sillysaurus3

Users are entitled to certain rights when it's a monopoly. And YT is essentially a monopoly.

Think of it this way: Why are you entitled to privacy from Facebook? You can simply stop using Facebook, right?

What's the difference between FB and YT?

Are thoughts information?

Interestingly, if the answer is "no" to the first question, that implies we should be able to quantify the maximum number of thoughts we can think in a single hour. I wonder if there's any research along these lines...

Neither my dad nor my mom use it, nor the rest of my family. I've never used it. I'm starting to wonder if I'm the only one so thoroughly insulated from Facebook addiction.

People say that it might be due to a swollen battery. Either way, Apple wants >$400 to replace.

2015 MBP

There's an app called Getaround (https://www.getaround.com/) which works really well for this, if you live in a big city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-Ma...

The only reason I point this out is because many (most?) techies have a natural aversion to helping out this sort of thing.

It's totally fine if you don't. But it's easy to forget the end result.

These include walking out of meetings, sidestepping the chain of command and ignoring company rules on occasion.

Thought experiment: Imagine you were reading this about Uber, not Tesla. Why would you feel differently? How about back when Kalanick was CEO?

Are you sure it's a good idea to become less influential on the world stage?

It's weird to realize that pretty much no one knows what's up with nutrition. It's the opposite of data-driven.

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One thing is true: Those at the top rarely mean what they say. They are masters of dissembling, because they understand how dangerous it is to reveal one's true feelings.

This was a rare glimpse into raw, unfiltered Zuck. And what we find is that he's just like the rest of those in power. No wonder they love him so much.

We're the dumb fucks to them. And that should be at least a little worrying.

My other comment got flagged, so if I want other people to also reach out and submit stories, I have no choice but to repost yet another comment. This will be the last one for awhile.

If you have similar stories of abuse by the HN moderators, I encourage you to reach out and share them with me. Unlike pretty much anyone else, I happen to care a lot about this. This feels unethical, since there's nowhere else for us to go. We all helped shape this community into what it is today.

I'll be collating the experiences and posting them somewhere. At least people will know what's happening to those who participate on HN.

The mods' standard defense is always the same: We have more data. We know better than you. It's our job. You can't possibly understand and we certainly don't have time to explain it.

And the front page appears to work and the comments appear to be good on HN, so nobody sticks up or tries to change anything.

But that's little consolation to those who have to suffer the gaslighting effect of having their privileges passive-aggressively yanked from them without explanation, with no choice other than to grovel to hn@ycombinator.com or switch accounts.

I'm up to four others who have contacted me so far. It's taken months of effort to even get those few. But I'm convinced there are very many people in similar situations. We just never hear about it because you're not allowed to talk about it.

Though it's amusing when people come out of the woodwork and call you a spammer. That happened to me once. It's like... Yeah, but that's what we're all doing here. What's the point otherwise? We all build stuff and we all talk about it.

Also mods, if you're reading, fuck you for revoking my upvoting privileges. I did nothing to deserve that. Especially not for three months and counting.

EDIT: Just got a very interesting keybase message from a user who shares my experience. His voting privs have been revoked since 2014. Apparently I get to look forward to years of this, for reasons that were never explained at all. (I tried asking.)

If you have similar stories of abuse, I encourage you to send them over to me. I've been collecting them and will hopefully write ... something. I'm not sure what, yet. All I know is that we all helped make this community what it is today, and there's nowhere else to go.

On lisp: https://www.lurklurk.org/onlisp/onlisp.pdf

Mainly the key is to start tinkering, rather than jump from book to book. Just start with a very informal v1 and start hacking stuff together. When you run into a design dead-end, you'll know it because it will become increasingly hard to make forward progress.

And that's the tricky situation. When you run into a design dead end, what do you do?

Books! :) And that's where SICP might end up useful.

Or think about the problem really hard, and write down the answer. I've occasionally pulled that off.

Oh, I thought of one other suggestion: linkers and loaders. It's another classic. And unlike all the other references, there's no Lisp.

Two more:

Linkers, Ian Taylor: https://www.docdroid.net/2L1IZ5y/linkers.pdf

Assemblers: https://www.docdroid.net/2tgkwNI/assemadvertisasl.pdf

MIT and especially books from MIT are held on a pedestal. If you can't understand them or don't feel like pursuing them, just find a different book.

I fell in love there once. We spent a lovely summer canoeing down a river. When she had to board the plane home, we both cried for an hour leading up to it.

If only all kids were so innocent. Maybe he's just young. It'd be mildly amusing to read this from the perspective of a parent horrified that their son developed into one of those raging lunatics that occasionally haunt Dota 2.

When I was about 14 or so, I used to play this oldschool game called Underlight. It was a roleplaying game unlike any other, before or since: You're forced to play a character. You're not allowed to talk about real life or even admit that real life exists at all.

It was so cool, mostly because this was the world of adults. This was also before the era of voice chat, so they had no clue I was 14.

It was also around that time that I was discovering myself, and it usually took the form of various relationships with various women. These relationships could feel quite real, though it was solely a text-based medium. And "sex" was obviously involved, or as close to it as you can get. (On the forums it was called "Quality Roleplaying," or QRP, hah.)

That was a very small component of the game, but it was there. The point was that it emulated real life in a few ways. There were politics. There were 8 "houses" (basically clans), with various leaders. I even participated in a murder once, an extremely rare event in any game. It was true murder, in a sense, because you're not allowed to log in to your character after that, and only a select few people ever had the ability. It cost 10 points of health permanently. It was basically the world of Harry Potter, and I was in Slytherin. So we had certain abilities that no one knew existed, one of which was the ability to end other characters. As far as I know, this ability was used only three times in the history of the game, so it was quite lucky to see it firsthand.

My dad once came down and sat behind me, perhaps out of curiosity. Unfortunately this was right in the middle of one of the QRP sessions. I spent about 20 minutes doing nothing but staring at the screen and frantically clearing the text whenever she said anything. He never understood what was going on. Eventually he got bored and left, and I was able to pick up right where we left off. Quite hilarious in retrospect. He never bothered to try to understand what I spent so much time doing, and I certainly never offered any info.

Video games are an increasingly important component of childrens' habits, and we shouldn't be quick to dismiss or trivialize their positive effects. I wasn't so good at writing until a few years of being forced to be.

That was one of the other videos Deemed Worthy. There are so many more.

I wasn't able to visualize higher dimensions until watching that. And now it seems totally obvious how to do it.

If I had to try to understand what was happening there without any comments or any understanding what "fib" was, I'd probably have to stare at that and step through it in my head. Compare that to this:

https://imgur.com/a/80qlG

Or this:

https://imgur.com/a/yZNQr

Both are extremely easy to understand, and would remain understandable even for a new programmer.

So without clarity or conciseness, what's left? Why write code using higher order functions by default? There's no win.