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IMO, this entire essay is misguided. There isn't anyone going around practicing Stoicism as it was practiced in Ancient Rome. Instead they take their psychological techniques (some of which are shared by Buddhism, Christianity, and cognitive behavioral therapy) such as the dichotomy of control and negative visualization and reject some of the other parts of the overall philosophy (mostly the metaphysics and similar).

Either those techniques works or they don't. If they don't work, then they should be abandoned for that reason. If they do work, the fact that Seneca had a disciple that turned bad as an adult or that Aurelius wasn't an abolitionist doesn't do anything to change that.

This is just the genetic fallacy in essay form.
Just a nitpick but you're making an etymological fallacy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymological_fallacy

The word "decimate" is explicitly mentioned in the article above.
One server may be 30 mins of your time. But whether that's cost efficient depends on your domain.

There's B2B work typically characterized by a low number of very high value transactions, so you run a few servers, and your math works out.

And then there are consumer services such as Instagram or Google maps or TikTok that see a huge amount of very low value requests that only contribute a small trifling in ad revenue. When your service needs to process millions of requests to pay for your service, your math no longer works out.

One of the beauties of modern computing is that our economies of scale enable us to deliver complex services such as Instagram etc at cost, for free. That's pretty amazing if you think of it, but engineers need to be very stingy for this to work out.
It's wild to me that to this day we still perpetuate the philosophical biases that originated with the early church, and as such everyone is familiar with Stoic and (Neo)Platonic philosophy, and yet very few people are familiar with the Epicureans.

A book like De Rerum Natura was talking about the quantization of light, survival of the fittest and the progression of now extinct 'freaks' of nature in the development of life, a universe that originated by atoms clashing randomly in the void. That rainbows were from light interacting with water vapor and that lightning and thunder might happen at the same time and just take different lengths of time to reach us.

And their philosophy for living a good life boiled down to self-knowledge, socialization with friends, and avoiding suffering.

They deserve far more credit than they got, and were effectively ignored throughout most of modern history because they saw a world that operated by its own laws and thus didn't see appeasement of gods as something to be concerned with.

The Stoics and Platonists with their perfect origin from which existence emerged by design was much more palatable to the church, and the group with the best understanding of the physical world in hindsight remains mostly a footnote, despite in antiquity (before the rise of the church) having been one of the major philosophical schools.
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I did it for ~6 months at some point where I was starting to get various digestive health issues to try and control my intake, having a rather love-hate relationship with food (I inevitably end up bingeing every time I try doing portion control).

I did 16/8, lunch and dinner so I could eat with the rest of the family. Worked quite well, lost a ton of weight without feeling like I had to do anything. The first couple of days I was starving by the end of the 16 hour break, but I got over it much faster than the constant feeling I need to eat something I get with portion control.

As you said, doesn't work well for everyone though. I'd guess that it maybe works for me cause of the ADHD, as I may still get to have those endorphin hits when eating something I like. I should probably try going back to it, now that we're talking about it...
Unattached action is the central message of epic Hindu text Bhagwad Gita.Two shlokas (verses) I find extremely comforting are [2.47] and [3.5].

Verse [2.47] says:

1) Only rightful action is in your control.

2) Fruits of your action is never in your control.

3) Give up the pride of doership .

4) Last but not the least do not get into inaction.

Verse 3.5 says:

No body can remain inactive even for a second. All living being have to act even to sustain their bodies.

Anyone interested in stoicism should also read it from a good translation.
I think if the GP had written something relevant about their personal experience in a scientific field, that would have been much more interesting, as well as not breaking the site guidelines.

The trouble with your argument "interesting people don't like censorship" isn't that you're wrong—it's that there are also a lot of people (many more, actually) who post dreck. If you want a forum that doesn't get overrun with internet dreck, you have to have some strategy for countering it. HN's strategy is to have a clear organizing principle (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...) and clear rules to support it (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). That barely works, but it's a lot better than nothing.
We are looking at a number of alternatives as well. A number of the common ones mentioned don't have feature parity with Heroku for larger apps (log drains to external logging services, CLIs, etc). Aptible looked pretty mature (they are trying to be Heroku, but for apps that need more security/compliance), and Platform.sh is intriguing as well.
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I think that kind of thing works better for magazines or journals, where coverage arrives more slowly but the analyses and writing are less redundant between publications (and sometimes even meaningfully unique).
> don't doxx yourself for work.

