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> Meditate: Literally train your mind to focus. It's going to the gym. Won't happen in a day, week, even month. Consistently do it and you'll eventually see progress.

Indeed! I'd add on -- keep in mind that this focus might be very fleeting at first. You might focus on your breath or mantra for one, maybe two repetitions... and that's it! You've already lost it. You barely made it two seconds and now your mind is drifting and you have to remind yourself to focus. You might've even been drifting or daydreaming for over a minute after only two seconds of focus. That is perfectly normal. It's ok to just try meditation for a couple to a few minutes at first until you get the technique down. You slowly increase how long you can meditate -- keeping one-pointed concentration on your focus -- from a couple seconds, to a few seconds, to minutes, etc. It's like training a muscle. It takes time and effort.

Resources to check out, available free online: The books Mindfulness in Plain English and Keeping the Breath in Mind and Lessons in Samadhi.
Recently went through the leetcode circus myself and ended up with an offer in this range, thus 4-5x my previous salary, and I have 7 years of experience. The interview had almost nothing to do with my work experience (which isn't that great btw) except for the behavioral portion. I am not exceptional either - most HN comments go over my head really quickly. Now I can actually think about affording real estate and starting a family.

Companies that can pay this much aren't rare. They're all in plain sight. FAANG, Coinbase, Stripe, Brex, to name a few.
Yes, the current interview process is a complete disaster to anyone who knows different. Unfortunately it's been going on so long, that's all people know.

I've mentioned this before but it seems to me like the current cargo-culted interview process was designed to not find applicable candidates in the US to get around the H1B visa requirements.
I think that terraform etc. are largely the wrong way of doing it. I think NixOS (or just the Nix package manager) is the right way of doing it but the Nix ecosystem has it's own separate set of issues. Mostly these are around (lack of) documentation making it impenetrable to get on board with.

On the other hand, my feeling is that as your problems become harder and harder (your infrastructure gets more complex) Nix is exactly the same amount of hard as it was, but the other tools begin to struggle more and more. Sometimes that's from a performance point of view (the plan speed issue you're talking about), sometimes it's because edge cases of unexpected results begin to creep in.
I ran across this issue with a Toshiba HDMI->USB dongle for $20 bought from Walmart.

They did the scammy blue adapter, but none of the usb3 pins.
You're thinking of CPython, the standard implementation of Python. Cython is a (barely) separate language that looks a lot like Python but gets compiled to something like C. When you need performance, you can drop down from (C)Python into Cython
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There's a very dry official twitter called KremlinRussia_E, which posts his diary, pretty much. This is ~equiv to WhiteHouse, which Twitter obviously didn't nuke. They banned Trump's _personal_ account.
That sounds a little like me. In my case, it seems like the two biggest factors are just a lack of time from family constraints and the feeling that none of my work will actually make any difference. Why should I spend my time working on something that won't make money, won't give me marketable knowledge, or benefit me in any way? I do support my Android apps. I guess I have a little pride in following through for my users, but I don't know.

So I guess the best way for me to focus is to identify what I want to get out of something. Once I know the benefit/goal, it seems easier to build momentum and complete.
I asked a genuine question of why it matters so much to you (and explained that it was a genuine question because I dont feel it matters to me) and you haven't answered, instead you've just accused me of not caring about your view.

Please enlighten me if there's a non-transphobic reason to care what pronounces my next door neighbour uses.

And nobody is talking about pulling the rug from biological concepts - they're remaining the same regardless of what language we all use. "Male-born" and "penis-having" for example are (and I've no idea if these are the best / commonly accepted terms, this isn't an area I know much about) and I'm sure plenty of other related terms can still describe exact situations if you're wanting to think about someone's genitals while using their pronouns.

But unless you're a doctor about to operate on me or somebody I want to have sex with, I probably don't care if you know what genitals I have or don't have nor do I understand why you'd think it important to know.
I agree - I find it to be incredibly valuable in almost all contexts.

Someone linked to Ross' post in this 'Tech Times' article: https://www.techtimes.com/articles/154165/20160427/mozilla-f...

The original Facebook post is presumably here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-...

