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I don't know much about clocks, but the Swiss railway clocks are by some considered a canonical example of an analog clock, and they behave the way GP describes. But all other analog clocks I've ever seen behave the way you describe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock
People make choices I wouldn't recommend all the time.

I don't recommend becoming a single parent at 16 and dropping out of school. But I can respect the strength, determination and shouldering of responsibilities.

I don't recommend joining the army and getting shot at in some afghan village at some septuagenarian senator's say-so. But I can respect people who choose to serve.

I don't recommend taking on a lifetime of debt to get the absolute best education in poetry. But I can respect someone who's dedicated their life to mastering an art, and honed their skills far beyond anything I could achieve.
I prefer so too.

Let's not jump to conclusions. I wouldn't propose a ban on anything when a warning label or full disclosure would do just fine. I've edited my comment accordingly
>Tesla has deployed this beta software to just 1000 customers

Source? As far as I know, thousands of Tesla employees are in the beta but only dozens of non-Employees have been enrolled to the program and had one on one conversations with Tesla employees.
There are military and there are civilian dictatorships. Taking control of the legal system, legally removing oversight, silencing the media, bribing etc does constitute fair elections. Your definition of fairness might need to expand its scope.
Wow, there are a lot of judgemental and defensive responses here, from people who are allegedly working towards greater self knowledge and detachment...

So many saying some variation of "he's not doing it right". Yet with ten years of practice, it doesn't seem like this person was just dabbling or dipping their toe in the water.

Surely, even if they are "doing it wrong" that just goes to prove the point, that what's being taught and lauded so much as a panacea by some in the western world is potentially dangerous? And such dangers are downplayed or hand-waved away?
It is true that Fidesz, his party, has won 2/3rds of the seats in the Parliament, though they only got 45.2% of the total votes. This victory was in part due to them significantly re-drawing the regions used during the elections to their favour, changing rules for voting from abroad (making it easier to vote from neighbouring regions where most of the people are traditionally their supporters, but more difficult from other parts of the world, where most of the population would like to see a change). It was also helped by using the state to fund and run their own campaign with virtually unlimited amount of money (they were the ruling party in the previous term as well), gradually taking control of all media outlets (especially traditional print and TV ones, further strengthening their base in more rural areas), etc.

Since then they have taken even more control of the media, diverted the majority of EU and state funds to loyal businessmen (a regular gas-fitter became the wealthiest man in the country in a few short years, believed to be the straw man of Orban himself), filled all major positions with their own people (including most recently the high court), created laws directly against the civil society and LMBTQ+ people, stopped most of the funding to towns that have elected politicians from the opposition, taken control of all universities and actively worked on getting rid of CEU (one of the best, independent university, which was criticised due to being funded by George Soros), signed secret business deals for enormous amounts of money with Chinese and Russian interests that will almost certainly never be beneficial for Hungary, etc.

The comparison to Belarus is not correct in the sense that in Hungary violence has not been used (fortunately), but apart from that the governing party has done everything else they can to keep their power and crush everyone else.
I think it doesn't matter how big the bubble is - you saw what happened with Brexit (and it got validated by EU handling of COVID crisis), now imagine what happens when the only option to leave is succession/civil war.

There are independence tensions within European countries (eg. Spain/Basque, UK/Scotland).

You have to be a blind idealist to think this would work. There are going to be a lot of crisis scenarios for EU in the next few decades, refugees being the looming one EU failed to reach a consensus on and botched previously (that helped radicalise parts of it like Hungary and further alienated UK). The pending post COVID inflation/economic shock could also storm the Euro zone, Greece is still devastated from the "bailouts" in the financial crisis.
A bad trip can tell people unthruths or falsehoods that they then believe. That is objectively bad.

In other words, a bad trip can manifest pathologies where none existed before.
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Sure, liberal is an umbrella term. Instead, imagine a country where we let people live their life however they want, do whatever they want to their bodies and think for themselves.

This is not Hungary and we are heading towards the opposite direction.
I think what's important is respecting human rights, not ideological affiliation, and in that sense Hungary has noticeably regressed in the past decade.
I'm not sure if conspired is the right word. Poland just has very strong sympathy for Hungary as a country and its people.

Poland has nothing to do with Orban and wants nothing to do with Orban. Unfortunately we have our own populists that like Orban wants to remodel our country to be easier for them to rule as they please. And results are similar as with Orban in Hungary and threats to that from EU are the same so cooperation against EU safeguards is kind of natural and spontaneous.
Well, you said that you bought it a couple years ago.
Many years ago, I wrote a blog -- no longer online, I'm afraid -- about how I associated different programming languages with different shapes. I've never heard of this effect before today, but it visualises almost perfectly what I was trying to express all those years ago. (I originally posited that it was some form of synaesthesia.)

