skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is 100% accurate and not how things were even 10 years ago. The market today is basically bi-modal. When I first started out in startups (2008) that didn't seem to be the case. The result is obviously worse for you financially if you join the startup, but it has also weakened the teams at startups. Many top engineers are just staying at the big public tech companies. Meanwhile large startups that would have IPOed years ago stay private in the current funding environment, dragging out the lockdown period for engineers. It just doesn't make sense to work at a startup like it used to.

I truly don't think most people that argue to work for a startup have internalized the compensation at the big tech companies. $400k+ really is total comp for senior engineers. Not $200k + some lottery tickets for later, it's $400k on your W2 each year, with some of that fluctuating based on stock price and delivered in quarterly increments.
I agree that there's an obvious risk here, but this is a burden for the courts to bear.

The concern over data-use at filtering service companies is new to me and interesting but substantially mitigated if they are compliant with GDPR. I haven't seen this argument before, so I'll have to take a look. Thanks!
Those services do not necessarily need to be publicly accessible. Think of a federated network of private servers with closed user groups, which allow to share stuff easily with selected users on other servers. The directive would probably not even apply to this, but even if it does, it would be pretty hard to go after you, ay long as you don't share critical material with people you don't know.
>NVC ends up being a pretty good system for making blanket judgements

Could you give an example of this?
Ah, my mistake, thank you! It's been a long while since I talked to the FDB folks and I guess I misunderstood where they were using Paxos!
What was the driving factor to use Lineage? Privacy?
Yeah, we would need some kind of organization that lobbies according to the public's will.

Of course people shouldn't just be able to join this organization and take over the reigns, so they would need to be voted in. Let's say each region of a country will have a couple of candidates and regular votes are held on who will get to join the organization for a limited time. With this organization in place, we will finally be able to truly voice the people's opinion and act on their behalf!

There is something though about that idea that I cannot pinpoint. It somehow feels vaguely familiar. If I could just figure out how...
Maybe they can work on writing content marketing articles or documentation, link building, partner outreach, building relationships with potential customers, mapping out growth strategies, handling social media, looking for key opinion leaders, getting key facts that demonstrate your value prop, figuring out good questions for sales scripts, listing requirements for contracts and T&Cs, doing the bookkeeping, looking for subsidies/funding, getting a feel for what competitors are doing and probably a million other things that we as solo founders have to do.

Good luck
I'm skeptical about this Cicero Institute. Palantir, Niall Ferguson, private prison contracts, ...? It strikes me as west coast version of the Cato Institute. Also, I also don't think of Cicero as any sort of stoic. He was a lawyer, a politician and a republican. He certainly used stoicism in his orations from time to time but only out of convenience in the way an American politician might appeal to our 'rugged individualism'.
I've been of the opinion that it's simply easier to analyze the era from ~1914-1945 as one long era of war with ill-defined boundaries of conflicts, rather than looking at WW1, Russian Civil War, Spanish Civil War, Second Sino-Japanese War, WW2, and a host of other smaller conflicts (including Continuation War and the Second Italo-Ethiopian War).

As a practical matter, the European/African theater against Germany/Italy and the Pacific theater against Japan are two separate wars that happened contemporaneously and with some powers fighting the two wars at the same time. The Continuation War was in large part pushed by the Germans to extend the front of the USSR, and as such is essentially part of the Eurafrican WW2, although the Finns did not entirely cooperate in actually pursuing Axis objectives.

This does show the difficulty of drawing firm boundaries around the wars in this era.
That's exactly the same argument people made about apartheid South Africa. And yet nearly everyone would say sanctions and boycotts were appropriate and effective.

China has millions of minorities in detention centers with some highly questionable things happening to those people. If you believe in justice and human rights, it is everyone's business what happens there.
All ODM needs is a centroid Lat/Lon from the EXIF tags on each photo. You can optionally add a text file that gives a pixel an exact Lat/Lon. From this it matches features from the photos to calculate the exact pitch, yaw, direction. I think you can specify those in the EXIF but it is really hard (i.e. expensive) to get these to high enough quality to render the final image.

In our case the high quality gimbals where more than our drones. (~$15k each)
I've literally been downvoted on HN for saying this before, but I always thought "dolorem ipsum, quia dolor sit" is a great turn of phrase. The use of the subjunctive, the short repetitive words, says a lot without saying much.
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The article talks specifically about Indian startups, so I think it's a fair assumption
This views education as something you get from your peers and/or from your employer. It's true, but incomplete. You also get education from challenges you face. In a startup, you'll be often challenged out of your comfort zone. This will force you to learn. If not from your peers, of which there may be none able to teach you, then from other sources. On the other side, in a big company, you'll be much more limited in your scope of action. You'll get very very good at tightening that specific model of screw.

