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In my experience the key to social interaction is the ability and willingness to focus on how the other person might feel about what is happening right now. Or to put it another way, putting yourself in the other person's shoes.

To be an expert is to even listen to your own words as you say them and make a judgement about what others are hearing. It helps to have an encyclopedia like memory of the circumstances and events in the lives of those you interact with. And, to understand what it must be like to be, say, a frail old lady.

Sounds impossible? You are probably right. Most of us struggle with those things. Some have it naturally. For some reason women tend to be better than men.

Can you learn it? Yes, but like learning chess, you won't be a grand master. Just get out amongst people and practice.

As a start, people love to feel better about themselves. Look for opportunities to build them up. If people say something stupid, say nothing if you can't say something kind. If you leave a conversation having made someone else feel better, count that as a win.

Hope that helps.

As for me, I have had chronic fatigue for about 5 years. Before that I communicated pretty well. Since then I find the mental exercise required exhausts me, which is how I have become so conscious of it.
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When I was a kid, I supposed that robots and automation would make drudgery obsolete, and people would only work if they wanted to. Increasing productivity would mean that everyone had access to the necessities of life, and even some of the luxuries.

How wrong I was. Sure, the robots and the automation turned up, as I had anticipated; but the benefits were taken as profits by corporations, and people didn't gain any leisure time at all.

I think we were all betrayed.

I wonder to what extent my opinions as a kid were formed by finding In Praise Of Idleness on my mother's bookshelf.
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thats twice I've seen black friday mentioned along side of thanksgiving... I'll have to look up exactly what started black friday now :P
Problem here is banking for the rural areas in poor countries.

They don't have internet, so they have to travel far to get banking access and as such, they are unbanked.

Claiming crypto is the solution is a fake dogma of the core issue.
> Public transports are full of thieves and scammers

This is true in the overwhelming majority of public transport around the world.

> Several people mentioned Tokyo

Yes, Japan is one of the safest nations in this regard. That's cool, but definitely not achievable everywhere because it is due to a lot of environmental factors (like the culture and the incredible conviction rates).
Advice I heard from lab manager with 15yrs on job.

1. When everything works everyone is happy and nobody pays you any attention.

2. When something is not working you will get shit from everyone for 'not doing your job'.

You will not be able to completely avoid 2. So your only chance to balance the scales is by showing your hard work when in case 1.

That means auto generating graphs of network resources, disk space, creating trend reports with actionable recommendations to our manager/boss.

This way they have visibility into IT world instead of it being magic that just works. It also involves them when making decisions no matter how small.

This of course is job security measure and you need to do your job first. Goodluck.
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Sure, but when I'm cycling to work, my primary goal isn't exercise; it's to get to work. So I'm gonna do things that optimise for getting to work in a reasonable state, rather than optimising for exercise.
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Hello HN!

For a long time I thought some knowledge of PostgreSQL will be enough to handle Amazon Redshift.

Today I came to realization I was wrong. I'm in desperate need for good books about Redshift. I'd love to get a book that would touch on designing tables but also troubleshooting queries.

At the moment I am checking on books listed here https://bookauthority.org/books/best-amazon-redshift-ebooks

Thanks!
Lately, the average bitcoin transaction fee has fluctuated between $24 and $31, according to data provider Bitinfocharts.

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Lots of languages use registers for call and return and have aggressive garbage collection. The techniques for handling this efficiently are well known.

Richard Jones [not me! a famous GC researcher with the same name] maintains an excellent list of resources which the golang authors might like to read: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/rej/gcbib/gcbibA.html
Thanks for that clarification!
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Decentralization is not secure from fraud. Crypto shows the unpreparedness of the masses and platforms:

Eg. https://rekt.news

And personally, i didn't see any non-tech folk know the concept of an offline wallet.

"Save value for later" just abolishes everything that has been learned to increase consumption and drive economics from the last 100 years. It's a negative growth driver for the country, if you applaud that, i think that's insane.
Note that telegram is not e2e encrypted, so you're sharing your private family communications with logging servers in russia.
I looked at that. If you assume that people in different areas behave in the same way with respect to social contact, even if they behave in different ways wrt. vaccination, then it supports your conclusion. The study tries to average that out, but...

There are studies that don't have this weakness. For example, you may look at households, on the assumption that people will have so much social contact with their households that the differences don't matter. Here's one that looks at that. "We estimated vaccine effectiveness against onward transmission by comparing secondary attack rates among household members between vaccinated and unvaccinated index cases, based on source and contact tracing data collected when Delta variant was dominant." https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.14.21264959v... I've seen another study with comparable results (the error bars overlapped).
> I'm asking them to reflect

Give how absolutely little you know about this situation, that was completely out of line and asinine. You jumped to a conclusion to polish a hobby horse, completely derailed the conversation, and got downvoted for it.

