skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> sit around in the gutter while the rest of the web gets more multimedia and more performant

I (sincerely) appreciate reminders like this of just how much online opinions and experiences vary.

My sense of the last few years of web changes is that performance is mostly a product of script-blocking or AMP-degraded functionality, and new multimedia is mostly a user-hostile attempt to boost revenue. Whether it's five-point stories broken across five page loads, Reddit's "use our app" links breaking in AMP, or Techcrunch's insane scroll-down-to-redirect-to-homepage layout, the last ~3 years of web development are full of changes I find actively negative.

I understand the fight over something like AMP for email much better when I remember how far from universal that is. It's not really a surprise there's so much disagreement over what to do next when there's this much divide over what's working well at present.
This should be doable? You could feed your entire catalogue into the machine, and have it start generating music. For every pass, you could listen to the created piece and tell it "I would not make anything like element X, because of [specific reason], so take that out."

Enough of these passes and detailed removal of elements you wouldn't create, and you should get closer and closer to a machine that would be your musical clone.
I started transitioning away from Gmail (to Fastmail) last fall, forwarding my gmail and using a signature asking people to update their address book. This is a good day to make the hard cutoff.

One strategy for explaining the problem to non-technical people is by comparing regular email to the walled-garden email used by some banks, phone companies, and the like--where you have to log into their website to see your 'inbox' and use a web form to send messages. It's super annoying and the other party has complete control of the communication channel.

"Dynamic email" could be implemented to inject this kludge into your email client, giving the AMP sender (who likely has more power than the user) the same level of control over the channel. Imagine opening your email client and finding a message which asks for two security questions and a captcha, then lands you in a messaging interface which limits you to 200 characters and denies basic affordances of email like archiving and forwarding.

I find the arguments that email is already mutable because images are externally-loaded unpersuasive. In 2013 Google started caching images in gmail "to protect you from unknown senders who might try to use images to compromise the security of your computer." [1] Email marketers were upset at losing engagement metrics. Now a practice that used to be considered abuse is being rolled out as a feature.

[1] https://gmail.googleblog.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html
I'm a solo-founder too and I agree that cognitive load is the biggest problem, even working less than 40 hours/week.

I've been on this for 4 years and I feel like my personality has changed due to the fact that my brain can't dedicate reasonable resources to anything other than running the business. I used to have several interests (musical instruments, travel, film, photography) and now I can only afford to care about business and family. The only things I can talk about are related to business or child-rearing.

What keeps me going is that I should be able to retire at least 20 years sooner than I would by working a regular 9 to 5 job, so I'll have plenty of time to dedicate to other interests.
There's definitely a model for selling MVPs for fifty to a hundred million dollars, especially in AI right now. If you can stay small and take away 5 to 25% of that you win. The best way to approach this is to work at a bigco and then leave to build something they need but for which they lack the will to build themselves.

But the minute you're talking less than 1% equity, unless it's the next Facebook, you belong at the bigco of your choice.

All IMO of course...
I encourage you to commit to reading things you disagree with instead of abandoning them.
Agreed. If my company ever exits and thats a big if. I doubt I get much. 100k would be amazing, but I am likely sacrificing 20k per year to work here at this point. The reason I stick around here is I can work full remote and have been able to travel the world much more. But after four years, I'd trade that in for a really nice pension or matching 401k in a heart beat.
Technological change and disruptions seem to be accelerating I wonder if we'll get to the point where the large entrenched interests simply can't keep up.

It takes time to buy politicians (at least until PaaS - Politician as a Service becomes a thing).
It’s good to check on this of course but...as far as ISPs go, this is actually about #3 on the list of problems I want the FTC or someone to fix.

How about the fact that there’s usually only one choice. Or that Internet that everyone wants can be force-bundled with ridiculous things no one wants (like a home phone line and minimum TV bundle), that we tolerate because there is no option. Or prices that go up forever with no improvements, except when they all magically found a way the day after Google Fiber was announced. These companies abuse their positions and need to be checked for that in addition to privacy.
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Handing over control of your content rendering to Google via AMP is not a safe option.
Uh... Rome did not conquer Europe by being gathering a lot of Facebook Likes. It did it by defeating the surrounding tribes, kingdoms, and rival empires. The Legions imposed Roman law and encouraged the adoption of Roman culture and ethics. Popularity did not have all that much to do with it.

