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I didn't know that Deep Work was a workbook for SGTCIY. In fact, I read Deep Work as a separate book. And I haven't yet read SGTCIY.

If you're interested in improving your productivity by simplifying your work, it is a good book.

But like all self-help books its effect wears off over time.

Keep in mind that Cal Newport is an academic at MIT. He has autonomy, he works in a field he loves etc. For other people his point of view is valuable, but his advice IMHO is not that easy to follow. You may need to improvise and find your own way.
Clearly intended because the whole point is that the relatively new use of "this" for affirmation online is... not new.
Nvidia does make hardware. Sure its more common to see a third-party card in a boutique or homebuilt PC Gaming computer, but Nvidia does make and sell cards which are very common in other places. Large PC vendors will use first-party cards (Apple, Dell/Alienware, HP/Origin). Workstation cards are almost all first-party. Compute, ML, and embedded products are all first-party.
The comment above is talking about a last resort defense against the country going full on brutal totalitarianism.

Not saying I agree with it, but it doesn't sound like you were responding to that.
Fredric Pohl scifi fans might enjoy Hechee Rendesvous, which is near the end of the Gateway series. Somone finds a way to live inside both Kugelblitzen and black holes I think.
Does it seem unusual that it's costing $100mm for 2300 classrooms, which is about $43k each?
> In my opinion nobody has really nailed the ease of use for spinning up quick server(s) + usability of DO's interface at anything near their price point right now.

Give Vultr a shot, I've found it to be easier to use and still just as feature filled and flexible as DO. My favorite feature is their phenomenal support; a while back I had someone take advantage of a lapse in DNS upkeep on my part to try to use one of my domains to serve a pornographic dating site. Within ten minutes of submitting a ticket it was fixed and the domain was pointed back to my instance.
Seven Molecules’ Claim to Fame (2013)
What did I just read? It's long and devoid of any substance.

Considering its a public agreement between GTA and Google, it is insane the public works be kept in this much dark.
If potential employers rate my skill based on one-off scripts I should probably stay away anyway.

Just add a README that the repo contains that kind of stuff.

We have a tools repo at work with this kind of random stuff. We use internal gits but if we're using public repository I would put it up there without blinking..
Flying needs a lot more energy than running. All flying animals have a lot more muscles compared to body weight than others.

And bats fly all night, while Cheetahs only run at best a few minutes per day
Show HN: Matchimals.fun– a puzzle/matching card game for kids
The Mexican drug cartels wouldn’t exist if we’d have established a system that doesn’t give them financial incentives to. These problems are fundamentally always an issue of the underlying social systems that bring them into being. You cannot shoot them away.
Defending yourself in comments here is about protecting your reputation. In spite of your claim that HN has had no significant impact on your career, your reputation matters. Mine does not. Women are just supposed to enhance the lives of men for free.

If you actually gave a damn about helping me, you would have emailed me try to hash this out privately. You aren't actually trying to help me. You are just continuing to virtue signal and look out for your reputation. Solving my problem is not actually on your agenda or you would be doing something effective about it, not something counterproductive that just serves to further smear me.

The reason my website is unfocused is because I cannot get serious engagement from anyone ever. Engagement is how a website goes from being some half-baked piece of shit to being a means to provide a service in exchange for money. I cannot get serious and respectful engagement. I mostly get platitudes and shallow advice that isn't based on much of anything.

Chin up. Keep trying. Tally ho. Maybe next time.

Meanwhile, my bank account is nearly empty as usual and I am not happy about it. Platitudes do not pay my bills. Encouragement does not pay my bills. Men talking to me to enhance their reputation while pissing on mine does not pay my bills and is nothing innovative. Patio11 has done the exact same damn thing to me. He pissed all over me in public and when I blogged about it years later and someone posted that blog post here because the HN crowd loves its gossip, his only fucking concern was covering his ass and denying wrong doing. Because that's the kind of good guy Catholic boy he is. His fucking reputation matters. My suffering is irrelevant. My inability to come up with enough earned income to have basic food security no matter how hard I try and in spite of high levels of education and competence is of zero concern to him, to you and to most people here pretending they are good people and not sexist jerks.

So please stop leaving me these incredibly shitty comments that just get worse with every new one.
India Lacks Formal, Salaried Jobs
There's another book whose name is on the tip of my tongue that has a similar premise, except the planet instead of the entire system is encased in a sort of time-dilation field. Naturally, humanity thinks it's an attack.
> "Hitler did nothing wrong" went from a provocative joke to a political statement.

I'm sort of fascinated by the phenomenon, which I think of as "LOLgical argument". You start off with a joke where the humor is based in an extreme and socially transgressive statement. It could be "Hitler did nothing wrong," or "The Earth is flat," or any number of similarly absurd ideas. The original users are trolls who privately do not actually believe what they are saying, but enjoy "rustling jimmies" and the increased status their daring obtains.

