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>Right. That’s like the fish and the fish bowl phenomenon: The fish doesn’t know that he’s in the fishbowl, nonetheless that he’s in water. Also, when you’re sleep deprived, research has shown that you’re really bad at being able to tell that you’re sleep deprived.

100% this. If you habitually get poor sleep it becomes your new normal and you forget what it's like to be well rested. I used to get between 3 and 6 hours per night for years and my cognitive skills plummeted. At one point I switched to getting 8 hours per night and problems which previously seemed extremely difficult became trivially easy almost immediately.
I think the biggest scam in bitcoin is using the motte-and-bailey argument that ”blockchains have real-world use”, and ”already existing bitcoins are worth tens of thousands each”.

The only things you can do with already mined blockchain blocks are selling them, or hoarding them. Their immutability is their biggest selling point, after all.
If you're only being buzzword compliant with Object Oriented Programming, yes, you're going to have a meh experience. If you're only going so far as to be buzzword compliant with, say, buying a guitar, it's much the same. On the other hand, if you also spend some time with diligent practice and study, which the purchase of the guitar would have enabled, you may well have an extraordinary experience.

Object Oriented Programming got to the level of "McDojo" martial arts practice. A minority of people learned the essence. The majority got to hang out with people spouting the same ideology, went through the same motions, and felt good about socializing while circle jerking together. So on the whole, it's accurate to say that OOP was oversold, in much the same way that martial arts was oversold. There was some calisthenic benefit, but not much more than that.

So what makes Functional Programming any different? I'm not so sure if anything can't turn out to be just a structured way of writing spaghetti code. Most writing is meh, and deserves to be eventually forgotten. Most music is meh, and deserves to be eventually forgotten.

Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is shite.
This is my exact problem. I haven't been able to use any of these cryptocurrencies to do actual work so far.

Everything has existed on the plane of theory and whitepapers so far.

Nearly a decade after BTC's release and nearly half a decade after's ETH, shouldn't there be a few mainstream applications using them?
I find that remarkjs (https://github.com/gnab/remark) has removed a big class of situations where I previously needed PowerPoint.
This is my life as a lead dev / architect. Deleting code and structuring the code so that parts of it can be deleted. I actually tell people who ask what I do: "I spend my days removing code."
The biggest scam in Bitcoin has been people with a vested interest in it throwing around price predictions since the beginning, and that being the only media narrative propelled.

If the conversation is about how human society can evolve with this new level and kind of coordination, then we may fare better.
In some cases moving one tile over another didn't work but it did work in the opposite direction. Definitely made the test a bit more difficult because it wasn't always obvious when a change had or hadn't worked.
Bitcoin as a settlement system would work just fine at that scale.
A book code. Someone could run it against every digitized book earlier than the date of the code. With enough off-peak AWS instances...
Wait, I thought the author was saying to use this _after_ using a more secure hash function, not instead of it. Why wouldn't you do that?
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It's a very costly and potentially ruining way to do experimentation though.
I have a question that didn't get answered when I talked to people about amplituhedron. Do the higher k (dimension, I'm unsure) Grasmannian calculations have any bearing on a world without super symmetry. Because Nima's tool is only useful for super symmetric calculations then honestly it's not very compelling. I want to be wrong, it's very beautiful math, but it seems holy impractical for "real world" standard model physics.
> safety agencies now limit Dreamliners powered by one of the Trent 1000 engine models under scrutiny to flying no more than 2.3 hours from the nearest airport — down from 5.5 hours previously.

This seems like what these agencies should be doing anyway. Why allow a plane to be 5.5 hours from an emergency landing at all? That's just an insane amount of time if there's a major problem. I absolutely hate it when I'm flying over the middle of pacific. It has always seemed insane to me.

I don't see how an engineer would ever recommend being even 2.3 hours away if it's possible to fly a safer route. There should be regulations requiring airlines to fly the safest reasonable route. If it adds even 25% to the flight, so be it. An abundance of caution seems logical.
I actually like the sodium lights vs. the new LED lighting. LEDs are so much harsher on the eyes.
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This seems like it could contribute to discreet AR tech in interesting ways. Voice control in public spaces is a bad idea for obvious reasons [1], but this gets you something roughly touchscreen-equivalent for e-glasses or whatever.

[1]: http://dilbert.com/strip/1994-04-24
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> the higher capacity a battery is the more it resembles a bomb

A battery is a package containing the reagents necessary for a highly energetic reaction. A bomb is a package containing the reagents necessary for a highly energetic reaction. A high-capacity battery is effectively a bomb, pretty much by definition.
If I can keep my hands on the keyboard all the time, life gets a whole lot better.
And out of that experiment are coming other experiments that work to solve for the issues.
Hello.

