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Ask HN: Vlang vs. Zig vs. Dlang vs. Assemblyscript vs. Haxe vs. EC
All emotions aside, want pros and cons opinion from people who actually did something in below programming languages and have 2+ years of dev experience in general

https://ec-lang.org/

https://vlang.io/

https://haxe.org/

https://www.assemblyscript.org/ (+wasm2c)

https://ziglang.org/
This thread is hilarious.

Anyway since you asked for personal experience, in my experience it's a nuanced thing.

- It's you being able to be aware, being able to reflect, and being able to re-calibrate on the way you do things.

- It's you being able to pause every once in a while and take a perspective. It sounds woo-woo but it's simply you taking a moment to really fucking gauge where you are right now based on your past and where you're fucking heading to.

- It's you being able to put yourself in perspective. This is you being one in seven billion people on earth, on a tiny pale blue dot of a planet across the universe, yet smaller than you is billions of organisms, atoms, and quantum stuff.

- It's you being able to check yourself in terms of politics, religion, faith, science. Do you find yourself in a sweet spot, or do you find yourself polarized, or do you find yourself biased, what shaped your beliefs right now, what beliefs are you not questioning, what beliefs are you questioning too much.

- It's you being able to tolerate and forgive yourself and other people to a degree (not on everything). It's you being able to let some things slide, and let things just the way they are.

- It's you being able to discern how you respond to something, how you think of it, how you feel it, how you experience it.

- It's cheesy. Not everyone will take you seriously when you talk about it. Other people are deep in it and very serious about it, other people are light about it and just chill about it. Other people have different terms of it.

- It's probably a sham. What makes one a 'guru' anyway? Haha. What's the product here? Are you being sold into a product or a service? Sales is about emotions and emotional stuff tend to sell. Peace of mind sells. Sex sells (mind you, even pickup gurus teach meditation). Happiness sells. Being a grounded alpha male sells. Being a holy person sells. Being something else sells. Experiencing something else sells.

So there you have it. I say define it as you wish and go on with your life. As someone else said (they say it's bruce lee, but whatever).. Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own.
Not within the EU. There is EU legislation requiring the costs within the EU to be that same as at home.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/internet-tel...
Look closely at the cone, fingers, or the people behind the ice cream.

Or the food in the last one.

The detail breaks down.

The ash above Mt Rainier looks more like mountains.
This isn't an attempt at complete answer to your question, and I'm not an expert, a teacher, or anything besides a human who has dabbled with meditation and read a lot about Buddhism (and derived more-or-less secular frameworks such as mindfulness), depression, anxiety, neuroscience, spirituality, etc. over the last 15-20 years.

I'm speaking to two of your points, I think:

1) "isn't our whole life a sequence of meditations? Because we always focus on something"

2) "aren’t we doing [sit peacefully and observe your thoughts] anyway on a regular basis without introducing a word for it?"

In my direct personal experience, sitting in awareness, noticing thoughts and sensations, etc. is simply a materially different experience from... the rest of my time when I'm not doing that. It's materially different from when I'm focusing on an activity like coding (perhaps in a deep state of focus or "flow" [0]) or just habitually/pathologically scrolling through HN.

Did you ever get fully engrossed in a coding session and "lose time"? And eventually
you "came around" or "landed" and realized you were "back" and 2 hours had gone by in deep focus? Did you ever realize that you'd been ruminating about some stupid thing for ages? E.g. repeatedly going over a difficult interaction from earlier in the day, or thinking about a difficult interaction that's coming up tomorrow and imagining how it might go? Did you ever snap out of that?

That feeling of "huh... I'm back - here I am." - that's what I am recruiting when I deliberately practice mindfulness. And then I get distracted... and when I notice, I bring my attention back... repeat.

To the second point of yours I quoted, i.e. are we doing this "anyway" on a regular basis? Maybe you are. For me, regular moment-to-moment thinking is generally not the same as mindfulness. I'm thinking, but I'm basically lost in the thoughts. I'm not observing them, I'm just thinking them - or they're thinking me. (And not just thoughts - this all applies equally well to emotional, interoceptive, and sensory experience.) Mindfully observing my experience is materially different, although I do get flashes of it throughout the day without reaching for it deliberately. Whether that's something I had before I started sporadic practice and just didn't have words for, or something the practice has unlocked for me, I can't say, because I can't faithfully recall what my moment-to-moment experience was like that long ago.

