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The only version of meditation I can speak to is probably better called focus training.

Just sit in a darkish room, no noise, close your eyes and just say in your head "breathe in" as you breathe in, hold for like 3 sec and think nothing, then breathe out saying in your head "breathe out", hold for 3 sec while thinking nothing.

Repeat.

You wont get to round 2 without your mind wondering and thinking about something else. Just focusing on your breathing without thinking about work, friends, politics or when you stubbed your toe yesterday is an incredibly hard task.

That's 1 part of meditation.

Another part is then doing the same idea with your breathing but then to an "idea". I find when I try to do focus training, I run into thoughts that "bother me". Well, I'd say it's my subconscious trying to warn me about something. Thus, I'll do the same thing with just that thought, and funny enough the wandering thoughts will relate heavily to whatever that issue is. I then start to analyze the issue in now a really calm state. Eventually I come to either the conclusion to the problem in a way that brings me closure to never worry about it again or what my next step is, which again, gives me a sense of closure/stop worrying.

Breathe in/breathe out, my subconscious brings up another stress/anxiety ridden issue tormenting me. Time to meditate on that.

A lot of it is like surfing a wave. You're just letting your mind bring up thoughts. You cant consciously force it without inflicting a bias. Once you feel like you have all the evidence, then you can put it together. Eventually, you do this enough, the amount of time you spend focus training will be on your breath as you've dealt with all the things your subconscious is pressuring you about.

The second part is what I think is closest to traditional meditation, but I cant see how to get there without the first part.
Not to be confused with another IPL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Processing_Languag...
Almost a century of government-granted monopoly on a cartoon character. During this time, Disney earned multiple fortunes and was more than adequately rewarded for its creations. It still wants copyright to last even longer.
My seed was very personal too.

I had been overly self critical most of my life, and that made me unhappy. Additionally, I had a friend tell me that I had "too much ego". I did some research on "how to reduce your ego", and Buddhism appeared on my radar. I explored deeper, and started practicing. It showed me not to get too attached to a lot of the thoughts that I was very attached to. I was also very attached to a particular kind of self worth. I realised that I did have too much ego, not necessarily like the typical form of narcissism, but I was still too "self-centred", except instead of the "self-loving" narcissism, I was the "self-blaming" kind.

With meditation I learned not to pay too much attention to some of the thoughts, which helped calm me down. My complete solution did involve more than meditation, though, I went to therapy as well. Meditation feels more like a kind of "supplement" rather than a cure-all, tbh.
Since you’re asking for personal experience - I’m just happier and a better person with mindfulness. I’ve been doing it for 20 years and it’s changed my life for the better.

It seems you might think it’s woo-woo / hand-wavey, which isn’t uncommon in the west.

It’s also not for everyone. my partner has severe anxiety and has never been able to successfully get into meditation. She’s found some success with Metta (loving kindness) but can’t sit in a breathing meditation. That’s okay, it’s something I would never pressure her on. People are just different.

For me, without meditation, my emotions and thoughts get out of control, like an animal’s. I jump to 10 things a minute. I get lost in thought and don’t even realize it. I have no emotional regulation if I feel anger or sadness, it’s like sadness just happens to me. I find it to be a very weird, out of control, and animalistic feeling.

For my personal experience, meditation at its lowest description is like exercise for the mind, and at its highest description is a consistent way of accessing a higher state of being.

Exercise - you’re working your muscles on a regular basis by walking, but without focus you make little progress. For me, if I don’t meditate regularly I find I lose control of my mind 5-10 times a minute. That means I can lose focus, am less happy, and have weak emotional regulation - it’s only when I don’t meditate or sleep that it’s even possible I’d be angry at someone or (horrible thought) consider yelling at my kids. If I’m mindful that kind of emotional reactivity is just not possible. Had a shitty father so that one is important to me.

