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I just finished reading Bullshit Jobs. The author makes a good argument for the users that because we decided working is a moral good, we are also great at making up things for people to do.

For example: the ballooning of admin jobs in academia that add no benefit to services rendered other than keeping other useless admins busy.

According to the book, when you remove the bullshit jobs and bullshit work most of us already work 20 hour weeks or less.
It could still be a lot better though. For example, there could be an oauth-like flow where you confirm to your bank that you authorize paying the merchant the amount listed. It seems like banks would be motivated to have something like that since it would reduce the chances of them having to pay out for fraud.
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Indeed, it wasn't mentioned in the article from what I can tell but I wonder if she had any prior meditation experience. Even a weekend retreat would seem like a lot for me and I've done daily 30 minute sessions for a while. 10 days? That's pretty extreme
People use Cricut/CAMEO to cut vinyl stickers for the most part. Can't cut vinyl with lasers, you get chloride.
It's exactly as ineffective in iOS. You are just comparing apples to rocketships (iPhone app Vs russian site in browser). Besides, top story on HN says Tiktok will track iOS users, circumventing apple's attempt to block it. So you decline and feel nice and fluffy but it didn't do much. It's worse on Android but there people with knowledge can at least fix it. In iOS you can't even install a proper adblocker. If you want the privacy you to be as effective as you say Apple will need to control every site in your browser like they do with apps.
Isn't Piezoelectricity fundamentally static electricity? Like, instead of being generated on the surfaces of materials it's generated internally?
Is that worse than recommending one course of action to retail investors while personally doing something completely different?
You can just run Nomad to reap the benefits of a cluster manager without all the headaches with Kubernetes.
Has anyone in India received access to Starlink yet?
where do risk averse investors go these days?
On the market I'm invested in to total market index, as well as a global government bond index.
Again, Sam very specifically talks about paying for this wealth redistribution by taxing land and capital, rather than printing money.
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signup doesn't work for me in firefox. it just refreshes the page.
Cricut is a small CNC exacto knife, they cost ~$200
What lockdown in California? Maybe in some counties, but for all the state's bluster, very few are actually getting busted.

https://www.dailynews.com/2021/03/16/few-in-southern-califor...
This is not a guarantee at all; if inflation is sufficiently high then you could be actively losing money holding a bond that fewer and fewer people want.
Just watch the video and get back to me. Lets just say the wikipedia article is carefully phrased. Some might say it's "deceptively edited" /s
I wonder if there is a diet that shows real benefits by restricting to the simplest of foods.

no things that take other things like cheese (rennet), just essentially out of the ground/off the tree/slaughtered from paddock to plate food.
Over the past few months, I’ve been building a loans management platform for lending companies.
GraalVM truly has the potential to become the universal, interoperable VM.
It would be rational for e.g Julia folks to migrate to the graalVM ecosystem and cotntribute to it instead of living on their small code island. They would get an un inimaginable amount of benefits in the process.
I have always felt that lockdown would be a huge mistake for America. It does not take a genius to predict that US would fumble the whole thing. Too many decisions are made without considering the mindset of the population (sociology) and the overall historical factors. Lockdowns only work if they can be strictly enforced like in China, because of Dictatorship government. Or like in South Korea, where the population is more receptive to government demands and overall has a very homogeneous Sociological profile. America was always going to be a mess, and the lockdown only allowed for larger consolidation of wealth towards large businesses who were either too large to fail or could weather the storm. While most of the small business went under.
Is this CSPAN 8 - The Ocho covering Texas legislative sessions now?
The book he has coming out this year The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail certainly seems to touch on some similar themes from the brief description I found online.
When I started meditating I also was introduced via Theravada based vipassana and eventually felt the need to give it up after having some strange things come up and also falling into the nihilism trap I think is common to hit. Thankfully years later I encountered Mahayana teachings and it clarified a ton for me, letting me restart my practice.

That’s all to say I think it’s important that people take it slow and get familiarized with the actual teachings to ground the experience. Jumping in to a 10 day, 10 hour per day training with little or no context is going to be seriously difficult. We have to understand that these practices come from places where the students wouldn’t be completely unfamiliar with the basics of the teachings. There would be at least a basic cultural understanding of the point of meditation (an actual spiritual practice) as opposed to a kid from the US that hears it makes you feel better and might make you more productive.
google and apple developed their os and app store and made it enticing to users. difference here js that you don’t HAVE to use googles app store, other app stores exist but they make it easy and supported it over the last decade+. i don’t know how much they deserve but they at least have made it worth a developers while to support it. developers need the store for exposure more than google needs the developers, theres always someone willing to developer and their store seems more open than apples
Yes, but people would make money in the gradient in between when nothing does it, and when everything does it.
Which is no different from people buying bitcoin and talking about it here :D
LTS is more than support, it provides mental stability that you don't have to update every 6 months.
> Why is it bad to declare your commitment to the country you’re born in and it’s values?

