skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least in Theravada Buddhism this isn’t the right way to conceive of enlightenment with respect to samati, or meditative states.

The mind is composed of several faculties, that spring from themselves, and lead to certain states of being that ultimately lead to suffering. The key ones for this discussion are the thinking mind (or in Thailand the monkey mind), which is what we typically dwell in. It’s the mind that tells stories about the past and the future, where we talk with people in conversations we won’t have or wish we had had, where we identify ourselves as being something specific. We also have a feeling mind, or emotive mind. It doesn’t form structured thoughts like the thinking mind, but it creates impetus and acts in a feedback loop with the thinking mind. A lot of our misery comes from this feedback loop. We also have a sensate mind, which is where we feel our body, all sensations but we tend to focus our thinking and emotive mind on pleasurable and unpleasant sensations.

In Theravada Buddhism these faculties are emergent but are not true experience of our true selves. They are tools of our true mind, but have become dominant and exclusionary, hiding our true self. Our true self is our awareness, which exists without thought or feelings, but is the source of all thoughts and feelings. It constantly changes, it has no identity per se, but it is not unconscious. It is where we actually are, all thoughts exist in context of it, but it’s thinking isn’t visible or directly experienced in the way thoughts or feelings are.

People often find this confusing and find the admonition to not think in vipassana meditation to mean erase all mental existence and be a body without any being. That’s actually not at all the goal. The goal is to silence the mind that chatters for a bit, the emotions that pull us and manipulate our thoughts to sooth, so we can be aware of our awareness. You are still fully awake - intensely so in fact. You still “feel,” but the feelings are compassion and loving kindness, and they’re not feelings that control you or make your sensate body feel some experience (such as a tight chest or thrill) or capture your chattering thoughts.

Eventually thoughts and feelings will intrude and the goal then is to see them for what they are, facilities of your mind, and to let them be there but don’t let them capture your awareness

By practicing this in meditation you can bridge this state into daily life. As you spend more time aware but not chattering away, you are more in the present and in the immediate now. You find you only feel compassion and loving kindness for all like, and anger, hate, and fear are artifacts of those faculties. They can be helpful in some situations, but they are fairly rare situations. It feels strange at first to not be totally enmeshed in your thoughts. At first I was afraid I would disappear if I did this, sort of like the quote you have. But I didn’t. Who I wasn’t disappeared, and I became myself for the first time since I was a little child.
From Wikipedia's article on Robert Heinlein's Space Cadet <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Cadet> (1948):

>The novel contains an early description of a mobile phone:

>>Matt dug a candy bar out of his pouch, split it and gave half to Jarman, who accepted it gratefully. "You're a pal, Matt, I've been living on my own fat ever since breakfast -- and that's risky. Say, your telephone is sounding. "Oh!" Matt fumbled in his pouch and got out his phone. "Hello?"

>The phone "was limited by its short range to the neighborhood of an earth-side [i.e. terrestrial] relay office".

I especially find this part insightful:

>A cadet avoids having to talk to his family while traveling by packing his phone in luggage.
Out of curiosity - of all the reasons for underinvestment in and failure of public utilities in SA why do you find this one interesting? In the case of SA the failure is almost entirely attributable to the policies and practices of the government over the past 30 years. No amount of investment in the public power utility would make any difference - because all the money that goes in goes straight out via corruption and nepotism.

Those South Africans who can afford to go off the grid have not opted out of public utilities - public utilities are approaching non-existent - forcing people to spend on alternative energy just to have the luxury of having lights in their homes at night or cooking a meal.
Yes it's not really ambiguous it's just completely illogical. Of course they're not usually transferred via injection, it does not in any way follow that injecting yourself with influenza therefore has a low risk of infection. At least it seems this claim is one made up by the journalists and not actual scientists.

