skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my 20s, I used to think like that because that's what I was told by everyone around me. Now I find this idea infuriating.

I'm almost 30 now and I've been working insanely hard since before I left school and during university; I've been working at least 70 hours per week for 12 years (40 hours on my startup or corporate contracting day job, 30 hours on a side project). I've had some minor successes but still no big break - I'm not far from where I left off financially.

One of the many companies I worked for is doing relatively well and I'm hopeful that my small stake will be worth enough to buy a modest house/apartment someday but it's still a big gamble at this stage; the shares could still become worthless... Even if everything goes perfectly well, it's still not enough for me to retire. I feel that I got very lucky with that one. I can clearly see how it's possible to get to 50 years old working nonstop like a freak and making all the right decisions and still not make it financially.

I've been quite strategic about my career so far. I worked for startups which had relatively low valuations, proven tech, value-creating areas, fast growth, good investors, smart founders, were just starting to onboard big clients and sign big contracts. I also worked for a few hyped SV startups too (I worked for a SV-based Y Combinator company for over a year).

Even among the 12 or so software companies that I worked at and left, none of them had successful exits yet or grew sufficiently that it would have allowed me to make enough money to retire (even if I could pick the best one and assume that I had been able to negotiate a good equity package). Only one startup I worked at is doing relatively well and that's also the one which I stayed at the longest and have the most equity in.

I feel that people who got a big break before they turned 30 missed out on learning about reality.
No need, bake can link with your projects like it can link with any other C/C++ library: https://github.com/SanderMertens/bake#can-i-link-with-non-ba...
So what does that value imply about ppl without kids? That they should be putting more hours in or have less flexible schedules?

Why not have resonable work schedules for everyone, children or not. I just dont' get why employers have to come up with discriminatory policies for the 'good of the economy'. I would rather support a transparent 'tax childess ppl more' govt policies that these insidious "values". Whatever happened to the value that your employer shouldn't care what you do outside of work.
>When the revenue stream of the creator of Android fundamentally depends on being able to tie devices to identity and behaviour, it's highly unlikely this is going to happen.

Well put. I’ve tried to explain to people that I prefer Apple’s upfrontness that they are there to sell me a device and it’s software for money. Unlike Android systems where I feel the lead is intentionally buried by telling me how “free” the software is.
> partly because it means they've chosen self-focus and self-improvement over helping others

There's balance to be had here. You have to take care of yourself to help others more effectively. In case of learning, the less you know, the less you can give to the next generation.
Large corporations do pay taxes. Walmart's average tax rate is consistently around 25-30%: https://csimarket.com/stocks/singleProfitabilityRatios.php?c.... Proctor & Gamble pays 20-25%: https://csimarket.com/stocks/singleProfitabilityRatios.php?c.... Exxon's is 20-40%: https://csimarket.com/stocks/singleProfitabilityRatios.php?c....

Compare Alphabet, which has ranged from 8-25% in the last four quarters: https://csimarket.com/stocks/singleProfitabilityRatios.php?c....

Companies that produce physical goods in specific geographic locations and sell them in other specific geographic locations cannot play tax games the way tech companies (which sell intangible goods and services created from intangible inputs) can.
An evolved circuit, intrinsic in silicon, entwined with physics [pdf]
No, it is not common - even in the mythical valley. Very few people relative to the entire industry strike it rich with enough money to travel the world drinking champagne and eating caviar. The typical valley story goes:

When you're 20 - Live in SF and chase your startup dream of making it big. Most likely left with a bunch of worthless options and too little pay for the hours you worked, but great friends and memories (mostly of the after hours parties).

When you're 30 - Transition to FAANG like company. Live in SF and commute to the valley. Start making some real money but feel like you sold out. Still harbor dreams of quitting and launching your startup - right after that next big vesting period.

When you're 40 - Screw startups, you've got a family to feed, a mortgage to pay, and college tuition to think about. You've finally made the move from super-hipster, urban, walkable SF to a random suburb in the valley and may have even purchased gasp a minivan! Secretly, you find it a much more pleasurable living experience than SF but won't admit that to anyone.

When you're 50 - Hopefully, through hard work, smart financial decisions, and a little risk taking, you've gotten your finances under control. You've figured out how to use debt effectively, have a solid set of investments, and ideally are working toward multiple streams of income. You can now legitimately plan your next big career progression, whether that's retirement (still several years out), scaling back your full time work to focus on passion projects, or actually launching that startup (with a statistically much higher probability of success than any 20-something founder).
1. You need somebody.

