skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's salient because seasteads are relatively lawless and, like Alcatraz or a cruise ship, difficult to flee without assistance.
> The original G.I. Bill expired in 1956, but the term "G.I. Bill" is still used to refer to programs created to assist U.S. military veterans.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill
Try something like levels.fyi that lists the RSUs on a yearly scale.
We saw very rapid development in technologies in the 20th century. In the 21st century tech is still rapidly developing but far far less impactful. It seems the only areas we've really made large progress in is Entertainment and medical capabilities. If you look at US GDP growth per capita for the last 20 years, we're down to about 1%, far slower than the preceding 100 years.

People kind of assume that tech development will always be there and even increase but I don't think that's an assumption we can make.

To be truely impactful, the development needs to be in areas that are important to humanity. Where are those areas? it's all in Maslow's heirarchy of needs. Most human beings (99% ~ even those in supposedly 1st world countries) are at the bottom-most level: Shelter, Food. In this modern world, you need 3 other things as well: Transportation to go to the job, education to get the job, and medical insurance to keep the money you earn. to be truely impactful, innovation needs to happen in one of those 5 major areas: shelter, food, transporation, education or medical.
People considering this should benchmark both options. Constantly deserializing everything you need has a predictable but very high cost, often worse for throughput than a well-tuned GC.
Desert sand is too smooth to bind to make concrete, so sand is taken from river beds such as the Mekong

That's really interesting, but makes sense. The sand in most deserts has been blowing around for millennia (or longer), and so would be extremely smoothed-off. Sand in the Mekong is relatively young, and not that far removed from when it was a rough chip off a rock upstream. The difference here is called sediment maturity [] IIRC from first-year geology.

But can anyone answer: why is mature, rounded, fine sand not suitable for binding concrete or for glassmaking? And how fine can the sand be -- wouldn't extremely fine grains classify as clays instead?

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maturity_(sedimentology)
Will the billionaires themselves do the kidnapping/enslaving?

If it's done by henchmen, we're no longer in the "billionaires only" city state that I'm making fun of.
You should also checkout ERPNext (https://github.com/frappe/erpnext). Its another free and open source ERP (GNU GPL v3) which is not open core. ERPNext is also built as a monolith, so you get maximum features out of the box instead of relying on 100s of extensions to fulfill your requirements. All since there is no "enterprise" version, there is no chance of features dropping out like accounting and payroll.

ERPNext has reasonable traction too (~5k+ stars on GitHub, 12k+ forum members) and is used by some very large enterprises.

Disclaimer: I am the founder of ERPNext
The energy required to dismantle and fuse a gas giant would be tremendous - there's definitely an opportunity-cost involved.

Compared to a Dyson sphere - which only requires a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the energy absorbed to build and launch the orbiting platforms that make-up the sphere.

You can "ignite" a gas-giant by maneuvering a black-hole into position inside the gas-giant, but (as far as we know) there are far more gas-giants than there are black-holes, and the distances involved are tremendous (nearest black hole: 3,000ly, nearest gas-giant: 6 to 9e-5 light-years). It just doesn't strike me as feasible or even worthwhile even if it was feasible.

Maybe as the heat-death of the universe approaches, the last band of remaining humans (don't ask) try to ignite the gas-giants to keep the lights on?
It is for APL and derived languages (APL, J, K, A, A+, Klong)

And .. well, if you want C or Java, use C or Java.

Quickly, which is higher precedence, "&" or ">" ? You may have memorized them, but many people get it wrong often enough. APL has a very simple and consistent rule: There is no precedence in an expression except paranthese, and you go right to left.

And it may seem to not help with onboarding if you skim, but if you take the time it clicks quickly for most people, especially if you consider that "right to left" is actually "left of right", e.g. (note, a|b is the maximum of a and b, not the bitwise or)

1 + 2 * 3 + 4 | 5

is read and understood as:

(1 + ...) applied to ((2 * ...) applied to ((3 + ...) applied to (4 | 5)))

read another way (note: using python syntax)

def f(x): return 1+x
def g(x): return 2*x
def h(x): return 3+x

It is equivalent to

f(g(h(max(4,5)))

But one argument K/APL functions need no parentheses, so you would have written it

f g h 4|5

But with "f", "g" and "h" inlined you get the original expression back.

It is different - but it is simple and consistent without any arbitrary precedence and associativity rules.

Also, it's not a new idea; APL predates every other programming language still in use except, perhaps, Fortran, Lisp and COBOL -- of which only Fortran uses operator precedence and associativity in the modern C/Algol sense. Lisp is also consistent (though with a different route than APL took). And I'm afraid to describe COBOL in fear that cthulu will rise.
> The problem with this standpoint is that procedural fixes are the least preferable way of managing a hazardous condition.

