skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> … Sean Monahan, later said that though Kerouac’s “intuitions were right,” he “made up his Buddhism” and “didn’t know a lot about it, didn’t have a lot of training in it.” Watts himself said Kerouac had “Zen flesh but no Zen bones,” and poet and essayist Kenneth Rexroth wrote, “Kerouac’s Buddha is a dime-store incense burner.”

The moss in this, is that Buddhism itself is purely a product of thought. Siddhartha himself did nothing other than thinking and writing (unsure on the writing vs. transcription).

Everything else is lichen grafted on over the years as dogma creeps in.
I imagine if you live on an urban street where (say) kids walk to school and there are various selfish drivers who regularly speed, this could be rather useful.
something I’ve wondered for a while:

Suppose someone invents something and uses it for their products, but never publishes anything about the invention, and then someone else (years later) independently develops the same thing and gets a patent that covers the first invention.

Is the first person now infringing the patent, or can the fact they were doing it first (even though there is no published info to serve as prior art) give some rights to keep using it?

(I understand any responses are not legal advice and I should ask a lawyer, etc, etc)
> I just interpret that as "aircraft carrier belonging to a NATO member state".

US != NATO

> very significant overlap

ah yes the overlap

> On 19 March 2011, a multi-state NATO-led coalition began a military intervention in Libya

You must have forgotten to paste the text after the comma, let us retry together:

On 19 March 2011, a multi-state NATO-led coalition began a military intervention in Libya, to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, in response to events during the First Libyan Civil War. With ten votes in favour and five abstentions, the UN Security Council's intent was to have "an immediate ceasefire in Libya, including an end to the current attacks against civilians, which it said might constitute “crimes against humanity” ... [imposing] a ban on all flights in the country's airspace — a no-fly zone — and tightened sanctions on the [Muammar] Qadhafi regime and its supporters.

I'm always amazed at the number of snarky know-it-all positions regarding recent geopolitics/warfare/etc. that are based on conveniently projecting away inconvenient pieces of information.
if I were him I would see Europe as a very easy-to-manage relationship unless "viral democracy" is somehow a real threat, which I dont really believe. China is a real threat to Russia, and it seems that Putin has decided to become a supplicant to China by buying into their Us vs the West paranoia (which I also dont quite believe literally, I feel it is a rhetorical device to increase nationalism in China to keep people bonded together. )
They could be using some node.js framework they don't understand that is silently persisting data.
> The problem here is that both sides are in the wrong, but for different reasons. NATO expanding eastwards is scary and destabilizing to everyone in the world.

I can't imagine how scary it would be for Polish people right now if we weren't in NATO, because Russians practiaclly mention us along with Ukraine on a single breath.

It was called a Warsaw pact. Warsaw is Polish capital.
You've not understood my post at all.

I am not arguing against more strict moderation. I am saying that the apparent leftist tilt of, for example, Twitter, is not in fact a consequence of biased moderation, but rather a consequence of a bias in the underlying population: internet users tend to be more left.
I'll believe it when I see it. If you're going to announce something, you better be ironing out the last showstopping bugs in the code and have it ready to be shipping.
10% is not very much when it comes to barriers to UBI.

If you told somebody who supported UBI that it was going to cost $1.1*X rather than $X, would they stop supporting it? If you told somebody who opposed UBI that it was going to cost $0.91*X rather than $X, would they stop opposing it?
Office 365 requires SMTP/POP/IMAP to use an "xoauth" authentication scheme which relies on getting an authentication token from a web browser. The process of getting that token involves sending a request that includes an application ID.
Magic is not supernatural in so far as supernatural means “doesn’t exist”. Otherwise referring to anything as magic simply means “it doesn’t exist” or “it doesn’t work.” If you want to use the term magic in a useful way, use it to refer to the use of processes or rituals that have effects through mechanisms we don’t understand. That fits better the history of the term.

Like, when a design is magical, that means it has effects that aren’t fully understood. Like architectural decorations on buildings have real effects on the vibe of a neighborhood but we really don’t understand the specifics of how or why they affect us psychologically.
Meh, I think the author is overthinking the use of the word.

Personally I tend to use “plumbing”. It’s important, has a tangible result but it’s working are totally hidden unless you go looking for it.

I like to say to people that a good framework has a lot of plumbing, where others might call it magic.
> even more expensive than the bundle

That's the shocking thing. I've heard of cases where dropping cable would increase the bill. I suspect that's because it's easier to defend leveraging your monopoly power if you can show customers are "buying" other services like cable.
The license should forbid competing artists to using the artist’s work as well. In fact, no human should come in contact with the produced art, otherwise they might be accidentally inspired by it, thus stealing from the original creator.
Links matter much, but alone do not suffice. While it's possible to traverse a graph looking for pretty anything doing so a link at a time is definitively not practical. We have arrived to Search Engines for a reason.