2. They're cheap.

3. They went to the same school/non-school/frat/boot camp you did.

4. They look like they'll be fun to hang out with.

5. You also have no experience.
Ditto, I’m 48 and design hardware at a defense contractor in flyover country. Plenty of people working here 60+.
Does anyone know of a docker alternative like this? So something like KubeDB that lets me deploy a production-ready postgres db on docker swarm for example?
I designed, and my old company sells, a NIR/VIS spectrometer at around the £800 mark (I forget if that's Inc vat). It's easy to use, has a WiFi interface, a simple python API etc. It's a scientific grade instrument and comes calibrated.

The opinions here are mine, and I've left out any commercially sensitive stuff.

Why are these things expensive? The optical design is not trivial. Yes, it's fundamentally two mirros, a grating and a detector. But you also need a good optical bench inside which means baffling, multiple prototypes to figure out how to reduce stray light, making it strong enough to resist handling, etc. Mostly this means a CNC base.

The electronics for a precision instrument aren't cheap either. The ADC has to be fast and low noise which is expensive. The linear detector itself is expensive for what it is. The big companies put stuff like order sorting filters and coatings on the sensor - that's expensive. The OPLC is largely commodity components in a common configuration. They're also selling more units than we are!

Also don't forget labour. Although we went through several iterations to make assembly as easy for the engineers as possible, they're still all hand made. That takes time and so does calibration. You're paying for that, and so you don't have to buy a line emission lamp yourself.

So yes, Ocean Optics has a monopoly and they probably overcharge. We're about 0.3-0.5x the price with slightly lower performance accordingly. Going lower would be possible, but to be honest without the volume, BOM cost kills you.

http://www.is-instruments.com/phone/miniature-spectrometer.h...
No idea! Maybe they'll be a middleman for Bitcoin.

We have to wait and see.
I agree in general, but really the problem is factory farming, not meat production. Animals are required for healthy soil, and healthy soil feeds everyone. They are going to die, so giving them a nice life and not letting the product of their lives go underutilized is the best we can do. Go meet your local farmer, they hold much of our future.
This is probably a long shot, but if y'all ported it to Linux, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

(Or improve the feature-parity between the online and desktop versions, like the other commenter suggested.)
https://www.tamr.com/ - Metadata management for the enterprise as I understand it.
The need to keep track of all VAT rates across the EU, charge all individual customers their respective VAT, gather everything into VAT MOSS reports, pay everything with appropriate conversion rates chosen. It's not impossible, just complex, and in general not worth the effort if you're charging several dollars a month.

If you think this is easy, tell me how much VAT (and in which currency) you will charge a customer from AX today, and what you'll do about a customer from GB in March. None of this is obvious, and it all changes quickly.

As others have pointed out, there are services that supposedly help with this. I looked at everything that was available a couple of years ago and none of the available solutions did this easily and correctly. It's not an easily outsourceable problem, either, as it has to integrate closely with your billing.

For B2B customers this is not an issue: you don't charge VAT (reverse charge) and you're done.
This is way off topic, but I don't see how this could possibly help you.

Even if only 1/100 women will swipe-like you, Tinder and OkCupid bubble those women to the top of your swipe session. You don't need to dig through 100 women to find them.

It also works against you to have dozens or hundreds of stale matches accumulated. By the time you get around to sending messages, the women likely don't even remember you, or maybe aren't feeling you as much because it's 9:30am on Monday instead of 9:30pm on Friday.

What I recommend is to treat Tinder as a queue where you only want 3-5 conversations realized at a time, and you only want to realize the next enqueued woman when you are ready to plan a face-to-face meetup. For example, if you only go out on Friday and Saturday, it'd be best to match them on Weds-Sat rather than Monday so you can strike while the iron is hot.

When a woman declines your attempt to stoke a stale fire or your 2nd attempt at scheduling a date, then she falls out of the realized group.

I'm 30 and have been a voracious Tinder user since I was 24, and I think this is the ideal angle of approach. Sitting on matches tickles the ego but cools off the striking iron.
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Yes we will add many photos each week.
unsplash started with 10 :)
Under specific assumptions:

1) You don’t aspire to own a home here, as that will eat easily 100% or more of your savings.

2) You plan to spend your savings in a cheaper place.

USD is a convenient shorthand for purchasing power, but breaks down under huge regional COL differences. A $200k savings account in the Bay Area is like a $50k savings account elsewhere: about enough to think about setting up a middle-class grown-up lifestyle.
They got the gaming branded network card with all the RGB.
Ask HN: What is the single decision that increase your life quality?
1. If engineers don't value stories as valid for exploring and explaining reality, then they'll be doomed to lamp posting forever.

2. You're just making my point for me.

3. The access to secondary education that Americans have in is unparalleled anywhere else except in certain parts of Europe. It's been our collective obsession for decades, the subject of intense policy initiatives all over the nation. There's no political will to improve prisons, but an initiative to expand student loan funding will always be approved.

