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Instantly ctrl-f'd to see if anyone would mention transporters. I believe in some circles this has been dubbed "The Transporter Problem". It's a thought experiment that already exists.

Invincible also tackled this problem, with someone cloning a new body, and copying his brain to a new body. For a brief moment both bodies perceive the same thing before their experiences split into the two bodies. The copy wakes up, says goodbye to the original, who is dying, and says "I'm sorry it wasn't you."

This is also IMO related to the ship of theseus problem. Are you the same person you were 20 years ago? Are you the same person in the morning as the person who went to sleep? Are you the same person as a minute ago? What if you add in concussions/memory loss/degenerative disease?

Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but isn't every vote total extremely unlikely if you make it precise to the exact number of votes? Like the chances of getting n+1, n+2... votes is roughly the same probability.

For example the probability of getting [1,2,3,4,5,6] as the winning numbers in the lottery is the same as any random set of numbers.

I'm not so sure that renting out housing is a bad thing, unless there is somehow too much rental property. Dense rental housing, which is an inherently corporate thing, is key to affordable housing for people without a lot of wealth.

My intuitive sense is that the proportion of rented housing probably has a seesaw effect on the price of owned housing vs the price of rented housing. If you want them both to go down it's necessary to build a lot more housing.

The F-35 comment seems especially relevant as (for some reason) negative F-35 posts show up on hacker news all. of. the. time[0]. I don't get why negativity on this plane is such a hot topic here, it's like the lab leak theory of military planes.

On at that note why is this post here? Is there a theme to hacker news anymore?

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I don't use my twitch account ever anymore but I don't think there is really the same concept in twitch. I think most people probably watch 1-2 of their favorite streamers since watching streams is already such an incredibly time intensive activity. The most active someone can get is probably clipping short videos and curating clips.

I don't think you lose access to any of this when you unsubscribe, I think you just start seeing ads again when watching the live stream.

Sundar has made the case before which I think is pretty good point: The open web is basically an ads driven model. Without ads the open web would be very different.

(Opinions are my own.)

The alternative is paywalls everywhere, or existing on donations. Try reading the Atlantic/NYT today and see you like the ad free model. Or try lemmy if you want to see the donation model.

Hacker news is based around tech and entrepreneurship still yes? What is the current audience that drives the upvote consensus that everything needs to be free AND ad-free?

You're refusing to pay for a product today based on what they might do in the future? Does the future possibility degrade today's product? Can't you just cancel your subscription if ads start showing up?

I always hear job interviews are useless but do people really stand by that? If you had an interviewee with a bad interview and one with a good interview, you would feel confident hiring the one with the bad interview? If someone refused to interview, would you hire them because of their refusal like the article recommends? I don't know a single real life person that would consider this a good idea. This seems like a strange virtue signaling if people are going on the internet saying things and then doing the opposite.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/25/congress-approved-3...

We were funding them before, but now we are not, and I believe the op of this thread was commenting on how we are not funding then right now.

By the time the election season is over and we have another chance at funding Ukraine, it will have been a year of blocked funding. Personally I find it fundamentally unserious that a participant in a war leaves for a year or more, let alone the world's top superpower.

Your "obvious" claim seems more like a strong assumption, that you know the not only the behavior but the mechanism of douyin based on... Obviousness?

No. Are you? Can you screenshot it for me?

If you go to https://www.douyin.com/discover it looks like the same mindless entertainment we see but Chinese people. Maybe they're trying to promote more virtuous content but I'm not seeing it on Chinese TikTok's front page. I scrolled through a few pages and I didn't see anything that would be similar to helping the elderly or job skills. It's certainly not "all" virtuous content like originally claimed.

I hear this a lot but I'm pretty sure China has mindless social media apps like we do. I think it's called Douyin or something, if you go to https://www.douyin.com/discover you'll even see the tiktok logo. I'm pretty sure you can only watch people help the elderly cross the street so many times before you start looking for something more entertaining.

For example do an internet search for Chinese people live streaming under a bridge. I'm pretty sure these people are not all demonstrating job skills.

The links for the bus method, interstitial journaling, and rubber ducking all point to the same link for interstitial journaling. Also, the later "e.g. the BUS method" link points to interstitial journaling as well.

The website shows something like a net but with a trash bag instead of netting[0][1].

It appears the thing he's holding in the picture in the article[2] is not a prop but is the same tool.

[0] https://cleanlots.com/images/general/then.jpg

[1] https://cleanlots.com/images/general/now.jpg

[2] https://dollarsanity.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cleanlot...

It has always been this way. Actually most of my teachers through elementary and middle school have asked that I be evaluated for ADD (before the H was added), although we didn't really see a point to it since I would just be going back to the same doctor who had already ruled out ADD.

I can play video games for 12 hours straight and forget to eat, so I guess I don't have problems focusing on things I enjoy, at the same time I feel like I hear about depressed people playing video games 12 hours a day.

I also start learning a new programming language or framework every month it seems, without retaining anything about the previous month's language/framework, but for the first couple of weeks it really holds my attention.

Seeing a therapist has been on my todo list for a while (but have been having trouble actually getting to it). I'll try to get that in soon.

As in I sit down in the morning ready to work, I write down everything I've accomplished each day, and many times at the end of the day I find that I've only written down one or two minor things that I've finished for that day. I know things are important, I want to get them done, and it gives me terrible anxiety as the clock ticks down to the end of the day and my list of finished tasks is so short.

I have terrible task initiation, for example after any meeting, no matter what it is, I can't get started on anything for 20-30 minutes. Once I get started, sometimes I will be productive but sometimes I will suddenly realize I've been on my phone for another 30 minutes. At the same time, someone else's homework is great fun and I have in the past used other people's homework to procrastinate on my own work.

