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Poudle Mindfulness app is the result of meditating in buddhist monasteries using the mantra chanting technique of meditation.

Buddhist monks were seen to chant a work or a sentence continuously helping them focus and become mentally stable

Following which we created a tool that allows people to access these sounds and meditate upon, using our app at any place, any time of the day. We recently did a launch on AppSumo as well(link below)

Link- https://poudle.com
Podcast- https://anchor.fm/poudle-musings
AppSumo Launch- https://appsumo.com/poudle-mindfulness/
> Self esteem devoid of any underlying achievement is hollow. In the end you're basically manufacturing narcissists, with a fragile falsely inflated self image covering a chasm of insecurity.

Precisely.

At the same time, I think that social connections divorced from physical reality -- as is on the Internet -- compound this to the nth degree.

I can pretend to be an amazing dancer or boxer or chef on Facebook, but it's a very different thing when I need to demonstrate those skills as part of a community that actually Does That Thing.

To provide an example, I recall a few years back, at a dance social, meeting some kid from the Air Force that was an excellent case-study. He showed up, started dancing with partners, and it was obvious from the first (music) sentence in the first song that he simply did not know how to dance.

At all.

Like, when experienced dancers come from other styles, you can tell that they know how to dance. Maybe not this specific style, but they've got fundamentals. Ballerinas are particularly graceful, Latin dancers have a really specific flavor, ballroom people have really great structure, etc.

This dude was not a dancer.

Now, this is okay! The first rule of social dancing is that you want to welcome new dancers. But he was rude to every person that tried to help him out with picking up the basics, insisting that he was already a great dancer and that he didn't need the help.

Falsely inflated self-image, meet room full of follows that aren't interested in having their feet crushed.

Don't know what happened to him after that, but imagine if his bubble had never faced critique -- and this was from a community that bent over backwards to be nice to newcomers.
> Coinbase Card is available for customers in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. We’re working on expanding the offer to additional markets.

Seems only relevant to EU and UK
While Flutter makes text selection an explicit choice for developers, Text vs SelectableText, for some reason Text ended up being most used. This is likely because SelectableText came after Text and because of Flutter's mobile background. Most mobile apps use non-selectable text, and so this ended up on Flutter developers' default path.

I personally expect this trend to continue, as in most desktop native apps text is not selectable either. In fact, in many web apps (those that are really _apps_, not just static web-sites) there's lots on non-selectable text. Case in point, I just checked Gmail's landing screen, and I failed to find a single piece of selectable text.
It is one advantage to mailpatch though. A lack of vendor lock-in means you can view the patch using whatever application you want. And there's room for a better mailpatch viewer, if anyone could be bothered to make one.

I'm guessing one disadvantage is the method of diff is hard-coded into the patch. It would be good to switch to word-diff, or ignore whitespace, but I'd imagine these could be applied as transformations on the generic format.
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OP called out "skyscrapers". What counts as the precise cutoff for "tall buildings" is always going to be a matter of opinion.

But I live in Cambridge, MA and I can assure you Somerville would remain one of the densest cities in the union if every last building therein was lopped down to 3 stories by a giant lawnmower.
How is “the Bill of Rights, high trust, and rule of law” doing any lifting? You have to vote for people to implement those things.

Ideally you’d have a well educated populace and a functional media to make sure the best people get elected though... Is there a better system for making politicians accountable to citizens?
Probably a decent ROI when these efforts are successful
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This is interesting, as IIRC another YC alum had a (non-YC) startup that failed that did almost exactly this (which shut down a while ago) - a marketplace of interviewers that recorded stories from older family members. Dunno if you've connected with him or not but seems like it could be worthwhile to chat
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You misunderstand Gray and somehow believe him to hold the exact specific position that he's arguing against, namely, the humanism of Dawkins/Pinker/Chomsky. You can't get this from the article above, but read other books he's written, or listen to any of his talks on youtube. He's not a humanist and he's anti-enlightenment. His entire claim to fame is that he rejects the humanist idea of progress despite "minor setbacks".
There's no "but". You feeling that I'm "just wrong" is what disagreement is. You don't have to drag Kafka into it. He's got better things to do.
Sure, but the attacks done for revenue reasons would be classified as profit-motivated rather than terrorism. The attacks done for fear would be classified as terrorism. Ransomware attacks are known for having responsive and helpful support people, because they want a reputation for promptly decrypting the data when the payment is given.
Fascinating! I wonder if the pulse is strong enough to show up on phone accelerometers. Would make for a nice project to be able to clean up the signal and try to pick up the pattern.
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Rebuilt? Why?

