I don't get the pairing of a healthy life and liquor. I know someone that will go out of her way to exercise, eat healthy, organic everything and watch her weight but on weekends she will drink like a fish. She's not the only one by far. When did booze become a health drink? Ya, I know it's not. It's just addictive. I wish we had an alternative that doesn't do as much damage.
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ThrowITout4321 commented on Ask HN: Caring for Elderly Parents with Dementia? · Posted by u/rayxi271828
I'm dealing with something similar. I used to sit with my mother to talk but almost immediately she would start talking about how unfair life had been to her and about all the people that had done her wrong. It was negative that led to negative. It was hard to take.
Eventually I got tired of it and started to negatively reinforce it. Instead of consoling her, I started to tell her how hard it was to hear what she was saying and that I didn't want to hear it anymore. I asked her to focus on the positive parts of life and gave her samples of what real tragedy was like by pointing out samples in the news that she watches every night. I know it was harsh but I don't think it was harsher that her recounting the same stuff everyday to me. The negativity has slowed not stopped but at least we can have a conversation now.
This is what I did but I can't recommend it to you since your situation can be so much different. Also, her short term memory is still functioning to a point. She mostly does her daily care and she requires very little help.
My issue is that there are only so many times you can go thru the process of learning a new language. It's monotonous. You have to learn a new way to create code without really advancing your knowledge. You can learn to create a loop in 10 different languages and still not advance your programming abilities. You just know 10 different ways to do the same thing. Not only that, your time is finite. The time you take to recreate the wheel could have been better used somewhere else. Learning a new language is like spinning your wheels rather than moving forward.
ThrowITout4321 commented on Adam Neumann’s New Business Plan nymag.com/intelligencer/2... · Posted by u/pseudolus
"A luxury afforded to billionaires is that they don’t have to fade away no matter how spectacularly they fail, and Adam Neumann, who both co-founded and was exiled from running WeWork, is a prime example."
This is phrased as a put down but the way I see it we should all be as lucky and fail like Neumann. I wish I were a failed billionaire like him. Instead I'm a "successful" web developer that works for someone else to make sure I can pay my bills.
Ok, I'm ready to fail. Where do I go? :)
ThrowITout4321 commented on Ask HN: How can I make a simple interactive website with minimal experience? · Posted by u/yukistar
First design what the website will look like and function. This part is relatively easy for non-techs. You can do an outline of the site on paper. Things like number of pages, content for each page, layout, colors, desired function. Create as much as you can on paper. You should be able to show it to someone and that person should be able to understand how the site will work from looking at the pages you put together.
Get your ideas from existing pages in the web. Don't try to create your own. Copy as much as possible from the web for your design.
Once you have done as much as possible on paper. Sign up on to one of the page builder sites such as square space or wix. Set up your design there. They also have the ability to create interactive pages so go thru the tutorial until you can create the interaction you want.
A big advantage of having a project you want to create is that you can hunt for the different tutorials on the web that will show you how to get what you need done. There are tons of tutorials on the web. Take advantage of the situation and use them.
There's going to be a steep learning curb for you but it's very doable.
Once done decide if you want to continue learning. At that point turn your site into html files and look for a place to host the site. Once you have a working html web site look into creating the interactive pages in javascript or php.
You can't be an expert overnight but if you do it a bit at a time you can achieve a lot. Make it a hobby where you learn a little bit at a time.
ThrowITout4321 commented on Tell HN: Job interview canceled due to looming recession · Posted by u/neoxone
The last 10 years or so have been very good for startup financing. It's been relatively easy to get funding. That's changing. Investors are going to be more selective about what they fund so you'll see lots of companies slowing their hiring. But that does not mean it will all fall apart. There are still plenty of startups that are doing good work. My advice is to keep trying and don't give up. Be flexible about what you accept and after you have a job keep an eye out for a better one. I would focus on the bigger companies that have a steady profit margin. They will be more likely to weather the coming slowdown. These things happen. You just have to make the best of it.
No, but it's troubling to know that some of these non profits will live forever. I can setup a foundation whose goal is to fund an ugly aspect of society. If I give it enough money the foundation can live forever thru wise investments of its endowment. There would be nothing to stop it from doing its work forever. The foundation can even influence political causes by funding research that support the foundation's cause. The tax except foundation can't directly lobby but it can fund research that will have a political impact.
Charitable foundations should have a finite number of years to do their work.
ThrowITout4321 commented on Millionaires at Davos say 'tax us more' bbc.com/news/business-615... · Posted by u/belter
This is millionaire BS. I've been hearing this for years yet we are still in the situation that we were 20+ years ago. Where every time a tax bill is presented we hear the never ending roar of millionaires yelling at congress not to pass any tax bill. Even the estate tax, a tax for money that a dead person will never need, gets gutted every few years.
If they are truly willing to change their ways then start lobbing congress along with their fellow millionaires and act on it rather than talk about it.
ThrowITout4321 commented on Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model gweb-research-imagen.apps... · Posted by u/keveman
>While we leave an in-depth empirical analysis of social and cultural biases to future work, our small scale internal assessments reveal several limitations that guide our decision not to release our model at this time.
Some of the reasoning:
>Preliminary assessment also suggests Imagen encodes several social biases and stereotypes, including an overall bias towards generating images of people with lighter skin tones and a tendency for images portraying different professions to align with Western gender stereotypes. Finally, even when we focus generations away from people, our preliminary analysis indicates Imagen encodes a range of social and cultural biases when generating images of activities, events, and objects. We aim to make progress on several of these open challenges and limitations in future work.
Really sad that breakthrough technologies are going to be withheld due to our inability to cope with the results.
I'm one that welcomes their reasoning. I don't consider myself a social justice kind of guy but I'm not keen on the idea that a tool that is suppose to make life better for everyone has a bias towards one segment of society. This is an important issue(bug?) that needs to be resolved. Specially since there is absolutely no burning reason to release it before it's ready for general use.