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This is probably a relatively naive observation, but I've found that the way some people describe meditation and how their mind change is sometimes the same as how people describe their experience under psychadelics. These bad side effects of meditation sound a bit like a bad trip, but without being able to tell yourself that it's chemically induced and thus will stop in a few hours.
I formulated "Bruce's First Law" on my first day of doing support, and I quote it back to myself every week 30 years later.

Bruce's First Law : "never believe a word they say"

Customers lie. By omission, on purpose, by mistake, or whyever. Trust nothing, verify _everything_.

Remote Access so you can see what they see, is the single biggest improvement to support in decades. I have had customers _literally_ "read" an error message to me, when some completely different error is on their screen.
Getting into 3d printing has ruined tech porn like this for me. Before I would have seen a high tech shiny case. Now I just see z axis binding artifacts between the port cutouts.
Please look at the nick names of who makes comments. I was not the one bringing up the positives, I have no idea about anything in Indian politics, not indian, not living there either. I was just pointing out a logical fallacy in one replay because this is a forum of nerds and nerds love to pick nits. The world would be such a nicer place if people political fumes wouldn't intoxicate brains of otherwise sensible people.
> Anything that uses 1% of C++ specific features is C++.

Technically correct and this raises an important point. How long would the kernel take to compile in C++ versus in C?

Though in practice if you think the kernel should support all the craziness of "modern" C++ you're going to have a big problem in making it work in kernel space. (things like heavy templates, etc)

And just to disagree with Linus I think the 'new' part is the least of our problems in making the kernel work with C++
I feel like middle school is the worst age range to be teaching/learning pre-Algebra and Algebra. My experience was that teachers just expected students to either teach themselves or blindly follow and repeat the steps one by one. Geometry and trigonometry seem like they would be a better fit for that age range.
I cycle almost exclusively. I don't think reckless cyclists are more unusual that reckless drivers. I'd guess the fraction of reckless cyclists is about the same as the fraction of reckless drivers. However since cyclists and pedestrians are often forced to share space, pedestrians notice the cyclists more often.
I'm actually most interested in language models that are fine tuned for other purposes, such as classification. IMO that's where the biggest immediate opportunities are. I've seen them used quite widely in industry, such as for legal discovery.
Out of curiosity, are you a VS code user? And did you switch to it from VS or another IDE?

I have experience using VS from work and other (open-source) IDEs from hobby projects.

Coming from open-source, VS Code seems pretty large, unwieldy, and corporate.

Coming from VS, VS Code is reactive, flexible, configurable, and modern.

What I want to say is that "A fresh reboot of VS" isn't just a marketing gimmick, it's something that I would think many VS users (especially those that haven't gotten used to VS's oddities for 10 years) have been clamoring for.
Was thinking exactly the same. Screen resolution makes that some numbers fall below the fold.
It's 100% interoperable with Native DOM API.

Basically, CalDOM's reactivity system does not care how the Element is created as long as it's a Native DOM Element/Node.

It could be _("+div") or document.createElement("DIV") or even jQuery("<div></div>")

See example: https://caldom.org/#reactive-native-node

Also, a CalDOM instance is just a wrapper around Native DOM Element(s).

_("div").elem === document.querySelectorAll("div")[0]

This interoperability allows for powerful integrations & to update the DOM directly by avoiding expensive virtual-DOM diffing.

In React's world, everything is micro-managed(there're pros & cons), accessing DOM directly can be chaotic & usually not recommended.
In many European jurisdictions, including Austria, the losing party pays all costs of the lawsuit, including lawyers’ fees. This simple rule takes care of most frivolous suits. So the answer is: Go sue me.
What Is Jenkins?
How terrible that local laws, written and enacted by the voting population they preside over, take precedent over international laws written and enacted by legislators several times more distantly removed from the population.

Hopefully the UN gets enough funding to occupy the roles of state and municipal police soon. Then we can free the common man from the tyranny of local government.
Also very similar to Metaverse from Snow Crash.
I'm not defending his actions as I have no horse in this race, but he seems to have the support of his country - why should the EU be above that?
this is taking the advice literally IMHO. Most of the time you end up being in a calm and attentive state of mind where you are focusing on the present.
OK, I'm channeling my inner Peter, Michael and Samir here, but how exactly do you launder money by spending it on Candy Crush? Is King supposedly in on the scheme?
Getting help with autopkgtest for your package
Welcome to reality.
>Everyone drank Monster at my uni

How was the silhouette of the people who drank the most of it?
Probably bad for the mental health of the men too. As the thread ancestor noted - sometimes "'fan[s]' [go] nuclear and was waging all out digital war.".

