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Does anybody else get "Unable to find React on the page" error in private mode in Firefox?
I've been interested in learning more about meditating and Raja yoga meditation specifically. I hesitate to read the book in parent as it seems that Buddhist meditation is focused on love, compassion, empathy or some kind of goal. I don't think the positive emphasis of Buddhism is bad. Rather I've been more interested in "abstraction of the mind" and the general non-religious approach of raja yoga.
(I am sorry if the previous comparisons are naive/incorrect)

I'd love to know of any western oriented books on Raja yoga, however.
I am mostly amazed that Twitter's rule is not simply, "don't harass people". I guess this tweet is an offense specifically because it uses gendered harassment? Is there a list of gender-neutral insults that we can refer to for compliance reasons?
Yes, completely serious. I've enabled it once or twice to see if a site was acting wonky because it was blocked, but it was never the culprit.
Given today’s culture I would think Twitter is doing you a favor. It’s better that you silently delete the post than have it be dug up by angry X and get you fired and ostracized.
Depends on the juristiction. The law of England and Wales, for example, does not have any time limitation for prosecution.
> you can't ignore the software aspect of your job, meaning that you need to understand basic database principles, parallel computing, SQL, etc.

I still find it amazing that so many data scientists I know do not understand basic data software principles. Stuff like distributed vs parallel, database types (NoSQL vs RDBMS), immutability etc.

Madness.
Disney springs to mind immediately. I suppose General Electric counts too?
Those milieus who care most about the environment consistently turn out to have the highest environmental footprint. The point isn't that these people are hypocrites. Maybe they are (who, besides a cynic, isn't to some degree?), maybe they are not. The point is that it doesn't matter at all. People by and large will not alter their behavior in any major way for a common good as long as the individual marginal advantage is dwarfed by the individual marginal cost. Fishers will happily eradicate all fish in their fishing grounds and thus destroy their own livelihood, and will fiercely protest any meaningful regulation aimed at conserving. Consumers will happily fly around the world or commute in a SUV until the planet is doomed.^1

It's just the way it is, lamenting the sinful human nature doesn't change a thing. We need meaningful regulation.

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[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
Seems to me a lot of people are so attached to carculture that they can't even read the article properly.

The author sees all sorts of good things about electric cars. I drive them myself. I love cars. But...

The points the article makes about cars being part of a larger flawed system of urban and rural development are spot on.

'Self-driving' cars will only make this worse.

Even just the excessive prevalence of hard-top surfaces in roads and parking lots leads to environmental catastrophe when flooding begins.

Urban sprawl leads to farmland and natural area destruction.

The car is the ultimate symbol of entitled consumerist individualism, and it is becoming more and more unsustainable.

The net effect of every household being in car(s) with a population as big as we have is really bad, even if all emissions were to be eliminated.

If all the private investment money being dumped into self-driving technology at the moment were public money being put into urban mass transit, just think of what could be accomplished...
Not meaning to be negative or disparaging at all, I admire him and he deserves it all. Vaping seems like a totally over saturated market, was just a little surprised.
Of course, your friends living in HK probably come from the “upper” middle class from China (depends on how old they are, ironically the younger the less likely they arise from lower class). For them it’s dreadful to imagine allowing the vast larger rural and under-educated population to make a decision. I agree though HK people should have a choice Since the scale is too small and people are mostly highly educated
I would also argue that unfettered access to incorrect information is also a massive problem for democracy.
Still feels like it could be an OTA update in a Tesla. The "car world" needs to change and change has begun.
Honestly, a moderator should intervene. What's the point of linking to an article where you can only read 3 lines before paying?
> Let's not pretend that the average human being a century ago spent their days reading avant-guarde literature and complex political essays.

^ this; I get where it's coming from though, because a hundred years ago was a time of huge scientific advancement (Einstein and co), philosophy, politics, etc; these are the things, and these are the thinkers of that age which are still remembered today.

The average joe in the street though, our (great) grandparents, nobody remembers them because they weren't extraordinary, influencers, or whatever - they too enjoyed to indulge in fiction and other such distractions. Einstein and co probably did as well, it's just not something that was mentioned much.

I'm sure that in a hundred years, that generation will idolize / idealize ours as well.
I think he linked it so new readers can see the older comments and get clued in to the conversation. (:

I remember reading In the beginning was the command line back in high school. I liked the comparison with cars. I'm a little sad I never got to use the BeOS that the author so much likens to a batmobile (going from memory). This article even has its own Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Co...

