skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can anyone give examples of a successful technology roll-out where there was no demand, and no profit to be made?

Seat belts, airbags and other safety systems in cars (like ABS, VSC, etc).
Emission control systems in cars.
Comparative advantage. Is health care important? Sure. Are there lots of other people who can work on it if you don't? I'd imagine so.

You're going to make the biggest contribution if you work in the area where you're relatively better... and being excited about a field makes a hell of a difference in terms of your ability to contribute to that field vs. a field which you think is important but not all that personally interesting.
I run all my computers in roughly the same way, be they Mac or Windows (although I don’t have Dropbox on my Windows machines, and OneDrive for Business runs only on my work machines):

- Everything goes into a cloud-backed folder (even git repos)

- I follow a Mac-like hierarchy on all services (Documents, Development, Library, Pictures, etc.)

- Inside each top-level folder, I have subfolders for each context (Personal, Customers, GitHub, Travel, Expenses, etc.)

- Any truly confidential files go into encrypted disk images that are also synced to the cloud (old habit from pre-Dropbox days). Each image has a similar hierarchy inside.

Some example filenames:

- ~/Dropbox/Documents/Home/Blueprint.blend

- ~/Dropbox/Pictures/Unsorted (exported from iCloud for triage)

- ~/Dropbox/Pictures/To File/2018/12 (Good pics from Xmas)

- ~/Dropbox/Development/GitHub/piku (my PaaS wrapper)

- ~/OneDrive/Development/Infrastructure/terraform-azure-ha (an ongoing work sample)

- ~/OneDrive For Business/Library/Presentation Resources

- ~/OneDrive For Business/Customer Deliverables/WidgetCo/Project X

Being systematic helps. And yes, I keep git repositories on both Dropbox and OneDrive (accessible to WSL in the latter case), and it has worked flawlessly for ages, even across platforms. As long as you’re the single human accessing them, they work fine and sync across without conflicts or corruption.

Edit: I don’t keep files on the Desktop unless they’re a slide deck I’m going to present within a few hours or shortcuts to stuff for demos, and have scripts to tidy up my Downloads folder as well...

Oh, and I name my work documents ‘YYMMDD Foobar.ext’, too. Helps tremendously when you go back to a project to place things in time, and also in searches (I seldom have to type more than 4 digits to get to a file)
Vodafone cable in germany does the same..
How is Notion for solo users? I am a Dynalist user by recommendation on Tildes and love it, but I saw Notion recommended a few times. It seems like more of a team-oriented product though.
Yes, for me physical notebooks are the best solution as well. A notebook and a pen goes everywhere with me (e.g. I don't leave it in the office). It's not that inconvenient. No battery to keep charged, worrying about breaking the screen, etc.

For the rare occasions I don't happen to have it at hand, it's easy to scavenge a scrap of paper to scribble things down and then later glue into the notebook.
Benj111's law: Every website expands until it has an xkcd explainer.
With the gyroscope and accelerometer feature implemented, you will be able to friend with someone who stole your phone.
The main problem is :it is too easy to ignore. You can build around all of the limitations of ipv4. Which makes ipv6 useless / not needed in the first place.
Project Everest – Verified Secure Implementations of the HTTPS Ecosystem (2016)
You don’t need to be a citizen of Iceland, but the address needs to be valid. The broker can’t see the address because ISNIC per default hides this information.
I just feel like we really need to fix climate change, thus energy, if we want to preserve some semblance of the world that we grew up in.