Maybe you're experiencing mindfulness frequently throughout your daily life, so you don't notice anything different when you set out to practice it deliberately. Maybe when you practice it you are getting lost in thought and not noticing. We'll never know, given the subjectivity of the experience and our limited tools for communicating about it, but I enjoyed the attempt :)

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Perennial-...
What is the most compact representation for a complete chess game state? Can it be as low as 64 bits?
Original headline:

“Tesla Just Had Its Best Production Month Ever”
I’m hopeful that https://dagger.io will help CI “shift left”! Especially the ability/easiness to run it locally, and the built in caching/DAG
I agree that the lines are blurry. They definitely have a publisher and producer aspect with their discovery algorithms and their monetisation.
why has no one posted the video

https://youtu.be/7tScAyNaRdQ
Meditation is a broad term encompassing many different practices and traditions (as you know). From my own experience, meditation is a means to understand (and more importantly *experience*) that what I consider a 'self' doesn't exist (from a first person perspective). It's an illusion created by my own mind via perpetual thought imagery, constant inner dialogue/self talk that is propagating and clinging to a fabricated image of who I am.

What keeps this going is the phenominon of thinking without realising you are thinking. You are simply being captured by thoughts that on the face of it (from the first person perspective) are coming out of nowhere. The analogy used is a dream. When you go to sleep you dream and usually you are not puzzled by the fact that a moment ago you were in your bed and the next you are in this dream situation. You completely lose the perspective that you are in a dream. Thoughts have this same quality. At the core of this issue is the sense of self.

Meditation is a means of becoming aware of this process (hence the practice of becoming aware of your thoughts). To do this successfully you need to develop a certain level of concentration (which is why there are practices that involve focus on the breath/some other meditation object singularly).

Sometimes people get caught up on the whole idea of meditation and try too hard (hence the gurus saying 'do nothing'). They revert back to the idea of a self and they try to improve themselves in some way. Really in meditation we are trying to become aware of something, a continual process playing out in your minds, a perpetual stream of thoughts that we are completely unaware of that is distorting our perceptions, creating an identity (in the first person sense) from which then arises all the emotional and psychological problems we tend to encounter in our daily lives that are as relevant today as when the Buddha was knocking around.
It seems like a simplistic find and replace. It censored “pussyfoot”, which is not bad language.
Disclaimer: I think both Clojure and Elm are good technologies and I understand most of the trade-offs they've made. I wouldn't mind using either for a project or two in the future.

Some important context for me, when I read this gist, was that Evan Czaplicki had just written a post and done a talk that basically amounted to "People should stop being mean to open source maintainers".

The parallels between Clojure and Elm (which Czaplicki created) are actually a fair few; both are fringe, opinionated languages which brought some exciting new (in some sense of the word) tech to the forefront (FRP for Elm, persistent data structures for Clojure, etc.) and both languages were hosted in an environment that afforded very few niceties when they were created (both creators probably heard "You saved me from X!" a lot).

I think the most important similarity between the two languages is that they both have ended up with communities that feel like cults of personality.

The overwhelming feeling if you come into Elm as an outsider is that everyone literally feels like Evan Czaplicki is absolutely right about everything and everything he says will be taken as universal truth and probably even interpreted much more harshly than he meant it (if what he's saying is a comment on another technology, for example).

In Clojure this cult-like feeling is less obvious in many ways, but shines through in that people will literally just quote Rich Hickey talks as if they were the bible and also expect these quotes (which usually aren't very good arguments in themselves) to actually be considered legitimate arguments. Sometimes this will spill out into the broader community and it becomes obvious how little the followers have thought about the arguments involved, since they now have to substantiate something that in the Clojure community is just considered a given because of shared context and blind acceptance ("We can just regurgitate the quote and it's an argument against something").

I would argue that the problem that Rich Hickey and Evan Czaplicki have are caused by this same isolation in a community that seems to massively overvalue their opinion and reinforce it blindly at every turn. If all you hear is "Yes!" all the time the opinions of people with legitimate gripes are going to seem much more harsh and if you're unlucky some of them might actually turn out more harsh because of the dissonance between how normal people act vs. how people who bought into the cult act.

P.S.: If you're seeing parallels between the Elixir community and the above you're not alone. It's very hard to have discussions in that community without running into the same kinds of believers (usually with very limited real world experience).
> How about

How about just implementing it properly: _reasonably_ as opposed to "are you insane?", _effectively_ as opposed to "If I see this again I swear..", and with "win-win" _satisfaction of both parts_, as in "I am glad I was notified this opportunity: I will take it into consideration".
This walkthrough has shed light on details that has been fuzzy and wage for me since I started using git years ago, and I'm only one third into the text. Thanks for this writeup!
It‘s the first time that I have come across the term ‚hyperlocal‘. As far as I understand in this context it means ‚high spatial and temporal resolution‘. Is that correct?

