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>4. Be too lazy to make todo lists or mark anything on your calendar.

Ah yes, the ever simple act of 'being' any adjective identity assignment. As someone who had large parts of his hair bleach over night via a superoxidative immune system reaction following extreme stress, lemme translate how you come across here:

"Employ free will sorcery to magically shrink your amygdalea, deshrink your hippocampus, transcend depression by magically snapping your finger in one grand act of permanent auto-hypnosis. Don't order food for yourself even if ordering food is often the only thing standing between you either eating something or proceeding to remain in low calorie intake induced parapsychosis which can always potentially lead you to some suicide attempt despite technically having the option of doing so and hence getting food into you to stave off the existential low level hormonal anxiety of not having eaten right for days simply due to lacking the mental spoons to cook food, just ignore the fact that the psychophenomenological experience of the exertion of physical exercise feels vastly different when attempted in an anhedonic, stressed out, anxious & depressed state. Also, ignore the fact that even when you've cut out caffeine of your life for months at a time, it never made a positive difference, as while on the one hand, the high caffeine doses you take represent one of the causes of your long waking periods, on the other hand, high doses of caffeine represent one of the few things which occasionally manage to peirce through the complete slump."

I'm down to my absolutely last money, I have no health insurance, every day I read in the newspapers how the government will cut back on social security next and cut future bonuses to companies who don't deserve them, and I feel stressed out as hell, dude. A good quarter of my head has already turned snow white, and I haven't even reached the first quarter of my 30s. If you'd try to shove this load of bullshit advice on me in real life, I probably couldn't even muster the energy to begin expressing just how much I despise this kind of 'advice'. You know what I'd find fucking destressing? People like you, who assert that they speak from 'personal experience', yet don't actually name a single example of said personal experience, would stop trying to play Internet mental health professional and went back to using their armchairs to read books, or even better, went out to socialize more, to build a better capacity for empathy.
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That’s correct, and it’s quoted in JF’s paper linked above: “ The main change between [P0907r0] and the subsequent revision is to maintain undefined behavior when signed integer overflow occurs, instead of defining wrapping behavior.”
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Krishna is always shown in blue, so it seems the obvious choice ;-)
It's extremely likely that many non-human animals have similar thoughts. Put another way, it's extremely unlikely that humans have adopted almost all our traits from other animals, except for the inner monologue.
All the best adages are...
This doesn't make any sense to me, even his example:

'One person even mentioned that when they do voice overs in movies of people’s thoughts, they “wished that it was real.”'

How can they form the thought 'I wish that was real' if they have no monologue? And to convey that thought they just open their mouth and spew forth a sentence with no knowledge of its
shape?
I feel like I might actually fall somewhere in between.

I can definitely think "in my voice", but I almost always do this when I am reading, writing, or formulating something to say verbally. It is almost always a conscious effort, but it makes sense to me.

I work in networking, and when I am troubleshooting, I absolutely do not think in "words". I think with much larger concepts. To compare my brain to a bunch of Docker containers exchanging compatible datasets for analysis might be overkill, but it's the best comparison I've got.

And when I am brainstorming new ideas, I feel like my thoughts are far more visual. The "concept map" comparison feels right at home here. There might be some inner dialog, but only when I am thinking of how I would explain my ideas to another person.

I recently started a Twitter account to give a stab at being funny online. I found that I am WAY better at being funny when responding to tweets or quote-tweeting people than I ever am just tweeting new thoughts. This is likely because I come up with better content when given a prompt, and rarely think up original thoughts in the English language where I could decide to tweet them for reactions.
I don't necessarily think about all the words, they just appear at the keyboard (I touch type). A bit like if you're speed reading and skip the internal vocalisation, the word is before my mind, but not in a vocal sense. Like when you imagine a square, but don't imagine a picture of one -- or perhaps when you imagine a 5 dimensional hypercube and don't imagine a picture of one (much easier!).
I’m gonna give the unhelpful shot of “it depends” with a chaser mixed from “anecdotal experience”.

Having done a lot of work with Raspberry Pis over the past few years, I’ve been pretty impressed with the number of libraries and packages that compile for ARM. I’ve done stuff like building fullscreen electron apps (for theatre projections), doing some light video processing in ffmpeg, running a plex server, running a DIY Time Capsule (which required formatting a drive with HFS+ and then using some HFS+ based libraries).

There are probably holes: I haven’t tried doing deep learning stuff on a Pi (I’d guess some frameworks work and some don’t but I don’t know which) and to that end I definitely haven’t tried anything CUDA related (I have no idea if Nvidia’s proprietary drivers compile for ARM).

