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Kundalini — An Untold Story by Om Swami https://www.amazon.com/Kundalini-Untold-Story-Himalayan/dp/0...

If you fancy about metaphysical and mystical stuff, If you think there's more to a living being than blood and tissues, and if you want to keen on not just entertaining but possibly learn to experience the truth (if any)s behind the claims of superhuman faculties, then read this book.

>>> Kundalini is your polar opposite within you. When it awakens, you realize how immensely powerful you already are. You experience how there is a whole universe within you. It is your feminine energy if you are a man and your masculine energy if you are a woman. It is your passage, your path to eternal fulfillment within you.

>>> Awakening of the kundalini is realization of your pure abstract intelligence, the type that is not conditioned by your fears, emotions and worries. It is your pristine nature. When you are able to tap into this latent source of energy, you truly become the master of your universe. You can manifest whatever you wish in your life because your scale of consciousness is no longer limited to your body alone; it envelops the whole universe.
Early to mid-70s could be considered "peak American car", for a variety of reasons --- not long afterwards, emissions and fuel economy regulations tightened greatly and cut both size and power of cars.

But if you've never been in one and have the opportunity to, or even drive one, I'd definitely recommend it. There's nothing quite like the experience of being in a classic American full-size sedan, especially at highway speed. It's very different from the more common modern Japanese car, or even the big European ones.

(Full disclosure: I have one of these.
http://www.oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Chevrolet/1972_Chev... )
works now, works well for me also, good FPS. looks pretty smooth also.

I would say his next problem is going to be getting the data fast enough to feed the the UI, a nicely packed websocket protocol would work well I'd guess
At my employer, there are various consulting/contracting companies we’ve used. Some made it easy to convert those workers we wanted to hire as full time team members, some made it hard — or virtually impossible.

We generally don’t work any more with the contracting/consulting companies that make it hard.

We’ve dealt with plenty of overseas contracting companies. The horror stories are too numerous to go into, but suffice it to say that there is no amount of cost savings that could make up for the negative externalities they have caused.

Sure, the outsourcing companies will demo well. Everyone demos well.

But once they’ve hooked you, they will replace the people who did the demo. Odds are, they will lose those people in a couple of months, even if they don’t replace them on their own.

And thus begins the slide into a new kind of hell.
I think one interesting approach for this would be to look for cases where the kernel can leverage information it has to JIT code into userspace that allows the userspace process to reduce the number of context switches it needs into the kernel. Obviously that could not get as aggressive, as anything that requires security checks or access to information not accessible to the calling process would still need to enter the kernel.

E.g. is the other end of that file descriptor you're writing to another process on the same machine? Intercept the calls and replace them with operations directly on shared memory using a futex to coordinate, for example. Or is the process doing read()'s that are smaller than what is most efficient on the current system, and it's the only reader? JIT buffering into user space.

A lot of what you might consider it for could be done just fine in user-space with sufficiently smart libraries that knows how to handle a bunch of special cases, but the caveat is that you then depend on users knowing to use them, and my experience is that there is enough code out there doing tiny read()'s that I have no faith whatsoever that people will do a good job at even the very basics. Meanwhile the kernel has a lot of information very easily accessible that a userspace implementation might have to jump through hoops to find out.
Zig[1] looks like more interesting and modern alternative, albeit immature one.

[1] https://ziglang.org
Herbicide glyphosate under fire worldwide, gets banned by Austria
Reversing is one thing, distributing copies of reverse engineered IP is another. I am pretty sure that is not a good idea unless the terms under which you obtained the product explicitly allow it.
Thank you for the Mustang, Lee! I had a '67, and adored that car. It looked great, was easy to work on, and I had to have one after a high school buddy offered me a ride in his, and he promptly floored it. Wow! I burned up a lot of tires on mine.

