skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
-- Limit your time on social media to 20 minutes or less a day (LinkedIn/Facebook/Discord use that's related to work is an exception.) No studies exist yet to support this hypothesis, but it's my observation that longtime exposure to social media impedes overall focus.

-- Limit your TV watching to one or two hours on the weekends, per week

-- Limit video game use to one or two hours per week

-- Find an activity you like to do "offline" that you can do regularly such as walking, yoga, biking, etc, and do that more often. It will clear your mind and bring you back to center

-- Wake up early and try to accomplish something significant before 8am

-- Be kind to yourself when you lose focus and gently redirect your mind back to your tasks. If you get off track for hours or an entire day, wake up early the next morning and put your best foot forward without dwelling on the day before.
Naming an Executor on one's will is standard but the responsibilities balloon when one expands the role to cover digital assets.

My password manager contains over 400 entries. Going through each one and requesting account closures from each individual site would take years.

I don't want to burden my loved ones with that chore.
What he is pointing out is the long history of doomsaying being wrong, because it implicitly depends on the assumption that technology has reached its peak and cannot further improve.

To get a real doomsaying argument, you have to base it not on details of current technology, but on hard physical limits that no technological improvement can evade. And it's really tough to do that. The population limit for Earth based on pure thermodynamics is somewhere around 1 trillion people.

> Our ever increasing population and consumption will cause the price of energy and materials to increase as the low-hanging fruit is picked.

This appears to be wrong. Population growth is inexorably declining, and with renewables charging hard energy prices are going to be declining, not increasing.
Bank accounts and other financial accounts are not considered digital assets.
I am sure they can find a way with tens of billions in quarterly revenue.
1. There is not only GBH, in our lands clopfelin is much more common for that goal.

2. Color analysis? Good luck on doing that. I really surprised it worked at least in lab conditions.
This one is easy. Just read the "Beginning of Infinity" from David Deutsche. Disguised as a physics book - it's not an easy read - this is the book on optimism.
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I just don't think it's very likely that Elon Musk spend billions buying a stake in twitter before he knew what he wanted to do with the company, especially since his view on free speech is already well known and goes far beyond even vocal free speech advocates.
It's sort of misleading because J is closed source
Do you get Lidl in Aus? In the UK, Lidl is like a low rent Aldi. Our Aldis are pretty good though.
Routine. Hard to focus if you do not have your daily schedule under control.
I was wondering why that would be the case and a quick google basically comes up with this:

> He was born in South Africa so he could never become President of the United States.

Didn't know that was a requirement. TIL :D
Sounds like a paid “amazon” review. lul
You know that it does not happen to 99,9% of their customers either? For some reason everyone here thinks they are a snowflake.
Disagreed. Look at the Polgar sisters for example.
Where were children sent that was unsafe? I don't understand your point.
If speed is deciding factor, then cases have to be written in descending order of likelihood.
Generally when your account is locked any complaint against that doesn't even touch customer service, but compliance department.
Video streaming is a bit different from "normal" TLS web serving. For video streaming the network is much more likely to be the bottleneck, but traditional TLS web serving tends to send a lot of fairly small packets, and saturating even 40gbe with small packets of TLS is non-trivial.

My experience is that at small (think less than 700 bytes or so) packet sizes, TLS overhead can be a very real cost as you scale up, and it's easy to hit "walls" where really you just need to buy more servers because the engineering cost of getting your servers to really saturate their NICs isn't worth it. How much of a big deal that is for you will depend a lot on exactly what sort of a thing you're serving, though.
NASDAQ. Or make an NFT of it.
> Ask HN: How do I develop focus?

Ask your shrink for a Vyvanse/Elvanse prescription.
Not storing cookies is already a feature of every major web browser, at least the desktop ones.
This is what they promise:

Gravimetric energy density ≥ 1’000 Wh/kg (Gen 4)
Volumetric energy density ≥ 1’500 Wh/l
Power capability ≈ 12.000 W/kg
Cycle life ≥ 1’000 at 1 C

More details here in in their blogs:
https://www.theion.de/
This has to do with commitment. What are you committed to?
In many OLTP systems, almost all work operates on multiple attributes of a single record. E.g., when logging a user in, an authentication system cares about multiple attributes of a single user record, not facts about the aggregate pool of users.

Column oriented stores are extremely efficient for aggregate queries, but they make writes and single-row reads more expensive and are thus not suitable for every workload. There's an excellent overview in Martin Kleppmann's Designing Data Intensive Applications.
It's easy to drop in Cython in an existing project where you need some performance, and start gradually "cythonizing" modules from the inside out. The rest of the code does not need to care.

