skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a forefront issue that Buddhism tries to address, both modern pragmatic Buddhism and fundamentalist Buddhism. It's why right speech, right action, and morals is one of the first things they drill into you. Most pragmatic practitioners will refuse to teach you if you indicate that you have some mental problems or moral deficiencies that should be addressed by a professional first, as mindfulness may end up doing more harm than good. It's one of the flaws of teaching secular mindfulness, far from its Buddhist roots. I've experienced all these interpersonal deficits after meditating seriously 2 hours every day for 2 years straight. Just need to have the self-awareness to address them, despite the goal of no-self.

I saw a Dr. K video in another comment, and one of my favorite quotes he uses to describe meditation is that, "if you run for 5 miles a day, there will be changes to your body that will definitely happen".

More here:

- https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-i-the-fund...

- https://eudoxos.github.io/cfitness/html/index.html

- https://themindfulgeek.com/ plus a talk he gave at Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2xxsA9Bn-4
Can you explain how there is more money in research than fundraising from alumni and corporations? Just glanced at a few cash flow statements and most of the income comes from sale of investments received as donations.
Denver is Trungpa territory, right?
Yeah but now it’s like organize millions of desks worth of distraction
First question: Yes.

The rest: conflation.
So it seems like the good Doctor does have a doctorate in a very relevant field. Informatics is quite closely related to programming especially as I understand in continental European universities. I find that knowing that the author has studied in the field for 10+ years is very relevant and adds authority to the blog.
I assume you are in the UK?

In EU under GDPR I think europeans have the right to demand that our data is not processed by an algorithm, but by a human instead. You might have a similar right under UK law.
I had to leave my country a couple of months ago because of the war. If not for the modern technology, I would become a poor refugee, locked out of my money, without any income and social connections and would be relying on finding benevolent strangers.

But with it, I almost painfully transitioned to digital nomad lifestyle. My remote job didn't suffer except for a single week long absence, I have access to all of my savings, I'm in contact with everybody I know, and I just go from living in Hilton to the next airbnb.

Finding yourself in a new country where you don't know a single soul used to be terrifying. Now I it's the most natural thing.
If you're interested by this, you might also like recent work I participated in developing RustHornBelt, which allows reasoning about the functional correctness of Rust code, and will be published at PLDI'22 in June.

Our preprint can be found here: https://www.lri.fr/~xldenis/paper/rusthornbelt.pdf
I think the younger generations may actually be able to pull off sarcasm on the internet.
Went through this myself after your typical LSD->mindfulness path in college. Definitely learned a ton, but people don’t take meditation seriously enough!

It’s not just a little stress reduction technique, it can completely shift your view of reality. Much of your “average successful life” is based on the illusion of the self, and meditation slowly chips away at that illusion. I think without the spiritual “context” (e.g. what was taught by Goenka) for the insight, one can become very withdrawn from life

That said, I still meditate and think it’s been overwhelmingly positive. But like anything worthwhile, denying the real risks doesn’t help anyone
Just curious, what were you trying to sell? Were any of the items prohibited, or something that might run afoul of some law somewhere? For example, certain computers or game consoles cannot be sold in certain markets (export restrictions), or devices that might be used for practical jokes (TV or radio jammers), that sort of thing.

It helps readers to know what might in turn get them banned.

Much thanks,

Colin
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Anyway, from my recollection, it was a case of me wanting to produce a C++ API/wrapper around the C API, and realising that the extant documentation wasn't quite sufficient for me to do so (to fully grok what went on underneath the C API enough to produce a C++ wrapper). Therefore, producing a more thorough technical reference manual seemed to me to kill 2 birds: I'd obtain a sufficient understanding, and so would the customers. Thus although Jez was right that the manual came first, the process of producing a more thorough TRM gave rise to Sam's observations.
Sure, I guess it ultimately comes down to what specifically the author finds uncomfortable about not having their phone. But I think this narrative of addiction (and the implication that people should be comfortable leaving possibly the most powerful tool that have at their disposal at home) largely feels like fear-mongering.

For example, you talk about people being incapable of being present - this seems very far from my experience. I know a couple of people who might check their phone obsessively, or will get distracted looking something up, but generally most people that I hang out with show no signs of difficulty engaging with something - work, a game, a conversation - for long periods of time. That's not to say that carrying around a portable endorphin generator doesn't have its own risks and complexities, but overall, this techno-nihilistic narrative of addiction and incapability rings quite false to me.
This article was from 2018, and mentions low commodity prices. Now it's 2022 and one of the world's largest wheat producers, Ukraine, has gone offline. I'm sure consolidation is going to continue to be a theme in Kansas, that independent farmers are going to continue to get driven out -- but for the next few years, I do not expect wheat prices to be low. If anything, they'll be high enough to set off political instability in many food-importing countries. That was one theory for why the Arab Spring happened, and this looks to be worse. So there might be a morbid kind of boom time in Kansas, for the few who are still standing today.
> Antony Beevor, author of the acclaimed new book about the fall of Berlin, on a massive war crime committed by the victorious Red Army
> The fact that your source for this is April 2020 makes me conclude you are trolling

