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Hey everyone!

I have a question for you: What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?

A few months ago, I was also thinking about this question, so I began reviewing all the notebooks I had kept over the past decade. These notebooks spanned from High School to college, from launching a startup to my Master’s degree, and now to my new career in ad-tech.

In all this information gathering, I realized that some of the most important information I had ever recorded had not been pithy remarks or wise one-liners. Instead, they were well-timed questions.

I built The Database of Important Questions as a central way for anyone to start asking those well-timed questions. Every question in it has meaningfully helped me stop, think, and readjust my course in life for a better end. Of course, just like our personal development, it's not static. More questions will be added, existing questions will be made more insightful, and old questions will take on new meanings. But, at whatever stage you find DBIQ, I hope it helps you in your endeavors!

Already, it's been super cool to see visitors from all over the world — Cape Town, Rome, London, Saigon, Casablanca, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Jakarta to name a few! We hope to see you there!

https://dbiq.app/?ref=hn
I somehow thought it would be much more expensive than $50k to produce a small number of custom controllers, especially if you were to do the proper thing and have them pass certifications.
> Not necessarily, although it's a bit complicated to understand in C++.

One could say this statement applies to most lines of C++ code. Lol
And app sandboxing, and masks during covid, and seatbelts, and gun control, and …

The relative merits differ, and any given thing is debatable, but “it doesn’t solve everything so it’s no better than nothing” is a nakedly dishonest argument.
Mass-produce Wegovy/semaglutide now! With the urgency of the covid vaccine programs.
When people literally die I think the standard should be a little bit higher
ESA maybe does too little, but SpaceX does too much, at least to my taste.

Looking at SpaceX streams sometimes feel more like a sporting event than the coverage of a space mission. I mean, is it really necessary to cheer at every successful phase of the launch even though these are pretty much nailed down, that the mission is still underway, and that the hard part (like the landing when it wasn't a routine thing) is up ahead?

For me, NASA is the best. They show the things as they are, without trying to pump up the hype. I mean, rocket launches are maybe the most awe inspiring thing humanity can do, alongside nuclear explosions (imagine nuclear rockets if we ever make them). Some of the most iconic footage from NASA is technical footage, not originally intended for the public, so really, let the thing speak for itself, no need for SpaceX cheerleaders.
Your first guess is on the right track. Can you see some other pieces of information that look out of place?
I don’t even think you’re wrong, but I suspect though that the burden of having to show up first is a very imperfect solution to a very real problem. Namely: pretty much the whole population of some countries would very much like to apply for asylum in any Western country that would have them. I suspect most regular people in the bottom-third of countries (whether ranked by lack of wealth, by violence, or overall human rights abuses) would claim, rightly, that they are at risk of starvation or violence and as such, need asylum. So, you can hand out forms at the border all you want. The West doesn’t have enough decent “temporary facilities” to warehouse the whole population of Somalia, El Salvador, etc. And what’s worse is, we know they have a valid point! Most of these asylum-seekers would pass their court hearings in a just system. but so far, no democracy has yet proven willing to just open their borders, which would need to be the endgame of a system which would drastically increase the total number of asylum seekers.

My only point: It’s a complex problem with zero happy outcomes, and people shouldn’t act like a quick, cheap fix will solve it. It just moves the problem somewhere else. Actually solving it would take trillions of dollars that most taxpayers don’t want to spend.
I don't currently have a satisfying psychological model on why people do this.

Perhaps meetings keep the illusion that "work" in companies means doing anything at all.

Evolutionary psychology also could explain?
this is why white collar crime doesn't pay as well as people assume. even with plea deals and giving up everything, they still face a lot of jail time. white collar crimes tend to leave a lot of digital records, which makes gathering evidence easier. Way more money to be made legit.
Perhaps this might be a cultural issue (I am not a US-American citizen), but to me your quote

> "We're so innovative we don't have time for safety regulations"

reads like "to offer an innovative service which would otherwise not possible, we exchanged known risks (what safety regulations are for to capture and mitigate) for much more unknown risks".