Regarding personal happiness, consider that how you work is much more important than what you work on.
Field hockey (ie not ice hockey) sticks are only available in the right handed configuration for safety reasons:

https://www.livestrong.com/article/368589-why-are-all-field-...
No, surprised not to see it higher on this list honestly!
I understand that at some point gaining weight becomes a vanity thing, but there is good reasons for gaining muscles, they're rather good energy source to sustain you if you're planning to do long distance hiking or sailing for example.
First of all, why would you need a threadreader?? And secondly, if it wouldn't have been for Musk with his vision, Mueller wouldn't have had the chance to build the Merlin engine.. Point being, nobody succeeds by himself, everybody needs a team
Mindmap works great for me especially for creative process. My personal choice is Freemind. It's easy to automate anything with freemind files because it's simple XML. I have a few scripts that allow me extract necessary information from big mindmaps: https://github.com/mrjazz/freemind-tools-python
These fokes devoted quite some time into thinking about your problem: https://80000hours.org/

From their homepage:
"You have 80,000 hours in your career.
Make the right career choices, and you can help solve the world’s most pressing problems, as well as have a more rewarding, interesting life.
We’re here to give you the information you need to find that fulfilling, high-impact career. Our advice is all free, tailored for talented graduates & young professionals, and based on five years of research alongside academics at Oxford."

The 80000 hours podcast can be long winded but is at times also quite interesting.
Still seem to contradict OECD data https://read.oecd-ilibrary.org/taxation/taxing-wages-2018_ta...
Thanks for your advice! I agree with you that reviewing is important. I do iterate over a few alternatives before I begin using a private Github repo to organize my ideas that worth picking up. Github wiki/issues/milestones/projects work amazingly good.

On the other hand, I am not very happy with my current random ideas picking strategy. It is really nice to see there are many alternatives in this thread.
When you work on something you love, it isn't work anymore. You'll be more passionate about the subject and more productive around getting things done... Not to mention orders of magnitude more creative.

So I think you're asking the right questions but you need to look at it from a slightly different angle.

I'd also agree with you that life is short... But it's also long. You can always switch fields, learn new things, reinvent yourself. There are no rules...
This doesn't reflect my experience at all. As a Linux user for 20 years I've had my fair share of times when I was ready to throw in the towel, but the last 3 years or so have renewed my faith in the OS, particularly the big mainstream distros like Fedora and Ubuntu. I can't remember the last time I ran into a big system-wide breaking problem.

Not wanting to play fanboy but I was a huge fan of Windows 10 throughout the prerelease and for a good while after release, but it seems to be going downhill in recent updates. It seems like now would be the absolute worst time to switch back.
That's a habit. I've been using TST for some time and this "no useless tabs" policy in my brain will not seem to change.
I generally don't name drop and I never tell people to get better gear. The burden of proof is not on me. I simply do not give a shit what they believe.

I only take issue with people telling me what I do or do not experience -- because of the absurdity of that. The fact that this is about audio is coincidental.
OP, it seems you are worried about your startup going underground.

It's shocking that some people are telling you to quit even when you've already put a lot of foundational work into the company.

I suggest you go to founder and ask him for more equity or wage hike.

It's possible that founder got your coworker because he failed to find the talent worth hiring in the first place and that might only be his job, not development.

Maybe he's on the strategy side. You didn't not disclose what this person is getting paid vs what you are getting paid.

It's not clear whats your compensation vs what's his.

Sometimes, the person who arrives first get paid more in equity just because he believed in the idea first and joined the team regardless of their technical competence. It might be hard to swallow.

But since you deem it's unfair, i request you to take up the compensation matter with CEO, get your worth of equity/wage hike so that you finally stop complaining and feel justified.
The GNU units tool has support for currency conversion as well: https://www.gnu.org/software/units/manual/html_node/Currency...
As a general rule in life, you should enjoy the process, not just the outcome. The joy is in the journey.
Using domain names and symbolic links. Seriously.

github.com/omeid/upower-notify
omeid.net/family/photos
omeid.net/friends/joe/2018-royal-national-park-hike -> omeid.me/hikes/2018/royal-national-park
omeid.me/hikes/2018/royal-national-park -> omeid.me/hikes/royal-national-park/2018
omeid.me/blog
omeid.me/id
some-company-i-work-for.com/projects/alpha-transit
some-company-i-work-for.com/legal/contracts -> omeid.me/contracts/some-company-i-work-for.com
some-department.some.gov.au/projects/speed-view -> github.com/some-department-speed-view

And so forth.
Using Siri is really neat, you don't even have to unlock your phone I assume. :)
I'm afraid it's unlikely we'll spend the considerable amount of development time required to make this happen.

