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A sensationalist headline... The article actually read more like: stop wasting time. Sure, if you spend too much time on social media, reduce the time spent.

As someone who, years ago, implemented a lot of change to improve my life; here are some thoughts:

If you want a better, and more meaningful life, figure out what (and who) in your life is detrimental to your quality of life. Then rid yourself of those elements.

Second, enumerate everything (and everyone) you spend time on that adds no value--eradicate those elements from your life.

Make no mistake, these can be two very big, strenous and time-consuming tasks; which might need to be planned out in detail--as in how you will rid yourself of each element. The hardest part will usually be to "quit" detrimental people. But once you are done, boy, will your life improve.

When these two steps are done, you have been rewarded more time, not simply given, but earned. In the case of social media, I think I read that the average (globally) time spent is at something like 2 hours per day! If social media is one of those things either detrimental to you, or that adds no value, and you are an average user--then you just freed 14 hours per week.

Imagine if you took up a new hobby (do you even have one? many don't), something that actually improved quality of life, 14 hours a week learning a new instrument, or learning to draw, or write, or ski. That is a lot of time. Novel activities are good for your brain!

Another thing I have observed, especially in the age of social media--but it's not new, just seems worse now--is that a lot of young people need to learn how to be alone. Some people are hardly never alone. They have to learn this before they can learn to concentrate.

If you are like me, an introvert, you are probably alone a lot (if you are not, that can drain you of energy), but one thing you probably need to learn is to cut down on multitasking. It's not good for your brain (learning, memory) or body (stress), it's not good for productivity.

Sorry for rambling.

For the record: I barely use social media; I have inactive accounts here and there.
Health is devolved in the UK. That means there are 4 separate NHS systems - one in England, another in Wales, another in Scotland, and another in Northern Ireland.

I agree that there are severe problems with the Welsh NHS.
Possibly more than that. It got quite the downvote! But I felt the pith was worth the pun.
> What I find so frustrating about this discussion is the inability so many seem to have to take themselves out of the argument and separate the two notions that 1) this machine does not fit their needs in particular and 2) this is a great machine for a lot of other people.

This lack of separation cuts both ways. I read "The claim that the new macbook will have issues with day to day performance is insane" as dismissing the latter of: "This machine is a great machine for me." and "This machine is not a great machine for a lot of other people."

> One final thing: This machine is more powerful than the ones it replaces. Ergo, if it's not computationally up to the task of some pro task, then its predecessor certainly wasn't either. Which must mean that many of the people complaining weren't Mac users to begin with. Hmmm...

Ahh, that doesn't quite follow. Aftermarket upgrades have been around to e.g. bring previous gen MBPs up to 16GB for years. Some people have found that their professional needs are expanding faster than the hardware is, and where they were once avid users, they're now being forced to reconsider their options. And then there are those who have been reluctantly limping along with computationally inadequate hardware because they're tied to it for some reason. There's a whole spectrum out there.
I like that it's called the "Permian Basin". We're literally digging up the sequestered carbon from hundreds of millions of years ago and putting it back up into the atmosphere to rapidly recreate the climate of that period.
I think it's worth noting that Americans already pay around 20% more taxes for healthcare per capita than Frenchs. Where went the tax dollars? Straightforward corruption is a better answer than "systemic issues".
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Thanks for the follow up and sorry for initial attack.

As I said below AWS docs could be dramatically improved for accessibility.
I have replaced (2) with Shift-Click, which is Add to Reading List on a story link in Safari. It works better to preserve attention for me. I end up not reading 90%+ of what sounded interesting from the front page on first glance.
The NYT is putting you on notice that any political involvement, especially outside of approved channels, may necessitate threatening your career. What you should really be doing is paying taxes and keeping your head down.
Condemning Apple's decision because YOU don't like it similarly does not mean it was a bad one. Apple makes laptops for its target market; if your needs aren't met, there are other laptops out there.

Apple had design reasons for doing what they did: optimizing battery life at the cost of a feature that I would wager very few people, statistically speaking, would use. It's alright if that means this laptop doesn't meet your needs, because everyone's needs are different, but I would wager that more people would take advantage of longer battery life than would take advantage of 32 GB of RAM.
This is still the case. If you login to the same Spotify account on multiple devices, you can choose which device to play on, even if you're not on the same network.
Ask HN: Web scraped data for profit?
What are the legal implications of using web scraped data to create a commercial application? Best practices?
You're not a pro unless you need 32 GB of RAM but only 4-5 hours of battery life.
You're totally right. I apologize.
I doubt most people would make that same trade, though.
If someone has an invite, may I have one? No worries if not. (Sorry for the off-topic spam.)
Gromov's approach is not abstract, it's extremely concrete. It uses abstractions for a very precise treatment, and it's probably not the best text for an introduction to entropy, but it's essentially a very concrete treatment.

