skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, so let's talk about what we, a Berlin startup that I co-founded, do offer:

- fair salaries for the experience and attitude

- no equity, because we believe that a fair salary is better than a lottery equity

- we don't expect people to work overtime and value work-life balance a lot

- we say thank you A LOT

- we hire people who are the best fit for the job

And since we're talking about this: we're hiring a software engineer in Berlin. We are a podcast hosting company, are profitable, have +1k paying customers, some really high-profile. Ruby on Rails, Angular, VueJS, Go, Nodejs, AWS, Heroku. Office in Kreuzberg, 60-65k €. Both founders are software engineers themselves and value solid, healthy codebases. Let's talk if you're interested.
The vast majority of those collisions occur in areas where planes are forced to congregate (around airports, etc).
What's the conspiracy theory then?
Yeah. I've often said that in any business decisions there are the following stakeholders:

Upper Management, The employees, the board members, the shareholders, the customers.

Business decisions are almost always made looking at the perspective of perhaps 2 or three of these stakeholders. The employees are basically never considered in the US, often only the biggest one or two customer's desires are considered if any consideration is given at all, etc.

And way too much attention is payed to certain Wall Street types who get all upset when earnings exceed the company's own projections, but fall short of wildly optimistic estimates by third parties.
I must be calculating this wrong, I get:

400ft * 35tons * 2000lbs/ton *
0.00037661609675872 watt hours/ft. lb = 10545 watt hours.

that's only about 10kW hrs, what you get in a just one very compact Sonnen battery (https://sonnenusa.com/en/sonnenbatterie-eco/).

This doesn't seem like much. Did I make a mistake somewhere?
This is just patently false. There are many resources that are free for those in need. (Help lines, churche/synagogue/mosque, support groups, etc)
But there's a difference between not knowing how to program, and having never even used a computer!

Coding experience might give a leader more empathy for their employees, but the latter gives them an understanding of their customers and users.
Yes, de-orbit times from 550 km are on the order of years to possibly tens of years.

So it wouldn't stop progress for a century, but might it put a damper on things on the same scale as the Great Depression?
Intuitively, this seems like an obverse of the "optimal stopping problem." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping or the subset of the Odds Algorithm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odds_algorithm) where optimal stopping point to find the highest quality item in a sample is essentially N * 1/e = 0.368...

Handwavily, this resembles the rule of three, where we could probably say instead, "the rule of 1/e," because both of these appear to be artifacts of the same relationship and same type of problem.
...the head of the start-up incubator and investment firm, Y Combinator, gave opening remarks, recommending that young people avoid jobs in big tech. “You get to program your life on a totally different scale.... The worst thing that can happen to you is you get a job at Google.” He called those jobs “$100,000 a year welfare” — meaning, he said, that workers can get tethered to the paycheck and avoid taking risks.

Why would you want to work for a YCombinator startup if you're not a founder? You're taking the risk, you get underpaid, and you don't get the big potential payoff.
The 3B+ has ethernet (and it's gigabit - at least gig sync - ~250Mb/s max actual transfer due to USB2.) The new one (3A+) does not have ethernet but is still capable of USB booting.
Moonshine? Do you mean moonlight? ;)
Sorry but this is such bullshit. Not only in the Bay Area, but in Seattle, Boston, NYC etc... 6 figures is definitely NOT expected only from FAANGs. Any startup paying less than 90/100k to juniors, 150/200k to seniors won't find any engineers. FAANGs pay 200 to 300k. My graduating class last May had $105k average salary in the Bay Area and for me finding a 6 figure job wasn't even that hard. It's a bit ridiculous to argue the entire US tech industry is overpaid. Maybe EU still can't see how tech is changing everything and engineers are the most important part of the company. EU is very far behind and is not willing to catch up.
Oh hell no!

DL are plain incapable of reflection/showing its workings.

