skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Kulik and Mekhlis then proceeded to ask how much ammunition Voronov needed for the forthcoming campaign. ‘That depends,’ replied Voronov. ‘Are you planning to attack or defend? … With which forces and on which sectors? … And by the way, how much time is allotted for the operation?’ The reply to the last point came quickly: ‘Between 10 and 12 days.’ Eyeing the map of Finland hanging on the wall, Voronov replied: ‘I will be happy if everything can be resolved within two to three months.’ Everybody laughed derisively. ‘Marshal Voronov,’ Kulik replied sternly. ‘You are ordered to base all your estimates on the assumption that the operation will last a maximum of 12 days.’

Well, doesn't that sound familiar...
At my current company, it seems like about half the folks here are from bootcamps (generally career switchers). On my team specifically, out of 6 developers 4 are bootcampers, including me. My company is currently hiring more software engineers, and it seems like every other candidate interviewed is a bootcamper, and they vary in skill. The folks I work with are all very enjoyable to work with, so I think the interview process seems to work in our case to bring in excellent people regardless of the presence of a CS degree.

Speaking personally, I am continuing to self-study CS topics by taking online courses and going to universities' class websites and doing their assignments if they put them online. This won't compare to actually having been in that class environment with peers and mentors and grading feedback, so I have to maintain my learning to discover and fill in the gaps I have in my knowledge. I think if you're able to find two people who are equivalently good at communication and soft skills and one has a CS degree and the other is a bootcamper, generally speaking I'd expect the CS degree holder to have superior technical skills.
Here's the article you're referring to - https://www.sitepoint.com/the-cicada-principle-and-why-it-ma...
Such a well curated list. I listen to it all the time at work.

I was already intimately familiar with many of the artists featured (Aphex twin, oneohtrix point never, tim hecker) but have definitely discovered some new ones through it too.
Thanks for reply. Regarding alpha value: you seem to say that with a small sample size, it'd be possible to see no effect between groups. I think you were implying that they should've been testing p<0.0001 or something? But I'm not sure how to choose this value, without knowing the difference between means that you expect for the medical intervention.
Based on this.

> However, to me, it’s dubious how many startup successes, especially in India, have been great for, say, 20th to 50th engineer at those companies. Swiggys, Olas and Paytms of the country are infamous for not giving good (or any, these days) equity to engineers.

I wasnt sure, hence stated the assumption. Did not want it to come across as a prejudice. Apologies if it did.
A culture of occupational martyrdom makes it much easier to build a pyramid. People are rushing to supply correct definitions of stoicism but oddly those stoic sentiments rarely appear discussions about IPOs and how to be a billionaire.
Question to someone more familiar with how these votes work.

Is this the page for this vote?
https://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-copyright-in-the-digital-s...

If it is, it says 312 voted for it, 317 against it, 24 abstained. But it passed? Why?
Oh, it does. Only 5% of the global population had access to the internet in 2000.

If that doesn't qualify it as a product only available to the elites, I don't know what will...
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I went ahead with this, seems pretty straightforward. Thanks.
This is actually an interesting article to me.

A lot of people are criticizing it here. There is a bit of condescension in the tone of the criticism. It was not hard to search for the author (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bowles) and find that she graduated magna cum laude from Columbia and was a Fulbright Fellow. That certainly doesn't mean she's correct about anything, but I think that casual dismissal of the article is a bit lazy.

On a personal basis, it seems worth looking at how certain intellectual trends propagate through certain SV populations. Neotrophics/microdosing, Burning Man, and Stoicism are examples off the top of my head. In particular, it feels like the general point of the "Why are they attracted to Stoicism" section isn't completely incorrect. It is definitely a topic worthy of a longer form exploration.
. . . because the FCC won't do its job.
Can anyone explain to me why HTML inside email is not working for these use cases, and why we need a new standard if HTML powers these things on the web?
I still can find emails in my mailbox that I've sent or received 10 or 15 years ago while on the other hand I have pretty big issues with finding the exact message I sent on FB Messenger only a day ago (it involves lots of scrolling), never mind a couple of years (Skype presents the the same issue for me). I guess Slack behaves the same way as FB Messenger (I haven't personally used it).
It looks like outline does not support this article. This is probably the first time I've seen that.
Something I am always curious about is, was your company / CEO open and honest with you about how your shares were doing? If you worked somewhere for 5 years, it could be easy to think you're safe but meanwhile the CEO is diluting your equity to fractions of what it originally was? Don't they have to report that to employees?
It's not a "tactic". It's a statement of the absurd level of lies and disinformation from the Brexit side from Farage, Gove and Johnson and in interviews and advert all the way down to local campaigns. Subsequently shown to have had illegal levels of spending, criticised by the electoral commission and countless stories about hidden funding, dubious tactics from Cambridge Analytica or whoever, or bullshit facebook ads. Remain came out with some poor predictions, but there weren't, as far as I can tell, any outright lies. A distinct lack of revelations after the event too.

