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What devotees of sadomasochism do to their bodies is nothing compared to the torments that those addicted to the news and political commentary inflict on their minds almost every hour of the day. Ask HN: Is it just me? why is “news” so addictive? | Hacker News

Very few people tend to look at the mind as a system, and also seem to ignore that depression, anxiety, panic disorders, etc. happen for a reason. The reason why modern humanity have increased risk of these symptoms is because they know, given their perhaps wrongly learned models of the world or otherwise, that even when they achieve their so-called life goals, that they wouldn’t achieve philosophical nor psychological satisfaction that they seek. Their mind has predicted the conclusion of their efforts, and the conclusion lies far below what they seek. Thus the mind desperately attempts to re-understand, re-configure, and re-model the world to achieve its goals. Perseverance Toward Life Goals Can Fend Off Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorders | Hacker News

Are employees paid a proportional amount to the value they bring to their organization? I would say no. I do not believe every talented European is 40% as capable as the average developer in the US. I do not believe that the same software engineer that made $10k in India, suddenly brings 10x as much value due to a 1 year masters, once they move to the US. Ask HN: Should a remote employee’s salary be tied to their physical location? | Hacker News

New repository: aquilax/renamed - Renamed - use your favorite text editor to mass rename files

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world? | Hacker News

When people are born, they all start good, but even though they all start out about the same, you ought to see them after they have had time to become different from one another by picking up habits here and there!". Translation Dr. Linebarger, aka Cordwainer Smith Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world? | Hacker News

Geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck in it. Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay Geography is only physics slowed down and with a... - Quotes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld Books

When in challenging or sad situations it's only reasonable to be grumpy, or pessimistic or what have you. Negative emotions or feelings are part of our natural range and appropriate depending on the cirumstances. Forced positivy to me always has something ghoulish, Truman-show like. It pays to be grumpy and bad-tempered (2016) | Hacker News

The benefits of being attractive are exorbitant. Beauty might be the single greatest physical advantage you can have in lif The Greatest Privilege We Never Talk About: Beauty | by Saeid Fard | Jul, 2020 | Medium

Basically all current social media ends up optimizing for creating outrage, spawning mobs, less thoughtful discussion and more vitriolic arguments, etc. PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN | Hacker News

Being right in a relationship doesn't count for much. Even if you are objectively correct, relationships are about helping the other person live their life. All partners in a relationship compensate for the other's shortcomings. That is one of the benefits of a relationship. Beware of Being “Right” | Hacker News

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. . . . An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth. The machine learning community has a toxicity problem | Hacker News

This is one of the major life-lessons I've taken away from card games, summarized by Captain Jean Luc Picard: "“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.” Recruiting Is Poker – Not Chess | Hacker News

Have we forgotten what a "degree" actually means? When you receive a diploma, it just means some institution is willing to attest that you have achieved some sort of qualification. A 28-year-old with no degree becomes a must read on the economy | Hacker News

Diversity at all costs: except diversity of opinion. Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech | Hacker News

Part of the wisdom of meditation lies in the following: There is baggage we all carry, the self, this belief we're the center of it all, the author of (and subservient to) our own thoughts. How do I stop doing what makes me unhappy, if that's "who I am"? But, in reality, I can abandon "who I am" and find new processes of living and new ways of thinking about the world. A researcher on how to live a happy life | Hacker News

When I read this I see a a niche, super premium hardware company that managed to acquire tens of thousands of customers by word of mouth. Not only that, their customers are all in-effect self employed or small businesses with huge average revenue per employee. They manage global supply chains, intense competition, all while taking on and managing huge legal/compliance risk. How is is that supposedly "dumb," criminals can do this, and yet many of us are stretching our intellectual capacities to learn new technologies and maths, developing our nth stupid app, trying to achieve a fraction of the customer traction and revenue that street thugs manage to do every day. Are these people much smarter than average, or does it mean that if you sell something people actually want, literally nothing else matters about your intelligence, education, character, background, or anything at all. When I read these drug stories, it just reinforces for me that growth solves everything. You can succeed with a crew of violent, drug addicted idiots whose only reliable characteristic is short term thinking, and who spend half their time in prison if you have product market fit. What I'm beginning to think is that the "smarter," people are in a company, the less anyone will want their product. It's like the success of a venture is inversely proportional to the number of ostensible geniuses it employs. reply How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime | Hacker News

The social status of computer scientists is zero. Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017) | Hacker News

the Stainless Steel law: “the better designed the impact assessment of a social program, the more likely is the resulting estimate of net impact to be zero.” The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules · Gwern.net

The Iron law: “The expected value of any net impact assessment of any large scale social program is zero” The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules · Gwern.net

All infra teams eventually become platforms. All product teams eventually become experiences. When viewed negatively this is called scope creep. I don't know what it's called when viewed positively but I expect the word "holistic" to be used unironically. The Rise of Platform Engineering | Hacker News

