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> Military contractors don't fight for themselves, they are contracted by a government, don't they?

They are - depending on how you look at it, you can consider them an extension of governments, or as private companies that figured out a way to partake in the "monopoly on violence" and thus get to make money by killing people. Governments have limited ability to micromanage their contractors - in fact, a reason to hire a PMC is to outsource micromanagement. You tell them where to be and what to do, and they manage themselves.

Now if you give a company permission to use violence and legal cover, the obvious thing happens - the companies start to do their own things on the side. Documented cases include murder, smuggling of alcohol and weapons, sex trafficking and host of other evil acts[0].

> I think the Telecom and Orange one is more of some people within the corporations hand in hand with some people within the government.

That's true, but this is always the case with large corporations. Private markets and governance aren't independent - they're very much intertwined. Power begets money begets power. Trying to talk about government vs. private interests, we have to remember that the boundary between them is very fuzzy - the separation makes sense when economists talk about bakeries and barbers and mom&pop stores. It breaks down as you approach bigger and more wealthy companies[1].

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[0] - Bunch of examples listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_military_company.

[1] - Hell, you could say it breaks down as soon as company's wealth or influence approaches the wealth or influence of the political unit in which it's embedded. It'll take a megacorp to seriously play on the national politics stage, but even a humble factory can have huge impact on county politics if it employs a significant chunk of said county's population.
Me too, though I had a grand church organ in mind, something like this:

https://www.orgelsite.nl/naarden-grote-kerk/

or this:

https://youtu.be/NQfSfcsiVyk

But on a chip.
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read to the end of the giant orange "ABOUT THE GAME" box. you will find what you seek underneath the scrolling "<purple rotating skull and crossbones> PERMADEATH FEATURE", er, thing.
You could have done this much faster with the sleuth kit. Since you already knew the inode number of the deleted file I think you could just run `icat -f ext4 /dev/md2 <inode#> > recovered_file.flv`
Yep, that was my understanding as well. It doesn't seem to be for consensus.

Although, for Frontend servers which just do auth, routing, etc - why is P2P gossip necessary for building shard map? Possibly because retrieval of configuration information directly from the vending service may be a bottleneck - but then why not gossip with a subset of peers than every peer and the vending service which is a source of truth.
The Elo rating system is used to calculate the skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess. Here's how I implemented it into a movie review project!
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If it's bothering you, the simple solution is to get a raise. If it's refused, you can start to look for another job.
If (1) is true, shouldn't companies have the right to fire you due to political reasons / disagreement?
Yes, he did:

> "Body acting and bodybuilding are more closely related than most people would image, and all that posing I'd done to impress the judges in my early years [paid] dividends," he wrote in his book. "From within the black leather suit, I treated Vader's every gesture as a bodybuilding pose, refining here and exaggerating there, until my character 'spoke' with every tilt of his head or movement of his arms."

Still, casting James Earl Jones to do the voice was a stroke of genius by George Lucas.
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Same on Windows. I find desktop notifications to be extremely annoying. On Windows applications can highlight themselves on the taskbar; that is more than enough to call my attention.
Is there any reason the believe the M1 Macs don't also have broken thermals? I mean the Air doesn't even have a fan! Can't get more "broken" than that
maybe. but his not talking about eventually. Amazon delivered when the world needed them the most.
Yeah :). That's one of my favorite articles on the Internet and meditating on these meditations had a big role in shaping my current set of beliefs.
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Reindeer do gather on snow patches in summer/early autumn to avoid insects.
Maybe the aliens ARE the rivets! And we've been looking at the wrong thing all along. We've got to think outside the prismatic box.
Show HN: Mugle – Search Engine for Free Music Ranked by Usage in Youtube
I am building a search engine for free music for video makers like myself,
which is 'mugle' : mugle.io

As a video editor, It has been always cumbersome process to search for good background music for the video.
Here was the process of finding and using CC music on the video for me.

1. I’ve watched Youtube videos I'm subscribing. And whenever I think the background music sounds good, I check if there is a Creative Commons music information on the description section.

2. And If there is a YouTube link for the music, I get mp3 by copying the link and pasting it on Youtube Converter like ytmp3.cc

3. And I use that music in the Youtube video and give a credit in the description.

But I think the process can be improved.

1. I think if I can collect almost all of the Creative Commons music shared on Youtube and Soundcloud and rank them properly, It would be very convenient to find good CC music for the video.
So I did it. I’ve collected almost 200K musics and I’m ranking them by [Videos using that music] * [View count of each video] * [Freshness of that video].

