skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s an expensive roller coaster but it’s still promising. They’re perfecting technologies and gaining the experience they’ll need to build real orbital vehicles. They seem to be trying to do something between Virgin Galactic and SpaceX to get this company off the ground, so to speak. Probably not a bad idea since Bezos obviously doesn’t want to go all in like Musk did but also doesn’t want to bleed cash into a money pit.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210607125937/https://www.nytim...
The author has crab in a bucket mindset. One person having enough success to have the lifestyle they want does not mean somebody they employ is being victimized by them. This might resonate with some, but for me it is a big turn-off. It smacks of jealousy and a rejection of all personal responsibility in charting a path to where you want to go in life.

Tim's book isn't without flaws (and is now significantly dated in many of the details), but one of the core messages is to recognize we all have a choice to do something other than work 50 years at a job we hate and then retire/die. Tons of people go through life without considering any alternatives to the path they are on, or developing the self-knowledge about what they actually want, which is a big reason so many people end up so unhappy.

He also emphasizes creating repeatable systems that you can then automate with software or hand off to other people. This helps you scale your business and income, but more importantly it preserves your time for other things you value more. The blog author thinks this is somehow a bad thing, but if nobody ever realized the efficiencies of exchanging money for services then most of us would be naked and starving; a huge chain of such exchanges is needed to produce the modern miracles of cheap clothing and food that are the foundation of modern living.

Tim didn't actually retire to the beach for a hedonic 4-hour lifestyle with servants refilling the wine glass and fanning him with palm fronds; the guy works harder than most people with a new huge book every couple of years, lots of active investing, and running a major podcast almost every week. The difference between him and other people is that he's not wasting time on stuff that other people could do for him.

I'm not a "bro", but I guess I'll stand here and defend Tim's book because it gave me a lot to think about.
Someone reuploaded it here, if you want to skip back and forth
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueOrigin/comments/nu98n7/jeff_bez...
Hard drives are one of those pieces of precision engineering that we encounter on a regular basis - it's quite amazing they work at all given the conditions we submit them to.
Thats very cool but I want the m68k experience.

While at it are there similar services for public testing? I briefly remember some years ago IBM allowing shell access to one of their then new POWER systems.
Vonnegut does this a lot too - toying with an idea over and over again until he feels it is fully explored.
"ready to use" and "royalty free" are two completely separate things. At the same time its quite understandable that the artists at Capcom made that mistake. At every studio I've worked there is a big shared network drive full of textures, shaders, images and reference models where people upload interesting and useful things they find. And if I'm honest the license management of the assets on that shared drive isn't always what it should be.
yes... only the worthy and entitled deserve it clearly!

The plebs should work 60 hours to support the lifestyle of the wealthy elites.

In all seriousness though it's clear his book is aimed at people that have a chance of creating enough wealth to escape wage slavery. For many people in the world this is simply not an option - I think that is the point the author is trying to make?
> Also what does "bloated election app" mean? Because it seems like it's just a meme at this point.

It means the memory and CPU consumption could be reduced had it was written using more lightweight framework like C#/.NET, C++, or something else, like PWA in browser instead of a full, seperate, single Chromium instance for one app.
“Why doesn’t he seem to be fazed by more than a year of absolute isolation?”

This line from the review reads much differently in 2021 than it would have in 2015.
My point was that the difference between SpaceX and BO is more than simply marketing skills.
Speculative bubble getting bigger and bigger by attracting greater and greater fools. No matter what Elon does or says, it's just a zero-sum game. What would the humanity lose if Bitcoin disappeared right now? Absolutely nothing (except people who hold it would lose their "investments").

To the second point, you should look into the definition of monopoly. Amazon is a behemoth, not a monopoly. And they have created immense value.
As a counterpoint, $900 million to get rural America actual broadband, where cable companies used similiar handouts to line their own pockets and do nothing...

We're in a "Give a man a fish/teach a man to fish" type hypothetical now.
I think GP's point may have been specific to feature films. Games do have a lot of variety in 3D rendering styles, but how many of those do you see make it to films, especially mainstream films?
> In addition to that SpaceX is government contractor.

It's important to note that SpaceX is different from most space-related government contractor in that they mostly sell a packaged service, whereas other contractors before it had development contracts. Boeing / ULA etc were paid to develop launchers, SpaceX sells launches. (I know that SpaceX benefited from subsidies towards achieving that, but their competitors did not achieve that or even tried.)

