 15 years or so, and usually most of participants for many years. We do ask for medical disclosures for participants, and it's not like we have been completely without any incidents. I think your points are well taken, but I would advise people who are interested in meditation and retreats so just use some common sense and don't rush into it and know the people you are doing it with. For me at least it's a very rewarding experience.
These workers organized.
They list several tests with record breaking results here: https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/#zeroshot

Are those previous records their own or were those the best scores in the whole field of NLP? It sure looks like a pretty big step forward for one model to break that many records.
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They're calling the MPU: Microprocessor Unit, not a memory protection unit. The Cortex A7 has the MMU. BTW, there are some linux distros that are made to run on processors without mmu's. Look at uClinux and NOMMU Linux.
Most of these charts rely only on quantitative measure of value like P/E and that has certainly under performed by a lot. But value investing goes beyond such quantitative measures.
If that is the case, why not just buy the entire US stock market through something like FZROX, SWTSX, or VTSAX? That feels like a sound investment to me.
I acknowledge that sustainability is a problem in Open Source.

I strongly disagree that this is a problem with the original concept of Open Source, and I strongly disagree that Redis's solution is applicable.

Redis is talking out of its butt with this claim. The solution it proposes is throwing the baby out with the bathwater -- saying, "we can't figure out how to fund Open Source, so let's just agree that it was a mistake and make something else that's vaguely adjacent to it."

I personally think it's massively egotistical for them to claim to speak for all developers, or even most developers. Redis hasn't proposed anything new or revolutionary. Source Available licenses have been around for ages. I don't see what's new here.

I personally feel like Redis is stepping into a general debate over Open vs proprietary software that is older than their company; and I don't feel like they're bringing anything new to the table. They've clearly decided that proprietary is the way to go. Now they're acting like this is some kind of significant decision, and that the entire Open Source ecosystem should change to accommodate and bless their specific business model.

It rubs me the wrong way. I often disagree with decisions that companies make, but this press release actually gets under my skin. I'm not dumb enough to try and speak for anyone else other than myself, but if their goal here was to spark dialog in the Open Source community, I am personally way less interested now in hearing what they have to say.
"Free speech is curbed all the time"

No, it really is not.

"There are quite a few laws on the books about hate speech"

In the USA I believe there are zero. [1]

There's a misnomer that free speech only exists somewhat arbitrarily as a bill of right. In fact, we actually value free speech even when granted by a private entity.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_in_the_United_Stat...
It's a world that increasingly values cognitive output over physical output. Doesn't seem that dystopian to me.
I've just made a job board for scientists, though it's not launched yet. It's called Research Pizza (http://research.pizza).
Have you considered "religion" as "that which gives meaning in life" rather than "the supernatural"?
China is already halfway through. India isn't too far behind. The rest of the world is comparatively small.

So, yeah, I think we have pretty big margins, TBH.

Just my personal hunch. I don't ask you to agree.
You generally wouldn't go directly here. You'd start at the link I originally posted:

https://sourcehut.org/

Or did you feel that this isn't helpful either?
Curious if there was a reason you chose to self-host as opposed to using a public one on just starting your own room (I assume this is possible in the same way channels are in IRC)?

What was the drive to use 1, self-host and non-federate an instance of Matrix over another platform, and 2, why? With family especially, I would assume a simple WhatsApp/Signal group would have been easier for adoption.
Borland's Turbo Vision was very nice: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision
You could say an obligation comes from the USA providing a legal framework and a market and the military force needed to dissuade others (countries, pirates, terrorists, etc.) from interfering too much.

No obligation is required however. The USA can just insist. This is what China does, notably, and China is not alone. Countries all around the world are forcing corporations to serve their people. That is kind of the point of a country, using the threat of force (prison, asset seizure, war, etc.) to serve a group of people.
I know about Fractal. My point it is not the reference client and not enough love is done for mobile clients also.
Nothing. CentOS is RHEL without the logos and tech support.
> How much do you stress the GL implementation?

