jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Here's how you get over it: exposure to the thing you fear.

Theater, acting and improv are all awesome ways to get exposure to social pressure in a positive environment! I'd also recommend dance classes, particularly partner dances like salsa and tango.

Learning to talk to women helped me. I'm still not perfect but I used to have intense social anxiety in my late teens and early twenties. At age 26, a lot of people would describe me as confident and outgoing (it does take a lot of energy).

Exposure does two great things:

- Teaches you that rejection does not kill you. If ask a girl out or ask someone to invest in your company the right way, even if they say no they'll respect you more. If you ask the wrong way and it goes horribly, life goes on and you'll feel more self-respect for having tried. :)

- Gives you positive reference experiences. It takes time to get them, but they are truly the fruit of laboring at improving an anxiety. I still get nervous before first dates and I've gone on a lot of them. Recalling all the good ones I've had doesn't make the nerves go away, but it makes them wayy less intense. Same deal with ambitious engineering projects. I'm still nervous before them, but I've succeeded in spite of nerves before so I can definitely do it again.

Putting exposure into a wider context, there are a lot of therapeutic approaches to treating anxiety—all the successful ones have substantial exposure components. I went through CBT for anxiety but the cognitive component is mostly there to help you productively process experiences when doing the behavioral component, exposure. Another interesting modality is systematic desensitization [1]. I'm a huge nerd so I got a kick out of making exercises for myself (eg. go tell 5 girls that they look really cute today) that took me through a systematic desensitization process.

A random sidenote, once I got past my own insecurities I was able to pay more attention to whoever I was talking to. You start to notice their insecurities! Everyone's got em! Very attractive girls will be self conscious about their braces. Speaking specifically to professional networking, everyone is trying to impress each other but you don't have to let it affect you. I talked to a cousin of mine this christmas that has had extreme success. He sold a business for more than $40M in his twenties. I just chewed the fat with him and listened and he was trying to impress me, a definite tell for insecurity! My business doesn't make anywhere near that much. I can feed myself lol.

Getting out of your own head and over your insecurities is difficult but totally worth it. Keep at it!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_desensitization
They stopped posting these kinds of stuff. Sad.
"What event occurred between our time and theirs that led to the loss of civilization’s historical records?"

A: The internet.
I would hope that as part of the process of creating these simulations we would gain an element of understanding into how our own general intelligence actually works, hopefully then allowing a degree of architectural upgrading to occur (i.e. not just faster but qualitatively better).

Once that happens, and assuming that there is a sequence of possible upgrade paths, then I would expect something like a Vingean singularity to occur.

Hopefully whatever entity does this will be an Iain M Banks fan and will appreciate that being nice to us slow dull bags of meat could be mutually entertaining.
Does it play nicely with an Emacs inferior mode?
I have been wondering about the same thing. Sadly, the article says:

>but returning multiple A records diminishes any possibility of deterministic site selection.
All the things you listed seem to be propagated by religions, rather than being abilities of a God or things that non-religious people report about gods.
Your point being? I was commenting generally on the idea of the bubble, not the article.
> Energy and resource usage determine if a particular lifestyle is sustainable for a given population

And maintaining a particular lifestyle tends to be a strong catalyst for war as a means of solving population problems. The problem is we're now at a point where such a thing could be truly devastating.

While the threat of mutually-assured destruction has kept the specter of nuclear war at bay, I believe you'll see the means of destruction migrate to more fine-grained methods, most notably genetic engineering and nanotechnology, both of which will become increasingly accessible on a scale nuclear technology never has.

> Given sufficient energy other resource problems tend to go away

I agree but all the energy replacements in the foreseeable future will make energy more expensive not cheaper.

Fission-based energy has the same fuel problem fossil fuelds do (the unfulfilled promises of thorium reactors notwithstanding).

Fusion-based energy has huge problems, some of which are fairly fundamental and not likely to be solved anytime soon.

The most obvious problem (containment of plasma) is probably solvable with magnetism.

The bigger problem is neutrons. You currently can't leave a fusion reactor on for very long before it starts destroying its container.

He-3 (Helium-3) is one possibly solution to this but that stuff is incredibly rare and may well present the same fuel problems as any other energy source.

Interestingly there's a supply of it on the Moon due to billions of years of solar wind on an atmosphere-less body.

> In the end the lifestyle any particular population can sustain will come down to an energy production/capture and management problem.

With some fairly nasty corrections that may have undesirable consequences for the rest of us.

Anyway, that's why I say food is the least of our problems. We can already produce enough food for the present population. It's unclear how much longer we can support the lifestyle of that same population.