All the fellows had a muscle car, or was trying to get one. What a great time to be in high school! None of these silly "boom cars" or whatever.
The exclusion seems deliberate to me. If Moneyball highlights the gee-whiz process of constant optimization, that goes counter to the point of the article, which is about the more romantic elements of the game...and of life.
Hey hey @Shruti, yes please apply. Roughly 1-2x per week you would have to be up later than normal working hours.
I have some current experience with my adult daughter suffering with severe anxiety. I started looking for over the counter treatments and found studies that used magnesium glycinate successfully as a treatment and it has worked wonders for her.

She takes a 300 mg tab and in 20 minutes she's completely calmed down. It only lasts for about four hours but the effect is amazing.

The downside is it can cause diarrhea when taken every four hours but if she eats a couple bananas a day (for the fiber) that's not an issue.

She's also been experiencing auditory hallucinations (hearing voices) and I found a study that showed CBD helping with that, so I got her to start taking that too, and it's worked amazingly well for her to deal with that. If it also helps with anxiety that's all the better for her.

Her birth mother was diagnosed as schizophrenic about a year after my daughter was born so my daughter is probably dealing with that too, but the drug the doctors gave her mother 35 years ago (haloperidol) didn't work near as well as the magnesium/CBD my daughter is taking and the side effects were vicious. That shit turned her mother into a slobbering zombie.

I took my daughter to a mental health facility yesterday to get evaluated and we told them she was taking the magnesium glycinate for anxiety and CBD for "the voices" and they didn't tell her to stop or prescribe any pharmaceutical drugs for her. They just told her to start "Mindful therapy" sessions with a doctor there.

I've been smoking herb for about 46 years pretty much daily and have never felt anxious, but I've known a few people who have. I've attributed that to all the reefer madness that's been shoved at us for so long, but it could be it affects some people differently than I and all my herb smoking friends.

I don't feel any effects at all from taking CBD, but I don't have any of the symptoms it's used to treat effectively and it could be I have plenty enough in my system from the weed I smoke anyway.
Anecdotally this study confirms what I already found out on my own, CBD capsules helps my body relax with none of the anxiety that THC can trigger.

No doubt other people are having the same realizations, CBD capsule prices have gone through the roof.
Feels like today there are some libraries that are only offered for Spring. Other than that I have been happy to do as you do with Jetty.

I'll add that autoconfiguration is a symptom, not a solution.
You say this sarcastically but there will be thousands of people out there thinking exactly this in earnest. Ugh.
That's a great trick and all, but it falls disappointingly short of D's `static assert`: There's no guarantee it'll ever run. The trick assumes that the C compiler will evaluate the expression at compile time, but there's every chance that it just won't and will silently fail instead.

char * i = malloc(1);
ASSERT_BUILD(i);

That just silently compiles and runs without triggering any failure. Whats worse is you can never be sure whether your assert is passing or the compiler decided not to run it.
In the United States, clean room reverse engineering is legal for interoperability purposes. In general reverse engineering is legal unless there is a contract involved prohibiting it.

Unless you’re reusing the original source code, there’s no copyright violation per se, simply functionality reimplemented in a compatible manner. The lengths that ReactOS goes to might actually be overkill, but no one can credibly claim the project has actually stolen anyone’s code.
Sure, but Vance is more "wrong" than his detractors are. He's the one who sees all poor people, and all poor people alike.
The researcher is unable to name any data structure in the source file. If -- as he claims -- it's littered with them, this should be easy to prove.

His shock that this could be a clean room implementation would be meaningful, except that the WINE project has successfully clean-room reverse engineered much of the Win32 API (including private stuff) by observing how programs use them. Literally no one wants to read Microsoft code anyway; knowing them, it's probably horrendous.
It also could be someone will intentioned who believes boulos is sharing things he shouldn't be.

