skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What really irks me about this is the implicit intent to ensure that anything Hyperbola adds to its OpenBSD fork can't be ported back to OpenBSD due to the one-way street of license compatibility (BSD-licensed code can be included in a GPL-licensed project, but not the other way around). Pretty ironic/hypocritical given that in the same breath they mention the existence of (and desire to replace) GPL-incompatibly-licensed OpenBSD code (where? how?).

If they have any desire to be good free software citizens they'd release the OpenBSD modifications under the ISC license or something else suitably copyfree so that OpenBSD can use those modifications.

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Also, I fail to see how a copyfree-licensed binary blob is non-free. Sometimes code only exists as binary code (i.e. if it's been written by hand). Whether or not that's the case here is beyond my skillset/expertise, but it seems silly to declare code to be inherently non-free if it's not human-readable, actual license terms be damned. As long as you have the freedom to use it / modify it / distribute it (verbatim or modified) / etc., then that's free.

Like, if someone wrote a device driver in Brainfuck, I probably wouldn't be able to make sense of it, either, but that doesn't make that Brainfuck code inherently non-free; it just means I don't know how to read Brainfuck code.
Not sure how to send a PM here, but, if this is all you, you should spend your time changing/making shit, I just was in another topic about startups and entrepreneurs. over here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21865065

You kinda fit the bill of : yeah I do it because I can.

Much love
The tricks that companies have used to dilute engineers' equity and to have different classes of stock are coming back to bite those companies.
I have a side project where the content is automatically created (product descriptions), in addition there is some hand written content and we did some manual backlink building, both by finding places where you get backlinks such as forum profiles, and also asking people to backlink to us. 150 visits a week at the moment.

This may not be a good strategy for you, it depends what sort of audience you need.
I've had kind of the opposite experience. At the startup we were really sluggish it was hard to learn anything because we were jumping into any possible business opportunity before even thinking about ROI because money was always tight. 80% of the time was wasted supporting clients and fixing bugs that were due to the fact that the product was shipped too early.

I think the biggest difference is money. A well funded startup might be a boon but a struggling one will be a bane.
Also - outside of the bay (I live in Chicago) you actually make more money working for a startup (at least I do) than for a larger company (as a senior engineer with a lot of early stage experience). I think it might be the nature of the market here.
Really? It'd be hard to give up miso, or fish sauce, or chocolate. Or beer. Or gochujang. Cheese. Baking powder. Mustard... I could make some of these things myself, but that's a pretty tall order.
Build systems seem to sit in that category of perenial category of things that
keep getting re-invented, and either recapitulate existing problems or create
new ones.

I don't think people will ever fundamentally all agree on:

- static vs dynamic configuration
- custom language vs piggy back on existing
- intelligent, deeply integrated / understands code
it is building vs "language agnostic" but
necessarily shallow integration

All of these are fundamental tradeoffs that mean every tool will have
limitations that about 50% of people don't like. And so we
will keep re-inventing forever I think.
Related: Either China or the US has the largest overall PPP-adjusted R&D budget in the world. (The US data here is 2016 while China’s is 2018 so it’s hard to tell exactly.) China’s investment is about the same % of its GDP as France’s.

Others in the top five are the EU, Japan, and Germany, followed closely by South Korea. South Korea invests the most as a percentage of GDP.

All of the “Asian Tigers”, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, appear to have been invested heavily in R&D as a % of GDP (European level or higher) for a long time, and they were the only ones in Asia crossing from third-world to first-world status after Japan, which did the same before that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_researc...

Few places managed to join the developed nation status in the last half century. Chile is arguably the only other example.
> Multiverse QM is a settled debate. Move on.

Uh, no it isn't; we have zero evidence of a multi-verse. Math is not evidence, it can only help point to evidence.
Well, engineers and scientists are known for bowing to the wills and whims of management. They build the devices, and let the salespeople and management peddle the product as they see fit. Car manufacturers would make wheels optional if the could get away with it.
Maybe coops would fit better?
I measure CO2 at home.

When the meter hits ~1000ppm, I open all windows until the level is below 500ppm again. Otherwise they stay closed to keep humidity in.

My office has forced ventilation, the level there is usually around 700ppm all day.

I'd be interested in measuring NOx levels, sadly I don't have a sensor for that. A few people in the office like to open windows for comfort, our air tends to feel a bit stale, even though it's continuously exchanged. My theory is that by opening the windows we let NOx in, which causes the staleness and in high enough levels irritates eyes and throats.
I think many people do have a mistaken impression that frozen produce is less nutritious than fresh. Kind of an inverse version of the "health halo" that attaches itself unjustifiably to products like "pure, natural" cane sugar.
I guess I can see that (to a certain extent), thanks for offering your explanation.
It’s worth mentioning that this post is focused on USA and (unsurprisingly) highlights Bay Area.

