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Things I'm interested in: science, national security, and the perfect dumpling.
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Man, I really enjoyed Sam, until he started doing things that I thought were unnecessarily risky (or in some cases plain inconsiderate). That said, ballsy MF. Solo sailors remind me of free solo climbers. Their risk assessment/acceptance is so far off normal it's almost alien.
Control F in this thread, "Dove", nothing!!!
If you find this story interesting, definitely recommend reading about Robin Lee Graham. In 1965 at the age of 16 he started a solo sail around the world.
He ended up writing a book and they made a movie. Highly recommend.
I love the dial interface. I wish more electronics, especially those in car interfaces, used a nice, clickly, big dial.
In my experience with RAND they always reminded me of a resource extraction company. Think oil and gas, but their trade was government contracts.
Add in a couple of big names to justify the cost, staff it with jr people/post grads, shine it up with some fancy graphics and quant-ish formulas and poof, a million dollar study.
Of all the FFRDC beltway bandit think tanks, they felt the most like an MBA consultant shop. Lots of overhead, questionable return on investment. While they do have history and prestige, I'm not convinced anything they deliver is uniquely insightful.
While there are a fair share disposable/modern style abandoned houses, there are also these incredible traditional style properties.
While I understand some of the underlying reasons, I'm still shocked that they are just allowed to sit there falling apart. Part of me wants to spec out deconstruct/container/ship to the US for for rebuild.
Obviously it's not economically feasible, but some of them are that interesting.
If you are interested in buying an abandoned home in the Japan countryside highly recommend the YouTube channel Tokyo Llama. He's spent the last four years renovating a beautiful traditional style Japanese house and property about an hour outside of Tokyo. He talks about the renovation aspects, taxes, paperwork process, and the pros and cons of doing this with a family. Lots of videos the watch.
Great channel. You had me as a subscriber after your pool stick video. Cool to see you post on hn.
Ian from Forgotten Weapons is arguably one of the most famous gun enthusiasts out there, and it's his video that is linked in this thread. The very fact that "gun Jesus" is excited about this platform says a lot.
He does note that a small portion of the gun enthusiasts population will hate it, but goes on to note why he thinks their fears are misplaced.
Also, its been stated a few times in this thread, but this platform isn't trying to be a gun for all things. Specifically it's a bedside gun, that stays loaded and out, that mitigates some of the risk of leaving it in that condition (kids, theft, etc.). It's competition is trigger locks, safes, lock boxes, and just hiding it somewhere.
I'm unconvinced the electronics are appropriately tamper proof, and will remain unconvinced until some real experts get their hands on it. Ian mentions that as well, and is looking forward to a real security audit by experts in that field.
All on all, seemed like a pretty reasonable take on everything.
They are also not federal employees.
Was lobster.rs ways invite only? I thought I remembered having an account a long time ago...but my email isn't registered when I go to reset my PW. Because it's a much smaller community it does suffer from low comment counts on posts. Comments are the best part of HN.
Scotty is the personification of hacker ethos. This is a welcome update on his recovery after suffering from a brain injury. Glad to hear he finally found the medical help he needed.
Yay - you're still alive!
Seriously, I read that title and panicked. I remember watching ZDTV in high school, and listening to twit podcasts up until 2011-ish? We're taking about the foundation of my love of tech. The early-90's to early 2000's pre crash was an amazing time to come up in the internet. Even the post crash boom was like the wild west compared to today. You were there producing content through it all.
I got off the habit of tuning in after I abandoned itunes and the iphone for Android. There just wasn't as a robust podcasting network on Android at the time.
It sounds like twit is still going strong. Time to check back in!
Careful with Amazon.
I bought a ton of MP3 records off their platform over the years, and recently it all went to hell. I'll take responsibility for not downloading it all right away, but I still think their recent behavior was sketchy.
My mistake was listening to the music that I owned using Amazon's music player. I'd download it locally to whatever device I was using, but my collection was large enough that I rarely kept it all on my mobile devices. When they changed their subscription model for amazon music I no longer was able to stream my music that I had bought. I couldn't even download it on mobile. Zero explanation of what happened.
Instead I had to login on my desktop, and download tracks one by one. It was painfully slow and totally unintuitive.
Keep in mind this all happened without explanation as it relates to music you owned, but still resided on their servers. It was pretty clear that they wanted you to sign up for the new streaming service and we're making it hard to get to your music otherwise.
My toddler also loves this feature. Can confirm animal (and rocket/train/baby) sounds make up a significant portion of voice assist in my house as well.
Fun fact, if you Google voice search animal sounds on a pixel, chrome will (most of the time) serve up a whole animal sounds dashboard with pixel art.
Huh, first time I ever saw that. Makes sense, I paid for the Android app not the web app. Still, wish I would have known this earlier. I may not like it, but better than being ghosted.
That said, I distributed remember themes and icons being a thing in the paid app which isn't available under the new model unless you subscribe.
I'm the same. Long time paid app user, then when the switch happened I got reverted back to the free tier.
I still use the app, but like you said, it does still irk me to this day.
Yay, fly fishing.
Fly fishing isn't about catching fish, it's about catching fish beautifully.
Most fly fishermen are catch and release, they don't even keep the fish.
You can make all kinds of reductive arguments about recreational fishing, but unless you are fishing for food or for $$$, it's all about the enjoyment you take out of the activity.