Quite a bit, I guess? I play a number of games, but no idea if they are "properly ported".
The Tuchman book "The Guns of August" is an amazing book on the first month of WW1.

https://www.amazon.com/Guns-August-Pulitzer-Prize-Winning-Ou...
My entire career has been startups. On average, your startup will be a failure.

If you want to create one, then it should be for an idea that you really believe in and that has value. Because you're going to have bad days--lots of them--and want to quit. And if you don't believe in what you're building, then you will quit, and it'll all be for nothing. (Plus, if you believe in what you're building and it fails, you won't regret it later.. you'll at least appreciate what you learned.)

The fact that you're asking at all, tells me you should probably stay at your job. If I (a random 3rd party) needs to convince you to do a startup, then forget it. The idea must not be very compelling--it certainly isn't to you.

And if you're thinking that is the path because you've read a bunch of success porn.. you're in for a rude awakening.
If you're using your personal phone to check work email, that strongly implies a business need. Basically all my coworkers have corp phones.
I guess, I'll throw my hat into the ring as well. Former customer here as well. Just finished pulling out all the Segment hooks from the code base for same reasons as others.
Hiring is broken because employees and employers have asymmetric bargaining power, which leads to unrealistic expectations. No amount of improved candidate screening will solve that.
Hmmm... I don't use Photoshop for anything, so I can't speak to that specific aspect. I'm approaching this from the point of view of enterprise software / SaaS services, and not desktop productivity software. It may be that the dynamics are different in the latter realm.
None so far as a candidate. They’ve in most cases just removed the headhunter/recruiter person interaction. Nothing different yet, which I find tragic. The slight upside is since it’s new shiny tech, new shiny companies are usually on them. But the process is still the same.
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This is the crux of the issue. Either someone (perhaps the owner) tells you, or you ask someone who knows. The former is distinct from discoverability, so that's out. When you ask though, you want to ask someone who knows lots of things, which is likely to be corporate (major search engines).
And also to use your email address to target you with advertising.

Expect to see lots of Nginx ads on Facebook, Twitter etc.
OK, but an actual response. For science/research jobs, it's all still word of mouth and recommendations from close network friends. For tech, I've used various job boards and services for my company. HN posts still do really well. Also, I had a great experience using Lambda School for hiring their program participants.
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I would say no to the people who say it's good to have a startup when you're young. For investing and money compounding the first 5-10 years of your working life are the most important.

If you want to make a lot of money, I would look at investing (especially commodities now that stocks/bonds/houses are overvalued) instead of trying a startup. Most people get rich ($3M+) by investing and letting compounding do its job.

Doing a startup is risky, investing can be done in a relatively safe way.

If you really want a startup for some non-money related reason, you can do it when you have money in your bank account.
What would be the signature of your gcd function ?
I only watched a few minutes but I didn't see anything objectionable. I was getting annoyed at the people he was talking to. It seems to me, you either know what the answer is so state the answer and the evidence, or you don't, so state that you don't know and express your plan to find an answer and return with it.

Once I hurt my back, had to drive for three hours, park far away, hadn't eaten all day, and when I stopped at a restaurant, having hobbled there with my bad back from a distant parking spot, the hostess was absent for ~5 minutes and when she finally showed up she was distracted and talking to other people multiple times while I tried to get an answer to how long the wait would be and if I could get served. So far, I've lived a fairly easy life, and I've always tried to be polite and even keeled - but in that moment of discomfort, tiredness, hunger, and disrespect, I genuinely wanted to be rude to the hostess.