I’m sure the points exposed apply there but there are many other places in the USA and the rest of the world where this doesn’t apply and you can find good talent without needing to offer an exorbitant paycheck.
Don't think about selling it.

If you enjoy it, keep it up and just use it as a nice playground to show off.

> all I’ve created is something that’s possible with the Spotify api

Yup.. In a great way. Don't put yourself down. This is cool
> Chairman David Calhoun, a former General Electric executive who has been on the Boeing board since 2009, will take over as CEO and president, effective from Jan. 13, Boeing said.

Given that Jack Welch popularized this cost cutting and financial shenanigans at the expense of engineering, and they are making a former General Electric executive the CEO, I do not have high hopes that Boeing has learned its lesson.
Because the more fusion plants you build the easier it becomes to steal the tech. So your options are

1) Get geopolitical dominance by showing you have it first (while still trying to prevent theft of IP)

2) Use it in quiet and in low usage to decrease vulnerability to state actors from stealing the tech.

One more important thing. Hiding it only hides it from other governments' populations, not the foreign governments. Because of this, most countries go for option #1.
I like to hunt Non Directional Beacons on the long wave band. Unfortunately I have read they are being decommissioned.
John McAfee Impersonators on Trump’s Twitter Making $5–10k/Day
Ask HN: Courses, case studies, or books for system design interviews?
I'm looking for battle-tested prep materials for the system design round of a typical SWE interview. You know the format: "design the back end for a scalable web crawler," "outline how you'd build FB Messenger," and so on.

"Grokking the System Design Interview" by Design Gurus on the Educative site is a start and has helped me significantly, but their designs have a pretty distinctive character. Kleppmann's DDIA is a good read, but focuses on the design of components, rather than end-to-end applications. Case studies in AOSA are generally too short and too specific to be useful.

What else out there is relatively complete (i.e., a whole narrative, not just fragmentary blog posts) and useful for actually designing systems, not just BSing in front of a dry-erase board?
I've used it for several small businesses with near zero IT budgets. It's been great and an enabler. The CRM for instance is brilliant. In a way gave us a complete governance system for many of the company's staple processes. It could also support our manufacturing process!

The feature set is unstable though. From version to version they will remove first class features from COMMUNITY EDITION to ENTERPRISE.

Biggest for me was financial accounting, which was removed.

Some new large features to trickle down to COMMUNITY also, so the pendulum swings both ways. However I don't see this instability as anything good for the community edition users.
I was a software engineer who learned to start a company right off the pages of the site you're looking at right now, Hacker News. It was here where I learned to start a startup.

I later worked for Y Combinator as a partner helping founders make products and services. The best ones made something that touches millions of people now.

While there is a lot of zero sum thinking in startupland and finance/capitalism in general, you have to remember that this is probably the most GROWTH mindset industry in the world. Where else can you, with just your hands and a laptop on the Internet, create something a billion people use?

I'm not saying that is the norm. But when it works, it's still remarkable.

And it can start with you, and everyone reading this.
Lesson for startup's to take away from this:
When advertising, focus on the value you're giving customers, not on the individual features.

For example, say "We'll save you tens of man-hours a week" vs "we run on docker containers [etc]"
Deploying Authoritative OCaml-DNS Servers as MirageOS Unikernels
Yeah, luckily I had also an Android flagship device with me. Didn't indeed dare to switch apps at that point!
But what about the environmental cost of burning jet fuel? Something that’s much more important than business productivity..
I guess, it's a lot of time, but do you use it? Is that why you made it ?

I'd love to send 100 questions on.
including the recent losses, Boeing is up 150% in the last 5 years versus the S&P 500 which is up only 50%
That seems likely to this amateur.

Lensing could also move the (perceived) location of a star.
I wrote that other article and agree with what the original author here has written. Startups need to do a lot more to a/ solve the real problems of their customers and users, and b/ treat their employees and ecosystem better.
What about the risk that the government slashes your benefits?
If China can gain a massive energy advantage over their competitors they don't even need special weapons. If they can get a 10% per-capita energy advantage over the Americans then they win direct wars automatically by virtue of having a 3-4x manpower advantage. Economic engines win wars quite consistently.
How is it "an inferior performing car" aside from lower mileage? Any sources? Genuinely curious.
Do you mean the Libertarian Party? I am not a member because I don’t want to be a member of any political party out of principle. As an independent I have voted for candidates of different parties depending on the situation. It’s impossible that 2 parties (or 3) capture all of someone’s views.
Frequently in the UK I'm seeing options that are clawed back if you leave the company at any point. EMI options that can only be exercised under certain conditions such as an exit.
Alfred is for Mac, Jarvis is for Windows. What similar programs are there for the Linuxfolk?
Yes, I think it's possible that you learn faster at startup. But it is ridiculous to say that you "learned more in the first month at the startup than the full 3 years at the large tech company."