As I wrote: "risks that are likely very hard to actually measure are a huge red flag for any risk-averse person" (and most people are risk-averse), so every customer should be perfectly aware for what he signs up.

This is like a financial adviser who offers a highly innovative finance product with a risk profile that is hard to measure because of its novelty, which the advisor clearly tells. There do exist customers for which such a product is a good choice (say risk-affine, novelty-seeking ones), but such customers are perfectly aware what they are up to.
putin will be dead within 24 hours.
i think we found out when it imploded
This is all unfolding literally right now. It looks like a military base in Moscow is now on fire.

Edit… Also reports of fighting between Wagner and russia's national guard on the Rostov-Moscow highway. Wagner are on the move towards Moscow.
I run my MacBook Pro off of the usbc pd port on my cheap ($130, 300wh) lifepo4 battery box. I got 2, plug one directly into a 100w solar panel, other powers the computer and monitor. Swap daily.

If you want to run a line into your house you can get by with one, or just get a panel with a usbc pd output.
Yes yes, the answer is always more landlords and development.
Most standards organizations have SOME way of making money, because we live in capitalism. Some of them take hefty fees for membership; some of them take hefty fees for compliance certification; some of them take hefty fees to use their trademarks (as in putting the USB logo next to the USB port); and some of them take hefty fees to see the standards.
> Previously, they argue, customisation was more limited for all types of characters, but in Splatoon 3, "there is clear favouritism" towards the girl characters.

That's definitely a Japanese cultural thing...
>A political movement has long been afoot in America and other places to reduce every political question to simple binaries.

A big part of this is though "Karma" on forums such as this one. Why have a Govt agency enforce groupthink when you can have the people do it to themselves?
so true!!
Depends one how much pressure is applied...
It seems likely the Real-Time Hull Monitoring didn't turn out to be very useful.
Weird, still no diagram of a transformer based connectome. Or did I missi it??
What I mean is mostly - before everyone almost had their own platform and style. Now everything is so streamlined
Teams has at least 2, maybe even 3 people working on it.
I'll say this, the guy is bold as hell. He's an absolute maniac and probably worse than Putin but he sure isn't afraid of anything. One can only hope he wrecks enough chaos make the war in Ukraine untenable.

I'll also say this, Putin played his hand as poorly as humanly possible. He spent decades stockpiling loyalty and political capital with an iron fist and spent it all in less two years and has absolutely nothing to show for it. I think it's time to admit that beneath his steely-eyed, stoic demeanor he isn't half as smart as he's been given credit for.
Not an expert so guessing but that would give you 299 atmospheres differential instead of 300. Also might be uncomfortable for the passengers?
So Stockton Rush had a lot of options to make money during extensive testing? He made it sound like the company would go under.
> It seems rather counter to what the platform is meant for.

Well that's just silly, if you've ever used used slack. It's corporate chat rooms, with real-time chat being a fundamental feature of it.

> counter to what the platform is meant for.

The platform is meant for communication. Async communication is one (probably smallish, at least in my experience) slice of that.
Historically, the government doesn't pay fairly. The market value of a house that's in the way of a highway is *very low*.
This drama gives it oxygen it doesn't deserve. Spending energy on the impossible is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Vote with your eyeballs and go somewhere else. Problem solved.
By chordal editing, I just meant pressing combinations of keys at the same time. Lots of editors support this to some degree, but most (AFAIK) are either modal, or don't support keyboard-driven workflows.
One of the other classic emacs jokes is about how it can take key-combinations to extremes, e.g. https://xkcd.com/378/

I agree that I'm looking for a tiling window manager. This is what EXWM (the Emacs X Window Manager) is.
The problem with things like i3, is that it is not integrated enough with editing and navigation of files.

