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For me, it was "no need". I liked everything I saw. I just had no need to write Rust.

Patreon was able to change that though.

Yes,there was a time when Patreon meant porn. But now a lot of mainstream artists, YouTubers, etc. using Patreon.

Indira Gandhi is being painted in a complete negative light here, and the Princes and Kings and Nawabs are being glorified here.

Let me disagree.

The Princes, Nawabs, and Kings were all chosen based on birth and birth only and they are flag bearers of a classist society with no chance of upwards mobility. They were proponents of a system which was deeply sexist and castiest.

I am very glad that they were gotten rid of.

About Gandhi, she is among the best and worst Prime Ministers of India. She is the only one who suspended democracy and started emergency rule, and was an autocrat. On the other hand she implemented a lot of policies that pulled many people out of poverty, helped the freedom fighters in Bangladesh to gain freedom from the Genocidal and mass-rapist regime of Pakistan. Sje fully deserves the criticism for being an autocrat.

And on a different note, it is weird seeing an Indian woman being referred as Devi. Devi is not a last name. Even half a century ago, before the age of IDs, Indian women weren't allowed to hold the family name- before or after marriage. Their last name became Devi which means "goddess", literally.

It is still used informally in formal conversations and media. So if an Indian woman is X Y, where X is the given name, and Y is the family name, the woman can be referred to as X Devi.

Just Devi makes no sense. Foreign writers writing about India should know these.

Also, the title Devi is often divisive and casteist, as often only higher caste women were referred to as Devi (goddess), and women from lower castes were referred to as Dasi (slave).

Whoa, you remind me of walking through College Street in Kolkata. A whole locality named after books- Boi Para (literally- a locality of books).

The place has colleges, schools, parks, and book shops- a whole lot of them. And the book shops kept and organized books randomly. Many focused on academic books but most did not.

It was a pleasure walking through the roads and buying second hand books based on pure interest and exploration.

I would really like an AMD version, too.

Buying Intel makes no sense now.

I use a combination of pen and paper, and sticky notes on a wall mounted detective board for things to do immediately.

I also use Simplenote. Free with markdown support, sync, and publishable links.

I use Samsung Notes for trivial stuff, like chores or shopping list.

If I want to easily sketch inside a note app, OneNote is the best. But it is weird in a sense that there are two OneNotes- one that comes with Office, and anotherthatcomes with Win 10. But OneNote is buggy and slow. You can barely use it in mobiles. I don't use windows that much.

Which brings me towards Obsidian. Best data policy, custom plugins, and what not!?

I am using it everyday. I am using another sync service to sync between devices.

My vote would to to-

Obsidian + Simplenote.

The article does not speak for me at all.

I massively won lockdown.

1. Gained a totally new skill that got me employment for a modest pay.

2. Learned to paint digitally.

3. Learned to play the piano.

4. Furthered my expertise with two (human) languages.

5. Learned three new programming languages.

6. Spent a lot of time with people I care about.

7. Read about 50 books.

8. Exercised regularly and got into good shape.

For me, lockdown was the ideal situation to live. Absolutely no regret or worries.

It was perfect.

No, not complete bollocks.

Learning new languages does add different layers to your personality.

I am native-level fluent in three languages, and have some level of fluency in three more.

Learning a new language opens a complete new door to a new culture, and way of thoughts through books, movies, songs, and so much more.

Even if you don't spend time to learn a culture well, i.e. don't listen to music or read literature, learning a new grammar, and very importantly, new words, do reshape you, and gives you new perspectives and ways of thoughts.

Not even a bit. I am hearing this "Python domination threatened by Julia" thing for the last 4-5 years (others have been hearing it since much earlier). Nothing changed.

I never got paid for writing Julia, nobody I know that used Python ever switched to Julia.

Only some niche research groups uses Julia in some universities.

Nowhere that I personally know off uses Julia in industry.

And I see no reason to use it either. I use PyTorch, fastai, and sklearn for work and play. Analysts uses R (and Excel at a previous work). Julia has no usable library to be used for practical, dependable tasks. Last time I checked, the pre-compile times for even the simplest functions were painstakingly high.

I have started to dabble with Jax/Flax, and the PyTorch XLA library. Amazong things happening in the TPU space. And it all uses Python.

A research group (in Astronomy) switched to Julia, but they used FORTRAN and MATLAB.

I don't see Python's domination threatened by Julia in any way.

Python, however faces competition from Go in network programming, and Rust for CLI programming.

This was a fascinating read. And this information about Indian dance gestures should not be seen separately from ancient Indian languages like Sanskrit.

If you are wondering how a gesture can mean multiple things, then I must tell you it all depends on the context. And truly master dancers and composers know how to tell two or more stories with one dance!

I regularly read something called "Vaishnava Padavali" which are ancient Bengali poems about Krishna and Chaitanya, but at the same time they convey very deeper meanings.

