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What’s the angriest part of a computer?

The cursor.

It definitely has had that effect for some, and I think that the promise of vaccines is probably exacerbating things since there's now the feeling of "I _could_ be out of this if only…".

What's helped me to stay in a positive space and productive during lockdown:

1. Daily exercise. I never worked out with weights before covid, but I bought a kettlebell and the book Simple & Sinister and started doing that routine along with cardio. Makes a huge difference.

2. Any kind of mindfulness. I've read a bunch of books on happiness during lockdown. Most all of them say the same things and suggest the same sorts of mindful practices, so I chose to do some practices based on stoicism and cognitive behavioral therapy. (Recommended reading: Why Buddhism is True, Everything is F*cked [starts good, gets bad], How to be a Stoic, A Handbook for New Stoics, Full Catastrophe Living. Choose any/all and see what you like.)

3. Not reading the news or doom scrolling. I get a covid newsletter each day (https://paulbart.substack.com) and don't read any other covid news. I also got off social media and don't read much about politics/the general shitshow. Basically, things that are beyond my control I pay limited attention to. When I violated this, obsessively seeking out streams & tweets from the storming of the capitol, I wound up having to take the next day off because I was so out of sorts.

4. Connecting directly with friends. I deleted my social media accts this year and started reaching out to old friends directly. First with a bulk email then zooms/phone calls with folks who wrote back. It's been great to reconnect and everyone is happy to chat!

5. Putting strict limits on work. I don't touch it outside of what I've determined to be "work hours". Period.

Good luck. Things can get better.

Back in the good old days of independent dial-up ISPs, the owner of one of our local ISPs (somehow a logging town had more than one local ISP...crazy to imagine now, isn't it?) found Jesus and decided to filter all traffic for objectionable/"adult" content.

They went out of business within the year.

Similarly, I got a shoutout/tag on a PR that used some of my code. It made my day, and made me assume that the org the engineer works in must be a pretty good place to work.

Interesting summary. Since fathers make unique contributions to the development of their children (eg language development [0] and social skills[1]), it makes sense that the children would also affect the fathers, if they're connected/"there" enough.

Since I'm guessing there will be a bunch of parents in this thread, let me make a humble book recommendation:

Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn

The Myth of the Spoiled Child by Alfie Kohn

Kohn is an education researcher who's kind of an iconoclast. His research has focused heavily on what _helps_ children gain the knowledge, academic wherewithal, and social-emotional skills to be successful in life. His results have been pretty surprising: Homework doesn't do much for children. "Time outs" are harmful. And the list goes on.

I'm simultaneously reading Unconditional Parenting and The Myth of the Spoiled Child, which I'd recommend. The latter looks at American accepted wisdom about children (every generation thinks that their kids are dumber, lazier, and more mollycoddled than _they_ were) and makes some pretty interesting juxtapositions between what we say we want for our kids and how we treat them.

0 - https://fpg.unc.edu/sites/fpg.unc.edu/files/resources/snapsh... 1 - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/C_Lewis2/publication/22...

In addition to being a cool hardware hack, this is probably the best Kickstarter project ad I’ve ever seen. Sign me up as a backer.

We are expecting a baby next year, and I'm planning to wear the infant during good chunks of the workday once I'm off parental leave. I hope it'll help give my wife some time to herself and with our toddler. And it'll be nice to cuddle an infant while writing code.

I'm not sure what kind of baby carrier to use, but will give cloth a try at first. I also like carrying my son on my shoulders but given how big he's getting I'm starting to worry about what that fall would be like if something were to happen...

> This could affect the high pay of our c suite, which means we will continue to lay off engineers.

/s

Help me to understand how you're reading this graph. I understand it to mean that in 1949 minimum wage was $4.22 an hour in 2018 dollars. Does that graph show worker productivity as well?

Similarly I do not understand your assertion that the author is "cherrypicking troughs and peaks". from tfa:

> Until 1968, the minimum wage not only kept pace with inflation, it rose in step with productivity growth. The logic is straightforward; we expect that wages in general will rise in step with productivity growth. For workers at the bottom to share in the overall improvement in society’s living standards, the minimum wage should also rise with productivity.

Is their assertion regarding 1968 and minimum wage factually incorrect?

Perhaps he is doing this with the worst of intentions, so therefore this will become one of the best things in history.

:)

I agree with you both. I'd be worried if Vanguard suddenly became like Robinhood.

There's a new version of the Vanguard app on the App Store called "Beacon" that includes a very useful visual overhaul (account balances & performance are front and center) but keeps that wonderful Vanguard focus on, well, staying the course and not much else.

Prior to the pandemic I went to the gym 3-4 days/week, alternating between HIIT on a bike and an endurance workout on an elliptical. I knew I would need to find an alternative since gyms were no longer safe, but due to space restrictions knew I couldn't get the same equipment I use at the gym.

I set up alerts on OfferUp and Craigslist for a Nordictrack ski machine. Got one back in April for $100 and have used it 6-7 days a week since. It fits in a relatively small space, doesn't require power, and is 100% user serviceable. I have it along the wall in the garage, and can fold it up if need be. I only do my "long" workout on it, but am planning to try my first HIIT workout on it tonight!

