skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Airbnb was basically dead before they got into YC. They very likely would have quit, as they were heavily in personal debt and couldn’t find anyone to invest in them.

Reddit was pretty much PG’s idea, or at least an idea he helped Steve and Alexis come up with.

Stripe is hard to imagine getting started if PC hadn’t already had an exit with an earlier YC-funded startup.

I could go on and on, but the point is clearly false.
They still make playing cards, though.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/others/playing_cards/index.html
I actually enjoy TikTok. I watch a lot of dog videos and other fun and lighthearted content.

It’s great. I think it’s more what you make it than any other social media platform. I watch videos and I get other videos that I’ll like. If I was interested in other things they would show up on my page, through the algorithm working really well. Nobody crowbars stuff in e.g. I don’t see any maga shit, I just see really entertaining content.

Obviously this self diagnosis is a very real issue, but it’s not caused by Tik tok. Tik tok is just good at surfacing the problem though
What was supposed to happen is openness to the West was supposed to move China away from dictatorial government. Approximately nobody cared whether China got rich or stayed poor; the goal was that China become free.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BhV-o77RqQ
Eh more like: let's not have another war on drugs.
that's like a star trek TNG script
https://infrastructurereportcard.org/

vs.

I worked at an amusement park during summers in highschool and coaster track maintenance was serious business. The entire tracks were walked and inspected end to end twice a day (at open and at close). There was a meticulous paper trail of any and all maintenance, measurements, conditions, etc. Their insurers demanded a high standard because ultimately it would have cost the park millions and millions of dollars in liabilities if there were accidents.
Related: Rockwell Retro Encabulator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
Or an electrified grid, like the electric flyswatters that are easy to find now.

If one wants to shoot them down instead of some reason, why not a laminar flow water nozzle instead of a laser? Seems like that would be way safer.
> This kind of claim typically comes from someone pretty new to the world of software development.

Have you ever seen a newbie talking about Clojure? I bet ~98.5% of developers < 5 years experience never heard of it. Let alone claim how good it is.
If you're using TikTok, possibly to the point of addiction, maybe you're already more likely to have a serious mental disorder.

(Sorry, it just had to be said.)
Nope. No where near weak. You quit. How much more control over your time could you have?
In security contexts, you have to make your claims carefully and explicitly. Assumptions don't play nicely there.

And getting access to private keys can happen by means other than the user volunteering them.
The fundamental difference is that today you can hypertarget content at individuals, and successfully modify specific behaviors and beliefs at scale.

This was not possible to do at scale 10+ years ago.
The CDC has published estimates of fatality rate by age group.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
This really hit home for me when I learned that Clubhouse uses a Chinees company for its audio processing and distribution. The rise of China as such doesn't really scare me but the fact that with billions of dollars in investments they don't even bother writing their own audio software and instead just focus on the product and marketing really shocked me.
Vaccination isn't going to eradicate SARS, you don't understand how coronaviruses work. If it were that easy we'd already have eradicated a whole bunch of viruses. Any year now the flu is going to be eradicated, just gotta vax more. /s
I believe this is across many age groups, it overlaps to conditions such as ADHD, OCD, gluten intolerance and also to sexual and gender identities.
People don't want to talk about the later parts i.e. gender/sexual identity because they're ostensibly 'inherent' but I believe this is a huge mistake.

If 'Goth' were put in a book as some kind of known identity that people assume, then kids would think they 'have' or 'are' ... 'Goth'.

That doesn't delegitimize the nature of real afflictions and identities etc. so much as it highlights how much power our minds have over reality.

I think this even overlaps into identities or 'self beliefs' such as being 'healthy and tough' or 'broken and in need'.

Some people I know never, ever get sick. I suggest they do, but they just 'tough it out' and don't talk about it. Other people I believe make sure everyone knows they are sick and like the sympathy they endear. The placebo effect demonstrates just a hint of the power of our minds, so I wonder how much this has to do with healthy wellbeing. I suggest the 'toughing it out' is probably a good mental state, until it becomes a problem with getting actual needed medical attention.

We really need to understand this a bit better.
You had no point.

Your question implied that no one needs to read mein kompf, thus proving that it's ok to censor it, thus showing that it's ok to censor anything else you don't like.

Since all of those things your attempt at a point stands on are false, the point in fact does not stand.

It's not only wrong, it's unbelivably ignorant.

Perhaps I'm misremembering from so long ago in 1979 or 80, but I feel like they explained the fundamental problems with censorship, including reasoning such as you present, as early as 4th or 5th grade.

