skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
umunhum:
> I believe that my body is living off of more prana and less oxygen now that my kundalini is active.

> Stopping the diaphragm is extremely important because your egoic thoughts (or life situation) is tied to the diaphragm. The ego needs time to exist – a past or a future. You are consciousness and exist only in the present moment. I have not read this in a book or been told this by anyone, I have experienced this. I don’t understand all of it yet but I know my thought patterns have completely changed since activating my kundalini – time no longer exists in my thoughts. The only thing that matters to me is this present moment.

Seeking:
> Another word on Kechari BE CAREFUL IT IS LIKE PLUGGING A LIVE WIRE INTO THE BRAIN. Kechari is many things but this can be one of them and you must have self dicipline and know when to break the connection bliss is hard to turn ones back on but bliss can lead to unhappiness later when you resume your daily life. BALANCE, CAUTION, DISCIPLINE, PATIENCE is needed you are already in God Realization it is just a matter of time until you develope awarness through practices.

Personal note: During the period of Talabya Kriya practice, fried food and oily food should be avoided.
How is the noise level when typing?

I have an original Model M, and it feels great, but a bit too noisy, e.g. I hear the clicks even when in noise-cancelling headphones.
Same frustration with samsung, they always undo settings I customized buried deep in the settings menu somewhere and this constant cat and mouse game trying to figure out what has changed so I can change it back to my preferences is infuriating to say the least. Respect my menu settings Samsung, you lost a customer for life! I'm all in on Apple when the right black friday iphone deal drops later this month.
This user script works for me: https://gist.github.com/pixeltris/77c676ef65b0b76e7aa56d8a0e...
I think the person you are replying to is saying that the entire flow is a single action: you hit screen shot, and the screen shot is taken, edited, and shared to some configured entity, in one step. Seems pretty obvious to me why a single step that doesn’t remove you from app flow would be waaaayyy more useful than needing to use any other apps to complete the job.
How deluded do you have to be to think that I'm "puting down" his experiences, just by pointing out that he doesn't speak for everyone?

I hear a lot of Americans saying "I really wish we had socialized health care" and "I wish that women made as much money as men did."
Yeah, I don't disagree. The more facts we have to choose from, the more susceptible to bias, because we will have a wider variety to cherry-pick from.

But for those who are genuinely interested in the truth and vigorously fighting biases, more facts can only help construct a "more complete" truth.
The black plastic visible on the image is attached to the board by melted plastic joints, so removing it without destroying it is not possible.

It's called heat-staking, you should be able to drill them out and replace with suitably-sized screws and nuts.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla Full Map Revealed (Including Asgard, Jotunheim)
It does hinder police investigations, so it comes down to how much harm you think obstructing the police causes.
Did I miss something? Where was the chart for the 2020 election?
Correct. I should qualify that by saying are "just Americans".
I'd look at that as "look how large of fans we need to make diesel safe", not "we have big fans and thus can use ammonia".
Do you know of any ANC solution that works well (i.e. should be much better than foam earplugs, and preferably remove all sound no matter what) and is usable for sleeping?
You do realize that Android requires a Google Account on most devices to function? (not talking about custom ROMs here).

Also, Android devices have outdated Linux kernels are are only updated once or twice before EOL.
How to Lie with Statistics and The Cartoon Guide to Statistics might interest you.
Spotify is a streaming app, but Spotify doesn’t stream apps.

These are completely unrelated things.
> secretly

... this has been something the left has failed to understand for 5 years at now.

THE GOP NEVER WANTED TRUMP. Why do you think the DNC has “super delegates”? Exactly to prevent what Trump did.

The establishment GOP hates Trump as much as anyone on “the left”.

That’s been a constant annoyance to me when people conflate the two.

If you have someone that routines trashes the GOP... they should be positive to neutral about Trump.
> The adjective form of Democrat is Democratic.

This doesn't seem to be widely supported.

Vox.com (a left-leading outlet) uses "Democrat voters" frequently, eg:

"...while 82 percent of Democrat voters named the pandemic the top issue.."

https://www.vox.com/2020/11/4/21548770/exit-polls-election-t...
Merit and Its Discontents
At what point will Joe Biden work to calm the American people by telling them that Cornavirus has a 0.13% IFR [1] and that it has T-Cell immunity like all other viruses? [2]

Will Joe work to calm the nation about Cornavirus?

Will Joe "keep us safe" or will he calm the nation by telling the numbers behind Coronavirus?

[1] - Oct 05 WHO announces 750m cases and was at 1m deaths that day worldwide. 750m / 1m = 0.13%

[2] - In undergrad / 101 college classes they teach about T-Cell immunity. When your body gets and beats a virus the T-Cells remember that virus in case you get it again. If the virus comes back the T-Cells will create new anti-bodies. This happens for virtually all viruses that humans come in contact with including Covid.
Honestly? The average person had a different value system.

