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You'd be surprised. In our household we pay for a sports streaming service and watch the occasional movie over Xbox video, but otherwise we don't use any other streaming service.

Our friends have recommended over 200 hours worth of TV since the pandemic hit, and everyone is quite horrified of how big our things to watch list has grown. It's months worth of spare time where we simply wouldn't do anything else.
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I live in a small town so my library doesn't have great selection. I have gotten DVDs out of the library when I've been down there for some other reason anyway. But, for the most part, I find it's more effort than it's worth.
> But if it works it could be huge, like Google-scale huge

Or tulip-huge, the first shitcoin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
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I've found that building in a fake "commute" is super helpful. At the end of my work day I go for a ~30 minute walk. First few minutes mentally debriefing my workday, and then the last few just enjoying the walk. Acts basically like a mental/physical barrier between. my workday and my personal day.
Not as simple, no.

1) There are consequences (economic and social) beyond what goes on our plate to "fishermen will go out of business". In many places, especially in underdeveloped areas, fishing is subsistence and the consequences of fisherman having to find alternative livelihoods can be problematic.[1] But even in the developed world, overfishing can have serious economic impact.[2]

2) There is no automatic guarantee that fish populations will recover, or recover quickly enough. While complete extinction is rare[3], some species have come close (several species of whales and sharks, for example) and can take decades to recover. In addition, destructive fishing techniques like bottom trawling can destroy the environment needed for a recovery. There is also some evidence (not, as I understand, conclusive) that in the absence of native fish, especially if their population is depressed for a long time, could allow less desirable species to displace them.[4]

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319680762_When_Over...

[2] https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-shee...

[3] https://www.pnas.org/content/114/31/E6274

[4] https://www.sciencebuzz.com/jellyfish-apocalypse-problems-ca...
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Organisms are so much more complex than their genome, in ways we're only now starting to understand:

> Human cells make up only 43% of the body's total cell count. The rest are microscopic colonists.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-43674270
I win. The 8TB drives I used to populate my NAS scored 0.10% better than the 0.81% average. That means my NAS is better than everyone else's.

This big takeaway from these numbers is how dramatically low they are in comparison to drives 5/10/25 years ago. If you treat them reasonably, modern drives are rock stable.
I either start lifting or go running for a hour after my workday is over.
It's not just you, modern x86 is very complicated. There are likely few if any people who deeply understands all of it.
The problem there is that when the fish become extinct, the entire ecosystem is altered and may never recover.
It's all done in Photoshop. Just take screenshots, then transform, rotate, distort them to look flat. Then add some drop shadows for a 3d look.
And yet these founders with paper wealth regularly find money for the things they want or need. Because wealth can be easily turned into money. The idea that billionaires can find money for multiple million dollar homes, but it's impossible for them to pay taxes is ridiculous.
I mean an Oracle employee talking bad about their own company in the subtext is kinda the opposite of shilling.
> If you have that kind of money, why would you not just take it elsewhere?

Take it where? Lots of Europe has wealth taxes already. Commonwealth countries like AUS and CAN are likely to follow suit with a wealth tax -- capital flight to the US would be a big factor for them implementing it now but an American wealth tax opens the door.

And never mind that you're also asking people to give up their US citizenship to dodge these taxes -- the risk of which is probably as lot higher than just paying.
We have not made that decision yet.
Not with yours, but it does so with ChromeOS and Windows (as PWA).
>I could be a cog in a giant corporate machine, or I can have a measurable impact where I work.

I think that point can support working for either a big company or a small company depending on what type of impact you are looking for.

I've worked for startups in the past and have had a huge impact on the startup but almost no impact on the outside world because the startups just weren't tackling very visible problems.

Now I work for Google and I have basically zero impact on Google i.e. basically nothing that I can do will ever move the dial in terms of Google's revenue, etc. But I've worked on several projects that have had a big impact outside of Google. For example, I was on a small team (3 people) that developed the Python 2.7 runtime for App Engine (this was a while ago) and I was on another small team that implemented the server-side infrastructure for the Google Home. I also developed the screensaver for Chromecast - which is a tiny tiny project - but still millions of people love it.
Since cow are definitionally domesticated, nobody has ever eaten a wild cow, but people eat wild mammals on a regular basis.