State of being - meditation can consistently offer the insights psychedelics give you a glimpse into, but on a sustained basis and in a more true form. Many people in the west get into meditation by way of psychedelics and a desire to understand their state of being. It can be as elevated as the annoying diatribe of a college freshman who just did shrooms for the first time, but reliable, consistent, and more true.

Until meditation, I didn’t even realize emotions are physical embodiments (heart racing, shallow breath, pinched shoulders, etc) and last no more than 60 seconds. It’s my rumination and thought that creates moods, which can last for hours or even days. Mindfulness is a helpful way to ensure an emotions is felt fully but doesn’t last more than a minute, so you don’t make bad decisions.

There are many benefits of meditation, ranging from the corporate co-opting of it as “stress relief” to the Buddhist idea that “the mind is everything. What you think you become.”

It is very hard to describe without doing it, just like a runner’s high doesn’t make sense if all one does is walk. These are a few personal experiences that I hope are helpful.

Sam Harris’s “Waking Up” app is a great place to start. Do the trial for 30 days. He’s brilliant and the best entry point I’ve found for westerners who think meditation is too woo-woo.
Offline is still very much a thing: https://support.duolingo.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410000601869.... Maybe you just had a bug?
For me it had two elements, an increasing dissatisfaction as I got older and realized none of the "standard" things that were supposed to make me happy (possessions, status, etc.) were really making me feel good, and pure curiosity.
> I think that's one weird thing about the software field, whereby we keep moving to these shiny new things that we think are better than the tools of yesteryear, yet in the end there is only a marginal gain in productivity.

Agreed. But I'd take it a step further and say:

...yet in the end no one is any happier. Not engineers. Not management. Not leadership. And most importantly not the users of the product.

We keep building and delivering more. But how often is that better? Either as an end to end experience or simply fewer bugs? Most of us - who are at some point users of products we didn't build - have resigned ourselves to that fact (read: it's been normalized) that an uncomfortable amount of friction is a given. That's sad.
A local ISP told me that they want to get into IPv6 as soon as possible. NATs are getting costly and moving just YouTube traffic to IPv6 would actually help a lot.

The problem is with end user devices that do not use a stable DUID and when the client hits the reset button, it changes. We are probably going to work around this by responding from the closest hop and taking the MAC into account.
> 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.

That is great you can do that naturally. Personally, I struggle with doing nothing. Even when I am resting or waiting for something, I am on my phone or thinking about problems in my life.

Meditation helps me release those stresses and gives me permission to "do nothing".
Very literally the poster said, preliminarily, that his expression may not be perfect out of linguistic challenges, and content wise, that the submitter should use the recommended literature to understand why some do not want to pass through the contextual experience.
We are not that far away from implementing negative interest on cash.
This is such a bizarre article.

"Apps are a hassle, everyone needs to be on the home screen, and it's bad for re-engagement because user isn't ready to sign up yet"... "web is hassle free so we need to make sure we have better ways of installing web apps on the home screen where developers can then engage user with notifications and sign ups".

Then the author confuses trackers and over-reliance on frameworks.

And then "Re-thinking the web" starts with... "re-engagement features like push notifications being added daily" which is definitely not what a re-thought web should be about.
Eventually all tech companies recognize their cash cow[0] and don't frantically try a bunch of splinter projects in-case their main gig fails. Once their main gig is steady and reliable there is less room for R&D and experimentation. This is why startups need traction from the get-go instead of 'hoping' and by mere luck that they succeed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_cow
Why can’t you buy industrial appliances from amazon? They sell some of the same items (I didn’t go through everything) that restaurant supply does.

https://a.co/dHB5rSm
That’s pretty unfortunate, seems to defeat the purpose a bit
> There are really 2 use cases: mobile portrait mode and everything else

I mostly agree. I am currently tasked with building a brand new mobile/desktop web app from scratch, and this is the path I have chosen as well.

