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There's a lot more content out there now but the ratio of content to advertising has absolutely plummeted. Good for podcasters bad for listeners.
I'm actually worried that podcasts are going the way of the web. What, for a while, was a weird world of enthusiasts talking about things that interests them seems to be morphing into a world of a few big corporate entities calling the shots.

I have two reasons for these worries.

1) The purchase of Gimlet by Spotify mentioned in the article.
2) The purchase of Stuff Media by iHeart.

The purchase of Gimlet is problematic for a couple of reasons, but the biggest is that a distribution channel now owns a large content company which could lead to content bubbling. I don't want to have different players for different shows, I want the shows to be available on all players. I believe this is already happening, "Crime town" season 2 is only available on Spotify.

The iHeart purchase might be more troubling. Have you ever noticed that no mater where you are in the US, the radio stations are extremely similar? This has a few reasons, one of which is, that station is probably owned by iHeart (formerly Clear Channel), they own over 400 radio stations are are in virtually every US market [1]. I'm not saying iHeart is evil, but the chance that shows get more homogenous increase when large corporate players have to satisfy shareholders. I'm not sure I can take any more true crime shows.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_owned_b...
I believe OP is being sarcastic about "good wife".
Thank you! This looks like a great resource :)
There was a time when I wanted to use Travis CI but the pricing was too much. Then, CircleCI came along with a free plan, and when the time came to upgrade, we did it so easily since we’re already invested in the platform.

I wish Travis CI they did this from the start since I like their platform and had some open source projects there and again could have easily upgraded. This is where the fremium model would have worked.
I love Purism, and have preordered a Librem 5, and this all sounds great, but I wish there was an update on the current state of the final hardware design.

It just seems like there's an awful lot of work left to do to get from a working devkit to a finished device shipped to users.
YouTube doesn’t have a hard time blocking feature films.
Where does it mention Electron?

Browsing the web and using Electron are 2 different things. Last time I checked, all your assets can be included in the bundle
Good question. She may be simplifying things, or not thinking of vegans/vegetarians. No doubt it's a suboptimal amount.
Seems like audio books would be a good addition to your list of media consumption.
> Are people who make more money less happy/equally happy/more happy than people who make less?

This is already known though. Its a curve. People who live in poverty (local standards) are unhappy, and happiness increases a lot till they have more breathing space. I'm not sure what exactly is the magic border where this doesn't count anymore but say it is 60k a year (in USA, which is a bit odd because living expenses vary a lot but hear me out). After that ceiling, the happiness does not increase much anymore.
Sure. I'm just trying to be careful that we aren't going around advertising features that aren't stable yet without specifically saying that they aren't stable. It leads to a disappointing expectations mismatch.

I do think stable Rust is perfectly capable though. I don't generally target nightly Rust and am happy with how much I can squeeze out of it. :-) (Check out the benchmarks for the memchr crate, which use SIMD internally and should be competitive with glibc's x86_64 implementation that's in Assembly.)
This title seems to amply describe most of the people I met while living in the Bay Area - both around the Peninsula (MTV ~ Los Altos) where I lived and in SF.
People have suggested that I write an autobiography. But I'm more of a technical writer.
Apple Podcasts has gotten worse pretty much every year. I have switched to Overcast and I find it excellent. Lean and clean.
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I don't understand the mindset of burning yourself out in middle age so you can "enjoy the world" when you're much more likely to be frail and have serious health problems that prevent you from participating in many activities.
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Morning! I didn't mind the "Boutique App & Web Development" part (I've used almost this exact same line in the past, TBH), it was "#1" that set off alarm bells. It feels like you're claiming to be the best at something that is so multi-faceted and hard to pin down that nobody can say whether or not it's true. Any of your competitors could make the same claim -- therefore the thing that sets you apart is your willingness to make the claim, not that it applies to you. If I were you, I'd stay away from attaching absolute comparatives to mushy marketing terminology. It feels very snake-oily to me. On the other hand your contracting business seems to be a lot more successful than mine was, so maybe you'd be silly to behave the way I would.

Some minor thoughts on the PDF:
The bottom of page 2 looks like it has a clickable button on it (I'm not sure if that was intentional).
Of the four colored titles on page 3 the PRODUCTS one stands out as not-a-gradient, compared to the rest.
The font that looks hand-drawn feels cheap and Comic-Sansy to me, I'd prefer actual hand-writing or a font that doesn't look like it should have natural variation.
On page 19, the Harvest window has a shadow that the other example images on this page and the next don't have, which looks inconsistent.

