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Instead of `hathyog pradeepika', I find `patanjali yog darshan' more enlightening. According to Patanlaji, there is more to Yoga than just physical health. He divides the book into various parts. But the main, which the general public relate to, is `saadhana pad'. It starts with

/Atha yoganushasanam/ == अथ योगानुशासनम == let us start yoga with discipline.

This is the first /sootra/ (verse). And every verse builds on the previous. And in the 2nd verse he defines what is yoga.

/Yogashchittavruttinirodhah/ == योगःचित्तवृत्तिनिरोधः == ...

Literal meaning of Yoga is add, sum, to be one with. For believers, it could be - "to be one with God", for spiritual, meditating people - "to be one with supreme consciousness". And as Vivekananda explains to non-believers, you can think of atman as a form of energy... it can never be created nor destroyed... so just oscillate between energy and partical form... and yoga means to be one with the source (energy).

As par India system of yogic tradition, that is the goal of every human being and Patanjali tells us how to achieve that. /Yogashchittavruttinirodhah/ "Yoga means suppressing (/nirodhah/) the fluctuations (/vrutti/) of mind (/chitta/)." Well, I am using close meanings. Patanjali divides our mind into various logical parts.

I find this really fascinating. Must read. But the best book that I have found is in Sanskrit and Hindi.
>Yes they cater to their subscribers but that's made them batshit crazy in their coverage

Equating one of the premier news organizations in the world with Fox is quite interesting.

NYTimes has been breaking news stories since the Civil War. They are the only organization that routinely breaks news against 'both sides' of the aisle. e.g. Clinton Email server and Trump business ties to name a couple

The fact of the matter is that people can not differentiate the opinion pieces from their hard hitting news pieces. Which is a symptom of the low quality "social media news" that currently exists.
Although the comparison to NYT/WaPo makes some superficial sense, there is a big difference between a newspaper and a news agency like Reuters or AP.

I don’t know much about the journalism business, but I expect Reuters is catering towards a smaller, premium audience that reads a lot of straight news but doesn’t care so much about criticism, commentary, and so on. In particular: reporters and academics, for whom this will be a business expense.
>they screened 1000 patients to come up with the study population of 59

Note that while not ideal this is completely normal for any early stage drug trial. Most drugs get licenced based on data in which the trials would have excluded 90%+ of the typical clinical population. This is certainly true in depression where most drug trials will exclude patients with comorbid MH conditions, and often exclude them for "too many previous episodes". But it's also true in physical health (e.g. asthma).

I'm sure it's even harder when recruiting for an RCT in psychedelics though. A friend was working on clinical applications of MDMA about 15 years ago and a stipulation of the ethics board was that her participants had to have taken MDMA at least 3 times before, but not more than 10 times. Not easy to recruit for that study!
I recently heard someone say "cow tailed" instead of "kowtowed"
The argument is more for inhumane work conditions and not who's paying extra to justify those conditions. If anything, given Amazon's market position, they should set industry standards and not merely confirm to them. They're trying, but some folks would rather they tried harder.
I really doubt there are more individual investors in the stock market than there are individuals buying webcams and microphones, but even assuming this is true

> which sometimes drops 30% or more, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars or more of losses.

1) This is entirely ignoring the fact that the stock market goes up more often than it goes down. Similarly, tech almost only decreases in value. A $100 webcam might be a nice upgrade, but it will never transform into a $200 webcam.

2) A dip in stock price isn't the same as actually losing money. If you're gambling your money on meme stocks, sure, unsafe bets exist. But otherwise, a 30% dip one day is meaningless without context. The S&P500 dipped 30% over the last week of March 2020. If you put in money in February 2020, watched it crash, held through to today, you would still be up 25% from your initial investment.
The purpose of the SC is widely understood to determine constitutionality. Interpreting the law is perhaps considered more "conservative", but that is good thing because Justices are unelected. Legislate (liberal, conservative, or otherwise) in Congress, not the SC.
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I suspect people whose living depends on keeping up with the news will pay. Consider Bloomberg, FT, WSJ, etc. Many people pay for those, and for good reason.
Here’s the meat:

> No VC funding.

