skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a hard magic system[0] in the fantasy genre, I'd heartily suggest any of Brandon Sanderson's novels.

My favorites are the second set of the Mistborn series (Wax and Wayne), the Stormlight Archives and the Rithmatist.

[0] https://brandonsanderson.com/sandersons-first-law/
"I don't understand how "it had never actually started in the first place" is relevant at all. There were plans to help address this problem, but those plans were delayed by the Trump administration."

It's relevant because of a comment another user made here, which explains why the tests are not effective and would almost certainly have not resulted in catching this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18536230
The full Tweet thread linked to in that comment provides more info but the base theme is that the tests are not an appropriate solution because spot checks would not catch events like this.
https://mobile.twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/10670960981...
"... as best you can..."

Monitor the network, make sure you know where the data is going. Things like that.
I heard someone on HN say to treat climate change like a war. If we did we would make more drastic changes required, which under normal logic would be "we can't do that it will kill the economy..."

I wonder if the planet will be habitable in 1000 years time by 'traditional' humans. We may need to transcode ourselves into computers, or at least get pretty damn bionic.
Beyond Kubernetes: Istio network service mesh
What you are saying, I think, is it is important to figure out what the expected future value of each of your shares are. All you have to go on, in general, is "what do companies like this one generally sell for"? From that, assuming all the preferred stock get converted back to common stock, you can figure out what each unit of stock is worth. The problem is, the cap table you have now won't be the cap table you have when the company gets bought out.

It's not dilution that is the problem. Dilution is just what happens when you bring in new money. It's that it is very hard to predict what a reasonable upper bound is for the future value of your shares.

Quite frankly, it is one of the big reasons I think trading salary for stock options is a horrible idea. Much better to treat those options are lotto tickets--the odds they pay out in any meaningful life changing way are very small.

Startups don't like to hear this because the truth is, when you work for a startup you almost always take a sizable hit to your salary.
> Sometimes I feel that it can be a lucrative trap to become invested in a single person, and then accumulate expectations that far outweigh the responsible obligations of any friendship.

I don't meen this cynically, but isn't this the entire idea behind modern marriage. (Of course marriage adds an expectation of reciprocity, which is what keeps us from viewing it as exploitative; and an expectation of exclusivity, which seems orthogonal)
A co-worker (I work for John Deere) went to look at a lettuce farm during harvest. He had to wear gloves and a hair net. He looked up and there were birds flying overhead with not even a diaper!

Moral of this story: all greens are contaminated with feces - wash your greens.
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> And, remember, you can't pay your rent or buy groceries with unvested options. You need cash money for that.

You can't pay your rent or buy groceries with vested options either.
> valid: you do not enjoy big company politics. (you’d rather have small company politics)

Are there big investors? Welcome to big company politics.

> valid: you want a sense of ownership and responsibility. if you don’t perform, there is a noticeable effect on the company.

Responsibility? Sure. Ownership? Unless you're a founder or a big investor, haha, no. Unless you mean the corpo-speak "ownership," which is just another word for responsibility.

Responsibility might make the work more emotionally rewarding, but it also makes the work more stressful, so I won't sell it for free.

> valid: you want to be in an environment where others are just as committed as you to the success of the company.

They may measure the "success" in terms wildly different from you, the employee, though.

> you want to treat your work as an endeavor, not as a means to a paycheck.

Actually while I might want something more, endeavour doesn't pay rent.
It's the secret sauce of all social networks, users are strongly encouraged to create and distribute content on the platform itself, as opposed to talking about external content. They use dark UI flows, subtle psychological tricks and emotional rewards, everything to abstract the real world away and presume the only audience that matters is that within the walls.
The context in this sub-thread is specifically seed or series A startups.
Actually, it's not as hard as you make it sound:

1. - don't transfer - mark your repo Abandoned, tell people to use that other person's fork if you have to
2. - does that person have any other online presence? Long running?
3. - does he also put his face in front of the crowd? Talk at conferences?

This creates accountability - someone like that wouldn't pull out the same kind of injection, because he could be caught for that and his "brand" would be destroyed.
If it would bring significant amount of technical debt to introduce some synctactic sugar that'd allow to bubble errors up the call stack without 3 extra lines of code, then design choices made for Go seem to be questionable. At least superficially.
Sanderson’s First Law
the answer to every question on this list:

"We are a private company and don't share this information."

Outside of the room, the Engineering team laughs at your questions, Operations and the CEO give each other quizzical looks before laughing too, and they go on to the next candidate.

You get smug satisfaction for not going with "THAT Company who cant answer simple questions", until a reminder about the rent payment comes in due and all you want is a 30% pay increase over your last/current role.
> 4. The Managed Marketplace Era (Mid-2010s)

In the context of VC investing (outsize returns, $1B valuation targets) this is such a joke, because these types of companies will never reach software-like margins. Their scale is almost entirely correlated to HR count, thus affecting DCF numbers.