I'm just asserting that the GP was probably considering a small subset of logic based systems and was incorrect in their assumptions.
The movie The Social Network might be half fictionalized, but it portrayed a way someone like Zuckerberg or Sanders could be out of touch with reality by not responding to normal social cues or morals, and then getting used to getting away with things.

The platform has so much volume they refuse to actually hire enough people to monitor it, they've adapted to this level of profitability and won't change without being forced to (it's the same issue with Youtube, if it can't be automated, the platform would have to change) - it's like how in the USA and even the UK farmers with significant manual labour requirements won't raise wages, they'll try to get migrant farm workers to do it.
Cool story but I bet he knew what a USB device was and had used a computer at some point.
It's possible that they will use reflown Falcon 9s that have exceeded their reuse capability (~10 launches) to deliver these satellites. You're only paying for the propellant, the oxidizer, the second stage, and your fixed operations cost; the rest of the vehicle has been amortized through paying customer flights.
While facebook is huge and everyone knows it, i still don't see facebook the same way i see companies like: Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon, ...

Sure they have so much money that they do research, build open source tools etc. but how that company came by and what it is actually doing, is so different to all the others.

In a bad way.
One immediate difference is that sr.ht has a publicly-hosted version; I'm having trouble finding that for Trac.

Trac is also not JS-free, so for those who prefer to not rely on arbitrary Turing-complete code running locally without explicit permission, sr.ht has an edge there.

That said, Trac feels a lot more polished (unsurprisingly, given that it has a significant headstart in terms of development resource and time).
Political power comes from the barrel of a gun, and SpaceX is well within many country's sights.

e.g. that's the law.
Just because a testimonial image can be found elsewhere on the web doesn't mean it's fake. The images are of the actual person who gave the testimonial but I changed their names. I see absolutely nothing wrong with doing that.
> "[Cook] has consistently criticized our business model and Mark has been equally clear he disagrees."

I'm fed up with some of Apple's recent choices, so I'm no Cook fanboy, and I actually like Facebook -- seriously, I enjoy using it and find it adds real value in making/maintaining some connections.

But I rolled my eyes so hard at the above statement; the idea that consistent disagreement with Cook's criticism is somehow an adequate response to the misaligned incentives of Facebook's model is bullshit to the point of being an insult to readers. So is the idea this is merely a disagreement.

Facebook as constituted over its lifetime has deeply built-in incentives to sell out users. An adequate response would show a deeply searching reckoning regarding that along with the strength of proposed solutions. In absence of that, it's easy to suppose the real reason why FB leadership "disagrees" with Cook's rather apt criticism is that it preserves a position that makes them influential and rich.

Recent news revealing that FB apparently sees this primarily as a PR problem to be approached by discrediting critics means that it's extra hard to believe there's even a genuine attempt to care about their users in any other sense than as an asset.

I continue to believe in the potential value of tools like FB, but at this point, I'm not sure FB's leadership would be worthwhile stewards of a 7/11 from a social trust standpoint, and it may well be the model itself is adversarial.
The risk of sleep apnea increases with age, as well as the morphology (small neck, ...) or neurological problem: https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1513/pats.200709-155...

Obesity sleep apnea ≠ Age and morphology sleep apnea, the first can be cured by weight loss, the second is a lifelong "disease" (except surgery that does not last).
I'm honestly surprised anybody cares what Facebook supports. They just in it for the money in the long run.
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I think that's an oversimplification.

I'd love to move back to Silicon Valley and work for an early stage startup. But, now that I'm a bit more established and have kids, that means that I want something more than a budget 2-bedroom apartment. (And, I also want a reasonable commute.)

The cost of living is just too darn high for many businesses to afford to "pay more."