I'm guessing that is just a thing some men do but it is bound to be made worse by women correctly figuring out the high-engagement equilibrium is tantalising without promising. But a lot of them probably aren't going to realise that they're dealing with unexploded ordinance; that could foreseeably lead to some spectacular meltdowns for men who were already mental health edge cases when it dawns on them that their time is being wasted.
in the way that it renders a person not less, but more susceptible to breakage from smaller stresses

That should be can render I think, the author seems well aware that what happened about him isn't bound to happen to anyone.
> First, don't underestimate people's ability to read some papers on Hacker News.

The point of the parent article is that it's impossible to assess a paper by reading it. There's no way to, for example, determine that studies on which a paper relies were fictional without further research. Ability doesn't matter - there isn't sufficient information in the paper alone to make an assessment. That is the crux of the crisis.

> And second, what's wrong with anonymous alleged HCWs? Seems like the intersection of politics and science has gotten out of hand if you ask me. Also, if you could please find me a well-laid out superset of the articles in ivmmeta.com, I will gladly replace the link.

It's hard to believe this comment is made in good faith. You yourself insinuated that another poster was cherry-picking, which is exactly what you did in your response. I can only assume you are trolling or otherwise commenting in bad faith?
>When Buddhism Goes Bad - How My Mindfulness Practice Led Me To Meltdown

Well, meditation and buddhism are supposed to be a way of life, not a stress reliever or a passtime. You can't be living like a modern westerner in the rat race and do buddhism on the side (or merely try to half-follow some general tenets in your everyday totally non-bhudist life).

Or rather you can, and thousands do, and there are fancy retreats and the like, but then you're a tourist to the whole thing, and what you do has little to do with the original spirit and what makes it work - which is all about context (even if there's a plethora of second rate, several times removed from the culture, snakeoil books in the shelves selling this exact approach).

Leonard Cohen spending 5 years on the monastery got it far more right.

>I relayed my experiences that afternoon to the two teachers who were overseeing the retreat of about 40 meditators.

Aka, some random guys who've read some books, perhaps studied under another random guy in the same line of work, opened their own retreat (or work in one), and play the role of buddhist luminaries for lucrative western audiences....

>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. I’m extremely knowledgeable of both Buddhist and secular frameworks of meditation, have read countless books on the subject, and have taken instruction from numerous renowned Western meditation teachers.

In other words, they've made a mess of different practices, cultures, approaches, etc., mixing and matching, and always separating it from its context, from the culture they live in, from the environment, and from lifestyle commitments (aside from "medidation" itself).
I think OnlyFans is "different" because unlike other pornsites or camsites, users kind of create a "closer" relationship to the porn performer since they have access to "exclusive" content. As you said it's called "simping" and IMHO it can go south pretty quickly given how crazy people can be. Some deluded fans genuinly think they are in a real and genuine relationship with the porn performer. It's dangerous.
The maximum speed of light constraint sounds very much a hardware limitation on the FPS
I wonder if the limitation continues to be hardware or difficulty in removing the restriction in a backwards compatible way
> I accept that there are people who have different values and it's OK for me

Your children do not grow up in a vacuum. You as parents have limited influence, the society they grow up in is having at least an equal impact. You cannot successfully transmit values such as "porn is bad" if everyone around you, the media and the teacher in school is telling your kids the opposite. Humans to not get raised and live in isolation or a vacuum, society matters. A lot.

> Otherwise, we have religious fundamentalism.

If you extrapolate your point of view, hopefully finding that is destined to fail, you will have made the first step in realising why religions exist.
You don't need to consider conscience and morality to implement harsher punishments for hiding evidence or not making things right after being informed vs. more lenient punishments when the individual or organization has shown to proactively attempted to remedy the situation and has taken actions to prevent it from happening again. It's all about making sure that the incentives are aligned with good behavior, even after initial bad behavior.
> Any chance we could find out?

So, let's say we find out that we live in a simulation. The question now becomes: is the outer level a simulation as well? And so on.

If we find out we do not live in a simulation then the question is: what originated us? (Which in some sense is like asking "do we live in a simulation?": we are still asking about the origins of this reality).
Physics can tell us a lot about this reality but it won't ever be able to tell us anything about the origin of it (I'm not talking about Big Bang, but the origin of the Big Bang and the origin of the origin of the Big Bang, etc.)

We'll never find a definitive answer that satisfies us.
Who knew a site which thrives on abolishing all personal boundaries in digital prostitution would have problems.

You can't expect customers to be courteous and professional with you if the product is sex, all the more so if you're leveraging the illusion of a social relationship. It's a one or the other proposition.
There's no in-between, there's no picking both.

