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> In the near past and for millennia, humans spent most if not their entire lives in one place, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Same can be said about slaves. What conclusion should I draw? Honestly, I think you should get off of Instagram if you think travel is about life achievement. If getting to know your fellow humans and expanding your understanding of why the world is the way it is is not interesting to you, stay home. But also don't be surprised if people call you a troglodyte. I agree with everything you said about the problems of modern day traveling, that it is incredibly geared towards empty experiences. However, I believe this is because people only have a few days to travel. What irks me is seeing "43 countries visited!" because, as you allude to, it is a vanity number. It takes months to fully immerse oneself in a culture or even be invited into local life. However, that's obviously out of reach for 99.99% of the population and so we have the current set of cookie cutter experiences. Of course, none of what I suggest is easy. I also classify myself as an introvert, which you don't say explicitly but is abundantly clear you are as well. Just make a new friend in the country you want to go to, just one. The emotional energy it takes upfront is paid tenfold in the experiences that come after. Oftentimes, you will discover that traveling with said friend brings them tons of joy because it gives them a reason to go do all the things in their backyard that they have never done because it is in their backyard.
I'm a writer and blogger who doesn't make squat. My writing has repeatedly hit the front page of HN but it almost never gets submitted by anyone but me and then I get harangued for "self promoting." I write a great deal more than what I submit here and I submit a lot less than I used to. No, that hasn't caused other people to submit my stuff more often.

People here don't want ads on your website. They use ad blockers. They don't want affiliate links. They don't want to leave tips or support your Patreon. They don't want your writing to be content marketing for some other means to pay your bills.

They de facto expect writing to be unpaid slave labor and then bitch and moan about how much writing sucks these days.

"You get what you pay for."

I bitch less than I used to. It seems to only be an excuse to hate on me some more, not effectively move the needle.
I knew a few folks like this. 20 something, out of college, entry level job in some field that doesn't pay them nearly enough for where they are living. And mom and dad are subsidizing the apartment and lifestyle.

When I talked to a few of them about the situation, my burning question was always "what is your plan". I think for many of those folks there was no plan, this was the plan, and your parents helping you out was just normal.

Personally it always bugged me. Like what is going to happen to all those people when the checks stop coming, when the credit card stops getting paid. Some of my less privileged friends hated that group for their privileged but I honestly just felt bad for them. I don't know when, but under this current system, at some point in the future, you are going to be royally screwed.
If you're willing to print enough cash to pay for the smart people to come to you, you can probably import them. It seems to be more the exception than the rule that people dislike a country so much that no amount of money could get them to go there to do research on the topic they're interested in.
I thought ALS was already treatable by pouring a bucket full of ice onto yourself daily /s
They burn up.
I'm having a hard time seeing much danger in that. If your threat model assumes the attacker already has your public key having an easily guessable public key doesnt give them any more information.

My biggest worry would be some sort of spoofing. An attacker may be able to impersonate you (or rather a server you control) if they generate a similar vanity key and convince a 3rd party to accept it as yours.
Most people in the US -- 66% over eat. Eat less, poop less.
The distinction is that the quality of life improvement can be done now, and can make peoples' lives better immediately. It's not just wheelchair users that can make use of accessible infrastructure, the elderly, and young children can more readily make use of it too.

I don't discount the promise or effect of such research, but the utilitarian in me says that this can make a tangible improvement now, and to more people and not at an indeterminate point in the future.
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Given perfect hindsight that we have now, at any point in the 20th century you would have to respond "yes, you should also fund accessibility right away" . The answer today is almost certainly the same. Never mind that there are reasons to need accessibility beyond spinal injuries.
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...the "pod" in "podcast" stands for "iPod".

Podcasts were originally made for iPod.
There is a point in the article her husband is a heavy trader. When I read that, my first thought was unless they ban spouses from trading as well, it seems like that's what will happen since the majority are married.
They are also a public company, so they have the motive of being profitable in their endeavors. But the goal of that is the same - resonate with viewers, because viewers equal movie tickets or subscribers to Disney+, which is how profit is made. It's not good or evil, it's just also a factor as they're responsible to shareholders.
It's less of one than it first appears, because time isn't infinite and free time especially isn't. If you're doing one thing in that limited window of free play, then you're not doing some other thing.
I love how the title makes it seem like they're just ordinary general knowledge things that average people will totally get.
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Maybe. Apple has iCloud. Microsoft has Azure, OneCloud, Sharepoint, hosted Exchange, O365. Cloudflare has R2 and has at least a beta of email routing.
How do top open-source projects protect their code?
`journalists`? hahahaha

i actually live in this area, they are mostly corporate sell outs or small time `progressive` emos/flakes

