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> What if there's nothing after death... for the rest of eternity?

I have been mulling over this for some weeks now, more intensely than ever before in my life. I'm only 24 but still terrified of the concept, and frankly it's poisoned every waking hour with a mild to extreme sense of dread and foreboding. My mind tends to fixate and freak out over life problems it can't solve, and this is the ultimate one that no one can solve. I'm glad that I still have a lot of my life ahead of me, but I can't stop fixating on the infinite nothingness afterwards and what that truly means. It's to the point that doing enjoyable things day to day feels worthless and just reminds me that it's still all going to end, no matter what I do, and sends me back down a spiral of fear.

I know rationally that I shouldn't let it get to me, because there's nothing I can do, but that just makes me apathetic and hopeless. I'm hoping this is a phase that will just pass but if anyone has real advice for how to move through this I would be very grateful.
You said

> Survival is literally the only thing that means anything at all.

Which is not true. And even so, evolution does not determine meaning.
It was just 3dfx voodoo, the 2 came later in 1998 :)
Credit card fees are about 2-3%. So if they are doing this, it must come from not charging tax.
Using Euclid's algorithm (not Euler's) is certainly not the easiest way of checking for divisibility by 3 - a number is divisible by 3 if and only if it's sum of digits is divisible by 3. You can repeat the process until you have one digit.
1) We totally agree, ride hailing is a low margin business.

2) Yes! As long as Uber/Lyft act like low margin businesses no one will compete with them. This means they have no pricing power.
I don't mind Notion's OTP, the token last for a while.
The device requires you to open holes to its cloud. Why does which IP it demands is open matter here? If you want to blackhole IPs yeah it's going to be painful at times. But you signed up for that by trying to blackhole IPs, no?
i worked with a number of on-demand companies (ridehailing, delivery, home services, etc.) helping them fill their supply-side funnels. as others have pointed out, it doesn't take much exposure or expertise to realize that the supply side of a marketplace can be expensive. of course retention also highly influences the cost.
> realize it was likely impractical to meltdown reactors just to develop the technology to clean them up

That's a great insight.

Maybe if some technologist approaches you and says "this is a great tech but we can't possibly recreate the worst case scenario, even in an expensive simulation" then that tells you that this is a straight "no".

Fukushima is evidence that the worst case cannot be sufficiently modelled and mitigated, at least in a commercial market.

Not saying "don't build nuclear", just that pro-nuclear lobbies should have been able to predict this situation (with a small chance of occurrence) and model it. If not, don't build. If you can predict it, but govt doesn't care about the risks, publicly document it, and that's OK.

OT, but at this point the nuclear debate looks irrelevant - direction of travel is that renewables win.

[ further OT ...moment of wild speculation: the idea that energy will be scarce will, within the 21st century, become as crazy as the idea that food could be scarce in rich nations right now. The race to renewables will look irrelevant as solar costs hit rock bottom, and no-one will remember why coal/nuclear plants were ever a thing. Within our lifetimes. I genuinely think that scenario is more likely than not. ]
After being assaulted by that stranger I thought about him a lot:

1) He probably has been abused and harmed many times, perhaps in his childhood.

2) He probably expects the worst from people, and thinks that everyone is out to get him.

3) He may be suffering from schizophrenia and literally thought I was attacking him somehow (I was sitting across from him with earbuds in reading a kindle).

4) Becuase there is not enough housing to go around here, the standards are higher, in terms of having an agreeable personality/job skills/overall shit-togetherness to secure a place to live, whether by earning a salary or staying on a friend’s couch or in a homeless shelter.

5) Feedback loops mean that once you are homeless, you suffer a lot and all of the above issues probably get worse.

My personality is such that I end up caring about and loving people that I spend time around or think about a lot. But I’ve learned the hard way that even if you love someone, you need to look out for yourself when trying to help them.
SWE salary is only a part of total comp, and I would be a bit concerned with their stock value compared to the much bigger business that is Uber.

So I understand why the salary portion might be high, to compensate for some of that risk.
I would say he has enough skills to get an interview at those companies. Solving coding interview questions is a skill that has very loose correlation with any side project/real work experience IMO.
> My approach to avoid this is always to try and find a recent and well written Masters or Ph.D thesis in the area.

