skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1k has gotten insane lately, so it only makes sense they're raising the spend limit. Switching to pre-board 1k's makes sense on non-mainline routes, but on any mainline flight, there's a huge gaggle of GS/1k wandering aimlessly around the gate waiting for the flight to board, and it's a total mess. This should restore some order. But as someone who spent 25k w/UA this year, I won't be doing it again next year.

As for the benefits:
- Econ+ is nice (mostly for being at the front of the plane), and let's call it $100/flight (what you'd otherwise pay for it)
- Free drink + snack is $20 a flight
- 3x 75lb checked bags is non-trivial, though I don't know a business traveler who checks bags
- Lounge access on INTL flights, let's call this $50/flight
- Waived change fees within 24 hours is $200 a flight, and TBH this is a game changer for my travel habits (and the thing I will miss the most come Feb 2021 when I no longer have 1k)
- Upgrades: well, the plane was already flying there, so it's a loss of revenue rather than a cost per se, but honestly this is probably the biggest "cost" to the airline for having status
Since 2007, I've taken detailed notes on every book I've read, then posted them on my site with my top recommendations up top:

https://sivers.org/book

My top recommendations here for the Hacker News crowd - with a nudge for the under-rated, are:

The Time Paradox - by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd

https://sivers.org/book/TimeParadox

Profound idea that everyone has a primary time focus: either Future-focused, Present-focused, or Past-focused. Fascinating implications of each. Because I'm so future-focused, reading this book helped me understand people who are very present-focused. Also great advice on shifting your focus when needed. I read it 7 years ago, but still think about it almost every day.

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Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want - by Nicholas Epley

https://sivers.org/book/Mindwise

Many new brilliant insights, especially about over-estimating the differences between you and others, thereby separating into us-vs-them tribalism. Scan to the end of my notes, to see. If you know more books like this, please recommend them to me. I adore this subject.

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The War of Art - by Steven Pressfield

https://sivers.org/book/WarOfArt

Have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? Are you a writer who doesn’t write, a painter who doesn’t paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what “Resistance” is. This book is about that. Read it.

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E-Myth Revisited - by Michael Gerber

https://sivers.org/book/EMythRevisited

Absolutely everyone who is an entrepreneur or wants to be one needs to read this book. I first read it after 10 years of successfully running my company, and was still blown away and totally humbled by its wisdom. Re-reading it today, I'm amazed how my view of business was completely changed by this one little book. See my notes for examples, but definitely read the book itself to get the real impact.

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The Courage to Be Disliked - by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

https://sivers.org/book/Disliked

Wow. A profound little philosophy book from Japan, communicating the psychology of Alfred Adler - a rival of Freud. Told as a conversation between an angry student and a patient teacher. A little book so good that I rushed home from other activites to keep reading it, and finished in a day. A surprisingly fresh perspective on how to live. (The “disliked” part is not the point, so don’t let the title distract you.)
Check out systemd socket activation. It's an awesome system that starts services on demand when they're needed by applications.
Bad article, in part because of the incomplete title. It should be called "What happens when your career becomes your whole identity, when you don't like your job and think it's a waste of time". If this latter part is not true, there is much less of a problem, but for some reason current mainstream American culture wants to extrapolate all the way to "work should be compartmentalized and minimized".

The problem is, work is where a lot of people find meaning in life. For those people, more work means more meaning, and you're hurting them by telling them otherwise, especially if they are too young to know better than what you are telling them. And you're also preventing young people from becoming outliers ... what would be the cost to our society, and to the individuals personally, if Einstein, Dirac, Pauli, or whoever had been told to cut down on the amount of time they spend thinking about physics stuff, they need to achieve good work/life balance.

A lot of people in China are working pretty hard. If you want your country to get whomped by China economically and geopolitically, spread the idea that it's bad to work hard.

Americans in the past, back when America was able to coordinate to do ambitious things, worked pretty hard. So if you want to have a country that is unable to recreate glories of the past, spread the idea that it's bad to work hard.

All this only happens if you have an idea of work as a draining thing, a net negative on the individual doing the work. But I am happier because of the work that I have done. I am a better person than I was before.

Nobody goes to the kung fu school and says "hey it's bad to exercise this much, you shouldn't kick so high or punch so fast, just make sure not to train that much, okay?" But for some reason we have decided it's okay to give people this advice in other realms. You know what, I never felt as good physically as I did when I was in serious kung fu training. (Never looked as good either).

If you are in a job that actually is damaging if you do it too much for too long, then by all means, minimize that -- but you know what, in today's world, there are always proximal things you can do that are not damaging that will improve your job or your ability to do your job over time.

