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WFHRenaissance··on I don’t want to be an internet person
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WFHRenaissance··on Why Is No One Asking SFB What Happened to the $3.3B He Borrowed?
It's SBF, not SFB.
WFHRenaissance··on Here Come the Crypto Hypocrites
Grow up
WFHRenaissance··on Tell HN: AWS connectivity issues, but health dashboard says everything fine
Cyber attack?
WFHRenaissance··on TSA now wants to scan your face at security
They're being ironic.
WFHRenaissance··on How We Built Fly Postgres
What else would you include in the nutech stack? HashiCorp products in general?
WFHRenaissance··on Kraken lays off 30% of staff
Mostly support people in my experience.
WFHRenaissance··on Why I am learning category theory
As a former category theorist: don't learn category theory unless you're already rich or want to do it for fun.

It will be a lot less rewarding than you expect RE: your engineering ability/understanding.

WFHRenaissance··on Vision Transformers (ViT) Explained
I'm currently reading Machine Learning for Coders (by the people behind fastai) and one point they make early in the book is that the ML research community loves jargon and boy were they right.
WFHRenaissance··on ADHD medication not associated with cardiovascular risk
Definitely twice a year at least if you're on stimulants.
WFHRenaissance··on ADHD medication not associated with cardiovascular risk
“The results of this meta-analysis suggested no statistically significant association between ADHD medication use and the risk of any cardiovascular events across age groups, although a modest risk increase could not be excluded, especially for the risk of cardiac arrest or tachyarrhythmias,”

So, there is a risk for now? Or the risk of a risk?

WFHRenaissance··on ADHD medication not associated with cardiovascular risk
I took stimulants at therapeutic doses for 8 years(Adderall and Vyvanse mostly) - I think more study is needed before we can say with confidence that there is no cardio risk associated with ADHD meds.

I have no history of CVD, but on occasion these meds will give me chest pains and palpitations. So much so that I recently decided to stop taking them and see a cardiologist. The cardiologist did not note any damage, but after the chest pain, palpitations, and seeing my HR hit BPMs that would scare most doctors... I'm not confident in these results.

Can someone with time/interest check to see if there is some p-hacking going on here?

WFHRenaissance··on Apple Rankings
Red Delicious hate is is one of the corniest high-status opinions I see currently in rotation.

Red Delicious apples are regarded as some of the best apples on the planet by most people, the SV and NYC types hate on them because poor people like them.

WFHRenaissance··on Crypto exchange AAX suspends withdrawals
Maybe... depending on where you say the fence is.
WFHRenaissance··on Crypto exchange AAX suspends withdrawals
Literally a non-argument lol
WFHRenaissance··on FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns
Nexo has zero exposure to FTX according to their CEO.
WFHRenaissance··on A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto (1993)
Piracy cannot be tolerated by any self-respecting regime.

Property rights are the cornerstone of Western democracies.

You either keep liberal democracy (and the market economy for culture and information), or embrace a free commons of information and demarketize culture/info.

WFHRenaissance··on Tim Berners-Lee: Web3 is not the web
I kind of agree? Granted, many people have already done this over the decades and we have set answers on the validity of these methods.
WFHRenaissance··on Tim Berners-Lee: Web3 is not the web
Reddit-tier comment. Ad hominem. Ignoring.
WFHRenaissance··on What Happens When Everything Becomes TikTok?
TikTok, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube... what other apps behave like this?
WFHRenaissance··on Tim Berners-Lee: Web3 is not the web
Everyone on HN needs to take a week to actually look into crypto projects. Nothing that makes headlines is ever good, and it's clear that's where most of the opinions of it on here are sourced from.

You're doing yourself a definite disservice by not investing a smidgeon of your time.

You are looking at a garden and remarking about the rotten veggies on the soil floor.

WFHRenaissance··on Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce
What sort of engineer are you and how many years of experience?
WFHRenaissance··on Lyft to lay off about 700 employees in second round of job cuts
Reminds me of COVID onset tbh.
WFHRenaissance··on Activist glues his head to glass covering 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' painting
This is just performance art. Change my mind. Institutional critique has been the latest hotness for a while in the art world... this is just the next phase.
WFHRenaissance··on Former WSJ reporter says law firm used Indian hackers to sabotage his career
1. Foreign hacking groups are often beyond the reach of Western law enforcement. If a domestic threat had been to blame here, there would be legal/financial recourse for damage done. That's not the case here. Implicit in this article is the report of a new kind of warfare for which many Americans have no good defense against.

2. Standard editorial racism a la "The Oriental Threat".

WFHRenaissance··on Hegel – An advanced static type checker for JavaScript
What motivated the name choice?
WFHRenaissance··on Ask HN: Do I publish code that affects millions of wireless security cameras?
1. Contact the manufacturer securely (if they have public keys, use those) to alert them of the vulnerability.

2. Demonstrate the exploitation of the vulnerability (without giving the whole thing away)

3. Negotiate timelines. Find out how quickly they can patch the system.

4. Negotiate a bounty. You're not obligated to give them anything without payment.

5. Sign NDA.

6. Deliver evidence of vulnerability.

7. Collect payment.

8. Wait until blackout period is over and the issue has been patched.

9. Publish your report (if allowed under NDA).

WFHRenaissance··on MAR1D: First-Person Mario
I vaguely remember this being a thing in ~2014? Maybe earlier?
WFHRenaissance··on Ask HN: Technical forums that are not dominated by pedantry?
Before voting karma existed we would just openly bully the pedants on other forums because their actions/language were tantamount to trolling. Voting karma on forums disincentivized this behavior, so now the pedants run everything.
WFHRenaissance··on 12,000 Facebook employees, 15% of its workforce, may lose jobs amid quiet layoff
I saw the greatest minds of my generation wasted on optimizing AdTech systems...
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