skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few components to being a good "negotiator".

1. Put yourself in situations where you're comfortable walking away. If you're frequently finding yourself in back-and-forths where you're afraid of the other side saying no, you may be putting too much on the line. Start off with lower risk negotiations, and slowly ratchet them so that you have something to fall back on.

2. A lot of people think that negotiation is a "fight" to arrive to get what you want, but the reality is more complicated. It's really a joint agreement where both sides get most of what they want. Most negotiations rarely end with all parties feeling getting everything they desire. To achieve this, communicate your needs clearly, and likewise, try to understand the other side's needs. Only then can you make demands that make sense.

3. This goes along with #1. It's very important to give the sense that you have control over the situation. In a salary negotiation, this could be having multiple offers, or very clearly communicating that you don't need the job. In a PR, it might be replying to pushback on a change by explaining in detail why it's a positive for the codebase, and throw out a few architectural details to support your statements. If you're trying to get an upgrade during your hotel stay, usually just asking is enough—most hotels are fully booked anyways, so as long as you appear calm and deliberate about it, you'll probably get something extra.

4. I hesitated in adding this as a specific bullet point, since it might be "controversial"; be nice! You're dealing with humans, not machines. Don't be rude while negotiating. It rarely works out as a strategy to get the other side to concede. Nice people are fun to work and deal with.
That also assuming that the browser war never happened.

The web is (was?) essentially a libertarian wild dream of unregulated evolution for a long time.

The question is not if we took a suboptimal path in this evolution, but if there was a better way to define the process.

This is not to argue anything, if the web had started with XHTML maybe it would be better or maybe it would be worse.
Tech in 2020: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants – Benedict Evans Presentation [pdf]
They were reusing bottles not because they were so conscious of the environment but because the country was dirt poor and could not afford producing enough new bottles.
And believe me, Warsaw's buses and trams are much more comfortable and less overcrowded than they used to be ever before.
> If you can write Chinese, google those skeletons, they are up to everybody to see. Even taxi drivers here know of Xi's billionaire sister, but... taxi drivers and other general public can't do anything about that.

Why would I need to read Chinese to find out about this? The Chinese state isn't able to censor content in Chinese, but has got the Western internet under its thumb?
Yeah I came to the same conclusion.
You used to be able to just buy it on the open internet. Then the US govt. shut down the supplier (as well as many other substances).
1. I hadn't seen that guide, but there is some issue where Catalina thinks that the command line tools installed are up to date, but `brew doctor` reports otherwise and you are forced to manually download the command line tools, just like in that guide.

2. I tried zsh briefly, then just used the bash that you can install via homebrew.
Nouveau ought to turn the card off automatically, if loaded. It might not be able to do anything else, but it should at least do that.

NVidia on desktop "works" for me, but suspend/resume is a fiasco - one cycle and the graphics are never right again, flickering and crap everywhere.
In fact the levees were designed to survive a Katrina-sized storm, but of course never had to prove they could, until they failed.

They were not, and the fact was well-known in advance. Their limit was a category 3 hurricane and there had been years of passing the buck about upgrading the levees to give the city a shot.

Then Katrina happened and everyone who had passed the buck claimed that it wasn't their fault.
I think this could help.

1. The point is not to "do what you love", but to "love what you do".

Trying to do what you love is destined to fail quickly: there's always something else, there's always a part of the job you don't like, and you never truly have control over the very fact that you love something or not, at least not if you approach it like that — you'd be condemned to follow your emotions as the only decision maker for your choices in life. But emotions are meant to guide us (it's information, just the language of the body), not control us.

Loving what you do, however, is a totally different process, and quickly becomes a choice as you flex that muscle: essentially it's about putting "good will" into all your actions, it's about this idea that "how you do anything is how you do everything"; to sincerely try with an open mind and being positive about it. Several things follow from this simple practice, mindset:

- we are creatures of habit, and the more we do something, usually the more we like it. It's just how the brain is wired — that's how marketing works, by sheer repetition, law of numbers. Propaganda and manipulation as well. "Self-programming" yourself to be able, in time, to grow positive feelings about anything you have to do is really a sort of superpower in this day and age.

- Here's an equation: effort + love = mastery (alternatively, you may see grit + passion = skill, any variation like that). The message is clear: lots of effort (time, regularity, repetition) and lots of love (but that part comes from the doing, it's mechanical unless you resist it) is how we build ourselves, and happiness among other things follows from that (because nobody can take away such happiness from you, it's internal).

- It seems that we all score differently on that scale, the term is conscientiousness, but it is my belief that it can be trained by force of will + action, i.e. determination (to commit to do it, whether you are "motivated" or not, regardless of emotions) + effort (marathon: paced, sustained, repetition, long-term).