Also, they don't really know how flu viruses are transferred. The epidemiology of respiratory viruses is poorly understood and the whole aerosol vs droplet debate rages for flu just as much as for SARS-CoV-2. People touching their faces was meant to be a major pathway for transmission of SARS-CoV-2 so skin contact would seem to be likely to transmit the moment if you accidentally rub your eyes or something before realizing. And even later in the artice, it quotes an official saying: “An individual’s permanent residence is not appropriate due to the fact that many residences are in buildings with high occupancy that share air exchange and other infrastructure,” i.e. aerosol transmission is assumed.

It's good though, that The Intercept is/was doing this sort of investigation. The ultra-lax approach used by these virus labs is highly relevant information, and puts claims that COVID couldn't have come from a lab in important context. For this, we can forgive the author for an illogical statement here and there. It's clear from this sort of investigation and others that regardless of whether COVID did or did not come from a lab, the things these labs do combined with the near non-existent oversight is practically a guarantee of man-made pandemics.
Presumably, because this isn't about Apple. They don't care about Apple. Merely about getting the M1/M2 arch to run Linux properly. It could have been Microsoft, Amazon, Google, treatment would have been the same.
That's a really good question that I don't know the answer to. I would guess that they have a file on you somehow – Utility bills? Landlords checking your credit? But I'm not confident enough to know what would be the best thing to do in that scenario.
I am not demanding either of these things. Just making general comment based on observing folks.
Wouldn't that be a good thing? Armchair regulators have been booing the Adobe acquisition on the grounds of "something something competition" -- this seems to prove that yes, indeed, great design tools can still be created in a post Adobe Figma world, and those upstarts can spur Figma to continue to compete.
very nice, this is how I can now quickly say it and clearly think it:

I've only ever worked for gamblers!
An adult would have started to write the tests themselves so they'd understand what was going on around them. You don't just frown at people and hope for the best.
99% White? What has that to do with bike theft?
Microsoft Announcing Python in Excel
It's funny to see people suddenly say this is doable, even though many posters in the past have claimed that it is totally impossible.

The problem ultimately is that CO₂ capture from the air is another expense that has to be paid, both in terms of cost and energy. Sure, if the entire process becomes so cheap and widely available that this no longer becomes issue, then we can certainly do it. But until then, it is a major stumbling block.

The other problem is that if all you want is something more "practical" than hydrogen, you will stop at methane. Same basic idea as this, but you only need the Sabatier process. And we already have many facilities capable of dealing with methane. So we do not necessarily need to go further. But if you insist on long carbon chains, why stop at C3? Keep going until you reach C8, or even C12-20, at which point you have the equivalent of gasoline or diesel. Basically, get to the point where you have a liquid at room temperature, and it will be even more practical than propane.
Co-founder needed: Full-stack dev
Hi there,

I'm looking for a full stack dev who's looking to join a fairly very early stage platform in the sharing economy industry. Here's my email: parzival2870@gmail.com
It seems like you're heading down a rabbit hole. All you can do is have experiences (instead of just believing on faith). If you do, it's up to you to make sense of them. Trying to decide what is "real" sounds like an egoic distraction to divert you from continuing to make progress. The usual advice I hear is just to keep going.
No discussion of architecture diagrams is complete without the widest one ever: http://awsofa.cloud

Thanks to Leo Z for keeping this online!

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Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36907343

While we are at it:
https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSoci...
It sounds you have a lot of experience under your belt.

Is it pride and self doubt your problem?

Do you want to be the CEO of a successful company?
What do you consider a successful company?

By SV standards a company with 1-4M in profits is a "lifestyle business". Would you be ok with having this kind of business and maybe selling it for an EBITDA multiplier?

Have you consider buying a small company, optimize it and sell it?
Saying a "modern alternative" implicitly suggests that nano is not modern, or that it is somehow outdated or unfit for "modern" use-cases. This couldn't be farther from the truth.

