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It helps to understand that life is about much more than your career or material success. Really internalize that idea. It's counterintuitive, because it feels so certain that hitting ProfessionalGoalX will make you permanently happy. But it won't. It never does. Even if that goal is wildly ambitious and makes you famous or makes you millions of dollars, it'll feel great for a while, but those feelings will dissipate, and in ~18 months you won't be any happier for it. This is one of those lessons that's better to learn vicariously than it is to learn by wasting years of your life and sacrificing your happiness ;)

As for friends, I'd recommend four things:

1) Build a habit of making friends. It's not good enough to make friends once or twice in your life and then hope they'll stick around forever. It should be a continual process that you do for its own sake, from now until you die. Otherwise the number of friends in your life will always be declining (or at risk of doing so). Also, since this should be an ongoing process, you need to find a way to enjoy it so it's fun and sustainable.

2) Be proactive. Be open to things. Get out of the house. Go out and do real-world events with people. Reflexively say yes to things people invite you to. When you meet new people, be interested, agreeable, and pleasant, yet forward. If you hit it off with someone, ask for their number and casually invite them to future hangs.

3) Prioritize people who are also open and proactive. Not everyone has time to make friends. Not everyone wants to maintain friendships. Spend more of your time on the people who do.

4) Rather than make individual isolated friendships, build a tribe. What that means is you should make an effort to introduce the friends you meet to other friends. Do group hangs. You want it to be the case where the people you know also know each other. This solidifies relationships and helps them last longer, because like any other network, the value of your tribe will increase to the people in it as the size of the tribe grows. It also leads to a higher frequency of hangout opportunities, as everyone in your network now gains the power to catalyze hangouts with everyone else in your network. It also makes serendipity easier -- the more people you know, the easier it becomes to meet new people who are friends of friends.

These things have helped me tremendously. I'm 34 years old, I moved to Seattle last year after living in SF for 10 years. I spent most of my time quarantining after I moved, but after getting vaxxed in April I've been much more social, and I've already made encouraging progress toward building a new tribe.
Author here.

This all applies to Edge, too. I am also a huge keyboard fan and user and the command menu is incredibly useful. As to bringing Overrides to the main browser interface and not only to developer tools, I'd love to do some more research on that. We are not seeing much use of overrides at all and they are a pretty niche use case. That said, I see far too many people and companies resorting to browser extensions where a snippet or override could do the trick. I guess one of the issues is that they are limited to the user/machine right now and you can't share them in a team.

That said, we have some ideas in the making to bring command menu functionality to the browser URL bar. We'll see how this goes down with non-developer end users. As a interesting fact , which I did mention in the talk, we had a real issue with people accidently hitting F12 and getting developer tools without wanting them and we're still getting daily feedback that people are utterly confused as to what happens to their browser when they open.
PhD or not is one of those questions where if you find yourself asking it repeatedly (especially to others around you), the answer is no.

You are exactly the kind of person who should be doing it!

Good luck!
Better link: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326

and the problem is fixed in the fork https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
It's plenty loved, I'd say the most loved, but still a fair way behind Oracle in terms of popularity just because of legacy stuff. Damn legacy code, hecking JQuery was still the most used JS framework until just this year!
I have always felt a childlike nostalgia for baseball in a way other major sports do not achieve. It doesn’t surprise me that the ethos of baseball is apparently easier to tap into in the form of literature.
I detest this piece of crap idea so much. You've created "files" and made an interface to them, but they are in no way usable or empowering to users? The files don't really exist at all? They are only for devs to use? How have you fucked up files so badly? Why would you do this? This is just an absolutely ruthlessly awful idea, deeply anti-user, a perfect shit-storm of user-loathing.

On the plus side, at least the spec authors didn't build a ridiculous overprotective childs toy like the File System Access api. Which does actually let the web work with files users can also work with. But which makes all kinds of huge promises about durability & robustness that make sure that the actual API webdevs get for dealing with files is ridiculously hideously unperformant & riddles with problems so as to be nearly useless. It's unusable for any kind of interesting application like running sqlite or any other scenario where data is updated in-place. Deno evaluated this API & basically laughed it out of the room as infeasible & worthless, on a number of dimensions. https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/11018

So the web is in the worst possible spot. We have one API where we can do nothing for our users: we can build fancy new data tools with Storage Foundation but we can't work with user files or expose what we're doing. Or we can work with File System Access, and manipulate user files, but incredibly slowly. I think of Adobe recently trying to port Photoshop & Illustrator to the web, & how much they must be cursing the "hell" or "damnation" options they've been given with this sickening situation.