The point of the digression is, I imagine that's what being the CEO is like, only it's not once. It's every day. And the more committed you are, the more hours you subject yourself to this kind of thing. You just want things well documented, bugs fixed, quality high, you want people to answer questions etc. When you've been dealing with this all day for decades - I can see how easy it would be to be a bit impolite.
Why a commercial shredder rather than a $100 crosscut (Amazon Basics makes some pretty good ones)? I actually find the shredder pretty fun to use.
Sounds like psychedelic drugs, used properly (unlike the author), are a safer alternative. Who'd have thought?
These Vipassana retreats are not ashrams like you mention. Many of your other points are not untrue, but seem a little baited to me, understandably, given your position.

There's a great deal of difference between honest people trying to help those looking for something outside the standard (because it's helped them personally), and predators. I'm sorry for your friends, but what happened at Mangrove Mtn is a different story.

I also don't disagree that there's a lot to be suspicious of, but it shouldn't cloud your mind to assume that everyone is either delusional, fraudulent or predatory.

Many people have experiences and feelings that can't be explained by healthcare professionals. Many healthcare professionals have had unexplainable experiences and feelings. The phenomena of near death experiences is an example: people clinically dead, but were able to describe their operating room from a strange angle with great precision. This is why people go there in the first place: they're looking for answers.
Unfortunately, your friends found wolves.
Money is an important factor. I think in the startup ecosystem money comes second. Validating idea, iteration over it and making it market fit is a long process. Making money comes after that.
Reminds me of that neat "brute forcing the devil" post from a few years ago.
Actual book. 344 pages.
The fee based retreat this poor guy went to reminds me of the fee based authentic native sweat lodge performances done in Sedona Arizona where people die and the lodge medicine man later proves to be some guy that has no connection to any native nation.

People can have profound insights and yes also freak outs based on intense meditation. That's normally considered a success, and is something that a legitimate monastery or retreat is equipped to handle without calling police to arrest the meditator by force and imprisoning him in a psychiatric detention facility, to have the paper trail from that frame and follow him for the rest of his life.
In my case, I’ve been disappointed many times at work because some library I wanted to use was GPL. I don’t want anyone to have that experience with the stuff I build.
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Do you think it's better than spending that same time socializing with coworkers outside of work? Because it isn't.
I totally agree. Also important to note that "always overestimate yourself" and "bank on people who overestimate themselves" are not solid corrolaries.

The boastful are high variance, even taking your own judgement into account. And where there are power-law outcomes, exposing yourself to the wrong kind of tail risk can be fatal.
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Isn’t this what xmpp promises?
> how much smoother everything would have gone if everyone had been in the same room.

Definitely true, but you'd also have to watch the livestream of everyone prepping for and commuting to work for a fair comparison.
Do unions allow competition among union members? It’s always seemed to me that they work in jobs where the people are replaceable.

In Google one could work to make 2x to 3x more than the next person - is that will possible with a union?

Seems like in jobs where individual talent / skills matter, a union is by definition harmful (unless you’re in the lower 50%).

Collective action / protest works fine, though, for establishing baselines. If giving employees what they want is cheaper than firing all of them and hiring a fresh batch, it should always work fine.
I got stuck as soon as I found out CircleCI didn't scrub secrets from the log automatically like TravisCI. I know, I know, but we have a pretty hefty legacy OSS build in place and that's a lot to shore up before go time haha. Need to check back on that feature request...
Which side you think as having more bargaining power? What kind of expectations? Those things might depend a bit on depending where you live. I live in Japan, and I have the rough feeling that as a software engineer I have quite a lot more of leverage in bargaining compared to some other professions.
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> freak out in a greek monastery on the the Athos peninsula, you're also likely to get hauled away in handcuffs

I'm not clear on why it should be obvious that someone freaking out during an intense meditation should be "likely" to get "hauled away in handcuffs". Could you explain?
Looks like there is a service similar to what you asked for, but it only applies to MySQL, PerconaDB, and MariaDB right now [0]. Maybe as PostgreSQL grows in popularity more services will target it. Or go build your own, it sounds like a viable business.

[0] https://www.eversql.com/faq/
I guess author wants on the BOLO list:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/facebooks-security-team-trac...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19220831
I'd love to see more "gamey" and fun platforms for agent-based modeling (Sims, but with different types of goals to tweak!) and something for system dynamics modeling.

