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ronilanon Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

So the person with all the power, the one who speaks in plural about what he allows is suddenly some how the victim?

Please just delete all my comments. Including this one.

ronilanon Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

Will the next implementation of Arc also include the ability to delete posts and comments?

Surely there might be some portion of the 1,200 people who posted today that may want to delete their submission in the future.

Allowing them to do so would be civil don’t you think?

(There may also be those who figured out there is a risk here and just avoid sharing anything anymore, but that’s another story).

ronilanon Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life

The misguided idea that there is more than one sense of something being someone’s data, and that thus, some how, the public has eternal right to any comment I make in Hacker News.

As expressed here by Paul Graham https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813226 and enforced with blind loyalty by Daniel Gackle who repeatedly refuses to delete my stuff instead spending his nights examining and debating the minute details of my words deciding which should or should not be deleted.

If this misguided idea never existed, HN would be like all normal web services, the user would have a delete button and my life would be better.

But, the idea and the power position it allows are here, and my life is changed for the worse.

ronilanon Ask HN: Help I want out I want to leave HN

There is obviously a way. It’s not unfortunate. It’s a deliberate choice.

כשאנשים קטנים מטילים צל ארוך זה סימן שהשמש שוקעת

ronilanon Huge success in business is largely based on luck: new research

Takes his snowboard and goes home. Yes.

ronilanon Huge success in business is largely based on luck: new research

Two long time friends walk down the street. Sees one something shiny and picks it up. “A gold coin!”. At exactly the same time a bird poops on the second’s head. They are upset. They blame their friend. “If you hadn’t stopped the poop would have missed me”. “Further more”, they say, ”here is the full list of all the bad decisions I made through life and anyone and anything that has ever wronged me and brought me to the shity situation I’m in”. “You included”. “No”, says the first, “Our situation couldn’t have been better”. “Further more here is a list of all the smart decisions I have made and anyone and anything that have supported and elevated me to where I am to day“. Then they looks at their poop covered friend and say ”I do not associate with negative thinkers”. And friends they are no more. End.

ronilanon How we pay attention changes the shape of our brains

Can you post the phrase as written in Russian?

ronilanon How we pay attention changes the shape of our brains

Can you paste the words as written in Farsi?

ronilanon How we pay attention changes the shape of our brains

Thanks.

That would match the current German version below and makes sense as languages evolved from same tree.

ronilanon How we pay attention changes the shape of our brains

Maybe I should post in /r/therewasanattempt/ instead :)

To the point:

1. Obviously the meaning of words change over time.

2. If this difference in metaphors has real bearing on how people act than the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, at least in its weak form, stands. That is something worth paying attention to....

ronilanon How we pay attention changes the shape of our brains

Can you post the language name and then the phrase in native type?

ronilanon How we pay attention changes the shape of our brains

The metaphor used by the language differ. That’s the point.

ronilanon How we pay attention changes the shape of our brains

Thanks. Clarified.

Awareness is gained by that action that differs between languages.

ronilanon How we pay attention changes the shape of our brains

In English awareness is gained with money - pay attention

In Hebrew awareness is gained with emotion (put heart) - שים לב

Any native speakers of other languages able to chime in? Sapir-Whorf revived?

Edit: used word awareness to clarify what is being gained.

ronilanon Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

Not sure it’s interesting. But it did become a problem :)

Anyway...

This summer & fall I wrote a JS core lib and a set of compatible packages that together greatly simplify the creation of terminal based node apps and games (in the realm of blessed, blessed-contrib and ink, but with no dependencies and with a novel api/architecture)

I got into it because my son did this node project where an animated car drove in a forest of cellular automata generated trees. Yah. You read it right. Things spiraled from there...

It is not a small project and it is pretty close to release form. I’ve used the lib and components to write a couple of small but non-trivial things. So, yes, it works.

In December, though, I stopped actively working on it. There are various reasons. One of which is that there is snow on the mountains. There are other reasons, none of which is code related.