It takes about 20 days to break a habit, and 3 months to form a new one. Probably about a year to make it last virtually forever, unless detrained.

These simple things have huge effects over the psyche (happiness notably) in the long run. Massive compound effects.

2. Another thing is the idea of "meaning", purpose, the "why" we do what we do. As far as I'm concerned, this matter is solved: you create meaning for yourself. That's it. We all make a patchwork from bits and pieces from all over the place, and it may appear of its own as a child or never for a lifetime, but ultimately, it's a conscious act, a decision you make. Meaning is the result of volition, internal drive to give substance to the world; those who seek it externally may be amazed at others but probably feel empty themselves until they become the creators of their own interpretation, their own meaning. Purpose is what you say it is.

The short TL;DR is that if you picked up anything and worked diligently at it for 10 years, you'd come out the other side an expert and loving it (average/normal human response to that situation).
I don't think I'll ever need to read one of these threads again, now.
All-digital communication systems are notorious for failing in natural or otherwise disasters; that's the reason why radios, whether used by official agencies or hams or both, are very relevant in those circumstances. Hence this isn't really a discussion in my opinion.
> On the other hand, just because someone has a difficult experience it doesn't mean that on the whole the experience was detrimental. A lot depends on who the person is, what kind of help they have, and how they react to and integrate the experience.

I was referring to those with long-lasting negative effects that persist for weeks, months, or even years after the trip.

These negative effects are frequently downplayed (or downvoted) in online discussions. They tend to be dismissed through victim blaming, such as suggesting that the person was unprepared, had latent psychiatric issues, or had improper set and setting.

The definition of "correct" preparation and set and setting seems to be defined as an impossibly high bar that few people actually follow. The impossibly high bar makes it easy to dismiss, ignore, or victim-blame the negative outcomes.

For example:

> All indications are that it is such an approach is what is responsible for the overwhelming positive outcomes of these studies, as opposed to the "acid casualties" that happen in informal, usually uninformed or even self-destructive casual use.

How many of the people reading this article or this comment section will be following the MAPS therapeutic protocol with trained professional supervision? Realistically, that number is zero. How many HN readers do you think are searching the darknet right now to buy some 5-MeO-DMT or Psilocybin for ad-hoc personal drug use under the belief that they are self-medicating? Probably quite a few.
They always do this when the next version of the book is close to coming out. The first 2 have been available for free for a while. It is expected with this that the 4th is coming soon.
Foreigner Not Taking Holidays
Hey, guys,

I would like your views on a situation that has been bothering me for some time.
I've been living in a foreign country for almost ten years now, and I've been working there for about six years. Since I came to this country, I have never returned to my home country. However, I get along well with my family who still live in my home country, and we are in regular contact by phone or internet. Since I started working here, I rarely take my holidays. The few times I have taken time off, I didn't really know what else to do to keep myself busy, apart from sleeping, hanging out on the internet, playing video games... I have acquaintances here but I would hardly call them friends. I also don't have any close family or boyfriend here. And I'm fine with it. But usually, when my colleagues come back from holidays, they talk about their travels (which seems to be a habit for the middle class in this country) and activities they did. So now I don't take very long periods of time off to not be bothered telling what I did during my holidays. I just take two or three days, consecutive or not, just to rest a little bit. I have to say that not taking leave has also allowed me to negotiate pay raises a few times during my performance reviews, but I'm afraid that's not enough anymore, even if my boss are very satisfied with my job. That's the first problem I have.
The second is the questions I may have from my colleagues or superiors. The questions that come up most often are: Why don't you take some time off? Why have you never returned to your home country? Don't you miss your family/country? What did you do during your holidays?
Usually, I got through it by changing the subject as quickly as possible or by making a little joke. But I'm getting tired of it all and I'm running out of ideas too. I wish I didn't have to answer these questions anymore or answer them without being judged and without lying.
For what it's worth, I'm a girl, although I doubt it matters.
> but you could also end up in a hellish, confused world of angst and terror for what seems like an eternity, and feel excruciatingly hollow for weeks or months afterwards. The latter can of course be devastating to someone suffering from depression, anxiety or other psychological ailments.

Yep, exactly this. I'm about a month past my bad trip, and I'm still dealing with the negative after effects (anxiety, some depression, and occasional DP/DR). I wasn't an overly anxious or depressed person before.

I am definitely feeling better than I was a couple weeks ago, and I feel like with more time I'll continue to heal, and get mostly back to normal (although "normal" now means something different to me).