The Wikipedia article states that hyperlocal is used for information, which is relevant to the population of some given community. Does this always refer to a geographically defined community or has it been extended to other logical communities, as well?
Here it is straight from the horse's mouth

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

Look at the Total... chart.
On several ocassions I've tried switching to Darktable or RawTherapee, but they never seemed to offer the practicality and ease of workflow that Lightroom has. They have tons of features and kudos for that, but when it comes to editing hundreds of photos, LR is the only choice for me.
Circle Packing 2x2 (2016)
Have you shopped for a used car lately?

I wanted a Toyota Tacoma, 4 year old used ones cost more than msrp, and the new ones are a year out.

I do own my old Mazda cash so it doesn't matter much to me but it's not as simple as just buying used these days.
Resistance is, as they say, futile.
> However, like everything that gets popular in the west, there are many charlatans out there who are scammers.

Are you frustrated in your life? Are you sad and lonely? Is your life a living hell and you feel lost without direction? Sign up in this meditation course to solve all of your problems for only $9.95! 30-day money back guarantee!
There is no point at which artificial life assumes the mantle and status of human life, because if there was such a thing it would immediately lead to the destruction of our society. Imagine if I could press a button and generate 50,000 instances of something that has the same rights as me. This is the equivalent of getting three wishes and making one of them be “50,000 more wishes.” If it were allowed the whole system implodes.

Either my 50,000 are slaves who outvote you and change all the laws because you didn’t act fast enough to make your own slave army, or each of my 50,000 uses their rights to generate 50,000 more of theor own slaves, ad infinitum.

This experiment is a reductio ad absurdum to the notion that artificial life— essentially a long string of carefully chosen bits— can have rights.

But aren’t real humans just information too, you ask? Yes. The reason we insist on human rights is simply that the alternative is endless war.
> (I had to stop at 17 o'clock) to find out that I'm running a microservice in a Docker Container and the changes I made on a mail template had no effect, when I send them, since I was working on local files. I feel myself an idiot and can't tell anyone

This is not your failure. This is your team's and your manager's failure. They should be aware about your knowledge levels about the application you're working on and provide this kind of information before hand instead of leaving you flailing around. I would be more upset at them than at yourself, but sadly a lot of senior developers have the empathy of a bag of bricks.

Don't be ashamed of the amount of time it takes you to find solutions, acquiring knowledge is not always a straight path. The important thing is that you learn.
Being a good developer is almost completely disjunct from being good at growing a company.
> and the more elite software jobs are among the most demanding jobs on Earth.

You need to get out of that bubble. Even being a professional violinist is like an order of magnitude harder than the most hardcore software job.

And most of them are payed shit.
If you want to look at the silver lining, we have much easier lives and access to a tremendous number of cheap, rich foods (albeit unhealthy) and plenty of cheap recreation and drugs. We have worse living habits than them and spend much more time in sedentary positions. It’s probably impressive we can keep the same life expectancy with all those factors.
"I don't want to use it because Google is going to shut it down" is HN's version of Twitter/Reddit's "Sir, this is a Wendy's". Here's some more pablum: "We can do better."
Well, question is which part of the world you live in, of course. But I don't need to unionize. If I am not satisfied in my job I can switch. Each consecutive job hop past 15 years got me better pay, better benefits and sometimes a better job (sometimes it was equaly shitty as the prevous one but for better money). This does not happen for unionized workers.

Maybe in the future we will have to unionize. Definitely not now and not in Europe. And this is not a matter of pay, e.g. airline pilots are paid more than programmers here yet they are heavily unionized.
Norwegian Meteorological Institute has an excellent free weather API
> But then isn’t our whole life a sequence of meditations? Because we always focus on something (with sleep breaks).

> Other gurus teach that meditation is “doing nothing”. Okay, but then again there’s nothing special about it, we all do it from time to time.

This makes me wonder: have you ever felt overwhelmed by anxiety? Or experienced a panic attack? Or like you had so much stress that you couldn't eat, sleep or focus at all?

If so, you said that you tried meditation: did it help you at all?

Honest question, because from these statements sound to me like you perhaps don't see the value proposition of meditation.
https://cih.ucsd.edu/mindfulness/free-sessions

It was explained to me as the opposite of CBT. It's being aware of what you're feeling and acknowledging it. That can be physical sensations or it can be emotions.
My bet would have been that they don't use it at all.

First, because ... is there an actual circle anywhere in what they do?

Even ellipses are simplified approximate solutions to the N-body problem. Not to mention what happens when you apply a burn force.

Second because I would have imagined that most of what they do involves integrating PDE's where if, by chance, PI gets involved, it'll be implicitly computed by the integration engine.