the hood ain't cheap either.
A really strange fundraising page too that claims to be non-partisan but quotes three different far-right hacks.
Everyone is always delaying the inevitable. It is the only thing anyone can do. None of us (or our companies) are getting out of this alive.
The Future Is Centralized Decentralization
If every billionaire gave 50% of their net worth to the government, we would still have massive deficits.
A modern cell phone can function perfectly fine without a GPS receiver; only things like map functionality would be lost without it. What needs a GPS receiver (or other timing synchronization source; GPS is a simple and inexpensive one) are AFAIK the cell phone base stations.
... We have been launching satellites for a long, long time. The process is very well understood, scientifically. Also, your prior should not be that just because you personally haven't heard of something, it must be a new discovery. In fact, in this case it appears to be literally the second bullet point on the first page I could find talking about the risks of geomagnetic storms: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-are-hazards-magnetic-storms
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I'm not sure I agree with everything in this article, but it does make a good point that a lot of the current reporting is decidedly ahistorical. "Record numbers of resignations" don't mean much once you know records were reached in several recent years. What makes this time different? Why the understaffed stores?
> "it's just our bad luck that we got stuck with the antivaxxers and Capitol stormers this time around, this could just as easily have come from the other team".

The bulk of the "right" has been anti-intellectual for a long time - there are some sensible and nuanced points of view coming from that side of the political spectrum, but they've always seemed to be in the minority. You do also see a lot of anti-intellectualism on the left these days, especially with the new "woke" craziness, but that's a much more recent phenomenon and we have yet to see a proper reaction to it.
Ask HN: How do you effectively take notes in meetings?
In technical meetings, I always feel like I am fighting an uphill battle with the context switch between actively listening, and putting that thought / item down on paper.

What are your tips / tricks for effectively taking notes in meetings?
I love how one of the articles on the HN frontpage says "Oxford", the other says "European researchers"
this is it! water scarcity --> war will surely become a very large component of inter-country diplomacy in the near-ish future.
Perfectly packing a square by squares of nearly harmonic sidelength
A high altitude aircraft will take a sample of the atmosphere where XB-4590 burned up on reentry so that it's remains may be interred at the local e-waste processing facility.
I'm reminded of Louis Slotin experimenting with the "Demon" core.
The core was surrounded by 2 half spheres of beryllium.
The core would go critical if the 2 spheres were not separated from each other.

The standard protocol was to use shims between the halves, as allowing them to close completely could result in the instantaneous formation of a critical mass and a lethal power excursion. Under Slotin's own unapproved protocol, the shims were not used and the only thing preventing the closure was the blade of a standard flat-tipped screwdriver manipulated in Slotin's other hand. Slotin, who was given to bravado, became the local expert, performing the test on almost a dozen occasions, often in his trademark blue jeans and cowboy boots, in front of a roomful of observers. Enrico Fermi reportedly told Slotin and others they would be "dead within a year" if they continued performing the test in that manner. Scientists referred to this flirting with the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction as "tickling the dragon's tail", based on a remark by physicist Richard Feynman, who compared the experiments to "tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon".

On the day of the accident, Slotin's screwdriver slipped outward a fraction of an inch while he was lowering the top reflector, allowing the reflector to fall into place around the core. Instantly, there was a flash of blue light and a wave of heat across Slotin's skin; the core had become supercritical, releasing an intense burst of neutron radiation estimated to have lasted about a half second. Slotin quickly twisted his wrist, flipping the top shell to the floor. The heating of the core and shells stopped the criticality within seconds of its initiation, while Slotin's reaction prevented a recurrence and ended the accident. The position of Slotin's body over the apparatus also shielded the others from much of the neutron radiation, but he received a lethal dose of 1,000 rad (10 Gy) neutron and 114 rad (1.14 Gy) gamma radiation in under a second and died nine days later from acute radiation poisoning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core#Second_incident
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It appears she doesn't back/support it. From another article:

"I just don't buy into it, but if members want to do that I'm OK with that," Pelosi told reporters at her weekly press conference.
So you want to build an embedded Linux system? (2020)
EU joins semiconductor race with €43bn plan
Thanks for taking the time to clarify.

How would you recommend initiating a conversation to discuss when 'the actual paying "audience" was the chum that everyone took for granted' but one actually can't 'see the same thing on Twitter' except due to intermittent OPSEC/OSINT failures?
This would seem to strike a blow to the "access equals ownership" camp of the blockchain coin folks.
So PGP and the encryption protocol of Threema aren't proper encryption protocols?

Then, how do you break the key?

Brute force? If you break one key that way, it's likely you could break equally secure keys as well.