Energy factors in here too as we're now fairly distant from our food (given how urbanized the developed world generally is) but population redistribution will occur naturally as the energy equation changes.
Most new PC games are prices less than Rs.999 in India (not just in Flipkart). Pre-order price of "Duke Nukem Forever" for example is just Rs.444 ($10).. I suppose it's one solution to rampant piracy of PC titles.

(XBOX 360 and PS3 titles are more or less priced the same as elsewhere)
The entire project is built on not using things the way they are meant to be used, though. The name is kind of doing the exact same thing the code is.
Some go even further - my daughter uses Makaton, which is a sign (and symbol) language designed for people that have difficulty communicating (for different reasons, including cognitive impairment and neurological problems). In general the idea is to only use as many signs as you need, although of course you can amend depending on who is communicating.

As a point of note, Makaton is used at least a little at a lot of primary schools in Scotland (I would guess across the rest of the UK too), as a "supplementary language" for all kids.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makaton
> (b) we allow businesses to profit wildly while not paying enough (by exploiting (a)), because we have the taboo that not meddling with the market is the best course of action. A more englightened society that didn't pay too much attention to economy pundits working for rich people, might find a way for better revenue sharing with employees...

The highest profit margin I can find is Toei Animation, which in 2020 made 11.4 billion yen in profit on 54.8 billion yen in sales[1], giving them a 20% profit margin. If every animation studio had that high of a profit margin and 100% of profits went to workers, industry wages would rise 20%. Though if that were the case, the company's profits would be zero and one bad year would end them.

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20200930164251/http://corp.toei-...
Apple controls the messaging on the dialog, not FB. It is worded in such a way that >95% of people will likely disallow it.
But the metaphor doesn't work. I understand the intent, but if anything, it's more appropriate for an error-correcting code.
Data does not change hands. Facebook is selling services that internally operate because of processing on that data. Even then they do not sell the processed data or access to read the processed data.
A stream may also make it harder for the app to work in areas with poor connection. Which, given Uber's use case, is probably a likely scenario and one that could lose a lot of customers to competitors.
Where did they mention Apple being a hero? They said lesser of two evils unless it’s an edit.
But Japan did not let the banks and corporations fail, then they got zombie economy. Instead let entrepreneurs buy defaulting corporations with all their assets for $1 and see what can happen with fresh blood and creativity. No value is destroyed, assets and personnel stays, and hopefully consumer demand will go back after the pandemic.

Edit: ah yes shareholders lose money but that's the game. Retirement pensions? If you are not for socializing it then it's the game too.
I did a couple of online interviews in the past 3 weeks over Zoom. It was the first time I ever heard about Zoom (my current company uses hangouts).

I had no idea they were able to track all of this and all companies were adamant about using the native client for the interviews and/or sharing my screen even if I wrote code in collaborative documents. I passed the interviews but honestly finding out about this now kind of turns me off..
Um I suspect that's the official speed the actual speed would be classified I know people who where passed by chieftains on Salisbury plain going >50mph in the 70's
At least there's something resembling a review process when the browser sandbox might gain more attack surface.

At least there is a browser sandbox...
I did it for the lols,
I also didn't know that it was made out of non-breathable fabric.
Hoarding is only a part of the problem. A company in The Netherlands producing chloroquine has got 24/7 police protection as of this weekend because some people came to them and were very insistent that they would like to have some product.

Link in dutch: https://eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/item/fabrikant-van-coronamedi...
Thank you for putting it so well. Keeping the corporate bond market going does not sound like a noble goal on its face but it's vital in so many respects.

I appreciate (and indeed once shared) the knee-jerk libertarianism of the people saying "let them fail", but this view does not fully appreciate the consequences of allowing a violent deleveraging such as we're experiencing now to continue indefinitely.
Why not use new cash to massively scale up healthcare resources and prevent such crises? Giving more money to leisure recreation companies is just kicking the can down the road, we must have strategic reserves of epidemic response. This should be higher priority than nukes, aircraft carriers, or enriching stock holders...when do actual citizens lives' matter above mere dollars and cents in rich people's accounts?
If the companies he is suing genuinely are spamming people they have no prior business relationship with, he is doing a service. But how often do people get truly unsolicited spam from overtly US based companies? All spam I've looked at recently has no connection to a business with any marketing model other than spam - generally sent through an open relay or compromised computer, with links with nameservers and HTTP hosted on a compromised system, and/or in China or a former USSR country. Unless you happen to know a lawyer in one of those countries, it would be difficult and prohibitively expensive to unmask their identities and still make a profit suing them.

