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On the topic of interesting gavels: the US Senate uses a gavel gifted by India in 1954, replacing the original gavel from 1789, which was falling apart [1]. It's an interesting gavel, as it has no handle, and is made of ivory.

It seems that the US Senate is much better at taking care of their gavels, being on only their second one in over 200 years, compared to the UN being in their third in a little over 60 years. Interesting that it's made out of pear wood too, which I assume isn't grown in Iceland, it would've been so much more Viking if it was made of mammoth ivory or whale bone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditions_of_the_United_State...
> you fit the rest of the crap in any which way

This is really the only relevant thing here, and effectively amounts to "spend less time on these things", "half ass them more", or "don't do these things".

Which is fine, and I think the subconscious point of this article is that if you focus on what a "proper" person should do, you'll run out of time real fast, and generally people need to cut corners.

And that advice that adds a daily time drain is questionable. I don't really know anyone who does it all.
Stellar Engine
>either agents on behalf of the artists are selling directly on the exchanges, or there's a profit sharing agreement with select brokers

This is just mental gymnastics to absolve performers of economic responsibility for the market in which _they_ are the source of all value in play. The artists are directly complicit because they want to get famous and make the big bucks. The ones who don't play that game are the bands you might see touring local venues and working out a $10-$20 cover charge with the bar they play at.

>often large chunks of inventory seem to never become available on the primary market, for whatever the reason

I worked at a secondary ticket marketplace company and I am trying to explain to you what is _actually happening_ in the real world every day in this industry, from my direct experience. I'm not hypothesizing here...

Edit: can't reply to you again, but I think we're on the same page :)
Recommend watching "American Experience: The Race Underground" on Netflix
www.netflix.com/title/80991259.
Just curious how you manage politics in the workplace and how you progressed so far in the workplace.

I'm really struggling with politics at work right now so I know how you feel. I feel a lot of those same emotions.
It's not only about size but about speed column stores that store compressed data and process data in blocks using SIMD perform significantly faster on many query types.
Dunno ... because they ask for 2 cores and you give them 2 over -provisioned vcores instead (each core sliced into 17-24 vcores)?

Or because they ask for 16 GB RAM and you give them 8 GB?
I don't think I share the general view on "healthy" food. If I am getting correct macros and vitamins and not gaining weight I consider myself fine. I found evidence on other claims scarce. I think obsession with healthy eating is a fad and tbh I grew up in another country and the food was often much worse there despite much of it being prepared by hand, because there just wasn't enough of it or enough of nutritious food (i.e., something like /oranges/ cause for a celebration).

> Do you eat lots of prepared foods or restaurant foods, or just lots of raw stuff?

A mix of the three. I'm more likely to eat raw kale than cook it in something. I like things like canned chickpeas. I sometimes boil things or cook simple items like scrambled eggs.
There is an economics research paper that shows that ticket auctions on Ticketmaster can reduce the arbitrage profits of scalpers (https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/eric.budish/research/Ticket...) They compared the primary auction price to the ebay resale price and found they were about the same. It's unclear why ticket auctions never took off, although it may be that the only work well for shows with high demand.
If it isn't happening already, this will happen. You should patent it!

edit: The more I think about it, I wouldn't be surprised if someday in the not distant enough future this is the way 90% of all commerce happens.
Wow, having worked in the ticket industry, I'm fairly impressed. This is a _real_ way for an artist to impact supply and actually fight for the ticket prices they want to be known for to their fans.
Just curious.

Is it pretty common for this to happen?

I just got completely marginalized at my last workplace after they realized how socially inept I was and basically forced out the door. It also happened my job before that.
Both were startups though.

Wondering if that's pretty common or if I just had bad workplaces?
There’s plenty of time — you just have to focus on the things that really matter. I have a 30 minute commute, so I’m away from home for 9+ hours every day. My wife is a stay-at-home mom and we have two children who aren’t old enough yet for school (not that mamma is ready for them to go). I do most of the cooking (we rarely eat out), she does most of the child rearing. We pretty much split the cleaning. I fix the house as it breaks, and do some home
improvement when I can fit it in (just finished a set of bunk beds for the kids). We do something fun at least one day most weekends (beach visit, fishing, zoo, etc). I have a couple of beers most nights and just enjoy my family as I cook or get the kids ready for bed in the evenings. Before I go to work in the mornings I get in a short exercise routine (stretching and some push/sit/pull-ups for maintenance). Still manage to get 7-8 hours of sleep a night. I perform regular maintenance on our vehicles.

I don’t watch any TV or mindlessly browse the Internet during the week (OK, I’ll check up on some webcomics once or twice). Honestly I don’t do much of that on the weekends, either. I don’t read fiction much. I don’t check my IRA or 401(k) regularly. I don’t worry about my health — we eat fantastically healthy in my house and I’m not sedentary.