This just makes me think that either you are exaggerating a lot, or you were highly unproductive at the big company than most people.

In either cases, I end up not being able to take your comment seriously.
Begging your forgiveness, it's Kool-Aid.
I'd estimate for every 10 tech and gizmo fads, 6 die, 3 find a nice but small niche, and 1 takes off big. I'm ignoring those that may come back several decades later, when surrounding technology catches up.
Do you wind it up?: today’s teens tackle rotary phones, FM radio and map reading
You can easily make $100-$120k in Houston and that’s still much higher than London salaries. I had offers for $135k in Connecticut, offers for $90k in Kansas City.. still vastly better than London and the rent is a hell of a lot cheaper.
But the system (regardless of if you call it "points" or "an actual vote") means that one candidate could get 78% of the popular vote and still loose as discussed in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k (it talks about how it's possible to win the electoral college with only 22% of the popular vote).

I don't think that can be called a fair "actual vote".
There are lots of startups that aren't doing it right. The best thing someone working at one of those startups can do is probably quit and go someplace else.

I think systemically one thing we need to do is help people make better decisions about where they spend their time. Especially for people who are good builders, they happen to also be the best people who can decide for themselves whether something is actually going to work.
Now they want iTunes gift cards so they can resell them.

Interestingly, when I bought an iTunes gift card at the Apple Store last week for a Christmas present, the Apple guy ringing me up required me to sign a document stating that I wasn't trying to pay someone with them. Some kind of scam prevention mechanism. I wonder how well it works.
> because a lot of that high salary is just a rent premium and ends up with landowners.

And London has cheaper rent?
Netflix kernel guy here... Off the top of my head, we (Netflix) have contributed the following over the last few years to FreeBSD:

- async sendfile

- rewrite of the pbuf system

- unmapped mbufs

- kernel TLS

- RACK TCP

- BBR TCP

- TCP high precision timer system (TCP pacer)

- various NUMA improvements, which allow us to stream in excess of 200Gb/s of TLS encrypted video traffic from a single server

- Metric tons of fixes

Contributing stuff back makes it easier to work with other folks, and makes our jobs easier. We merge from upstream FreeBSD-current every few weeks. The smaller the diff we carry forward, the easier our jobs are.
For a lot of them that's just not the primary goal. Honestly, I expect the next big success stories to break from this pattern of the silicon valley sickness of trying to grow a company at all costs by conning VC firms until they've got enough users and then sell the company or get another round of funding to try and figure out the whole "revenue" thing later.

I think some old school thinking of more organic growth of a good idea with immediate revenue will see a resurgence.
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>if product has long shelf life and does not require refrigeration - it is probably unhealthy.

Beef Jerky, dried chiles beans and legumes, as well as canned vegetables would beg to differ. steel cut Oats, carefully stored, will easily survive close to a decade. naturally fermented pickles can last months on end as well.

In the US, canned beans and frozen vegetables are among the most opulent excesses of the boomer era that ushered in among other things, the tv dinner and immortal confection we know to be a twinkie. Most of a grocery store is structured to completely disregard seasonal produce and function on an almost comical dependence on low diesel prices in order to truck fruits, vegetables, and meats thousands of miles cross country.
Given that they are sitting on close to $10 Billion in unsold and possibly undeliverable inventory. I would not be surprised to see them re-org.
That's because those technologies can't be used for porn. Or porn has actively been banned (AR / VR).
I very much like the 2 part epic space opera "Pandora's Star" and "Judas Unchained" by Peter F Hamilton.

In it, an Astronomer spots a star that disappears. This star is 1,500 light years away. He travels to another star system (Humanity is a multi-system species) and observes the star again, at just the right moment to see the light from its disappearance. It disappears within a couple of seconds, as does a nearby star. But its infrared output is undimmed.

This kicks off an epic, and I really do mean epic, space opera. Peter F Hamilton is really great at such stories, and I love this pair of books so much that I've read them about a dozen times each.

Highly recommended!
I've been out of startups for a few years now, but it always struck me that there is plenty of room in the cap table for employees, if founders and VCs realize they have to cut back.

