skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Virtually every physicist is painfully aware of this. The lack of testable theories is not for lack of trying. The search for a theory is precisely the search for a testable theory.

But it appears to be a hard problem, and a couple centuries of remarkable progress at solving problems is no predictor that the next problem will be easy.
I don't really understand why this is so traumatic to say. There are lots of people doing amazing things. Maybe we can look at projects run by people who don't disregard good technical advice for years out of what they themselves have called pride.

I knew my post would be controversial, but I certainly wasn't expecting that the main complaint leveled is that I'm supposed to ignore he and his community's prior transgressions because remembering them is "vindictive."
The problem with this standpoint is that procedural fixes are the least preferable way of managing a hazardous condition. Engineering the hazard away is almost always the better option with procedural mitigation’s being a last resort. If engineering fixes were available and unused its indicative of poor safety engineering practices
> There can be benefits though, arguably better personal development, a broader view of the entire tech stack, and potentially more personal satisfaction.

There's also:

1. Shitty bosses (this and the following can be found in any kind of company)

2. Being promised one thing and then being screwed over later. How many companies have screwed over their employees of stock options or those holding existing stock?

3. Terrible tech stack / less personal satisfaction -- especially if the startup hires lousy people and value code production over smarts.

4. Management defined engineering -- when managers make important technical decisions instead of engineers. ("We've signed up for service X, please integrate with them regardless of your thoughts on the matter").
But he is saving the world by filling it with toxic batteries and ugly trucks

Haven't you heard?
Premium economy is still usually at least 2x the economy ticket price; on a long haul that will cost many hundreds to up to thousands extra.

What you’re probably thinking of is the US airline specific “comfort/extra/plus” add-on that is priced 10%-20% extra. There is a few more inches legroom but the seats are the same small economy seats.
Paul Graham: don’t hire anyone with children
I'm glad all the great artists, musicians, writers, theorists, scientists, teachers, and inventors throughout history didn't read this post.
I find a lot of joy in smaller, industry niche companies. Like 1-20 employees small. Not VC funded startups, but long running companies with proven value in an industry outside of the startup bubble.

There is a lot of them, and they can be very rewarding to work at. While they'll have less compensation, it's in real money and they're often located in smaller cities with lower cost of living. You get to work directly with clients/customers to provide value to them with your skillset. The pace is steady, and what you work on can have a lot of longevity which is nice. Software can feel somewhat ephemeral at times, written one month, thrown away the next. Working on a long term project means it feels worthwhile to go the extra mile.
To be clear, premium economy and economy+ are different things.

The former uses larger seats and is typically available on long-hauls. The seat is somewhat similar to old-style business class seats, or modern domestic first class seats. It is not priced at 10% extra, it is usually close to double.

The latter is priced at around 10% extra, but is the same old economy seat just with a couple of inches more legroom.

It would be nice to have to pay only 10% extra to get 10% more space, but the lack of scaling is by design on the airlines part, and textbook market segmentation.

Edit: this article has pictures showing the difference: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/whats-the-difference-betwee...
I think you are making a hidden assumption. Here is a good question to tease it out: why does it make sense to ask why a coin flip came up heads but not make sense to ask why we observe one QM outcome?

With the coin flip, it’s understood that the probability distribution is not reality. It’s just a way of approximating reality without having to model all the things that would explain our observations.

With QM we have equations that predict probability distributions, and there is debate about whether reality is literally a distribution of possible states, or if it’s more like the coin flip random variable.
When I started at Google my first three full years were $213k, $233k, $287k (https://www.jefftk.com/money). Some of this was stock growth (which is not guaranteed and I was lucky there) but I think this sort of pay is reasonably typical for people who are considering a FAANG offer.
> I think startups’ best bet is to make the most of the variables they can control outside of money and perks (if you lack the appropriate resources). This means being transparent and honest with candidates about all risks involved when joining a startup and factoring all this into the amount of equity they offer which should be something considerable.

Even if the original founders have the best intentions, large equity up front is unlikely to give you a big payday.

Since, in the traditional VC model the drive is to move toward bigger rounds (A, B, C, etc) and investors get paid back first.

So even if you do start with 10%, you'll probably only end up with a low % percent after 3-4 rounds.

The important thing to note is that this whole thing bamboozles our brains because of unicorn survivor bias. We feel like unicorns and $100m dollar companies are the norm but nothing could be further from the truth.

The chance of being part of unicorn is about 0.006% last I checked. The chance of being part of a $100m+ company is in low single digits (of all startups).

If it ends up just making a few million revenue investors will drop it (because not 10x enough) and you're 2-3% will be worth very little.