Access to the device? Well then you have access to everything anyways
I’ve never used VSCode, or however that’s spelled. My preferred IDE is the original `vi`, but `vim` is usually okay.
We absolutely experiment with 48, 60 and even 120fps. We’d use them if they looked good. They don’t, they make any content look atrocious. adding more (temporal) detail does indeed improve the realism but improving realism isn’t good when you’re delivering Impressionism.

Your question is very analogous to asking “Van Gogh’s work is great and all but it needs more (spatial) detail. I can’t believe he’s still using those broad brushes when now days you can buy fine brushes. His work would have much more detail and would look more realistic!”

Once you seriously ponder how naive such a statement is, you’ll understand why filmmakers stick with 24fps. It’s not reality. It’s not what our eyes see. Just like an impressionistic painting is not what our eyes see. And that’s a good thing.
"2021" sounds clean but is cherry picking after the astronomical COVID bubble.

Pelton is still up 30-50% va 2020, comparable to Netflix.
Ad 6 - no, iPod headphones were always bad. Even back then in the 2000s, they were already better headphones available.
Yep, the Fermi "paradox" is no paradox at all. We have basically no evidence that life (including intelligent life) isn't common yet.

There are so many ways to think of how big our galaxy is but two are particularly relevant to how difficult it would be to detect other life, or be detected:

1. The first radio signals the human race produced have so far travelled something like a thousandth of the distance to the other side of our galaxy. Light travels really slowly on astronomical scales.

2. A supernova goes off roughly once every 50 years in the milky way. That's an energy release that is utterly incomprehensible to a human being. A system-incinerating catastrophe briefly producing an energy output comparable to that of all the stars in the galaxy combined. But to us they appear as just brighter-than-usual dots in the sky. We (humans) have only noticed a handful of them. It's not that we're shielded from them. These events happen in direct line of sight. They're just insanely far way and light intensity falls off with the square of distance. The kinds of energy outputs produced by a species of comparable technology to our own are simply not visible to us over these kinds of distances, even with the very latest technology.

And that's just our galaxy. If you consider the entire universe the things happening in direct line of sight include billion-solar-mass supermassive black hole mergers, and you need a gravitational wave detector to even tell they're happening.

We've only just recently started to be able to detect the presence of planets around other stars. The Fermi Paradox, Great Filter, "Where's the intelligent life?" stuff is absurdly premature.
The difference is that millions of people aren’t going to wake up one morning and say they want to start buying physical newspapers.
and where does the energy and fertilizer come from to do that? right, fossil fuels. Last I checked, there's a currently an existential threat linked to use of those that are the main driver for why all these initiatives are going on.

I'm not happy about it either but its a choice between each individual's footprint going down or reducing the amount of individuals.
But what do you do if you don't win? Then the target level is two epsilon away -- do you bet that amount?

Maybe that works if the probability of success is high enough and the initial epsilon is small enough. If that is not the case, it starts to sound like a martingale type strategy.
The trick is to get one of these deep pocketed strategic acquirers (looking at you Netflix) to shell out 20 billion or so in FOMO and buy the company.
I posted this in a previous thread. here's some ublock origin filters to restore Twitter to logged-out usability:

https://pastebin.com/U9rpcCuq
I'm really curious, can you name someone who you think is just "right"? Like who isn't "far-right" in your opinion?
It's entirely disputable as evidenced by this conversation.

It's also an incredible waste of time to argue over definitions. They're always disputable because they always arise in response to two people using a word differently. Maybe they're wrong and you're right, or maybe others also use the word that way—it doesn't matter. Humility and aiming at mutual understanding is far more worthwhile.
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No reason why kids can't do both.

My four year old said she wanted to make a game with me because she loves games (and dad's a programmer). So I started a project in Scratch and told her a little about the blocks and we got something moving on the screen in an afternoon.

It was magical for her to have an idea and see it come to life, just a little bit, on the screen. Yes, I'm doing 95% of the work and I know most of the programming concepts are lost on her, but even if she's picking up a tiny bit of logic it's worth doing with your kids if they're interested. It still feels like quality bonding time.
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I could do that but I stopped pirating music as soon as I got my first job. No judgement but I can't justify pirating something I can afford to pay for. I could get the higher quality tracks ripping CD's or buying elsewhere but getting most of my music through iTunes means I have about 15 years of purchases available to re-download on any of my devices without having to worry about personal backups. It's quite nice.
Percent isn't a useful metric by itself, but it's often more useful than number of options or grants. Often that's what is pitched to prospective hires. Or, worse, an ill-defined number of shares and a highly optimistic valuation of an illiquid entity.
It's probably worth pointing out that the component that's overabundant in the Netherlands (nitrogen) is only part of what can be recovered from urine. In particular there's a chronic lack of phosphorus.
Finish reading the article.