> Over a million paying customers.

Now you’ve got my attention. I’d be interested to know what their tactics were for getting their first 100, and 1000, and 10,000 users.

DigitalOcean was a huge disappointment to me in terms of the quality of their offerings, particularly the Spaces product. I can’t imagine anyone doing anything serious on that cloud. Hope the author takes the gloves off at some point and explains how Vultr isn’t repeating those mistakes, as that’s the big reason the “Other” category in cloud computing continues to decline.
Yes, we do solve problems faster if we're around the watercooler, but we're also miserable, and wondering how to escape. Be careful what you wish for.
"People vastly undervalue good audio quality."

Absodamnlutely. Perhaps I'm over sensitive to video and audio quality issues due to my work life, but I absolutely can't believe how poor audio quality can be in the wild.

Lack of full duplex, latency on phones and conference gizmos are bad enough, but I'm always blown away by the shite quality you run into for recorded university lectures and speeches. It makes you want to shake people like a rag.

Also, people don't appreciate how much more important audio quality is then video. You can get away with a lot in video, it's true to the extent that audio data flow is used as the master clock.

note to self: I wonder how far we are from improving recorded lectures/speeches via speech->text followed by text->speech as opposed to post-processing the audio. By passing through timing information you could even keep the cadence of the talking.
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It's a replacement for third-party cookies, not fingerprinting.
You're right of course and I would have made the same point, but to play british advocate for a second; the javanese might not have had a good place to store it when it was stolen.

It should definitely be returned now but the british might have saved thousands of artefacts by stealing them from other less stable regions.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve accidentally came across a few pics on an old hard drive I was given second hand. I couldn’t even use my computer for a couple of weeks and I can still feel the revulsion decades later.
> I think these big news companies need to form a federation or something where you buy access at one and get rights to read over multiple different magazines.

Exactly! I tried coil.com for a while and it would be amazing if you could pay a monthly subscription and then it distributes to articles that you end up reading.
Here is where Bitcoin's wasteful algorithm comes in. The vast majority of the energy expenditure comes from bitcoin miners burning compute cycles to bid for the right to add the next round of transactions to the ledger, which happens every 10 minutes. The more energy that the miner spends on computing SHA1 hashes, the higher the chance that they'll find a lucky hash that entitles them to a monetary reward from the transaction fees, plus freshly minted bitcoins.

The idea behind this proof-of-work scheme is that creating an alternative blockchain history becomes prohibitively expensive, pushing the network to achive a distributed consensus. However, it's tremendously wasteful because the energy isn't actually being spent on "useful" work.
This is like one of those things unimaginative economists say. Maybe there is no way to pay to cut in line. Maybe it's a small town I can't just drive somewhere else to get food, and I have low blood sugar, and I know I'll get to the front of the line faster than trying to find some other place to buy food. Maybe it's test sample of a new product they have and I'm trying to compete, and the only way to try it is to wait in the long line.

I'm sure there's a dozen more creative explanations for your proposed situation. Just because I'm willing to spend time on something doesn't mean I think my time is worth less than the cost of paying not to spend it.
This sounded an interesting challenge, so I decided to have a go at it. Here’s my best attempt: ꧁ꦗꦥ꦳ꦱ꧀ꦏꦿꦶꦥ꧀ꦠꦼ꧂ / or as an image: https://i.imgur.com/kRq6o88.png.