Sure, there's always some dubious local leaflets, or a stupid statement or three, in every election. This was quantitatively and qualitatively different by orders of magnitude. By far the most disingenuous campaign I've ever seen for a UK vote.

So I do feel duped - I don't think it matters which way one voted - as UK elections have generally done much, much better at presenting issues. The leave campaign promised the moon on a stick in a very US style, which 24hr news happily amplified. Farage burst the bus slogan the morning after the result.

Suffice to say both sides ran bloody awful campaigns, and the end result is no-one is happy.

The first EU referendum saw a booklet sent to every household discussing and arguing both sides of all the main issues - to allow people a chance to understand before voting. Leave actually had a case back then - in joining the EU we were turning our back on significant and long standing Commonwealth trade arrangements.
> So to "make it," you effectively have to grow into a BigCo employee anyway.

This is an excellent point. I know quite a few people who joined my company before I did (~50 people when I joined), stayed for a couple years, but didn't have the temperament to grow into the process, politics, and red tape that inevitably started accumulating, and left. Some of them didn't have the resources (or foresight) at the time to exercise their options, and got nothing, even though they put in a couple years when it was very risky to work there. I did stick around for the long haul, and it's paid out very well, but it still makes me a little sad to think of some of the earlier contributors who laid the foundation, but IMO weren't compensated enough for it.
All your points are valid. However you're only looking at it in a way that's familiar to you.

Here's a personal example, my parents bought a condo in China in a new development area, searched around for renovators and found this shop close by that seemed fairly legit. A show room, full staff, decent looking portfolio, sales people looked legit and they had legit looking supply chain relationship as well.

My parents worked out a project scope and plan, estimated the cost, put down 25% for down payment. The shop came in, did a month of work and then disappeared. Job was half done. what happened? They went "bankrupt".

Are the shop owners risk takers? Maybe. Did they really try to start a business? Honestly they probably saw an opportunity where a new development area was coming up and came in for the quick buck. Borrowed some money, set up shop to a decent level and then disappear.

This isn't an isolated case, lots of examples exist. Am I saying this is the case for everyone? No. But its gotten bad enough that the government had to do something about it. Is it my parents fault for not doing more due diligence? Probably. But it's really really tiresome if you had to do this every. single. time. for everything.
The other option is waiting until all of the vendors have the ability that the extension provides and it has made it's way into the standard.

That option hasn't been taken away from you. And unlike OpenGL, you can't unknowingly be relying on an extension since they're opt-in. So what's the problem again?
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With Linux we at least get the source out of these third party companies (most of the time). The nonstable driver interface is a major driver of that since Linux famously refuses to enforce its license.

The problem is with the BSD licenses where people can take and not give back. It’s not a matter of who gets paid - but whether the primary beneficiaries are giving back their source code. They are the ones most incentivized to write new code.
The article misses a key reason why Silicon Valley tech industry leaders would become Stoics: to learn to live with the misery their wealth is built upon.

Many, if not most, Silicon Valley innovations over the past ten years have led directly to human suffering and misery. Facebook has inflicted widespread psychological damage to humanity's self-worth. Loot boxes introduced gambling to young children. YouTube recommendations promote racist and fascist content to adults and machine-generated content to children.

I don't agree that this is a correct implementation of Stoicism, but from the decade I lived in SFbay, the following accurately models how I have seen many tech founders warp Stoicism into a way to avoid confronting their immoral behavior:

Step 1: Have an idea that's profitable, at the cost of inflicting suffering on others.

Step 2: Inflict that suffering, while twisting Stoicism to make "suffering" seem a virtue.

Step 3: Profit from the results of your now-virtuous efforts, free of moral consequences from the 'virtue' you inflicted.
Were they to win, how many of them would later perish in events similar to these?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronstadt_rebellion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambov_Rebellion
I asked if you were a shill (rather than call you one), because you parrot the baseless arguments that experts, respected organizations, and millions of people have proven time and again are false. If your offended by my question, by all means report me

:)
Mumble is fantastic. I set up a server for family & friends. The clarity is unmatched and the server is authenticated and encrypted so nobody can listen in, unless they break one of the clients or your server.
Sure but the compiler can compile your intrinsics to different-but-equivalent instructions, and modern compilers actually do that pretty aggressively. Are you sure the code output was actually using the instructions you expected?
Work for a good startup. Having job hopped a half dozen times in the Bay Area (to play the salary game) my experience has been that most startups are not doing anything new, have no sense of innovation, care more about quickly shitting out a crappy product than ever following up on the “iterate to something good” part, and are for the most part run by either clueless business types, or by programmers who think programming is just a tool, it’s impossible to be 10x better than average, etc. Craftsmanship and excellence are rare.

