skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is kind of an incomplete analysis and I find two big flaws with it.

Lots of other things were happening in this time period that greatly increased the amount of regulation the average person had to contend with when going about their life, I'm not sure the automobile is remarkable except as an example of the general trend.

Laws in a democratic society are an exercise in group consensus. You can't just dictate how fast people can drive or what plants people can smoke or what liquids they can drink and expect people to comply at scale without the kind of law enforcement that is incompatible with a free society.
I drove from San Diego to SF in one of my many long trips and most of my charging stops were 10 minutes. I also had two 20 minute stops, one 30 minute, and one 15 minute. The 30 minute stop was near the end where I wanted to arrive home near half full.

Food, checking out local shops, and coffee + bathroom break for those three longer stops. For the short stops, it was just get a bit of charge, maybe a quick stretch or bathroom visit, and on my way.

People have the most bizarre misconceptions about Tesla charging, I think because they assume you have to charge from 0 to full at every stop, which truly would be slow. It simply doesn’t work that way if you do it properly.

I mean seriously... most of my stops were 10 minutes. Quite a contrast from what people think. Plugging in numbers from a map and going by total charge-to-full time overlooks the way charging is so much faster at the bottom of the range.

On the other hand taking a trip to New Mexico and back from California, many stops were 40 minutes to an hour because the chargers are spaced further apart in some of the desert states. YMMV. It depends on your route but the chargers are getting dramatically faster very soon, AND the charger network is getting more and more densely built out.
> If I remember correctly the soviet union had SU at one point so that might have something to do with why finland is fl.

.su still exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su

Also, oddly, a Finnish person proposed .su for the Soviet Union:

> The .su domain was proposed by the then-19-year-old Finnish student Petri Ojala.
>“In the old days there was no such thing as a jaywalker,” he recalled, because one “could cross the street wherever you pleased, subject to your liability for negligence.”

This is largely still the case in East coast cities.
I think whether or not it's legal is irrelevant. Things can be wrong -- even unconscionable -- and still be legal.
Hill farming sheep has no career progression, every year is the same brutal sequence, and you're at the mercy of whatever meagre prices the market sets for meat and fleeces. The tangible outputs vs office work does not seem sufficient compensation in many cases. http://www.farmbusiness.co.uk/news/more-then-one-farmer-a-we...
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https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/pull/24870

Wow... just wow.. what kind of racist idiots post that ?
Or if you are an older dev, picking up some more modern skills. I joined a startup for just under a year, and while I did not go in intending for it to be short-term, it ended up that way. But I modernized my skill set, got to work with more modern processes, and walked out a stronger dev than when I walked in.
It's still being done, it just looks a little different. Instead of sending our own army in, you arm/fund rebel groups to invade and then do your bidding. Or, if you're really powerful, you ask the US government and they will send in the CIA/army to "topple a corrupt regime" that was stymying your business pursuits.
There seems to be some kind of understanding that start-up means aways working overtime etc. AFAIK that is not often the case, but people can work quite normally in early-stage companies as well. And mostly it is the founders who are working hard and employees are not required to work the same way.
I think it's on par with the LIGO detections (which I think also qualify as really strong evidence) given the specificity of the predictions and how closely they aligned with the observed data.

Taken as a whole, the body of evidence is really strong and it's amazing how much stronger it's become in just the last few years!

This is truly an amazing image.
Or, the bit of how they chose the databases was left over from the first edition, and missed in editing the new one.
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"Making a lot of money in salary."

I think a bit of perspective is in order. When the bar for comparison is technical principles at FAANG, yes.

If you want to own a house, have paid-for cars, put your kid through school, put away savings, and otherwise be completely comfortable then you can do just fine. That is "wealthy" for a lot of people in this country.

I know someone that delivered food to restaurants. He woke up at 4am, and periodically did double shifts. His work life balance was worse than almost any developer I know. And he had to carry stuff. [That was a bad work/life balance].

Seriously, count you blessing if you're in software now. I have been doing this 20 years and this is the best it's been since before the .com bubble ended.
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I have a very similar story: Was on the first 10 employees at a now unicorn, forward exercised with a few thousand dollars, and my shares are also now worth around $1.5m. But unfortunately the company blocked all attempts at selling any shares on secondary markets.

Something you might not be aware of: If you joined the company before they had $50M in assets, your stock would also qualify as QSBS [1], which means you don't have to pay any tax on gains of up to $10 million.

