skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boeing still put a capsule in orbit too. And I actually saw those excuses I'm referring to when the BFR prototype blew its lid, which didn't involved even a partially successful mission. Similar things were also said when the Crew Dragon blew up on the ground.

Regardless, testing all of the flight software is certainly not exclusive to SpaceX. I would bet any amount of money that Boeing also tested their software and performed simulated launches, moreover that testing is probably mandated by their contract with NASA. My uninformed guess is that one of two things happened:

1. Their tests were incomplete. e.g. they didn't find some edge case that would cause problems when the T-0 changed.

2. Someone goofed the procedures on the day of launch and didn't update their configuration properly.
> Custom negotiated options contract outside of industry norms

I think you mean the GP wants options within industry norms, which are outside of a failing startup's shoestring budget. On a separate note, what are your thoughts on the glassdoor ratings of Localize?

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Localize-Reviews-E1427641....
you wonder why college costs so much?

Nearly 10,000 employees of the University of California system pulled down more than $200,000. This includes 65 highly compensated public employees who made between $1 million and $3.6 million.

Across the country, some of the largest salaries were paid out to athletic coaches at public universities. The retired football coach at University of Oregon received a $558,689 annual pension, and the fired Arizona State football coach got a $15 million payout. Nick Saban, at the University of Alabama, made $11 million.
But it's not your whole life because we're living longer and it's enough money to retire earlier. Suck up the drone life, retire early and spend 50 years with no boss, no customers, just tooling away on whatever you please.
Exactly. There get so many startup positions advertised, even here on HN, where the job description summarizes as “build our product from the ground up” and the offere salary is below par and the offered equity is an insultingly low number like 0.2%.
If the cost of housing was substantially lower, perhaps these great engineers would work for startups that could really use their talent, as they might not care as much to being millionaires so they can afford what's considered a middle class home for their family in most other places besides SF/Bay Area.
> Here is a list of physical activities to stimulate your memory or imagination

You can also strap a competition car to your arse, and try to beat the quick peeps at an autocross track.
When I got my BSEE, there were unfortunately only two types of professors:

1. Extremely theoretical, minimal practical elements (labs, demos, etc.). These would have classes in Electromagnetism, Signal and systems, ICs, RF, Optics, etc.

2. Very practical, but only skin deep on theory. Power systems, electrical circuits, electrical machines, etc.

The very few classes where we had a nice 50/50 ratio of theory / work were perfect, but I always felt like missing out on the other classes. Unfortunately the coursework was quite heavy, so you didn't get much time to do self-study either. Labs always crammed, always some projects / HW / home exams / labs that needed be handed in.
I know few who never touched soldering iron.
Recovering from Failure
From the final paragraph:

>But I’m less entertained by multiverse theories than I once was, for a couple of reasons. First, science is in a slump, for reasons both internal and external.

It is?? Does anyone know to what he's referring? From my un-scientific vantage point it seems to be thriving.
but what do all these airplanes do most of the time?

I would think right now a lot more airlines and leasing
than usual. (I could be wrong).

that would mean that a lot of the airplanes are standing still most of the time. (I realize they would rotate, so a single plane was not being unsued for very long)

Whoever usually leases them are they out of luck now?
I thought FAANG weren't hiring 35-year-olds?
Seconding the opt-in. Even marking it as a random entry such would be a decent way for people to work within this system without much complaining.

I mean ultimately this is the “new” page but a bit more streamlined
Right, they ship a product with bugs, and than spend all of the time in fire drills instead of core functionality.

Nobody wants to pay for bug fixes.

Do more QA and avoid making your customers part of the QA team.
Unstoppable, unless you try to register "FederalReserve" or "BankOfEngland".

Unstoppable, unless you try to register in anything other than Latin script (the rest of the world exists, you know!)
Enjoy having 90 days to exercise your worthless stock options!
> If your perfect world is being given a task to do and doing it accurately to a high level of perfection

I think it should be obvious if that is what you desire start-ups are not for you. Whoever hired you failed at their job.
I think the problem is that startups don't offer enough equity. Google offers a couple hundred thousand PLUS options worth > 100k present value.

If a startup wants to pay you enough to compensate, the options need to be worth > 100k present value (even if this means 1% of the company). Otherwise you'd be better off working for google and buying equity in the startup rather than breaking your back working there.
I've had a related discussion with a few VCs in recent months. Some kinds of startups are effectively impossible to build given current structural constraints on financing them, creating an adverse selection for startups that fit the classic model rather than startups with the highest expected ROI.

