skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm just not aware of all of the Opsec things that have been done to make Bitcoin transfer stupid simple, but I have instant goosebumps anytime someone claims they can do something in an operationally secure way, especially when 10 figures of currency are involved. At that point, you need to be training your protocol to be secure enough to survive the team from Ocean's 11 or the Russian government, not just script kiddies with too much time on their hands.
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There is "preppers" field of thought which means being loaded with bunch of crap in case shit hits the fan. And hopefully you have enough crap to survive for as long as local shit lasts. Big discussion about what kind of crap is the best.

The problem with preppers is that if shit happens - everyone will be fighting for local resources for an unpredictably long time.

My idea is to have second/third passport to totally different country on a different continent where same shit at the same time unlikely to occur. Second - have a little property in that country you own.
Maybe have local stash for necessities over there.

So your survival scenario would be to have minimum amount of crap with a clear plan - enough to reach some transportation means away from local shit and be gone to your remote hideout to continue be productive and enjoying life instead of fighting with locals for resources for unpredictably long time.
Newsworthy would be more accurate description.

It is newsworthy when stuff blows up. Same reason SpaceX gets more coverage for its rocket development than say SLS or Blue Origin ( among other reasons). A lot of people watch car racing for the crashes. thats just human nature.
You'll grow more as a producer[1] of know-how, rather than just a consumer of other's knowledge. People who _really_ know something can teach others through blogging, speaking. Or they can synthesize their knowledge into working projects that capture an aspect of the problem. The act of synthesizing and adding to a body of knowledge reinforces your own understanding, and forces you to stay up to date.

Instead of asking "where do I go to grow", think "what can I contribute?" "what can I teach?"... If money is also a priority, then find the intersection of that and what pays well (which luckily isn't that hard as a dev).

1 - By "producer" I mean an evangelizer, synthesizer, teacher, not just an "inventor" of brand new ideas
Have you done lsd/shrooms before? This almost sounds like you can trigger the after effects yourself.
Wow. I didn't see anything I would deem a full hallucination, but the visuals were pretty amazing. Lots of fractals, triangles, geometry, some shootings stars, what looked like a spiral galaxy for about 10 seconds, then a moment of staring into an abyss, X shapes in my peripheral vision, etc. I'm a bit disappointed I didn't see a tiger jump out from my screen or the Enterprise D passing by. My mental imagery is usually pretty vivid, but it's also impossible for me to really judge that.

I'm not really sure what to make of this, but I'll try this periodically and see if I get anything different.

EDIT: I am curious how this would be affected by music as opposed to white noise.
> He was kissing and grabbing her bum

Good lord! Both at the same time? That's outrageous. This bloke doesn't seem to have heard of the Unix philosopy - do just one thing and do it well.
While that is true, the cost of insulin in Canada is less than $100/month (81 USD).
Mexico's Supreme Court has decriminalised the private use of cannabis by adults
Ignoring your deliberate misgendering of a nonbinary person, they didn't get to keep their job and income. They also permanently lost both of those (and all future potential for those), along with their life.

If you're going to make bad faith comparisons to racists getting fired for being racists, at least have the audacity to point out what you think their offense was here. As far as I can tell, the only thing they did "wrong" was to be emotionally vulnerable and in the sights of a dedicated hate group.
the slow rise of poverty without a matching process of socialization
If you click through to the experiment, they say that it's actually called '"Ganzfeld imagery" (Allefeld et al., 2011; Sumich et al., 2018)'.

Searching for that led me to this Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzfeld_effect
…until you’re working on an app for servicing companies, shipping departments, etc. where on some forms nearly 1/2 of the input fields can be dates. Then your users hate you because they can’t just tab > type > tab to enter a date.

I agree with you on the rest though. And I would love to be able to enforce ISO 8601 for text entry of dates.
Pornhub didn't do it right.
They choose being able to process Mastercards over any other consideration.

A ban on underage rape videos followed by hiring mods to enforce this would have been doing it right.

I'm surprised they made that choice it must have been the most profitable path. I guess the producers left are the big businesses who create premium streams who pornhub can upsell to.

Did they kill their brand?
Why would anyone pay so much for hardware that requires a subscription he said while posting from his $1500 + $100/mo smartphone.
Now you can automate/run your javascript IRC remotes (e.g., event based code on IRC) in the cloud without a server. Just message me on freenode to get a beta account activated.

For this to work, you must connect using the bouncer bnc.freenode.net:6697 (ssl) with your IRC nickserv nick:pass as your IRC connection password, or use the IRC.com mobile apps for Android or iOS.

