skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Internet of Things is still developing. A wireless security system may contain several dozen wireless sensors. Another recent trend is to put all sorts of devices under voice assistant control.
I wish to be optimistic. My wife says that my pessimism and low energy is negatively impacting our kids. The article does not go into detail about what methods one can train on to become more optimistic. Does anyone know of some methods?
Why does a photo kiosk enforce passport photo requirements?
NG production is ongoing for the military Poseidon and Wedgetail programs so the supplier base is still active.
I'm not sure what advantage ML would bring to this particular task, but the recent GAIA survey dataset has very accurate readings of position and motion in 3D space for all visible objects and it would be interesting to see if there are any anomalies.
> Where else can you, with just your hands and a laptop on the Internet, create something a billion people use?

At the large tech companies, with a lot less risk and higher salaries.
The Outer Wilds, an indie game released this year, has quite the take on that. Which is about as much as can be said without spoiling it.
> For now you have to assent to the idea and immigrate.

Unless you're a victim of human trafficking. Or, for example, read up on how scientologists use their cruise ship [1].

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/03/world/scientology-cruise-ship...
They told me to dress for the job I want, but then HR told me I can’t dress like Batman.

So, this doesn’t always work.
Someone should rebuild turntable.fm using Spotify
I take "hard fork" to mean they aren't going to rebase on future versions of OpenBSD.
Pessimists write more reliable code. Optimists assume users won't do funny stuff. Society owes the early croakers gratitude for their dedicated pessimism. Oh, and git off my lawn!
1) People say you learn a lot more in a startup than in a BigTechCo. I don't think this is true: I've gotten far more skills during BigTechCo stints than at startups. YMMV.

2) A new grad at a startup gets, what, $100k in salary and some equity? If we're talking a three year stint at a startup, you're effectively asking a worker to invest ~$500k in exchange for that hypothetical equity. In the broadest strokes (obviously everything depends on the deal), what kind of equity does an angel get for half a million dollars, and how does it compare to the amount of equity the new grad gets? And it bears pointing out that that new grad equity is subject to all kinds of games and deception. Of course, the usual response is "you just have to be smart enough not to be scammed!" Perhaps, but I know tons of people (including myself) who are apparently just too dumb not to be scammed but are still smart enough to be gainfully employed at a safe job.
I worked at a high school about 5 years ago and our kids knew how to do all these things..

So, either a stupid-bomb hit the world recently, or there is some strong selection bias going on in that article..
Actually, I emigrated - I now live in a country with more rigid tax laws and left the US behind. This is somewhat of a salve, but we live in a post-globalization world, cleaning up your backyard doesn't mean anything if your neighbor's sewage is leaking under the fence.

Huge tax loopholes being accepted by central world players like the US puts pressure on smaller countries to accept them as well.
The Hyperbola Linux distribution already existed, as a fork of Arch Linux. HyperbolaBSD doesn't appear to exist yet.
I'm sure they won't, if history tells us anything. It'll forever remain "liberated".
A uranium-plutonium fuel in a closed cycle can do that if you have fast reactors. Thermal reactors, no. And the higher transuranics become increasingly difficult to burn, since the delayed neutron fraction goes way down. A reactor burning higher transuranics will be right on the knife edge of prompt supercriticality.
> Where else can you, with just your hands and a laptop on the Internet, create something a billion people use?

Serious question: how many software companies have something that a billion people have used?

It's a pretty special industry, for sure. But the odds of it happening are basically zero. I see how selling the dream makes for a good story for young and hungry startup founders to passionately change the world and (cynically) end up as a failed bet in someone else's portfolio.

But it's a bit disingenuous to make it sound like it's commonplace.
My experience: engineering at Startup #1 for 2 years, then Google for 3 years, then Startup #2 for 4 years, and now I've been working with seed stage companies as a VC for the last 7 years. The amount I earned as an engineer was highest at Startup #1 (got lucky!), significantly lower at Google, and a little lower than that at Startup #2. Startup #2 is still chugging along, which could eventually make it on par with or a little superior to working at Google.

But money isn't everything. Startup #2 was the place where I learned the most. I was senior enough to be single-handedly responsible for large projects like a distributed search engine and a logging and analytics service. Sure, my search engine was a POS compared to Google's, but at Google I would've worked on a part of a feature of a component of the search engine whereas at a startup I got to build the whole thing from scratch. I'm almost 40 now, and that search engine is still by far the most fun and educational engineering project I've ever worked on.

Aside from learning potential and financial comp, there are other factors like team camaraderie, independence, etc. I keep in touch with way more people from the two small startups than I do with Google colleagues. Google had a good culture, but the startups were much tighter knit.

