skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One of the aims of mediation is to gradually understand that this self is really an illusion

Yes this is a standard Buddhist (and not even exclusively Buddhist) point, and I'd say it's basically correct, but the problem is that it can, and has been understood in dozens of ways. Some more profound than others, and plenty contradicting one another.

Let me give a fairly psychological interpretation. One of our major cognitive functions is to create and maintain an automatic, pre-verbal map of the world, at the center of which stands a mapped entity labeled "ME". Let's call it the "self-representation". This is in itself fine and dandy, and quite useful; it gives us a sense of being an integrated organism through time, and lets us say things like "yesterday I went swimming". More troublingly, it's also the subject of our self-esteem, and of most of our hopes and worries.

The map, with our self-representation in the center, is not the only thing in our awareness - we're also able to attend to stimula and feel our emotions in the here and now. The problem, and the only problem as far as radical Buddhism is concerned, is that our sense of being is most of the time entirely fused with this self-representation. It becomes the entirely of who I am to myself. (Hence Ramana Maharshi's super direct path: inquire within "who am I").

What meditation does, by slowing down the whole mechanism, is to allow us to feel that there is more to me, here and now, than this running self-representation. By insistently putting our attention away from it, we temporally and partially unfuse from the self-representation. We get little breaks from it, where it either it mostly just stops for a while, or it becomes something I see happening, rather than something I am. And if I can see it happening, I can also train myself to not give it so much importance.

The result is a much vaster inner perspective, and a sense of deeper presence - for a few moments at least. But, usually, the moment the meditator notices these changes happening, the most automatic reaction is for the self-representation to rise back up as the one who wants to own that. HEY, INTERESTING STUFF IS HAPPENING TO ME!!! And there you go go crashing again into stuffy ordinary consciousness.

Hence the usual advice you will hear from good meditation teachers: getting experiences if often easy, but not running after them can take years and years of practice.
FWIW, Apple does release _some_ patches for previous iOS versions, but there absolutely are mitigations that are not back ported to older versions.

If you care deeply about security, I’d recommend having a phone that actually is using up-to-date OS.
> Erm, qmail had lots of bugs[1], when compiled for 64-bit processors (lots of integer overflows), but djb pushed back and said 64-bit wasn't supported.

qmail is a great demonstration that if you declare enough things out of scope, you can claim that the software is secure.
We can't pay anything at start
You’re not going to change gears before turning your engine on though. Which is my point.

And if you’re reversing within 3 seconds of turning your engine on then you’re either driving recklessly or on an open and safe space where you don’t even need your cameras.

To be clear, I’m not suggesting that a 4 second boot time for an embedded device is great. But I do think your claim that waiting 4 seconds “is crazy” is rather hyperbolic.
They technically rebranded Flash as Animate, but it conceptually died then.

IDK how Animate handles ActionScript, but it doesn't seem like it's still used by hobbyists. I presume it mostly exists to enable banner ad animators (and maybe low-fi television animators) to keep their Flashy workflows.
He sidesteps that by talking about the web. Pretty disingenuous since the lack of Flash in the browser was only one sticking point, not being able to use it in apps on the App Store was the other.
I mostly use it to view files so that I don't have to re-upload them to Google Drive just to open them in Google Docs or Sheets. If LibreOffice could work directly from NextCloud, I might be inclined to intentionally use it more often.
You make it sound so ... unaccomplished ... to just reach out and get a high paying "easy" job. Do they exist?

I have yet to find an "easy" high paying job. I've been stuck in the $50K~75K range my entire 17 year career. So maybe realize for a split second that there are many, many people making much less, experiencing much worse.
I'm really used to writing them on new lines.

json_build_object(
'foo', 1,
2, row(3, 'bar')
)
> The only good thing is the signal clarity

I recently spoke with someone, and the voice came through with sharpness, depth, and almost no distortion. Like you might hear from a good radio over a clear AM radio station. I had headphones in, and I was calling a department of a hospital, where they probably have a POTS landline on the last stretch, with a quality handset.

It had been a while since I had heard that. People working from home, often have cheap gear, relayed, where the audio gets compressed and decompressed several times end-to-end. And cell phones still use heavy compression, sometimes. Cheap microphones.

The old telephone system was analogue, then later PCM. 3 kHz passband, with generally quite high fidelity within that band. Music sounded like music over the telephone. These days, uncompressed PCM audio in telephony is quite rare. And the lossy codecs used are often quite lossy, designed to delivery understandable speech under adverse conditions. That made sense in the 1980s but it's only 64 kbps to stream PCM for the 3 kHz speech band.
> the language of coastal elites

For someone wanting plain language, it's surprising that you say "New York Jews" this way.
Maybe it's worth it for people who still has 2600 carts, but compared to other classic console remakes that all came with more than 10 games, $125 doesn't seem like a great deal.