How do you find this?
PPP are a huge scam. It’s basically a buzzword used for transferring public property into private hands. Most of the time PPP projects are ripe with corruption and end up in scandals and controversy. Typical examples are highways in Europe built with this model. Often the work is poorly done, the government spends more money than initially thought because it ends up costing 5x more usually and at the end of it all private corporation ends up extracting money from people via tolls and only doing the most minimal maintenance they can get away with.
Similarly, in your code, theres nothing about rows or columns inherent to the problem. There is a reference concept of a (standard) chess board that is really there to be 64 tiles in a linear set. I wouldnt add things that arent necessary or prematurely optimize for nonexistent future requests.
I find Twitter DMs to be very much like a chat. It has the UI of a chat app and messages are stored on a centralized service. What makes it obviously a different model and more like email or mail?
> There's nothing that prevents them from doing so

If Amazon moved in the public coffers would be 3B smaller and those benefits might not exist.
Magic Wormhole looks neat and I can imagine using it.
But apparently it requires:

- both parties to be online at the same time

- have access to a secured channel to transfer the secret

- Transfer a new autogenerated secret for each file transfer.

PGP lets you:

- verify the key once

- re-use the key

- the key be submitted through a public channel

- the verification be done in a public (though tamper proof) channel or by web of trust

- the file be stored in transit, no need for online

But obviously, if the complaint is that pgp is too complex, then each single tool to replace some functionality doesn’t cover the whole spectrum.
> To be fair it sounds like this proposal includes building public transit infrastructure for the city

No idea how they're going to square that up with Metrolinx and the provincial government.
They are doing this. Also, there are fees from credit card fraud as well to factor in.
Sounds like you care about your own sect more than him.
Participating in corporate governance and actively forming corporate strategy is a very different issue. And to my knowledge, ETFs and mutual funds do not participate in any meaningful way in management, i.e. they do not act as activist investors.
In this particular case, it appears to be the reverse, since the company is footing the bill, and expecting to be paid for it later, when it's actually viable and is generating taxable revenue.
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A few points many are missing :

Publications/year depends on field. In parts of biology, you just need one every 3 years to be fine. The journal matters too. Even one every 4, if it's in Nature, Science etc., and you'd secure a job. And field: Even papers not in Nature if they're in a hot field would be enough. And PI: even papers with a famous PI, without being a hit field or high impact, might be ok.

In this case the author appears to be a biochemist without any high impact publications or from any famous labs. So yeah, no dice. (source: just Google him)
In europe it's more like $0.35 on a $100 transaction for standard personal Mastercards and Visa due to regulation, the rest goes to the issuing bank to cover their costs and card rewards, and to your merchant bank to cover their costs and risk of chargeback. In US and Asia the interchange fees are much higher due to lack of regulation, thus it's not unusual for small business to pay a bundled rate of upwards of 4% if little credit history
Long Island City is practically indistinguishable from Manhattan these days. Those mom and pop shops are going to be pushed out regardless of whether or not HQ2 is in LIC. At best, current residents have a reprieve that can be measured in months or two years at the outside.
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I thought the bad parts of company towns only work when the town is isolated and your paid in google points. If you can just drive 10 minutes to a non-company town store and paid in cash, where is the lock in?
Religion is a survival technology. It might be of use to you here since this is exactly the problem it's designed to solve.

Edit: Here's some evidence: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/church-attendance-happy...

Edit edit: Physical exercise also helps. I suggest resistance training over cardio, because it produces greater endorphin release. YMMV of course. Good luck and hang in there!
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This would be in Canada, so we should see how Canada handles PPPs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-private_partnerships_in...
> Whether a company pays a dividend or not has no relevance to whether profit should matter to an investor.

What? The point if owning stocks is receiving dividends, otherwise it's just speculation. Without dividends, you can only realize gains by selling to someone else, turning the whole thing into a Ponzi scheme.
A lot of the time I try to see how far I can push the brute force solution which turns into a nice little programming exercise in optimization.
Having someone who will listen without the threat of loss of freedom or involuntary death is no small comfort.
Guilty as charged. I’m embarrassed by how many upvotes it got. I was hoping it’d get buried as I have a better comment in this thread.

But.....

There is a lesson for writers to think about different kinds of readers, and read your post from different reader archetypes point of view.
I would prefer not to.

I expressed my concerns about not hearing back from employers to Kartik -- I applied only because he reassured me that every application "in their system" (sic, iirc) gets a response.

"We don't do that", hah. If a founder wants to lie to prospective hires, that too when they are meeting them for the first time, it suggests that something is really rotten at the company. If you don't treat people nicely, well, there's a tonne of other firms in the area that are hiring...
What would happen if Facebook were turned off?
This reaching for controversy is absurd.
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Ask HN: Is there any way to add an Address in Google Maps?
Hi,

I am looking for a way to add a new address to google Maps? I have tried every option and for any address it is expecting it to business, restaurant, etc and not just simple personal residence.