That being said, these companies absolutely deserve a chance as heavily tech-enabled business services firms reduce a lot of undesired waste in their business processes...it's just not appealing from a VC perspective.
sounds like otiswealth.com would be the place.
If you call methods that throw IOException, you can just declare IOException, you don't have to litter every statement of every method with catch clauses that hurt readability.

Edit: where this breaks down in Java is trying to implement interfaces that don't declare the exceptions you're then forced to smuggle out.
How many of us live in apartments and have bills sent electronically?

Once the current generation gets old we could easily coast through life isolated without friends. We’ll all need dead man switches soon.
+1 One of the best life analogies I’ve ever heard.
I agree FTPS is the right acronym for this but I had to correct people about this all the time. So many people actually have no idea SSH does more than just letting you execute command line programs on a remote server and FTP is not the only/best protocol to access remote file systems over the Internet.
I am glad that private business is not getting into this. I would hate it if fusion got protected by a bunch of patents.

Fusion power has the potential to be a serious game changer and everybody should have access to it.
AWS should investigate a new concept called serverless.
the overwhelming majority of people are not thieves either, but we still lock our cars when we leave them in the parking lot
Typically preference = invested capital, but there are exceptions where it could be more (usually only if investors were investing in a distressed situation)
Transitioning from Engineer to Manager
Why would the incentive structure of competition suddenly disappear when applied to utilities? Food and housing are equally inelastic and have high barriers of entry, but we see competition there.

The water example you gave is an example of the government proactively monopolizing such utilities. It's exactly what I was talking about.

Never have I seen evidence of water, power, etc naturally monopolizing and being hostile to consumers. Firms just can't keep out competition without state intervention.
Apparently you're expected to authenticate 1 shoe a minute

https://niketalk.com/threads/what%E2%80%99s-it-like-to-work-...
>If 3D TVs were able to garner any premium over regular TVs, the electronics companies would have continued selling them. It was, and probably still is, a net loss

Sure; the issue is that due to supplier convergence, the only option in a modern tv. If they weren’t so obviously harmful to sales, we’d still have them around, because it’d be impossible to differentiate between negative vs positive impact, simply because nothing else was available to even buy (in that trust/price/quality/brand range)

>The majority of iPhone users probably use bluetooth headphones.

Before or after it was their only choice? Like cars, the presence or lack of an aux port is irrelevant compared to the rest of the purchase. It doesn’t imply one way or the other whether anyone actually prefers it, when the change is bundled with so much more.

>AAA titles are dominating the market

AAA titles are always dominating the market. My point is that there is no way to differentiate between a AAA game being successful because of, despite or irresThe majority of iPhone users probably use bluetooth headphones.pective of its graphical complexity, because consumers simply cannot buy a AAA title that did not spend half its budget on 3D graphics.

This is only changing because a few indie games/smaller titles have seen extreme success despite “weak” graphics (minecraft, fortnite, LoL). Even kickstarter games appealing to older genres (eg The recent CRPGs trend) probably put an outsized emphasis on graphics, despite targetting players of 90s work.

My opinion is that games can get very far with very limited graphics, but looking at the general market its impossible to actually make the case because there’s very few examples where its even been tried. The best you can really do is turn to modern indie, or point out that some older games are still heavily played (WoW, starcraft, quake, etc)

If the whole market suddenly shifts in a particular direction, there’s no chance for competition to rule out an idea as being a bad one.
For cars, the roads really are free.

Road damage is proportional to the 4th power of the vehicle weight. Normal cars effectively do nothing to roads. The damage comes from buses, fire trucks, UPS trucks, FedEx trucks, bucket trucks... and more trucks.

Switching all that to rail is completely unreasonable. Fire departments getting around on rail?

So we need the roads anyway, and cars don't wear them out. Cars do not impose a cost. As it is, car drivers are paying money to fix roads that are being damaged by buses.

What if we charged bus passengers the true cost of taking the bus? Each passenger on a bus is contributing to road damage. Each driver in a car doesn't cause damage.
As far as I can tell, what they do with proxy is 'allow all, disallow telemetry' policy. That's not what seem to work reliably, because Microsoft is free to change everything at any second, and the 'telemetry' list is moving target. What I'm talking about is 'disallow all, allow the traffic from Firefox only' basically.
With fusion bigger is better.
It's true though. What's your counterargument?

Tired memes can be tired because they're true.
>The stock market concept better matches this abstraction in laypeople's minds.

In even more obvious cosmetic comparisons, the word "Stock" is in embedded in the company name "StockX", and when you go to the "stockx.com" url, there's a ticker of live shoe prices scrolling sideways similar to the traditional stock market displays. The landing webpage also bills itself as, "The Stock Market of Things".