Thank you for the suggestion. I will look into it.
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What evidence? The article presents none.
I think these people mostly weren't bankers, they were fly by night mortgage pushers who had no incentive not to write bad loans. They wrote crappy loans and then sold the loans on to the banks.

Which is part of the problem with bringing anyone to justice. The actual banks could pretend that they believed they were buying quality debt, which they diced up into CDO and whatnot.
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This heavily depends on who you meet and your personality. I’ve had multiple conversations on German trains (and also in planes).
Off-topic, but Mercedes E class is not "entry level", it's mid of range for Mercedes.
IMHO, being productive and creative are two almost incompatible things for us mere mortals:

- Being productive requires focus and energy to get things done. Typically, the "obvious" decisions are being made and implemented;

- Being creative, or even thinking out of the box, requires one to relax, get their mind wandering, wait patiently for that creative spurt to come...
Hello.

Thank you for that anecdote. I appreciate it.

An artist friend, or maybe it was something that I read about art, said that you have to make more or less 100,000 bad drawings before you get a "good" one. Now even if it's a couple orders of magnitude more or less, I was interested in finding structure, because it's hard for me to benchmark progress even incrementally outside of "does it look exactly like how I want it to look" or something akin to that.

Being cold and scientific may be against the concept of art, but I'd like to figure out ways to benchmark myself, because I don't have that "assignment" equivalent with trying to learn from scratch.
Ask HN: Do you follow utilitarianism? If not what is your moral framework?
What are your thoughts on utilitarianism? Any other moral framework that you follow if not for utilitarianism?
Hello.

Thanks for those suggestions.

I'll check those out.
First line of the story, “…The first trillionaire will be made in space”. At that scale, do you think it isn’t worth privately funding some mercenaries and your own BFR clone (or even Saturn V if the BFR isn’t copyable for whatever reason) for an incredibly hostile takeover of any infrastructure placed on the moon? And that’s Earth launch where it would be obvious who was behind it. If the same wealth leads to significant numbers of people going up, they don’t need anything like that kind of propulsion to do what has happened a thousand times before on land and sea, in the general area of strikes, secession, and mutiny.

As for hacking being possible, that’s just the observation that basically everything is hackable. Even things that were given as examples of clueless parents fretting over nothing when I was a teen, such as making JPEG files execute when opened, turned out possible due to exploitable bugs.
99+% of people’s time? I think you missed out web browsers. The majority of which are open source.

Not sure this also counts but almost 100% (leave a side asm.js/webasm for now) of the code run by browsers (JavaScript) also comes eith access to source.
I'd like to hear them, if you are still willing to share.
that IS definitely the most painful thing about driving in the US. People drive in any random lanes, not related at all to the speed they go at.
It makes it so much more dangerous and inefficient for everyone.
Hello.

I think that it's interesting that a lot of people talk about clay specifically.

I like to think that I was actually quite good at pottery, after my half-year long art credit in high school which was spent in a pottery class.

Maybe because the tactile nature of clay creations, and my obsession with geometric symmetry and "perfection" let me visualize exactly every step that I needed to get there.
most people are like sheeps .

they tend to follow whatever is bright and shiny without truly understanding why they even need it.
This is old (2013). However, i think it's really ironic to talk trash about OOP while thinking in Java and pointing Alan Kay in the same post. Alan Kay being the father of OOP always made clear Java wasn't the OOPL he had in mind.
Hello.

That's what I'm really trying to find out as well.

With things other than creativity, it's easy to benchmark progress. I'm not versed enough technically with art to know what those benchmark points are to assess myself honestly.
Yeah actually. I'm currently working through my undergrad. I was a staff writer at the university until i was fired for... it is a long story. Regardless, i have toyed with the idea of doing an underground newspaper. Do you think your platform would be helpful in that regard?
It wouldn't. At that scale it would cost hundreds of dollars and several days per settlement.
True about hidden time fees, though if you don't depart from center and arrive at center (where train stations are), you'll also add substantial hidden time when travelling by train.

I've got <20 minutes by car to airport, about an hour by public transport to central train station - even though the train station is closer as the bird flies, and this is Europe with "good" public transport.
I'm more wondering why would legit investors pour 12 mil into something that it obviously a short-lived gimmick. There are plenty of similar examples that perfectly illustrate how fast people get bored with something like this (e.g. flappy bird, pokemon go, fidget spinners) and yet the round got successfully closed [0]. I just don't understand what needs to be happening inside an investor's head to put their own money into something like this.

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cryptokitties#sectio...
Also got a 6 with night shift on. Haven't tested without yet, but I was having difficulties with a few because of what I felt was the night shift.

EDIT: Just tested without night shift and got 0. Very iteresting :)
Hello.

