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I want to read newspapers again. I used to do that ~5-10 years ago, every morning.

As many have mentioned, this is probably very common in every country.

But there is always the next target(s) to go after, to keep in check, in a pop culture sense. So one way is to see this (article and this HN post) as a hit piece.

This seems to be in the vein of PE acquiring companies and cutting cost to extract value - just a sensible more strategy of firing middle management haha.

But this reminded me of a podcast episode with some PE guys. The PE was able to enhance an acquisition by issuing ESOPs to all employees and educating the employees about the structure and value of the ESOPs - Inverse of firing folks.

Any anecdotes of a company that was successfully split up as you suggest?

The animation is beautiful. This is art. Thank you artist.

Makes sense that effective militaries are well-organized like this. Militaries have conducted big engineering projects for civic purposes, all thru history - don't remember the exact anecdote. But found a wiki[1] by quick google search.

I will checkout this blog, maybe it has some posts about non-military initiatives also.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:United_States_Army_Co...

Inventing some protocol around the Dunbar number is interesting.

There was something similar in the Weatherford's book on Genghis Khan [1][2]. This system was described to be very effective for communicating and coordinating the huge military.

> In Genghis Khan's military system, a tumen was recursively built from units of 10 (aravt), 100 (zuut) and 1,000 (mingghan), each with a leader reporting to the next higher level.

Note: I am not aware of how good the Weatherford book is, it felt one-sided to me. So I am not sure how good the civic system that depended on the Tumen was in the mongol era.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingghan

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumen_(unit)#Genghis_Khan's_or...

Yep I was adding to your point. People who wfh are building nicer and nicer home offices also -- or at least fantasizing about it haha. And such an office is nearly impossible in a conventional work office building.

Also open offices are the norm in many places -- so any company wanting a non-open office has to face going counter culture alone; apart from having to figure out logistics involved in setting up cubicles and offices. Some of us don't even know what non-open office looks like. Closest I have seen is the rooms of high ranking execs, doctors and professors lol.

I was gonna say books too. And newsletters from certain folks, usually to click into their blogs for their other long-form content.

Separately, is there a good web+mobile ebook reader (to transition from laptop to mobile)? Does Kindle app work for that?

it is a good point to suggest to take more action. But to make significant progress, requires thinking thru the next 5-10 moves and committing to them and putting in consistent effort -- do any books discuss that?

A change shouldn't be just hoping that you "end up at the right place at the right time" this time. That is rare.

Fish cooked in ghee. Both are rich in omega3. And you will notice a difference haha.

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If Google does shutter GCP: there will be good business/job-security for companies/engineers involved in cloud to cloud migration.

Ouch rough experience. And probably those appliance repair charged you so much more for the quality of service or even to just show up and take a look.

Preventative maintainability of modern things seems so low - either tech is over complicated or has short lifespan or take too much effort/time/money. Maintenance also requires a network of appliance service companies tied up to the OEMs - and frankly they should be selling subscriptions and coming by to service appliances proactively - kinda like our dentists. The incentive structures are probably not right for this.

Maintenance should be outsourced a lot more. As in get pros to come and fix things.

Maintenance doesn't seem much in demand in the US in a residential/consumer context, probably because it is expensive and other reasons like the grandparent comment: > We simply do not appreciate Maintenance people...

Maintenance and service is much more common in India. There are young and old folks in a thriving industry for repairs and maintenance. You will see they are super knowledgable in their vocation and they get stuff fixed well and quick.

Though I do think these industries are shrinking in India - i.e "catching up" to the West. In the US, middle-class probably only services cars and heavy equipment at home. And more things are manufactured to not be maintained but replaced - a weird example is mattresses and pillows.

Of course there must be a lot more servicing happening in non-residential contexts, both in the West and in India.

> simplify your life more and more including the things in your life

This is such an underrated hack. Can't find it now - but think there is a Naval tweet about how getting rid of things is a huge help for creating peace in life.

Even if I can accurately estimate the # of replies I can expect, still the question could be asked - why comment?

