skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Invalid reasons for working at a startup:
> - Making a lot of money in salary.

Once a startup raises a series A is there actually any reason to pay below-market?
Fresh out of college I was employee #1 at a startup that had funding, and was basically at the mythical "Google salary for new college graduate" figure that is thrown around here, and higher than competing offers from name brand tech cos.
There are no priorities in life more important than financial growth and making quick business decisions. /s
I'm on team work/life balance but, in this case, I agree. First job out of school I had an engineering job (not software) in the oil business. Spent lots of time living in shipyards and offshore. Long days. Etc.

But I had a lot of responsibility. Was sort of thrown in the deep end with respect to a lot of things. It was a great experience out of school and, in retrospect, was absolutely the right job choice relative to my other options.

Would I have wanted to have done it long-term? (I left after 3 years to get another degree.) No way.
I thought (relativistic) black holes were first predicted by Schwarzschild in 1916?

(As an aside, I have found a whole extra level to nominative determinism since starting to learn German — Schwarzschild = Black shield)
Plenty of things are free. Free does not mean it costs nothing, it means the client does not have to pay. Just like it's free for you to move in the city but the city still has to pay for roads.
I'm very interested to see how this goes. I think Google will be happy they decided to partner with the actual services rather than making their own clones like Amazon is doing. They could stand to gain a lot by offering the "real deal" instead of shitty half finished clones like documentdb.

Google can also use this as PR by propping themselves as the OS friendly cloud who gave these OS companies an olive branch.
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Force myself to work on the task or do nothing.

This usually means either opening an editor and staring at a blank page (doing nothing), or working on the task.
Intersterllar chose to view the disk edge on, when the distortions got the most funky at all.
Short sessions are optimal. The battery charges faster when below 50% capacity.
This is exactly the point I have been making: the equity grant structure for startup employees is not (or no longer?) compensates risk for employees
This story is just a summary of: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/9/18301736/slack-microsoft-o...

It also contains less information as it makes it seem like Slack and O365 are collaborating when they are not.

tl;dr: "Microsoft has shown in the past that it’s willing to partner with rivals like Dropbox, but Slack’s Office 365 integration was created using public APIs and with no special help from Microsoft. This Slack integration comes just months after Microsoft launched its free version of Teams to rival Slack, just weeks after the company unveiled creative new conference call features for its Slack competitor." (from the Verge article)
Yes. They used 3C 279 which is more than 100 times further away than M87.
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Equity grants from public companies are pretty liquid and as good as salary.
This is also something I hear people talk about and never use.
Here's an NY Times article about the project:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/magazine/how-do-you-take-...

The author, Seth Fletcher, also wrote a book about it, "Einstein's Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable", if you want more details.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36300597-einstein-s-shad...
..which is why you wouldn’t use org-mode? Org-mode does all of those things and more: inline images, tables, latex, etc.
Yes, because startups are usually still cash poor after a Series A and you don't want to burn more than you need to. The whole point is to conserve cash until you can find more money or turn a profit, and employee salary is usually the largest cost for most companies.
Maybe change the link to the original source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/9/18301736/slack-microsoft-o... -- which also doesn't have a bunch of popups and autoplaying video.
Lindsay's "A Voyage to Arcturus" is available at Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1329.
We already collectively pay for K-12 education (in the US). I'd rather pay a little extra and see progress equalizing opportunity in a world where complex skills are increasingly needed to succeed. Anyone who was able to go to a great school and get a great education without mountains of debt because mom and dad subsidized it should count themselves among the lucky. Everyone capable should get this chance.

Public universities are run like businesses now, with trillion dollar endowments and tuition expanding at insane rates. My own state school tuition has gone up 250% in the last 20 years, outpacing inflation by several times. Something needs to change to bring this under control.
This is not mine, but I saw it recently and thought it was pretty cool. You can adjust the speed it plays back and have it play an accompaniment to you if you are practicing. Pretty awesome, but there are reviews that say the OCR can make mistakes and you can't edit them.
Do the corporations also care about the enviroment in Switzerland?
All possible solutions come with downsides. It is still an option to consider.
This analogy fails almost immediately. Real VCs distribute their bets across dozens of companies. You personally are placing one massive bet on one single company so your odds are far worse than a VC.
The US unveiling is WAY better than the EU unveiling that is linked to above. They have images, animations and graphs that's easily understandable by the layperson, and it's scientists instead of politicians speaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DxjuE7WDlk

They talk about how the image was produced, and how they made such a small image out of the 5 PetaByte of data they gathered from stations all over the world.
Everything old is new again:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5

But no, I hadn't heard of it. (I realize the impedance and signaling is obviously different.)
> For me as a developer this isn't so much of a problem. I take pride in my code...

