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>Those self help books are a garbage use of language relative to works held up as being pillars of modern thought

A "garbage use of language"? Why? Maybe people have in mind different books to what I have in mind, which is all the ones I loved and am indebted to. I'm not sure why there's so many comments on HN bagging self-help books. Because 90% are crud? 90% of everything is crud, so what. Maybe you are just comparing the 90% crud self-help to the 0.001% classic philosophy.

I don't think most books have an "objective" value, but a value relative to particular people, at their different levels, abilities, stages, etc etc. Lichtenberg: “When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?” Not to be able to appreciate something is not an ability!

I've gotten an enormous amount from self-help books. Many dozens of them. I owe them my happiness and much else. I read a lot of self-help in my late teens and 20s, healing myself psychologically in many ways, learning to love myself, communicate better, stop the negative self-talk, recover self-esteem etc etc. To name a few: Tony Robbins, early Wayne Dyer, Joanna Field, SARK, New Guide to Rational Living, Emerson, Ben Zander, Peace Pilgrim ... and a lot of self-helpish books from various religious traditions. (Zen, Thai forest monk Buddhism, Sufi, Christian mystic, Hindu gurus etc) Then the psychological/mythical school too. Even New Age and channelled books, some helped me a lot, like dear friends.

I'm also a huge philosophy/essayist/aphorism fan, e.g. I've read everything Nietzsche wrote half a dozen times, my copies of him have pencil/pen markings and comments thick on every page. And have spent many years with Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Schopenhauer etc. And the vast majority of my university studies were in philosophy. Yet it doesn't seem to me that self-help is an inferior "use of language" or that everyone is "far better off reading" philosophy classics. Far from it, really. The percentage of the field which is of no good use to anyone is probably much higher in philosophy!
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Dude. Absolutely not true. HR is not your friend and will never be - it's simply a conflict of interests. I've been the idealist before that tried going to HR as a last-ditch effort to make stuff work and lemme tell ya: it's not worth it. Ever.
Yeah, just see how smartwatches have moved towards usually-off transmittive LCDs instead of always-on transflective ones... (Which IS IMHO ridiculous...)
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The Common Denominator of Success [Speech Transcript]
Lead can also hang around in deposits in copper and brass piping or dissolve/precipitate with manganese from water treatment plants. Up until 1986 (epa ban) people still put together copper and brass pipe systems with lead solder. You would have to test or replace every section of piping installed prior to 1986. As another commenter pointed out, the chance of accurate records is basically nil. The best you could do is inspect every structure constructed and pipe laid until 1986, which would require a ton of taxpayer money. Good luck convincing people to vote for that.

Edit: Another consideration - I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a "lead scale" like with lime or calcium which could even hang around in "good" copper pipes. Someone more familiar with chemistry or water/wastewater engineering could probably give a more educated answer.
The deeper problem is that old laws are being used to deal with new behaviors. This inadequacy will continue to grow as human beings and computers slowly merge over the next century or two, where at some point, “your Google data” will be more-and-more equivalent to “all of your thoughts.”

Those who say that this is justified because warrants were obtained seem to miss the point that state’s ability and desire to gather information has grown exponentially over time. And that’s why we need data protection laws, alternatives to Google, and other privacy measures.

The philosophical concept of embodied cognition is a good place to start on this issue:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/embodied-cognition/
Yes, it was on purpose, but it wasn't necessarily all about launch authority. It was military disagreement with civilian government over how to implement contradicting policy and law, regarding security, safety, and readiness.

The government (executive + civilian agencies) saw it as an authority (command/control) issue, but the military saw it as readiness and ability to always respond to an attack.

In the context of flying bombers around the clock to ensure a first-strike survival, you don't want to have your counter-strike hindered by a misplaced code. This was also before the survivable comm systems were fully deployed, so some autonomy was required to ensure MAD as a deterrent.

Anyway, there was a government mandate for the bombs to be secured with a code. The military commanders didn't want this, saw it as impeding their mission, and instead of fighting the rule, they "complied" by implementing the systems, then loophole-ing it by setting all zeros.

To elaborate some on the military thought process:
The previous methods of arming were more about safety than security (ensuring the bomb wouldn't be armed during takeoff/ landing, a crash, in the event of a bail-out, etc). One design was pulling a pin to drain ball bearings, but was mechanical and failed too often. Also, I believe it usually failed safe (or uncertain), which the military also saw as a problem.

