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Much truth to these tactics for maximizing attention, esp exercise. Not mentioned is the #1 attention killer in my experience: working on boring tasks.

I’ve found productivity maximized when I make time to work on an interesting project every day or two. Making progress on enjoyable tasks gets me started with the momentum to tackle the nasty, boring ones.

My conclusion is ironic in that I’m the CEO of Amplenote, a note taking/todo list app built to ensure “urgent” or “important” tasks get scheduled to the calendar. I consider myself more disciplined than the average bear, but I’ll be damned if I can focus my attention for more than half the day on tedious tasks.

Meanwhile, when running down a feature or bug fix that will directly help me as a user, I can often focus for 12 hours of programming. I think dogfooding is central to the best products because it begets genuine interest, thus attention, from its developer/users.
The iCloud story particularly annoys me, because I got nagged for filling my storage so I upgraded to a pay tier. Then it immediately filled up and it started nagging me again. It's such an un-Apple experience. If I don't have the storage don't bug me about it. If you think it's that important, include it in the cost of the phone.
Another good point: not developed using fetal stem cells.

That makes no scientific difference, but there are a fair number of people in the US who will not use a vaccine if it is developed that way.
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Accurate or right here means economically efficient, not correct according to the prediction of some simplified model. Such strategies very much obfuscate any attempt to find and measure causal links between particular events and stock price movements.

I could say the markets are up due to the vaccine news, or because the US election was called and people are seeking stability, or because the US election was called and the market prefers biden, or because investors are pricing in a Trump 2024 run, or because people just expected it to go up after any of those things, or because a collection of automated trading bots saw some arcane pattern in the data which has no real-world relevancy but they nevertheless have been trained to buy. None of those predictions are falsifiable.
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I think "Trump asked the Russians to find Hillary Clinton's emails" is entirely uncontroversial. Saying he asked the Russians to "hack" the "Democrats" involves two inferences and seems like a statement designed to maximize discord. The Russians are not in Donald Trump's chain of command, there are other ways to find her emails than hacking, and Hillary Clinton is not "the Democrats".

This will be my last post on the topic because it reminds of the "blue dress/green dress" thing someone posted way up thread. I'm sure you're posting in good faith, and I assure you I am too, but it is just not at all obvious to me why someone would say "Donald Trump asked the Russians to hack the Democrats" instead of "Donald Trump asked the Russians to find Hillary Clinton's emails".
Sorry if you see this later, it came out more blunt than I had wanted it to.

I didn't mean to imply fastmail was centralised in the original comment if it came off as that :)
All of these are subjective statements. I much prefer Apple Music to Spotify, and I don't think people really care that much about Google Assistant - iPhones still sell well at much higher prices than android phones.
> fix issues and send them upstream

Fat chance. An average programmer will replace the library if the current one has issues, not fix the issues in the library. It is rational to do so (assuming a different lib exists, which it does for most libs).
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I use the pomodoro technique not just because it actually helps me get started—the best way I've found, for me, to combat procrastination—and get things done, but also to combat the sitting problem he mentions. Standing up and walking around the house for five minutes periodically helps me at least stretch my legs.

That aside, I find pretty much all of his advice pretty useful and a lot of it I already at least try to follow. Good to know it doesn't work just for me.
TLDR: TBL's personal datastore proposal (Solid) is a non-starter for medical records in a healthcare context. (In the USA. See mea culpa at end.)

Why: How does a patient grant access (consent) if they are incapacitated? Like during an ER visit?

More: How does a patient manage that consent for all the other care providers? Can a patient ever retract the consent?

Source: Implemented 5 regional healthcare medical records exchanges in the mid-aughts. My teammates handled the web portal for accessing same data. The "break the glass" edge use case, where care providers bypassed the consent, was ~80% of daily usage. Because that's the reality of healthcare.

Mea culpa: Haven't yet found the tech specs for TBL's Solid. Maybe it does something new. Like translucent data store with centralized key authority. (Something we considered; would be practical at the NHS, where patients have GUIDs.) I reserve the right to change my position.
Yes, that's exactly my point. Saying that it really supposed to be the probability of the data assuming the null hypothesis is true is pretty confusing to most people and often times the gut feeling people keep us that it still somehow tells you how likely it is that the null hypothesis is true. I just like this example because it highlights that there is a distinction between these two probabilities.
I do not believe herd immunity is a thing when every 6 months the herd has to become re-immune
I'm wondering if anyone has ideas on how to market such a service in the early days and attract the first clients.