But advice like this does not make the distinction between jobs that are damaging and jobs that aren't. We're losing the idea that the latter thing exists, and I think that is very bad for the overall development of our society.
Did anyone try to train a model to translate a code to other languages (i.e. Google translate for codes) using data in this site?
Its not uncommon if you're booking late and flying out last min to have plenty of PQD/MQD or PQM/MQM, but not enough PQS/MQS, so the milage run is still a thing (and will still be a thing), because that extra segment count will get you over the hump.

Also, AS (Alaska) allows you to qualify for status with just segs or milage, no spend requirement is needed - great for folks in Seattle, or who frequently fly to seattle.
same for jamming blues/jazz.

social communication without using words. amazing social cohesion.
people noted that some of those "smart" devices probe every open WiFi they find

Given that this would potentially expose them to criminal liability under unauthorised access laws in various places, I have always been sceptical of this claim, and I have yet to see any convincing evidence that it actually happens. Does anyone know definitively that it does?
You are sure are doing a whole lot of book promotion on here and on reddit!

This may come across as harsh, but driving on highways, pan-american or not, doesn't strike me as much of an adventure in the current era.
My dumb Samsung did way back in 2011. It was a POS and I vowed never to buy another Samsung TV ever again. This gives me further reason to hate Samsung.
RFC8259 allows arbitrary extensions, so as long as it doesn't cause any misparses of regular JSON it would be acceptable, at least up to that standard.
> What was holding me off throughout the years was, I wasn't interested in learning C++ or Java to make them. I wanted to build Desktop apps with Javascript

This isn’t the first time I’ve come across this aversion to learning something new from JS devs. Most other devs I’ve worked with love learning new languages.

Could someone please help me understand why javascript devs seem to have a thing against other languages.
>Western culture of "the strong (rich) deserve more than others" is the root cause

[citation needed]

two, actually.

one regarding the Western origins of 'the strong (rich)', and one regarding poverty being caused by 'the strong (rich)'

I think both claims are overly ambitious. These problems largely pre-date mass civilization, not to mention 'the east and west'.
Interesting, I just started playing this again in the last week. I found it surprisingly accessible after all this time. Especially the slightly pessimistic hard sci-fi content given the current political / environmental situation.

You can buy the game on gog.com relatively cheap, and there's a set of community patches for things like widescreen, better AI, and other features at (http://alphacentauri2.info).

The biggest annoyance I've found is moving multiple units. I think other civs have figured out grouping better. Alpha Centauri hasn't quite gotten this.

I definitely rank this in my Top 3 4X games (w/ Master of Orion II and Civ V)
I feel compelled to restate how wonderful this book is.

> it has also helped me think about my feelings

The book focuses on communication with others, but effectively fosters constructive inner dialogue as well. I know of at least one other person who claimed it helped them avoid destructive habits.

> it has helped me put more structure around tough conversations

I deescalated a nasty dispute between two people close to me after reading only the first few chapters. I was impressed because I wasn't the type of person to emotionally connect with people so effectively.

I believe the world would be a better place if more people read this book.
If you compare SMAC to the contemporary Civ2, SMAC is a much deeper game in many ways. The terrain and alien life is not really something to be conquered, more like a natural hasard like barbarian raids in Civ, it never really goes away.
The enemy AI in every Civilization game is incredibly stupid. "Interesting" isn't really the word.
I've got Ambassador at Marriott, so I get UA Silver free (an hertz 5-star diamond presidents circle elite or something similarly foolishly named), its not a bad combo, it gets me in the front of the airplane, and saves me a baggages fee.
Why do we get annoyed?
I'd be very surprised to hear about how to track a particular phone with the battery removed.
I have never met someone who actually believes it.

I've definitely met people who agree that choice and liberty is so important that it's better people lead shorter, less healthy and more miserable lives through their own choices, than be tricked or forced into prosperity, health and happiness.
I find the use of downvote ironic here.
(downvotes are not used for opposing a view point or disagreement)
If Gimp wasn't completely terrible, despite the decades of work that's been put into it, I'd give that some weight. But it's just not good, and it's not going to be. Better to start over than keep throwing good money after bad.
Given that the above would potentially be illegal on both counts in many places, that seems like hyperbole.
The Three Body Problem

Changed the scale I perceive existence
Flowers for Algernon was great, but I'd strongly suggest reading the short story and avoiding the novel.

