skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Vipassana" is an annoyingly-ambiguous term.

It refers to a particular style of meditation, as taught by a particular teacher and his acolytes - a form of no-self insight mediation, based on a systematic examination of all the things that might constitute a self. It also refers generally to "insight" meditation, where "insight" might depend on whether you are training in a mahayana or hinayana tradition (in hinayana, it's insight into no-self, in mahayana, it's insight into emptiness). It might refer to silent but discursive reflection, based on instructions; or it might be a concept-free state of "resting the mind", arising spontaneously from various kinds of shamatha/samatha (broadly, mental calming) exercises. No doubt the the term also has divergent meanings in other Indian practice traditions.

So why a 10-day vipassana course, rather than (say) a nine-day course? Is it a particular brand of "vipassana" that you are suggesting? In what respect is it a "course" - do you get a certificate at the end? Is there a test?

The particular style of meditation referred to in the article is one I've never heard of before; BWV, or "Brain Wave Vibration". Oh dear, that sounds suspiciously like woo, so I'll google it.

Hmmm. Apart from this NIH paper, I can't find anything about BWV that doesn't reek of hype or woo. Why did the researchers choose this particular obscure style of meditation? Judging by their names, it seems that many of the researchers are Korean. Perhaps BWV was invented by some Korean sect derived from buddhism. As far as I can tell, BWV is really a form of guided shamatha, incorporating physical movement. That's not unusual; both shamatha and vipassana are often performed while walking (saves leg stiffness from long periods of sitting). Calling it "yoga" doesn't help much; that's an even looser term than "vipassana". In both buddhist and shaivite traditions, all types of meditation are forms of yoga ("yoga" in Sanskrit just means "union" - or "yoke", like the wooden apparatus that unites two cattle for ploughing work).

I'm aware that various styles of meditation have been productised and commercialised over the last couple of decades, and are now marketed for profit to knowledge-workers, executives and the like (i.e. suckers with not much time, but with money to burn). I'm deeply suspicious of these trends. If meditation costs anything, it costs time.

Personal declaration: for about 30 years I used to do a lot of meditation in a buddhist tradition, but I think I've fully recovered from all that now.
I have a USBC to as card reader. I don't expect my camera to edit photos. Perhaps that's too much hassle for some but it works well for me. You can also transfer wirelessly.

It has a 24mp sensor and a 28mm equiv so you don't have the three lenses bit with crop zoom it's pretty versatile.

It does have a touch screen if you want that. (Never really wanted this myself)

It has a built in ND filter. My camera has this too and it's a feature I really value. (large aperture in bright daylight and long exposures etc)

It's cheaper.

️ I think choosing a camera is a really personal decision. Only you know how your factors rank. Better for me might be worse for you (e.g. no touchscreen please)
> I didn't get the feeling that it has to be 4 diagrams and I pick and choose myself.

Correct. I get the feeling that most teams using the C4 model tend to stick to the top two levels - System Context and Containers (these levels also "age" slower than the others too).
I don't think the argument is "you can't ship succesfull game with GC"

You might spend more time fighting the GC than benefitting from it. And that seems to be the experience for large games - simpler ones might not care.

Unity offers a lot more than just a language, and developers have to choose, are they willing to put up with GC to get the rest of what Unity offers.
So am I! But I try to be considerate of others by looking things up myself rather than asking questions that could be easily Googled.
>- eBay are supremely uninterested in being an unbiased arbiter of disputes.

