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twodaion Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?

Viktor Frankl man's search for meaning - great perspective I needed while going through an emotionally difficult breakup. Basically it's a story about a psychologist during the holocaust and his experience in concentration camps. How it changed people and the experiences he lived through.

The big question in the book he's trying to answer is why do some people give up while others Excell in life.

twodaion Ask HN: How to Retire ASAP?

Nobody knows what a great investment is, just understand your risk threshold and be OK with taking risks.

If you want a general rule of thumb look to invest in the broader market mainly and then have smaller portions of your portfolio invested in riskier assets.

twodaion Albanian prosecutors probe huge suspected leak of personal data

This isn't a total cultural norm, if anything I think it's a view from america a few generations ago. For instance all of my friends and extended friend groups are open about our incomes.

With complete total strangers I would totally agree people generally don't lead with their salary. But after knowing people for a while it's come up a bunch and it's a taboo.

twodaion Intel seems awfully scared of Graviton2. Why pay for this ad on Google?

Thank you for fighting the eternal September that is now prevelant in online message boards

twodaion Instagram Is Facebook Now

Yeah but for that one day it will be pretty good.

twodaion A bug that doesn’t exist on x86: Exploiting an ARM-only race condition

I guess it's more about priorities, if you want to build a web app don't reinvent the underlying protocols. If you want to build an embedded system for monitoring room temperature don't invent your own locks.

But if you want to make a lock by all means make a lock, just don't go and reinvent the chip architecture...

twodaion HN 15 Years ago

It's possible some other group will buy the data, or they will make it easily download able

twodaion Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time

This is lewd but funny, I needed that laugh.

twodaion AS13335 doing SSH scanning

My favorite is to implement a tarpit while moving the ssh port.

twodaion Facebook has vanity IPv6 ':face:b00c'

For a second I thought it was a reference to the hacker magazine and not the phone dial... then I realized it's the same reference. Facepalm.

twodaion Liquidsoap – A scripting language for multimedia streaming

https://github.com/LibreTime/libretime

Check out this project called libretime, in the past they used liquid soap for their playback. Basically it's an online Foss radio streaming platform mainly used for radiostations to add in automation for their coverage

twodaion Audio editor Audacity denies spyware accusation

In a lot of the software I've written for businesses telemetry was critical in being able to get quick answers to things like "is anyone using this specific portion of the app?" Or "are the new users using the application yet? "

twodaion Once a bastion of free speech, the ACLU faces an identity crisis

Correct me if I'm incorrect but the idea of the hn forum is to discuss and share things which spark curiosity or something along those lines. I believe this article and conversation is incredibly curiosity inspiring. Also if hn was to deviate from that aim I think hn would really cease to be what it is.

twodaion NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Using the Falcon Heavy

Nasa has a rich history of extreamly useful spin off technologies which came about as side effects for space travel:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies#:~....

A more useful one is the extensive of the satellite network which powers our ability to share and collaborate like we are doing now, along with the GPS network allowing us to travel more easily.

I hear you about the enviormental concerns and it's terrible how we are not aware or thoughtful about how all the externalities/problems which are created by new technologies. But to say we should not invest in space tech is a real step in the wrong direction if you care deeply about the environment. Some of the best energy capture technologies will come from our ability to master space travel, as well as the need to understand Terra forming other plants which will help us tackle climate problems here on earth.

twodaion Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable

Really like async await. The only case ive found for callbacks is for the top level function call in a script. Calling ".then()" is useful since top level await is still not a thing, and may never be.