I believe trauma instills scientific-type knowledge that is factually false but locally adaptive. False beliefs need more protection to be maintained than true beliefs, so the belief both calcifies, making it unresponsive to new information, and lays a bunch of emotional landmines around itself to punish you for getting too close to it. This cascades into punishing you for learning at all, because you might learn something that corrects your false-but-useful model. Emotional Blocks as Obstacles to Learning | Hacker News

You waste years not being able to waste hours Crossing the ocean of my ignorance

nothing in psychology makes sense except in the light of individual-differences May 2020 news · Gwern.net

Doing technically brilliant work may be enough for your personal gratification, but you should never think it's enough. If you lock yourself in a room and do the most marvellous work but don't tell anyone, then no one will know, no one will benefit, and the work will be lost. You may as well not have bothered. For the world to benefit from your work, and therefore for you to benefit fully from your work, you have to make it known. Sell Yourself Sell Your Work

Scrum is a way to take a below average or poor developer and turn them into an average developer.It's also great at taking great developers and turning them into average developers. Leave scrum to rugby, I like getting stuff done | Hacker News

Upgraded ubuntu to focal

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. — Claude Shannon, 1948 A brief introduction to the beauty of Information Theory

7 helpful tips on how to be miserable: 1. Stay still. 2. Screw with your sleep. 3. Maximize your screentime. 4. Use your screen to stoke your negative emotions. 5. Set vapid goals. 6. Pursue happiness directly. 7. Follow your instincts. this isn't happiness™ (7 helpful tips on how to be miserable, Brandon...), Peteski

Cities are meant to stop traffic. That is their point. That is why they are there. That is why traders put outposts there, merchants put shops there, hoteliers erected inns there. That is why factories locate there, why warehouses, assembly plants and distribution centers are established there. That is why people settle and cultural institutions grow there. No one wants to operate in a place that people are just passing through; everyone wants to settle where people will stop, and rest, and look around, and talk, and buy, and share. Cities Are Meant to Stop Traffic

The 4-Second Workout. Intense bursts of exercise throughout the day may have surprising metabolic benefits. The 4-Second Workout - The New York Times

It’s bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.   — John Sweeney “Money laundering is a very sophisticated crime and we must be equally sophisticated”*… | (Roughly) Daily

New repository: aquilax/flash-cardon - Flash Cardon - browser extension to help with learning new languages by reading web pages

Cows make milk. They milk themselves. Other cows check the milk (for free). Cows - get this - PAY THE FARMER to take the milk away. Then the farmer (you won't believe this, honestly) sells the milk back to the cows. Sometimes the farmer lets the cow drink a tiny bit of its own milk. The farmer calls it 'longstanding commitment to Open Access'. What Is a Sustainable Path to Open Access? | Hacker News

If powerful forces consistently push us toward premature exploitation, we should almost always be biased towards exploring more. The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation - LessWrong 2.0

The world is an incredibly complex place and everything is changing all the time… trying to plan your career is an exercise in futility that will only serve to frustrate you, and to blind you to the really significant opportunities that life will throw your way. The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation - LessWrong 2.0

Hence venture capitalist Marc Andreesen’s first rule of career planning: don’t. The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation - LessWrong 2.0

Babies love putting things in their mouths: dirt, insects, bits of grass, their own poo. They have no sense of fear or self-preservation, and come up with endlessly creative ways to place themselves in mortal peril. Once they learn to talk, their constant experimentation with the world transcends the physical to the philosophical. They want to know everything. They are bottomless pits of curiosity, with very little in the way of attention span or self-discipline. Your typical two-year-old can only concentrate on a task for six minutes at a time. Young children are not self-aware enough to feel much in the way of shame, or embarrassment. Nothing is off-limits. The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation - LessWrong 2.0

Always demand a deadline. A deadline weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. It prevents you from trying to make it perfect, so you have to make it different. Different is better. The Technium: 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice

"Lazy" is just another way of saying that you're not doing something somebody else thinks you should be doing. Ask HN: How do I overcome mental laziness? | Hacker News

Should read `man bash`

One reason why the world is in a mess is because, for a long time, the ratio between 'explore' and 'exploit' has been badly out of whack. Entities like procurement have been allowed to claim full credit for money-grabbing cost-savings without commensurate responsibility for delayed or hidden costs. The Illusion of Certainty | Hacker News

New repository: aquilax/rssarchiver - RSS archive command line tool

Most people think of “evil” as being synonymous with “malicious” and “doing really, really bad things.” But I have a broader view of “evil.” I consider a thing to be evil if it creates bad outcomes not just out of malice, but instinct or carelessness. Peep Show – The Most Realistic Portrayal of Evil Ever Made – Dormin

The tragedy of domestic cats is their minds are as rigid as their bodies are flexible. Cat Psychology & Domestication: Are We Good Owners? · Gwern.net

Suffering is all the more cruel when those suffering do not & cannot understand why. Cat Psychology & Domestication: Are We Good Owners? · Gwern.net

If you don’t rephrase something in your words, you probably don’t care enough to learn it How to Take Smart Notes :: Up and to the Right — Jonathan Borichevskiy