E.g. I'm currently using nano to edit a latex document, with full in-nano compiling and evince-synctex support (i.e. jump to/from pdf in nano). This required only a measly three lines of macros to be added to my .nanorc.

I am also a (reasonably knowledgeable) vim user, but I prefer nano for my coding, and now only tend to use vim when collaborating with a vim colleague. Everytime I hear vim rants about keystrokes and vim-magic, I chuckle because usually I can do the exact same thing with (my configuration of) nano at least as fast, if not faster. (no hate to vim, vim is also an excellent editor; I'm just pointing out that people tend not to realise or talk much about the power/potential of nano im the same way as they do for vim)

Incidentally, I did try micro last time it was posted on HN. I tried very hard to like it, but in the end it just couldn't hold a candle against the latest nano.

Note that often enough what people refer to as nano is some antiquated version that happened to have been bundled in their system. I saw a (reasonably modern) system recently whose nano version was 2.3! Meanwhile the latest nano is v7.2, and the added features just in the last two updates were gamechangers.
Anonymize production-like databases to better test your applications
I get the same result in LibreOffice 7.5.5 as your Excel example. Which LibreOffice version did you use?
it's well into 6 figures in a MCOL area. If they paid any more they'd have to raise fares which would cause less people to use it.
Have you tapped into your network? If you're in tech and "not quite old enough" for Social Security, then I assume you are in the middle to later stages of your career, which means you ought to have plenty of former co-workers and managers you could contact to see if they need someone or know of a team looking for help.

I would also look into contracting, freelance, or consulting work. It's not as easy as just going to work for someone, because you essentially have to set up a whole business around your work, which means you need tax planning, accounting, etc. However, right now most of the open jobs I see in my line of work are contracts or contract-to-hire. If you can stay organized and have excellent communication skills, running your own show can be a great way to go.
I’m physically uncomfortable with the idea of a CRUD app for a data mart.
But surely the fact that you can't say it gives credence to the idea that women are 'fragile'. And I've never come across the idea that women aren't interested in working for anything.

This fuss wouldn't have been kicked up if it were the male equivalent. That to me is sexist.

Anyway, you've already deleted it, so it's moot now.
I find this good if it's really critical to avoid any ambiguity... but I have to admit I still prefer the ISO format because it sorts lexicographically. (But this is mostly for untyped stuff like file names, etc.)
> In 2024, Dev Mode will be included in all editor seats or can be purchased separately for $25 per seat/month on Organization, and $35 per seat/month on Enterprise.

https://www.figma.com/pricing/
You might actually expand "Apple likes open standards when it is weak" to "companies likes open standards when they are weak."

Generally speaking you get standards consortiums when there is a clear winner that is mopping up the space.

Here's an example that's happening right now: Nvidia-NvLink-Infiniband.

Nvidia owns the highspeed interconnect inside the chassis (HGX), the NICs (Mellanox), the inter-host interconnect (Infiniband), the high performance inter-host interconnect (switched NvLink), the and the ethernet network (Mellanox has the same 52.1Tbps switch performance that everyone else has now). GPU training is RDMA heavy and this is a place where both NvLink and Infiniband shine, ethernet much less so. Retransmissions are very bad, in global-performance-terms, for ROCEv2 transfers. Right now Nvidia is just crushing it and there's zero chance anyone is going to catch up by introducing new Infiniband ASICs.

So what happens? You have a consortium spun up by all of the companies in the Ethernet space - Ultra Ethernet Consortium - to try and use "standards" to push back on customers who don't want to make big investments in "non-standard." UEC is pretty vague but seems to be promising Broadcom-style cellized fabrics, the whole point of which is to have an ethernet-like standard that avoids ECMP-induced flow collisions and retransmissions - that is, get Ethernet into the same territory as Infiniband.