Do you read the code of conduct when you attend a conference? Personally, I haven't even read the code of conduct for my job, and certainly wouldn't read one if I was speaking at or attending a conference.

The CoCs are completely unnecessary and, as shown in this example, arbitrarily enforced. In the blog post I read that their CoC prohibits threats and assaults. Consider how silly that is. If someone's threatening you or sexually assaulting you you're going to go the police, not report them for a code of conduct violation.

Likewise, for more mundane stuff, it's all common sense. Don't be obnoxious, rude, make people uncomfortable, etc. If you are doing that, they'll ask you to leave and ban you from future attendance if it's severe. You shouldn't need a CoC to know that and they don't need one to do it.

Consider something that's not covered by their CoC. Maybe I bring my pet skunk with me and they don't have a provision about skunks in their CoC. Are they now powerless? No, they're going to do what's sensible and ask me to not have the skunk, and if I say "Your code of conduct doesn't prohibit skunks" they're going to ask me to leave.

Codes of conduct are silly. They create these dumb regulations and committees for no real reason and create the apparatus for mistakes like these.

I'm actually shocked that Jeremy supported and still supports codes of conduct. He seems like a smart guy and they're obviously a bad idea.
Lots of pearl clutching about lobbying here simply because it's being done by a state?

Wyoming has a population smaller than Luxembourg, of course it's going to be sockpuppeted by special interests.
Zettlr is a Zettelkasten tool that has great bibtex and Zotero integration [1].

[1] https://docs.zettlr.com/en/academic/citations/
It absolutely changes the meaning. Perhaps, in some cultures or subcultures, showing humility has a weakening effect but I tend to avoid those places nowadays, or at least push back on them.

...I think [and am willing to be proven wrong.]
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> The slide deck could have just said "We don't want to pay $10/unit for a Qt license"

Qt has it's share of problems too. And someone is free to decide against depending on an oracle-like company.

> If you have half a gig of SDRAM and a playstation-class CPU, awesome.

Flutter is AOT compiled in release mode and is pretty efficient.
Wow, that’s wild. That makes for one tough game of “would you rather”!
No, WiMAX service in Japan was ended. Currently a service called "WiMAX 2+" is operated by same operator, but it's actually just a TD-LTE, zero compatible to WiMAX.
"Unfortunately “anti-racism” has been weaponized as a shortcut for silencing anyone who may at one point have said something that could be interpreted as racist or even not anti-racist enough. No thanks.
Rather be labeled as a racist and keep my free speech than silenced by some mob authority."

This kind of comment was not surprising to find in your history's first page.
org-rifle may be better for searching org notes, because it searches for multiple words occuring in individual notes which is more efficient than simple line-base grepping:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24916536
I don't think anonymity is THE core value; it's more of an added advantage. (I'm looking to the Bitcoin white paper, where anonymity is given one mention, under the tenth heading) The core value is removing custodians (which of course, storing your money at Coinbase or another exchange violates that value)
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You always reap what you sow.
If it's a fake ransomware then yeah that's probably terrorism. If it's fake it's obviously not done for profit. I'm referring to actual ransomware that works, that's done for profit.

> On a more theoretical level, it's certainly possible to do both at the same time, two birds with one stone.

I'm not sure how well that would work. Ransomware generally has responsive and helpful support people, because without that it will be hard to convince victims to pay. If they spend their time instilling fear instead of confidence in the payment process, then no one will pay.
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Maybe the main issue here is that while SPAs make life so much better - proper testing, immutability, one way data bindings, speed of development... - for frontenders, they make it worse for absolutely everyone else: backenders that were able to hack a passable frontend or modify a proper one; final users that deal with bigger and slower webpages; devices struggling to render websites; backends that now need way more CPU to do SRR then they ever needed with traditional websites; beginners that were able to look at the HTML & CSS of a page...
IIRC only the AppImage works properly on Linux. Snap and Flatpak give trouble for many users.
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This suggests hugo is being used
Just wanted to say thank you for one of the most informative comments of the thread. Carry on.
What a lovely playground indeed, nice work. Played pretty long with it
Great story! I really admire those who dare to make such bold move. I also feel sorry for those who did similar things but failed and ended up as a forgotten tragedy. They are all heroes.
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It’s only $250k per year, they can’t possibly be accomplishing that much with that money. 1 to 4 full time salaries?
why would people pay to watch? and a 45% platform fee? that's highway robbery.
Something about downloading dependencies at runtime, rather than build time, seems less safe, but in either case, you still have to download them, so maybe not.
It's a well known theory but it's most likely false[1], though there are several words imported to Japan via Portuguese that have long remained, such as the word for England, イギリス, which comes from the Portuguese for English (people), Ingles, which drives me a bit potty as it's used now to refer to the whole of the UK and I have trouble trying to distinguish England from Scotland et al when speaking with Japanese people.

