skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most bids for Fine Art auctions now come in via live videostream. Despite the capability of high end auction houses such as Sothebys to deploy online only sales at global scale. The performative aspect of the traditional "call-out" auction with live audience is still really engaging as entertainment ;)

Live from Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRVzAdHscEg
Facebook is an edge case because that’s a problem in every country and frankly that whole “free internet” mission was clearly a bullshit move from the outset (even people in the west weren’t the slightest bit convinced by Zuckerburgs motives). However that still doesn’t prove your claim that every western company exists in developing counties specifically to further your economic strife (which is the accusation you’re levelling against the west).

If you want to argue that American corporate culture is a toxic breed of short-sighted greed or that developing economies are better served with local businesses then at least try to do so without all the conspiracy theories and personal attacks. It’s not exactly a hard topic to argue rationally after all.

> Indeed I do. It is called "stop patronizing the people of my country".

It’s not “patronising“ to say that companies need to offer regional rates to compete in regional economies.

You might argue that its unfair to put local companies out of business or that western corporations deserve no claim in developing nations; but that’s categorically not what “patronising” means (and also a very different point to the one I was making).

Don’t just take my word for it though, look the word up in any of the numerous online dictionaries :)

>> none of your points are even remotely relevant to the conversation.

> If you feel so, that's OK, although I would obviously like to see a more specific refutation.

I wasn’t trying to refute your claims (mainly because most of them were far fetched - even by your own admission). I was saying they’re a complete tangent to the topic of conversation.

Look, if you want to bleat on about the evils of western influence on developing economies then fine. But at least acknowledge it’s a largely unrelated rant to the conversation that precedes it.....and also don’t make accusations about other HN posters when you don’t understand the terms you’re accusing them of.
Also https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot and https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot
I’ll start with this one...

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2917810/elephant-man-drug-test...
Yes!

Extremely same, but with Vue instead of React. In the last project I worked on, XState was a late addition, so it didn't control the whole application, but the part I wrote in it was bug free from the start.

My plan for any future JS/frontend project is to design the whole application's business logic around XState, and use Vue/React/Svelte/Whatever just for the rendering part.
Right that point broke down pretty quickly. Rent in London is more expensive than most of the United States.

I found pay-salary ratio worked best in Toronto provided you don't expect to own a home in the city.
Until you have modern approach to health science, you would not notify such long-term effect for any food, so there is no reason to assume any traditional food is more safe w.r.t. such kind of effects.
Would the heat expelled be bright enough to be picked up in this type of imagery? Can energy be expelled in ways not visible to these types of devices possibly? From other comments it appears that a lot of errors would be hard to produce this issue. I’m curious if they should try imaging the stars in another sort of way than the past and present catalogues have done in order to possibly capture this any sort of anomalies that we may not currently be aware of
The Luvoir Mission Concept Study Final Report
What’s the Best Charity to Donate To?
So...your concern is that seasteading will promote human trafficking?
im with you. this is astrophysics: there are other lines of evidence to consider: like the missing stars sharing certain properties (color, velocity), suggesting an astrophysical explanation (remember it's not strange for stars to go away. whats new here is how)
> Saving a photo from iMessage....

I hate that apple doesn't let you export your iMessage history.

It's self serving on many levels.
To clarify for OP, "Spotify for Artists" is the Spotify app that artists use for analytics and the like.
Hey man. This is awesome stuff. I'm actually an entrepreneur as well building a social music app. Email me if you're interested, I can tell you more about it.

A lot of the initial work will be using the Spotify API and others to aggregate musician data.

I've registered the LLC and my cofounder and I have been brainstorming the software, but haven't really started anything yet.

Have been too busy with the holidays and vacation.

Edit: email is in my about
Sorry but this is probably terrible. Without knowing the part datasheet this interview isn’t going to tell you much. I think it’s much better to focus on signals/systems plus some circuit level problems that focus on the basics; open drain outputs, op-amps, RC/RLC circuits, transmission lines etc...
>School is an upgrade from child labor, but I now have enough experience to know it's a downgrade from what I can learn of my own.

Is it? I'd bet most kids, left to their own devices, they'd eat fast food, watch cartoons, and play games all day, and not learn anything...

>Also, I don't miss having to fight for social acceptance, the bullying, the stress and pressure nor the hypocrisy of the ones in charge.

Aren't these the basic things school teaches? Socialization?

People aren't all kind lovable beings, nor are situations non adversarial in life.