For new readers, I'd also strongly recommend "Mother Earth Mother Board" by the same author, Neal Stephenson. In Mother Earth Mother Board, the author writes about the fiber optic cables that connect us across continents.

Original: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

Previously discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15635028

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8242682
I can't have much experience with dependent types, but I don't see how a compiler could ever tell if zip took two lists of the same length. Don't dependent types happen at run-time? It seems like you would have to solve the halting problem for them to work at compile time.
Absolutely not, but raising yourself above the line of visibility for public office (or in fact, any kind of fame) more or less automatically comes with its share of negatives.

That doesn't justify the toxic behavior at all, it is just a statement about reality. And the rude tweets are the lowest form of that, at the higher levels it turns into physical assault and sometimes even murder attempts and the occasional actual murder.
The thing is that this was 9 years ago. The landscape of what was acceptable back then is completely different from what it is now. Going back in time and banning people for this sort of thing is essentially the same as banning movies from the 60's because they don't show enough women driving cars or men helping out in the kitchen.
>brake discs

Regenerative braking does not have this problem. Although the tyre problem remain.
> It won't be long before the West I hope catches onto the next phase which is learning about Mudras - kind of an accupressure to target certain nerves.

Mudras are awesome! I discovered them accidentally because I'd get spots on my fingers that felt "heavy" and would make me jerk and shiver when touched.

Pressing them can clear the tension, but it's always a temporary relief. If I can shiver then the energy release is much better.

I've tried various mudras but not known what to expect from them, or how best to use them. And never seen an explanation (or anyone else) experiencing what I do.
People also crash all the time. I'd be OK with AI crashing even slightly less than humans. Rabid shock-media and various luddites aren't.
Based on how the prices have been falling recently this seems like a puff piece to try and prevent a full bubble pop. I wouldn't be sad to see them go. There are a lot of sketchy scams around "mystery box" sales that are essentially unlicensed unregulated lotteries. I suspect that some YouTube personalities are complicit in the scams. The language used on many pop sites is masterfully devious https://popcollectorsalliance.com/resources/whats-a-grail-wh...
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2008 wasn't even before the iPhone, so even if that (wrong) cutoff for “smartphone” is used, the claim doesn't make sense.
Toxic behavior happens on every level of society and to every occupation. Being a politician doesn’t automatically make toxic behavior towards you—it was always okay towards you! That’s how the world works.

However, when you become a public figure and especially a political one people may feel more entitled to lash out against you, as you literally hold power over their lives, even if they themselves may disagree with you (as in, voted for someone else or the like.)
> You can return back to the previous statements in any decent debugger

That's a bit of a stretch. What debuggers are /you/ using?
Types can’t encode the specification fully, or require a lot of work to encode a specification (so most people will skip this work).

The simplest example is very common banking and e-commerce logic which is basically a series of checks in the form:

if <some piece of data retrieved at runtime at that particular moment> is consistent with <multiple other pieces whose number and relevance depends on that data retrieved at runtime from potentially multiple sources>.
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I don't think what's keeping "ordinary men and women" from becoming politicians is the toxicity public figures are exposed to, considering a lot of "ordinary men and women" (but particularly women, gender-non-conforming men and PoC, especially if they're trans) get the same or worse on a daily basis on social media.

If you look at the careers and upbringing of most high-ranking politicians, I doubt the most obvious distinction to common folk would be particular thick skin -- heck, the sitting POTUS isn't exactly thick skinned and that's arguably the most publicly exposed office in the world.

Hint: it's wealth. The distinction is coming from wealth and having connections with wealthy people who supply you with funding and influence.
All good points. I was considering something like your bond scenario as an example of obfuscation. E.g., a company can fund dividend payouts through debt mechanisms, fooling the uninitiated into thinking they are more profitable than they really are
If your mental models are largely rooted in a modern medical model where you just add drugs to treat the symptoms, then it's easy to assume dietary changes work basically like taking a different medication. But that's not what my mental models are rooted in and I've previously seen things that recommend seaweed for various issues.

I don't personally consume seaweed, so I don't recall the details off the top of my head. But I have reason to believe that seaweed does more than just mitigate gas production.

Dietary changes are inherently hard to track because you basically can't isolate them. If you eat 2000 calories a day and you introduce a new food, it simultaneously displaces some other food you were eating. So it inherently has confounding factors. Are you doing better because of the new good you introduced? Or because if removing some other food that you aren't even paying attention to?