Why would you declare commitment to a country just based on the fact that you were born there? Say you were born in North Korea, would you still do it?

I dunno, I’d rather declare my commitment to a country that actually deserves it.
The Indian govt. seems to agree.

https://www.indiatoday.in/coronavirus-outbreak/story/night-c...
The rise in suicides is entirely mythological: https://slate.com/technology/2020/11/whats-actually-happenin.... It not being a factor in the decision-making process is, therefore, rather appropriate.

As to economic damage and the general impact on well-being, it seems blatantly untrue to state that they are not considered. The fact alone that these lockdowns were often lifted rather early indicates as much.

The term itself isn't very helpful because it can mean anything to anybody, and in almost no case has it meant what I would usually assume the meaning of the term to be: actual curfews. Instead, each jurisdiction has tried to find a set of restrictions that, ideally, would be low-impact but be strongly effective. It's well-documented by now that these measures tend to work well, in aggregate. Unfortunately, the data isn't quite as good for any individual measure. And the likely contenders for top efficacy are also the most hurtful. Closing schools is the undisputed leader here: it's mighty effective but makes life miserable for children and parents alike.
I've been thinking about buying a trackpad and an ergodox and putting the trackpad in the middle. Think it will fit? Think that's a good idea? Where do you put the mouse when using an ergodox?
> Where should I look?

I'd say search on your friends network first. If it is hard to find on your network then I suggest Angel.co, stackoverflow.
D'Andrea has resigned as per updates in the article.
Which tells you a little about how price insensitive the users are.

Who chooses a $800 phone as the basis for a service only offering text chat when a $50 phone would work just fine?
Keep in mind there's a hidden gotcha with bond funds like vwalx in that the price of bonds changes over time roughly correlated with expected inflation. If you've been paying attention to vwalx and other bonds over the last month, you'll have seen the price go down significantly as treasury yields have gone up. So there's a risk that while your %yield on invested capital remains the same, the value of your invested capital itself can still drop since you don't own the bonds themselves and aren't holding them to maturity.
I'd say they're at a point where they're not a problem for most use cases, but if you're trying to get p9999 latency down, you might have to start looking at them.
Clearly we are not. The amount of changes Apple have made are plenty. VPNs are harder to use, side loading is harder, adblockers are ineffective, etc.
He doesn't recommend particular companies. Are you suggesting that Ray Dalio thinks he's so powerful that he can make Asian equities in general do better, just because he says he likes them?
Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett would disagree, they don’t exactly recommend buying and holding bonds until maturity but instead to buy bonds on the market, when the bond yield is say at 6% any bond with a coupon value less than that will be worth less than its face value, when those rates drop the bond will be worth more than its face value, if you buy bonds when interest rates are high and then sell them when they are low you can make a very sizable chunk off of them that is greater than the coupon value
Maybe most people complied
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but the amount of US bonds debt is $20 trillion, no?

There seem to be way more bonds around than what the fed owns.
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This 100%. Or a trackball. Look up the oddball keyboard or the ultimate hacking keyboard with its modules concept.

I've been thinking of getting an ergodox and putting a trackpad in the middle..not sure if the windows Trackpads on Amazon will work on Linux though.
I have heard of people taking "years" to migrate to kube but only on HN and only on company who's timelines for "lets paint the walls of our buildings" stretch into the decades. But, even once you move, you get benefits that other systems don't have.

1. Off the shelf software (even from major vendors [0])

2. Hireable skill set: You can now find engineers who have used kubernetes. You can't find people who've already used your custom shell scripts.

3. Best practices for free: zero-downtime deploys can now be a real thing for you.

4. Build controllers/operators for your business concepts: rather than manually manage things make your software declaratively configured.

[0] - https://cloud.netapp.com/blog/cvo-blg-kubernetes-storage-an-...
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Long term meditation "enthusiast" who has been around many meditation traditions and also done retreats from 3 days to 3 weeks.

Meditation is definitely not relaxation. In the language of Yoga (which meditative traditions share), long meditation sessions move the focus (prana) to certains parts of the body where long sustained focus can create "imbalances" and lead to breaks and other side effects (psychosis or related). Further description risks going into woo-woo land without a shared language.

Meditation carries with it the most definite risk of people experiencing a break. I would put the at-risk population in the low-to-mid single digits. I have seen folks go into long meditation retreats and experience breaks where they have an experience much like Megan in the article - they have to be admitted and most of them are never the same ever after. Very solid grounded people develop migraines, insomnia, loss of appetite, or start hallucinating.