From this there's retreat to isolation from life (e.g. like those Japanese who refuse to exit their homes), or learning how others can be, how you can respond, how to make friends, win over enemies, ignore or defeat people who try to put you down, etc. Tertium non datur.
Agreed. FWIW, our reason for implementation is to reduce character count for SMS. Not for tracking/cloaking.
Sounds like wealth inequality doesn't just affect private individuals- it's affecting corporations themselves!
I agree that Sanfilippo can be obstinate. "Redis' creator doesn't deserve our support" is a shitty and vindictive conclusion to come to from that obstinance.

If that's ^^ unsubstantive drama to you, and the thing it's responding to isn't, calibrate your sensors because they're off.
> Why would anyone in their right mind, other than a warlord-wannabe billionaire, assent to this idea?

Maybe they won't. You are, in a certain sense, assenting to it right now. Websites have exactly this governance model. Hacker News is run by a king. We all choose to spend time here anyway, because he does a good job responding to our needs.

A lot of things work this way, in fact. When you go to a restaurant, you don't get to vote on the menu. You order what's there, but you choose which restaurants you patronize. There is no, in principle, reason that the same cannot be applied to where you choose to live.

The primary difference is the transaction costs of relocation and the cost of mistakes. It's easy to go to a different restaurant if you don't like the menu. It's less easy to move. But some people are willing to make that tradeoff for more efficient governance.
It's infested with techies too.
> 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.

Keep in mind that if you look back on the things that made you excited to go into startups into 2006 or whenever, probably none of them are true anymore. E.g. the main reason people were excited back then is that there was a huge arbitrage opportunity to take every business that already existed as either brick-and-mortar or web 1.0, and reimagine it using AJAX and web 2.0 design language. In retrospect there were a bunch of other favorable macro trends coalescing at the same time also, but regardless none of these arbitrage opportunities exist any longer.
Trade more salary for less equity? Or ?
> If an article manages to get a few votes, quickly, then it gets on the front page fairly easily.

In principle yes, but HN's anti-voting-ring software often drops a lot of those votes. If you see something on /newest with a bunch of votes and it's not on the front page, that's likely why. A side-effect that we never anticipated is that some eagle-eyed HN users figured this out and started calling out the egregious cases. So we got a secondary hivemind ring-detector out of the deal.
It's super late over here, but I would love to hear more from you. If there's anyway here let me know.
In addition to Creative Computing, 1980: "How to Fit a Large Program Into a Small Machine" by Blank/Galley

There were at least two other articles published at the time that provided a lot of details:

* IEEE Computer, 1979: "Zork: A Computerized Fantasy Simulation Game" by Lebling/Blank/Anderson

* Byte, 1980: "Zork and the Future of Computerized Fantasy Simulations" by Lebling
I'd rather educate the population on the pitfalls of startups so that people going into them are less naive and so that the experience of working there can be more enjoyable and fairly compensated.

I have really enjoyed working at small companies as well - not two person startups working on hopes and dreams, but companies under a year old that are struggling to stablize their offering of a product that they know there is a market for. Startups can be lots of fun, they can also be a grind trying to keep up with shifting customer requests - especially if you find yourself with a single dominant customer that knows they can push you around. Start ups can buy you an island or you could make 60k a year for three years and then be let go immediately prior to an IPO. There is an immense amount of risk there and I'd like to see some shifts in startup culture to provide a bit more assurances since the experience can vary wildly.

Maybe employees at small companies need to be guaranteed (i.e. by the government) a portion of that company for their work, maybe work days need to have a hard limit on them - maybe there just needs to be more VC funding sloshing around and given away in small doses - 200k to twenty companies will produce a lot more success than 4m to a single company.
> Would you also have viewed Einstein as just a medieval philosopher back in his day ?

Einstein's theories were a response to experiments and known facts of the day, that didn't fit the current theoretical models. Sure plenty of it was difficult to test at the time (and still is in some ways when it comes to human scale. How many people do you know that have actually experianced human scale time dialation?) but its not like it was some castle in the sky totally divorced from the observable reality of the day.

Additionally even for predictions that weren't practically testable immediately, they were still testable theoretically given enough engineering effort. There is a big difference between not yet knowing how to test something, and not even knowing what you would test if resources/effort were no issue.
In principle, I agree. Conflict resolution between parties that are acting in good faith is an essential skill. However, bullies do not act in good faith, and trying to reason with them as a target is an exercise in futility.

Another essential skill is learning to recognize when you should remove yourself from a toxic environment for your own sake.
Close- wikipedia says 280°F to 330°F - see my comment above.