[1] https://www.andersentax.com/services/for-private-clients/bus...
And the globally known tourism business is named after a globally known tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology.
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> As for DNS over QUIC, I was under the impression that said solution did not make use of HTTP.

I believe it's possible to do both direct DNS over QUIC and ((DNS over HTTPS) over QUIC).
>Did participating in an essential oils MLM bankrupt your family? You just didn't want success enough.

That's not about work, that's about money. There's definitely no way to blame money-equals-virtue on Protestantism... That's just human nature.
I really dislike corporate brand TLDs. But I’ve long ago wished we had expanded the TLDs earlier to include a lot more obvious things like:

.movie, .book, .museum, .news, etc.

This would have avoided this problem where you have “book-name-book.com” and “newblockbuster-movie.com” and so on.
> Worked 12 hours a day a lot, was stressed out all the time, didn't have a life, got calls at odd hours to deploy...but, if I didn't have that experience, I wouldn't have grown nearly as fast.

Congrats on using the opportunity to grow in an abusive role. It should not be normalized is the point.
A very good (technical) talk about the EHT project and the physics they try to do here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiS1OJNBrvk

It is a bit old (2012), but comprehensive and with both good audio and readable* slides.

*: In the sense that you can see the letters on them
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That doesn't make sense, think HN/Reddit/etc, which are HTTPS and primarily link to other sites which can (and very often are) HTTP. There is no security compromised here nor any other link between the two than one referring to another.

Linking resources (like images, files, etc) is another topic, but it doesn't make much sense to put a barrier for pages. If nothing else, you get annoying warnings that people learn to ignore.
You can ask them directly: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/bbknik/askscien...
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Because there are many great cars that fit all those requirements and that are usually cheaper than a current Tesla, better equiped than a Tesla (autopilot being the single exception, even though BMW, Porsche, VW and many others already have lane assist which is basically a little worse (but still comparable) version of Tesla's autopilot). Why bother with renting when you can just take your own car?
This doesn't strike me as a "tremendous drop". Or really much of any definitive change: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&ei=LAmuXO...
I find Univers much more stately than Helvetica. I think neither are very good for screen or small text, and obviously they weren’t designed for screen at the time, but you still see people specifying Helvetica variants on their webpages. Univers is very nice, but for anyone making any hobby website, maybe set it to system-ui,sans-serif or use Inter, or something modern with personality like Fira.
https://www.lasersystemseurope.com/news/ultrafast-laser-used...

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1364/AO.56.004873
Well the line that has been told to me is that they receive lenses and frames together, and they can’t sell me the lenses without the frames because then they’d have a frame without lenses. Essentially putting the onus on the manufacturer for why they can’t do it.
There's a myth that you can't realize gains if a company doesn't IPO...I've already sold some shares in a tender offer. There is an active secondary market for shares if I chose to sell more.

Not sure what your point is about $3MM over 10 years. Why would you divide it over anything other than the number of years you actually worked at the company?

You've assumed I was a senior engineering hire. I was in a junior non-technical role a year out of college.
I wish I could articulate precisely what -- a the age of cough cough -something -- has kept me engaged and happy as a software developer. In part, I've been lucky. I've mostly had decent jobs and companies that treated employees humanely. Partly, I feel that I keep improving at what I do, and that alone is somewhat satisfying. Partly, I just like thinking and solving puzzles, which pretty much describes actual coding.

Contrast that to my wife, who, despite having a degree from a top ivy league school, seems to have hated every job she's ever had and would drop it all to retire in an instant if she could afford it.

I will note that I also have had the luxury of exploring the "do what you love" career theory. Out of high school, I wanted to be an orchestral musician, and spent like 12 years pursuing that path before realizing that it wasn't going to work out. So I sort of had to reset my brain to understand that I didn't have to do this one thing to be happy. So I'm not sitting here in a cubicle thinking "if only...." because I've done the "if only." (Not having other options is actually a surprisingly effective route to happiness. (See: Stumbling on Happiness)).

Another great book related to this topic is "How to Want What You Have."