It analyses very concrete observations using abstract methods in order to construct an abstract definition. It doesn't simply spew out abstract definition. Everything is motivated by concrete facts.

I would not say it's against Arnold's method at all, if anything, it uses the same concrete to abstract treatment. It is, however, not the best way to learn about entropy, but it's a good way to formalise it once you have become familiar with it. It's poor for undergraduate level material, but it's good as graduate level material.
When a single electron collides with another single electron, quantum field theory predicts the scattering probability distribution as a sum of Feynman diagrams. All of them must have two incoming and two outgoing legs, so the only difference between them is the number of internal loops. The basic ones, having no internal loops, is called the "tree level diagrams" (there may be one or more of these). The rest, having internal loops, can be thought of as higher order corrections to the results you get from just the tree-level diagrams.

Now, these internal loops are best thought of as vacuum fluctuations that pop out and interact with the two scattering particles. Say two electrons scatter: the tree-level diagram is two electrons approaching, interacting via a virtual photon (the force carrier for electromagnetism) and then going away from each other again. (There is also another tree-level diagram for this.) And then there are higher-order contributions, e.g. from the case where the virtual photon fluctuates into an electron-positron pair, which then decays back into a photon, in between the two electrons.

This is good for more detail (but a long series):

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2010/02/14/lets-draw-feynman-d...
The very last sentence really resonated with me.

> Sounds pretty eccentric, doesn't it? It always will when you're trying to solve problems where there are no customs yet to guide you. Maybe I can't plead Occam's razor; maybe I'm simply eccentric. But if I'm right about the acceleration of addictiveness, then this kind of lonely squirming to avoid it will increasingly be the fate of anyone who wants to get things done. We'll increasingly be defined by what we say no to.
But it seems to me that the fact that they have a theorem prover at all means they do know ahead of time what semantic preserving transformations are available.
I'm on both. HN has a more diverse community and array of content. There's just a ton of stuff on here. That can up the noise for many people but one must simply filter it in their head more effectively. I only click on a few links on the front page with occasionally looking at New and 2nd-3rd pages to see if readers and I would benefit from me bumping one up.

Now, Lobste.rs is different. They're a small community with a narrower focus on mostly tech stuff. They have relatively low noise with a preference for deeper insight on tech. You'll see more writeups on algorithms than product releases for instance. They also have an open-source website and open moderation log. A bit radical on occasion like where owner JCS just got rid of downvotes to experiment if upvote-only would keep quality without total censorship.

Definitely check out the articles over there on top of the ones here. The comments especially as people often say something there that someone here overlooked or vice versa.
An intelligence that exists in the physical laws of the universe? Well that's not novel or science fiction, it's been posited by thinkers for thousands of years and is commonly referred to as "God"
There are browser extensions to block websites, but I think a more subtle approach might help: add latency.

Social networks spend a lot of time optimizing performance because they know how much it increases traffic. So it seems like a browser extension that adds a bit of latency and gradually ramps it up for the websites you choose could help to reduce the impulse to check too often.
Very nice project, I will definitely be using it and will try to contribute in my spare time.

One recommendation I'd have is not to use the word 'safety' in this context, it feels kind of overprotective. Perhaps the link should read "Take me back to reality" instead?
That sounds impossible to me. How can you possibly read one book every day, unless they're extremely short? I could imagine this being true if you dedicate something like 8-12 hours per day, but how do you have time for that?
Same reason why most phd students are foreigners.

Americans are living an easy life. When life is easy, you are spoiled and not hard working enough.

My team once hired an undergrad intern (American) from CMU. He copied an exe file from windows to linux and tried double click...
I'm not sure I understand the argument against reverting state. If you are cleaning up any sort of mess--including getting hacked--it's vastly easier to start with a good before-things-got-messed up state. This is one of the reasons people buy expensive storage arrays that support fast snapshot reversion.

Also, the author is arguing fix now but preserve all information for fault diagnosis later. For a lot of problems that seems like exactly the right choice.
> To me it sounds like yet another attempt by materialism to get to grips with a non materialist view.

I actually commend that. Opening up to the idea that physical reality is something far stranger than we've imagined is a great way to open oneself to the possibility that "physical reality" isn't at all the sort of thing we've long imagined it to be.