Stop wasting time on HN and start contacting potential clients personally and directly.

I think I have the right background (finance & dev work) but no existing client relationships.

That's not the right background. Relationships are number one. Skill, knowledge, and ability are nice to have but can be outsourced. Indeed, they probably will need to be from time to time because a consultant's job is to solve the client's problems. It is not to use their skills.

Overall, it is best to assume that the market you want to enter is adequately served already (that's what the theory of free-markets predicts at least).

I think to start with it makes sense to focus on a niche (hence python, finance, data science) rather than offering full stack development.

This is irrational. You have no clients. The bigger the market the more likely you will find clients because there are more potential clients and they are easier to identify. Boutique firms serving niches thrive because they find the niche organically. They find the niche because their clients lead them to it.

Good luck.
Yes, this is an incredible scientific achievement. Before calling all humans awesome, I have to point out though, that there are a lot of countries which managed the pandemic really well, especially in Asia, but most western industrial nations quite badly failed at this. A faster and better reaction to the outbreak would have helped a lot. Both with all the casualties which sadly were the consequence and with the ability to eradicate the virus via vaccinations.
It is worth pointing out that this only works because to date Apple has not heavily abused their position of trust. It would be extremely naive to believe they will not take advantage of this control to do things people wont like if/when the situation changes. If the walled garden starts to collapse, make sure you have a way out.
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The entire thing started exactly because he was refused travel with ESTA/visa waiver back in 2017.
Definitely agree -- paper is something that should compliment your overall system, it's pretty hard to get by with paper alone these days.

If my goal is to focus in on what I'm thinking about, pulling myself away from the computer and putting pen to paper does a better job than anything digital has been able to provide me.
Well I would spend some of that money on a therapist. That would help!

At the extreme, a question to ponder, is that if you are not motivated by money then why not give it away? Or if not all of it, how much would you need to give away in order to redevelop your motivation? Or is that a false motivation and you need to consider something else?

There is no shame in taking a vacation and sometimes your money can be used to start something new.
If you don't live near a farmers market, consider helping organize to start one. Do not accept the situation handed to you. You will find others who want fresher produce, to help their neighbors, and all the benefits of community.

The farmers markets others others live near didn't pop out of nowhere. They took time and energy. They return far more value.
Note: I grow strawberries and my landlord grows tomatoes in the backyard, and we can taste a HUGE difference between what we grow and what is at the supermarket. Just when our crops ripen we get stuff from the supermarket and it is probably half a year out of season for where it comes from and the following week or two we can harvest our own crops, and boy can we taste the difference.
Well, it ostensibly hurts the entire Oculus line, not just the Quest 2.

And, while it's not core to their current business success, it was intended as a strategic decision, to have a path into VR social networks, I suspect. But I can easily see short term business decisions and priorities dominating that consideration, yes. Businesses are not know known for their long term planning skills.
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> There’s no end in sight of the pandemic. I will of course not travel to the US or any other country until it can be deemed safe and sensible.

With the "of course" I am wondering if people are really concerned about being "COVID shamed"?

Aren't we at "rapid test and move on"? As in, take a test one to two days before you board a flight, take a test during or after your trip? Results in 18 - 48 hours? It is a far cry from the mess of unavailable tests and the infinite delays if you managed to get a test that was occurring back in Spring and Summer.

And no, some false negatives aren't a rebuttal. All public policy measures are to get the R0 below 1 on average. The rapid tests in conjunction with the already existing measures are good enough for that. All we are doing here is skipping the need for 14 day quarantines on arrival.

Granted, he is 50, and is more likely to consider himself an at risk group. I was still wondering what he really thinks.

It really depends on what you are optimizing for. If you are optimizing more for not getting it, nothing has changed. If you are optimizing more for not spreading it, a lot has changed.
Yes. That suggestion has been brought up often.
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Is there something about ARM chips which makes them more well suited to being used in a device that has a cellular modem?
Thanks for mentioning those books. Which one we should read first?
Given the unbelievably aggressive timeframe that this vaccine was developed under, it'a still a huge achievement
> application developers and Free Operating Systems are complementary products

Yes, that was my point (or at least application development and OSes are)
So what? It’s your right to do it.

