skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that makes it a much more costly operation (both in money and risk). Even a nearby star system with a habitable planet would be hard to get going because the settlers that go there would be cut off from their home planet. They would need to take with them everything necessary not only to establish a colony but to thrive (and stave off potential extinction level events which, when your population is small, is far more likely). And there would be little help from homeworld. Even information would take at least the speed of light to get there.

And this is just the tip of the ice berg. I agree with jandrese that people underestimate just how much of a hurdle this is.
Thanks; one thing I may have omitted mentioning is that Sysbox works with the fast overlayfs storage driver, meaning that when you do use it for Docker-in-Docker for example, both the outer Docker and the inner Docker are using overlayfs (as opposed to the slower vfs driver).
Offering a better than average package to attract talent is just a HR strategy, I agree.

Poaching, on the other hand, usually does not mean that. It means targeting key people at competitors and specifically courting them to make them switch. Hence the analogy with hunting on someone else's land. I would also agree that the term tends to be overused.
I've put together a reading list for VPs of Product here, which is pretty analogous to the tech lead concept but for PMs:

https://staysaasy.com/product/2020/06/14/a-vp-products-readi...

(edit: we write stuff for engineers too)
> And at the end of the day, that's mostly Tree Style Tabs, uBlock and a menu bar.

Amen. And not send each and every keystroke to Google.
I think you dropped a 'not'.
You're asking that businesses think about long-term goals, efficiency, and what is best for the business. After having worked at over a couple dozen companies, I've never seen such an attitude from any business. Industry and size are irrelevant. Occasionally things line up by accident and the business does well, but every single business I've ever worked at or seen has a culture of shooting itself in the foot:

* No training (Not just for engineers but for anyone, including for specialty positions that simply don't exist outside the business)

* No focus on employee retention

* No significant raises / bonuses (Lucky to get a cost of living raise these days)

* No consideration for employees' goals

* Stressing employees unnecessarily with shit vacation benefits and no sick time

* Stressing employees with shit equipment

* Stressing employees with shit hours

* Stressing employees with shit office conditions

* Reducing benefits to slightly cut costs

The list goes on and on. Businesses succeed despite their own best attempts at hurting themselves, not because of it. Owners, executives, and other stakeholders are deluding themselves into thinking this isn't the case and often driving the business into actual bankruptcy or just below mediocre performance.

It's no wonder most employees are disengaged from their work. When you treat employees like shit, they will treat your business like shit to the greatest extent possible. They will do the minimum and it's extremely hard to change that course once it's been set. Employees are humans. Most businesses treat them like slaves, or machines at best.
I have both interviewed and coached embedded software devs into positions at <FAANG company>.

You probably won't end up doing embedded work though, just as a point of warning. I mean you might, but probably not. As sibling poster alluded to, there are some jobs closer to that area, but more likely than not you'll end up on some other team doing something completely unrelated to embedded.

It doesn't have to be a permanent thing though -

It does not take too many years of $300-$400k compensation to make your future much more free to pursue what you want. If you do FAANG for 5-10 years while saving aggressively and can't take any more of it, then you can go back to working on embedded software for a third of the pay and have a huge buffer for retirement.
You'll never pass if you dont prepare, this is bad advice
well they need capital regardless of whether they dump stock - but the lockup period could be painful if Covid persists 6+ months down the line post IPO. Or negative regulatory action.
The author states the great filter could be composed of multiple filters towards the end of the paper.

> Nothing in the above reasoning precludes the Great Filter from being located both behind us and ahead of us. It might both be extremely improbable that intelligent life should arise on any given planet, and very improbable that intelligent life, once evolved, should succeed in becoming advanced enough to colonize space.
If you're resident in Lithuania and have switched to their bank account, yes, otherwise no.

Revolut has an EU banking license issued by Lithuania [0] but only offers accounts covered by the guarantee in Lithuania [1]. If you are resident elsewhere, you are not protected.

You should think of Revolut and Transferwise as being more like PayPal than a bank.

[0]: https://blog.revolut.com/we-got-a-banking-licence/

[1]: https://blog.revolut.com/revolut-bank-launches-in-lithuania/
You’re not getting on an Israeli flight without ID.

But yes, they interview heavily.
Another Paglen classic, which I highly recommend to anyone interested in this sort of thing, is "I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed By Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World".[1][2]

[1] - https://hatoffoil.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/i-could-tell-y...

[2] - https://www.amazon.com/Could-Tell-Then-Would-Destroyed/dp/19...
That's fair, but I didn't say it prevents injection: I said it prevents most injection attacks.

