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Ask HN: How do you chill your mind after work?
I'm a machine learning engineer and the job requires a great deal of thinking and mental energy which I actually like. The problem is that I noticed that after work, I am not at all as chill as who I am on the weekends. Both my gf and mood tracker acknowledge that my mood is much more chill on the weekends.

Initially, I assumed this is because our projects are open-ended and after work, I'm still thinking about what to do tomorrow or some research ideas. This is partly correct but i tried 10 min meditation after work, 30 min reading a book and going out for 5 min to smoke. These helped not to think about work but I still feel that my "thinking motor" is still on and active. I think about a lot of things (this time not about work) and I am not at all as mindful and as chill as what I am on the weekends.

I noticed that on the weekends when I look at the flowers, i cherish the experience and enjoy this little thing. But after work, i still notice the beauty, but don't feel that good experience of enjoying observing a beautiful flower. I think because I am not as mindful and as chill as what I am on the weekends.

Is it because deep down the work anxiety is still there? or scientifically we have a notion of "thinking motor" which we turn on during the day and it's not clear how to turn it off? if we can turn it off and be like weekends, how?
"I didn't turn them on" is a fact. It's the "because" that's not a fact. The whole point of the article is that you can't get causality from things that didn't happen. There are seven billion other people in the world who also didn't turn on the lights. What makes your inaction special?

In order to get the "because" we have to imagine another state of the world where you DID turn on the lights, and further speculate that this would have been effective to illuminate the room. That's counterfactual, because the fact is that it's dark in here.
It's not clear what this person actually did. It sounds like it's his employees/partners did all the work.
I actually agree with you. People keep doing shitty jobs in real engineering e.g. construction. It's just most of the time people don't have the skills to notice it.
You might not need to trust government institutions in order to be convinced that vaccines in general are effective, you do however need to trust them in order to verify that a specific vaccine is effective and safe. Especially for new vaccines for which we do not have as much data gathered. In addition, the genetic material for the vaccines not being open source (and commonly being patented) stops smaller research labs and individuals from examining them by themselves. Not to mention that even if the vaccine was open source there would still be possible supply-chain attacks, would you for example trust the Chinese government to not secretly conduct experiments on the Uighurs by giving them a modified vaccine? It's not as if human experimentation even in "modern democratic countries" is unheard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio....

Considering that I would not blame minorities (whether racial, religious, or political, especially in countries that have been historically oppressive of them) if they decided to avoid the vaccine.

> You should hopefully be able to think for yourself and be able to evaluate when the story checks out and where it doesn't.

> But you should still have ability to think for yourself and use it to make rational decisons.

Some people ended up distrusting vaccines (whether in general or specific) after following this process. It is not a truth-finding panacea.
Many people disable this because:

1) it's really annoying to have your crap moved around without being asked

2) it's often the only way to retain control of your device.
It's highly correlated with rockets being fired off nearby.
Quite predictable.
Is there some benefit you are hoping to achieve by getting two different mRNA vaccines? I was under the assumption they both worked about the same?
Nope, the problem with Diem is it's creators do not seem to understand Bitcoins appeal: permissionless transfer of value.
WebContent-EL1 LPE: OOBR in AppleCLCD / IOMobileFrameBuffer
That exactly is his plan.
Thank you. Fidelity doesn't charge PFOF on stocks but they do accept PFOF on options. The bid-ask spreads for most stocks in negligible so PFOF-related damage wouldn't matter that much anyway, what cannot be said about options..
Few days ago it flagged a test binary from Ghidra: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/3160
> Knowing nothing about software.

A few lines in:

> I created a horse-racing simulation game in Applesoft BASIC in Manhattan Beach Middle School’s computer classroom and ran a small gambling operation.

... Ok.
With this much money at play, being incarcerated for even a brief period of time can easily end up being a death sentence
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator --Churchill (b. 1874)
There is a view, called “legal realism”, that what the courts and law enforcement collectively do _is_ the law itself. The rules as they are written down are useful in predicting or convincing how judges or other actors in the system will act, but that it all they are.
Is it required for open source software to support every combination of compiler, kernel, libc etc? We wouldn't say it has to support every version of any other dependency (not provided by system)

It's definitely a nice to have, but I think it's also valid for some project to say we support the version we used in CI and for releases. On the other hand you could say being stuck on a specific version is skin to relying on implementation details, which is a code smell atleast.
The guy knew about multi-tenant SaaS and Voice over IP and built a company around that before his competitors, I would not say he “knew nothing about software” any more than Steve Jobs.
Centralized. Manipulated. Unpredictable issuance. Subject to censorship.

Among a few.
F me — I didn’t need to read this tonight. My ‘sewer pipe’ feels light years in length, and I’m in a row boat.