But in that case, like I say in my longer comment, it doesn't make sense for olive oil to catch fire "easily", like you say in your previous comment.

What olive oil are you using, if I'm not being too nosey?

Sorry if I sound defensive- I'm just really surprised. olive oil is very common where I come from :)
This is super interesting. I worked with Spotify’s original C SDK on iOS about 6 years ago. We ran into some issues with it aggressively loading playlists and metadata and running out of memory on large accounts. Some years later they put out a new iOS SDK that fixed all of the issues and was generally more of a native-feeling SDK on iOS, long after the project had been scrapped.

Is this at all related or inspired by their original C SDK?
CPU was probably the bottleneck from GC. You could tune the GC to get better results probably.
That is why the post started off with "London is an expensive town, so I'm sorry to hear that. But for others --"

Some cities are not rational. The best game to play when you have irrational rules is to not play. That is why the post was directed "To others: "

London and NYC are not rational cities. To some extent, also Vancouver. Some of these cities are places where foreign cash comes to be parked in, often empty, apartments. They raise prices for everyone and ruin market dynamics. SF/Bay Area is irrational in a sense because you are competing on a time spectrum -- a rational job for someone who purchased a house in 2004 is an irrational job for someone who needs to rent at 2019 rates.
I’ve tried (and abandoned) a similar question suite for Security SWEs. Giving people sample code riddled with security flaws and asking them to explain what was wrong.

I found it difficult in the security domain since so much of it is context dependent (what’s the interface? Is this code in the kernel? Are you concerned about speculative side channels?). I also found it difficult to calibrate.

There’s probably a good question space in there if I were to spend time testing the questions more, but there are enough other questions in the neighborhood that I’ve moved on.
Sufficiently few that it is beginning to be said by a small number of physicists that it is a point of embarrassment that the Measurement Problem is about as unresolved as when it first came up a hundred years ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/opinion/sunday/quantum-ph...
If they solved a time constraint by being clever and working hard then clearly Boeing would care about that, I agree.

Saving $$ per unit and saving $$ total are so different. If all you're doing is saving $500 total, I wouldn't even care in most cases... but if you managed to use clever techniques to save $0.30 off the manufacturing cost for a toy that gets sold in the millions...

I most strongly agree with the ethical part of the article, in any event. I'm sick of companies trying to take advantage of their employees, it's just sad and gross to see it done by startups that could be better than big companies in at least this one way. But instead they take it even further somehow because their finances are far more opaque. I don't think it should be up to noblesse oblige to determine whether distribution of profits and salaries are fair, it should be assumed to be the rule even if there may be exceptions.

It's a sad day when you look at employment agreements from Intel and a shiny startup and find that Intel is more up front and transparent about how things will work and what you'll get paid.
Or alternatively (and in my mind, more likely), the massive gains coming directly from computer technology has reached its peak. There will never be another new purely "technology" (i.e. where the business is primarily built-on computer software, internet, and/or hardware) company that's as profitable and powerful as Google or FaceBook

There will always be scope for solid good new businesses with big and small margins, but maybe the next FB / Google will be in some other field? Maybe biology or nutrition, maybe quantum physics, who knows. I wish I had some ideas though.
Your footer links don't work, btw.
Especially when you consider the diminishing returns on wealth. And presumably you should be able to attract higher quality employees who are more incentivized to work hard. Resulting in faster and more efficient growth. So you may never even take a “hit” to wealth. Unfortunately most founders and VCs have resorted to exploiting the social dynamics of the engineer class instead.
A lot like my house, actually.
There seems to be some confusion in the comments. This is a science machine that does not aim to set any records. It’s more akin to DIII-D/ASDEX catchup and provide a decent platform for plasma physics.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092037961...
>At your work, if someone is being a bully, then either management will fire them, or you can look for another job.

That's a very rosy view. It's premised on either an enlightened management who gives a crap if someone's being a bully (many don't, or are themselves the bullies) or people having the option to willy nilly quit a job because someone was a bully to them.

That might be true for a developer in some cushy job when IT is on demand.