Finally, I think articles advocating for startups vs. big companies are a little like trying to convert someone to atheism or Christianity with a blog post. It doesn't really work that way. Some people are wired for startups: they love them and spend their careers at small companies and don't understand why big companies are attractive. Other people are more drawn to big companies where the company itself has a huge impact, the teams are well-staffed and have lots of resources, and the employees get higher salaries and lots of other benefits. When these people try working at a startup, they often hate it and quickly go back to another large company.

Neither big nor small companies are objectively the best, but if you factor in personal happiness then often one type of company is the best for you.
Wellp, my crazy sci-fi thought:

There are patches in the sky.

( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexx )
And Then He Died: Depression in the Arts
Yeah, at this point I've given up on the USA as an innovator in the nuclear field. China seems to be much less luddite in this field and AI, maybe they'll let us buy it off them as we become second or third in the field (and in science in general).
GPL doesn't forbid forking.
There are a huge number of assumptions buried in that initial "If". China could just as easily blow several dozen billion dollars with no more to show for it than anyone else.
you fear for what we might put in place of climate change? I'm not sure what you're getting at with this??
My career path has been startup, public tech, startup, public tech, startup.

I got lucky that the public techs both had the largest stock growth in their history while I worked there.

All the money I ever made was at the public companies. I also learned a lot of cool, very specialized skills and got to do a lot of “ohhh so cool” type stuff.

Almost all of the knowledge I learned that allowed me to be successful at the big companies I learned at the startups, and most of the friends I made at work that I still talk to were at startups.

Both environments offer something unique.

I usually tell young people to start at a big company with a well known mentorship program and then quickly move to a startup to learn a bunch of practical skills.

But YMMV.
Thanks for that detail. I believe every decision needs to be made in the context of what I know at that time -- and what I decide is the best way to go forward at that time. If I gain new information later, and I can adjust great.

But if it works poorly later on, I dont look at it negatively, because short of having a time-machine it does not help me be a better person. Constantly improving the judgement framework is a good thing, but there is no point regretting a mistake you could not have seen differently.
The FRONT END of the fuel cost is lower. But in a molten salt reactor with fuel dissolved in the salt, reprocessing is not optional! The fission products have to be removed from the fuel salt at some point (reprocessing) because the salt is expensive (especially FLiBe). So the back end of the fuel cycle will impose costs that do not exist with today's once through fuel cycles.
What’s a more democratic funding model to spread net innovation? Something like an employee owned company?
Unless I am going crazy, the (2015) wasn’t there originally.

The functionality of a universal back button was never consistent with Android.

Besides, the entire tenant of the original iPhone and every smart phone thereafter was to get rid of buttons and let the UI decide what made sense in certain contexts.
I once used the Cartesian product of state machines to enumerate test-cases. Statecharts helped reduce the visual complexity. Wrote an article about it:

https://medium.com/cleartax-engineering/enumerating-test-cas...
There's no way China would give it the technology to us. We'd have to steal it through subterfuge just like the Russians stole nuclear plans in the 50s
Salt is definitely bad for your if you have high blood pressure (can dig up refs if required) and high blood pressure is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

Btween 35% and 40% of people have high blood pressure. For them, the consumption of "liberally salted" products is something to be avoided.

Statistics from WHO:

https://www.who.int/gho/ncd/risk_factors/blood_pressure_prev...
I know you want to "drill down" but your choice of comparisons is not apt.

Why do people go to Tarot card readers? It is almost certainly possible to study as much about Western esotericism and ritualistic practices as it is to study about ancient Indian religions. You have the same asymmetry of knowledge (Tarot card reader took the time to acquire expertise which you don't have time to). You have the same person/idea division (maybe your Tarot card reader is a drunkard and a philanderer but he can sure read those cards).

I think we have some weird prejudice when it comes to Indian spirituality. For some reason we bend over backwards to give it the benefit of the doubt that we deny to other traditions. You want to compare Indian Gurus to college professors and tax planners. The truth is they are closer to psychics and spirit mediums.
> "I continue to be astounded that our most senior leaders will not act in the long-term best interest of the organizations they lead."

it's disappointing and frustrating, but not all that surprising, given the decades of eroding honor, responsibility, and governance (both corporate and political) of large companies and their senior managers.

i'm more appalled that we tolerate obviously poor incentive structures that implicitly endorse such behavior.

compensation for senior managers should be better tied to long-term results, and punishments should more easily pierce the corporate veil.

(and whew, glad i covered that tylenol case in my mba program... would not have looked forward to asking for a refund! =)
this has been my startup experience, too. Chasing any customer even if we had to make a lot of changes and try to support antiquated versions of things for our software to work for them. It rarely paid off. Actually, it never paid off.
I wouldn't trust the china stats either, but looking at a stats like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera... I think it's still clear that USA is a outlier and that this is a problem.
I believe him as someone who has worked both ends in many places over the years.

