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Well, keep in mind this is a practice that as far as we know people have been practicing for at least 2600 years, I think doing things like a 5-10 day Vipassana retreat is not a risk free thing, but you really shouldn’t be doing those unless you are ready.

I follow the Soto school of Zen Buddhism, my teacher would not allow me to go to Sessin (which is a multi day meditation retreat) until I had been practicing for like two years, and I had a lot of stuff come to the surface at my first one that really disturbed me… however, I had my teacher there, and he knew exactly what to say and do to help me through it as he has been through the same. He would not have permitted me to leave in such a disturbed state.

This guy would not be able to do that for his students, and even for himself he didn’t even know about such things. This is bad, and more stories like this will happen as long as charlatans are taking one aspect of an established practice and ignoring the rest.

As a whole, shikantaza when practiced with a teacher is safe. Things like breath awareness, vipassana and such I think are harmful, but that is due to my training and perhaps I am wrong, but for sure, meditation without the “rest” is largely a money machine these days, and people will be harmed by that.

Edit: I would also add that shikantaza as opposed to other forms of meditation is not about manipulating the brain in any way, but simply observing it. This is why we do not do things with a goal, such as counting of breaths or trying to still the mind. Simply sit, observe, and the stillness comes with no effort. There is no goal, and no enlightenment. There is no separation of practice and experience, the practice is enlightenment.
So a .zip file of copyrighted code loses its license?
Just creating content is no longer enough
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This is so much true. It's almost like swearing in English is not swearing at all, even in semi-formal context. You can tell the worst swear in English you can think of, and it just sounds harmless compared to swearing in local language.
If there ever comes a time when AfD creates a board to “review” Supreme Court justices, or moves to remove “foreign influence” on media in Germany and so on - then the same discussion will return there. The difference is that conservative nationalism can’t get that type of foothold in Western Europe and the mistake was to include countries in the EU that even had a risk of having a nationalist majority. We should have “tiers” of membership with a legal/political inner union of liberal states that can have a common foreign policy, and a wider less tightly coupled trade Union with the EEA that doesn’t necessarily need to agree on such things.
No, it's the other way around.

Concepts are pretty useless at the moment for error messages, but they're super easy and convenient when you need to disambiguate something like

void do_it(auto& x) { // x is a vector

void do_it(auto& x) { // x is nlohmann::json

Just stick a 'requires' in there and it works.
I unwrapped *Buzz Aldrin’s visor to 360 sphere to see what he saw
And how does the EU justify it's legal supremacy?

Where do they get that right? By treaty?

Or perhaps the European Court of Justice simply 'ruled' that it's laws were 'supreme' in a bizarre act of defining it's own jurisdiction outside of treaty agreements?

Europeans never agreed to give the ECJ supremacy. The ECJ just 'took' that power.

It's a baffling bit of legal history [1][2] and it demonstrates just how powerful these institutions can become outside of democratic norms.

A quote: "The principle was derived from an interpretation of the European Court of Justice, which ruled that European law has priority over any contravening national law, including the constitution of a member state itself. The majority of national courts have generally recognized and accepted this principle, except for the part where European law outranks a member state's constitution. As a result, national courts have also reversed the right to review the conformity of EU law with national constitutional law."

Because of this and the resulting vaguery, it's still not always perfectly clear which 'court' is supreme in exactly what ways.

The Germans resolve that EU laws cannot contradict their Basic Law - to be determined by their own Supreme Court, which is kind of a backwards way of saying 'our national courts still have supremacy'.

It would be pretty interesting to see Poland take on the ECJ in this case, because it might cause an EU level constitutional crisis as they'd probably challenge the legitimacy of the 'Supremacy' ruling from 1964 that set the precedent.

It's not as clear cut as the headlines would have us believe, like for example a US State taking on the Supreme Court.

Even in Canada, the provincial leaders invoke Constitutional shenanigans to make up their own laws that can't be rescinded by the constitution.

We'll have to see what happens.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/summary/glossary/primacy_of_eu_law...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primacy_of_European_Union_law
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Do you think Call of Duty manifests the acceptance of violence and is a net negative to society?

There's nothing that special about sex work. If you are a parent, teach your children to build respectful, healthy relationships.
The strategy seems to be to douse the office in petrol, lock the doors and star lightning matches while inside.
The combination of: the absolutely terrible article being an obvious hit piece, the potential damage of the claims with almost no real evidence to back them up, and the complete lack of contrition or accountability.

I don’t think it ruined Bloomberg’s reputation entirely (I still love and frequently read Money Stuff), but it did eviscerate any credibility they had in highly technical, investigative technology reporting. And the refusal to admit the failures publicly definitely calls into question their editorial process and organizational culture.