That's why I say unbelievably ignorant. How is an adult saying something that a 5th-grader k ows better? I guess literally I can believe that they allow kids to reach adulthood without ever being made to understand something so important, but I sure don't want to.
Pretty sure there are tons of jokes in 70s and 80s American movies and shows about how crappy Japanese cars and electronics are.

There are crappy Chinese knockoffs on Amazon now but there's no indication I've seen that everyone in the country is happy with just staying there.
It's not chemical. It's mechanical. It basically covers the red with a black liquid when it's good. A different color probably wouldn't cover the red as well. The bolt is basically hollow to do this.
> You remember the so called "Satanic Panic" in the late 80's? Did you know that documents were declassified last year proving that it wasn't a silly conservative overreaction to Iron Maiden, but something that was actually happening

[citation needed]
Transmission can be delayed in some cases but ultimately prevention is futile and everyone will be exposed. Fortunately the vaccines and other treatments cut the fatality rate way down.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
You can't visa run in Thailand anymore, it's been like that for several years now and especially not recently with covid. Immigration won't let you in arbitrarily if they see you doing visa runs "too much". Too much is at their discretion so you can't rely on it
> That is why classified systems exist

This is historically as well as prima facie inaccurate. Yes, classification is abused. No, that is not why it was created nor why it is maintained.
Yes and—-we in the USA carry on taking resources from other places as if the people there need it less, and we continue to do it domestically; there were people here before my European ancestors, and their descendants continue to be shut out of ancestral lands.
Shortsighted logging practices mean less for future generations. There are better ways to harvest trees (look at the Menominee in Wisconsin, for one). Suzanne Simard is one logger-turned-researcher (they can also overlap) whose publications I find helpful for managing the forest on the land I live on.
Collectively using less seems key. To that end, some combination of regulation and culture shift?
Actually, back in the day, Seth Godin was an early -- and successful -- Internet entrepreneur:

https://www.wired.com/1998/10/yahoo-acquiring-yoyodyne/
Life works however we want it to work. "Life" doesn't mean "my ideology's preferred state of affairs".

>>We should try to prioritize the use of valuable and finite resources to those things we think are most valuable to society.

No, we shouldn't. People should always be free to decide for themselves how to expend their share of those finite resources. There is nothing inherently more valuable about one non-essential activity over another.

If a person wants to spend their resources running high powered gaming machines, that is not inherently more valuable than spending it mining crypto. Your subjective determination that one non-essential activity is more valuable than another is just that: a subjective opinion. It doesn't govern someone else's subjective determination.

>>There’s a whole encyclopedia of free-market failure modes that’s worth reading up on

I did not advocate an absence of government intervention. I explained how to make such intervention congruent with the values that are stated to be the intervention's motivation:

>>If the environmental costs of crypto mining are genuinely your concern, the best solution is to advocate an agnostic solution, like restricting CO2 generating sources of energy, or energy consumption for ALL non-essentials (e.g. tourism, video games, crypto, etc).

>>Singling out crypto for its environmental costs, and calling for targeted restrictions on it that exempt other non-essential uses of energy, suggests a superficial basis for your position, like a negative emotional association, or dislike of crypto proponents.
Fun fact: they've since turned that madhouse into apartments. https://octagonnyc.com/
The original goal was to divide and conquer the communist block (taking advantage of the sino-soviet split/wedge).

After the collapse of the USSR western companies and governments saw shiny ($) ($) in their eyes and could not help themselves. They thought giving up some intellectual property rights was worth getting a leg up on their other western competition because they thought they’d be able to fend off completion local to China as they presumed it would adopt western ideas (law, intl conventions, governance, etc.) despite history indicating otherwise.
We don’t live in a world where success is measured by money. No decent people think that way, and even most Silicon Valley people you’d consider “indecent” don’t think that way. Most people look at money-obsession and conspicuous displays of wealth as crass and lame, which is entirely appropriate.

That said, money is a focus for companies as it is a measure of resources and scale. Without money, a company can’t survive or grow, and with it, it can do more of its “solving problems” work for more people.

I really don’t see any truly successful people or companies focusing on money beyond that.
Yeah the right in the US has always preferred to pretend like racism is an abstract idea rather than an embodied institution, and that the civil rights acts of 1866 and 1964 didn't happen-- or if they did, that disparate impact isn't a doctrine and that reverse racism is a thing.

The facts contradicting this position are self evident to everybody living in the United States, but feigning ignorance is a very popular political position at the highest and lowest levels. Just keep quiet, take your payout, and be glad you're not on the bottom rung. applies even to "poor whites" (and always has, even/especially antebellum).