He certainly shares stuff I wouldn't be comfortable sharing, but then again he's a lot better connected and in the know than I am.
CyberLink Looking to Bring Facial Recognition AI to US Retail Stores
Offtopic, I noticed the author's bio:

> Full-stack engineer, from electrons to Electron

Quite clever and impressive if true. I aspire to be able to describe myself in the same way some day.
There's a difference between handling and propagating errors, most Go-code I've come across/written is pretty much using exceptions, but with 10x the noise and none of the convenience. Which might be fine, different languages have different goals; maybe simplicity is more important. But pretending it's somehow superior isn't fooling anyone.
Somewhat cool. Maybe the poster should state what is cool about this over the file it's based on? This file is based on the gnu units program.
I had a client move a project to India because he thought it would be cheaper. Eighteen months later he was knocking on my door asking if I could fix the mess. Sadly for me, I tried to help him - I'd have been better to say "no", either immediately or after taking my first look at what had been delivered. The work that had been done (at less than 20% of my hourly rate) was shoddy and not fit for purpose. A detailed analysis showed that the cost of fixing it was about the same as the cost of building it again from scratch. The client then included me in his generalised unhappiness with the consequences of his decision, and I've had no further work from him.
Any technology that is pro-society should never be over-centralised (e.g. control over citizen freedoms to use that technology).

Physical cash is material technically government-controlled and -produced, but people can freely trade it with great independence.

I don't think we'll have a big problem here. People's drive to freely trade critical resources between each other is so strong that they'll create their own currencies if they need to - which is exactly what the burgeoning ecosystem of cryptocurrencies already is.
This obliquely-named blog post has the context:

https://www.fin.com/posts/fins-plan-for-2019/
Comments like these are eerily similar to what Microsoft had been saying for years about Linux - at best they had been infringing on patents but I seem to also recall accusations of the kernel containing proprietary Windows source code. This is just one individuals opinion but I would be really interested in seeing them provide more specifics - especially given the amount of MS source that has leaked/been open sourced over the years.
As a fellow PhD candidate, I can confirm that this sort of thing happens pretty regularly. Basically his advisor wouldn't take the risk of making the claim so he made his student do it, then put the onus on the student of "clarifying" this claim. If the claim works, they share credit. If it does not work, the blame is solely on the student for making a bad claim. If this is a seminal work, then it puts the student in a terrible situation if they want to pursue this line of work.
How novel is “AI” 'Search Algorithm for Ligands' used in flu vaccine design?
It made Media blitz today. It was developed by Flinders University team /w Prof. Petrovsky. Past paper used "Modeler (homology modeling) program..with receptor binding analysis using Scripps' "Vina". old paper: https://twitter.com/__jochen__/status/1146268684899495937
I couldn’t agree more. This is “Roundup”, primarily marketed by the most despicable rent-seeking companies that try their hardest to exploit asymmetric markets and push risk - including health risk - onto farmers.
It really depends on what is being called "infrastructure" and how much the local government is extracting from the foreign governments that will benefit (and if those funds are redistributed to the benefit of the people obviously too).
Isn't a lot of the problem that we aggressively enforce drug laws where many other countries have either legalized common drugs or choose not to aggressively enforce it? Blaming the problem on prison reform and/or mental health care availability seems a bit unfair.

Do you by chance have links to studies that show the effectiveness of mental health care in terms of avoiding prison and recidivism?

Yes, I'm sure other approaches are also helpful, but just introducing those without solving the other problems won't fix the 3% figure.
Eh, I see few enough negative book reviews that ceteris paribus just this much would be enough. It takes time to read a book.
as an aside, Rich made svelte, according to a podcast I was listening to, because he does dataviz for, currently the Times ( previously the Guardian ). So it should work well for that use case.
Interesting, I was wondering about the paranoia and anxiety comments. Outside of once sharing a blunt and once trying a vaporizer, 2-3 drags on a joint was the maximum of weed I ever took and I never experienced anxiety from it.
Worried about retiring? California will help you save money
> "if you don't like our approach, you're WRONG"

