kadenwolff

I feel like a lot of the criticisms made here could be goal-factored out. I think Caplan would agree with them. But I think a lot of the things that are suggested would be missed out on (teaching conformity, peer groups, etc) could be replaced by significantly better alternatives than schooling.

The title of this post sounds like an advertisement for a cult

This isn't exactly true, it's relatively common to see HN-user created games on the front-page. I think you're engaging in typical-mind; while this community is a space for nerds, not everyone here is interested in video games. The shared interest here is for "hacking", computer science, and computer software. I wouldn't even say the forum is necessarily business oriented, despite the association with Y-Combinator. It's simply that, because of the incentives, there is a lot of interesting software and research that comes from the private sector.

This is a really, really bad idea

This goes into my "top ten post titles before AI kills us all"

If you're interested in the magic of Kentucky:

http://kentuckyroutezero.com/

Same

This is ridiculous and has been a cascade of awful precedents for the Internet. This is legitimately an extremely bad sign of what's to come for the Internet's future.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32726569

Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32726465

This seems like a bit of a misrepresentative title. It's been well known for a long time that stress during pregnancy (high cortisol levels particularly) has a negative effect on the child's mental health throughout their whole life. Labeling this as epigenetic trauma feels like stretching the definition in a motte and bailey kind of way.

Read this tutorial 3 years ago or so, thank you for writing it!

Water is wet

You cannot solve your narcissism through introspection. Introspection will only lead you to thinking you've found the answer, and stopping there so you don't have to change. "I've figured it out, I know why I'm a narcissist," and then stopping there.

People can't tell you how to stop being a narcissist. If someone tells you exactly what to do, you'll do that thing, and then stop. "I'm doing that thing now, so I'm not a narcissist!"

Your mind will simulate the most awful pain imaginable just to protect against changing your behaviour. You think your suffering is making you a good person, that by looking at the painful parts of your mind you are no longer a narcissist, but you're at the same place as you were before. You haven't changed your behaviour at all.

Interesting that he co-founded Periscope and they also just removed any mention of Periscope from their TOS. Maybe just an artifact of them considering removing him, or it has no meaning. Just found the timing notable.

Pg shared this post earlier as well:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1524166696461864962?s=20&t=...

This music would be extremely hard to sight-read. The only aspect of it that I like is that it is key-agnostic. It would be cool to see atonal music written in this notation system. But for professional musicians this isn't worth learning.

His reason for not joining sounds pretty clear.

"he, like all board members, has to act in the best interests of the company and all our shareholders, was the best path forward."

Obviously Elon Musk continually openly criticizing Twitter, from the perspective of some of the board members, is not in the best interest of Twitter. He would have to join under some obligations that would prevent him from speaking openly about his criticisms, and he'd probably be kicked from the board at some future point. This is why they say it's in the best interest of Twitter that he doesn't join. Musk joining would only result in some kind of scandal months down the line.

I've used a Wacom tablet with Fedora for a while and it works really well! I find a lot of value in drawing while programming to work out problems, and being able to easily put those drawings then into Obsidian is just great.

I don't think anyone's mentioned it yet but I like the name!

This seems dismissive, especially when you're talking to other devs who have a lot of experience with different OS's. I'm sure some people just accept whatever Apple pushes because they want to have an iPhone for the status signal, but there are a decent number of tech-informed people who prefer MacOS for reasonable reasons.

Willpower is a limited resource, environmental modifications and behaviourism are king here. Find ways that work for you to keep less food around. Count calories, and reinforce meeting your calorie goals each day. If that doesn't work, it doesn't mean you are weak or bad, you just haven't found something sufficiently reinforcing yet. You can experiment with reinforcement intervals. Don't be afraid to start off with over-the-top reinforcement, you can always fade it down the road. But there's no substitution for calories in/out, there's no way you can get around eating less food if you want to lose weight (unless you exercise a ton, but that's typically not sustainable for someone chronically overweight).

I had this happen recently as well, have not found a solution