skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s the issue of hypergrowth or ‘blitzscaling’.

Plenty of companies will deliver just as much, if not more, with a 30 person strong team, as they would with 600, or 10,000.

But a thirty person strong team isn’t going to get a multi-million cash injection unless they plug it all into a swanky office and an ever-growing wage bill.

I greatly admire Basecamp and it’s founders, DHH and Jason Fried, for completely bucking this trend. And they’re as successful as ever.
I've had a similarly good low-maintenance and dependable upgrade experience with CentOS
> "could be a huge jump" ... "maybe slower means lowering the hertz"

This is so painfully obvious it's sad that it has to be said out loud. There is no credible information about exactly what AMD means when they claim lower performance. Nothing meaningful is said about the nature of their 'protections.' And the fact that everything was supposedly blessed by all the various US government TLAs under the Obama administration is almost a confirmation of the WSJ lede; that this was yet another backdoor sellout of US tech to China.
Agreed! Also worth noting that Startup School is very startup-like itself, and we're constantly trying to provide more value. As an example, we're moving to more dynamic grouping so you won't get placed for video calls with founders who aren't engaging with the program. Hoping that will create a better experience for everyone!
Requirements a PowerShell idempotent and declarative configuration framework
I've been thoroughly schooled.
Actually they were, remote update push from IT.
Phones can be more secure than a desktop because the user isn’t allowed to make decisions that are bad, such as installing untrusted software or allowing that software out of the sandbox.

Using a specific Android like distribution is not a magic bullet and will not solve all your security problems.
The fact that his design made Apple a lot of money means that they were good business decisions. However, that isn't the same as them being good design decisions.

As I understand it, design is the study of how form can be improved in order to improve function. Ive's focus on slimness appears to be improving form at the expense of function.
>The problem becomes where he would go..

Why does he have to go somewhere? Why not retire? Or do something he like? The problem with designing iPhone or any Apple products, is that he has so much constraint he cant really do much creative thinking any more. You need a new iPhone every year, and new design every few years, with tweaking of design in between. The design has to be able to be manufactured up to 100M unit a year. I suppose they even measure output with units per day. Materials will now have to be recyclable. And they cant cost more than X amount etc.

Then there is burn out I presume? He said he was deeply tired after doing the Apple Watch. That is roughly 3 years after Steve Jobs pass away. Steve was his best friend, and they both lift each other, and I assume Steve would motivate people, challenge each of these genius do something they thought they cant, but somehow all managed. Without their spiritual leader I assume the heavy burden is quite hard to bear. And people would burn out...

May be when Steve was around, working was fun at Apple. Now it is more like work for him. And so he decided to leave and enjoy life doing things he like.
I think a lot of discussion I have seen online has overlooked the importance of the phased array antennas, which are too large to make Starlink practical for someone using a phone or laptop on the go. However, it would be very convenient for people needing Internet service at home.

I have also heard people (not in this thread) talk about Starlink as a way to bypass censorship in places like China, but this is almost certainly not possible. What authoritarian regime would allow the sale of the Starlink antennas in their country and the local downlinks needed to have good latency?

This is a fascinating project, but I hope we don't end up treating it as a panacea to all issues of information freedom.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14241752 for example.
This case is different though, using the fission reaction to generate electricity which in turn powers the electric motors among other things.

The nuclear powered missiles use the fission reaction to heat incoming air similar to how a jet engine works.
I just put iptables shit into /etc/rc.local and it works, no dbus needed :)
i5-9400F looks amazing though. Powerful and cheap.
I think people need to realize spacex has a primary goal of developng rockets.

I see all this as analogous to the problem of beginning pilots: the cost of getting hours in a plane is expensive.

Offering <x> where x requires the pilot to fly a plane will get the pilot discount hours in the air. x could be flight lessons, flying packages around, aerial photo services, etc.
I am mostly on Windows, but in both cases those updates get actually forced on all machines by IT remote management tooling.
Rejection of status games is a status game.
How does that help?
For whom does that actually matter, though?
Also... the USA is the only country that has used nuclear weapons against another country. And they dared do it twice!