We need to been able to query our information base, and queries do need sometimes to offer more than mere full-text search. For that from tags to topic modeling many kind of meta-information are needed. They are hard, since automate them is hard, but they give back results that doing otherwise can't be equally reached so...
I used Emacs for 20 years, contributed to popular open source emacs projects, and am the maintainer of a couple of emacs packages with small numbers of users.

It's wonderful and extremely powerful having everything in lisp; don't bother with emacs if you're not interested in writing lisp.

One silly thing that I could never get to grips with is the way the minibuffer always seems to get stuck asking me a question, but the cursor isn't in the minibuffer. Or it's in some sort of recursive minibuffer mode. So many times I've just mashed C-g repeatedly in irritation!

I stopped using Emacs last year in order to access the high quality LSP experiences that are available for Typescript and Rust and other languages in VSCode. I'm firly happy with the configurability of VSCode and generally fairly happy with the move. VSCode needs Emacs' window-configuration registers though.
>>>No one forced Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia to join NATO

No, but the US should have carefully measured (and probably rejected) any interest from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia, and Ukraine. Accession into NATO requires unanimous endorsement from all extant members. The most powerful member of the alliance saying "No" sends an even stronger signal.

And then we should have offered military training, maybe even subsidized armament sales (aka "foreign aid") to encourage a strong self-defense capability....but NO formalized or even informal assurances of mutual defense, and no US assets based in their borders. I think that would have been a smart compromise: help these countries make themselves too costly to invade, without making Russia more paranoid and without growing our "surface area" of treaty risks.
I see other people on here say this but I think it is so important that it can be said again. WRITE, WRITE, WRITE! As you read and learn I think it is so important to write. I suggest a mixture of notes, journal entries, and short essays. The more you do this the more your thoughts will gain clarity and you will see themes emerge from what you are doing.

As far as finding 'what to do with it'. I think that will develop over time as you talk with people about your interests. Share your writings as best as you can and join discussions. See if there are local MeetUp (or something similar) groups on the topics that you find most interesting. If so, join them and go to discussions. Ask if you can give short presentations on topics to the group. If you find a book or essay particularly interesting then send an email to the author.

Another trick that has worked for me; Some famous authors can be sometimes really hard to reach. But look at the work that they cite. Usually you will find some academic paper that they quote or reference. Look up the author / authors of those papers and read about them and contact them directly. Professors LOVE to talk about their work and usually (from my experience) they are happy to talk to people about their research who have read their papers. From those conversations you might find a path to a career or hobby that make you feel fullfilled. Enjoy the journey.
Let me suggest an option that I haven't seen others bring up. One source of depression is that your expectations of what life and relationships should be like is all messed up. This comes from having a dysfunctional family growing up. There are many families that just weren't able to give emotional support in the way that the child needed. This leaves you with a twisted view of who you are and what you need in life.

As an aside, if you think talking about depression is hard, try getting people to admit that their parents were less than perfect. We were completely dependent on our parents growing up and we idolize them. People are imperfect. Parents are people. You can do the math from there, but it's still super hard to say out loud.

Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families (commonly called ACA or ACoA) is a twelve step support group that focuses on this. They started because children of alcoholics were having a number of problems, even though they never touched alcohol themselves. Addiction was an obvious way for parents to be emotionally unavailable, but there are many other dysfunctions that affect children in a similar way. Search for the ACA Laundry List to see the common characteristics. If you relate to even half that list, then ACA will probably help you.

ACA is a support group. You can learn a lot just from reading the books, but there is more value in regularly talking to people who have dealt with the same issues. There are local groups in most areas (search for ACA groups), as well and zoom/phone groups.

There are many different approaches to therapy. If you are in the ACA category, then looking for a therapist that understands childhood trauma and neglect can be much more effective then the common CBT approach. Asking around at a group meeting can be useful to get references. A good group plus good therapy is more powerful than either alone.

I dealt with depression my whole life. I had some improvement with St John's Wort (a herbal SRRI), Vitamin D3, NAC, sleep, and exercise as others have already written about. But I had to discover ACA to get at the core issues.