But overall, I get the feeling that with Android a lot of libraries started shipping for ARM, which made Raspberry Pi possible, which has gotten more libraries and packages to ship for ARM, which should hopefully make people’s transition in serverland much easier (especially if you’re doing run of the mill web server stuff).
All the data is not valid. You give no citations for half your numbers and half the cells are empty. It's 100% bogus garbage.

You are creating and spreading fake news. You might not be a bad person, but right now you are being a bad person.
Those drugs are going up in price so they reflect the prices of new orphan drug launches.

And they can do it since competition won’t bother to jump through FDA hoops.
Can't tell if the i see a actual captcha that doesn't load, a actually broken web page, a way to piss off people with NH referrer, a satire of cloud flare or any combination thereof.
Yeah, I don't have much experience with microservices but the one time I worked with them they were a nightmare and I think the major cause was there were too bloody many of them.

I feel like if you end up talking about eventual consistency or needing ids to be passed around you've surely built it wrong and you've split what should be a single service into a mess just to feel cool having more services and needing the hyped new tools to manage them.

The touted benefit that you can scale the bottleneck separately also suggest the need for 1 monolith at most 1 or 2 services. If you have more than that many bottlenecks the code is doomed anyway presumably?
>> They don't need the highest property tax, too.

Prop 13 doesn't change the property tax rate, it changes WHO pays the full
"nub" rate and who enjoys a "nobility" rebate.

It disincentives home owners from moving, even when their new jobs are far away, increasing commuting time.

It also creates a resource allocation imbalance. Folks that are retired and don't benefit so much by living in highly concentrated job areas tend to remain there. Even when younger people who would benefit more from living in these areas would be willing to pay more, providing an incentive for retired owners to move to a less concentrated area and making a profit.

But with Prop 13, we have instead a system that artificially distorts the housing market(and not in a "just" or "deserving" way).
Nothing conclusive but if a new disease emerges has a mortality rate even approaching 9% and a basic reproduction number (R0) of 1 or greater, it's a significant cause for concern. Combined with the incubation period, asymptomatic transmission, and the population density in which the outbreaks occurred, in this case it's enough to declare a global public health emergency.
> If an individual has a novel idea they should be entitled to some of the money that a corporation makes using that idea.

Absolutely not. Suppose I, Mr Independent Inventor, come up with some idea and convince the patent office to grant me a patent, and then proceed to do exactly nothing with it. Five years later, Ms Employed Engineer working at ABC Corp comes up with the same idea, and they manage to turn it into a product, which becomes successful. I contributed nothing to their product. Why on Earth am I owed any money for their work?
I mean, maybe? That this program isn't working may not be the same as the US no longer having the capability. It's possible that the F-35 isn't really expected to produce a functional stealth fighter, all rhetoric aside.

I honestly have no idea.
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TIL the phrase "internal monologue" is not figurative for the majority of people.

I never "hear a voice" in anything comparable to a literal sensory experience. I can choose to internally "articulate" language that way, with the same sort of effort of choosing/willing to summon a visual image...

...but that is an effort and an act, not a side effect.

Are people hearing themselves think in something like real time???
My earliest memories stretch before I started talking (which I figured out quite late). I remember certain feelings, colors, sounds, smells even after all those years -- even though I had no words for describing them back then. I believe this is how animals see the world.
I've started working with Flux [1] in Julia, and it's so elegant and such a great experience :). Just look at this definition of a U-net model for image segmentation: https://gist.github.com/haampie/bceb1d59fd9a44f092f913062e58.... Apart from that, you can write your own custom loss functions in pure Julia that run efficiently on the GPU, language level automatic differentiation, proper integration with other packages. If people are moving away from Tensorflow, then Flux could be a solid alternative as well.

[1] https://github.com/FluxML/Flux.jl
You seem pretty disconnected from what normal people see and experience. Ask some random/ non-tech people about those hacks, data-breaches, and what their privacy expectations are when doing basic things like web searches. I guarantee you most people don't know who Cambridge Analytica is and couldn't tell you which major banks/ retailers have been breached.

It's not just ignorance, but a sense of helplessness. People don't feel in control and don't have any clue how they might reduce what data leaks out in their daily lives. The thing is, they are absolutely right.

I know and understand a lot of this stuff and I don't feel like I'm in control of my data. Even if you take precautions, Google and Facebook track your progress across the web. If you don't use Google Maps, Google still tracks your location using your IP address for network calls (often when you aren't deliberately connecting to Google services) and both Google and Facebook have been slurping up people's purchase history through credit card companies.

How is someone who doesn't have a clue about this stuff supposed to exert any control or choice when the people attacking their privacy out-gun them so thoroughly?
In general, but not in specific. Saying that a specific practice should be illegal is productive. Saying that a particular company is bad is not - they'll simply say, 'we follow the law'. And they'll be right. Then the politicians will say, 'you can't ban Amazon'. And they'll also be right, because laws can't be targeted against specific groups.