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/933037.How_to_Want_What_...
How about iPhone screens to the case then? That's borosilicate glass.
There are all these stories about Hertzfeld, Atkinson and others from the early Mac days. I have never heard similar stuff about iPhone development. Who are the heroes of iOS?
Having written my dissertation in markdown, and having not tried org-mode, I'm intrigued. The thing about multiple markdown implementations is a bit of a red herring. The subtly different problem with markdown is not multiple implementations, but a syntax with too many alternative ways of doing the same thing. Section headers, tables, raw HTML, raw LaTeX -- it's kind of a mess. Multiple flavors make this worse by supporting subtly different variants of the alternative syntaxes, but the core of the problem is that the original specification was "whatever this perl script does," and that leads to weird corner cases.

The appealing case for org-mode is consistent syntax. At least that's what it looks like from a distance. Like I said, I haven't tried it.
The comparison isn't between working at a software startup and delivering food. It is between working at a software startup and a different software job. The other software job is almost always better for the reasons listed above.
Want and behavior aren't always aligned. Does anyone want to be unhealthy? Yet many people act in ways that makes them very unhealthy, some of whom have the ability to change it but choose not to.

How much does someone want something if they aren't willing to change their behavior to increase the chance of getting it?
> I have couple of unique domain names that I have open in my browser which have unique and non-guessable DNS names, which are crawled by some bots today. Even though I never shared them in any way with anyone! The only way they could be exposed for crawling is by my DNS provider leaking the DNS traffic to some shady third-party.

Not true.

They may be connecting directly by IP (it's typically not possible to determine if they did just from access logs). The web (or other application) server may also leak the name when connected to.

If you use TLS, which is likely, your domain names would leak through the certificate transparency logs.

...and there are surely more leak vectors than the above, so it's far from certain that the crawlers you see found their target by sniffing your DNS requests.
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>Instead, the options are taxed at a capital gains rate

As I understand it, they ARE taxed as income for all intents and purposes at exercise time (based on the value difference at exercise). They are not regular income but they are part of Alternative Minimum Tax income. You pay taxes on the greater of the two. The difference between exercise price and sales price is then taxed as capital gains assuming you held the stock for a year (or two?).

The one trick to this is that if you exercise very early then the tax is on basically nothing (literally nothing if your option price and current value are identical). However, you still need to buy the options so it's not free but just tax free.
If you mean the brightness asymmetry, it's because the accretion disc is spinning. This video predicts pretty well all of the features we expected to find, and it lines up with the actual image.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUyH3XhpLTo
It is a letdown. Although I wasn't expecting Jupiter level detail this pic doesn't blow me away because it's just a blurry ring. Jupiter level detail will blow me away.
Er, the Amazon River? I hope you were being facetious.
For two reasons.

First, most of this sort of spying involves using my own equipment as a weapon against me -- and actively subvert my defenses in order to do it. This is, in my view, not much different than them breaking into my home and installing surveillance equipment.

Second, the data gathered about me (even if it doesn't involve subverting my own equipment) is not kept in isolation. It is combined with a lot of other data about me and then mined for further insights. Every little data gathering act may be insignificant in isolation, but the end result is a degree of surveillance that is deeply immoral if done without my consent.
All that stuff is funded with borrowing, not taxes.
I suspect (but don't know) that they make more off of the various up-sells for people with more complex filing situations. Also, the free filing is marketing. It's their foot in the door. If something like rapid return happened, they would lose that strategy.
If you want to do the work, adding in crown molding after running some cat6 can make the room look much nicer if the style fits. You can then drill a hole in the drywall at the top of the wall, drop the cable down between the studs and install an actual outlet. Crown molding usually has a decent amount of space to run a few cables.
That actually sounds perfectly reasonable.
It's a startup, yes.

I work eight hours a day on average, and being that we have staff on most continents we don't really have a need to be on call. That said, I've had a handful of 3am emergencies over the course of the last few years.

I work in my garage; so I have no commute, and I no longer lose over two hours a day to commuting. That's meant I contribute far less to open source, which I did while on transit. However, I don't miss commuting at all and am thankful for the time recovered.