If founders and VCs gave a third to half of their companies to employees, instead of crushingly small option pools, this math would almost certainly shift. And the returns wouldn't be much worse for founders or VCs.
As of April of this year, python3 was the default for python rules in bazel.
Many HN users are "stuck" in ~2014 era VR (cardboard, DK2, maybe Vive) and haven't really paid attention to VR because it became a small game industry market, as opposed to another market capable of capturing value from existing industries with low effort. To be fair many years in the future I do think VR has the potential to disrupt some of the travel market and take over most of the video conferencing market.
I don't think there should be any _default_ position before we can even think of an experiment to prove or disprove it.
what has worked for me is in all the different businesses I do, all that comes out of it, the profit, gets invested into real estate. banks and mutual funds offer 8% returns, however at least the way I invest I get about 100% return on my money every year for every dollar invested. I look for houses that are not for sale and negotiate with the owners and I usually buy houses for 1/5th to 1/3rd of what they are worth. Then I split them up and rent the rooms similar to like house hacking, but on a larger scale. I have managers collect the money and put it into the bank every week and so Im not that involved in it, its a long term investment. Then i refinance the house for what its worth and use the cash to buy more similar properties. I look at property as a good way to invest money that you have aquired, similar to a savings account, but the investment grows and you eventually can use the profit from your real estate rentals to buy more property, i.e. it runs by itself. For example, last year I paid $50k for a 6000sqft commercial building that was going to be torn down, I negotiated the price with the owner based on the vacant land value, and then after a construction permit was opened on it the building is no longer going to be torn down, then i refinanced it a year later for 400k which is what it was worth, and the rental income on this property alone is 15 bedrooms times 160/week or $9600/month, which paid back my initial investment in less than a year but i also got the refinance money...
employee #10 at palantir, that investor would fly down from anywhere just to interview and write checks to at the table - this is not your average developer. If your that talented of an engineer - than yes, you would be selling yourself short working as a cog - at a shitty startup whos management is too cocky to know when they are wrong - or a big company whom needs a level-ish playing field for everyone.
I love these books. LOVE them. I've read them about a dozen times each.

I highly highly recommend them.
Classic ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdRMVhlNP5I
"You bought the wrong TV, silly head!"
cross building is even worse with many repos. I've been there, done that and it broke so often.
now we have everything in one repo and we barly have problems.
btw. we are a small shop with less than 5 people, but have a product on metal that requires multiple services (that sometimes interact with each other)

we don't use bazel (yet), because dotnet is not that supported.
I worked at big companies for the first 15yrs of my career. And startups for the past 5yrs.

Firstly, startups have been an absolute delight. I very carefully chose the company and hence my boss and my co-workers and love working with every engineer on the team. It is a pleasure coming into work each day and I often cant leave because I'm excited about my work.

I have a lot of authority over what I build a much of it is "close to the metal" rather than some side system. I get to see the whole slice of cake from conception all the way to sales and client implementations and participate in all of it. At small companies, as an Engineer, I learned how to build a successful product and learned all the steps from inception to sales and production.

At every big company I was at, there was more specialization and lots of process. Process was necessary at that size. There was also a great deal of inter-departmental politics and incentives were usually not aligned at big companies, sometimes incentives across departments were even orthogonal. I spent 30% of my time on process and communication at big companies and it went to 80%+ once I was a senior executive. I made a lot of money there, but I think it was to compensate for having to deal with the inner workings of a big company (and being able to be effective at it.)

At big companies, I learned how to turn the gears of organizations and learn how to make globe-spanning change effectively.

To be fair, I took a big pay-cut to come to a startup as an Engineer. I'm happy with the choice. I dont think there is any silver bullet out there, but it is important to understand what you get with each choice. It is also important to make that choice with full intent and not be fooled or brow-beaten by anyone.
If you look at our portfolio we do try to find people who are not necessarily that classic "moonshot" type. Things that turn out to be moonshots often look like niche businesses.

We try to put what you say to practice, but it's an inexact art, far from a science.

I still look for two things: a/ great engineers/designers/product folks with deep empathy for problems people have, and b/ a real problem to solve.

From my experience as a YC partner it seemed clear to me most of VC-dom uses the wrong criteria: buzzwords (like Realtime or AI), and resumes (ex-Google ex-Facebook Stanford Stanford Stanford etc). Better to use first principles and try to find that which is signified, than just use of credentials that are just dumb signifiers.

But in order to do that, you kind of have to be an engineer/designer/product/marketer yourself, and that's why I think our approach can work. Ask me in another 10 years.

You're absolutely right that VC makes this problem worse. I'm sorry for the industry, but we are trying to do better.
Cartographers used to fight plagiarism with fictitious entries. Is it possible stellar cartographers did the same?
Pentagon warns military members DNA kits pose ‘personal and operational risks’
Probably easier to send the photo off to mechanical Turk if it’s not a perfect match.
There is a distinction. You’ll keep the pan on the heat just a bit longer until you hit that sweet spot between clarified butter and ruined butter.

Took me a few goes to get it right. I find it has a better taste, used appropriately.
The simple solution to me is that a country offers good value for the taxes people pay to it.

Then people and their taxable assets will gladly stay.
Over half of them worked for Google within the past two years. This is across New York, San Francisco, and Mountain View. One of them said they had a friend that wanted to become a manager and they were made a manager just like that.