It's not just eBay though, it's also the credit card companies. You can't escape this by switching platforms.
I highly recommend the book (Jumbo: The Making of the Boeing 747). One of the best "how succesfull engineering is really done" books I have ever read.
Shamoon
Ten minutes?? U.K. trains will be open at the station for less less than a minute and a half at the most and that’s plenty. Tube trains will dwell for only 20 seconds and often less - but then that’s because you have 30+ per hour
Thank you. That's exactly why I avoid bothering people. Sure I might take 5mn to find out on my own, but I don't think it's worth saving 2mn if I'm taking up 3mn of somebody else's time, the total time wasted increases and now I'm involving innocents.
I spent a year on that island in 2010/2011. There has never been a time where there weren't research personnel at the station since the 50s. It's very hard to believe a nuclear test would be carried out without concern for the safety of the overwintering team or without anybody noticing.
Presumably those who meditate to "quiet their minds" are also seeking to drive out remembrance of a scent or feeling, innate thought-feelings (like confusion that's internal to the brain), imagery, and all the other ponderable facets the brain creates?

Why not say "seeing movies" or "feeling emotions" or "imagining smells" or whatever form a specific thought might take though? Seems weird to only consider vocal thoughts.

There are other aspects to thoughts too, like links and non-picturable things that one seems to grasp but aren't present in a sense-based way -- for example a "hypercube that smells of snozzberries", you can't see it, it's not making a sound that you've heard before, the smell is not something you know, etc., but to some extent you still behold it.
Ask HN: Is the UI/UX in sci-fi usable?
Primarily asking UI/UX specialists. All those gestures and spoken words like in The Expanse seem quite tedious.
For the price it has, you could as well buy an iPad Pro, which will do literally anything the ReMarkable will do, but better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLA_(software_architecture)
Are you saying that Wayland doesn’t not only run on Nvidia, it’s also buggy as hell?
> I realize that the UNIX philosophy (everything is a file) is dead

Was it ever alive? As far as I know lo0, eth0 and others where never accessible as a file interface and we still rely on them. Is there something to gain to give them a name on the filesystem?
#1: depends on your scenario. Postgres is more like Oracle--there are types of query it can do natively that would have to be externally assisted with MySQL. MySQL is simpler, has all kinds of warts, but scales decently.

Here's why uber moved to MySQL:
https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/

#2-4: My use of SQLite has always been very basic, so no idea. Per SQLite's author: "SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen()."
> The only solution would be some kind of an insurance.

If the scammer is in the UK, there's always small claims court. I'm not even from the UK, and I got a scamming seller from there to refund me by just threatening to make a claim.
In Germany when a machine is released a softwaresafety/electrical, mechanical engineer and CEO have to sign for the safety of that machine.
Variously I've heard those who work on brains (physically and mentally) say that locating function in a particular area is akin to Phrenology and has no place in modern scientific understanding of the brain. As an outsider that seemed wrong as brain functions are always described in pop science as being located strongly, but presumably the individual brain's adaptations make this something that can't be generalised too broadly?
Social credit score? You mean like china?....
What a delightful little article.
>They do not have the ability to compel people to surrender to unlimited search

They dont? Says who? Who the heck do you think will have power to do whatever they want whenever they want?

You think the 1% will distribute wealth and power fairly and evenly?

Governments are in place to democratically do this. If you think the 1% wouldn't kill you in a heartbeat take a look at world history or some dictatorships today.

You really have no idea what you're even saying.
The vegans of the programming community.
I’m ok with it, everything isn’t a file.
Rust United Strike Team would have a better acronym.
Nicotine withdrawal lasts about 72 hours - you'd be over it by the third day of a ten-day retreat.

But I recommend Champix/varenicline. It works.
You'd think that... but apparently not.

Worked at a factory many years ago (early 90s) where we supplied a union shop with parts. UAW was trying to unionize our plant, and management flipped its shit and went on the warpath. Prior to that I was really not pro-union, despite my father having been a UAW member and drilling into my head the times when the union kept the company from dicking people around.

They showed their true colors loud and clear, but people still voted against the union. Despite all evidence to the contrary, they had people convinced that they were each and every one high performing employees who'd be held back by things like standard pay scales and agreements on overtime, etc.