I work to live; I don’t live to work. My family is the most important thing in my life and I enjoy every minute I’m with them.

It would be nice, though, if we were on the galactic standard 25 hour day. I could use that extra hour every now and then.
Yes, but keep in mind that, like BitTorrent, IPFS also includes a thing where nodes are given preferential treatment based on seed/leech ratio - so you're incentivized to help host content, and just the stuff you can share while downloading yourself might not be enough.

So yes, they will "unpin any site as soon as it becomes a resource drain" unless they're feeling particularly charitable - but that's exactly how it works with torrents, too! Generally you set up rules like "seed until a maximum up/down ratio is reached for that file, then don't bother", "restrict uploads to a certain maximum speed and/or certain maximum amount of data per day", that kind of thing. I figure you'd basically have an automatically-managed cache of limited size that you'd use to hold the stuff you were liking-to-pin, and stuff that was judged to be no longer worth seeding would get kicked off, as would old/unpopular content if the cache had filled up and you were shuffling in new content.

So unpinning anything that becomes a significant resource drain is also - at least in the relatively-short-to-medium-term - fully compatible with other people being willing to "like" your site to pin it, if not perpetually, than for an extended period of time.
I've noticed that people look like their dogs, too.
They tend to have a commitment to consistency though, to the point of absurdity even, but you kind of have to in order to maintain the perception that everything is legitimate. Russians on the other hand likely have already known things aren't for a very long time, so no point in faking it.
I agree with most, but not the cooking, make enough for 2 or more meals at once, you can amortize the time over them, reddit.com/r/mealprep has a lot of ideas for people making large batches at once. Plus a lot of cooking can be things like roasting chicken which takes a long time but it's hands off so barely counts doesn't matter. For more hands on stuff I listen to audio books so entertainment time and cooking time overlap. I'll add

* shopping: This doesn't have to be an hour long ordeal, for me it's a <5 minute stop on the way home 3 or 4 times a week.

* exercise: Build it into the daily commute, IME a 30 minute drive will translate to a 30-60 minute bike ride, then you can scrap the car upkeep.

* shaving: only shave every few weeks.

* hair cuts: No 2 all over takes about 10 minutes and your good for another 3-6 months. Can even do this yourself in theory (in practice I can't).

Now if I could just stop procrastinating with all this free time...
Most make you sign a disclosure when you apply to the job if you have a disability or not.
Absolutely. Though nomad lifestyle isnt really for me. Malta has a cool residency program [1]: pay only $15k/yr + territorial tax and live and work from there. Georgia is a good and cheaper option, a more natural and open country but not as developed (developing very fast though). Best thing is ease of getting residency, if you can afford it you will get it. No artificial barrier. So can bring your employees from all over the world and open an office.

So yeah not paying $20+k/yr to any goverment either. The moment I hit that I am out.

[1] https://www.ccmalta.com/publications/malta-global-residence-...
The headline is by far the least concerning part of this.
An option that is not in the money has no intrinsic value by definition. It has time value.
In short, because they’re doing so without my permission, and I resent that.
I've been forced out of my last two workplace due to being socially inept. I'm pushing 40 and have never had a relationship with a girl or made a friend or been invited to a party.

It's not physically incapacitating until you kill yourself which is the signal society sends you constantly.

It's pretty incapacitating.
The allowance of private arbitration is a pretty clear example of corruption though, class action lawsuits exist for the purpose of punishing companies more than delivering assets to the suffering parties and that route has been taking away in a lot of circumstances.
If I want to build fully custom GUI is it better to start at Swing(Learning from book: Filthy Rich Client)? or JavaFX has made it easier to build custom GUI components.
I expect people's answers will depend on several things: how much money they have, how much labor they can share, how much time they have, what privacy tradeoffs they're willing to make in the name of convenience, what their hobbies and skills are, etc. I happen to enjoy cooking, gardening and maintaining my car, so I do those things myself. I also find that eating takeaway or on the go leads to mindless, unhealthy eating, so even if I don't want to cook, I try to make it a priority.

But cleaning? I've got no interest, nor do I feel I get much value from it, so I outsource. I also make a real effort (failing often), to not do things that I don't feel add value: browsing social media or hacker news, opening articles I will never read in tabs in my browser, organizing things (send them to the thrift store), shopping (I shop online quite a bit), and so on.
I’d start with C.S. Lewis’s Miracles for a take by an educated theist. Tim Keller’s talks at Google about the reason for belief cover similar ground.
If I make an emulator. Perhaps it would be nice to provide a few classic games with upgraded graphics and audio. Even finding the rights holders could be a challenge.