Before that, the package actually had to be installed (or at least opened and activated) in flight. Which had it's own problems.

Point being, the military had spent years trying to streamline the arming process while making it more reliable, and now they had to comply with a rule that they viewed as unnecessary and in contradiction to their stated mission of readiness.

There was also a political struggle of bomb custody, as initially the bombs were to be (and were) in the possession/control of a civilian agency, and only a fraction in possession of the military at any given time (during peace). So there was some ongoing tension from that also playing into things.

To borrow from Dan Carlin, there was some logic to the insanity.

The whole history of it is fascinating, and this is only one tiny aspect of one of many many topics.
Without FPTP I think you would get more parties, and as you say these parties will influence the politics or introduce actual dialogue between parties in composing governments. Essentially all countries that I know of with a more proportional representation system have more parties and a less polarised political system.
Or perhaps China would build more wind and solar instead. China generates more electricity from both wind and solar than nuclear, and the annual installation rates continue to increase.
i also worked with a company that decided to create their own framework instead of using something with community support
> Compared to AIDS, a disease also without a real cure but that has extended survivability by decades this is unacceptable.

AIDS is a single disease, cancer is not. AIDS in fact pretty much causes certain types of cancer, so those are more survivable on account of their incidence decreasing. The same goes for certain types of cancer.

There are a number of cancers that are better treated or prevented today than 40 years ago (like cervical cancer and all the HPV cancers). On the other extreme you have pancreatic cancer.

But overall frankly you don’t know what you’re blabbering about and seem to be conflating political arguments (the book you mention was a thesis about health policy and prevention, it didn’t somehow disprove that we have very treatment advancements today that we did not have 40 years ago) with some very explainable trends in cancer incidence and mortality.

Where’s your contribution to cancer treatment, nerd.
Highlights:

* The common denominator of success – secret of success of every individual who has ever been successful – lies in the fact that he or she formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do.

* Why are successful people able to do things they don't like to do while failures are not? Because successful people have a purpose strong enough to make them form the habit of doing things they don't like to do in order to accomplish the purpose they want to accomplish.

* Any resolution of decision you make is simply a promise to yourself which isn’t worth a tinker's damn until you have formed the habit of making it and keeping it. And you won't form the habit of making it and keeping it unless right at the start you link it with a definite purpose that can be accomplished by keeping it.

I found this speech quite compelling. It might seem full of truisms at first, but in the context of habit-making it makes perfect sense.
This possible explanation is explicitly addressed and debunked in the article as the reason for cancer deaths declining. As has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread, this is about immunotherapy.
I love the offerings that it has. I also believe referral marketing traffic is still cheap talking 10 cents per month.

I would love to know more about how I could use this to increase sales of my SaaS products.
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I spent a solid chunk of the last year contributing to this project and would be happy to answer any questions.

I commonly see Hacker News discussions on how plastic recycling is a waste of time/energy. The EPA's models feel otherwise, estimating one ton of recycled plastic saves 5,774 Kwh of energy, 16.3 barrels of oil, 98 million BTU's of energy, and 30 cubic yards of landfill space. [0][1]

One of the principles that started this project was the idea that recycling waste wood or metal is generally understood by your common DIYer, but is much less true for waste plastic. The team definitely feels like reducing plastic waste is the most important step, but we can also put the plastic around us to additional use.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/warm

[1] https://lbre.stanford.edu/pssistanford-recycling/frequently-...
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Awesome post, Michael! Love the openness and humility:

>> I thought that rewriting the Zestful website as a static site would improve its SEO. Sadly, Google Search Console suggests that it had a negligible impact, the enterprise customer approached me only a few days after I rewrote the site, so I can pretend to myself that the rewrite was responsible for ~$3.9k in additional revenue.

I had a chance to connect with Michael (about keto stuff) a couple years ago. He had reached out in a very humble, welcoming way.

On the call, I recall I pompously gave him advice, not realizing how far ahead he was on his entrepreneur journey. He graciously welcomed it all, and let the conversation flow.