It is a balance between models of learning, the best position is, as ever, in the middle.
How about this then? There are members from Microsoft, Twitter, and Pinterest on the project's technical steering committee: https://github.com/ampproject/meta-tsc
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Yeah, the mindset is critical. I'm actually 3/4 of the way through the Mindset book, and I definitely see a lot of myself in the fixed mindset; it's gotten worse as I get older, but I'm having a great time learning new things now. I almost stepped back into a role where I could generate a TON of value for the company, but something stopped me. Only later did I realize why it was a good decision. My discomfort at feeling like I'm struggling to learn new things (in a role that was almost ALL new things) made me want to seek refuge in a position where I would be extremely valuable. But it wasn't going to generate value for me. The growth and the learning is valuable for me, and as long as you can find roles that nurture that and allow you to do so, you're winning and growing your skills.
100% agreed. The "franchise agreement" my local band of cities signed includes a pretty heavy handed set of stipulations. They must provide lots of government access / public access type channels, agree to certain dispute resolution steps, emergency alert systems, construction timetables, etc. etc.

Maybe in rural areas it is easier, but within any suburban area, you probably have to spend a few hundred thousand simply to draft and get an agreement signed...before building a single thing.

I'm sure there was a reason to do this, but it effectively stops all but the big corporations from entering into agreements.
Referenda only work when the populace is informed and educated enough to make good decisions. Otherwise, you get Brexit.
I would like to commend your actually going out of your way to deal with something you've identified you wish to change about yourself. Also- I noticed you're in NYC. Would you be opposed to having a coffee chat sometime? (Feel free to decline- no stress. This is HN after all.)
Nothing "makes sense" about an arbitrary number. That's why it's arbitrary. It makes an equal amount of sense to say that mean local solar noon is 183615.

The system we have doesn't work because the problem is how to coordinate billions of humans. No solution will ever work, because you can't perfectly coordinate any number of humans greater than about 500. The mess we have now is just built upon centuries of kludges, each trying to improve on how civil time was defined beforehand.

Why are there 24 principal time zones? Because the clock has 24 hours. Why does the clock have 24 hours, with 60 minutes each? Because Sumerians counted on their fingerbones, and Babylonians liked base-60.

Machines, on the other hand, can coordinate perfectly fine on the number of milliseconds since 1Jan1970, at the center of the main telescope of the original Greenwich Observatory. The zone file is the only thing holding the stupid mess together. We could specify civil time to be any rule-based system whatsoever, and the computer clock would still allow us to coordinate with the rest of the world.

With the invention of cheap ubiquitous computing and piezocrystal-mediated clocks, it makes sense to throw out every unit other than the SI second, and stop trying to coordinate things that don't need to be coordinated. Schoolkids don't need to be in their homeroom seats at the same time the NYSE opens. The fast food chain stores don't all need to stop serving breakfast at exactly the same time. And companies don't need to have the same business hours as the local bank branch.

Most owls, as opposed to most larks, would rather get up after sunrise, rather than before it. Tired (literally) of larks setting the schedule for everyone just because they wake up first.
The UX is terrible for me. If I have to do that much work to make the content show up, it breaks me out of the flow of reading and I do not absorb the material as well. I rapidly lost interest and did not finish the article. I applaud your experiment, and I imagine that there are people for whom it will be effective, but it is a mistake to imagine that any single form of presentation can be "in fact great" in an objective way that works for everyone.
Technically email is plaintext, though for the definition you aspire towards, it was in the early days. But then various RFC's added this and that and now email processing/sanitisation is scary.

But then email is one large unsanitized input that has so many rules to be applied, what could go wrong.

That's why email attachments alone are an utter MIME-field when it comes to security.
Other than the mouse over issue, I love the format of the site. Very readable, and it greatly expanded my understanding of the war.
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I would never work at a FAANG, but there are plenty of post-IPO tech companies out there that pay near-comparable levels when you look at salary and equity comp combined. And in many cases the mix will be more like 30-40% salary, 60-70% RSUs, which reliably show up ready to sell every quarter.

At a startup, even if you're making a market-rate salary, you're giving up the equity, or, at best, hoping that the equity will be liquid and worth something in 5-10 years. If it's not, you're looking at a huge pay cut (over 50%, often), and even if it is, equity payouts post-IPO or post-acquisition are often less than what you'd get at a non-startup, when you average it out over the years you had to wait to sell it.
The fact that anyone ever thought it would be worthwhile to implement an optimization like this is very telling.