The "stock market" analogy (however flawed it is) is clearly intended to connect to laypeople and not meant to pass a vocabulary test by college econ professors.
Low central bank interest rates may have played a part in big business consolidation.

Large mega corps can borrow money at extremely low rates. Because of this infinite access to capital, they can more easily acquire their competition.

Even if a company uses equity to purchase a competitor, they can counteract the dilution with financed stock buy backs.

Money may be too cheap for big companies and too scarce for small companies.
Final approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGD_YF64Nwk&t=54m10s
Thanks, we've updated the link from https://discourse.opengenus.org/t/basic-graphics-processing-....
Consumer harm has been THE ideological buzzphrase since the Reagan administration.

You think this is "your" premise but in fact its the dominant ideological belief of anti-trust enforcement since the Reagan administration.

This dogma is WHY we are in such a bad straight with companies with aggressive monopoly power in market after market (it extends FAR beyond tech).

Libertarian'ish ideas like yours are in fact the consensus reality in public policy.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/25/ohio-becomes-the-first-sta...
Is this sarcasm? Doesn't seem like sarcasm in context but the phrasing and "WTF?" reaction I had make it feel like sarcasm.
There is really not much to read. The title is as bad/good as it gets.

Overview of appearances of "negatively decadent" youth in the GDR.

Skin heads are rowdies prone to be fascists, Metal heads are violent and punks are dirty junk people who smell bad and are anarchists. Also, Teds, Tramper, Grufties and popper are not interested in politics.
Every time I see facial recognition tech I think, "Isn't this actually pretty dangerous technology?" It's a cool DYI project, but also _wow_ that in 2018 this is a DYI project.
CI/CD can be set up pretty quickly with modern tools. You can of course spend time over engineering with lots of different environments that you can create with scripts but just setting up a basic pull request->build->run tests->automatic deploy->promote to higher environments is like one days work for one person these days.
Is that TCL/Tk pretending to be Motif?
> there's a paucity of material to get people into ReasonML

Believe it or not, it's even worse if you want to target native code and not JS.
Real talk: most companies aren't gonna exit for $1B.
Saudi Dissidents Hit with Stealth iPhone Spyware Before Khashoggi's Murder
Your direct dependencies are not the only problem.
well then lots of people in the Node ecosystem are wrong. If many people stopped hashing passwords, would you say that's a good thing to follow?
Ask HN: Favorite Intranets (off the shelf) for medium sized companies
I think there's enough frustration to go around. I don't doubt your story. The life of an academic (especially a young, non-tenured academic) is brutal.

To provide a frustrating anecdote from the publisher's side: we'd love to heavily invest in launching new open access journals (which we do, but we'd love to do even more). The problem with launching a new journal (either subscription or OA) is that nobody will publish in it if it doesn't have an impact factor. Impact factor is controlled by a private, for-profit company (Clarivate) that's owned by a private equity firm. Getting an impact factor takes 3-5 years and also relies on the total crapshoot of what Clarivate decides to list or not list. So the prospect of launching a new OA journal is one where you are guaranteed to lose money for the first 3-5 years and then you have to put all your eggs in the impact factor basket, hope you get listed and receive an impact factor, and only after all that will academics choose your journal over any established legacy brand. And all this because at some point academia decided that they'd outsource academic career assessment to the magic number that is Impact Factor.

I also want to thank you and the other commenters for some good discourse here. This has been refreshing and I was only called an asshole once the whole time! But jokes aside, a sincere thanks :)
That's grounds for a lawsuit if true. Maybe you should substantiate such a strong claim, it is rather poor form to make such a definitive statement without proof or some legal action to go with it. How much worse could it get, after all, according to you they've already done the deed, might as well make it stick now.
"If confinement is easier in a large machine, why are not very large machines being built?
"