$60 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES_Classic_Edition

$80 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_NES_Classic_Edition

$80 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Genesis_Mini

$100 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Classic
Green and white paper was a long time ago. As soon as I had a laptop and mobile internet connection I stopped printing code. I remember printing with syntax highlighting was hard (company had only black&white laser printers).
I have PTSD from listening to my friends complain about qmail back in the early 2000's.
Negative log is the only decreasing function which satisfies f(x * y) = f(x) + f(y). If you have two independent events it makes sense that the total surprisal (information content) should be the sum of the surprisals of the two events.

Another way to see it is as a continuous generalization of the idea that you need n bits to represent 2^n equally likely alternatives.
I’ve had an Apple Watch for years but I very rarely use it for anything I couldn’t do with my Pebble Time Round all those years ago. Set timers, control music, check the weather… all possible with a device that was cheaper, had a longer lasting battery and looked better (subjective opinion of course).

RIP Pebble. You were always doomed because you couldn’t have the kind of OS integration a first party device could, but you were the little watch that could.
The state space doesn't have the conveniences that linux and language tools leverage, that's why I wanted to see them try to advance the field beyond what we have now.
Meh, pretty ritzy and elitist compared to poor performers:

World Famous Figure 8 Trailer Race - Last Ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_0pVCigebQ
in a world where big data threatens to commodify our lives,. telling online surveys that i "Dont know" what pringles are constitutes Heroism

https://twitter.com/dril/status/1061091401251745792
If it's a buy now button or something it could be an issue.

Also advertisers hate fake clicks on ads (they call it ad fraud) but they will blame the site owner so that's not really a problem.
Flakes advantages are sometimes more immediately noticeable when not running NixOS, since the unstructured nix expression system used by default in that scenario is not helpful Vs a flake with its structure allowing a standardized way to express many things.

With a project specific flake you can specify not only how to build your package, and how to run it, (includable ability to specify "apps" for each executable of a multi-executable package), but also specify a development environment for developing on the package with the exact compiler versions and everything this package wants. (The convenience of a development container, but without limitations of developing in a container.)

This can obviously be extended further to defining nixos modules, which could be useful if your package is a service that people might want to pull in to nixos.

--

Some flake features like defining nixosConfigurations or homeConfigurations are not really sensible for a package-specific flake but can be useful if defining a flake for say your lab of NixOS systems. That is one advantage over classic nixos configurations. You can have a flake that defines the configurations of multiple systems.

Indeed, even if you don't want one master flake for all your machines, you may still want a separate flake for your a home-manager configuration that you can pull in when defining a specific system in a system-specific flake.
I chose a software analogy and digital example because this is a software forum. Don't read too much into it.

In a different analogy, you could say that capacitance gives inertia to voltage and inductance gives inertia to current. The power loop acts as an inductor and antenna. It's susceptible to disturbances from the chip, the power supply, and interference. Analog chips are particularly susceptible to such disturbances.

It's possible sometimes to not use a cap.
I mean, that’s your definition of “yours” though.

It’s like saying that buying a condo isn’t home ownership due to an HOA having some oversight. Some people are totally fine with that, it doesn’t mean it’s less “theirs”.
win32com.client uses Windows' COM machinery, which supports event-driven feedback from Excel to the script. Switching to PowerShell because I'm not familiar with that in Python and from a quick Google, Python needs some more complex multithreadding handling:

$xl = new-object -ComObject excel.application

$xl.Visible = $true

$wb = $xl.WorkBooks.Add()
$sh = $wb.Worksheets[1]

Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $xl -EventName SheetChange -Action {
Write-Host "Hi"
}

Now when you change a cell in the spreadsheet GUI and press enter, the PowerShell "write-host" runs and prints the message. Another comment mentioned "using Excel as a GUI for Python" and the COM interfaces have the machinery to do that. It looks like xlWings has something like this, but may need an add-in installed in Excel to trigger Python code from Excel? https://docs.xlwings.org/en/latest/quickstart.html and https://docs.xlwings.org/en/latest/addin.html#xlwings-addin
> They only grudgingly accepted HTML because it was unavoidable

IIRC, Jobs was against an App Store and pushed for people to install web apps on their home screen. Only after huge demand did they develop the locked down App Store, which was a far bigger success than they expected. I'd bet a dollar that is the only reason why they're as well supported as they are to this day.

Source: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/07/10/the-revolution-st....
Any Java logger has structured logging.

The prevailing solution is SLF4J, which is a facade that can be implemented by any number of backends, e.g. Logback.