This is how bots should be in 2021.
Best thing I can say is

(a) move

(b) do NOT register for USPS forwarding to your new address (USPS will help the data brokers)

(c) change your legal address for service of process to a registered agent service, not your residential address

(d) get a UPS mail box for your day-to-day corporate mail, and preferably most of your personal mail as well

Completely 100% refuse to ever give out your residential address for anything business-related.

In addition, a couple of other common culprits for unethically releasing addresses to data brokers:

- DMV -- opt out explicitly

- Voter registration - Don't register to vote if you aren't in a swing state

- Utilities -- opt out explicitly

- Credit cards -- opt out explicitly

- Random small e-commerce websites you need to receive packages from -- ship them to your UPS box or to your workplace if you can
I'm not sure you can have engineering without some at least rudimentary approximation of a scientific method. Maybe that's a nitpick though.

Either way, I don't see a fundamental aspect of the scientific method missing from an observation -> trial -> results loop. I also don't see crop cultivation as unintentional, although I'm not clear what you meant by that. What wasn't intentional? Deciding to experiment with planting seeds would have been a deliberate choice. Probably based on some observation that where wild grains were gathered together and and little things fell off of them, sometimes the same type of plant would grow. Followed by the idea that putting those things in different places might produce the same effect. Etc.

I don't think you get from wild gathering in a nomadic lifestyle to settled agriculture without observing, coming up with ideas about what you observed, testing those ideas, and checking the results. That is. A scientific process.

Toesinte turning into maize would may have simply been a blind generations long domestication process, but not that spark of insight and experimentation that led to stationary agricultural societies.
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>> To be really good at anything means doing it a lot

> True, but working smart is figuring out another way to do it that doesn't require skill.

There's also the old line "There are people who have ten years experience, and there are people who've had one years experience ten times over."

There's a big difference between "doing something a lot" and "deliberate practice" where you actually plan to progress and improve and excel at what you're doing.

I'm not any better at, say, washing dishes or vacuuming floors that I was 20 years ago. But I'm way better at programming, riding motorcycles, making espresso, and a bunch of other stuff I care enough about to "do it a lot" properly.
It's still privately owned and the owners actively refuse to "modernize" it AFAIK.

Why would they? It works.
>> This is an innate, selfish need we all have but one that belongs entirely to us and us alone.

> Or it is protestant work ethic overgeneralized.

The Protestant view would be that the "innate, selfish need we all have", as OP put it, is to serve in some way; and what differentiates people from one another isn't whether we serve, but whom we serve.

> And it has failure modes, namely not all hard work is blessed, or it was not the case that "arbeit macht frei".

Work is and always will be inherently hard or toilsome in some way. We may not have sweat on our brow, but we all do have hard and frustrating aspects to the work we do... I don't think protestants would call all work "blessed".
I'm curious why they collect fire hydrants. Is it important for self driving?
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Types and Tests (2020)
Use Apollo or (better) quit reddit, IMHO.
Whenever I hear of "nitrogen stuffing" I remember https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013/01/09/th...
There are thousands of thrift stores' and garage sales' worth of used fitness equipment that works perfectly fine, and don't require a subscription....
Would you be willing to point us to some of the edits you made?
I mean many people have been moaning about a wealth tax. This is similar to a 100% tax on wealth with automatic airdrops.
How about this, then?

I've drilled a hole in angle iron with a hand drill. That is dang hard work. The smart way is to instead work to earn enough moolah to buy an electric drill, then drilling holes in metal is easy & fast.

Working smart is what lazy people do.
Skill, Opportunity, Hard Work. One might need at lease two of these, possibly all three to make things happen. Recall von Manstein's four types of officers. Also, one of the most successful admirals for the US in WWII tried to avoid as much work as possible and left things to his staff - so that he could be free to make the biggest decisions. It all depends on what you're trying to accomplish.
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Thousands of comments along the lines of “my uncle’s dentist’s cat told me about this wonder drug that cures covid AND dissolves Bill Gates’ 5G chips” does not useful debate make.