The breakpoint I am working with right now is 980px. Seems to be a goldilocks setting in 2022.
I'm one of the engineers at GitHub that built this - happy to answer questions (or fast-track your access into the preview!)
This is a wonderful article and I really enjoyed the graphs and the clear explanations.

I wrote a simple chess engine in C and then ported it to C++ [1]. It doesn't use transposition tables or quiescence search. Instead of that, I simply search only to depth=1 and then even depths (2, 4, 6...) after that, which tends to limit the horizon effect. It's not that sophisticated, but I usually lose against it. Even so, it's fun when I pull off a win.

I even tried porting it to web assembly [2]. It mostly works, but the display code still has a bug where the interface disappears sometimes, and I'm still trying to figure out why. Also it doesn't work on mobile browsers I've tried.

[1] https://github.com/dmeybohm/wisdom-chess

[2] https://wisdom-chess.netlify.app/
Agreed personally I find a 5 GHz processor much snappier than a computer with 2.5ghz clock speeds. But that’s also part of DDR4 and other improvements between now and then. It’s not like we’re comparing them to essentially 5/6 generation intel core i7 chips
how much such a copyright is worth?
Even if that were possible, I think a trademark is only valid in the industry you're part of. So, if for example a welding company wanted to put Mickey Mouse on their sign, no reasonable person could confuse their products with Disney's products, so the trademark shouldn't apply. Additionally, every distinct image of Mickey Mouse would have to be registered as its own trademark.

Trademarks exist to distinguish competing products from each other. A trademark is a specific image used to make that distinction: it can't cover an entire concept or character.
McKinsey used to be very respected but over the last 10 years or so has gone from scandal to scandal. McKinsey used to be the the place top graduates wanted to go, but today the best no longer seem interested in going there. What caused things to break down so badly? Did they just get too big and lost control of the culture?

Quite ironically they seem to need some serious advice on how to fix their own company.
Yeah, it runs over pandas or sql databases! Here's an example querying sql:

https://siuba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html#Working-wi...

You can use the verbs collect() and show_query() like in dbplyr.

If you DM me on twitter, would love to set up time to hear about your work / walk through siuba!

https://twitter.com/chowthedog
Twind: The smallest, fastest, most feature complete tailwind-in-JS solution
Why two VLAN's? Are you worried the traffic is analyzed by the ISP locally?
Over 900k Kubernetes Clusters Were Found Exposed Online
This is a large reason why I was really annoyed when Google removed the "Merge Tabs and Apps" option back around 2016. With that feature, a bookmark to a URL could open up a new tab, appear in the list of active applications, and be closed just through that list. Effectively, there was no difference in usability between a bookmarked URL and an app that loaded the webpage in a captive browser, but you got all the sandboxing benefits of the browser.

To this day, I cannot fathom why it was removed. Every thread I've looked up boils down to "We removed it as the default setting, and now there's very few users of it, so we're justified in removing the feature altogether.", which is a non-answer with multiple steps.
The value for me wasin the last two paragraphs. In short: What's next? For the same reason we're not still using COBOL (sans legacy applications), something else has to be next in the progression.
I did not describe emergency automatic braking. I described a side collision that is unavoidable, e.g. someone running a red light, and the car being able to determine how to control that accident to prevent injury.

No other manufacturers uses side cameras and continuous 3d mapping and localization and physics projections to do things like this.

And despite the -4 karma tax for speaking on behalf of Tesla, the statistics DO show that no other manufacturer is as good at it.
They just found a way to cure "cancer"
Can anyone explain why the trend is cyclical with a period of a week?
I’m watching this play out with my sister-in-law right now. Her grandfather made a ton of money, her mom never worked but had enough to live a good life off of inheritance, and my wife and her sister have just inherited the remains (only a million or so left for each of them). I’m wonder how long it takes for my SIL to spend it all because I’ve read so many articles mentioning how wealth disappears over generations trying to prepare for this moment with my wife.

