skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wsltty loaded via ConEmu is the only acceptable terminal combination I've found for Windows, with support for mouse events, scrollwheel and remote terminal resize detection, e.g. ssh into another box and run a program like htop. I last tried microsoft/terminal about 6 months ago and found it incredibly broken.
I've had a simple rule for the past 20 years. If you offer me less than 1% of the startup I'm not interested in working with you because I am a plebe if I accept that offer. It hasn't failed me yet.

OTOH I chose to pursue a PhD in biochemistry rather than be the third member of the Yost group and that led to 3D Studio.

So I will boil my heuristic down to TLA or BigCo. I'd miss out on the next Facebook or Google with such a heuristic but what are the chances I would get an opportunity to join one of those companies at the ground floor in the first place?

in recent years, there was one startup bought out at a modest price for which I might have made epsilon more money being their CTO but it would have come with sleepless nights and anxiety at no additional cost.
You’re making a false equivalence. The Obama campaign hired savvy analysts and marketers to run a modern web and email campaign. A lot of what they did was pioneer what is now standard in almost every campaign: heavy use of email follow-ups to keep supporters engaged; recruiting and coordinating canvassing teams nationwide; using social media as a primary channel of communication rather than a gadget.

What the Trump campaign did was go to Paul Manafort, the guy who fixed Ukrainian campaign using black ops disinformation campaigns on behalf of Putin, and hire him to run his campaign!

The only thing those campaigns had in common is that they used the Internet efficiently. But they used them very differently to achieve different goals. To compare them as equivalent is irresponsible.
My point is that "it's too expensive for Africans (from an unspecified country, because of course the entire continent of 1.3 billion people has the same socioeconomic status everywhere) to call people in the next village (and it being the next village is somehow relevant because mobile call rates are tied to literal physical distance, obviously)" is exactly the kind of poverty porn nonsense that Westerners lap up about SSA without thinking, and I make an effort to call it out everywhere I see it.

I am curious about your thoughts on satellites as a particularly cost-effective way to improve mobile telecoms, considering that cellular networks are largely driven by masts that are very much on the ground and (in West Africa for instance), backed by submarine fibre-optic cables.

As an aside, it's extremely interesting to me that in most of my interactions with Westerners they seem rather incapable of finding very easily discoverable primary sources on living conditions in Africa. It would take maybe ten seconds to pull up actual December 2019 call rates and tariff plans from telecoms companies in Ethiopia or Nigeria or Rwanda or Botswana or wherever, but I instead get linked to data that aggregates mobile device and data plan prices from years ago. Then again I suppose that if one unironically believes that people here are stuck unable to call people in the next village it wouldn't occur to them that this sort of information is widely available from Africans themselves.

For example, I use MTN and pay a flat rate of (the equivalent of) $0.0003 per second for calls and $0.011 to send texts. I'm on a 15GB data plan that costs $13.83, and the monthly plans go down to $2.77 for 1.5GB. There are also plans that will give you access to certain social media (Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Instagram, etc) for a month for less than a dollar.
Boeing 737 was designed to operate with minimal ground facilities and therefore it has low ground clearance for easier access.

Airbus A320 has a much higher ground clearance.
I appreciate this, and am trying to take this to heart.

But it is also possible to survive. And if you do that, you don't merely survive, you thrive— that's what product market fit looks like. I've been lucky to see it dozen of times first hand, and it's nothing short of magical.

When founders and teams pursue something without product market fit, it's a high cost to pay and a terrible outcome for most everyone. This is also absolutely true.

Startups are not for everyone! I appreciate your feedback and it resonates with me.
Thanks for your comment. I did not mean to blame the end of the class war on the mega-corps.
Stable governance and solid protections for property rights would be a massive benefit to the working class in at least half the world.
When I think of seasteadding one of the things that pops into my head is Sealand as the cover story of Wired magazine [1]. I think it's a good prequel to the linked Atlantic article.

[1]: https://www.wired.com/2000/07/haven-2/
This isn't an issue with nuclear power, but rather a symptom of a political system focused on short-term goals when the nuclear industry fundamentally operates on the scale of decades at least. Furthermore the problems with nuclear power you've listed are self-fulfilling. Nuclear plants have to have extended life cycles, because people don't want to build new plants, because nuclear plants are having their life cycles extended. Electricity prices skyrocket after the closure of a nuclear plant because a replacement was no built, because people don't want to build nuclear plants, because they point out that electricity prices skyrocket when plants eventually close.
> Please consider reading the article, then moderating the comment.

If you don't want a knee-jerk reaction, don't share articles from a site that's widely known to be rather one-sided and biased, and with a super divisive tone to it. Your wording also makes has a rather biased tone to it "It's hard to believe Navy didn't study ..."

Here's a very recent study with some interesting comments: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-019-0071-6.pdf?proof=...