I mean, I’m exaggerating, but only a bit. Have you seen the sort of comments this sort of thing gets?
Interesting self-experiment, but results are self-reported (and failure of the experiment to elicit imagery does not necessarily imply anything about vividness). I'm not sure it really reveals any objective metric regarding vividness of mental imagery.
I think your comment is deeper than it seems. Working on the right thing to make progress can be REALLY REALLY HARD. It can be so easy to fool yourself by doing the task you know how to do instead of the one that needs to be done, working on the task that feels good, working on the task that brings personal benefit, focusing on the thing that everyone else seems to be doing and so on. Heck, marketing departments the world over put enormous effort into A/B testing which may seem very scientific, but is often little more than p-hacking and cherry picking. Was the field of psychology making progress for 50 years before the replication crisis? Possibly not as much as it would seem. Did medicine make any progress before germ theory? Not much! And we fundamentally have the same brains as the people who espoused humoral theory, so we have an undiminished capacity to fool ourselves. Worker beware!
What sort of visuals did you see? I had some amazing visuals, but I'm not really sure what I'm to expect if I'm one of those people with vivid mental imagery. I didn't see anything particularly concrete, except what kind of looked like a spiral galaxy at one point. The rest was basically lots of cool fractals and textures. What was most strange was a few shooting stars I saw pass through my vision; they weren't those sorts of "shooting stars" you might get if you get up too fast or if you get all the wind knocked out of you. These were quite vivid shooting stars moving steadily for several seconds until each would vanish.
The SR-71 hasn’t flown in 22 years, so that’s a bad example.

There are of course planes that have flown for that long, and longer. The B-52s come to mind. But the SR-71 isn’t one of them.
I just got a dishwasher, and then work at something else that makes money.
to a certain degree, SpaceX is so successful, because they allow themselves to have that attitude.
I just used ublock origin to delete it. They still think they serve it, but I never see it.
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Life isn't just a dice roll for everything you do. You have an ability to influence it and can let the bad rolls get to you or not. Being able to make the best out of a bad situation is just as valuable as taking all the right paths.
For anyone interested in what backs DAI: https://backeddai.makerdao.network/What-backs-my-Dai-9b5ce66...
VCs, governments, nonprofits, large financial institutions, etc are all pouring buckets of money into climate tech right now.
If you accept the premise, what mechanism do you suggest?
At the time Microsoft made threats that the free upgrade path would expire.
Jon's language is not about the compiler being smart and fixing your code. It's about letting the programmer write good code without the compiler getting in the way.

I'm not aware of anything in his language that would make it easy for the compiler to automatically decide a better memory layout.

It's rather the opposite: preventing the compiler from doing such things.

For example, struct layout is always the order that you declare. There's no "feature" in his language that would re-order struct fields to minimize padding or anything like that.
Not lazy, "strategic". Someone will run for office or political appointment and use this (failed) case to prop up their "strong stance against the tech aristocracy." The complete lack of merit or critical thinking will be conveniently left out of the sound bites.
To be clear, your justification for why YouTube needs to censor themselves - "anti-science activists leading an otherwise-developed country to top the chart in pandemic deaths" - is itself widely-believed misinformation. Here's the current top of the Covid-19 deaths per capita chart: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat... Peru, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechia, North Macedonia. I'm not sure the USA has ever topped the chart. (Czechia is particularly interesting - they were the European "success story" the British press pointed to earlier in the pandemic as proof that the UK should be able to do better and our government failed us. In reality, they probably just got lucky the first time around. Actually, most of the success stories probably did.)

Now, a lot of less honest publications like to compare the total number of deaths in order to cynically take advantage of the fact that there are few countries as big as the USA, but of course that's a nonsense comparison. If the USA was instead split up into 50 countries, it'd be much further down that ranking even if the exact same number of people died.
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Fair… but but even one cycle of cause/effect is difficult to provide evidence for, let alone a cascade of causes and effects which sum to a slippery slope.

Slippery slope arguments would need entire dissertations of evidence to even be plausibly considered, and yet they’re one of the most common methods of naysaying.

While you’re technically correct, I’m functionally correct.
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> We will probably end up needing to reduce solar flux

If you believe this, the time to start working on its actual practical application is probably right now. Do you believe in this enough to stop what you're doing for work, and work on this instead? The money is out there.
> 2. Of those that hire remote workers, most will only hire them if they are physically located in the US, or with luck Canada / Mexico;

Have seen a lot advertising in Australia recently for remote workers. Presumably because of the cultural fit and there is still a bit of time zone overlap.
Isn't the opposite true? We see this in cults. One person or group of people only allow the approved of message. In time sexual and other radicalized ideas get introduced and because you must trust the leader...

Free thought is the gateway to a healthy educated population.
Because reddit and google have the same political bent, and aren't competitors.
Shhh! Some people are trying to justify their jobs as a service to mankind.
They got two strikes, before the third (and IMO a very suspicious one, as it was for a years old video) got their channel removed. Does it mean that all strikes are now void, or just the last one?

Sorry if I'm asking the obvious, but I'm not a content creator on YT.
I don't agree.

It's pointing out the meaninglessness of assuming you know why people are doing what they're doing. Training to run faster is a stupid way to travel 10km faster, if your need/motivation is just to get somewhere and not to get fitter.
Let's not. #FreeBSD
Well for my career, it definitely was luck. I got a programming internship in midwest, in a non-tech city...right when covid started. And it paid pretty well too.