The key difference is that they are not (entirely) incentivized on sucking on the subsidies teats. That the US government pays them to provide a public service makes them more akin to any utility than to typical government contractors.
When I read through the 4 hour work week, I was never thinking yeah other people will work for me. No I thought, wow, if I only had to work for 4 hours per week I could actually focus in my life's work. My goal is to retire early so that I may begin my life's work. Sounds like the author thinks her life work might be creating housing for homeless, I'm curious if she has started working towards that journey.
Damn Amarok is so good, the Windows app pale in comparison to this. I had a blast while I first installed my Kubuntu machine.
You may be interested in E-Prime, "a version of the English language that excludes all forms of the verb to be".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
This looks really interesting - thanks!
It actually just means that the business needs to charge more for whatever it produces. For a restaurant, for example, the general guideline seems to be that 30% of the costs are labour. So increasing the wages by 20% means costs increase by 6%.

If a business can't survive that then the business simply isn't viable.

Why exactly should we expect people to work below a livable wage just to keep a non-viable business afloat?
I don't think shaming people for doing what's in their best interest is ultimately progress. I smell a lot of vitriol in the article. I would never read Mr Feriss, because I think it's just a fad. Realistically if you work 4 hours to live a normal lifestyle, why not work 40 and get on top of the pyramid? But after reading this I'm definitely more interested in reading his work, not less. Maybe there's actually some useful info in there.
How has he used that newspaper to exert political control over the US?
I’m not really sure what you’re saying here, but that’s probably on me. Are you saying executing Mlatu scripts from its CLI?
I assume you are not using Excel 2003 on your 16GB machine. May I ask which version of MS Office you are using?

If I have to believe this[1] thread, then Office 365 is now an Electron app, which would explain the slowness.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17300893
You probably want employers who think a 35 hour work week is quantifiably better value, and understand they're harming retention and productivity by having workers work more.

I'm convinced that the marginal hours between 35 and 40 are much less productive than the marginal hours between 25 and 30, and the marginal hours between 50 and 55 may actually be negative.
Think of the millions of starving kids in 3rds world countries who might've been lifted out of poverty, but for Musk's mercurial tweets about Bitcoin.
Ahh, the Quantum Bigfoot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bigfoot

A massive drive. I worked in computer retail at the time, and I lost count of how many customers brought their Compaq Presarios in, DOA, and one of those drives inside.

We'd sell them a new hard drive off the shelf, install it and send them on their way (they were out of warranty, of course).
Personally I think that social democracy as it exists in some European countries is a starting point for thinking about what direction we want to go, but it is by no means the beautiful outcome that people think it is.

I just don't think that social mobility outcomes and health outcomes in social democracies have been as idyllic as people want to believe. Certainly in some ways and some countries much better than the US, but it's not a final solution.

I think that we need to reengineer society to properly integrate high technology. With more fairness, but with less idealism and more practicality. Without Social Darwinism but also with an understanding of things like primate mating instincts and group hierarchies.
It would take me a week to go through every detail but wikipedia has some summaries:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)#Controversies

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Lawsuits_and_contr...
I thought this was a pretty bland list until I spotted that one. I find it very insightful.
> Software developers spend years training (or self-training) to use their brains to solve complex problems, which involves continuous learning, constantly making "tactical" decisions, and quickly gaining understanding of the big picture.

I'm just not sure that applies to all people working in software engineering (or any job). I know too many that have no desire to actually understand the/a problem or make tactical decisions but just try out ten code snippets from SO until something works, use any plugin that kinda fits their need (without looking at the size of its code base, if its maintained, how flexible its configuration is etc) or are happy to use any framework as long as it tells them exactly what to do (and not because they actually came to the conclusion that's the way to go, but because they are not responsible for anything but the framework is).
> I just want to throw my 2¢ out there, as a mid-20's who went to a high-rural-population high school, there's an entire new generation of farmers who have a) accepted that Deere's need constant/regular service calls, and b) don't care to learn how to fix it (or older equipment) themselves.

They should still want right to repair for the same reason that most of the internet wants to run on GPL software. Almost all the companies pay some vendor for it, but unlike the farmers they can just take their business elsewhere if a vendor turns bad.
I had a a moment of "Well, that's weird, I recognize that name." I have one sitting in this very PC right now. Used it as a gaming drive until I was able to buy a 1TB SSD but it's still trucking along.

I guess I'll want to replace that soon.
not quite. any high-temperature combustion in atmosphere is going to create some NOx.
Jeff Bezos and Brother Mark to Fly into Space on July 20th with Blue Origin
Yes - and you have to be exceptionally discipled, but a huge part of the GA stuff you can control (by not flying in marginal conditions, not trying to extend your range, always using checklists, etc).

But you can do all that on a motorcycle and still get creamed.

It does require you to honestly assess your ability to say "no" when conditions aren't right.

Basically what I'm getting at is there are activities that are dangerous but some the danger comes from you and others the danger comes from outside forces/other people. (Sure, I guess you could argue that you could just not ride your bike when there's other people on the road, but that's not practical).
But absolute moral standards do make sense, in a Kantian way.