Yet to be seen, but spending has already commenced. Thankfully I think I’ve drilled into my wife’s head the seriousness of psychologically acclimating to having a large sum of money dumped in her lap and to not spend any of it.
I switched to Babbel a while back and couldn’t be happier
Oftentimes, yes. They could form their own union but it's common to join an existing union.

Having universal or near universal union membership for a certain profession is limited to certain jobs, things like warehouse workers or retail employees aren't anywhere near that.
Why should an unstable DUID matter? The prefix won't change.
> industry took that distributed approach and strapped project and team management systems with web based front ends like Github

Indeed. Software forges centralized what was a Decentralized VCS.

For one reason: profit.
Isn't it open source?
I run ipv6 but still use v4 for DNS
Mobile Reddit, Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok, Facebook, pretty much any poor man's digital crackeine, have it figured out.

Yeah, it's a wonderful new Web that makes you apply forehead to brick wall.
There's an interesting and well-researched book about wealth, especially hereditary and linked to land holdings in England, that addresses the question: Who Owns England? by Guy Shrubsole.

There's a Guardian review from 2019 [1] that covers the gist of the subject.

Here's a sample paragraph:

When once asked how young entrepreneurs might succeed in Britain, the late Duke of Westminster, Gerald Grosvenor (owner of 131,000 acres, including much of London’s Belgravia and central Liverpool), observed, drily, that they should “make sure they have an ancestor who was a very close friend of William the Conqueror”. Though Shrubsole estimates that the recent sell-off of ancestral lands to the “new money” of hedge-funders and oligarchs accounts for perhaps 17% of the total in England, 30% rests in the hands of the feudal Norman “cousinhood”, whose offspring have until recently preserved their birthright with a Downton-esque doggedness.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/28/who-owns-engla...
Office workers accessing the internet from their offices perhaps? My understanding is that NAT’s are more common for residential connections
> So I never added an AAAA record.

IPv4 servers are reachable by IPv6-only clients. ipv6test.google.com famously has only an A (IPv4) record for a reason.

> God knows what subtle breakages would happen when IPv6 requests come in.

Unless your product deals with the nitty gritty of the networking stack itself, pretty sure everything continues to hum along just fine, if the basics are covered.
How Does Carbon Dioxide Cause Global Warming?
I’m sorry but why is this worthless article in HN? This just entices flame bait.

If the author doesn’t want to subscribe just don’t, hello? No need to tell the world and no need to put it on HN.
You can buy proper bread here, you just need to stop shopping at the cheapo grocery stores.
I'm not totally sure what you mean about meditation myth. I gain concrete mental and emotional benefits, noticed after sessions, and so I continue. I assume increasing this to more parts of my life will continue to do helpful things.
I've always heard "shop" used in relation to a particular business being union or non union in terms of who they hire (i.e. "they're a union shop" means they'll only hire IATSE or something like that and no non-union people), and "locals" being the actual union you belong to, but that's from the theatre world which might be a bit different.
Despite the potential similarities in wealth, the difference in background did make a difference. This is because the bourgeoisie of this period were heavily influenced by the progressive and radical literature and pamphlets of their time.

The main parties in English politics of this period were between the Liberal party (which was a fusion of old Whigs and new radicals) and the Tori/Conservative party which was aligned with nobility. One of their main disagreements was whether the mass populace should be "advanced" through welfare or whether they should be left to their traditional roles and rungs in society.

Many bourgeoisie who had gained their wealth through the early industrial period joined the Whigs and they left a tradition which brought many of the next generation into the Liberal party. This of course aligned with their own interests. A healthy and educated workforce was critical to their ambitions. Though I do think in general they were motivated by a certain amount of ideological good will.

The Tori and Conservative parties in England did not just oppose state welfare. They often opposed industrialization as it was the foundation of their opponents' power and it creates potential for shifts in the roles of individuals in society.