If you target specific techniques and practices (for instance, child labour, historically) then the supporters and lobbyists have to actually justify the problematic stuff - they can't just hide behind the nebulous vagueness of all the things big companies do.
Ask HN: How do you overcome social anxiety/choking during interviews?
Ask HN: How do you overcome social anxiety/choking during interviews?
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"Adding manpower to a late project makes it later" - Fred Brooks.

"5 minutes when alone is worth 15 when being watched" - Me, at 3am

"Even the Eiffel tower looked ugly during construction" - Also Me, at 4am

A technical interview seems like an artificially constrained setting which is rarely seen IRL.

1. Interviewer already knows the answer. 2. Interviewer has no time constraints. 3. Interviewer is not judged when he 'thinks out loud'. 4. Interviewer has no repercussions.

In contrast:

1. Candidate does not know the answer. 2. Candidate has 30 minutes. 3. Candidate is judged on his 'approach'. 4. Candidate's job status is at stake.

I find it hard to think freely under these constraints.

If I am judged on my approach, I have to be slow/cautious in what I speak, and ignore the time constraint.

If I am judged on my result, I have to be fast/random in my thoughts, and ignore the approach constraint.

If I am judged on both, I have to change into pyjamas, put my feet up on the table, gesture wildly with my arms, and ignore the 'human being in front of me' constraint.

I would love to know whether that particular interviewer solved that particular problem when they encountered it for the first time ever, within 30 minutes, while being watched and judged on both their approach and the result.

If not, I would love to ask if they (or I) could leave the room and come back after 15 minutes. Is this feasible ?
There's a difference between latency and delay.

If I "touch a.txt" then run "ls", and see "a.txt", I'd consider my filesystem realtime. There's no point in being pedantic about "but there's a 50ms delay when I hit enter after typing ls so it's not realtime!!!".

"Realtime virus outbreak" implies that the site is somehow automatically identifying where the virus is and updating it's stats, rather than waiting for a human to update it.
Interesting. Ie, just the way the larger community (ie open source) ecosystem works, but just inside your company instead.

That makes an obvious kind of sense, when your number of contributors have grown too large to operate like a monolith... why not operate using models well-established for very large inter-entity communities?

I wonder why more very large companies don't do this, if they don't.
Thanks, all of that is quite interesting. I want to learn more.
I don't know of any online links to point to but I am an active interviewer at FB and I know we don't ask DP questions
Is there a difference now? Websites in Safari ask me to pay with an Apple ID popup that takes my fingerprint and charges me exactly the same way apps do, I don't see any difference in how it appears or is handled.
how ?

I don't mean the technical knowledge aspect. I mean the social anxiety aspect.
My understanding is that Bing, Apple, and Here have all already been working with Open Street Map for years now.
I think one can convey the feeling of "wishing something were real" into spoken words without actually thinking those exact words to themselves.

It's like when you are hungry, and decide to eat. You didn't have to tell yourself to do it to know that you should.

Speech is largely subconscious. Even people with a strong inner dialog are capable of expressing themselves in words without explicitly thinking out every word they say prior to open their mouths.
These providers are just as responsible for spam by running opt-out mailing lists and, even worse... spamming you with surveys and confirmations to see why you unsubscribed. With tracking pixels and rewritten URLs that go through their system before you get to the real destination.

You don’t get a choice. That was made for you.
What is it you like about them? IIRC, their base plan starts at $1500/mo, so it's a high end offering that I haven't played with too much.
Yes, you absolutely should use a credit card in the US and get your cashback or rewards or whatever. You have to play the game, because everyone is playing the game.

But, you have to realize that it's not beneficial to you. You don't earn anything, you merely, barely, move the needle back up to break-even. You're not gaining. You're not winning. You're not sticking anything to any man. If the entire credit card industry got rid of rewards, and lowered their merchant fees, it would be a net benefit to you.

So feeling happy or grateful for cash-back means that they got you, they tricked you into feeling grateful for the privilege of giving away your money.
Well this might be an interesting discussion to read for you. Take what you will from it.

https://gist.github.com/isaacs/357981
+1

I never thought it was meant literally _at all_. I can "will" a rehearsal of what something would sound like, but it has nothing to do with my personal thought process or conscious experience...
Somewhat. However, the virus is a novel mutation, which means that even if we exposed ourselves to other similar viruses at younger age, it wouldn't help. At least that's my understanding.

On evolutionary timescales, it's better to expose whole population from time to time, so that we don't lose the immune system response against these altogether.
No one should be getting extend release opioids after a surgery...
> Since you're just openly ignoring the post you're "responding to", I'll just copy-paste my response to what you have just said, with some minor changes:

I'm attempting to clarify my question by removing irrelevant details, which it looked like you got hung up on last time.