Ironically, "Japan" is from an old Chinese word for Japan that was then imported to Europe… by those dastardly misnomerists of countries, the Portuguese!

[1] https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/5481/10723
> "For Trump as a threat to US democracy, ..."

If you read the article, it's badly-edited.

But it veers into nonsense when a democratically-elected President is used as an example of a threat to democracy.

It's actually the Democratic party, who refused to accept Trump as President, and have been actively involved in burning our cities, who are not only anti-democratic but in fact Marxist. Proof of this is that Pelosi, one of our highest-ranking politicians, took over 2 months to denounce the riots.

If you want to learn more, you can watch many Youtube videos by Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, Dr. Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder, Dave Rubin or Douglas Murray.
As other people have pointed out, almost none of this comment is accurate:

Google put some effort, not that much, into Unladen Swallow, and the people who worked on it admitted that it didn't achieve the goals they set. The Python community was well on their way to creating Python 3 before work started on Unladen Swallow (so it was not in any way "Python's response"). As other comments pointed out, Google did not hire Rob Pike to "do" Go. Go was initially a side project of a few people and had nothing whatsoever to do with Python. The Go team was surprised when Python users started migrating to it. Google never used Python for web development, with one major exception, Youtube, an acquisition. I also don't understand how Google has "moved on" from Python (this seems unlikely) and how what they use Python for internally has anything at all to do with the fate of Django and Python webdev.

I don't mean to pile on, but I kinda have to ask, what were you thinking when you wrote this comment? Do you believe all those statements, or were you taking huge liberties with facts and making guesses to tell a story that supports a statement you wanted to make? You seem like a valued member of the community and this kinda makes me distrust the accuracy of everything else you write. (And to be honest, makes me distrust more of what I read in general, which is probably good but sad.)

A couple references for history/dates:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPython#Unladen_Swallow
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3000/
Bullying and criticism are two completely different things.

"Bullying" usually refers to actual criminal activities by children. Such as stealing objects, harassing, hitting, beating etc. Which happened to me.

Criticism is something completely different.
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Also 17 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24753654
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I think we're all rooting for Wayland, but we also like to get work done and like the stability of xorg. I hope someone can pick it up and keep it going until Wayland is 100%
The maintainer can write(/adopt) a CoC as a tool to make it easy for me to not be a dickhead. The effectiveness of that is gonna vary, communication is hard. Still better than nothing.
In CS it also refers to Abstract Data Types
I think it would be great if tunnelling could be exploited in this manner. I'm not sure what it means. Maybe FTL circuitry or other exotic mechanism are part of our near future?

Sounds awesome. And thanks for the explanation.
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I certainly may just be biased by my own experience from maintaining and contributing to some projects. I don't believe I've ever encountered any situation where something like this has come up, personally. It might be more common than I think it is, and if someone feels harassed in some way related to a a project I'm responsible for, I definitely want to provide them a private way to voice their concerns. I'm just ambivalent about it all due to stories like the one described in this post.
For those interested in Manim, there's an actively developed fork called ManimCommunity[0] that is looking to make it even more powerful and developer friendly.

https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
I wonder at what threshold asymmetric responses get put into play, with these actors clearly focused on basic terrorism.
At what point is a ‘kinetic response’ to a cyberattack warranted ?

Edit: got to point
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> Brown person I don't like.

FTFY
Chiming in for Brazilian Portuguese
Its not dark money when a public records request can reveal it or if a bank can be subpoena’d or hacked for the information

In my opinion

Wake me up when people catch on to the fact that Monero is used
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However, we cannot really know if that was the case. We have no guarantee that the message board poster even is the person behind the blackmail, and moreover, even if it is, this might be just about muddying the waters to cover what actually happend - for instance, if it was an old-fashioned stealing of data by a disgruntled employee.