I suspect, however, it is not genuinely unsolicited mail that he mainly goes after, but rather, solicited commercial mail which potentially fails to meet the requirements under California law. Suing companies not based in California who someone has initiated a relationship with on a technicality of Californian anti-spam law is, in my opinion, unfair - the companies had no say in the Californian law, and it is simply wrong to try to require every Internet business to comply with the laws of every jurisdiction in the world.
it should not ask for loc on the search page. Ill fix that.
I haven't tried hackety-hack yet. But my initial assessment tells me that stuff like these are very good for people who want to learn new stuff. Is there something like this for Python?
If they wanted to make sure everybody and their grandmother starts doing this on a regular basis ... well done !
Not quite true though, but again it's speed related (and this is very apparent in C++ projects). It has benefits when compiling a changed file. The smaller your file and the fewer things you include, the faster you can compile it and link it with the other (unchanged) objects.
Presumably, a broken BGP advertisement. These days, they create breathless "news" stories like this one. Back in the '90s, when small-town ISPs managed to accidentally advertise short paths to huge chunks of the Internet, they broke the whole Internet. It's hard to get too wound up about it.

If you're worried that China is going to MITM your SSL sessions, remove their certificate from your cert store.

If I was a Chinese supercyberspy, I probably wouldn't do something as blatant as routing the entire Internet to China just to get traffic I wanted. I think I'd do something much more akin to spearphishing an overseas Google employee to get onto their internal network.
Not too sound biased as a pol sci degree holder but I think people grossly underestimate political science as a major.
I actually really like this product and think it's a genius move on Google's part.

Yes, they're late to the party, but what really stuck out to me was the fact that Google had a list of all the locations I'd asked for directions to in the past, by merit of the fact that I have Web History turned on. I don't have an iPhone or Android Device, so the fact that I had all the restaurants I might want to rate placed right in front of me was incredibly appealing.

As minor a detail as this seems, I think this slingshots Google into the venue-rating space. If I were Yelp, I think I'd actually be worried now.

EDIT: One thing that's a little weird, if you click on the comments area, it takes you to a blank page. See http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=9906659489061041176...
Hotspot would have been much better. What's a hotpot?
Only if it fits into your business model, IMO.

Just because your small startup gives away a small percentage of profit to charities doesn't mean you'll get a net positive benefit out of it. In most cases, you'll clearly end up with a net negative.

It's not really a trick you tack onto your existing product; it has to legitimately fit into your business model and market.
As far as i remember from another article. TSA personal is trained to be unfriendly, mainly to push you out of your comfort zone and see how you react to this kind of treatment.
The UI for everyday cryptography needs some serious revamping.

It's not relatively easy to become a Firefox root CA, but too many people are, and part of the reason why is that your cert store configuration is buried deep in the "don't touch, no user serviceable parts" bowels of your configuration.
None of these are search results. The search results are in a list in a strictly defined format. These are guesses at meaning that go above them, just like ads go to the side.

http://www.google.com/search?q=2%2B2
In my experience it's better to just bite the bullet and do it. Eventually you will do it, so you either screw up git blame for a small codebase with a small amount of history, or wait until it is a large codebase with a large amount of history to screw up.

> It would be nice if there was a kind of diffing algorithm that can diff code units syntactically across history.

There have been quite a few attempts at that though I've only seen them applied to resolving merge conflicts. It would be interesting to try them for blame too.
> Here's my other beef with cloudflare: Once I gotta pay 200+/mo for their security services or whatever, I could just rent out a private rack in a colocation and throw some old beefy lga-2011 xeon hosts. Now I don't need anything on my LAN exposed and I have dedicated IPs, physical security, and backup generators...etc.

Yeah but now you need to source the hardware for the rack, make sure it stays up and there's no hardware failures, etc, etc. Even simpler is to grab a Linode dedicated box which comes with v4 and v6 IPs and you get all the benefits for only $30 / mo instead.
The two aren't really related. It's not like Microsoft was Walmart, coming into towns and destroying mom and pop drugstores that had been in business 50 years and whose owners were barely making it. Microsoft engaged in business practices and tried to drive their competitors out of business. This isn't 'evil', it's just business. And they did some illegal things, but that's also not 'evil', and they also got caught and paid the price, both with their reputation and in the penalties that were assessed.
Contrast that with the philanthropic work that the Gates Foundation has done and it's not. Even. Close. To call him 'evil' is just ignorant.
Messaging apps are all about social connections. Any kind of monetization has to build upon that.

Even if FB/Snapchat tries to make themselves more agreeable towards Asian markets, they still need to face the question from customer like this: if I have something (Line/Wechat/Kaokao Talk) that works great for me and my friends, what is the reason for me to use their western counterparts (FB/Snapchat)? Only because they are trying to make themselves similar to the local competitors ? That is not convincing enough.
"Asia DNS performance"

This should really be taken with a grain of salt as Asia is a big place, and unlike Europe or the US, the interconnects between countries are poor. From where I am in the Middle East it's faster to ping Europe (~180ms) than Central Asia (~250ms). I'd love to see a report that takes this and CDN performance into account on a country-by-country basis!
That didn't stop PNaCl. (Which has its share of problems, of course, but I think it makes the hardware dependence meme pretty moot.)
How is OpenDNS and DNSCrypt not in the list? Am I missing something?
I do remember laughing at such claims back then.
especially when the designers of that new language shows no interest in looking at the last few decades of language research.