In general I do like the document, these are just nit-picks I thought you might find useful.
I disagree about it being religion specifically, but I would say that people need a better philosophy, a model of reality, to understand why the things they think will make them happy don't.
> Personally, I'm not a fan of podcasts at all.

I think your concerns are more about your dislike of podcasts as a medium. Not everyone listens to podcasts strictly to mainline information straight into their brain.

There's something to be said for dialog and for the discovery and exploration of unexpected topics. Moreover, there's an aesthetic associated with the human voice and verbal communication that doesn't necessarily translate to text. Not everything has to have a fine-grained search index for a-la-carte consumption!
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No he doesn't. Invoking that Communism has problems does not magic away the problems that Capitalism currently has. The two don't bear any relationship.
His duty is to go traveling and have adventures and drink the finest craft beers. I can't imagine why he'd find that all meaningless.
No surprise. The ideology of the corporation privileges throughput at the expense of latency. (eg. "Nine women can have a baby in one month")
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I remember listening to EconTalk back when you downloaded it to your mp3 player using a computer. And maybe I'm a hipster but the golden age seems to be over. It's all too mainstream now, too polished, too polite.

Nowadays, I scroll through the multiple new episodes of many shows I used to enjoy to rarely find something I genuinely want to hear. Sure, you can probably dig to something like Cum Town but even then it doesn't feel fresh any more.

It's the same with binge watching TV (mentioned in the OP). Much more fun when you pirated the show, when it wasn't intended than when you're just some engagement metric. I haven't binge watched a TV show in at least three years.

Also, Google already had a podcasting app once (Google Listen?). I remember using it in like 2012.
It's (sort of) discussing the work of Nima Arkani-Hamed and his Colleagues, and their attempt to reformulate quantum field theory so that it doesn't refer explicitely to space-time, in analogy to how the principle of least action of Lagrangian mechanics doesn't refer explicitly to the causality/determinism of Newton's formulation (modulo some subtitles). Here's a bit more about their technical work.

The motivation for doing this is as follows. When the principle of least action was discovered, it was philosophically very puzzling: why should this equivalent, non-causal formulation of newton exist? The reason of course turned out to be quantum mechanics! (it's a kind of stationary phase approximation to the path integral formulation of quantum theory, roughly speaking). Now in the early 21st century, there is a whole bunch of hints that space and possibly time are not truly fundamental quantities (in analogy to how newtonian causality was not fundamental). So how do you proceed?

Method 1: make random guesses.

Method 2: attempt to extend existing physics in non-random ways (e.g. string theory)

Method 3: take a lesson from history

Method 1 never works, method 2 is apparently too hard this time, so they are attempting method 3: if you need to get rid of space-time, don't MODIFY existing physics, but REFORMULATE it so that it doesn't depend explicitly on that concept, in analogy to how lagrangian mechanics reformulates newtownian mechanics to not depend explicitly on causality ( & quantum theory is then a simple deformation away). And if you can reformulate state of the art quantum field theories so they don't depend on space-time explicitly, perhaps a deeper theory will just be a simpler deformation away as well.
It's strictly FOMO. As they say with VC's: Nobody wants to invest in you until one VC wants to invest, then everybody wants to invest.
Thanks for the kind words! Hope it helps.
There is a legit explanation for this. Sometimes recruiters just want to remove your contact info. The idea is that this makes it harder for companies to avoid paying the recruiter.

You could offer to make the edits as requested.
What world are they living in where startups are paying $500-$600k?
@samuelstuart : This is meant to be this type of app. Our target is anyone just looking to have fun on his own or with his or her friends at parties near his or her place. Simple as that.
"good wife" as "what a bitch" or?

Depending on how you interpret that, she could be a "good divorced wife" soon enough - although given marriage law in the U.S. you'd end up in the same 1/2 salary situation or divorced 1/4 salary situation lmao...
Our minds are general purpose information processors, with significant technical debt, shortcuts, and hardwiring between software and hardware. It's optimized for adapting to a number of very different interactions and environments.

To say they're not constructed to understand reality may or may not be true, but is beside the point.

That said, I often share similar thoughts about progress towards the nature of reality.
The richest people I know are definitely also some of the most miserable.

We've been sold a story that careers are a path to fulfillment, self actualization and empowerment. When in reality they are a soul sucking, near pointless burden that enriches investors, founders, execs and few others.

I love what I do for a living and I make a very healthy amount doing it. That being said, I see stay at home parents and think they are the people actually living life to the fullest. It's extremely difficult being a parent but the rewards trump all the accolades and money in the world (imo).

