skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't "make you happy", they "spark joy" :P

In all serioursness, after having "studied" the Minimalists, Marie Kondo, and having read plenty of Stoics' works, they all (more or less) point to the same direction (in my interpretation): lead the life YOU want. Don't get carried away in owning what others mandate, but what you need, don't do what others want you do but only what fulfills you, etc.

I tell my friends that I avoid things (items) that change my state. I want ME to change my state. I want people to change my state (to the positive preferably). A laptop won't make me happy. Skyping with friends via the laptop will.

A pile of books is only useful as one uses it. Having a bookcase filled with books I will never read again won't make me happy. Giving them away and keeping a one-in-one-out system will. (at least for me). Piles can be as good as non-piles can be. It's all with what we do with them :)
Yes, it does. Just pointing out that Coca Cola isn't named in the law.
Why not? I have my email client set to default to plain-text and I just write markdown in plain-text emails. Other developers don't seem to have any problem parsing it.
Really? Like most projects, they have a logo. What's wrong with that?
To quote from https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2014/07/07/cache-coherency/

"Memory models

Different architectures provide different memory models. As of this writing, ARM and POWER architecture machines have comparatively “weak” memory models: the CPU core has considerable leeway in reordering load and store operations in ways that might change the semantics of programs in a multi-core context, along with “memory barrier” instructions that can be used by the program to specify constraints: “do not reorder memory operations across this line”. By contrast, x86 comes with a quite strong memory model."
Aquinas' Works in English
But not surnames?
iOS: Auto Close Safari Tabs
Bing shows this: https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/11/neil-young-quits-face...
as first result for search of hn thread title string

that article points to a message posted on his 'neil young archives site' where he appears to be mulling pulling the plug on fbook.. ( https://neilyoungarchives.com/news/1/article?id=Message-From... )
There are people who are made motion sick by modern FPSs, and the FPS market has absolutely exploded in our lifetimes.

I think we'd need to see hard numbers to estimate that (and the hard numbers would need to factor in that this generation of hardware---the Rift and later---is much higher-fidelity and responsive than its predecessors and tends to trigger less nausea).
Ballmer was the 2nd in command of MSFT for years as well, doesn't he deserve the same credit as Cook?
> A second point, sometimes i play coop games with my wife. Its nice not needing 2 consoles or gaming pc's. One can play on the TV and the other on a tablet or cheap laptop.

Unless you have (particularly good) fiber, this probably won't happen. The bandwidth requirements are too high.

> No wasting time downloading/installing games. No patches. Just games ready to play.

FWIW, all of the current generation consoles (even the Switch) have a standby mode that will let them patch your games while you're not playing, meaning that in most cases when you go to play, you can immediately play. They'll even download pre-ordered games without your input.

The only time you would need to be concerned about download times is when you're purchasing a new game for the first time. That's typically a one-time event per game.
>But not every car owner takes their car for service! That's the point.

That's ~a~ point, but it's not tied to minimalism. That's more about the savings.

And in this day and age, with modern cars being quite unserviceable, I don't know many (whether poor or not) that fix their own cars, except for very basic things (changing oils, and so on. Not many tools needed for those).

>Since I count this as something of a hobby, I don't count a dollar value for the time I spend doing it. Which means I'm saving roughly $50 each time, and the tools are paid for after 4 oil changes. After that it's pure savings. If I wanted to have less stuff, I'd pay quite a bit more for the privilege.

Well, that's still like a small set of stuff, at best fitting in a small box and forgetting about it. So it's not really outside minimalism.

A person who is a minimalist but also a carpenter could have 10x the devices and still be a minimalist.

It's all about not getting more than you need to get the job done, which many people, whether in their regular decoration/life/job/etc, or in their hobbies, do (e.g. related to "gear acquisition syndrome").

In other words, it's like the idea of "minimum viable product", but applied to buying stuff. Orthogonal to how much that product must cost.

Sure, if someone is rich enough to oursource all of their life (e.g. have chefs deliver them food) then they don't need a kitchen at all, and can have a more minimal house this way.

But that's in no way a requirement for being a minimalist, or applying minimalism to one's house.

And in most cases it's the inverse: people with more money get a bloated kitchen with all kinds of crap they don't need ("juice squishier" anyone?) compared to people with less. But people with less are hardly minimalists either. You can overbuy stuff and fill your house even on a very basic wage (30-40K say).

>I assert that minimalism is directly at odds with self-sufficiency.

It's really orthogonal. What you describe as self-sufficiency example consists of buying all kind of tools to save $200 a year or less (and that's if one doesn't count their own time's value).

But even a person making $40K could still pay those $200 -- and they mostly do, minimalists or not.