MongoDB is absolutely still capable of being vulnerable to injection; its just harder, because it requires the client to provide an object which is parsed by your application with no data validation. In other words, SQL is vulnerable to injection by-default, because everything is a string, while you have to opt-in to being vulnerable with MongoDB, by writing your application to parse user input with no schema.

In reality, do applications do this? Hell yeah. Wire up a basic Express API, have it auto-parse any JSON its given, pass it straight to mongo, you'll be vulnerable. But, a backend which has any kind of type safety or API schema or GraphQL or something like that will be safer on mongodb than one with all that, on a SQL database with no ORM or parameterized queries or prepared statements.
He will have to go to court to get them enforced. That will take into next term, at which point Biden will repudiate them.
That might be an unusual situation but actually happened to me. I used to be in a team of two, going to work after one weekend - he's dead.
If Google is stopping forward progress to entrench their moat, they need to be broken up by the DOJ.

There's plenty of antitrust fodder already with their stranglehold over the web and the behavior they've taken to protect their search/ad business. But if they're hiring people away in cutting edge areas of research simply to destroy startups, that's abhorrent. That means they're pouring their obscene wealth from advertising into unrelated fields in order to dominate them.

Monopoly.
I was told about 10 years ago that management at Mozilla was a shitshow. They have had layoffs, project cancellations, and internal strife for a long time. Sounds like more of the same.
Not a bad script, but it's basically going "shields up!", blocking all traffic, and then taking them down. Definitely useful, but won't test for the hard stuff, like if my DB was in the middle of something and then died, scrambling my data. What's that gonna look like on reboot?
He will have to go to court to enforce them. And he will lose.
Eternal September was in 1993.
I have a p1 gen core i9 32gb 4K oled with dgpu. Battery life is horrible, max 3 hrs on battery saving mode. The thing doesn’t really feel that fast on windows, dispute 16 threads, 8 cores. And the keyboard is horrible, constantly missing keys. (Yes, updated all the drivers). I had a t470s before, keyboard was really nice, but somehow the p1 is really bad, I only want to use it with an external keyboard.
Ah, yes, because it's impossible to store a contact list client-side. Or to encrypt arbitrary data like that to store server-side! Glad Moxie's looking out for us.
Show HN: Fetch Apply (Ansible/Puppet/Aviary.sh Alternative)
Fetch Apply is a new system configuration and management tool, that follows the same principles as aviary.sh. Fetch Apply, however, has much better documentation, security practices, customizability, readability, and uses an inheritance model, allow the bulk configuration of like servers, with minimal code.

Fetch Apply is written in bash (no need to use tools in other languages which often time end up acting as bash wrappers and running half of the configuration in bash anyways), and is designed for use on secure systems: it is simple by design, and easily auditable by a single person. Fetch Apply also leaves an agent running on the target system (comprised of less than 500 lines of code in bash, and run by cron only during user-defined intervals, meaning it’s ridiculously efficient and has no noticeable system impact), and is based off of git, meaning that you can view a full configuration history, as well as push a new configuration upstream whenever you’d like, and the changes will be automatically applied on the designated server(s).

Fetch Apply: https://github.com/P5vc/FetchApply

Active Example: https://github.com/P5vc/ServerConfigurations
Mentioning MS in that way doesn’t help your argument. They are doing better than ever before. Who cares about desktop space (which they still have an enormous market share of btw) when you have Azure. I would argue the antitrust settlement actually helped them.

Everyone is basically ignoring them in current “tech-lash” discussions. They got away with a slap on the wrist 20 years ago and are just slightly more careful.
You seem to think that Visa is a bigger thing, than it actually is.

That 3% is the total cost to the merchant. Visa is just a payments network. It is not the payment processor(the company that the card terminals connect to). They are not the issuer - the banks that charge as well.

Visa facilitates integration between different payment processors and issuers, they don't even handle fraud or low level stuff.
Ha yes it is hard to believe it when people say it, almost like when someone has to tell everyone they are smart it often means they aren't that smart...
I disagree with your definition of "market rate", but let's suppose you're right: Do you not see it as a problem that Google alone decides the cost of entry to an entire market?
When a country regulates Google, they raise borders. Google, like any other global internet compnay, is across borders. I would hate to be blocked form accessing US Google when I live in Canada. Putting up barriers on the Internet is contrary to an open Web.

It does exist for content. For example Netflix content in Canada is different than in the US. You just can't do that for web pages.

In addition, nothing prevents Google from moving outside of the USA. Assuming the US wants to break them up, Google could just turn around and say "I'm moving to another country". The loss of jobs, intellectual property, etc would be too big. The government would back down. In the end the consumer decides which search engine to use. Today, that's Google.