Sadly by that time I wasn't at the shop to vote anymore, because I was fired for speaking up against random drug testing. (Technically, I was fired for a "willful work stoppage" after coming back from lunch fifteen minutes late despite company policy saying you had 3 strikes in, IIRC, 90 days for being late to or back to work. It just happened to coincide with making noise about the brand new random drug policy introduced right around the time the UAW started trying to organize the shop.)

I get that the UAW and other unions have their problems, but I wish people would work more on fixing those problems than giving up on the idea of unions. The older I get, and the more corporate bullshit I see, the more I believe we need more organized labor and not less.
Social media sites act on NHS call for greater online protection
multicore is still getting developed. you can watch the repo at https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/ocaml-multicore
I'm only judging by results and facts. You're talking in vague terms and not citing any facts. Did you even bother to look at the biggest recipients of Gates Foundation donations? A lot of the money he's donated has gone to the World Health Organization, which is exactly the policy makers and deliberative body you're asking him to go through. A lot of Gates Foundation orgs are transparent, and the orgs they donate too are often international NGO or GOs like the WHO.

Gates Foundation Donations:

$2.6 billion to GAVI, global vaccine alliance

$2.2 billion to WHO

$1.3 billion to United Negro College Fund

$800 million to Unicef

$700 million to global AIDS and Malaria foundations

$500 million to John Hopkins University

$500 million to global tuberculosis org

I don't see any facts posted that quantify what the Gates Foundation is doing, how money is being distributed, or how many people have been helped. I've just posted some.

I mean good lord, the UN/WHO has some figures on this:

450 million mosquito nets given out due to Gates

Near eradication of Guinea worm thanks to Carter Center, whose major benefactor is Gates (3.5 million infections eliminated)

7.3 million people got anti-retroviral AIDS treatment thanks to Gates funding

12 million people got TB testing from Gates Foundation funding

500 million children vaccinated by GAVI

24 million women got access to family planning thanks to Gates

You're making all sorts of claims that Gates does not work with policy makers. Really? Bill Gates rolodex does not include the ability to dial up and talk to practically any diplomat or government official in the world? You don't think Gates Org talks with with international health officials or local governments and they're just going cowboy everywhere?

What's the evidence?

Some people voted down my comments, but none of them provided ANY information to back up claims that the Gates foundation is doing something wrong, that they haven't been effective. About the only claim with any weight at all is the dispute about the efficacy of charter schools, but that runs into an ideological debate about how the school system and teaching should work and there opinions widely differ. Far more damage to the educational system has been done by the existing policy makers.
> any software architecture modeling model that relegates dynamic behavior to a 'supplementary' status is suboptimal

Another explanation is that the static structure diagrams are what give the C4 model its name: Context, Containers, Components, and Code. These diagrams existed for a number of years, before the addition of the other diagram types, which themselves supplement the static structure diagrams.

That said, I don't find myself using the dynamic diagram type all that often. For software systems of any size/scale, I'm not going to create dynamic diagrams for every use case/user story/feature/etc. Instead, I'll use dynamic diagrams sparingly to describe overall patterns in use, significant use cases only, or complicated sets of interactions between things.

To prevent the issues you mention about overlooking issues, especially when doing any up front design, I recommend "dry-running" the significant usage scenarios across the static structure diagrams and/or running a risk identification exercise (e.g. risk-storming). Or you could use a formal architecture evaluation technique.
Law of large populations and the 2016 presidential election [pdf]
Thats why the politicians and there henchmen need more secret powers to middle man facebook, doh i mean, police facebook, you know, just in case the Russians and the Chinese are influencing your vote for trump
> My european take on this: governments are the only entities that can keep companies in check.

What do you mean by "keeping in check?" What evil would companies do otherwise?
I specifically bought only NVIDIA GPUs because they were faster under Linux when I got them.
Except display text on an e-ink reflective screen. They're fundamentally different for most people.
With LibreTime it's also possible to stream in Opus and AAC+v2 so you can get decent quality on 48kbit.
This is very bad and dangerous advice. Please don’t try to learn and practice advanced energy arts from books and the internet. At best you will waste your time, at worst you will mess yourself up.