So, part of the problem isn't just paying more. Part of the problem is ensuring that areas with job openings are affordable for employees at what the employers can afford to pay.
There are new technologies like air breathing ion engines and electrodynamic tethers, which have the potential to sustain low orbit satellites for years.
This is a bit off topic, but I really wish the idea of including HTML imports (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/...) was taken seriously. There's a lot of people that just want to make a simple HTML site with templates for things like the navigation menu, without a bunch of nasty JavaScript goop that can't be search indexed easily, and the ability to include simple templates using HTML would have been an huge resource for those people and for search engines.

I think it really shows how much of a bubble the web often lives in now. We used to be able to just make a solid web site with simple HTML and a text editor. I shouldn't need to be an extremely hardcore JS programmer or use a crazy static site generator or overengineered LAMP backend to do basic things like reusing HTML and other things that could be largely accomplished with just HTML itself.
The barrier to entry to selling cars is massive. The barrier to entry to building spaceships is massive. Lots of industries require tremendous amounts of capital to break into. But this is totally orthogonal to the discussion at hand.
Although there are many in my circle of friends that are apathetic to sports, I can't help but be drawn into the idea of "superhuman" feats and statistical outliers that always seem to permeate major sports.

We live in an era where being a 40 year old quarterback is not only possible but can play at top 1%. An era where an NBA player who entered after highschool has played for more than 15 years and has not had a major injury despite playing nonstop and has single highhandedly put a no name basketball team on the map. An era where not one but two of the greatest soccer players have played and peaked at the same time.

And all this is happening as teams hire more Post Docs in Stats and Math to find the secret sauce that makes teams great or find ways to break the game in their favor.

If you like Wayne Gretzky I suggest you look up interviews regarding the work ethic and impressive mental skills of other top players like Kobe Bryant and Cristiano Ronaldo, these guys are geniuses in their field but are absolute work horses with incredible discipline.
I think tech has a reputation for being supposedly enlightened and nicer and making the world a better place. Maybe it’s the original ‘60s Berkeley ancestry (never mind the first electronic computing machines were birthed in the military labs of WWII), maybe it’s naïveté that comes with working in a field where you literally don’t have to get your hands dirty.

I think what’s really stunning is the media blitz in the last few months about the real shady stuff in the major tech firms. Google protecting high level sex abusers and also legal but unprofessional HR violating conduct. Amazon getting sweetheart deals from city governments. Both criticized for military and security state contracts. Google and Mark Zuckerberg both pandering to the Chinese government. Netflix having a cultish abusive work environment. Everything going on at Facebook, which is this year’s Uber in terms of cascading scandals- though last month that was Tesla. Even consumer outrage against Apple’s products for getting increasingly overpriced or less innovative, though that’s more purely subjective. Saudi blood money funding SoftBank and SV startups, alike. It’s almost as if the only leading tech company getting goodwill or at least lack of controversy has been Microsoft.
You should really take a look at the price tags of luxury yachts sometime. The cost of extreme luxury expands to completely use up the unending streams of money directed at it
> Something just doesn't add up to me.

You're missing a key ingredient. Facebook placed a third-parties between you and your friends. Those third parties are businesses that run pages

What percentage of posts on your Facebook newsfeed originate from your friends versus pages?

That is what has changed.

The reason? So Facebook can sell ads.
> It's because you love your job, you have to pay for that.

I don't buy that. I don't think enjoying your job and being paid well need to be mutually exclusive. I think it's in an employer's best interest that their employees enjoy their job. Part of that is that an employee has to not feel the stress of being underpaid or overworked.
"and there would be no tax revenue if NYC didn't get the office in the first place."
I feel like I'm missing something: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-announces-sanctions-on-saud...

> U.S. announces sanctions against 17 Saudis over Khashoggi's death
I've been fortunate in building a consultancy that's grown pretty quickly almost entirely based on this insight (https://superwork.io). We've helped some companies basically 2x just by dumping their existing SaaS-based processes.

The days of one-size-fits-all SaaS are numbered.... most companies can find massive efficiency gains through smart deployment of tools like Airtable and Zapier with turnkey automations.