In particular, imagine a world where everyone has to make some sort of sacrifice to avoid harming everyone (e.g. wearing a mask, not polluting, not overfishing etc).

If _most_ people make the sacrifice, you can have freeloaders not follow the rules and the world would still survive:

you can have a small number people not staying at home during the pandemic and still keep R<1.

you can have a small number of people polluting as much as they want and still stop global warming.

you can have a small number of boats fish where they shouldn't and still maintain not fully exhaust fish supplies.

Criticising those actors for doing something that doesn't work if everyone would do is perfectly valid (and it's correctly pointing out the reason why their actions are wrong).

"I'm not going to stay at home during the pandemic because I don't want to"

"Don't do this! Imagine if everybody would just do like you?"

"No, everyone is not going to just do like me, there's room for most people's actions"
I got three of these for a home NAS, not knowing any better.
One failed within a day, the next failed within the first month, the third one lasted several years. For a long time, I didn't trust the NAS, making regular second backups (always a good idea) figuring it was the common point of failure, but the replacement drives were all working fine.
This tidbit on language sounds deep and insightful, but it really isn't. French people and culture have just as many issues with identity and identity politics. If not more so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_groups_in_th...
Also, "semi-" might add some quantitative ambiguity.

"Bi-" is more specifically a factor of 2, while "tri-" is a factor of 3, etc., though "semi-" can be a looser qualifier.

If someone said that they did something "bi-annually", that'd sound more like they mean twice-per-year (even if that's an estimated average rate). By contrast, if they said "semi-annually", that'd sound more like they mean usually-several-times-per-year.

(Or the inverses rates, due to the other ambiguity.)
If we could get every billionaire to reinvest their money in world changing technology like Elon we’d live in a much better world. Honestly this is capitalism at its best, how do we do more like this?
Couldn't it be outsourced to a private corporation?
If he wasn’t doing well the stress from the G forces of the flight would kill him off.
Yep. I think its important for project maintainers to be clear about the maintenance status of a project. You don't have to maintain a project forever, but if its not maintained its good to be clear about that.

Eg: "This project works but will not be maintained. Github issues & PRs will be ignored. If you want changes, fork the project. If your fork is being actively maintained, let me know and I'll link to your fork from this readme."
I also generally tend to keep drives powered up, and they indeed tend to live long. Still, I have to be on alert for failing drives. I had four of the WD30EFRX together in a 2x2 pool (roughly equivalent to RAID10). One day, one of them began showing checksum errors after a scrub, and I replaced it with a Toshiba DT01ACA300.

Once the bad drive was out of the pool, I ran a full self-test on it, which it failed. I did at least get five years of service out of it, but in any case, it's time for me to think about some newer hardware.

For my next NAS, I'm kind of leaning towards using 2x8TB mirrored, with a third drive to be rotated into the mirror, splitting off the rotated-out drive as an offline backup.
Reading Glasses for Dad
Not what you're asking, but...

ctr-alt-selecting enables rectangular mouse, or whatever notepad++ calls it. Selecting a 0 columns and multiple rows, then typing | | pipes and spaces lets you quickly create grid-like structures in text format.
Love Notepad++
Now I realize that the "subdomain" can change - it's been like portal.icloud.us or similar.
God no, I'm no crypto-nut don't get me wrong.

Propping up a bubble destined to pop is bad too, so why get involved?
Show HN: HyperFiler, a tool to archive web pages into single HTML file bundles
As a side note: Stratospheric/high-altitude water vapor is probably also a contributor to global warming.
The inequality the Medium post author writes about exists around us regardless or whether we work for 4hrs or 40hrs a week.

I'm not sure pulling in Tim's book especially adds to their point, particularly when you consider it is easy for the rest of he to dismiss the inequality and 'layer cake' of society if we ourselves are not enjoying a 4hr work week.
> I wasn't using poor as a stand in for some minority.

Good. That’s clear now.

> Really? That's an interesting observation coming from someone that just took a discussion that wasn't about race and decided to not only assume it was about race, but then inject their opinion about how that makes it wrong because there's no evidence that racism is the problem, and how in fact racism isn't on the rise, people assuming that about racism are.

Yes finding racism (or insinuating like you’ve done here) where there is none is turning non racist people racist. And that’s not opinion, you can go learn that in on your own!
Have you done any reasearch on the president of El Salvador to support your ad hominem attack. He is more popular than any US president in recent memory (1). I’m guessing the answer is no, that you live in the first world with amazing access to banking services while he is trying to build financial infrastructure for the 70% of his citizens with access to a phone but no bank account.

I don’t mean to call you names but this behavior is coming from bigotry, ignorance and hate for cryptocurrency. I think you are better than that.

