skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would literally be _the worst_ thing for consumers and telecommunication innovation since Ma Bell lorded over our copper lines.

I can't fucking believe that audacity of T-Mobile (I can) to lie so blatantly to the FTC about remaining competitive after the Sprint merger, when this shit is the plan.

So I guess the FTC's official standpoint is "fuck all telecommunications" competition I guess? Le sigh. I'm going back to my cave...
That's waaaay too late. They can't just not have a plane to sell in the small plane segment (which does the most sales volume) for the entire next decade!
I think it's more complicated than an association with any single broad ideological category. For instance, fascists tend to be very big on promoting physical fitness, presumably because it's a natural nexus between the obsessions with vitality and militarism.
Two types of rationality are being conflated here, namely "close to the truth" and "increases my odds of surviving".
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I skimmed the repo and myself couldn't find anything special tbh.
There are nuclear power plants capable of throttling up and down at will. Not all designs work like that but some do.
$1M is not FU money for someone in a major metropolitan US city with kids.
The point being that FPS, as opposed to strategy (board, map, etc.) games, where the movement of the player is reflected in the display, make me sick.

The game variant doesn't matter. It's the portrayal of motion which does.

Older-school (1980s vintage) video games, with more linear movement, weren't noticeable in this regard, though I didn't play those much.
IIRC, Iverson commented somewhere that K's (Arthur's) practicality wins over APL/J's (Iverson's) purity in some places; specifically,

K/Q does scan/reduce from left to right, which is easier for most people to reason about and use, even though it makes "-/1 2 3 4 5" different from "1-2-3-4-5" and thus less "pure"/"consistent" in some sense.

J's trains and forks (and APL's simpler products) are much more confusing for people than K/Q's juxtaposition and projection.

Can't remember or find Iverson's comments now. He might have made more, or I might be misremembering/misattributing. But I agree with these and think K is a better start than J (though not sure between APL and K).
I worked at software startups in the Boston area from 1988 through 2013, so perhaps my comments are not relevant to this day and age. But what I read in that note sounded awfully familiar.

In the mid 90s, Microsoft was buying up talent left and right, in whatever area they wanted to go into. My field is databases, and I developed expertise in the integration of query languages with programming languages. I got an obscenely lucrative offer from Microsoft, and decided to turn it down. It was a dumb decision, financially, but actually worked out fine on that front. However, I'm sure that Microsoft enticed many promising software developers to work for them instead of startups. (A few names do come to mind.)

This problem was completely solvable then, and the same technique would work now. The problem is that VCs don't want to solve it. They want software developers cheap. They give miniscule amounts of equity, and bias the terms so that those tiny stock option grants almost never pay off very well, (e.g. liquidation preferences). Except, perhaps, for the chief architect, and one or two very senior developers, we are viewed as disposable, interchangeable cogs.

There are great reasons to work for a startup, other than equity. I am very happy with my 25 years doing just that. But equity is definitely a factor. Contrary to what they would have you believe, VCs are extremely risk-averse, certainly compared to the developers who are sacrificing the best years of their lives for their companies and the chance of a financial win.
Probably just having a joke. Human psychology is complex, no matter what positive or negative things we do to each other.
@dang Maybe add Show HN: prefix?
Yes, that is why I say "at least $1M".
The only officially released ones (4 years ago) were straight up rebadged VIA chips, a two letter name change. VIA Nano E-C4650 became "homegrown Chinese" ZX-C4650.
https://rocm.github.io maybe a good place to start. I've been meaning to checkout TensorFlow for ROCm myself but it's challenging finding general info like what cards are supported (I'm pretty sure Radeon VII is).
Why do you think a poll among certain people adds credulity to one or the other? Many Worlds allows purely unitary wave function evolution while explaining all known experimental and observational results with no less fidelity than any alternative. It’s solely a matter of Occam’s Razor that, until there is experimental evidence to the contrary, MWI is the solely most parsimonious available explanation.

Wave function collapse is a purely unjustified extraneous detail that violates the scientific method to believe it without additional evidence.

MWI is by its own definition the choice of belief not requiring attaching vestigial extra details onto the theory, as far as any currently known experimental results go.
The pessimistic in you should see it as a massive boondoggle. For fundamental reasons, there's very little chance this, and likely other, fusion efforts will lead to a competitive source of energy.
Not really -- most business lobbyists are looking for various forms of corporate welfare. They want special treatment for their business/industry, or barriers to entry that prevent competitors from getting a foothold. Yeah, low regulatory barriers can help a whole industry, but why do you think many big companies lobby in favor of regulations? Big businesses can handle regulations way better than small companies (see Google with the GDPR, for example). Deregulation is an even playing field, so it's a tough sell to say that that's just self-interest.
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Kubernetes is a solution worse than the problem.