That's the plan. But first you have to figure out a lot of details in smaller machines.
Apple will continue on the trajectory that it is on, until people stop buying things on their platform. The share price will reflect this as net income is the name of the game. If and when they miss, I would expect significant changes in leadership and the direction of the company. Until then, they will keep hammering these incremental i* "improvements". The mediocre features you highlighted will not necessarily impact them if they can convince people that they are worth it.
It's always refreshing to see a writer that's honest about trade-offs, instead of spouting their preferred method as the one-true-way which will solve all your problems.
In my experience (~ 20 years at institutional VC funds), 2x preference (or anything above 1x) is extremely rare. It comes up only when there is a distressed situation, and the investors do not believe that they will receive any money beyond their liquidation preference (i.e. other junior liquidation preferences will consume the rest of the proceeds from the sale of the company).
Presumably this will handle large file uploads with aplomb? Multipart upload with s3 can be a pain (when you want someone else to be doing the uploading).
There is also never hijacking involved when the SSH key of my server changes, but that doesn't mean I trust SSH Inc. to verify that for me.
When people stop taking jobs in these areas. Not sure how long that will take. I do remember reading how the American Medical Association canceled their conference in San Francisco due to the homeless issues.
https://abc7news.com/medical-association-cancels-san-francis...
That I agree. I've payed for spotify for nine years. But that's reasonable because it is streaming the music. As is netflix et al. Though I have yet to see a media subscription service with decent software. It would be much better if they could provide a decent API that people could integrate it. But that doesn't fit well with the lock-in, and lock-in is apparently the only thing worth doing.
https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/faqs/
I'm looking at joining a seed-stage startup straight out of college as #8. What would be a good range for equity?
They were saying on the stream that they would first build a replica of the ground environment in the lab to test run the deployment. And I believe this also includes the time to drill a deep hole.
I know I tended to rate my foreign" instructors poorly. Not that I want to be dislike them, but when I have trouble understanding their accent it is hard to learn from them. If I ever have to give a lecture in a foreign language I'm sure my students to have the same reaction (of course as a human you can be sure that if I actually spoke a language well enough for this to be reasonable I'd consider my accent perfect)
Pouring in money advances computation. Microprocessors were a direct result of the space race and space weapons systems. No other industry would have justified the trillions of dollars in investment that was required to fit advanced computers into a small space when mainframe systems did the job just fine. Missiles and spaceships required systems that could calculate trajectories and be small enough to launch into space. Had we not invested that as heavily back then our computers would not be as advanced today.

Fusion would be similar.
> The grid absorbs solar and wind interment nature just fine without much in the way of storage.

I was under the impression that this was because we have a bunch of natural-gas power plants that are turned on when necessary to meet peak load.
The only reason they can’t make a “regular” law is because they made a law spelling out the process. Their power is restricted because they passed a law in the past saying it was restricted.

As the only body capable of updating the text of the law they have ultimate power. That they chose to constrain it was an altruistic act of a sovereign body. But only they (and their predecessor the continental congress) had the power to restrict themselves. The courts can only hold them to the text they themselves wrote.
Why Mercurial instead of git?
There’s a gotcha here. The VCs can disproportionally dilute early employees that they think are worth less by issuing new shares/options to founders or new hires.

It’s not true that everyone will always be diluted equally. Someone who isn’t involved in politics or paying attention to investor terms (oh, like an engineer maybe?) is more vulnerable to this.
if the company won't share the preference stack with you, look up the total amount of capital the company has raised (or ask the question that way - that may be more likely to get an answer). In most cases, the preference stack = total capital raised.
There's no time limit on trade secrets and those might be more applicable.
0.25-0.5
> You are completely right about the fear of political fallout for wanting to uphold the law.

The erosion of respect for the rule of law is a direct result of the attempt to use law to implement a top-down social design, chiefly the "war on drugs". With policing being a public good, those with the least means should appreciate police the most. But rather their communities were persecuted using the police, and so those communities were pushed into adopting an alternative view. Similarly, even mainstream society does not actually expect police to be helpful towards us but rather as a source of trouble to be avoided (eg speeding tickets).

Given that public opinion cannot be directly changed, good initial steps to restoring public faith in the institution would be to eliminate invasive vice legislation, completely remove police from the enforcement of traffic regulations, as well as fully prosecuting criminals even when they're police officers.
Yes I too think this is just something we've been hearing all our lives, like boys don't cry and girls don't climb trees, that we start fearing the same even though it may be untrue.

I too find learning a lot easier (but it could also be because learning now is actually easier thanks to videos). Regardless if you put the time and energy into it I think adults learn a lot faster.
Roald Dahl couldn't have done it better.
Banking was regulated by states. There was no free market. "Free banking" laws passed by various states prevented banks from branching. These "unit banks" lacked the financial diversity that comes from having multiple branches and thus were more subject to collapse in the event of monetary shocks.

After the civil war, the federal government required banks to hold federal bonds as reserves on their deposits at an ordained ratio. Changes in the supply of federal bonds translated to fluctuations of the money supply, which is what caused the national booms and busts.

There were other places in the world that tried free banking, like Canada before it created a central bank, and Scotland during its free banking era, and their financial systems were famously stable.
Dude, seriously?
I've tried mypy, but it's still too immature (creates more issues than it solves). Specifically it's buggy and very limited (IIRC support for recursive types hadn't landed and many popular libraries--like SQLAlchemy--can't be annotated or stubbed).
Truths programmers should know about case (2018)
More to do with only selling about 300 per month, and sales dropping year over year.
Instead of blaming the original authors of the package start contributing to OSS.