I also have started doing the kettlebell routine from the book "Simple & Sinister" using a 16 kg kettlebell I bought ages ago and never used. The /r/kettlebell community is very, very helpful. I was, to be brutally honest, intimidated to start this; I was sure that I would somehow do the exercises wrong and wind up hurting myself. However, nothing bad's happened and I do feel better/stronger.

Finally, I've done more reading on health/longevity (most recently the book Lifespan by Sinclair) and have modified my eating habits a bit.

The pandemic sucks, but being forced to come to grips with months of my life being heavily restricted served as motivation to live healthier so I can make more use of the time that's left once (a) a vaccine come around or (b) I figure out how to immigrate to New Zealand and live a normal life :-)

The headline seems to be getting a more attention than the content of the article; that's disappointing, especially here on HN.

It seems like the author is expressing opinions that others in the comments also hold:

> We should be worried about private companies and governments potentially collecting data on millions of unsuspecting people and censoring content they don’t like. But those based in China represent just a sliver of that threat.

> The answer isn’t to dismiss the potential menace of China’s surveillance programs, or to cheerlead for a rival set of tech oligarchs who simply happen to live in California and speak English.

> We should broaden the concerns and criticisms of TikTok and its relationship to China to tech firms more generally, and push for an across-the-board guarantee of online privacy and free speech for all of the world’s people, whether they’re more worried about being tracked and manipulated by people in the United States or China.

A bit utopian? Sure, but as so many here have already pointed out, this is Jacobin ;)

Jacobin describes itself as socialist, not communist.

> Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.

Do you have data points to disprove it? I'm not aware of any data on how often police engage in physical altercations with civilians. One of the points the article makes is that the NYPD actively misrepresents such altercations that could cast the department in a bad light.

Stop and frisk policies amount to codifying assault, in my opinion.

I honestly don’t know why they didn’t do a rebrand for their hard news division. Neither of the sites benefits from being associated with the other.

This looks like original reporting by Buzz Feed News, so linking to Buzz Feed News would seem to be the right choice.

Listicle Buzz Feed ≠ Buzz Feed News.

Drudge has been doing this kind of linking for a while – rather than linking to WaPost, for example, he links to greenwichtime.com, which prints WaPost articles.

Yeah, I think that's why so many choose to go Bezos Bald™. Hides the makes-you-look-old balding hairline and _also_ mirrors the look of so many executives.

Funny to read this today – last night I started reading the book Corporate Confidential[0], which gives exactly the same advice; it's not bad to be old, but it's bad to be perceived as old.

The book recommends what your friend did – go shopping for younger clothes (the book author recommends hiring a stylist every five years) and making sure you don't have grey hair.

0 - http://www.librarything.com/work/354311

I'm curious how you know the copy uploaded to ZLib was purchased with a stolen card? From metadata in the book? Or because purchase + upload date match? Years ago I remember seeing services on Alibaba that would get you any Kindle ebook you wanted – I assume they did something similar.

FWIW, I was quite surprised by your comment that "Folks like the OP won't support writers". The OP writes about _only_ being able to purchase a book in a way that involves submitting to very restrictive, platform-dependent DRM and not wanting to do it again. OP specifically contrasts this experience to buying from publishers who sell DRM-free ebooks as a counterpoint to the awful experience buying her/his book.

That sounds like a coalition, maybe? Cabals tend towards secrecy.

I read this as another step by Boeing to get rid of its unionized workforce in Washington in favor of plants in other states and in China. The market downturn provides a nice rationale for doing so.

David Harvey’s The Enigma of Capitalism has quite a bit of explanatory power, I think, and presents an ideology that is a bit different to the most book suggestions on hn.

There are still costs to your transactions, not least of which is the information gulf between you and an institutional investor with a Bloomberg terminal.

I use porkbun.com. It's cheap and good.

Hadn't heard of Temporary Containers before, I'll have to check it out.

What are your favorite ways of setting up containers? At home I have the following containers, each with separate cookies:

  Banking - all finance related stuff

  facebook

  twitter

  amazon - Amazon + AWS + Zappos

  Google - google, gmail, maps

When Fry's opened up here in the PNW I was looking forward to seeing what theme the store would have - it was a bummer when it wound up being a generic big box store. But still, Fry's was Fry's, and we got some great deals there (mostly thanks to their price match policy) and found some really neat stuff.

One of the things I was looking forward to in fatherhood was taking my kid to Fry's. They always had really cool science/tech toys.

We've now got a two year old, and a month ago we went to the Renton Fry's for the first time in, well, probably two years, and it's absolutely desolate. There were still a few cool toys, though - I got him a Soccer Hoverball [0] - so at least I got to do that once with my son.

0 - https://www.frys.com/product/9768454

Looks nice.

There's a typo on the front page:

> Delete your retro once you're done

clicky (clicky.com) is another good, privacy-focused analytics option.