Broadly speaking, engineers will work at a discount to market-clearing wages of maybe 20% if they really like the startup. This is not necessarily an issue if you are well-funded and require ordinary levels of skill from your engineering team, which is most startups. Some types of software startups can't be built without a team of engineers where the market-clearing wages are typically more like $500k-1M. Even at a 20% discount to market, the amount of capital involved just for headcount is far too large for early stage investors, and startups that try to fit within the capital they can raise by getting by with less qualified engineers always fail at technical execution. Consequently, startups that have this property are effectively un-investable because there is not enough capital available in the early stages to achieve technical viability even though they may be great investments in the abstract. This wasn't a serious issue a decade ago, but it is spreading to a larger set of startups as wages rapidly escalate.

Given a long-term glut of capital, this could be addressed in principle by designing a model that modifies the distribution of capital/equity over time to accommodate startups that have difficulty financing the initial wage gap. As the startups grow, one would expect the average wages to start reverting toward the mean, but these startups won't get out of the gate without that initial investment in capable and very expensive engineers.

I've had interesting and productive discussions around this, it is seen as a way to bring fresh blood into an early stage pipeline that is drying up. It is obvious to almost everyone that the classic model of how you finance and build a startup team is breaking down in the current market environment, with an adverse impact on expected returns.
> Fuck being an employee for a startup so they can bleed you dry.

Could not agree more, and this is my stance which I will happily share with anyone who cares to listen. I was first employee (and only engineer) at a startup which dangled 'equity' in front of me but didn't deliver. Contract was so full of gotchas that the path to me seeing some sort of actual payoff was astronomically unlikely.

90 day exercise windows upon leaving or even getting sick and being forced to leave. Liquiditation preferences for VC shareholdings. No way to sell your options on a secondary market. Permission of the board required to actually exercise them. Half a dozen clauses that allowed the board to revoke your options at any point in time. Basically, they want you to give your fucking life to them for 5-10 years with only a contract not worth the paper it's written on as an incentive.

Between the shitty equity terms and the fact I was building a damn tech company to make someone other than myself rich, I told them to go fuck themselves and took a job at Google for over 3x times the pay. I have no regrets. Being an early employee at a startup is a complete waste of time and I still beat myself up for being so naive. Sharing this so other people don't make the same mistake.
Beautiful way of putting it.
That is interesting. Do have any idea if that figure includes research done by/for the military? I could not determine that from the Wiki page and it seems like if it does not that could push the US ahead.
Avocado oil has a 520 degree smoke point and a neutral taste. I have completely switched to it (I buy it at Costco) and use olive oil only for salads or tomato/mozzarela combinations and things like that.
Many people of different types have preferences about what they consider respectful forms of address and communication. I don't expect people to always get it right (I certainly don't), but it is entirely reasonable to see am unwillingness to even try to be polite as disrespectful.
Ryan's Note – Final Scene S03E08 – Halt and Catch Fire
I, Ryan Ray, released the MacMillan source code. I acted alone and nobody told me to do it. I did this because security is a myth. Contrary to what you might have heard, my friend, you are not safe. Safety is a story, it's something we teach our kids so they can sleep at night, but we know it's not real. Beware baffled humans, beware false prophets who will sell you a fake future of bad teachers, corrupt leaders and dirty corporations. Beware of cops and robbers, the kinds that rob your dreams. But most of all, beware of each other. The world is going to crack wide open. There is something on the horizon. A massive connectivity. The barriers between us will disappear, and we're not ready. We'll hurt each other in new ways, we'll sell and be sold, we'll share our most tender selves only to be mocked and destroyed. We'll be so vulnerable, and we'll pay the price. We won't be able to pretend that we can protect ourselves anymore. It's a huge danger, a gigantic risk, but it's worth it, if only we can learn to take care of each other, then this awesome new connection won't isolate us. It won't leave us in the end so totally alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnEun07xEUU
Lua and Perl use fresh variables for each iteration, instead of mutating a shared copy.
I'll believe in utopia when four friends can sit down and choose more than 1 pizza topping while remaining friends..

(Only partially kidding)

Fundamentally, we all have different goals, priorities, values, ethics, abilities, skills, and preferences. Trying to come up with one situation to address all of them to some level of satisfaction seems impossible at best and.. well.. what's less possible than impossible?
If everyone contribute back everything then the distinction between BSD and GPL would be indistinguishable. A zero diff would be easier work, and would make your job easier than a small diff. but since that is not the case there is an evidential balance between contributing back and keeping changes proprietary.

It would be nice in this kind of threads if both sides were just honest in presenting how things work. Companies will decide on contributing back BSD code based on competitive advantages of doing so. It is a business decision. They can reducing costs by having the code maintained by upstream and reduce integration costs, or they can get advantage over their competitors by keeping the code proprietary.