NYT reading level keeps plummeting every year to new bottoms.
I really wish the New York Times would stick to news reporting.
It seems like a lot of the OP's experience is clouded by bitterness over having such a lousy payout in what looks like a good acquisition.

I think this mostly goes to illustrate how important it is to understand the ownership structure of the company (common vs. preferred stock) and understanding what your grant actually means. Most people just accept whatever they're given without really understanding it. It can be a costly mistake.
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Which FOSS license? Because if it's a permissive one, like MIT, BSD or MPL, then you get results like we did with CKEditor 4:

> From these thousands of businesses and millions of downloads, a very small group (less than 0,5%) decides to enter into business relations with CKSource.

Source: https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5/issues/991

CKEditor (a rich-text editor) is this kind of really complex piece of software which requires years of experience and years of development. It's also a piece of software which is complex enough to scare people from contributing to it. So people use it for free and report bugs to you. That's all. With that conversion rate about 0.5% and a rather niche market, it's possible to slowly grow your business (as we did – CKSource is 40+ people today), but hard to keep up with the world.

Just to give a context – CKEditor 5 (which was written completely from scratch) required 5+ experienced developers working for more than 4 years right now. Therefore, for CKEditor 5 we chose GPL2+. We hope to have a more healthy paying/free users ratio. The future will show us if that's a good direction

BTW, you say that:

> commercial licenses can be a serious pain to navigate in many companies

From my experience, it's actually the opposite. Companies like our commercial license because it's easier for them than going with e.g. LGPL or MPL and hoping they won't violate it.
I guess the first question is: What do you want to do with AWS?

Do you want to have a good understanding of the breadth of services, or do you want to learn how to leverage AWS to help in your development?

CSA will give you a good overview of the main services AWS offers: You'll learn about EC2, S3, VPC networking, security and access management, etc. You'll also learn about costing holistically, and how to make well-architected systems.

Certified Developer will give you a deeper dive into the development-centric aspects of AWS. You'll learn stuff like specific details about RDS and Dynamo DB (manage SQL and NoSQL databases, respectively), how to build CI/CD pipelines, ECS (Elastic Container Store), etc. It covers fewer products (but at a deeper level) than the CSA.

With the CSA you'll learn which use cases you'll want a relational DB or when you want to go NoSQL. You'll also learn what DB engines are available in RDS and Dynamo DB. With the Developer, you'll be asked more detailed stuff like read/write units, eventually vs. strongly consistent reads, how DB throughput is calculated, etc.

How to learn? AWS Whitepapers and ReInvent videos on Youtube are both free. Linux Academy has great courses on AWS. acloud.guru fills in some gaps Linux Academy may leave out, but overall I find acloud.guru to be less feature-rich and somewhat underwhelming.

A lot of people use Whizlabs for practice tests, but I've never used them.

I encourage getting AWS certified. The certifications are really hot right now, and it'll validate that you have at least the base knowledge. There's a lot of fakers out there, and AWS certification helps you overcome that hurdle somewhat.

--3x AWS certified, including CSA Pro.
> The largest entities are multinationals operating on multiple continents, so it's pretty clear that regulations being passed at federal level isn't the primary source of their economies of scale.

First, it still can be. If the US has one set of laws and the EU has another set, a conglomerate has two sets of laws to navigate. That is still much easier for them than having dozens in each place.

Second, companies do their "harmonization" game with treaties as well, which of course only works by having a sufficiently powerful central government that can be controlled to sign onto such treaties and use their power to get other governments to do the same, using many of the same problematic shenanigans that happen at the federal level to create bad federal laws.

> Sure, companies can use regulatory harmonization to their advantage, but they can also use tax and labour law competition between localities to their advantage.

But that has nothing to do with entity size, and in fact is the opposite. If one state has advantageous laws then local companies there have an advantage over companies of any size that operate elsewhere.
Why do you want to force your idea of what the goal should be upon Google?