If there is interest, I can post my list of ACA related books.
Just as there are people who'd leave if the stack is "boring" there are people who'd leave if the tech stack is insane. Personally I wouldn't want to work in a team that prioritizes resume driven development. It's usually teams that care very little about the company or product, their only motivation is tinkering with shiny tech. That's not for me.
This is a good point. By widespread concern, I meant rather that tax return fraud generally does not rise to the level of campaign issue for people aspiring to political leadership.
No, because that's exactly what happened in Texas during their winter storm crisis.
> Maybe I'm missing something here, but it feels like you don't need some fancy realtime queue service for most push notifications, so why not use something that offloads the checks to the client?

Depending on the use case, you may well depend on the real-time aspect of push notifications.
If my door bell rang while using headphones, I'd want to know immediately.
I'd also be pretty pissed if a messenger took more than 5 seconds between sending and receiving on the other end, event if "closed" or in background.
Elementary OS Faces Uncertain Future After Co-Founder Split
> a very specific setup or slight-of-hand

Wait wait wait... are you telling me that David Copperfield didn't use "rituals, symbols, actions, gestures, and language with the aim of utilizing supernatural forces" when he made the statue of liberty disappear?
and many get the same exact feeling from profit based answers. And both have many countless examples of huge failures.

And what many seem to conveniently forget, both have countless examples of absolute mind blowing successes. Both.
Understand the Use Case (2021)
As long as Putin is in charge there really is only one narrative, which is one that supports this sentiment.

For a different wording there is also this piece apparently written by Putin:

https://www.prlib.ru/en/article-vladimir-putin-historical-un...

And if it wasn't crystal clear before, then it should be now: Ukraine is fighting to keep their country on the map, this is an existential fight against the invasion.
That’s why energy storage is important.
That's not accurate. The article I linked is better at explaining this than I am:

> We license this software to organisations, who receive secure and unique instances of our platforms in which to conduct their own work on their own data.

> We do not and cannot reuse or transfer our clients’ data for our own purposes. Attempting to profit from customer data in this way would be illegal and would undermine the trust that is necessary to work in the sensitive environments in which we have built our business.
Thank God when our governments kill innocent civilians they do it far away from Europe where it doesn't matter /s

I know there's more to it, but I can't help but feel this every time I heard that kind of reasoning. The truth is it's just because we have the power to do this whereas when we're in the wrong most people can't do anything about it
Yes, it's legal. But they have a choice to accept your contract (the paper) or not.

It's not like if you write it, they automatically need to honor it.
Disclaimer, I'm an armchair international relations guy

Access to warm water ports has been a major driver in Russian foreign policy for centuries. Today they have access through Sevestapol and Novorossiysk on the Black Sea, and Mediterranean port access to Tartus in Syria. In the east the major port is Vladivostok which is kept open with ice breakers.

The security and economic consequences of lack of ports is a big problem. One of the major reasons they annexed Crimea was to guarantee access to the port without requiring a pro-Russian regime in Kyiv, but Sevestapol is now on the edge of a warzone with Ukrainian military just dozens of miles away and the administration not backing away from reclaiming their 2014 borders. Access to the Mediterranean requires bypassing Ukrainian security forces and the Bosporus controlled by Turkey, which is not allowing Russian ships through as a result of the war. To get goods or materiel through to Tartus they need to ship by rail through Georgia, Turkey, and northern Syria - again, major security problems.

So the only major port for Russia is Vladivostok which is across Siberia and ices over in the winter. That makes using it as a major shipping and naval hub prohibitive.

These issues have been around since Peter the Great expanded Russia into a global power, and even the Soviets struggled with naval power projection. Russia even more so today, and they're making their lives worse by invading Ukraine.
> It also tends to kill the person doing the speeding

Most definitely not true when the speeding motorist hits a pedestrian or a cyclist.
SiCortex (highly parallel MIPS-based machines with an interesting interconnect, a Kautz graph)? The simh sources for the SiCortex systems can be found at https://github.com/sergev/SiCortex-sc1
In the poster's context of using terms like 'personal growth' and ' how to improve their mindset to scale their business', perhaps.

I think for a lot of other spaces inner work means more about finding personal (and shared) values, and feeling through trauma, and finding a path for 'living and dying well'.
ah, the great man theory gets applied to a gigantic, globally scaled and insanely complicated set of software services.
Yandex CEO relocates to Israel over Ukraine: 'Cannot work for a country at war'
Really? He seems to be in the news pretty regularly. He even created his own social network. So he certainly has no trouble reaching his fans, and it's clear that he isn't censored or banned in the same way that, say, Alexei Navalny is in Russia.

If there's declining interest in him among the public, maybe it's because he isn't president anymore.
For anyone wondering what this person means when he says:

> All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Let me share with you one of my all time favorite quotes, from George Bernard Shaw[1]:

>“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

While Shaw himself was a controversial figure even in his own time (roughly a century ago), and would be abhorred by today's standards for many reasons, this particular item, standing alone, remains a particular gem of wisdom.

