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Except tech is nothing like oil. It's a knowledge based industry and the pace of innovation rapidly keeps breaking barriers to entry. It effectively enables a lot of other industries to move swiftly and get a lot done with fewer resources [0]. A rising tide lifts all boats.

Instagram scaled to 30M users with 13 engs [1], and WhatsApp to half a billion with 32 [2]. Oculus was started by a then 17yr old Palmer Luckey [3] for who, later, the great Jon Carmack would go on to work for.

[0] https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world...

[1] https://time.com/4299297/instagram-facebook-revenue/

[2] https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/four-numbers-that-explain

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Luckey#Oculus_Rift
It's insane. Crisco was basically an industrial product disguised as food. It took almost ninety years for science to figure out that trans fats caused heart disease. Whenever somebody tells me how safe a new food product is, I think about how many people were killed by trans fats before anyone knew how bad they were.
It is entirely possible to put your point across without being rude; that’s sort of how things are done on HN.

We’re all disappointed about something or other, but we still maintain a basic level of courtesy in our posts on this site.
It's the math again. Go do a spreadsheet and simulate a company as it grows and you see treating your first 10 employees in line with big tech expected value outcomes is a really, really big hit.
Diversity is a good thing, but BSD seems like it needs a lot more manpower as it is. Why start a new project instead of contributing to OpenBSD?
Crossfit is great if you don't plan on needing your joints for a long life. As Bill DeSimone, author of Congruent Exercise[0], explained in a podcast, "Everyone gets a set of free passes. You decide if you want to use up all your free passes." So don't do needlessly stupid things with your body that wear out your joints any faster than necessary. Your 80 year old self will appreciate not needing a walker. F=ma, it's the law. If you can stimulate the adaptive response in your muscles with no acceleration, why would you ever do anything faster than necessary?

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Congruent-Exercise-Weight-Training-Ea..., "Congruent Exercise: How To Make Weight Training Easier On Your Joints"

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ZTIvJySiY
nothing beats this https://github.com/uNetworking
People understand these words differently, but by the standards that apply on HN, it's definitely ideological and generic. These are things we're trying to avoid, because internet forums don't have anything new to say about them. The arguments just get increasingly repetitive and nasty.
> Future versions of Hyperbola will be using HyperbolaBSD which will have the new kernel, userspace and not be ABI compatible with previous versions.

A bit ironic for a project that claims it's more stable than Linux…
Is this actually a GNU project? I don't fully understand who's behind this. I also don't understand why the name would have been chosen, as it seems to not have a good connotation?

I'm also a little confused about their problems with Rust (https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:main:rusts_freedo...) Firefox also has the same trademark issues, but there are multiple forks/distributions of it with the trademarked material removed. It seems like a petty thing to bring up on an "about" page.

Also, it feels weird that they complain that linux is including some things they don't like (e.g. HDCP), but at the same time just gloss over that the BSDs are they base of many proprietary products where you can't get the source at all. I mean, I hate DRM and things like HDCP as much as anyone, but it just feels like an _off_? argument?
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> The primary dietary source for trans fats in processed food is “partially hydrogenated oils." Look for them on the ingredient list on food packages.

Crisco ~removed (FDA lets you state 0 trans fat if it's less than .5g per serving) trans fats, and partially hydrogenated vegetable oil is no longer an ingredient.

Hydrogenating oils saturates them. According to Wikipedia,

> Partial hydrogenation of the unsaturated fat converts some of the cis double bonds into trans double bonds by an isomerization reaction with the catalyst used for the hydrogenation, which yields a trans fat.

So apparently fully hydrogenating an oil won't produce trans fat.
We never log off.
see also: https://twitter.com/3r1nG/status/1208953592293609474
This is a terrible comment. "Be patient" is a non-response. You made a comment, and got a very good response as to why your comment is missing nuances that might be the real reason for a change that you're attributing to something else.

Especially in a forum like this one with no notifications, Be Patient is basically saying STFU.
Another enjoyable literary excursion on this theme: https://english.lem.pl/works/novels/the-cyberiad/146-how-the...
Yeah it’s sad. A lot of these busy work jobs are easily automated. Really the only solution to this is a universal basic income.
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Prediction: out within a year, after saying something not 150% politically correct to those "open minded" students in their "safe space". Nowadays you can get fired for insisting that biological differences exist between men and women or suggesting that, perhaps, uncontrolled, illegal immigration is an undesirable phenomenon. A 52 year old veteran is not going to survive walking over that minefield for very long.
Of course, school is literally training people to hold these types of low level roles.
I have a similar rule of thumb: if it's not part of any culture's traditional cuisine, it's probably unhealthy.

Long shelf life is not necessarily an issue; I've eaten home-made canned cherries & plums that were 10 years old. Wine can also have a long shelf life (though most don't).

