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The book I put out through a publisher (Apress) was essentially open source software (How Open Source Ate Software) for the business person who understands it's important but really doesn't know where to get started to learn about it and how it works from a community, development, and business perspective.

I did feel I was stretching to fill some pages in the first edition. That said, I was asked to do a second edition and it actually ended up a bit longer. I cut some "filler" that I didn't think was essential, reorganized, and dove more deeply into some topics (like legal matters with the assistance of a lawyer colleague) and I think it is now reasonably in right length territory; it covers a lot of territory.

Another book I self-published on software packaging broadly and its analogs to various things in the real world today and historically ended up around 100 pages.
From a company which hindered web development efforts and made devs life misearable with IE because why not. If you are doing web development with VSCode then congratulations, why not spit yourself in the face?

Plus it's freeeee... because as a software behemoth with 1 trill marketcap you have to ruin smaller companies, because why not.
Less than 4 years ? For espionage ? And others are treatened with life ?
the naturalistic argument is very often on the right track in the complex, widely misunderstood science of diet

sugar in nature is almost always paired with fiber, separating them makes the sugar much more harmful
VEGAN 2022 – The Film
He seems like a nice old man, but wasn’t that great of a governor.
Yes.

If AGI emerges, I would start preparing for the Butlerian Jihad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise)#The_Butlerian...).

If we give up our thinking to AGI, then it is only a matter of time before it rules us. We must continue to develop our minds and coding is a fun way to do so.
WeWork is the largest office tenant in many of the world's largest cities, including NY and London. If it stops paying rent, it will put many premium office buildings in those cities in a precarious financial situation, just as many other smaller tenants are reconsidering their office footprint. Yikes!
Think about it. It's only a symbol of control and dehumanizing if you don't want to do it. Is waiting at a red light or wearing clothes in public dehumanizing or a symbol of control? If not then what makes masks different?

And you don't want to do it because you can't see every X person who caught the virus dropping dead in front of you, since all negative consequences happen out of sight and come back at you with statistics months later you simply can't bring yourself to care, that's all.
It's been some time since I read it, but I would think the most challenging aspect of Neuromance would be in the visuals. If done well, they'd convey a good chunk of the book's worldbuilding and other descriptions, leaving mostly the characters and the heist.

I think the bigger challenge is that it's been partially adapted so many times already by inspiring so many shows and movies over the decades that the actual adaption would seem derivative and like treading old ground. Therefore, how do you make it it's own thing while respecting the source material.
If you offer a service in France, charge $10 and pay %15 on that $10... then when that money makes it into the US and Netflix has to decide what the profit is (after server fees, electricity, content fees, paying off politicians, etc)?

Not sure but I'm seeing 2 different conversations here: flat tax on what you pay at the pump... and what the company reports as profit at the end of the day.

France doesn't care if you make a profit or not on the 8.50... just like Apple doens't care when they take 30% off the top.

Am I reading it wrong? Is it 15% off the top ala Apple Store? or 15% off of profits? both of which are different conversations.

Looking at the article, it seems like a nothing burger until it's voted in officially... The Paris Accord was "passed"... and then left because it was just a verbal agreement. What's enforcing this and stopping the next POTUS from leaving it all together?
it's the 2022 version of "kill your television" and i love it.

in practice: i wonder how practical it is to survive as an adult without a smartphone. uber has decimated cabs and i don't think you can telephone for an uber.

i wonder what else is unreachable/unworkable/etc...
I haven't watched Severance (yet...yours is quite an endorsement!) but I have been enjoying For All Mankind.
> It is a symbol of fear and control.

Perhaps to some. That feeling is probably largely driven by one's overall outlook.

We started masking before any of the mandates because it just made sense to do so, to us at least.

> It never ever should never have been mandated, only recommended.

That's a hard question in my opinion. I naturally tend toward letting people do what they want unless they're clearly hurting others. Others have argued that masking does unambiguously reduce harm to others, but I don't find it so clear cut.

I'm personally less uncomfortable with mask mandates than the widespread shutdowns. Those shutdowns caused massive harm to people. Masking? Not so much.

Note I'm not quite willing, even now, to fully support mask mandates, now or previously. I see both sides of the issue.

> It’s sad you get downvoted.

Agreed, it is sad that opposing, perhaps uncomfortable viewpoints get pushed down.
It takes too long to build, though. Because everyone is sitting around bitching about how it takes too long to build instead of building it.

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago."
Sounds like someone just discovered Nietzsche.
Mask wearing is wonderful and freeing. More privacy in public is a great side effect.
thanks for mentioning this! I've been looking for a new one that's good. Even if they're behind schedule, it looks like I've got some catching up to do to keep me busy in the meantime.
People react to things as they happen, I don't think that's unreasonable either. Some doubt is warranted but by the time you posted your comment it had already been confirmed, so I think it's ok to comment at that point.