There is work to try to take much of the Storage Foundation API & to extend & build it out into Yet Another Specification, currently called Access Handles, that does interface with real files. This is the only chance we're going to have in the next half decade for the web to not be utterly trash at working with files. Pray for the suck to stop.
It is impossible to beat natural inclinations that evolved over a vast amount of time.
Polyphasic sleep worked for me but was extremely fragile. As in a slight deviation in schedule would ruin my life for days. It seems like the funny sleep schedules are things that work for some people in pretty narrow circumstances but with significant drawbacks.
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I have noticed that past few months that many smd discrete components are very low in number at many suppliers. You will see quantifies of less than 10k (a reel) of 402 package resistors. I feel that many OEM's are hording both CPUs, uC's and other support semiconductors as well as some of the common discretes.
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Sure, elections aren't that frequent and then you get large variation because the sample size is small. Notice that your stopping point is just before FDR and Truman (both Democrats) held the Presidency for 20 years straight, which was still before the South stopped going for the Democrats.
For all the fantasy here, let me remind you doing a PhD at an early age is one of the worst things you can do to your financial security (CS Ph.D being a major exception). It does not teach any employable skills, leads to a very high level of depression/anxiety compared to regular jobs and creates a huge opportunity cost where you miss out saving money early that has true compounding capability. The 2019 Nature survey has more information

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03459-7
I’ve read (sorry no sources, about to go to sleep) that that turned out to not be a super scientific thing, and that while some people might’ve gotten temporary placebo benefits out of davinci naps, it didn’t turn into long term sustainable gains in overall energy.

I say this as I’m about to do 48 hours with 10 hours of sleep, but I’m doing this to hit a really cool deadline, and I’m not under the illusion that this is sustainable.
It can be an absolute farce. I signed up for a GP, still living with my parents, they needed proof of address which I obviously don't have because I didn't pay for the water bill, so instead they accepted a written note from my father who provided no ID, and wasn't registered at the GP.

That may sound relatively minor but if I were doing some ID fraud it's all I would've needed to get started i.e. you need the first level of trust to exploit.

The British state is carefully designed to have the nationalized and privatized parts in the wrong places.
> bloodless

Most of modern life for most people in the west and even beyond is relatively bloodless. At least not bloody filled :p.

I enjoy films that are slow paced and stick closer to reality. So usually I’d prefer them not to be so dramatic. But I get you mean bloodless in how simple Arrival was too.

I don’t disagree at all with those points about Arrival. However Denis didn’t write most of his films any way, no? I enjoy the concept of time a lot so really just that combined with the visuals are enough for me to love the film. You’re def right on the massive weaknesses.

I gave only a few examples. I don’t pay too much attention to what is the major film in theaters. There’s only like 2 major releases on average per week. Even if it’s 3. That’s only 150 films. There are so many good films put out.

I think modern day stacks up if not exceeds past days especially when you don’t look at the major wide releases that are in thousands of movie theaters.

I think we would end up disagreeing on how good current films and old films are. I would not think of old films as good as you would, etc. if we were to begin listing a bunch out. This same sort of thing has happened with me with friends and music before.

To throw two recent films I watched. Though they aren’t new. The Lighthouse and Midsommar. The latter especially stacks up with how so much coverage of it was framing it as a happy story with a happy ending…when it’s a psychological horror film where every protagonist loses.

It’s also harder to compare only films. TVs golden era is arguably happening now. There’s a lot of very high quality awesome TV. Notably thanks to HBO, Netflix. I think one of my favorite shows, Rectify, was on IFC. Pretty obscure. This takes away from films as people can only multi task so much.
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to identify classic algorithms. From Europe, but located in Buenos Aires. Cheap!
I looked at the TJs pine nuts just a couple of days ago, and maybe this has been recently added, but there is a clear pine mouth warning on the bag.
Very inspiring story indeed. But the first question resonating in my mind is...

Why??

While what the student did is good. It serves as bad inspiration for too many people going to college these days just because they want to. And not because of a reason.

If the cost of education was low, then I would not be opposed to it. But we all know stories of people who say they are "going back to school" for very minimal benefits later.