On the executive function skills listed in Smart but Scattered Guide to Success, I think I'm probably worst at Task Initiation and Sustained Attention.

I have a tangential question: How can I know which of these self help things are helpful and which are just snake oil? I can't get disciplined and I'm desperate. It's hurting my job, it's hurting my home life. When I decide to take a shower on the weekend it takes me 30 minutes to an hour to actually get up and walk to the bathroom. Then it might be another 30 minutes of scrolling before I actually hop in the shower.

I'm desperate for something that works. I'll pay any amount of money for something that will make me sit down and do things. I've sat down and listened to literally every single Huberman Labs content I could find. I'm trying out brain.fm's free playlists on youtube. I downloaded EndeavorOTC just recently and it's wildly expensive but at this point nothing else is working. I know the problem is I'm just lazy and I don't want to make lifestyle changes. Great. Now with that agreed upon, what the hell do I do? I saw a doctor when I was young and he said I definitely don't have ADHD. Should I be seeking a Vyvanse prescription anyways?

I've read all of the books I could find looking for the one that will fix me. Will this one work? Do people find any of these actually helpful?

Ah, the radar range is 15km, but the firing range is 6km. Fixed my earlier comment.

Gepard has a range of 6km vs buk range of 50km or s-300 range of 120km. You would need a lot of them and they also don't have enough range to cover offensives.

nit: seamless not seemless.

Actually TIL seemless is actually a word but it's a synonym for unseemly.

Who is the "culture here" deciding what is a feature or bug? Downvoting for disagreement and disengagement are against the Hacker News guidelines[0] and these are enforced with moderation. (See this post being nuked from hacker news.) People come here for Hacker News with moderation and good faith discussion, if they wanted unmoderated user content, 4chan would be fine.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Normies would believe the opposite positions - it's fine to think of the children. Age verification does protect children. Legislation protects children. So you've restated the disagreement. When you describe opposing positions as manipulative, tired, red herrings, and then you downvote and move on, does this seem more like engagement or disengagement with normie politics? I say again - is it not concerning that this board is unable to engage with people once they step outside?

I don't think the moderators have any trust in hacker news' ability to engage with this topic either, since this post has been nuked from hacker news.

Fair point, I can see where you're coming from and I'm aware of the origins of the word on 4chan. I use the term not with the intention of placing anyone above others, but denoting the difference between insular forum culture and every day people you see when you go outside.

In the political world this word has taken on a similar meaning for the difference between commentariat and every day people and that's the way I use it in conversation.

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/towards-a-normie-politi...

https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-lot-of-the-best-political-mes...

Why is this comment downvoted? Outside of internet forums which tend to be very free speech, parental controls would be incredibly popular, and companies that don't have tight content controls receive a lot of scrutiny. As the article notes, Facebook is already being criticized for not tightly enforcing minimum ages, and there was a popular article out just yesterday[0] about Instagram just showing things that are vaguely "risque".

If you ask someone on the street if Google and Facebook should have parental controls the answer would be unequivocally yes. This is the normie position the vast majority of the time. Are we able to engage with normie positions? Is it not genuinely concerning if we're unable to?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38439280

That's not how it works because there is no volume. You can't provide more supply if there's no supply to provide. Each building has a fixed number of units and the management for those buildings are trying to maximize the value they get out of each unit. Most cities have a mostly inelastic number of units and population grows every year, so you can pretty much charge whatever you want and people will pay it since there's no alternatives.

Why doesn't someone just build a new building? Mostly they will be blocked by NIMBYism. NIMBYism is a near universal philsophy, to the point that renters who would benefit from this are typically NIMBYs too. Sometimes they're the loudest NIMBYs, It will be pretty much impossible to build anything new until the state takes control of building away from localities and forces them to allow building.

Bone conducting headphones are great, I use them all of the time on walks, and you can hear everything as long as you don't play anything too loud. If they get loud enough then you don't hear certain things but that goes for any kind of headphones.

My understanding of this is that there's different qualities and mixtures of helium. When you buy helium from a party store it's a kind of "dirty" helium which is not pure enough for scientific/industrial applications.

I tried to go lower on the price of a house once because nobody else was bidding on it during the pandemic. The owners decided to just leave it empty and move to another country. They probably made 400k by leaving the house empty.

Every time I look at houses, I hear the same story: There's a lot of people who have been waiting to buy houses from the previous year, so there's a lot of competition now. The problem is this will always be true if there's more people looking for houses than houses.

This is not a left-right problem. The right and left will equally say we should not build housing. NIMBYism is common across the political spectrum. The most left places like New York have let the housing situation get so bad that now anyone that arrives there is instantly homeless because there is simply nowhere to live[0]. This is New York, the place everyone thinks of when you say "the land of opportunity" and the location of the statue that everyone cites whenever Trump says something about migrants.

A lot of stories I read these days I think about The Housing Theory of Everything. Why is everything so expensive? Why are employees so expensive? Why are these expensive employees not able to pay their bills? It seems like a large part of this is that we have structured our economy to pour all of our money into land. Not landowners, land. When you're working for a faang but paying a 5-10k mortgage for a condo, how rich do you really feel? How would it feel to be the ones that didn't get a place to live? How can there ever be a middle class when those that don't make above a certain amount just end up homeless?

When there is more housing than people, then people have freedom to ask for better or cheaper housing. Until then, we will be like crabs in a barrel, pulling other people down for a place to live.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/nyregion/migrants-homeles...