Looking forward to learning from you and reading future posts!
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For all those who responded positively on using PWAs in the wild, can you explain why you prefer the PWA over the native app (if available)? I am curious why someone would choose it.
>For most books, the reality is that you only need to know the Big Idea and its main justifications.

I'm not sure what genre/sort of books you have in mind; I can't offhand think of any books I like that have a Big Idea that alone should be retained. Maybe business books or something?

Sure, you can put a book in a nutshell, but everything worth reading about it will be lost.
HN is really immature in this regard. The way I framed my post left nothing specific to pick out as objectionable but these people obviously don't even like the suggestion that their values are in question.

So do I let them continue as before and be a hypocrite by valuing fake internet points more than human lives?
The article doesn't claim that the harm to women was just from lack of mentorship. It states that Asimov's (repulsive) behavior made the sci-fi community inhospitable for women, particularly given his unique position as an incredibly popular author.

From the article:

> From an early age, Asimov was drawn to the communal aspects of fan culture, but he made it more difficult for women to experience that sense of community. Women have long occupied an ambiguous place in science fiction, where they have been alternately welcomed, dismissed, and harassed. Asimov took advantage of what he called the rising percentage of “shrill young girls” at conventions in the 1960s, and his unique position at such events—he was invariably the center of attention—made his example especially insidious. His admirers looked to him as a model of how to behave, and fandom was complicit for years in his serial misconduct in ways that have never been fully acknowledged.

> Asimov has always meant a lot to me, and the best qualities of his work—his rationality, curiosity, and imagination—changed thousands of lives for the better. Yet the visible edifice of his hundreds of books needs to be balanced against the unseen wall that he built around the heart of science fiction. His actions had a negative impact on an untold number of women [...]
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In my view PWA has a limited scope in terms of kind of application which can be made with it. The number of things one need to deal with to build a PWA is just complex, troublesome hard to maintain and hard to debug. Like PWA relying on complex tooling (typical with JS front-end development), implementing local db and associated complexity and security implications (like what to use indexdb or localstorage or something else), making sure relevant data is always in sync with the servers.

So it's much easier to build a native cross-platform app instead of a PWA which is neither optimized for desktop web nor for mobile web (its a hybrid with it's own set of limitations on both the sides). I think framework like flutter is one viable way to build a cross platform desktop and mobile application including web (although it has it's own set of complication for building webapp).

Still I feel the best approach is to build a webapp for desktop browsers and do a mobile cross-platform development using technology like flutter (react native and others are still not very good when it comes to mobile apps). If the mobile app is sufficiently complex than just use SwiftUI or Kotlin directly with common services layer.
How is that expensive ? Unless you expect to only use it very rarely ?
they would love to give themselves that much credit
What are some healthy, creative ways to spend downtime while waiting for code?
As a grad student I’m often running jobs, either on a cluster or locally, to process or generate data for experiments. They can take a few minutes to ~5 hours to run, and I’ve been working on building good habits whenever I press ‘go’.

Thanks!
just bought the audiobook. this sounded so much like a great 'read', that I am looking forward to it. thanks for the teaser and showing the book.
> (fn+left/fn+right on Macs)

When I used Mac in 2009 to 2012 it depended on the application you were using:

Some used fn+left/fn+right, some used CMD+left/CMD+right and I think ctrl and/or alt + arrow keys were an option too.

ctrl a/ctrl e would work everywhere I think but I didn't use those as they didn't work with shift to select to the start or end of the line.

As a keyboard type of person this was a major part of what drove me away from Mac despite its many advantages :-(
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1) Why on Earth would you carpet bomb every square km of Iran? You attack their infrastructure and their economy. That's about as simplistic as it gets. Carpet bombing the entire country is absurd. If you're old enough to remember the second Iraq War, the level of bombs dropped on Iraq was insane.

2) Iran is Hezbollah. They're basically the same thing.

3) If Iran attacked the US with their fictional "sleeper cells", the world would be completely on the US side. This is why Iran didn't kill a single US soldier in their attacks yesterday.
Still probably won't be in color, considering the ongoing progress...
"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries"

Does anyone have an alternative source for this story please?
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This article apparently goes from “most reals are non-algebraic and therefore contain an infinite amount of information” to “so if I use reals to describe a physical system then my mathematical model is infinite even if my physical system is not”.

There are so many problems with both of those statements that it’s hard to know where to start.