An explanation, because it’s interesting: Javanese script is an abugida, like all other Brahmi-derived scripts. This means that each letter has an inherent vowel; thus, a letter by itself represents a whole syllable, starting with that consonant and ending with the inherent vowel. In Javanese, the inherent vowel is /a/, so the first two letters ꦗꦥ꦳ represent the two syllables /ja va/. (The dots on the second letter indicate that /v/ isn’t a native sound; the closest you can get natively is ꦗꦮ /ja wa/.) The next syllable /skri/ is ꦱ꧀ꦏꦿꦶ, which has a few components, so let’s break it down. Firstly, vowel change is achieved by adding a diacritic; e.g. /ja wi/ would be ꦗꦮꦶ, with the diacritic ◌ꦶ for /-i/. You get consonant clusters using the conjunct form of a consonant — the second consonant in a cluster is changed to its conjunct form and placed below (or sometimes next to) the first consonant. e.g. /ka/ is ꦏ, while /sa/ ꦱ can be converted to /ska/ ꦱ꧀ꦏ by placing the conjunct form of ꦏ below ꦱ. (In Unicode, the conjuncts are not encoded separately, being a combination of the first consonant in the cluster with a pangkon, but that’s a discussion for another time.) Finally, the syllable gains a medial /-r-/ from the ‘cakra’ diacritic ◌ ꦿ wrapped around the syllable. So: starting from /sa/ ꦱ, add the conjunct /ska/ ꦱ꧀ꦏ, then add the cakra giving /skra/ ꦱ꧀ꦏꦿ, and then finally add the vowel diacritic giving /skri/ ꦱ꧀ꦏꦿꦶ. The final letter ꦥ꧀ꦠꦼ represents /ptə/, and is formed by similar principles: /pa/ ꦥ → /pta/ ꦥ꧀ꦠ → /ptə/ ꦥ꧀ꦠꦼ. (Or possibly should it be /pʈə/ ꦥ꧀ꦛꦼ? But ꦥ꧀ꦠꦼ sounds the same to English-speakers, and looks nicer in context.) Finally, I added ꧁꧂ around it to look nice — in authentic Javanese manuscripts, these punctuation marks are used surrounding titles.

EDIT: I forgot to mention why I split up the last English syllable /skɹɪpt/ into two syllables /skrip.tə/ — it’s because Javanese syllables can’t end in /-pt/, so I have to insert a vowel afterwards to make the English word fit into Javanese orthography. (And then the orthography adds an extra layer of complication, because the two syllables /skrip.tə/ end up being written as orthographic /skri ptə/, with the /p/ being moved to the beginning of the next syllable block, because Javanese script can only write initial consonant clusters… I think; this is one of the bits I’m a bit unsure about here.)
You can clearly see why psilocybin is illegal. Follow the money... I hope one day the companies and people behind this will go to jail.
I looked up "half in the bag". It apparently means "slightly drunk." TIL!
There's something very weird about this, since birth there were many beliefs (BTC will succeed when ATMs will be in bitcoin) that people followed, most of them ended up false but BTC and it's crowd is still going. Out of the wrong emerged a new true.
Ask HN: How close are we to 100% voice controlled UIs?
I stopped typing my emails in 2019 and now fully use dictation.

I'm aware it's not the most efficient system - but it makes e-mail a lot more fun & enjoyable.

Since then, every once in a while - in an act of over-optimism, I switch on VoiceControl and attempt to get rid of my mouse and keyboard for all my other tasks.

And every time, it's completely unusable (even e-mail)...

You would think that "Brain to voice to computer" would come before "Brain to computer" (Neuralink).

Certainly the next generations of ComputerUI's would be voice controlled.

"God gave us 10 styluses. Let's not invent another." / "God game us a voice. Let's not use anything else."
Well, yes. Because environmental activism is basically an instrument of NIMBYism, not anything based on facts, evidence or logic. Nobody really protests when farmers spread their poison, because that would be inconveniently far away, lots of work, etc. But protesting about the destruction of the neighbouring daisy habitat is an easy feel-good measure, and if you can NIMBY you way into higher value of your real estate by scarcer ground for housing construction, all the better.
> It has always been. Everybody wants to be popular and keep their job.

That part is demonstrably false. The Fed has never been as dovish as it is now and at times has been extraordinarily hawkish and unkind to the equity markets- Paul Volker or Alan Greenspan, anyone?