Fed has been doing QE ever since 2008 if you haven't noticed, and interest rates trailed inflation ever since
did you get blood work done again though after taking the 5K IUs for a while? it's possible that the supplementation didn't bring your Vit D levels to within range and you need 10K IUs+. Of course, I'm not suggesting this would necessarily help with your depression, but just pointing that you gotta be scientific/anecdotal when it comes to supplementation/blood panels
Don't forget about its Free Software counterpart - Double Commander.

Cross-platform, feature packed, constantly updated, Lua-scriptable, supports TC plugins, written in Free Pascal.

https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io
I agree. You are describing the concept of flaneuring, which is something that is getting lost on this hyperconnected culture.

My worry is that by removing all chance of variability in our lives, we become automatons.
Anyone else notice the whole 's/equality/equity/' change that was broadly yet quietly slipped into mainstream society a couple years ago thinking that no one would notice? We somehow memory holed equality of opportunity and replaced it with equality of outcomes (equity) nearly overnight, with all media and corporate communications switching over their newspeak lexicon in unison. What's most interesting about the whole "equity" argument is the groupthink around the official list of who is and isn't marginalized, because my wholly unscientific observation is there is quite an understated effort to exclude East Asians and Indians from the equity club. My guess is their cultures have been deemed "too successful" or exhibiting characteristics (such as emphasis on education and family) contrary to the goals of this social engineering. Stuff like this is what stokes division in society and unfortunately I don't see this ending well.
Adafruit offers a starter kit with a microcontroller, 64x32 led matrix, and some other doodads for ~$70 (https://www.adafruit.com/product/4812). It's really easy to tinker with. I made a clock that does some crappy visualizations and open sourced it here: https://github.com/kruffin/matrix_portal_gol It actually looks a lot like this Tidbyt (a box with a dot matrix).

The only thing it doesn't have is a RTC, so I just polled a time server every so often.
You don’t need an excuse to explore blindly. I agree that you no longer have one, but I think that is simply a fact of the modern world that requires adaptation. We have to be more honest with ourselves about why we explore.
That would be damn cool game!
I wish they'd change the link to this as it contains more technical details.

Edit: nevermind, shame that you can't flag your own comments for moderator attention. I know I can email but I feel like it's not important enough to warrant one.
No, not really. Google Photos functions as a simple photo album. A CDM has extensive metadata at the file, item, and collection level.
> I'd welcome very much if we could agree that we have a problem there, and shift focus from criticizing new ideas to improving them.

I'm happy to think more about this problem and see if we can find some common ground (which is why I mentioned other voting reforms as ways of capturing more information about the preferences of the public), but I think I'm still a little unsure about why "expressing disapproval using voting systems" should be a goal.

Expressing disapproval in parties is, I think, an important part of a healthy democracy, but that can be done using free speech, protests, and opinion polls. Is that not enough? Maybe it's best for societies to follow your advice and, instead of criticizing existing parties, work to improve them (from within) or positively support alternative parties offering a different vision.

I think there's a real danger when trying to add "express disapproval" as an output of a voting system, since (as the article itself noted) it's already very difficult to create a voting system which fulfils other reasonable requirements. If voters have a choice between expressing disapproval of a party, and increasing the chances of their preferred party winning, they will opt for the latter. The existence of tactical voting suggests that it is very hard to make a voting system reward honesty, so we shouldn't try to overload it and make it do too many things.
This must be like when in threads about Uber, people describe taxis as a traumatizing hellscape. When I was a child, I figured out how my city was shaped, and figured out how to get around. Knowing how to get around one's own city is a skill worth learning, and is less of a time investment than fishing around for a phone to spend minutes futzing around with for the rest of your life.

> The first times I traveled involved printing a stack of papers including names, addresses, and maps. Getting to a hotel in a country you've never been before and without having a good command of the local language is stressful.