The short story was lengthened in to the novel and was ruined, in my view, by all the Freudian-influenced attempts to sexualize and psychoanalyze the protagonist. It was a real let down after the brilliance of the short story, which had absolutely nothing to do with any of that.
Some of the Bizarre Fish Living in the Deepest Part of the Ocean
New Scientist ranks the top discoveries of the decade
How does he slop out if he's under sedation?
With Pre-Check, I'm usually through security in the US pretty quickly. But I hate feeling rushed or worrying about being late so I still normally leave plenty of time and, as you say, can usually hang out in a lounge and/or get a meal so it's pretty comfortable.

I worked for a guy once and when we traveled together (pre-9/11) he'd get a cab from our downtown location to the airport planning to arrive 30 minutes or whatever before the flight. Drove me crazy.
I'm just saying it can be done. Not that it should be the new gold standard.

A less chatty implementation would be if each phone only contacted the server when it sensed a possible quake. If it gets a few correlated hits, it can even send out a "hey did everyone feel that?" question.
UA is T2 @ LHR. Dedicated luggage drop + "Gold Track" security means you should be able to do it pretty quickly. The problem is that the UA gates are at a satellite, so you've got a min 10 min walk to get to them.
There has been risk of WW III since 1946. What else is new. If you keep predicting disaster for long enough then eventually you'll be right.
It had some great ideas, though. The planet had prevailing winds, and you could terraform mountains so that your cities had lush farmland while your competitors were left with arid deserts. And the terrain didn't have to be hostile in the late game, depending on how you treated Planet. It was also cool how you could mix and match technologies to make different units.

But it was sort of overambitious, and a lot of the features were ridiculously opaque. I think it's a sci-fi gem, but it definitely takes a bit of patience.

If you don't have patience or time, most of the pithy quotes are here:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri
Type hinting feels like a bandaid for a fundamental limitation of dynamic languages. I've just gotten back to a complex, experimental codebase after only a couple months of absence, and am refactoring it to accommodate for the implementation of a number of previously unplanned features. Even with type hinting and heuristic linting it's such a huge pain! After making a large number of changes I end up having to rerun the code repeatedly to find and squash bugs, and that says nothing of the code paths I don't end up taking. Is there a better way to utilize the convenience of python for experimental code without running into the scalability issues of large python codebases?

Contrast this to my experience with C# in visual studio (not visual studio code, which is inferior). The state of flow I can get into when performing large scale refactoring, with immediate, accurate feedback in the form of a clickable, line by line list of what's broken is unmatched. I would love such a pleasant experience in a python IDE but I'm not sure it's possible because of the nature of duck typing. It's like a real time, automatically generated checklist of exactly where to propagate changes, takes a massive load off my working memory and provides an uninterrupted flow of dopamine. A true state of zen if I've ever experienced one.
When new parents ask my advice, “Brain Rules for Baby” is the one and only book I recommend. Everyone has told me later they loved it.
Yes you can literally rebuild the landscape, and the climate system will redefine the raininess and other factors of the landscape.

I also like you can do ocean colonies, and working in the ocean isn't entirely second class.

I enjoy the vision of the future split up into ideologies, and not nation states, which seems to be closer to our current life.
From Flight Attendant to Software Developer
This stack is aligned with a recent JAMStack trend and indeed involves a lot of different API/tech. If I built something like that with a "boring" stack, I would go with Django and host it in Heroku, for example. Still works pretty well.
Sounds familiar to NIO. They raised a total of $4.1B.
This whole electric hype is interesting to me. Why is it better for the environment? In the end you drive around with however the power from the grid was produced. Even in California that’s only one third renewables. Most is natural gas and nuclear. So, your electric car is driving around with natural gas with an efficiency way worse than petroleum. Besides, disposing the batteries is an issue. Also, the required rare earths might become an issue (especially because China kind of owns the market).
Even more, how do we quantify the price of our attention and our lives? You can use Facebook for free but as well as having hyper-targeted adverts thrown in your face, they are also vacuuming any single point of individuality you might possess, because everyone in the industry is brokering the data like a private commodity that we can never actually know anything about. IMO, Facebook is not worth the price of that level of pervasive, perverse, surveillance. Neither is Google.

Things like GDPR absolutely help but they're not retroactive, and chances are there is no way of clearing all of that up given how many millions of servers might have a trace of it.

Our current situation is where technology is leeching from humanity but humanity is okay with it because they get stuff for free.
> ... died of a blood infection contracted during the risky operation, ...

I am curious to know more details, especially if this was a waterborne illness.
> No one should "decrypt < file | sh" (or anything | sh without verifying)

I was thinking of self-prepared scripts, tooling or owner controller distribution. Decrypt+good signature is precisely what I want.

Anyway, as nmadden pointed out, age does not provide source authentication duh. AFAIU that means, all the streaming semantics and blockwise AEAD are practically useless, unless you are using the password encryption, which is helpfully blocked from automation.
Have you seen the side loading compartment o nthe Rivian? Its a pretty cool design...