Microservices are unix pipes but slower.

AI is linear algebra that costs x1000 because of the brand name.

There is no revolution in software. We are just building crud as high and as fast as we can because the quality of developers tends to zero as the number of developers increases.
> Try to run some service with -XMX -XMS 128MB and tell us how it goes.

What does the service do? An API call that returns the current time? A batch processor? A payment portal? The memory usage depends on the type of work performed obviously.

Furthermore, there are already offerings like https://quarkus.io/, micronaut, and others that make use of native image compilation for even smaller footprints.
"Company in tobacco industry that tries to get children addicted plagiarizes slides"

Relatively nice journalism by Buzzfeed, but I think there are better topics to report on Juul if you're appealing to ethics.
Firefox was mentioned in the article, Safari isn't that interested in furthering the web, and Microsoft has thrown in the towel and skinned Chromium as many others. Not sure who else would have commented/been mentioned.
For the most part, I don't disagree with you, but it's also the case that Linux has gotten many contributions from companies that decided that they were okay with being required to give source to customizations they redistribute. Both models work, and both models have downsides.

It's also true that Linux has gotten contributions from companies like Facebook (and Netflix?) that are not redistributing Linux itself and so are not actually under any compulsion to release sources.

I've seen enough cases of private contributions to BSD code not getting released, even when they're clearly not a competitive advantage anymore, that I don't think waiting it out is reliable. There's a particular vendor product we used at my last company that was based on an extension to some FreeBSD kernel code. In the next version, they switched to a userspace app, it sucked, and I'm pretty sure they never released their old kernel implementation. (In fact there are plenty of well-known cases of license-violating private contributions to GPL'd code being a pain to compel through the legal process.)
I think the point the OP is trying to make is that the structure that you described, while great in protecting investors, seems pretty unfair when the startups do succeed. So while recouping the intitial investment preferentially sounds great, it shouldn’t be extended as far as giving the 20% investors the lions share of a successful exit before the people that actually built value.

The liquidity preferences could certainly be structured in a fairer fashion. Just because it’s currently structured this way doesn’t mean that it needs to be always or that it’s a great model ( it’s not unless you’re a VC, which is basically the point).
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Fusion energy is not going to be "practically free". It would almost certainly be more expensive than other alternatives we already have.

The notion that fusion is a wonderful wet dream technology is a meme that just won't die, even though it has no basis in anything real.
Damn you right. First post on HN. I can't do anything. Maybe mods can.
That's even less reassuring to me. I don't want North America's defence to rest on some American version of the Reichsfeuerzeug [], designed by an incompetent but politically connected firm.

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_177
It all goes towards painting a more complete picture of the company. Stories like this wouldn't mean much in isolation but it strengthens the greater narrative of Juul being a unethical corporation.
Submitting a bad photo with your passport application can really suck. It delays things a lot and potentially even costs you a submission fee.

The point of passport photo services is to mimic (or try to) the official government photo reviewers criteria. That's the value it provides. Learning that you will be rejected quickly rather than slowly.
That's not a bad idea at all. I second that idea.

To expand on the idea, I find that the actual "workout" part of climbing is not super effective... I mean, walking/ hiking is a workout too but by itself it's not going to bring about many physiological changes without a lot of additional targeted work. For context, I don't climb "hard"... I lead trad around 5.9+, sport around 11a/b, and was grunting up some WI4 this weekend as a newbie ice climber in Ouray-- I don't boulder outside of a gym if I can avoid it.

I think most people can climb 5.10 outside without changing a lot of fitness... the skills and techniques are so much more important than strength, assuming a basic level of fitness.

What I have found is that I'm a lot more likely to do actual working out when I have a project I'm trying to get strong enough to do.

Additionally, climbing keeps me doing approaches with a pack, and there is fitness that comes with that practice. Or I need to get up hella early, so it often prevents me from drinking. Or I have a reason to fast and keep my weight as low as possible without feeling like I'm jut being neurotic and picky about what I eat.

That is all to say, I've gotten a lot of stoke for working out from climbing, but the climbing itself hasn't been specifically great workout wise.

So maybe this is just a quibble, and not a disagreement; I certainly like to recommend that people get out and climb and it sure has gotten me around the issue of not wanting to exercise, even if I don't find it to be a great workout in itself.

But that quibble does change the character of the recommendation, I think: in general, I think that any hobby which benefits from high levels of fitness is a good thing that makes working out easier. Mountain biking, back country skiing, mountaineering, canyoneering... all of those are great and make getting into the gym feel like it has a much higher pay-off.
Of course it is not literally infinite, but when viewing a stream like LinkedIn for example, it may as well be infinite in practice.
Retrieves music from Spotify's database based on a set of parameters.
And reducing salt has a devious unintended consequence: encouraging a diet higher in carbohydrates and fructose specifically—almost certainly worse than the salt for most people.