"It may be that astronaut-like operations personnel and submariners, who are high-level performers, are more likely to have heightened situational awareness because of their stringent training. Therefore, these groups may develop faster adaptive patterns of responses and be more perceptive of their cognitive decline, and therefore may compensate more efficiently for self-perceived drops in performance than subjects drawn from the general population. Such distinctions could
explain the differences in outcomes between college students and submariners to elevated CO"

Seems reasonable that CO2 might have a different effect when motivation is also a huge factor. If you're in a submarine, feeling a bit tired is not an excuse. But in an office setting, it could be what pushes you over the edge to drift away mentally and maybe start procrastinating. In a school setting, motivating students is already a huge uphill battle.

But sure, only the studies the navy did matter, and we should not discuss science in nuanced terms. It's all just the scary researches trying to make CO2 look like a boogey-man!

That said, I think the headline in this post is a bit sensationalist. Seems doubtful that the effects will be that high. But there it is plausible that global CO2 rise could lead to some cognitive decline. Especially if you combine with the trend of packing more people into the same office space.
> “Do I want to create the first venture-backed city-state? Hell yeah”

Ahem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_Indies

And we all know how well that turned out for the locals.
The Kochs' efforts on criminal justice reform?

Good you mentioned that one. The goal is to push through on mens rea for company executives, for the top brass to go to prison you actually have to prove intent of malfeasance. "Should know" would not be enough to lock someone away.

Currently playing in a theater near you: the 737-MAX drama.
It’s an interesting topic. Should everyone be able to travel for the same price or should different people pay different prices for whatever reason. Eg if someone is very over weight and can’t fit in a single economy seat, should the person get 2 seats for the price of 1 or should the person have to pay for 2 seats?
Why pick on this comment, though? The whole thread here is an ideological debate between forms of government and is repetitive; you may as well lock the whole thing at this point.
Because it's a test that showed a large number of things went right, and otherwise didn't meet overall objectives for a small, trivial reason.

That is, the amount of project surface that it increased confidence in is as great or greater than the amount it called into question.
Hyperbola seems to be a project driven largely by GNUish licensing ideology.
Simple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_privatisation_of... - you can find other information/sources on the same page (not all of it is accurate but that will start you off).
You can't get it through the FDA trials, though.
>An A320 won't pitch up as dramatically as a 737

Ok, glad we agree it'll still pitch up.
Growth of Colloidal Nanoplate Liquid Crystals Using Temperature Gradients
Thanks.

I'll definitely be open to features that improves daily usage, and features that treats SQL as a first class citizen. It'll never turn into an ORM. So if a feature has great value and it doesn't interfere with the core I'm all ears :) Your example with named parameters in sql files is definitely something I'd like to do, since that's not supported currently. You're very welcome to create an issue for it so we can continue that idea there.
Ingredients:
Dairylea Strip Cheese:
cheese (70%), skimmed milk (water, skimmed milk powder), butter, skimmed milk powder, stabilisers (sodium carbonate, citric acid), calcium phosphate, milk protein, flavouring, emulsifying salt (potassium citrate).

This is a string cheese sold on the UK. It looks like the product varies significantly between and within countries.
The waste storage problem is solved: bury it underground in an area with no groundwater. The reason why no permanent storage has been built in the US (they have been built in Finland and in Asia) is because there's actually so little waste. The entirety of the waste from US nuclear power generation fits in a volume the footprint of a football field and 10 yards high.
This hits home. I worked at 3 different small startups in my career. The first two failed and I left the last one for finances. I started contracting because it pays better but it's sapping my soul. I loved each one of those startups. I loved the people, the creative freedom and even just the vibe of trust and determination in the office. I loved the parts closer to the end even more because of the thrill of being on the edge. I didn't mind liquidation because I have a good recruiter and I was always ready to get back on the horse.

Now I contract out days for an agency. I estimate predefined tasks and then execute them. I talk nicely and calmly to clients who don't do me the same courtesy. I work only with the technology I have the most experience with and don't have opportunity to try new tech. But I have to pay my rent and I have to start putting money away to eventually get on the property ladder so working at a startup isn't really an option for me any more.
Hyperbole is bad. A hyperbola is a mathematical object.
Wow, I love the simplicity of this. I generally go with `pg` for my projects, but I'm definitely going to give this a try.

As it so happens, I'll be building out a little idea over the holidays, so I'll give more/better feedback after then.

Also, thanks for teaching me about tagged template literals. TIL.
Does Debian benefit from this work?
Maybe not even in software, but procedures. Still, this is common. A big share of space failures are, on some level, failures of software and procedures.
From the title of the thread it seems it is best we don't have any more new books.
Like I said, for decades different cars have had different EPA. I'm not sure why in this case it should be some special factor.
We're talking about Something Awful in this thread, not Apple.