Apple Maps has already added it.
Without google Maps adding it is getting very painful to get fedex/UPS packages and every with Android phone getting lost when trying to navigate.
This article from a while back (almost 6 years!) turned me off the idea of "smart" TVs completely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6759426

Fortunately, you can currently still spend a little extra to "stupify" a smart TV --- figure out what LCD panel it uses, then replace the "smart" part of it with a suitable driver board (search the Internet for "HDMI LVDS" --- these are basically what computer monitors use.) Interfaces are reasonably standard so they're compatible with a wide range of panels. Example: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/10-bit-lvds-controller-for-p...
Tivo hosed me on a version of item 2 a while back. My Tivo account is ancient, and when I created it the old email+gibberish@gmail.com trick worked fine. A year or so ago they released a new version of their site that wouldn't accept that email as valid. I was eventually able to sort it out but it required escalating the request several times as apparently even CSR tools couldn't handle the + in my old email and they were also unable to interact with the account. Good times.
I'd be interested in them doing a blind taste test.

Yes, there's human interaction and other subjective factors going into what people report taste as - much like knowing whether an artist traced a photo when making art (demonstrates skill without technological assistance)

But sometimes this changes - eg Europeans initially rejecting Californian and Australian wines, then grading them well in blind tests, then accepting them more (with some hold outs for traditional regions or high prestige makers etc)
> The number of people using password managers is literally a rounding error.

Given that they're present out of the box in all major browsers, I find it hard to believe. Maybe it's true for the user base of that enterprise app, but on the web as a whole?

And Chrome particularly is very aggressive at pushing the password manager. It will detect login forms and ask to remember passwords even without people interacting with it at all. It will offer to pre-fill a login form as soon as you start typing your login.

And recently, it's even offering to auto-generate strong passwords when it sees what looks like an account registration form - and those passwords then get saved straight to the password manager, so any person that takes the easiest route and clicks "OK, sure" is going to be tied to said manager thereafter.
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If you need to do something like this, do it separately from the actual input. For example, something like "type in the name of the account you're trying to delete".
Cap the subsidies by revenue. A trillion dollar company doesn't need handouts, if they can't make profits on that scale of revenues they are inefficient and that capital should be re-routed elsewhere.
Your instincts are correct. I happen to know that DMs at Twitter are (and most likely still) stored in a sharded MySQL store[0]. Deleted DMs and tweets are "tombstoned", and not actually deleted via a DELETE, which has pretty terrible performance characteristics in MySQL

[0]: http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/12/19/how-twitter-store...
One could also say that the costs of using cash are being passed on to card-paying customers
Well, you also didn't exist before you were born, for a very long time.. Does that bother you too?

It's very common to have existential crises (and other related crises) in your teens/20s. I certainly did. I read some philosophy-type books on the meaning of life which helped with that. (Klemke's The Meaning of Life anthology was one I remember that helped a lot.)

Ok, so... not living forever seems..bad? So..if you lived forever, that would somehow give you meaning to your life? I can't really see how it would, even if it were possible. An infinite life would probably be infinitely boring. (I don't think people really can imagine forever or eternity) Surely the brevity of life makes its moments more precious. Think on what you're grateful for, treasure the people around you. What an amazing miracle it is to somehow be conscious, alive, here, now, on this planet.

I don't think "What is the meaning of life?" is a good question - we give our lives meaning by the things we're involved in. Who cares if they don't last forever? Is a piece of music, a meal, a conversation, a day, the worse for coming to an end?

People can help you, and it is a serious problem you are having. Get help if you need it - it's being strong to ask for help. Good luck.

p.s. Religion[0] provides answers, but false ones, as far as we know. Believing "we live forever", without any evidence, is just burying your head in the sand. Among the basic facts of life are that we are born and we die. Expecting the universe to be like a child's home, with loving parents and everything designed to make us feel good, a moral universe designed around human desires, is wishful thinking.

[0] (which I notice a sibling comment has recommended as a solution)
I mean we live longer, and it is rare for someone to die young. In my experience we seem pretty okay when someone old has died.
Don't compare Europe to China. We're nothing like China.
You can use a bookmarklet. I don't have one for restoring paste, but I have ones for setting viewport width to desktop and it works really well (iOS Safari).
You are missing there an important factor: Life and dynamics of marine ecosystems. One of the problems is that 137Cs is being accumulated by sea currents, therefore even if we have a safe level in eight years, we could have, lets say, the "double" of the safe level in 16 years, rising to "four" times in the next 30 years (of expected half life of 137Cs). Minus the Cs released again to the water, but...

The other potentially big problem is that Caesium is bioaccumulative. Clams and other animals could take it from the water again.
Terror of death is a biological instinct. It’s not a rational thought. You might fear death rationall, but the terror is instinct. Thinking about death stokes that terror, but we do it anyway. Kind of like how when someone tells you something smells bad, you smell it. Wait until you are sick and feel crappy. Not old and weak and dying, just in a shitty cold. If you think about death at that point in time you won’t have any terror. Fun trick.