That’s a pretty cynical and paranoid outlook on life.
it is a catchy political news term with some kind of fuzzy meaning -- lots of readers did read it that way
Yep. The article points out "The stoicism that has become popular today draws on Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, three men living during the Roman Empire..." and discusses each. The same book I quoted has a similar sentence "The most important of the Roman Stoics—and the Stoics from whom, I think, modern individuals have the most to gain—were Seneca, Musonius Rufus, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius." Each of them gets a few pages of personal history, their refinements to or deviations from the Stoicism of their time, and how the two connect. I didn't want to post a ton of quotes to try to rebut every detail of the article, but you're right that I missed the opportunity to mention that's available as well.
Keep it as a cash reserve IMO. Save more.
Do Neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light?
I hypothesize that the Taliban had it right all along.

4x4 Toyota Hilux trucks with some sort of heavy gun + a fireteam of infantry kitted out with 1x drone, 1x manpad, 1x atgm.

Far cheaper than a modern tank and far more mobile.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War
Can’t you accomplish the same thing asynchronously via YouTube?
This is a genius idea, especially because it could be done anywhere with a hill, which makes it a lot more geographically accessible (since most places have hills)
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I think the author makes a strong point insofar as completely detaching ourselves from outcomes out of our control can't be done without lessening in some way our humanity. But the common human propensity is to be over-invested in external things that we can't control and that will not give us ultimate satisfaction, which is why Stoicism and other wisdom philosophies can be so appealing.

The question I would have for the author is, with what framework do you determine what is worth attaching to, worth grieving over?
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Not op, but I think it's more a case like this:

Folks who work on Chromium think little of those who wrangle wordpress themes
If the answer isn’t “exercise them” why are you working at the company?
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Somewhere in Southeast Asia like Bangkok? If you can handle the weather, living there is fun, convenient, cheap, and exciting for at least a while. Also good access to beaches and islands.
How long does the crew survive in a nuclear environment?

They still have to refuel the tank and find food.
Moving goalposts, much?

The environs of Hoover Dam are exactly as safe today as 10,000 years ago, and will reliably be as safe 10,000 years in the future provided no nukes blow up upwind or upstream.

Solar panels floating on the Hoover Dam reservoir will happily produce as much power as the dam at full tilt, with enough left over to pump water back up to it for overnight use, reduce evaporation enough that water drought will be substantially less problematic, and provide power for desalination besides.

Floating, water-chilled panels will last at least 50 years, by which time they will likely not be needed anymore.
Illegal for U.S. citizens to own or trade gold (1933 act)
Has anyone tried this: https://returns.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pages/result.html
Pilots get paid less for flying smaller planes.
It begs a question though: How many instructions in <insert ISA here> are equivalent? I assume that a compiler writer has a list of equivalents and will typically choose the shorter one?
as many open standards for interoperability as possible

I don't think that's a good idea. There's the xkcd 927 concern, since there are already long-established standards for a lot of things; and that brings me to what I think we really need, and that is stable standards. The longer a standard has been around unchanged, the more implementations will arise. On the other hand, the browser situation is a great example of what happens when some entity takes control of an "open" standard and then churns it endlessly. I think this is particularly true of programming languages, since they are foundational for everything else.
>EBS volumes are very expensive, AWS throttle your throughput unless you pay for provisioned IOPs

How does using local SSD instead of default EBS help achieve higher throughput though? I get it's cheaper and lower latency but I fail to see how the rebalance magic solves the throughput tradeoff for all unless they throw more ram at it.
Server is swamped... Hope to have things back online soon.
They have full right to do this. They are still scumbags for doing it.

Nobody should be terribly surprised when a giant corporation behaves like a scumbag; it's a fundamental feature of such organizations. We as individuals have the responsibility of shunning them when they do this.
You've been posting a lot of comments with tons of flamebait and little to no information. I don't think that's hard to understand, and if you keep doing it, we will ban you.

The answer to your last question is no.
The tone of the article is a little hard to take seriously given that the legacy media are mostly now admitting that a Ukrainian surrender is necessary and that all Russian territorial objectives are likely to be met.