I’m asking you to reflect on how condescending and presumptuous your original comment was.
Finding lower stakes situations in which you can practice is key.
Just don't connect your tv to any network, wired or wireless, ever. It's much simpler.
The exception occurs because they are having a strong vision of where they want to end up, and it is pretty far ahead so working hard will be required, yet they are able to feel they are little tiny bit of the way every day.

Still they probably have idle time too that really defines those moments of N days at 10-12 hours.

They probably live a way that Bertrand Russel would approve of.
Nice backdoor brag.. "ooo I'm so smart I'm socially inapt"..

Perhaps watch The Big Bang Theory a bit less?
Think you have a bad role model there.
> you just need to put yourself out there as much as possible in as many new situations as possible

That's a big "just". It takes a lot of time and effort that you might want to spend elsewhere: https://blog.asmartbear.com/two-big-things.html

> so these people are most likely the ones who have spend their prime years mostly indoor in front of a screen working away on code and algos, chasing that top dream job, instead of "out-there" working with people

Who is to say one is strictly better than the other? Sitting indoors in front of a screen for a few years can set you up for life.
I can get that with https://wise.com/ which integrates well with banks and therefore is my favourite solution for that.

How does crypto compare to this?
I agree, and power negotiation is great.

But things that can use it seem to be expensive. I checked, the chips are fairly cheap; but all the PoE stuff I might use aren't "one per light socket" prices. Plus I'd still like a decent mains relay board that is appropriate to put in a wall - the Shellys' are a good form for this, but I cannot see a similar wired solution (although some Sonos devices get close).
The poor and unbanked in a number of developing countries are still able to use crypto for remittances, in some cases done through local trusted intermediaries who do have that access. Same as hawala brokers.
Kind of their fault for not doing anything when they saw this coming, no? Some people just don’t have what it takes to run a business, what can you do?

It’s not like any of these things happen suddenly, the warning signs show up years ahead.
I did indeed. I had one of the earliest expansion interfaces and disk drive. It had severe noise on the bus cable which caused no end of problems! They finally came out with a field service repair for it.
Plenty of work makes the world worse rather than better. It would be a net positive for the world if the people doing those jobs played video games, watched TV and read books instead.
Road bike tyres are clearly expected to hold at speeds like 50-60kph... that’s not even fast for a descent.

And commuter bike tyres are usually substantially beefier.
I never read anywhere that it was designed for desktop, but they've always included the packages. Firefox was pretty much the only browser available and was unusable for years because of some math issues with font rendering if I remember correctly. ( I have attempted to daily drive it from time to time). In this regards it's pretty obvious Void Linux is more desktop focused.

Alpine is supposed to be a small, stable and secure general purpose base.
For a couple of VMs I have an automated restore to another VM. The test copies rsync from the latest backup daily and restart themselves, and once a week do a full wipe and resync.

A script touches the copy mail store (I currently use Zimbra for a mail server) to check it is up, and that the last item “received” is no older than 24 hours, and emails me to say all is well. If I don't get that daily mail, the restore has failed somehow. I keep meaning to add an extra layer that checks for the daily mail and sends me an SMS if it doesn't arrive, just in case I don't notice. The copy VMs don't need to be high spec, though in theory if the main machines die I could just switch other to them in minutes by DNS+firewall updates (and by giving them a bit more CPU+RAM allocation), just enough that the services start and run fast enough for the occasional manual paranoia check, and they aren't accessible to the outside world (but could be, if I needed to make that switch in a DR situation).

Similar for the little web servers I still run and key parts of general data backup (the parts that can't be reobtained at all if both originals and backups are lost): restore from backup after the update of the backups is due to finish, checksum everything older a few hours on both sides, and send a mail if the checksums match. That sometimes give false negatives, if a file is updated between backup and checksum, I have a couple of possible fixes for that in mind but it only happens if I'm working silly late due to when the checks run so I've not been bothered enough to implement one.
In my opinion, this is an uncreative misuse of the term "slavery". Words have meanings, and slavery doesn't mean "someone with a shitty job", it means "someone who is fully owned by someone else".

I recognize that you're just trying to further a leftist "boo companies" narrative, but even if your employer treats you badly and you're hard pressed to imagine an alternative job, your employer does not own you and you are more free in your choices than any slave has ever been.