But as more members of the community join in, the original statement loses its edge, and even more transgressive poses are needed to continue the joke. Often this means doubling-down, and telling others that you do indeed believe the thing that they had, at some level, still been treating as a punchline.

This meta-joke involves finding "proof" that the shocking thing you said before was actually true, and demonstrating your commitment, by creating memes and other "evidence"-based arguments for it. In doing so, you begin to create a community that becomes indistinguishable from a community that actually believes the original statement.

As these arguments pile up, even trolls who started off disbelieving their original statement find themselves surrounded by "evidence" they were right all along. There is a swell of camaraderie as those who were bold enough to question the official version of reality begin to support each other. The community pressure, the ego boost of having discovered some secret suppressed knowledge, and the psychological difficulty of abandoning their previous position all contribute to the complete conversion of a troll into an earnest believer.

I find this fascinating because it works in such opposition to the ways we normally talk about convincing people of new ideas. It's not the logic of the argument here that leads people to a new conclusion but rather the logic of the joke, the idea that the funniest punchline to an absurd joke is to actually believe it. When enough individuals in a community feel that way, they can actually end up convincing each other.

So it's not so much that the community becomes "flooded by actual idiots" as it is the original trolls who become believers themselves.

Vonnegut once wrote, "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." He was probably more right here than he knew.
My experiences building a URL shortener with OCaml and ReasonML
The impact of removing this energy from circulation is absolutely tiny compared to the impact of CO2. There is a local environmental impact to all structures, yes, but it's absolutely not zero-sum.
>Trouble with motorcycles is, at least in the EU, too many years of governments putting the fix for bad car drivers onto the motorcycle license. The capacity limits and multi-part test etc are quite off-putting for new riders. Unsurprisingly, it's still car drivers causing most rider deaths.

What you say is false. Here is data to the contrary:
https://www.swov.nl/en/facts-figures/factsheet/motorcyclists

There is a clear relation between engine size and fatalities. There is also a clear relation between stringent license tests and safety.

What you have to accept is that you might ride safely, but for every person like you there are a couple of young squids out there who are going to buy the largest capacity motorcycle they can, ride it dangerously and without any gear and any caution thrown to the wind. I am a rider too, and often encounter these idiots. At least in the Netherlands gear is very ubiquitous (except for the nostalgia grandpas on their 1940s antique) but I still see dangerous riding all the time.

And in terms of economic incentives, at least in the Netherlands it is insanely attractive. The license is the only obstacle, but you save a lot on fuel and road tax.
This is a simple puzzle card game I built over the winter holidays for my nieces. I wanted to explore Google's boardgame.io state management library. It works best in landscape on tablet + desktop.

All the code is open source for anyone who wants to check it out, more info at: https://github.com/chrisheninger/matchimals.fun

I think the game is best for kids ages ~4-8– I'd love feedback if you have children and can playtest it with them. :)
Yup, from an outside perspective you simply cannot see something cross the event horizon no matter how long you wait, except by detecting the added mass.
This article is written for people who seriously believe that the Trump admin is an attempt at a fascist coup the US. If you don't believe that, the article won't do much for you.
They definitely deserve a shout-out too, these two resources happily got me through a couple of undergrad philosophy electives!
One cost of all the guns is all the extra security. Schools resembling prisons, TSA, metal detectors and surveillance everywhere... doesn’t that also infringe on my freedom in a way?
Best take away (though not expressly stated), one never needs more than 20% annual return if compounded for 50 years! $19 to 211,000 ! That’s more than the networth of 50 % of Americans. Compounding, Still the greatest lesson in the world.
> patent brain storming camps encouraging various employees to think of and file for patents on just about any topic regardless of the business's involvement in that field

One principal reason is to establish a defensive portfolio, for possible use in counterattacking and as currency in future cross-licensing negotiations. If (let's say) IBM were to threaten sue XYZ Corporation for infringement [0], then XYZ would look through its own portfolio of patents to see which patents the company could use to assert a counterclaim against IBM; if XYZ didn't own any patents, it'd have nothing to trade. [1] It's commonly believed that this is why Microsoft went on a patenting binge in the 1990s: so that it would have something with which to counterattack and trade cross-licenses if, say, IBM sued it for infringement. EDIT: This was documented in a 1991 Bill Gates memo [2].

[0] In the early days of the PC, a certain large computer company had a reputation for (figuratively) dropping two or three stacks of patents on another company's desk and saying, you can have a license to Stack A for X% of your revenue, a license to Stacks A and B for X+Y% of your revenue, and a license to all three stacks for X+Y+Z% of your revenue. The other company would ask, which ones do you think we infringe? The larger company would answer, oh, we have no idea, but now that you know about these patents, if you do infringe, we'll find out eventually, you'll be a willful infringer, and you'll owe us up to treble damages. Some companies decided that settling was the better part of valor.

