skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Deserve“ absolutely means exactly what it means.

I’m talking about the equity distribution sub-10 here. What sub-10 employees are getting any more benefits than their founder(s)? Maybe marginally more cash but it’s all still below market so it doesn’t really matter. But most founders I’ve encountered are actually paying themselves more than their early employees because they have to in order to maintain their lifestyle in big city. But they also have remarkably disproportional slices of equity.

If a founder is investing large sums of their own cash it’s because they have that luxury. And I don’t think that’s actually very common. More often a founder drops some sweat and cash to incorporate and then maybe isn’t getting paid much while they pitch for seed capital but they’re doing so because they can’t afford to take no salary for very long. Even if you occasionally do see founders who’ve “killed” themselves for their cause, most of the founders I’ve encountered actually come out of cushy jobs where they essentially moonlit as a founder until they met someone willing to blow a few MM their way. In my opinion this type of story does not justify such disproportional equity distribution.

At this point I honestly think telling founders that they take on so much risk and should retain such a large portion of their company because they did all the hard work is a somewhat subversive tactic used by investors who want to retain control over their investments. It’s a lot easier to reason with a single founder than 5 large equity holders.

I think founders deserve a lot. I don’t think the typical founder deserves 10 times the equity of sub-10 employees. I think you’d see more people willing to join early stage companies if the attitude around equity shifted.
I was thinking that, but if these objects are much closer than expected, small physical motion could be a large angular motion. I don’t know if that would be enough to explain them away.
It’s quite frustrating, for me anyway, using other languages after Erlang. Pattern matching and its related features are addictive.
They had multiple spies in the Manhattan project.
From a baby's perspective, nipples are the ultimate user friendly affordance.

That was why Ted Selker's Thinkpad with two red Joy Buttons on the keyboard was so engaging. Mammals are hard-wired to interact with them from birth. Too bad OS/2 or any software since Douglass Engelbart's NLS/Augment in 1968 couldn't deal with multiple cursors like God intended.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21757797

>Vis-à-vis mamelons, Ted actually build a prototype Thinkpad keyboard with TWO trackpoints, which he loved to show at his New Paradigms for Using Computers workshop at IBM Almaden Research Lab. [...]

From the thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21757139

>TrackPoint is basically a joystick.
Spot on! Clearly author’s intentions were to convince people that being an employee at a startup pays monetarily. Which is now denied by him? I am confused.
> There are countless stories of large scale failures involving non-consultants as well as very well paid consultants.

this reminds me of https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/23/hertz_accenture_law...
Awesome! Thank you so much for this list. I can't wait.
There's not a lot of details in that article. But it seems that they were dealing with a moderate amount of data (about 100 GB ?), which is trivial to backup many times. They do not explain what's the big deal with that.
I got pushed a graphical flow migration took down my throat by my manager. On the argument that in that way others would be able to read at reuse it because it was standard. In reality it was used once and I suffered all its quirks, also no version control was possible.
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State of Code: Why Remote Jobs Are Still Far in Between for Nigerian Developers
Nah, ludde wrote spotiamp while working for Spotify. He's same guy that wrote utorrent and tunsafe (unofficial windows wireguard app). I believe it was a one-off project. There was a security vulnerability in the latest version of the app, but spotify fixed server-side and the older versions were not affected. There was an unrelated spotiamp project that I think was a winamp plugin, that's the bad one.

Spotiamp still mostly works but libspotify clients are deprecated, so search is broken and you need to jam spotify url's in to add music.
You can use your smartphone with internet access to have your meals delivered to you.
Git-fork does this.
Commit – an open source dating app
It isn't unimaginable that they can control the direction of the radiation. It could be directed away from the galactic plane, for example.
DraftKings going public via reverse merger
Fermi style estimate: 600M stars with live spans from several billions to several millions years, say average - 600 million years, thus 1 star per year got to go. 50 years - 50 stars.
I am not at all concerned about the medical harms of vaping in my post. Facebook also doesn't have any medical harms, but its addictive nature is why it is slowly being more and more regulated. The potential super-addictive nature of vaping (much greater than cigarettes or facebook), I argue, is why it needs to be regulated.
Maybe the name "algebraic effect" isn't good enough... What name you think that could fit better?
Blame the OEMs.
I missed that. Why were they kicked off the play store?
It's 100k per year not over 4 years... I can assure you that these numbers are not bunk and are very real. A lot of my friends have been offered 1.2M in RSUs for L6 positions.

I myself am an L5 and I got a 600k RSU grant - so I get 150k in vested RSUs per year (which started vesting after about 3 months, and which vests continuously throughout the year).

I also get 120k of RSU refreshers (which vest over 4 years) each year as well.

