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Ask HN: How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling news.ycombinator.com

Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT news.ycombinator.com

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          One great piece of advice an informal mentor gave me long ago is that there is no information in a rejection.
        

Excerpt From: "Meta Math" by Gregory Chaitin

“Science is an adventure. I don't believe in spending years studying the work of others, years learning a complicated field before I can contribute a tiny little bit. I prefer to stride off in totally new directions, where imagination is, at least initially, much more important than technique, because the techniques have yet to be developed. It takes all kinds of people to advance knowledge, the pioneers, and those who come afterwards and patiently work a farm. This book is for pioneers!”

Paracetamol disrupts early embryogenesis by cell cycle inhibition | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com

Tylenol ( Acetaminophen / Paracetamol ) can cause miscarriage!

Professional Eater vs. Grizzly Bear: Hot Dog Eating Contest - YouTube youtube.com

An intuitive and visual guide to understanding Maxwell's equations github.com

photonlines/Intuitive-Guide-to-Maxwells-Equations

Philosophers described by Peep Show - YouTube youtube.com

Why Do Movies Feel So Different Now? - YouTube youtube.com

I Built a Fake Dumpster for Stealth Camping - YouTube youtube.com

Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one (1773) | Hacker News jasonzweig.com

Jimmy's Cutthroat Shutdown of "Professional" Psychic | Jimmy Carr Crowd Work - YouTube youtube.com

alan kay: how to invent the future 10 notes

Amazon.com: Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology: 9780262681155: Rheingold, Howard: Books amazon.com

Amazon.com: Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (Audible Audio Edition): Katie Hafner, Mark Douglas Nelson, Matthew Lyon, Katie Hafner: Books amazon.com

Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age: Hiltzik, Michael A.: 9780887309892: Amazon.com: Books amazon.com

Tahoe Weather and Road / Snowboard 4 notes

Park Heavenly | Heavenly Resort Parking Reservations | Heavenly Ski Resort, Heavenly Village Way, South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA parkheavenly.com

Tahoe Daily Snow Forecast | OpenSnow opensnow.com

CHP Traffic cad.chp.ca.gov

VR/AR/XR News 6 notes

US Army soldiers felt ill while testing Microsoft’s HoloLens-based headset | Ars Technica arstechnica.com

Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com

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          Fun fact. The military started using AR at the start of the Iraq invasion. Product was essentially Google Glass with facial recognition against a static/ local dataset (stored on device), but in 2004 - for identifying wanted suspects at checkpoints.Was produced by a company called Osterhout Design Group. Ralph Osterhout also had the distinction of creating the PVS-7 Night Vision goggles in 3 months - still used to this day.Ralph was a pioneer in waveguide technology that went into ODG's AR glasses. The display tech from the Hololens? Licensed from ODG. Time is a flat circle I suppose.
        

YouTube youtube.com

Research DB 2 notes

pcap(3PCAP) man page | TCPDUMP & LIBPCAP tcpdump.org

let's discuss this #idea #scaling

Show HN: pg_netstat, a Postgres extension to monitor database network traffic | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com

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          I have spent some time to search for a tool that can ingest realtime network traffic data to Postgres but have no luck, so I developed this extension and used it internally in our team. Thanks Rust, pgx and libpcap, the development journey is easy and enjoyable.Would like to hear more feedbacks. Any contributions, feature requests, bug report or ideas are welcomed.
        

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In mathematics we're usually concerned with declarative (what is) descriptions, whereas in computer science we're usually concerned with imperative (how to) descriptions (p22)

Postgres Task Queues 6 notes

PostgreSQL: Documentation: 14: SELECT postgresql.org

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          With SKIP LOCKED, any selected rows that cannot be immediately locked are skipped. Skipping locked rows provides an inconsistent view of the data, so this is not suitable for general purpose work, but can be used to avoid lock contention with multiple consumers accessing a queue-like table.
        

Note | histre.com histre.com

pq · PyPI pypi.org

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Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com

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          I do a lot of dev work with non-profits and such. About a year ago I was working on an extremely difficult project as a volunteer where I was insistent that a specific part was vitally important to getting the project to move forward (generalizing tables extraction from scanned OCR docs) and I was spending a lot of time on it. One of the devs I worked with, with 40+ years of experience, basically told me this exact thing. He argued that what I as working on was a waste of time and that I shouldn't work on "code golf" problems, because of the likelihood of failure and that ultimately I should consider the human side of the problem. He said it was best to work on other things instead.
        

Stuff we talked about on the hike 5 notes

Coding Adventure: Simulating an Ecosystem - YouTube youtube.com

This is a really good channel

Amazon.com : FORM Smart Swim Goggles, Fitness Tracker for Pool, Open Water and Swim Spa with a See-Through Display that Shows your Metrics while Swimming : Sports & Outdoors amazon.com

FORM swim goggles

The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine: Petzold, Charles: 9780470229057: Amazon.com: Books amazon.com

Awesome book

Travel Videos 2 notes

libya - YouTube youtube.com

Is Your City This Crazy?! Mumbai Madness - YouTube youtube.com

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