I recognize that there are jobs that are modern slavery (eg banana plantations), but I don't think that's the kinds of jobs this threat is about. The context is tech employees, or even amazon warehouse workers etc, and even when those are bad, it's not slavery.
I wrote essentially the same post yesterday. The interest in crypto is directly proportional to the BTC/USD rate. I don't see real innovation compared to 2016 when very few people talked about this stuff. The single thing that has changed is the price.
Which, to be perfectly honest is pretty hard these days. Used to be easier - you could pick some hobby or two you're somewhat interested in (could be anything, yoga, board games, hacklabs...) and go socialize with others
It is possible. Adventureland was available for the Pet as was Pirate Adventure.
> This is a big 'problem' in the west too, where venture funded 'startups' can often out compete small scale traditional rivals in price temporarily by providing goods to the market at much less than cost, burning investor money until the rival way of doing things is broken, then jack the prices back up and reap the profits as a local monopoly.

I come from a position of extreme scepticism that this strategy can work. In theory I can imagine it, but in practice I haven't seen a follow up like "...as was sen in the case of [practical example".

The companies that try this without network effects seem to get crushed - I like to point at Uber. Their loss-making competition seems to be translating into ongoing losses rather than monopoly.

Companies with network effects - and I'm thinking FANG companies - generally moved in and took out well established players by being substantially better with innovative new business models. In most cases they were profitable most of the way through their journey.
This is excellent advice right here.
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Yes!! I wonder if EFF, FSF actively lobby governments for such laws.
Why do you need to be wined and dined when buying groceries? It's the same as RyanAir; I'd be happy to be stacked like a sardine for a three hour flight if it means significant cost savings and I get from point A to point B all the same.
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Even today, there's plenty of entertainment that you can find without either paying or pirating, and I think this would increase dramatically in a world without obligatory work.

Of course, there's probably fewer people who have an intrinsic desire to maintain basic infrastructure, which isn't as easy to deal with. But I think that we could probably support "you don't need to work in order to live"; we can still have incentives for work, just not life-or-death incentives.

Some people would view that as "supporting free-riders", but I think if someone is brought into this world, we owe it to them to allow them to exist. False positives ("this person would survive without free stuff") aren't as bad as false negatives ("we deprived this person of stuff to motivate them to work, and now they're dead").
I find min-maxing real life rarely to be a good strategy.

And obviously, OP feels this is a problem for him, and if so, he should know how to abd be able to address it.
Because you consider some things to be part of your “personal life” that many people don’t want to be part of their life at all.

I love butter but I don’t want to churn it. So I just buy it from the store. Is that paying the store to run my life?
Consumers are already free to choose to buy from manufacturers that do this. Consumers largely dgaf.

Additionally, companies like Apple know and believe that if consumers could exercise such control, a large number of them would be deceived into using such control to backdoor their own devices for advertisers and other shady characters, such as is the case in Android-land. Consumers often choose products specifically because they offer the feature that they are completely and totally managed by the vendor.

You may not like it, but many people who don't care much about their privacy from the vendor do.
Just use webauthn...why is so hard to get that sms and otp is flawed?
Sorry you didn't get to finish it. I had a lot of fun writing that one and working with the incredible folks at Marvel!
Day after Thanksgiving when stores reopen having been closed the day before. Traditionally called “Black Friday” because it put retail businesses books back into the black.

I think this recent adoption of Black Friday in Australia is dumb, for two reasons:

(1) It makes zero sense given we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving

(2) Given the term’s historical association in Australian culture with mass death (1939 Black Friday bushfires that killed over 70 people, 2009 Black Saturday bushfires that killed over 170 people), using it for sales could be seen as disrespectful and culturally insensitive
So that's a pro? Lol
"gaugan" sounds like the word for "rag" in Polish.
There's a collection of deals from indie makers, collected by Marie Ng, at https://indiemakerblackfri.glide.page/dl/d0a5f4/s/d0a5f4

And the Twitter thread where it started: https://twitter.com/threehourcoffee/status/14609177735848960...
Also, calendars aren’t exactly the same everywhere. If you say “let’s work out sat and sun every other week”, in the US this results in a calendar where you have every other weekend off. On an EU calendar, this results in working out every week. Or something like that, it was pretty entertaining when my friend pointed out how subtly shifting the calendar to start on a different day results in a very different work out plan.