This leads me to this question. What do you do when FAANGs become larger than some countries? Apple revenues for example are larger than the GDP of some countries. Facebook has 2B users. More than any other country. It then only makes sense to regulate them at a international level. Not possible today. Maybe in 100 years. Until then, FAANG will continue growing and gobbing up companies and industries.
The only thing the article does to address the topic of the headline is include this link [0]. The rest is a combination of anecdote about a doctor failing to wash his hands and history about hand washing.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK144026/table/parti_ch1...
Fair point. I shot from the hip there because I was asked to and it was all that I could come up with just before dinner. But you are totally right that the synergy between desktop and phone is an important one to keep in mind.
There was also a Polish clone, Afair developed as a PHD thesis by two students. Manufactured between 1982-1993.
http://retrokolekcja.pl/MCY7880.php

For comparison original 8080A: http://retrokolekcja.pl/zdjecia/MCY7880%20struktura%20ITE.jp...

Polish MCY7880: http://retrokolekcja.pl/zdjecia/MCY7880%20struktura%20ITE.jp...

Russian KR580BM80: http://retrokolekcja.pl/zdjecia/MCY7880_zsrr.jpg

And the absolutely amazing gem. In 1983 legendary science education TV program SONDA documented design and manufacturing of first batches in a humorous lets bake a cake fashion. Paper plotters, light pens, developing/rinsing dies by hand, electron miscroscope debugging, the whole nine yards!

part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJGp7keIA_o

part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHl6m93Hay0

part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcOTwkT-PDU

Its amazing anything worked considering really spartan conditions.
Github link https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy

dang, do you want to swap the link to github?
On one hand, it's of course kind of a bummer that these folks are losing their jobs--never an easy thing to see.

On the other, I'm excited about the products that may end up coming out of this. I'm already paying for the Mozilla VPN + Browser Extension (I think that totals something like $8/mo), plus another few dollars for additional storage on my personal Google account at the moment. I would be immensely enthusiastic about putting that (and more) money towards a privacy-respecting Mozilla-hosted email/calendar/file storage system instead.

That obviously not an insignificant engineering challenge, but there's a bunch of open-source work in that area already that could probably be used as a template. I only hope that whatever products they put out, they spend some time making sure they're not damaging the enormous amount of goodwill they've built up in the community about privacy and Internet ethics.
I too used Firefox Send quite a bit and told others about it.
It was also about operating systems and productivity software.

Now instead of having an operating system vendor with 80% market share now we have an ad vendor. Win????

Meet the new boss....
> Hope is not a strategy.

Well yeah, that's why the whole scenario in the first place is that they're hit by a bus and instantly killed.

Maybe it should be rephrased as "blown to a million pieces" then there's no question you're discussing a situation in when there's an immediate and irreversible loss of knowledge.
You can literally just look at Matrix, the tool you recommended, to see the problem with federation, fragmentation, and market demands to support lowest-common-denominator security. It took years after your recommendation for Matrix to have universal default E2E, the table-stakes feature of a secure messenger.
IANAL but I believe lowering prices to kill competition is illegal in the western world and in the US in particular.

Googled: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

It’s called predatory pricing in that case and legality is unclear. It seems you probably get away with it in the US.
Ha, tell me about it, I just got from a remote company an offer of 2.2k eur/month as a PHP developer. The drawbacks of being a PHP guy I guess.
Linux is not supported.
The point of history in schools is to teach doing history rather than memorising information about the past.

Colonialism probably should be one of the topics of the few but we can't teach students everything
Why not have tools that specialize and are strong in some areas instead of trying to have a Swiss Army Knife language? In other professions it's normal to have different tools for different tasks. Or is there something I'm missing?

I personally would be happy with many different languages that are focused on front end development, like how we already have many that are focused on back end development.
How to Code a Game
I wonder if they disclose such policies to companies they represent.

"We will do everything in our power to find you the employees you need, unless it might make one of our other clients unhappy."

This would be a disqualifying conflict of interest for a law firm.
Ask HN: Is it unethical to monetize open source software with a “pro” version?
I am thinking about monetizing my open source software (GPL3). These are windows utilities, so typical open source monetization schemes (paid support, commercial hosting, etc) are not suitable. The only way I can think of is to have a pro version with additional features. The "pro" version would be proprietary. Pro features would also be quite specific (i.e. the free version would support most use cases). But I'm not sure this is ethical? (As a side note - if I can earn money from this I might be able to quit my job and devote more time to open source development...)
Whenever someone says this, I ask them which companies are banned (far fewer than many Westerners seem to think), and point out that Western companies are far more ubiquitous in China than vice versa.
> Does anyone have any ideas on why they didn't postpone?