New repository: aquilax/bookmarks - Netscape Bookmark File Format Parser Library

Updated ubuntu works fine so far

It is amazing what one can accomplish if one does not care who gets the credit. -- JohnDoveIsaacs Egoless Programming

Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward? First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God's delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness and newness of each leaf and each snowflake. Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is not essentially different from the child's first clay pencil holder "for Daddy's office." Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning. The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate. Fourth is the joy of always learning, which springs from the nonrepeating nature of the task. In one way or another the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something: sometimes practical, sometimes theoretical, and sometimes both. Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly re- moved from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. (As we shall see later, this very tractability has its own problems.) Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? | Hacker News

When someone dies, you lose the memories they have of you, and you lose the part of your identity that was external to you, and kept within that person. When someone dies, you lose the memories they have of you. - memory loss death | Ask MetaFilter

New repository: aquilax/pogovorki.rimichka.com - Guess the proverb

You can just say that a person it a slave to the extent of their desires/attachments. You're a Slave to Money, Then You Die | Hacker News

"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water." You're a Slave to Money, Then You Die | Hacker News

If you want to know what an institution does, watch it when it’s doing nothing “If you want to know what an institution does, watch it when it’s doing nothing”*… | (Roughly) Daily

This is management porn. Faster, cheaper, better - pick all three and throw in an extra, and you unlock innovation! Fire Method: Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant | Hacker News

#tough-conversation

Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly without ego. Asking questions - Aaron's Blog

Record decisions #todo

In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website add content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk. 1% rule (Internet culture) - Wikipedia)

Happy Bring Your Work To Cat Month! The cat pictures will continue until morale improves | MetaFilter

- Eat a banana before singing to help improve vocal quality How I recorded an album on my own, in my room | Hacker News

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there’s nothing to learn “A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there’s nothing to learn”*… | (Roughly) Daily

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization. “I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”*… | (Roughly) Daily

#til https://www.edelweiss.plus book catalog platform

Willys was alf empty today from stocks and surprisingly packed with people

Pattern matching for JavaScript z-pattern-matching/z: Pattern Matching for Javascript

While not disagreeing with your point, it is also worth noting that in some contexts developers are regarded as unemployable if they don't have experience with whatever the latest technology is so it is hardly surprising that people use every opportunity they can to get exposure to the latest tools. Overthinking it and the value of simple solutions (2019) | Hacker News

When the emotion becomes too strong for speech, you sing; when it becomes too strong for song, you dance.” PBS: Think Tank: Transcript for "The American Musical, Part 2"

6% salary increase this year is worse than 3% last year

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure — Goodhart's law as phrased by Marilyn Strathern The Original Sin of Software Metrics (2014) | Hacker News

Use dhall for package.json #idea

Ringelmann Effect: Members of a group become lazier as the size of their group increases. Based on the assumption that “someone else is probably taking care of that.” 100 Little Ideas · Collaborative Fund

System Justification Theory: Inefficient systems will be defended and maintained if they serve the needs of people who benefit from them – individual incentives can sustain systemic stupidity. 100 Little Ideas · Collaborative Fund

Depressive Realism: Depressed people have a more accurate view of the world because they’re more realistic about how risky and fragile life is. The opposite of “blissfully unaware.” 100 Little Ideas · Collaborative Fund

Have to renew my Swedish ID Card #todo

Should try i3 with xfce combo. Maybe at work #idea

Simple imput device which is seamless to carry around. The iWatch is the closest I can think of right now, but it tries to do too much. #idea

Geting screenshots from video element seems to be relatively easy

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. (Brian Kernighan) dwmkerr/hacker-laws: 💻📖 Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful. #hackerlaws

Join subs using infra sound from master's device #idea #spotify-family

Why I work here game with your manager #idea

Today, workers change jobs on average every 4.2 years, according to a recent report on employee tenure from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Why You Should Change Jobs Every Four Years | Monster.com

Berlin...divides writers and thinkers into two categories: hedgehogs, who view the world through the lens of a single defining idea , and foxes, who draw on a wide variety of experiences and for whom the world cannot be boiled down to a single idea . Turtleocracy | Hacker News

Added double log to the diary maybe that would be easier to maintain than creating daily files

📚 Finished reading All These Worlds (Bobiverse, #3) by Dennis E. Taylor

📚 Finished reading All These Worlds (Bobiverse, #3) by Dennis E. Taylor

New repository: aquilax/m3u-combine - Command line tool to combine multiple m3u playlists

📚 Finished reading For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2) by Dennis E. Taylor

📚 Finished reading For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2) by Dennis E. Taylor

📚 Finished reading We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1) by Dennis E. Taylor

📚 Finished reading We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1) by Dennis E. Taylor

New repository: aquilax/m3u-thumbnailer - null

New repository: aquilax/nano-neuron-go - Go adaptation of nano-neuron

📚 Finished reading Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It by Adam Savage

📚 Finished reading Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It by Adam Savage

📚 Finished reading 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think by Brianna Wiest

📚 Finished reading 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think by Brianna Wiest

New repository: aquilax/copy-annotation - Chrome extension or easy annotation copying from web pages