When I read his original post and first learned about aphantasia, realized that most people have a functioning 'mind's eye', it was one of the weirdest days of my life.
At least where I come from (Ireland, but I'd say it's the same in the UK where Lexicality is from), "silly" and "stupid" are distinct. You can describe something like this as "silly" perfectly respectfully, but describing it as "stupid" would be out of bounds.
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Here is an impression of Infinity Maps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wfq--1t8l0
That’s just the float of the SPAC, the merger didn’t go through yet. The prospectus says that after the merger there will be 193.4 million shares outstanding so multiply 193m with the stock price to get a pro forma market cap of $11+B
Hyped EV startups are struggling to release a single car
Whether that works for you really depends on biological mechanisms you can't change. For some people getting up early works great, however others simply don't fall asleep as early. That getting up early is best is a myth made up by some Prussians who probably belonged to the first category.
Good question. It's probably not even an edge case (dependent on usage), but a limitation right now is that a unique "unit" of collaboration is a single item/line, so if two people update a line offline, the winning line will the most recently updated. I can imagine that would get pretty annoying pretty fast. Granular collaboration (updating per character rather than per line) is on the backlog, priority will be determined by feedback of course.

Another thing to solve is ever-growing data sets. I've tinkered with some mechanisms to combat this (namely compacting the CRDT event log based on a bunch of rules) but this is tricky and I'd prefer the app to mature a little before I implemented this. Also on the backlog! Lots to do for sure.
Starlink + Twitter = ??
>Money is supposed to be a social reward for solving problems for people. But they turn this on its head by inducing scarcity on something that is inherently NOT scarce.

I don't see how the first sentence contradicts the second sentence. Audi is solving problems (a hot car) for people, by providing a product (an AC). The fact that they're "inducing scarcity" or whatever is orthogonal to this.

>I do not have a solution for this, but the fact that it's a problem is obvious to me, and the fact it will only get worse with time is also obvious.

The fact that you don't have a solution for this suggests that this is a necessary evil that has to exist for society/the economy to work properly. I find it pretty undemocratic and unjust that the government has forces me to make payments to it (ie. taxes). That doesn't mean it's "corrosive" to a democratic/free/just society.
I just picked up Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. When he wrote it, television was the attention magnet. It might be an interesting companion book to Lost Focus.
I think crypto is consistent with his view. He regrets building something that lets massive corporations control culture, and he pines for the past where discussion took place in decentralized forums. He views crypto as a solution to this problem. If someone sees a problem and tries to fix it, then that is not worthy of scorn.
This is what happens when you gradually drive away the reasonable people from any group - what's left is a combination of natural cultists and formerly reasonable-ish people who got railroaded into a cult without realizing it.
What's going on with the subject object verb agreement in the title? I see this format sometimes and it confuses me. Is the purpose of this format to convey something?
Stick to ONE project. A single one. Envision the end-goal and choose the project that best suits your skills and life goals.
Yep, pretty much.

I'm really disappointed in the way the HN crowd seems utterly unable to see beyond "it's free speech!" when it comes to situations like this.
I'm a bit surprised the autoplay attribute - at least how it's been used for <audio> and <video> hasn't been similarly consigned to the dustbin of history.

What is taking so long? /s

(Only a bit of sarcasm there, I actually would like to know...)
Sound like literal translation from German
Can the horrendous cookie banner by the EU be rolled back?
It is a failed experiment and has made the web a far more irritating place.

Is there any chance of it being rolled back? Or are we going to live with this monstrosity forever?
`Just look at the tax law of California, I wouldn’t own a house there either.
For your purposes EVs are not crap.

For lots of purposes EVs ARE crap.

For example my neighbor's job involves driving specialized supplies to a number of retail outlets every day. It's a very niche business that involves pickup truck and 8 or more hours of driving to do the deliveries.

If he was to try to use a EV it would result in unemployment.

The reason EVs haven't caught on more isn't because everybody but you is stupid.

Electic motor technology is fantastic. Battery technology is miserable.

And the reason we don't see "breakthroughs" every month, except those that involve press releases and nothing else, is because ideas and chemistry is cheap. It's easy to get patents. What is hard is actually manufacturing.

Taking an idea that works theoretically in a lab versus making it work in reality as a commercial product is similar to learning logging down the street the first time versus winning an olympic medal.

In terms of technology what we have now is really just a series of incremental improvements over technology released in the 1990's. The rare earth magnets, the computer control of motor phases, the lithium batteries are all stuff designed for portable Japanese consumer electronics. It's just been supersized and refined for EVs.
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https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/52596/proper-usa...

Lots of discussion around the phrase origin there.