If ends up stagnating at $5m for a few years investors will drop it (because not 10x enough).

The overwhelmingly most likely outcome of you getting a large chunk like 10% up front is, when all is said and done, after 5-7 years you'll walk away with a few hundred thousand (before tax) if you are lucky.

In my case I was on founding team. Started out with 10% equity. Co. is now 7 years old. After a merger (diluted by 40%), $10m investment (diluted more), $4m strategic investment (diluted more), then investors taking money off the table first for an exit event - I stand to make $100k if we sell at $20m and $600k if we sell at $40m (currently valued at $20mish and has been for 2 years). That's pre tax.
During the post-event interview it was asked if testing docking was a hard requirement for NASA (with the implication the test would have to be redone before acceptance). The answer was no. If NASA wants this to be a new requirement they would likely have to pay extra for it
I’ll echo this recommendation. Peter F. Hamilton is firmly my favourite sci-fi author, and that’s a hard spot to take.

The Commonwealth Saga (mentioned by the parent) is followed by The Void Trilogy and then The Chronicle of the Fallers, all set in the same Commonwealth universe. It’s some of the most evocative writing I’ve ever heard the pleasure to read, and the stories told are massive in scale but without seeming lacking as a result.

My e-reader says that my most recent read-through was my 9th, so add that to a number done with physical books and it should give some idea of how good I consider these books!
Instead of being rude, you could try to formulate your point without attacking a straw man.
IRC is frustrating, Freenode prevents anonymity (blocks Tor users unless they auth over clearnet first, as an example), graphical IRC clients are rarely any good, Freenode isn't even the best network (Rizon), Freenode is owned by a sketchy company (London Trust Media/Private Internet Access/the malware distributor that bought PIA a few weeks ago), some more stuff that I'd have to fill the character limit to mention.
Detect drug mules while they are still in the security line. Ex-post-facto parallel construction via "behavioral profiling" or a dog trained to alert on command keeps the technique secret. Collection of medical data is a lucky bonus.
Show HN: Template for Annual Review of Life Goals
Every year, my wife and me go for coffee and summarize what went well and less well in the last year and which goals we set and achieved (or missed).

This is loosely based on the life frame technique outlined in Getting Results the Agile Way by Michael Kropp.

This year, I made this into a proper template to have multiple years at a glance.

Maybe it's useful for someone: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cy6ALPwxF5ERrNMTm8dopM4L-ZbDf4OtZfcoE-YBf-g/edit?usp=sharing
You disagree with it. That's fine. But people are allowed to say that things are or aren't worthy of support. Ironically, what they shouldn't do is call them "shitty and vindictive", which that comment didn't do.
C'mon - a super interesting technical article on how an exploit gets an arbitrary kernel read/write primitive... and you have to take it down because of an "awkward phrase" in the first paragraph? What's the point of such a comment?
It feels like using the homepage traffic to validate /new has a lot of promise, and maybe some tweaks could solve the problems you had. One idea I had from reading your comments and dan's article is to have a permanent slot on the homepage with something from /new in it.

I think you could address the issue that "readers reacted negatively, even violently, to seeing junk on HN's front page" by making it clear with a special visualization, that this slot is special. You could also add a "report low quality" button which would make that story less likely to appear in the random slot in the future.

You could even add a "show me another" which fetches another random story instead.

So roughly:

- somewhere near slot 5 we add a special "new" slot, visually identified as such

- on each page load, the slot is given to something randomly posted in the last 8 hours

- the slot is different for each request/user, so everything on new gets seen a little bit
Imagine you have an engineer who could be working at BigTechCo; she works at your company a year, and then that raise you specify happens. Engineer continues to work there for three more years. Company amounts to little, acquired for $2MM, engineer gets nothing.

Of course, everyone is disappointed. But it's still unfair for that engineer who gave up half a million dollars or more to work at the startup to get nothing. You might say that the engineer should be aware that they agreed to a way of structuring equity that means it's likely they'll get screwed. Fair enough! But all of this discussion is meant to make readers aware that, yes, the industry standard practice is to screw over the people who have the most skin in the game.
It would be interesting to see what the geopolitical consequences would be of another nation "helping" a smaller nation become ICBM capable. I know that this was basically the premise of the late Cold War and the Cuban missile crisis, but in all those instances the Soviet Union and United States owned all their missiles - their individual satellite states didn't have the ability to launch them.