We think of them as barbarians. They think of us as barbarians. And the cycle of finger pointing goes on.
Such a dangerous mindset to have.
Saying that people just need to go out and build their own operating system/computer is ridiculous. No average person (or really any individual) has the resources to do that.
Saying a class is easy is not the Dunning-Kruger effect, especially when the class is easy for the individual. Thinking mastering the entire field is easy because the intro class was easy is a far better match of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Someone who is well aware of how complex a subject is can find a given class to be easy, which would imply they are not under the Dunning-Kruger effect. Confidence alone is not sufficient.

Edit: that they ended up with lower marks due to not studying due to overconfidence due to the earlier ease of the topic seems like it would fall under Dunning-Kruger.
Done https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/3774 :)
Ask HN: Should I quit for 6 months?
Sorry for the typical, unoriginal advice thread.

BACKSTORY:

25 years old. Not married. I've spent the last 3 years working at a FAANG company - more or less right out of college. For the first 2.5 years I lived at home with my parents. As such, I've saved quite a bit. Now I'm living in the city. With recent changes to my team goals and product, I find myself extremely unfulfilled as of late. I now regularly engage in fantasies of quitting, and my gut tells me it's the right call.

I've always had personal projects I work on. Mostly ones that are intended to make a tiny bit of passive income. No one-hit wonders. But none of them have seen the light of day. I lose interest half way through. In my time off, I would like to finish one of them.

I'm somewhat risk averse, so I would only allow myself to go 6 months before trying to find another job (provided I can't come up with any solo income in that time). I hold no belief that I'll make a profitable project being solo. I don't fantasize about being a startup founder who makes millions. I just want some time to work on projects I enjoy. Maybe make some money off them. Probably not.

USEFUL INFO:

* Rent + everything else = ~4k a month. I can get that lower.

* I have 275k in savings. Not counting 401k.

* 6mo would cost about 25k.

* My lease is up for renew in 6mo, which is a nice coincidence.

* Got promoted in the last 6 months. This may help job prospects in the future - companies may more easily hire me at that level, than if I quit without getting promoted.

RISKS:

1) Sucking it up and working at this company the next 8 years would result in a very lucrative career, and that's a large opportunity cost.

2) Getting a job 6 months from now may not be as easy as I pretend it is. (What if the economy explodes!)

3) I may find that I have motivation for personal projects either, and live 6 months in a quiet depression in my underwear.

ALTERNATIVES:

1) I suck it up and do my job. People would love this job. It's cushy and it pays very well. Just do it for 5 more years and then consider this stuff.

2) Change teams at work. I imagine this might be only a mitigation, but maybe it would make things better.

3) Talk to my manager about working on stuff that I want to. I love to create and experiment. I know our problem area well now. I have things I want to create that would be valuable to the company that I would be passionate about. Would it be wise to ask for a 3 month trial of working on my own solo thing within the company? I would like that.

So what do you think? Should I do it?
This is probably part of why people like programs that follow a set of conventions. If all of my programs use vi keybindings, there's not much left for me to remember. This also covers GUIs to an extent; if every program had its own ideas about how scroll bars should be placed or work, or what each mouse button meant, then we'd struggle.
How does one test on earth, a drone for a different atmospheric and gravitational environment? Some great drone simulation techniques are going to come out of this project.
Never change my lad.
France actually enforces a law whereby every new construction need to be well insulated (rt2012 at the moment). To give an idea, to comply to this rule you need at least 15cm of styrofoam on the outside walls of your house.
The next rules are coming next year, rt2020, where the construction need to be energy positive. So you will need solar panel, or heating system which give more kWh than it consumes.

Moreover there are funds available when you want to improve the thermal efficiency of your old house. I got my paid half of the bill to get a new heating system for example.
Which is also not known for being the best graphics and game development platform out there.