> Human rights still apply to humans who support odious causes. If you are willing to give up human rights to fight bad people trying to support odious causes, then those rights won't be there to protect good people trying to support virtuous causes, either.

So you are willing to make it impossible for people to boycott organizations as a means of social change, as long as those organizations had an arms-length relationship with anything "political".
On Wall Street, if you’re not growing, you’re dying.
usually strong CEOs have at least some sales background, and typically technical chops too.
This is among the many reasons why I almost never drink alcohol any more - easier to learn to manage the problem than to wake up hungover every morning.
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I suspect that everyone has an inner dialog, but the defining difference could be on which side of your subconscious it's on.

It might not be that some people don't have an inner dialog, it could be that those people aren't capable of directly observing it.
Seriously, it never occurred to me that you could choose an appealing voice for your inner monologue, mine has always been a neutral version of my real voice. Stranger since I subvocalize while reading, and as a kid, the voice would actually act and change for each character.

Now I wonder if your reading speed can improve by choosing a voice from here https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MotorMouth
You can't entirely escape this problem. Even when companies want to fit everything in a single database, they often find they can't. With enough data you'll eventually run into scalability limitations.

A quick fix might be to split different customers onto different databases, which doesn't require too many changes to the app. But now you're stuck building tools to pull from different databases to generate reports, even though you have a monolithic code base.
> President is the one whose job is to fire the CEO if they're screwing up.

I assumed the Chairman of the Board would fill that role?

President sounds to me like a step below CEO, but I know very little about corporate structuring...
Ground troops do love the A-10 but there's plenty of reasons the brass has decided to retire it.

The A-10 was specifically made for CAS against Soviet armor. It's essentially a 30mm cannon with wings. The nature of warfare has made that role much less feasible, though; armor is more effective, anti-aircraft weapons are more deadly, and detection methods are more accurate. There isn't a lot of room for big, slow, low-flying planes like the A-10 in modern warfare.

Nowadays it obviously isn't used against mass formations of Soviet armor. Drones are capable of delivering the same kind of support that the A-10 is used for, just not necessarily the drones the US military uses today.
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Amazon employee here (product manager at AWS). I don't recognize this characterization of our company. The company treats me just fine. While the pace is high, and the bar for anything you do is very high, you learn a lot, get tons of opportunity to invent new stuff, and generally can make meaningful contributions to services, while still having a personal life.
GCP is on the immediate short-term roadmap, and we're investigating on-premise, but don't have a firm timeline on it quite (we're still a small team).
It opens in a private window or other container but not by my container that I was referred from HN in.
It's almost as if the more authoritarian a country is, the thinner its skin becomes (i.e. tolerance of criticism). I'm tired of kow-towing to Communists.
> Why, what value do you think the comment had?

I can't speak for the op, but I found it an interesting bit of trivia. Sure, they could have googled it, but if they had, I wouldn't know about the origins of this poem. And thanks to the replies, I now know what a 'person from Porlock' means. Reading that comment was a win for me. If the person was jostling for status (and I don't see a reason to think that), well, I still benefitted.
Thanks! It would be interesting to know whether purchasing countries will get sole authority in flight package definition in contrast to the ALIS where it had to be signed off in US for every sortie afaik.
I found Piketty convincing, but Professor Cowen did not: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/04/wh...
This is SOP for borgifying acquihires. IBM isn't capable of operating in a cohesive way. Shuffling the org chart won't change that.
I moved my notes folder to git after having conflicted files for the upteemth time from Dropbox.

Two things that keep everything in sync:

1. Every two minutes my notesync.sh script runs, which basically does git add --all;git commit -am "New commit";git pull;git push.

2. Vim with AutoSave.vim which saves the document as I write.

Yes, there are a lot of commits, but I don't have to worry about losing anything.
It seems like part of what makes it _feel_ real is your brain's own ability to rationalize and explain what it's "seeing" under the assumption that it is real.
For example, some say you should try to look at a complex object like a watch or a phone since your brain will often get the details glaringly incorrect. However, I find my brain can often "explain away" exactly _why_ I don't have my phone with me at the moment, or why the watch that I'm suddenly wearing isn't accurate. Sometimes the dream then shifts to be about solving that problem - e.g. trying to retrace my steps to find my phone.

Your example of a dream problem scenario was amazing, by the way.
I can play a whole song in my head, and then realize that I don't know the words, and when I try to get the words out of the song in my head, I can't understand them, because my brain only committed the musical parts, not the lyrical parts.

I can even hear the vocals, they're just gibberish until I make a conscious effort to memorize them.
I think I remember reading somewhere that thinking about jumping when you are near a staircase, balcony, cliff, or something like that is pretty common, even if you don't have the least desire to commit suicide otherwise.