At a big company you are given a slice and you really have to push to get anything more. I've had the experience where no work is assigned because approving anything takes time and once the work comes it is extremely easy to finish immediately because you have sat through weeks of meetings reexplaining everything to different groups get approval to change a form.

At one startup by the end of the day I was already learning four different languages/tools.

Now I imagine places like fangs would be amazing places to learn. If you ever work in healthcare most of your day will be explaining why this is a small change / very safe and you learn very little.
Acksually, it was Flavor Aid, but who’s counting except us pedants?
I'm pretty sure the observers reported both radar sightings and visual sightings. It wasn't radar alone.
Sorry to clarify - I'm not worried about industrially produced kale - but the kale you buy in the supermarket is industrially produced.

I think the title is terrible for choosing that specific word - I'd much prefer a title like "How Crisco Made Americans Believers in Artificial Food". And in actuality it's more of an issue of the government not preventing wholly unhealthy food from finding the wide markets they have.
I was about to dig this link up so thanks for sharing. I enjoy his videos a lot since he's very thorough with the research. And his pan pizza was amazing when I made it.

We have other shortenings outside the US, such as Copha (coconut based) in Australia though it's rarely used these days. Crisco is available but not widely, and from what I can tell mostly used by people following American recipes and purchased from specialty importers.
IMHO, coops are an underused model for organizing a business or organization across many fields.
Define 'multiverse'? Just so we're clear, the article is about the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. It's unclear to me that any given interpretation ought to be the anything; if anything, the Copenhagen interpretation is the orthodox one, and given that there's no conceivable experiment that could provably distinguish between the Copenhagen interpretation and the man-worlds interpretation, I would suggest that it has a better claim on being the 'default' one. (note: I am not stating that the Copenhagen interpretation ought to be the default one)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
I've worked with startup employees who knew 15 technologies - all of them poorly. They had zero best practices because it was go fast 24/7. It was guys right out of school thrown right into the mix so they didn't get the guidance of more senior devs.
> Written by a VC trying to get engineers to join the startups he's invested in.

Actually for most of the piece he was pretty straightforward about making sure you get equity if you want to get paid upon company success.

What has changed is that genuine equity in startups isn't being offered as readily as it was ~15 years ago (and it is notable that the missed opportunity he describes is that far in the past).
I have a very straightforward suggestion for startups: Focus on the engineers who've put in a decade or more at the big companies.

They are, given the exorbitant salaries, financially set enough to afford the startup risk, and there's a good chance they'd like to see some more agility again.

But 1) you'll need to stop lowballing equity for hires, and 2) you need to get used to the idea that it's not going to be an extension of university life - these people have all better things in their spare time than playing beer pong.

Bonus points: Offer an office instead of cubicle mania.
Bonus bonus points: Make sure you hire a diverse workforce from the get-go.
"The US exploited the control of oil..." . Hogwash, Europe and Asia had the same resources when it comes to petroleum.
The article was updated 2019. The update is at the end of the article.
According to the update HN tried it but it didn't work well.
> The pessimism in this thread really bothers me.

It's the demographics. The HN population skews extremely old and older people are generally more pessimistic, cynical and risk averse. Also, there is a large amount of traditional media workers on HN and they, for obvious reasons, are not fans of the tech industry since the tech industry is eating their lunch.

Don't let the thread get you down. It's a skewed and biased representation that isn't based on the real world.
As an Indian who isn't in India at the moment, I empathise with you. I just googled for "Guru arrested" [0] and there seems to be a ton of results for the search term. It is really unfortunate that a lot of people are abusing their position as "Gurus" to cater to their base needs.

[0]
https://www.google.com/search?q=guru+arrested&oq=guru+arrest...
It's an aphorism that if you put 1000 libertarians in a room you will have 1000 definitions of what a "real" libertarian is. For me, the essence of libertarianism is about valuing the individual over the collective. This includes protecting individuals from the state by restricting state power, strong protection of private property, economic freedom, and allowing people the freedom to make their own decisions even if they are dumb decisions. It's a very natural and free way of living. So many people want the state to coerce others into doing what they want - essentially running other people's lives. That is a great evil and how casually people resort to this makes me ill. I just want everyone to have maximum freedom possible.
So what do you take hard fork to mean then?
How do you come to $500k? Wouldn't that require that the new grad would be able to get a $266k job at a larger company? That doesn't seem particularly realistic.
"To make the situation worse, the very good engineers, the ones who could truly help build a tech company from the ground up from day 1, were getting offers so exorbitant they could not possibly fathom to turn them down."

Ok I have seen this written every now and then.

What does this person look like and how do I become one given a willing to sacrifice everything else?

I can not find a good answer to this question. Everybody seems to have their own opinion.
I think we’re on the same wavelength about this. We would have both dismissed each others’ comments and moved on our way.

