jv_dh | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you cope with being interupted?
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jv_dh | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: A mindfulness based social network designed to be checked once a week
A friend of mine built something similar: https://nutshell.social/
He calls it a slowcial network.
jv_dh | 5 years ago | on: Tips for a Better Life
> 95. Some types of sophistication won’t make you enjoy the object more, they’ll make you enjoy it less. For example, wine snobs don’t enjoy wine twice as much as you, they’re more keenly aware of how most wine isn’t good enough. Avoid sophistication that diminishes your enjoyment.
I disagree with this one. Even though sophistication means that one cannot enjoy bad wine/music/art/food as much, it also is the condition for having a full appreciation of the work of art you are enjoying.
jv_dh | 5 years ago | on: GPT-3 Blog post got to the top of Hacker News and 26k total visitors in 2 weeks
The thread about the post that was written by GPT-3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817
jv_dh | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
1. By 2025 there will be a quantum computer that can break RSA-2048 and shortly after that any conventional encryption. Alternatives based on post-quantum cryptography will have been developed but are not in widespread use. Adoption will take years.
2. Waymo will sell self-driving cars to the general public and there will be a push to make streets safer by reducing individual transport.
3. The next economic downturn, if there is one, will be caused by quantitative easing.
4. Index funds will start affecting price discovery which will lead to a surge in strategies that exploit this.
5. Society will either learn to cope with scissor questions or polarization will eventually lead to civil war.
6. Deep learning will be used in every field in applied computer science and replace the traditional methods of this field.
7. Cryptocurrencies will be used to create censorship-resistant social media and messaging services that have strong secrecy/privacy/data-ownership guarantees.
8. Facebook, Amazon and Google will face anti trust action that might even lead to them being broken up.
9. Palantir will be the best performing stock of the decade.
jv_dh | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory?
These are the notes that are used to teach Harmony at Berklee: http://valdez.dumarsengraving.com/PDFmusic/Berkleeharmony/Ha...
jv_dh | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: A beginner's guide to data analysis with unix utilities (part 1)
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jv_dh | 11 years ago | on: Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi
this article fails to point out that one of the great advantages of vim is universal accessibility. while atom, sublime, textmate are probably more user-friendly and can emulate a lot of vim functionality, they are not as flexible and environment-independent.
to me, the beauty of vim is that I can use it anywhere with minmal set-up or privileges (e.g. root).
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More generally, if distractions are bothering you or are making you nervous, I would recommend meditation. Meditation is the practice of focussing on the present. Try the waking up app (https://wakingup.com/), it is a good reason-based introduction to the practice and theory of meditation.