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By coincidence, I've been watching dozens of videos on procrastination today, and this one is by far the best one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhFQA998WiA

It's by Dr. Tim Pychyl, a professor of psychology who in this video goes in to research on why people procrastinate and gives helpful suggestions on how to procrastinate less. It's an hour-long presentation, and is chock full of worthwhile content, unlike a ton of other videos out there which are full of fluff and basic suggestions everyone's heard a million times. Highly recommended.
> At some point it pays lot more to simply sabotage the booth agent of your opponent instead of actually buying voters.

Could you please elaborate how after the booth agent is sabotaged, he changes the voters mindset or vote? I believe it is very difficult to actively do it i.e. tell the voters to vote for the opposite candidate. At the maximum it will be very passive i.e. he keeps the money to himself and simply not go to voters to work for his candidate.
My favourite quote on wealth (not in this book) is "The best way to make a small fortune on the internet is start with a large fortune".
This report triggered several of my alarm bells, so I investigated further. I had a look at the quoted study.

"RESULTS:
No differences between trials ( P > 0.05) were found in the overall plasma triglyceride, glucose, or insulin responses during the HFGTT. "

It takes some balls to dismiss a study based on one sentence in the abstract, but this is an admission of a common and fatal mistake, so I'm going to do exactly that.

They're claiming there is no difference between groups because they were unable to show that, if there was an inherent difference, the chance they'd see these results is at most 5%. There's an easy way to obtain such a result: small sample size. And, indeed, they only compared 2 groups of 5 people.

There is a proper way to show two groups are the same, and it's called "equivalence testing." It has the same kind of statistical requirements that normal testing does. What they did instead is totally statically invalid.

There's not a soft way to put it: this study proves nothing. Let it be an example in training your defenses against bad science.
The article sounds like a comparison of buzzwords tailored for the technically challenged. I mean, I'm pretty sure that a Dilbert strip will be created based on the reaction of the pointy haired boss to this specific article.
I feel like this is quite a cynical view. Amazon and other cloud providers want to attract and keep users by providing the best product possible. This may come in different forms so some people want easy-to-setup databases (AWS RDS) others want auth (IAM) handled for them, others scalability (Appengine) or maybe email (SES). In order to create these services and to make life easier for those who want them, it may require proprietary technology that results in lock-in. Don't get me wrong. They would love some lock-in but it is not at the forefront of their minds when creating a service.
Before going down that road, before asking if all the legal conditions are met, the starting point is that you have to show harm to consumers. My experience of $200 in fraudulent credit card charges and apps that change to malware on a minor update suggest that this is in the interest of consumers. There's a neverending supply of bad actors in this line of business.
> Whereas Western scientists, following Darwin, believed that genes shaped organisms and were changed by the mechanism of natural selection, Lysenko rejected genetic science and argued that environmental conditions determined biological characteristics. (Lysenko thought, for example, that exposing seeds to cold could make the plants that grew from them more resistant to winter weather.)

This is the premise behind epigenetics, is it not?
Thankfully it's not that hard.

Just requires that willpower to spend some time memorizing a whole bunch of words.
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I have the opposite experience. As soon as I started to sleep for more than 8 hours, I basically stopped doing something other than work and sleep. Just do not feel the need.
> For left leaning people it takes doxxing and instructions on how to commit acts of mass violence to get banned.

It doesnt take that. But the far-left rarely insults people with racial slurs.
Pretty sure this is already a part of Paypal's business model, with their random account freezes.
This is a good point. To add some colour to this. In my experience it's not that there's no money to spend. There's tonnes of money to spend, but there's also tonnes of people to spend it. The result is within the company you develop experts, people who know how to get access to the budget. Every year those experts spend a non-trivial amount of time making sure they get the company's budget. They spend tonnes of money, whilst the average employee never sees any cash in their entire tenure.

So in some ways it makes sense to make your enterprise price incredibly high - because the people within large companies will either be able to spend loads of money, or non at all. Very few will be anywhere in between (and will find it very difficult to pay or continue to pay over time).
If it can do the “Dropbox thing” and make it seamless, then that’s a definite plus.
I logged on twitter 3 days ago, I almost never log in, it seems my account was disabled.
I Engaged 11,584 Online Customers of an Insurance Client Using Chatbots
How is that any different than literally any other way of discovering information?
while I don't really understand how ‘AWS vs. K8s’ Is related to ‘Windows vs. Linux’, I guess k8s is a threat to AWS primarily when it comes to EC2 just like it is a threat to commercial linux distros since it makes the underlying VM and host OS totally temporary and replaceable, but what can k8s do to AWS SaaSes (e.g. RDS, SNS, etc...)? almost nothing (even though it gives you the opportunity to migrate from one SaaS to another while still having availability using the help of istio for instance), you can't really escape the lock-in
Possible that's typical, but it's certainly not universal
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Auditory hair cells in the inner ear -the ones that allow us to hear sound- do regenerate in many animals but this mechanism fails in mammals. The surrounding cells try to replace them but something goes wrong and they die. This is why hearing loss is permanent, and exemplifies how stupid evolution can be at times.
If you're a mobile app developer, what choice do you have?
This isn't the right comparison to make.