So it's not like "changing oil self-sufficiency" or the need to save money on oil changes prevents one from being a minimalist. Or proves that you need to be "ultra rich" (the claim at the start of this thread) to be one.
The psychological root of “call out culture” is the same as sports brawls, wartime civilian massacres, and bullying. Vanquishing people is... can we admit it... fun. That’s why the Olympic gold medalists smile so much. Now, vanquishing someone with no risk to oneself, with no work required, and in the safety of a huge mob? It’s like getting to be a war hero with the risk and effort of playing Call of Duty.
What I find odd about this is that I am effectively (I hope) anonymous online, even on twitter, but I still get totally mad when people trash my ideas. It's like my ideas are a part of my extended self.

This I think is why moral grandstanding is a more valuable concept than Virtue Signalling - VS wouldn't make sense in an anonymous context, and apparently signalling means something different anyway according to this:
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/stop-saying-virtue-signalling
Haha, yes, pretty much.

Although I found for trading/freight play (ie: not pvp combat) the dynamic hud (hud/menus light up based on where you look) worked very well with a gamepad.

Retracting gear becomes: look down to the right, select option from menu. Etc.
any place that would give me a hard time because of a 3 months gap in my resume is a place I'd rather not work at
I'm curious as to why I'm being downvoted. Do people disagree with the reasoning or do they disagree about the actual facts of what happened ? I'm OK if you are down voting because you think this has nothing to do with the point being commented on (although I disagree) however if it isn't I'm curious about the reasons.
After reading "Savaged by Systemd" by M.W.Lucas, I need this logo to get the visuals out of my head (link here for those that are curious: https://www.amazon.com/Savaged-Systemd-Erotic-Unix-Encounter...)
Agreed, and I prefer the LibreOffice approach to embed the original file within the PDF if the author decides to.

This doesn't break the simplicity of the PDF, while making it easy to edit.
> As a result a few favorite agents made a ton of money, drove luxury cars never more then 2 years old, and worked minimal hours.

> The large majority of the agents made minimal money and had to fight of the scraps.

This mirrors the structure of the broader economy so in a perverse way, it makes sense.
I think it's possible to change the minds of others through online posting. It has happened to me and I think I've effected change in others. However, all online posts are not equal.

Posts like GP I think are likely to have the opposite effect. Bad faith argument tends to let people dismiss any valid content and reinforce existing views and groups.

I find the key is to be respectful and to make an effort to understand where the other person is coming from. This unfornately appears to be a less and less common tactic.
Consistent Technical Documents Using Emacs and Org Mode [video]
I use Gmail. Don't love it, don't hate it. What's the pitch for switching to Fastmail?
The people who get sick from them don't go to them anymore. That's why it was "temporary". Kids finding out they get sick from 3D don't post about it on the same social media adults use.
More from Reuters:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/schwab-td-ameritrade-deal-sho...
I'm too paranoid to ever discuss how I pick my passwords. :(
I guess gearbox owns the character??
From your comments, it seems your intention is to muddy the waters to the point where actual steps toward solutions are deemed unworkable.

YOU, sir, are propagating the problem you purport to be asking questions about. Please stop.
I think they've officially decided Portal is played out. If you want more Portal, the Perpetual Testing Initiative is still there.
You want a high-bandwidth interface to computing? Combine this with Dynamicland technology (https://dynamicland.org/). This makes way more sense than creepy neural interfaces. Best of all, it would allow people to freely collaborate on things in real life.
> If the sender isn't authentic, then the sender is spam.

What's your definition of authentic? Is a self-hosted email server authentic? How do you decide?

> If the user reports the sender as spam, then don't permit the sender to send more messages to the person who complained.

If 10000 yahoo accounts are sending spam emails to other websites, what do you do? Block all yahoo senders? Try to block the yahoo accounts as they appear?

> 3) enforce liability. if an ISP hosts spammers, then block the ISP.

All major ISPs host spammers. Often they don't know that they do. Is it worth cutting off all comcast users nationwide from being able to use email? If anything, this would further centralize on one or two trustworthy email hosts, because those providers are essentially their own ISPs.
I think you also need some "special" investors. In this case softbank appreciated the crazyness of the CEO.
This is a really interesting paper on using RL for device placement - https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub46646.
Very cool. Someday we might need to verify personal training certs
It's not as straightforward with VC money. VCs have to answer to investors.

(Hopefully someone more knowledgable can chime in,) but I always thought VC was a mix of government, private, and institutional funds?
Oh man! Even the newer Turoks gave me wicked motion sickness. I think I have motion sickness just thinking about it.
I migrated about one year ago and this is a feature I really love. Every service has unique address and goes to separate folder via rules.