There used to be a time this wasn't feasible because the only option was to hire a development team and deal with legacy software - we don't have that problem anymore.
> There's a big difference in that Soros spends his money on causes, as an actual food for hungry people and actual teachers to teach actual students. Whereas the Kochs are far more focussed on US domestic politics.

"Let me short US dollars and fund those that promote economic policies that would lead to the collapse of the currency"
I'm sincerely happy for your success, but a self-gratifying condescension on 19 year old students isn't a good look.
> I don’t think I have any ideological objections to Facebook, but the product itself doesn’t interest me and I’m not a user.

I don't work at FB but I'm sure for a product of that scale even if you don't use or care about the product itself, there may be interesting projects for you to work on.

I also don't think I'd care to work on FB the product, but I'm sure it'd be interesting to get to use Haskell to fight spam and work with Simon Marlow. They also use OCaml for some compiler stuff that I'm sure would be interesting.
Having done home dialysis id be very wary of changing the firmware settings on a CPD machine let alone a HD one - but that is a lot more invasive.
I mean, what you've just described is the quintessential PG-13 villainy as depicted by the Cobra Kai dojo, in the very first Karate Kid movie, starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita.
If you're a normal software engineer, I agree, you shouldn't implement it yourself.

But if you're a researcher/had a CS research background, I don't see why not. By definition research results in novel approaches (ideally better) than the current ones. You have to be willing to challenge the consensus.

PhD students who can prove that their algs work should work on it, like the results of this paper: https://raft.github.io
I'd agree; welders is beginning to pay nicely due to their demand. You won't enjoy the time away from home or the work conditions, but you'll be paid reasonably well.
Wikipedia disagrees. Same outcome, different method:

> Men still loyal to the governor of Cuba planned to seize a ship and escape to Cuba, but Cortés moved swiftly to squash their plans. Two leaders were condemned to be hanged; two were lashed, and one had his foot mutilated. To make sure such a mutiny did not happen again, he decided to scuttle his ships.

> There is a popular misconception that the ships were burned rather than sunk. This misconception has been attributed to the reference made by Cervantes de Salazár in 1546, as to Cortés burning his ships. This may have also come from a mis-translation of the version of the story written in Latin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Azte...

"scuttle the ships" is as equally alliterative as "burn the boats"
The goal is really nonclonable key storage with a minimal CPU and purpose specific firmware, i.e. a sim card. The USB u2fs are about $10 which is pretty reasonable for a newish card with ECC algorithms.
I don't deny problems, but I'm up north, near the volcano, here life is extremely different. Now in large cities (closer to western lifestyle :p) things are sour..
Ha, I know what you mean! I found the information extremely valuable, but I do agree that the production value leaves a lot to be desired. I'm not sure if you've read her book A Mind For Numbers, but it has largely the same information (without nearly as many clipart zombies).
Zero offense taken.

The VCs know what they are doing. Growth is absolutely king because it’s where you are going not where you are.

Profits would be like dividends - literally counting against you for not knowing what better to do with the money and instead giving 20%+ away to taxes.

Consistent (aka stagnant) profit is like running a zombie startup. Very difficult to exit that.
I agree it's a legit perspective and I know it's not uncommon. That's not my point. My point is that the students quoted likely do not grasp the potential future consequences of their name being in the newspaper this way.
I think its very poetic and will outlive your "too soon" problem
" are the ones that admit their teams are far better qualified to make those decisions than they are"

This is true but NOT if they have never done any of the work before themselves.
As strange as it might sound, at least for me it is.

Quality grocery nearby is more important to me for sure but that is also way closer in a big city. At least here in munich.

I can only watch movies in OV (original version in my case mostly english), go out to many different restaurants, go to many shows, congresses, using public transport etc.

And at least for me, my job opportunities are way better. My carrier would be none if i would have not moved.

I do not know how it looks in NYC And if i would not really use the citys advantages because i can't afford it, i would move out of it.
That George Soros funded critics of Facebook.