For example, Python has a rounded or smoother shape, whereas C-style languages are more kiki-like (with JavaScript being the spikiest); Haskell, IIRC, had a squarish lump kind of appearance. I originally wrote myself off, thinking that maybe the shapes very loosely correspond to how the code looks in each language "from a distance", but I was never really satisfied with that.
Haha so many comments from the SV & Bruxelles globo-homo bubble.

Hungary is a sovereign nation with a freely elected body of leaders who uphold the national, traditional & Christian values on which it is founded and which allowed this nation's continuity throughout history.

Get over it.
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If you watch the video, it doesn't appear to contain safeguards against driving into oncoming traffic and parked cars.
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The following is just my opinion, and I'm not that hard-set in case anyone has any nice arguments.

Generally, when you (for example) use GANs to learn from (copyrighted) images and generate new images, I see no reason why those new images should inherit any copyrights from the original image if the resulting images look sufficiently different. (Obviously, if you just train on 1000 images of Mickey Mouse, you'll get mostly Mickey Mouse, and you wouldn't get the copyright.)

Humans work the same way -- artists train on existing images or subjects/etc., and unless they produce something that looks similar to an existing image, they get the copyright.

In other words, I don't think training on copyrighted code violates copyright (UNLESS the license explicitly disallows that; maybe there will be licenses for that soon). However, if generated code is too similar to existing code, then that could be a copyright violation. In other words, the user is responsible to make sure they aren't violating any copyrights from their usage of Copilot. It may be useful to build plagiarism checkers for this purpose. (Or maybe they already exist.)

If you use Copilot, I recommend keeping track of things that were generated automatically, just so you can go back to change those components if necessary.
"human rights" is a liberal construct.
Adoptions an foster care should be illegal as it invariably attracts various creeps trying to get hold of someone else's children and abuse them. If you cannot have your own children, you are already defective in some way and you better not impose your damage on others.
"In 2014 my partner and I decided, after carefully weighing the pros and cons, to be spontaneous and get tattoos."

This is gold.
Arguably, it is medical. Substance use disorders, of which cannabis can be an example, are medical disorders which are better treated medically than with punitive justice.
Not me thinking "all standards should be freely available". Guess I'm a just filthy communist...
Hungary aside, most of Israel's allies in the region are dictatorships, actaully all of them: Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Morocco (arguably, let's agree it's not a liberal democracy) and so on and so on. There are zero democracies in the area. So it's easy to see Israel's interest in supplying technology to those regimes and assuring good relations; it's not like the oppositions to these dictators are any better, the Muslim Brotherhood is appalling.
Now Hungary isn't really important to Israel and is part of the EU, may have been wiser to not do that.

> This is Netanyahu's legacy, a proto dictator, arming dictators.

Isn't the U.S selling arms to Saudi Arabia?
China has already targeted Serbia and Montenegro - infrastructure mainly. I can't find the source now, but I have heard they already started investing in Hungary.
Legally what you describe is the crime of “blackmail”. You may need to review the legal definition of blackmail. It’s perfectly legal to report someone’s crime. It’s illegal to say/imply “Hey either you do x/y/x or else I will report this crime you did. But if you do that for me then I won’t have to report your crime.”

That’s blackmail and it’s a felony. Whether the things that Daniel Ray said specifically is blackmail or not, obviously I’d need a lawyer or court to tell me. But it’s not a good look at all.
There are many practical problems to actually implementing this idea.

First, money. Some parts of the EU are way richer than others, with superior welfare systems. If every EU citizen is to be truly equal, then that would mean same standards of government services and welfare everywhere, which would be costly to the richer states. Of course, alternatively we could lower standards everywhere, but that's not good for people.

Then there's cultural, economic, geolocial differences in general, higher corruption in many members states of east/south... Plenty of things to consider. Leaders in some parts of the EU really won't understand the situation in other parts, which makes any kind of centralized government problematic. Perhaps a very decentralized model could work though, but then again that's not much different from what we have now.

Also, nationalism is hardly "an ancient mentality". Healthy nationalism, a common idea and identity is something pretty much all well-functioning countries have. United States of Europe would never work without a common European identity, and controlled outer borders. Cultural differences between different parts of the world are still way too large for anything like democratic one world government to work.
No part of any open source license says I have to like companies that extract billions in value from open source projects without contributing back to the project. My opinion is simply that once you get to a few million in revenue putting a few thousand back in to the code that got you there is a decent thing to do, and if you don't then you're not very nice.