The way to make things safe is to address ALL points in the zipper that led to the accident. That includes the pilot error aspects.
It's not just nits. Matte screens (think Thinkpad, boring business) tend to do better than glossy screens (Apple, anything consumerish and "pretty").

I'm still waiting for eInk... whatever happened to the display tech from OLPC?
Can you point out where the people in my hospital example lied? If they never claimed to be doctors, but dressed up and acted as them, is it a lie? Lies come in many forms, some are explicit and others less so.

I don't see them as fools, but as charismatic and intelligent people who have found a way to garner adoration, fame and other benefits by exploiting psychologically weak and vulnerable people. Whether they do so knowingly or not varies from guru to guru. I think many of them do start off with good intentions but quickly find themselves buying into the mystique others have built up around them. They are often as weak as their devotees. Dass falls into this camp in my mind. Is it wrong, no, but I feel it's important to point out.
Please, engineers, pay attention to the ethical implications of your creations.

You can't talk about how much money you make (or could have made) and disregard the pain you cause people in the process. Not all startups are equally unethical, and Palantir is famously one of the most closely tied to so much human suffering in the world.
Former Amazon employees bake Bezos principles into their startups
> The environment they are trying to set up makes them unaccountable and undemocratic, capable of entrapping and exploiting people to no end.

This is the environment, as it exists, for hundreds of millions around the world right now. So even if your critiques are true, we're no worse for trying.
Maybe three years ago I dove into cheap SDR receivers for a few months, exploring different SDR devices, different frequency bands, different decoders, etc.

One really surprising thing was how little morse code was to be found. And when I did find it, the decoders (like fldigi) were unreliable in decoding. I'm not sure if it was because of their decoding algorithms or if the senders simply had too much variance in their timing.

The bit of traffic I did decode was simply exchanges of contact so each could log a new call sign in their books. I'm not sure what I was expecting to find: because the bits seemed to be "secret" due to my ignorance of morse code, my brain heuristically assumed information they hid must be important.
It must be a KeyTwo - Currency as control key isn't an available option on my KeyOne. Agreed about error-free typing, as well as it's usefulness for SSH.
One of the greatest articles of all time. Deeper every time you read it. Planning will always fail at scale, this helps explain why and mitigate
One would assume that on a site like Hacker News, there would be more imagination and enthusiasm for innovation.

Perhaps it's mostly selection bias on articles like this one that brings out the comments we see around us?
A light-weight solution would have been nice. Something like containers.

But again, the problem is that Microsoft wanted to have binary compatibility. That would mean containers w/ Linux ABI emulation, or a proper VM. Well, Linux ABI emulation has been tried by many people:

- Sun (twice)
- Joyent (once, based on earlier tech from Sun)
- FreeBSD
- Microsoft (WSL1)
- probably others

and... it's just too difficult. It's ETOOHARD. So they all failed.
ReallY?

Can you list a few historical cities founded under a similar model that had the awful results you claim?
I had one of these for an interview a few months ago. A huge schematic and I was told to find out "why it wouldn't work". It took me about 10 minutes to figure out that one FET's diode network was set up so that it'd short out and fail, and I ended up failing the interview for taking so long and labeling every subsection. They told me this was a spot test, and this kind of thing should just jump out immediately if you're smart enough. They also said me immediately jumping into the details of each component and its role was a red flag and they didn't think I'd be able to get the big picture of circuit design.

I've been thinking about this since and I don't know how I can fix this. I just don't know any other way to think other than looking at the details. Does their assessment that this is a flaw seem on point?
Palantir built a lot of ICE's software systems. Among other things, when ICE was using children crossing the border to go after and arrest their family member, "the key place where that information was stored and communicated to be able to prosecute them was through the ICM and Palantir’s information sharing."[0]

I would encourage anyone to think twice about taking money from Gary or similar VCs who only care they lost out on $200m and not the many families that have been broken up and children imprisoned because of what their companies do.

[0] https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/20/palantirs-controversi...
“We will eliminate poverty by not letting the poor live in our cities “
There is an option to override, it’s just not visible in the picture.

The booth is asking the user to “touch an option” but only 1 option is visible, the option to retake the photo has a “attempts remaining” counter and that the company logo is in the middle of the photo preview (the photo preview is in the middle of two options, which will make the company logo centred on the screen).
There were already multiple good libre browser engines: KHTML, Gecko, and (kind of) the Tcl one.

Apple forked one in a hostile fashion, and later used it to release proprietary software.

A substantial volume of web browsers, including the largest two (Chrome, Safari), are proprietary software, directly because of this.