The entire thing is schizophrenic.
Cue the Orbanites saying how the EU wants to interfere in "matters of their country"

This (and the events of January 6th) are a good reminder that the law is worth the paper it's printed on if no one acts on it.
I believe we are getting to the point where we need to create a broad category of crimes for misleading the public. Form lying as a trusted public figure (elected politician, government employee) all the way to publishing or submitting fraudulent research for publication. Countless lives were lost in the past year because people believed fraudulent studies about COVID treatments. Worse than that, government officials publicly supported those false reports and increased the damage they caused for political or even financial motivations.

The search for objective truth is a societal defence mechanism. Assaulting it is an assault on society itself.
What it means that it can't code well, so there's nothing to be excited about. That we cannot predict the future is of course true but really has no bearing on what you're saying, except to lend credence to the idea that it will be able to some day (i.e. that you can predict the future). Which is in essence the opposite of what "we cannot predict the future" should mean. That makes the entire argument kind of disingenuous.
That website and its form are absolute garbage.

They even tell you their form doesn't work with some ad blockers. Well guess what, I'm someone who is signing up to a class action against Facebook so I use Ad blockers.

They also require gobs of stupid JS for some reason.

I couldn't get it to work in Firefox, only in Chrome :(
I always am amazed by how many people value their nation over larger groups of human beings who are just like them... isn't it time to up our game as humans and start thinking bigger? Why not abolish nations within the EU and just become the EU with different provinces?

Nationalism is an ancient mentality, get rid of it and start moving into larger groups who can do more.

I keep reading about the North American Alliance in sci fi books, how long until the usa, canada and mexico combine to create a bigger economic block?
Nature of Distributed Systems
We work a lot with single-node systems. This is the reason why we struggle to reason about distributed systems

I have written a note about nature of distributed systems and things that are commonly overlooked when we think about them
First of all, that sounds like a great plot for one of those mindless-yet-entertaining summer movies. Something like "White House Down" on a road trip. With trucks.

Second, how comes that all these federal agencies in the US demand "law enforcement experience"? Are you supposed to do a stint as some local Sheriff's deputy somewhere or go into a local police school (if that's a thing) first? Isn't that awfully inefficient? Shouldn't the federal government (as well as state governments) try to get the youngest, fittest, and brightest recruits?
(background: I have been doing zen meditation for 20 years. Several hours per day and participated in 50 intensive retreats or so).

Absolutely. If you meditate so much that it starts to work, it's like any effective medicine or treatment. It has potential for adversarial side effects. Even mentally healthy people get into some crazy states and can experience meltdowns while meditating. I have seen several cases of people having full blown psychosis needing psychiatric care.

Saying that if you get into a bad place you are not meditating right is also wrong. Buddhist tradition knows about these, but they are described in a way that often makes people think it's some kind of philosophical otherworldly metaphor. They can be pleasurable or horrifying or just weird. Japanese zen tradition calls all these just makyō (the realm of demons).

Everyone who has meditated long enough has encountered them. You can read sutras to see Buddha fighting with crazy. Almost every honest autobiography from famous meditation teachers has mentions of them. Zen Master Hakuin had probably the most famous complete meltdown. He called it Zen sickness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakuin_Ekaku#Zen_sickness He had to stop and seek help.

Many things that are worth doing and give meaning to life are not safe.

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Making things worse: Meditation attracts people with mental issues, and many treat them as a substitute to medication or therapy. Meditation is neither. It can be used as part of therapy, but it's not a substitute. Better get your therapy/medication right and then meditate moderately if that feels fine.
Accelerando by Charlie Stross comes to life...
You're free to write all local laws you want and the rest of the world is free to not buy anything for you and give you one cent for anything.
> He talks about dissociative experiences (which is well documented in medical research)

Experienced this as well.

> it being a pseudo-religion

IMO, too simple. Many experiences feel quite pseudo-religion like.

> more susceptible to breakage from smaller stresses, like one of a traffic jam

Didn't experience this. In fact I believed I was more or less invincible and became pretty deluded. Thankfully a part always stays skeptical. Being skeptical saved me and it made me stop meditating for a while and now I have it at a level where it's beneficial.
Don't know the chemistry used by Toyota, but NiMH is less likely to feature Cobalt than a LiIon cell. If so, it's a benefit.
Also, if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.
Do poker site operators not entice whales by offering rakeback deals and special discounts?

Poker is weird because the largest chunks of all monies go from one player to the other. But I assume rakes, at higher stakes, do add up really quickly...
Is SAP going into nocode? They are making billions from implementation cost
> Built-in strings: hopefully UTF-8!

Hopefully just bytes, which trivially allows storage of UTF-8.

> built-in dynamic arrays, yess.

Dynamic arrays are only few lines to implement. There are different ways to do them, and no matter how, there will always be some problematic aspects. Not sure why you would want to choose one particular implementation and elevate it to a higher status.

> No preprocessor. Heck yes, it's a crutch.