People who haven't been there just can't understand the hell that you can potentially go through on high doses of psychedelics. Take the worst experience of your life, then multiply it several times. Now, strip out your ego, and throw yourself into the infinite expanse of space. Then give yourself the absolute surety that you will be in this state for all of eternity. There is no doubt in your mind that you will never escape. That's sort of what it feels like.
The ending of the MGS2 video game (released in November of 2001) was butchered, since it involved a massive submarine crashing into New York City and Konami feared the game could be seen as a criticism of America. In the cutscenes that survived the butchering, you can see vestigial remnants of the original; most notably flagpoles without American flags on them. The ending of the game has the "villain" explain his desire to free America from the AI that personified of the military industrial complex. When he died, an American flag was meant to symbolically fall on his body.
> See e.g. the right-to-repair debate. The function is important enough for farmers to demand regulation and drive the prices of old, non-locked-down tractors through the roof.

This is in fact a textbook example for how markets work. By the insane prize increase of old, non-locked-down tractors, every sane market participant can see how much more of a prize farmers are willing to pay for non-locked-down tractors.

I believe every manufacturer of tractors now does a careful market analysis and is probably (secretly) developing a more open, but expensively prized tractor.

My bet: In a few years there will be new tractors on the market that are better repairable, but higher prized - exactly what an economist would predict. It's just that we are currently in a transformation period.
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance on a $199 AMD Ryzen Laptop
I read it and immediately thought "Hey, I remember doing this in Perl in the late '90s or early 2000s!" - very nostalgic...
It's partially because communist economies aren't based off of currency but of labor. Forcing people to perform labor is a lot harder than forcing them to pay a 10% tax. So instead of having lotteries making people build many things over time, it was easier to enforce a "tax" on everyone at once for construction projects, essentially a system of corvée labor. The Chinese have done it for thousands of years, even with a complex currency system. Although the people exploited for it often get heavily abused, if not killed, the future generations hugely benefit.
That would be pretty frightening. There is a hypothesis out there that climate change might ignite an authoritarian regime geared toward counting climate change. Seeing that a mass surveillance program the size of whatever China has cooked up works to contain a biological outbreak and counter a catastrophe might help ignite such a thing.
Sleep, exercise, socialize, meditate, and spend time in nature. When I have a good balance and routine with these things the procrastination and self-distraction ceases or at least becomes a non-factor.
Git Squash at the Command Line with a Bash Script
America cities have too many oversized streets and major intersections. Keep the streets small and you don't need as many intersections and you can invest more in the ones you have. This is what they do in the Netherlands.
This is an easy Google search, but I'll add it just in case someone hasn't done it yet. If you'd like to avoid upgrading to Catalina until you think it's ready, but still get security updates, etc., run this in your terminal:

$ sudo softwareupdate --ignore "macOS Catalina"
$ defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0
$ killall Dock

This ignores the system update, and gets rid of the red update dot.
I think we can say with certainty that ultimately all 14628 of them will die.
In Germany I can report numbers that are doing spam SMS or calls to a governmental agency and they will be shut down within days. That should be possible for other countries, too.
>The prevailing view seems to be: robots will take our jobs, therefore we will need UBI, which allows people to live without work.

This is the prevailing view among technologists, a group that includes large swathes of romantic people who view themselves as something akin to wizards. Meanwhile, mainstream economics just sees a lot of business as usual.
That they had a bunch of school buses sitting around? Did they also have a bunch of bus drivers, or other qualified people with CDLs, sitting around on call? Because most of them are usually part time employees with second or third jobs and probably also had their own families and problems to solve.
>The core issue remains: if you don't have a plan for your life, society will make a plan for you.

You only plan to choose various plans society has for you. There is no plan that is viable out of society’s general direction, if you participate in any constructive way.

Seneca, Socrates and many others were just a tip of the iceberg, and they quickly go underwater, when that iceberg decided to flip or crack. It is okay to achieve others goals if you get paid enough and do not have to constantly fight (iow carry huge risks) through your life.

Their perspective is useful, in a way Jocko Willink motivation videos are useful, but you don’t really go to a full-blown war after watching these, nor are you ready for it.
You and your n – 1 friends have found an array of integers
PAM auth w/ YubiKey and I assume other cards is still broken too.
Katrina was actually weakened to category 3 when it hit new Orleans. They should have lucked out (yet again) if the levees performed as they were supposed to.
There's a regular drive I make. I can either hop on the freeway and it takes 1hr 4min, or I can take backroads and it takes 1hr 2min.

The backroads also has a 25% or so chance of getting stopped by a train. Big massive transcontinental train connecting the biggest port complex in the US to the rest of the country. Takes about ten minutes. Last time I hit the train, as it was almost done, a train came the other way.