Nobody can legitimately claim they aren’t allowed to do what they want with their phone.

It’s simply not true.

It’s obviously true that many people wish Apple designed their software differently.

Those people are free and not to buy things they don’t like the design of.

Not one person on this thread has explained how they were forced to buy an iPhone.
I personally prefer pen and paper when I need to summarize projects to main steps/ideas. Nothing like the fixed/finite space that you need to work with to make you more efficient.

I have a digital notepad from work. I don't see it the same. I can write novels on the damn thing and would still have room to spare.

Maybe it's just personal preference or just being weird but I'd rather have half of A4 to work with just to organize my thoughts properly.
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Very interesting! I'm surprised I've never encountered it before.

Thanks for Pijul; I'm super-excited about the possibilities. (Unlike many HN commentators, who are too trapped inside the git way of thinking to realize its limitations ;-)

I think your biggest challenge now is going to be everything besides the software itself that makes a project successful: Is the website fast and inviting? Is the software easy to install? Etc.

Thanks again & wishing the best for Pijul.
My partner is trying to get a tourism visa to go visit the US with me. They aren't even doing in person interviews at all. Who knows when she'll be able to get a visa.

Interestingly, the site where you schedule an in person interview says she can go November 26th... next year
Fair enough. I was trying to address people that have an expectation that the maintainers are going to do work for them. I didn't have the "wouldn't it be cool if..." requests in mind.
We should be clear about the goalposts. Reducing the transmission rate to a manageable level will be very easy with even just some fraction of the population being vaccinated. What exact percentage is unclear, but it's a lot less than 100%. No realistic number of anti-vaxxers can change that.

Eradicating the virus is a whole different goal, and there could be lots of different impediments to that. After all, we still get vaccinated for a large numbers of illnesses that we haven't eradicated but are just very rare. That's not a terrible endgame for COVID.
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> singular "they" is ambiguous

Isn't ambiguity the point of using such a pronoun?

I'm curious what the 'recommended' strategy was for situations where gender was unknown. "Someone robbed me; he or she took my wallet"?
really, really excited for this. i’ve had my eye on this project for a few years, though only from the sidelines, but now’s the time to truly take the dive! :)
Apple's services move isn't a gorund-breaking take and the writing has been on the wall for at least 2 years. Addressing some of your points:

> Apple have taken their absolute dominance in selling music and moved to middle of the pack in music streaming squeezed between Spotify and Youtube.

That is true, but Apple is estimated to have almost ~70M subscribers and Spotify has ~290M. Not sure how many of Apple's are paying but that's a lot of people who find Apple's service at least "good enough" which means less revenue for Spotify and competing services. If apple decides to provide a platform for music creation and direct publishing to Apple Music, that creates more lock-in.

> They're late to TV streaming and somehow, despite being incredibly closely linked to Disney have failed to tie up a deal.

Apple being late is a pretty frequent occurrence but execution is what can set them apart here. I doubt Apple will invest the billions it takes to make good entertainment but time will tell. They succeeded (in the USA) with maps and the Apple Watch so far.

> Apple's Siri is distinctly second tier, losing them both for Apple Music, but also potential shopping via smart assistant.

No question there - Siri is still a mediocre product but it is also accessible across their devices. Assistant is better but only if you have an Android phone or the Google app. If you want to buy a smart speaker, you have to _device_ which service you want versus "If Apple makes this speaker, I know it has Siri and works with my devices".

> iCloud

Yep that's a joke and bad deal. Storage is quite cheap so I don't get why Apple won't expand the options.

Apple One is a rough start but I expect them to refine it and slowly add options to improve the offering. Fitness+ could be huge if they pair it with the socioeconomic class of people who go to spin/yoga/pilates/crossfit classes and view fitness as a badge.

They can create a social network effect like Strava and build partnerships with Peloton, Flywheel, etc. (I'm not the right demographic so this is a guess). Apple could partner with hospitals for health data sharing with doctors and maybe get insurance companies on board for discounts.

> Finally you've got the Appstore. Apple is getting absolutely hammered on their 30% fee. At this point it looks almost certain that they'll either change their fee structure or face regulatory action.

+1

> If Apple is a services company why isn't FaceTime adding $100Bn of market cap to Apple's value as a competitor to Zoom?