Let the police investigation find out.
Ssssssh people might catch on
"You decide the substantive law, I decide the procedural rules, and I will beat you every time." —A law professor of mine
Not saying that it's the case with most (or even any) ransomware, but it's very common for terrorist organisations/liberation movements/violent non-state actors fund their activities through organised crime. ETA used to rob banks, the Contras trafficked cocaine, the RIRA smuggles cigarettes and launders agricultural fuel, the remnants of the Islamic State have turned to illegal forestry, etc. etc.
It’s public information, check any of the big health insurers’ 10-K and it’s probably less than 5%.

https://naic.org/documents/topic_insurance_industry_snapshot...
"What is actually (though unpopularly) valuable in our society is not democracy, but the Bill of Rights, high trust, and rule of law"

All of these mean nothing if the people in charge are not held accountable for their actions/policies. And people who stay in power for long periods of time, tend to not be huge fans of accountability when it comes to their practices.
I think the idea is that codes of conduct create the apparatus - meaning the committees and procedures, that caused this to happen. If this happened in a no-CoC universe, Jeremy gets the call that this talk made some people uncomfortable and they've taken down the talk and he reposts it on his website with a shrug.
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"or this". I really like the shadow effect on this. Really clever!
>An even bigger misconception is that indulgences were actually bought on behalf of _someone else_.

Are you saying it's true that indulgences can be obtained for others or that it's false that indulgences can be obtained for others?

In reality indulgences can be obtained for yourself, or for others, including those in Purgatory. They can't be obtained for people in Hell.

>It was only later that the "sacrifice" become strictly monetary.

Indulgences are not strictly monetary. The vast majority involve no money at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence#Plenary_indulgences
We can easily reconcile the two by recognizing that profit doesn't have to be money and that terrorists definitely profit from fear (otherwise they wouldn't do it). Everything we do is for profit, even if that profit isn't measured exclusively in dollars.

We can further reconcile them by saying that the entire mechanism for extracting money from the ransom victim is by making them afraid. In this case, afraid of losing their computer systems.
You might want to see this: https://github.com/rogeriomm/proxmox-pve-kernel-amd-reset/bl...
Productivity dont do shit for procrastination
I don't quite understand how private equity is to blame here. The data breach happened in a start-up, before the acquisition by a private equity company, and the CEO and other start-up stakeholders withheld this information from the equity firm.
Apropos of nothing related, I want to know: What, exactly, were you confident yet wrong about in regards to bay leaves?
Assuming no competitor exist, which they do for many health insurance situations. There would be plenty of competitors to choose from if everyone was required to choose from healthcare.gov.
Do you know anything about marxism or are you just repeating words you heard someone say on the internet. Id be interested to hear you explain how the Democratic party, who's politicians range from center right neoliberals to vaguely leftist progressives as a Marxist organization.
I suppose I should've just said "it isn't worth using "lambda" to mean a function". Too many comments latched on to "archaic" instead of the intended point.
True, that's one key example. I should've clarified that I'm referring to arrests, prosecution, and imprisonment. Also, such hoaxes (and things like bomb threat hoaxes) did still happen before the popularity of the internet; they can be done from a payphone, for example. The internet definitely makes it a lot easier, though.
The simplest solution is to ban Bitcoin and the other cryptocurrency. Crypto currency is what enables this.
> The CoCs are completely unnecessary

Where do you think they come from? The issues that people have to deal with at conferences aren't new [1] - and when the offender is a friend of the organizer, or works on their team, having a predefined process is good.

It also means that people can't say "I didn't know it wasn't ok to ____" or "XXX punishment is too harsh" - a common issue with poor actors. A CoC means you can take action with less effort and drama when someone is being a jerk.

1: http://jessnevins.com/blog/?p=796
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> You wouldn't advocate scrapping the entire criminal justice system, just because one innocent person was convicted.

Yes, actually, I WOULD. At the very least, I would consider whether that system needs deep structural reform to prevent it from happening again.

Punishing someone wrongly is one of the absolute worst offenses a group can make against an individual.
Ya at the last 15% of the article they point this out and provide some other skeptical quotes. Made me feel duped.
Trump is the only leader of a proper democracy of our days that denied to commit to a safe transition of power, or even to recognize the legitimacy of the upcoming election process.
Tyrants can be elected as well.
I thought the episode was interesting because (to me) Alex Jones made it clear that he is truly a grifter and not a real kook. The former being worse, I think, as he appears to intentionally take advantage of people with diminished capacities.
Please peddle this chickenshit somewhere else.
> Whatever manual interventions we had to make use of outrage before are like kids' play compared to the systems which automate this nowadays.

I think you need to cite evidence for that view. There's a long history of terrible violence based on manipulation of religious animosity that predates the Internet. The Reformation movement in Germany triggered religious conflicts--incited by various secular powers--that lasted around 130 years and did not burn out until the end of the 30 Years War. Something like half the population of Germany died in that conflict. [1] That's just one example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War
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