krrishd

yeah, somewhat often —- it’s basically a way for me to verify whether a goal is actually a goal for me (if i don’t care enough to meet a deadline or at least try, it’s not a goal and it’s weighing me down to act like i care about it/expect it to happen)

though sometimes the desire to achieve them comes back much later, and i retry

basically desire would enable me to achieve them or get closer / lack of authentic desire is usually in the way

creating deadlines, after which i force myself to move on from those goals & accept that they won't happen (or at least the specific thing i set the deadline for)

I'm curious, being relatively removed from this context (last I explored the options, stuff like PhoneGap was still going on lol):

with its native toolchain, does Apple try to actively compete with and/or disadvantage stuff like React Native, or are React Native's "bugs/limitations" just incidental / on the React team's end? does Apple have an opinion about these things? i remember them being hostile to webview-driven stuff but this is materially different, right?

ejected myself from a twitter addiction just a few months ago and this resonated.

i think people read the “zombie” comparison as metaphor; IME, it’s pretty literally accurate.

the realization that snapped me out of it cold turkey was that my twitter “self” —- cultivated outside of my body, for an environment of pure text —- had accumulated far more status, meaning, friendship, etc than my physical self possibly could; and why wouldn’t it? the internet has no friction in comparison.

so that weird external GPT-3-esque “self” quite literally reached primacy within me, with a huge margin over the original one unlucky enough to be constrained by physical reality & trained via physical human interaction: and as a result i was genuinely zombie-like for a while.

perpetually a disoriented visitor to physical reality, to the people actually around me — only at home in text. and it was probably clear to anyone who knew me in person well.

maybe annoyingly mystical for HN’s taste, but when this clicked for me, it felt like discovering i’d been possessed by a demon.

I think this is an interesting question because HN is relatively quiet relative to the bigger events deep in crypto land (eg. new protocols / markets / etc), whereas for everything else tech, speculative or not, you usually see HN activity.

So I think the hype is still on its way up (looking at things like DeFi), but I think the overlap between the crowd that's hyped + HN readers is slowly decreasing (even as a lot of that crowd reads HN today).

TIL of aws-us-gov

yeah you're right, I misunderstood / forgot that you can still swap the loops out

good point

Not to be too cynical, but is this Apple watch "solo loop" coming in a bunch of fixed sizes a means by which they reduce/minimize the ability to buy/sell used Apple Watches?

Or at their scale does it not really make a difference?

EDIT: nvm lol, forgot that you can just swap out the loops still

I also recently googled a quote, found it in a specific page in a book hosted on https://www.pagebypagebooks.com/, and just impulsively clicked through the whole book because it happened to capture my interest, and only "demanded" that I commit to a single page at a time. Hard to explain, but it felt more natural in that every-page-is-a-URL format to trivially bail at any page, without the weird apprehension I get from the same action in an e-reader / physical book.

The website is super old/limited, but if all books were that trivial to access + click through, I think we'd see something more interesting here. Made me wonder how hard it'd be to convert the entirety of Project Gutenberg into that sort of Web 1.0 format automatically.

I get the sense that part of the problem with book recs vs. YouTube video recs is that you can evaluate the quality of a video recommendation super quickly (click in, find out like 10 seconds in that you don't care for it, click out).

With books, actioning a recommendation involves

1) getting a copy of the book (digital or physical, both cost money or at minimum the time required to pirate),

2) starting to read it (with the sunken cost of time and/or money + the drive to "give it a chance" both looming over your shoulder, costing you more time),

3) eventually either getting to the end or swallowing your pride and bailing.

I think you'd start to see actually useful systems here if you could even eliminate step 1; make it easy as clicking in from a recommendation directly into reading mode.

Also solves a critical issue for the engine: gauge recommendation quality by how soon people click out of the rec, as opposed to waiting for the user to go through steps 1-3, and care enough to come back and provide a rating. Way more data to work with.

Of course, this all skirts the Actual Problem: the amount of IP law you'd have to trudge through in making enough books this accessible.

Damn, I used to spend hours and hours as a kid on the dan-ball.jp version of this, what a throwback.

Absolutely loved going through the gallery and seeing all the super elaborate stuff people built too.

reminded me of the “premium mediocre” view of millennials coping with downward mobility https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-l...

the key here is that in the internet market it's usually their parents doing the affording, but yeah you're mostly right.

sneaker reselling

they cite OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) regulations [0], which is what I got as an answer as well when I experienced something similar.

[0] https://www.inc.com/tess-townsend/venmo-reportedly-blocking-...

1 is actually the likely answer and IIRC has to do with regulations beyond Venmo (experienced something similar with a different country). They likely won't be able to help beyond suggesting not mentioning it in your description.

Posted this here a few times in response to this q: I use an app that I made myself (http://write.itskrish.co), its defining features being:

1. you choose a fixed duration of time within which to journal (i choose 15 minutes even though it is initially tough to spend all of)

2. if you stop typing for more than a few seconds within the duration, you lose your writing

These constraints basically force me to dump anything and everything on my mind for the sake of continuous typing (to not lose what i've written), and I've been successfully doing it at least 1-2 times a week for a few years now. All your entries are also saved locally in-browser only, with the option to export a savefile. Source code: https://github.com/krrishd/write

> There is no limit to the supply of crypto currency

the whole point of bitcoin — whether or not you believe it has a future —is that it allows for (and has) scarcity in a digital environment in which double-spending/scarcity were previously hard to enforce without an intermediary.

there are only ever going to be 21 million bitcoin. there is a limit :)

(Still) looking for a link to the PDF of it, but I’m reminded of David’s Gelernter’s “Mirror World” concept from the 1990s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_world), encountered it in one of my classes.

This is the second time something on HN actively reminded me of it funnily enough https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19532236

Can confirm, had to wait a few months before I could get my hands on their PO-33 sampler — one of my most cherished pieces of hardware now and def worth way more than its price tag to me (as someone who doesn’t generally buy music equipment).

It's funny, I was also going to comment on how this has a very Teenage Engineering vibe before I found out that they're affiliated :)

“Those ideas are also based in my anecdotal experience, and perhaps it comes from a willingness to question some "fundamental axioms from scratch", but at the same time maybe that's a) not always a bad thing to do from time to time, and b) if your fundamental axioms are good there is no reason that you won't come back to them.” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17296020

“Augmenting human intelligence, while leaving the hearts as they are, is a loss, not a gain.” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17196155

Wasn’t able to find one :/

Looking for a link to the PDF of it, but I’m reminded of David’s Gelernter’s “Mirror World” [0] concept from the 1990s, was lucky enough to encounter it in one of my classes.

Hadn’t thought of the proposal as more than sci-fi but here we are :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_world

Interesting, makes sense. I wonder — is setInterval not as precise because it doesn’t really need to be (and thus it’d be a waste of complexity to be that precise)?

One interesting thing to me about Tone.js has always been that their “Transport” API is a more reliable interval/timer tool than any of the native JS APIs or even libraries/polyfills designed around more accurate interval timing. I’d almost be surprised if I wasn’t wrong about this but I searched and couldn’t find anything quite comparable.

Interestingly enough, at a hackathon I was at two weekends ago someone built exactly this: https://devpost.com/software/eddie-k7b3yf

I mean, those notifications everyone gets that have no actual pertinent info/are super blatant engagement hacks have been widely discusssed/experienced, and there's no strong argument that those make products better for users (and it's obvious what metrics they're attempting to inflate).

Subscribed super fast! One piece of feedback: I'd love to learn about new stories as they come in via a Twitter account (I'm less likely to open them via email but if they're in my Twitter feed I'll almost always)