Haven't taken that route since, despite the fact that it saves two minutes, sometimes more if there's traffic on the freeway. It's not a good value proposition.
Other cultures with experience regarding [re|up]cycling:

- Cuba

- Damn I forgot :)
No need for explicit "avoid seedy areas" model. Just look where people prefer to walk (esp. people with iphones), and favor those streets in your algorithm.
I had to boot into safe mode to log in to iCloud, to get an auth code from a device I removed months ago, just to remove the notification flag that said I needed to log in to use certain apps.

I don't get how they can keep making buggy OS upgrades like this. I mean is the wealthiest company in the world too cheap to hire a good QA team? Or do they just assume those who bitch on their forums are their QA team?
Maybe? I think military systems are interesting to look at when thinking about this question. The German military was famously centralized in WW2 leading to all sorts of chain of command issues while many of the Allied militaries like to push decision making authority down to more local units while providing overall strategic direction.

However, in governance, its much harder to measure "effectiveness" -- and every measure ends up becoming a target/goal of those being measured. Is it GDP? Sentiment analysis of social media for indicators of social discord? I don't really know, and neither does anybody else.

So some authority simply sets some desired set of strategic goals (2% GDP growth, 3% increase in high school graduations, average household income up by 2.3%, etc.) and then works to create conditions such that those are met.

But with more of a diversity of goals seems to require a diversity of executors of those goals since human attention is limited. This implies again an ability to delegate and so on and I'm not really sure if authoritarian governments can spare the attention to make sure each of the delegated executors can work on such a plethora of goals.

In business, the number of direct reports to the CEO, COO, VP and so on seems to indicate the number of strategic goals an organization can pursue at once. In most companies it seems to be only a handful as the ability of the CEO to direct many reports diminishes as there are more of them.

In the U.S. this need to spread focus works in the executive branch by appointing department heads (cabinet secretaries) who basically have a single overriding raison d'être for their existence (e.g. commerce, housing, transportation, etc.) with a set of strategic goals that those executives can focus on. In the U.S. that's something like 15 departments (plus a very large number of independent "establishments and corporations) which are more or less treated like a company might treat a subsidiary rather than a department. [1]

China also has a complex system as well, much more complicated than I think outsiders give it credit for. It's not a surprise though, the ancient Chinese practically invented the idea of a bureaucracy [2]. I think the primary structural problem for China is not the simple notion of authoritarianism per se, but the parallel bureaucracy of the party structure.

1 - https://www.usgovernmentmanual.gov/ReadLibraryItem.ashx?SFN=...

2 - https://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-a-chart-that-visually...
Stem cell clinics’ much-hyped treatments lack scientific support
That and also things like rehab facilities placing themselves in Florida because people can pretend to be going on vacation when they go to rehab.

The ones who don't succeed in rehab get kicked out and the result is that addicts for various things (including alcohol, meth and opioids) wind up migrating the Florida and then getting stuck there.
Here is a link to recent SSRN papers on coronavirus https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/coronavirus/
Good questions :)

> First of all running your own leads directly back to you. Second it puts you on the list of even more paranoid people.

It doesn't point to "me", at least in meatspace or even as Mirimir. It points to some anonymous persona, created specifically for that purpose. On its own Whonix instance, through its own nested VPN chain, and using its own multiply mixed Bitcoin. All totally disposable.

And to be clear, I'd use a different anonymous persona for the onion service itself, created specifically for that purpose. With all the features described above.

> Since you know and connect to that private bridge one can assume you trust that bridge for whatever reason which indicates some kind of "personal" relationship to that bridge.

There are numerous private bridges, and many of them have only a few users. Perhaps even just one user.

> The private bridge now connects to the second hop. This is a malicious one. The operator sees an IP which does not come from an official relay in the consensus. I don't know if a node knows he is in the middle (at least a guard and exit must know they are at the beginning and end of a chain, i guess?), but if he does he would now know that a private bridge is connecting to it. So you could enumerate private bridges.

Sure. Authoritarian regimes do that all the time.

But here's the thing. My Tor client will still only use that bridge. So it can't be tricked into using a malicious bridge. And I can change private bridges frequently, if I like. It's not at all hard to configure them.
http://english.whiov.cas.cn/News/Events/201502/t20150203_135...
How do I roll it back?
Hypothetically speaking, would you rather read about the recent US impeachment proceedings in Korean or in English? You know, the language most widely spoken in the US?
It's making it worse because the China-appointed leadership of Hong Kong continues to allow flights from China, risking lives to please the CCP.

Medical personnel going on strike this week.