But your point stands with the varietals optimized for appearance and tolerance to shipping as opposed to flavor. I've come to realize why many consider fruits and vegetables not very appealing is that almost all of what is available is tasteless.
From the GQ article:

> ... with his former life as a 29-year-old clinical psychologist on the faculty at Harvard named Dr. Richard Alpert. He'd been the pride of an esteemed Jewish family in Boston, with an impressive résumé (gigs at Stanford and Berkeley, a corner office and sterling reputation at Harvard) and all the trappings of success that came with his swinging young professorship, including a blue Mercedes-Benz, a Triumph motorcycle, a sailboat, a single-engine Cessna airplane, a live-in girlfriend in an apartment on one side of town and a live-in boyfriend on the other.

Maybe I'm out-of-touch with Harvard compensation ranges ... but is this practical given solely his salary or would he have need to supplement his income with family wealth or other income sources?
I started in 2006, here, just like you, reading Hacker News. I spent most of my day writing code. I learned on this site how to build things for other people, ship and release them, and yes, eventually build a company. I learned I wasn't meant to have a boss.

The only reason I became a VC is that I want to be here to help people who really should be start companies actually figure out that they can! People helped me a lot, more than I deserved.

The world is full of capital, and it's not going to the right people who can solve problems. I would like that to get better, and trying to do that with my own hands.
As a historical "for scale", a bunch of rich businessmen once bailed out the American federal government: https://historydaily.org/panic-of-1893

In 2008, the American federal government bailed out JP Morgan: https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/jpmorgans-12-billion...

Now you tell me, who's bigger? America has huge companies that are nevertheless tiny in relation to her GDP and government expenditure. America happens to be quite populous, geographically-large, rich in resources, and highly-developed. It stands to reason that she supports many of the world's largest companies.
I imagine different plants need multiple different wavelengths.
This is a brilliant bit of insight.
CHAdeMO is only for fast charging, which manufacturers say you should only do occasionally. (It's hard on the battery pack.) The Nissan Leaf comes with a CHAdeMO and (at least in NA) and a J1772 plug for routine slow charging.
I hate everything about this.
RSU will make you pay tax at the marginal rate though instead of long term cap gains on options.
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How do you get the iPhone to go into reader mode by default?
The definition of objective means it's untainted by interpretation. These facts are scientific: studied, documented and verified with proofs and experiments to a complete consensus on their acceptance as truth.

Now people can still discuss and debate anything based on the facts as a narrative and reason for other topics and scenarios, but if you're debating the facts themselves then we're not going to get very far unless you bring evidence.
Looks like I've misread the parent's argument as one against monorepo. My error.
I can’t stand startups. Low pay, long hours, loys of aggravation and often socially toxic environments.

The social toxicity is a big one for me. I have always struggled in this area and it makes things SO much harder outside of work.
A long-term solution is to install a ventilator with a heat exchanger. Outgoing air on one side of a thin metal plate warms up incoming air on the other side. This covers about 50% of the temperature difference for free.
I like this kind of announcement, clearly talks about what they want and what they think is important. It tells me that I will not be very interested it but I wish them the best of luck in achieving their goals.
Uh, why is it necessary to change the license? BSD code can be compiled into a GPL project without issue; by changing the license you guarantee the BSD crowd won’t help you one iota.
If only I could place articles I don't like outside of my event horizon.

As light or matter approaches a Black Hole's event horizon, to the outside observer it takes an infinite amount of time to actually enter the black hole, but aside from being ripped apart on the way in, it seems we don't know what happens after that.

Within this event horizon, this time we can call "now" exists forever to the outside observer, as we add matter to the black hole we continue to add it to "now". So in essence the size of the inside of black hole grows inside as we add matter from the outside, but the inside has "always" had this amount of matter, yes?

The big bang is often thought to be an explosion, but as you read about it, there really was no center, rather there was a rapid expansion of space, not matter. It is the space between the matter that "exploded".

It seems to me there may be the potential for our known universe to be the result of a massive blackhole that took "forever" to create, so lots of time to create what we, being inside, see as a massive universe.

Because there may be material still be added from outside the blackhole, our space-time may be distorted with expansion and dark matter, but that part is hard to grasp. I suppose there could be blackholes inside of blackholes. If new material was added inside a blackhole, would we be able to observe that? Probably not now.

Our observations do indicate some uniformity to the known universe, the way galaxies are spread out relatively evenly, indicating some sort of law or tendency.

Continuing to keep in mind there is no center to the big bang, and matter may be continuing to be added, this may be a possibility of why our universe is is in a sort of continuous expansion, and in it exists dark matter.