There is logging in the stdlib (java.util.logging), but it's the less common choice, for whatever reason.
The Kennedy-Khrushchev Letters
Didn't get your comment, sorry. I'm both a C# (language) and (Western) music ignoramus, sad to say :)
Paywalled so I will not attempt to read but the first little bit... Just makes me imagine what it must be like to be one of these elite engineer types at insanely luxurious parties talking to "experts" all day long and I have to take a hard look in the mirror and wonder why my life is such ... s***.
I wish Amiga (also RiscOS), made a sort of Carbon API but for Amiga OS. Cleaned up to work with the new kernel, memory protection for Amiga/ pre-emptive multitasking for RiscOS, source code code be ported relatively easily.

Then the problem would be the "alternate OS problem", how to get money by writing apps for a new api, with a small user base? ( cough BeOS).

ps. You're comments are always quite interesting and informative.
For reference, $5 in 1976 is roughly $28 today. An evening, first-run movie ticket would cost maybe $2.50 in NYC in 1976.
I enjoy this way more pretending it's the prelude to a Philip K Dick or H P Lovecraft story - than trying to actually grasp the math :)
This was not Spotify vs CD sales. By 2005 everybody (even the labels) knew the writing was on the wall and physical media was going to be legacy niche. Digital retail grew fast from there (faster than CDs replacing tapes for a few years) and by 2011 (still limping through the trench of the 2008 crash) the yearly revenue was not only growing it was outdoing physical media and rising. Not just Apple. Amazon, Google, Bandcamp, Bleep, half a dozen others plus artists and indie networks experimenting with direct marketing and retailing. The physical vs digital fight was over at all levels of industry strategy when Spotify was founded and smartphones were a rumor, and music was well on track to a complete digital transition by the time the monster escaped scandinavia.

What Spotify actually did was cannibalize digital retail. Because of course it did: it used massive capitalization AND ignoring pesky laws/policies about actually compensating people creating the work Spotify's service depends on to give that work away to consumers for essentially free, until they'd created that expectation in the market and had enough pull as a channel to buddy up with labels (and the ironic thing is it's not even clear how profitable they can be, maybe leading the charge to the bottom has downsides).

> Copyright, in particular, should not exist in its current form, especially with digital data that is not bound by the laws of physics or physicality

Copyright conventions become more important in the face of falling barriers to reproduction and transmission, not less. That's how they got created in the first place: physical copying got industrialized and could take place with scale and ease that was unheard of before then. And the rationales behind them are still solid today, because they're about the economics of creation, not distribution.
Cough ... cmake ... cough.

If you use Meson/Ninja then I apologize in advance.
This is so nostalgic. I actually met my cofounder on github due to a discussion on twisted vs gevent back in 2011. I had my inital code in twisted and he wrote the gevent piece. Fast forward 12 years and we still use gevent at http://plivo.com :)

Some of our initial code snippets:

# Twisted

def __protocolSendRaw(self, name, args=""):
deferred = defer.Deferred()
self.__EventQueue.append((name, deferred))
self.rawSend("%s %s" % (name, args))
return deferred

# Gevent

def _protocol_sendmsg(self, name, args=None, async=False):
if self._closing_state:
return Event()
_async_res = gevent.event.AsyncResult()
_uuid, event = _async_res.get()
return event
Prediction: 5 years from now Apple announces moving to an internally developed RISC-V core for Apple Silicon
You make good points. I meant mindless as a bad thing on the part of the investors. Index funds indeed beat most investors by being mindless! (At least while everyone sends cheques their way every month).
sounds like Indonesian p2p lending? XD
Are you talking about on the highway or roads with stoplights. Normally, I rarely have issues when using Auto Pilot on the highway. On all other roads though, it definitely isn't worth it.
I think the first paragraph and venn diagram described the problem pretty well. This is why I'm a huge advocate for not giving a shit beyond the scope of what you control or are getting paid to do. Devote your day to the thing you're working on, but it's not in your favor to do more than that if you don't control any other aspects of how that hypothetical extra time is rewarded. If you get unlimited overtime pay, great, spend as much time as you want getting it, your reward is more money. If you're not, and don't have a stake in the company, and never hope to, or don't have anything but a guarantee you'll land that promotion, devoting more of your mental energy beyond the time you're paid for is just a recipe to be Jason Bateman. No amount of loyalty will be rewarded with not being laid off, so assume you will eventually, negotiate aggressively, and leave earlier than later if your work isn't rewarded in the way you feel like you can get elsewhere.
I had an interesting (!) disagreement on reddit about the utility of googles wallet and its ISO conformance, which is being disregarded by Queensland Government developing its own standalone digital drivers licence app.

I think the reasoning was specious. Google may get some flak but the basic coding around things like the keystore, secure regions, secured storage, partial record release, API, and their "we need to understand you, to agree to let you use this" is not actually too bad.