Also, the idea that ‘thing x’ shouldn’t be criticized because ‘thing y’ is also bad is pretty clear “whataboutism” and an unhelpful way to address valid criticism.
Some people piss in bottles so that other people can see the stars.

Seems about right. It will trickle down eventually.
How much UK tax dollars did Branson end up securing from his tax haven to keep virgin afloat? Anyone know? I'd assume it was zero it was such an hideous thing to try on - your tax should save my wealth while I don't pay it. But we seem to have lost sense about these things at times.
So how do you know what is mentally healthy? How do you know those meditation masters were mentally ill?
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What vulnerabilities are you referring to?
I'm in favor of changing fines to: "estimated benefit gained" + actual fine for large companies.
I have noticed a similar effect when I encounter the words for 'hot' and 'cold' in an unfamiliar language.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27891532 -- 33 points, no comments.
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>So now we have a situation where the pendulum is now at the other extreme, where machine-generated classification barely intersects with human-generated meta-data at all.

The problem is that human metadata has a pretty solid barrier, but the barriers of what machine metadata can do keeps shifting due to increases in technology, therefore people keep investing in machine processes because they do not yet seem to have reached their limit.
I feel it’s dangerous shaping conversations around individual anecdotes. I can tell you multiple positive anecdotes from the nursing side as well. Another friend of mine did long-term individual care for a disabled person and they got along extremely well, even traveling and such. That friend considered that his dream job. My father’s current partner volunteers at a hospice. She considers that an important part of her social work. There’s sex workers talking on public record about how liberating that was to them.

What I’m saying is that deriving policy from anecdotes is dangerous.
because they are part of a community (Europe) with certain rules and they are deciding to enjoy the fruits of being part of this community (a lot of funds, free movements for people) and then you don't want to follow the rules. It's part of the basic principles of living in a community. You can't have your cake and eat it.
So one in a thousand practitioners might be doing it right, maybe.

In which case the article is spot on correct - the western mindfulness/buddhism stuff is mostly potentially dangerous and, as promoted, can lead to all sorts of harmful effects which are often brushed under the carpet.
Crew can't access payload without triggering defenses. (cant physically open, knock out gas if they manage to get in, inclination sensors triggering self destructs, etc)

Assuming they somehow are able, remote monitoring both in the trucks and outside. If something duspicious or it deviates it triggers response.

Assuming that's also bought, then you have local law enforcement along military, they can signal weird behavior and would be a lot of people to buy off. It would also mean lots of people live streaming this if they switch in populated area... triggering response.

Aasuming that's also bought, you have sattelite surveilance, normal surveilance and checkpoints.

If that's also bypassed then yeah...

Moving it is another matter, tritium detectors in most ports and cities... they'd ring alarm bells pretty fast.

Using it is another matter, so many kill switches you'd have to be the president or close by to actually use it... and you could directly in that case.
came in here to say the much the same. I also see much more that we get "pre glued" things that we then glue a few more things to. After 40ish years of coding, I think the amount of glue we use is about the same. It goes up and down a bit but there seems to be a natural limit to the complexity we can deal with.
Oh so you mean the people who like to call it "EUSSR" are full of it?
C++ already improved C. For example, you can now declare variables in the middle of a code block. Or write "for(int i = 0;" These things were not possible in old versions of C.
Ask HN: What's Difference Between BitTorrent and IPFS: Interplanetary Filesystem
Neither of them was democratic as in liberal, free press, human rights etc etc. Iran afaik was a full blown dictatorship before the islamic revolution (it's still a dictatorship, but different), Lebanon's history is more complicated but I stand by my view that it was never a liberal democracy, definitely not in the last 40 years.
The last election they won fair and square was 2010. After that, one of their first acts was to modify the previously proportional electoral system to ensure that they get a supermajority in parliament despite winning 40%. Since then, they've had full control over the constitution and the law despite 60% of the country not voting for them, and all "debate" has been pointless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Hungary#The_votin...
True, but there have been many attempts to create Europe in the past, the 3rd Reich being one of them, Napoleon, and others before. Europhiles dont like that reminder but people at the time used the same rethoric of “building the great Europe”, “nations are too old etc”, I can give you references of actual political figures of the 30s and 40s who had that speech and led their country to collaboration with the nazis in the name of “Europe”.
I think they would be happy to switch to a pinning service. Cloudfare runs a public ipfs gateway, after all!
Sites like OF thrive on whales. People spending thousands per month on a creator usually can budget.
I never get this thought pattern - how would humanity be able to colonize other planets that are not liveable if we cannot even sustain living on our own?
I remember, many years ago, seeing some trade magazin publish an "announcement" of "Microsoft GNU/Linux" as an April fools' joke.

