nefitty

Thank you. Peter Singer's advice to drop all animal-based products from one's life, to be on the safe side, continues to be prescient.

Thanks for specifying what you're looking for. These are the sorts of posts that help guide me in my projects.

Interesting comment to get downvoted on...

At the very least, representation in government. People who share my ethnicity have unique social problems that don't apply to any other "race". I don't need a race, but the people who share my background need to be discernible on a census.

Yeah, seems weird to go through the trouble of making a throwaway, no less, and then not sharing specifics.

I consider my race to be Hispanic. I otherwise would have no race, right?

I wonder when it would be that I or my family elders would be online in a metaverse. Do you hop on during lunch time at work? Would you need the VR helmet thing? Or would there be some sort of text timeline showing what metamates are up to? Would people without powerful enough phones be outright excluded? If I'm setting up an ad campaign on the metaverse, do I have to "virtually physically" walk my avatar to some office in the metaverse to talk to an ad rep? If I have neck problems will this make it worse? Will it affect my eyesight?

I can imagine a Discord-type of world, basically Second Life without the game mechanics. Could I have my Pikachu follow me around? What about an avatar of my real dog?

This stuff exists already though. So the value add is that I feel more immersed, while simultaneously being more disconnected from the flow of my everyday life? It's already rude to get on your phone when you have company, how much worse is it if you have to don a headset or something to take a call?

Anyways, I'm 30 and it all sounds lame to me. I don't play video games. I didn't even get the Pokemon Go thing when everyone my age got obsessed. Maybe I'm just too literal minded. I guess I'll focus on buying real stuff with the real money I make by making virtual stuff for the metaverse.

It would be even more amazing if ads were stuck exclusively on search result pages. That would minimize the interruption while maximizing the reevance of targeted ads, with minimal tracking needs.

That's so weird. I literally just started my own exploration of alternative Regex syntax this morning. The simulation rears her head again. The Dude abides.

Companies are betting that you'd prefer a continued tentative transactional relationship with them rather than ban yourself over a charge back. That's definitely how Airbnb works.

Thanks! I'll look into this.

Sweet, that helps. Thank you!

I DM'd you on Discord :)

Yeah it didn't work. I checked https://andisearch.com/opensearch.xml but it redirected to that route with a trailing slash: https://andisearch.com/opensearch.xml/

That might be part of it.

For sure. I added this file at the top level, as opensearch.xml. Sorry if formatting is wrecked.

  <OpenSearchDescription
      xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"
      xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/"
    >

      <ShortName>My Search</ShortName>

      <Description>Personal Search</Description>

      <Url
        type="text/html"
        method="get"
        template="https://mysite.com/?q={searchTerms}"
      />

      <Url
        type="application/rss+xml"
        indexOffset="0"
        rel="results"
        template="/results?query={searchTerms}"
      />

      <Url
        type="application/json"
        rel="suggestions"
        template="/suggest?q={searchTerms}"
      />

      <InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>

      <Image height="32" width="32" type="image/x-icon">
        https://yarnpkg.com/favicon.ico
      </Image>

    </OpenSearchDescription>

In the head tag:

<link rel="search" href="/opensearch.xml" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="My Search" />

I then went to my site on Chrome iOS and it showed up under Settings > Search Engine > Recently visited. I then selected it and now anything I put in my url bar gets sent to my server. It's pretty sick.

This analogy breaks down easily.

What do you propose is special about human-level intelligence? If anything, it is in constant struggle with biological and emotional needs. Yes, of course, human brains are amazing, the declaration of independence is great, but the entire human project is the push for progress.

What would you recommend for a complete beginner? I found these lectures that have helped me start sketching out the field in my mind, but it's still difficult: https://www.davidsilver.uk/teaching/

I use it on iOS Chrome.

The sarcasm squelched the intent of what you meant.

Whatever people mean by free will, this feeling like we're driving our bodies and minds around usually, there's no mechanism by which it could exist.

Either the things in our brains follow deterministic patterns or they're random. Neither one of those gives me room to decide to get a glass of orange juice. In fact, any desire I have at all for an orange is dependent on that type of plant having emerged billions of years ago. I can imagine a fruit that doesn't exist, but I can't desire it and I can't buy it at the store. I had no say in any part of that causal chain whatsoever.

I use my own server for search. I just had to add an OpenSearch xml file.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch

Oops, sorry. I had no idea. I'll keep that in mind.

Same here! I've been studying the mathematical notation Wikipedia page, and being able to "pronounce" or verbalize symbols has made things much more comprehensible.

My current internal tussle is squaring the declarative nature of math with the imperative nature of programming, which I find much easier to reason with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_mathematical_symbo...

My God that is impressive. You seem like you tried to make it sound easy with your last paragraph. Technically speaking, what were the top three most impactful things you mastered on the journey to where you are?

In terms of employment, have you found it too difficult to make living off of bug bounties? Maybe there's crews that would see you as an asset. Or maybe contract based solo consultation?

One of the most powerful life hacks I've discovered is management of rejection sensitivity/expectation of rejection. CBT can help. Also, surprisingly, Tylenol...

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/mental-tylenol-ingred...

I think both approaches work. Like, most people survive with a to-do loop just in their brains, stochastically prioritizing and picking tasks to do as circumstances change. The difficulty comes in when a person either doesn't have the capacity for multiple threads in their mind (ie mental disorder, creative loop dominance, overwhelm, unreliable memory, etc) or when a person wants to focus their mind completely on some personal endeavor.

It's likely that most traditionally successful people have some sort of task system in their life. Who's to say that the most socially "successful" people don't have similar systems as well? It reminds me of the show Veep, where the main character's entourage whispers in her ear the name and info about a person she's about to shake hands with. The whole persona of a politician is based on making and juggling and keeping connections open. Biden is still in regular contact with people from decades ago from the beginning of his career, for example.

I told a friend once that I was using the Habitica game to help me stay productive. He was incredulous, "You really need a piece of software to tell you what to do?!" He manages and co-owns several ice cream stores, so I know the stochastic method is feasible in more complex lifestyles. That's just not the case for my brain.

I admit that I am hesitant to build a social system because of the expectation of perception of cynicism or even sociopathy. I have my friend's birthdays on my calendar. Why shouldn't I also have a little blurb about what they like, what they're up to and a log of our contact? I think I would be floored and honored if I found out a friend lovingly kept little journal entries about me, I mean, after the intial weirded-outness I guess.

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing. I just started playing with three.js. No game dev experience. It is so easy to use.

My goal is to create a personal memory palace app. My wife and I are winding up to learn Blender together so we can collaborate on little cartoon scenes of our puppy lol. I share that to share the general tip with everyone: having a problem to solve or end in mind when trying to learn a new tool helps a lot!

Yeah, a big part of being social is about stifling the expectation of rejection. No one is going to yell at you for asking how their day was. No one is going to call the cops if you send them a text "Hey, wanted to catch up. How's your week going? I saw this super insightful comment by nefitty on HN about being social and it made me realize we hadn't talked in a bit."

Preet Chandi is touted as the first female of color to ski the South Pole solo. She was, in line with the pattern, boosted by her military training. That takes nothing from her accomplishment but rather gives further insight into what the human body can ensure given the right preparation. Can an individual mirror or approximate military-caliber training through sheer research? That's one of the most exciting questions to me right now when it comes to physical fitness.

Excuse my useless comment but lol