The vast majority of websites requires JavaScript nowadays, including the websites of the providers we feature on our website.
Agreed. It's very easy to install the proprietary driver in Ubuntu and in my experience it Just Works™. Why not default to that? The vast majority of Ubuntu users aren't open source evangelists who'd choose to use an inferior driver purely for ideological reasons.
I'm all for egalitarianism in the public sphere, but in private I still believe that there's such a thing as natural born talent.

Anyone can probably reach the top 5% in most non-athletic areas given enough time. But if your goal is to maximize your output having already accepted that your time on earth is limited, then the wise thing is to probably steer in directions that have high impact but for you feel disproportionately easy (compared to the general population).

Thus, I'm a big fan of Peter Theils advice to work on things that satisfy the property that: "if you weren't working on it, this problem would not get solved".
One step I am taking besides trying to reduce Google usage (eg use fastmail, DuckDuckGo) I am trying to stop using my real name as my username and when I want to particularly reduce links to my email use a service like Abine Blur which provides email and phone forwarding with multiple email aliases.
When the question of "Why not just open source it?" comes up this is nearly always the answer.
Test for bacterial or viral infection before using antibiotics
That slogan was actually marketing the pill towards men in 1964, not women.

So what you're actually comparing is how marketers appealed to men in 1964 vs how they would in 2019.

Sure I agree that like many things in the 60s that ad was patronizing, probably toward both genders.

What is probably most interesting about that comparison in my opinion is that a birth control ad targeting men in 2019 would probably appeal to their desire to protect themselves, not their partners...
I tried Google keep for a while (a few months I think). But later I find dm-yourself is faster than Google keep so I abandon using.

I think the law of least effort applied to me.
Fedora is a bleeding edge distribution whose sole purpose is to test out new features.
You’ll never regret choosing something you want to work on. Especially when what you want to work also makes money like energy or AI.

Also, these fields are not evil or useless like weapon design or hedge funds. They are actually useful to society, so you feel like contributing to the general good.

Don’t worry about healthcare, there are thousands of people who work on healthcare.

And, if I may, if you did work on healthcare, your very own contribution to solving this problem would most likely be very small. Unless you somehow become the Elon Musk of healthcare... which you know, may or may not happen.
A simplified approach to measuring national gender inequality
From what I’ve read about Sg’s government, they won’t care. If they want to do something they won’t let a legal technicality stop them.
It's a short life indeed and narrowing it down to a few specific, namely goals is a good way to make yours miserable. If in doubt, don't.

Find one thing that you do want to do: something that is silently but persistently pulling you in. Ideally, something you just couldn't not do.

I'm not a religious person but I really like the tone of the "$god works in mysterious ways". You never know what your choices and path will expand into: it might be something that's related to all three energy, AI, and healthcare but you never would've guessed in the start.

You can always out-smart yourself and convince yourself to do the thing that makes sense but the sensible thing often doesn't mean something that truly fulfills you.

Because future is extremely hard to know, or even predict, all you can do is follow your light.
> in essence to destroy the concept of gender... and it is so far succeeding on this mission.

That's great.
Thanks, I use vimwiki for a while a year ago as well. I think it is more suitable for idea organizing. Later I replaced it with a private github repo using issues/wiki/projects.
I put 'em in ~/rad
Research and Development
> blob won't work with wayland (at least right now AFAIK)

AFAIK it works with Gnome's Wayland Implementation, but not with the one from KDE.
Is there a way to submit other examples?
I write them down.

Now for the bit nobody will care about:

If the thought’s really worth it, I will get up, find a notebook, and spend quite a lot of time transcribing it. I’ve actually gotten pretty good at writing blind because a particularly pernicious thought keeps sleep from me at least once a month.