Sometimes time gives you more context, but in this case it just confirmed what was already known.
It could mean that. After reading the article, would you like to make that claim?
>disks are physically destroyed if they are inoperable

'Supposed to be' is missing from this statement. We have seen many vendors over the years say 'we destroy disks' only to have a disk show up in the wild.
Cavil is now executive producer of the Warhammer Cinematic Universe. So I'm pretty sure he will be involved. Besides that, his career seems fine. Guy Ritchie just signed him for a WW2 action film The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
You can leave, but corporate profits can't leave, that is the idea. I don't see why corporate profits leaving the country they were generated in is necessary for freedom.
Severance is great, but it sure felt to me like a send up of Apple’s own corporate culture with some mid century IBM thrown in. I wonder how Ben Stiller was able to nail the vibe so well as someone who hasn’t spent time as a worker in a place like that. It’s uncanny.
What you are talking about is the visual experience. In my opinion, this will be mostly a problem BECAUSE the visuals have been there already. All of those movies following Blade Runner did their part of the Neuromancer-Cyberpunk thing.

However I consider the hardest part being the emotional depth of the characters which get their unique taste through the authors way to describe them. The Burroughesque touch and the unknowns is what makes Gibsons early works truly special (it gets easier with his latests works as we can see with the current adaptation of Peripheral). The show needs a true artists touch. It doesn't have to be what Gibson did but it should be something special, not mainstream.

Dune on the other hand is a straight forward dynasty drama at the beginning and only later escalates into a philosophical exercise later on before it explodes into something completely different towards the end (of the original books).

The beginning has been done already in Game of Thrones for example and is pretty much doable.

Neuromancer is harder but I think Apple can pull this off because I feel this brave approach from them. A feeling I had with Netflix at the beginning.
Sorry? Could you please identify what, specifically, you found homophobic about the comment? I think your comment reflects more upon you than it does upon my comment.
First they'd cast aspersions on the drive being "legitimately" purchased, then they'd float that you're an evil criminal, in violation of the CFAA and wire fraud acts, and for receiving stolen property.

If the government is out to get you, they'll try and find something to come after you for. Just ask Josh Renaud.

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2022/02/15/missouri_html_hac...
It's cheatcode with a 1% catastrophic failure rate we rightfully are not using.

The article is neglecting a few critical details, to say the least.
AI Santa can be customized for your kids in less than 5 mins
> The damage caused by our incredibly myopic focus on Covid is far, far greater than the damage actually caused by the virus itself.

This seems much easier to say if you haven't been impacted by a serious case. I have friends who were similarly unconcerned, and who felt very differently after a month long battle with COVID, and as they continue to struggle with the after effects.

So yes, there's more to life than a myopic focus on avoiding one specific illness, but the actual impact of that statement and a closer look at the actual risk tradeoffs makes things a bit less obvious, and I'm not convinced that most of the behavior people are exhibiting is myopic.

> The damage caused by our incredibly myopic focus on Covid is far, far greater than the damage actually caused by the virus itself

This is a statement that needs quite a bit of evidence to back it up. I think it's safe to say that no one knew what the 2nd and 3rd order effects of trying to avoid COVID itself would be, and those effects are indeed significant. But neither can we say that we should have gone back and let the first rounds overwhelm and collapse hospital systems, the impact of which is something we can't even begin to understand right now.
Since we are making requests, could we also add "Transmetropolitan' to the list? It is ridiculous how well it predicted some trends.
I'm building the "in-use" part of this right now...what if you could encrypt your data with an encryption key (at-rest), but also to a set of code that is allowed to decrypt it (in-use). If that code is identified cryptographically, its identity can't be spoofed or stolen.

We're exploring secure enclaves as the protected runtime env and the code attestation generation: https://github.com/edgebitio/enclaver

This post has made me add pgsodium to my reading list :)
It seems like the trap you're falling into goes back to what "a job" is.
Not your fault, you're still young, and a lot of older folk fall into the same trap, believing a job is defined as "someone paying me to do some work."

A job is when someone pays you to add value.

(It's true all the way down to bullshit jobs, where the value you're adding is to meet an uneconomic need.)

It doesn't matter which work models will eliminate. All that matters is building value in a reality where they exist. Just as a casual observation, climate change continues to rage on, energy supply is still a bottleneck, almost half the deaths in high-income countries are from cancer etc. etc. etc.

There will always be value to add. The baseline may change, but no one yearns back to the days before the copying machine or Excel.

In my mind, the most sensible thing an ambitious teenager can do is get a proper academic education (AI is not magic, it's jus the product of research, and all those people doing the research did exactly that - get good education.)