I wish there was more in this space, as Emacs has some limitations for this purpose (e.g. multithreading), but AFAIK emacs stands alone.
Fair enough point!
MB is astrology for nerds.
So this is just an API hub right? Nothing seems particularly AI other than the marketing. There are more non-AI APIs than AI related ones in the search preview
Each time they go down they have to jettison some waste to return to the surface?
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It's the same people who faked the moon landings and the Sandy Hook shooting.

/jk

Something is clearly happening, but it's hard to tell exactly what. Fog of war and all that.
Multiple reports in multiple major outlets are reporting that he is accusing Russia of attacking his troops. I think the coup part is speculative but the accusation is a heavy one and implies that he feels at war with Moscow already.

Edit: Quick followup, NY Time has it top of the fold. Russia is accusing Wagner of fomenting a coup and the Kremlin is deploying armor to the streets of Moscow. This isn't definitely happening but it's a credible story.
the earth will be fine its the humans we are worried about
Hmm, might be just me, this feels like a refresher for people who already understand NN and transformers. This will probably escape most devs. I've had a bit better luck with the fastai course which is a series of YouTube videos, so it's a slower pace but explained quite well without requiring a lot of understanding.
"A key result of this work as applied to existing hardware will be whether it is possible to assign less-than-complete trust to any of the black-box components in an SoC, or whether current HW design practices are incompatible with building secure, correct systems."

Having been exploring this research area for a while I fear it is the latter and there is no clean formal model that will apply to real hardware as currently construed.
Lots of good advice in here, including "ask for an agenda" a couple of times.

As a corollary, provide context and and agenda when scheduling meetings.

Any time I set up a meeting, the first thing I do is put the context: what brought me to my calendar to set up this meeting in the first place? Then I put an agenda. What are we going to talk about? It doesn't have to be long or detailed down the minute or anything like that. Just a list of things I want to talk about.

As a result, my meetings tend to be the ones that go under time and have an outcome at the end. People who aren't relevant self-select out, so our discussion doesn't wander, and people come prepared with data and/or opinions. It's much more efficient.

Being a meeting leader is a skill that is learned, but it can be learned.
Arson wasn’t invented until Ronald Reagan was elected so surely setting “fire for pure cussedness” couldn’t have been a reference to arson in your n=1 anecdote which nicely proved to parent point you seem to take issue with.
Astrology has a one in twelve chance of accuracy since the only variable is birthday.

With the four discrete variables in MBTI, I can type people with 90% accuracy after a conversation.
First off, I would set the strict max 30 minutes time limit for each and every meeting. If it’s not enough to solve something: do a follow up next day but ask everyone to prepare properly. Or just move the discussion to emails.

2nd: be an ass as a moderator. Cut all the small talk, chit chat, warm ups, derailing, or ad hoc brainstorming (usually performed by two people while the rest of the attendees are slowly dying inside).
Flag of convenience. Where the country of record allows ships to register under their name as a way of generating revenue from foreigners. Bahamas will not do more than issue a statement, if that. You step foot on a flag of convenience boat with no prior reputation and you are effectively waiving any expectation safety.
Not me. That thing has a 2% failure rate and I want to live.
Those don't make strong arguments:

> spate of book bannings

In a public classroom, there are a variety of restrictions on subjects, attire, behavior, etc. beyond what you would expect from other settings. Maybe these restrictions are too harsh, but it's an argument with caveats.

> attacks on free expression by queer people

Again, AFAIK this is confined to primary education settings.

> attacks on people not suitably gender conforming in bathrooms

Not exactly a "free speech" issue.

> attacks on queer events

That's probably the best of your suggestions, though is that really "The Elite War on Free Thought"?
If people are willing to eat less meat would you have the problem to begin with?