It's not true for a huge majority of people who need their jobs and can't just jump ship if someone's being a bully or they're treated badly, etc...
Comments don't affect story rank, with the exception of the flamewar detector mentioned in the sibling comment by krapp. It's not uncommon for certain kinds of story to get plenty of upvotes but no comments. Those stay on the front page for a while. I think that's fine; something can be interesting even though we don't have anything to say about it.
Is this an actual Spotify app that streams music or can you just control music playing on other devices/apps (like the cli UI's)?
The minimum size of KH-11 mirrors has been common knowledge for many years now, since it influenced the Hubble telescope. From the book Power To Explore -- History of Marshall Space Flight Center 1960-1990:

> "In addition, changing to a 2.4-meter mirror would lessen fabrication costs by using manufacturing technologies developed for military spy satellites."

PDF: https://web.archive.org/web/20170205104821/https://history.m...

They're 2.4 meters at their smallest, with later KH-11's possibly being larger. But even 2.4 meters is enough to get way better image quality than has been publicly released.
In what sense? Also, would insisting on a 35 hours work week fly badly at startups?
Nope, pretty sure millions of years of evolution have better equipped humans to eat the wild plants in their environment better than whatever they came up with in a lab yesterday.
My main question is how do you attract developers to join your open source project? Wordpress and RoR and all those other projects?

Instead of startups I want to attract people to a project to change the world just like the OP is saying. But where to find the first few developers who would do it not for the money?
Kids, since millennia, had hanged out and played in communities with kids of the same roughly age (and some bigger and scarier) before mandatory education / school was a thing...

It's not like absence of school meant kids would just be alone in their homes...
Ask HN: Why don't more people know about Freenode?
The freenode subreddit on reddit has less than 200 subscribers. Imagine if every programmer knew about freenode. We would have such a rich exchange of ideas, and probably better open source software.
But we haven't actually tested those weapons in decades. Ensuring that the stockpile doesn't go bad is a huge money suck for the DOE, and it's been a key factor driving supercomputer improvements. You're right that it's very inefficient, but that has to be balanced against the political cost of setting off thermonuclear explosions regularly.
There is a fork of sorts [1] that is even more active for Wox.

[1]: https://github.com/jjw24/Wox
Edit: The sites I'm using make it seem like the RSU compensation is the one time grant for 100k+ over the 4 year period so if its really a 400k+ stock grant over the 4year period then yes there's really no way to compete with that for early stage companies and leaving that amount of money on the table is inadvisable if you can avoid it.
That said I still hold my point about the type of experience you'll gain at a startup and how quickly you'll gain it.

People keep talking about how "they don't know anyone at the big tech companies making less than a 225k salary with the average being more like 300k". Those numbers are bunk, the salary is the base amount before stock contributions and you are most certainly including RSUs to get those numbers. Including RSU's in your annual salary is a crazy and incorrect thing to do. The average turn over at large tech co is a little over 2 years. This means 50% of people never see more than half of their RSU compensation. An L5 (5 years or so xp and roughly the same across companies) for instance has an average base salary of 165k and an additional 100k in RSUs. Assuming that person works at large tech co for the average 2 years and they sell the RSUs as soon as they can their total compensation in a given year is 165k + 25k, or 190k. Successful startups most certainly can come close to that. Anyone making a base + 225k salary before RSU is an L7 or distinguished contributor with 10+ years of experience. So while maybe startups can't compete for compensation for people who are very established in there careers, I've seen more than a few who can compete for people in the 0-10yr range. I've always seen startups as a way for people to prove themselves very quickly in ways that would take people who took the corporate path 15 years to do. High risk, high personal growth, and hopefully high reward.

That said I think startups do need to rework their equity compensation structure for earlier employees to make them more fair. It is very easy to get screwed as an IC in startups right now even as an early one.
I love how there's only a single browser or two in the entire world, lol (safari I've got bo clue about)
that's while assuming chrome and firefox's debugging streams would be compatible....

you assume I don't use any forks, or custom versions, what if I use an Electron based browser?
what about Pale Moon or other forks which have older, if any, such interfaces?
what about Opera?
etc etc, you get the point...I hope...
The same approach works. Under-specify a problem, then see what questions candidate asks, and at what level they jump in. When Windows used to ship with Minesweeper, I'd ask candidates how they'd approach implementing Minesweeper for a touchscreen on an embedded device. Good candidates would get clarity on hardware and constraints first.
You can definitively get it to build; Odoo is essentially a Python web framework (ORM, UI framework, etc) that happens to include a bunch of apps for typical business needs. Running it is no harder than running the average Django app, just point it to a Postgres instance.

That said, while I enjoyed the six years I worked with it at different companies, I can't say I'd spend my free time on it. But I don't think that's necessary for FOSS to work; Odoo has a pretty good community (OCA), mostly composed of people paid to work with it.