But if, say, China were to give away ICBM technology to an ally, for "national security" reasons, so that they could claim plausible deniability...
The total liquid compensation difference can be huge, when factoring in all the public equity and big company benefits...
Imo we’re not talking 20/30% here, but multiples...
Tell that to a friend that runs secure boot enabled.
Which book would that be?
You’re probably in an area where the dairies have consolidated and milk tastes like crap.

UHT milk is not at all tasty compared to normal milk and has a different consistency. I like it as an alternative beverage or coffee creamer, especially for camping.
Cloroutine – stackless coroutine builder for Clojure(Script)
A lot of people do know about freenode though. It's a very large network. :-)
Lard is also good for frying potatoes, though no where near the tastiest (beef fat used to be used for McD's fries, duck fat is amazing... probably goose fat though I've never actually had that one).
[2] was strange, keyboard straight key is the worst.
Out of the almost 284k accounts, nearly 25k of those accounts have no gold, so probably logged into the game and logged off, without playing the game. And 34k have less than 1,000 gold. Some of the players have 100s of accounts, and those are mainly for claiming land, since each account can only claim 64 plots of land.
Why is it unfair? The engineer was part of a team that collectively destroyed economic value. What is the fair portion of bonus on top of salary that they should be rewarded with for that performance?

By all means understand it; I’ll never argue against that, but I find liquidation preferences quite reasonable.
Picocli 4.1.3 and 4.1.4 released: fixes for GraalVM native image CLI creators
> Suppose I have a company idea, maybe an early prototype and manage to raise $2MM at $10MM post-money valuation. The investors have a 20% stake for their investment.

The rich technically have less personal risk -- that's because, well, they're rich. GP arguably took more personal risk, took less pay, and created the machinery that made the company profitable.

If you want to say that the original $2M is paid out before anyone else is, that's fine, especially in a sinking ship.

If you mean to say that on a %1000 increase of company valuation, GP should not get his share because, well, he didn't fund $2M dollars -- that's _utter_ bullshit. And arguing that VC's should get preferential treatment so they can directly screw over the people who directly provided the growth is the stupidest argument I've heard for this clause.
If we want to equate them then we should aspire to write code that is meaningless while we are alive, while living our entire lives poorly or being completely ostracized in society?

I'm not sure the startup angle jives with the artist's.
Confessions of an American Guru (R.Alperr-T.Leary, 1977)
No. I'm saying it's not black and white, and the post I was replying to was overly simplistic and misleading.

It's interesting that your response was laser focused on freedom and utterly and completely ignored every other point I brought up.
' It's also a good example of using the Spotify Web API for Swift since there aren't many examples out there'

There is never any harm to educate others; I'm not so strong on Swift at all, but I really appreciate the area that I dig into too. This project, is well worthy of a follow.
The Dark Forest is a related idea, in which mature civilizations are not all destroyed by contact with their equals, but lurk about, in ambush. The mutual demolition alternative seems simpler and more reliable, and possibly more consistent with the evidence.

Dropping a black hole, even a smallish one, into a star would seem to eliminate the central pressure needed to sustain fusion, and turn it off pretty suddenly, by astronomical timescales.
It's really good for troubleshooting though. Once people start helping you it's a very powerful tool. It also helps immensely wrt absorbing the culture around a particular language or system.

Often a group of people will have an IRC channel, a website, multiple blogs, servers, etc. It's one tool in a spectrum of tools.
Learning has a way of increasing job satisfaction and giving you opportunities for larger scope in the future. You can get that in big tech too: my first four years out of college, I was fortunate enough to have some incredible teammates who seemed like gods, and they taught and showed me things it would’ve taken me years to learn on my own, if I ever did.

But then I switched teams and stuck around for 5 more years before leaving out of boredom. I joined a startup, and learned far more in that first year than the last five years in Big Tech. In the span of two years I went from not really knowing how SSL worked to being the architect and primary coder for a couple kubernetes deployments with a few dozen services.

The thing about big tech is that you become super specialized. Sometimes that’s fine, like if you’re a kernel hacker earning $$$, but if you join the wrong team then your world just shrinks.

I don’t ever want to go back to working on a tiny piece of something, even if that something has millions of users. Even if nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, and everybody’s gonna die, I still like the feeling that the work I do somehow matters to the people using the product.