The big difference to me is that there used to be this underlying assumption that if inflation went up, the fed must act, so people didn’t freak out because of a single hike. I also believe the fed operated in far greater silence, being “data-dependent” and not fully committing for years to a single policy. Because of that everyone wasn’t laser focused on the fed. These days it’s all anyone following the markets talks about. But because the markets are so keyed in on rates and every little thing Powell says, it just tells me the next crash won’t be caused by the fed but an externality which could be far more dangerous given how far the fed is willing to let this market run unchecked.
Using a separate recorder here has the best price to performance for you, I think.

Sennheiser has several wireless systems designed for your needs: https://en-us.sennheiser.com/wireless-systems
Issue was just closed -

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1553
Comprehensibility isn't yes/no. There are a lot of recordings that are possible to understand, but are a lot more work. I have this complaint about phone calls all the time. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills because people on a phone call are so hard to understand. Yet voice memos I record on my own phone are basically fine. I assume it's because phone audio goes through some tortured path with 12 layers of translation and compression or something, but it's irritating to me.
They use a number of platforms for this but FB is quite aggressive about cracking down on it, unlike AWS among others who mostly turn a blind eye.
Rode NT-1 Mic, some interface, some stand. I positioned it coming above my monitor and I never think about it anymore. Too bad my voice sounds terrible, that is harder to fix
Strange.... should the title be “You can’t afford NOT to run Java 8”?
I don’t know why FB believes it should aim to be the repository for all of everyone’s media.

Most photos and videos are crappy. They could throttle it to 10 per person per day and increase quality. I’m sure people would complain and FB would think they lose out to a competitor with unlimited uploads. However, a reduced load means easier job to address the bad stuff.

It’s probably unworkable, but making people more discerning rather than less isn’t a bad thing.
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I actually saw a really interesting article (probably on here) a while back about using SQLite files as your applications' document storage model, and I really like it. Like if you wrote a word processor, you could include a table of edits that would let you recreate Google Doc's timeline feature, among other things. I thought that was a really neat idea.
> In the end, I always come back to Postgres. It's unbelievably powerful, lightweight and there's not much it can't do.

How lightweight?

SQLite itself is around 600 KB. That's with all features enabled. I believe you can get it it down to about half that if you disable features you don't need. RAM usage is typically under a dozen or so KB.

It doesn't even require that you have an operating system. All you need for a minimal build is a C runtime that includes memcmp, memcpy, memmove, memset, strcmp, strlen, and strncmp, and by default also malloc, realloc, and free although it has provisions for providing different memory allocators, and you have to provide some code to access storage if you are running on a system that doesn't have something close to open, read, write, and the like.

This means it can even be used on many embedded systems far too small to run a Unix.

Heck, it is not even too unreasonable to compile SQLite to webasm and include it on a web page if for some reason you need client side SQL on the web.
Consider the economics a bit. The point of moderation is to sustain the business model of the platforms that need it most. It's necessarily going to be a cost centre that will only get optimized down to where it's a kind of impoverished hellscape to work in.

The reason it's a cost centre is because it's trivial to stand up a new platform with a higher bar to entry that precludes almost all evil content, with the limiting factor that it won't have exposure to the total size of the legacy platforms that have no bar to entry. So for FB, better moderation is not a differentiator with an ROI, it's a risk management cost. This puts a ceiling on what they'll pay for it.

The ideal solution for an FB-like platform that is already committed to open doors user policy means that the cost model/value prop is that the solution must be able to show it's doing something above all.

If you sold them an AI solution that "just worked" for 98% of material and had a tiny relative cost, FB's real risk from the 2% that still got through doesn't change, because when FB gets asked by regulators and others what they are doing about it, your incredibly cost-effective AI solution just shows FB isn't committing resources to the problem.

When FB can show rooms full of workers at screens on 24/7 shifts responding to the problem (at some tiny foreign hourly wage that their employer with the moderation contract is probably making a 300%+ margin on) that is the solution. These peoples' job is to essentially be psychological human sacrifices to regulators. This also describes most of the economics of the managed security services SOC business model.