Fly fishing is harder than using live bait, most spinning reels, etc, but that's not the point. If it was about catching fish, gill nets beat both, and in turn are trumped by fish damns, explosives, electricity, and paralytics (all of which have been/are still commonly used in scientific and commercial harvest).
It's a skill that encompasses body mechanics, tracking/reading water, presentation, the hunt....
It's outdoors, near water, done alone.
It can be as expensive or cheap as you want to make it, the basics/floor to get in are surprising cheap.
It's wonderful.
Live bait with the proper rig will pretty much always beat an imitation fly. Same goes for organics (fish eggs) that will have scent/oil/particle trail.
Hey, cool to see you post on HN. I started following you and your dad on YouTube during the pandemic.
It's been fascinating how you've (very intentionally) built your online following. Between social media vectors, the website, forums, paid tier access, pricing tools, and now insurance, you have quite the operation.
Other folks on HN should take notes on what you've accomplished so far.
location: DC metro area Remote: No Willing to relocate: No Technologies: link analysis tools, remote sensing, data visualization and GIS (tableau, SIG-IMINT analysis) Résumé/CV: Not a software dev, but I do have a track record of managing the integration of the tools, people and processes necessary for the deployment of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of complex hardware/sensor based engineering projects. Extra interested in AMZN positions at the new Arlington HQ if anyone has any info. Knowledge/Skills: - Navigated and managed the US government contracting process from both sides of the table as both a federal manager and a government contractor - Experience and insight into working with the US National Lab complex - Managed globally distributed teams that bring multi million-dollar projects in on time and on budget with a high degree of quality - Negotiated agreements and contracts with dozens of foreign governments - Built diverse, deeply integrated teams, with diverse skill sets (security, intelligence, science, logistics, engineering, IT, and communications) to design solutions to complex problems in very challenging environments - Subject matter expert on multiple National Security Council working groups, consultant to INTERPOL, office interlocutor with IC, DOJ, and DOD elements - Familiar with both executive branch/department level/OMB and congressional authorization and appropriation process What I do now:
- Program Director working in a National Security field holding an active Q/TS/SCI w/ poly - Manage a ~$180M+ annual budget w/ oversight of 150+ FTEs organized into distributed teams working on complex projects in 30+ foreign countries across the globe - GS15 equivalent with both a policy and program implementation background at senior USG leadership level
Previous work includes: physical and political risk assessments for clients operating in potentially dangerous environments, sub-contractor as a national security subject matter expert for multiple US National Laboratories, sub-contractor for Palantir sub (back when they used to use other companies for forward deployed), research analyst at a policy institute on defense and intelligence topics, other interesting stuff
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Recommend reading about the Japanese American combat battalion. One of the most decorated units in the history of the US military (including 4,000 purple hearts), and earned while many of their families were unjustly detained in US internment camps.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Infantry_Regiment_(Uni...
Not just land. Bank accounts and personal property were also liquidated under duress.
The government issues HSPD-12's, of which CAC/military PIV cards qualify as. In theory both federal staff and contractors need an HSPD-12 compliant ID/"smart credential" to access facilities and networks.
Just wanted to point out that there are lots and lots of federal IDs that are not military, immigration, or passports.
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You mention 14k/week. You also mention "we".
If you don't mind me asking - How many people involved per job, and was that 14k per person or all inclusive.
You interested in being a sub contractor?
Only half joking...
Seriously though, one of the most powerful tools in consulting is a deep rolodex of unique talent. You never want to be in the position of telling a client you can't help them. You should always be honest, but you should also be prepared.
Someone could probably put together a pretty nice consulting association/firm with contacts made here on HN.
It was about 30k/week.
The tech side was almost irrelevant. In the end it was about helping the client document good requirements.
Which you could only do after getting a good understanding of their business ops/process, and identifying the gaps and the impact to resources.
Then you put down really good requirements (which is hard), and only then use that to engineer a solution that appropriately addressed the risk (balancing cost/disruption vs. mitigated impact).
That said, often the solution is tech agnostic. I was just as happy punting final implementation to either internal teams or doing it myself (which often involved sub contracting to a specialist).
That may sound like a lot, but it often involved travel, tools, specialized coms gear, etc.
You also have to factor in insurance, taxes, and a myriad of other expenses related to running your own business.
The sweet spot for me was 45k/week, but that normally involves subcontractor payments as well.
Agree! Hopefully one day we'll have more agreeable legislation here.
I say all of this as someome who will probably buy a steam deck -
"allowing the user to play all past Nintendo games, using the power of Linux"
At least for most folks in the United States, it's illegal to do so. Personally I'd like to see all of the old Nintendo games free to play, but that's not how it works under the current laws.
As a child of the 90s, I grew up in the heyday of wide scale music/software piracy. Unfortunately, now I'm at a place in my life professionally where I'm unable to participate in any of those activities.
The beauty of the switch (and many of the other recent nintendo hardware platforms) is that it allows a legal, low friction, relatively cheap marketplace and device to download and play many of their older games.
It's far from perfect (not all games, reoccurring costs to access, no actual ownership, etc.), but for me, and many other "normal" people who aren't going to to set up emulators and download ROMs, it's not half bad. That's a huge value prop for the switch that the steam deck won't be able to match.