If they want to test the waters in relatively unexplored waters let them do so.
Yes, I misinterpreted the comment. After being frustrated by lack of any decent internet almost everywhere, I have a knee jerk response to the words “plenty of ISPs”. You can go all the way from coast to coast and still have to choose being abused by either Comcast/Verizon/ATT/Centurylink/Spectrum/Charter.
Zero. I work because I have to, not because I care about what I'm doing.
Different groups such as... Yahoo and Microsoft?

https://verizon-postmaster.tumblr.com/post/183699380323/amp-...

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Outlook-Blog/Support-...
Wow that's an interesting list. Might you be able to add some specific points of interest on some of these OS's to start with? Cheers.
I briefly glanced at the paper and they talked about prime numbers a bunch.
Might as well save you a click I guess:

[32] But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing of a pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

[33] On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammeled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse.
I think it's worth addressing this head-on even though you're getting downvoted presumably for being off-topic.

In terms of US-based journalism, the industry has been gutted by ours truly. My observation is that there's hardly any traditional newsmedia content worthy of the HN front page and that the NYT is one of the very last daily papers worth reading along with the WSJ and Washington Post. The NYT has real journalists given the budget to do long form and investigative reporting and cultural commentary. That they would be one of the few general news outlets consistently producing content relevant to SV and tech should be no surprise.

If you'll forgive me for reading between the lines, you dislike that the NYT's particular bias is being over represented on HN. But all media has always been biased and the only treatment is a diversity of sources. Unfortunately there's no longer much diversity when it comes to high-quality reporting, so even if HN's audience would want to upvote a different viewpoint, the papers that used to publish those viewpoints have long since turned to clickbait.
I think you're overloading the word "violent".

What you really mean is "coercive" which, interestingly enough, is the blindspot of the ideology extolled by the OP's article.
Kotlin is amazing for this.
Another key difference is that Taiwan Strait is much narrower than the Atlantic Ocean.
True, after a few years of experience you recognize pitfalls to avoid. I remember figuring this out on my own as a kid writing a chat client, years before learning O terminology. As the number of clients reached ten performance dropped and quickly realized I needed to handle the situation more efficiently and did.

Doesn't provide the smug satisfaction of using the academic notation/jargon given in tech interviews and hn threads however.
> English isn't even in top 4 of world spoken languages

By what measurement? Wikipedia gives Mandarin > Spanish > English > Hindi for native speakers[0] and English > Mandarin > Hindi > Spanish for all speakers.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...
You're referring to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1498257 right?

I read all the comments, didn't get that impression, can you say why you do?
Because they were using a demo function from a JS lib that attempts to match error messages:

https://github.com/facebookincubator/idx

>The idx runtime function exists for the purpose of illustrating the expected behavior and is not meant to be executed. The idx function requires the use of a Babel plugin that replaces it with an implementation that does not depend on details related to browser error messages.

https://github.com/facebookincubator/idx/issues/55
An exit would usually be considered long-term capital gains under the tax code, which luckily tops out at 20% (+ state income tax)
Now the server is dead :(
You have to host somewhere!!! Ever gotten an abuse email from the data center holding your physical hardware? I have. My tiny forum that has 50 participants max actually has a filter to prevent anyone from using the word "Elton".
> Assuming he is from India,

That's kind of a weird assumption to make.
As I understood it, they are measuring the latency to game servers located in googles datacenter. This is why they are talking about that. They cant measure game latency to a PoP, because the game server isn't at the PoP.

Instead of routing to the nearest PoP, they route to the PoP that provides the lowest latency to their game server. I don't understand the confusion. They are simply measuring latency over a number of different routes and choosing the optimal one (for their use case).

Maybe you are assuming that there is no latency between the PoPs and the datacentres? I can assure you thats not the case.
Last time I did a fresh install of Windows 10 Home I had to go into Apps & features and disable "Allow apps from the Store only" in order to install Chrome. Didn't seem to have to do that on Windows 10 Pro.
Mobile phones.
> import/export their identity certificates

Experienced this for the first time last year when I started my current job at a company that is still using lotus notes. I get that it's possibly more secure than username/password but dang is it annoying.
Thanks, I just found it too on the EP website, however without the explanation of the votes and buried in the middle of a 300 page word document.