Foods are also not one dimensional. So you may think it's helping because of X detail but it's really helping for an unrelated reason.

I started with taking supplements. Taking supplements allows you to isolate a single factor and learn how your body reacts to more of X thing while the rest of your diet stays the same.

It takes a lot of research to find a bioavailable supplement that is tolerated well by the person in question and contains only one ingredient. So no multivitamins allowed.

Then you start one and only one supplement at a time. You take it for a minimum of one week before making any other changes.

Once you've learned what impact specific supplements have, it eventually becomes feasible to say "I need more of X nutrient, so I'm going to eat more of x, y and z foods which are foods I know I tolerate well and have a reasonable amount of the nutrient I'm needing."

Anything that actually makes a difference will have side effects. With a nutritional or dietary approach, the amount one needs is a moving Target because as nutrient deficiencies are redressed, need eventually goes down, which people tend to not expect when coming from the mental models offered by modern medicine of "just add drugs (don't think about throughputs or systemic changes at all).

My initial assertion was only that it's reasonable to wonder if this might benefit human health. I stand by that and I feel this line of inquiry is tangential to that assertion. It's not actually some kind of rebuttal of that point.
I believe this is exactly what op refers to as social cohesion.
I am still puzzled why my Twitter account was locked a few years ago. I tried to ask the people at Twitter to show me the problematic Tweet for 2 times, but never got a response. I did post some kind-of right wing stuff regarding immigration and such, but none of it offensive. And certainly not using rude language as the person in the link did in his nine year old Tweet.

In the end I just gave up on Twitter. Sad, cause I liked to use it mainly for myself, to follow some people that interest me and to keep a kind of "bookmarks on my thoughts".
> entrepreneur

Tried that many times, albeit without any relevant education.
> Reducing urban car ownership rates is a good thing, if nothing else it'll result in cleaner city air.

Maybe not if ownership is just replaced with higher Uber/Lyft usage.
Who decided that whiteboard interviews are inferior to takehome assignments?

Personally, I've hired many great candidates, and got several great jobs, via whiteboard interviews. It's not perfect but it's far superior to takehomes, which are completely one-sided, very hard to get right (by the recruiting company), and often are boring.

Whiteboard interviews and (even better) pair-programming with an interviewer are reciprocal and allow me as a candidate to learn about the company rather than just do some work for them for free. Often the tasks are more interesting too.

In my opinion, it is the takehome tasks that are "doomed". Their premise is flawed: "we don't want to invest an hour of our engineers' time in talking you worthless candidate, so we'll instead have you spend several hours coding up a task that our engineers will never take the time to check properly, since their time is more valuable."

In my opinion, the future is platforms interviewing.io, where candidates are vetted and top candidates get the minimal investment of an hour of the company's engineer time to pair-program, which is far superior and more reliable way of screening.
All very good answers!

For the second one I feel that a combination of scientific curiosity and altruism would be enough for most AIs up to the weakly godlike level to keep us around.

For the third, I don't think continuity can be a significant factor in identity, because even we as meat-humans don't experience it, and given the possibility of physically-indistinguishable duplicates, it leans on Cartesian dualism. Also once we can upload our mind to a data file, it does weird things to a whole bunch of current morals which are based on the scarcity of any given human mind.
YouTube's changes to monetization didn't come out of nowhere - they were a response to the adpocalypse of 2017, when as much as 40% of advertisers stopped using the platform. These advertisers (perfectly reasonably) feared a backlash if their ads appeared next to the wrong sort of videos, so they just pulled their money. There was an outcry by YouTube content creators, so YouTube took sensible and proportionate steps to make the platform more attractive to advertisers without stifling free speech.

Savvy YouTubers (especially those who produce content that could be perceived as controversial) have taken control of their own revenues through sponsorship and patronage. YouTube doesn't have a business model problem - YouTubers do. You can't expect a platform to sell such vast amounts of ad inventory while also judging each piece of content in a nuanced fashion. That's the devil's bargain of algorithmic advertising and it isn't going away. If you don't like that bargain, sell your own damned inventory, or cut advertisers out of the loop completely and ask your viewers to make a direct contribution.
Windows CE phones were significantly worse than simply trying to use a Nokia 3210. They were very much a false start.
> This is not in fact out of spec. The JSON spec does not define semantics [...] for what to do about ordering of objects.