So naturally whenever things shake out such that 'poor whites' experience even the tiniest disadvantage, the banners are marshalled and the trumpet is blown. Nothing new under the sun.

How about this: maybe we /should/ treat unvaxed minorities before unvaxed whites-- the latter group has infinitely more historical reason to trust these institutions. Or did I miss the bit where we shot Appalachians full of syphilis?
I suggest that the vast majority of people are not interested in drugs.

Even among those with an ADHD self-diagnosis, I don't think it's hugely related.

I take those 'online tests' for ADHD and pretty much always score as though I have it.

I can 100% see a lot of people reading about it, taking those tests and believing they have it.
I live in Florida. Recently a major insurance company, Gulfstream Property and Casualty Insurance Co., has gone insolvent and liquidated. I'm pretty sure the reason is all the free roof replacements that they were handing out to people with hail or wind damage. One neighbor gets their roof replaced, tells another neighbor how to play the system, roofers get paid big by claiming the roofs are worse off than they are, getting full replacements for minor problems. Next thing you know, insurance companies are pulling out of Florida. People with rooves over 15 years old (even if they're rated for 30 year) have next to no options, and the one or two they have are now 50% more expensive. I got nailed by that. No free roof for me, and now I have to pay more. Great system.
No severe symptoms? Great! Let them all go back to normal after this. Remove the social distancing, the masks, the plastic shields. Let them party, dance, etc

It’s torture to take an already isolated group and isolate them with “strict measures” which apparently do nothing to stop infection.
It's all well and good to say this, and even act it out occasionally, but if I approach life in general with that mindset then who will provide a secure environment for my daughter?
What have you done with your life, again? What books have have you written? Is it you or me that runs a Discord with 2,000+ members? Have you got 6,000 members for your video courses?

Sit back down.
On the other side of the coin, pathologizing everything can harm people as well. There are many children labeled “hyperactive” and put on drugs for a disorder they likely didn’t have at an extremely early stage in their development.

> We've just...not addressed it and seen rising depression, anxiety, suicide rates.

People are not developing major depressive disorder or anxiety disorders from not being on ADHD medications, at least not on the scale you’re referring to. “Increasing” rates of those disorders has largely been due to increased awareness and discussion of them, as well as some of the very patterns happening to ADHD right now: pathologizing normal feelings, romanticization of mental disorders, and self-diagnosis fueled by online communities.

> if people want to get these stimulants, why not?

Because they are not medical professionals. What they want needs to be vetted and discussed with a doctor.
I saw this posted elsewhere on HN and it really resonated with me.

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”

Sylvia Plath
No downvotes here... This is a thread about asking for opinions and advice, and all should be able to be on the table. I am curious as to 'why observe the religion of your parents' is something you advise. For me, not doing so was a painful process for myself and my family in some ways, but continuing to do so was personally untenable. From an objective viewpoint I see the benefits that individuals and communities see from religious cohesion: increased social ties, increased lifespan [1], charitable involvement, etc. I also observe religious institutions as bastions of abuse, misinformation, regressive social stances, and conquest. These are difficult issues to unpack and perhaps this isn't the venue, but I am interested in your perspective on why it is part of the self-care advice you offered.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ppt/nchs2010/37_hummer.pdf
Not a native speaker. Just to clarify: shedding the virus means being infectious? Or just their body is still doing cleanup but not necessarily that the virus is still intact and contagious/infectious? (The dictionary entry for shedding doesn't feel specific enough to draw conclusions from.)
I'm happy with cockroachdb lately. It is drop in replacement for postgres for most apps. It is quite a joy to use now.

They have a new PAYG serveless offering that starts at $0 and scales up.
I miss the community of bloggers in the old days... there was these groups of people often cross-referencing and reacting to each other in the form of essays. No particular hierarchy, just an amorphous conversation
The solution is to be good teacher and learner - there's so many fascinating interests these days and things i don't know about. And I want to share things from my niche too.
I would consider putting all smart devices on a different network that doesn't have access to the internet so that they can't phone home, and using some open software like https://www.home-assistant.io/ to control it...
Just like Macromedia Fireworks in 1998!
oh my god. I think i'm right before the "gets shot down" stage
From what I've read, founders need to be intensely interested in solving a problem to have any real hope of success.
...and thanks for checking out the video!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_esotericism
Same. I was diagnosed with ADHD at eight and was put on stimulants then. Took them for 8 years and stopped. Now at 30, I'm on them again and all the anxiety and depression that I was caused by or masking my issues with functioning just dissolved. I'm glad I finally let myself take them, but I still feel stigma around it.