(1) https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/nt8hi6/im_from_el_...
> Non-Chrome browsers still have modifiable user stylesheets

This doesn't solve the problem I describe because it breaks websites (unless you are very minimal with your usage). I am talking about an opt-in feature where you concede control to the browser so that it can apply "aggressive" styles such as it would for reader mode. For example changing the current usage-agent style sheet to a "dark theme" is completely infeasible to ship as it would break way too many sites.

Furthermore just being possible isn't enough. It would also need to provide nice defaults to make this a feasible proposition at all. I can't have my blog being barely readable for 99% of viewers.

> even defining them on a per-domain basis.

I also don't want to fix specific websites. I'm talking about something that works by default. (Of course site-specific tweaks are nice, but that is nearly orthogonal to what I am looking for here.)

> Web developers have been starting projects with "reset" stylesheets for decades.

Yes, and this is an unfortunate hack. It would be nice to remove the necessity to remove the need for these and remove the maintenance required (even if the cost of both is small).
If the vessel sinks, who would know?

Would it be possible for the owners to distinguish "vessel was sunk by unmarked boat" from "vessel stopped communicating and hasn't come back yet"?
Instead of expecting corporate users to pay (which can be difficult, corporate finance depts are good at spending large sums of money, but suck at small expenses), or acknowledge use (company policies might mean employees are not allowed to), perhaps the major hosting providers such as Github and Gitlab can directly remunerate open source repo maintainers depending on the popularity of the hosted repo? Surely they make a lot of money by more and more devs adopting their service?

Edit: I am the owner of an open source repo on Github which was quite popular a while ago, but fell into disrepair because I could no longer find the time to maintain it. So I understand the pain of this person.
SSC folks, I'm not very familiar with LessWrong, I imagine they'd be similar but LessWrong folks may be more elite?
Hard drives tend to fail early or after a long, long period of use, without much of an in-between. If it survived the first year of use then it should last as long as any other spinning disk drive.
yet they're able to limit the use of said textures

They're not. Had someone from Capcom been in Italy around the same time and taken the same picture of the same broken window, then they could have used that texture as much as they wanted and the photographer in question would have no case.
I sold the site to Toptal 2 years ago, but trust me I had donate buttons, crypto donate buttons, I messaged multiple big tech firms that used my project to ask for sponsorships, I ran ads using carbon. I tried a lot of things over the 7 years of running it and lots of the avenues failed or didn't generate enough revenue.

Now I understand that the project was not that valuable but it would have been nice if I could have run it as a lifestyle business.
“The Swim” Kickoff by Steve Ballmer and Mike Maples (Late 80s)
Does this mean that soon they will prepare for cyberattacks from regular computers? ;p
I don't think some UI tweaks are going to fix this sense of entitlement.

Modern devs in those ecosystems that use a lot of dependencies see their jobs as plugging together lumps of other people's code. There's a very strong "don't re-invent the wheel" vibe - the first thing any dev does when presented with a problem is look for an existing code base that solves it.

This means that people have their entire jobs on the line relying on other people's code. If the OS library that you found has a bug in it, and your project depends on that library, and your manager is shouting at you to get it fixed, then you're having a bad day. In an ideal world, "fixing the bug" would mean diving deep into the library code, finding and fixing the bug, and submitting a PR to the maintainer. But this can be beyond the dev's abilities, especially when the only kind of coding work they're done is plumbing together dependencies. So they only have two options: try and get the maintainer to fix the bug, or switch dependencies (which might take longer, and possibly have other bugs).

There's a real sense of "I'm using your library, giving you cred, so you need to fix it for my use-case" that I've seen. It doesn't help that dependencies are free (as in beer) - it's a well-known truth that people don't respect things that are free.

I think for all of this to change, we need to scale back the dependence on dependencies, audit dependencies properly for security and sustainability issues, and pay the maintainer. If there's any change needed in Github, it's that Github needs to start charging a fee for every download.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately how structured development programs, in the US workplace versus university, are not as popular as they should be. Pipelines like this are less common for young people in the post-4HWW world, where people strive for independence versus collective success. The latter to be had via hard work and building.
>This phrase was weaponized by the CIA as a memetic self-defense mechanism. (Their own documents admit this!)

That seems... totally expected? The problem comes when you're trying to use it as proof of something. Some conspiracy theories do turn out to be true, but that doesn't mean every conspiracy is true.
How the booming US used car market is driving inflation
Bebelrc and friends are the worst offender.

Hard to reuse, confusing cascading config..
Oh good idea! It looks like Github also tracks a project's dependancy tree explicitly, though those 3000 downloads per week remain a mystery:

https://github.com/josephg/jumprope/network/dependents
hmmm.. so.. money? :)
Indonesia doesn't seem like it can do it. They still have illegal fishing, meaning it's more profitable to keep doing it. It seems like they could achieve 100% enforcement if they stopped the red tape.