Every so often, I’ll read through my notebooks and try to synthesize these notes into something better. Often, the really good nuggets are lodged so deeply that I wind up remixing them durably within a few days anyway.

If I don’t record it, I’ll probably forget that I thought it soon enough, so I can only ever feel a few days’ worth of regret at any one time. And there’s still too much material to work on anyway.
Even though I think you’re right, you haven’t actually made an argument at all except repeating the mantra that “dictatorships aren’t great”.
> This is changing a bit, but not existentially.

Clusters exist in all fields because they have major advantages. This is particularly true for startups but opportunity exists in other areas as well.

The software industry is still more spread out than others and companies headquartered in the Valley have major operations in many other places (including the likes of Kiev).
Show HN: Genetic programming experiments
Blame me on not being a good mac-tizen.
But a few years ago one day Notes.app somehow failed to sync and all my notes are gone. That day is the day I chose not to believe anything that "just works".

(I didn't bother to figure out what goes wrong. These notes are throw aways anyway)
they prefer a user experience
that is less efficient, less
“pleasant” as they seem to
believe that doing things in
a simple and intuitive
manner somehow offends their
religious fixation with
living in the technological
equivalent of a hand built
survivalist type cabin in
the woods where they can
live out their fantasies of
technological and moral
superiority.

Except that’s wrong.

The argument is not against inuitive convenience. It’s against exploitation.

Those that would sell us the convenience and comfort know that they must, because it’s the only way to bait the trap.

No one is against convenience or good design. The motive isn’t to achieve authentic credibility by earning what you make with your own hands.

The sad fact is that durable text mode command line shells are mostly the best that small DIY grass roots communities can slap together on their own.

The point of complaint is that large companies with profit motives design systems intended to screw people over, but use the cookie of convenience to lure and entrap their user base.

The End.
The point is so that anything that is available to anyone, is available to anyone else.

It might have been unfortunate for some things to have ben made public in the first place, but once it's done, there is no value in letting just some people still know the truth while everyone else is subject to manipulation by a few who know some truth.

It's about equalizing the power to harm and the power to defend against harm. The reason to preserve and re-publish something that was once known, is so that no single party gets to use it, or use it's absense, against everyone else. All deleting something does is reduce the number of people with the power to use it. It does not make it actually go away. It just makes it go away from you, while someone else who you may not like still has it.

While there are reasons to forget history, the reasons for preserving it far far far outweigh the reasons for forgetting it. And there is NO valid reason to allow editing history. Selective forgetting allows for substitution, revision, balkanization, manipulation, and at the very least, doubt.
Same. When at a computer, I keep it all in a single markdown file. Easy to find, edit, search, etc.
Do you need to somehow maintain IFTTT once in a while? (Even if it is once a year)
> Anything that is 'IPv4-like with larger addresses' is very much incompatible with any IPv4 equipment or setup at the edge.

I disagree somewhat. You could imagine a hierarchical routing structure where IPv4 NAT servers double as IPv4ext routers and gateways. All current servers maintain an IPv4 address which, if the server is unaware of IPv4ext, will not be able to decode things like full client IP address for loging, giving an incentive for server operators to upgrade.

Meanwhile, unaware client end-points connect to IPv4ext servers just as before, via NAT, but of course don't have end to end connectivity to other IPv4ext clients, giving them a (weak) incentive to upgrade.

This would go on for a decade or two just like it did with IPv6, until the moment where virtually all firmware and software is upgraded. At this point carrier grade NATs would stop mangling, the IPv4 only packets are dropped from the core and full non-hierarchical routing can commence on the full IPv4ext address field, finally solving the IPv4 exhaustion problem, in addition to the already solved e2e problem.

I agree this backwards compatible deployment scenario is much more convoluted than a clean slate redesign, and it's hard to imagine it could have seen preferable in the 90s, before wide-spread carrier NAT was a thing.
A California Dream for Paid Leave Has an Old Problem: How to Pay for It
I don't understand either the desire to replace cash, or the assumption that cash will be replaced.
As a Swede, it is interesting to see people using Sweden's tax policies for arguments without fully following the studies on our tax policies. There are studies showing that the highest margin taxes in Sweden actually lose more money than they make, due to dynamic effects. In other words, Sweden is far to the right on the Laffer curve.

