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dQw4w9WgXcQ··on A mutation turned ants into parasites in one generation
Influencers, travel bloggers/vloggers, FatFIRE's.
dQw4w9WgXcQ··on Clock
It's like watching a drunk person stagger along the street and wondering if they're going to keep it together or wipe out
dQw4w9WgXcQ··on Japan Says 1.5M Living as Recluses After Pandemic
> I feel that the majority of relationships and marriages say 60-70 years ago were happy and mutually fulfilling, but now anecdotally it seems that most people are not happy whatsoever.

It's because many women have bought into the lie that getting it all and bridging every perceived equality gap will somehow make them happy. Of course, when women are unhappy, their men are more likely to be miserable as well. Men are equally to blame for being passive and enabling these systems of inherent discontent.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/18/womens-...

dQw4w9WgXcQ··on We ran a phone check at a Y Combinator event in SF
Option 3:

* If you're that concerned about perception you're not going to make it far in startup land

dQw4w9WgXcQ··on Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?
> and going to commit suicide few months later

Come on now, why do you feel like that is the plan?

Post your email in profile or something, plenty of us care for you. There's much more to life beyond a software job.

dQw4w9WgXcQ··on Loneliness reshapes the brain
> I stepped back and started to match the effort they were putting in

How did you do it? Have you created an Excel spreadsheet and questioned them about their degree of effort, which you then compared to your level of effort? You added everything up and your column was higher than their column?

I went through this approximately a year before you. Loneliness in this period is caused by your slow response to external change, as well as life telling you to make a life for yourself.

dQw4w9WgXcQ··on Loneliness reshapes the brain
Make your life an RPG. Begin by greeting strangers and creating a list of small goals that gradually increase in complexity till having sex. If you require assistance, please include your email address in your profile.
dQw4w9WgXcQ··on My fifth year as a bootstrapped founder
About page feedback:

1. If you're going to have a headshot, get yourself a professional headshot on the About page. You squinting into the sun in a selfie is nice for a Twitter profile, but you're trying to present a real company w/ a real product here, right?

2. It's clear this story is really tied into your identity right now, but nobody cares about this part on a page about TinyPilot:

>> I'm a software developer and worked most of my career at Microsoft and Google, but I quit in 2018 to found a company of my own.

I like the focus on your frustrations and how you solved that. The quitting part people could take negatively ("is this guy a quitter? will I receive product support if I buy this?").

Everything else looks pretty solid for a SaaS homepage.

dQw4w9WgXcQ··on Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models
You do understand it's not ChatGPT giving advice though right?

ChatGPT's "life advice autocomplete engine" is basically digging somewhere into psychology manuals written by educated humans when it spits out responses.

dQw4w9WgXcQ··on What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record
Kareem literally says this in his post:

> I don’t blame him for thinking that I might be bothered because he knows how competitive I used to be.

dQw4w9WgXcQ··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
> but there is also a lot to be gained - in personal development

So replace religion with unscientifically naive optimism? That too is a delusional narrative. "Donating your atoms back to the universe" as if a personified "universe" cares about you on its way to heat death, someone get me my spirit crystals.

You might say you're off the religious dance-floor, but you're still doing the moves. In fact it's almost more rational to get back into one of the holy books, at least there you can connect the dots on attaching meaning to the present.

dQw4w9WgXcQ··on Unconditional Love
super casual, laid back. not really into conflict, just good vibes. somewhat popular because they're disarming and can be empathetic - sometimes faked empathy though by the lowercase vibe they are trying to wear as a social mask. secretly a real people-pleaser and wants to be liked but tries hard not to show it. has those moments at parties where they are really doing well socially, but also a bit of an introvert who has an artistic bent. usually that kind of person.

also occasionally can be a younger college woman who tries to act super chill and friendly with everyone, may behave somewhat like a bro she likes and often thinks that doing fratty things is cool. like omg can u believe we pounded so much tequila last night and we blacked out at sig epi chi and audrey fell into a bush while i peed on the side of the house. totally ripped my skirt in half, im such a hot mess. like guys are we going to the delta chi social tonight, i literally cant stand chad but still think i might hookup w him again

basically that aesthetic.

dQw4w9WgXcQ··on Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell
Consider sentiment analysis in your Premium package? Sort by negative tweets, bad jokes, the things that woke mobs always get people fired for.
dQw4w9WgXcQ··on Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
I could see that. The overstressed people in this space probably want something more fluffy and meditatively-eastern-psychology sounding.

More breathy and airy than organ-y and meaty. Probably already 900 apps called "Breathe" though

dQw4w9WgXcQ··on US Marines defeat DARPA robot by hiding under a cardboard box
> When does AI switch to "chair"?