[1] https://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2007/03/analy...
Me too! If anyone has any fantastic niche web encyclopaedia links, link away!
There's a similar civilisation in "Revelation Space" which I really recommend.
They (imho) fell a bit behind, because it took them quite a while to release the new plans. So they were on the more expensive side. However, they still are. As for me, I would not see any reason not to use hetzner.de.
Here’s one idea that works for me. I am crash coursing several Khan Academy maths to prepare for a grad levelML/AI course in the fall. I also work full time. I have found that see-sawing between writing software and studying math makes me focus on both more intensely than if I did either on its own. I have work to do and I need to learn a lot of math in a small amount of time. So I have to focus hard on both or I won’t get much of either done.
I don't think we can robustly rely on the whims and trends of consumer groups to safeguard our societies.

This is what public policy, laws, and regulations are supposed to do.

Although I suppose the problem there is that politicians and government offices don't generally seem to be properly incentivized and empowered to solve these long term issues...
It upsets pele. I'm totally serious. Google for why do native hawaiians oppose geothermal.
I'm not concerned about what brought the cartels to existence, the question applies to any enemy force, replace "Mexican Cartels" with "Nazis" if you wish

Explain to me how you're supposed to deal with Nazis, or other invading armed force using "Arguments, beliefs, and convictions"
Wonder how long the drone thing will still be an advantage? Give it a few decades, and military type robots could become a common thing for hobbyists to own, especially in a place like the US where almost anything seems to go as far as private ownership is concerned. Or they could end up getting hacked.
> Critical thinking is becoming more and more discouraged, especially in educational settings, as outward expression of such is increasingly drowned out by overemotional responses.

I don't think you have any evidence of this besides whatever media propaganda you might have been reading. As a teen's dad the teens I interact with are much more informed and aware than I remember from my gen-X era high school.
Oh I didn't mean to imply it was an wasted effort. Far from it. It just amuses me how much effort us geeks put into the avoidance of manual or repetitive jobs. I don't think it's a bad virtue to have either. It's just the lengths we sometimes goto can sometimes be a source for humour.
I would love to hear more. I wonder if this is from technical/CTO perspective, as the people you talked, did not know much about technicals, or it was regarding operations?

I have some mixed experience with DO myself (support failing to provide proper answers, not too technical, few times actually) that pushed me to Vultr. What DO did to the hosting market is a huge footprint, and I wish them the best though.
Sure, but irrelevant, and your comment is seemingly more a random attack against liberals than anything deep.

It's more likely a marketing term. It's much easier to sell to people if you can convince them of a special identity, and promote things as being part of that identity. Marketers spend a lot of money trying to identify and target certain demographics, and they will try different things to see what works.

Consider Malcom Gladwell's TED talk on "Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce". Prego made a lot of money by identifying different market segments with different tastes and preferences in pasta sauce. You can think of it as a k-means clustering, where each cluster center is a different flavor ... or a different group of people.

Of course, sometimes there aren't 'k' clusters, or the clusters have been misidentified, or the boundaries are simply vague.

In any case, it could also simply be that talking heads love to promote their sociological interpretation of how the world works.
It's hard to remove the muffler on an electric motor.
Apollo, open platform from Baidu for autonomous driving systems
Is that a cost of the guns, or the 'war on terror' stuff that became an obsession after 9/11? Because it's not much better in many places outside the US either.
Yes, they are easy to spot, and they are being spotted and their owners being jailed/executed/gutted for organs. This does not mean than an enormous amount of wealthy Chinese see their own private internet channel as a status symbol, and manufacturing of creatively styled antenna enclosures being a mid-sized industry here.

https://m.alibaba.com/product/1805114851/Beautiful-FRP-Anten...
But from our perspective, the outside observers, why do black holes gain mass? It would take an infinite amount of time from our perspective for any mass to even touch the event horizon.
If you are talking to person A and they get a new phone, how do you know that happened?
Tanks, missiles, and nuclear weapons are utterly useless in a guerilla war.

To be blunt: you don't know what you're talking about.

Edit: If, as you claim, rifles serve no function in modern warfare, please explain why every military organization in the world continues to issue them.
On Lisp by Paul Graham is more exciting and inspirational.

Sicp is solid fundamentals.

Read both.
It seems to me that wealth come from two sources: capital accumulation (I'm not talking about money here) and knowledge accumulation.