Possible "original":

> the archetypal phrase is "One swallow does not summer make".
> I can get 1920x1080 at 60fps from it.

No, you can't. It's not just MJPEG, it's internally downsampled to less than 1920 pixels of effective horizontal resolution, even though it technically spits out 1920 pixels via USB. It'll do true 1280x720 though (still with MJPEG). You're also going to get stereo audio on Linux with recent kernels only because I sent in a patch to make that work - due to a hardware bug, it advertises itself as 96kHz mono, so Windows and macOS will give you that (which is actually 48kHz stereo with both channels interleaved, but they couldn't advertise it as such because it does not correctly handle packet boundaries in a way that'd be spec-compliant for stereo audio).

Welcome to the wonderful world of Chinese HDMI capture cards. These particular little dongles are all using MacroSilicon MS2109 chips. Cheap and okay-ish for some use cases, but don't expect a high quality capture card or raw uncompressed video at this price point.
A public company needs (endless) growth, it's the only reason to own stock.

Growth in social media means attracting more users and/or increasing engagement of existing users. Civil and reasonable discourse is bad for engagement numbers, outrage and extremism do much better.
There are two types of people in the world:

1. Who blog about how bad a 11,000 line project is

2. Who shipped the 11,000 line project
Seeing J at the top was indeed a jump up and down moment.
How to find time to code regularly (2021)
In a fleet of 100,000 machines, there will always be some clear failures... When the machine has 2x the number of segfaults of any other machine in the fleet, you send it for repairs and someone replaces the motherboard, ram and CPU... easy!

But the painful ones are the 'subtle' failures. Why does machine PABL12 sometimes give NaN as a result while all 99,999 machines return sensible numbers? But all the burn in hardware tests pass...

The solution was to simply exclude any machines that were outliers. Anything in the top or bottom 0.01% for any metric simply exclude that machine from future workloads.

Sure, in most cases there was nothing wrong with the hardware, but when you're spending hours debugging some fault caused by a sometimes-bad floating point unit on one core of one machine out of 100,000, you're just wasting your time. By auto-banning outliers, the machine will end up doing some other task where data consistency matters less.
I played the original and likewise like it. I think it adds a nice twist to the old familiar levels I fondly remember from the past. I don't think its mind blowing or anything but it seems like a fun new "flavor" to try.
I think you understood my comment as almost the opposite of what I wanted to say. My point is that if US security concerns were a valid reason to oppose Soviet missiles in Cuba, then by the same standard Russian security concerns are - or at least can be - a valid reason to oppose an Ukrainian NATO membership or at least an unrestricted placement of NATO assets in Ukraine.

Or the other way around, you can not easily argue that the USA can decide whether or not Cuba can have missiles and at the same time argue that Russia has absolutely no say in what kind of NATO assets end up in Ukraine. And to be even more specific, I am not arguing that both can not be true at the same time, they are not identical situations and all the small differences might add up and make a difference.

But this is something one has to make a case for, Ukraine is a sovereign state and decides for itself whether or not it joins NATO doesn't cut it, at least in my opinion. Or pick the other side and argue that Cuba should have been allowed to host missiles and the USA was wrong preventing this, which probably will imply that Russia or China should be allowed to place missiles in Cuba today.
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In WWI the horse was far more reliable than any mechanical vehicle. Armor was useful enough that WWI had a few tanks, but they broke down often. WWII was just enough later that mechanical vehicles were reliable enough to use - but only if you had new ones, if you were doing like Russia is in Ukraine now and running anything old you were in for problems.
By focusing.
Way back I recall (ab)using chunked encoding to do something similar. Now there's an underexploited element of HTTP...
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I was about to disagree with you until I read the part where you are using terraform with k8s. IaC starts breaking down once you start using k8s - especially if you are using a flavor like EKS that is both kubernetes but is also its own IaC platform.
> and they become less poor afterwards.

This doesn't happen when you're paid subsistence wages, which sweatshop workers are. It's exploitation of the poor, pure and simple - there's no trickle-down economics in play, they just get to stay poor but alive while the goods they make are sold to wealthier countries.

It would be really nice if free markets played out the way free market advocates say they do, but they don't.