If Airbnb has handed 10 year expiring stock options to core employees, then they're right at the cusp of expiring this year.

I would guess it doesn't affect anyone who opted for an 83B early on, but for those who held onto them without exercising them on the pennies might be very unhappy without a 2020 IPO.

It feels like a different era now, but this was discussed in detail in late 2019 [1].

The discontent has been exacerbated because Airbnb, which has been valued at $31 billion, doled out two tranches of employee equity that are set to start expiring in November 2020 and in mid-2021; those shares will become worthless if the company is not trading publicly by then, they said.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/technology/airbnb-employe...
Why do you think that Google alone can afford to hire software engineers?

edit - I see how my post was misleading. I should have said X is a "lower bound" for the market rate.
I do understand the purpose or your post and I celebrate it, however this medium might lack some of the features Slack has which makes it quite easier to follow up ideas.
Although a very unfair comparison, and I don't agree with it. But I think his point was three years back people were more than willing to protest for an "armed millitant"[1] and a lot of that was organized through social media.

But this doesn't mean it is right, internet is a fundamental right at this point. You can't just deprive people from it with a blanket ban.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burhan_Wani
It does if McDonalds decides that it wishes to dump burgers. The ask price would fall to $0.

The market will correct very quickly, as competitors will immediately head over to McDonalds to purchase $\infty$ burgers at $0, killing MCD dead in seconds.

The moment McDonalds applies a purchase limit (Free burgers! Limit 5 per customer), the burgers have non-zero cost, as they require a person's time in order to purchase.

If McDonalds does have enough capital to buy long-term customers and kill off competition with free burgers, perhaps they should consider it. I assume that they've considered such a strategy on occasion and concluded that it isn't worth it. Burgers are probably worth more than $0 to McDonalds, too.
Please point to the mainstream secure messenger other than Signal that doesn't store a database of contacts serverside.
Immudb – The lightweight, high-speed immutable database
I really do hope your page helps some people with their procrastination issues. But I can't help feel like your whole approach suffers from engineers disease. But maybe that's what will resonate with some folks.

A compassionate therapist can also do wonders for procrastination.
I would guess that a significant portion of Signal's users are non-technical people dragged there by their technical friends that couldn't get them onto Matrix.

I would still guess that none is a bad assumption, however.

Edit: Spelling
“I don’t understand how _finance_ works.” - Dennis Reynolds
Obligatory FYI: DuckDuckGo is pretty much Bing search. If you're trying to support newer competitors in the search engine space, try Qwant or YaCy.
I could have seen Mozilla build an enhanced email service like Hey! Actually, they could still probably do it, it would align with their focus on privacy and experience with email reader.
Are you arguing that it's somehow impossible or technically unreasonable for a startup search engine to piggyback off google's search index in a similar way to how duckduckgo piggybacks off bing's search index?

And that the very idea that this could be made possible through law makes you chuckle?
I predicted that about send the day it was launched. It helped that I had done a very close review of a large competitor in that space so seeing 'send' open up gave a lot of bad people a new playground with predictable results.
How to become a Redis maintainer one contribution at a time
Sure. But the genuinely abusive users are always a minority. Although on the scale of FB and the likes, that could still be a large absolute number. Perhaps if we, as a society, stopped obsessing so much about nudity, unsollicited dick pics might become a thing of the past. One can dream, I guess.
That's simply not true. There are lots of companies in highly regulated industries that remain profitable and have low regard for engineers.
I thought most hospitals had hall monitors who were writing people up for not foaming in and out of each room. Maybe that's not everywhere or is just university hospitals.
A lot of discussion about Semmelweis, but the actual reasons:

"Some factors that hindered hand-washing were days with busy workload and a feeling of not being watched.

A World Health Organization (WHO) report has also listed other barriers to adherence with hand-washing guidelines, including:

Working in the ICU, surgical unit, or emergency rooms
being a nursing assistant (rather than a nurse), or physical therapist
Sinks are inconveniently located/shortage of sinks
Lack of soap and paper towels
Male sex
Handwashing agents cause irritation and dryness
Understaffing and overcrowding
Wearing gloves and the belief that using gloves avoids the need for hand hygiene
Not thinking about it/forgetfulness
No role model from colleagues or superiors
Skepticism regarding the value of hand hygiene
Disagreement with the recommendations"
I've stumbled upon some, FWIW–I think I was searching for file carvers or something like that.