So... at that age, we can see it as just an aspirational thing. But for younger people, it mostly (not all the time) sends the wrong message.
You should really take a look at social market and support recommended seeking a look at “trading the euro options sentiment indicator.” Let me know how that goes
Oh, the pandemic is over? Well I'm glad I heard it here on HN first. The 7-day average for COVID deaths is over 1,000, and nearly a million Americans have died (how many 9/11s is that?) but the pandemic is over because nearly 60% of our population took a free vaccine!

Vaccines rapidly lose efficacy when the virus they target has free real estate (vectors) in which to mutate. The laughably slow vaccine uptake in the US (while the rest of the world couldn't secure doses) is to blame there, not anything else.

Americans having to wear a cloth covering to keep their neighbors from catching something almost as contagious as measles is not a large ask, but here we are. It also protects against the flu and RSV since you're concerned about those—which is why the US didn't really have a flu season. Guess those couple hundred thousand deaths a year are preferable to masks when public outbreaks occur though.

What I don't understand is the rest of the world has figured this out? Go ride the subway in Japan and no one struggles with this, just westerners who think thatdoing the bare minimum to prevent illness, hospitalizations, and even death impede on their manifest destiny / freedom / constitutional rights / etc
"Open source" hardware would be a step forward, but how do you know that the hardware on the chip(s) matches the published design(s)?

You'd have to randomly sample some statistically significant number of the chips in the distribution/retail/whatever pipeline and, I guess, scan them with the appropriate tools? And verify them that way?
This is super common at that age and I totally feel you with the university friends thing. I lost touch with many of my uni friends and only have a more shallow friendship with other friends I made after that (maybe I'm a shitty friend?) - I've thankfully made a few more friends at my last couple of jobs and through some hobbies but not super close ones, however I then had a kid and have lost touch with a whole bunch of them over the past couple of years :')

Anyway, there's a stereotypical lifestyle that we've associated with being a professional coder, especially in your early-mid 20s. We've all heard it: "eat, sleep, code, repeat". At some point IMO this should be considered harmful. First, it enforces a narrow, diminished lifestyle without additional hobbies or interests. Second, it reifies coding as an end rather than a means - yes sometimes we want to build something pretty for its own sake, but a lot of the demotivation I've personally experienced has been from building stuff I don't give a flying fuck about. Insurance systems, legal bookkeeping systems, even a fucking recruiting portal for my country's military... I actually feel guilty about getting pulled into that one.
But the whole point of Psychohistory (as it’s presented in the books) is that there aren’t any “Chosen Ones” at all. Sure Salvor isn’t one, but Gaal isn’t either; no one is. That’s the entire point.

Under Psychohistory, it shouldn’t matter who the leader is; what matters is the forces on the population as a whole and that populations respond to those forces in predictable ways. Individual leaders come and go and really don’t matter very much on the big-scale stuff that Psycho-History is making predictions about.

It’s the whole basis of the first several books that this “large forces acting across whole populations” model is the ‘true’ way that civilisation-scale history works and why the future history is so predictable (before stuff starts going a bit off the rails later on in ways that I’m not going to spoil).

To me, if you’re not using that concept as the bedrock of the story you’re telling, then you’re not telling a Foundation story. (It might be a quite good science fiction story of course, just not Foundation)
> Look at GDP per capita.

If GDP per capita were relevant, then Luxembourg, Monaco, and Liechtenstein would be the dominant superpowers. And Taiwan would be able to defend itself from China without relying on the US. The ability to project force is only loosely correlated with economic measures, but overall GDP is the more relevant metric than anything "population corrected." And the core point remains: China is today a peer economically to the US, while Japan lagged far behind the US back during WW2.

> I'd suggest you're a little too sanguine about China's ability to maintain its oil supplies in a major conflict.

Is your suggestion that the US would start bombing civilian targets deep in the heart of mainland China (how?) to defend Taiwan? And Russian oil pipelines?

> If China attacks and tries to invade an island of 23 million people who want nothing to do with China, which has its own democratically-elected government and produces a huge part of the world's semiconductor supply, is the region and world supposed to idly stand by?

Is the claim here that countries never let bad things happen beyond their borders?

It's true that no country wants a China dominant in the region, but it's also true that no country wants a China cut off from their economies. Which puts them between a rock and a hard place. Do you think an iron miner in Western Australia is going to be happy with his house being foreclosed on because he can't pay the bills because it's all for the good cause of defending Taiwan's autonomy?