You're right that a community is not a business. That's ultimately the fundamental rot in capitalism.
Yeah this definitely makes sense. I think the startup work you do should build your personal portfolio. Open source (like with an actual open source license like MIT and no weird edge cases) work helps a ton too. I think also being paid in actual cash is actually pretty good and you don't have to make weird money bets.
Worth it. No regrets. I am alive!
> Future versions of Hyperbola will be using HyperbolaBSD which will have the new kernel, userspace and not be ABI compatible with previous versions.

I don't know why they waited so long to do this. While it's a good choice to switch to the OpenBSD kernel, I'm not quite sure if doing it now makes sense. This involves recompiling everything, probably a new toolchain, plus adapting software to work with the new kernel, or even worse: A Linux compatibility layer for existing software / drivers.

This doesn't seem like the right time to move to a new kernel for an existing Linux distro. They might as well have created a new Hyperbola from scratch from the side or started with OpenBSD from the start.
Whatever happened to those people who planned to put a cruise ship in international waters just off the coast of San Francisco?

"project blueseed"

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/03/14/silicon-valley-...

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2012/12/17/16...
> “ The universe supposedly splits, or branches, whenever one quantum particle jostles against another, making their wave functions collapse.”

I’m very tired of seeing pop science articles describe this so incorrectly. It’s a similar mistake as describing quantum computing as simultaneously trying a bunch of solution states “in parallel.”

The multiverse theory doesn’t imply any “splitting” action and certainly no such thing as special measurement or collapse.

If you make a measurement that distinguishes one universe from another, then “you” just discover which Everett branch you happened to have belonged to all along. It’s no different from observing outcomes of a random variable. Your mind is ignorant of a certain state of affairs, you measure something, now you’re slightly less ignorant of the state of affairs.

I am so sick of these articles. Multiverse QM is a settled debate. Move on.
> You can't normally access the data because only ring0 may actually read from it.

It seems like it's the case here where normal, unprivileged code can just read out kernel pointers. I don't know of any other well-used platform that makes it this easy.
> Reasons for this include:

> • Linux kernel forcing adaption of DRM, including HDCP.

This links to a Linux kernel patch which allows but does not require turning on HDCP in video output. Is that really so bad?

> • Linux kernel proposed usage of Rust (which contains freedom flaws

“freedom flaws” here means a Firefox-like trademark policy. This does not really affect software freedom in the traditional sense?
> The target size on the 'close' icon was unbearably small, to the point where I tried tapping it three times only to have this giant circle ...

I just close the whole page when this stuff happens. It's not worth it, and some small part of my mind hopes that it shows up in the site usage telemetry.
Reason 3 "Strong Typing" is not an inherent advantage of GraphQL over REST. RESTful services that adopt Swagger can provide a typed schema and clients can call GraphQL services without any notion of type checking. http://glennengstrand.info/software/architecture/microservic... is a comparison between two feature similar microservices, one written in JavaScript on Express (REST) and the other written in TypeScript on Apollo (GraphQL). The RESTful service has a swagger spec and the load test application used to evaluate both performs no special type checking.
nah they were planning for Hanukkah
> Language identification is notoriously tricky.

No. Language identification is surprisingly easy. Simple naive bayes performs really well on character level.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10838463

I'll take my billion dollars in twenties please.

Anabolism and catabolism are constant and simultaneous processes, even on a cellular level.
Update: An Agreement with Monica Cellio
Very nice tutorial and a super cool result at the end. Thanks for sharing!
> I appreciate the feedback though. I know this is just one voice of many, but it's also what I experienced. I think it's up to the viewer to decide if my experience is applicable.

How do you feel comfortable spreading your own experiance in a manner that purposefully tries to persuade opinions while you know your experiance is non-generalizable?
Effects of eye images on everyday cooperative behavior: field experiment (2010)
> repackage old ideas and dress them up a bit

Philosophies & religions (hell, ideas in general) have always been iterative in this way. They all have a genealogy that goes back in time further than is commonly assumed.
Butter is 80-85% fat, and that's the part you want for the ghee.

I know I can start with a pound and fit it in a pint jar, just below the line.
The project seems to value being GPL-licensed.
TBH the best way to get a full spectrum startup experience is to go start a startup, like many other things in life.

Working at a startup, other than maybe a 1-2 year maximum stint to get a taste, isn't really useful because a lot is hidden from you even when you start the angel stage. And if you wanted to do the stint, I would probably do it as 1 year of PMing and 1 year of engineering max. If you really wanted the full spectrum experience just incase, then another year at a pre-ipo growth company, another year at a big tech co and another year at a VC to understand the full spectrum life cycle for 5 years.