What? It is literally on the first page of json.org and section 1 of RFC 7159 [1]

> An object is an unordered set of name/value pairs.

> An object is an unordered collection of zero or more name/value pairs

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-1
What source code files you happen to put declarations and definitions in has nothing to do with functional purity.

Think of it this way:

An array append function which adds an element to the input array is not purely functional.

An array append function which returns a new array with the new element appended is purely functional.

The same function applied to the same input will always return the same value, and won't cause that to break for any other functions.

Of course, this makes things such as IO tricky and yo ideally want to minimize and isolate the places where this happens on a lower level.

Haskell solves this with monads, which we have seen is a big hurdle for many developers. I personally think Idris's effect system[0] is a lot easier to deal with, but would be curious to see other approaches.

[0]: http://docs.idris-lang.org/en/latest/effects/index.html
If they wanted to do any of this, why are they only posting while getting paid, lying about who they are (many accounts have various different names used), and have limited guidelines on what they can say?
Why is the embodied carbon in the manufacture of the car the same in all the energy mix scenarios? Surely quite a lot of electricity is used in manufacturing electric vehicles.

Also, solutions that rely on substantially reconfiguring living patterns - moving from driving-required suburbs to walkable communities also have large embodied carbon costs. It's all well and good to say that suburbs are energy inefficient but the US has a lot of them already built.
> The fact you think your anecdotal evidence means anything is puzzling though.

It's not evidence. This isn't a peer-reviewed paper, this is an internet chat board. I'm also troubled that although my anecdotal isn't allowed, a comedy show video is 'evidence'.

I'm also not denying that Amazon treat their employers badly. What I'm saying is why the agenda towards Amazon in particular. Many people work in awful jobs but the media just ignores these.

Worst of all, when people who work for Amazon dare to say "it's not all bad", people like you tell them that they're wrong. When I was younger I worked some pretty awful jobs, but often it's people who have never worked jobs like this that think they know best.
Cite needed. Also types of pollution matter. Do brakes & tires contribute to climate change or to the PM2.5?

Yes we need to move towards more sustainable transport (mass transit) and reduce the overall load but EVs don’t hamper this movement.
Yes, of course this is the limits, not everything requires absolute concentration. And conversation quickly passes that simple threshold.
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I still use xv to open images from the command line. Its like muscle memory.
So much so in fact, that it is often used endearingly among friends or when praising someone's skill at something.

Source: am Australian, live in the US, had to stop saying it except when on discord with friends back home.
Yes, I remember my local supermarket had 'recommended' products that were marked like they were specials, but were not actually discounted at all. I appreciated the business logic, but basically stopped shopping there.
I think the methane is already there (having been produced a long time ago), just under ground. I could be mistaken. But even then I'm not sure how those algae would help ...
facepalm I have blog posts from 2001 that make me cringe that I keep up purely to show that I've changed considerably in 18 years.

When James Gunn was fired from Guardians for something he said in a tweet years before I was dumbfounded. Now Twitter is actively policing old posts?!

People change, nations change. Violent criminals can become bastions of peace and philanthropy. Why is society, or a company, persecuting people for tweets that are years old. If someone says something awful today, deal with it, but 9 years ago?! If there's an offensive 9 year old tweet, delete it and send the user an email saying their tweet was deleted for violating such and such policy but locking an account 9 years after the fact?!
This is silly. The age of the internet started when my uncle asked me if I had "electronic mail" yet, not when it was invented and not several years later when my high tech company went from modems and Usenet to fully connected. Similarly, the "age of the smartphone" started when they became ubiquitous, not when people figured out how to get email on their Blackberry.
> Not for users with a US keyboard

Install a proper keymap.
I think Twitter should delete everything older than XX days old, where XX is a number on the order of 15 or 30. The kind of heavily context-dependent short form throwaway expression the site is built for and actively encourages does not age well, and an auto-delete policy that emphasizes that would make the site better and cheaper to operate.
You can see this false hope expressed all the time in media articles that assume that we will just electrify all the cars with no other changes to how we do transportation. That hope is why we are told how important it is to get chargers absolutely everywhere, that charging needs to be fast and how important it is that electric cars have the same range as petroleum cars.

The thing is, cities don't want any sort of cars these days. So in most cases the type of energy used to propel a car is beside the point and a lot of this discussion doesn't matter any more.