> In any case, the only people who would buy a rationale for the Chinese to attack US warships would be members of the CCP and some subset of the Chinese population.

Eh. I imagine the PRC intentionally having some ship full of medical supplies go through Malacca, ignoring US orders to stop, and then getting blown up. If you don't think the CCP can figure out a way to turn that into a nationalist uproar, you lack a sense of imagination.

My goal here is to dissuade anyone from the notion that a war between the US and China is in any way something with a preordained outcome or somehow costless for any involved party. It'd be a massive destruction of lives and wealth. If either country gets it into their head that such a war could be conducted quickly, cheaply, and easily, it increases the likelihood of war, which is something we should strive to avoid at all costs.
I get what you are saying, but I'd take TP over the bum gun any day of the week. Lived in Thailand for a couple years, and was a bit shocked when I noticed no TP in many (most) bathrooms, until my co-worker explained it to me. Yeah, it definitely gets your underparts cleaner, but at the expense of your hand -- not everywhere has soap.

If you are using TP, unless you have pretty bad technique, I don't see how you can get any refuse on your hands.

I'd take my risks with a co-worker with a slightly unclean bum using TP, over one with poor hand washing habits that's using a bum gun.

However, I live in Japan and find the washlet to be the happy and cleaner medium. Also, no thanks on the communal arse rag.
> I never realized that the brain (or ULM) can modify everything, including it's own policies, in response to external stimulus.

This statement does not make sense. For the brain, learning is the process of modifying policies. It is possible nothing else happens when brain is learning.
This is awesome, I can definitely see landscape photographers using something like this in order to get the right timing for the shadows.
> _Don't roll a barrel_ on Amazon

Speaking of, is this a common phrase? This exact phrase ("не кати бочку") exists in Russian as well, but I have never seen anyone use it in English.
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I went back to university at 36 after achieving a very, very modest degree of stability in my life. It was one of the best decisions I've ever made. Gave me a completely different perspective on who I am, what I'm interested in. It gave me the skills to start working in a sector I actually enjoy.

My friend, if I had never work again money, I'd just pile up Masters and PhDs.
This was my understanding of China. They do use a lot of coal, but it is because they are having to ramp up energy usage with coal-fire plants to keep the factories going. They do have long term plans to phase out coal, but when energy needed to keep up production or add new production (perhaps offshoring of jobs and factories to China), they have the build the coal-fire plants. Last I looked, they had about 30 nuclear reactors planned/in-construction/still at the drawing board.
STEM PhDs in the US pay no tuition and receive a stipend of typically $30K+ as well as health insurance and sometimes housing benefits.

Honestly, "fuck it, do another Ph.D. in an adjacent field like math" is definitely in my "shit ran out of funds for ski trips because I retired too early and need some health insurance ASAP" quiver.

> So... at that age, we can see it as just an aspirational thing. But for younger people, it mostly (not all the time) sends the wrong message.

Like 20-somethings doing startup shit, PhDs can be terrible life choices or wonderful life choices. Outcomes are anything but uniform. If I had gone industry out of undergrad I might be making $150K by now. Instead I'm making close to 10x that doing exactly what I would be doing if I were an unemployed bum following my passion, all thanks to my phd. Lucky, sure. So are startup folks.
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Fortunately encryption does not need to work forever. It just needs to work long enough until the information it's protecting ceases to be valuable.
From the OP, why are people saying youtube-dlp is illegal?
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This is so called jelly bean part, everyone makes it and there are still plenty from other manufacturers

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PhD in information science or mathematics can be good investment. But it is bad idea to star career in academia.
I feel mildly confused it's not somehow part of the eBPF world. ;)
The only director I'd let anywhere near the Culture series (or broader far-future sci-fi in general) is Neill Blomkamp. That dude just _knows_ how to do it, better than anyone else, aliens, robots, everything. And Sharlto Copley would be quite welcome as well in the main roles. His Agent Krueger in Elysium should demonstrate what I'm talking about.
Old rich vs new rich who are mostly desperate to display it out
Would love to read a blog post about this kind of experience!
A lot of folks in the “tether will fail spectacularly” camp also believe that its failure poses a systemic risk to other crypto, both because tether holds positions that they would have to quickly liquidate in a run, and because USDT makes up a large component of the daily trading volume for many coins.

So I suspect there’s not much overlap between people who believe they could break tether and people sitting on a large crypto stash to use as collateral.
Awesome - glad to hear that! Appreciate the feedback!