So yes, when I say my TC is 400k+/year, I mean I actually earn that much per year. This isn't accounting for stock appreciation either, my RSUs have increased in value by over 50% since I joined early this year.
> An average person today with e.g. a car, a shower and a smartphone with internet access is already richer than any of the kings of the past.

George VI was a “king of the past”; I don't think there is any reasonable general sense in which the average person today is richer than George VI. If you go to the distant enough past, this becomes arguably (and, farther, clearly) true, but also not at all meaningful.

> So no, wealth isn't "hoarded by a small percent of the population

Yes, it is; the narrow distribution of wealth is uncontrovertible.

> we really are, the vast majority of us, richer than ever in history of man.

That doesn't contradict that wealth is narrowly hoarded (that is, both narrowly distributed and that narrow distribution being the active choice of those who are in the narrow group receiving the most), and to the extent that it is true, it doesn't matter because, in fact, wealth is narrowly hoarded and it turns out that, once you get out of the most abject poverty, relative wealth matters more to experienced utility than absolute wealth.
EU beckons Indian tech talent
> feels a lot more bulky, especially Vim.

> I think I can live without syntax highlighting

This is the fussiest of fussy problems. I can't imagine how vim can feel bulky, and how bad it needs to be for you to be willing to trade away all other features. But it's your setup, do whatever you like. I wouldn't make a HN post anytime I think about switching my code editor or IDE.
Video is not visible in my country ("because of its privacy settings"). Any transcript/explanation available?
> This is bleak, bleak stuff.

There have been a number of low tax, rule of law city states like Hong Kong and Singapore that did rather well and provided a refuge for many Chinese when China was going a bit nuts under Mao and the like. It's not all bleak.
Wow, people support political movements that would benefit them if they came to power? Tell me more, enlightened social analyst!
The esteemed user interface designers at Apple should have had enough common sense, adolescent spirit, and focused vision to manage to see they were designing something that looked like a grinning penis with a rash on the tip. This is why we have focus groups and #MeToo. Otherwise you end up with things like the Gavin Belson Signature Box III, Slack Penis Swastikas, and Trump-Pence Logos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KbRA2RjhgQ

https://technabob.com/blog/2018/12/01/gavin-belson-signature...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/slack-new-...

https://www.wired.com/2016/07/ins-outs-new-trump-pence-logo/

I can understand why Jobs cut the Control Strip, despite its dominating but sexy name, and prior art in international interface design (Kontrollstreifen), when he returned to focus on saying no, and put bullets into OpenDoc's and the Control Strip's heads.

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/focusing-is-about-saying-no-s...

More info from Wikipedia on Apple's Control Strip and its earlier use in widely deployed international interface control systems, aka Kontrollstreifen (Control Strip), Todesstreifen (Death Strip), Handlungsstreifen (Action Strip), and Pieck-Allee (Pieck Avenue):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Strip

>The Control Strip was initially released in 1994 with the PowerBook 500 series of notebook computers and the PowerBook Duo 280 subnotebook computers, at that point shipping with System 7.1. Later on it was made available to desktop and portable Macintosh computers, beginning with System 7.5.3.

>Apple removed Control Strip in 2001 as a consequence of its move to Mac OS X. Apple initially attempted to integrate the Control Strip’s features into the Dock. After this was found to be too clumsy, most of its features were again duplicated in the menu extras of 10.1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortifications_of_the_inner_Ge...

>In the West, the control strip became known as the "death strip" (Todesstreifen) because of the shoot-to-kill orders given to the border guards. The East Germans preferred to call it by the more euphemistic name of the "action strip" (Handlungsstreifen). It was also nicknamed the Pieck-Allee ("Pieck Avenue") after East Germany's president Wilhelm Pieck (1949–60).
> The pessimism in this thread really bothers me.

I don’t recommend startups because of personal experiences. I’ve personally lost more working for startups (in terms of unpaid salaries, lower salaries and impact on health) than I did running my own startups. Startups rarely have good development practices, are often always in crunch mode and often have bad work-life balance.

Some people thrive in that environment, sure. Personally I don’t hate the environment but I can’t stick it too long either so I’ve job hopped a bit. But when you add that high-stress-low-discipline (discipline in terms of development practices) environment together with low salaries, false promises based on worthless stock, high founder ego and a high rate of startup failure, I don’t think it’s a good deal for most people, who would be better off in a stable balanced low (comparatively) stress well paying big company instead.

I hate to say it since I’ve started startups myself and it makes finding employees hard, but I think the people who really thrive in that environment are relatively few.