If you want to get into horror, find out if there is a correlation between the production of evil content and the regional presence of a moderation subcontractor. It's like anti-virus and security companies releasing viruses and exploits, but next level worse. If there is $100m/year market for moderation services, that literally creates the perverse incentive to ensure a flow of evil content.

Could there be a CrowdStrike of content moderation? Maybe. Especially in markets like China, Singapore, and increasingly Britain, where policing content could be creating the same regulatory environment that hackers created for security.
> A journalist once asked me what I would like my epitaph to be and I said I think I would like it to be, 'He did very little harm'. And that's not easy. Most people seem to me to do a great deal of harm. If I could be remembered as having done very little, that would suit me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Eddington#Final_years_and...
You need a bit of perspective. The last part of your sentence hasn't been true in our country in the last 50 years. Working 3 jobs like a robot isn't what I consider high standard of living.
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Although the frozen coins bug wasn't related to the Parity client itself. It was a smart contract multisig wallet made by the same company.
The fix is in https://github.com/openethereum/openethereum/pull/364

Actually, it's this commit of the PR: https://github.com/openethereum/openethereum/pull/364/commit...
I agree, but I'd like to point out the US exit tax, which does exactly that.
> The fact of the matter is that people can not differentiate the opinion pieces from their hard hitting news pieces.

They intentionally blur that line. Almost all of their news pieces the last several years have been full of opinion.
So are procotol-level changes announced ahead of time with a precise date when they get into force and the clients hard code that date as a transition? Or perhaps a block number is used?
what would be the tail latency when 1000s of requests waiting to write?
the link I posted was to provide a list of known vaccine adverse reaction events throughout history to show that none of them occurred months after vaccination. Adverse events are almost always acute so the fact that we haven't seen widespread serious side effects after 6+ months means they are very likely incredibly safe.
Apple News+? I know it's not necessarily the most popular or well thought of, but it's the only widespread platform (I'm aware of) that provides that kind of service for the price point I'm wiling to pay; i.e., Netflix-ish monthly fee.
You don't need space, you can get cheap stands to put a keylight and mic above your monitor attached to a desk, wall, or with a stand. A simple hd logitech webcam can be attached to nearly any monitor.
The issue brought up by this moderator seems to match what we've heard and read from others, which puts Facebook, and sites like it, in an unfortunate position: Content from a site like Facebook cannot be moderated without causing harm to human moderators, and A.I. is not yet able to do the job.

That's a massive issue as lawmakers are pushing for more moderation. It's my belief that Facebook, and others, have sold our politicians on the idea that moderation can be done, at scale, with AI. Those of us who followed along knows that the human moderators have complained that at least Facebooks A.I. simply isn't up to the task.

I don't think Facebook and similar sites can exist, not at that scale, without massive human cost.
From a capability perspective, the F-22 seems clearly superior to its predecessor the F-15, so definitely successful there.

But wasn't the original goal to eventually wholesale replace the F-15 (the air superiority variants at least)? That clearly isn't going to happen.

Much like how the F-35 was supposed to replace the F-16 and F/A-18, but seems like that's not going to happen the way things are going.
Fiat systems have such infernal UX, bitcoin can win on that metric alone. The FUD spread by the regulator is the only reason we're here.
"Virtually zero-level of actual usage" isn't true. Bitcoin has evolved into a store of value and settlement layer, and the majority of payment transactions happen on layer 2, with both centralized and decentralized solutions. This is something that wasn't predicted early on, but it's untrue that there aren't transactions which use bitcoin as a source of value. There are a lot, but there aren't any published numbers yet.
It seems to be an appropriate response to an anecdote.

"I've seen it work"

"I've also seen it fail"
It's not either-or. Plenty of companies make money through subscriptions, and later on add the adtech garbage back in.
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I was struck by this too. Very reasonable, well explained and decently argued!
This is crazy. It's like cart manufacturers lobbied government that anyone who want to buy a car would first have to use a horse and a cart and only be allowed to buy a car if the cart and a horse causes significant problem.
Am I the only one seeing corruption here?
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