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Are 8 hour shifts healthy for patients? More handovers is strongly correlated with poorer patient outcomes. We need to strike a balance between the falloff in ability that comes with consecutive hours awake past a certain point, and minimizing handover.

Disabling JavaScript works for me. There's likely an extension for your web browser to do this easily.

It definitely made me appreciate the feeling of creating something along with other people much more. I don't feel 'bad' selling to others, to be honest it's probably a guilty pleasure to 'win', but it lacks the win-win feeling of creating value.

I've enjoyed trading a lot, but find that when I/others become consumed by it alone that it's a bitter existence. By avoid daytrading, and ensuring I'm not invested in anything that I'm forced to constantly worry about or check, it takes a long of the sting out.

Buddhist philosophy also has a strong focus on showing that arbitrary conventions shouldn't be taken too seriously, and that a great deal of suffering arises as a result of believing too strongly in useful fictions.

Nāgārjuna is one particularly impressive philosopher of the Madhyamaka school, a school which he set the groundwork for in his book Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Madhyamaka means middle way, a kārikā is a work composed of verses that concisely formulate some doctrine). There's a great translation and explanation by Mark Siderits and Shōryū Katsura if anyone is interested.

I think there are a lot of parallels with Wittgenstein's philosophy, and it speaks to Wittgenstein's genius that he was able to conceive of a similar philosophy largely independently.

I've totally cut out Reddit and other sites that have gotten increasingly low quality over the years. That said I do still regularly 'waste' time on HN, although I think it offers enough utility that it's not a bad place to relax for a while now and then.

One thing I've realized over the past few years is that it's almost impossible to get away from 'wasting' a fair few hours each day. It's a good idea to let yourself disengage and move into a more diffuse mode of thought instead of trying to hold your nose to the grindstone unnecessarily. It may be that the effective people you know are that way because of their willingness to take a extended breaks rather than in spite of.

Some seems a bit like Dirac notation with more horizontal lines. Seems overly complex for what it represents, however. They're not representing complex conjugates or integrals.

I love his descriptions of the different phenomena like symmetriads. One of the few books I've read that describes a truly alien intelligence. The often recommend Blindsight being the other one I can think of.

Steele's comments on open sharing of knowledge being the key to creation of vast amounts of wealth and prosperity rings very true to me. I think that this is at the crux of the impact of many 20th century innovations. Concepts like the transistor that can be relatively easily understood replicated and used in greatly enhancing the wealth and convenience of society at large.

The problem comes when the requirements for a technology entail a grand scale or immense expense, such that it's natural for those already resource rich to fence in 'innovation' and use it for the benefit of the few. I fear this will happen with AI if it requires a quantity and quality of data that only large corporations have access to for effective operation. Ensuring AI is truly open should be one of society's key objectives over the next 50 years. We need recognition that our data belongs to us collectively, and to disallow privatization of common value as has been the case with oil extraction and carbon emissions.

There's a big difference about making bold, broad claims about disrupting an industry, and lying about having developed a specific technology that is in actuality a complete fabrication. Even the most rampant bullshitters like Adam Neumann typically restrict their claims to mesmerizing future possibilities, rather than more specific claims about nonexistent sci-fi technology.

One interesting commonality they share is the willingness of established and powerful generals, bankers, and investors to champion their cause. It seems like the purest bullshitters have more backing from 'conventional' high status individuals than those with more weight to their claims.

I totally agree. There are still times you will need to investigate why something isn't working on linux. But the upside is when you do, there's almost always a way to make it work the way you want.

In stark contrast with Windows 10 which has had features like window snapping at edges when dragging something across the boundary between monitors that you just can't turn off. Or updates that seem to obey their own arcane rules instead of requiring a simple sudo [package-manager] [update-command]

I think there are many rights violated as a result of lobbying. Access to basic healthcare is curtailed in the name of profit, largely as a result of the power of lobbyists. I think this has a very large functional effect on the freedom of everyday people. Even if they have reasonable means they may be essentially forced to continue working for an employer who provides health insurance or risk personal financial ruin if poor health befalls them.