Much love to all those burning the candle at both ends with a blowtorch, may you make it out alive
>One I've noticed is "Einstein was super smart" when a simpler theory is "Einstein didn't cite prior work so everyone thought he did it."

What prior work? Most of the discussion about Einstein's theories not being original and not being credited seem to relate to his first wife, I thought.
Most SF lots, at least on the east side are 25 or maybe 35 ft wide and 75 or 100+ ft deep. How do you fit a fourplex on that?
> on the other hand, we share the same culture and history like no one else does

There is no “like no one else does”; the argument is that Black identity (particularly in America) is essentially an ethnic identity produced by shared experience, the same as other ethnic identities. The distinctive part is that the shared experience centrally includes American White supremacy which, among other things, actively erased the preexisting ethnic identities of the black people whom it made Black.
It doesn't matter, it's plugged in at night.
Yes, tutorials should be expected to teach people about security if it is within their scope. But the problem with the tutorials from the article is that the authors seem to be genuinely unaware of the security issues. That may also be the reason why they are trying to do the impossible, that is teaching web authentication to beginners in a 10 minute blog post format. And then they often get positive feedback because people like simple but wrong answers to difficult problems.
>Those aren't counterfactuals, they're negative statements.

Wikipedia doesn't seem to agree with you:

"The term "Counterfactual" is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as contrary to the facts.[2] A counterfactual thought occurs when a person modifies a factual prior event and then assesses the consequences of that change.[3] A person may imagine how an outcome could have turned out differently, if the antecedents that led to that event were different. For example, a person may reflect upon how a car accident could have turned out by imagining how some of the factors could have been different, for example, If only I hadn't been speeding...."

The forms the article mentions are like those "if" statements.

>That's not a counterfactual, it's a fact.

That's because there's a one-way casual relationship there. Not the case with TFA examples.
> TSMC has a lead at the moment for bleeding edge fabrication, but Intel isnt that far behind and is massive in scale

Pull up a table of companies with cutting edge foundries by year. The list perpetually grows shorter as the cost to remain competitive grows higher.
That's very true. Though, while accounting for that, it's also shown that gunfire detectors result in faster response times as well. So even if police were to have received a 911 report, the gunfire alert still could've led to them getting there faster than they would have otherwise.
That, of course, is a valid reason to blame Silicon Valley for Dell choosing the specs for the PC that do not pass California requirements. Not.
Nobel Prize winning American physicist Steven Weinberg dies aged 88
Do you actually think the IDF would be allowed to help with this in Gaza? This would be a death sentence for any Israeli who tried to help.
Maybe we'll get open source drivers and have the PostMarketOS devs handle it.
Which are correlated with illegal confiscation of land and property by Jewish settlers. Which is correlated with so on and so forth.
Hence me giving a range of 6-9 months. My niece was walking not long after 9 months, it's rare but not unheard of. A newborn baby simply wouldn't have the physical strength or rigidity, though.
Then perhaps they should make it be able to be sent during off peak hours at a lower bitrate when people are sleeping, they are signed by Apple anyway, so a carrier can distribute them at off-peak from edge nodes closest to the tower, avoiding backhaul, and using wasted spectrum that was not getting use anyway.

Rather than, you know, a vulnerable device behind on updates that isn't backupable to iCloud in any way.
Collision Detection Is Hard: The Story of Alf
"Nearly 100"; the use of statistics in the article is jarring. Also, the explanation of the Israeli's methodology is lacking; the cropped screenshots are not very helpful in determining what the software can do. How does it map the "voids" to the previous structure? The map creation is certainly a probabilistic process. So, what expectation thresholds are being used? No names for the "2-D and 3-D" software. What is sorely missing is any references. Only can assume the software is all in house to the IDF.
would you mind sharing a bit about what a process implies for the design? ie why does switching a process require massive design changes

thank you
Hacking the Hackathon Application
> You still need 2FA and the 2FA absolutely should NOT be a part of your password manager. Use a different app at the very least.

Recommended if storing 2FA codes in a password manager is to use 2FA for the password manager that isn't stored in the password manager. Off the top of my head, that doesn't seem to really open up any additional risks over storing 2FA passwords outside of the password manager.

Personally, it's a matter of practicality - I use my phone for personal 2FA codes, but don't have a work-provided phone and am not going to use my personal phone for work purposes - and as many services now require 2FA, it's easiest to store those 2FA codes in my work-provided password manager.
Just replying to myself. I find it amusing to be downvoted so much, yet sparking so much discussion. It seems like NFTs evoke strong reactions from both pro and anti camps. Obviously they are an extremely disruptive tech, especially in the way we view ownership and also they derail the whole "cryptocurrencies are not useful for anything" argument. So they disrupt not only those against cryptocurrency, but also those who are entrenched in cryptocurrency that does not have the ability to support NFTs
Amazon gift cards are marketplace specific. You can't buy a gift card in the UK and use it in the US.
Designing for a Hackathon
That was my experience. I already had enough skill to be a junior dev but I needed the connections (internship opportunities) that the boot camp provided.
It's not mindless. There's a catch where with 3/5/15, where if you can't think about the condition at 15, it won't work. There are some other tests like reversing a linked list, which may be more challenging, but it's a worse indicator of fundamental coding ability.