Salt is one of the most effective ways to make healthy low carbohydrate foods (particularly fats and protein) palatable and compete with the sugar, corn and wheat that are so prevalent in unhealthy foods.
I would say there's a massive difference between contributing back code and paying taxes. Public companies have a FIDUCIARY duty to provide maximum value to shareholders, and that's been the "legal justification" for the FAANGs to engage in the "reverse Irish, Dutch sandwich" scheme to pay zero taxes. Meanwhile, shareholders don't care about code licensing as long as the company isn't giving away the secret sauce under F/OSS terms. Netflix dude above mentioned how much they contribute back; the "enlightened self-interest" of the BSD world encourages these companies to contribute as much as possible back to the project so their diffs in pulling down updates are minimal. If they go asshole and keep everything private they are making their own headache worse when updating or locking themselves in the past.
Support for classic skins is what will make this a hit
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum

This is the arthurese micro APL implementation, which inspired the J implementation - although IIRC the design for J was already well on its way at the time (and indeed, Iverson did not consider J a new language, but rather an improved APL dialect, so you could say the design goes back to 1956...)

It likely also formed a draft for A/A+ which Arthur did at Morgan Stanley (open sourced at aplusdev.org, but unmaintained and rotting theese days) - which themselves led to the creation of K.
> average rent has skyrocketed 300%

The world is bigger than SF. Seattle enjoys the same payscale with half the housing costs.
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Back around 2000, I'd say that most open source programmers did know about Freenode.

It was pretty cool: you'd sometimes have the experience of being frustrated with a software project, guessing their IRC channel name on Freenode, joining with your question and getting an instant answer from the main author of the project.

But there were lots of things that weren't cool, mainly being unable to see messages sent when you weren't online. IRC bouncers existed but most people didn't have shell access to run one on; they were expensive.
You see all seeing the wrong signs, look more closely. Open your Eyes
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How often does something like this happen?

I don't have statistics, but I believe the more common scenario is that the company gets acquired, and the return on investment is not the 10x or 1000x or 1000000x the VCs hoped for, so they recoup their original investment. Leaving the engineers with options worth nothing.

I view liquidation preferences as VCs offloading risk to employees because they can.
^the account name that posted this comment is the single most honest thing i have seen on the internet today. well done!
Number #4 is the law. However it is possible to convert an ISO to a NSO which doesn't have the 90-day restriction but has different tax implications. Some companies have started doing this, but I don't know how common it is.
Bolivia bought a communication satellite from the chinese to provide TV and Internet to the entire country - which is mostly rural areas that are difficult to reach (think the Andes). The other countries use multi-spectral and radar-based satellites to do several things like:

- territorial planning (e.g. cadastre and zoning)

- agricultural yield improvements (irrigation and disease detection, crop classification, etc)

- forest fire detection

- illegal mining, illegal deforestation or illegal plantation detection

- pre-disaster planning and post-disaster recovery

and other military activities. the use cases depend a lot on the type of satellite they own
I didn't say essays aren't for non-authoritative musing. My points were:

1. 'Attempt' is the origin of 'essay', not its current meaning. This sort of mistake is so common there's a fallacy (genetic) named for it, but a more compelling read than some entry in a dictionary of fallacies would be The Genealogy of Morals, Essay 2, section 12.

2. pg's essays aren't non-authoritative musing. I don't think he himself claims they are, even in the essay on essays. Exploratory and a process of discovery? Absolutely. But these things aren't necessarily evident in the final product and in any case can coexist with the pretense to authority.

Side note:

> In an essay, you discover what you think by writing it

This is simply a description writing, whence the dictum "writing is revising".
IIRC The name got wrongly mixed up with some people hacking the Spotify API to boost their songs' play count and I think the project ultimately died because of that rep

A truly tragic loss IMHO
Express server, React client, Typescript. Not exactly modern (expressjs came out in 2010) but a good "all js" simple architecture.
Make front page participation accessible through participation in the newest section. You have to earn the privilege of participation. Upvoting the first X items on the list, so as to just get the work done, is an issue I haven't figured out yet.
I can't say for sure, but having played other sports and also spent a lot of time climbing I don't think that I've experienced the same flavor of focus on the basketball court or in a flow-state while mountain biking.

I feel like there is a different and very high-quality kind of focus that comes from having to perform correctly or die.
ORM is used in this boilerplate, and it's SQLAlchemy. I need to mention it somewhere.
Thanks for the concern. Yes it is bad, which is why I built a CO2 meter. I need to get alerts to ensure either I get more air to me, or I leave the office.
Let me make sure I get this straight. On the one hand, by not working for a startup, you're missing out on at least $1.6M of value you're creating every year for your employer. You might even be missing out on $200M like Mr. Tan did. On the other hand, working for a startup "is not about the money". So you should be ok with getting less money because you're getting access to users and customers.