More curious? More question. Cheers.

ronilanon Google App Maker Shutting Down

Fittingly by rock band “Sixpence None The Richer”.

ronilanon Economic Inequality (2016)

Inflation is a concern though the last two decades have shown that the fear may be overrated. In any case, nothing is worse for inflation than UBI and people talk about that seriously...

P.S - After reading more into this idea I think that setting high ratio goal of Minimum-to-Median (75%???) might be a direction worth exploring... we have an excellent, proactive provincial government in BC, maybe I’ll go look for the suggestion box...

ronilanon Economic Inequality (2016)

Median !== Average

ronilanon Economic Inequality (2016)

As in Minimum wage should be raised to meet the Median.

As a result, the majority of people will have equal wage.

In BC, Canada:

Minimum wage is: $13.85 CAD

Median wage is: $23.98 CAD

Minimum is going up to $15.20 in next 18 months.

It’s not that far...

Edit:

”in developed economies, the minimum wage ranges usually from 35 to 60 per cent of the median wage.“

https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/wages/minimum-wages/settin...

US is 35. France is 60.

BC clocks 57 right now. Will go to about 63 with minimum wage hikes.

So, yes, a higher ratio is worth thinking about....

ronilanon Economic Inequality (2016)

This phrase just popped up into my head a while back:

“The minimum wage should be the median wage”

I’m not sure if it should be a rule or a goal or be anything at all, but thought it’s a thought worth putting out there.

Edit: thinking in context of country, or province but also in context of company or group.

ronilanon Google backtracks on search results design

It’s a little meta but I think the way this has unfolded doesn’t shine well on Danny Sullivan and his role at Google. Danny been in the search industry from pretty much the get go, he knows anyone who was anything in search, he “studied the great machine, knows things even Draal doesn’t know” [1], and yet he has been reduced to some sort of an after-fact PR person for decisions it seems he had no say on. Pity.

[1] https://youtu.be/dn6sWdxpk90

ronilanon Belyayev's Fox Experiment

This is a horribly edited Wikipedia article yet it is such a delight to read.

ronilanon YouTube moderators forced to sign statement acknowledging job can give them PTSD

There’s more. I think people are afraid. First from having to do something “unpleasant” and on a deeper level from loosing their own status of “importance”. It’s a pity indeed.

ronilanon YouTube moderators forced to sign statement acknowledging job can give them PTSD

“you won't have many to build your video platform left.”

I’m not building a video platform. It’s already there. I’m just, totally hypocritically, fixing the company that operates it.

ronilanon YouTube moderators forced to sign statement acknowledging job can give them PTSD

“I am not going to choose a week every quarter to do something that is not going to help me towards career goals I have.”

In which case, if it was up to me, and it is not, obviously, I’d open a short discussion about goals, and if we couldn’t find a common ground, would write down “culture fit” and wish you better happiness somewhere else.

ronilanon YouTube moderators forced to sign statement acknowledging job can give them PTSD

“Most of their top engineers would quit and go to work for another company that values their time.”

Maybe. But I doubt it.

First because people don’t quit that fast and second because I think something else might happen that is worth the risk of loosing a few “top” quitters.

I think top people will realize there is an opportunity here, and after seeing how effective it can be for a team to work toward a common goal, will request other such tasks be added to the list.

Eventually, people at that company can choose where to use their “20% service job” time.

But, then again, don’t worry, it’s all theoretical anyway, it’s obviously not up to me.

ronilanon YouTube moderators forced to sign statement acknowledging job can give them PTSD

If this was up to me, each and every employee of YouTube (and Google, for as long as YouTube is not set free) would be trained as a content moderator and would be required to do so for a couple of weeks (or as sufficient to complete the task) every year.

Edit: yes. Every single one.

ronilanon Pantone 448 C

Thanks. I learn a new thing every day.... updated text to #afafaf

(which according to https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ is WCAG AA OK in contrast to the ugliest colour in the world)

ronilanon Pantone 448 C

I've used #412f1c for years as my personal site background. I've now changed it to #4A412A (Pantone 448 C). Looks just as good to me. Has better story. https://www.ronilan.com/ What do you think?