How about this: if you represent finite information with reals, your reals will be finite and there’s no problem.

Let’s say my physical system is a rocket launching into space to deploy a satellite into orbit. There are lots of numbers and many equations involved. Exactly none of those numbers we be of the “infinite information” kind. All of the numbers are either measured or derived. Measurements don’t produce an infinitely precise real number.

And of course there’s the whole quantum limit on the amount of information in a given volume of space. So we don’t even need real numbers really.

Even Pi, the example given, doesn’t “contain” an infinite amount of information. It can be represented as the limit of a series using a finite amount of information. In terms of Kolmogorov complexity it contains very little information.

You know, “most” of the reals are uncomputable too. That doesn’t mean the ones we use are all uncomputable.
>After the nuclear accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan in 2011, Chancellor Angela Merkel ordered the “Atomausstieg,” the exit from nuclear energy once and for all.Why? Because, as Ms. Merkel put it back then: “The residual risk of nuclear energy can be accepted only if one is convinced that — as far as it is humanly possible to judge — it won’t come to pass.” After Fukushima, Ms. Merkel, a trained physicist, was no longer able to believe that a nuclear disaster would not occur. That there was a catastrophe even in a high-tech country like Japan made her change her mind."

With this reasoning, any form of transportation should be "exited" (austeigt) too, because there were airplane, car... crashes in the past. And it is also highly unlikely that it wouldn't happen again.
Indeed, looking back through history there's no shortage of reasons for pessimism - Mother Nature certainly left a lot of work for us to do ourselves. But if you're claiming that there isn't also plenty of reasons in history for optimism, you should maybe consider looking through a different lens.

At the risk of sounding glib, this style of thinking sounds a bit too much like the proverbial "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!" I mean seriously, while lots of people are drawing attention to these old issues with a modern twist, has anything really been tried to fix them? Perhaps it's going to take some time to get our act together at the political level, but is there anything stopping communities like this from putting on our thinking caps and seeing if we can come up with some new and useful ideas?
That's informative, thanks. I was under the impression that autonomous cars already combine all their sensor readings
Off rivers it's hard to get a sustainable supply of the huge amounts of water required to make a reasonably large operation to work.
Did you try to make a native C# engine before writing your own language? What were the major hurdles that forced you to abandon that path?
Meeting room reservation screens should work well with even low-power transflective LCDs ?
Maybe in the future we could use desalination/resalination for power storage. There is a lot of sea out there.
That seems like a fine idea to me. How might one actually accomplish it?
One neat thing this misses is that in ASCII, H is left, CTRL-H is backspace (which goes left while doing a thing); J is down, CTRL-J is linefeed (which goes down while doing a thing, sorta). It ends there, unfortunately - I don't see a good connection between vertical tab and up or formfeed and right.
I personally think that part of the reductions are coming from foreign healthcare screenings (off the books) and/or a combination of early term options).

The cost for treatment [1] may have some considering alternate options for screenings and treatment after seeing someone elses experience/ordeal beforehand or reading about first-hand accounts online.

[1] https://www.aarp.org/money/credit-loans-debt/info-2018/the-h...
That's unfair. Most of the article is basic.

The parts that I am unfamiliar with are the second paragraph in the "What is my data telling me?" section where they describe DAG, and the last paragraph in the "Can’t I just use XGBoost?" section, where they introduce TMLE.

Even then, DAG seems like a very straightforward concept that would be useful to have in your toolkit, but is probably something most thoughtful people do without explicitly thinking about it when doing regressions.

And the TMLE paragraph is essentially jargon that you would need to do your own research to actually understand. Why couldn't they spend the article describing this, as it seems that this what their value add as a service is.

Overall, this piece seemed more intended to market themselves ("Look! We do more complicated regression than you know how to do, and we're not going to explain it in any depth.") instead of well meaning teaching. Of course, I'm probably seeing bad intentions when there aren't any, so I am likely wrong.
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Yea, it's always someone else's fault.

Too bad they couldn't cruise through life with the social status of science fiction/fantasy nerd. Doors threw themselves open.

We need some real social scientists to step in and quantify exactly how wronged everyone has been. Then we can sort ourselves out and defer to those who have scored more offense points than ourselves.

Or we could stop prosecuting 40+ year old rage on behalf of other people.