As a founder, the demands of doing a startup induces you to learn a lot. It forces you to do that networking and making friends part and you will eventually get a mentor network via all your investment activities that will probably be way better than observing from a distance as an IC. Other founder friends you make and friends made at a co-working space doing similar things would give you a lot better experience and a better network.

I joined a smallish startup that grew big, as evidenced above. I mostly just churned on pushing out a lot of code and that's about it. I was part of helping create that 0 to 1 and all it gave me is a bit better work ethic since so much was hidden from me as a jr. The friend I made there that joined really early didn't gain much more insight than me and now works at big tech with me. I learned a bunch just through observation, but I think a founder mentor network would of taught me stuff a lot sooner, and a lot better.
We had new jet skis on a boat I worked on. The owners were scheduled for a trip soon and we needed to break them in. We had a poor deckhand running up and down fjords for days breaking them in. In BC. In winter. Poor guy was a champ though.
Could it be gravitational microlensing? Maybe the apparent magnitude of the missing stars was amplified by an intervening massive object just as the older pictures were taken.
How do you know what is and isn't untainted by interpretation? Who adjudicates? Do you think the "avoid vaccines drink bleach" people don't believe what they're advocating for, or think the science isn't on their side? They absolutely have coherent (stupid, but coherent) arguments about why they're the ones advocating for something studied, documented, and verified.

The point isn't that they're right; the point is that you can't simply declare one side of an argument "factual" and the other not and then walk away from it without acknowledging that some exogenous authority is what's allowing you to do that, and while we're probably all going to agree about the right authority for basic medicine, we're likely to disagree about the authorities on other issues.
We usually encourage folks to give at least 10% of the equity to the first 10 employees. That's what Stripe did and it worked well.

That number is going up over time, so I can report at least a little bit of improvement, though certainly not fast enough.
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Absolutely this.

A lot of startups these days skimp by hiring sub-FAANG SWEs with less than 5 yoe, and it shows in their products. Lack of product maturity, bad engineering (worst horror story I’ve heard recently is Wayfair), resume driven development / over-engineering / cargo culting, huge teams to work on simple features. All so they can hire two middle-skill 22 year olds instead of a skilled 35 year old.

If you’re able to work at FAANG it is just bad financial sense to work at most startups unless you want to play the lottery. If a place offered 40-50hr/week, $250k salary, 15% target bonus AND generous RSUs/options it would be able to compete with FAANG. But not a lot of places do that, and those that do are often the very bubbly ones with uncertain futures
They have the same complaint about Firefox. https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:main:rusts_freedo...

That said, I don't understand how that is in violation of freedom 3. It is just saying, "if you want to redistribute it, don't call it rust so that nobody gets confused and we don't get stuck supporting your fork." I think that there is a higher barrier for something like firefox due to the graphics, but Rust only has a simple copy and paste. And if your whole purpose is to hard fork, why is that a problem?

I think that the requirement for internet access to build might be harder for Hyperbola's goals, but shrug
My girlfriend who doesn't really programm worked with C on a Arduino. I don't have any CS backgound at all and use it constantly on embedded systems (be it Arduino, Teensy, or some MCU).
Thanks for the downvotes. Read up on https://www.fsf.org/
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It also seems like there's a similar trademark and policy for C++, unless I'm misunderstanding: https://isocpp.org/home/terms-of-use
I doubt you've done the research I have on this, so I'll leave it as an exercise to you and readers here to read my links, critiques of them, and draw your own conclusions.

Also, I'm not saying everything Koch's touch is all wrong, but you can usually trace it back to self-interest whether directly or as cover.

They do a lot of focus grouping to get from, for instance: "taxes are wrong" --> "don't build expensive public transit" --> "make a ballot prop to widen highways at the expense of public transit", and the latter actually happened, per NY Times article below:

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-pub...
Apologies. My post was too harsh and impersonal—dealing in generalities when a human whose concerns and actions are particular was involved. Sorry about that. Have a nice holiday season.
Well, if is to use your analogy then you had the opportunity to turn down somebody that gave you free money to play the lottery, because that's what Thiel did to Garry, it gave him a check that covered one year of what Microsoft paid him.
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I'm interested in your transition, how did you go about the move from Startup Exec to working in a FANG?
> Also, it feels weird that they complain that linux is including some things they don't like (e.g. HDCP), but at the same time just gloss over that the BSDs are they base of many proprietary products where you can't get the source at all. I mean, I hate DRM and things like HDCP as much as anyone, but it just feels like an _off_? argument?

It's strange, isn't it? The Sony PlayStation applies HDCP to some (all?) game content, and you can't disable it given its OS is based on FreeBSD, which isn't copyleft, so they don't have to release the source. Whereas, if it were hypothetically based on the copyleft kernel Linux, then you might stand a chance of disabling HDCP and recompiling it. Quite unlikely in practice though.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9679367