And it is not like metaphors in other languages, where one meaning is "hidden", the second (or third) meaning hides in plain sight.

If you interpret the meaning of a word in one way, you get one meaning, and if you do it another way, you get another. And you can string together multiple storylines and messages from one piece of text.

Let me give you an example- "Varshaa" in Sanskrit means monsoon. And "Varsho" means a year- it means the amount of time in which there is one monsoon. And again, "Varsho" are also mountains where clouds collapse to and brings monsoon. So, depending on the context (or multiple), "Varsho" could either mean a mountain or a year.

A man took it up a notch- Sandhyakar Nandi, who wrote a whole epic, which is a retelling of the Epic Ramayana on one interpretation, but is the life of Pala Emperor Ramapal on other.

In the same way, dance gestures can mean multiple things based on your interpretation. And different interpretations run parallely, together.

Sanskrit is a language with metaphors built-in in the language.

The entry barrier is extremely high, but Sanskrit poems, plays, and epics are one of the most profoundly intellectually stimulating pieces of text in the world.

Military funding of terrorists is nothing new.

Pakistan as a proxy state of the US created the Taliban in Afghanistan.

US wanted religiously motivated fighters countering the USSR. Pakistan, armed with US weapon, and flush with US money, obliged.

Taliban was actually created at the behest of the US.

It is an open secret.

The US, to counter Al-Assad, armed and funded Al-Noosra front. Much, if not most of the money and weapons went to the ISIS.

In the case of Al-Noosra turned ISIS, the US has plausible deniability. It doesn't even have that much of it in case of the next generation of the Mujahids fighting the USSR being turned into the Taliban.

Exactly. When I find overlapping content in MOOCs, it becomes very annoying. I don't want to miss out a valuable insight I might gain listening to a different instructor speaking for a different point-of-view. The RoI is quite low. But it has happened in the past, so I don't want to skip overlapping content. So listening to it while tidying up or cleaning the desk makes sense.

And for new content, I never watch lectures with other things. I never did. And I still find 2-4 minutes videos annoying as hell.

1. Correct my posture while not outside. For the most parts of my life, I had really bad posture. I would study on bed, code ln bed, and watch movies on bed. Half lying, fully lying, straining my whole upper body. Since two years, I always sit on chairs. I only sleep on bed, and that's it.

2. I used to brush my teeth once a day. Now I brush my teeth after every meal.

3. Exercising everyday. I now spend anywhere between 10 minutes to 90 every day for exercising.

4. Social media. I was a victim of doomscroll. And I identified that it was more of a symptom than a cause, but it is also a cause in itself. If you want to avoid doing something, if you go for a walk, or read something, sooner or later you'd get back to it. Here's where peer-to-peer media is exceptional. There is no end of content. And procrastination takes up most of your day. I limited social media use to 30 inutes a day. The same time everyday. I don't pull up my phone even wjen standing in queue, or while cooking. Much better time management and concentration.

5. For five hours or so have been drinking water immediately after I wake up.

6. Made myself able to think objectively, see nuance and be empathetic. I was very jidgemental before.

Point 4 credit goes to Cal Newport. He is the only self-help writer I can marginally tolerate. I did not read Atomic Habits or Power of Habits.

I realized that one of the best ways to form new habits ws was to hook new habits to already existing habits. This is nowadays called "habit association".

Make no mistake that I am only partially successful. I have failed in forming a lot of habits. I sm only sharing the good parts.

I regularly take part in programming groups, paper reading groups, and book reading groups with Discord. It works flawlessly without any problem. Screen-sharing, video chat, voice all work properly as expected.

I also admin several servers, some of which are completely unrelated to tech and non-tech people find it seamless to use.

And their noise suppression just works. I have only seen better video quality in Google Duo, and better voice quality in 4G VoLTE calls.

Only three issues I have with Discord-

1. It requires high speed internet connection. How high? People with 3 MBPS reported seamless use.

2. The clients are resource hogs. The mobile clients drop the battery too quick, and takes too much RAM in PCs. Although the latter has improved with updates.

3. I am concerned about privacy. Discord is as close-sourced as it gets.

Indian government has official channels in Telegram, too.

1. Having to share the phone number is the biggest issue for me. This shouldn't be the case in 2021. I can only use Signal with my close friends. OTOH, I can confidently share my Telegram handle with anyone I have known for a some months, even online (not in anonymus forums, of course).

2. Notifications in one platform is weird for me.

3. Video quality is extremely bad to the extent of unusable.

4. Completely agree with the lack of settings whether other users with my number can text/call me on Signal.

Race is a very important component on Paletinians hating Jews.

You are uninformed in this matter.

You can find rampant anti-Jewish sentiment in Quran and Hadith, and they are widely circulated in social media.

You maybe living in the West where such posts are not circulated, but they exist outside of your sphere.