It made the WWW less free, and hurt users.
Not exactly. It is a political problem not an economic one.
> When founders and teams pursue something without product market fit

How do you know if you have product market fit until you pursue something though? The standard advice on this is completely contradictory:

E.g. on the one hand, you have the advice that adding more features will never result in product market fit, because most of the features will be too far down the funnel to move the needle and they won't ever solve whatever the core problem that's making the thing not successful in the first place.

On the other hand, you have the advice that you shouldn't pursue growth until you have good retention, which basically implies that you should keep working on the product almost indefinitely even without product market fit.
Catching up on my open HN tabs, so a few days late. Very fascinating. The choices that are made. I second the suggestion from TimTheTinker about an essay/blog on/about the philosophical foundation and choices made of/for the HN community by dang and sctb, expanding on the grandparent comment.
What you're saying basically amounts to "people are blinded to what they love by their need for financial security". This may be true on some level, but anyone can see through it with a modicum of introspection. Or am I giving the average person too much credit?
J and K stick to Ascii (though recent K seems to accept a unicode "sqrt" sign, and "pi" character with the expected meaning).

I do find some J choices questionable - e.g. '}' and '{' are used as individual operators, rather than a parenthetical pair - which confuses editors without a special J mode, and humans who switch between languages often - but if you use it enough, it's easy to get used to; Also, K keeps () {} and [] as parenthetical pairs, like they are in C/Java/Python etc
It's ironic that it's easier for HNers to imagine a future of utopian space colonies than it is to imagine wealth being taxed.
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It uses the latest tech buzzwords, it seems.
My talent, time and energy is as good as your cash.
I'd say it's less about the number in the bank account and more about the perceived safety you feel. Similar to the lower two layers of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. If you don't think that the worst outcome of pursuing something you truly love is manageable, you're less likely to put yourself up to that risk.

In US this might correlate more strongly to the numbers of zeros in the bank account or the salary difference to similar workers at FAANG. But feeling of safety is subjective and depend a lot on the environment you're in so I don't think that's universally the case.
IMO, it doesn’t happen in part because the liquidation preferences are present. If they weren’t there, a great many startup founders would find their highest expected value play to be to close up, distribute the funds, and go back to working for someone else. Maybe not the day after funding, but 3, 6, or 18 months in. “This isn’t working out, but I can cash out from the cash left in the bank.”

Just like the “declare strategic bankruptcy a few months before graduation” doesn’t happen much because student loans aren’t discharged in bankruptcy.

Both moves would “break the game” in a very similar way and so are blocked.
Is the auctioneer a distant cousin of Bruce?
The US military is the de facto UN Army.
> There ought to be a sizable subset of highly skilled engineers who have achieved financial independence and would enjoy tackling a challenging problem in a startup.

The flip side of this equation is that those same engineers can tackle pretty much any challenging problem they choose, while continuing to take home those massive paycheques from a big tech firm.

Big tech operates in almost every part of industry simultaneously - want to work on Blockchain? AI? VR? Shipping and logistics? Silicon design? Drones? A valued engineer at a FAANG can switch between all of those at will without ever even interviewing.
There are 607 billionaires in the US out of 320 million people. You need to meet over half a million people to average one person with Peter Thiel's level of wealth.
It seems to me that some sort of lookahead function could be implemented to detect this sort of attack at the browser level.

Also, what is wrong with people?
What's preventing Twitter from making APNGs work the same way as animated GIFs? (e.g. you have to explicitly click the play button)
"not getting your attention" and "can't tell the difference" are not the same thing.
Snapchat and Spotify have very different kinds of business models.
I can never understand why AMD has not thrown its weight around to get support added in PyTorch and TensorFlow. NVidia is minting money on this by charging 2-4X on data center GPUs and eating theri lunch, dinner and breakfast. AMD could invest as little as 10 developers and get it done in few months. It's astounding that they can go all the way to do silicon, febs and just fall short of adding this final framework support.

https://towardsdatascience.com/on-the-state-of-deep-learning...
Working Model of Stephenson's Steam Engine Made of Glass (2010) [video]
The Penguin Book of Oulipo review – writing, a user's manual
My whole programming career has been around custom and standard ERP and internal business apps. I am in mfg too, just not a large enterprise. Low bureacracy, easy to get things done, joy when you see your software improves your coworkers work daily.
I also had an an idea of making a new ERP, something that will have a strong both financials and manufacturing and not much else, so a bit narrow focus, but it would cut a lot of baggage that first and second tier ERP carry. Closest I can think of it is Dynamics GP as a modern web app. I never worked with GP, only looked thir user guides and youtube videos, but without actual app as a reference it is hard to make any progress.
Sucralose a potent sweetener in sugar free drinks but was apparently discovered while developing insecticide. The legend goes that the head guy says 'test it' and the assistant thinks he said 'taste it'. Too much sucralose can start to kill gut bacteria for some people. (Take all this with a grain of salt, I don't remember where I got this from)
Honestly, reading this article was the first time I saw a documented case of strobes causing seizures. It's possible (and this is purely speculation) that the attacker sent the strobe to give some comedic punch to the statement "you deserve a seizure" not expecting or hoping that it would actually cause a seizure.
Medical capabilities?