Anyone that actually cares about top graphics or game development tooling is either on Apple or Microsoft platforms.
Neutron: A simple, extensible and efficient programming language
Blue Apron founder’s new company bets on carbon-friendly chicken
Cute story, but I detect a certain bitterness and refusal to accept the "future" of software engineering is actually the "now."

People didn't think up microservices yesterday, they aren't some hot new fad that'll be forgotten in a year, and they aren't being developed because people just have nothing better to do. They're replacing legacy systems which nobody wants to touch at a rapid clip. People don't like working on legacy systems because they're at an unfortunate intersection of being business critical yet flaky and hard to work on.

In the context of this story, well... your protagonist is actually on life support. But not to worry! They'll be taken off it soon...
My team that I am going to convention with is much better at math than I am, but they haven't touched any code before. I, on the other hand, have touched a fair amount of code in the past three years, but don't have very many foundational math skills.
Imagining the Last Moments of Murdered Journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Chicken and egg, sadly.
An outlier on a meaningless metric is a meaningless data point.
We have to adapt our laws to reality; not the other way around. The reality is that even compelling me to produce a hard drive is backed by State violence.

So we must accept that a certain amount of State violence is necessary to keep the peace. Think of a schoolyard Bully going unchecked; it takes someone standing up to them and enforcing the threat of future violence in order to end the actual occurrence of violence.

But there is a clear legal framework here:

I don't have to produce any materials to the State without a warrant acquired by due process (and not parallel construction). This is my protection from unwarranted search and seizure as outlined by the US Bill of Rights.

However, I don't have to tell you where it is. I can't prevent you from taking it, but I have the right to not have to testify. Because the enforcement for my testimony comes from State violence, and we learned from the Dark Ages what happens when we allow the government the power to extract information with force.

It would be quite ironic if, in our quest for not "going dark", we enter the Digital Dark Ages.
It's not a consequence of being an ultrabook. Being thin means you can't have VGA or normal ethernet ports. Everything else can fit.
Right, and presumably are useless once people try to game them. 'Useless' might be too strong a term, but you can't e.g. decrease your mortality by training your grip strength.
Yeah, I've had to maintain multiple config files because Amazon Linux, Debian stable, Debian testing, Ubuntu, Raspbian, various Fedora versions, etc. have all had different tmux versions at different times, and upgrading locally involves some termcap stuff that wasn't always reliable.

I fully expect to have to revisit this again soonish. But most of the tmux changes over the years have been clear positives, despite the config churn.
I see what you're getting at, and that's the logic some VCs seem to be using. But rarely does it ever work, because you'll need to start charging sooner than later, even at a loss. And once you do, competition will show up.

See Uber vs Lyft.

You'd be better off investing in a real business with a real revenue plan. Still, yes, your model works in an environment where collusion can take place. Which is why collusion and the VC aristocracy is so damaging.
I also enjoy STEM work and would continue to do it even if it was low-paying.

Also I get a ton of joy from STEM-based personal projects that wouldn't be possible if I didn't level up my skills through work and play
I don't think this is helping your argument, especially on HN. "We need to end privacy to preserve Warner Brothers and Disney profit margins"?

(If I have a DRM encrypted file that I don't have the keys for, am I now committing two offences? Are law enforcement entitled to a free copy of the HDCP keys?)
Pleroma v1.0, an Elixir social network
https://blog.soykaf.com/post/pleroma-1.0/

Pleroma officially reaches version 1.0 today.

It's an Activitypub-powered social network (in the family of Mastodon, Gab, and GNU Social), written in Elixir.

Flagship instance: https://pleroma.site/
Affirmed N322M Misrepresentation: Court Discharges Senator Nwaoboshi’s
I kind of wish it had an airship counterpart. Inflating a dirigible there would take advantage of the same atmosphere + gravity benefits with the added bonus of not needing constant power to move around.
Oops, I missed the “not”. Thanks!
After reading that those who could do at least 40 pushups without stopping [0] had a 96% lower risk of heart disease, I started doing pushups each day until I could do 40. I'm surprised by how much better I feel.