As you mentioned, Linux runs on hardware made by hundreds/thousands of different uncoordinated manufacturers. Mac OS runs on a very narrow range of hardware built by the same manufacturer that makes the software. Linux is a very different project to Mac OS.

So take the best examples of Linux machines and compare those with Macbooks. So if eg. Dell XPSes or modern ThinkPad X series have solved the sleep problem consistently then it's fair to compare those with Macbooks.

Of course this doesn't help those people who have trouble with sleep on Linux and hopefully it will get better... but comparing a broad elastic OS running on a vast mess of thousands of different devices with an OS designed specifically for a small range of tightly controlled hardware isn't reasonable. It would make more sense if there were no good examples of decent Linux machines, but this isn't the case.
Had he done that I doubt it would have done so well on HN. It’s a differentiation point from yet another bootstrap css SaaS with three tier pricing, faded monotone brand logos and circlular portrait photos of the “team”.
Why isn't a customer who pays $X/month an asset? If you purchase a bond that paid the same X/month in interest, that would certainly be considered an asset on the books.
Near my house there is what you could call a insect ”sanctuary”. When it was established a few tears ago we kind of shrug our shoulders and did not think much of it. But the amount of new flowers and insects popping up, not only inside but also around the area is astonishing.

I almost see it as a positive feedback loop with more insects, better pollination, more diverse flowers, more insects...

Just as pesticides could create a negative feedback loop.
In Austria, Belgium & Germany you do, in Croatia & The Netherlands you don’t
Germany passed an anti-terror law a few years ago, getting a phone number requires the same level of verification as opening a bank account.

Even before that prepaid phones have been a strawman argument, actually maintaining a 2nd number in the long run is quite a bit of work since it usually expires if you don't use it enough.
In order to be vulnerable to Spectre, it needs out of order speculative execution. Not many low end CPUs do that.
Roadmaps and the Bat Signal
Looking at this from another lense, think the reason why so much moderation is automated is that these companies do Human Ops (might be the wrong term) where essentially it's important to employees mental health not to be working on menial moderation duties. So to improve the quality of employees working life they use bots to do the same job.

Now moderation seems to be automateable but could a bot do customer service?
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> They would love some lock-in but it is not at the forefront of their minds when creating a service.

I really find that assertion hard to believe. AWS is notoriously expensive and oddly enough its added value comes in the form of proprietary technologies which require non-transferable tech skills. The lock-in overload goes to the extreme of leading technicians to specialize exclusively in AWS services which leads to the infamous title of AWS engineer. This doesn't happen by chance, but by design. It's like a very expensive mousetrap designed to help victims get in but being practically very hard if not impossible to get out.
> Children would then have to ignore the terms and lie to the date of birth screen (fraud) to gain access

Out of curiosity - is that really fraud? It doesn’t sound like it hurts the company.
The writing of that author you link to nicely matches the description from the other article of the author posted originally (Mark Witton):

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-to-spot-palae...

Mark Witton:

"Another major red flag common to all cranks is their frequent comparison between themselves and scientists who received establishment pushback against their ideas - Wegner, Galileo, Darwin and so on."

The article you posted:

"It is admirable how the persistent efforts of a handful of Wegener’s converts were able to overcome the arrogance of the majority." ... "This present article is having a somewhat similar history."

Mark Witton:

"Saving the best until last: yes, unbelievable as it is, there are individuals who suggest mainstream scientists are somehow organising against them to suppress their work. While maybe not imagining something as sinister as the Big Pharma conspiracy, some cranks infer that palaeontology is governed by individuals who dictate what is and what isn't acceptable science, and who forbid the publication of work that challenges the status quo."

The article you posted:

"This paper in its various versions has had a battered history. Here are the journals that were sent this paper and either returned it unread or just discarded it." "It seems that this paper is too radical for today’s journals."

By the way, the article from your link is not by the guy who posted the copy of it on his blog, but by a much older chemist:

https://issuu.com/pedrott600re/docs/levenspiel.com_octave_ol...
As a developer, I agree completely.

As a person who used to do business development kind of stuff, it's a completely different mindset with very different tasks, and loud office with a lot of things happening around you weirdly fits it very well.
Flux dispatcher are not really like controllers. They don't allow for any business logic. The stores are like combined controller/models, though.