Perhaps I found the new Star Wars movie crap, a few cuts and edits. And it’s much better. Only can only dream of getting the rights of releasing it.

Perhaps the mastering of a Metallica album was just bad. With a little skills applied to the problem and there you go, a much nicer edition of the album. Cant really add it to Spotify though.
>Tay-Tay always seemed so nice

Are you only thinking about her public marketing image? I feel like any amount of digging into who she is as a person makes this "nice girl" thing way more complicated...
I'd just point out that you probably want to be very clear what your existing contract forbids here, and get any exceptions/releases to that very clearly spelled out in writing before attempting this. Companies can get vindictive if they think you're stealing their clients without permission.

A client is seldom worth a lawsuit that you'll likely lose.
Congrats on the RC! TimescaleDB is a very neat idea, there's a lot to gain by building on Postgres.

There's also a very serious limitation due to that: the requirement to predefine schemas. My primary use case for a timeseries-focused db is storing system and application metrics. Using a commercial (e.g. datadog, signalfx) or open source (e.g. influxdb, prometheus) timeseries product I can submit arbitrary data. If I had to perform a schema migration every time a developer wanted to record a new metric, it would be extremely painful.

If this has changed since I last looked at TimescaleDB, please correct me!
That is probably largely true.

But then those people have no leverage to barter with and save them from oppression.

I worry that the ai powered future looks like a country with the resource curse - only those with control of the means of production have any political power.

How do we ensure people continue to have any real political power without their underlying economic power to enforce it?
100 years that's insane. The world needs to catch up with the times. copyright needs to be down to a few (<10) years Max. The main reason being that you can monetize it more efficiently and much faster today.
In addition to a veto being pointless, I don't think Trump cares about this issue at all. By which I mean, he wouldn't have a motivation to veto it.

If he takes no action, it becomes law automatically, aside from some edge cases around the end of a Congressional session where the bill dies. He'll probably prefer to preen in front of the cameras with a signing ceremony, I imagine.
I've been forced out of my last two workplace due to being socially inept. I'm pushing 40 and have never had a relationship with a girl or made a friend or been invited to a party.

What society wants and signals to you constantly is for you to kill yourself because you're not worth anything.

It sucks to say the least.
To echo other folks: optimize for time.

I work a 30 hour a week salary gig that I negotiated. I have to work at a small company, but it's better than freelancing.

I also work 100% remote from home. People talk about feeling out fo the loop or whatever, but I play music with friends and have a family so it[s never been lonely for me.
>It's way more developed than most people think.

Totally. I like to tell people that it's an "iceberg" industry, in that you don't see 80-95% percent of the whole thing "above water."

>There are a few middlemen companies

cough cough TicketUtils cough
If someone feels like that already, I cannot recommend having children or being responsible for a garden or home maintenance. You will be swamped.

That said, optimising your routine can be rewarding. Morning and evening routines with your children can be great fun. Something like cooking, which can be a chore to some, is a treat to others (myself included).

IMO, it's helpful to prioritise important things for the morning while you're sharp, and leave non-essential things for the late evening when feeling tired or falling asleep barely matters (watching a movie or playing PS4).

Pay bills/etc or check your stocks during your lunch break. Minimise your grocery shopping trips - keep a stock of staples and then do a weekly shop for meat, milk, etc. Exercise in the morning. That should start to free up your evenings.
I think Spivak's comment was talking about the "de facto" purpose as born out by experience. I usually don't like being cynical, but it seems copyright legislation is one of those areas where it's hard to be overly pessimistic
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." - H. L. Mencken
Ask HN: What automator scripts have you written to make your life easier?
Less electronics, own less things (or store almost everything), Build habits so upkeep is automatic.
What I do.
Do you mind highlighting the line? (Not doubting you. I see where TM benefits. Just not how artists do.)
The real irony here is that the Bitcoin/Ethereum miners are setting up hardware which runs software designed to maximize inefficiency for the sake of maintaining a system designed for money laundering and tax evasion.

Rather than use their equipment for work that's useful to humanity like Folding@Home or BOINC these mining operations are running what amounts to a foundry of space heaters trying to compute a lottery number in return for poker chips at a speculative casino.
Is phpMyAdmin deserving of trust? My memory is that it's basically a security nightmare.
Yeah, meal prepping is something I've kind of wanted to look into but from what I've seen it only works for half a week and I still need good recipes for it. Not to mention that it kills my Sunday, which I take issues with.
> statistics is a three year long grueling applied maths degree, and condensing it to three weeks is silly.

I agree. I was in a very prestige organization and they didn't know what a statistician really do and just hired CS machine learning PHDs. Even those people don't even know what statistician does. One person gave me ISLR when I ask for advice to get hire at this prestige place (I did an equivalent of this over several graduate courses in statistic program).

