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> i am surprised you could meet him [...]

That's yet another Kai Krause story.

I was just visiting Byteburg with a friend who was a big Krause/KPT/Bryce etc. fan and had told his partner about him, a few years before.

She was working as a journalist for German Max magazine at the time AFAIR. So she convinced her editor and they did a piece on Kai.

This friend and her flew to California and interviewed Kai in his villa. Max also booked a super hip local photographer to shoot him.

Now the photographer brought some perspex sheets or the like to do a setup where Kai would walk 'like Jesus' over the surface of his pool.

Kai told the guy he should do it in Photoshop instead, no setup required, no one getting wet.
The photographer said it wouldn't be the same and one could always tell.

To which Kai replied that he could show him how and you wouldn't be able to tell.

This led to a discussion and the photographer loosing it and ultimately leaving in anger (he likely thought he was just shooting some unknown C-level celebrity geek but Kai was quite famous at the time).

So the shoot went sideways because of Kai having offered his superior Photoshop-Fu. :P

AFAIR my friend himself took the pictures that were ultimately used for the article. But I may misremember.

Kai and him became friends over that interview and that's how we ended up at Kai's castle, a year or so after.

In any case, months later, when the photographer found out whom he had been booked to shoot, he wanted to re-negotiate his compensation after the fact with Max magazine.
They refused ofc. Go figure.
Solaris SMF for example,

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36801/svcrun-123....

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-2731/ggnke.htm...
You’re not in a mentoring position I’m guessing.
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Yes, but also consider that most of those were smaller businesses with different revenue prospects. It’s still an accomplishment but the feel good stories which feature in the news are things like “Mark started a billion dollar company in his dorm room”, not “Lan worked 80 hour weeks to start a solid restaurant which provides a decent middle class income but no likelihood of becoming actually rich”.
Work wise, I have started just keeping a running google doc (I guess any doc would work) and I log whatever I do. I do share it with my boss but I have found it really personally motivating and helpful as a record.

I am less worried about getting things done on schedule in my personal life. For better or worse. I block out time on my calendar sometimes or create an event on my calendar in the future. I will also sometimes schedule send an email to myself as a reminder.
Had also subscribed to Premium but got annoyed by the ever bugged app on mobile, crashing way too often. Moved back to browser. Couldn’t care less as they just take my money but can’t provide a good experience. Just as a ransom to remove the ads is too little for that money they’re demanding. And too much trash in the shorts, it's like the Instagram feed all over again. Lots of unrelated recommendations. Without browser plugins that actually improve my UX on YouTube I wouldn't even bother to come back. This way I can actually see how bad the ratings are on lots of videos YouTube is recommending, trying to steal my time, even without displaying any ads… but why show me that kind of crap lots of people already disliked? I can't fathom how terribly YouTube evaluates user history.
You do realize the entirety of human existence people have “worked for their salary” where “worked for their salary” basically means putting food on the table and spending all day and 7 days a week doing so?

It’s only in the last few decades for a small fraction of the world, and a few centuries for an even tinier fraction of the world, we’ve been able to “work for our salary” where salary even includes leisure.
Are you taking a huge swing at a huge market looking to IPO? If so it's a rocket. If you are building a niche product looking to scale to a few hundred thousand or single digit millions in revenue, its not.
> “It’s about sitting back and watching what the natural world throws at you — which is a lot of variation.”

Great quote.
YC focuses on product-market fit so it's not uncommon to see a YC company start as something that just looks like a single feature. The product objective of doing this is to gather some early user feedback so you can grow and refine that feature into an entire business. Until that happens you are flying blind.
Relevant XKCD: "Every change breaks someone's workflow."

https://xkcd.com/1172/
Todoist (https://todoist.com) for me :). Though wish it also had Notes, or other persistent non-task based storage as one can sometimes close out an item that was meant to be informational/lookup (such as family info, or other persistent notes). That issue aside it's still my instant go-to for adding tasks, reviewing what's next, and generally seeing how far behind I am on all my goals :)).