The more interesting question is if having the US as a credible security partner has a future.
Yes the site got slashdotted... reached out to the ISP, should be back online soon.
Turns out it’s all just lisp macros, or at least it should be.
Particularly in the case of astronomy, citizen science is important. It probably won't give you an Annus Mirabilis, but might be satisfying.
Pity the developers who still have to support IE7 until October 2023 because it was included in Windows Embedded Compact 7 and Windows Embedded Compact 2013:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/internet...
If you didn't include 238U in your thorium breeder, the 233U that comes out will be usable in weapons (at least until enough of the 232U decays to present a gamma hazard.) And if you DO include 238U, you get plutonium.
I'm not all that fond of Stoicism, but this appears to be a recycled version of the same accusation that used to be leveled against Buddhism, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's based on the same misunderstanding. And as a progressive in the 21st century, it never occurred to me that interpreting Stoicism for myself would mean adopting the politics of long-dead Romans as my personal concept of "duty." Even with traditional religion it's considered weird and extremist to take that approach. For me, and for this author, a charitable reading of Stoicism would have to include compassion and activism in the concept of duty, similar to the ethical stance of engaged Buddhism.
Kary Mullis has some really weird beliefs, such as astrology and HIV denial. His work on PCR was brilliant but I wouldn't take medical advice from him.

That said, I think long-term antibiotics are appropriate if they help with symptoms. My dad developed an autoimmune reaction from long-term doxycycline though, so please do check in with your care team if you go the Farmacia route, at least for labwork.
This is something I've been hoping to see for a long time. I've long wanted a serverless postgres solution that would enable me to inexpensively put up a db and throw hasura on top of it.

I have a question about performance though. Let's say I have a table with millions of rows. Would it automatically scale to resources to get me sub second queries on it?

Ultimately that's what I desire in such a solution. Something that will let me throw whatever at it and will handle the scaling to keep whatever queries I throw at it fast.
The slices of reality you and I observe are just tiny parts of the whole picture. That is why we need data...
Here in Japan, A career only supports VoLTE because it stopped CDMA2000 3G network for obvious reason. An other career don't support 3G WCDMA network on 5G plans because it's inefficient and LTE coverage is good enough. An other career only have 4G/5G network because it started recently. 2G network is completely gone a decade ago because no one use GSM.
Wow! Nice to see Perl 6 in use these days!
I wonder if it can be integrated with iPlug2, since that is derived from Cockos' WDL framework (which iPlug2 is based upon)

Given that the code for both lives in the same github account, I am hoping for 'Yes'
That article was a good response.
Crypto is new and unknown for most people, and high risk-high reward. Lemonade stands are tried and tested, and most people understand them well.
I think a better analogy would be someone walking into a trap-house and buying drugs: they might have the high of their life, or they could get robbed. There are no regulations, so it is up to the individual to use their "street-smarts" to be successful. A person who gets robbed buying drugs or loses Crypto in a scam can be criticized, whether this is "victim blaming" or "being realistic" is just semantics.
All these talks are recorded and published on YouTube afterward so sure?

Not sure what you mean.
I wish, but consumer laws where I live allows Apple (and all other merchants) to refuse returns from day one unless it's a technical problem
FL Studio is already mentioned as application supporting CLAP
Some js code makes a popup window appear for user to enter a transaction address (like bank details) so they can clicky click on it. Then it shows those details to confirm.

Is that simple enough for a senior FAANG engineer?
I'm curious, what are the experiments we could run if we had for example 80% of the world's GDP?
You could shape the NFT in the form of a metal rod with notches on it. When placed inside a slot and turned, the car could validate that the right pattern of notches exist on the NFT and turn on.

If you want to sell the car, simply hand off the physical NFT to the new owner.
Once you realize that Wayland is essentially a GNOME project, it will all make sense. Take for example how windows have to draw their own decorations. That's a GNOME-ism.

If Wayland is the future of the Linux desktop, it would seem that there will be one true reference compositor (GNOME's Mutter) with a number of other projects struggling to adapt to the various gaps left by Wayland's incompleteness.

For example, screen sharing on Zoom works with GNOME Wayland but not the other compositors because it targets a GNOME API. If the Linux desktop starts to fracture, what's the incentive to bring support to your less common WM/compositor?
Because fundamentally as an employee you’re exchanging your life time for money.

Time and money are 2 core products in a traditional employment model. And we didn’t go far from this model
Not sure why you would use it over Cassandra, which scylladb last I checked was a C++ rewrite that had impressive initial feature releases but has since lagged in feature support badly.

I would migrate to cassandra first, and then prototype your workloads on scylladb. You'll want loadtest execution ability regardless so you can tune for your workloads.

I'd guess ScyllaDB and Cassandra are comparable for headaches. Our clusters never go down, but there's always SOMETHING to look at. But cassandra has more community and commercial support.
The linked article is about an immediate ancestor to the specific strain that caused the black plague. Your article is about a much more distinctly related strain and not super relevant in that context.