Thank you for your thoughtful response.

What is the name of that Facebook group, and similar groups that you think might be helpful? I think that finding communities like that online could really help me.

I'll make sure to check out Alfonso Dunn. Is there someone in the art world who is considered in the same light that programmers consider people like David J. Malan and Andrew Ng for Computer Science education?
That seems reasonably understandable from the technical point of view. I'd prefer to know that than the alternative of not knowing why I couldn't use some feature.

If that is the limit of the problems people have with that acquisition then I really fail to understand what the problem is.
There's the outstanding issue of the proton size.
Because it doesn't "revolutionize" an industry by introducing venture capital-funded competitors with a new type of smartphone app.
Hello.

Thank you for those suggestions.

I think that I've always really struggled to understand color and shading techniques. I'll check that book out.
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In Germany you now take the bus, which is about 20 eur for this direction, and with the same speed as the "high-speed" train, and faster than the plane. Only with the car is faster, but you cannot work in the car.
A ticket to Amsterdam is even 14 eur, but this takes 10hrs, compared to a 2hrs flight.
Unions are s small part of the problem at UPS - the smallest part arguably - and NYMTA, they're a bigger part of the problem, but not anywhere near all of it.

There is currently no technology that would allow UPS to fully automate, nor would even gain enough efficiencies that would repay the investments needed. The amusing thing to me is - now is probably the right time to fully automate sorting, the technology is much more mature and will likely have a longer lifetime before replacement, than the technology FedEx just installed.

NYMTA, could fully automate - but as a cost greater than building new subways from scratch - the largest issue NYMTA has is a lack of local control, a lack of funding (from Albany), and the tact that if the subways - any of them - shut down for any amount of time, the city devolves to gridlock.

Complicating factors for MTA are, outright corruption, an indifferent management, regulation that makes construction difficult, and a top down safety culture - that prioritizes eliminating the /appearance/ of risk, over reducing realistic risk.
The real-world use is the transfer of value. From optimists to opportunists.
Are you certain you understand blockchains and cryptocurrencies?

Ex: The only things you can do with already mined blockchain blocks are selling them, or hoarding them.

You don't actually do anything with blocks. Blocks contain transaction data for the network, confirmed by miners who play hash games for block rewards. I think you mean the actual coins that come as block rewards, aka Satoshis / Bitcoin.

Are you familiar with decentralization and developing apps on things like Ethereum? Or IPFS?
What's the difference to Thalmic Labs' Myo?
It's completely trivial to cross between states inside the US, but if the next state over legalizes marijuana, and you take a road trip to bring back some weed and edibles, by crossing state lines your road trip may become a Federal drug trafficking offense, with severe penalties if caught.

Even the easiest border crossing can carry significant risks depending on the context.
Hello.

Thank you for your optimism and encouragement!

Do you have some suggestions about good technical exercises? I have a good understanding, I think, of the different aspects of a drawing, like shading and coloring etc. But I was wondering if there are good exercises for improving those?
I’m the same way. Exercise and eating healthy just makes my body want even less sleep. When I’m firing on all cylinders, eating right and working out, I can get away with 5.5-6 and feel better than I ever do trying to push up past 7 by going back to sleep in the morning.

I my experience, the most important thing is, wake up when you wake up. Don’t go back to sleep because you feel like you should, or the alarm has 20 more minutes. If you’re awake, get moving.

I feel like going back down signals to my body that this is going to be a lazy day and it should settle in, instead of firing up all systems.
Hello.

Thanks for that insight.

Do you know of any syllabuses that would be good to look at for the "organic" approach idea? I'd like to understand more what progression would look like even with a more free-flowing approach to learning.
Yeah it’s quite addictive. But for example anyone who undergoes surgery gets given opiates which are also highly addictive. That doesn’t result in millions of people suddenly being addicted.
How much of that is down to Microsoft bribing people to support its own super complex, hard to implement standard OOXML in place of ODF?

https://www.pcworld.com/article/136627/article.html
A similar thing from different people in which you have to match colors before a timer runs down: http://color.method.ac/
As a frequent Berlin-Munich traveller, it’s such a joy to now be able to make this route in less than 4 hours directly from and to the city center.

Last month I had to instead take a flight (direct ~1h) but it ended up being more stressful and pretty much taking the same time since you have to add the time it takes to get to the airport and go through security.

Not to mention that the trains are quite comfortable and there’s lot of room to walk or even sit down at the on board bistro for a beer or some food.
Hello.

Do you have any particular recommendations for learning digital tools and technologies?

I'd like to know if there are some specifics native to stylus and tablet that differ from pen and paper.
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Hello.

Ideally, digital drawings will last for just as long too!

