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  1. Japanese has a word for green now 緑 (midori). Traffic lights use the word for blue for historical reasons
  2. I also live in Suginami! There's always a lot of kids running around together, especially after school, but that feels quite normal for anywhere in Japan, no?
  3. Enforce stacked PRs, reject PRs over 500-1k LoC (I'd argue even lower, but it's a hard sell)
  4. Did a coal miner write this comment?
  5. I was very pissed off to find that my Youtube Premium didn't work when I visited Armenia. I was still paying for it, but ads played and I couldn't listen to videos in the background. WTF?
  6. There's so much obvious evidence of manipulation on Wikipedia, it's insane that it doesn't come under more scrutiny. It's even worse on non-English Wikipedias
  7. Is it this one? https://photos.paulstamatiou.com/new-zealand/coromandel-peni...

    EDIT: Any HN mods/devs reading this -- there seems to be a display bug for comment creation time? On edit it says 20hrs (accurate), whereas viewing the comments otherwise shows that it was posted an hour ago. Not sure what's going on

  8. Is there anything out there that's even close to that OG GPT-3? It was the closest experience I've ever had to magic, and I miss it dearly
  9. Really? I feel exactly the opposite, that as a species we are extremely primitive in that regard. We underinvest into social "technology." Systems of collaboration and alignment aren't widespread, and research into it isn't taken seriously

    Don't get me wrong, what we have is working (so far? Political happenings around the world don't inspire confidence)

  10. >I would never create a system that placed a negative on someone's entire life.

    >There is always room for and chances to improve ones self.

    Great, then here's an opportunity for you to improve: I need you to understand that any social system designed by humans will be flawed and miss a bunch of edge cases. Your intentions do not matter. Doing this will fuck up somebody's life.

  11. I believe people (who are not deemed guilty of murder or something and imprisoned for life) have the right to start over, and so people have the right to lie. Having a lifelong number assigned to you is evil. This isn't solving any problems. I'm sorry you had bad roommates, but stop.
  12. I'm a born and raised American: I'd give anything to relocate to Europe or Asia permanently (for healthcare access reasons). Currently working a remote job from the US and exploring my options internally and externally.
  13. 1) For sites I come back to for reference or frequent utility, I use my Chrome bookmarks bar heavily. I have it synced to my Google account in the cloud, and segmented across different Chrome profiles (work email account for work things, personal for personal things, etc).

    - Bookmarks to tools I access really frequently (like AWS dashboard) are top-level, and I remove the "Name" of the bookmark so it appears as just an icon in the bookmarks bar. There's a few of these quick-access icons for any given Chrome Profile setup that I have. For work I have Okta, AWS, and a work Wiki via Notion. For personal I have Youtube, email, my seedbox, and Plex.

    - Everything else is split into folders for interests, projects, teams at work, etc.

    - For things like recipes and articles I will back them up via Waybackmachine and archive.ph and bookmark that instead of the original site

    2) For a form of digital scrapbooking for my various interests, of things that are not quite websites (images, videos, quotes, scraps) I use are.na heavily. I want to stress that this is scrapbooking and not a "notes system" a la Obsidian or Notion.

  14. This is not news -- Reddit has been very clearly astroturfed for years now
  15. What does your dealflow look like? Do you usually trade smaller unusuals into larger ones or are you just flipping big-money unusuals? How do you get the deals?
  16. >I've been dipping my toes into the JS ecosystem, and I keep bumping into the fact that using mentally cheap signals of quality (such as stars or DL counts) almost never indicates the quality of the thing itself. Winners seem to be randomly chosen, almost! The only way to assess is to read the code and try integrating it in.

    I wish morep people understood the "Kardashian effect" as I like to call it -- the most popular thing is only most popular because it was already popular. I think in almost everything in my life and in every domain, #2 or #3 is better-suited (for my preferences and needs).

    A year or two ago on HN I read a short blog post about omitting the word "best" from internet searches and being more specific in your criteria (e.g. "car with best resale value" instead of "best car"), and it has made my life and way of thinking a lot better

  17. Anything you would have done differently in the past? You're describing me but two decades younger hahaha
  18. What's the app called? I'd like to reference it to see if I can swim when I visit :D
  19. The holder of the credential would have to present it log(N) times. If someone asks to scan your id a bunch of times, wouldn't you find it suspicious?
  20. Neat, thanks! IIUC some credential standards like ISO 18013-5 (mDL) hack around this by allowing you to expose `is_over_X` claims for age gating

    What did you implement VCs and ZK for?

  21. d) vi(m) keybdings? there's a vim emulator plugin for every single code editor
  22. there are standards for "verifiable credentials" and "verifiable presentations" so that digital IDs can be issued and displayed (using a model analogous to web pki/SSL certs), done in a decentralized and privacy-preserving way without ZKPs
  23. * paging and swapping are not the same thing

    * check out this paper https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2022/cidr2022-p13-crotty.pdf

  24. I'm an American who loves coffee so I visit https://europeancoffeetrip.com/ whenever I'm in Europe (does anyone have something similar for other parts of the world?)
  25. Can you do me a quick favor and Google what progressive taxation means?
  26. Ah yes California, Washington, NYC — places where rich people famously do not live
  27. Oddly? His essays are regularly thinly-veiled excuses to peddle libertarian horse shit

    I thought Hackers and Painters was decent and even in those essays Paul couldn’t help him self

  28. If I'm giving people advice (in a non-casual setting) then I always try to preface it with the fact that advice is usually, if not always, anecdotal and ego-driven
  29. Your website says you went to MIT to study computer science anyways...?

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