Even still, the stigma is reinforced by arbitrary rules that presume I am an addict: "You can only have a 30 day supply," "we can't fill the pending 'script until 31 days after you last picked it up," "no, you can't get it early even if you're traveling for over a month. You'll need to find a pharmacy there to fill it."
Because people like to group everyone in to camps so if I say anything remotely dismissive of an official covid narrative, I'm probably just some anti science, anti vaxxer, whose opinion isn't worth listening too (according to them).

So at a minimum, dismiss me if you want, but not because I'm in the evil other camp, because I'm not.
ADHD is a real disease, but it's also common for college students to fake it in order to get the medications as nootropics or for selling to their classmates. That's been going on since long before the current pandemic.

Besides the medications, an ADHD diagnosis can also get you special academic privileges such as extra time on exams.
No. Copyright was intended to allow people to create. This might mean support for individual artists. Our it might mean profits for a super conglomerate. In fact, without that super conglomerate some things would never be created.
There's no moving parts. The bolt is hollow with a pin projecting from the tip of the bolt back to the head. When put under tension, the outside of the Bolt stretches, but the inside pin doesn't. It's not as strong as a solid bolt of the same size and material. But that's something you engineer around.
anxiety about what you aren't doing is one of the curses of living in the modern world. The anxiety of too many choices and what is an incredible amount of freedom to do most anything. What I think makes the difference is you need to put becoming goal oriented really high on your priorities. Finishing things is really important. If you find that hard, practice it. Start small, build up. While practicing becoming goal oriented, blind commitment to it is useful. Later, blind commitment to goals may not be sensible, and you may shift or abandon your goals. But this should be done when you are confident in your ability to set goals and achieve them. I weirdly had to relearn this, when I was young in the 80s and 90s, I just naturally did this. Then in the 2000s, with more awareness of what everyone else was doing, I became anxious about my choices, and felt everything I was doing could be done better. It was actually through doing Brazilian jiujitsu, BJJ, that I relearnt the importance of small goals, incremental improvement. Working with what you have got. The messiness of real life engagement compared to "practice". (BJJ is an excellent way to look after your physical well being as well). Another key thing is, whenever you use the word "should" (as in I should be doing X, or I should be doing Y). Quite often baked into that is some kind of external pressure (sometimes unconscious) to be doing something. If that "should" is causing you anxiety, there's a chance that actually you don't really want to do the thing you think you should. So pay careful attention to "should".

Also, some words of reflection from one of the great stoic philosophers...

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. – Seneca
Why Linux is now my primary OS going into 2022
Just connecting people wouldn't be enough, you need some context to help them turn these individual relationships into a real peer group, something to give people the confidence to engage fully and not just perform or consume
From what I’ve heard, the “hack” involved decoding base64 text, which can look like decrypting cipher text.

The fact that cipher text often is base64 makes that all the more confusing.

I hope this gets sorted out, or the trial shows something substantial that hasn’t been shared so far.
That safety factor and testing and inspection has costs associated with it.

Basically, it is a "solved problem" by designing things stronger than they have to be, and spending more on testing and inspection than necessary.

I'm sure the cases where these things are economical are fairly few, at least today, but if everyone took your attitude no progress would happen at all.
It would very likely spread and infect more people. And by 'it' I mean awareness about how most of the measures are useless and that the vast majority of infections are benign.
Thank you so much for including Pedro Pietri’s poem! I have not heard that poem for 15+ years and it brought back some wonderful nostalgia from my teenage years!
> It’s just the fact that so many people have had to sit through so many educational/industrial videos that look and sound just like this one and they're dead serious and deadly dull.

At my first “real” job they had a tradition of 6 months of training.

When I joined the company they were too busy to hold actual training classes so I watched very old VHS tapes of even older classes…. taught by the engineers who designed the product… for other engineers who also already knew the product.

It was all Turboencabulator word salad.

In an infamous moment I’ll never forget an engineer picked up a stack of papers and paged threw it and found his page and held that one page toward the camera (sitting at the back of the room) and “showed” us the code he wrote and asked the camera person to zoom in…..
or you throw away R1 and connect R2 between C and OUT.
That's an old standard voice. The encabulator videos sound like they do because it was the default style and cadence for a demo/sales video.
It was late, i was tired and missed the part about the figure being for the US. It's still rare in relation to several hundred million though.