Since this is Hacker News, it's very likely that you are typing this on a machine running either an OS that is directly based on 60/70ies OS design (Linux) or a dead-end in 80ies microkernel research (Mach). Still, Unix powers a large number of devices and is popular among hackers. Unices may be less principled than their later peers, but people appreciate the trade-off between architectural principles (composability, everything is a file) and pragmatism in the form of 'worse is better'.

Go's developers are probably aware of most research in PL design. Go supports structural typing after all (OCaml and C++ via templates being the only other major languages to support it), and has CSP (yes, I know that's 78-85 research). But besides that, in line with its UNIX/C/Plan 9 heritage, Go is relentlessly pragmatic, choosing simplicity over abstraction power.

Evidently, Go has hit a sweet spot for many people, because Go already has big success stories (from Docker to Juju), which is impressive given it's short lifespan.
Haha, fair enough. Then I suggest you follow @NT4VS on Twitter. We'll let you know when it happens. :-)
"BP constructed a four-story containment dome" - keyword they "constructed", didn't have ready made.

Clearly this is taking so long because there is absolutely no preperation, these guys are following a manual and throwing mud against the wall.

Our gov't stimulous throws untold millions out into stimulous programs that offer little or no value, hopefully some bright gov't lacky decides to throw some R&D money into DARPA or otherwise to build better containment systems in the future instead of relying on corporations who have a max $75m tab.

The whole thing makes me sick. Sorry for the rant.
I guess I didn't explain clearly:

In paragraph two, the article explains that the USDA defines "low food security" as a episodic reduction in the _variety_, not the quantity of food. 5 paragraphs later, the article says these same people are going hungry during parts of the month. Which one is true? They can't both be.

As for the Premium Southwest Salad - well, meeting your daily calorie requirement with that dish versus the Big Mac costs just over twice as much. ( http://www.smartmoney.com/Spending/Budgeting/Fast-Food-Fixes... - Big Mac is on slide 8 )
I'd just like to add more weight to the "Let the quotes breathe more". As soon as a page of quotes loaded up, my TL;DR alarm was firing, but after ignoring that and reading a few in isolation it was pretty cool.
Have not used it myself, but https://www.userapp.io might be similar to what you're looking for.
But crappy sat network is better than no network. If I can build a log cabin 1000 miles from anywhere and access HN, or log into HN from my sailboat offshore, I will finally be able to never be productive from anywhere.
As far as I can tell the master key of ZigBee pairing has been extracted and posted. This is used when pairing a new device to a ZigBee network which is used by many home automation devices (such as SmartThings).

Also, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but the attack window is very narrow in that you have to be close to the source and you have to reset the device (or use a new device) in order to really do anything. Not sure how much of a risk this is at the moment.
I'm willing to bet many people have "signed off" on things before there was content.

People seem to forget that lorem ipsum is not a new thing, it's been a part of design for decades. It is an accepted practice during design phases of a project, whether digital or print.
I hope that's a joke, that's a terrible advice.
> It is rapidly changing which is partially detrimental. What worked or was considered a good choice at the start of 2014 is now mostly obsolete or abandoned by the end of 2014.

This is happening to supposedly mature, nearly decade-old Rails!
Renewable are cheaper when you mine, extract, process, transport and cast them with fossile fuel. Uranium pump works with electricity, processing is done with electricity too, at least in France, the only thing we still have to solve is transportation, and even if it was still done with fossile fuel, I'm pretty sure you get more MW/h from 1g of fissible uranium than 200g of cadmium and lead, even if you could recycling them for no energy.
I sometimes feel that my psychedelic experimentation has permnantely (or close to) alteted my visual processing and other less tangible mental mechanisms in a negative way. I also falsely recognize people and faces in things that are not which often makes me jump like Cramer from Seinfeld. Psychedelics still hold such a special place in my heart.
If the world goes to shit and the Swiss are the only ones left with coffee, then I’ll be most pissed off.

The Swiss, quite frankly, don’t deserve coffee. They don’t know how to make it, and they don’t know how to drink it. The Swiss are good at many things, but coffee is not on that list.
Thanks for sharing! Having a tool like this makes me a lot more willing to start new projects.

Created a couple GitHub issues for you with ideas to make this project even better :)
You can report mistakes (http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...). I reported one once... about 6 months later received an email from google saying it was fixed... it was. Of course a wikipedia-API would be awesome. Google usually likes things like that: http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/
Johnny should try Ruby, now to write some intro-text interactive