If you look back in time in the tech industry, you see this over and over and over and over. Standards are great, they make certain kinds of multi-sided markets and markets that need broad participation to be viable possible - but they are also routinely about the losers joining together to compete.
Isn't a good high density screen typically a large power drain? Perhaps there's a trade-off that was made there…
The poster was apparently a 100% Linux person previously, though. I’m pretty sure Windows was designed to heat up like that as a funny joke. For example on Reddit I see somebody complain that they only get 5 hours with my laptop model (zenbook flip 13)

https://www.reddit.com/r/ASUS/comments/ry0nwb/the_asus_flip_...

But it is pretty easy to get 14 in Linux I think, at least if you believe the battery indicator.
From my continental Europe perspective I suspect that Americans will inevitably look at those inherited wealth structures through their assumptions of unbounded rent maximization, oblivious to a certain element of responsibility that will be far more present in Europeans, continental or not. "Only because you can squeeze out that penny doesn't necessarily mean that you should" is something that exists in most places that aren't the US. American wealth seems to have that siloed off into charity completely separate from how the money is made than others, "exploit hard/donate hard". I'm certainly not suggesting that everything is fine in the UK, but I do think that certain assumptions that are true in American will tint the picture quite considerably.
no - in many legacy software languages, starting with ASM, there is a __DATA__ section and then in it, is DATA.. just bytes. You can find and dump "just the logo" in the ROM and elsewhere, with a binary search.
http://awsofa.cloud/
I'm sure none of the intensely personal information you share with this service will be abused by anyone...
The use case is someone in Excel who does not want to write VBA. You do not need to offer the entire ecosystem, just a slightly better language to handle more sophisticated modeling needs.
People wonder if we'll fear aliens, or ar least, be able to understand them.

Yet even those closest to us, seem alien at times.
Technical Debtor is a particularly nice refinement because it points toward the fact that this archetype is often exploiting incentives in a broken system rather than occupying an awkward-but-appropriate developmental phase.
> It's possible that what I mean can be turned into a statement like "all functors used in programming are representable", but I'm not sure.

No, this is much stronger and definitely false. Any variable-size data structure is not going to be representable: e.g. `Maybe`, `List`, `BinaryTree`.

Most data structures are sums of representable functors (i.e. are `Traversable`), but not all. Hash sets () are the classic counterexample: you can't walk them in a consistent order because the internal structure depends on the hashes, and you need to recompute hashes when you transform values.
This is what we do at Svix: https://docs.svix.com/receiving/source-ips

I've seen other companies (e.g. Stripe) also offer it via JSON, but I personally think it's not that important to provide it in a machine readable format if you don't plan on changing it; which you shouldn't as it'll break integrations. You should only add new IPs that can only be allocated to new customers.

P.S, if you'd like to start sending webhooks, you should probably check out Svix: https://www.svix.com
That could have been overcome. The general crustiness of flash could not have been (from Apple's POV).

Apple used to ship a dev app called "Spin Control" that would log stack traces whenever an app failed to drain its event queue in a timely manner (i.e. beachball). One time I accidentally left this open for an entire week, went about a bunch of assorted business, and when I came back every single stack trace had to do with flash, and there were many. Either flash in a browser or flash in a browser embedded in something else (ads embedded in 404 pages for broken help pages that were never even displayed, lol). At first I thought it had to be a mistake, a filter I had forgotten about or something, so I triggered a spin in Mail.app by asking it to reindex and sure enough that showed up as the first non-Flash entry in Spin Control.

As hard as it was to believe: Flash had been responsible for every single beachball that week. Yikes.
This. Why you would leverage system python is beyond me.
Usually you plug the eGPU into a monitor directly instead of backfeed it to the built in display. The bandwidth is already low enough without showing rendered frames back across the link too.

There are some limitations on the PCIe/Thunderbolt but Marcan has written a few times he thinks it may be possible though probably not worthwhile from a performance perspective. Of course even base thunderbolt is a WIP at this point so that answer could always change.
We need to teach children how to use torrents, and warn children about vicious American copyright molochs.
I see, so you can confidently discount someone else's experience as obviously not true, especially without any real attainment yourself? That just doesn't work on so many levels.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. There is no enumerated power which gives the federal government the authority to manage an internet archive. So this isn't just crazy and dangerous, it's illegal as well.