I feel the solution should me along the lines of pricing the meat accordingly vs inventing this freak alternative that allows you to virtue signal while still causing the same amount of damage. This without going into the question of what effects this synthetic meat could have on the human body - for better or worse people have been eating meat for all of history and AFAIK meat is one of the most nutriet dense foods you can eat.
> organ harvesting, environmental devasation

Just because one person spouts disinformation doesn't mean all criticism is false. [0][1][2]

[0] - https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2021/06/china-un-hum...

[1] - https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s129...

[2] - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Exactly. One could make the same claim about space tourism, but that one has some rational justification at least. I don't see a great benefit in having cheaper deep-water subs.
Something is definitely happening, there's lot's of videos of military vehicles on the streets of multiple russian cities and the main tv channel just announced some kind of an emergency broadcast.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36404575

Sounds about right, similar FUD strategy as with TikTok, they definitely do not like competition, I'm curious to know why only target Binance? I know why, but let's see if we can create an interesting and insightful discussion.. it's quite challenging to have nowadays
I think any peace deal would necessarily involve ceded territory.

I imagine that territory could be the Bryansk, Kursk, Bilhorod, Rostov, and Krasnodar oblasts.
That's spot on - it's like survivorship bias. If the majority of fighter planes returned with bullet holes on their tops, Oceangate would have armoured the tops.
I wish it weren't the case, but IME blacking out 40% of your schedule for meetings seems unrealistic for the vast majority of companies. We have 1 day a month and while I've only been here less than a year it is generally very well respected in the [Engineering] team that you do not schedule anything on that day, everything is through Slack (and by and large we're really good at treating Slack as asynchronous, nobody gets bent out of shape if you don't answer a message for several hours or more).
Hah. I have blocked hours and people will still schedule meetings.
Once they realize they can distil and quantize Megatron, I suppose they'll name that one "Starscream"?
Kuhn: A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues with the RHEL Business Model
Same here, all channels took 5 seconds to load. I've used Slack on that computer recently though.
Good to know that avoided kubernetes. Instead, they went with MRSK(Manage Remote Server Kontainers). Another source of huge headaches is removed.
Cyclic data structures are implemented easily with unsafe. Like non-cyclical ones (Vec for example). The difficult part is to make a safe API to that. This difficulties are not of syntactic nature but design difficulties. You need to think through your use cases for such a struct and to devise an API that supports them.

This is more difficult than C++ way "just do it". With C++ you will solve the same problems but on a case by case basis as they come into view. With Rust you need to solve these problems upfront or do a lot of refactoring later. There are upsides and downsides in both approaches, but it is clear that Rust is not good to sketch some code quickly to see how it will do.

It is still possible to do it quickly with Rust in a C++ way by leaking usafety everywhere and passing raw pointers, but I think it is still easier to do it with C++ which was designed for this style of coding.
> Society’s love of alcohol is literally thousands of years older than any notion of an associated alcohol industry.

True, for some society's. As it happens it not true for the Australian aboriginal, and they are the ones running amok when here is an abundance of it.

This story is very typical of what happen in every aboriginal community in Australia. It's only news here because Alice Springs has a white population, who don't like the chaos it causes and raise a stink. You don't hear about it on HN, but the smaller Aboriginal communities often ban grog from their communities in response, and have persuaded the government to pass laws to make it enforceable. This isn't some minor advertising ban. This is "if you make a mistake and fly in with a bottle of wine in your plane, your up for thousands of dollars of fines even if it's never leaves the plan or is opened".

Or to flip it around, Australia has the highest methamphetamine addiction rate in the world, leading to things like this: https://www.9news.com.au/national/r/6e676d3e-16b0-48de-86d7-... Meth is a white Australia problem, not black. But if we let Darwin have his way, then I'm sure in a millennia or so it won't be the big problem is it now. But for now white Australia's response is to ban meth.
What is even better is this attorney - who relied on ChatGPT for research - when called to task to provide the legal opinions....couldn't even get the affidavit right.