With that in mind I think this notion becomes more believable. I would suggest trying the inverse of a mind palace. Imagine the seed of the terror to be locked behind a chained up door. Before you’re allowed to experience the terror you must imagine mentally opening the door. If you don’t open the door, you can still think about death and muse upon it. You just don’t feel the terror.

That’s how I got over it anyway
Dear god it's actually one word per line in some places
What is there to debunk? Someone who has access to your browser, has access to all your browsing data - of course! This includes saved passwords.
Thank you, I should have been more careful. Spectre and meltdown are in fact specific interactions that happen because OOO and specex are hard and it's easy to mess up given the high level of statefulness and complexity in contemporary chip designs (in this case - memory caching). But ooo and specex make chip architectures difficult to reason about and I'm sure more errors will emerge.
I think it's the opposite, this is an echo of the latest election cycle. Since Hillary was humilliated by Trump the centrist Democrats are losing most political battles, gradually.
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It's hacker news, randomly crapping on technology nobody brought up is what hackers do (/s)
What is wrong with saying that McDonalds has baristas?
1. the primary issue is you can't properly optimize rendering and if what you want to do doesn't fit neatly into unity's architecture its gonna be dog slow and your gonna spend forever writing hacks and work arounds to get it to work.

you don't have to roll your own everything for a custom 3d engine, theres a lot of libraries out there. the idea that everyone should use tooling that reminds me of visual basic to make games is weird to me.

2. i don't know about that. my experience is that you don't have easy access to the actual physics code
> The compiler has to make static decisions.

Pretty sure I mentioned JITting in my comment.

> My intuition says software can't beat the speed of a superscalar OOO CPU anymore

How good is good enough? I mean we have distributed tensor flow which is basically on the fly compilation that can reorganize your computational graph around nodes with gpus separated by network latency, or Julia where you can drop in a GPUarray as a datatype and move computation to the GPU without changing your code.

If we go to something a bit more baroque, java is within 1.5 of c/c++ these days

Could you hand roll a better solution? Probably. Would it be worth it? Doubtful.
It also screws over people who use Tampermonkey.
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> Top 1% income earners are typically business founder-owners

No, they're not. The top 1% are people who work "normal" high-paying jobs [1]. You're probably thinking a smaller slice like 0.1%. Also if you're going to claim that someone's work is debunked, at least point to some references to back that up.

[1] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/packages/html/ne...
Number of times they've been banned. :^)
There's a lot of things to first consider. The new Tax Cuts & Job Acts is changing many things around entity decisions so it's beneficial to be an S Corp or LLC for most cases. How much revenue are you expecting? Could you provide more info?
> The things you don't get with these alternatives are flaws, not features, like "all being in one application".

I believe what the parent likes about "all in a single package" is the practicality and simplicity that this brings to the user: you could either just install gpg and read the man, or review tens of different relatively new applications (none of them widely used, yet) for each step of your normal workflow, learning their different interfaces and quirks, and then keeping yourself updated of any new disclosed vulnerability that may affect your custom crypto tool set.

Obviously a small application that only do one thing hopefully right should be, at least in principle, easier to maintain and audit (and therefor safer) than the ol' swiss army knife of cryptographic communications, but the convenience of all-in-one is also a reality that shouldn't be overlooked.
Frankly, I really don't care about the supposed difference between:

while(1) hang
# and
for(i < 9^9999) hang
My frustration is that a lot of the solutions provided are raw libraries rather than end-user tools. For offline encryption, how do I encrypt a file with a password (or a keyfile)? The solutions provided are a few Go libraries, saltpack (which I think is only a spec? I couldn't find an executable), and then the Keybase service. None of these work as a simple no-strings-attached end-user replacement for `gpg -c`. This article didn't give enough for me to take `gpg -c` out of my bag of tricks. (And I do want something to replace it with! It frustrates me that it defaults to a weak password hash and AES-128 without authentication.)

Maybe the article should mention scrypt (https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html) as a tool for password-based offline encryption/decryption. That tool seems like it might be a good replacement for `gpg -c`. It is frustrating though because its name is almost un-googleable (most results just talk about "scrypt" as a hashing function, rather than "scrypt" the encryption tool! It really needs a better name) and I rarely see it mentioned. It doesn't even seem to have a recommend file extension for encrypted data, which bothers me possibly more than it should. Its files aren't recognizable.

Magic wormhole is extremely cool though and does replace a big subset of my GPG usage.
He was actually both (he ran again in '96). The second time around he still managed to get over 8% of the popular vote, which is pretty impressive [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_presidentia...