Game is typically much healthier as a food source than domesticated animals; this includes wild-caught fish vs. farm-raised fish.
Honest question: couldn't you get equally expressive using english language keywords instead of cryptic characters?
Musk, Bezos, and Gates would have access to all of the funding in the world for any future ventures. What the government could do is lower taxes on everyone else.
Would you buy a chevrolet spark every year, Or a camaro and maintain it during 4 years?
Depardieu is a millionaire and Arnault is a billionaire.
Yup. We're already pretty much at capacity in terms of using arable farming land[1]. We need more efficient farming, which means GMOs and advanced farming methods; we don't need less efficient farming like organic and anti-GMO.

[1] https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/how-much-arabl...
For most people they start a company to make money, so ultimately it's about the ROI. They think they'll make more by controlling the company than the alternative

When we are talking mutli billionaires like Bezos who may be driven by more grandiose incentives like amassing power, I think it's perfectly reasonable for the rest of us to effectively remove some of their control.
I don't think the net will be widened, I think when more tax funds are needed, the gauge of the net will be adjusted to catch more fish from the same people. i.e. They'll increase the rate from 3% to 5%, not expose lower wealth individuals to the new tax.
Taxing unrealized capital gains is incredibly harsh. Basically cuts your yearly returns in half, and that completely destroys your returns over long periods of time (30 years). Out of all the proposals, this seems the most insidious.
Which may be very much less desirable from an ecological or economic point of view.
I’m sorry, what? Wage growth has stagnated for most Americans in the lat few decades. The idea that billionaires are a necessity for the existence of jobs is absurd.

Ask yourself this: if they are paying their employees so well, where are they getting all that money?
Sky TV UK charge £59/mo ($77) for the package with sports and movies. The "everything" package with UHD and a second set top box costs £97/mo ($127). Nearly half of UK households have satellite or cable TV.
So Elon, relying on NASA contracts to bootstrap Space X and government mandates to bootstrap Tesla may have to sell shares in those companies to other people to generate the cash to pay his wealth tax.

That doesn't affect the capital that either Space X or Tesla have to invest. It also doesn't affect whether or not Musk is still in charge of those companies.
I'm sure there's also food chain considerations with massive knock on effects for the entire ecosystem.
exactly. Also money printing will mean that 50 mil in 10 years is more like 10 mil now.

Personally, this and income tax increases make me seriously consider moving out of CA (where I’ve been a resident for a very long time)
This is great messaging. I'm happy to enable JavaScript when authors communicate why they use it.

> This article relies a lot of interactive demos that use JavaScript. I understand you're disabling JavaScript because you've been burned by heavy scripts and tracking on other sites, but the article really doesn't work without the ability to play with it. I write every line of code in these demos from scratch, minus the snippet of Google Analytics that lets me know when people read these so I can join in the conversation. Feel free to block Google Analytics.

This is a billion times better than a white screen with the words "JS required to use this app" when you're trying to read a simple document.
My workspace is also my entertainment space, where I watch Netflix and play games.

My trick is to cook. At 17:30 each day, I shutdown Slack, email, emacs etc and go to the kitchen and cook a meal. Then I eat and drink a few beers, either with my family, or at my desk while watching a movie. After that, I don't give work another thought until the morning.
Taking money from billionaires might feel good to some, but its going to the government, not to you directly. Its worth asking how well will the government spend it?

See the outdated and poorly maintained infrastructure in the US (or San Francisco as a particular example), ridiculous healthcare costs, the $5T they just borrowed from taxpayers for COVID bailouts or the insane amount of military spending.

I don't think its a coincidence that CA is introducing this tax just as govt. took on a ton of debt to pay for COVID relief and people started fleeing SF. California has squandered whatever money they made over the entire tech boom with no real improvement to public infra to show for it, so where did it all go? Do we want to send more money down that black hole?
> Which means billionaires will be incented to save or invest a lot less, and consume a lot more of their wealth since they're going to lose it either way.

That's the goal. The idea is that society doesn't need billionaires, so you force them to get rid of their wealth. Either through taxation, or by spending it on things that benefit others.
This is a bit tangential, but the format of the article as well as the visual, are really pleasant. It's a great combination of font, color, line heights, text widths, the use of tabbed widgets for specific sections, etc. It's just a great example of an article on a web site that takes advantage of the media (being a web site, that can be interactive) but not overdoing it.

Also another tangent, the game showcased in multiple photos there, Hotel Dusk Room 215, was one of my favorite DS games. I would've thought no one has heard about it, but here it is in an article about DS architecture. :)
I'm not saying it is better for customers. Lower prices in profitable companies would almost always be better for consumers. Apple created a language, IDE, and infrastructure and is charging a price they have decided upon since day 1. I don't believe Epic has the right to decide what Apple charges, the same way I don't have the right to pirate software because I don't believe PhotoShop is worth $600; I can pay it or use a worse product.
Drift is live chat right? This is more static so it's about sending one off messages regarding the different sections - I'm also currently working on exposing the feature requests that people submit into a customisable public roadmap so users can vote on which features they want to see.
I would stop communicating. No more read/reply for emails or messages. No phone calls. No writing or reading of memos or other documents. No creating presentations, diagrams, or drawings.