Anybody can take on $X0,000 in uncancelable debt to obtain a college degree with. The reason they can't follow through and actually improve their lives with it runs along emotional poverty lines. We can't educate our way out of this problem.
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yEd is really great! I stumbled upon it while googling about 7 years ago, and it was awesome even then (and it comfortably beat visio). What's even more cool is their (newish) online version, which means you can do all the diagramming in the browser and even share it conveniently.

Thank you to the creators of yEd - you've put together a wonderful product! If there is one feature I would like to see, it's the ability to bulk format elements and label fonts. From what I remember, that was just a tad monotonous.
I've been using the Unpaywall[0] extension, and it's been a godsend. It'll detect if the webpage is about an academic paper, and it'll display a green icon on the side to click on which will take you to a free, legally open distribution channel.

[0] https://unpaywall.org
Yes, that is correct. Bake can find dependencies regardless of where the dependency's source code is. You also don't need to first install your project before it can be used as a dependency, building is enough.

A big difference with CMake is that bake stores package binaries, include files and metadata in a $HOME/bake directory. It won't actually install anything to /usr/local (or equivalent), unless you explicitly tell it to. Users typically first build everything to their $HOME/bake folder, and then when they want to make it available for all users, copy the contents of that folder to /opt when distributing the project.
> I just don't think I'm in te proper situation to do it.

In my experience there are two kinds of pre-kid people: those who aren't ready for it and those who lie about being ready for it.
Every time it comes to “root cause analysis” (quoting makes sense in this context) I think of https://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/02/10/each-necessary-but-on...
I don't know about other countries, but in Poland the tax authorities are pretty strict, especially where VAT is concerned. It's good, because things are becoming clean and predictable, but you really do not want to get things wrong. You won't go to jail of course (unless you've defrauded bajillions), but fines and regular inspections will hurt your business pretty quickly.

Doing VAT wrong is really not an option.
The title needs (2011) on it.

This is similar to Microsoft's work in 2007: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seadragon_Software ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKwTurQgiak
Investing money is certainly not universally understood as investing it in financial markets... (Per Oxford dictionary:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/investment)

You have the right to your opinion, but changing words meaning is taking it a bit far.
> if you're not learning you are drifting backwards rapidly

I'm pretty sure this isn't true. Most of the "new" things in the industry are just rehashes of old things with a different coat of paint and some added abstractions to slow it all down.
How’s Lampert’s bid not a conflict of interest?
I suspect the (young, male) workers at the FAANG and the (older, male) workers in this thread would be counterexamples.
Ive been meaning to make a PR of feature request to add individual URLs to the blocklist
Thank you! Other founder here - I fixed the overflow. The infinite across the board is hosting custom domains (something other providers charge an arm and a leg for)
Exactly. This is also one of the big reasons why Stripe Atlas is not necessarily a good idea for companies from outside the US.
Keeping in mind that some antibiotics were found originally in soil. So there's a good chance many random collections of stuff have produced useful medicine. The claim should be stronger than "it's not entirely valueless". How about: on average is it better or worse than modern medicine? Modern medicine is probably better then soil, on average. That's testable. And I'd wager it's better than any alternative effort. Even all of them put together.

All the meridians and whatnot don't lend more credibility over...soil, say. Until they're tested properly. After which Nobel prizes can be won.
Totally agree. I believe that having a specific category of tax for a specific type of company is something that goes hand in hand with nationalizatio. What is worrying is that these companies probably doesn’t have lobbies in all world wide government, which means that they are not able to avoid signing such bills. Most of the other ( automotive in Germany, banks everywhere, etc. )have some government handles which makes them out of that scope.
The size of any upper dimension must be known for the array subscribing operator to work, using * allows you to bypass that in function prototypes.
Interesting, as I see it we as a global (just America?) society are moving towards an era of Public Purpose (if anything) in Schlesinger's model.

The notion that a powerful subculture (tech) is possibly in the opposite swing doesn't seem like coincidence, but instead a natural reaction based on fear. I suspect this pheonomenon isn't unique to this subculture in time, but I'm not versed enough in history to give you a strong example. Maybe look into the period at the beginning of the industrial revolution.
I totally understand your concern. That's why a free plan will always be available for basic diagramming needs. Our pricing will be tied to advanced features that are not publicly available yet.
In this case the pressure mostly comes from the submission deadline for the NIST competition, I think.
How come no one is discussing the same-day nyc xformer, 911 and tribune outage?
i know these events just happen periodically, but isn't fishy they were on the same day between xmas and nye?
Safety
Everyone keeps talking about safety when I worked for Deere the only safety device was one to keep it starting in gear. Its not like cars and trucks you cannot make the tractor run 50 mph. The transmission and rearend gearing prevent that. So how could changing a sensor result in death? I have overhauled motors on older tractors that have over 10,000 hours on them after overhaul. This is a big mess that needs to be taken care of. How will changing codes in engine that will make it run better burn less fuel kill someone? What I see killing someone is falling asleep, reading a book, or watching tv while using auto steer feature. It beeps at you at the corner but don’t turn around, or stop tractor if it leaves the field and goes onto the highway. It does not drive around the power poles in the field how many farmers have hit the powerlines. So tell me exactly what safety features we are harming by changing our own parts
Not necessarily. One of the things you 'learn' with age is that you can get way more done by helping other people learn what to do than doing it yourself. It's a style of leadership that stresses building a nurturing environment for talent.
I'm not too sure about that because I haven't used either in some time unfortunately. I tried some stuff on their online REPL. From what I gathered Purescript is doomed to produce more "unwieldy" error messages because of the more complex type system.