There are some nice self-hosted open-source alternatives/copycats (https://alternativeto.net/software/todoist/), but I've been too lazy the last few years to try and the price is generally reasonable enough that I haven't been too motivated.
I wouldn't recommend the Parmenides as one's first step into Plato, it's one of his hardest dialogues. I'd suggest the Alcibiades as the best Plato intro. It's lighthearted to the point of pleasure reading, yet at the same time deep and profound. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1676
Isn't the idea that fasting is not starving the non-cancer cells, it if forcing them to switch over to fat ketone bodies as their fuel source, rather than glucose? Plus that the suggested fasting for chemo is intermittent, say a day or two before treatment, and during. Then eat again after treatment (when no longer nauseous).

So as long as one has some body fat, and the metabolic flexibility to access it, fasting should not cause wasting, as those normal cells are not starving?
Neat! Sounds like the kind of thing that would pair well with RSS feeds. I'll definitely keep an eye on this!
I am not saying that every protestor there was pro hamas. There is video. It did happen and the group wasn't 3 people. I am providing recently information to the OP to directly answer their point.
Maybe not every single predictive model (I don’t know every single one), but many of them do, yes.

Especially if you use data created as a direct product of that predictive model to further tune that model.

That bias would accumulate.
Neat, that's one mystery solved. I have seen "x" used like that, but didn't know how it worked.
Anecdotally, I've had several good experiences with Apple support and no bad ones. The one bad experience I had wasn't supports fault (there was a bug where if you tried to use a Time Machine backup on a Airport to restore onto a new machine it would sometimes backup the new machine instead and wipe out your backup) and even then they admitted it was a bug and not user error immediately.
It’s the sort of statement that stands up, but you must contort things like “shortage of components” into “a lack of competition”. So, true, but limited usefulness, perhaps.
Exactly. This is just "revealed preferences" that can be ordered.

Lots of things in philosophy might have debatable rigor, but this in particular isn't one of them.
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Canon, [], launches ASML challenge with machine to make the most advanced chips
Full title:

Canon, known for its cameras, launches ASML challenge with machine to make the most advanced chips
This is already illegal. So, the answer is simple: take every penny from the executives and throw them in gen pop.

I understand that we let our owners get away with worse without doing anything to stop them. Our current government can't even stop Tesla from committing mass murder, chocolate companies from enslaving people, or tobacco companies from deliberately poisoning children. But the laws are on the books and the solution is no mystery.
But charging for it also disincentivizes customers from asking for it.
I, showing my age, joined Compuserve for the sole purpose of getting to download all of the Kai's Power Tools documents. Our local group of pixelweasels had a few of them but not all of them.

When the KPT plugins were released they were quite divisive. Most people just looked at the UI and thought that they were toys. Once you understood the way the plugins flowed you realised that they were "toys" but in a very critical sense. They allowed you to create visuals that were done through an iterative visual process. The Ui was a visual inspiration to let your mind out of the confines of a computer screen and just enjoy and play until you made something wonderful.

His plugins also helped make a market for other companies like Alien Skin Software [1] (now called Exposure) and their Eye Candy series of plugins.

I wish there were tools today that had the same sort of power and create the same visceral joy of creation while you used them.

[1] https://exposure.software/eyecandy/
Is this more clearly stated something like “Biological models are not uniquely determined by data sets?”
Not the OP, but being a former follower from him he is a big fan of Nassim Taleb that made some changes in the ergodicity concept to the everyday life in some of his books[1].

[1] - https://medium.com/incerto/the-logic-of-risk-taking-107bf410...
Framing is super important. Why wouldn't learning how to relax be a challenge?

Can you meditate and stay still for 5 minutes? Well, try to stay still for 15 minutes. Try to reduce number of negative thoughts in a day, etc.

