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oliv__on Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm

Say what you want about Elon Musk but SpaceX is one of the most inspiring thing in the world to me. I recently drove down to Boca Chica beach to see the spaceships in person: you can get really close to them it's pretty wild, and honestly I think it was the most amazing man-made thing I've ever seen in my life

oliv__on Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?

[Meta] I wonder if it's just me but, reading through these comments I can imagine myself being the OP and thinking that every comment here is both very insightful and terribly useless simultaneously.

All I can think of reading through all the different perspectives is: "No one can fix you, only you can find the solution to yourself".

oliv__on Controversial rent-free boat living in the Bay Area

I agree that the pretense of "environmental concerns" is complete bull.

oliv__on Controversial rent-free boat living in the Bay Area

I realize you're saying this in a sarcastic, mocking tone but...yeah? If you worked hard to build your own life up to the point where you can buy a million+ waterfront house, wouldn't it seem unfair to have shabby boats sitting there for free and crashing into your property?

oliv__on Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes

I agree that as a publisher who paid a hefty sum for the exclusive rights to the content, they 100% have the right to do this.

I'm just saying this general trend of cancellation and suppressing views that don't fit squarely in the box of "whatever society accepts at the moment" (which by the way changes by the minute) is troubling.

oliv__on Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes

I'm growing really tired of this "sanitization" of society, and what views you are/aren't allowed to hold anymore.

Love or hate JRE's content, I don't think anything good comes from silencing people

oliv__on Where in the world are Trader Joe’s warehouses? (2015)

Looking at the map I wonder where the CO, UT, NM stores get their supplies from? Seems like the only area without its own warehouse

oliv__on Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook

> "Gaben wouldn't let it slip out even from his cold dead hands"

Maybe that's an idea

oliv__on GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by using Google Fonts

This is getting ridiculous.

The paper-pushing world created by GDPR and these non-technical bureaucrats is just absurd and only a burden for smaller companies trying to get things done.

oliv__on Ask HN: At a peak of my dev career, I hate my life

Just wanted to second the traveling and staying at Airbnbs: if you just book a "room" with locals (as opposed to the full place), it's a great way to meet (usually) open minded people with a different culture that can completely reset your expectations of what life is or should be.

oliv__on I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)

I agree you should be able to do that without consequences but there's nothing brave about pulling down an American flag and stepping on it.

oliv__on United flies passenger flight on sustainable aviation fuel supplying one engine

I wonder if this fuel could be produced in sufficient quantities to power cars? I love my combustion engines

oliv__on Show HN: Shoot the neural network before it shoots you

Super cool but I feel like my own (human) neural network only needed 1 game to get the hang of it and be better than the machine.

So it went like this: closely lost the first game, then quickly won the second game after just 2-3 shots. Kind of interesting as a "self-reflection" tool to notice how you learn but seemingly too easy if the AI resets every time. Maybe it could learn progressively faster for every game you play?

oliv__on Ask HN: How Do You Budget?

When I first moved to NYC and was on a tight budget, I'd do exactly that: withdraw $100 every week, put it in my pocket and use that money for all expenses.

Physically touching your paper bills and feeling the stack grow smaller every time you pay for something is a sure remedy to overspending.

oliv__on A $3B bet on finding the fountain of youth

The mad scientist really looks the part

oliv__on Rail Theft Soars in California

Could it be a problem with policies rather than the country's structural failure you imply?

LA alone dedicated close to $1B to fight homelessness in 2021! [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/04/20/989015659/la-dedicates-1-bill...

oliv__on UK government plans publicity blitz against encrypted communications

The way the article breaks down exactly how the campaign is set to "persuade" the public feels so dystopian and cynical.

Launching a £500K media campaign (with public funds) under the cover up pretense that "UK’s biggest children’s charity and stakeholders have come together to urge social media companies to put children’s safety first" and then swaying people through "'sofa programmes' such as Loose Women and This Morning for broadcast".