A key design feature of Flux is that many unrelated (or related) stores can respond an event, and that there is a defined lifecycle for handling events. I don't believe those really map to MVC.
I agree their hot desking sucks. But as a two-person team in Berkeley looking for our own dedicated space, WeWork was a godsend. There just isn't any office space like that around is affordable for < 6 person teams.

For low $1000s we have a fully sealed glass room with a door and an amazing view just a few blocks away from a BART stop. Comes with a chair, desk, coffee and basic office amenities. The next best option was a crappy art studio with one window way out in the middle of nowhere. Sure there's better spaces but nothing that's even close to what we could afford as a small startup.
> For a typical software business, a pair of metrics that are much better than profit are CAC (cost of acquiring a customer) and LTV (the life time value of a customer)

Andrew Chen, ex VP Growth at Uber, had a blog up on just this: https://andrewchen.co/how-to-actually-calculate-cac/
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I'm really just confused by the question though - these things are not the same and twitter is simply not as important as the place your money lives (and I think pretty much everyone would agree?..

I disagree pretty strongly.

Twitter is much more important than the bank I keep my money in.

Banking in fungible. Twitter gives me access.

I've arranged meetings with the partners of the biggest VC fund in Australia sorely via Twitter. I've had in depth discussions of the details of ML models with their authors via Twitter.

Generally speaking I'm much more relaxed about a 2 day delay in my banking than a 2 day delay in Twitter.

Maybe I'm getting too old

I'm 43, so I doubt it's that.
Of course not, there is no logic behind it, save for printing "walls" that line up with each other.

It's a (neat) graphic trick.
Without looking at the actual accounting rules (GAAP or otherwise) used by WeWork it is difficult to say how the line costs are treated.

In your example, you have treated $1200 as an expense.

Lot of companies tend to capitalize these expenses (for example "deferred commissions" on Salesforce B/S). So, they will create a reserve on the Balance sheet of $1200, then decide on the useful life of the said expense and depreciate it on the P&L.

Let's say WeWork thinks the useful life of the $1200 expense is 24 months. The calculation will work like this:

P&L

Month 0: Depreciation Expense 0, Revenue 0 and Profit 0

Month 1: Depreciation Expense $50, Revenue $100 and Profit $50

Month 2: Depreciation Expense $50, Revenue $100 and Profit $50
so and so forth

BS

Month 0 - Asset $1200

Month 1 - Asset $1150 (Depreciation $50)

Month 2 - Asset $1100 (Depreciation of another $50)
Not necessarily. Prison labour, sweatshops, and undocumented workers are all types of "competitive advantages" as well.

A company that has a history of treating folks well? Yeah, this might be their advantage. But Amazon has stories of employees not being able to use the toilet while on the clock. I'm just hoping they at least pay folks the same.
Ah yes, OK. What about Kubespray ? https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubespray
Why book value has lost its meaning
Wouldn't that just mean everything was more buoyant? How does that hurt the conclusion?
Let's not forget that Google wanted/wants a piece of the IaaS/PaaS pie and AWS has a huge first mover advantage. Someone smart at Google said:

"Hey we have this barely usable, rocket-science level complex, container orchestration tool. How about we make it available to everyone and make sure the message is that you can deploy anywhere? Get people to look at us as an alternative instead of AWS as the default, while using a tool built by us".

Of course AWS was not excited about supporting a tool that might make it easier to leave AWS.
Better than delegating is setting up systems where the team can be self organising. If you can sell higher up on not being too deadline focused, this can work well, the team can learn how to prioritise and figure out a crisis. A good sign is if you can go on a 4 week vacation with very little to “hand over”.
Dunno, sounds like you're doing something wrong. Part of being a manager is being able to be in a position where your value added is built upon your subordinates labor. I.e. you can delegate the actual work items to your subordinates which leaves you with the just work related to the delegation.

Do you really miss coding? Fighting with shit tools that are crashing, spending large amounts of time dealing with some messy crappy code that some people vomited. Shit that was never tested and it fails and you have to burn the candle to fix the crap other people made. Spending time solving useless problems like why libpoop.so fails to link against libpiss.so. Fighting with CMake files or some package manager etc. The problem with engineering and coding is that the "joy" of creating software is way too often overshadowed by this engineering busy work (that is only because things in general are so shit) that brings 0 value to the table.

I wish I had a career track out of this engineering work and into management...
Many people are buying things on Amazon while Drunk
> high performance without side channels? What are they?

One I can think of is cache partitioning by process id and security context. Not sure any CPU implements that. We can also use cpusets to assign processes to physical cores or sockets, limiting how much opportunity you have to see what other processes are doing. This can even increase performance for high priority processes because they may compete less with other processes that get fewer cores.

Now that I mention that, I'll probably give Slack a single core.
Ah, I see!