Same with the simulation hypothesis. There was this article recently:
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/Edge20161030

And it contained this gem, which may actually get the right wheels turning in some minds:

"If the universe is a computer simulation then we should look at the player, not the level."
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Interesting. Slowly carving away at the reasons that serverless.com was created.
Your comment is catchy, but not very accurate.

That period lasted millions of years. All the CO2 we are blasting into the atmosphere will be absorbed by the oceans in thousands (or at most ten thousands) of years.

(It's taking a while, because the surface layers of the oceans can only absorb so much, and mixing into the deeper layers takes time.)
No, that's the problem. There aren't other laptops out there. If I want to use MacOS, I have zero choice, but to go along with watered down "PRO" version, that is being catered to grandma. Defending Apple from not even offering 32GB as an OPTION doesn't even make any sense. Please don't give me that silly RAM/battery debate. If someone wants more battery life, then stick with the 16GB. I'll take that imaginary risk, and order the 32GB upgrade.

Like you stated, "everyone's needs are different", and yet, they don't cater to anyone but the lowest common denominator anymore. It started with abandoning their pro apps, then their pro desktops, and now their pro laptops.
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"I would agree that they are distinct, but very much related."

Sure. If they weren't, you wouldn't have put forth the example you did.

"how about this t-shirt of Mickey/Heart/Flag:"

I don't understand what you're getting at (nor am I interested in defining the working attire policy of GrubHub). My point was that there can be a meaningful distinction between nationalism and wearing a "I <3 America" T-shirt, which it looked like you were equating. If you have a point, please make it.
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This is amazing... the beginning of ways to capture the carbon and methane before they are released!
You're obviously trolling but here is something you could learn:

H1-B = 62'000 Visa allocated per years

Last Oct about 160'000 new jobs where created in the US (270'000 during the month of June for example).

Under Obama (8 years) 9 million jobs were created total, which is above 1 million jobs per year. So, 8 x 62'000 = 496'000 H1-B under Obama. Versus 9 million new jobs in the US...
Nice! I love this idea. What happens when most sites that deliver news have at least some bullshit?
You'd be surprised what you can do with, eg, billet aluminum, which is available essentially everywhere and requires no elaborate supply chain to source cheaply. Something like a cell phone or a car has an incredibly elaborate bill of materials and isn't representative of the sorts of product where non-mass-production is even in question.
> So the robot controllers have all the power, until each election when all the angry people vote for unhinged assholes like trump

So the solution is to give robots the rights to vote?!
It's secret for retaliation plus that. It should be obvious security requirement given all the times in history people got rounded up by the next, opposite person in power. Or politically punished as countries got less vicious. A good, voting system should always protect the voters from retaliation where possible.
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UFO disclosure by Obama and Clinton?
FWIW -- Cal Newport's books on career development ('Deep Work' and 'So Good They Can't Ignore You') are very good, quick reads for those interested.
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Fake news = news we don't like. This is just another way to make secluded echo chambers. I see some people learned nothing from the election.
Linux is purposefully and by design monolithic.

However, you could base your unikernal capabilities on the same interface (like POSIX).

Current unikernals: http://unikernel.org/projects/
The GPL would likely give any legal department pause for thought in that regard.
With cheap enough electricity you can make artificial hydrocarbons.

The process is not as efficient as batteries (or just burning oil products found in the ground), but you get similar energy densities as the normal hydrocarbons. After all, the chemistry is the same.

I just wish we had functioning carbon tax or carbon emission markets. Then the government could just set the price or volume, and the market could figure out the most cost-efficient energy mix to hit the target.
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People in France pay less than half what people in the USA pay for healthcare, and they also get much better quality of healthcare as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...

How are you "free" when you're being scammed by your insurance companies and hospitals into paying more than twice what you should be for your inferior healthcare?
> I would also add that attackers are actually after the data.

Not strictly true - depending on the parties it's still a very desirable goal to be able to snoop on a site's continued operations, inject some code into visitors' pages, or just have a platform for further attacks.
Or as i like to call them, DOS-in-a-can...
It serves both to protect both the integrity of the vote, as well as the freedom of the voter from reprisal. Imagine a less than democratic democracy (if such a thing could be imagined). Dissenting votes, if public, wouldn't be very safe to make.
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How does it work? Is it just a blacklist?

> "Also includes a clustering analysis that could lead to an algorithm to automatically detect Fake News."

This implies that they want to do automatic fake news detection, but aren't quite there yet. Is that correct?
I see mostly criticisms unrelated to SmallTalk.

Scheme: Show me the code comparison. How is FP vs OOP relevant, even if true?