Or at least, that's what I interpreted the parent comment that I originally replied to as characterizing as a "conspiracy theory". I didn't see what else it could mean given that that (according to the article, true) claim is literally the only claim about Soros that the article says Facebook's PR company made.
I don't think so. I found that Uber's culture was apparent throughout its interview process. (I interviewed with Uber and ultimately turned down a Strategy & Operations offer in early 2016.)

This is anecdotal evidence based on my interview experience and conversations with employees, but it was obvious to me that the company had a win-at-all-costs, cutthroat culture. Fowler's exposé certainly took things to a whole new level, but before her report you could see enough from public information (reports of execs' behavior, etc.) and the interview process to know Uber's values & culture. I know of people who were avoiding Uber before the Fowler exposé. I suspect that Uber wouldn't have wanted those people anyways because of contrasting values.

Put another way, I think that the type of people who wouldn't have joined after the Fowler report wouldn't have joined before it. This is now a few years back, though - seems like things may be different now with Dara Khosrowshahi as CEO.
You empower support to be convinced over the phone to cancel recurring billing, but not to reset 2FA.

That way in the very worst case if support gets socially engineered into removing the credit card details from the account the customer will get mildly annoyed as they have to login and reset it, but their whole account won't be taken over.
It's forecast that Germany will lose around 1/3 of its auto industry jobs over the next few decades, in the switch to electric vehicles. Areas of auto manufacturing that they are very good at, are simply going to go away when everything is electric.

I would expect BMW to struggle the most among the German giants, if Tesla doesn't stop growing soon. The rise of Mercedes back to top form was a bad enough of a hit for BMW, then Tesla comes along poised to sell $40 billion worth of cars every year in the near future (all of which cost far more than ~$35k, which is a direct shot at all the luxury makers).

Germany is sitting in a great position nationally (epic trade surplus, good national finances, and reasonably fine household finances), now is the time to aggressively invest if you're them, to try to build out a large number of new technology jobs.
> How hard it would be to find a Xerox machine in the Amazon or the middle of the Atlantic if someone stuck it there.

Part of the problem, though, is that said Xerox machine is traveling at 17,000 miles per hour.

We've already had a collision (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision) between two of the ~3-4k satellites in orbit. SpaceX's constellation is planned to be double that number.

That single collision turned two satellites into two thousand high-velocity projectiles, too.
It depends on what you mean by "email". "Doing email" as in SMTP/POP at 2400 baud is feasible, "doing email" as in accessing a https webmail service is not.

You can communicate effectively over 2400 baud if (and only if) you use protocols and services designed for low bandwidth; luckily we have those protocols built and tested, even if we have mostly abandoned some of them.
Not everyone wants to min/max their life, despite what tech striver lifehacker culture wants you to believe.
As opposed to what? A late employee at a startup? An employee at a non-startup?
My mistake.. I will remove the function in the demo.
>My cellphone (republic) switches from WiFi to cellular network mid-call if I'm on it when I leave a building. This is not a new problem.

Networking technology switching is unrelated to a call, which always uses cellular.
>"Also, if you use facebook, stop."

It sounds so easy, but unfortunately it's not feasible in a lot of cases. As an example, my entire social group organizes just about everything through Facebook events.

Monthly music quiz, including signup and updates about subjects and prizes, Christmas/Easter/others lunchs, pre-concert meetups, festival line-up "study group", and all the other various get-togethers. All discussion about these subjects happens in FB groups.

FB Messenger is the IM platform here in Denmark. WhatsApp is a very distant second.

Quitting FB cold turkey would cut me off from a lot of social interaction. Not with my closest friends of course, but with everyone else. And all of my closest friends use FB Messenger exclusively. I've tried getting people to adopt Signal or Slack or just something other than FB, but so far haven't had any success. There's too much friction, and FB has the userbase and appropriate lineup of features.