After the last couple of years, this is not as big a surprise as it would have been ten years ago, but back then the idea of Microsoft creating and making publically available their own GNU/Linux distro was really far out. I did not think I'd ever see the day. Next stop: flying pigs!
Yes, yes, the same old story. The exact same things has been said by the previous generations about books, comic strips, radio, television, computer games, etc...
Indeed, and I encourage people to look for "preprints" and "drafts" for standards they are interested in. Sometimes you need to look for the WG pages/forums that developed it, and they are usually public, especially for the IT-related standards.

I've learned C intricacies by printing and going through an "ISO C9X" draft of the standard while in high school.
No, you're using the normative definition of science whereas he's using the descriptive.
The iMessage exploit sounds like a Null terminated string issue.

The rest of it sounds like a Metasploit-esque framework along with some telemetry tools.
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In an accelerating expanding universe like the one we appear to occupy (and the one modelled by our current "concordance" standard model of comology), the comoving horizon is at constant comoving distance. Cast into more Earth-centric coordinates, it is at a finite spatial distance at all finite times.

However, there is no reason to expect that a timelike worldline rooted at "here and now" (converting a chosen comoving coordinate into the origin of spherical coordinates for a Eulerian observer) cannot be extended into the infinite future, and at +infinite time the horizon will be at an infinite spatial distance in this system of coordinates. We don't even need to say anything about the matter content of the Hubble volume at any time, anything about -infinite time, or anything about how various measures of entropy fit in; all of these can generate infinities that defy easy (and possibly any) removal in a universe similar to the concordance model.

A taste of this can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_horizon#Future_ho...

More deeply and technically, Baez's "Struggles with the Continuum" is great A smooth manifold tends to generate infinities and infinitesimals, and all our fundamental physical descriptions of the universe we inhabit are (at least at present) defined on a Lorentzian spacetime, which is a smooth manifold. He discusses practical reasons to [a] worry about infinities and [b] to work with them anywhere because they might not be removable. https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01421 (§5 starting on p. 27 is directly relevant, and the concluding §6 is pithy).
You should add a personal statement/goal section to the top of your resume explaining that you’re intentionally looking to make this switch. If I saw this resume come across I’d think you were just shotgun applying to every posting you can.

Also consider removing detail from your chemist job description, because frankly no hiring manager for a software job will care about it.
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>It has overlaps with marketing and SEO

Huh, I wonder if there are tools to do A B testing on sites like Pornhub..
Correct. Most AEB systems use a forward facing radar, which often receive spurious reflections from various street elements overhead bridges, overhead signage and manhole covers. As a result, most radar-based implementations will actively ignore completely stationary objects while driving at high speed.
A "physically compromised" iPhone will still not let you in, no matter what devices you plug into it, including removing the camera module and replacing it.
Headers are a pricier mistake than the billion-dollar-mistake.

IMO they are the #1 reason C still has a lot of adoption, but not for good reasons: headers hinder interoperability. To interop with C you either need a C-compatible compiler (C++, Obj-C, and now D, Zig) or a human writing interop code by hand. Both things come with a hefty cost, and the first carries the danger of your language having to keep terrible features forever (the C part of C++).

Headers hinder the evolution of the language and the ecosystem.

Modules, on the other hand, enable interop easily, preventing lock-in.
Why, exactly? For not kissing the rainbow flag? Or for opposing illegal immigration? Those are the topics presented through media lately, and the argument is rather weak. In fact, I think many politically centered people dont actually sympathize with this "you are not hip enough, you have to leave"-mentality.
Sure, my point is that losing meanings in the process can be quite crushing experience or liberating depending on one's attitude.
> aren't going to realise that they're dealing with unexploded ordinance

That's why in places like strip-clubs you usually have at least a couple of strongly-built bodyguards who can address this issue right there on the spot, on the Internet there is no such thing.
> Seems like enthusiasm about IPFS has waned quite a bit

The IPFS team seems to have shifted their focus to cryptocurrencies. It probably isn't a bad business decision, but it feels like the rest of the ecosystem isn't improving as fast as it could.
"the key thing is who the advice is coming from (read: an actual zen teacher who has received transmission, not a charlatan mindfulness camp fleecing wannabe mindfulness bro's out of several hundred dollars to sit with no experience for 10 days)"

Why Zen specifically? There are many different types of Buddhism.

Even if it does have to be Zen, which kind of Zen? Rinzai or Soto, or some mix of the two (which some Zen schools advocate)?

And why Buddhism, anyway? Meditation is practiced in many different religious traditions.