Also, and I realize that doesn't gel with the whole HN ethos but whatever, don't waste your early working years starting a company. The only way to discover real problems in the world are to live in that world. Getting to understand a domain well, any domain, will serve you better than any 'Uber for X' ever will.
Lesser of two evils but I haven’t used google maps in years. Apple maps has done everything I need and is far better from a privacy perspective
That's only a problem for a few decades though.
Climate tech doesn't have to be crazy futuristic ML models or whatever in order to be useful.

For instance, I love the Purple Air air quality sensors, which crowdsource data and use a simple existing technology. (See https://map.purpleair.com/). This example may not be "revolutionary" enough for YCombinator, but I'm a fan.

Personally, I'd like to see a company that focuses on solar hot water heating. Water heating is usually about 1/3 of a home's energy usage. In several countries, especially in the middle east and in Africa, standalone solar hot water systems are the most common way water is heated. But in the US, solar hot water is nearly non-existent. I'm not talking whole-house solar panels, but rather a small system that you can buy for $~4-5k. There's an opportunity lurking there somewhere.
"What has changed really, though? "

Inflation. :-/
You're right, my bad. Most big companies have had them so I must have somehow thought Google did too.
Andor is really less of a Disney thing so much as Disney allowing the Gilroy brothers (who were involved with the Jason Bourne series and legal thriller Michael Clayton) create an elaborate espionage show stuffed with sociopolitical commentary and historical allusions, which just happens to be set in the Star Wars universe. Others involved with it include people who worked on House of Cards, The Americans, and Black Mirror, so it has that level of pedigree.

It's basically doing to Star Wars what The Wire did to Baltimore.
Indoor masking is quite common in the SF Bay Area.
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Keep dreaming, man. We can't even stop minting the penny.
Same. And I’m just getting over the flu, which was rough. A world where we constantly mask to avoid any illness at all holds 0 interest for me. I’ll take the COVID.
The former Atom team and some new friends are building a new editor over at https://zed.dev. We're using our own Rust-based UI framework instead of Electron so it's really fast, and real-time collaboration is baked into the core.
I have considered a large ipad to replace my phone.
Still able to get calls, gps and take pics but with much less convenience than a pocket device.

Somehow we have placed all of our faith in these devices.
As someone said a long time ago: "This is so desgusting".

I prefer fvwm with the mwm look.
Regardless of how cheap it may be, the storage of solar power is still a big problem. If we're on the topic of cost trends and batteries, the price of lithium is up ~500%.[1] That's making batteries more expensive than in the past and given all of the demand for them I don't really see it going down any time soon, at least not until new lithium mining plants are built mainly in South America, which still isn't likely to drop prices again in the near future.[2]

1. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lithium

2. https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2022/06/09/...
Ask HN: Similar books to “Raytracing in one Weekend”?
I really liked the "Raytracing in one Weekend" Series [0], in terms of: explaining a complicated concept by programming a toy implementation of the thing itself and afterwards one is left with more knowledge and something to "show".

Does someone know similar series on other subjects than raytracing? I know there is the Advent of Code, but that's more like solving a puzzle.

[0]: https://raytracing.github.io
Ohhh, snap, I wish I'd stopped at spoiler alert..... :(((( haha it's all good. I'd been meaning to read those for a while, but...alas never did.
Too many people in power wouldn’t like to see him fail, as it would reflect badly on their own opinions.

Walking away isn’t enough.
I do think some historical background, case study examples, etc. can flesh out one or two basic concepts and help to give them more credibility and stickiness. But, yeah, even something like Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm probably could have been comfortably covered in 100 pages with room to spare.
Not quite. If you are a non-developer not patient enough to wait for others to volunteer, or are a developer thinking that your time is somehow more valuable than those of the maintainers, then GTFO. :)

Waiting patiently and politely reporting bugs is a fine strategy: If a problem affects enough people, it will eventually affect a developer capable and willing to fix it. If you want it go faster, you will have to get your hands dirty - many contributors acquired the skills exactly because they were annoyed by an issue and decided to fix it.
In Brooklyn now, it's cheaper to use a car service than Uber/Lyft, so I think you could get by fine without those apps. Getting around without Google Maps would be pretty challenging, I think.
Your last statement is the reason why mine is true. I'm not trying to imply that the average powerwall company is comparable to an EV company.
Interest rates can change everything. This is a logical extreme but think of it this way - when you can get a 0% loan, does anything have a cost? Sure, there's a price tag but if you can finance it without any interest, you're only paying principle. Now, if you can continue finding more 0% financing to cover those principle payments, any profit the business makes at all is a good return since you put nothing into it.

While we weren't quite to that situation, the last decade of near zero interest rates put VCs precariously close to it.
>ICO's guide to the UK GDPR does have a specific example of cars being identifiable[1] - "A vehicle’s registration number can be linked to other information held about the registration (eg by the DVLA) to indirectly identify the owner of that vehicle." Nothing about planes though.

