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d-d··on A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier
Success is a powerful drug that can cause very convincing delusions.
d-d··on Billionaires extract wealth rather than create it
> You have an apple seed

So where'd you get the seed? Or the land? Or the time to plant and tend to the tree?

d-d··on OpenAI Procgen: Procedurally Generated Game-Like RL Environments
Are we in an environment like one of these?

Oh well, back to work.

d-d··on Whistleblower in New Orleans hotel collapse is deported to Honduras
I hate seeing a person's past catch up with them. Especially if it has the sting of irony, is decades after the fact and FUBARs life as they know it. My heart goes out to the guy.
d-d··on Hacker Laws: Theories, principles and patterns that developers will find useful
> Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

This makes me think of the first song I posted to YouTube. I couldn't help but curiously flip through the viewer statistics. Automatically I began wondering how I could prevent the 50% drop-off at X seconds, and what type of person was sticking around beyond the drop-off. And before I looked much into it I realized this would be a great way to suck all the life out of something that's supposed to be fun.

d-d··on We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus
Amazing! I'm holding my vibrating iPhone to my head in a certain spot which gets the skull resonating, and it's cutting the tinnitus down by about 70%.

This is definitely doing something beyond masking the sound because when the vibration stops there is a few seconds delay before the tinnitus comes back.

Pretty exciting stuff! I really hope this leads to a reasonable cure. I'm not sure having a thing vibrating on my head would be any less distracting!

d-d··on Ask HN: Will a Computer Science degree be worth anything in 15 years?
It's getting very popular, and I'm thinking in terms of supply and demand. Also, the world will be very different.
d-d··on Nine-year-old child to graduate university
It's tragic how being an outlier in kicks all these other processes into action that tend to remove the person even further from society.
d-d··on Natural image reconstruction from brain waves
What would a world look like where all thoughts are public?
d-d··on DuckDuckGo Search Improvements
I use DDG strictly for the bangs!

So nice to type "vintage flute !e" and land on eBay or "john 3:16 !bLb" straight to a Bible verse.

d-d··on Ask HN: Cool stuff that's still completely unregulated?
Honesty. Acts of kindness. Ad blocking.
d-d··on 3D animation with sound in 64 bytes of assembler
As a programmer the demoscene has always fascinated me, but I don't know if I can handle that rabbit hole.
d-d··on Show HN: Scale Heaven – Browse and play any scale/chord, chord progression
I'm getting a blank white page on Firefox.
d-d··on Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?
I honestly don't get why people use Atom or even VS code for that matter. Vim and emacs come shipped with many systems, have good plugins, and are waaaay faster; not to mention no telemetry!
d-d··on Ask HN: How to get first clients as a freelance consultant?
Find the other things these people do, start doing those things and make friends with them. Eventually you will find yourself in a conversation where they're asking you for your work. The key is to not form the relationships solely based on the business connection. Take genuine interest in people and it will happen automatically. I think this is why likeable people do so well in business. Being a good friend sort of opens the floodgates.
d-d··on Wolfram Rule 30 Prizes
Haha, this is just P versus NP for $970,000 less in prizes.
d-d··on Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images
Everything has to get decrypted at some point, right? I try not to think about what would happen if a Google employee decided to leak everyone's search history.
d-d··on Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering
This article is about learning, but the context seems to be about landing a job. Software jobs are all about who you know. People who know people get waved past all the red tape. The truer purpose of education is relationships not knowledge. This is why there are high school dropout senior engineers ordering burgers from CS grads. If you're in it for money, you're less likely to build relationships. This is why I'm genuinely concerned for all these people stampeding towards CS. It's gonna be ugly in 5-10 years IMO.
d-d··on YouTuber charged fans $199 for ML course that copied other people's GitHub code
I miss the old web back when everything wasn't about posturing and making a quick buck. It's just stupid. Everything is part of some monkey making strategy anymore.
d-d··on How Apple Kills Indie Developers
When someone doesn't have proper privacy policy links, Apple points this out very specifically and quickly accepts the app after it's fixed. I've seen them accept policies as simple as a plaintext link containing "We don't store any of your data".
d-d··on How Apple Kills Indie Developers
Yeah, I don't get it. Why hand years of your life over to a bunch of greasy shysters?

I'm looking forward to the day these oversized bully companies become irrelevant. That day will come. The amount of innovation and progress they're holding back from humanity is criminal. Can't last.

d-d··on Apple is evaluating new keyboard mechanisms to make thinner MacBooks
I feel your pain. The literal, actual pain of typing on a post-2015 MBP keyboard.
d-d··on Life in China Is Getting Harder With High Prices
Whether you're browsing HN or farming wild jackabees off the grid; there is no escaping the political news machine.
d-d··on Launch HN: Sparkswap (YC S18) – Buy Bitcoin Instantly over the Lightning Network
> I'd say this is neither direct nor instant

You're correct in other ways as well:

The "lightning" network (heh) still requires slow Bitcoin transactions to initiate and close. And it's between two trusted parties anyway, so this negates the need for a trustless network like Bitcoin.

A far better "lightning network" has existed for many years. It's called a shared SQL database.

d-d··on From Design Patterns to Category Theory (2017)
> Category theory ... has the potential to be a major cohesive force in the world, building rigorous bridges between disparate worlds, both theoretical and practical.

I got this same impression while delving into type theory [0], but even moreso with category theory. It seems the chaos of the information explosion is being organized and how we presently do software and data may go the way of the dinosaur "overnight".

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_theory

d-d··on Book subtitles are getting longer because of SEO
If you're fascinated by the unintended consequences of technology it might be worth picking up a copy of "Understanding Media" by Marshall McLuhan. This hacking of book subtitles is a great example of what I like to call the "McLuhan Effect", but honestly I just can't remember the proper term for it.
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