> But the way it will play out, means that there's always a gradient of relative "conditions"

Personally, I'd rather we lived in a meritocratic system where hard work and innovation benefits the individual responsible, and everybody earns the value of their work. I don't like the idea of a perpetual underclass based on characteristics unrelated to personal capability, like nationality or race.
I suffer (or should I say experience) the same. I read a book that unfortunately didn’t help the problem, but it did help me to accept who I am or at least my tendencies/skills/weaknesses.

It’s called Refuse to Choose by Barbara Sher. She labels people like this as “scanners”. I’m not in the camp of reducing the dimensionality of humans to a single bucket/category but the description of what she calls a scanner really, really resonated with me.

I’ve found that I do start many many things and finish very few that I don’t need to. This is largely in my extracurricular time. At work and for work, I can finish things that I need to. The one takeaway from the book that helped me is this:

Maybe when you walk away from a project, you already got what you were looking for.

Maybe you already learned the thing that you wanted to learn and finishing the project wouldn’t do much more for you. And in some cases, I really believe this. For example, I always start little tech projects and I wanted to build a little audio modem in python to understand how digital modulation worked for old dial up modems. I got about 30% in and quit because at that time I had already learned quite a bit about how modulation works and finishing the project was really not interesting to me.
The interesting part to me was the learning, not the finishing.

I’m always looking for similar people to chat to about this. Feel free to reach out. Email in profile.
I use the Chrome extension https://github.com/schmich/marinara and have been since November 22.

It hadn't worked for me previously because I thought it would be too much conscious effort, and I wanted a solution that would trick me into focusing.

However, I realized that many people, myself included, probably don't even get ~2hrs of focused work in a day (2hrs is a ballpark figure, no data to prove it).

Since then, I set timers of 25 minutes in which I'd just focus on what I'm supposed to do, and even though the first 15 minutes I drift off, thinking about something else, after a certain point the work that's in front of me is all I'm thinking about and I'm focusing effortlessly.

There are instances where I'm not focused, and I keep looking at the timer and waiting for it to get to 0. This is also great, since I still consider it somewhat productive that I stuck to just trying to do the work, instead of watching stuff on YT or browsing HN. This builds a little bit of self confidence.

The way I try to think is "I don't care what happens, unless it's a major emergency, I'm not letting anything distract me until this timer reaches 0".

I notice that the fact that I know a break is coming is very important tome. If break time wasn't involved, then I'd dread the whole experience because it wouldn't have any finality.
Almost every speed limit is set lower than it should be, presumably to maximize revenue instead of maximizing safety. Until this changes, I want enforcement of speed limits to be poor.
Yes, we can make GPU programs that render vector images this way, but they tend to be slower than an equivalent CPU program. Branches are not the problem, GPUs handle those just fine now actually. The problem is duplicated work. GPUs have cores that are individually much, much slower than a CPU, but make up for this by having lots and lots of them running in parallel. Having those cores all run the same serial interpreter does not give you increased parallelism, so the result is slower.

Designing algorithms for the GPU requires rethinking your dataflow and structure to exploit the parallel nature of the GPU. GPUs are not just a "go fast" button.
pmuch this. My experience is specifically devices/MDDS, but Facebook style “We are not actually doing what we say we do publicly” [0] is one of the biggest sins possible.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-files-xcheck-zuckerber...
You can get extended security updates. They cost money, but there's ways around that, and Microsoft probably won't audit your 3 PCs. For a business though, yes you'd better pay or upgrade.
The average amount of time a person has been taught by a professor is a tiny tiny portion of the individual person education. It would be interesting to see a number for it, but I suspect its significant less than 0.1% of all the hours that the average person spend in the education system. Professors are under-represented in the education system.
I have aphantasia and I'm doing a PhD in math.

I draw on paper when I'm trying to visualize something, but the area I work in is quite abstract and very often the images are huge oversimplifications that give some intuition, but on which one shouldn't rely too much.

I agree that the suggested method doesn't sound like a good approach at all to me
At a surface level programming is about coding which is like solving puzzles. But in actual application it is critical to apply a sense of judgement regarding subtleties. Which bugs are actually most important to address? When is a change enough of a fix and what more might be done to make a change the right one, possibly by making other related changes. Reducing the complex balancing act of producing usable and robust software to coding puzzles ignores the most important levels of valuable contribution.
If he somehow strong-arms the company into publishing their algorithms to github, that will quiet down all the haters
If you can set/ give consent via browser ui then the banner is obsolete. Unfortunately I’m not hearing any noises coming from that direction.

It’s not just for cookies btw.
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