For a historical example we're all quite familiar with in this industry, think "Steve Jobs". He adapted the world to his vision through innovation and commerce, forcing the creation of entire industries - at least twice over! - as a result. Thanks to him being "unreasonable", the personal computer market emerged which spawned our entire industry. Then with the release of the iPhone, the smartphone market came into existence along with Android and for a time, Windows Phone (RIP).

I strongly disagree with several of Shaw's points of view, but this particular gem has always been a favorite of mine in spite of that. I find it particularly inspiring.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw
I mean that's a technology that could be used, but I don't see mention of it in the article. Is it in the law?
To honest I don't see how this can be anything other than an inside job. No reasonable person would expect someone to have setup the arrangement where a key controlling a kind of faucet would also be a validator key. That's insane and obviously a very bad idea. So whoever pulled off the attack must have known that a very unusual and very stupid arrangement had been created. Ergo they must have been an insider.
Correct. I like ruby the language. Rails, not so much.
This is a great article going into more specifics. https://brandur.org/idempotency-keys
I think it's trying to say that a "tag" is just a link that points to a page consisting of links to all pages containing that link?
This whole thing gives the impression that these tech gurus view the rest of us (particularly less developed countries) as cattle, to be identified, categorized, and allocated a pre-defined amount of resources.
Fireship: I built 10 web apps with 10 different languages
Using client side javascript to do critical monetary decisions?
I don't see how this helps. What would be useful is for you (and your neighbors) to report the issue to the city and have them install speed bumps and maybe have a speed trap setup. Not everything needs an app.
> this dude is extremely suspect

"This dude" is both a prominent educator and prominent researcher of algorithms. If you actually look at his twitter history, this sort of tweet [0] is much more common than any trying to "paint himself as a victim."

I'm sorry, but if someone siccs lawyers and/or the police on you for a tweet you make criticizing them, you are a victim and it beyond reasonable to be upset about it.

This thread has been a real master class in how HN reacts to any rhetoric around race as trying to "paint yourself as a victim." It's really obvious to me knowing Jelani outside of contexts like this how much you are trying to mis-represent him.

[0]: https://twitter.com/minilek/status/1498504249876963331
Why is consciousness in humans limited to our brains? We've never seen non-living material exhibit the characteristics of life in nature.

The computers and robots we build are carrying out instructions in a very mechanical way, however impressive they are.
> So NATO members are still free to do what they want without casting any shade on NATO itself?

I condemn the vast majority of the US foreign policy of the last 50+ years, I'm just pointing out that conflating US/NATO is a convenient parlor trick and irrelevant whataboutism.

> Could France

This scenario wouldn't trigger Article 5.
Systemd-boot is a dream. Why anyone would tolerate or think grub2 is an acceptable piece of software is beyond my understanding.

grub.cfg used to be human editable, but has evolved & morphed into some massive gnarly twisted mess of inscrutible noise that only multiple layers of shell scripts can output. It's become a write-once-read-never disaster.

And if i recall it's not even live. You still have to install that config.

Systemd-boot (nee gummiboot).is such a huge breath of fresh air. Simple senisible plaintext entries that one cam modify in any old text editor, which have immediate effect. It's so pleasant & simple.

Alas debian doesnt seem to ship any hooks for updating systemd-boot with kernel updates. There's a shell-script to write/remove the entries but one has to go write their own hook & figure out the variables to marshal into the script's arguments. Please Debian!
Maybe the Roswell incident in 1947 started it, as one of the classified balloons crashed that used to monitor Soviet nuclear tests. The CIA capitalised on the rumours relating to aliens and used them to build a campaign of misinformation. Even if there were any real sighting of flight tests it would have been really hard for the Soviets to filter them out from all the nonsense. The fact that people still believe the rumours today show what a great idea it was!
> Unfortunately, this is a reputation your organization cultivated for itself.

Yeah, I agree! The article acknowledges this in the first few paragraphs.
Who said anything about cancel culture or culture wars? The original post was just posting out a bias that many people have (anti-crypto). Everyone has biases and a lot of people are somewhat aware of their bias. By pointing out the bias, it helps people keep their bias in mind.

Your original comment said it was not effective and serves against you. Now you're saying it produces a narrow "shallow" advantage. I think it effective as it forces the reader to confront their biases.

I've seen this used in nonsensical anti-FB rants. You acknowledge that many people think facebook bad and you're not disputing that. And then you can go on to say "yes, people in fact still use facebook. in fact billions use it every day". It's been very effective in my experience.