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arowthwayon How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences

I agree it can feel frustrating and inactionable but it's not bullying, it's a thoughtful well-meaning response. Actually if it makes you feel bad it's a signal it may be worth contemplating more.

arowthwayon How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences

Sounds like cognitive empathy vs affective empathy.

arowthwayon How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences

What does "being yourself" even mean? Obviously not "acting the exact same way you act when alone", since this would be impossible/weird/rude/illegal but also not "acting intuitively without overthinking", since the socially anxious person's intuition is to run away.

arowthwayon Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite

Nice, I had no idea that stat() every 1 ms is so affordable. Aparently it takes less than 1 μs per call on my hardware, so that's less than 0.1% cpu time for polling.

arowthwayon SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

Come on, it's not hard to come up with this idea. And it's not even true, model trained on clothed children and nude adults wouldn't know how children's genitals look like.

arowthwayon Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness

I'd rather arbitrate by coin toss.

arowthwayon Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat

I don't understand, what's so fundamentally wrong with this form of insider trading? Is the accusation that it makes degenerate gambling unfair? Is it necessary for degenerate gambling to be fair? The gamblers don't seem to care.

arowthwayon Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-form_expression

"Commonly, the basic functions that are allowed in closed forms are nth root, exponential function, logarithm, and trigonometric functions.[a] However, the set of basic functions depends on the context. For example, if one adds polynomial roots to the basic functions, the functions that have a closed form are called elementary functions."

It's only maths, don't expect things to be so black and white.

arowthwayon Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log

Closed-form expressions, I guess?

"For example, if one adds polynomial roots to the basic functions, the functions that have a closed form are called elementary functions."

arowthwayon Artemis II and the invisible hazard on the way to the Moon

I'm not disputing that conspiracy theorists tend to lack rigor but there is a full spectrum of positions between "space is fake" and "one specific extraordinary achievement with high incentive to fake it is fake".

arowthwayon Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator

Who's they? The subset of politically correct types who reject the idea of universal human dignity and instead tie your moral worth to material output, but still keep insisting that everyone's equal? Honestly I don't think it's a large group.

arowthwayon Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator

What's wrong with comparing the achievements of different sub-ethnicities in Israel? What's wrong with talking about any real phenomena? Is the assumption that he must have a hidden bad-faith agenda?

arowthwayon Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating

Thanks, I get it now. I'm not sure if the comment was necessarily disingenuous but it's clearly not used as an idiom.

arowthwayon Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11

I don't think it's fair to expect people to autocensor based on ill-defined, circular notions of taste and appropriateness, at least not in edge cases where these notions clearly vary from person to person. If the reasoning is something like "an abuse victim might read this and feel bad" or "a stupid person might confuse social license for edginess with license for being a bad person", then that's a discussion we can have.

arowthwayon Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11

How does it take away from the severity of actual abuse? By not mentioning it when it's not relevant to the analogy?

arowthwayon Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11

If you don't claim it's inapropriate then what's left to agree about?

arowthwayon Ask HN: How to be alone?

"With repetition, it's very easy to make new friends."*

*Assuming you possess the necessary social skills.

I've trained BJJ consistently for over 4 years now. I think fondly of all the people there and feel accepted, but we barely talk, and I'm unable to participate in the locker room camaraderie.

This is probably not a problem OP has, I just felt the need to complain.

arowthwayon RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello

The server can also advertise a public name that doesn't match any domain it has a TLS certificate for, like example.com or nsa.gov.

I'm not 100% sure it's allowed in the specs, but it works in Chrome.

As I understand it, without this feature it would be pretty useless for small website owners, since they would need to register a separate domain for their ECH public name, which censors could just block.

arowthwayon RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello

Nginx also supports ECH now, since the December release.

arowthwayon Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo

The financial market things are over my head and I don't have a dog in the game, but I think "Nobody is replacing salesforce with their internally vibe coded software" is just false? Both taken literally [0] [1] and as denying the general trend. Just in my company we already replaced WMS software subscription with own solution, and I wouldn't be able to write it fast enough and maintain it by myself without the use of Claude Code. I'd say "Not perfectly or with every edge case handled, but well enough that the CIO reviewing a $500k annual renewal started asking the question “what if we just built this ourselves”" is an accurate description.

[0] https://lovable.dev/blog/how-a-startup-replaced-a-salesforce...

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/news/4144652-klarna-shuts-down-sale...

arowthwayon My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood

"each MP4 file was likely to be about 3GB. (...) Also, it’s not easy to watch a file like that. You’d need to download the entire file first to even be able to watch it"

I dont think that's true? Even with moov atom at the end of the file, browsers just figure it out, as long as the server supports http range requests. And I suspect the size could be much smaller, given the low resolution of Video8 footage, but maybe author did the reasearch and compression would take too much time.

arowthwayon Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending

If you're able to manipulate DNS, can't you just issue your own certificate for the domain? Even if it would be revoked moments later, mitmproxy doesnt check it even when ssl_insecure=false:

https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/issues/2235

EDIT: Maybe I incorrectly assumed you meant authoritative DNS.

arowthwayon Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending

Don't use it if you plan to auto accept terminal commands, without a sandbox, while on a public wifi in a cafe, next to a hacker who decides to bet on you running a very niche configuration.

arowthwayon FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE

Sure there is the usual hypocrisy but IMO what's more interesting is that, based on some posts that pop up on my FB feed, there has been a real backlash among gun nuts and people like Rittenhouse himself.

arowthwayon Hypnosis with Aphantasia

Isn't this 'pretend-and-perceive approach' what all aphantasics do by default when asked to imagine something? That is, until they know they're aphantasics AND choose to feel 'confusion, frustration, shame, and inadequacy' instead.

arowthwayon Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)

Regulations are coming faster and harder when people are this eager to comply in advance.

arowthwayon I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

Influenced by many comments on this site, I recently switched from $10 Github Copilot to $20 Claude Code and so far haven't seen any benefits. Maybe it's because I don't know how to 'close the agentic loop' in this project. I thought it being more agentic meant I can just tell it to research a subsystem on its own and plan the changes I want, but that caused it to spawn 3 subagents and consume the entire 4-hour token limit. Copilot feels more frugal with token usage.

arowthwayon Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

If disclosed properly.

arowthwayon Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

Excuse my FUD, but are they really non-profit as described in FAQ? I find it a little hard to believe given how aggressive they are at marketing the paid version.

arowthwayon HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark

Obviously social trust in the US has declined and Trump benefited from that. But this is not evidence that the primary cause is sociopathic, non-empathetic actors. Theoretically it could also be things such as increased diversity, loss of shared identity, people acting in good faith but failing to adapt to social media.