[0] https://www.livescience.com/64789-pushups-men-heart-health.h...
>The US has a trade deficit with almost all of its trading partners. That is a structural issue.

But has nothing to do with what we are talking about here.

It's not a crude caricature. IP protection in china is non existing which anyone who even done a little business in china knows very well. It's litterally one of the biggest criticisms so I am not sure where you are getting your information from, none the less it's incorrect.

Chinese don't need their brands to western markets they just need to produce for our markets. The difference is that the west doesn't hinder chinese companies to compete on our markets, china does hinder us competing on theirs.
Look at all the fake patriots rushing to defend the very thing that is undoing the basic tenets of the USA's founding political philosophies.

The articles point is being wantonly ignored by turning this into yet another debate on whether God appointed the USA to defend the world against itself.

The US military machine pollutes more than 140 countries!

May I suggest that:
1) large powerful countries tend to bully and act pushy and attempt to coerce the smaller and/or poorer countries into doing their bidding

2) nation states as a global system won't likely survive this century, as they are largely squandering what little time we have left to confront the single largest threat humanity has ever faced in it's self-aknowledged history:

human caused climate change.

Hello 45 degree France in 2019
(celsius, my fahrenheit friends... you know: the system the entire rest of the world uses: where freezing of water is 0 and the boiling point of the same is 100... part of the metric system... in which 1 cubic meter of water is 1000 liters, in which you can convert from driving/flying distances to microscopic ones by shifting some zeros... that's another clue that you are actually doing the Devils work rather than Gods, but I digress...)
Read the thread again; MacBook Pros don't use XEs.
Their robotic programs are generally great successes though - Mars rovers, Saturn, Pluto for the most recent achievements. Incredible stuff, and unmatched.

Probably because the senate keeps their corrupt hands off of these types of missions.
I guess it would be compared to normal levels of investment and valuations of dot com businesses. Though I'll give you it's a little vague. I read something a while back but can't find it.
When higher temperatures have you down, just remember the conclusion on the final page of a buried 1980 report on climate change from the American Petroleum Institute: "At a 3% per anum growth rate of CO₂, a 2.5°C rise brings world economic growth to a halt in about 2025"
I sort of agree and disagree with it. I think they need someone like jobs with design taste and product / user focus in mind. More like a Chief Product Officer.

I think Scott Forstall is that person.
Lucrative government contracts? You are going to need a team of lobbyists and crony sales guys and millions of dollars to handle the overhead of businesses that deal in government. Actual knowledge of the subject matter will be way down the list of requirements to earn lucrative government contracts.
I put a 2700X in my most recent desktop and a 2400G in my HTPC. For the price they can't be beat.
I bought a Ryzen 7 1700X and have been running Ubuntu on it for over a month now. It's insanely fast. (32 GB Ram, 1 TB Samsung EVO 970 nvme, Radeon 580)... I've even been able to overclock it some (3.4Ghz base speed -> 3.77 Ghz). Although I added some additional cooling and I think I could reasonably get 4Ghz out of it.

I miss several of my core daily-driving Mac apps (Querious, MailMate, and Messages) but for ~$1,300... it's hard to beat!
Conspiracies, eh

https://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49#49

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v....

Full disclosure, I'm long $AMD ;)
Please don't refer to transwomen as "women". Gender and sex really is more complicated than just men and women, and yes, I do mean "biologically", not just as some mental abstraction.
Why isn't the police office a police of type officer? When he gets promoted to police seargant or police commissioner, he changes what type of police he is.
While I agree that a GUI can be a bit more discoverable in general, I don't think CLIs (and more generally, terminal-based programs) are necessarily for the l33t crowd. We've just been conditioned that way by the fact that most user-facing applications these days are GUI based.