Even low and medium income people – for example, assistant nurses straight out of school – pay half of their wages in tax – even at the 2000 USD post-tax a month range.

And since the 20% margin tax on top of that kicks in already at the equivalent of ~50k USD a year »pre-tax«, this creates a situation where it is very hard to build capital just by working. Basically, you can only get wealthy by:

* Earning money with money (tax on capital is a flat 30% - or potentially even way less, if you use a special savings account),

* Founding the next iZettle or creating the next Minecraft,

* Or have bought real estate when it was 50-90% cheaper (that is, 5+ years ago).

In practice, this creates a system which hampers class mobility in Sweden. Even if you are in top 1% of wages, it will take decades for you to catch up to the capital gains of someone who bought an apartment close to Stockholm five years ago.

So perhaps it's safer to say that Sweden is fine _despite_ our 70% tax.
I'm similar:

left: write, throw, pool cue, scissors, tennis, kick (soccer, AFL), shoot (archery, gun)

right: cricket, baseball

squash, knife/fork - somewhat ambidextrous. In squash I serve left handed but sometimes throw my racquet to my right hand mid point when the ball swaps sides (I'm not a good player - just social).

My right arm is definitely stronger than my left but less precise. I wonder if this is an artifact of living in a right-hand centric world. There are many things that are subtly biased to right handed use.

I am also right eye dominant which means I would theoretically be better off throwing and shooting right handed (better aim) but my body naturally coordinates these actions better as left handed. I guess I want the precision of coordination over the benefit of more accurate depth perception in aiming.
People does not confuse roles.

It's just that:

1) What goes to bookmarks rarely goes out.

2) usually I and many other people have a few dozens at least of 'related to what I'm working on'. Like a few documentation pages for this, a few documentation pages for that, ten SO pages, ten blog articles on the same topic linked from SO etc. Plus some tabs unrelated to work, but the ones you absolutetly want to visit later and finish reading or something and don't have the time to put them into something like Things or Bear.
Nerves doesn't look terribly amenable to realtime in design, however. About as amenable as running Node.js on linux. Not a great solution for strict timing requirements.
There are a fair few ads like this although they're now supposed to be banned. Unfortunately the enforcement of advertising rules in this country is more reactive than proactive and I doubt most people would feel strongly enough to complain.

https://adage.com/article/global-news/u-k-bands-gender-stere...

(Personally I'd feel pretty petty submitting a complaint about such an ad and I have far better things to be doing with my time)
The pendulum or the ladder
I've got a lot of different gear, but the stuff in question was the HiBy R3, which has a new ESS DAC/AMP combo (an SoC which eliminates a lot of variability in quality due to implementation problems) and a very healthy 200mW/16R (or somewhere around there) output power in balanced mode. Small, the software is great by DAP standards and it's inexpensive.

The IEMs I struggle to recommend: Fiio FH1, which is a dynamic driver / BA 'hybrid'. They are enjoyable to listen to but definitely not reference -- bass heavy. They're leagues beyond a typical earbud, however, and for $75 it's hard to complain.

I mainly don't recommend them because they're the first IEMs I've tried anywhere near that price range, apart from freebies included with smartphones, etc. They might be easily bettered by something else in the same price range, especially since there's a lot of competition there now.
I'll strongly second this, 80k hours and the Effective Altruism community in general isn't for everyone, but they have great data driven insights into high impact careers and really good resources to help you make decisions (and a really welcoming community). They've got a good quiz that helps direct you but I also recommend you just go through their career guide and if it speaks to you just look on FB for a local chapter and talk to the leader of it, in my experience they're quite helpful about giving you specific advice for your situation

https://80000hours.org/career-planning-tool/
Jeff Sachs, Creating a happier world (2017)