Not a problem most people have often. For the pretty well-traveled, maybe a few times a year.
and how do you act after no longer being newly moved to San Francisco?

that incident was imprinted in you, but how has it worked out for you since?

my guess: you failed to learn anything because of course that focused seminar doesn't teach anything related to the kind of mental health emergencies that occur on San Francisco streets, and so thats a decent crutch for you to lean on to not engage with them yourself, overriden by your own self preservation instincts. or are you now a mental health case worker that responds to these instead of the police? or do you know how to call those groups now so that you aren't the confused bystander like when you first moved?
The web export is half-baked, I hope to be able to contribute to it a bit in the future.
Agreed that at the least they’re implicitly honest about it (which is why I still listen).
> It's interesting that you mention that Ferriss or his guests wouldn't talk about their acts of kindness, as that's exactly the kind of thing narcissists like to talk about

Hadn't heard of him, but as an [ex]scientist I'd be fascinated to see the actual data showing any correlation between "narcissist" and "entrepreneur, investor, author, podcaster, and lifestyle guru"[0]

Put slightly different, how many people who shy away from attention end up famous for their podcasts?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Ferriss
Beach house, child with multiple horses, how common are such things? Perhaps I'm still being underpaid or am of less fortunate breeding.
True, but they’ll know exactly what’s up.
Reliable distribution of RxJS observables, even over flaky connections
This degree of skepticism can be counter productive.

If everyone in a democracy agrees that "governments would never allow" large companies to implement end-to-end encryption, then, as a result, governments never will.

Also, some large companies do offer it, notably Meta and Apple. Apple offers a backdoor in the form of unencrypted iCloud backups. And Meta may also offer a backdoor to the US government, but they also might not. And there are at least a few large governments they don't appear to offer a backdoor to, as evidenced by Meta executives getting arrested for contempt of court in e.g. Brazil.

Twitter encrypting DMs is definitely an improvement, just as Twitter adding SSL was an improvement.

Security and privacy ultimately depends on threat modeling. Any given improvement can make the difference between the suitability or unsuitability of a tool for a given threat model.

And since peoples' threat models are extremely diverse and always changing, adding e2ee to a service of this scale can have a big impact on the security, privacy, and safety of many Internet users.
It's a bunch of different practices. At it's heart it just means paying attention all the time. The outcome depends on the motivation; it could be real insight, or power over others, or greater calmness.

There's no point in trying to teach mindfulness to people who just want a 5-minute de-stressing session. Mindfulness is work.
it was in 1984 and it was a telco.
and there have been other examples of the main point I was making which is that wrong doing gets swept under the rug by bureaucracies to avoid embarrassment.
Just a few years ago a department head was putting through PO's for expensive equipment and approving it himself and then selling it on ebay. He got caught, they fired him but did not press charges. Me moved to another company and as I have seen many times, same title.

I have seen numerous examples of this over the years in both big companies and start ups. it happens.
This looks super neat. Often I think that analytics are the wrong metrics. In business you want sales, not web click metrics. If you put the customer first all else follows.

A simpler analytics does it for me, I will give this a go.
When using classic Angular (some time ago) with Bootstrap I ended up rewriting the JS parts of any bit of Bootstrap we used as Angular components for ease of debugging (I know lots of people hated Angular but it was still easier to only debug one framework-ish thing at once).

The existence today of e.g. react-bootstrap suggests that I'm not the only one to have had this idea.
I haven't played in 15 years but I think you're right.

When Oddjob was close, you would have to quicktap C-up instead of C-down to get a headshot on him while you were strafing around. But once he was 10+ meters away, you didn't have to adjust aim at all.

Meanwhile, when Jaws was close, you'd have to even double-tap C-down to aim at his head. And even far away you'd only get body shots without adjusting aim. Which is also the disadvantage that Oddjob has trying to shoot everyone else in the game, thus we never considered him much of an advantage since he will mainly get bodyshots on other players.

Frankly this is good PhD paper territory.
Hey, I use that! Logseq is great; a lot more polished (less buggy) than Athens, it has a pretty vibrant community.

I'm happy about the funding, but also hope it doesn't turn out to be a liability (as it often can ...).

> Logseq is building a new global wiki

Quite cool that that's the goal, it's also my vision. Step 1 towards this: Improving the web export (a lot).
I'd used FindAndRunRobot for many years, but recently got a new laptop and was reviewing my usual list of utils and tools during the setup process. Came across Keypirinha, and it's great! I probably didn't take enough advantage of FARR's configurability before, but the same is true for KP atm - I really just use it for launching apps, not searching files or anything else. But, KP is working great for me so far and I'm happy with having switched to it.
Total car trip cost includes other factors like insurance and depreciation. Those tires wear out, the oil needs replacing, etc.

Eg, IRS mileage rate is 58.5 cents per mile. "The standard mileage rate for business use is based on an annual study of the fixed and variable costs of operating an automobile." https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-issues-standard-mileage-rat...

Also, the spinner for the hotel goes up/down in increments of $0.01, which is effectively useless.
On the other hand, I still remember how, back in the 1980s, U.S. states that were reluctant to raise beer-drinking age from 18 to 21 were brought to heel: no federal funds for highways, I think it was.
Not only a mess but they seem to have been halfway through modernising things for years.