The fact that the license allows you to do this is great; the fact that people actually do is not.
I guess you will change your views about human rights when you and your family will be the ones being specifically targeted by your own government.
So if the concept of nation is ancient why do you want to create an EU... nation ????
In that direction there was an idea a few years ago about detecting if on a very small scale we can observe any grid-alignment effect. https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1847

I think there was another paper about similar grid-alignment idea for some properties of galaxies, but I can't find it now.
> We can't reasonably claim there's anything wrong with a company building a product on the back of open source work when literally all of us do that as well.

We cannot (are not allowed to, by law, contracts etc.) open source everything we write. I think the most important contribution is not funding but to contribute in some way or another for most.

Having said that, it is disheartening that important projects lack even basic funding. Is this getting better? There are also success stories that pop up with funding and donations becoming easier.

For companies open source funding can be a major thing to improve their relationship with the wider software community. It is a signal that they are interested in sustainability of software and collaboration. And it is a form of recognition for the authors.

Edit:

I just realized we are talking about GitHub here. They are a major contributor to open and free software as they provide free hosting and tooling. I'm not saying this absolves them of everything they do with Copilot, but I'm very, very happy to have such an amazing service freely available and many others are too.
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> I don't think you can expect the institution to implicate themselves like that.

Admitting your mistakes is a strength, not a weakness. We should not expect other's to self-censor their shortcomings because if we do, we live in a fake world already. I mean, it happens, but whatever happened to honesty, the greater good, long term goals? Your take short sighted, short term benefits which will bite them in the ass eventually in the long run (like a can of worms).
The code doesn't exist in Copilot. The instructions for how to recreate the code does. On a very pedantic level those are not the same, but it probably is enough to argue that the product is 100% legal.

It is still quite rude to do that though.
Huh? Please explain if you don't mind. UTF-8 is completely backward compatible with 7-bit ASCII, so if you don't need international characters everything remains exactly the same, and if you need international characters, strings are still just regular "bags of bytes". The only difference (for international strings) is that the number of bytes in the strings isn't the same as the number of characters (or rather UNICODE code points). But that's only relevant if you actually need to process a string down on the character level. Most CRT ASCII string functions work just fine on UTF-8 data, even strtok() if the delimiters are 7-bit ASCII.
I completely agree ! I don't know what would lead you to believe I take sex work as just another trade.

Quite the opposite, I assert that because it is not simply « a job », you can't treat it as such and blur boundaries while expecting to be safe, be it physically or mentally.

I think the entire model is noxious, save for whoever's collecting the money and conveniently washing their hands of any responsibility.
"Afaik Orban's party has won the last rounds of elections pretty conclusively"

AFAIK Lukashenko also has some no-fraud elections under his belt. You don't need an election fraud to go from a democracy to a dictatorship.
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I would be happy of my IDE could throw me to the relevant topic on cppreference.com from a type or variable. Or still show the function signature after I started typing the function arguments.

There are so much low hanging fruit it is silly.
Cynical me thinks they know these loopholes don't work, and are earning more with the loopholes than the fines are going to be (which would be a lower and later fine than outright ignoring GDPR).
What if we went to Mars and found 100 mile high writing saying "Just kidding, xxx God"?
Lapsed Buddhist here.

> The Arahat Daniel M. Ingram

According to the instruction I received, there have been no arahants since a few decades after the death of the Buddha. Choose your teacher carefully. Many meditation teachers are charlatans; watch out especially for those who claim to be enlightened.

> The type of meditation I had been practicing was jhana

...or "dhyana", if you go with the Sanskrit version.

The OP spends a lot of his words talking about "mindfulness" and the industry associated with it. But if he was practising the dhyanas, he was NOT practising mindfulness as such. Practising the dhyanas is serious, headbanging stuff, involving deep, single-pointed concentration. The dhyanas build on mindfulness, which is really a basis for all practice; but single-pointed concentration is almost the opposite of normal mindfulness practice.

The OP is correct that the "mindfulness industry" blames the faults of meditators for bad experiences. I've known people who survived bad experiences with meditation, but who were finally broken by being gaslighted by their teacher.

The "mindfulness industry" minimises the risks of meditation practice. The industry generally claims to be secular, or at least, to not depend on a religious interpretation. If you folllow an openly-religious meditation teacher, you shouldn't hear that reassuring touchy-feely nonsense; instead you will be told that the path you have embarked on is dangerous, and that if you aren't prepared to stick it out to the end, then it would be better not to begin.