No amount of "oh you just worked hard" will convince me I got that. I'm 100% sure it was not only luck, but the fact that also I was the only one who applied because they mislabeled the position in a major city like 150 miles away haha.
works fine on DuckDuckGo
Activists of every stripe routinely abuse reporting systems to deplatform one another. AntifaWatch, essentially "Left Wing Watch", had their paid account suspended by ProtonMail recently following one such coordinated flagging attempt. They regained access to the account after petitioning ProtonMail on Twitter, who conducted an investigation and cleared them of wrongdoing:

https://twitter.com/AntifaWatch2/status/1389980167360163841
It will get painted. FRP is a very common structural material, been in use for decades. It’s more expensive and tough to work with, but a great solution for difficult scenarios, like when fitting around odd shapes or when weight is a major concern. We use FRP regularly for seismic bracing of existing structures, for example, wrap an old concrete column with FRP so it will better survive an earthquake. In this case, I imagine the appeal is the extreme light weight simplifying foundation work. Pay a lot more for FRP, pay a lot less for everything else. That’s usually how we end up installing FRP.
If they have drunk the cool-aid instead of just selling it, then they really believe in the ecosystem with faith that is unshakeable. All Ponzi scheme needs some level of that faith, without that it hard to sell to somewhat knowledgeable audience.

Some of this tech sure eventually will become mainstream in a lot less glamorous and likely more centralized way than crypto enthusiasts like to think, current systems are not perfect certainly, they can leverage more tech, however they also have the benefit of evolving over a long period of time and have gone through the learning curve all the coin markets are going through.
Size is different in space. Something that feels cramped on the ground become spacious in zero gravity. It's hard to translate how to transit from life on 2-d surfaces to life in a 3-d floating space. A small car would suddenly feel huge of you can stretch out by hovering in the space above the seats. Skylab had lots of empty space, space that was never properly utilized. And many of its features were found useless in space. Skylab famously had a dining table with a rudimentary chair arrangement, something no other station has used.
It is a losing and neverending battle, too -- new C-levels come into your company, new managers and directors cycle in, perpetually looking for low-hanging fruit to up usage and profitability in their fiefdom at the expense of long-term goals and faithful users. You can explain once or twice how you're not going to implement some dark pattern, but what about the tenth time? Or the hundredth? Or the thousandth? And even if you manage to block it every single time, that same rot in the company will eventually wear down other reasons you'd like to work at the company, whether it's compensation or cool underlying tech or culture or remote-friendliness, and then you'll leave, and who will stop the dark patterns now?
Every _bitcoin holder_, it's not like a country experiencing deflation.
On Venus, water everywhere nor any drop to drink
That’s what I’ve done, after lots of good luck!
Their attempt at defeating adblockers on mobile successfully removed that distraction for me at least on that medium. I think 15 years of browsing the web with adblockers and not watching TV made me ad-intolerant, and I just browse away on the first commercial.
add Willingness To Take Risks

People who play it safe rarely get very far.

Most people don't recognize Opportunity because it comes disguised as Hard Work.
All of them responded when my listing was removed, and I could see that they were gone.
"there are three great virtues of a programmer; Laziness, Impatience and Hubris" -- Larry Wall, http://threevirtues.com
Or based on a user’s subscribed subreddits.
The level of denial by many here of China's accomplishments here is just laughable. They're only the second country to ever land a working rover on Mars. They've right now got astronauts on their brand new space station which is being assembled in orbit via 12 launches on 3 different types of homegrown rockets over the course of 18 months.

If not for SpaceX NASA would right now have no way to even send its astronauts to ISS and the US military would be having trouble putting payloads in orbit with ULA dependent on the Russian RD-180 until they can get BE-4 working (see: Starliner/NSSL mess). Let's not even talk about SLS.

China's space program has leapfrogged into second place globally and would be pulling into first if not for the (unexpected just a handful of years ago) US ability to lean on Falcon 9/Heavy and Crew/Cargo Dragon and the hoped-for success of Starship.

The idea China is simply "copying" US accomplishments is absurd and willful blindness. We are lucky to still be barely ahead.
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I bet you're working harder and longer at your own business than you ever did as a waiter.
Ah, the old "destroy it from the inside" strategy. Except instead of actively fighting anything, you recognize that rotting the company from the inside out with apathy while collecting the beefiest paycheck possible is your strongest weapon.

Bold strategy. Though I have to wonder if weaponizing your career in that way has dangerous implications for your self-esteem?