Isn't it nice that the people deciding about the future of internet are doing that by passing around word documents like it's 2001? I wonder how many people here can imagine a more readable presentation of such data...
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When I tried to get into Eve, I applied to a couple corps, and they both used discord. Maybe because they were newbie-focused?
> And if you yourself are in the learning phase of your career

Also bit of unsolicited advice, never think you are out of the learning phase of your career. There are few things more frustrating than an engineer who has been working for 5 years, think they no longer have to learn, and refuse the entire team's attempts to move them from a bad idea.
Email should be plain text. HTML in email itself was a terrible idea, though not as bad as AMP in email.
Used this pretty extensively, and followed their dev branches. FWIW if you want quality results the best option is Agisoft, on a GPU machine w/ some custom python to automate.
Yes, RSVP directly from the email I forwarded you :)
I keep on seeing you say how you're better informed than most people in this thread but I've yet to see you make any concrete points drawing from the actual text of the law.
Its sad so few people can acknowledge strong network effects is all it needs to create a de-facto monopolist.

Can you say what resources company invested to get listed on other stores? I'd expect it to be rather simple and would hope the tiny earnings would still pay for itself. But even for strategical reasons, I don't understand why even Google-competitors like Microsoft Office don't offer an optional PlayStore free download. At least for those not integrating Google services... and most of the apk's i got from "other" source did indeed work fine. But maybe there is just no way to avoid a tragedy of the commons without regulation.
I think the author understands exactly what they're talking about, and they're not talking about being employee #1-3.

Most people, when they hear "work at a startup", they're talking about being employee #10-30. Not 1-3. There are, clearly, 1/10th as many of the latter, and they're almost all looking for much more skilled people than employees #10-30. I figure this advice is for people who are newer in their careers. People with 10+ years experience probably already know what the article says, and they're likely the only ones who might get hired as employee #1-3.
Google tries really hard to get me to leave. Gmail is already unusable on the web. Google Calendar now has background images to events I cant turn off. GCM doesnt notify me when I get emails on android unless I wake the phone. I really dont want to go to Apple but what's keeping me using anything Google beyond search?
Do you have a source for that? It took 7.5 million years for Deep Thought to discover the significance of 42, and it didn't even break it up into a sum of three cubes :) https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Deep_Thought
Each country now has to implement their own version of this directive. That includes pricing.
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Senders can include or not include any MIME types they want; that's just how email works. Though it seems unlikely they'd skip HTML fallback, since not every email client connected to Gmail is necessarily going to support AMP.
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I'm lobbying for FIDO2 devices like YubiKeys where I work (we issue both Windows and Apple laptops). Google has had great success with YubiKeys.
> and continued forward with a program that nobody wants

Don't presume to speak so for others.
Maybe a different way to think about it is not that the skill level of the team is low (because people aren't talented), but that at start-ups, you tend to have smaller teams or a lot more work is distributed across a fewer number of people. So if you are a young engineer, you might not have access to a good mentor at a small start-up. More onus will be on you to develop skills and learn things by researching and ingesting material outside.

At larger companies, they can attract skilled talent with bigger salaries and they will most likely employ more people on teams. While you might not necessarily work directly with someone who can mentor you, there is more likely to be someone in adjacent teams or in other departments who you could reach out to and learn from.
I'm not an expert, but don’t all modern databases suffer from these issues? I thought they all depended on clock sync like Google Spanner.
Something not pretty, but that works well for me, is using yarn to manage dependencies on upstream Helm chart repositories, then use kustomize to override certain things if required.

That checkouts a local copy locked at a specific version, which you can bump easily, and allows overriding the template definitions on your side.

No need for additional infrastructure.
There's nothing wrong with nope-ing out once it becomes clear something's arguing in bad faith or is fundamentally flawed in a way that undermines its point. There's basically unlimited material to read and very limited time to do so in this world.
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> I think you can still get rich at a startup, but you need to take actual risk to be compensated for it.

Joining any startup is risky. Most startups fail for reasons beyond the employees control. If employee #10's compensation is less than an established company, and requires an exit event that is unlikely to happen, then it's just not worth it.

You just can't say "real risk" to gloss over the fact that startup compensation doesn't justify the risk.
I know lots of people who had panic attacks in response to emotional abuse with no physical violence involved.

Probably not rising to the level of a PTSD diagnosis though.
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