Take this definition for example:
`
some = drop (Just 5) [1,2,3,4,5,6]
`

Purescript isn't even doing _that_ bad in this case: it complains that `Maybe Int` doesn't match `Int` but then goes on talking about checking if `Maybe t0` is "at least as general as" `Int` which will probably be useful information for an experienced developer but not newcomers. This is, at least from what I experienced, what happens most of the time with Purescript: you get way too much information with way too many details.

Compare this to an error produced by the Elm compiler:

>-- TYPE MISMATCH ---------------------------- Main.elm

>The 1st argument to `drop` is not what I expect:

>8| List.drop (String.toInt userInput) [1,2,3,4,5,6]

> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>This `toInt` call produces:

> Maybe Int

>But `drop` needs the 1st argument to be:

> Int

>Hint: Use Maybe.withDefault to handle possible errors.
Actually the peasants were taxed to pay the nobility, not the other way around.
Gov agencies do accept zip files from general population. Send them something, they'll have to open it to respond to your request... Bam, you broke into a PC with sensitive system inside of a gov network.
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Another example of corporate mismanagement. Hopefully they will use this as a lesson. It's not always possible to 'do the right thing'. What we need to find out is why.
As I've grown older, I've noticed a very strange phenomenon - my memory has certainly gotten worse but my reflexes have grown much quicker, seriously cat-like reflexes now. Perhaps it's time for a career change from tech to . . . circus performer?
It should be a “race to the bottom”, it’s what normal people call “competition”.

Cities that can provide the necessary services to their citizens for less money “win”.

That’s how it should be and how it works today.
Having a bunch of headsets that get reused for each load of passengers seems like a great way to give passengers pinkeye.
I've heard this before, but there is something to be said about the difference between someone having kids at the start of their careers when they have little to no savings, and several years (hell, a decade) into their careers when they have high paying jobs with good stay-at-home policy, lots of money in the bank, perhaps a house.

I grew up in situation 1 (teen pregnancy) and it is fascinating to talk with my friends about the different environments we grew up in and the different issues (mentally or financially) we face based on that simple comparison.
in germany if the only way to access your property is through someone elses private property, then you have a right to cross that private property.

if the beach is public property, then the public should have a right to get there. any arguments by the private property owners that they are protecting the beach is irrelevant, because the beach is not theirs to protect.
You can’t digitally do so, no.

You would have to physically interact with the device to change how the circuit operated, or else the only way for the CPU to access the cryptographic data is by allowing a different specialized circuit to unlock a value based on analog input.

You can’t meaningfully “bypass” that digitally, unless you already know the secret. So if the auth flow depends on that secret, it can’t bypass the analog sensor feeding in the values to unlock it.

The bypasses we see are where you can, eg, attach a debug cable to feed in values without going through the sensor (which is a non-digital interaction). Or bugs in correctly implementing the logic, eg, the crypto chip accidentally exposes information.

It’s much the same protection a yubikey left in the side of your laptop provides: someone physically at the device pushed a button, with a cryptographic witness that’s hard to fake.
As one of the Long Now's early members, I definitely agree that markets are too short-sighted. But that has nothing to do with Musk's inability to retain key staff. And ongoing losses are definitionally unsustainable.

Big experiments are only good if they need to be big. Otherwise, they're just wasteful. That waste a) raises risk unnecessarily, b) starves others good experiments of capital, and c) makes people less willing to experiment.

Measured in those terms, I think Musk is particularly bad, and it's due to his need to showboat. The manufacturing philosophy, Lean (or TPS) was brought to America right in the building he occupies. But he has made a raft of mistakes, ignoring that history, consuming far more capital and creating more risk than needed to gain any particular learning that Tesla has produced.

In contrast, look at how Toyota tackled the Prius. They also pioneered an entirely new category of eco-friendly car. But they did it quietly and patiently. It's now one of the world's top-selling cars, and sparked widespread interest in greener living. I don't think they've published their capital costs, but looking at their gradual production ramp-up, I suspect they were much better experimenter than Musk has been at Telsa.
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