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98Windows··on Amazon to add 75,000 more jobs amid coronavirus pandemic
Ocado would love deliver more groceries but the bottleneck in the delivery system isn't related to vans or routing
98Windows··on How Pandemics Change History
Hopefully it also gives other regions time to prepare
98Windows··on Study Finds Wind Speeds Are Increasing, Which Could Boost Wind Energy
They extract an insignificant about of energy sorry
98Windows··on Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing
Did you use Uber pool?
98Windows··on Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing
I live in London, there are plenty of alternatives to Uber, the only downside is they might be like 5-10% more expensive
98Windows··on Solving Tech Addiction Is an Underappreciated Market Opportunity
I live in a dysfunctional world in which having a smartphone is really useful. I don't think that's going to change any time soon.

So the least I can do is instruct my smartphone to limit my usage of certain things which I find reduce my quality of life but are very distracting.

98Windows··on Ask HN: What's your craziest, far out there idea you have?
A service I pay for which restricts the amount of time I can browse the internet or go on my phone. I'd have to trust it quite a lot but they'd have the ability to restrict my bandwidth and remotely mess with my devices.

There would be a monthly review where we decide how much time is reasonable to spend on each device or website.

98Windows··on Nasdaq Plans to Introduce Bitcoin Futures
It's still gambling in a sense however there is a major difference in the type of randomness you are exposing yourself to. At a casino or when playing cards it's very easy to compute probabilities of all possible events - hence the house always wins. Here in order to compute the probabilities of price movements you'd need to model millions of human agents across dozens of markets. So unless someone has a lot of insider information, you have a decent chance of making some money.
98Windows··on Man with tiny brain shocks doctors (2007)
But he has a job in the civil service and a wife, which are more useful indicators than a high IQ
98Windows··on Man with tiny brain shocks doctors (2007)
Dropout is only used during training a neural network and also neurons are turned off not removed.
98Windows··on Ask HN: How much of your programming work is mapping this data to that?
I'd say it's like 50% for me, I wish it was less.
98Windows··on The relationship between social media use and well-being
But imagine if you were didn't have anyone to go on holiday with or you couldn't afford it. You'd feel much worse about seeing your old school mate going on a fancy holiday. We live in a very unequal world so this is bound to be a common occurrence.
98Windows··on Long-term stress erodes memory
we need reminding
98Windows··on Long-term stress erodes memory
>dispose as necessary I've seen this piece of advice float around quite a bit. I always find it really difficult to understand. If you suspect someone in one of your social groups is causing you a big problem, you can't just eliminate them, they are connected to other people you know too (this might be a family or a workplace).

Then the question turns into, shall I leave and find new social groups? This is such a high risk act.

98Windows··on The Need to Read
I think you miss the point of these books somewhat. Of course they need to get across their central idea, but more importantly they need to place the idea within a variety of examples; to address limitations and to set various ways in which the idea can be proven to be true.
98Windows··on Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
I found unfollowing everyone on facebook helps. I now just look at my friends list to see who has new posts a few times a month.
98Windows··on Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”
>Worthless bastards, one and all. Why write this crap? The labour party is the biggest left wing party in Europe, are you saying everyone inside it is worthless?
98Windows··on To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they're right
But lots of things seem obviously true but turn out to be wrong or problematic. It is nice to get more than one opinion.
98Windows··on Design Your Way to a Happier Life
Aha okay I didn't get a good understanding from your initial comment.

That really resonates with me actually, when I hang out with old friends who don't share my work and the information I'm consuming. I feel they inhibit those parts of me, because my mind is trying to reconnect with whatever we have in common, which is by now a small and redundant part of my self.

Aligning your work and interests with your friends seems to be a powerful way to more happiness. It increases the amount of empathy you can have with each other, which is the fundamental way we connect.

98Windows··on To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they're right
I think it resonates because we've all seen both methods in action, and the proposed one (at least for me) has always lead to a better outcome.

The psychologist has also most likely seen even more examples in all the literature he has read and so can add a bit more weight to the argument.

What would convince you of the hypothesis? A quantitative study?

98Windows··on Design Your Way to a Happier Life
Maybe you aren't good at setting boundaries, so people end up taking away your sense of self. I think it's something you could learn, are you sure running away is the best plan?
98Windows··on Israel deploys automated military robots
The scary thing is once these things get a bit better it'll become cost effective to build thousands of them and just zerg rush your enemies.
98Windows··on JupyterLab: the next generation of the Jupyter Notebook
That's why I've just resorted to using 'Restart & Run All' as my default way to run a notebook I've finished coding up.
98Windows··on British business ‘benefits massively from EU’
Firstly Norway, Switzerland and Iceland are in the EEA so they do have many things associated with EU membership.

Greece has the Euro hence its troubles. I totally agree the eurozone is a terrible mess and should be dismantled.

So the UK leaving the EU (and the EEA) will cause damage. Your descriptions of the EU are misleading.

98Windows··on Study: To Beat Loneliness, Visits Must Be Real, Not Virtual
I think it depends on how well your social needs are being met in the rest of your life, if you are lonely going to a event like that alone can make you feel worse.
98Windows··on Ask HN: Disabling paste in password boxes - why is it practiced?
It might discourage people from storing their passwords in plain text files and force them to memorise it.

It adds to the image that passwords are something special and secret if you cannot use basic functionality.

98Windows··on Ask HN: Best single board computer for computer vision?
Have you had a look at the BeagleBoard?

Or maybe something like this http://www.nvidia.com/object/jetson-tk1-embedded-dev-kit.htm... ?

98Windows··on Cannabis Access and Academic Performance
How harmful would cannabis have to be to people until you'd consider banning it?
98Windows··on Ask HN: What's your favorite CLI or ncurses program?
I wish I could do that, but having an iPod forces me to run a windows virtual machine just for iTunes.
98Windows··on Ask HN: Is physics moving forward?
If you look at quantum computing [1], which is very much a part of physics, I would claim that progress is accelerating there. Its a field that is asking a lot of deep questions about reality and also spurring a lot of technological innovation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_quantum_computing

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