I taught a bootcamp and we'd try to get them to FizzBuzz by the first or second weekend. So it's not a terrible test.

Also you have to look back at the history of it. There used to be a lot of degrees that taught nothing but theory, and would output someone who couldn't code at all. I actually did a FizzBuzz level test for my first interview (10 years ago), and the interviewer was impressed that I could do it so fast.

These days, it's the opposite. Most graduates could probably code a singleton or something that finds prime numbers, but don't know how to normalize tables.

These tests are there to weed out the people who specialize in scoring interviews, but still don't have the basic ability to do the job. Much of the time you don't even want a great programmer, just some code monkey who can retrieve something from an API, combine it with some inputs, and save the results to another API.
Not quite the same but they are working to collocate ground stations at data centers of the big cloud providers around the world so you’ll get most of the advantages you laid out for much less complexity.
I think the people who value Tesla at these rates don't believe Tesla will continue just selling cars. They believe the cars are just the first step in a range of products and services that will make Tesla a trillion dollar company. Just like Amazon, obviously a book store wouldn't be as valuable as Amazon is now, and it was hard to see this 15 years ago.

Anyway, definitely agree with you on the valuation. Even if you believe there's a chance it's going the Amazon route and we'll all be driving Tesla autopilot cabs in 5 years, it's priced as if that's a certainty.
This is a great story and I am happy for the outcome for sure.
Are you thinking about zygote rather than fetus perhaps?
Yeah, I was waiting for that too.

- A process wrote 125 GB of logs, why?

- It was compiled with VERBOSE=true, why?

- The build config was changed on 7/12/2021 by Steve, why?

- Issue #5988, need to collect data one why that process crashes so much.
there are certain parameters like net price improvement, percentage of improved orders and execution speed.. retail brokerages are encourage to make such data public by FINRA:

1. https://robinhood.com/us/en/about-us/our-execution-quality/

2. https://www.schwab.com/execution-quality

3. https://clearingcustody.fidelity.com/app/item/RD_13569_21687...
Loved the monocle blog, as well as other posts on that site. [Finda](https://keminglabs.com/finda/) was another one I saw in this space.
>Aging accelerates with age

Does it in all cases?

I don't have the source, but I know I've read the claim that some of the people who live exceptionally long seem to have "stopped aging" in the sense that their risk of death, while high, leveled out to a constant.
Yeah that was hilarious. Also:

> Many of my friends who are founders of their own companies tell me how they exhibited the entrepreneurial spirit as a kid… But that wasn’t me.

Literally next sentence:

> I ran a small gambling operation
Just because that particular story was a myth doesn't mean the bystander effect isn't a real phenomenon.

Also, that's still two out of 38 people who called. If only 36 people were there, without those two, it's possible no one might have called.
You can always alias it to "git praise".

git config --global alias.praise blame
No one ever really needs to buy >a< kit.
Bitfinex was able to do this because they are owned by the same individuals as the people who own teather.

800m is still a drop in the bucket compared to the 64billion issued tether.
Acknowledging to myself that I've made an impact today, that I can make more of one tomorrow, and giving myself permission to relax for the rest of the day.

You've noticed this is easier on the weekends, I submit this is because you give yourself permission to relax on the weekends due to social convention.

Perhaps deciding on a time after which you give yourself permission to relax on weekdays will both help your situation, and also drive daily thinking and objectives towards small, manageable wins that let you put a pin in the day.
I was a huge Better Place fan and thought Tesla would definitely lose that battle. I also thought their initial government investment was a waste of taxpayer money. Happy to be wrong and see at least one winner.
Companies creating their own coin is like having an intranet... intranets mostly suck and have no real value. There's a reason the www is superior - because it's fully open.
It baffles me the amount of blind fanatical hate Bitcoin gets in HN.

It shouldn't though, as most of them live in first world countries and have never experienced the calamities of hyper inflation and wealth seizure by the government.
Are you saying that "If I had turned on the lights, they would be on" wouldn't be a true statement?

It seems like it would be strange to reject as an answer to "why do blind people tend spend less on lighting?" with "Because they don't tend to use the lighting, because the lighting isn't useful to them, so they don't turn the lights on as much (unless someone else who isn't blind is there).".

How else would you answer that question? (modulo little wording changes and such)
I don't think "users on public machines" are really a subset of people worth catering to at the expense of others.