But think of the DOS-based programs of yore, like WordPerfect 5, and the Turbo C/Pascal IDEs... they had menus on screen, easy-to-access help screens, etc. to guide the novice. (What's the Web-app equivalent to the F1 key?) History shows that WordPerfect was fine to use as a non-technical person. (I wish our modern word processors were so simple to use as WP 5, actually -- modern app-design trends have bloated the word processor into a confusing mess, IMO, and I think the average office worker who has worked in both generations might agree.)

I really like the approach taken by the 'which-key' extension for Emacs, which is particularly well used in the Spacemacs distribution. Pressing the space bar pulls up a very nicely organized menu of actions, including access to help. It's extremely helpful both as a memory aid, and also for discovering new features.

Obviously a nice menu doesn't get the user fully past the initial Emacs learning curve, which supports your argument. But for the next level of user -- from novice to initiate -- it's a tremendous productivity boost.

- https://github.com/justbur/emacs-which-key
- http://spacemacs.org/
Major Outage Reported at Slack
That was ten years ago...
I think that is RHEL and CentOs. Fedora is their experimental playground for beta testing. RHEL is their LTS.
Sorry is this is off-topic, but given the context, why are so many of them posed in seemingly erotic ways? It isn't just the women either look at Nik Morgan, 21 near the bottom (no pun intended).
What’s Titan look like this time of year?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lZa83dTf4JA

Exciting to see reality (almost) following fiction. Gattaca is an excellent film, if you haven’t seen it.
A lesson which many highly intelligent persons never learn as long as they live is that human beings in general are incorrigibly very different from themselves in thought, action, and desire. Many a reformer has died at the hands of a mob which he was trying to improve. The highly intelligent child must learn to suffer fools gladly--not sneeringly, not angrily, not despairingly, not weepingly--but gladly, if personal development is to proceed successfully in the world as it is. Failure to learn how to tolerate in a reasonable fashion the foolishness of others less gifted leads to bitterness, disillusionment, and misanthropy, which are the ruin of potential leaders.

As a form of failure to suffer fools gladly, negativism may develop. The foolish teacher who hates to be corrected by a child is unsuited to these children. Too many children of IQ 170 are being taught by teachers of IQ 120. Into this important matter of the selection of the teacher we cannot enter, except to illustrate the difficulty from recent conversation with a ten-year-old boy of IQ 165. This boy was referred to us as a school problem: "Not interested in the school work. Very impudent. A liar." The following is a fragment of conversation with this boy:

What seems to be your *main* problem in school?

Several of them.

Name *one*.

Well, I will name the teachers. Oh, boy! It is bad enough when
the *pupils* make mistakes, but when the *teachers* make
mistakes, oh, boy!

Mention a few mistakes the teachers made.

For instance I was sitting in 5A and the teacher was teaching
5B. She was telling those children that the Germans discovered
printing, that Gutenberg was the first discoverer of it, mind
you. After a few minutes I couldn't stand it. I am not supposed
to recite in that class, you see, but I got up. I said, "No; the
Chinese *invented*, not discovered, printing, before the time
of Gutenberg--while the Germans were still barbarians."

Then the teacher said, "Sit down. You are entirely too fresh."
Later on she gave me a raking-over before the whole class. Oh,
boy! What teaching!

It seemed to me that one should begin at once in this case the lesson about suffering fools gladly. So I said, "Ned, that teacher is foolish, but one of the very first things to learn in the world is to suffer fools gladly. The child was so filled with resentment that he heard only the word "suffer."

"Yes, that's it. That's what I say! Make 'em suffer. Roll a rock on 'em."

I quote this to suggest how negativistic rebels may seize on the wrong idea. Before we finished the conversation Ned was straightened out on the subject of who was to do the suffering. He agreed to do it himself.

I will cite another conversation, this time with a nine-year-old, of IQ 183.

What seems to be the *main* trouble with you at school?

The teacher can't pronounce.

Can't pronounce *what*?

Oh, lots of things. The teacher said "Magdalen College"--at
Oxford, you know. I said, "In England they call it Môdlin
College." The teacher wrote a note home to say I am rude and
disorderly. She does not like me.

-- Leta Hollingworth, "Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet"