This just straight up isn't true for blue collar and service work.
I've worked those kinds of jobs with 12 hour shifts pretty recently, and you definitely Really Actually Literally Work 10+ hours of em'. It's kind of a buzz.
I could still do it, 6 days a week, day-in day-out at 32, which was pleasantly surprising to me as someone who has always struggled to work a good 4 actual hours of white collar shift.
Some jobs just come at you non-stop, and basically your only options are quit dramatically, or keep grinding through.
The camaraderie with your work colleagues is something too. I've never felt that kind of genuine, manic, expendables-in-the-trenches, darkly comic camaraderie in any white collar job.
There's something in it though, I wonder if it's just as simple as how 'physical' it is - if you're sort of 'exercising', obviously anything manual labour is, but also walking around, reaching up to shelves, etc. then it's more continuously doable. Tired and hungry sure, but doable.
I couldn't keep my brain continually engaged in SE for even what would be a short 'shift' - but I reckon I could still do the >12h full days I did at the cinema as a teenager (plenty to do even while all screens are showing).
The first player chooses white's move. The second player chooses whether to play as black or to take over playing as white.
Problem solved. The first player is incentivized to make white's first move as value neutral as possible. It's exactly the same principle as the "sister cut's the cake, brother chooses which piece to take" trick many will have used as kids.
It's also trivial to make chess fair by agreeing that every match ends in a draw. The concern is in how we can make it fair without making it less interesting. The cake-cutting solution would severely reduce opening variety.
I fail to see how this would be the case. I think it may even increase opening variety.
I think you'd see many more opening with oddly position a-c/f-g file pawns, or horses thrown into the rail. I think it could make for a radically different game opening game that would be just as diverse as the current game. Perhaps more so.
I wonder if you misunderstood? Since this is very far from agreeing to a draw at the outset. I meant the cake cutting for only the very first move. Not the subsequent moves. Only the very first move played on the board is incentivized to be value neutral.
> I wonder if you misunderstood? [...] I meant the cake cutting for only the very first move.
No, I got that.
> I fail to see how this would be the case. I think it may even increase opening variety.
At a high level players will be relatively comfortable with playing at least one opening from any (sensible) opening move, so swapping would offer very little disadvantage in terms of not being prepared. So the decision on whether or not to swap is almost entirely based on how good that opening move is.
Now, white has a significant advantage on just about every opening move that's currently played with any regularity. Therefore black will almost always swap, and gain that same advantage. So it's in white's interest to not play those moves, and instead pick whichever moves are as close to 50/50 as possible, so that their opponent cannot get an advantage.
The crucial thing to note is that most possible moves white can make are either good (preserve a meaningful advantage for white) or bad (immediately gives advantage to black). There are not many first moves that result in a 50/50 game. Therefore the number of viable first moves is decreased.
They're certainly different first moves, and we'd see a lot of variety for a year or two, maybe even up to a decade as people play and learn entirely new lines. But in the long run the number of opening moves that don't immediately give up an advantage would be reduced.
It begs another question though, is chess a worse game if white begins with a pawn on a3 instead of a2 (assuming this is the result every time the suggested procedure is used), and black moves first? Maybe. But I think it's an okay solution if you want a neutral platform for a tie-breaking game.
I just checked and "horses thrown into the rail" (by which I assume you mean Na3 or Nh3) would still never get played because they're terrible for white; stockfish puts them at -0.5 and -0.7 respectively, compared to the white advantage is only +0.2.
"The nicer flute arrived the next day. “I'm sitting at the harbour. And some guy is sort of dressed like me, I guess casual, has this three-foot-long bamboo flute and a cup of coffee, and he is walking. And I say, ‘Can I have a sip of your coffee?’ ‘Is that a flute?’ ‘Can I try it?’” The man gave Johnston permission for both requests—and then he gave Johnston the flute.
Stuff like that “happens constantly,” he tells me."
There's a second interpretation of this interaction. I'd like to hear it from the other side.
Yeah. I’m not sure how that can’t be taken for parasitism. You can be pleasant about things as he seems to be, and still be a parasite. I’m sure he knew when he asked to try the flute he might end up with it.
Ultimately his lifestyle is supported by the community around him and the hard work of others.
If you wanted to make this quantum, one is red and the other is blue only if you're looking for a red ball when you stick your hand in the bag. If you're looking for a purple ball when you stick your hand in the bag, then one is purple and the other is green.