But like you said, someone sometimes replies and you get pulled into threads like this - which is somehow way too much fun lol - so agree about commenting to start/participate in such convos.

Personally, more often than commenting, I forward the articles I know will be interesting to people in different group chats. And there is a lot more back-and-forth there.

People will upvote this comment.

> water stain with massive discoloration

Maybe they store physical photos and the albums got soaked in water. Sadly it happened to all our 90s photo albums during a flood. Some of the photos were stained really bad.

More ads could be a blessing. Just today I was thinking of cancelling YT premium so that I saw ads. Being interrupted by ads would discourage me from wasting more time on YT.

There is a reverse transition to monetize the open-source versions with a hosted-service also. Lot more products being built "in the open" these days.

Anyway, it is kinda interesting to see that it doesn't take long for copies of a new tech to show up. Zero-to-one seems sporadic, but immediately we see the market replicate it.

Recently seen with something seemingly complex like DALL-E. Didn't take long for the comparables to crop up. Some of them must be open-source, I am not aware of that aspect.

Apple Airpods was another one. Almost within a year, there were other earphones available in that form-factor.

Totally agree about the wording of the title comment and other commenters in this thread.

But "Boom Supersonic is transforming air travel with Overture, the world’s fastest airliner, optimized for speed, safety, and sustainability. Serving both civil and government markets, Overture will fly at twice the speed of today’s airliners and is designed to run on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Overture’s order book, including purchases and options from American Airlines, United Airlines, and Japan Airlines stands at 130 aircraft. Boom is working with Northrop Grumman for government and defense applications of Overture. Suppliers and partners collaborating with Boom on the Overture program include Collins Aerospace, Eaton, Safran Landing Systems, Rolls-Royce, the United States Air Force, American Express, Climeworks, and AWS."

This^ is significant support they already have. So they could operate for 10+ years, which seems like they will (even if they are just in R&D and burning cash). In a way, it is viable to the employees and suppliers, if they get paid for such a long time haha.

And to keep it simple, even real-life relationships enhanced by tech seems somewhat "bad". I suppose a useful example of tech improving real-life relationships would be LinkedIn: LinkedIn (and others) _might_ help me amplify my achievements and accelerate my career; but somehow that seems unnecessary also.

We don't really need a lot of relationships otherwise, and if we had free time because of other tech, we could spend more time with people or even invest in career. Tho one could argue, the careers have increasingly been about building said dystopian tech.

Like you said "improves bodily faculties" seems great. Well-designed, efficient, repairable, sustainable "robots" like dishwashers, vacuums, etc from a few years ago could have lasted us a long time. Efficient, safe, maintainable transport is great. We had massive improvements in quality of healthcare without fears of dystopia until recently.

Interesting to see https://github.com/3b1b/manim where the YouTuber has created a software tool to automate his work.

> never thought some simple animation of moving a ball could take a whole night

yeah always surprising (more complexity that expected) when we look under the hood of any operation

> Can you name some example...

https://www.videoscribe.co/en/ is used by a few creators on YT, you must have seen their videos. I wonder who is building the tool itself.

they are probably satisfied with the 2 months per video pace. In general content creators seem to experiment a lot until they get to a sweet spot with their audience for their type of content. Also we underestimate the effort researching and putting together high quality content, on top of production effort and the admin effort around running a channel like that.

But it would be interesting to know if there is a tools issue holding them back. Lots of smart engineers here looking to build products to solve for that.

One can even omit mentioning the position on the resume, if the total break is less than 6 months. It should be fine.

almost want to down-vote the post just so the game server is relieved from the HN kiss of death and I can play haha

Such a good point. How do I calibrate to the all the advice out there? Find that hard - be it finance advice, health advice, hustle advice or anything else.

Like you say, most of us are average. There's rarely any content for a '46 year old married mother of 3' or any of the average folks. But a normal person's daily life goes for a toss when they hear advice on YT (or watch a Insta reel or a TikTok dance) they know they won't be able to do themselves but they think should be doing.

Bit late to this thread. Another "archive" idea is to capture archive.org links of past projects. And it can be used to showcase things in the future.