So a dev team of less than 10 is probably the sweet spot for me.
What makes you say that all the papers linked here are awfully designed?

https://progressreport.cancer.gov/prevention/nitrate
I've been through this source code, really clean and well written modern javascript (as far as I can tell). I was completely new to this whole webstack, learned a ton about javascript and building front ends from this. I think an underrated way to get good at coding or even to learn whole new methods is to extend well written open source code. I find myself regularly working with high quality code off github, learning more from the developers on there than the developers I interact with at work.
The VCs are also part of the team that collectively destroyed economic value. They can't simultaneously claim credit for every success and disavow every failure.
My learning of this, if you're interested, probably traces to about 19 December 2016. Researching the Texas Railroad Commission. Whose name is ... somewhat deceptive.
Briefly mentioned, I believe (I need to re-watch it) this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X5bWrlA04Q&app=desktop

I'd mentioned it on G+ on the date, in comments (I've a full archive on my own systems, but at least the post survives at the Internet Archive):

https://web.archive.org/web/20190115030822/https://plus.goog...

Brought up as well on this post (also not in a captured comment):

https://web.archive.org/web/20190115024757/https://plus.goog...
I like this piece and I agree that startups can be great. But the first half of the essay, the hook of the essay, was contingent upon the author declining a $70k check from Thiel and noting that he walked away from $200 million; and the end of the essay suggested that one shouldn't work at a startup for the money (and you really shouldn't, it's unlikely it'll make you much).
I am a scientist and thousands of scientists and engineers use my work.

Most great artists, musicians, writers, theorists, scientists, teachers, and inventors would not need to struggle as much if they would have some money to cover their basic needs. They would just avoid bullshit gigs and do they stuff with a greater focus. And if having $1M in their bank account would stop them doing what they love, then it is quite possible that they didn't love it in the first place.
Do you read any of the latter in my argument above as to why liquidation preferences exist?

It seems to me that you built and eviscerated a strawman right in front of us.
I thought that hierarchical state machine is a pretty standard programming pattern, but I've never seen the name "statechart" before. Is it the same thing, or are there any differences that I didn't notice?
Yep, I was a big QS fan back in the day but switched to Alfred for its cleaner look and stayed for its crazy speed and stability.
I think the point is more that startups are really overestimating what they're offering, or hoping their employees are too stupid to realize the disparity. So far as I can tell the only thing most startups offer anymore is ownership, lack of large company culture/bureaucracy, and more opportunities to switch roles.

Equity is basically always monopoly, you generally can't even evaluate its value because no one will show you the cap table. Highly profitable startups still regularly manage to deliver a pittance to early employees on exit. Even if the exit does deliver oftentimes the yearly compensations disparity is so large that if they'd just stayed at BigCo and invested the bulk of their earnings they would have earned as much or more. This is all while working significantly more hours per year.

The list of upsides is really small relative to the risk. If startups want talent the industry norms are going to have to change.
Why not bring on the early engineers as cofounders with sizeable equity in lieu of market-clearing wages?
Just give your opinion as you would to a coworker on your best day. That's what any reasonable interviewer is looking for unless otherwise stated. Similarly, you can tell a lot by how your comments are received.
That is not how HN works.
No, a linear voltage regulator is well understood as something with a transistor pass element in linear mode and a (probably dumb) control loop.

Definitely not a switcher or module, could be an LDO.
There is another thread on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21866017
OK now Sea Citizen, you haven't been hitting your production targets... This is the third month you've failed to qualify for the monthly "bonus" scrip. After rent and commissary, I'm afraid that puts you in the red. And I don't have to tell you what that means.

There aren't any open positions higher up, and you aren't exactly a top performer. The only way I see you digging out of this is signing up for the Human Initiative Project. A couple injections a week, plus your regular salary, and you'll have more than enough scrip.

Don't believe the rumors, you'll be just fine.
I'm...I'm amazed. Holy flip. This IS the future we wanted!! This is incredible. I'm actually not even going to use hn anymore.

In fact I think this may be a hint at making better link aggregate sites in general!
Imma say, a lot of these ones: https://www.indiehackers.com/products
Fyi, https://erpnext.com/ is a competitor of oodoo ( called openerp before) and it's more opensource.
Probably stuff like, we still don’t have any new particles despite spending a lot of money smashing stuff.

And string theory looks like it may have wasted a lot of people’s time with no result.
What frontend have you been using for mopidy? I've been looking into it as a potential Clementine replacement since Clementine's Spotify support is dead.

Basically I want a good interface for managing large playlists (so nativeish lists with multi select support for add/remove/reorder, not an album art focused UI), and support for mixing Spotify, local and network shared tracks in a single playlist.
werner von braun said the military would invent any excuse including faking the existence of aliens to justify ever increasing budgets for scret military research projects in space.

space is the high ground. you cannot win withoit dominating it. you will definitely lose without some presence in it. there are 2 types of nations those with nukes and yhose without.

this applies to space as well.
This is so scammy at so many different levels.

TL;DR: He doesn't have that 200M to start with, that is the imaginary money he never earned.