With a bit of care (and benchmarking) you can get very respectable speed. The main drawback is that the further you go, the more C knowledge you need in order to not blast your own feet off.

If you're just after a bit more performance in general, a drop in solution like pypy might be enough.
The ownTracks docs for beacons is at [1,2], whereas there an open issue on the Overland repo suggesting something similar [3].

Getting a location [4] and detecting the presence and proximity of beacons [5] use different parts of the Core Location API.

[1]: https://owntracks.org/booklet/guide/beacons/

[2]: https://owntracks.org/booklet/features/beacons/

[3]: https://github.com/aaronpk/Overland-iOS/issues/93

[4]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corelocation/getti...

[5]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corelocation/deter...
They SPACd before launching a product? Jeez.
The title is “Congressman Massie’s homebrew powerewall built from a wrecked Model S”, not “Homebrew powerwall built from a wrecked Model S”.

Given that, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to discuss his politics?
I don't think the comparison is entirely fair since one of the main attractions of TS is that it runs in the browser. Python can unfortunately not fill the same role right now. So I'd keep that in mind while looking at that ranking. But yes, I see many people like it. Maybe I'm missing something, but it's still too JavaScript-y for me.
As no one mentioned it, I'll add golang and gorm to the mix. Only crud you say? If you need web, I recommend gin. Easy af.
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How else would you scale to meet peak demand without being wasteful?

Banking has a fairly predictable usage pattern, but there will be black swan financial events that cause 100-1000x load. On top of that, how else could you serve customers around the globe with reasonable latencies?

These are genuine questions. I’ll admit I’m an engineer whose entire career has been during the cloud era. I don’t see how cloud’s advantages of scaling and worldwide “edge” locations can be replicated by the average bank’s tech team.
It's ok to have a ton of ideas and to let most of them go before you finish the work. The important part is that you document the idea so that you at least have the opportunity to return to it in the future. By this, I mean using pen and paper in some type of journal/notebook that you can browse through either when you are at the computer or away from it. You can get some great spiral bound drawing notebook at the grocery store for $5 or less. When you fill one up with ideas, label it with the date range and/or ideas and stick it on the shelf. In my experience, it's a lot easier to rediscover ideas when they're documented on paper than when they're typed in a text file somewhere.
Jd has been around for a while. Buy is it production ready?

I'm still looking for an open source replacement to kdb, that matches kdb's speed and featureset.
J is fully opensource: https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource

Most of jd's source is publicly available: https://github.com/jsoftware/data_jd
Flask is what really got me in full stack web dev. Easy enough to start with and powerful enough for real products!

I can not recommend Miguel Grimberg’s Flask Mega-Tutorial[1] enough for beginners and novices. It is a bit more full stack focused, so if you are looking to use it for an API I’ve been maintaining a basic example [2].

1. https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/flask-mega-tutorial-upd...

2. https://github.com/StefanVDWeide/flask-api-template
It's that you're usually rasterizing much more complicated shapes than triangles in 2D, like polygons and curves and fonts with hinting (which is often actually implemented as Turing-complete byte code, not stuff that's easy to run in parallel entirely in the GPU).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_fonts#Type_2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_hinting

https://www.typotheque.com/articles/hinting
I have been unbanked and am not open to talking about it publicly at this time.
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You're rather contradicting yourself there. If it's not happening to 99.9% of their customers then we obviously are special snowflakes. Maybe you could think through your attempts at insults a bit better.
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I switched to UpCloud for this same reason... pretty good service btw.
Hey thanks for making a great email service!
Think that means the shares are options contracts. I don't think they own the underlying shares?
Agreed. I might add that for many people, the sunk cost fallacy, rather like the gambler's ruin, makes it very difficult for them to accept their losses and shut things down. Just one more night hacking, another SEO trick, one more HN post, etc. Hoping, hoping that things will turn around ... except in many cases they don't.
>his view on free speech is already well known and goes far beyond even vocal free speech advocates.

I don't follow him that closely, how so?
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Oh good grief.
But this is not necessary. The python developers just need to specify this fast subset of the language, and let people use to create libraries. Over time, we would have a growing set of libraries written in the fast subset.
Putin is on Twitter and yet many people have not left the platform. Logically what should you do?
I have a huge amount of funds on my bank account which is not accessible without a phone after last update of some software on their side. Maybe that account is not a digital asset but I do not want that funds to belong to my bank instead of my family just because of my unexpected death. That is definitely not an off-topic.
They promis price of around 30-40 EUR/kWh, because of:

Sulfur is an industrial byproduct – no harmful mining required. This drives material cost down to 0.20 EUR/kg (compared to state of the art cathode material NMC811 at 20.00 EUR/kg).