It is just about finding the right type of framing the challenge for yourself.

No, I don't find the process exhausting at all. I find that I get better over time, if I struggle now, and with higher skills/capabilities, life just gets better.
You are living in a bubble
> Windsor Castle near the green area of the center (Windsor Grey Park). And some related military installations close by.

Both unlikely otherwise (a) you would see similar around other active royal sites (b) same around other military installations.
I believe the Ctrl-Ins etc came from IBM while Ctrl+C/V/X started as Cmd-C/V/X on the Apple Lisa.
This has so much backwards.

You don't get to just 'decide' if your fledgling business is a potential unicorn or will just be a lifestyle SaaS business. It's a product of your idea/technology, the size of the market, competitive pressures, and your early traction.

It's more like this: You wake up and realize that -- while it's still early -- the thing you started has major potential; but you need a lot of capital to seize the opportunity. So you realize that going the VC route is likely your best bet. And that if you're doing the VC route, getting into YC is the best possible start.

If instead you wake up and realize your TAM is probably <$100M, your tech isn't anything particularly novel, and your path to a 'good life' is fairly clear if you can just organically grow from there - great, don't go the VC route.

But this idea that you're trying to discover treasure in a field or some bullshit is just bad. The better analogy is - you have a patch of land. You can slightly change that patch of land but it's mostly fixed. You could slowly farm that land and make a good living. Or you could risk it all, dig everything up in a search for oil, and maybe strike it big. If you fail, the land is worthless. Now, today you realize you have strong indications and evidence that there is A LOT of oil down there. So you go talk to some money guys, get funding for the exploration, and you're off.

But the guy who has zero evidence of oil, zero reasons for thinking it's down there, and is happy farming anyways - OF COURSE is better off just going the farm route.
Yes, but also "done with love" isn't exactly it either. It's very hard to translate precisely.
Speaking of shareholders, one reason for lack of competition that is discussed today is that a lot of investors invest in funds like

https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/etfs/profi...

so that the firms that run that kind of fund are the largest shareholders of many firms. If I was a shareholder in, say, Delta airlines, but not American, I might want Delta to compete really hard against American today (at the expense of immediate profits) so that it gains market share and is worth more tomorrow.

If I am a shareholder in all the airlines, however, it makes no difference to me in how the market is partitioned, I just want the industry as a whole to be profitable. So one would imagine that large index fund shareholders would be having conversations to that end with the firms that they own.
It said the lion was laying down on its side when it was stabbed by a spear which I guess they figured out with some forensics or analysis.
Good luck, but I don't know many business owners who have a great work/life balance. I don't think it ever gets easier really. It's like writing software. It's never "complete". 500k revenue doesn't leave a lot of room for outsourcing work
I've been using a phrase for several years, "profound ignorance". I might use "humble abductions." Thanks.

We always end up back with cluster/cohort analysis, then definitions. I think a big part of the problem is that we've already convinced ourselves of the definitions of the terms. These definitions prevent actual progress. We end up defining ourselves into our own locked room.
I basically don’t. For work I track in-flight items and a backlog of possible things to do next in a text file. Meetings are in the work outlook calendar. Other than that I just wing it. I’ve found anything else just takes time and doesn’t improve my success or happiness.
Its an "independent agency", which as we've seen, acts more or less like a capitalist corporation.
That seems about right. I'm about to just try to sell this laptop. It's the most I've ever spent on what's probably the worst computing device I've ever had. I could spend most of $1200 replacing all the flawed parts and underperforming parts, but at that point, I'll just buy a computer that works instead.
Calendar for appointments but that's about it.

I try to make my life a little more free-flowing so that it doesn't feel like work.