I think the 20th century screwed up our value system via marketing and mass media. People lost sight of where true fulfillment comes from and lost the ability to think in the long term and work hard to get there. Focusing on your career so you can travel internationally and buy mid-century modern furniture for your Brooklyn 1bd is pure hedonism and I think people are starting to wake up to that fact.

It's worth watching the documentary The Century of the Self to see how some of this played out and was orchestrated by the media and marketers. It's very interesting and really shows you how developments in psychology and technology lead to corporations triggering hedonistic instincts to sell more product. It's a great watch:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
Is it?

Many people could retire after one year at 500k or 1M because their cost of living is such that they would be able to save almost all of it, and this would spread across their retirement..
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> We want to feel that we’re making the world better, even if it’s as small a matter as helping a shopper find the right product at the grocery store.

My question for HN is do you feel that the content you are working on makes a difference in your career satisfaction? Or do you just need to know that _someone_ out there is being benefited?

Is it just as fulfilling to work on a video game that flops (but maybe a few people still enjoy it) as it is to work on Fortnite where your code changes are used by millions?

Is it more satisfying to work on consumer facing iPhone apps like Apple Fitness where you are enabling millions of people to be healthier compared to working on a high frequency trading algorithm that makes a few people lots of money?
My feelings exactly! So much great stuff covering every subject.
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I'd just like to add a thought - maybe happiness isn't all it's cracked up to be? I mean sure, we should strive to achieve a certain standard of living for everyone. But once you get to a certain point of "happiness", maybe it's the happiness itself which makes you miserable?
I walk to/from work (about 40 minutes), so its nice to learn / stay up to date on things. I usually listen to data science related podcasts
>what world are these people living in that you can't give up a job that you hate because you can't afford to live on 500-600k.

New York City
If the entire point of your work is to make money, your work is ultimately pointless.

(Not saying making money isn't important, but that it's not good for you if that's the primary goal.)
How could anything mean anything when pretty soon (in a cosmological sense) there won't be any such thing as a mind in which meaning could exist?
For anyone who isn't aware of it, the YC podcast is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ-uHSnFig5PACZiyiDk1...

A few episodes I liked:

Leonard Susskind on Richard Feynman, the Holographic Principle, and Unanswered Questions in Physics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQAcLW6qdQY&list=PLQ-uHSnFig...

Office Hours with Michael Seibel
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ2BWOT4hfs&t=0s&list=PLQ-uH...

Peter Reinhardt on Finding Product Market Fit at Segment
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-vfn97QTr0&t=0s&list=PLQ-uH...
Agreed. This is a glorified op-ed piece / human interest story. It's not proper objective journalism.

I mean, given all the complaints and struggles we read of at other class levels the headline could be: The Elite - Miserable and in Fear, Just Like the Rest of Us.

And it's fear that drives greed. I mean, when you can't go from $1M to $500K that's fear of losing what you have; just like the rest of us.
Bullshit Jobs, a 2018 book by David Graeber, discusses this phenomenon pretty extensively and calls for more research. His rudimentary theory is that people who aren't contributing to society know that they aren't, and it makes them miserable. People have an inherent desire to change the world around them, and most professional jobs are actually mostly nonsense. This results in professionals being depressed and feeling hopeless.

There was one study the book cited, "Taxation and the Allocation of Talent", which was particularly interesting. As it's abstract says: "Estimates from the literature suggest that high-paying professions have negative externalities, whereas low-paying professions have positive externalities."[1]

As a successful lawyer who quit that profession and became a software engineer, writer, and startup founder, all of this really resonates with me.

The book is an outgrowth of a 2013 essay that got re-printed 100s of times and spurred some polling.[2] I recommend at least reading the essay. It has a lot of implications for economics, business management, and various other fields.

[1]https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/693393

[2] "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant" http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
There must have been some intent for it to be a crime. It is not illegal to click on a public link on the web. Accessing sensitive data is not a crime in itself.

These accusations seem completely baseless. The data was public and could probably be found using one of several public search engines.

Apart from that, the journalists could also claim they were given the link by someone, in which case it would even be illegal to investigate the source. This lawsuit was not filed to win.
There is a psychology here that just might work.
> Life is fundamentally empty. Unless you're religious

There are more -isms than those.

In Sapiens, Harari argues ideologies such as capitalism and communism and belief systems such as your company serve the very same purpose: to give life a meaning.

To me, it appears akin to fairytales we tell our children.
Historically a strongman is summoned as an excuse to end mob rule (real or imagined) resulting in an authoritarian government. Napoleon, Franco Mussolini are some examples.

