willhinsa

> So this is a recipe for anger and resentment.

I know this is a common idiom and makes complete sense in context, but I must point out that it's also an analogy. I just thought it was genuinely funny given the first sentence of your comment. Analogies are hard to escape! :)

And! The ledger isn't used by the main marketplaces or wallets (eg OpenSea & MetaMask) when you're trying to look at your assets. You can be deplatformed from those places, unable to trade your assets with anyone on those sites/using those wallets.

From that Moxie Marlinspike article:

> A crypto wallet like MetaMask, Rainbow, etc is “non-custodial” (the keys are kept client side), but it has the same problem as my dApps above: a wallet has to run on a mobile device or in your browser. Meanwhile, ethereum and other blockchains have been designed with the idea that it’s a network of peers, but not designed such that it’s really possible for your mobile device or your browser to be one of those peers.

> A wallet like MetaMask needs to do basic things like display your balance, your recent transactions, and your NFTs, as well as more complex things like constructing transactions, interacting with smart contracts, etc. In short, MetaMask needs to interact with the blockchain, but the blockchain has been built such that clients like MetaMask can’t interact with it. So like my dApp, MetaMask accomplishes this by making API calls to three companies that have consolidated in this space.

> For instance, MetaMask displays your recent transactions by making an API call to etherscan > …displays your account balance by making an API call to Infura > …displays your NFTs by making an API call to OpenSea

> Again, like with my dApp, these responses are not authenticated in some way. They’re not even signed so that you could later prove they were lying. It reuses the same connections, TLS session tickets, etc for all the accounts in your wallet, so if you’re managing multiple accounts in your wallet to maintain some identity separation, these companies know they’re linked.

> MetaMask doesn’t actually do much, it’s just a view onto data provided by these centralized APIs. This isn’t a problem specific to MetaMask – what other option do they have? Rainbow, etc are set up in exactly the same way. (Interestingly, Rainbow has their own data for the social features they’re building into their wallet – social graph, showcases, etc – and have chosen to build all of that on top of Firebase instead of the blockchain.)

> All this means that if your NFT is removed from OpenSea, it also disappears from your wallet. It doesn’t functionally matter that my NFT is indelibly on the blockchain somewhere, because the wallet (and increasingly everything else in the ecosystem) is just using the OpenSea API to display NFTs, which began returning 304 No Content for the query of NFTs owned by my address!

> (Note: there are no photographs; nor did I take a notepad, so I'm writing this from memory. Cameras were verboten -- not because of security, but as an operational precaution. For starters, some embedded controllers in racks in the auxilliary deisel generator control rooms have EPROMs which have been known to be erased by camera flashes in the past, triggering a generator trip; for seconds, we had to wear protective clothing -- try explaining to a visitor that their expensive Nikon has been contaminated and needs to be left behind!)

I’ve suffered from depression for 20 years with no relief from many different traditional antidepressant medications and many different modalities of therapy. I received my first MDMA therapy treatment in October of last year. It changed my life. It is the most important thing I’ve ever done in my entire life.

It feels like I’m feeling emotions for the first time in my life. I had completely lost hope for any kind of improvement in my symptoms, until this. I am so, so thankful I found this, and am so glad that it will (most likely) be becoming legal for use in treatment outside clinical trials in the very near future. So many lives will change for the better. For the first time in a long time, I’m excited to wake up and ring in each new day.

Cheers, Will

For programming, I can see that, definitely. But when I'm writing an essay, there are many times where I can't type as fast as I can think, and it drives me nuts. I end up resorting to using a voice recorder and transcribing it later. Because sometimes the ideas can come out quickly, but it's still easy to forget them if they're not written down.

> - Enabled downvoting on results, like YT videos. (Has its own spam problems, just like YT)

They're going the OPPOSITE DIRECTION from this!! They recently removed all downvote visibility of YouTube videos from the user, so now downvotes only feed into their algorithm. So in the last line of defense of me ending up watching a shitty video, one of the most valuable tools has been removed by my betters. It's preposterous that people think that Google is doing a good job. They're actively getting worse, and ignoring everyone saying so.

Here is the letter[0], and the researcher in question with a huge conflict of interest is Peter Daszak[1].

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2414

foobar2000 is quite nice

Wow, I had no idea. This is such an interesting story!

> The price increases prompted an increase of "underground IDs" (known as 'UG's for shorthand)—where multiple users shared a single account that they turned into private bulletin boards by using emails that were returned (and therefore not billed) due to invalid email addresses. Those invalid addresses were the simple names of the person or people for whom the messages were intended. When those people signed in and checked the email, they would find "returned" messages with their names. They would then "send" a reply by typing the name of the first sender, which would also be returned. When that person logged on next, they would see their message, and the cycle would repeat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service)#Price...

Or you could look into psychedelic medicine. On the legal side, ketamine has helped a lot of people with treatment resistant depression. You could also look into participating in clinical trials of MDMA or psilocybin. The clinical trial results for those medicines are phenomenal, too.

That is one of my favorite books. Why do you think the first part was difficult to get through for you?