I live with a bit more spontaneity. Text my friends out for a spontaneous dinner, go out spontaneously with wife, make spontaneous weekend trips. Life seems more fun this way.
Agreed, I think fallacy of composition is more appropriate here
The openwrt website is still incredible slow to load.
So, where can I live a decent life for free? Nowhere? Then I can either end things or work. Working because the alternative is death is not really a choice.
Yess I feel pretty familiar with Bitcoin, and tbh most of those who seem to understand it are supporting it
who cares? how often do you need to close your gpay account? maybe like a once in a decade or few years kind of thing. just get a new credit card and move on. not everything needs to be an outrage.
Similarly, automate things in a way that doesn't really create a "maintain my automation" task, or at least minimally so. Overall simplification.
To continue mining the Peircian vein, it appears to me that the most troubled areas of inquiry are the ones where the pragmatic maxim gives us the least.
GTD, using a ring binder and a paper agenda.
> Yes, MacOS Has them set as "Only Show When Scrolling" by default, which is probably the most ridiculous setting.

I have used MacOS every day for 10 years and i've never, except in exceptional circumstances, used the scrollbar to scroll. I don't see anybody in my circle using it. They all have the "Only Show When Scrolling" setting on.

I don't think this is ridiculous and I would enable the setting if turned off by default.

I also spend 99% percent of my time in full-screen mode in safari, vscode or terminal. So the top bar is also hidden by default. I think this is much more focused.
Had no idea Find My did this. I always leave it off for privacy reasons, but I'm realizing thats probably not worth it.
Yes, the real problem is using data that is effectively created by a model to further “refine” that model.
That’s what closes the bias accumulation loop.

But those not in the know can and do assume that it’s a computer program, so it can’t be biased, which is not the case for predictive models.
I suppose if I was a big influencer like John Dvorak -- you'd have a point. But I have 38 points on Hacker News. You might be the only person listening to me :p
Mapping the EU's Digital Trade [pdf]
The only startup founders I've known (and we didn't call them that in the late 80's early 90's) fall into two categories: those who want to get rich and don't care about the product, and those who really believe in their product (and hope that it makes them rich, but that's not the primary objective). I'm not sure if there is a third type, if there is I have not met them.

The most successful people I know fell into category two, and all struggled for more than a decade each and had multiple mentors, but ultimately took out loans (from banks, friends, etc) that weren't based on owning shares; none relied on VC. None of them are billionaires, but they are solid decimillionaires (if that's even a word) whose businesses practically run on autopilot.

I think the author makes excellent points that I thought were common sense but I guess they are not, however I don't know a lot of techie entrepreneurs anymore, they are all much younger than me (mid-50s). All I know about younger startup folks is based on scanning HN for the past decade, but it seems they are all chasing the brass ring the same way the author describes. And the truth is in the numbers.
You should “allow” MS to make acquisitions because it’s their money and they should be able to spent it however they choose, within the constraints of the law.

Your desire to block acquisitions in general is a dangerous one. Doing so, basically kills venture capital markets, and then we get far fewer startups, less innovative disruption and more entrenched market leaders.
My rule is use wireless headphones for phones and wired headphones everywhere else. For a phone, the phone is in your pocket a lot, and having a wire from your pocket to your head is a pain, and you have to untangle it and whatnot.

For a laptop or desktop, the computer is open in front of you. The pairing and unpairing process to turn wireless headphones on and off is 5000x less convenient than just plugging headphones in. You don't need batteries for wired headphones and they never accidentally are connected or disconnected at the wrong time.

The physical difference of the two scenarios makes a big difference. Also maybe someday they will make a Bluetooth software stack that doesn't suck, but it hasn't happened yet.
I really should get to know chatgpt a little better, thanks for the reminder.
> Turns out it was just hiding it because scrollbars were entirely hidden and disabled by default

They are if you use the touchpad, and appear whenever you scroll. The logic is that as you are scrolling with the touchpad, you will not click on the scrollbar, so in that case it is a useless appendage.