But I'd like to do that. I bought a binder and some paper protectors. It might be ego and vanity here, but I'd like to record my entire progression if possible.
Any more info you can share on this?

Very curious what the difference is compared to the usual approach, see how it could apply in different places (here in NL).
Zeitgeber isn't "like totally this weird German word OMG." (Foreign languages aren't, as a rule, inherently super fucked up just because you don't speak them.) It just means "time-giver" - a cue (like the sunrise) that tells your body what time it is.
well, one of the biggest criticisms of materialism is religion, and western culture has been very good at marginalizing it for the sake of the rich. I think people are finding out that for all of religion's faults, it acted as a alternate source of transcendent morality which could help mitigate those difficulties you describe so well.

Don't worry, the rich will solve it though. Legal weed and other drugs to sedate and make us listless, and cheap low culture like video games as an alternate form of meaningless self-medication are their solution. Lot of us are just being warehoused that way if we wind up losing in the materialistic culture.
With chromeos support for android apps, I wonder if a chromebox, that has android support, could fire up a futter/android app in kiosk mode.

Maybe it's possible to do with a pc running chromium os.
The probability of an event could be related to density. High chemical density possibly required for capacity could mean higher gradients which also could have implications on not only intensity of an event, but also on its probability.
So, where is the research paper or something. We can't just trust 'leading sleep scientist'.
Nobody decided you needed it. That's why you have the option to disable it. It's possible that other people get value from it though.
What if one always finds oneself waking up spontaneously, in a moderately alert state, after about 5-6 hours' sleep and can then only achieve fitful, unrefreshing sleep for the rest of the night?

In my youth, in the absence of an alarm, I would consistently get 8-9 hours of deep, unbroken sleep, but since my early 20s, I've found it impossible to get more than about six hours in one block. If I do succeed in returning to sleep after a premature awakening, I'll wake up again no more than 30 minutes later from what feels like a very non-restorative light sleep.

Schedule permitting, what seems to work best for me is a biphasic routine where the bulk of my sleep, typically about 5-6 hours, is had at night together with a short siesta in the afternoon, usually after lunch.
For any given paradigm, has useful software been written using that paradigm? If so, it is not "bullshit". And it's not exactly surprising that well-known academics and theoretical computer scientists smack talk Java - it's not appropriate for most number-heavy problems. For the other 99% of programmers, it does CRUD pretty well.
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Where can we get the actual research paper?
And an infinite way for them to find their outlet :)
Why is that better than the current situation, where people who really dislike pocket can disable the feature?
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How would a Bus do Berlin - Munich in under 4 hours like this highspeed train ? Even by car it is over 5 hours.
Bus is an okay low cost alternative, but just very slow.
Totally missing from the article is any notion that the tool or thing you're trying to push might not actually be a great idea. The assumption seems to be that the author was Right (TM) and all that remained to address was the challenge of getting others to see the one true path.

If you're trying to convince others to make a change, and they're pushing back, listen to those concerns and revisit whether or not the change you're advocating makes sense. Maybe it does and they will come to see that, but you should also be open to considering their points of view and might change your opinion once you do. It's a two-way thing.
The problem would be to define what is considered a successful outcome, measurable by an automated system.
How is your exercise? Are you limiting your intake of artificial light?
I feel like personal credibility is the only real way to get teammates to follow your lead. And that involves things like following your teammates lead as well.

Collaboration is an art form.
When you can instantly see the salary data and criminal history of everyone you meet, we can very quickly spiral into dystopia.

It's also likely inevitable. Every time you tag someone in a Facebook photo you are helping this happen.
How would you create an LED with these properties that is equally efficient as the white light LEDs on the market? Geniunely curious.
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Only designs for machines and methods embodied in machines were generally patentable in the past. Mathematical formulae are not patentable.
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"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."
Isn't arriving one hour before the flight already pretty tight since boarding closes 30-40 Minutes before. If there is some kind of queue at security you will have trouble getting in. For me it's usually 1 hour before boarding closes.
Funny you should say that. I always thought that jet engines rapidly replaced piston engines because they were easier and cheaper to build.

For example, the Wikipedia article on the BMW003 says:
"The BMW 003 proved cheaper in materials than the company's own 801 radial, RM12,000 to RM40,000, and cheaper than the Junkers Jumo 213 inverted V12 piston engine at RM35,000, but slightly more costly than the competing Junkers Jumo 004's RM10000.[10] Moreover, the 004 needed only 375 hours to complete (including manufacture, assembly, and shipping), compared to 1,400 for the 801."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_003

i.e. the first two german production jet engines were a third of the cost and took less than a third of the man-hours to build compared to piston engines of the same era.
"defensive patents" Yes, makes it sound like patents are a legalized protection racket.