spookyuser

Yikes, we'd be so screwed. Although from the reasons outlined in the book, I think it makes it very unlikely that actual aliens would come to the planet and look around before doing anything. They would probably just kill us from light years away.

> ... When undergraduate students at Peking University, which was at the center of the incident, were shown copies of the iconic photograph [of Tank Man] 16 years afterwards, they were "genuinely mystified." One of the students said that the image was "artwork." It is noted in the documentary Frontline: The Tank Man that he whispered to the student next to him "89," which led the interviewer to surmise that the student may have concealed his knowledge of the event.

Reminds me of this: https://vimeo.com/44078865

Kind of funny, I just noticed uBlock Origin blocks requests to uBlock.org under "Badware risks" maybe they should add adblock plus to that list now.

What made you choose tick tick over Todoist?

It's weird I tried to submit that list as it's own submission on hacker news and it seemed to be doing well but then suddenly I couldn't I couldn't see it under new.

Interesting that this website prevents you from copying text

Roma

Highly recommended! If you can, see it on IMAX for maximum palm sweating :P

I watched Free Solo not long ago, yesterday I watched Falcon 9 launch then land flawlessly and today I watched Dragon 2 dock with the ISS.

It's mind boggling how apt humans are to what should be impossible.

I saw this linked in an article about the number of people that were prevented from buying tickets because of their social credit score.

When I first saw it, I couldn't believe it was real. I had always thought this kind of site could be something China is heading towards but not a point they are at right now. It also looks like something that could be taken straight out of Black Mirror episode.

I really want - and am thinking about making - an extension that adds HN comments to Goodreads books.

Whenever I read a book thread on HN I end up adding most of the books to my reading list on goodreads. But a year later, I don't remember why I've added the book and all I have to go on is the Goodreads rating and goodreads comments.

These aren't that bad, but if the book has been on a HN book thread, I would much rather see a one sentence comment from HN that reads: "I loved this book, you should read it right now." Instead of any other comments from normal Goodreads users.

How else is it possible to even begin parsing a thread like this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17980964

These are amazing! Thanks for pointing them out.

I have been unhappily using evernote. It's not terrible but there's small things that add friction to notes that I just want to get out of my head. I used to have a quick launch shortcut on my phone that opens a new note but it took longer than I would like to load and requires more input than I think is necessary. You have to enter a title, description then hit save. What I would really like is something like a todist interface to evernote where you can do something like: "This is a creative idea #ideas" <enter> and then it would tag the note and send it to evernote with hopefully very little lag. Or even better: "Note title" <enter> "Description #tags" <enter> And it automatically saves.

What I have started using which is better than the default evernote quick note interface is the IFTTT note to evernote shortcut. Its way faster than evernote but it doesn't support tagging so if it could do that it would be pretty much perfect for me, I think.

I followed these instructuions: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/69m2ol/running_le...

If you have the jdk installed (https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk...) you can simply run:

  $ appletviewer http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/

Thank you for commenting this!

I was playing Sandspiel and it was bringing back vaguely positive memories of a similar game but I couldn't remember what it was or when I played it, then I saw your comment, opened falling sand game and instantly remembered the game. I must have spent so much time playing this when I was younger, it's great to have a working version again.

Plus this awesome video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZX5GRPnd4U

They can pry it from my cold dead hands

My bank is quite funny about this because even if you disable su on LOS it will write to a file that your phone has been rooted because of the cutsom rom, so even if you install magisk after the bank app freaks out, you still can't make it _forget_ that you had root. Also it takes a week to activate most features on the app after install, _sigh_, so uninstalling is pretty much not an option either.

The funny part is, when you first open the app after install, to stop root/rom users using some features, they just write a boolean to Android's shared preferences `USER_HAS_ROOT` or something. So _if_ you do have root you can just use a file explorer, or adb or something else go to the shared prefs file, change the value to false and when you relaunch the app, as long as magisk is installed, it works fine.

But no, my app doesn't like Los, and I think I even had to uninstall the inbuilt su of the ROM.

It's still funny that Banks infer rooting, and maybe even weirder, using a custom ROM equals a security vulnerability when usually the reverse is true.

Also I loved how a little later in the book, when he gets back into into normal 3D space, he finds it claustrophobic to even float outside of the spaceship, because of his experience in the fourth dimension.

Yeah I agree with that. Maybe they'll need a more sophisticated solution that can check for visual similarity. But It just feels like they haven't even acknowledged this as a problem, so I would be happy with any countermeasures right now.

The problem is so much worse than this now. There are dozens of fake accounts under every one of his tweets and it doesn't even seem like these accounts are trying anymore. Their names are sometimes random strings of letters, and they just change their profile picture to a screenshotted version of Musks. Oh and once you report one of these accounts it can take weeks for Twitter to do anything

I also find it so strange that Twitter hasn't done anything to specifically limit these accounts. They could even naively block normal users from having a verified user's profile picture and this problem would virtually not exist.

I thought chrome did this automatically now.

Can very highly recommend Three Body Problem. Also try not reading anything about the books beforehand if you haven't already.

Out of curiosity, why were you carrying that much cash anyway?

This thread is pretty cool, could be a standalone site.

What about not letting you make the video fullscreen?

It was articulated so well in the dark forest that I have trouble seeing it any other way now.

I was also kind of thinking about _FOMO_, but just in terms of messaging apps. For instance, if I were supposed to be getting a ride with someone and my notifications were off, wouldn't I have to be checking my phone more since i'm now manually checking for messages about the lift, instead of being pushed them as they come in.

It seems to me that message notifications, at least, do keep me from checking my phone.

Didn't Xi Jinping watch the Simpsons episode where they installed cameras all over Springfield?