In which case, "oblate spheroid" is what you're after.
Could you describe the sanctuary nearby? We live on a typical city lot, and I am going to try to become a mini-sanctuary over the next few years and would love working examples.
Between this and the pterosaurs it has been a great day for quality articles.

There is a tension when talking about 'freedom' that reminds me of the anecdote (unsupported by evidence afaik) that converts to a religion tend to be more extreme than people born in to it, because those born in to it know that there are a whole heap of stipulations that are best ignored or treated metaphorically. Eg, when the holy book says deliver death and destruction to the heretics what it means bad heretics and not your friendly atheist neighbor living the next door down.

The word freedom has similar problems. Obviously there is a form of radical freedom where everyone gets to steal stuff and live in a Darwinian free-for-all. Nobody important means that when they say things like 'commitment to ... freedom'.

This observation has implications. When a political idea is expressed as an absolute, that is for rhetorical not practical purposes. The ideological structure that gives society form is in constant need of testing and debate, because finding what a word means in practice is not looking it up in a dictionary. The long struggle of women to assert freedom over their own bodies and lifestyle is an interesting study on how that style of thing plays out - before the advent of modern medicine (eg, the pill, improved surgical techniques, understanding of the mechanics of conception and childbirth, lots of stuff to do with transexuals, etc, etc) some of those freedoms were actually impossible and inconceivable as a practical issue.

In light of that any claim that 'American science had uniquely transcended politics through ... freedom' is clearly propaganda and hokum. The meaning of all the words in that sentence are, in context, political questions.

We can be thankful when our politicians stick to evidence based policies, even if we don't like them. I'm hopeful everyone is in favour of that in principle.
I hear a lot of people complain they got falsely banned by some automated process. But automatic processes are easy to game, so just do what the spammers likely do, slightly edit the app, re-upload using another account and IP, etc, repeat. I'm sad every time I install an Android app, thinking how much crap/spyware it will install on my device ...

Android should allow other "app stores", just like you can have different browsers, you should also be able to have different "app stores". Just like there is not just one "store" in the physical world. Then there could be niche stores that focus on some category, or quality.
Evolution, AFAIK is just a random mutations happening here and there. If they bring some advantage (which good hearing in later age definitely should, but then again it covers mostly later age), harshness of life should eventually select those individuals as better survivalists.

Apparently whatever mutation happened in the past in this regard was not good enough / human still didn't survive, or it didn't happen yet. It might be funny if we discover some remote tribe actually has this regenerative mutation.

I think its question of time (maybe very long time), look at our unique ability to process lactose in adult age.
Indeed. I don't think Apple would open source Foundation, App Kit, UI Kit, and a bunch of other things; that by itself precludes inclusion with Swift. Aside from that, a lot of those things rely on the full version of Core Foundation in C; I think the (open source, non-Swift) implementation of Core Foundation, CF Lite, is heavily reduced compared to what ships with Apple's OSs and would make an ineffective base for redundantly reimplementing those frameworks on other systems.
And after paying those $25 they are free to spam the review team with hundreds of submissions? Doesn't sound sustainable to me.

If App Stores charged a fee per submission, that would drastically cut down on spam submissions, and free up resources for those of us who actually put a lot of effort into our apps.
Alternate between the Ask, New and From pages (FYI if you click the domain next to a shared link you get all the links From just that domain)
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This post reminds me of a junior developer here. Very smart and driven, but not to the point in his career where he has a full picture of what we're doing. Kubernetes is his current obsession, and he wants to use it for everything.

AWS is implementing Kubernetes to make it easier for people who use it already to migrate to their service. It's the same reason all other cloud providers are doing so.

I can pretty much guarantee that the products Amazon introduces aren't designed to lock people in or make it hard to switch, it's to make it easy for them to start using AWS and not NEED to switch. They design products and their APIs to solve problems customers are facing. This is what everyone is doing.
They have a threat model, their threat model is based on reality, and their security is pretty good against the threat model. How can you say they "don't understand security"?

They also (viewed from a distance) seem to ignore people who talk about security without talking about threat models.

Security by obscurity seems to be very nearly irrelevant to the Indian Electoral Commission's security model. Security by obscurity is bad, of course, but in that model it's such a minor factor. If I were the commission I'd file people who disregard the threat model and talk about minor factors under "b" for "bikeshedders".
Creating an account from a system which no Twitter tracking pixel has ever seen may well be suspicious, where suspicious means statistically correlated with accounts create to spam or acts as hostile bots.

I don't think this is lying at all.
>Would you say the same about your phone number?

No.

>If not, why?

Because a phone is a universal method of communication, for businesses, spouses, families, friends, and everything in between.

Twitter is yet another social media gossip discussion site, just one with a gimmick (limited characters).

>If I run my business on Twitter (or YouTube, or Facebook) is it that different from a bank?

The only businesses run on Twitter are ads, influencers, and PR -- and those deserve to die anyway.