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by vagab0nd 5y ago
Not a direct answer to your question, but look up a browser extension called "SponsorBlock". It auto-skips in-video ads. These days I don't watch YouTube without this.
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
It's funny, people used to explain that the encryption used in bitcoin is secure because otherwise all your online banking would be at risk. People don't say that any more because if someone were to break SHA-256 they would actual
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New Car Smell(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by vagab0nd 5y ago|1 comments
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Twin Films(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by vagab0nd 5y ago|0 comments
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
> and it recursively finds a better program finder This has been bugging me for a while. I can't articulate it well but I feel there's a hole in the logic. What exactly is the "program finder" finding? A better versio
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
Boy am I glad to see this color! I was writing a black hole simulator, and needed to figure out the color shift of the stars as one approaches the black hole. The calculation gave me this blue at the one end of the spectrum which was very u
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The Great Attractor(en.wikipedia.org)
9 points by vagab0nd 5y ago|0 comments
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
I was looking for ways to automate tax planning [0] and found this website. It does US federal tax basically all in a spreadsheet. So now I can plug in my accounting numbers and get an estimate any time of the year. Pretty awesome. 0: http
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Federal Income Tax Spreadsheet(sites.google.com)
1 points by vagab0nd 5y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: How do you do tax planning?
4 points by vagab0nd 5y ago|1 comments
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
I don't think this is correct. The 15% or so self employment tax is only for the first 147k income (2022). The rest is more like 3%.
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
Solutions similar to the one mentioned in the article never worked for me. No matter how hard/inconvenient I make it to be (put phone outside of bedroom, delete app, etc.), when the addiction hits I will try my absolute best to circumv
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Clear Channel Memorandum(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by vagab0nd 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: A good personal health tracker/collection device?
2 points by vagab0nd 5y ago|1 comments
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
> This model like its predecessor still lacks the ability to infer within constraints of physical world [1]. It does not have any notion of what a physical world is, and still is, at the end of the day, a statistical model. How did you r
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
May I offer a solution to your problem? Just buy some bitcoin to hedge your feelings. You win if it goes up. You win if it goes down.
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
That's a great way to turn the process into a zero sum game. I don't understand why people do it. I once had a phone interview at a startup. The interviewer showed up 20 minutes late. And the first thing he said was, "I was i
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
How do you overcome upset stomach? If I don't eat for half a day my stomach starts to hurt.
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
> Fraud-resistance: The iris is difficult to physically modify and the biometric capture can be made hard to spoof. I'm very doubtful about this. This process is either completely centralized (which means privacy is at risk), or not
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
I think willing to look stupid is easy, because you already figured it out. So you know you are not stupid and you are kind of showing off in a weird way. The one step forward is willing to be stupid. That is you know you are stupid but s
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
I see this kind of comparisons all the time, where the test subject associated with the author is strictly better than the rest (especially the tables). I think this discredits the product rather than helping it, as you are either too arrog
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
I'm in group 1. I'm ok with people wanting to go to office. Just let me work from home. I'm also ok with people saying "I'm ok with WFH. Just let me work in the office". I'm not ok with people saying &quot
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
For me, the premise is that you are not taken advantage of by acting that way. And therein lies the conundrum.
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
Here's another interesting one that's somewhat related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_effect
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
I had 4 failed attempts to monetize side projects, before finally stumbling upon something that doesn't need marketing at all. However, it does require competing at the absolute top level, all the time. What's the catch? You fin
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Dord(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by vagab0nd 5y ago|0 comments
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
Loosely related: I had some fun working on a database with all events parsed from Wikipedia [0]. I parsed the entire wiki texts using a language model, extracting date/time/location and what happened then and there. The location d
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Pentium F00F Bug(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by vagab0nd 5y ago|1 comments
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
I cannot upvote this more. Are you me? I've identified these 2 exact things as my sources of misery. Unfortunately, both of them are kind of unavoidable if you work for someone else.
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by vagab0nd 5y ago
Off-topic. So I have this cron job that scrapes this wiki page[0], and sends me a random article every day. Guess which one it sent me yesterday? "Bob's Game". How is this possible? 0: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F

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