"The April 25 affidavit was filed in response to the Orders of April 11 and 12, 2023, but is sworn to before a Notary Public on the 25th of January 2023. Mr. LoDuca should be prepared to address this anomaly on June 8, 2023 and bring with him a wet-ink signed copy of the affidavit with the notary’s signature and stamp."
Yeeah. Given enough time it's always 2.
Well will they prosecute Telemundo for racketeering and fraud for phony content ID scamming independent YT creators too? That shitshow of a company actively extorted money from independent creators. They would upload creators' own works and send DMCA strikes against them.
Even in resumes/CVs. Americans tend to exaggerate and play up their experience in a manner you don't see that much of in Europe.
This is essentially the premise of David Langford's short story BLIT:

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm
What about global warming? If you believe burning fossil fuels is damaging (it is), then shouldn’t we try to minimize that?
[dupe] maybe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36451655
>we might try subsidizing the practice of keeping 1% of the land in a wild state to encourage ecological diversity

it already exists, it's called CRP - https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/conservation-...

I think it could be expanded with bipartisan support if they tied it to some of the climate change programs like carbon offsets. Pay people to plant trees on their land
The design flaw was that they used a construction material strong in tension, but weak in compression. For a task that is almost entirely compression. On a vehicle that has no need for weight savings. Also in a couple photos looks like they have drilled and screwed a monitor mount directly into the pressure vessel, creating future failure points, rather than gluing a piece of plywood to the hull and screwing into that, which is standard procedure.
I keep wondering if that person thought about the cut corners and his general attitude while going through his final moments, or perhaps it never occurred to him as he was simply focused on survival.
Prigozhin, via AP Wagner channel, calls for Rosgvardia to join him, or "things will go badly":

"The most promising politician appeals to the National Guard (Rosgvardia) with an offer that is better not refused. Obeying criminal orders and attempting to interfere with the planned campaign of Justice will end badly for employees who have made the wrong choice."

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1672364086812606470
Here's to hoping that this is aimed at Oracle and it all works out for Alma (I hate Oracle)
So Alma will no longer have parity and will be the equivalent of CentOS Stream. Hopefully everyone who chose it over Rocky are OK migrating again.
The real question is: is Alma/Rocky (and the prior CentOS) RHEL compatible, or is RHEL compatible with them? I assume it's the latter because Alma/Rocky are a great proposition for prototyping, and RHEL can be dragged in later for compliance.

Red Hat are eliminating a user vector/funnel here.
I am in no way a front-end person, but my understanding is that it has to do with React and the way it maintains a virtual copy of the DOM.

Having Ctrl-F not work correctly is maddening and I hate it.
Consistency isn’t possible at a sufficient level of context.

I mean, I light campfires and I put them out. At a level of reductionism very common in online conversations, I am totally hypocritical about whether I want a fire or not.
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When Silence is Power (2013)
...and on the other side, even ТАСС has been reporting on it: https://tass.com/russia/1637443

Edit: note that the TASS coverage is far more up-to-date in russian than english. (protip: translate.yandex.com) Новость дополняется. https://tass.ru/delo-v-otnoshenii-prigozhina-ob-organizacii-...
Actually, could be very well planned and well timed move by the CIA:

Russian army is tied at the front, can’t leave it to protect the government.

Wagners are very angry at RU MoD and above for all the betrayals and missteps (art. ammo supply, surrenders, etc.)

RU public is tired of the war and disappointed in Putin (but can’t voice that because of laws that say you will go to jail for just showing UA flag).
I think animal cruelty is more nuanced than "killing animals to eat them is bad" but yes. The question is: if you care about animal cruelty should you stop eating meat altogether?
The point is to see if they already have a solution in mind, and (if you're a good manager) either do it, tell them why it can't or shouldn't be done [yet?], or tell them they can do it themselves.
What did the Hungarians ever do to you?
Strange that they use SpaceX as an example. Titan used manned missions as they “tested” their designs commercially. Had SpaceX done the same they would have killed a lot of people.