> Then there's the fact that the editing keys don't work at all consistently or correctly (and sometimes just don't work at all)

I am not sure what you mean by “editing keys”, but Apple takes painstaking effort to make sure most shortcuts are global, and in text entry fields, Emacs shortcuts always work.

> And nowadays they like to hide functionality behind obscure multi-finger touchpad gestures.

Sorry but this is just a laughable complaint. Apple’s touchpad and accompanying gestures are considered best-in-class and have been so for more than a decade. Microsoft and various Linux distributions have tried to catch up during that decade+ and still aren’t close.

There are many things one can complain about with macOS ever since Lion started the iOS-ification, and I’d be right with you, but saying the old Mac OS X UI was lower standards than Windows 95 (and I assume XP) is a supremely contrarian statement that few people of that era would have made.
I've being developing my own micro-cloud for the last ten years - There I've wrote my own email client, password manager, finance book, OTP, movies, music, notes, calendar, backup... and a lot of other micro apps. It works fantastic for me, and I'd recommend you to try setting up an instance of NextCloud, which can achieve similar results. My problem with org-mode, Obsidian, etc is that they are attention black holes, you focus all of your time installing plugins and configuring your workspace that by the time you're done with that you don't really feel like doing the real work. If that's your case, you might consider removing apps that hinder you ability to control your life and just use a simple, plain, gigantic markdown file and grow organically from there, with the focus being simplicity and 0 config.
I highly recommend org-roam. I also tried and did not stick with plain Org, because it becomes unwieldy trying to maintain structure as it grows large. Org-roam minimizes the friction for inserting information, which made it much easier for me to actually use it.
This was brought up about a week ago, previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37784499
Because the gaming culture isn't like the FOSS culture.
Old MacOS was good, until they started gradually making it phonelike. The original Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines¹ was solid work. (The big flaw, as usual, forced on the professionals from above: the form-over-function one-button mouse, requiring the undiscoverable double-click — it's almost forgotten now, but originally people had to be trained to double click ‘correctly’.)

¹ https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/573097
For feature readers: there is a project [1] for Home Assistant that use VictoriaMetrics as long term storage of your Home Assistant monitoring data.

1. https://github.com/fuslwusl/homeassistant-addon-victoriametr...
Bad headline:

> But the scrollbars are getting smaller and this is increasingly becoming a problem.

So it's not the scrollbars per se, but the fucking around with them that is the problem.

A) Wow, noticed that already? /s

B) Why just scrollbars? Fucking "front-end" designers are fucking around with everything!

C) I blame https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37868493
It would solve it by disallowing changing of the underlying path from a symlink to a file (and vice versa) while a transaction to do a `chown` is still underway.

Though that would require much more than just ACID semantics but also proper user / jail isolation.
Agreed A LOT of successful founder stories fall apart when you dig below the surface.

Being born to parents rich enough that you could pursue an expensive education at a prestigious school, possibly beyond a 4 year degree. And then have the luxury of falling back to "living at home" with parents who own a home in a HCOL area where all the action is like NYC/SF/Seattle/Boston. And finally falling back on parental skills or connections because being in a HCOL area, they are distinguished professionals themselves who can give you legal/sales advice or hand you your first customers.

My parents handed me the newspaper with lawn care jobs circled when I turned 16. If I didn't succeed in college, and get a good job.. living-at-home would be in a shared bedroom with a younger sibling in an exurb.

And I was STILL lucky, probably in the economic top 10 or 20%, because I had a home to fall back on, 25% scholarship + 50% family funding which left me with minimal loans.

Most of these success stories are from kids who started in the 5% and got into the 0.1%.
Since Hamas is deliberately hiding inside the citizen population (and threatening the population not to leave), its best the citizen population that can move away to the south do that. Btw there are quite a few temporarily displaced Israelis - either people whose community was shattered by the killing rampage or people who are traumatized by the constant missile sirens and running for shelter. Impossible to come by numbers but wouldn't surprise me if its in the hundred thousands.