But hey, happy to be proved wrong.
I think this article is a deeply flawed analysis of the whole situation. This war is not between Ukraine and Russia,rather Russia and the west backed by USA. It's only that Ukraine is unfortunately at the fore front of it. Russia has suffered terribly so far if you look at it from the pov that Russia is fighting just Ukraine but it's more than Ukraine. Russia is also reasonably thinking of long term consequences about their country as a whole and they don't want to use their whole energy just to defeat Ukraine. Their goal or objective of shared destiny with Ukraine is something which west is no able to digest.

Russia has certainly got itself into a dilemma here, win with ease against Ukraine by deploying full scale military operations and get isolated in the international world or do as they call it limited military operations and suffer losses and probably a painful win at the last with military objectives attained and the western arm around Ukraine's neck taken off, which actually is their ultimate goal.
Since the board itself is 64 squares and there's many pieces that can move to any square on the board it can't be that low.
If you hire a hitman to kill somebody, both you and the hitman are guilty.
The term hyperlocal was used by the Dark Sky app which was acquired by Apple two years ago.

I believe the term was used to mean that the weather forecast was based on your GPS position rather than the town you are in, allowing for more 'real time' forecasts like 'it is going to rain in the next 5 minutes, but this will stop in 10 minutes' (while a traditional forecast would just say '10% chance of rain at 1pm in Leeds').

The ability to get some rain and look on an app and say "it looks like this will ease off in about half an hour, so we might as well get another beer before we go to the next pub" is really useful, and on that timespan there can be different weather in different parts of town which is why a more refined forecast is required.
I do feel like if we’re going the precommit route we need to go much deeper into things like Bazel. Loads of companies are using CI to get a huge test suite to run with a lot of parralelsim for a reason!

Though for me it’s also like… so many people do unspeakable horrors to their machine setups that I like there being a consistent runner in CI.

But “CI is to run tests” in the world of CD is a bit of a simplification anyways.
It matters little that they’re smarter people out there as long as it is basically random chance that determines whether a reader discover them or those who are dumber. A way to find the absolute objective best in any field - experts, products, methods - would be revolutionary.

As of now, the best thing we have is marketing, and politics. Not he who is the best is most easily heard, but he who screams the loudest.
And idea why the Apple Weather app still has the “The Weather Channel” logo on it?

I hope they continue to support Darksky, at least until the Apple Weather app is on par with it.
Free is always good but when it's fee you also get no guarantees and commitments. Apple and the free options probably target different segments.
Generating Slugs in Laravel PHP
No mention of nuclear. Good luck meeting the energy needs with the other alternatives.
> aribtrary murder by state actors with no accountability is worse

It is treason.

(It is abuse of the powers assigned by the State.)
Not really sure what "medidation" means. But the word "Dyan" is clearly defined. There are many types of "Dyans". But, all theory is useless without a Guru.

No amount of googling will not find a Guru. It is your intense desire to find a "Guru" will attract you towards the "Guru".
> One thing that would be nice, however, would be the ability to run the entire pipeline locally. For GitHub actions, it indeed seems like there are viable options to do that.

I prefer not having to replicate locally how GitHub runs GitHub actions, but rather just make my GitHub actions run something that I know I can run locally. So all the complicated stuff is contained in the script that I can run locally, and GitHub actions is just a dumb “runner” of this script.

For my local script I prefer using Nix, since it’s the best way I know to guarantee a consistent environment between different machines.
Mine is - waiting until you can afford housing, which current run up might mean 40s

Then there’s public transport that doesn’t run past midnight effectively making it a curfew. And you can’t drink drive like you used to.
> CI is a post-commit workflow. How often have you or a coworker pushed an empty commit to "re-trigger" the CI?

Build can be triggered manually in every CI system I know. Why would I push empty commits?
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It should not be a matter of someone's strict definitions in text. It should be taught to you in person.

Yes, it is all bullshit.

But to a lot of people it's meaningful bullshit. Your mileage may vary.
Most of which disappear with 1.2

Don't use YAML 1.1
It is easy to rule out meditation being a scam - most of the people who are willing to explain it aren't trying to charge money for the idea, nobody I know of is trying to sell paraphernalia and while there are books they are rare vs more generic self-help novels. The behaviour of practitioners doesn't make sense if they don't see a benefit.

Particularly when observing the Buddhist monks it is clear that by and large they practise what they preach. And a big component of that is meditating.

> ... And then following Occam’s razor - why need separate concept for that? ... Then again, aren’t we doing it anyway on a regular basis without introducing a word for it?

Every mind is unique. There might easily be people out there who naturally have such organised and orderly thoughts that meditation is useless to them. Or view the world in such an unusual way that the standard meditation practices are useless. But for most people, practising how to perceive the world is useful and so is actively focusing on the present.

There is a reason that meditation gets classed with the religious practices. There is a leap of faith at some level in believing that raw instinct alone will not lead people to perceive and respond to reality in a practised way.