The power exerted by 3 letter agencies is greater than any other western nation in my opinion. They are massively bloated with excess capital and power, and it has allowed them to indefinitely extend their jurisdiction until it significantly overlaps with people's right to privacy.

That said I doubt either of these issues would be much improved without guns. An armed population seems mostly incidental. One downside of focusing on armed resistance, however, is that you can easily delude yourself into thinking you're better protected from tyranny, when in actuality the war is already being lost in courtrooms and political backrooms without a shot being fired.

To be totally safe you need to hold in 'cold storage,' totally offline. Unless the feds intercept someone in the act of scamming/stealing crypto and negotiate the crypto back into your hands, it's incredibly unlikely you will ever get your money back.

I know of a few startups with relatively 'senior' people who just don't care at all or are seemingly unaware about 'best practices', and will happily write tens of thousands of the most messy code, neglecting standardizing anything or refactoring their code to be more modular or easily understood.

It does seem to be something the big co. interview gauntlet is designed to weed out, whether it's worth it or not. I'm sure it's still relatively common, but probably a lot rarer than at the median startup.

Can you give some concrete examples of exemplars of the latter paragraph?

Wow, that sounds like a good way to make someone suicidal even if they weren't to begin with.

Breaking things down to their basic axioms and rebuilding them with proofs is arguably quite an advanced approach. By Terry Tao's three stages of of rigour classification [0], this perspective isn't typical until undergraduate study.

It doesn't seem like a bad idea to give a taste of it significantly earlier, but I don't think it's surprising if someone without a more mature relationship with mathematics doesn't find much value in 'going back to basics.' If your daughter is doing well with a more intuitive approach it sounds like a good idea to stick with it for now.

[0] https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-...

I do think it's finally become true (for me at least) that desktop linux is Actually Good ©

Previously on more user friendly distros like Ubuntu I didn't feel that the advantages over Windows were significant enough to warrant certain software suites being unavailable (adobe, autocad, etc.). And lightweight distros like Arch caused too much headache even with the wiki and knowing "what you were doing."

Arch now feels both relatively easy to use day to day, while still being incredibly customizable with almost no bloatware. The only real problem is certain almost non-negotiable utilities like PulseAudio not necessarily being as high quality as most of the user utilities.

Keyword might be modern, Viaweb was sold in 1998

How would you be able to tell if they were using 'mental stimulus' or not?

I used to love C but it's so hard to accept the possibility I'm going to compile something totally unsafe after using Rust. Do you think Rust's ecosystem isn't going to amount to anything, or that it's just a meme, or what do you intend with the Rick and Morty analogy?

There's such a thing as overstimulation. There is probably an optinal degree of stimulation to encourage cognition without overloading it.

I can't think of a better way than just learning physics. It's probably impossible to decouple learning something effectively from actively performing related activities, and the systems of the natural world are pretty good practice.

Title is missing a 'huge'

Part of this is probably that it's such a young profession. Most people I work with are quite a lot older than me anecdotally, however.

Even though the frameworks and languages in vogue change rapidly, the patterns and logic seems to be very similar. When I have to learn a new language now it's more a matter of researching the syntax and idioms rather than learning from scratch.

Writing increasingly sophisticated bots and trying to figure out what exactly would earn you a ban was my own first practical experience with coding.

I mostly managed to dodge bans on my most used accounts at the time, but interestingly when I checked back a year or two ago the majority had been permanently suspended. I wonder if they have some method of retroactively determining if someone was botting?

'several years' in this case being almost a decade

Google and Facebook are making hundreds of thousands of (almost endirely advertising derived) dollars per employee. They have functional monopolies on search and social media advertising respectively, so every company in the world looking to use those advertising vectors is at their mercy. Maintaining that extremely lucrative position is worth paying an excess to achieve even small advantages in staying ahead of the curve.

Working from home for a few years I have a Steelcase Leap v2, standing desk I use about 20-30% of the time, and a crappy office chair I use when I'm just sitting down for a few minutes (one 'problem' with a lot of high quality office chairs is that they tend to be designed in a way that promotes continued sitting).

The Wiki is probably the most up to date resource: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Quickstart_gu...

It's really not that difficult once you get started, especially if you're used to learning some esoteric keybinds.