Interestingly this creates a persistent confusion to this day wherein Americans don't understand why the "conservative" party in England is not 1:1 a party for business as it is in America. As they have a historical interest in opposing some development and supporting conservation.
By formalizing the same proof system we would use to convince ourselves that this works and letting the AI the search the space of logical statements using that language
Did it help you learn communicate in it or is it just like duolingo where you only learn basic vocab?
50-Year Mortgages That Children Can Inherit
PWA also suffers in the enterprise space.

It took me a solid week to figure out how to publish a PWA home screen icon using Azure InTune MDM for iOS devices. Being required to build custom apple XML documents to get this to work seems a bit ridiculous.

That said, if you do have a need for this, it does work pretty well - assuming you can figure it out.
Please evaluate why you're complaining about something that you have no control over.

Do you know why youtubers ask you to subscribe to their content? Because asking works. In marketing speak it's called a "Call To Action".

People who click like or subscribe when prompted will come back to your content. Some people who are regular viewers forget to do this except when prompted. Deal with it.

If your income came from advertising money you would do this too.
> Firewalls are more complex on IPv6

This is not true. Firewall rules work exactly the same in IPv6 land as they do in IPv4 land.

> you need to pass a bunch of ICMPv6 through, to make it work

Indeed you shouldn't block ICMPv6, but that is not really making anything "more complex".

> some residential routers have very bad or even zero firewall support for ipv6

Is there a proven set of routers that go through the trouble of supporting IPv6 routing but not include a firewall?
That's a fact for sure, and I was a member partly because of recognizing it's good keep that balance of power in employer-employee relations.
The peaks are on Saturdays so my guess is residential ISPs/personal traffic peaking on weekends while the mon-fri 9-5 are on older legacy IPv4 systems. But that's just a guess as the reason why.
FBI adds OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova to list of most-wanted fugitives
> How often have you or a coworker pushed an empty commit to "re-trigger" the CI?

Zero, because unless my dog configured the CI, I’d just click a button to re-run it on the same PR/commit/branch and not “make an empty commit”.

End to end testing of large systems with hundreds or thousands of man-years of code in them will be slow because there is a large surface area to test and testing in individual modules doesn’t give the same kind of end to end coverage that testing everything together does. So while pre-commit would be good, I doubt it will replace server CI for all but the smallest repositories.
Vouching because you are correct. This kind of content really contributes nothing to HN.

Old man yells at cloud.
We made something a couple of weeks ago, you might like it, needs login but is 100% free. Endless (depending on language) listening exercises, sentences are selected (from tatoeba) based on vocabulary (no selection based on grammar yet). It's also integrated with a flashcard system (also free). If you set a small vocab (100 words) and do lots of cards, you start to get a feel for the grammar of a language. Something like 40 languages are supported.

https://dev.languagereactor.com/phrasepump
(this is the dev site, will go to prod in a couple of weeks)
I'd be using IPv6, but it's not directly supported by Sonic Fiber in the bay area, strangely enough. Need to use 6in4 tunnelling if you want it.
They have toned that down a bit over the years since that video was recorded six years ago. The videos are really informative, and you can always close your eyes and listen if you like.
I use GitHub search all the time to read and understand code on my phone, this thing will work on the web UI, right?

I would be delighted to getfast-tracked and get access to better search. github.com/fiatjaf
> The OP take about having used Duolingo for almost 10 years. That seems absurd to me. I would hope they have mastered at least half a dozen languages with that kind of effort.

Eh, the implication in my post is that Duolingo is minimal effort and the streak doesn't really mean anything other than you may have maintained that minimal effort for a long time.

Besides, very few people are mastering a single language let alone many. I'm a native English speaker and sometimes I feel I haven't mastered that language.

And yes - private lessons are going to offer the most value if you can't live in the country. Even then it's only in this particular part of this country where I would hear something like "On prend le traclet pour acheter du Papet."