Interesting stuff, but of course no way to know right now, unless of course now is forever, in which case I either forever don't know, or at some point will have always known.
A lot of sites become free of all this crap when you have JS disabled; especially news ones, which often still have good static content you can read. I recommend giving it a try --- and whitelisting those sites you use regularly which really do require it.
Try changing the theme to basic. In Windows 10, using the default theme added about 50ms in latency.
Are you suggesting that a 320 won't pitch up if you firewall the throttle at low indicated?

Correct. An A320 won't pitch up as dramatically as a 737, mostly due to FBW magic.
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I doubt that. Pretty much all of Northern European preserved meats are terrible for you.
It's under Settings > Safari > Reader.
So people with money finance research people are doing that advances things they care about, like...

checks notes

The Kochs' efforts on criminal justice reform?

This is the Soros conspiracy theory for lefties.
Here's the text of that short story. It's a quick read. I highly recommend it! https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm...
I'd love to know if there's an above average tendency for those interested or working in the technology field also have a history with endurance related sports. I know a lot of really talented developers that are into biking/hiking/running.
I've flown a lot of long-haul business and first class over the years (Qatar, Thai, Austrian, Scandinavian, Delta, United, Qantas) and Qatar is the only airline I've ever blacklisted for business class.

While the QSuites and the cabin crew are nice, you rarely get QSuites in reality. But you always get a stopover in Doha, and those stopovers generally include business lounges so busy you can rarely get a shower with a < 3 hour stopover, rarely get use of an airway for boarding (even at destination airports with numerous available, eg Stockholm), and you sit in the premium bus for 30+ minutes after "boarding" commenced waiting for other passengers (with dusty, fuel fume filled, unairconditioned Doha airport air).
Is the game similar to something like Terra Mango (https://terramango.com)?
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I think Japan has been pretty strict for some time now and they have some of the lowest crime (and cleanest cities) in the world. Not saying it's directly related but I wouldn't rule it out.
Our medical licensing system isn’t “indentured servitude” in the long run. It is convoluted precisely to benefit medical practitioners by artificially decreasing the supply of labor and reducing competition. Medical organizations largely want our med school and residency status quo to remain. Only recently, after bizarrely warning of an impending doctor surplus in the 90’s, have they stopped lobbying against increases in the number of residency positions.
Personally I found the style very different between the expanse and the three body problem trilogy.

The expanse seems “lighter” or less hard. The last book, deaths end i found to be particularly “hard sci-fi”.
Could be: Google's annual revenue for 2018 was $136.22 billion[1], which yields $1,315,512 revenue per employee.

Controlling for employee growth from 2018 to 2019 (they only had 85,050 employees at the end of Q1 2018[2]) and assuming linear growth and revenue earn through the year, that gives an average number of employees of 94,300 over the year (I realise this is an oversimplification), and revenue per employee of $1,444,546.

That's still lower than Garry's quoted figure of $1.6M, although it's close, and possibly close enough.

The reason I queried it is that he goes out of his way to make the point about profit: "Google's pure profit per employee is actually $1.6 million per year, after all costs." (Emphasis mine.)

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266206/googles-annual-gl...

[2] https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/29/tech/alphabet-q1-earnings...
Electrical engineers write plenty of C and assembly where I work.
You actually never want an atomic commit for that class of changes across projects because HEAD should always be deployable to all services. It's obviously messier at FAANG-scale, but with even 25 devs, not properly staging API-breaking changes leads to a lot of "only deploy commits before xxxx to service foo."
My interpretation of their plan is that the new OS will contain enough GPL code (on top of the BSD base) to effectively prohibit its use in proprietary closed-source products.
I'd love to know what the interview process was, the sprint?, the skills they were looking for and testing for. Trying to decide on next courses to take, and one I started is in similar areas I would guess.
The procedures and how software systems handle changes to launch time are members of the set of hundreds of thousands of choices made during design and implementation that need to be validated. Yes, they feel like a "silly mistake" but ultimately most things that lead to failure will be in that category.
There's two books (the Commonwealth Saga), an additional three (the Void Trilogy) set in the same universe, and a follow-on pair of books (Chronicle of the Fallers).
Can't tell if the author means that, but decoherence doesn't follow MWI.
I'm 6ft, 190lbs so not substantially overweight. Airlines like Air Canada Rouge have a 29" seat pitch in standard economy. I find that very uncomfortable. Even their upgraded seats are very tight for me with my knees pressed up against the seat infront of me unless I sit bolt upright.

On many leisure routes from Toronto there is very little choice in flights either, so pay more means pay their business class rate which is quite expensive, or well go some very complex non-direct routing.

All of these options are horrible.
> This is disrespectful.

You've calibrated your disrespect alarm to an awfully low setpoint.
The Wandering Earth was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Poor writing, no plot, bad science, melodramatic acting, and propagandistic messages throughout.
If you look at how path-dependent most countries' forms of governance have been, it's reasonable to assume we'll see something that's at least substantially different.
Left out is the specific reason why you think it will work well in the future.