The freedom some developers want isn’t something the majority of users want.

Personally, I haven’t been significantly limited by Apple’s rules. I like that Apple controls the billing, so I don’t have to deal with credit cards being stolen or companies making unsubscribing difficult. I like that they at least have some review process and will pull bad apps.

I like that I can go to my local Apple store for support. Google? They are possibly the most user hostile company I know.

I like that someone actually gives a damn about privacy and security when online services are getting hacked left and right.

Apple is far from perfect but they will fight a big companies and governments for violating their rules or endangering user privacy. They’ve told publicly EA, Facebook, and the US government to pound sand. (China is a no-win situation, Apple decided to play ball to keep that market.)

So yes, I’ll happily trade some freedom for safety and security.
Why isn't purism using AOSP as a base?
> How do we prevent (4)

• By ensuring there is always an opposing power.

• By maintaining democracy, by which I mean the tenet of electing governments from the citizenry as well as by the citizenry, and specifically rather than any of the oligarchical forms.

• By maintaining the rule of law.

The consequences being, if all encryption is backdoored, then any encryption used by politicians is by definition eavesdroppable by their opponents and enemies. Since all politicians thrive in a web of mendacity and confidences, they have a strong incentive for strong encryption, and will eventually terminate/abandon legislation that weakens it.

Any politician that threatens otherwise is therefore a) grandstanding, and/or b) using the issue to leverage/negotiate something else.

Corollaries:

• Any government seriously implementing such a plan is operating as an oligarchy rather than a democracy, and will have plans to defend themselves from the surveillance imposed on the citizens.

• The first instinct of every would-be oligarch is to undermine the machinery of democracy and compromise the rule of law.

c.f. Utopia (Australia, 2014) Season 4 Episode 4 "Mission Creeps", and probably at least one Jim Hacker moment.
First it was the bats and the pangolins who gave it to the people. Then we gave it to the minks who gave it back to us, mutated. Now even the elevators can catch covid?! What's next? I sure hope it doesn't mutate and hop to vegetables or else we won't be able to eat anything!
How would Trump winning the election be plunging the US into a dictatorship?
This is a resolution of the strange accusations against a presenter who simply disagreed with someone else in his presentation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24926214 Note that the person he disagreed with was not even one of the accusers.

It’s strange that it took 10 days and significant public controversy for them to decide that his talk didn’t violate the code of conduct. The presenter posted his material online (smart move) and no reasonable person would believe it was something worth investigating, let alone that it had ill intent.

It’s also strange that they’ve apparently backdated this blog post clearing the presenter. The text clearing him of wrongdoing was posted today, November 8th (Source: https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1325606466556895232... ), but the time stamp in the post shows November 3rd for me. Perhaps they’re trying, again, to rewrite history to make their response to this situation look less bad.
Yeah, I went to a college jeopardy taping, and the thing I was most shocked by was how fast it all went by. It seemed a lot faster in real life than on TV.
Sure, but you also need to recruit, and it's sort of hard to find new candidates if all you use is your super secret crypto app.
I'm inclined to say that there is a small handful of cases where apps should actively prevent/modify screenshots:

* apps that show sensitive personal info (e.g. credit card numbers, SSN, etc.) should ideally self censor the sensitive info to help prevent accidental leaks

* corporate devices where the phone and all of the data within it belongs to the employer
Soon to be banned...

Don't give bad companies money. It's as simple as that.
This was exactly my experience. They have manuals that are very comprehensive reference texts, but complete lack of structure (no types, no docstrings, no enforced conventions/standards, extremely poor discoverability) makes it a nightmare in practice.
It doesn’t need to spoof input, it just needs to be something the user wants to provide input for. That user input can then be trusted, and the malicious app can claim whatever it is doing was at the behest of its user, whether that is true or not.
Thats still less than a half of the displacement of Warspite, third of the Iowas, let alone monsters like the Yamato class. And unlike Zumwalt, all of those had working guns. ;-)

On a more serious note a modern destroyer could sink any of those with long range missiles long before the batlleship could ever get into a range for a proper gun duel.

Not counting modern aircraft with yet more standoof missiles or even the anti/ship ICBMs that are being talked about.

Oh well, battleships were an elegant weapon for a more civilized age...
Those are kludges, but they are nicely confined to build time.

The deployed system is very easy to reason about, which I greatly appreciate with my laptop and production environments.