My trouble with this is that the end goal of the business is never quality software on its own merits, therefore any effort I put into making it so is seen as wasteful or even counterproductive. I'm not even allowed to take pride in my own craftsmanship. (Documentation? We've got features to ship, and deadlines, given to us by marketing.) In the interview, I'm quizzed on my ability to spot all the crazy corner cases of an algorithm, but once I'm hired, my manager comes by to make sure I only hit the happy path, and don't waste time on things that most users will probably never run into, probably. The whole thing will be thrown out and rewritten soon enough, anyway.

> But... what really drains all of the fun out of my work is the software I have to use - I truly believe it's some of the worst quality commercial software money can buy, and it never gets better, with the company apparently firmly set on its 'let the users act as your QA department' philosophy and no improvement in sight.

I believe this is another symptom of the same problem. They're just like you or me, sitting in a different room at a different company, with a manager breathing down their neck to add more features and not worry about the occasional bug.

One bad driver can cause a traffic jam, but one good driver can't cure one.
> Being on a Java/.NET/C++ shop, I hardly notice a difference between Java and .NET mono-cultures.

Don't confuse your corporate monoculture for a monoculture of an entire ecosystem.

> It was mostly JEE or Spring, Swing or SWT, Ant or Maven, .... everything else tends to be loved in online forums but hardly seen live across the globe.

Yeah, big frameworks are still popular, nothing surprising about that. Thing is, these big frameworks are usually designed to be modular out of the box - if you don't like a certain component don't use it and pull in something else. No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater, and there is plenty of choice for individual parts of your stack without nixing Spring Framework or CDI. Hell, even if you do you have micro-frameworks like Dropwizard that are just various components welded together because the ecosystem makes doing it fairly easy.

> Stack Overflow recent survey results are yet another proof of it, every JVM language that is going to "replace" Java is stuck in single digit percentage.

And? Nothing "needs" to replace the language, though nothing until Kotlin has ever been in a position to even be a #2. Scala can't stop breaking compatibility every release, nobody ever heard of Ceylon, Groovy & Clojure don't fit the same statically-typed niche. All of these work though, and they all can share code with each other so it doesn't have to be a zero-sum game either.
Yeah my wife would kill me. Something like this would be good, not sure where you get though. (LOL now I read the watermark, it tells you)

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/43/cc/e2/43cce2542a8cd5c3ca13f3604...
Well docker runs in a vm on macos (it requires a Linux kernel) so that’s hardly surprising. It says more about the cool kid nature of peoples tech choices than anything else.

Brew isn’t secure but that’s hardly the fault of “the OS” - it’s a third party tool written by people who actively embrace the insecure design of the tool.
Smart move by Veritasium, making a video commenting the news just before the news actually happens. Time works in weird ways around black holes.

Anyways, it is a good one. So is that channel in general.

It is also a good video if you just watched Interstellar, because it also explains why the black hole looks the way it does in the movie. Note that the movie black hole rendering is slightly incorrect for artistic reasons, the video shows the more scientifically accurate version.
To be honest I hate this too, but I have extremely more visibility than my personal blog.
Ask HN: Should I learn (E)Lisp before switching to Emacs?
Hello,

I mean switch for good, to get most out of it down the road. I know there are tutorials and guides out there, but after trying a few more advanced I see some "weird syntax" which my understanding is the Lisp part of it. So, perhaps "getting" Lisp 1st would make the transition worth it more.

Thank you in advance.
perpendicular - we see it almost exactly from the top. Mentioned during the Q&A (41:33 to be exact)
The easiest way to do that is to use your OS provided firewall to block all outgoing HTTP requests from chrome and only allow HTTPS.
Not the OP, but I learned how to solve them not long after they came out. I solved one on my own, but it was more about learning a series of logical moves and applying them, along with some trial and error and some luck. I then learned a method of solving the cube from a book which I can still do to this day. But there's no visualization involved. I just look at the cube, notice that these particular faces are in this configuration, then apply the appropriate sequence of moves to get to the next step. Rinse and repeat.
There have been plenty of indirect observations such as their jets, stars in very tight orbits around Sagittarius A*, xray binaries etc.