One also sees people jumping up with a banner in the front of the mob. Lenin and Kim-il Sung, for example.

Of course the issues are real and need to be discussed and criticized. But fortunately stories like Evergreen State College are rare

But the incidences of tenured professors who are no longer free to say what they actually think anymore are legion.

And Twitter storms are not oppression, they are just people being wrong on the internet.

Tell that to people whose lives have been ruined. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAIP6fI0NAI

So while events like Evergreen certainly need to be criticized, the more serious threat is that this is being systematically used by cynical parties in a dangerous way to portray a nation plagued by oppressive mobs who need to be put in line.

Downtown Portland was tied up by such mobs as well. There have been hundreds of incidences of violence (a number closer to 1000 than zero) including assaults with serious injury. Why did tens of thousands of people surround a bunch of mostly normal, ordinary people, including a number of brown people, claiming they were "white supremacists" in Boston?

The Left in general is plagued by the zeitgeist of an authoritarian, angry mob, and wordplay/splitting hairs about what exactly should be classified as "authoritarian" is simply silly when you've been actually mobbed. Thugs going about intimidating and committing acts of violence for political purposes is authoritarianism. The wordplay is just one side wanting to act like thugs, trying to pretend it's something else.
To say that capitalism is empty doesn't necessarily mean you are anti-capitalist. E.g. many people find their job fundamentally empty, and they find meaning elsewhere, for example in their family. But they don't quit their job- it enables them to enjoy their family. Similarly, you can view capitalism as a fundamentally empty, but extremely useful system that enables us to find meaning elsewhere.
Basically, the idea is that there are often multiple theories to try to explain reality, each of which is valid (though some have further-reaching explanatory power than others), and that, perhaps, there is not one theory which can fully explain reality (Grand Unified Theory). Perhaps reality defies such simple explanations, and instead will always produce multiple answers. The question, then, if there are always multiple answers is: what is the question?
Ah, sorry about that, I thought it was better because it had on the heroku domain.
It lacks objective meaning (that we know of or if that can even exist), but that doesn't stop me from assigning it, and operating on, subjective meaning. In fact, I can't even stop myself from doing that. It's almost as if the brain evolved to run on silly fiat meaning for its survival.
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I don't know why anyone would subject themselves to the awfulness of Apple Podcasts. What were they thinking?! It's just bad.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

-- attributed to various sources; see for example: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/
Why? He never said anything at all about Communism or any other ideology being superior in particular. Looks a bit like you're itching for a fight that no one is actually giving to you.
If “startup” means “pre IPO” then there quite a few places in town that go up to this for very senior roles.
PodCruncher was definitely worth the $3 or whatever nominal fee I paid.
Elizabeth Holmes deserves to be sacked by the full extent of social and legal punishment. She's poisoned the waters for a lot of good people - especially professional women engineers / entrepreneurs.

As engineers and entrepreneurs alike - we need to show that regardless of your history, wealth, gender etc. this kind of behavior is not okay and will get you blacklisted.
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It is the false premise that employment in a capitalist system exists to provide meaning or value through work, that work is noble or carries some implicit moral weight or dignity of purpose.

Work exists to allow you to enrich the capital ownership class, of which you are likely not a part (if you were, you wouldn't need to work to eat.) That's it.

If you want to find more, look elsewhere.
There was just a lawsuit about that, and it went... poorly.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/supreme-cour...
Hey Vivek. It looks awesome. I'll definitely get one of the team to check this for integration on our site. Totally Free!
>if you overshot (asked for 50, used 46) they refunded the difference in cash.

I never seen that. What I always saw was they authorize for $50, then charge $46. If they're doing how you described it, they're paying interchange on the extra and not getting anything for it.
I agree in general, it's something I've thought about. Sometimes I want to quit my software dev job and become a shaman because I see people miserable and unable to make sense of their lives. But who can afford to live on a shaman's salary :p

One thing I've consistently noticed in regards to jobs is that people's perceptions are very inward focused. It is all about whether they are fulfilled, if they are interested, if they are bored, if they're learning, etc. You can see this clearly in discussions on HN about "Bullshit Jobs". If people thought more about whether their job is useful to other people, rather than gratifying to themselves, they'll come to very different conclusions.
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It can be a real PITA if you have to do regular bloods. At one point I had to take an extra day off a week before my regular clinic just to do bloods. It can also be a time consuming process to find a vein and draw blood.

If I could pop into my local GP (family doctor) or have a mobile service come to work and quickly do the tests id be saving a lot of annual leave