(In addition to trying to support the language-based ecosystems better, I also want to reduce the things we do in bash. I think those are complimentary goals, too.)
- Apples walled garden has nothing to do with security - demonstrated extensively by their policy, latest example being banning stuff like streaming game service and such - that has 0 security impact. It's all about getting a cut of every revenue stream they can on the platform and preventing alternatives

- casual users do care about this stuff - just the other day for example my wife wanted to play some GBA game from her childhood - you can get that on play store easily, and even if you couldn't it's on other stores and in OSS. That's just not an option on iOS unless you're a technical user. Or more broadly recent Epic and Fortnite situation. Plenty of scenarios where Apple will decide what you can or cannot get and it won't work for everyone - you don't need to be a power user to be excluded

Apple has best products, HW and software wise, and they are milking that advantage as much as they can - not necessarily judging them but this arguing that it's in user interest is ridiculous, they are optimising for number of users affected vs profit they can extract - for example they had to buckle with big players like Amazon and Netflix because that would alienate too many users, but they will enforce their grip on the ecosystem if that means limiting a small number of users - and that has nothing to do with security.
What's the difference?

Poor and middle class Americans are afraid of higher taxes because they don't have enough money.

Where did all the money go? To 400 billionaires.

50 of them now control as much wealth as the poorest 165 million Americans.

Tens of millions of Americans are in poverty, and what do we do about it? Pray to Bill Gates? Jeff Bezos?

What do I have to convince them to give their wealth to me?

Tens of millions of Americans are in poverty. 10% of Americans hold 70% of wealth, and they are all getting richer. Their income comes either from the rest of us or from inflation.
Oh totally.

You have three layers of leadership... elected officials, appointed officials who serve at the pleasure of the appointment authority, and civil servants.

Each category has unusual incentive structures and act out in various ways.
No. You just need to not buy an Apple product.

Apple is a friend of people who want a curated store.

There are other options for those who don’t.
> The results were very close in Florida as in less than a thousand votes.

This is incorrect. And it’s crazy you would be this wrong without anyone already correcting you.

FL is 300-400,000 apart
Thank you. I didn't know about the MCM/70 (and, aside: interesting that Wikipedia calls this article '70' which is in the 'MCM' directory). Another was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCELBI and I suppose anybody could have strapped on enough batteries in 1973 and called it a Portable. Still, Osbourne seems to have been first with the concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Computer_Corporation The Osbourne 1 was in 1981, 8 years after the MCM/70 and SCELBI. It's that 8-year-gap that I find fascinating.
1) You really think Trump understands that?

2) It's a direct request to hack the Democratic presidential candidate and party standard bearer.
One and the same though.
> Apple is trading on its reputation. "It's only OK to show non-genuine once". Scammers love this. They install the bogus battery, click through the warning, then when they show you you are screwed.

Like I said above, once every boot is fine, this is what my Dell Laptop does when I plug a non standard charger for example.

> Why can't apple disable features, like battery life indication, for batteries they haven't profiled for the service? This is what makes users trust apple, if your phone says battery life is 80%, you can be pretty sure it is 80%.

No, this is not for "trust", this is only for greed since without competition Apple can ask basically any price for changing your smartphone battery.

Take an example of iPods, it was also an immensely popular Apple product and it didn't have anything like this and still was fine. I don't remember anyone saying that "buying an used iPod is untrustworthy".

Actually, the only issue Apple even had with batteries as far as I remember was caused by them, thanks to the feature that slowed iPhones when the battery was not running at sufficient capacity.
Dependence for GPU performance would be good indicator for well-made software.
Why SMB Tools Suck
While this may not be of practical use for most of us, spy agencies and the like would be interested in this or and other ways to exfiltrate data from air gapped networks that are not connected to the internet.
I have one of these, ANSI F77.

It’s really solidly made, and delight to type on. It uses QMK firmware, making it pretty customizable, and you can take the whole thing apart with a screwdriver and pliers.

Caveat emptor, you should be willing to fix problems yourself if you get one of these. I don’t think that’s an issue for the crowd here, but it bears mention.

For example, mine got kind of beaten up out in shipping, and a some of the springs/feet needed reseating after it arrived. It’s not hard to do, and there’s tons of info on the site about how to do various bits of maintenance on the keyboards.
I have been curious why is it that we have the editor war going (since the time immemorial) but good editors like Kate (or gedit, for that matter, or SciTE) have never been part of it.
I'm also implementing my own language using rust. I got stuck at code generation.

I'm new to llvm IR. it is more assembly than I thought.
my language is similar to javascript. I found it's difficult to map it to llvm IR.
There's a beta windows version.
Except it isn’t actually capricious.

It’s really pretty obvious what kinds of thing Apple shuts down.
Am I the only centre-left type person in the world who thinks the Electoral College isn't a bad thing (in theory at least).

In the Westminster 2-house system in Australia voters vote for representation from their seat. These seats have approximately the same number of people, but they also vote for an upper-house representative and the smaller states are over-represented in terms of population.