Sure it can be rewarding, you can make great connections and learn a lot but I’ve found big companies can be all of the same things, although the learning is usually deep in big companies and wide in startups, but a medium sized (ie established startup) company might be a good middle ground. Maybe everyone should experience it once though and then move on. I also will likely make another attempt at a startup myself too, but I do feel that there’s a difference when you own the thing.
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NSA pulls in every signal that comes near no electron is ever allowed to escape
Do you have any pointers on how to start thinking about all this? How should one get started?
Mopidy Iris is the most polished but it doesn't yet support the latest and greatest Mopidy v3.

https://mopidy.com/ext/
I worked on developing a module last year. I see a number of issues, most are shared with many "platform" applications.

Somehow you see especially "enterprise" software being written as a kind of proprietary platform, often like a kind of jvm or .net clone, with some half-baked ORM and lots of moderately documented (at best) infrastructure ("framework" ugh, usually feels like a straightjacket), on top of which one can develop "modules" that are all intertwined and create a dependency hell and a huge dependency on the proprietary platform.

I don't see the point. There are enough open platforms that are at least as good to create "enterprise" functionality, including database frameworks etc. Why would one use a proprietary framework that you have to adapt to, instead of a general purpose platform with some libraries that you can pick and choose from?
Do Cryptocurrencies Solve the Issue of Money Transfers? Depends Where You Live
How is that unlikely? 4k commits is nothing. Any project with a dozen developers is going to reach that easily.
That's really sad. I feel the same way about the Colorado river.
Well, arguably that's true in the webcrap space. The HTML->CSS->JS->Webasm line of development really is crap on top of crap. Trying to fix the design problems of one layer by putting another layer on top of it only sort of works. It gets worse over time. "The mold seeps through the wallpaper" (a comment I usually make about C++ collection classes trying, but only partially succeeding, to hide the problems of C arrays).

I was doing "microservices" on QNX using MsgSend/MsgReceive for hard real time over 15 years ago. It doesn't have to suck; the mainstream is just using the wrong tools for doing it fast. The QNX people managed to shoot themselves in the foot by going closed-source -> open source -> closed source -> open source -> closed source, after which their developer community was fed up.

Machine learning is not linear algebra. It's nonlinear. That's what makes it useful.
They don't even make digital pictures of your luggage.
The paper also suggests a potential change to regulation—making individuals within a company responsible for what goes wrong within that company’s IT systems

We all know how that looks in practice - Experian’s senior management pointing the finger at a single lowly sysadmin. Or VW blaming their emissions scandal on a single engineer.

There is one individual responsible: the CEO. That’s why he or she is paid the big bucks. Maybe make all the C-level jointly responsible. They can share cells afterwards.
Depends significantly on the back-end data store, for some our in-house systems we’ve had good experiences with GoldenGate [1] to do a continuous sync between systems to enable a rollback scenario, and there are equivalent packages available for lots of datastores. Some of the larger finance packages also include export and snapshot functionality but this wont help with maintaining parallel systems.

The risk however is evaluating consistency between the systems before doing the rollback which in this case would probably require a more advanced testing capability than what was available...

[1] - https://www.oracle.com/au/middleware/technologies/goldengate...
I recommend startups in your 40s
You are free to found your own company and do this.
The Buzz Around AirPods
> As of 2005, less than 50 deaths due to illnesses attributed to radiation pollution from the Chernobyl disaster were recorded.

The word "recorded" does a huge amount of obscuring work in that sentence.

I thoroughly recommend the book "Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster" by Svetlana Alexievich.

After reading that, a double or triple digit number is simply not credible.
It is open core. More and more parts are removed from the open source part and require a licencse.

IMHO open core is a truely treacherous model that should be avoided at all cost. Better completely closed source than the evil mixture.
Fusion grad student here. HL-2M is very similar to the US DIII-D reactor in size, magnetic field strength, and plasma current. HL-2M will have 11 MW of heating power in its first stage compared to 23 MW on DIII-D according to Wikipedia, though this will likely be upgraded. But consider the fact that DIII-D was built in 1986.

JET, currently operating in the UK, is the tokamak closest to producing more fusion power than absorbed heating power. It would be a nice surprise if it achieved this in its upcoming research program using deuterium-tritium fuel. But to reliably pass this milestone and get closer to producing electricity, we need to build tokamaks bigger, like ITER, or with a stronger magnetic field, like SPARC. Neither one will produce electricity, but they will allow us to study the potentially different plasma environment and materials issues at high fusion power.

Electricity-producing tokamaks are in the extremely early conceptual design phase (DEMO, ARC) and will require much more research on tritium breeding and materials that can withstand insane levels of heating and irradiation.