If this isn't manufactured consent, I don't know what is. But seeing what happens behind the curtains really makes you wonder: what other "mainstream opinions" were created this way?

oliv__on Tim Cook earned over 1,400 times the average Apple worker in 2021

So what? I'm sure the value he adds to Apple is 1400x that of the average worker.

oliv__on Ask HN: How do I manage the profit of a successful website?

I have a (maybe dumb) question about salary: wouldn't "officially" paying myself $54k / year result in my not being able to rent or buy real estate where there are income requirements?

oliv__on Tesla Light Show xLights Guide

If it were simply marketing, then everyone would be doing it

oliv__on Death by Coconut

Once my dad threw a coconut at my face thinking I was paying attention and would catch it but I was looking away and it hit me. It hurts. I can definitely see how one would die from a falling coconut

oliv__on Titanpointe: The NSA’s spy hub in New York, hidden in plain sight (2016)

Sorry not to add value, but this kind of comment is what I come to HN for

oliv__on Ask HN: How do you stick to projects?

I mean I feel like it depends on what you're looking to get out of the project?

If you're looking to up your skills in a new language or just "try" the new activity, then it makes sense that you would quit a few months later: you've acquired what you wanted.

If you wanted to keep going and pursue that activity for longer, I think it's a matter of not making the activity conditional on it "satisfying" you because as someone mentioned in another comment, you'll lose that initial dopamine hit once the activity becomes familiar (or boring): so the solution imo is to actively decide that whether you enjoy it or not, you will do X. And that's just a matter of learning to commit to something.

I used to be all over the place and chase new ideas over existing projects all the time, but it wasn't until I made a decision that OK I'm going to stick with this no matter what (at least for a period of time) that I started finding success. Now I think consistency is 80% of success.

Another thing I find useful to keep going is to find a way to keep getting small "wins" every now and then in the journey: the small wins make you feel like the past time invested was worth it and make my brain eager to continue as it anticipates the next one.

oliv__on New German Government Is Pro-Encryption and Anti-Backdoors

Perhaps I'm too cynical but if you were a government trying to have effective back doors in place, wouldn't you want to keep it hush hush and advertise yourself as pro-encryption?

oliv__on Intel plans to take self-driving car unit public in the U.S. in mid-2022

Maybe I'm weird but I really enjoy driving (even long distances) and would never want to have my car drive for me. I'd also rather cars remain cars rather than computers with wheels.

Would be curious to know how many people feel the same way.

oliv__on Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes

I don't know about you but from my personal experiences in dealing with the USPS, they're not exactly what I'd describe as the most efficient (or friendly for that matter) organization.

Compare that to same-day or next day delivery from Amazon, it's night and day.

I'd rather not dump more tax money into that mess.

EDIT: I find it interesting that 90% of the responding comments in this thread are seemingly against the parent comment's ideas yet all are being heavily downvoted now with practically no answers to justify the downvotes

oliv__on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)

Hi all, just wanted to let you know I'll be aggregating all jobs from this thread on a dedicated job board at: https://hackernews.niceboard.co

All employers welcome to post opportunities directly as well!

oliv__on Virgil Abloh Dies at 41

https://archive.md/1y2zX

oliv__on New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529

The standard for something "working" is very much up for debate though, even if it is carefully avoided.

"Slowing the spread" is not a good enough argument in my opinion. Everyone wants to slow the spread, the only question worth asking is: at what cost?

At what point do you deem something effective and worthy of sacrificing your freedoms for? 1% efficacy "slows the spread". Is that worth it? Where do you draw the line? 20%? 50%?

Life is risky, everything is a gamble, yet somehow with COVID, all nuance has disappeared, life is not worth living until we can be 100% sure that there is no risk at all.

oliv__on New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529

So Sweden had proportionately 5 times more deaths for not locking down with a death / population ratio of 0.00145? I don't think it's ridiculous to consider not locking down with those stats.

Locking down has tremendous costs whether mental or economic, you just can't compute and make a nice graph of it.