>According to Simha’s estimates, humans produce enough urine to replace about one-quarter of current nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers worldwide; it also contains potassium and many micronutrients (see ‘What’s in urine’). On top of that, not flushing urine down the drain could save vast amounts of water and reduce some of the strain on ageing and overloaded sewer systems.

>In a study[1] that modelled wastewater-management systems in three US states, she and her colleagues compared conventional wastewater systems with hypothetical ones that divert urine and use the recovered nutrients to replace synthetic fertilizers*. They projected that communities with urine diversion could lower their overall greenhouse-gas emissions by up to 47%, energy consumption by up to 41%, freshwater use by about half, and nutrient pollution from the wastewater by up to 64%, depending on the technologies used.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&d...
I've tried a lot of options to improve my sleep. What worked for me:
- regular exercise in general but morning really works best for me and I would say avoid late afternoon / after work because your body will be too energized for sleep.
- reduce caffeine intake. you can listen to Michael Pollan talk about his research for his caffeine book, where he stopped cold turkey and his sleep improved dramatically.
- regular, consistent sleep hours
- white noise if it helps, I use a diffuser (as mentioned Lavender is very good for sleep and diffuser)
- CBD / THC. YMMV. I vape a 1/1 cbd thc plant strain and it def helps me sleep. I smoke late afternoon otherwise it can actually work against sleep if you go to bed buzzed. requires a bit of experimentation...
- natural teas that help with sleep - Lemon Balm, Chamomile and Valerian. can be combined or separate. the only problem is that you may have to pee during the night if you drink these before bed. if you are in the UK you can also try this tablet

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ANTI-STRESS-TABLETS-combination-tra...

- a small amount of protein as a snack an hour or so before bed, peanut butter, yogurt, etc.

Melatonin did NOT work for me.
I am in a similar situation buy my university has 60,000 students and alumni keep their edu gmail for life. The policy is that for institutions with more than 20,000 users, additional storage can be purchased on a 50g/license type situation. The university hasn't said anything about new policies to us.
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Yeah, I guess I should retract my claim that people aren't claiming it's useful for relational data anymore.

Anyway, I was focusing on invariants. But yes, destroying your performance every time you need an atomic change or joining values also makes it bad for relational data.

That doesn't mean it's useless, just that it should not be used on the most common problem people have with their data.
I kind of disagree. I found the elder sister being physically strong and an impressive leader and yet still a woman and also have vulnerability to be pretty new. Her arc didn’t involve her marrying a man or finding absolution in becoming less independent as is common when a strong independent woman has a character arc. The lack of any big bad and instead implications of danger because of complex family expectations and dynamics are also new. When I was young there was always some big evil person (scar in lion king, Ursula in little mermaid). Even more recent but older movies like Tangled had bad/evil people with no nuance. Now a days childrens movies are much more nuanced in good and evil and I really liked the diversity of characters in Encanto and the diversity of how these characters get validation.
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> What the hell happened to the “millionaire next door” types? Someone who had wealth but you’d never know it?

Remember your audience here. You're surrounded by them.
care to explain more?
The irony is that going corporate and writing marketing copy will earn you way more money than journalism ever will.
Same thing is happening in my country. Is starts at primary school level. We used to have separated text and exercise books. Now the have up to three books for same math class and they have to write in at least in two of them.
I think I've seen that movie at least a dozen times. Strange thing though, they keep changing the name.
Proposal: Headings, lists, and links in Go doc comments
Ah you're right, there is seemingly no loss of entropy.
I was wondering: is being an influencer a low status high paying job? Because that is who journalists are indirectly competing with if we funnel ad-spend through until it reaches media.
Linked original video: https://youtu.be/64cEmjtwRgw
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Even better, download a PDF on Libgen, print it out on the school library printer or pool your money for a laser printer, and bring it down to a local coffee center for a cheap plastic binder.
I know the title given here is not that of the linked article, but it's an accurate description of the content, whereas the literal article title is not.

I did post this a few years ago, but there wasn't much discussion then ... maybe it's just not interesting. Even so, I offer it again, and we'll see what happens.
In my early 20s I worked in a shitty kitchen with a bunch of Mexicans and Ecuadorians, some of them illegals. I was one of two white people working there.

I don't know if it's in their culture to touch a bunch but after awhile we were /always/ smacking each other on the back and leaning on each other or whatever other friendly male touching you could think of. It was seriously awesome therapy for the soul and despite how shitty the job was and how bad I wanted to get out of there for my 1.5 years there I always felt 'wholesome' in a sense that died pretty quick after entering corporate world.

I still miss that shitty fucking job.