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Re:Why thinking hard makes us feel tired
on Thursday August 11, 2022 @07:35PM (#32433141)
Something else would end up scarcer
Re:Lorien – Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app
on Sunday June 12, 2022 @05:50PM (#31718623)
The fact that it's built with a game engine may make it easier than it would otherwise be.
Re:I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government
on Sunday May 01, 2022 @08:55AM (#31224647)
I wouldn't be surprised if the process is intertwined with a paper one as well. That adds significant complication, but it still shouldn't take it.
Re:In-demand tech skills are the last thing to look for in IT hires
on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @04:44PM (#29018868)
"I could create a whole new product that could scale to millions of users on a weekend." Sounds like an extremely appealing business idea.
Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern we...
on Thursday September 16, 2021 @11:01AM (#28552685)
A common use case, how to do random thing in programming:
I searched python make a bar chart and it returned a live coding video with an AI generated text transcript and two articles which mentioned a different kind of bar.
I then narrowed it down to just python bar chart, and got a blog post about scripting with a bar chart in it, this http://www.nitcentral.com/voyager4/hellyear.htm with monty python, bars, and charts from 1996 and among some other things I found this https://python-course.eu/naive_bayes_classifier_introduction..., which had an example of a python bar chart even though the title of the page made me think it wasn't what I wanted.
So for what I imagine to be a difficult search because of all the different meanings of the words, I found my result on the second query pretty quickly, and found some cool unrelated stuff too.
I like mostly that I get what I type in, and not exactly what I want, but what I want is there too.
Re:Screw it, I’ll host it myself
on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @02:49PM (#26729240)
Seems like there's a probably reasonable trend of piling some other tool on top of the stack because dealing with underlying layers is hard. Like electron apps and docker images. Or just web browsers.
Kind of worrisome to abandon lower layers with their problems and build on top of them, but what can you do, but get good at jenga.
Re:The productivity of working from home: Evidence from Japan
on Sunday March 14, 2021 @12:11AM (#26452965)
Even more interesting that the productivity dropped then.
Re:The productivity of working from home: Evidence from Japan
on Saturday March 13, 2021 @02:43PM (#26449325)
Does anyone know anything about japenese office culture that might be relevant to this? Maybe part of the SV culture like open offices makes this a whole different deal then how japan is.
Re:Volvo Says It Will Stop Selling Gasoline-Powered Cars by 2030
on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @04:52PM (#26321412)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#Phaseout_and_ba...
May be relevant to the discussion, probably more so considering cars going hybrid.
Re:Ask HN: What would you like to ask GPT-3?
on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @10:35AM (#26002162)
I meant to ask it, "What would you ask GPT-3?", unless that's what you meant by existential of course.
Re:Ask HN: What would you like to ask GPT-3?
on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @10:21AM (#26001944)
What would you ask GPT-3?
Re:The Great Filter – Are We Almost Past It? (1998)
on Sunday January 17, 2021 @08:27PM (#25817206)
I may be misunderstanding the free oxygen part, but if that's the case why doesn't that happen in our ocean?
Re:Ask HN: How do we build the new remote education system
on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @01:24PM (#25765997)
I'm not really sure if actually doing something will be effective for say learning history. I think of all the odd activities teachers had me do, and I kind of wish they just told me the story, but I'm a guy who now listens to history podcast so may just be personal.
Also think of all the odd physics demonstrations and I'm not sure they really often enhanced my knowledge more than a gif would of especially versus the expense. Does anyone know of any research around this area?
Re:How Discord Won
on Monday October 19, 2020 @04:29PM (#24830638)
In some other teen circles it's a negative status symbol. In the "you wasted your money on that?" sort of way.
Re:Universal basic income gains support in South Korea after Covid
on Friday September 25, 2020 @12:10PM (#24591293)
As somewhere to start there be some preexisting research on the effects of tax returns on poorer families that I would not know how to find.
Re:The Man Who Sacked Rome
on Thursday June 11, 2020 @10:21PM (#23495342)
Not breached by non-Romans. It's easy to discount all the internal conflict.
Re:Ask HN: Would you work for Facebook?
on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:08AM (#23453478)
If you put it to good use, I'd imagine the marginal benefit of having a lot of money to do good things with outweighs the marginal cost working at Facebook.
Re:The pandemic is giving people vivid, unusual dreams
on Monday April 20, 2020 @01:05PM (#22925848)
Look into hypnagogic imagery and Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming (WILD). It's a big thing in lucid dreaming circles to use that sort of thing to enter into a dream conscious and then control (steer?) it.
Re:How to resolve a conflict when both sides are right
on Thursday April 02, 2020 @11:09PM (#22766012)
I'm not a professional, but you seemed to be using refactor and rewrite interchangeably. I had the impression they were different and you seem to be applying all the bad ideas of rewrites to refactors.
Re:From Spain to Germany, farmers warn of fresh food shortages
on Saturday March 28, 2020 @01:14PM (#22712529)
A drop in supply in food all at once could raise the price causing considerable issues.
Re:21-year-old student from Pune and the curious case of her changing ...
on Saturday March 07, 2020 @11:46AM (#22512476)
Not the most credible evidence, but from some reading long ago I can't find. I think it has to do with the way spines break it damages the nerve endings. If you were to slice the spine with a sufficiently sharp blade I believe they would regrow.
Re:Operation Dark Winter
on Friday March 06, 2020 @09:02AM (#22503585)
Re:Covid-19 could kill the for-profit science publishing model
on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @07:26PM (#22480121)
Likely many older academics, just from the inertia.
I would suggest a bird would gain very little from going so fast
Re:Ask HN: Not resting fully because can't sleep long enough
on Friday January 17, 2020 @11:44AM (#22076244)
I have been using a sleep mask to block out the morning and other light, and have a few history podcast I listen to, but those are more to go to sleep faster than to wake up later.
Braiding Gears [video]
Re:Friended is a new social network that wants to get real
on Thursday November 07, 2019 @05:02PM (#21477794)
I wonder if regardless of the design of the platform, if simply having this be the idea behind the network will attract the right people, and build the right community to make it work.
Re:Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales
on Monday November 04, 2019 @10:34AM (#21442549)
Also novelty could play into it, but then again also people don't like change.
Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free
on Thursday October 17, 2019 @06:10PM (#21286812)
Is the vote of the election ever: "Can you make this one website that is messy better?". People are more focused on big issues and annoying software won't often make the platform.