darigo

Hmm, On the other hand.

>Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism)[a] is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews.

I'm a fellow fan of looking into words' etymologies, but it would seem that antisemitic has not had much to do with 'semitic' for quite some time.

Assembly 2023 had a fantastic presentation[1] from @BackTheBunny (from X) about precisely this. When the US really wants to do something, the constitution is a parchment guarantee and the media runs cover for them. Many US gov agencies are basically supranational and extrajudicial.

I don't agree with everything he said but the information was well presented and enjoyable.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUTcIXuw2f0

ha, your comment reminds of that quote from the mentor:

"We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals"

Makes me think of something totally different, which is how Urbit converts randomly generated numerical IDs into sorta memorable names.

For example, the number 5,702,400 becomes ~sorreg-namtyv. And 1,742,733,824 becomes ~master-morzod.

I enjoy the quirkiness of the names.

Oh yeah, I understand, last year I was indeed making boatloads of money.

Right now I'm focused on something other than making tons of money tbh. There's a job I covet, so I've been just focusing on maxxing relevant skills so I can join this elite club of extremely cool people working on this very cool thing.

But after that I'm gonna go back to money, for sure.

Btw I love your blog. That same essay "How to be a hacker" is the one I consulted as a teenager, which led me to switch from QBASIC (my first lang, on the recommendation of an IRC channel that was probably trolling me) to Python.

>The job market is not great right now, but sounds like you could have moved up last year.

What do you mean by moved up?

I have more work than I can even do - but I may have a different idea of what a coveted job is.

>That might be the issue, that kind of work is worth more.

ikr <3

I agree with the point you're making but I think this is a less than ideal example:

>Did an early investor in Facebook do more work than an early investor in Pets.com?

It's quite possible that an investor who does more research, spends more time networking with smart young people, etc, would have to do more work in order to invest in better things.

And even if not, meritocracy means rewarding the quality of work, not just the quantity. Making smart investments should pay better than making dumb ones, even if it's not more work.

I feel this so hard. Whenever I read HN people are like "obviously we SWE's are economic elites who will never struggle financially, unlike everyone else"

Bro I have over ten years of dev experience, dozens of significant bug bounties including well-known projects like Chromium and Github, am a great competitive coder (love leetcode and codewars type challenges), and my brother makes much more money fixing air conditioners than I do as a dev.

Appsec is my specialty but my background is in React frontend (Node and Flask backend).

If it's hard for me, it must be brutal for new grads and people just coming out of bootcamps. I'm lucky that I focused on open source instead of going to college, because when I started looking for work I already had a portfolio and real experience, plus FOSS friends.

If anyone is looking for an appsec person who can find vulnerabilities, report them in a way that clearly explains the issue to other devs, and then write patches, please do reach out. Glad to work for WAY less than $60 an hour lol.

Currently I'm a freelancer, can show projects I've worked on. I don't mind hoops at all, send me a coding challenge or CTF or whatever you want :)

With all these studies, we're going to be very well prepared to address any future mental health epidemics among mice

I mean, this cuts both ways. One of the most consistent predictors of success in public school is parental involvement.

The only school I ever went to that was good for socialization was community college. Tbh, for learning too. I basically learned all of math, from arithmetic up, as an adult at community college, to compensate for learning nothing and getting pushed through all of the grade levels at public school.

I wish they had community colleges where I live now lol.

>it is possible to have plenty of "socialization" with other kids.

I agree. Public school is not a great place for socialization, and it's not hard to create something better. Nothing socializes kids like sitting next to each other motionless in silence for several hours lol

Alex Kaschuta discussed this with Rob Henderson on her Subversive podcast: https://www.alexkaschuta.com/p/subversive-podcast-rob-hender...

Her point is that this effect is way bigger in 3rd world countries, where these kinds of beliefs signal alignment with "The West" and the status that comes with that.

>But if we're going to have a single commons a democratic government may be preferable to a company that at best wants to keep it advertiser friendly.