Meditation and Pranayama are both neither innocuous nor mere placebo effects. There is a very strong mechanism at work which we do not understand in a modern scientific context. However, the majority of practitioners do not do long intense retreats and will get away without any serious consequences.

A good tradition will devote serious time on how to combat the effects of long meditation retreats. They will talk about it almost as much as the technique itself. The biggest antidotes are - getting good sleep, not overdoing it, physical exercise, long walks and getting enough food. The inversion - onset of insomnia or anxiety or loss of appetite - is a very bad sign and you should stop meditating immediately.

Please do not do take either practice lightly or you could risk effing up something internally for which we have no cure. Feel free to DM me if you want to chat more.
I would love to hear people's thoughts on what hardware saw 10x improvements too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26485925
One of my yoga teachers would coincidentally tell us to approach things slowly and carefully in the middle of practice because “you wouldn’t just toss around a running chainsaw would you?”
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I got this push message from Hacker News this morning and felt obliged to post my opinion on the "LeetCode thing" cause I'm currently trying the same thing as you are. I have a master degree on CS and 4 years of professional experience and trying to keep moving forward.

I don't believe solving LeetCode problems well is something that you have to be gifted to achieve. Ironically, I believed it once upon a time. I got very frustrated when failed tech interviews for Microsoft and Google when I was a new-grad and trying to find a decent job.

I know it's frustrating to just look at somebody finishing all the contest problems in 10min and you're scratching your head for many hours or even a whole day. Believe me I was literaly doing this for a long time. But I started my professional occupation anyway. What I did then is keep trying for several years since I know I'm stupid and stubborn. It turns out to be promising in the third year doing so.

I gradually find out there IS a way! There is a clear and straightforward path to do better in algorithm problems: just get a full list of basic data structures and algorithms, understand them all by watching youtube videos, learning online courses (MIT online courses helped be a lot), and practice tens of problems in each subject until you get sick of it. Currently I get 2481 points in LeetCode contest and I'm preparing for my next period of career and hope these hard work finally pay off!

In case someone need it, these 2 lists are very comprehensive and helped me a lot:

* https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university
* https://techdevguide.withgoogle.com/

Hope it helps!
I don't buy this whole idea of technological progress being exponential, let alone monotonic.

The average piece of software made in 2021 does less, runs slower and is more difficult to maintain than the average piece of software from 2001.

Consumer-grade CPUs haven't seen a drastic increase in performance for around a decade too. I'm still running an i7-2600k that was released in 2010. A current-tech Ryzen 7 has maybe 30-50% better performance per core, and 2x the number of cores. In 2000, we were still using 800Mhz single-core Athlons.

More broadly, we haven't seemed to have a breakthrough on the scale of penicillin, the steam engine, the assembly line or the transistor since the turn of the millennium (with the possible exception of CRISPR).

I just don't seem to be able to share in the optimism of people like Altman and Kurzweil when it comes to technological progress like this.
This is moving the goalpost, though. The discussion was about whether or not the replacibility of generalized human labor is comparable to the replacibility of horse labor. No doubt there can be reasonable disagreement, but we can't compare the adaptation to specialized function replacement with generalized function replacement. The point of the analogy is that it (generlized labor) is novel in human populations, but not for horses.
If you end up making a blog post about how you do your deployments/monitoring and what it's enabled you to do I think it'd be a great contrast to the "kubernetes is complicated" sentiment on HN.
How does a VM (JVM, GraalVM) compare to something like LLVM's IR? From your description as a ``universal, _interoperable_ VM`` it seems like they have some similar goals --- what are the reasons to write a compiler to a VM instead of with LLVM/IR?
thus proving the articles are true
> The point is that we found new jobs for horses because...

My core point is that horses didn't have jobs!

People used horses to do jobs.

> Once machines are more dexterous and can think better than people, there's no more new jobs - because whatever jobs they would be, machines will be better qualified for.

I think this is another version of the same error. Machines have jobs in this scenario! People have to pay for what the machines produce, but there is no human on the other side of the transaction, so after a while humans run out of all money and die off.

Or something.. It's getting late and I'll stop here.
True but losing 5% on a bond investment might be better than losing 10% in a savings account or 50% in the market. You have to think about your timelines and risk tolerance.
> in violation of copyright ... defence any reasonable judge should entertain.

Now we are talking specifics! Are you implying that Google is violating the law? Given that the snippet showing has been going for a long time and no one has sued Google for it yet, it does not seem to. Plus, there is the whole Fair Use laws [0].

I personally love that I can take snippets from the random websites on the net, quote them in my posts, and not worry about copyright infringement. And if I can do this, why can't Google?