> You can’t win if you guess at their salaries.

> If you underestimate what they’re willing to pay, you’re leaving money on the table. If the real answer is that they would compensate someone like you up to $75,000 dollars, and you guess they would pay a salary of only $65,000, you very literally may have just cost yourself $10,000. [0]

[0] https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/salary-expectations-in...

And a video from the creator of that site (Josh Doody) on this specific issue (disclosing current salary):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N7mOR9yv2U

Which Dostoevsky book?

This is great. Thank you for sharing. I'd never heard of this!

Not noticing/caring about other people's feelings might be some kind of autism-spectrum disorder comorbidity (from what I understand, ADD/ADHD and autism spectrum disorder occur together pretty frequently[0])

Not a psychiatrist, just wanted to mention it as something you might consider, that you or other people reading this might not be aware of.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4010758/

You can read about their reasoning here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702

Posted by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eastdakota, whose profile reads:

> A little bit geek, wonk, and nerd. Repeat entrepreneur, recovering lawyer and former ski instructor. CEO & co-founder of CloudFlare. [ my public key: https://keybase.io/eastdakota; my proof: https://keybase.io/eastdakota/sigs/_uDY0ZsLTEWaNu5daRtuwzZtJ... ]

> Basically gone back to normal

Do they have to wear masks? Do they have to socially distance?

This article [0] would seem to agree with that feeling you can't shake; not that it's a "hoax" per se, but that it's bullshit ;)

> So what does it lack? The film implies anyone can make a beautiful work of art with the right application of science. There is no need for mystical ideas like genius.

> But the mysterious genius of Vermeer is exactly what's missing from Tim's Vermeer. It is arrogant to deny the enigmatic nature of Vermeer's art. If this art looks "optical", it can also look abstract. It is an act of seeing nature, not a work of copying it. Whether or not he made use of optical instruments, Vermeer looked at the world with a uniquely penetrating eye. He was able to paint what he saw with a delicate hand. If you can't see the astonishing nature of his talent when you are standing in front of his paintings you should walk away from them – not make a film about how easy they are to replicate.

> Tim's Vermeer is the equivalent of someone hanging a painting-by-numbers version of a masterpiece over the mantelpiece and claiming it's as good as the real thing. At last, an art film for philistines.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2...

Well, to be fair, the human driver in comparison had to have a decade or two of learning before they could drive well.

Awesome!! Any other tips you have for someone going through that career change as well? I have a Mathematics BA, and worked as an actuary. I've self taught myself varying degrees of SQL, Python, JavaScript, and C, but I've found it difficult not to feel like an imposter without formal qualifications, even though I know I'm a capable learner and love solving challenging problems.

If iMessage isn't revealed in the future to be accessible by the CCP, I'll eat my hat. It's not even protected for users in the USA [0]. Do people really think the CCP would allow encrypted messaging it can't access? If so, I've got a bridge to sell you.

[0] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/what...

How has microdosing helped? Or I should say, what benefits does microdosing confer that macrodosing doesn't?

I'd never heard of this before. I found a copy on YouTube, and it's fantastic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUHBPuHS-7s

Thank you for sharing those anecdotes. Holding out seems like the right thing to do, game theory wise. Plus, it just feels right to me.

P.S. I really enjoyed your website. I'm a type 1 and 3 mix myself :)

I heard an anecdote 15 years ago that Walmart at the time opened 600 new stores a year. If that anecdote was true, this isn't that surprising to me with such a large shift we've experienced during the pandemic of increasing online purchases. It might be expanding too quickly, but it doesn't seem insane to me.

> IT security has become literally impossible: if you install all the patches, you get SolarWinds-style supply chain malware delivered to you automatically. If you don't install the patches, well, that's worse. Either way, enjoy your ransomware.

Sad but true.

> Common sense and technological advancement tells us that, quantitatively, Google search has become better year over year, for all their relevant metrics/cost functions.

lmfao. so you're telling me "quantitatively" that google search results have gotten better, without citing any data at all, but with an appeal to common sense and "technological advancement"?

what if i told you that search is an adversarial problem, and that it's possible for google's tech to be getting better slower than the aggregate tech power used to game google search is getting better? is this not a patently obvious possibility? it's not some kind of gotcha impossibility for google's tech to get much worse over time, even if they weren't hamstringing themselves by lots and lots of user-hostile changes which benefit google's interests rather than their users.

We don't care. We don't have to. [0]

From the 1976 SNL sketch, starring Lily Tomlin. [1]

[0] https://i.imgur.com/VDdfwNQ.png

[1] https://vimeo.com/355556831

To be fair there is a non-small portion of the crypto-bros I've seen on Twitter who can get quite mad at people right-clicking. It's pretty great trolling to watch when it happens.

And has produced some lovely art, too!

https://twitter.com/nicodotgay/status/1458891554026930181

You'd be surprised what insurance companies overlook sometimes. An actuary told me one company he worked for accidentally sold an insurance policy for death due to cancer, but didn't ask applicants whether or not they currently had cancer. So that was quite expensive lesson on selection bias for that company, lol.