eyeundersand

Same for me.

Sidenote but this page took control of my cursor, and would not relinquish it even after I navigated away! This is on firefox.

It would involve multiple, multiple universes (but not infinite) coming and going. Even with infinite monkeys.

Appreciate the old.reddit link! Saved me a couple seconds.

+1 for Bitwarden. It is literally the best solution out there. Been getting to increase uptake in personal circles with (very) limited success. The wife keeps trying to convince me that the ship has sailed in trying to protect info online. She's probably right.

Looks like I'm in the minority here but I was not impressed by the visualizations or the color scheme or anything. Oh well...

Yes, it's definitely something you want to experience in the physical form! It's hard to describe what reading it feels like towards the latter parts of the book- you feel like you're lost in the book like how the Navidson gets lost in the house.

I was shocked by the reference to Navidson's house from the House of Leaves. The ending to your first paragraph is also interesting in that HoL starts with "This is not for you."

Heart breaks for Bipin Joshi and his family. Can't imagine what they had to go through :(

Off topic but can anyone tell me why the [sic] in 'The Quiet Skies [sic] program assigned officers from the Federal Air Marshals Service ...'?

Also see numerous typos in the article, including a mention of 'Quite Skies'.

His name is Sanduk Ruit and he's Nepali. A huge inspiration!

I agree with you on that point. This fatalistic attitude is also often mentioned when discussing how the Indian subcontinent remained colonized for so long. I do not know enough about Polish history to be able to compare their cultural stock to that of the 'East'.

Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed both poems but remain partial to Brodsky's- probably a matter of taste and preference.

However, your conclusion (or at least the way I interpreted it) that the essence that drove the writing of Herbert's poem was also responsible for Polish political outcomes and Russia's current state seems a bit far-fetched and reductionist. And Brodsky's poem and quotes in the article do not imply a lack of courage/defiance to me. On the contrary, I read his poem to mean that despite being steadfast in your views, have room for gratitude.

From my experience, there's no definition as such but having your study "published" implies that it went through a peer-review process featuring at least two qualified referees and an editor. The implication being that the claims from the study are valid as reference for future studies, to varying extent depending on the quality of the journal etc.

Wow! You weren't kidding. People in my field often joke that papers in biology, health etc. tend to list every person they met on the day of submission as authors. But this one has 450 authors from 132 institutions. Surely this points to some sort of breakdown in the attribution system.

I also have this question. Moreover, the presumption with "complex" discussions is that the participants will seek to engage despite (relatively) small barriers, which presents (imo) an existential challenge to this solution.

Amazing thinker. His collaborative book with Hofstader, The Mind's I, has left a profound impression.

From the Guidelines on what to submit:

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

Funny seeing you here. I'm 99 percent certain you went to school with my brother at Pulchowk.

Blog looks interesting. Will keep an eye out.

Wonderful poem. Thanks!

This is what baffled me. The claim that access restrictions are justified because they enable peer reviews is absurd given that peer review is entirely a non-profit exercise.

Interesting list- a lot of great points.

Two minor pedantic observations: (0) I think adding lots of divergent colors should only be done to serve a purpose. In this case, imo the color palette used does not complement the numbering and appears to be used solely to distinguish different heuristics- for which there is no real need.

(1) Also (and this is even more minor), going down from #1 to #2 trains the reader to keep going down but #3 is to the right of #2 making it needlessly disorienting.

Same, I grew up in Chitwan- home of the Tharus. It's sad how little we know about the indigenous cultures around us. Homogeneity accelerated by modernity is oftentimes lamentable.

You can change that in the settings. It's under 'Tabs' in the 'General' section of 'Settings' from the hamburger menu in the top-right (check/uncheck "Enable Container Tabs").

I quite like having that on by default.

I never really got into their stuff. Frankly, it's just too much. I definitely see why people like them- especially those who play music themselves. It's hard not to marvel at the technical skill on display. But imo from the music-as-a-tool-to-stir-some-emotion standpoint, they have some of the most sterile popular music I've ever heard. Wonder how the music-oriented HN crowd feels about this.

There definitely is amazing guitar music still being put out though, so I'm not sure what GP's on about. Huge fan of players like Guthrie Govan myself.

This was going to be my comment too. N = 20 is atrocious and that too only over 2 weeks. Think any significant, measurable changes to mental health outcomes would probably take a lot longer than that to manifest. I further find results from any kind of "food recall" surveys (or just surveys in general) hard to believe. Stated vs. revealed preferences/outcomes should be a bigger debate imo.

"Whereof one can not speak, thereof one must be silent."

(per google translate)

> In a practical sense it adds absolutely nothing of any positive value to remind people of this fact... all it does is make the reader's day a little more depressing.

Have you considered that other people may have different takeaways than you? I know that I'm going to die someday but this piece still added to my perspective on life and old age. And I'm glad it was posted. :)

Happy Friday!

> [The Economist] is a relatively right-wing, centrist if you will, publication.

A comment above, in response to the publication being labelled as having "a sharp left / European bias" says:

> The rest of the world would mostly call it "left-leaning", or maybe "radical centrist".

I would probably categorize it as centrist myself, but it's funny how confirmation bias works.

OP was probably referring to the switching costs in the case of competing apps (like Uber and Lyft), not the cost of leaving a job and driving for Uber.