On the other hand, it is really hard to stop thinking about work, and maybe not necessary or advantageous. Most of the really good ideas that I've had came to me while I was not working. Your subconscious can be working even while you are doing other things.
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As a grad student who has been using Kotlin in research for the last few years, it can also be a great language for data science. Kotlin is one of the few statically typed languages with scripting and Jupyter notebook support, and offers some great features for parallel and asynchronous data processing. Once you set up a project and import the right dependencies, the workflow really clicks. It works smoothly with the JVM and JS ecosystems, which have a bunch of fantastic libraries for data processing and visualization. Happy to answer any questions about using Kotlin for DS/ML if anyone’s curious.
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As long as I'm around to watch them, I actually find getting DVDs by mail is a low effort way to catch up on the previous year's award winners; there's always a film I want to see sitting there. And I usually don't need to watch something in particular right now. It's just increasingly not a great way to watch older films.
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By "raw" I think GP meant the files originally provided by the users, not actual RAW files.
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True, I was wrong. In my region (Norway) Apple has 76% of market share according to your source, but it even feels higher. It's indeed not the case everywhere.
Change clothes, take a shower, work out, take a nap, go for a walk. Basically any quick change of environment works for me when I feel too "on."

Another thing that helps me: I use a planner. I use it to plan my days and my weeks. The key helpful part is at the beginning of the week, I list what I want to get done at work. Then every day, I plan some work for it. Knowing that I'm on track to hit my weekly goal makes it less stressful to stop working. If I'mg gonna hit my goal anyways, why work more? I can do other stuff.
> If you think billionaires are harmful, why? Equality? Economics?

They already answered that:

> The existence of billionaires clearly undermines the core principles of democracy which is that all people have essentially the same political power. The existence of many laws which clearly aim to benefit billionaires only is enough evidence that this power balance does not exist when there are billionaires.
Is there even a good offline version of this? There are some opensource tools for speed-to-text but what about batch processing of audio files?
Problem is the farmed fish are fed on wild fish, so it's several times less efficient than just eating whatever you would have fed them.
If it were completely inconsequential to the outside world, then others would not value it, and it wouldn't be considered wealth.

But I do agree that since wealth is not zero sum, it is completely consequential. Where it really matters is when the wealth distribution becomes more unequal, resulting in less ability to initiate new economic ventures. Extreme wealth inequality results in only a very few people controlling the economy, and in those cases wealth hoarding becomes an end in itself to concentrate economic powers away from others, and an end in itself.
100M being the most commonly discussed floor. That usually means about 400-500M value of the company

Not ever founder thinks it’s either unicorn or broke . Most normal founders want build something good and make a good amount of money.

And where else I am going to go? There are few places where it is possible to make 100M from scratch and without being corrupt .
How many hours of work do you do for each company you invest in?
Sure, our children will thank us for creating a rotting pile of perfectly working devices because the manufacturer can’t be bothered to upgrade the software.
I think category theory is a language you need to learn at some point if you are serious about math or computer science. I've refused to do so for quite a long time, but there is just too much interesting material out there that uses this language. The biggest problem is not falling asleep while learning it :-)

The most interesting part of category theory is topos theory, in my opinion. This is a generalisation of set theory, and can thus claim to be indeed useful for foundations.
> Why the US still puts so much weight on them when they know they don't work is a mystery to me.

Because for a lot this lets you continue whatever spectre of activism they are pursuing. Remember the Justice Kavannaugh sage and his accusers taking polygraph tests?
I can generally agree about random ICOs, but for what it's worth the Filecoin team is world-class distributed systems talent. I wouldn't say this about any other ICO.

(I don't own Filecoin tokens and have nothing to gain by the project being successful, I'm just a fan of that team.)
I recently read this book which suggests that the abundance of passenger pigeons in America was itself a result of human interference with the ecosystem. The general point of the book is that current people have no idea what a natural landscape looked like, and the places we think of as natural or pristine were themselves already severely degraded by prehistoric people.

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Once_and_Future_Wor...
> The problem is that some people need money and can't say no.

If they need money, and this is the best offer they got, then what's the problem with accepting it? They are still better off than not accepting it.
What’s the pricing? What speech-to-text engine is being used?