That's a pretty muddled message. Is Mr. Tan offering unbiased advice or does he have some kind of ax to grind here?
Does anyone know why Spotify doesn’t pursue name rights or DMCA takedowns in all these OSS projects, as they reverse engineer and use Spotify’s name? Snapchat practices DMCA/copyright for a lot for these sort of projects.
Python doesn't really scale -- it just calls out to C code for heavy computation and perl could do that too.

The more difficult part would be making perl easily maintainable. You can write unmaintainable code in any language, but perl made it easier, and python makes it (relatively) harder.
Isn't this how most other civilizations lived in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, as small city states, until the recent entry (in the west) of eastern style nation states?
As in, actual audio? Or metadata?
I don't always like looking at "/newest" also for the reason it can take time to sift through to find the good ones.

What if there was a "/random" or "/custom". First would maybe weigh "newness" into the formula, but "/custom" could be based on user preferences. Might take a min to find right mix of "settings / allowable combinations" that would allow the site to remain performant. That way you all would be able to monitor trends in how users set up their preferences.
Depends on the country. In Canada for example the second seat comes free.
Twitter bans animated PNG files after attackers targeted users with epilepsy
Why Aren't Shoes Preventing Running Injuries? (2014)
I’ve been active on HN almost as long as you. It’s not 2006 anymore. I would still follow the same career path based on what the world, HN and Silicon Valley were like in 2006. I wouldn’t based on 2020 world, HN and Silicon Valley. Would you?

Rents are astronomical. Startup math has worsened. FANG math has improved. In fact only the G in FANG even resembled the FANG of today. FANG has done a great job figuring out the innovator’s dilemma, making disruption in all their verticals much more challenging. The low-hanging fruit problems are gone so there aren’t really any two engineers in a garage problems that someone well capitalized can’t quickly copy. You now need generalist engineers, designers, AL/ML/DS engineers, hardware people, etc. on a founding team, meaning that you need to take on sizeable VC money before building IP equity and getting product market fit.

Startup risk is way way worse these days.
Everyone is hating on little city states like they are the bastion of human exploitation, unlike cough most Western societies in the past couple centuries cough. I guess no one realizes what happened in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and even the US just a bit over half a century ago. Hundreds of millions killed over political whim, anyone? Nothing Peter Theilians or even Scientologists can concoct in these seasteads will ever compare to the horror enacted by nation states the last century. I'd say the historical record is entirely in favor of city states for safeguarding human life.
How does Odoo compare with Tryton (https://www.tryton.org/) today?

For a little background, Tryton is a fork of Odoo when it was still called TinyERP, motivated by disagreements among TinyERP founders and early developers on the technical and business directions.

See 2016 HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12985791
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Dude, I work in RF and it would take me more than a minute to remember some of the answers to these questions.
It seems you didn't read the article closely.

They didn't just plagiarize the slides, they neutered them, and then attempted to pass them off as Stanford endorsed research; all without permission from the author.
Most startups can't match G/FB on cash, but they can do much better than they are on equity amounts, equity terms, work-life balance, etc.

For example, what is the option exercise window if you leave Lambda?
I have seen so many applications like this, and they seem to miss that the backend of windows search is actually pretty amazing, and has providers for a multitude of file types both binary and text, which allows for full content search and not just file name, title, and description.

The truth is too its actually really easy to access programmatically.

Instead of them rolling their own indexer, they should use something like elastic which has an on par number of providers for various file types.
That in itself is a Design for Manufacturing question, involving stack-up, Gerber correctness, and drill tolerances.
Boeing already has bases off-world and is getting ready for Open Eyes you have all been duped into thinking they are failing in the White World (modern society)
For better or worse, other platforms such as Slack, Discord, and Gitter have beaten IRC in attracting new programmers.

While IRC is a little more open as a protocol, the reality is it lacks the features these other platforms provide in attracting new visitors. In my observation this might include: Mobile support, being able to see past messages, emoji, embeded video/gif, having a company maintain and add features, and being somewhat less anonymous.

I doubt IRC networks such as freenode will disappear anytime in the near future, but I doubt it will grow much either given the alternatives.
What stops Russia or China to send their troops there?
why would a company implement this and give up so much control of their users? why would I pay for encrypted file storage when i get 250gb for free with keybase.io?
Is the willingness to make work the most important thing in one's life really this important?
Yeah I did this in my own way - it’s not an exact clone but it’s heavily inspired by ttfm. I built https://www.jqbx.fm check it out - would love your feedback :)