I see similar discussing when companies talk about paying taxes. The press releases will talk about contributing back to society and being responsible citizen, while at the same time employing lawyers who do "tax management" in order to pay as little tax as possible. It is true that they do contribute back with numbers that looks impressive, and paying some taxes is easier than paying no taxes, but a honest description would call it a calculated business decision that balance benefits and drawbacks between compliance and tax avoidance.
Thank you for your service. If you'd like to share more, I'd love to hear it.
> I was senior enough to be single-handedly responsible for large projects like a distributed search engine and a logging and analytics service.

I'm going to be honest, I don't think this is the norm. I worked at a start up for years and never experienced that level of ownership or challenge. We basically built a glorified CRUD with VC money. Good for you! But I don't think this is the case for many? Or maybe it was just me.
Colleges make money from football programs, the 10,000 employees you mention are an big issue, but you destroy your point by not knowing Nick Saban makes the school money and brings in huge alumni donors
Obligatory Sci-Fi premise:

https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-al...
"Successfully detected" is an awkward phrase. Can you unsuccessfully detect something?
Free speech, in the US context, usually relates to the 1st Amendment, which precludes _govt_ censorship.

You can yell 'fire' in a crowded theater; if there is indeed a fire, it's fine — you're trying to help alert people to a dangerous situation. If there is not, and you cause a panic that results in injury to others, you could (should imo) be liable.

The US Supreme Court has a litmus test around when the line is crossed. Logically, there must be a balance to ensure one's rights do not infringe on another's, and when there is conflict, how to resolve it. In the case of party A threatening violence on party B, the line is if there is an imminent threat ('fighting words' — inciting an immediate attack), A is in the wrong. Otherwise, no 1A issue. It's much more difficult to prove in the case of stochastic speech targeting a person or group (eg Said before an audience: '$target is bad. Would be a shame if something happened to $target.' Implying someone in earshot should take care of it.).

I also want to highlight that free speech doesn't mean free of consequence — it only limits govt censorship. You can say what you want, but you may: incur financial loses (eg job or contract losses, boycotts), be ridiculed or shamed (ie become a pariah), be denied access to private properties / venues / events / forums (including web sites such as Twitter or Facebook), etc.

https://xkcd.com/1357/
Command Line Task Management
The implications of a non multiverse universe sort out to some sort of conscious design. Obviously religious types will jump all over this but religion X is not the only way to think about a designer.

What people have trouble accepting is we may be in gross error about the fundamentals of things we think we understand, things like causality, chance and probability, the nature of consciousness to name a few.

Scientists long to believe they are this close to a full understanding of the universe and reality. The sad truth is, the actual nature of the universe may be such that we cannot grasp it with our brains in anyway, the same way a goldfish can't grasp particle theory.
It doesn't matter whether it's unlimited or not if it's practically free. Do you know how many manufacturing processes could become practical and how much research could be done given inexpensive energy?
If you have kids that want to do things in a pretty non-conformant way (with beautiful irony) I'd recommend taking a look at VMI and The Citadel, neither requires military service afterward (although it is an option and a good one to pay for the experience) yet you will be along side some of the best current and future military leaders as teachers, classmates, and friends for life. The Federal service academies are also well regarded but there's something a little bit more rough and tumble at these two that is precious and I say that with respect even as they two are rivals.

To have you ass kicked every day, in every way imaginable (mentally, physically, athletically, motivational, trivially, lack of sleep and food, academically) while still doing a full course load is really a great start on adult life which can be just as hard and you are always prepared. I doubt the academics are anything like an ivy, just sharing another option that reminded me of the bridging of two worlds of physicality and academic pursuit.
I don’t think this is how it works. I haven’t played with the API but I’ve dug around a bit in the source for the Spotify client.

More likely, it’s by sending a stream of data or otherwise its sending encrypted chunks for which Spotify has a decoder integrated. That’s how the desktop client works at least.

Your prediction seems unlikely to me for the reason that any transmission of unencrypted data like that exposes Spotify to having their whole library scraped.

Not that it’s technically impossible already, but I would say incredibly infeasible.
"Slytherin sweatshirt"

"sipping well water at his mountaintop compound south of San Jose"

"He also says, with a straight face, "

Next up they're going to say lex luthor bald head and evil villain laugh.

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The principle has been done before. It's similar to free trade economic zones in other countries, shenzen is one example, or reproducing something like HK or Singapore in other areas of the world.
Thanks for the feedback. This thread has me thinking about a blog post. I don’t write as much as I’d like to because I feel as though I’m still testing my worldview / hypotheses, and I don’t like delivering half-assed products. :)
The problem is not really the EC, the problem is that states are winner-takes-all with their EVs. And that was only really true starting in 1824. https://www.fairvote.org/how-the-electoral-college-became-wi...