They built a new API but are probably never going to be able to get rid if the old one.
I think they have far too many non-banned users feeding them $$$ to care; and if their false positive rates go up, they'll be the ones to notice and adjust. Doesn't help the significant (in absolute, not relative terms) number of false positives though.
Simply because on Unix, configuration is text files; bash and the gnu utils work with text. In Windows, it's an API driven O/S; powershell uses objects, but will coerce output to strings to allow text parsing if needed.
“amateur” programmer once used 50 sheets of 1080Ti to fight cancer
Office 365 for mac is not the same as office for Windows though. If you are a power user that might matter to you.

Then there are the applications not available on mac...Project, Power BI...

I know because amongst my estate is an rdp server for mac users to use some niche excel features and to use PowerBI desktop.
Screen cheating is a valid form of play though. You have to be good to know where someone is by quickly looking at their screen.
It sounds like you can think of good reasons, you just prefer a conspiracy theory.
And yet lots of dermatologists will tell you to avoid sunlight.

The medical community is full of contradictions.
I accepted a job after getting cold called by a recruiter. In terms of email though, the two things that make recruiter emails stand out:

- If the email is actually a properly written job description or other request that doesn't make the person / company sound completely incompetent. (This is probably less than 1% of recruiter emails.)

- If the recruiter seems like a real person then that goes a long way.
This seems to be where the project site has migrated to: https://kisslinux.org
I wonder if v8 can optimise that if the object is constructed such that it can infer a 'type' for it (IIRC if v8 can see the list of keys at object construction time it remembers what they are for a bunch of things, no idea if this is one of them.)
https://www.magazine.medicaltourism.com/article/in-cuba-park...
http://www.cirencuba.com/en_US/neurological-restoration/neur...

Color me _extremely_ skeptical.
I applaud that goal, but currently I see no trend pointing in that direction - on the contrary, the rise of highly locked down smartphones and IoT devices has shown to everyone interested just how much control you can take away from users without serious complaints, let alone actions.

Even moreso, there are a growing number of stakeholders and even entire business segments, which require locked-down devices for their activities: The entire business of streaming services only works because they get to place an opaque black box in users' homes and can dictate arbitrary rules and constraints for playback.

The entire app ecosystem is only economically viable because the devices make it impossible (iOS) or really inconvenient (Android) to install apps without paying for them. Also, the devices give the user no way to modify the apps, so developers can implement whatever hostile logic they want and users have to put up with it. The ability to do that is a major appeal locked down platforms have for businesses.

(IMO, the imagination of far too many people in the industry is already running wild with all the kinds of crazy rules, restrictions and "business models" you can implement on locked down devices.)

I think we should reverse this trend and install some actual computer literacy in larger parts of society before we make computers mandatory for everyday life - otherwise, the whole thing will end in a dystopia.
I have several hundred EBay transactions over the last 15 years, probably 99 buys for every sale.

In the past few years, EBay has gotten very good at being pro-buyer (which is good for me). I can think of 2 transactions in the last 3 years that were “enough not as described” for me to bother to complain. In both instances, the sellers immediately offered something reasonable and we all moved on with our lives. (I think both sellers were clueless as to the defects, being high-volume churners of resold tech.)

It might be the case that EBay is more buyer friendly than Amazon at this point.
This is why niche products and small businesses can succeed
Yeah there are a few missing details I’d like filled in before I take any sides here. What kinds of electronics was the OP trying to sell? What did they say to the customer service agents to prompt them to immediately hang up on them?
I run it all the time on Windows 11. FancyZones are great for ultrawide monitor use. Would definitely recommend it.
I mean, to be fair, that's a common belief in the industry as well! T'so held it as well!
This can happen. We won a lot of chargebacks as a seller, but it’s a huge hassle that you really don’t want to deal with.
I think the real issue is that Go is its runtime, including garbage collection but also coroutine scheduling, syscall management (syscalls effectively enter 'gospace' before kernelspace), etc. Go's docs liken it to crt0, which is entirely dishonest. You can't have verifiable deterministic programs with a runtime like this which extends way beyond a small setup routine. That's generally 'fine in practice' for application development - especially the Python-level programs which are generally written in Go - but for building another language (interpreter) atop it, it strikes me as madness.
10k IU's a day is what it took me. I found that value almost by accident, while starting to follow Stan Efferding's Vertical Diet, which recommends that as a part of a suite of daily vitamins (it is much better than the name belies). IMO anyone who works a desk job should take 10k IU's daily. I fell out of the habit during covid quarantine and my levels (and my mood) were dangerously low when I came out on the other side.
So you’re p<0.05 sure that it’s faster?
I have meditated over 20 years roughly 2 hours per day. I think it finally starts to work.
My dad died earlier this year from complications due to lewy body dementia which (AFAIK) is related to Parkinson’s. It’s a truly awful way for a person to spend their last years. I get why Robin Williams took control of his end.

Seeing as there is likely a genetics component to these diseases, I’m really rooting for these scientists.
So alpine with extra steps?