Go work for a company that’s actually going to be worth lots of money someday. I like the quote about how burnout comes not from working too hard but from losing too much over and over.
Mike Acton's CppCon 2014 talk on this subject is still the best I've seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc
I've been walking to work for over 2 years now. My current commute is a bit over a mile, and it takes me a bit more than 30 minutes. So 5 miles is easily 2 hours, even if you have relatively long legs and walk quickly.
Would you believe it if I told you: there's a few game groups out there that use both. My milsim group uses discord for general chat, recruiting, linksharing and planning for our weekly weekend missions. I think there's one voice channel. For us, the Discord is the public facing entity where you'll find members from the group interacting with people who just hang out and chat and aren't enrolled in the roster.

But our TeamSpeak server has 20 something channels, there are plugins written by community members that integrate with ARMA. And any other general group gaming that requires actual voice comms, it's Teamspeak or bust.

It was quite something to behold when I first joined the group, I had grown used to groups using one, the other, but not both. This group does it really well.
Me too. I meant the continued absence of a huge base and radomes from the OS maps was the quaint relic, expressed poorly. :)
While FoundationDB uses Paxos for cluster state (like leader election), it is not on the commit path for a transaction. If any process fails in the transaction system (not storage processes), the cluster is reconfigured by the coordinators and every component is replaced. Transactions do not proceed during failures, but the cluster will replace the failed process in a few seconds and resume.

(This is not meant to be a contradiction, just pointing out an important difference compared to systems that allow progress in parallel with failures.)
Nonprofits already collect money (both in general and tied to specific efforts) and hire professional lobbyists to advocate for their causes.

What is the third-party service doing here besides adding extra overhead?
Another source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-26/apple-inf...
I imagine this is an awful lot like developers hating svn and telling people not to use it.

Yes, there are better options, but most people are manually copy/pasting files into backup folders before making big changes.
Two new planets discovered using artificial intelligence
5 miles would take me 80 - 90 minutes walking... that's a lot of exercise time. (I walk about 2 miles every day)
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There are no other solutions to social problems than technological because people don't change unless their environment changes.
I noticed the same with a different wsj link earlier this morning
Oracle is selling private critical security updates
The problem is there is very, very little equity given to early employees. I went to one of YC's "work at a startup" events and Sam Altman himself got on stage and called out basically every company there for this very issue (assuming I interpreted him correctly).

I looked into joining several startups as employee #1, both at this event, on AngelList, and by talking to random people who cold emailed me -- and it seems like an offer of 1% equity would be considered generous. I thought that seemed totally crazy and when I asked founders why they didn't offer more, they always said the same thing: "We have one slice for the founders, one slice for the investors, and one slice for every employee we are going to hire going forward, so we can't offer more than 1%."

If you're friends with the founders and they know you have the skills, and they trust you to work hard, you could get something like 5-10% as employee #1. That's really the only sort of deal you should consider. But if you're just some random dude with a decent resume, you're way better off taking a more traditional job at an established company where your compensation is relatively predictable.
It's just capitalism. Nothing especially crony about it.
Reminds me of this Bandcamp user makes some really cool Sci-Fi ambient loops, this one is a Blade Runner ambient loop: https://cheesynirvosa.bandcamp.com/track/blade-runner-ambien...

I think something like this would be awesome in generative.
And one of the most famous texts espousing Stoicism, the Enchiridion [1], compiles the teachings of Epictetus, a crippled former slave who "lived a life of great simplicity, with few possessions" [2]. Not exactly the rich and powerful.

[1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/epictetus/the-enchiridion/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus#cite_note-simpl1-11
For my thesis, I am creating a Professional Development class to train teachers to teach Computer Science. The class teaches coding skills as well as CS pedagogical strategies. I am looking for feedback from CS teachers. Participation should not take longer than half an hour. Thank you so much in advance for your help!
The oldest pencil company in the world (2018)
Honest question: Why does every blog post that talks about working with a startup, always pick Facebook and Google for the comparison?