This was also my experience interacting with the Golang team while working at Google.
Seems popular enough amongst law firms:

https://www.google.com/search?q=who+uses+wordperfect
I wouldn't necessarily recommend jEdit, but I'm sure a lot of editors have a soft tabs feature like it. And with linters I can't imagine you couldn't just run your local fork with which ever have the integration make the production version be which ever. Anyway... I personally don't care what you do so long as you try to do the simplest and least and obvious thing.
One thing mainstream economists and marxist economists agree on that is that the modern financial system (capitalism, debt based money supply, etc.) could not exist without a very strong and established legal system with key features: commodification of virtually all tangible assets, tort, contract law, along with of course the ability to enforce the judicial system by force.
I didn’t have to amend the soil. Thyme actually does well in poor soil conditions! As for planting you’ll have to buy plugs if you want consistency. These varieties if grown from seed won’t necessarily be true to form.
> It's odd how much Appalachia has gripped the popular imagination, and how outsiders and a few well-positioned insiders perpetuate it.

Pennsylvania, Ohio, and North Carolina are key swing states. That's the primary reason Appalachia gets so much attention. This electoral reality goes all the way back to the war on poverty.
I'm sure it was healthier than the 2-3 hours of sleep I was running on before.
Well at least they implemented Microsoft's best known feature (The BSOD).
Clean room re-implementations have stood up to many court challenges through the years, and are interoperability is explicitly permitted under things like the DMCA.
Took me a few reads to parse that title. How about something like “A Kernel Engineer from Microsoft Answers: “What Do You Think About ReactOS?””
I've encountered a ton of these at my previous and current job, in Linux.

The primary problem is that forms of ps output that read the full command line (from /proc/$pid/cmdline) require reading memory from the process. This requires, at least, a read-lock on the process's memory map semaphore (mmap_sem), and lots of other things like to access mmap_sem, including other memory allocation (write lock), a page fault (read lock, so you can figure out what to fault in), etc. In particular, if the process is in the middle of mapping or faulting a mapped page from a slow filesystem - such as NFS or a network-backed block device provided by a hypervisor - then it can sit around with mmap_sem for arbitrarily long.

Usually the process taking a read lock on its own mmap_sem, or someone else taking a read lock, is harmless, since it's a reader-writer lock and there can be multiple readers. But as soon as a writer declares an intent to take a write lock, further readers are blocked to avoid writer starvation, which means a single slow reader will prevent all further readers. See http://blog.nelhage.com/post/rwlock-contention/ for some excitement there.

You can generally read /proc/$pid/comm (short command line) and /proc/$pid/status, which both just reference info in the kernel's task_struct, and don't require taking a lock on the userspace memory map. You can also read /proc/$pid/syscall, which will tell you what syscall it's in and the numeric arguments, and usually you can read /proc/$pid/stack, which tells you the kernel stack of the process. (Though I have recently found that that one also takes a lock, but fortunately one that's much less frequently contended.) If you're trying to make sense of why a system is stuck, and ps aux is unresponsive, my goto is grep 'disk sleep' /proc/ * /status, followed by reading the corresponding /proc/$pid/stack. If you're lucky, you'll see which module is slow (filesystem / block I/O? networked filesystem? FUSE? etc.) and can try to address that. Or perhaps you'll see several processes trying to get a lock on something and one that looks like it's holding a lock and stuck doing work; if you can address (perhaps kill) that process, the system might make progress.

lsof likes to read /proc/$pid/maps, the list of mapped files, which of course requires an mmap_sem read lock. It does this so that it can list files that are mapped but no longer have a file descriptor (e.g., shared libraries get opened, mmaped, and closed). If you know that you're only interested in files with file descriptors - e.g., you're looking for a socket, or something - you can do this with less contention by looking at /proc/$pid/fd/, which is a directory of magical nodes that show up as symlinks to open files. (They're not really symlinks; for instance, they'll work even if the actual file is deleted. But you can ls -l them as if they were symlinks, so ls -l /proc/ * /fd/ * | grep is a pretty decent alternative to lsof.)