And if you arrive at meditation as a result of psychiatric problems, step away quickly. You need to be mentally fit to undertake meditation practise.
Which country in EU is like that? I don't know of any. And there are much worse counter-examples than Hungary.
They should be expelled, but that's not possible. So the EU is indeed kinda helpless against member states gone rouge
Yeah, and that makes sense if you know neither Myers nor Briggs was a psychologist.
So, to clarify, you are aligning with the view he's opposing in the article that if someone has a profoundly negative experience due to meditation they're just "doing it wrong". That the practice, when done a certain way, carries 0% risk for very bad effects?
India and USA are often cites as examples of federations than EU should look to implement but that comparison is not valid.

The US were a blank page, with roughly the same crowd starting with the same common goal and aspirations. Europe comes with 15centuries of nationlike structures and history. Latin and AngloSaxons have very different approaches on life and work (particularly visible in the “PIGS” recent controversy...).

As someone said, you cant make the european omelette with nations hard boiled eggs.

The mere facts that the euro bank notes has zero european symbol (because they couldnt find one) speaks for itself. So they put bridges and windows... India has Gandhi.
>> Built-in strings: hopefully UTF-8!

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

Yes, it trivially allows, but then you'd need to deal with utf8-errors all over the program at runtime. Any method for string would need to be written such a way, that deals with invalid utf8 byte sequences.

Unix and C is a living example of what happens when you think of a string as of a arbitrary sequence of bytes. It gives a lot of edge cases which a programmer must bear in his/her mind constantly, because these edge cases would choose the least expected moment to jump on you. And then you'd need, for example, to invent a way to output an arbitrary byte sequence into a place where only UTF8 is allowed. I, personally, hate it. Like arbitrary byte sequences as a file names, even when I know that no one uses non-utf8 file names, I need to write programs working with file names in such a way, that allows arbitrary byte sequences, and to devise some syntax to output arbitrary byte-sequence into a terminal. Or into a web-page.

I see no good reasons to replace strings with arbitrary byte-sequences. If you need arbitrary byte-sequences then you have another abstraction for your task: an array. Much more powerful, because it can be array of bytes, of uint16_t, or of int64_t, or of your own struct. Why to spoil an abstraction of string with an ability to deal with arbitrary byte sequences?
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The simulation hypothesis is very intriguing, but one thing that is almost always overlooked about the simulation hypothesis is its premises.

I reject the very foundation of the simulation hypothesis: That worlds (can) exist inside other worlds. "Inside" can mean geometrically (physically inside) or topologically (element in a set). That would mean that the "inside" relation is a hierarchy / tree with a root (a true reality). Instead I think of it as a graph, where worlds can observe each other, without any influence on one another, thus there is no need for an origin or root.

Thought experiment: For the sake of simplicity let's say that our world is the game of chess (but the argument can be done for any universe with a set of rules, including ours). The simulation hypothesis would argue that a session of chess is a world and that playing that session on a physical board is a simulation. Furthermore, it would claim that this world exists while it is simulated on the board, by being played. Kicking the board over, ending the simulation would also end the simulated world.

Now, there are many logical inconsistencies here, uncovered by the following questions:
- What if I replicate the simulation by playing exactly the same session on a second board? There is only one session but now it has two hosts!? Which one does it exist "in"?
- How can I claim that I ended a simulated world, when I can't be sure that nobody else is simulating it somewhere else too?
- How can I claim to have done a new unique simulation if somebody else might have already done exactly the same in the past?

The main issue I have is that the simulation hypothesis thinks of simulations as imperative: That the simulation host does invent, change, influence, manipulate, guide the simulated world. I prefer to think of it as functional, it observes where a particular path (which exists regardless) leads without changing the outcome. Thus performing an action on the host merely turns your telescope a bit, so that you now observe a different route but the night sky exists immutably with or without you observing it.
I've lived in Paris for 15+ years, where many drivers are worst than FSD. I've watched hours of beta on Youtube. I never opted in, either.

Many human drivers don't care about cyclists safety: they overtake at high speed, sometimes within centimeters, and occasionally force us to change course or hit us (and don't stop to help unless we don't get up).

Yet, we don't make such drivers take an exam to check their skills/behavior because they passed one many years ago.

I'd like to know how many accidents have happened with FSD before we slow down self-driving (instead of the opinion of consumer groups who've always sided against this technology). Otherwise, we should put dangerous drivers out of the road _now_. We rarely do, even after they hit pedestrians or cyclists while texting, so I prefer we focus on improving driver assist systems and focus on actual accidents (instead of Tesla brushing against bushes).
You drive around every day on roads with learners, unroadworthy vehicles with bald tyres, and the occasional angry psycho driving a stolen car. You didn't opt into any of that either.
But it can be a federation of states. Hopefully, that will happen.