Source: 15 years of practice under instruction of a master.
The headline is pretty click-baity but the overall idea seems good to me.

I think a way of describing this in brief would be that - well - the world is super fuzzy. From a distance it's easy to characterize problems on a statistical level. But that very rapidly leads to gameable outcomes.

I think a good approach to this is to basically do a small amount in a large number of places. You can think of it as a sort of diversification / risk reduction. Not only is this likely to lead to better outcomes overall, it's also more psychologically satisfying and interesting I think because you get to learn about issues you wouldn't otherwise have considered.

The human scale is usually best I think. Outside of charitable endeavours people like to tunnel vision on stuff like GDP, employment figures, whatever. But all of these things are just metrics for what we really care about which is a healthy world, with healthy communities, that people feel safe, secure, and able to exist peacefully within.
Really great!
Too bad there isn't Street View available everywhere :(
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/why-bother-with-what-three-...
Open-source companies gather to gripe: Cloud giants sell our code as a service
Better as in "distract you" and for sure not better when it comes to writing and preventing taking care of your eyes
https://www.savetheredwoods.org/project/alder-creek/
Feel free to file an issue. That could cause correctness issue in Ristretto as of today.
It's been in development for more than 5 years and looks a bit like a boondoggle though, as the goal is not just to remove the GIL and provide "native threads" but

> use algebraic effects to compose concurrency and supports parallelism through domains and incremental GC. Rather than adding a specific multicore scheduler into the runtime system, we’re providing the minimum required toolset in the form of pluggable schedulers.
They manage to put "take advantage of modern hardware" and "fits in a floppy disk" in the same sentence. Nostalgic feelings right now.
An AI learned to play hide-and-seek. Strategies it came up with were astounding
Aside:

>sila (morality, but not in Abrahimic sense) //

Would you care to expand on that, specifically the "not in [the] Abrahimic sense" part. I'm not particularly familiar with Buddhist teaching of what morality is but it sounds from wikipedia as if there is a large overlap in form to Abrahamic teaching.

What would you say are the main differences?
It was during the workday for a whole lot of people. Leaving work for it makes it a strike of sorts.
> fMRI was 21% more likely to detect a lie than the polygraph.

20% more likely than polygraph isn't very inspiring though. their success rate is abysmal.
The most common jobs in the US are largely, indeed, roles that would call “dead-end jobs”:

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/area_emp_chart/area_emp_char...
Their PR really is amazing. They replied to a tweet of mine criticising them within 10 minutes. They of course didn't actually respond to my criticism.
Low turnout happens exactly because there is no transparent, understandable and visible feedback between voters decision and government actions. Direct democracy provides this kind of feedback: all laws or measures voted in have to be implemented in specific timeframes, and reported back to voters. It is OK to have 10% turnout for a measure that affects only 10% of population (our laws are fine-grained), for more polarizing issues the turnout is usually much higher.
Oh - I didn't mention "mindfulness". This is a term that's nowadays widely used in therapy and treatment situatiuons; it's also heavily commercialised and branded.

When I was taught mindfulness, it was initially mindfulness of breathing; a way of calming the mind. A while later I realised it was a basic part of the buddhist approach to morality; how can your action be correct if you have no idea what you are doing? - So I was taught to become mindful in everything - cooking, programming, walking, listening etc.

Mindfulness in programming seems to be very difficult!

The "mindfulness" that therapists use seems to be a form of shamatha (calming the mind), specifically mindfulness of breathing, usually with spoken guidance from the facilitator (after all, they have to do something to earn their fee).
> decreased overhead for the practical lessons by a lot.