JavaScript: How is the comparison to Lisp relevant, especially after the preceding? Author just chose some appealing praise of JavaScript to tear down.

Java: This reduces to an argument you should consider SmallTalk at all for systems programming.
No, fake news = spam sites built from scripts consisting largely of a backcatalog nonsense stories ("Pope endorses Putin for US Presidential Election") with a one or two carefully produced fake stories as a "payload", instead of a purchasing call-to-action like other webspam sites.
The way I help myself with this is I set up different profiles in Chrome. My work one disables JavaScript, Cookies, and Images by default for every site; I enable them only for sites which I need for work. This way, when the reflex to "C-t h a RET" myself to Hacker News comes, I'm instead reminded not to.
G.R.R.M. writes well, and I'm a long-time paying customer, but that phrase is advertising bullshit.

The reader doesn't 'live' squat, he reads about someone else's life. Watching cooking shows doesn't feed anyone.
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The thing I like about Mozilla is that it isn't Microsoft or Google. Should I be buying more tinfoil?
There is no such duty to hire non-foreign-nationals. I do however have duty to my company to make the best hiring decisions, so I'm not going to pass on a perfectly qualified candidate with an H1B and cross my fingers that I'll find a similarly qualified candidate who also happens to be a citizen soon. The opportunity cost can be quite dramatic. We pay H1Bs the same as anyone else, so technically they end up costing more - sometimes this offsets said opportunity cost, often it does not.

I also don't hire for "American" jobs. They are just jobs and if you can do it, I don't care about your race, ethnicity, origin, preference of Star Trek to Star Wars, etc. On a macro level, I believe there's more value to the US with the foreign nationals bringing their labor and keeping its products here rather than competing with US companies from overseas. Let's not forget that these foreign nationals pay taxes and spend money in the US as well.
Horses for courses.

I'll read Lord of The Rings to my kids and let thoughts of Frodo give them the courage and the hope, and I suppose you can terrorize your kids by reading them about "rat face cages" and betrayals and fear culminating in a sit down in Chestnut Tree cafe drinking Victory Gin.
As a supporter of Single Payer that grew up in a hyperconservative home, this sort of article completely misses the point for those that oppose it.

To a conservative opponent, getting high quality care at a low out-of-pocket cost is a result of health care being a redistributive social good, and "social good" is just code word for "shirking individual responsibility". They look at this situation and this author like they do their proverbial welfare queen...a beneficiary of their taxes.

If we actually want to convince them, we have to prove to them that Single Payer is an objectively more efficient system than insurance. In other words, were the total incurred costs lower than they would be in a our system? Because for them, that's an argument that matters.

Unfortunately even I, a strong proponent of single payer, would find a cross country comparison here to be disingenuous. Because it doesn't matter how efficient the French are at administering health care. What matters is how efficiently we would be at administering it. And hands down, we suck at government administration. Whether it is infrastructure, military, health, or whatever...everything we do costs more and takes longer than other governments doing the same thing.

And this is the major reason why our politics suck IMO. We have one side of the table that is 100% more government because government is awesome, one side that is 100% less government because government sucks, and nobody is arguing that we should be making government more efficient. And so we never get nice things.
> When you stop guessing at your opposition's motivations and listen to them

I honestly hadn't even considered what your motivations are, but now I am wondering. At the risk of being accused of a non-sequitur, I'll mention an interview I heard this morning on NPR. The host spoke with a white supremacist. The last exchange was a bit frustrating. I'll paraphrase:

(Guest) Why do they [non-white immigrants] come here if they're treated so badly?

(Host) The same reason people have immigrated for hundreds of years, for better opportunities.

(Guest) [laughs] You are so close-minded.

Somehow, it seems that both conversants think they are trying to honestly engage the other person, yet the other simply ignores what is said.
You might try setting the noprocrast flag in your profile. By default, after 20 minutes it'll enforce a 3-hour break.
Can anyone share their experiences using AWS Lambda in Production?
At least in Belgium, this just in case behaviour is strongly discouraged by most younger general practitioners, who are made aware of the costs to society during training.

Older doctors might still give you referals to specialists or radiographers upon request, and check every tickbox on a blood test sheet, but younger doctors are tought that every additional test puts strain on the solvency and labor capacity of the health care system, and will not have irrelevant or unnecessary tests performed.

In Belgium, MRI and CAT scan capacity is limited, and you can't have an MRI on a whim - you need to be referred by a general practitioner to get one.
DOS like Denial of Service? Or DOS like MS-DOS?

Either one doesn't make sense to me.