It's ugly and inexperienced users will write bugs using it, but it's also tremendously useful. You mentioned quasiquoting as an alternative, but I'm not positive that it works as a preprocessor replacement for a language that lacks the "homomiconity" of LISP. Are there examples that show it works?
Yeah I think I have an ac to autocracy step converter in my garage.
> In the aftermath, I floated for months in a state free of discontent.

This is interesting. As a human, I always have something to be discontent about. It never stops, and it is not supposed to stop - as those are my instincts driving me.

I love my mindfulness moments, and being able to look into my emotions. But I wouldn't want to stay months without discontent.

Overall, several of the author's quotes point to a very extreme practice. He is mixing internal state and reality as if it was one and the same. These two factors are bound to lead to problems.

But I don't see most people doing 30 min per say having these issues.
The "Dark Night" is typically attributed to St. John of the Cross, although I'd be willing to believe that the term has been used in other traditions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Night_of_the_Soul

Ah, note the last paragraph in this article:

'In modern mindfulness practice, many authors have named a similar phenomenon in meditation as the dark night of the soul after the poem. It is often described as a lengthened and intense state of depression or ennui caused by errant or irresponsible meditation practices. Author John Yates compares it to a Theravadan term, dukkha ñanas, or "knowledges of suffering".'
Thanks for the summary.

Not the first time I hear about these negative side effects, but every time I’m reminded of the possibility I’m surprised.

It also reminds me however that my meditation practice is infinitely shallower than what people suffering negative consequences describe.

There was a time where I would practice very rigorously (for me at least) and all I can remember is that I felt more empathy and emotion but never in a bad sense. I remember getting tearful if I heard a story of human suffering, and I also remember getting quasi-orgasmic sensations with food. Never things like losing it at a traffic jam.

I wish I could recover the positives, but unfortunately I don't remember what my practice consisted of back in the day. Maybe I should go to a class or something.
> A handheld device would be even better.

Yeah, I've got a box full of usb cables, and pretty much no clue which ones support what, and not much of an idea how I would quickly find out for any particular cable what it supports.
You can't fully remove nationalism, it's always going to exist in some way or the other, even in things that have nothing to do with "nations". (Yankees vs. Red Sox for example)

The "no-borders" people are as out of touch with reality as Orban, though in different extremes.
I also experienced something similar. While meditating at work I experienced a state of profound bliss and extreme bodily sensations. What followed this was a disintegration where I dropped into an existential crisis that lasted for about a year. However during this time I faced a number of demons which I hadn’t been able to face up until that point. Now, about 5 years later I am in a good place and am ramping up my meditation practice once more.

Meditation is what it says on the tin, a way to uncover real truth. It’s powerful and dangerous. It’s a path for truth seekers, who are willing to pay whatever it takes to see what is truly there. For me its a blessing.

For most these experiences are ones of positive disintegration rather than negative. After the dark night of the soul has passed we find ourselves more fully integrated than before.

For many that’s not something they were after and in this way I agree with the article, meditation is being miss sold.
That's not what I tried to say. It's up to you as a user to make due diligence and make an informed decision if you want to use the software or not.

Any serious project would have some form of web of trust and know who has commit rights. It's up to you to decide if you trust their web of trust.

I guess from your comments that you are not actually interested in contributing to the discussion since you just sprout single line comments with no information at all.
If the topic was different, the comments would be different. The burden is therefore on you to draw the parallels, not on the reader to imagine swapping one for the other while you point out how the conversation would be different.

There are no arguments around free speech that can actually be compressed into a one liner. They all have at least a paragraph of nuance and how edge cases need to be handled.
Hmm, that's not a first. Our legal systems (its AFAIK world-wide phenomenon) are flooded as it is, as its slooowwwww. In US, politicians use their time with amendments (?) to slow down the adoption of a law. Not sure how that exactly works as I'm not from US.
> This terrain was fresh. I had never previously experienced a psychotic episode and have no history of mental illness besides occasional bouts of mild anxiety and depression.
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> Why did I start meditating? The short answer is that in 2009 I started a fist fight in a French Quarter bar over some jambalaya, a steamy kiss, and a stray comment I didn’t take fondly. The evening ended hours later after I broke a window with my fist, misplaced my shirt, and guzzled about 16 bottles of Miller High Life.

YYMMV, but I feel the author is having problems they dont want to really accept. That is what the contradiction in the two quotes above indicates.

Aside from that, I couldn't help but think about people having access to too many psychedelics. For a while, tripping can give you the most profound experiences ever. But after a while, it sort of becomes mondane, and this is when the bad trip probability suddenly skyrockets. Or, put another way, even Siddhartha didn't find awakening in the samana practices. They were only the first step (of three) to reach his goal. You can overdo everything, even the very very nice things.
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