But back to counting. In the EU, if you go to the first floor, you’d call that the second floor in the US. It has one floor in the EU, but two in the US. I have no idea if this is the same thing or just a mistake. But there are some interesting assumptions in this thread!
I have found these two to be useful:

> https://github.com/lsmod/proof-of-history-explained

> https://www.shinobi-systems.com/primer.html

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKGhbC6Uync

(I know I know it's an hour long, but honestly watching 3 geeks having a good natured session contrasting their systems in real time is a joy)
True I started playing with bitcoin when it was 60 euro. That was 100% of my savings at the time. Sold it for a pretty penny 110 euros. Back then it was hard to buy and even worse to sell. I didn’t have the time or money to follow it. But thinking v back I could have just kept trading, or hold it. But you know life.. I still think it’s a fun technology. But really it’s gotten out of hand. I could generate a tenth or a hundredth of a bit coin on my laptop in a month, now even with a crazy rig dedicated sucking eltricity it takes way longer. You need to join at team etc. it’s the problem of the commons, energy is finite but not priced right. Do we keep using more resources here to support something that really isn’t democratized at all or do I put my time money energy into things that make peoples lives better. All the best to those that made more money than me, but I fear if bitcoin keep using more resources we all just sit around working to keep a money system running. (Exponentials are difficult to comprehend but I suggest every bitcoin owner plot the amount of energy that goes into bitcoin year over year.) Money should facilitate commerce, it’s shouldn’t be this hard or unstable. Some coins have solved this energy and trading issue but the value isn’t stable. I’ll step back in once we have a stable/energy efficient fast transfer of money. I though Ethereum was going to be the one but it wasn’t. I’ll keep my eyes open web3 sure ain’t it.
Where's this solid "wall" you speak of?

It's more like falling into Jupiter, getting immersed in a thicker and thicker soup...
Well, OP was specifically asking why it seems harder to learn social skills compared to machine learning, so in that context I’d guess the sitting inside was leaving them feeling unfulfilled.
"Blank out the recommendations of these two philosophers, and you can see that the first philosopher is using strictly prosocial criteria to justify his recommendations; to him, what validates an argument for selfishness is showing that selfishness benefits everyone. The second philosopher appeals to strictly individual and hedonic criteria; to him, what validates an argument for altruism is showing that altruism benefits him as an individual: higher social status or more intense feelings of pleasure."

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fATPBv4pnHC33EmJ2/fake-moral...
Yes the Bob Lidil book was very special. I also saw the conversation on Harry's old game. That was a fascinating story. Amazing after all these years.
People can be broadly divided into people who are interested in PEOPLE or THINGS.

This is largely derived from parts of the Big Five personality traits.

Many techy people, or broadly nerds, are more interested in things than people. Not exactly a surprise I'm sure you will agree.

This lack of interest in people means that you don't focus on the subject matter in question, other people, and in a social interaction you will be mainly thinking about yourself and how you are acting.

Most people who are relatively social will indeed become subject matter experts on the business of interacting with others. There is a lifetimes worth of subtle information in body language, and a delicate interplay of social signalling and expression that make up our interactions with others. Most geeks just try to cram learning it all into pitifully shallow disparate interactions.

It is so powerful, that it trumps almost any competence in other fields and (with the assistance of decaying moral integrity in society at large ) leads us to the world of nepotism and cronyism we have today.
If it's such a basic security feature, what is it actually protecting?

In a standard (non-British) home, each room has a separate (10A or 16A) breaker in the breaker panel. That breaker protects the wires from overheating (preventing cable fires), and in more modern instances might protect the human from electric shock with an RCD. Then each device may have an internal (usually self-resetting) fuse to protect itself from failure modes. That fuse is tuned to the device needs, both in how fast it triggers and how much current it allows.

What does a fuse in the cable buy you? It can't reliably protect the device, because the user might replace the cable or replace a blown fuse with one with a different rating. It can't protect wires because it's after the house wiring, a large number of functioning devices overheating your wires is at least as likely as a single malfunctioning device. The only context in which it makes sense it the one Tom Scott mentions: you have a copper shortage, so you put the entire flat or even house on one circuit with one fuse. And because you don't want to cut electricity to everything every time there's a short somewhere you put little fuses everywhere.

It's a good design for the circumstances of post-war Britain, but we aren't living in a copper shortage right now.
A huge factor in what we think are your "social skills" is actually our subconscious programming.

A lot of the time, when we "try to improve our social skills", we are consciously trying and change/control the things we say and do, whereas the things that people are responding to are things we have no conscious control over or even awareness of, such as our eye movements, facial/hand/body tics, posture, breathing, and other very subtle signals in the way we speak and engage with others.

Years ago I spent quite some time trying to consciously improve my social skills - including the kinds of techniques taught in the "pickup" community back in the mid 00s when The Game came out. It got me nowhere, and I hated how manipulative it felt.

Later I discovered some subconscious emotional healing techniques. I've been undertaking them consistently for nearly 10 years, and things just keep getting better steadily. I haven't worried about consciously trying to be better socially, other than just generally being polite and attentive to people, but my relationships have all improved.

(That said, I've also become a better programmer, and better at working in teams, as I've become less anxious and better able to work through challenges and obstacles without getting flustered).