Define really good? They are less safe, the prices charged to consumers may be lower but what is the overall subsidy (I understand that you want other people to subsidise your commute...other people tend not to be happy about this), and it is fair to say that UK trains are less punctual but the difference is not massive (and we do come ahead of the nations you mention some years too).

The discussion on this in the UK is pathetically weak, and largely a function of trade union lobbying (if you didn't know, the TUC pours money into this cause like nothing else...presumably they just really really care about commuters).
You used "equivocate" incorrectly. Also, as Kevin Hart says in the 40yo
virgin, you're throwing too many terms at me
(public option, universal, single payer, progressive) and I'm gonna take it as
disrespect.
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Your comment makes a bunch of strong claims and backs them up with research results that appear to say the opposite thing. For instance: the American Academy of Pediatrics report you've cited is supportive of puberty blockers, and cites as sources other reports noting that they've been used safely for decades. If these are your best sources, the conclusion I draw is that your argument is weak.
Even many of those exceptions sacrifice taste in the name of shelf life and consistency: Mass-market olive oil has much less flavor than fresher, smaller-batch olive oil. Fresh pasta tastes better than dried pasta. Flours made from heritage grains are making a comeback in gourmet baking. Red delicious/golden delicious/granny smith apples taste far worse than many of the less mass-market alternatives. Etc.
Well, making x86-64s at 16nm is kind of a big deal. Very few places in the world can make those...
I've talked to a bunch of these people. I definitely don't think abdication of social responsibility of any form is the goal. Those people don't bother with the effort of trying to cook up new jurisdictions, and just go to various existing small island nations that give them favorable tax treatment. These are people that genuinely think that governance of physical space is the next great frontier that needs to be innovated/disrupted.

That said, I actually agree with the critique that at least the Silicon Valley-based "let's rebuild new governance zones from scratch" community tends to have a way too uncritical love of capitalism, and doesn't appreciate the myriad ways in which shareholder voting, and fancy new-age analogues of shareholder voting like coin-holder voting, are terrible. I remember one conversation where we were discussing cryptocurrencies, and one person pointed out how "VC chains" (new blockchains funded by VC firms where a small number of VC firms hold the majority of the tokens) were not being received well around the world, and this person was met with blank stares. But this is a medium-sized ideological disagreement, very far from "these people are just selfish freeloaders".
I was about to post with the same question about Rust. It looks like there's no issue with using anything other than the "Rust" or "Cargo" names and the logo, as per this:

> You are correct that we intended the trademark to apply when

> distributing a package or other binary called "Rust" -- and in

> particular that if modifications are made, then we would expect a

> trademark request outlining the sorts of changes being made (as the

> policy notes though, we are inclined to accept such a request).

> regards,

> Niko

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/53287

This thread in the project's (hyperbola) issue tracker seems silly and needlessly exclusive, given what seems to be a relatively minor restriction: https://issues.hyperbola.info/index.php?do=details&task_id=7...
Why would they piss off the decision makers in our countries when they can buy their loyalty?
Premium economy / economy plus seem to scale pretty well. Most of the times I’ve booked it’s been about 10% extra in cost for about 10% space on the plane. E.g 34 inches instead of 31 inches of pitch.
Are these attacks able to be used against 2FA apps that use the same underlying software?
Somewhat related: "How Immune Systems Can Influence Social Behavior" [1]

So yeah, maybe there's actually some subsystem that controls social behavior, to get rid of someone from the group, or out them to the group by having them unintentionally sabotage themselves, etc.

Maybe people who can't self-terminate are turned into some threat to society that would get them targeted, but their minds present it as some kind of game.

[1] https://psychcentral.com/blog/how-immune-systems-can-influen...
Related from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7750020

2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4904741
How do you obtain and incorporate the opinions of recipients, particularly those who don’t want to be on your lists or receive emails from your customers?
It's easy to be indirectly involved in something like that. Your PR finds outside experts that agree with your world view, because journalists often ask you where they can find independent validation of your claims.

Then when something like this happens, you can have your PR call up journalists they know and suggest a name or two that is likely to say what you'd hope for.
The question is what is Expectation(Total Wealth) working at tech Giant vs. joining a typical startup (with no crystal ball bias).

Esp. given that most single peeps working at tech Giant can live in a slave box eating supermarket food and save most of their income and invest it. They can probably use their income for leverage build a property investment portfolio, which if the rent covers the mortgage, they will still have savings to invest in stocks.

Now take into account the $10M lifestyle and the $200M lifestyle, and for a hacker who isn't into 1st class flights, balls and cristal (see what I did!) I think 10M would be enough money to retire in a humble house somewhere in suburbia and hack on side project, even with a family to support.