I'm not exactly sure what it tells us, but it definitely tells us something.
That broadband map isn't very good. At my old place it said I could get fiber for several years before I actually could. Checking my current place it looks like it still incorrectly says I can get fiber. I'm in a major urban area.
https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/storage/ap...
Azure Data Box family meets customers at the edge
I'd be happy to meet up; email is REDACTED, hit me up there. (This message will be deleted in about 45 minutes to avoid a shitstorm of spam).

EDIT: Doesn't look like I can delete, but I can chop out my email.
> It's quite a feat to lessen your capabilities, and still be able to repel an invasion by all of Europe

Most of Europe was being attacked (or actively suppressed) by Germany, not attacking the USSR with Germany, and even Germany was fighting on other fronts, so it wasn't even “all of Germany”.
Not everything is about money.

+100 to this sentiment. It has never made sense to work at a startup to "get rich" it has always made sense (and will continue to make sense) to work at a startup in order to expand your personal skill set and to take on different challenges.

In the Bay Area, and I recognize that this may be completely different elsewhere, when you work at a startup it is often difficult to "hide" if you are under performing, and it is easier to "shine" when you put in the extra effort. It is also generally a place where engineers can try on more marketing roles and vice versa. Moving from "management" to "individual contributor" is often more fluid, and the variety of technologies you are exposed too can be quite diverse. Start ups are generally less 'snobbish' about which college you graduated from or even if you graduated from college, concerned more with results and less with appearance. Turn over (people coming and going) is generally higher so you end up knowing people at more companies which builds a "network" when you decide you want to work somewhere else.

For new engineers I typically advise them to find 'mid-stride' startups, generally something that as locked down a Series A or Series B round so there is "real money" and they can generally make a near market rate base salary. And I advise them to go in with the attitude that they are using the startup to expand their skill set and increase their exposure to various roles.

Generally its a great way to launch into your second (or third) job.
I used to enjoy most days. Worked in faux-agile but really a waterfall model, on useful/important products. Had a lot of freedom and gave myself enough slack to improve things along the way.

Now working in “real agile” where every ticket is (supposed to be) a day’s work or less and everyone’s constantly at full capacity with stupid “implement whizzbang feature because management say so” tickets. Still doing similar work technically, but now it’s absolutely soul-draining! Hooray!
Because HTML in emails is a notoriously painful process to get working even remotely well.

Not all email providers support HTML in the same way. Some examples:

* At one point Gmail did not support style tags and all styles had to be inline.
* Outlook for years used the Word HTML processor which had all sorts of limitations. Hell to get a button you had to create it in VML and put a conditional "if Microsoft do this" on it.
* Some (up until a few years ago) versions of Outlook ignore either padding/margin on CSS (forget which one)
* In order to layout your email so that it works across all clients, forget about using anything remotely modern. You have to use tables everywhere like it's 2000 all over again.

I'm probably forgetting a bunch, it's been a couple years since I had to deal with it.

With all these issues, adding yet another thing onto it is just asking for pain.
That doesn't really sound anything like misdirected stoicism... that's just being a garden variety asshole.
The problem is that "I don't like Java a lot." does not contribute to this discussion at all.
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Green Calx, while an awesome track, always breaks my concentration. I have made many playlists named SAW1-GC on different platforms and have gone so far as considering using a utility knife to cut a custom diagonal skip groove through it on one of my three vinyl copies of SAW85-92.
GPS for example works just fine in the rain. Geostationary orbits have much larger issues with weather than the closer orbits of next gen satilite Internet.
I see that https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/03/26/ente... redirects desktop browser to https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/us/live-news/jussie-smollett-charges... even with user agent spoofing. I'm not getting here the content that a mobile user will get.
It was launched last year so it isn't a major player yet but Charter does have a cellular product.

https://mobile.spectrum.com/
Costs to taxpayers also go beyond their employee policies. Walmart was a leader in moving shopping centres outside city limits to avoid paying expensive taxes. By moving tax revenue from retail business away from cities, the tax burden on residents near them has increased. There are many other ways in which they've managed to minimize their taxes, like getting cities to pay for extra roads and infrastructure or receiving special deals, which is arguably how any profit-maximizing business should be expected to act. Ideally, governments should use this data to continually analyze the effectiveness of tax laws and make adjustments to avoid any potential exploitation.
As you state (I believe), that's not what Stoicism is about - it does not advocate to impose suffering on others. (It does suggest to voluntary undergo deprivations occasionally to reset the hedonistic treadmill: Seneca is said to have slept on the floor every now and then, to appreciate the bed afterwards.)

Interesting theory though, that a simplistic caricature of Stoicism is invoked to justify immoral behaviour. Pity the article didn't seriously investigate that.
Well, okay. I'm in Silicon Valley. That map lists Comcast, AT&T, and a small local player I've never heard of. Comcast: my current ISP. AT&T: didn't offer broadband service the last time I checked; this has apparently changed since then. (But the map says they offer 75Mbps, but AT&T says only 50Mbps.) They've had accusations of privacy issues (tracking their users via inserting cookies, selling their data for ads unless the user opts-out for a token fee, IIRC) so, not so enthusiastic there, and the last small player offers gigabit (wow!) for $400/mo (dealbreaker).