HL-2M specs (paywalled): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2015.06.106
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The implication of it being you and your buddies being that you won't get shafted if it goes well or shafted more than is reasonable if it doesn't.
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How classroom technology is holding students back
Can you consult? So, rather than have a part time job, actually go out and find a few clients?

Not sure where you are located, but in the USA this is possible.

An alternative would be to get a full time job, but make sure there is a carve out for work you do on your own that is unrelated to the job, and work nights/weekends.

Final alternative is to work full time and just save save save, then quit and work while living on savings.

Not sure of your financial situation and obligations, so hard to recommend any of these above the others.
Except R&D spending per capita doesn't make much sense. It's not like the entire population is researchers...
I don’t understand. Every one of those negative traits applies to The Three Body Problem as a novel, except for acting, in my opinion.

I realize there exist people who like sci-fi and think The Three Body Problem is good, but... I can’t understand what they see in it. The last 50 pages or so was at least an ok short story...
> I see. So, let us back up a little to your first statement. Why is the risk of excluding developing economies a problem (for the developing economy), again?

This is the question you should have opened with :)

I never said it was a problem for the developing country. I was talking purely about the economics of Facebook. If they (Facebook) want to expend their demographic then they would need be affordable in each economic environment. Whether you (the respective county) want them there or not is another matter entirely.

Frankly I’d be happier if Facebook failed in my own country rather than expanded their global presence into yours as well; but that wasn’t the topic being discussed at that time.

> It is not an edge case if it leads to making assumptions which are clearly bad for our future.

Technically it still would be when using the correct definition of edge case ;)

> Because Facebook isn't getting any real punishment, people are only going to say "Nothing happened to Facebook. Why should the other companies worry about lying to governments/ lying to customers/ privacy issues/ data collection / retargeting / lookalike audience" etc.

I agree that’s a problem but, once again, you’re arguing a completely different topic.

> I am not sure why you feel that way.

Frankly put: because I’m not biased. You feel like you’ve had an injustice so you’re lashing out at everyone. I totally get that. I’ve been really privileged to grow up in the U.K. but I’ve also spent a lot of time in developing countries so I’ve seen both sides of the argument.

> Specifically, what I am saying is that I don't like people starting off with statements such as "you then run the risk of excluding developing economies" as if that is automatically a bad thing for the developing economies.

That literally wasn’t what was said though. The context was never about what was good or bad for those counties; economically, socially, not by any other metric. The context of my original post and the entire chain of conversation that preceded it was a theoretic one about how Facebook might counter abuse on its platform. The context was always about Facebook specifically. This is why I have repeatedly said you’ve gone waaaaaay off topic.

If you want to change the conversation to the evils of western corporations then please bare in mind that HN is ostensibly a tech and business forum so people will often talk about things from the perspective of tech giants even if they don’t actually support the operations of those corporations. Thus it would benefit everyone if you didn’t jump to conclusions, making personal accusations about the opinions of HN posters on entirely different subject matters just because they happen to make an impartial point on a company you have a personal vendetta against.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8069893
> Synthesized 0.5mL? It’s not a liquid.

Do you think it's synthesized directly into blotter form?
If genocide is unsubstantiated, can he just bring up the organ harvesting?
In UK/EU banking the way to get promoted is to be a yes man. Business has complete control and abhors IT. Impossible deadlines and hands-off approach make atrocious code bases. And this becomes a never ending feedback loop going on for decades. There’s never time to pay for technical debt. And now with the replacement of commercial staff for IT staff there’s a growing divide. Stay away.
When I used to use NetBeans the main feature I loved was the history feature.

Basically every save to every file was stored and diffable in a kind of self contained repo.

I've missed this feature in every other editor since.
Everything apart from the initial reset command in that ‘recipe’ is stuff that a command line git user would be doing all the time anyway. There’s not really anything to remember here, other than that ‘git reset’ lets me undo commits that I haven’t pushed.
My Linux-running Dual booting Macbook with an AMD GPU would disagree.
>> Kubernetes is a solution worse than the problem.

> Not if you're a 1,000+ engineer org with an SOA.

The fact that most FAANGs (Amazon especially) developed their own systems that are not Kubernetes, and often much simpler, should make you think.
Many don't even use containers - by design.

(Source: direct experience)
This is all very inconsistent. OP says in big corps you need politics to get (new) shit done. But building your people network is politics, regardless where you work. It is certainly easier if you are employee number five or ten, but it still distracts you from your actual work.

I can't say it another way but the very american person cult is worrying. Thiel any many other tech icons are just icons because they are billionaires and maybe populists. Having a network of those is surely a way to get funding. But that again beings politics on the table and more importantly implies that you can only be successful if you have connections to the billionaires club. It lacks a great deal of imagination that only startups can survive with the direct support of the big guys.