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high_byte··on Ask HN: What brick and mortar business would you start?
This looks fun!
high_byte··on Ask HN: How do you find content on YouTube in 2022?
The trick is to find channels you trust and follow their content. If it is unknown then I am dumbfounded as you are. The algorithm is undoubtedly getting worse over the years.
high_byte··on Ask HN: Why aren't people medicated to fear death less?
In all honesty I've always wondered why airlines don't offer similar services. Imagine flying under the influence of sleeping pills or anesthesia, it's basically teleportation services!

I can settle for anti-anxiety meds of choice too. (microdose of psilocybin should do the trick)

high_byte··on Ask HN: Why aren't people medicated to fear death less?
What course of medication alleviates fear of death? What are the side effects?
high_byte··on Ask HN: Remote Working and Cameras-On
have you tried virtual avatar? it's always a good ice breaker for me.

VSeeFace for Windows. Hallway Tiles for Mac.

high_byte··on Show HN: I Built 0xFast Stream – 100x Faster Ethereum Block Downloads
also if you could use binary encoding rather than json you could probably cut the size by half.

I already started download, but perhaps it's worth noting in your website to use "--compressed" flag like so:

curl --compressed -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip" https://stream.0xfast.com/beta/eth-mainnet/1-latest

high_byte··on Show HN: I Built 0xFast Stream – 100x Faster Ethereum Block Downloads
wow can't believe just yesterday I thought how cool it would be to have that - and today you made it! :D

downloading...

btw did you verify (PoW) blocks using the nonce? just to be on the safe side :)

high_byte··on Ask HN: How to get un-shadow banned on Twitter?
isn't there some law about freedom of press and social media counts as, well, the media? oh well, not a lawyer. just wanting my visibility back.

oh and, it's important against bots on paper. I don't know if you use twitter but it's a mess with respect to bots...

high_byte··on Ask HN: How to get un-shadow banned on Twitter?
because of the first amendment and stuff.

also I didn't say don't ban. I said don't shadowban. that's worse than banning.

high_byte··on Companies are buying large numbers of carbon offsets that don’t cut emissions
the skeptic in me thinks if an engine is more fuel efficient they will not fly it with reduced carbon emissions, they will fly more and get same carbon emissions.
high_byte··on Show HN: I built an all-in-one virtual production platform for indies
does not load for me
high_byte··on Ask HN: How do you use Bitcoin in a trustless way?
if you don't fully trust your hardware wallet, you could try multisig with multiple wallets of different vendors. also see BLS signatures.

Ethereum is much better in these scenarios.

high_byte··on Ask HN: Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your life?
The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
high_byte··on Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles
I love this.
high_byte··on Ask HN: I’m 41 and still unmarried – what should I do?
why don't you invite actfrench to your wedding? last wedding I was at ended with 3 new couples, at least. then actfrench can invite you to her wedding :D
high_byte··on Ask HN: Where have all the forums gone?
wow this is interesting. I wonder how many people use it? I have brave but I had to switch back to Google after 2/3 searches weren't as good as Google. (but to be fair 1/3 are actually the same or even better than Google's bias...)
high_byte··on Ask HN: Where have all the forums gone?
this is sad. I miss the old forums, much better than today's "all at once" social medias with the endless stream of random content in the feed.
high_byte··on Tell HN: Apple's Twitter account reached 8M followers without a single tweet
bots. all bots
high_byte··on Ask HN: Why aren't code diagram generating tools more common?
for reverse engineers this is the norm. IDA, BinaryNinja, Ghidra, etc... which to see more of it for higher level languages.

dot graphs are popular with many tools but often barely or not interactive at all.

high_byte··on Ask HN: Got job offer where I would downshift technically but upshift culturally
I understand considering those 2 offers, but have you thought of a 3rd option of simply looking for something else? when I was younger I used to go to so many interviews, one day I had 5 at same day. it's ok to settle but I think you can get even better.
high_byte··on Ask HN: Best way to get into blockchain development?
ethereum.org excellent source for all sorts of information for all skill levels. great place to start your journey down the rabbit hole.
high_byte··on Ask HN: Can Google employees see the search histories of users?
I'm gonna go against the common theme here where the answer is "most certainly not". google has massive amounts of data from various sources, between their products, advertisments and affiliates/third parties, they have way more data points than you imagine.

speaking of third parties, and the freemium economy, advertising, tracking and other data mining operations also have vast amounts of information about you. that free flashlight app you installed? has your location even when it's not running. also it serves ads, now any advertiser can access your location. and that bullshit about anonymization? there are more techniques to de-anonymize data than they're are to anonymize.

you bet someone out there can pin point your location, from now and 10 years back, what you searched for, what games you played sitting on the toilet, etc.

that's related to the AdInt industry. (advertising intelligence)

high_byte··on Turkish Magician Built a $600M Nasdaq-Listed Scam Based on Lies
wow he was quite active. if only he was busy doing good instead what he could've achieved...
high_byte··on I want two laptops in one body
you want one physical computer with two logical computers - dual boot.
high_byte··on The billable hour is a trap into which more and more of us are falling
billable hours are fine, counting hours is what I don't like. as an employee I wasn't worried about that. now I have to question whether I should stop logging hours when going to eat, shit, etc. of course it also depends on your morals, I see people in my field having no shame reporting 3x their hours... 10x of they can.
high_byte··on Accidentally Saving the Day
To clarify the ambiguity - he is white. https://twitter.com/jvwatzman

Make what you want of it...

high_byte··on Accidentally Saving the Day
I really enjoyed this article, the style of writing, the story itself and the other article linked. "Be the change you want to see in the world."

Keep it up.

high_byte··on Ask HN: Do you have a cheat sheet for life?
fun fact, I adopted this as my motto after hearing those exact words from someone as investment advice right before he obliterated his net worth. words to live by.
high_byte··on Ask HN: Do you have a cheat sheet for life?
my life motto is "don't be stupid" and it's the best life advice I can give or take. of course I have failed following this advice as much as I've succeeded. which also further proved my advice to be a really good advice.
high_byte··on Ask HN: What can you practice every day to improve at programming?
build stuff. and I don't mean go write code, I mean literally run make/yarn build/compile whatever is interesting to you. this way you run into all the internals, different setups and modules and glues and bugs and errors and fixing and sometimes even finding workarounds by hacking stuff. I've done security research and reverse engineering and got to experience such wide variety of systems. many times I get asked if I "learned by myself", so I answer I've self-taught but had great teachers.
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