[sorry about the formatting, HN is really enthusiastic about asterisks]
Does a software license in this case count as a contract?

Moreover, interoperability is not the same as distribution no? Honestly ReactOS's lengths do not seem like overkill to me, quite the contrary. Even re-implementing an API is legally suspect these days (see: Oracle vs. Google re: Android). Copying the internals of a piece of software by having one person explain verbally exactly how it works to another person who translates that to code feels a lot more like stealing than that.
Windows 1.0
You can try the experiment on yourself. Find capsules of flax seed oil that look like capsules of CBD oil. Have someone place a one-to-three week supply of each in separate envelopes and take them twice daily. Score your anxiety level each morning until all the tabs are gone. Estimate your average anxiety level each week. Then ask the person to reveal the envelopes to you and see if you can find a measurable difference between the treatments.
Don't assume the noisy few on "hacker" "news" represent the quiet many.
How are these two things related at all? I use Linux too but would be highly annoyed if someone stole my car. Are you implying that Linux users are in some way "stealing" from the Linux authors?
Its bullshit too, there is not much public by MS but there is plenty of third party work done on documenting it.
Is Glyphosate a herbicide, or a desiccant? They are different.
Considering IBM couldn't stop Compaq after taking some pretty good steps, it has been legal for a while. Without clean room re-implementations we would have no PC clone industry.
Tech has a toxic tone problem (2016)
w3m will still fetch external assets, including tracking pixels. You have to use something like socksify to basically cut off network access for w3m.
In later life McNamara was pretty forthcoming about his own past failings, if you watch this documentary. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War
> a curated photoset of Sides of Appalachia You May Not Know is aimed at the level of The New Yorker, and not something relatable to everyday folk in the suburbs or the Midwest.

Midwesterner here.

You don't speak for me. JD Vance doesn't speak for me.

Try listening for once.
We are all writing assembly. There are just increasingly powerful levers between us and the assembly. That's why sticking with a technology for so long is powerful - the advances in tooling keep compounding. Imagine if we switched to a completely different paradigm every few years and had to start compiler research over from scratch.
The Fog of War (2003) [Robert McNamara]
Yes, many clean-room reimplementations have stood up to court challenges. But many non-clean-room reimplementations have stood up, too. My argument is that it's neither necessary nor sufficient, just loosely correlated, and clean-room is not inherently a defense. And in particular, my argument is that it matters whether the communication between the dirty and clean rooms is a specification of an interface, or a description of a reverse-engineered implementation.

And yes, interoperability is permitted - that's why I'm saying it seems fine to clean-room reimplement a driver to communicate with a specific device. You do not need to have the same internal structures and the same function names to achieve interoperability, and I think making that argument that the DMCA allows you to have the same internal code layout will be hard.
Por que no los dos!
I consider volvo a premium brand, costing more than the typical cars. My volvo does not have a sunglasses holder.

It's such a ridiculously 1st world problem to rant about - it's crazy. If it's top 3 problem with Teslas, then I think they are doing very well with their design and manufacturing.
I interned at Microsoft in late 2000's. The sales engineers had an "anti oss" budget. Many of these guys still work at Microsoft today, now "hearts" open source and linux...
Emacs Org Mode is not even a competition, not many people apart from developers using Linux use it and its not cloud based. Instead One Note is a great competition to Evernote.
Wow! Thanks for this information, this is very cool. Software preservation is a big deal and it's very hard work, so huge kudos to everyone involved.
There is seriously not that big a difference between the reading level of random comments on the internet and the reading level of the New Yorker, or of the average thinkpiece. Self-styled intellectuals love to pretend that they are writing in a sophisticated secret code language, but that hasn't been true since they quit Latin.
I used to use Remember the Milk back in the day, it was pretty good. Their real time syncing across multiple devices was great!
This game is an excellent demonstration of the dehumanizing effects of bureaucratic structure on personal interactions.