Clicking on the Sign Up button on iOS Safari does nothing.

Clicking on the Get Started button takes me to an Upload Video form - not what I expected from a mp3-to-text service.
NX partially solves the problem that applications don't use the X primitives anymore and are way to chatty with the X server (which leads to many unnecessary roundtrips which is the real killer for remote X11). Old applications work great even without NX or any hacks.. just anything modern is quite sluggish.

And it's less about the actual protocol, but the desired behavior.
I want to launch applications on a remote machine and have the windows appear on my local machine as if I was running them locally. And so far there is nothing except X11 that can really do that..
My name is.. my name is... my name is <chika chika> Slim Shady

Edit: Don't know why the downvotes. Maybe the song 'all-solo-founders-please-stand-up' does not relate to as many of us as I thought.
My intuition is that the 90s provided a good high-water mark for pre-internet entertainment spend. The average price of a cable subscription which in 1995 was $22.35/month [1] (inflation adjusted to $38 [2])

So $40/month. I'd add to that whatever the average blockbuster price was $5 * 4-weeks (quick googling didn't give me a great answer, but I found 2.18 GPB for 1995, so probably $3-5 with conversion and inflation).

That makes roughly $60/month for the average American at-home tv/movie spend in the 90s. I suspect that still is the rough tolerance.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/cable-tv-prices-inflation-ch...
[2] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Indeed, it could consist of 99% slime. We don't have a way to model the outcomes.
This. The California wealth tax would kill the startup ecosystem in California, simply because every founder dreams of being a unicorn, but being a unicorn puts you in an untenable position of owing a six or seven figure tax bill every year while you have no liquid assets.
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If you take 10 pictures of a fixed object from the same position with the same camera & settings, you also can get a better quality image if you combine them (using 10% opacity of each).
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Not even close in my experience. Autocomplete is slow, generation offers quite less and refactoring is quite slower.
This would unfortunately be confusing since iron is already a rust web framework.
Belgium has very high income tax but very low capital gains tax. For already rich people is pretty much a tax haven, for salaried workers is almost confiscatory.
>A science fiction style solution is going to be the only way to feed the world.

I get what you are saying, I just want to clarify: we can feed everybody now, but mostly with vegetables. But yes, shared resources like ocean fish are under too much pressure right now. I feel as though it will take a major worldwide collapse of the fishing industry before there is better enforcement and treaties.
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That's a pretty broad generalization, and you've basically taken what's in reality a spectrum, and characterized it by the two extremes.

In reality, there are loads of people in between: founders of medium size businesses.

The wealth tax is imposed on everyone in this spectrum. The capital gains tax is only imposed on those that amass the most amount of power.
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Fathom started as open source, but the founders stopped supporting the open source project. It's basically abandoned at this point, with no new releases in almost two years and only updates to the README.
> Society just wont change to support it.

Maybe this is just me, but I would happily change my diet to be around 50% Soylent or other meal replacement if the cost was cheaper. Currently I eat around 2400 calories a day, with Soylent that costs me $20 a day. I can get Chipotle for ~$15 per day, and between the two Chipotle clearly wins on taste.

From what I can tell meal replacements are often far more environmentally friendly, there might be an environmental win here if the price drops.
And look at the way it tries to figure out a "foreground" and "background" color by doing some sort of bizarre approximation of depth peeling. What a glorious, and terrifying, hack.
Yes, I think they can tell the difference, but I don’t think that they’re somehow in an unguarded / safer frame of mind in apps, especially with how iOS will immediately transfer you to native apps. It’s an extraordinary claim by Apple that would need extraordinary evidence before I believed it.
Of course. But this doesn't mean the human stupidity and irresponsibility is a reason to kill them. If anything, it's actually the human who should know better.
A stellar video! Thank you for the share.
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Why science fiction and not plain old fish farming?
Hello HN! I made this tool after all the frustration I saw from people trying to manage their own test data. The core idea is that when you write tests with code, you have all these amazing powers. You can mock things, generate data, reset stuff, and even freeze time. But if you can't code, you can't do all that cool stuff.

I want to bring all of those abilities out to the people who aren't writing code. There are a lot of companies working on making testing way easier (I worked at one: Rainforest QA) but not many who are bringing out all that "extra stuff". The ones that do exist (Synth YC S20 launched today) focus on bringing data in from production. I think there's value in building data from scratch, just like you do when you write tests as code. I've added some features to help out with seeding, loading and resetting data and will keep adding more in the future.

I'd be very interested to hear any feedback, or your own experiences with this problem. Thanks!