I wouldn't be surprised if both Apple and Google are in fact "best of breed" for secure credentials management. I don't know they are, I just doubt its axiomatic they aren't.
I strongly recommend appmap.io
The most useful feature I have found is the request recording which is pretty much instantaneous and outputs an array of beautiful diagrams of your application code: sequence diagrams, dependency maps, flame graphs, and very in-depth After reading most of the replies here I will say that while there are some great products made and in the making, appmap crosses off a lot of boxes when it comes to a developer driven tool. We plan to use this as the catalyst for onboarding developers into the complex world that is fintech, where encryption and abstraction drive product and productivity. having setup different models and pocs using this tool myself as well as platform and staff engineers have been impressed. It even logs the data so there’s something for the data scientists to gain from the work of this tool as well. Most importantly the dev team currently grinding the gears on this thing are very responsive and as an early user I’m impressed! I found an issue and in the slack community they monitor we’ve logged and found multiple ways to overcome obstacles. Definitely recommend it. Especially for devs who are onboarding and managers with new devs they’re onboarding.
>Banks will continue to act haphazardly so long as they are allowed to pass the bill for their own carelessness onto innocent people.

I kind of feel like banks are fans of one mister Dewey Crowe, "The anus is upon you" to protect your data. (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1489428/characters/nm0380632?re...)
If apps followed SemVer properly they should be bumping the major version for most UI changes (let alone overhauls), as they all break user workflows. If a button moves, you need to learn the new location. Shortcut changes? Tough luck, your muscle memory just deleted the last hour's progress.

I don't think that's useful for users though. It's best to assume that any upgrade will break something for you, so maybe optimize for new features and bug fixes (if you even need any). Which is where other version schemes can be more helpful as they can give a greater scope of the number of changes (e.g CalVer tells you how out to date you are).
> I have to question how "surprising" the significance of dirt composition is

It's surprising to people who have never thought about it before. So about 99.9% of the population.

And if you disagree with that characterization of the average person ... how strongly do you feel about the difference between a 7-speed automatic and an 8-speed automatic car? Or the importance of wood grain orientation in your picnic table? Or the exact type of steel used in your cutlery? How about the difference between a cavendish and a manzano banana?

These details affect "literally everything" about those items. Yet most of us never think about it because we already have enough other things to nerd out about.
The first sentence should have been the ball-is-equal-to-egg explanation with mention of topology. Before that I had no idea what they were talking about.

P.s. I have to assume the rules forbid shapes with surfaces of zero thickness. Otherwise I can just smash a ball into an inner-tube. If the shapes have thickness mandated, what is it? Are the thickness of the surfaces a consideration when morphing from one shape to another? Is the surface thickness negative or positive from zero? All of these questions stem from my experience in 3D modeling where these parameters must be defined.
My mother uses it. She finds the interface more familiar than modern MS Office.
I install it on my mom's laptop, and, after configuring it to save to Microsoft formats by default, it works great for everything she uses it for (personal documents, various things for church and other groups). for her purposes, it's worth it to not have to pay the now-annual Office costs.
Interesting.

Also just checking, but do you mean PS3 devkit?
Is the benefit of this over something like Protonmail or Tutanota the enterprise focus products? As an individual user seems like I may as well pocket the difference, right?
I'm not saying average investors are qualified to pick index funds or stocks. I'm saying they really ought to be.

Money is a form of power, and blindly applying it in a spot just because everyone else is doing the same strikes me as not optimal.

Our saving grace is probably that the S&P500 is extraordinarily well-chosen. It's diversified across place, industry, and to some extent size. And it helps that America is an economic machine for the ages.
Ask HN: If you could go back in time
Would you kill kid Hitler?

I was looking at some US talks, seems to be a common question there culturally?

I was wondering, if ever we get to the point to discover time travel, would that mean that there is no free will? Everything has to happen like it was?

If you would go back in time to kill kid Hitler, there is nothing that could happen for him to change?

Would you babysit him to let him have a happy childhood?
> To (1), he's talking about the distance ladder.

Thank you for this! I didn't realize that "standard candle" is an actual term, and I thought it was Wheeler being playful with language, which he quite often does. I have some reading to do on this distance ladder stuff.

Have the standard siren's in gravitational waves confirmed these expansion measurements?

I realized Wheeler was older at the time of publication and given his death in 2008, he obviously couldn't know the measurements that have occurred in the last 15 years. I think by his last two sentences he wasn't outright rejecting it but rather being suspicious of both the measurements and the theory. There is a second edition of the book, published well after Wheeler's death, so I wonder if Taylor kept that section of the book. To Wheeler's credit, the section was in a specific box entitled: "Opinion: The Bang-to-Crunch Universe Too Simple to be Wrong!".

Edit: I checked the second edition (again, Wheeler didn't appear to work on this edition), located here https://www.eftaylor.com/exploringblackholes/, and it does indeed appear that there are now entire chapters dedicated to the expanding universe and cosmology and that the above quoted opinion section is removed.
What happened to your original username ethbr0?
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