This is a direct observation of the immediate environment of a black hole, i.e. its accretion disk and other light bent around it.
The driver who opened their door is very lucky nothing serious came of it. Many motorcycle riders would treat that as an attempt on their life and react accordingly, probably not working out well for the car driver.
Can the equipment used from several places on earth for this be deployed in space (may be to a geostationary orbit)? Not thinking about cost for a moment is this a far-fetched thought or such a thing is technically possible.
Chris, I understand what you are saying. Of course we care to help other people. Collectively, the US might be seen as "selfish" but I think at a certain point, you have to understand you do not want to harm yourself just to help someone else. I really feel for people who will go to great lengths to help others, even if it reduces the quality of their own life just because it's the "right thing to do"

My mother-in-law is like this. She would let a convicted murderer that was down on their luck move in with her because "everyone deserves a roof over their head"

Again, I GET IT. But do you understand why some may have these selfish viewpoints?
Giant button? Id say it's more of a tiny, humble pale-white link on the bottom. yuck.
I have all these features in a 2016 Golf GTI (except traffic light one). The future isn't that far away for the masses.
Did you just called monospaced fonts crap?
Yeah, I could see a gTLD version of http://nissan.com/
Some context would help; what sort of projects/languages/“stack” do you develop for/using?

What is your current developer environment on macOS?
Notice something they're not requiring? Mozilla will trust resolvers that don't check DNSSEC. Stick a fork in DNSSEC.
5 PB. The American unveiling focus on just what you talk about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DxjuE7WDlk
I think we're saying the same thing.

If I early exercise my options on day 1, then I still have to wait until the 2 years after the grant date (2 years of employment) to get long term capital gains treatment.

If I wait 4 years, then exercise, then I have already satisfied the 2 years post-grant requirement, but I still have to wait a year after the exercise to get long term capital gains treatment.

The key part was my last clause: "whichever is later".
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I hope it can respect nsswitch?
org-mode with latex yasnippet expansions is the best note taking method I’ve ever used. Inline images, tables, ans latex. So seemless.
New search engine for people who give a damn
Could this be used to make interesting optical sensors?
Do you have other examples? FWIW I find 5-why's useful for personal introspection, but never found it very efficient in professional settings.
With reversible computing, they're talking about being able to perform computation for nearly-zero energy. By comparison, a modern computer is essentially an expensive electric heater that performs a very tiny amount of computation with a vanishingly small fraction of said energy.
I wonder if US banks will ever catch up to the rest of the world in this regard.
Battery degredation seems to bottom out between 85-90% capacity on most cars after a lot of miles. Likely will never need a replacement.

If I recall correctly, most of the lowest performers are older S and X. The 3 is expected to degrade even slower with their improved battery cells and thermal management.

https://electrek.co/2018/04/14/tesla-battery-degradation-dat...
The likely repair will simply be, as the paper says, to explicitly call out that you should not use a PSK to protect more than one client:server relationship, even if they're symmetrical.

So if you have two machines Alice and Bob which each provide an NBD to the other, you need two separate PSKs, one for "Alice mounting Bob's disk" and the other for "Bob mounting Alice's disk" whereas it might naively have seemed reasonable previously to choose one PSK since they both need it anyway.

The other thing you could reasonably do (and maybe this is relevant for NDB) that is mentioned in the paper is to check SNI. TLS 1.3 clients are supposed to say "Hi, I want to talk to www.example.com", unless they were told to connect to something that doesn't have a name, like an IP address. If Alice's NBD server checks incoming requests and rejects any that don't say "I want to talk to Alice's disk" then we can't confuse Alice into connecting to her own disk thinking its Bob's even if they have the same PSK, when her client says "I want to talk to Bob's disk" it will get told this is the wrong place go away.
Or you can have the local interface and the cellular interface up at the same time, have the default route through the local interface but have a route to your preferred DNS server through cellular. Then the only traffic you have to pay for over cellular is DNS, which is very small.
Hashing Files in Elixir
So far all we have is anecdotal evidence

https://www.teslarati.com/tesloop-tesla-model-s-400k-miles-b...

Is it better or worse as far as total costs compared to a Mercedes-Benz with 645,000 km on it?
It's right in the center in bold text for me
In this article we see what a hash function is and what it can be useful for. We see how to calculate the hash of strings and files using the Erlang :crypto module and Elixir streams.
Very few people have the discipline to do proper postmortems, and even fewer industries and companies have the discipline to enable those people to do them.
To an extent what jacquesm is saying, is true. Here is the long-term USD vs Swiss Franc from 1971 to 2011:

https://i.imgur.com/vANpWK2.png

The Swiss have benefitted from maintaing a sound fiscal house and associated currency, over time. The US, much of Western Europe and Japan have been busy debasing themselves with enormous financial mistakes over the last several decades.