I'm also a big fan of the fediverse. However, I'm skeptical in the quality and even practical accountability of "democratic" governments, who are themselves pressured to be "advertiser-friendly" in their own way.

That depends, who are you proposing the alternative caretaker? I don't want my government to force video apps to host violent content, nor do I want my government making their own digital commons.

With the traffic between this world and the afterlife, using exceptions like this is really inefficient. Furthermore, a lot of souls with net bad behavior might be in a state of Grace, rescuing them from Hell.

An improvement might look like this:

    def judgement(soul):
        in_grace = soul.state.is_graceful() 
        good_works = len(soul.works)
        if in_grace: return 1 # Heaven
        if good_works > MORAL_MINIMUM: return 0 # Limbo
        return -1 # Welp.
        

Although, given the moral ambiguity of the spec, it might be better to use a language with more undefined behavior like C. Terry Davis addressed a lot of this when he built the third Temple in HolyC.

I actually work parttime at a startup where we're trying to use web3 to establish permanent, digital identities that you can use in the afterlife to bargain with demons. The idea is, you can use an NFT (who says web3 is dead!) to correlate the atoms in the immortal eternal one-soul with their constituent souls on earth, so you can identify your friends in Heaven (or Hell). Eventually, we hope to even link people on earth to people on heaven, via our Rust-based AngelLink blockchain. A sort of "tower to the heavens" so to speak.

If anyone else on HN is interested in this space, feel free to email me (darigo.maxwell at gmail dot com). Always looking to make new friends who love God and have a passion for big data and the thirst for God's presence.

Oh man. Dissident right Twitter (sorry, 𝕏) is probably gonna go nuts. I myself don't have strong political opinions, but I listen to a lot of historically Thiel-adjacent media (redscare pod, Urbit) and I'm looking forward to the wild conspiratorial takes about what appears, with even the slightest bit of investigation, to be a massive nothingburguesa.

During home school my daughter was learning about how data structures are represented in memory, which gave us the opportunity to explore how to represent strings as arrays, and thus: Pascal strings vs C strings

Not strictly related by I really enjoy using SQL as a general-purpose programming language for coding challenges. Here's my n queens solution in SQL, for example: https://gist.github.com/seisvelas/952185983a625cd16e1ed4d901.... I made that because I ran out of challenges on CodeWars.

implementing algorithms in SQL really made my intuition for SQL skyrocket, to the point where no tasks in my day to day data engineering role were very challenging - at least not in terms of dealing with crazy joins and subqueries and such.

I miss SQL now days (as an appsec dev). Currently, I'm learning Hoon, which is too intuitive to really replace SQL as a language for doing toy problems while having to think wierd.

>So how do you square that sentence with what actually happened?

One way to square that with what happened: The left continued accruing power throughout Trump's presidency. I don't think the model of power relations presented in, eg, the constitution, or a civics class, or even an econ 101 class, have existed for centuries now

I crossed into Mexico via Eagle Pass. I was hitchhiking throughout the US and then throughout Mexico with my wife. Nothing seemed so dramatic then, but maybe it's blown up in recent years. When I got to the bottom of Mexico I stayed a night in Tapachula, which was totally nuts. Flooded with French speaking black immigrants en route to the US.

Really interesting place. Lots of cool food and people to talk to with interesting stories. Painful stories, too. Such an overwhelming, disorienting place. Maybe it's changed too, though. The above-ground world we see on the news is stable because it's a mask for the entropic chaos of the underworld, where portals to the unknown pop in and out of existence all around you, and it's easy to get lost and everything disappears all the time, and you'll never be able to know how or why.

The real world is like a tornado made of spaghetti. And the fake world (like in Baudrillard's The Gulf War Did Not Take Place kind of way) feels so much realer and more familiar because it doesn't need to deal with the eccentricities and contradictions of reality, but can safely play with its symbols. Like the difference between making a Yoda out of Legos vs making a real Yoda. Blood and guts and bricks in boxes, flooding over wet dirt.

What a cheesy stunt, which of course makes it so fitting for someone like Mr 𝕏 dot com