The authors are well-known experts on this particular disease and ancient DNA in general.
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Surely attackers could just make new wallet as soon as they are added to the blacklist? Unless making a new wallet and updating the script is difficult / expensive, a blacklist system would have pretty low benefit:cost.
> Inflation is happening on a global scale right now.

All major global economies have been printing money at unprecented rates last couple of years.
Can we build a Black Hole Bomb?
Can someone explain to me why stock options are better than RSUs?
I don't think that's what he's saying. He's saying the fact that it went down doesn't matter and you need to decide now would you invest that capital in that stock.
>many people would call me crazy for it

I wouldn't call you crazy. I think that settling for an amount that allows you to live the way you like and not asking for more is a sensible thing.

The only thing I am not ageeing with is being underpaid. If you can make 2x working full-time, why settle for x? It would be nicer to only work half the time and make x, if x is what you need. Time is at least as valuable as money, if not more.
I'm curious, why are they scumbags?

Aren't they free to decide how their time and effort is used? Do they have some inherent obligation to work for you for free(which is what open source is)?

If you develop some piece of software, and use the open core model, I wouldn't consider you a scumbag.
Not necessarily, but a common style recommendation is "avoid using the word 'black' to refer to anything negative or harmful" -- not because it is racist but because it might be misconstrued as such.
But why? Who wants to eat all that processed food when you can just have fresh food instead.
Different view: sell your old phone soon so you can get better second hand price.
There is a difference between paying for things directly with oil money and buying a diversified portfolio with oil money and using the profits from that portfolio to buy things.
Look at the people around SiFive and RISC-V at UC-Berkeley and look at the transistor guys at UMich. Both groups do lots of work that directly tapes out or works with companies who do. My digital logic prof at UMich took sabbatical to do a startup that netted him a bunch of money on… I forget the details now, but they did a smaller tape out to prove the concept before selling to Intel. It’s not that uncommon.
> LaTeX

> Remove the ability to distract yourself

I don't think I've ever been more distracted from writing than when I use LaTeX...
Not a single great person became great by reading books.

On the contrary, most of the great people I learned about were focused on producing, rather than consuming. Books too.

Even though some great people (like Franklin) emphasized the importance of reading and self education, barely I saw any particular books recommendations.
I think it did pretty decisively in the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
I did not miss it. My reply was to the parent post by s1artibartfast (nice HHGTTG reference), who said; "They are talking about the shares, which are already fully owned and liquid.

The question is to sell them and invest the cash somewhere better(??) or HODL."
Hadn't heard of that before, thanks for sharing I had to look it up. Many pseudo-sciences seem to do this to steal credibility.

For my downvoters, if you doubt what I said, take a look at this rambling incoherent mess that is this thread's comments.

No one can even describe our economy anymore due to the complexity, we have economic 'laws' that are no more than one person's opinion.

It's just a mess. I don't know what the solution is, but this ain't it.
The most interesting part of the blackest thing in the universe, surrounded by the second blackest thing?
It largely doesn't matter what the vast population of citizens wants, the various interest groups lobbied for their own things that all contributed what is going on. Regular citizens wanted policies that had consequential effects too, like housing, student loans and stimulus for example.

Finance was not a glamorous, high paid profession like Wall Street depicted before liberalization, it has only become what it is now after that, that is the change I am talking about. Most of the things that blew up either massively increased productivity or was adjacent to the financialization of the economy and benefited from the uneven expansion of the money supply via the Cantillion effect.
The same reason anything isn't automated: the developer estimates the cost of developing the system is higher than the potential upside. At some point, someone will add this functionality to their coin / platform because they think the potential upside will be worth it.
Is there some reason to think that the only way to get higher energy collisions is by scaling the accelerators? Is there any possibility that we may be able to get to higher energies with earth-scale experiments?
Naive convolution takes time proportional to the number of input samples multiplied by the length of the reverb impulse response (kernel), which becomes rather impractical for seconds-long reverb tails with >100k samples, convolved by ~50k samples per second. The usual solution is overlap-{add/discard} block convolution, where computational power decreases as the amount of input data processed at once increases (to a degree). But if you want short latency, you must process input data in small chunks, which increases CPU load. I think the trick of block convolution is to convolve the beginning of the reverb kernel in small chunks, and the later portions in large chunks (buffering small chunks of input into large chunks, convolving large chunks once available, and playing the result back in small chunks), and adding the two reverb tails (though I haven't fully studied or tried implementing it myself, and IIRC it's patented anyway).
Those are advantages, there also are disadvantages. That doesn't explain why it's obvious (nor address the HN bias/groupthink).