It's alway funny to see people suggest things the federal government should do without considering its deliberately limited nature and why that should go out the window with a constitutional amendment. This isn't the UK where we can just make up the law however we want. 10th amendment anyone? Enumerated powers?
> Step 1: We create a database and use estimated point/mile values found online, such as those provided by The Points Guy. While not ideal, this approach provides a necessary starting point.

If you're going to do this, you could at least cite the source of the values. I'm not seeing that on there.

That said, I find the values from TPG to be absolute junk, applicable only to those who would buy nothing in life but international first class airplane tickets and luxury hotel suites, and it's a disservice to pass them along as fact.
Check out ScriptForge: https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/sbasic/shared...

APSO script organiser is recommended for running scripts from inside LibreOffice: https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/apso-a...
We've stripped off the religious part and rebranded it as mindfulness. There have been reports of having positive impact on mental health.
On the Dot
It would help when asking such a question to list what you can or are skilled to do?

Perhaps if you listed those, your question would be answered already or lead to a different question altogether…
I find them all interesting, it was just one that's been on my mind. We see the same thing happening (albeit on a smaller scale) in other countries with semi-mature power grids with high Gini coefficients.
First ever remains of a dicraeosaurid sauropod unearthed in India
Or you could just buy a Leica M-P "Correspondent" [1] - by LENNY KRAVITZ DESIGN - that came roughed up and brassed from the factory. I think they only charged $15,000-20,000 extra over the $5,000 base price of a regular M-P.

Ahhh, the beautiful and strange world of the uber-wealthy and collectors.

Burt more seriously, I've often seen photographers use black gaffer tape to hide the prominent camera manufacturer logos.

[1] https://leica-camera.com/en-US/Company/Press-Centre/Press-Re...
You could use your tech skills to do some freelancing a la Upwork, Fiverr, etc.

You could look on Cofounderslab for someone looking for a tech cofounder and start a business together.

You could go into one of the in-demand job fields such as construction or truck driving.
Typo in cross entropy, should be

p log q
It’s not an electric bike craze. You’re looking at the future of transportation
It's been a minute (I think I renew this year) but my driver license ID is still soundex-encoded.
In the US utilities are normally yet another credit reporting agency: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/consumer-tools/credit-report...
Same here! (Well, it wasn’t my first salary, but I bought it with my own money between high school and college, while everyone else was getting their parents to buy them their college PC.)

Athlon XP 1800+, 512MB RAM, pirated windows 2000, it was the first computer I ever built, and I learned Linux on it a few months later (RedHat 8, later Debian.)
FWIW I thought Azure Data Studio was very cool.
I can't tell if it's a matter of direct calls for vigilantism being against the TOS*, or a matter of comfortable people seeing the potential to get caught up in a shift towards that vigilantism, but flagged or not, I don't disagree with them. We allow for all kinds of preventative and punitive measures to be taken against people who cause harm to one, physically; I would argue that attacks on one's spiritual and intellectual well-being are similarly grievous. What the flagged comment calls for is, essentially, accountability for those who seek to deprive the public of cultural goods. You can go to jail for years for a single instance of robbery, and this is called accountability; but the law and norms say that to keep thousands from experiencing the enrichment of a particular piece of art, a substantive infringement of their human rights, deserves a six-figure salary. Civil disobedience is an ethical option.

Many posters are Americans, where gun ownership (to protect oneself from others with guns), big trucks (to protect oneself from other with big vehicles), and MAD are accepted facts of life. Personal harassment that disincentivizes antisocial behavior isn't radical, it's evolutionary.

*BTW, this is not one such direct call. It's a musing on its appropriateness. Feel free to rebut.