Balance is blissful. While my wife was on maternity leave for twelve months our girls were at home as well, and so my breaks consisted of spending time with my family. Now I walk them to daycare before work and listen to the rain on my roof while I work.
Nothing odd about that, these country codes were set more than a decade before .su was introduced. Finland had already been FI since 1974.
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Their website talks about some of the challenges of getting a picture of a black hole: https://eventhorizontelescope.org/home

All of the data used to generate the image was gathered by around a dozen different telescopes around the world. The black hole itself also needs to be in a specific configuration in order for us to be able to see it. It needs to have an accretion disk that's generating light. It needs to be sufficiently large or close. And it can't be obfuscated by other astronomical objects like stars or nebulae. This black hole itself is hugeeeeee and far. It's about the size of our solar system, but it's ~52 million light years away.
favorite part of the article... no image.
This is as far as I understand the first picture of a black hole shadow, that is the dark disc that indicates that there is actually light missing. Before that, there were astrophysical observations that strongly indicated that there is a black hole, for example QSOs, that is a bright combination of accretion disc and jet, that is powered by a black hole, or one paper I really liked tried to argue that there has to be a black hole in Cygni X1 because otherwise we would see the missing matter crashing into something. (Cygni X1 is a binary of a star and something very bright and the star is loosing mass.)
If you're on a motorcycle in stop-and-go traffic, just keep it in second gear and lane split.

Even if it's not legal. If you're in clogged traffic, They can't get you, and you'll see the fuzz before they see you since you'll be overtaking.
55 million light years is about correct. Wikipedia still has 53.5 ± 1.63 Mly from older observations, but appendix I in paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab1141 has a bit more on the distance measurements they used. They arrive at 16.76 ± 0.75 Mpc, which translates into 54.7 ± 2.4 Mly.
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> “If you want to own a house, have paid-for cars, put your kid through school, put away savings, and otherwise be completely comfortable then you can do just fine.”

lol wut ? if you work in a typical SF startup, you can do precisely none of these things. Like, literally zero.
In my very personal experience, many times startups are not full of the brightest engineers, especially if they are based in a major tech hub such as the Bay Area: most talented engineers these days, if location is not an issue, first try a shot at FAANG or similarly big companies where they can experience problems at massive scale and very high compensation.

Hence, many folks who end up accepting to work at a startup are less talented engineers (you're left with the "scraps" of the market), so if you're a high performing individual you might find that you really don't need to put that many hours in to be effective, as compared to your peers (and that's deeply depressing as well, and one of the reasons why I left startups for FAANG, other than compensation; talent is SO SO SO much better).

I speak for direct experience, I rode a startup train for a long time at a company that grew a lot, and rarely put in more than 40 hours a week into the job, while others were routinely putting 60+. And I kept being praised by the management and technical leadership.

The problem (lack of local talent due to big company competition) became severe enough that we had to bootstrap multiple remote teams in easily overlooked areas because the new local hires (San Francisco) were literally trashing the product due to poor development/testing.
> Contrary to popular wisdom, OS research is still relevant.

Is it really popular wisdom though, or is it the opinion of one person and it got hyped up, much like the same hype happened on a subpar programming language that same person worked on?
Numbers about measures and dimensions are mind blowing. You can find articles with more details.
I disagree that learning programming is harder than learning a natural language. At least, that was not true for me. Beware of broad generalizations. There is also problem solving involved in designing a sentence, and even more so, a coherent spoken/written argument. Plus there is pronunciation, accents, etc., etc.
I graduated 2 years ago next month and will say that doing the OMSCS was the best professional decision I've made. There's one unusual thing about my case though: I have a lot of prestige on my resume (Ivy league school, BCG, Google), so I mostly just wanted a) the learning and b) to say I have an MS. I don't know how I would feel about the program if I were more concerned about prestige.

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Its a great way to fight climate change and build community
Actually, it's a globally known tourism business named after a globally known location and race in Greek mythology so really, Greece should get it.
Well technically Swedish is also a native tongue (and official language) of Finland, so .fi is a two letter code based on a native tongue.
It was mentioned about half-way through the article.

> And finally, in many high valued startups where there are hungry investors, the founders get to sell parts of their vested shares at each round of funding. (At times this opportunity is offered to all employees in a “secondary” offering.) A “secondary” usually (though not always) happens when the startup has achieved significant revenue or traction and is seen as a “leader” in their market space, on the way to an IPO or a major sale.
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Were the pyramids also taller than the Burj Khalifa? That stretches the definition of “tall” dangerously thin.
It can be even worse for some people stuck in the Corporate/IT world of endless projects spun up destined to failure because all the requirements are coming from the top of the organization with little insight on how to put it all together. People lose motivation quickly not because of a physical object at the end of the day, but autonomy over their work and some feeling that what they are doing will be USED by someone. Versus a year of work for a project that never gets off the ground, just to be moved to another project.
And poetically I just read a HN post touting the imperative of capital efficiency. This is the best way to do it!
I would not install a school managed backdoor on my device.