Both these companies are extreme outliers (probably in the history of business!). Their outsized pay comes from their outsized profits, which comes from selling your data. I find it very ironic, that these very same people who diss startups love dissing Google and FB as being evil, but somehow when it comes salary packages they're viewed as holy institutions.

Google and FB hire very selectively, and even if you're truly qualified they may not actually have a position open for you. And most critically 99+% of engineers (including the ones in HN) probably won't make the cut for whatever reason.

Why not compare with traditional megacorps (of which there are literally (fortune) 500s of them (every company is a tech company now ;) ) like IBM, Oracle, SAP, etc? This group is far more representative of where most engineers would actually end up and hence a better comparison against startups.

Then you'd realize that startup packages don't seem that bad - or rather you're making a tradeoff between not having to deal with corporate bullshit or an extra 30K in stock grants.

Also on another note - startups are a wide spectrum (more so than megacorps). You have 3-5 person starting up startups to series D unicorn startups. Broad sweeping blanket statements comparing startups as if they're a single entity don't help too much.
A Huawei driver that opened systems to attack
The only representation I would be happy to see added/adopted is markdown.
Boeing 787, broken dreams, foreshadowing the 737 max
> I asked if you were a shill (rather than call you one),

Passive-aggressive violations of the rules are still violations.
The 'actual conversations' section bugs me, he wrote about having his request to use Kotlin rejected, and even though I'm a coder that loves trying new tech, I think it is usually both a very bad decision and investment to either mix languages just for cool points or rewrite your codebase because there's a new hype language.

The queue problem sounds more sensible, but it could also be a case of over engineering.

Overall I get the impression that the author was thinking on a purely technical level, and that's not something you can afford to do in a startup where budget and time are limited.
After accounting for inflation and dividends, 7% is average (historically) for annual returns. So only a little high.

If the parent was not accounting for inflation, 8% is low.
Sort of. In Python the stacktrace is always built for every step you take in code, so exceptions are not particularly costly compared to other operations. Reflection is also not relatively more costly since types are objects just like everything else.

It could even be more efficient than return value checking in certain cases.
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>Email is actively dying and being replaced by closed alternatives (Messenger, Slack, etc)

No it's not. Slack and Messenger are replacing IRC.

Ever tried writing an actual letter to someone? If you forgot what those are, think a longform article, but with the intended audience of 1.

No messenger handles long passages of text well, because they are not designed to do that. And things like online status visibility are anti-features when it comes to letters.

If you want an exchange channel that's optimized for exchanging long messages, with no expectation of immediacy in response, with ridiculously accessible archival tools (ever heard of email clients?) there isn't anything that comes close to email.
I mean if that's what you call getting high now then go for it. You are completely discounting any damaging effects and the associated disconnect with reality.
Yeah, that's terrible and people who do that should be cut off rather than given additional options.
Well, the Winter war was concluded with the Moscow Peace Treaty. I think peace is a natural delimiter of war.
You do realize that the point of the study is not that every single woman who has a male twin will not be successful, right?
since you said only neo-Nazis believe Macron is left-wing

Pessimizer neither said or even implied that.
This goes hand in hand with the culture of "anyone can do anything as long as the have an idea and are willing to work hard" culture of silicon valley. Experience in an area definitely reduces the suffering because you have a better idea where the problems are and know where to most effectivly apply effort.
> This made me, sitting at my computer in 2019, a little bit scared of pterosaurs.

Wow, I wasn't even aware there were pterosaurs this large. I thought the Pteranodon was the largest of them all, but Quetzalcoatlus and Hatzegopteryx dwarf it. They are really impressive.

I'm not scared of these giant reptiles though, but awed. It'd be awesome if it was possible to see one of them in real life. I wonder if people in the near future will feel this way about lions and tigers, "such a shame I missed them!". But even in that sad future, at least there would be video recordings.
What if we are actually interested in starting up something on our own in the future? Does the startup experience help? Or is it still beneficial to work at Big4 (or) Fast paced big firms like Uber, Slack, etc?
What an absolutely fascinating article to read.

In all Bavaria Chancellor Hitler received the largest vote in his favor in the concentration camp at Dachau where 1,554 persons voted "Yes" and only eight "No" and there were only ten spoiled ballots.
Yes. The advantages of HTML in an email are well-documented in the TC article and the Google announcement. I would make use of that, personally.
Thank you! One of the great joys of doing One Game a Week this time around has been making a more deliberate effort to share my work. I appreciate the kind words :)
But most startups fail before they achieve any sort of name recognition. In those cases, how much does being the CTO of a company no one has heard of and no longer exist boost one's resume?