So, maybe it's a duopoly, but the privacy stuff breaks it for me. Though I'm sure someone's going to point out that Comcast likely isn't any better…

So, I'm highlighted at "3" but really the answer is charitably 2, maybe 1.

Also, you've linked to the map highlighted at 10/1; but my understanding is that the FTC definition of broadband is presently 25/3.
It's quite easy to work with type-system-checked positive numbers outside of academia. I've done it in production in Haskell and made real money ;)

You can write a verbose sum-of-products to encode that ABCD example although if it's really true that only two tops can be nil and it can be any combo and they're all disparate type, I'd love to see what real problem that would be about! Seems nuts.

Lemme see if I can have some fun and encode it more elegantly than "unrolling the permutations" :)
I don't think any historian disputes that the USSR was planning to go to war against Germany eventually. The dispute is that the USSR was planning to go to war in late 1941/early 1942.
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That only works for local checked out copy and not remote repo URL, unfortunately.
I've worked for ten startups. Financially, not a great idea. Like the lottery, a few win big and the vast majority lose. I had one decent exit, which is about par for the course, and really it just brought me up to parity with my BigCo colleagues. I'll make more in four years at a FAANG company than I did in four years even at that one successful startup.

As far as learning, it's also a mixed bag. Sure, you get to learn a lot of different things, but a lot of it is the digital equivalent of cleaning toilets. You might have some influence over which technologies get used, but only a small number will get used company-wide vs. the wide variety that might exist at a larger company. I was still probably able to learn more about storage and networking and HPC and other general areas at some of those startups than now, but it's not clear it was any better for my market value. Even though much of what I'm learning now is totally specific to this employer and should barely even count in any future job search, there's a lot of cargo-culting in this industry so it's likely to make more than impression than even the most innovative startup nobody ever heard of.

There are a lot of reasons to choose working at a startup, but they're mostly about personal preference and fulfillment rather than doing your career or finances any good. In some ways, startups would be a better choice late in someone's career, not early.
If the law were structured to make Dropbox illegal, then that particular neckbeard's observation would have been much more insightful. It seems likely that individual users are going to have to "get technical" in response to creeping authoritarianism from the EU and other powerful, unaccountable actors.
This is a very timely article for me. I just ended a romantic relationship due to, in my perspective, a failure of communication in our disagreements.

I had generally thought of myself as someone who was able to communicate clearly, in recognition of whatever emotion triggered a disagreement but without letting that emotion color the discussion. To at least to keep it in check while discussing our needs. But I consistently failed with my partner, and I found it so incredibly frustrating. I got more exasperated and upset in our conversations than I ever been, and it spiraled out of control.

I had been seeing a therapist, and he instructed me briefly in NVC, and I suddenly saw that I had been unable to say things without inherently assigning blame. I felt cowed.

But the thing is, my partner had always reacted negatively to my calm approach to the disagreements. I had gone so far as to demand her to get on my level (which I acknowledge was an over-the-top condescending statement) to which she rejected as being sanctimonious. It was more than just that statement that she was rejecting, though.

And now, I can't help but feel that NVC would be just another crutch to approaching difficult conversations, and possibly even counter to my goals. My synthesis of these experiences is that I am practically blind to my emotions, and I am only barely better at recognizing motivations and emotions in others. Once I've built up the ability to recognize what the hell is going on, then I have to figure out what to say. It's all about the audience.
Are you talking about the B.E.N.S.[0] program? Then yes, companies can currently target individuals very easily/illegally using the fusion centers.

It's widely known that american companies have this capability but don't really know the details...

[0]:https://www.bens.org/
Michael Dell has a 'nature preserve' for deer that just so happens to be the few hundred acres surrounding his house.

This of course qualifies for the agriculture exemption on Texas property taxes, so a piece of property that he spent $70M purchasing is paying taxes as if it's worth $290,000. Quite the system we have when the public subsidizes people like Michael Dell for $1m/year on this property alone:

https://www.thenation.com/article/tax-day-farms-owned-rich-p...
I've sent an email via a buffalo.edu address. :)
That's interesting to read, since it provides an additional air of credibility to the reported fears.

I wish that the Business Insider article had linked or at least mentioned it, but if they did then perhaps "customers are scared of Oracle" would not have seemed like breaking news.
and a downvote with no comment?

I see that you were afraid to express your opinion.
We've finally found the one problem HackerNews willingly admits it can't innovate around: boycotting China.