I feel the need to thank the people that even so make an effort to elaborate their point.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m still convinced it’s an anti-pattern, it was just very politely explained to me by someone so I feel obliged to respond with the same.

Like I said in the other post, I’ll let you know if I ever reach a point where this is the only reasonable solution and I can’t think of something else.
Because it is a photo kiosk for taking passport photos.
The best selling VR game isn't FPS it's a rhythm game. Sure there are plenty of FPS games, but there are also RPGs, adventure games, strategy, etc. Your response highlights my point, games and perception are two of the biggest issues. I agree that VR won't be for everyone (like gaming or anything else) but there is a lack of consumer understanding about what is available that needs to be addressed.
Re: Yang is approaching this issue from a position of technical merit and not on an irrational emotional basis like most others.

Unfortunately, politics is not rational. Energy sources that kill slowly but gradually make less news and attention than "death spike" patterns even if their long-term-average numbers are better. If you don't address political patterns, then you will be bulldozed by trolls and demagogues who leverage emotion and vague impressions. If you go on the news with death-rate charts, you'll be ridiculed by the same people who beat up and shunned nerds in school. I'm just the messenger.
You don't get unimaginable power from a fusion plant.

Fusion plants don't generate unlimited energy. You'd need to build several of them to even power your country for "free". Energy is usually 20% of GDP -- probably higher in China -- so you'd get a ~20% GDP growth. It would take time to build these plants, and they're unlikely to have a 100% ROI, meaning that they'd still come at some cost.

Yes, it would be huge. Probably a one-time 20% boost in GDP. Maybe a percentage point continually for having cleaner air. Maybe a little more if they could hypothetically commercialize this for other countries.
Prestige is very important to the Chinese government and keeping its people until its jackboot.
2.00 Money Making Funnel
Quantum Supremacy: The Wright Stuff
Science is just a tool to make predictions. We cannot test the multiverse theory, which leaves it in the realm of philosophy or religion.

This idea of a multiverse is some metaphysics sprinkled in with the Copenhagen interpretation that boils down to something like this: the total probability of any observed outcome summed with the probability of all possible outcomes is, of course, one.

The metaphysics is this-- assuming that all the outcomes that did not occur did occur in some other unobservable and inaccessible universes.

This is essentially the meaning of the plus symbol in summing probabilities; it separates the observed wavefunction from every other possible wavefunction.
It is absurd to draw such a mind-boggling conclusion from a plus sign.
> I don't have any ROCm-specific kernel drivers loaded

I'm pretty sure it needs amdkfd, which is not really "specific" but doesn't have any other consumers.

> but OpenCL on my AMD GPU works fine

Well, if instead of ROCm (or proprietary "pro" stuff) you have Mesa's Clover… that's the opposite of fine. I mean, fine for simple things, but Darktable won't work (no image support), Blender won't work (just too complex lol)…

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my casual user opinion: I HATE ALL the special compute-specific GPU APIs. I don't want a special fancy kernel driver that loads everything differently, I don't like OpenCL and other unusual special garbage. Please please please just use Vulkan compute shaders for everything.

(And thankfully, people are starting to do that https://github.com/nihui/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan https://github.com/hanatos/vkdt …)
I much prefer KeyPirinha.
Rough numbers, but I'm thinking roughly $200k, $230k, $260k. It's an order of magnitude estimate, take that for what it's worth. If the new grad is instead investing $300k, the calculus remains about the same.
Tangentially related - I wrote a C library for spotify's web api: https://gitlab.com/finnoleary/spotifyc

I've been working on the cli client and shuffling things about directory wise so I don't think it compiles anymore atm. But the library works fine. Actually in retrospect I think I might revert and splt them into separate repos...
Fusion isn't going to "end the planet". You really should read more about it. It's extremely hard to get fusion to happen in the first place in a controlled manner. There is 0% chance of it going critical
Not sure why you're being downvoted. The most likely use of a new abundant energy source will be force projection.
The founders agree to those terms though
Running Presto on Arm-Based Graviton Processor
Share or not, the optimist in me sees fusion as liberating in so many was. Unfortunately, the realist in me sees it as been massively disruptive.

As you noted, oil isn't a form of energy, it's a weapon. Take away the power of that weapon and there's not telling what would happen.

Best of times. Worst of time.
Waterproof Firestarter Free
...like Crisco, apparently.
On the other hand, it seems like a savvy engineer could work that into a story to tell a Boeing interviewer about how they took the initiative to think outside the box and develop a solution that saved the day when the team was under a time constraint.
$250k is new grad salary these days.

It's also why I'm so sad all the time!
How have you managed keeping your machine's state and context consistent? Although I can control transitions easily, I've found it's easy to miss updating parts of my machine's internal context when wiring up transitions. I wind up with my component thinking it's in a particular State, with a context that doesn't match up.