Also, there are automatic aliases when you use your own domain. Say, you have name@domain.com, then all *@name.domain.com are also working aliases, like spotify@name.domain.com. Really neat feature.
Or as Matt Levine might say, take the $16b, light half of it on fire, and put the other half under your mattress. Boom: You've just beaten negative interest rates.
Light bulbs are a bad example of the dangers of cartels. Incandescent filaments are much more efficient at higher temperature but burn out quicker. In the common case, savings from reduced electricity cost more than offset the increased replacement rate for bulbs in accessible fixtures.

Short-lived bulbs were good for the customers. In a market with perfect information people would have chosen them on their own. Unfortunately of 3 categories of information needed for an informed decision (lifetime, power usage, and light output) purchasers only had a good measure of how often they replaced bulbs. Usage patterns are too complex for improvements in a single bulb to be obvious on a power bill, and human brightness perception is roughly logarithmic so it’s not visually obvious how much brighter different bulbs are.

Whether it was motivated by greed or not, the Phoebus cartel is an example of big business successfully advocating for the interests of the general public in the presence of information asymmetry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb#Light_...
There's massive amounts of special interest money being funneled into publications on every side of issues, local and national. That's the reality we have to live with. See Politico's latest reveal of "dark money" also going toward left-wing policy activism and media coverage [1].

That doesn't mean we should totally ignore what media and think tanks have to say, they can still produce good critiques and investigations -- whether Brookings or Cato. Even explicitly partisan muckrakers like Greenpeace or O'Keefe's Project Veritas occasionally expose a valid case of wrongdoing no one else noticed. These organizations are very selective and hyperbolic in what they focus on, due to their narrow mission and ideology and the natural limit of time/energy, but if you combine all of their varied output you can get enough slices to approximate the pie.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/19/dark-money-democrat...
So if I am single and the couple are single, then they are the ones breaking the rule for getting busy out of wedlock, but I should be OK just hanging back and watching.
Worse than that -- let's say you start typing in a code fragment inside backticks, but your code fragment includes a constant variable name like MY_COOL_VARIABLE. Because Slack doesn't evaluate the backticks until you add the closing backtick, the WYSIWYG editor turns MY_COOL_VARIABLE into MYCOOLVARIABLE, converting the "COOL" in the middle in italics... and then applies the monospaced styling _on top_ of the italics, so you have a really bizzarre output.

Oh, and you can't easily get the underscores back -- you'll need to retype the variable name.
VR may be niche, but it's not a gimmick. I get about 1-2 hours a week to play games. I choose to spend that time in VR because it's the most enjoyable way to game for me. I don't play pancake games anymore.
Human Torpedo
really? I find it rather great. Whats wrong with it?
Does the world ending mean the Party ending?

The Party survived inflicting famine on its own people killing tens of millions. It is confident of surviving an ecological catastrophe and ruling over whatever’s left.
60$ of hardware is not the same experience as a $1000 Valve index
plus you can even choose other domains for these new emails:

- fastmail.us

- fastmail.to

...

- hailmail.net

- mailworks.org

...

dozens of domains. they must be spending a bundle just on renewing domains ... :-)

etc this makes filtering your email even simpler.
I use Master PDF Editor (https://code-industry.net/masterpdfeditor/). It's not free, but it's not terribly expensive either and you can probably get it expensed depending on your job.

It also does PDF editing perfectly. I really hope there will be some open source version of it at some point. Or that someone's working on one.
If you see flicker, then you bought an LED lamp with a wrong kind of driver. You can dim LEDs to zero without any visible flicker if the circuit is designed properly
There are fundamental differences between Stadia and Steam:

1. If Steam shuts down, Valve shuts down. If Stadia shuts down... Google is doing just fine.

2. What Stadia is attempting to do is much more technically challenging, and I've yet to see a strong reason people would want it. Steam fills a clear and unambiguous need, and does not depend on near-magic technology to work.

3. Steam works, right now, and is reliable. Stadia? It's unlikely to ever be reliable for many users. Maybe it will be, but that remains to be seen.
> it removes the need to create products that last a long time.

I think the difference here is intent and effort.

If you're trying for "cheap" (as the manufacturer), you won't care how well it works and don't try for anything more than the minimum necessary in terms of lifespan or quality.

If you're trying for planned obsolesce, you will deliberately make it worse. That's the "planned" part. In this case, the cartel not only tested for lifespan, but FINED members that improved it.

There have always been manufacturers that shoot for "cheap", and while people will call them on it, it's a different story from those that deliberately sabotage the product in terms of functionality.
To be precise, P0 is accused of focusing on finding bugs in competing products. This is a bug they were told about, not from original research.
I didn't buy a gimmicky As Seen On TV kitchen gadget I'd use once and store in the garage for the rest of my life, am I a rich person?
Good thing Kondo isn't espousing minimalism, then.
Yup, and I've been telling my clients for years that it's just a checkbox exercise. No one really does key management well in the first place for self-encrypted drives, and when people started publishing things like [1], it was clear the game was up.