What do they mean by that?
no e-ink though
I was thinking about buying it, because the stylus seemed to be much better than the one from the Sony DPT-RP1. However, I decided to buy the DPT-RP1 mainly for its size (13" is just perfect to read papers and taking notes!).

The writing experience of the DPT-RP1 is not great, but I have been using it for almost a year now and would never go back. The amount of paper that I have laying around at work now is minimal. I have created a virtual printer to just sent whatever file I am reading to the DPT-RP1.

Although there is no official support for Linux there is a very good python API developed by some guy, which works perfectly. Color e-ink would be nice to have for the next version, but I'm ok if only the stylus gets an upgrade.
I don't understand why they won't run a platform car on the back of the trains and sell tickets as a super-premium class. It'd be the most profitable seats on the train because of what you'd charge for the experience, much like how the few 1st class seats on an jet earns the airline more than the entire economy class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5xtGGsTc

Sure, the product is basically the same - a ride from Point A to Point B. But if you offer a private dining room, an observation lounge, a steward who attends to just you and 3 other cabins, you can charge way more than an economy seat.

By only focusing on the "Point A to Point B" aspects, they're entering a downward financial spiral.
Probably not a lot, I did a V6 port in the early 80s, from memory porting the compiler was most of the work, V6 was probably a couple of months. The MMU is easy, it's a swapping port, the only real weirdness is the context switch which assumes a lot about what the compiler is doing, v7 got that much more right
I agree it is overpriced just like every large form factor e-ink reader has been (likely unavoidable due to it being a niche product), but there are at least a few things that it does better than an iPad pro.

Note that I'm not saying its better in general than an iPad Pro, because overall its not. The iPad does way more, but that's besides the point because this is a device with a very specific purpose.

The most obvious advantage is the paperlike screen that reduces eye strain. Not everyone wants an e-ink screen, but for those to whom it is important, the iPad's screen isn't an acceptable alternative.

The next advantage is battery life. It isn't as good as a kindle, but its better than an iPad Pro by a long shot.

The other advantage is weight.
I use this for reading and annotating papers. It's great for that use case thanks to the large screen and auto-crop feature of the PDF reader, but the writing experience, while very good, isn't good enough to replace a real notebook.

Also it's a bit too heavy to hold one-handed while reading on a couch.
Minsky’s ‘society of mind’ is pretty much this. :)
You might be interested in “Antiphilosophical Dictionary”.

Downloadable PDF from this page: http://www.naur.com/
Attaching rewards to karma encourages karma whoring.
And a good 10 day Kubernetes retreat.
Personally I also preferred the ‘Everything is an object’ from the lisp machines.
However, I also believe that files are an acceptable object format, since if several applications know how to manipulate a file format, it’s basically duck typing.

I believe file systems could have a more formal method to query the file’s format, and has less latency so that applications could use files as an inter communication format.
I am actually wondering to see I buy one. Here is some links that I find interesting to consider before buying (some of those do answer some previous comments) :

* Here is a [previous occurrence on HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16321531).

* Here is a ["curated list of (code) projects related to the reMarkable tablet"](https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable).

* Here is a [framework](https://github.com/canselcik/libremarkable) for "developing applications with native refresh support for Remarkable Tablet " (with a growing Rust APi if you fancy that).

Some notes :

* As you will see by exploring some the links, the tablet is Linux-based so it is definitely possible to piggy-back on some API (see https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable#apis for examples)

* A bunch of alternative synchronization tools have already been implemented (see https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable#cloud-tools)

* The company seems really attached to software updates to improve the device (see https://blog.remarkable.com/).

* From all above, I think that the device could reach a critical mass of adoption and blossom in uses and third-party development but only if enough people engage with the device. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well, the case you are talking about is a few tiny villages who decided that they could keep their "tradition" way into modernity, but even they yielded to the pressure of the rest of the Swiss society.
Microsoft App Helps Learn New Language with Computer Vision
So everyone in the North-East facing apartments in my apartment building have the same address?