No NMC needed.

https://www.theion.de/
Virtual reality induces symptoms of depersonalization and derealization in trial
Edit: apologies, the way this is worded it looks like I’m recommending adhd meds - I’m recommending the doctor if this applies, not the drugs! See replies for more info :)

Ritalin for me but yeah turned out it was ADHD in my case

@op not diagnosing at all but if you find yourself not focused despite reward etc, worth looking into as a possibility.

For example I’ve got basically unlimited freelance work available at easily 5x my day job salary right now and I could definitely do with the cash.. can’t for the life of me find the motivation to do it. Check with a Dr if it’s that sort of thing! Anything occurring “despite consequences” should be double checked with a pro in my opinion

Something to note I’ve been told and have found myself that sometimes motivation comes after initial action. If there’s anything in there that can hold your attention or would be super easy to do, start on that. Try to keep a roll going from there until your engines fire up
I would say it is not knowledge leaking, most languages leak knowledge so that if you are not familiar with the language but you do know some other programming languages you can sort of figure out what they do.

But some languages do not leak knowledge in this way.

There is the concept of beauty in programming languages that the expression of an idea should be succinct. This J code might be beautiful, but unsure.
As someone starting with terraform literally this weekend, why did you move away?
These articles are somewhat misleading. For instance, the earlier one claiming blockchain scaling to be NP complete, is based on the following notion of scaling:

> The property we are going to look at is: reshuffling lists of ok-on-their-own transactions with a no-negative-balance requirement into a single merged list where the maximum number of possible transactions go through.

They key word being "maximum". So they just equated scaling with an optimization problem. It's well known and not surprising that optimization problems are NP hard.

I wouldn't even call this a scaling problem, since scaling is not about how to order things, but how to support higher transaction rates with fewer resources.

Sharding is similarly defined as some assignment problem that is divorced from sharding practice by requiring that all of a given list of transactions is assigned to shards while satisfying certain constraints.

It would be more appropriate to title these articles as
"Optimal Scaling is NP-hard" / "Optimal Sharding is NP-hard".

In practice, one just uses some efficient, usually greedy, algorithm to find near optimal solutions.
Funny, I'd say reality has a way of existing despite all of the comforting woo people like to make up about it.
Since we already have a media oligarchy we can't get rid of, maybe it'll help to inject some new blood into it. I don't think Musk has the right answers, but maybe we can hope he won't be copying from Murdoch's homework. Remains to be seen, I suppose.
You'll find focus when you're doing something you really enjoy. Keep looking.
Use latex.

I've re-created a 1.2 million line program as a literate program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_(computer_algebra_system...
Isn’t that some kind of Adderall, and/or targeted towards people with an attention disorder?
They are the actual inspiration for my blog post against microservices 2 years ago (https://blog.matthieud.me/2019/microservices-considered-harm...).

At least, they've only added 500 microservices in 2 years (not even 1 per day, how sad!)
No more VPN. Using Cloudflare Tunnel to manage access to a self-hosted server
A blue connector does not USB 3.0 make
> He tweeted about this before buying.

He tweeted about it after he'd bought the stock but before that knowledge was public, which I think is further proof that Musk is somewhat disingenuous.
this is a pretty dumb idea. Suppose it happens, that'll simply give power to the programmer community to shove their algorithm, whatever they come up with, down everyone's throat. The key issue isn't that the algorithm is close source but it's a single algorithm.

People should be able to customize the algorithm (aka make their own algorithm). As long as that is possible and the options are clear, no one cares if it's open source or not.
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No we are not running out of resources

Are we wasting resources? yes
> I don’t think they should be ‘separated from each other’. What I meant was that they have diff social roles and different strengths/weaknesses. We shouldn’t be competing with those who are unequal to us. However, not competing doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t cooperate.

Some women want to compete with men in the workplace, the academy, wherever. Besides, men are not equal to other men. Nor are women.

> The reason I brought up the example of healthcare is because that’s the most egregious injustice against women. Because of women’s biology and the primary care taking role they adopt(and are good at..), our healthcare needs are different. And yet..women are not taken seriously when they complain of pain and are always under prescribed pain meds. They are not believed if they explain their symptoms.

Most new doctors are women. Going forward, I think you're going to have a hard time blaming this on men doctors.