You could ask my gf the same question

dQw4w9WgXcQ··on What to do when you’ve ruined your life
Reading this "fee-fees for adulties" article ruined my life. It is obvious that this person still has a great deal of emotional growth and healing to do.
dQw4w9WgXcQ··on The science of having ideas in the shower
These are great for leaving your SO a note in the AM
dQw4w9WgXcQ··on Cargo Cult Quantum Factoring
Eventually Scott Aaronson will be wrong. Call it a reverse black swan, but we will all remember it as the day the quantum computing era began.
dQw4w9WgXcQ··on It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness
Not only that, but if you tell the village idiot they're being an idiot you become a villageidiotiophobe.

People are afraid to set boundaries for fear of getting cancel cultured or harassed by a woke tolerance mob. All disagreement is now "toxic behavior" on social media channels. Arguing over perspectives is now sometimes branded with the extreme label of gaslighting. Day by day our Overton window continues to shift, and yet we were all told the slippery slope was supposedly a fallacy.

dQw4w9WgXcQ··on Generative AI profits off your code. Make them pay for it
> AI-based programming assistants strip away any attribution while drawing from the underlying contributions of the community ... we believe that the open source community is based on principles of taking and giving back to the collective

How is this behavior different than 90% of human coders? Most SW devs scream if you ask them to pay for something, whether its apps, code, TV, movies, etc. But they will happily try to build startups on top of a vast mountain of free code. I really don't care if my code gets sucked up by the AI vacuum, humans have been doing that quite well for awhile now.

dQw4w9WgXcQ··on Sheep flocks alternate their leader and achieve collective intelligence
Very cool, is there anything in particular that results in a more dominant sheep?
dQw4w9WgXcQ··on Binance to acquire FTX
Will be interesting to see how this assertive prediction from "someone in the industry" a few days ago plays out:

>> Regardless if FTT collapses, it wouldn't matter cause insolvency both the asset and liability side of the balance sheet would go down. [1]

We got our FTT collapse today, let's see if the "experts" are correct.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33467429

dQw4w9WgXcQ··on India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN
This is like intentionally shipping bugs into production so you can be the hero and fix them. Why did China have to lift 800M people out of poverty in the first place? Congratulations to the Chinese gov on decreasing the way they treat their populace like farm animals?
dQw4w9WgXcQ··on Rust 1.65.0
In other words, we bang our drum when we feel like it and really have no meaningful metrics or A/B measurements to gauge whether or not our announcement has made any actionable positive impact vs just irritating people who are solely interested in the technical release topic.
dQw4w9WgXcQ··on An unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model
What's funny is HN was majority OK with AirBNB "disrupting" hotels and Uber/Lyft "disrupting" taxi services by bending the rules and exploiting legal loopholes, but when AI starts "disrupting" their artwork and code by bending the rules suddenly disruption becomes a personal problem.

Disrupt onward I say. Humans learn and remix from prior copyrighted work all the time using their brains (consciously chosen or not). So long as the new work is distinguishable enough to be unique there's nothing wrong with these new AI creations.

dQw4w9WgXcQ··on As last module docks, China completes its space station
The USA requiring China to invent something on their own rather than Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V the USA's work is helping them grow up. It's a long-term win-win. We don't "blame" parents for asking their children to grow up into independent adults, nor should countries enable codependent behavior.
dQw4w9WgXcQ··on Every Door – OpenStreetMap editor for POIs and entrances
I'm glad there are people in this world concerned with tagging not just benches but also their backrest information.
dQw4w9WgXcQ··on A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes
Requesting a max air-time feature!
dQw4w9WgXcQ··on Getting Out of a Rut
As someone in a "rut" recently, one of the things I realized was I needed to stop telling myself the story that I'm in a rut, because describing it as a "rut" focuses on a lot of externals I can't control.

When you get a flat tire you can catastrophically repeat over and over to yourself that "I've got a flat!" and point at it and run circles around the car and wonder what you're going to do and "omg I've got a flat this is terrible", or you can start telling yourself the story of the actions you're taking to fix the flat: 1) I'm finding the jack, 2) I'm loosening the lugs 3) I've got the spare ready, 4) you get the idea...

Reclaim your power and focus on the positive actions you are taking as minute as those seem in the moment. Meditate deeply on those, maybe even journal them daily so you force your brain to stare at the evidence that while you might feel like you're in a rut you are logically taking good steps through this rut experience.

Btw, don't underestimate the impact of the stresses of coming fatherhood, you've got a lot going on unconsciously that's less a "rut" and more like your entire biology reconfiguring itself for a new daily role. You do need to make some changes, ideally make a list of what your brain is telling you to change, but you'll be OK man.

dQw4w9WgXcQ··on Ask HN: Where would I find out about leasing land to telcos for 5G?
Looking forward to the Tell HN: How I scaled my neighborhood light-pole to $48 ARR
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