This is because otherwise it becomes easy for a federal government to only govern for the very large populations in the cities, and that is bad for the country as a whole - places outside those large population bases are disenfranchised because no amount of voting would matter.

The electoral college seems to do a similar thing. I don't think it's perfect, but in principle I don't see it as a bad things that people in say Montana have a means to influence the presidency.
Yeah, I didn't quite realise it actually initialised the variable when I first started using it. I mean, as far as footguns go, it's a pretty minor one, and over all, I quite enjoyed my Go experience, it was very easy as a Go beginner to write code that worked.
Nearly all people want to pay less.

If you "sell" the idea of an alternative store as being able to pay less - then everyone* will jump on board.

*nearly everyone, there are contrarians and those who want to pay more just to show they can
Please see nl's comment elsewhere in this thread.
Developers don’t have to purchase Apple products or develop for Apple products either.
The title is "... in old elections .."
1. Linking to a such a long and broad-coverage page such as that isn't very helpful

2. Maybe it was cut off on your screen but under heading "Cases per day" there certainly has been a second peak after the first (24 June, 1698 cases per day) on 23 Oct, with 1870 cases per day. Very much appears like a second wave despite remaining relatively high in the "down" period with 300-case peaks every week between the two highs.

3. Not sure what policy they changed after the first peak but there is a significant drop after that through early-mid July.
Support for decisions relies more on a fair process than the decision outcome
> Any widely used distros do this.

I've yet to encounter another distro that deliberately breaks 3rd party software the way Nix did it to rebar3 (before it was reverted).

> Plus, the statement that you have to patch all packages is false.

IIRC `patchShebangs' script runs for any package using stdenv.

> I'd also like to add that nixpkgs has the most extensive testing for packages compared to any other distros I've seen.

Which distros? Can you share a comparison in number of tests/coverage?

> Dramatic, but again, simply not the case.

As other commenters mentioned, software written for GNU\Linux often assumes FHS. NixOS breaks FHS, and has to patch soft to work around that.

> This is a good thing.

How so?

> This is a good thing. Manual patching for the most common problems isn't sustainable, especially if you maintain a large number of packages. Just ask packages maintainers of any major distros.

Other major distros don't break FHS, therefore they don't need to patch trivial things like shebangs.

> All packages in nixpkgs has a mandatory review process as you should very well know. As scary as you make it sound, I'm pretty sure at least one committer have taken a look at your code to see if there was anything malicious in it.

It depends on your threat model. Mine is stricter.

> If this is the case, it wouldn't be a security problem at all because the dependencies would have to be prefetched and their hashes precomputed.

Once again, it breaks the cryptographic chain of custody set by the upstream. In my threat model that's not acceptable. I tend to trust the upstream more than the distro.

> Why not store secrets in a private location, just like you would on any other distros???

Secret provisioning is by far the most difficult DevOps problem, and it can go catastrophically wrong for all too many reasons. Nix not only doesn't help, but also introduces additional footguns with world-readable configuration files.

> What is it that other distros have that Nix is missing?

Other distros have FHS. FHS accounts for secret management, among other things.

> Yes, it saves me from having to do a clean install of my system every few months.

Ok, though I never had to do a clean install of GNU\Linux either on my dev machine.
Something that helped me understand where frequentist logic sat was Computer Age Statistical Inference. A lot of the tools of frequentism were developed for a time that is quite different to our own.

Just personally, I don't think frequentism is incompatible...it seems to have just been built up to frame everything in terms of a problem that is tractable (i.e. t-tests), and that is effective but comes with pitfalls. In economics, as an example, it seems that this toolset has gone pretty far.

What I like about Bayesianism, to my ill-informed mind, is that Bayes Theorem feels parallel to other parts of statistics that are effective: Kalman filters, Metropolis-Hastings, MDPs, even ELO is Bayesian (Glicko makes this explicit). And, this is in no way empirical but, when the results are directly comparable then I have seen better results (even when the Bayesian model is at an information deficit). No idea if that generalises beyond my activities (largely, sports modelling), there are still many pitfalls, and implementation can be tricky (I still don't understand Bayesian Data Analysis)...but it is pretty useful.
It's been a bit more than a year and it's still active. The developer was even granted a Developer Transition Kit for the new Apple Silicon, to test his new apps (despite, AFAIK, only having made apps that aren't available on the App Store). The app also takes advantage of the free 7-day development deployment rule, which is something I can't see Apple being able to change without alienating new devs from their platform. It would also be a bad move, anti-trust wise.

It's very, very clever.
Always keep in mind that however distorted the electoral college is, that distortion is tremendously magnified by the cap on the size of the US house of Representatives and the fact that the Constitution specifies a lower bound for district population but no upper bound.