Because Apple sucks at making services for a world that's not Apple-focused which is what you need to survive in enterprise. I'm okay with Apple dominating cross-platform video calling ...

Overall, I think the ease of a customer using their Apple ID/Device for _everything_ is hard to overstate and is Apple's long term play.
They're already manufacturing millions of doses of the drug and have been for months. The military already has an action plan for distributing it nation wide. Realistically they're ready to go right now they are just waiting for FDA approval.
App store regulation would be industry-wide. They've been targeted by Epic and others, but I'm assuming that's because the number of devices and market share make them the first target.

It would be interesting to propose alternatives that support running unsigned or alternatively signed binaries. For example, if a Windows user is tricked into running malware, how do they address the issue with Microsoft? Are there ways consumers can get a live person to connect to their PC and walk them through fixing the issue? Or is that an additional fee? If we tell all device manufacturers, including game console vendors, to add a software switch that allows us to install our own binaries or point to any repo we want, we should expect vendors to provide basically the same experience.
I made a mistake filling out the ESTA, I was traveling for a job interview and ticked the box saying that I was seeking to work in the US, big mistake, instant denial.

There is no one you can talk to, no way to expedite any remediation, and you can't travel to the US by boat or plane to talk to the CBP.

What I ended up doing, and I don't necessarily recommend this, is flew to Canada and entered over the land border.

After spending something like an hour at the border, and holding up my bus, they let me in.

Supposedly I should be able to apply for an ESTA in the future, but it's not something I have tried since.

I didn't get the job.
How come nobody ever even mentions that these so-called reproduction Model F keyboards have a totally different layout?

Where are my side-positioned function keys?
So this processes only concluded because he got a friend who got their congressman to intervene. Otherwise it would have likely gone on forever.
> As everybody knows, every OSS maintainer doesn't have a day job.

We could still have many more if it was viable to do it without being forced to have a day job. Especially when your software is used by many succesfull companies.

> "OS project"

It stands for open source project. I don't get your quotes here.

> Impossible to accomplish, because "OS project" is not a legal entity to whom one could pay.

You talk about law, I talk about ethics.

> We have such licenses, but they don't have anything to do with Free Software or Open Source Software. Such licenses are called "commerical licenses".

Using "commerical licenses" hurts every use cases that is not profit based. Having mixed licenses adds a lot of complication for the mantainers on top of the already difficult volontary development.
My understanding was "shared source" was MS's particular license for "source available" not their term for the practice.
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I once had my account blocked and they requested a face and full details and I just entered a fake name plus the Google image results for the pictures they wanted (e.g. "my face" I just used the first Google result for the name of my congressman). They approved my submission and unblocked me immediately despite my account obviously being fake.
> I've been noticing more push back against the open source bargain lately.

Open source is a niche. The vast majority of developers don’t participate in open source. If they do, it’s simple bug fixes that they need for their paid jobs. The number of people creating and releasing significant open source projects is vanishingly small relative to the entire pool of developers.

I think it was a mistake to tell entry-level devs everywhere that open source was some sort of secret cheat code to boost one’s career. On the hiring and recruiting side of things, seeing open source contributions is helpful, but it’s almost never the deciding factor in hiring someone. Meanwhile, Internet forums for juniors are full of anxiety about creating side projects and GitHub profiles because young developers think it will get them to the head of the hiring line. It’s a recipe for a lot of disappointment in open source.
I have the Kindle app on my iPad, and it is the best thing ever. I don't install social media apps on it or anything like that. I don't find it bad at all.
Is the Valve Index ever going to come out with a wireless solution? I feel like wireless is a VR game-changer but I am not 100% sure about upgrading my Vive Pro to a Vive Cosmos and adding the wireless adapter and card, due to expense, and also, wanting to try something different
Even in that case is the WRONG solution to a problem.
You can get a chart and hang it up in your kitchen. Moving to europe really opened my eyes up to following the seasons. The vegetables taste better, and you feel better knowing they didnt have to be imported from extremely far away
The initial ESTA denials DO seem connected to the visa waiver program, and yes, work meetings are allowed under that, at least in my case, where I'm working for a foreign subsidiary of a US company, and have occasional meetings at the US headquarters. I don't know whether there is/was a Mozilla Sweden, and whether the absence of one would make a difference.

If you've never had to deal with the US immigration apparatus, think "Google customer service, backed with nuclear weapons".
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