"mindfulness" is itself rooted in the Theraveda -- not Zen -- Buddhist tradition, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the "right" way to meditate must be a Buddhist way as opposed to, say, one of the many Hindu forms of meditation.
Yeah, totally! The first thing after bigbang/origin that implemented Universal-capable computation? It could be spacetime itself since still as far as we know that's it? (there's nothing outside spacetime that we know of, yet, right?). Nice fairly-achievable complexity bar there too!
> Everything is dangerous

This is not what is being promoted by the mindfulness/buddhism-lite industry that the article is talking about.

> you just should try your best to do it the right way under supervision of a qualified person and stop if it goes wrong.

This appears to contradict "One should meditate always"
I'll just add that in Israel there is a similar problem with older immigrants from the former USSR (a big wave of them came to Israel just after the USSR imploding), where they don't have any meaningful pensions saved up.
> As an instructor in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), I spent four years teaching meditation as a full-time job. A longtime meditator, I have logged roughly 4,000 hours of practice over 10 years, including over 100 days on silent meditation retreats.

These numbers are telling everything you need to know about the the state of meditation in the Western world... His teachers were probably not much better.
If you have relatives that look like you the chance goes down from one in a million. And they're also the most likely people to have access to your phone, and by interested in what's on it.

Also the younger you are the less likely it is to differentiate.
Typo in title: isued -> issued
It’s in everything and you rarely sign anything to waive. You check a box, click a button, buy something with a sticker on the box, or even walk past a sign.
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and just to clarify - joining the EU is an exercise of free will. Countries are met with some conditions and it's their decision to join or not. This is valid for both Hungary and Poland. If they don't want to be part of EU any longer I think Brexit showed the way, and all the consequences of that.
> You only live and actually own/use your time when mindful. When you are not it just disappears.

This sounds both judgemental and obsessive, just so you know.
That's silly. I am a Frenchman, moved to SF in 2000, moved to London in 2019 (for family reasons). California living is very different from European, or even most American lifestyles. That does not make it inferior. And sweltering as I am here in 32˚C weather without AC at the moment, San Francisco's perfect weather is one of the things I miss the most...
The key difference from the concept of number of 3 is that the entities we're talking about are mutable, with extensive, continuously changing state. If the simulation advances for a microsecond, then the entity is modified (while we'd generally consider it to be "the same" as I consider me the same me as a second ago), and causes it to differ from a paused copy of that simulation. In that regard, IMHO the "OOP" paradigm of "classes/instances" seems relevant, as we care a lot about that internal state and we'd consider instances as same if and only if modifying the state of one is inherently reflected in the other - which is not the case for separate simulations. Or, of course, if they're immutable - like 'the concept of number 3' and very unlike entities we'd like to simulate.

Furthermore, the changes depend on a large number of factors - potentially the whole simulation - so unless we're certain that the simulations are fully deterministic and without any interference (and we can intentionally ensure that they're not), there's no reason why they would stay the same. We should interpret every simulation as potentially bifurcating an exponential number of times, and each simulation explores just a tiny subset of the theoretically possible futures of each entity; and if you have "snapshots" of simulations, then you can explore many possible intervention-based branches from each point, just as we do in our experiments with simulated worlds.

The appropriate analogy is not the concept of the number 3, but a reality of a number like "0.3" that may get represented as 0.30000000000000004 in one simulation due to floating point approximation, and get corrupted by a cosmic ray bit flop in another one - and we're talking about the properties and experiences of these nonperfect instances of simulations (since if assuming the simulation hypothesis, that's the experiences we get and care about), not about the properties of some theoretical concepts that may be the "core of the entity" (e.g. Plato's philosophy) since they're not real unless/until they get actually implemented or simulated, and if the realization does not match the ideal, if there are any differences whatsoever, then the realization is the one that matters.
Classic Eastern European pedagogy is different. You give kids problems many /can't/ solve a lot of the time to build resilience.

Kids in the West come out with a fear of failure. Good problems in Western pedagogy are the German style ones, where kids struggle for a bit and then get it, to "build confidence."

Kids in the (Soviet-era) East come out understanding there are problems which are easy to solve, hard to solve, and impossible to solve, and you'll face all three in school and in life. You won't know which one you've got until you've tried.
> The son and one of the closest confidants of former oligarch Lajos Simicska. They were both selected as targets before the Hungarian national election of April 2018. Back then, Simicska was the owner of a media empire, and he was openly waging war against the Orbán government. (It would have been futile to target Simicska with this spyware as he did not use smartphones.)

There's literally no winning here. You can literally disconnect from the internet and they'll just target the people around you…
Human rights are a human construct and constantly change over time.
It is a verbatim copy from the article, somewhat hidden in one of the last paragraphs (perhaps you didn't read the whole article? sorry could not resist!). Which was kind of surprising given the previous content, but it makes sense.