However - I am interested in neither the rivian and the tesla for their beds -- what I really want is the skateboard from the rivian and the ability to custom build the car I want on it -- if this takes off we can get back to the boutique still car shops of the 20s and earlier.
The real take here is 'it depends'. The important number is the debt-to-GDP ratio for each country, and which countries we're talking about.

The biggest debt growth has been with China that now has a debt-to-GDP ratio of 255%. Does that number spell doom for China? Not really. It's high, but China can handle it. If it continues to grow in an uncontrolled fashion, it might be a different story.

So in each case, each country is different story, and you have to look at them individually.
Isn't that basically how it works in Houston?
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> there was a huge uproar about bathroom rights in North Carolina

So because the republicans passed a law positively discriminating against trans people (and doing a bunch of other weird shit - this was not a well-planned bill), and people are sick of the social issues, they... voted republican?

Not to mention the economic fallout of HB2 was brutal - despite its short life it cost the state thousands of jobs and millions of dollars.

Again we see things aren't really in tension - the democratic position was less political work, greater economic benefit, and justice. The "political reality" is that republicans started a fight by stripping rights, then got to play a fake victim.

> it resulted in national media attention and subsequent legislative attention in many states.

That attention was primarily passing more transphobic legislation. What were we supposed to do? "Well, I guess you can keep taking our rights away one by one, because the economic issues are more important!"

There's no more productive conversation to be had concerning your views on sexuality in some mysterious, isolationist states. They're simply unmoored from reality.
They’re talking about access from the side.

Since the body of the CyberTruck gradually raises to the roof line, you can’t easily reach into the bed close to the rear window.
> But they were too late

And, yet, the descendants of the 360 are the only mainframes that survived until now.
Not that much fiction in this thread, so I will add A Fine Balance by Rohintin Mistry. It's the saddest book I've ever read but incredibly beautiful. I couldn't stop thinking about it for months
News: Crime in San Francisco
No. Valid json is valid JavaScript. Valid JavaScript is not, necessarily, valid json.
Your link is just as much hearsay as HN posts. TVs are connecting to WiFi yet no one provides any evidence.
> The "decrypt < file | sh" antipattern is something not even the shell can do anything about.

It could refuse to accept input from stdin if it's not a terminal.
The F150 is the truck I need, the Rivian is the Truck I want, the Cyber Truck is the truck I will get :) :)
While a 4-motor design allows this really cool tank-turn trick, it also prevents torque transfer between wheels / axes.

Some "pedestrian" SUVs today allow transferring up to 70% of all available torque to any single wheel if situation demands. A 4-motor design is limited to 25%.
“Foreword by Deepak Chopra” is hardly co-authoring.
> I was trying to joke here. The untrusted network in our case is the internal network. In that sense.

Sure, and I'm sorry to miss the joke; but I think that it's nothing new that the internal network is untrusted. Before one ever had connected and untrusted smart appliances, one still had untrusted software running on one's general-purpose computer, and it was (and remains) often desireable to fence off that software from the outside world. Little Snitch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Snitch), for example, was designed around exactly that idea.
i just checked my popOS machine. this was enabled on that also. i disabled it.
Cars getting broken into and stolen is absolutey par for the course in San Francisco. The cops don't do anything about it, and tell you to fill out an online police report. When cops don't care, the criminals know to focus on this. That's why mass shoplifting of stores is also a big problem in SF, the cops don't care because the politicians changed it from a felony to a misdemeanor. It happened right in front of my eyes in SF where a gang of kids filled their backpacks with whatever they could and ran out of the store. They were so cocky they just ran a block away and started walking after that, and no one did anything. The manager said calling the cops was pointless because they won't do anything.
The list of "who is" is most certainly growing, and there are definitely some bigger names out there: https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/blob/master/site/src/rout...

Jobs listings are cropping up in sundry places too. See for example: https://sveltejobs.dev/jobs/apple-senior-front-end-developer
If you're maintaining a configuration file in JSON format, you're using the wrong tool for the job. I know a certain popular package manager does exactly this, but popular doesn't necessarily mean well designed.
I don't find hotel status buys me a huge amount. I prioritize Marriott all other things being equal and I probably get upgraded more than the average joe as a result. But I don't find perks like lounges that big a deal and often stay in suite hotels anyway where they don't even exist.

I'd rather stay in a convenient location than do unnatural acts to stay with a specific chain. There also tend to be much bigger cost differences among hotels than airlines.
I’m glad the “Ultimate” series talks are back - hoping for a SNES or NES next.