Public machines without sandboxed user sessions seem largely uworkable in the first place - does anywhere actually do that? (I've never been to a library, school/university or workplace that does.)
The solution is to not make people have to root their device for that to begin with. Allow people to install apps within the sandbox with minimal static scanning and perhaps a DB of hashes for security notifications later, and let that be it. You'll crush the market for easily accessible Jb tools too
What a weird interpretation of that statement.

Insurance companies build models around average lifespan.

It's a fact of life...and sadly death.

Anyway, I can tell youre significantly brainwashed by the Covid cult and statistics and truth aren't going to matter to you.

Good luck to you as well!
I think it's entirely doable, especially with the interest the platform has. There will always be things macOS does better, but there are also things Linux will do better.

Personally, I'll consider the project at success if we can match or exceed the features and stability of an average x86 laptop running Linux, with the performance and power efficiency advantages that Apple Silicon brings, which I think is totally possible.
I thought the counterfactual for that is, "if I didn't didn't exercise, I wouldn't be tried."

Which... May not be true.
Show HN: App to keep your photos and videos safe and secure
did you even read the article? it goes somewhat deep into how they plan and orchestrate it, especially for a normal publication
You don't do that by paying them for _not_ working on your platform.
I'd go even further:

We pick some basic set of specs, a processor, and run the whole thing on FPGAs so we control all the circuits and can always make an ASIC if we want. Full control, full power. Like what if MiSTer was considered a valid target for productivity software?

Like we agree to go back to nothing and build the whole thing. Graphics drivers a problem? Design a new graphics system, all open.

Would it be current? No. But it would be really open, and easy to develop for.
You can't pay taxes in bezos-bucks right now, but you maybe able to in the future
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-11/miami-may...
why are the IDF there?
Ask HN: Should I move to San Francisco?
Hey HN, I’m a long (…long) time lurker, very occasional poster. I am starting my completely remote job soon and have hit a difficult problem that I am having a hard time figuring out: where to live. I have no S.O., no large family, no ethnic/religious community (not trying to be melodramatic here, I’m quite content with my life), which means I have no ties to anywhere. Where do I live?

I love San Francisco. I love walking around Russian hill, Cole valley, Noe valley, getting a burrito in the mission, biking through golden gate park, chilling in Alamo square, etc.

Although I am a techie, I’ve grown away from associating with tech. It’s my 9-5, but afterwards I want to talk about anything else. I do read HN religiously though :)

I am still dating and am at a point in my life where this is very important. At a cis male what is the scene like?

I make good money, but I still have a deep sense of what something should be worth. Paying 2.8k for a 1 bedroom hurts but I can afford it. Otherwise the city seems expensive but not outrageous. I had a sushi roll for $15, which is like $3 more than it should be imo.

I could go on. What I would really appreciate is what long term SF residents think about SF life. Can I find friends here? Make a relationship? Will the insane beauty of twin peaks wear off?

Thanks HN
I think one could argue much of the Jewish diaspora also have a "shared" experience in a similar way but I don't see the same tension there, though maybe I'm just not seeing it. There are also African immigrants who would have a different experience, even people from the Caribbean have a totally different experience.

If you look at it from a people perspective, it doesn't make sense because people want to be their own individual, not lumped into a category because everyone experiences things differently. I see this as an artificial construction that is usually argued against.
I get that this is a theoretical vulnerability, but there's no way I'm turning off automatic autofill. It's way too convenient.

If some site has an XSS vulnerability, then they've already got access to my session cookies, and have the ability to spoof a "you've been logged out, please log back in" screen where people could type in a password anyways.

If a site is vulnerable to XSS it's basically game over security-wise. Asking browsers and password managers not to autofill feels more like security theater at that point.

That being said, the browsers and password managers that require the username and password fields to actually be genuinely visible to the user on top, non-transparent, in the viewport, are doing the right commonsense thing, and really that seems entirely good enough.

(Obviously if you're a political dissident or a target of suspected corporate espionage or something then you'll take greater security precautions like not using a password manager at all for certain accounts -- I'm just talking about normal users here.)
If you listen to a police scanner for a bit, you'll probably hear at least a few social (security number, full name) pairs. If you're in range, a $20 SDR dongle let's you listen and record on your own, or you can just google your way to an online stream from someone else with an SDR.

If you watch BWC footage on the completely public COPA (the civilian office of police accountability, an organization empowered by the govt of the city of Chicago to investigate complaints against CPD) case portal [0], you'll see a lot of intimate, unredacted footage, BWC and otherwise.

I don't think the privacy laws have caught up with the tech. Or maybe the privacy is sacrificed in the name of transparency and accountability. I was not in the room where these decisions where made, so I couldn't say.

[0] https://www.chicagocopa.org/data-cases/case-portal/
Comcast contributes a lot of open source