[0] https://ammori.org/2012/05/08/copyright-misunderstandings-an...
Also notice how skillfully names of his students are not mentioned - no PR for the unworthy. Of course they are easily discoverable from the published papers.
You've got understand that the orgs involved in myGov, such as Centrelink, Medicare, and the ATO are special bad. They're dysfunctional to a degree most people simply cannot believe.

I was at Centrelink's IT department for just a couple months, and that was the only time in my decades-long consulting career that I had seen an adult man cry. Not for personal reasons. Work-related reasons. Several men, on multiple occassions, for different reasons.

That place crushed their spirits, and the tears just had to come out...
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"I like the stock"
'Every euro invested in nuclear power makes the climate crisis worse'
int non, sealed; ?
maybe too literal...10bt, 100bt, 1gbe, 10gbe...unfortunately I've never used 100gbe before...

3g > the stuff that came before?

fiber last mile > adsl,whatever else at the time

adsl > dial up(esp if u skipped isdn?)

ssd > hdd

lcd vs crt wrt size n weight?

usb3 > usb2 > usb1

aes, avx n other extensions > without them?

gpu > cpu for btc mining n stuff
If you try to make a gist you'll have the option of either "Create a secret gist: secret gists are hidden from search engines but visible to anyone you give the url to" or "Create a public gist: Public gists are visible to everyone"

Parent seems to have confused "private" and "secret".
Im not a top tier user of blender but I get by via remapping some of the relevant keys. I don't use all the features, but I feel like having no numpad is well supported in blender, and is irrelevant in Unity and Godot. Can't speak to unreal.

Using a mouse is very bad for my shoulders if it's too far away from my center. Numpads are simply not an option for me, unless I had an external one in a special location.

I think the numpad users are outnumbered by the indifferent and numpad haters. I'm in the latter column.
Go to any Kubernetes page and it's all heavyweight "nodes" and "containers" and "tasks" and "resources" (some of which seem to have very special meanings). It's not easy to get into.

I don't think this is some oversight on behalf of the technical writers. They don't lack the ability to explain it in simple terms, they're putting up a warning sign. If you want to join Kubernetes, it's going to mean your entire way of doing things will now be the Kubernetes way, it's not just going to be a few lines of code you add to a Make file.

A lot of people are wary of these heavyweight systems, because it's going to end up a fairly hard dependency.
How does it compare to just using a JVM agent to profile a production app?
The TRU Score system and how you describe its use for evaluating people on employment could fall under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Have you thought about that?https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/statutes/fair-credit-reporti...
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From a musicians standpoint, the everything today is 10x of what he had just 20 years ago.

If I wanted to record a halfway decent sounding guitar 20 years ago, I had a couple choices:

1. Go to some studio, spend probably at least $1k, get the stems and transfer them to my computer.

2. Purchase recording gear (microphone, preamp, etc.), which would minimum cost around $1k, and on top of that, have a computer and audio interface. Again, $$$.

3. Purchase some early modeller, some audio interface, DAW, etc. Probably $1k just in that.

Simply put, there weren't any really affordable or efficient method, that didn't sound like a$$.

Today, it's a breeze. Free plugins, free DAWs, extremely affordable audio interfaces.

As far as cost, quality, and efficiency goes - everything is 10x of what we had 20 years ago. And almost everything boils down to the software products involved.
Sure, but if he didn’t actually believe what he’s saying, why stake the money on it? Your argument seems like a tautology.
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Glad to see this article explore the darker side of meditation. A few years back, I had a sobering experience at a Vipassana meditation retreat and left after a few days. I had feelings of anxiety and despair, which I expected (at least intellectually), but when I started to have suicidal thoughts, I decided it was time to get out.

While the Goenka retreats profess to be secular and for everyone, I got serious cult vibes from the minute that I arrived. Technically, the in-person instructors are only assistant teachers. There is only one true teacher: Goenka himself. During his nightly instruction via VHS tape - the only human interaction you're allowed all day - Goenka teaches Buddhist metaphysics (I recall something about vibrations of the universe).

The retreat creates the perfect environment to break you down psychologically: sleep deprivation, food restriction, lack of human interaction, prohibitions on reading, writing, and exercising. Throughout the retreat, there is ingroup/outgroup pressure: only the strong can make it through; people who leave or aren't able to handle the meditation are weak. If you have a concern about your experience, the standard solution is more meditation. If you question this, you didn't give the retreat a chance, you weren't meditating hard enough. Then, at the end of the retreat you're hit with a love bomb on the way out the door. [1]

Interpreted charitably, I thought this retreat was similar to military training or fraternity hazing. Less so, it was more like solitary confinement or torture.

I'm glad I went - I gained some insights and it was an incredibly valuable experience. I'm also glad I left early. If you're thinking of going on one of these retreats, know what the assistant teacher told me on mine: "This is a Buddhist purification ritual."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_bombing