You can see two disastrous dollar periods in that chart. The Vietnam War, Johnson-Nixon, spending irresponsibility and inflation disaster of the 1970s. And the Bush war-on-terror, pump your way out of a recession to get re-elected, fiscal disaster of 2002-2008 (then the final nail in that stupidity wagon with the great recession crash that the Fed caused with interest rate mistakes after 9/11).

The US and Switzerland had the same GDP per capita in 2000, prior to the fiscal mistakes that sank the dollar shortly thereafter. Now it's more like $62,500 vs ~$80,000. If the US had been financially frugal, the dollar would be worth a lot more than it is today and the Swiss GDP per capita would be at least 1/3 lower in dollar terms.

By 1985, with the Volcker strong dollar, the US GDP per capita overtook Switzerland, $18k vs $16k. And before that, with the weak 1970s dollar, by 1980 the US was at ~$12k and the Swiss were nearly 50% higher at $18.

Which is to say, the horrible financial choices that Washington DC has made since the late 1960s, has severely harmed the average American, their purchasing power, their ability to save vs real inflation, their ability to see wage gains exceed the rate of real inflation consistently, and the ability of GDP growth to maximally exceed real inflation.
Better range, doubled charging speeds, improved braking distance...

It is a real case of downloading more RAM.
You seem to be massively misunderstanding the Bay Area real estate market. Homes are routinely bought in full cash 20% over asking. No average engineers are making those kinds of offers.
That highly depends on what you mean by "Greece the country". When the Greek mythologies about the Amazons were written, there was no "Greece the country". Greece didn't become a country until thousands of years later. Hell it didn't even stop being part of the Roman Empire until the 1400s.

We could have a long debate about whether the modern country of Greece has any relationship to the ancient Greek city-states, but I think that's entirely beside the point.
“We Are Obliged to Build Robots We Are Not Obliged To” –Dr Joanna Bryson
Why is the European Commission doing this? When I recognized Carlos Moedas I immediately skipped to what mattered. The reason why he was ever appointed as Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation is, to me, more remote than the black hole about which he knows absolutely nothing.
They'll be a lot more expensive by the time some of us turn 30.
It's the latter. This is an image in radio-frequency brightness of the object, so not visible frequencies of light. But yeah, it also looks like the 'hot' colormap to me.
If abab lets you start being productive sooner, then abab is more productive. It may or may not be more efficient than B-before-A -- I doubt we can conclude one way or the other in the general case, so I don't see the point in discussing the two approaches' efficiency.
The rule for possessive its is backwards from all other possessives. As a native English speaker, I still have to look up “its vs it’s” because it’s confusing. I think we should drop use of its without an apostrophe, and always use it’s, and let people figure it out by context. It’s happening anyway, and it’ll become de facto accepted English grammar when enough people use “it’s” differently than the old rule.
This only opens if http://ai./ has been loaded before. Otherwise you get ‘host not found’.
Absolutely not, at least not without making college much more difficult. Otherwise it is just subsidizing adult daycare.

Many people do not belong in college and learn next to nothing, but go because they're shoo'ed along into it and the universities are in on the joke, and in on the money-making, and undergoing a drastic reduction of standards as a result.

Some data on just how bad higher ed is getting, from 2017: https://medium.com/@simon.sarris/higher-education-erodes-a7c...
If you take this a step further then you could as well ask why there are at least four BSD forks at all.
Criminally negligent homicide, and manslaughter are specific laws. Conviction generally requires proof that the subject's actions were the proximate cause (a legal term with its own case law) of the victim's death.

I'm aware of only one case where someone was convicted of such a crime in the US without being physically involved in the death: Michelle Carter, who directly and repeatedly encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself, and goaded him into continuing what was ultimately a successful suicide attempt when he started to back out. Despite her active encouragement and unambiguous intent, the legal theory was controversial and the case has seen multiple appeals.

I find it quite unlikely that a court will accept the argument that intentionally making someone sad is the proximate cause of their death by suicide, even if done to a large number of people at the same time. Were that argument accepted, it could be applied to other situations affecting the emotions of many people just as easily, such as producing a sad song or movie.