For circumstances where the data is genuinely sensitive, we've pushed for physical destruction of the drive. Bonus: throwing pallets of old drives into the incredibly loud shredder our destruction partners use is a lot of fun.

[1] https://www.malwaretech.com/2015/04/hard-disk-firmware-hacki...
A logo, a palette of colours, a typography, brand guidelines... all for an init system for Linux. They think they are fucking Coca Cola.

If you don't think that's just insane... well I'm just getting old I guess.
Sweet! Will do.
Russia bans sale of gadgets without Russian-made software
Quicken Desktop (or rather, the Australian fork, Reckon Accounts). Their licensing is really awful - to the point of the company having faced Consumer Affairs rulings - but it's a really good program, very fast to use, and I have 20 years of data in there.

There's a lot of us out there who would love to switch away from Quicken/Reckon the company, but keep Quicken the product. (Tried Moneydance, GNUcash etc, they're just not quite as good, though Moneydance is closest.)
I just explained this Wikipedia article to the person next to me.

They replied "Wow - I would have thought that a light bulb cartel would have had a much brighter future..."
They work nicely together.
Instagram Heats Up
I’d take him back in a heartbeat over De Blasio. Bloomberg strikes me as a man that can learn from mistakes.
Maybe if you could use something like AoE turning the network port into the backend storage interface a la CoRaid. Otherwise like others have said you have USB.
It definitely isn't, but you wrote off all of VR as a gimmick, then you gave reasons for your assertion. One of those reasons doesn't apply to all of VR.
This is the rule in game development rather than the exception. It's why polished commercial engines like UE4 and Unity have been so successful. In house tools even at some of the biggest most successful game developers are rough and undocumented. They are also generally made by engineering teams an order of magnitude smaller than Unity or Epic.
There is a french company that does this in some variations:

[1] https://www.qarnot.com/
The goalpost wasn't "great" VR. It was the minimum cost. I agree that $400 won't get you the best VR set, but it still can be enough for a great one.

> what's the minimum cost these days to get the hardware that'll play this?
Yes I read it. It was still bad. I also seen Nazi propaganda movie and read their materials and guess what - it was still bad. I read communists articles aaaaand they were still bad. All those were humans, sure. But that does not mean I have to agree with them or see them as good.

Just because I see them as humans does not mean I have to ignore what they caused to other humans. Or that every human actions must be necessary been seen as good by me.
Yes, I know the difference between the memory model of x86 and, say, ARM. I'm asking what's x86 specific on this article about cache coherency.
“system dee” like “collect dee” or “ess ess aitch dee”
It's difficult to see this as good-faith engagement with Kondo's advice of asking whether a particular item is useful or "sparks joy".
Developers should refuse to use Plaid. Plaid abuses its account privileges and takes much more than it gives the users. For instance, Carta should never need Plaid to pull every transaction from a bank account just to let someone exercise stock options.
Y Combinator Ends China Accelerator
Linear’s Next Chapter: Announcing Our $4.2M Seed Round
Actually it has became standard practice in where I live to have government ID check as part of KYC process for these new fintech companies, usually accompanied with a live photo capture.

Maybe it is not the case in the US? Interesting.
I was optimistic when I saw this city-design concept... but is it realistic? Seems like we're nowhere close right now.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/04/see-sust...
Didn't people pay for Theranos tests that lied about their abilities? That is way worse.
Which primary competitors would those be? Asking for a friend...
Just in: Google kills Cloud Print https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/9633006
Thanks. The art looks awesome, btw
According to [1] there have been more revolutions in the last 10 years than in the entire 17th century.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebe...
I not sure how many realize this, but the books were actually written by a team of writers, well 2 writers, in parallel, defining the world, characters, and storylines. James S.A. Corey is the pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. Great series too :)
Find and talk to people who have(done) what you want.

HN is not the best place to find that sort of thing.

I would research other entertainment companies/individuals similar to the team you working with.
Same thing is happening with cell phones. Member companies are Google and Apple and they have defeated every challenger, including Blackberry and Windows. Nobody can stand up to the smartphone cartel.
Ah yes, "if it's legal, it's not his fault." It's not "his fault" for the gross incompetence that lead to this outcome? Whose was it? I would suggest that it is in fact "his fault," but why would he ever have cared? He lacked any incentive to fret any potential negative outcomes for the business, since after a point he had assured that they all ended in him being astronomically wealthy regardless.

This sort of thing sends ripples across peoples' lives. Normal people (outside of the idle rich who can afford to waste money on speculation with effectively no consequences) do lose out when things like this blow up.

The lack of regulation and legal accountability here is shocking. The fact that regulation doesn't currently exist shouldn't be used as a justification for excusing the behavior of bad actors!
An init system is just one of many, many projects under the systemd umbrella.

Perhaps you should learn more about a project before launching into criticism?
That is technically correct.