Car registration numbers is a very common kind of data for businesses to handle, of course it makes it on the list of examples.

Same is not true of planes, of course they don't make it on the list of examples.

>[2] covers car registrations and explicitly discounts company owned vehicles from being PII - "The registration plates of commercial vehicles are not personal data of an individual as the vehicle is owned by an organisation."

>All of Ol' Muskie's jets are owned by Falcon Landing LLC, a shell company.

This doesn't work, you can't wash off PII by tying one aspect of it to an organisation. My phone line might belong to a business, but that doesn't give the carrier a free pass to do whatever they want with associated location data.
Finally! Much needed feature!
Yes, once you get used to it it's dehumanizing having to take it off. 100% it's someone wants to ID you for the camera.
Because businesses are owned by people who in turn are taxed.

In effect any corporation tax is a double tax.
On Linux one of my favourite tools to display metrics about a process in real time, such as cpu/memory/io utilisation, which can also be broken down per thread (with friendly thread names displayed if your application sets them), is pidstat from the sysstat package.
> What has changed really, though?

Macro: We had exceptionally low interest rates creating a debt bubble coupled with unprecedented Fed printing. To put it into perspective: we printed $6-Trillion USD on COVID stimulus compared to FDR's New Deal at $1-Trillion USD (today dollars).

Micro: Bubble popping. Public price-to-sales ratios fell substantially. Declines in consumer spending, inflation, and supply chain hiccups compressed margin. Lending rates went up, liquidity went down, and commercial realestate is still bracing for impact. Late-stage mega funds slowed their investing in the face of redemption threats. IPOs and SPACs became unpalatable. So early stage funds sitting on loads of cash raised pre-2022 are waiting on the sidelines to see where it falls out & who emerges.
Nuclear power is a half baked technology that hasn’t had any real advancement since the Cold War ended.

Unfortunately advancing the technology is beyond us. Like going to the moon, the costs are too high. Nuclear can and is commercialized, but the technology is still extremely complicated and dangerous given how relatively primitive it is.

Maybe go global scale with 10th gen nuclear, but what we have is barely better than 50 years ago still.

Case in point most reactors today are not failsafe, as in an emergency once their backup generators fail the core will meltdown.

Edit: I would go on to argue that our technology has actually regressed. The technology has not kept up with regulations which means the time to build is getting longer. The answer is not rolling back regulations - you really want to live near a plant built with less regulations? The answer is actually improving the base technology - which is much much harder, but necessary to achieve a design that is both cheap to build and inherently safe.
Congrats on releasing this! Really cool idea.
Here's a test:
https://mimosa.so/b/B35rtAHNx21lJWtgUSEnT

edit:
I think I was the admin? so others may not have had the same experience I did?

I'm curious what ideas/method this is inspired by, It seems kind of similar to ThoughtExchange, there's a book called scaling conversations.
I really wanted a tool like this.

I did not get good ideas from the AI yet, but may not have used it well. But the rest of it I really like.
I'll keep an eye on this.
Are pants and shirts also symbols of fear and control?
No, but it does allow remote pair programming via its live share feature
EV is an exciting space but this is overstating things by more than a tad. There are still plenty of limitations and tradeoffs compared to ICE vehicles, and pretending otherwise isn't going to help aboption. I considered buying an EV for my latest car but ultimately opted not to for reasons that have been widely discussed (range, UX, price, availability).
It’s amusing that people pay for page count and not the outcome. With travel, you pay more for faster shipping. Why not for transporting a good idea into your head?
Another one is "collaboration". As someone working in IT, I had a hard time getting used to it meaning "work with your peers toward the common goal". In Poland it has a completely different (negative) meaning.
I think they simply burned people out on Star Wars. Too much too fast. The 'Marvel Cinematic Universe' got media executives thinking that the public have an infinite appetite for their favorite multimedia franchises, but I think they're now discovering the limits of that appetite.
Long flu and long pneumonia are definitely a thing.
Being killed by a falling brick is a very clear cost.

How would you characterize the costs associated with wearing a hard hat most of the time when in public?

Talking about cost without normalizing for probability of prevention is meaningless yet you want to frame the discussion to be purely about (low) cost of wearing masks.

We had a year of a pretty tough lockdown, most people wearing masks, distancing in grocery shops, restaurants and "non-essential" shops and companies closed, no public events, work from home, most people staying at home etc.

And yet people were getting sick with covid, even those wearing masks.

Masks alone won't protect you from covid. Even pretty hard core isolation might not protect you.

We basically have no idea how effective just wearing masks is. It surely reduces the probability but by how much?

Feel free to wear masks and hard hats but don't pretend you know for sure it's a rational choice.
> yours is quite an endorsement!

And I’m massively underselling it :)
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