There are two narratives. One in English- where they are the victims, and they need saving. Another one in Arabic, where they call for genocide of the Jewish people regularly.

And these were brought into my attention by my friends speaking Arabic.

Just because this narrative exists outside your focus and periphery, does not mean it does not exist.

No I am not one of those.

If somebody says Turn Iraq into a glass parking lot, they should be banned after repeat violations, and their post should be removed.

What nobody talks about is how beautiful and unique their illustrations are in every release notes and blog posts.

It's refreshing to see original thoughts in illustration.

Save some, I turn the notification off from all groups and channels. I just check them when I want. This has worked for me well.

Where are these occupied territories?

"Arab" is not a religion, it's an ethnicity.

Blacks in SA did not have any rights. Arabs have rights in Israel.

It is not an apartheid.

carpet bombing Gaza indiscriminately

It's just their words against theirs.

I don't know what happened to the anti-Arab chanters, in my opinion, they should be sued (and arrested when appropriate). And "Israelis" did not shout those. They were from an ultra nationalist faction.

It's not Israelis vs. Palestinians. It's Hamas wanting to kill every Jew it can, and Israel attacking Hamas to save its citizens, and then innocent Palestinians getting killed because they were used as human shield by Hamas.

If Hamas stops ruling Gaza, and the leadership are properly brought to justice, and Israel still does what it is doing today, I will turn pro-Palestine in a heartbeat.

And honestly I don't like the power orthodox Rabbis have in Israel. I am opposed to clergy- Jew, Islamic, Hindu- does not matter.

but there are clearly two classes of population: Israelis, and people living under Israeli military control without being Israeli

Any trustable source to back this up?

Exactly.

If Israel were an apartheid state, then even the Arabs living inside Israel would not have rights.

Yes.

If they are racially motivated, and shows hatred towards a whole ethinicity and people, yes, the posts should be removed and the users banned after repeat violations.

Of course social media is technology. But so are brick houses, scissors, and trousers.

This post does not belong in this site because it is more political than related to technology.

Just notice the tone in the article. It screams "politically charged post".

It has very little or nothing to do with technology.

I did not dismiss it for being "woke liberal". I dismissed it because it moves away from the ethics of journalist being objective and seeing nuance. They don't in this case.

And social media is decades old. This post is nowhere near about being a post about technology.

Is telephone directory fraud a post about tech? Telephone is a tech.

In that same way the post rides on reporting on tech but is really a political piece.

The owner (daughter of Eric Schmidt) is probably trying to score brownie points by making Israel the villain. Because they are an easy target and no one minds.

Remember the people who killed Jamal Khasoggi? They came by airplane (also a technology) and coordinated with satphones and cellphones (also technology). That news is not Rest of World material.

Social media is decades old, and if there's any censorship going on, it is comparable to newspaper sensorship and tech is not central (newspapers use computers and internet, so are they tech?).

And since this is controversial, this should not be in HN.

Well, I will have to write many paragraphs to fully understand your questions.

Let me tell you that I am highly unsuccessul as a piano player. I cannot play much more than a few simple "pieces". Becaue I am highly irregular.

And apart from work and reading SICP, I don't do everything everyday. I read SICP 7 days a week. But work only five. No Deep Learning on Sundays. On Saturdays, no work, only personal learning, reading papers, attending study groups, etc.

Actually I can work for no more than five hours a day- proper, hard work, "deep work" if I may.

I want to extend that to 8/10. That is my main motivation behind meditation. I am better than most in concentrating during learning and work. I just want that to last for longer hours.

I studied Electronics and Computer Architecture (from the Mano book mostly) before, so I don't find nand2tetris very challenging. It is fairly challenging at times, but not the hardest thing that I do. It's more fun than challenge.

SICP is challenging at times. But I spend time with it very regularly, say 1-2 hours a day.

I have learned from my experiences that, when you are learning something fundamental, new, it is best to learn it over many days and months rather than bouts of short sprints.

So, I am regular with it, but don't spend long hours.

Being with a highly career focused partner helps a lot, too.

I discussed my time management techniques here-

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27356883

I spend 30 or so minutes every day reading novels, poetry or about the culture and history of the Bengali people.

I also exercise regularly.

I like to swim, but pools are closed.

You can look up "The Mind Illuminated" by Yates (Culadasa) and Immergut.

It is completely devoid of run-of-the-mill pseudo-spiritual stuff, and consists of practical advice that you can follow.

It is a complete guide that provides step-by-step instructions.

What resources are you following? How are you learning this in general?

In most cases, it's just a big and elaborate grid search done manually.

I also started learning Elixir, really loved it.

But I have wanted to go through the whole of SICP for a while. I realized that that is a better thing to do (grow core, fundamental skills) during the pandemic where I can get uninterrupted time.

I can learn a language any time. But I was more focused towards learning the functional paradigm rather than the language itself. It's a fun language to code in, though.