> It’s worse in the USA by all accounts Altho I don’t have first hand healthcare experience in other countries(well..other than india and UK). And yet, we are supposed to be peers with men who never go through half the illnesses or conditions we experience. Doesn’t quality of healthcare and health condition and mental well being affect how people work? How are we ‘equal’ to men?

Women have better immune systems than men and live longer.

> So we come to pregnancy, PMS and menopause…all of which have been caricatured that many women feel like they shouldn’t complain. We are reduced and clubbed under the label of ‘ menstruating persons’ and ‘birthing people’. And these are official terms. Slowly our dignity and our identity is being erased.

These are bizarre neologisms invented 5 minutes ago and used by a tiny group of people. I agree that they're grotesque but there's no reason to think they're going to catch on.

> P.S: I would have appreciated your words if you didn’t call my comment ‘deranged’. I am less inclined to take someone seriously when their evaluation of my words is needlessly rude. Perhaps choose your words and consider if it comes across as an insult. Thanks.

Sorry for "deranged" but you said men and women are different species. That's an extremely odd thing to say.

> ETA P.S2: In a forum that had an equal or higher split of male: female ratio unlike this testosterone heavy HN, my comment wouldn’t have been flagged. Or called ‘deranged’. There would have been at least some curiosity and a discussion even if there were some who would disagree.

Your post would be flagged almost anywhere on the internet. Most online spaces dominated by women would consider your views about trans people to be hate speech (I don't).

I agree with you that men and women are not the same. But under the law, we are treated the same. This creates all sorts of conflicts. I don't know how to solve these conflicts, and equality under the law seems indispensible. I think we just have to live with an imperfect arrangement and I would point out that women aren't on the losing end of every conflict.
What about slander and libel laws or laws about claims made in advertisements?
I checked the top 6 and 5 of them appear to be vaporware without a real product. To be fair, they're working on hard products, but I wonder if the model is selecting for that. According to the announcement[0] 29% of the batch were accepted with only an idea, so I guess that's not surprising.

Slightly off topic, but I thought it was interesting that 29% of the batch has just an idea while 10% had more than $50k of monthly revenue when accepted. Given they all get the same deal, it would be wild to build out a business that's making a 600k+ a year and get the same terms as two guys with an idea. Seems to go very against everything I read from YC about validation and product market fit, but I guess it's good if they can get away with those terms. That is of course if you're doing a real business rather than MoviePass model (selling $10 bills for $5).

Is there anywhere I can get a breakdown of the companies that fall into these categories?

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-yc-winter-2022-bat...
Putin is on Twitter. Logically, should you have found another alternative on Feb 23rd 2022 and not some hypothetical time in the future?

Or is this not about rationality?
Not Monzo, but I have a friend who works at a large global bank HQ in a mid-senior position.

They do remote desktop connection into their PC at the office. The work laptops given to them can't connect to anything but the PC in the office(so, it's merely a thin client). A fingerprint reader device connected through the USB port and a physical device for generating single use codes are used in addition to username/password.

At the start of the pandemic they used their own laptops to VPN into the work network and then connect to the remote desktop but not too much later they switched to complete solution.

I know this because I helped with troubleshooting connection issues. Does look quite secure to me, the only difference to an office environment security seems to be the possibility of an intruder to make an employee do something at a gunpoint.
JIRA is the worst piece of software around. Everytime I watch is load (seemingly forever) just to update a ticket, I feel a little more sad.

Usually I get distracted and end up on YouTube.
But Kazakhstan is already very well aligned with the West. In many areas its policies are more westernized than these of Ukraine. It also has the economy to apply these policies to. It's just realistic about needing to be reasonably polite with Russia, its largest neighbour and biggest trade partner, while minding its own business.

Is there an example of a "successful" color revolution which brougt democracy and prosperity, instead of bringing Russian tanks and more coups de etat? You are exactly right - if one of these happens in Kazakhstan, RIP Kazakhstan. It's too complex of a country already.
EGA cards were truly funky beasts. There was a "64 color" stunt where you could switch the 16 color palette fast enough to have up to 4 different palettes visible on screen at once.

There were fringe flavors of compatibles, with extra capabilites. 400 scanline modes that enabled 43 and 50 lines text modes hover in my memory.
See much more details here:

https://www.theion.de/
As a former Barclays customer I can confirm this. Last year I changed from self-employed to limited company and changing my business account at Barclays proved to be impossible despite always previously being in credit with no issues at all. I was able to open a monzo business account in less than 20 minutes.

This, I should add, at a time when there was a high incidence of fraud with people trying to open business accounts for dormant and non-existent companies simply so they could claim Govt backed loans where it was clear that very few checks were actually being carried out.