No way. Life expectancy is going DOWN in the U.S. While true that this is because of the opioid problem, if there were substantial improvements in medicine these improvements would save more lives than opioids were killing.
Once again, I assert that the valuations are rising too high, too quickly, and so even if you are optimistic about profitability, you won't see a return that's worth leaving your golden beanbag chair at a FAANG. Why would I join a startup after an 8-9 figure Series A valuation for a 10-figure market? And yet, that's what my options were in my industry.
All managers in Google (engineering and non-engineering) are encouraged to take a 2-day immersive course. There's a course for "experienced manager, but new to Google" and a course for "new manager" with content tailored to the two different populations. There are also many many many mandatory trainings that span the gamut from allyship and inclusiveness, to local laws, to how we do performance reviews and comp. In the first year alone, I would guess something O(~weeks) of these trainings.

There are also countless hours of opt-in training for pretty much any subject where you want to improve your skills.

In Google SRE, combo TLMs are considered to be an acceptable short term solution for team turnover, but not a long term best practice. TLMs are highly encouraged to find a different TL for the team.

In addition, all SRE managers (SRMs) are paired with an experienced manager as their mentor.

Ultimately though, apart from the mandatory trainings, no one can really force you to be a better manager. The big feedback mechanism is that internal mobility is very high, to the point where managers have essentially no power to prevent anyone from leaving their team. So if you suck, you will get bad scores in your own performance review and everyone on your team will just transfer away.

I called out the SRE-specific bits, and a few common practices, but it could be that there are different practices in other engineering orgs.

Source: I'm an SRM, and speak only for myself.
Stealing other peoples work (including orignal slides) is not okay, specially without credits and/or permission.
The worst tech gifts we give and how to do better
Sometimes after a climb I’m exhausted not just physically but also from all the mental effort related to path planning. Ive noticed a similar "exhaustion" (perhaps in a diminished form) after skiing and snowboarding on tricky (for me) terrain.
Even if you expect to take a haircut on your pension, it's still a good idea to diversify your retirement investments, for the same reason that you should invest into both bonds, and stocks.

If you retire during a recession, your planned 20 years of 401K runway may not last you more than 12. Or you might end up living longer than 20 years. Or both.

With a guaranteed payments pension, you will continue receiving benefits as long as you live. This aspect of it wont matter to you if you fall over dead at 68, but will matter greatly if you end up living longer than planned.

Right now, less than 5% of my retirement savings are going towards a pension (Social security). I would be much happier if that number (And the expected returns from it) were closer to 25% - and that's with the expectation that SS payments will unexpectedly drop in the future. Having an investment instrument that will pay me until I die is great for diversifying my portfolio.
> A profitable startup can, in fact, pay through the roof.

But most startups don't become profitable, most startups fail.

IMO, you should basically assume that any stock options a startup offers you are worth zero. Decide if you want the offer based on the base pay and how interesting/stimulating the work is.
Based on what? The Chinese used to chew on cinnabar which they believed to be healthy and give longevity but was toxic, since it is actually mercury sulfide.
And be able to go down to a local print shop and have the book printed on demand...
Do you have any links and resources on those calculations about starlink?
You have a point. However, it would be very easy to distinguish between this scenario, and a sale of the company. VCs don't make this distinction. They could.
took me a second to figure out that i needed to use the arrow keys. also i read saugage at first... but very interesting story :)
Chartbusters Prediction Hackathon Predict Popularity of Songs and Win
Forget self-sustaining space colonies, we don't even know how to build Earth-dependent space colonies.

Because there's no plausible way we can build one in near/medium future, we aren't constrained by pesky reality, so we can let our imaginations run wild and claim that it will solve the problem of government power and save mankind. And probably also cure cancer.

It's the same pattern as how some startups avoid making money at all cost, so that their valuation can be detached from market reality.
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Also, I think this point might be missed to some young people, once you work on drone software that kills people or ICE software that detains people, you cannot reverse your contributions.

That work will permanently be part of you and your career.
In my case, it was the opposite. I was prepared to retire at 35. Having a kid changed perspective completely in the direction of being more ambitious.