How do you expect to lose those? If something, I would expect they increase and that allowing people to be even more 'complacent'.
I did not intend to come off as salty as my comment reads either, no snark intended.
Apples and oranges. The R6 is a sports bike. Harley makes cruisers. 460lbs is light for a Harley, especially with batteries.
If you look at a pure telecom company like Verizon, they're at $13.6 billion in profits (for 2017) on $125 billion in revenue. Apple is at $50 billion in profits on $229 billion in revenue (for 2017). So Apple's margin is almost double.

Also, "consumer revenue" is the key word. The biggest R&D players in telecom don't sell to consumers. Intel and Qualcomm sell chips (and ARM just sells you IP). They don't make the chip in house and sell you a complete phone. At the same time, a company like Verizon or Comcast that sells to consumers isn't vertically integrated and doesn't do its own R&D. They buy all their equipment from other companies that do the R&D. You don't have vertically-integrated company that uses consumer revenue to bankroll the R&D. You have specialization and market transactions mediated by, among other things, patents.

Contrast web technology, where there’s no patents and no markets. Nobody sells browser engines. There is no specialization. It’s all driven by Apple, Microsoft, and Google, who invest in the R&D to further their consumer-facing platforms.
>I don't think you have any evidence of this besides whatever media propaganda you might have been reading.

This is the most perfect sentence to immediately discredit anyone in political discussion today that I have ever seen. No matter what political perspective you have, you can say it and it magically works in your favor. I'll be keeping this in mind for future ironic use.

Also, ironically, this statement shows complete lack of critical thinking. I made an assertion without further explanation or citation, and instead of asking for further explanation or citation, you dismissed any conclusions I may have independently reached as being the result of "media propaganda," without even knowing the depths of my conclusions or how I reached them! This signals that you've made up your mind about the topic and aren't even willing to engage in discussion about it. Why post at all?
It might be, in that a Q-ball or something similar could there instead of a singularity, or it could be that there is no interior. Remember that the Holographic Principle implies that the total entropy of the volume of the hole can be encoded in the 2D event horizon of the hole.

The singularity is a prediction of GTR, but GTR breaks down there too. This is why black holes are so exciting in the context of new theories which are complementary to GTR!
I think there's something to be said that if you REALLY enjoy what you're doing you'll immerse yourself into it with infinite willpower, and most importantly, you'll be ridiculously happy doing it. There simply aren't enough hours in the day when you're highly engaged in something.

If you find yourself fighting doing what you think you like doing, and get distracted easily then maybe you're not really doing what you should be doing.

That doesn't mean you should stop being a software developer, but you should be aware of that.

Maybe it's different for everyone but back in the day I was really into gaming. I don't mean casual gaming either.

I mean playing 12 hours a day, and min / maxing the shit out of every game I played. Basically playing for maximum efficiency, constantly improving and focusing 100% of my attention to it, for literally 10 hours straight without moving -- but then doing that with various games for like 4 years straight. Needless to say I got very little sleep in HS and my early 20s haha.

Think about that tho. While you may think "oh it's gaming", it was really high intensity thinking and unlike programming, it also required very good reaction times (at least in the games I played, such as Diablo II, Quake 3, etc.).

When I lapse into inactivity periods in software development I always think back to those gaming days. Why didn't I burn out gaming, when mentally it was even more draining than programming?

The only conclusion I can think of is, if I reach to check email, reddit, HN or youtube instead of working on software developer related tasks, then I must not enjoy it as much as I think I do (which I've accepted). Deep down I do enjoy it, but I don't enjoy it enough to sit there for 5 years straight working on things 12 hours a day.
One big problem with patents is that they are often filed for technologies developed by universities and government institutions (e.g. paid by the tax payer), where just the last missing piece of the puzzle is actually patentable.

I'd say we introduce a challenge period. If someone wants a patent, they should pose a challenge for anyone to come up with a solution. If nobody comes up with a solution in the given period, then they can have the patent.

This would work perfectly for stupid software patents.
I agree wholeheartedly. Using jrebel is so much of a productivity boost, but I want to avoid proprietary tools as much as possible.
NP is Hard
The Myth of the Hacker-Proof Voting Machine
This is a particularly clever form of clickbait. The article describes how citrus, generally migrated from the Himalayas due to climate change. The title says orange juice.

Notice the subtle bait and switch here.

Citrus exists due to climate change in the Himalayas millions of years ago

Oranges exist due to climate change in the Himalayas millions of years ago

Orange juice exists due to climate change in the Himalayas millions of years ago

You want to click on the last one because your curious why they are so specific in the title, even though the article is about the general case and mentions the specific only in passing, almost as an excuse.
Great point. Our DB actually does include quite a few of these “hidden” gmails that some VIPs use - we’re getting better at that - but FWIW the vast majority of VIPs aren’t using those.

Re your harvesting comment, we don’t even keep a temporary copy of the CSV you upload, for privacy reasons - it’s all handled on the frontend. Clearly, customer trust is paramount for a business like ours :)