Proportionally allocating state electors would solve most of the actual problems people have with the EC, like the emphasis on swing voters.
That doesn't clarify much. Is this some kind of official, government-sanctioned kiosk, whose approval of a photo carries some sort of final authority, and it doesn't just pass the photo on to the passport office?

Because otherwise, it would work just fine without this enforcement functionality.
Because the UN will get on you. While this isn't an issue for some random warlord in Africa if you're a tiny island who still wants to operate within the world you're still fucked.
Maybe startups should try cities like Pittsburgh, Columbus, Atlanta, Knoxville, etc. Lots of talent that will work for less for the simple reason that the cost of living is not so stupidly high. Hell even SoCal, Portland, Austin, and Chicago are bargains compared to NYC or worse SF.

Problem is that all the capital is in NYC and SF, and they still prefer to invest locally. At this point VCs should just skip the middle man and cut checks directly to landlords and property speculators.
> If you look at the YC startups graduating every year, maybe 1 will ever generate $20mm for an early employee

YCombinator -- like all other VCs -- has the data trivially available to show actual compensation of early employees across entire classes of startups and not just cherry-picked best cases. After all, they have the cap tables and the exit dollar figures and how long it took to reach those exits and how many never exited. They probably show that stuff under NDAs to their LPs.

Just not to engineers.

Since YC, like every other VC, has never bothered to publish that kind of data I have to assume it doesn't support their boosterism case for working for a startup.
Well said. Startups can't really compete with MGAFA those days. Not the people, not the resources. For domain like ML, it is hard to imagine what you can realistically achieve outside of working in those companies.
GL was written in the early 90s with a late 80s / early 90s programming context in mind. It's essentially a giant state machine with some limited programmability bolted on in later additions. It feels really clunky compared to modern frameworks.

I think anyone interested in it should find a basic WebGL tutorial and render some triangles and cubes with vertex coloring and some texture mapping to see how it's done in WebGL and to see how tedious it can be. Having to change a lot of different pieces of state every render call to do what seems like very basic things (is there anything more basic than rendering a triangle?) gets old quick.
Consider yourself lucky. I'm sure it's highly subjective, whatever the case. If I can't stretch or have enough room to adjust my legs, my knees hurt, my lower back hurts, and it makes me miserable.
So, I’m not the only person who sees the similarity. I was born in USSR and later moved to USA. Some (many) approaches to management in some very famous and rich companies constantly remind me of Soviet’s approach to management. It does not mean it is bad, but USSR fell apart...
> Some kinds of startups are effectively impossible to build given current structural constraints on financing them

There are a lot of things that are impossible to raise money for, that are possible to bootstrap. If you're willing to work on something for 5 or 6 years without getting paid, there are lots of opportunities that open up that have high barrier to entry because they essentially can't be copied by venture backed companies.
IX Monogram
It can’t work because all utopias assume the world is full of people exactly like the founder.
Yeah the degree never tries to cover the specifics of every industry and job. It doesn't even specialize in people management (MIM is that degree). MBA tries to help build the mindset to begin your learning off of (assuming you have an openness to learn). CS is similar (CS graduates are not advanced programmers). Of course it's nothing special, you could self teach that like most degrees.
Favorite anime?
What I'm getting at is giving a tyranical, abusive, genocidal country world domination vs suffering the effects of pollution and ecological collapse isn't a choice I want to make
Curious, what do you currently use for version control?
Not quite. I don't think you all realize how stupendously expensive certifying a new type is. Boeing and the airlines wouldn't be prepared to absorb the extra costs just to have a slightly more efficient 737 at the other end of it.

- MCAS needs to die. I doubt I could have written a subsystem that tries harder to kill you if I tried. Everything about that hack is grossly negligent and possibly criminal.

- Both AoA sensors need to go to both computers.

- All planes get AoA indicators.

- All planes get pitch trim indicators.

- Any kind of MCAS2 should just be an alarm rather than moving control surfaces on its own. If the Max8 diverges too quickly for a human to handle, then Boeing is (and should be) well and truly fucked.

- Regulatory agencies need to have a streamlined 'subtype' certification that recognizes when 99% of the plane is the same and only review the differences. All this MCAS bullshit was to sneak in under a too-strict type certification system in the first place.
I just refuse to believe this. It can’t be.
If they move components to enterprise in a new version, how hard is it for the community to fork the last open source version of those components and port them to work with the newer version?
> With E2EE enabled he would
> not have been identified at
> that time.

What is the source for this?

Do you have a link for more context?
This is a nation that is currently conducting a second holocaust, I don't think there's anything 'tribal' about not wanting them to have power.