There's been a few runs at both, but for how poor human brains are at intuiting things about non-linear systems, and how desperately we need to understand them, more things in this area would be great!
Yup - I've had this with legit recruiters in Australia.

I know they're legit as they're people I've worked with in the past. It's frustrating, as often times you've worked to make your PDF in local page size (A4 here) fit 'just so'. I've seen the resultant print-outs on the desk during interviews, and they're not pretty - so I'd also much prefer to supply modified PDF's.

Weirdly, in the age of web search and linkedin, this still happens -- despite it taking all of a couple of minutes to bang in someone's name, and a couple of their previous roles, and being pretty confident of finding out how to contact that person.

OTOH it's nice to see that some recruiters trust their paying customers just as much as they trust their candidates.
Backtracking as a strategy definitely seems... underwhelming. But it does have its uses. I wrote a few solvers, and they all served a different purpose. One was based on Norvig's python post on the subject; I used that to generate many puzzles very quickly. Then I used a backtracker (using Knuth's Dancing Links) to reduce the set to puzzles with only a single solution. The last solver was a "human" solver that used various known strategies; this let me grade difficulty without having to manually attempt every puzzle (although I still found it useful in my app UI to tag puzzles as being too hard/easy). The human solver is incredibly inefficient, but the one with the most room for growth (new strats, etc).
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Many churches practice church discipline, for example with the PCA:

http://www.pcahistory.org/pca/3-443.html

It mostly applies to leadership, but also members. Possible "censures" include:

- Admonition (ie calling someone out for their behavior)
- Suspension from Office (you have to stop being a deacon)
- Suspension from the Sacraments (you can't take communion anymore)
- Excommunication (you can no longer be a member of the church)

In practice I have only ever seen it done publicly in 3 circumstances:

1) Someone in leadership committed adultery and has to step down
2) An elder was excommunicated after abandoning his wife and children, leaving the church, and pulling a "Leaving Las Vegas" to live a life of total debauchery
3) A church leader was suspended due to abuse of power

Leadership cases are kind of obvious, because the damage they do can be so bad. I mean it's bad enough in a workplace, but it can be devastating in a Church environment, which functions a lot more like a family. The Presbyterian process might seem a bit overblown or silly, but I appreciate the care with which they take these issues.

I think a culture of discipline is generally useful in a Church, at least when it comes to admonition and encouragement. Adultery, drunkenness, gossip, greed, anger, ... all of these things affect others, and church discipline is attempting to admit to that problem rather than simply ignoring it. When it's done in a loving, winsome way, it can be a good thing. I screw up all the time, sometimes without even realizing it, and being called out for it can help me do better.

Though I also recognize disciple can be, and often is abused. It can really turn cultic fast, and I've seen that a little in some communities, especially when it focuses on minor, tangential issues (like the music you listen too, the way you dress, your politics, etc...)

So to recap, in the PCA, I've only really seen it with leadership. In the OPC church I briefly attended, it was suggested that if you were unwilling to baptize your children, or made a habit of working on Sunday, you may not be able to join the church, since that was a clear and important teaching of the church and you would clearly be violating it, hence, discipline.
Seems to me like the biggest benefit of a solid remote working culture would be the vastly larger hiring pool. That should be weighed against the downsides.
Step 1: take a bunch of research out of context and spin a nice bedtime tale that the data doesn't really support.
Sounds like a good pitch for recruiting!
Spouses with advanced degrees and prior work experience are exactly the sort of people who can raise children well. Due to exponential growth of the number of descendants with time, this has a far more beneficial impact on the world than anything else. The alternative is idiocracy.
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[joke]

A more advanced student would be taken away with just ONE hand cuffed.

[/joke]
Didn’t work for James Damore or Gudeman.
Yep money comes second , product validation and market fit comes first