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Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by Natsu » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 2:50 PM UTC

kqr wrote: post #94

superice wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is ~250 cycling related traffic deaths per year in the Netherlands. Some 60 of those are e-bike related. Normalized per capita that is well above the EU average, but you shouldn't forget that we cycle a lot in the Netherlands, which means that per cycled kilometer, cycling in the Netherlands is still ridiculously safe even without helmets. It has been argued that forcing people to wear a helmet in law will redu…

Head injuries are more common in cars than bicycles. Before someone tells me I "must" wear a helmet when cycling, I want to see them strap on a helmet when entering a car.

That's what airbags are for in a car.

Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by throw_this_one » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 2:59 PM UTC

aleem wrote: post #109

On what should you be: > This guy has gone to the zoo and interviewed all the animals. The tiger says that the secret to success is to live alone, be well disguised, have sharp claws and know how to stalk. The snail says that the secret is to live inside a solid shell, stay small, hide under dead trees and move slowly around at night. The parrot says that success lies in eating fruit, being alert, packing light, movi…

Damn, nice. Great analogy to do your own thing.

Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by StavrosK » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 3:03 PM UTC

totemandtoken wrote: post #118

From Nostrademons: "I predict that Libra will work for a while, but will eventually be overshadowed either by competitors or by the new markets that it enables. There's this pattern I've noticed where every major tech company, once initial traction has been established, gets three pivots. You can think of them as adolescence, mid-life, and rebirth. The first pivot happens when the company is 5-8 years old (since the…

Generally interesting, but it's somewhat telling that the one prediction it made failed miserably.

Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by throw_this_one » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 3:03 PM UTC

not_the_nsa wrote: post #30

superasn wrote: post #8

My favourite HN comment was about burnout: Burnout is caused when you repeatedly make large amounts of sacrifice and or effort into high-risk problems that fail. It's the result of a negative prediction error in the nucleus accumbens. You effectively condition your brain to associate work with failure. Subconsciously, then eventually, consciously, you wonder if it's worth it. The best way to prevent burnout is to fol…

Thanks for sharing this. Right now I'm burnt out beyond words, having delivered a phase of a huge project, followed by upper management actions that make me feel extremely devalued and dehumanized. I've already written a list of personal development tasks for the three weeks' leave ahead - I need to up-skill, then find a new employer - which I'll restructure into little wins.

You should prob just completely take a break during the 3 weeks. Go hiking, biking, etc and let your brain rewire so that you're not in a flight or fight mode. Something like "just walking hard for 5 hours gets me to the top of the mountain" and then you'll be so fresh after 3 weeks of that. Work won't seem as stressful or important in life.

Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by throw_this_one » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 3:04 PM UTC

joshxyz wrote: post #42

Those guys with 700 to 1.5k tabs lol

The real reason people upgrade to 32/64gb of ram.

Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by chris_st » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 3:04 PM UTC

dgellow wrote: post #60

"The contrarian dynamic" by dang, from around a month ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24215601 > The "contrarian dynamic" is that HN threads (and internet comments generally) are largely propelled by people making objections. Cunningham's Law touches on this [1]. The objections come in waves. In the earliest stage of a thread, they tend to be rapid negative reactions to the article. It's not that these are…

I wonder if there's any value in having a post to HN be, in effect, a "Draft", with a timeout of (say) half an hour. You write it up, but you have time to reconsider and edit before it "goes live" and you're (at least psychologically) committed. Perhaps you have to come back after half an hour and officially approve it? This is starting to sound like work :-)

Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by StavrosK » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 3:05 PM UTC

Kosirich wrote: post #88

greenyoda wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 3D support structure to fit under a mask Wow, I also thought about this idea. For those who are interested in something like this, you can search for "frame for face mask" on Amazon...

I don't know if you have seen this one: https://bellus3d.com/solutions/facemask.html *I have no affiliation to the site or map, just remembered a colleague showed me

Isn't this a bit useless? Surgical masks aren't meant to fit well, they're meant to keep your spittle from leaving your face. N95 masks are meant to filter incoming air, and those are made to fit well.

Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by nchelluri » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 3:12 PM UTC

chris_st wrote: post #126

dgellow wrote: post #60

"The contrarian dynamic" by dang, from around a month ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24215601 > The "contrarian dynamic" is that HN threads (and internet comments generally) are largely propelled by people making objections. Cunningham's Law touches on this [1]. The objections come in waves. In the earliest stage of a thread, they tend to be rapid negative reactions to the article. It's not that these are…

I wonder if there's any value in having a post to HN be, in effect, a "Draft", with a timeout of (say) half an hour. You write it up, but you have time to reconsider and edit before it "goes live" and you're (at least psychologically) committed. Perhaps you have to come back after half an hour and officially approve it? This is starting to sound like work :-)

I think they already do this, with the delay setting in your profile.

Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by tootie » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 3:19 PM UTC

combatentropy wrote: post #11

One of my favorites is a super-long one by a user named bane, about three solutions to speeding up computing: (1) "high" (more RAM, CPU), (2) "wide" (more machines), and (3) "deep" (refactoring), which is what he recommends first. More than once he has rewritten something that was running slowly even on the latest and greatest architectures (perhaps partially because of that), to running on a single machine, even an…

We've used the terms horizontal and vertical scaling to mean those same things for a while.

Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by jorgesborges » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 3:21 PM UTC

dgellow wrote: post #60

"The contrarian dynamic" by dang, from around a month ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24215601 > The "contrarian dynamic" is that HN threads (and internet comments generally) are largely propelled by people making objections. Cunningham's Law touches on this [1]. The objections come in waves. In the earliest stage of a thread, they tend to be rapid negative reactions to the article. It's not that these are…

A dramatic solution, assuming this phenomena is something to be abated, is to simply remove replies. Why does every internet community by default have a feature that steers us to negativity and confrontation. I often find myself scrolling past the replies on here anyway to find the next comment that may be unique, useful and well-thought - not just an objection or tepid agreement to something that’s already been said.

EDIT: suddenly aware of the irony