Funnily enough, I feel like Gareth Davies, the presumably semi-amateur player in the video set, is the only one who really gets the piano, and focuses on those unusually melodic bass notes.
Agreed. Hyperion Knight playing Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach)[0] is also a really good demonstration of the incredible clarity of the bass keys. It's really astonishing to hear. In fact I feel some of the concert pianists playing it are a little sloppy on the low notes—probably because they're not used to being judged on them! My old Wurlitzer upright could never compare :)
Listening on headphones is weird: usually, for an instrument, the sound comes from one direction. Here some notes were more in the centre, while others (lower ones) were coming from the left channel.
Yes, and no. The less unharmonic bass strings make a noticeable difference for the middle and high register too, when the dampers are lifted by the sustain pedal and the bass strings resonate with the higher ones. This "roominess" is also noticeable on the old long-neck lutes like the chitarrone, which had long bass strings for the same reason as this piano: avoiding wound strings (in their case, because those hadn't been invented yet)
Lol, completely agree. Scarlatti?! How silly! I have a very nice tube amp sitting on my desk (#pandemic-hifi) so I thought I'd take your rec and listen to Mr. Davies instead. The long bass strings produce a better sustained note which creates very nice harmonics!
A lot of people will say exercise and nature, which is definitely a good prescription. If you've got a great job, then it's best to do those as a hobby, but if you don't have a great job and you don't have a tonne of responsibilities I'd recommend working in the bush or otherwise outdoors for a few months for low pay.
Having your actual job be outdoorsy can do wonders for mental health because you're pushed by work forces to do things that are good for you.
Obviously, if you're on HN, you probably won't be looking to do that kind of work long term because it won't be sufficiently mentally challenging or impactful, but it can be wonderful as a stress and mindset reset.
The parent is correct, and shouldn't be downvoted IMO. If you set the max payout to world gdp of ~$100 trillion, you get an expected value of ~$50 for the game. So people are actually calculating expected value correctly with their intuition. It's just that in their instinctive calculation they're also making better assumptions about reality than mathematicians do.
Indeed, it is one of the proposed solutions as listed in the corresponding wikipedia article on the St. Petersburg paradox. There is a table with quite low expected values, mapping the wealth of the bank to the expected value.
I think it's strange to call someone "entitled" whose back-up plan if their start up fails is to work in a tire store. Entitled people's plans don't include tire stores.
> Entitled people's plans don't include tire stores.
Why do you think so? I've met some extremely entitled people with very few options in life, often because their entitlement gets in the way. In grad school I was friends with a homeless guy who insisted that he wouldn't take a job in which a younger person was his boss (he was in his fifties) as he felt he was a lot smarter/wiser than those people. So that ruled out a lot of job options for him. His backup plan was doing some work in construction and helping out a guy with a welding shop because those bosses were older and one of the few people he respected well enough to consider working for them.
Being entitled is a state of mind, in which you think you are better or more deserving than what life is giving you. It is a question of the heart, not the career.
I think you're reading something else from this than was intended.
It's not like he wants a role that would align with his experience, it's more like he's concerned that as a failed founder, his CV would land in the bin.
The tire shop remark points to this interpretation.
Would you pay $30/month to level up your game? Because for me this site is premised on the fact that the people willing to pay that already know the basic strat needed to digest this site.
This is great, and I would ignore the people who complain about the UX being too difficult. The most profitable customer is people buying in frequently to online tournaments, for whom this all makes complete sense. The regular casual low-mid stakes customers spend hundreds of dollars per day or at least week on buy-ins easily, and you're gonna get a tonne of em to be comfortable paying $30/month.
I've played online tournaments for a month or two and can tell exactly what this is saying. So it's not exactly high level.
I would agree that people who understand the UX at first glance are part of the target market.
However, there are a lot of people (like me) who could be educated a little bit and would then be happy to use/pay for a tool like this. I wouldn't ignore these folks because they could increase the market size by 2-3x.
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I've worked those kinds of jobs with 12 hour shifts pretty recently, and you definitely Really Actually Literally Work 10+ hours of em'. It's kind of a buzz.
I could still do it, 6 days a week, day-in day-out at 32, which was pleasantly surprising to me as someone who has always struggled to work a good 4 actual hours of white collar shift.
Some jobs just come at you non-stop, and basically your only options are quit dramatically, or keep grinding through.
The camaraderie with your work colleagues is something too. I've never felt that kind of genuine, manic, expendables-in-the-trenches, darkly comic camaraderie in any white collar job.