Another person proudly told me that in his project, he was using GLM stating he knows GLM. I asked what was the link function and that person stated he didn't know and it's somewhere in the code...

I've since then double down on statistic and will be going into Biostatistic field instead of data science. It feels like there are a lot of impostors especially in start ups and government organizations in data science. I have no clue why but there is just this culture in tech industry that have made me left it for better field. I've intern in the biostat field it is much better. CNN and other have listed with high quality of life.
Two things to consider:

- Identify cause(s) of stress. Operate on that cause. Address symptoms but work on the underlying cause.

- Depression is not simple but consider if your depression is about past or future. Either direction is a problem that needs to be addressed by being more present in the now.

I had massive eczema and a host of other issues caused by stress. Nothing helped, eg creams, diet, meditation etc. The source of stress was ultimately incompetent management where I worked. Bad schedules, faulty deadlines, poor environment. I put up with it long enough to prepare my escape to a new role elsewhere. Within 3 months at new position my skin issues vanished, I lost quite a bit of weight, I had more energy. My depression dropped off significantly.

Various drugs might help with symptoms but if they aren’t addressing the underlying cause they can prolong the issue rather than solve it. Don’t ignore medications that address an underlying cause of symptoms either.

One final catchall: go to a dentist, doctors. Get full blood work tests. Make sure you eliminate all the “stupid simple” deficiencies or factors that are easy to fix. Vitamin D is one of these for depression. I’m definitely sensitive to that and it was an early cause we eliminated through just me being outside more and supplements. It helped a bit.
IPFS is basically a cross between BitTorrent, plus Git's datastructure for permanently and uniquely identifying particular versions of and updates to a given piece of content, plus a clever distributed hash table for keeping track of who has what content.
> This is just mental gymnastics to absolve performers of economic responsibility

I'm fully putting blame on the artists for this behavior. I'm just wording it slightly differently because I think it's less of a "broker approaches artist with a good deal" situation than a "artist decides they want to have their cake and eat it too and quietly sell on the secondary market for more money." That's not definitive though, I'm sure there have been plenty of brokers that have approached everyone in the entertainment industry in the past.

> I worked at a secondary ticket marketplace company and I am trying to explain to you what is _actually happening_ in the real world every day in this industry, from my direct experience. I'm not hypothesizing here...

I work in it currently, and have for years. Everyone in the industry believes that, but few will outright say they have access to that definitively (for obvious reasons). If you have direct knowledge that it was happening at your company or direct knowledge of another company doing so, I'm happy to have confirmation. I just didn't want to be overly assertive about something I didn't know as fact, and wanted to express what I saw as the general industry consensus ("it happens, there's no proof"). :)
I just tried to unfreeze my credit on Equifax and couldn't after several visits to their website and multiple phone calls. They are asking me to mail my SSN, address, birthday, etc..
Can somebody explain how does this compare to Sketch, InVision, Adobe XD, Figma, etc.?
Maybe you'll find it interesting that the Greek word for joke is anecdoto.
In trying to figure out what word you were looking for, I realized the word his migrated from philosophy to computer science and changed meaning a bit. So maybe it works in that context. Sorry.
> If things like master/slave terminology are not allowed, it's time to look for other projects, hobbies, or even lines of work. That is just insane [...]

You and I have very different definitions of the word "insane". Or else you're strangely attached to the master/slave terminology, which... I guess we all pick our hills to die on, but I won't pretend I understand why someone would pick that one.
They say that money can't buy happiness. That may be true, but it can buy a dishwasher, which is much the same thing. Easily one of the best material purchases I've ever made.

I only mention this because I only realized this after I purchased the dishwasher. And so I spend time researching and "optimizing" in hopes of finding the next dishwasher in my life, which is how one falls into the trap this article describes.
Correct. You can't see how many downloads a particular file has without some sort of outside observer.
New York Review of Books Editor Is Out Amid Uproar Over #MeToo Essay
Can you elaborate? I do not see any of the textbook talking points or perceptions attributed (usually in a biased way, such as yours) to either extreme. Why the need to extrapolate some ideology when the topic is clearly defined? This increasinly is what modern bigotry looks like.
Ask HN: Books about applying the open source model to society
I've been thinking for some time now that as productivity keeps growing, not all people will need to work any more. Society will eventually start to resemble an open source project where a few core contributors do the real work (and get to decide the direction), some others help around, and the majority of people just benefit without having to do anything. I'm wondering if any books have been written to explore this concept further?
> pins the page locally and bookmarks it

If most people use smartphones to consume content on metered internet connections with limited battery life, where do they pin it such that it's available to others?
Just a nit, but they have to reconcile the two versions first before it goes to the president's desk
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