2. I put the function to show original Youtube video for the CC Music and convert it to mp3

3. I put the function to copy the credit information for that CC music.
Bonus) I put the function to show the Youtube Videos that contain the background music to feel the mood in the real use cases.

Currently, It is not search engine but just a kind of archive of 1,000 CC musics ranked by usage in Youtube Video during November 2020.

But If many of the video creators enjoy this demo version, I would add Search functions to search music by Youtube channel, category, mood, BPM and so on.
Thanks.
Ask HN: How can I make the transition from FAANG to early stage startups smooth?
tl;dr: All of my career has been at FAANG as a software engineer, and I'm looking to transition to startups in a few years (founding / early stage). What are the skills, connections, etc. I need to develop?

I'm in my late 20s and working at FAANG in London (can't move to the US). It's my first/only real job, but I've moved around in a few different teams and I'm now a staff engineer. While I do enjoy my job, it feels like I'm having marginal impact on a large number of people, which is not extremely satisfying. So I'm thinking of leveraging my time here to best prepare for a pivot to startups in a few years. The things I'm currently focusing on:

(1) generic technical skills - for the most part, being a world class expert in programming languages, or data storage or whatever it may be is likely not going to be a good use of my time. So I'm focusing on generic, translateable skills

(2) becoming a great engineer - bridging the gap between technical complexity and business outcomes sounds like a skill that is very useful. I'm lucky to be in a team that has a lot of such complexity to manage, which means that I can also gain some product management, etc. skills

(3) managing people - understanding people's motivations and creating human structures to achieve a business outcome seems like a core skill for managing a startup. I can do this both informally (e.g. as a senior/staff engineer) and formally (as a manager, at some point)

(4) managing a business - this is hard without hands on experience, but there's plenty of theory around in books, blogs etc.

So far, it looks like the things that are missing are (5) networking and (6) startup ideas. It's unclear how much weight I should give to these right now, or if there are other blind spots.

So I'm looking for a validation that I'm approaching things the right way, advice for better leveraging my current situation, and the HN crowd's wisdom on the matter.

Thanks!
Great article!

I acknowledge that this is an honest mistake that might happen to me anytime.

I guess human error is the likeliest cause of data loss nowadays... :(

Anyways for my ext4 ubuntu desktop I immediately made some changes in response to this post:

* installed ext4magic and extundelete so I don't have to do it after the accident, potentiality overwriting the deleted file

* changed my 'll' alias to 'ls -lisah' to include the inode. I guess it's very likely that one does a file listing before moving files around and this can be a live saver.
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Is that because you believe the contents obvious to all, or because the explanations and presentation of concepts would not impact those who might stand to benefit?
The file he overwrote was the backup, haha.

>Given that we already consider it to just be a backup, we currently don’t make any further backups of this data.
if you're doing it on your own, it helps to have a motivating story. there are a category of math book that is historically driven. you can pick a topic and typically find a really strong and well-written book on the history of that topic, or just pick up a book on the history of mathematics. these will give you solid examples that you can relate to, give you the motivating story of the persons who discovered the mathematics, and give you enough information to decide whether you want to explore that topic independently
I image it would be like "paying 30% of your car price to road tax". It can happen when roads are privately owned.
I know how to take these steps, too, but it's not possible on cutting edge hardware. You're mostly stuck on slower lower-res stuff that's usually made out of plastic.

All of the really good hardware is cryptographically locked to software that you can't alter.
I'm not a very experienced developer, I assume my ignorance. Surely "unit testing for performance" would have its own term by now?
Everlasting Summer [1] is pretty much in the same vein culturally, but it is a visual novel, not 3D. It'the only game I played in the last years.

The story of its development by 2ch members is also fascinating.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everlasting_Summer
Wasn't the problem that someone found it in satellite maps and blabbed about the location?
Ultimately, the pi is unsuitable for deterministic behavior, and Linux is unsuitable for the kind of realtime needed to sample from a floppy directly.

Don't get me wrong: It would be possible to do it, but it would be theoretically not reliable, even if it felt reliable. You'd also need some sort of glue in between, as floppy drives signal at 5v and the rpi isn't 5v tolerant.

Therefore, you could connect the pi to the stm32, rather than directly run the floppy drive from the pi.
Then the aliens started using Javascript for everything. Replacing aeons of stable, time-proven technology. And that's the last time we detected a signal from the mysterious celestial body known as Alpha Node 4.1.13.

Or was that 6.3.21? No wait...it's definitely 13.3.0. Huh!? 15.x already! I can't keep up.
I’ve been living in Norway since I was born back in the 70s.

We’ve never had carrier-branded phones. Not one. Only thing sold has been generic phones which accepts a generic SIM.

And that’s how the market is supposed to work. Free competition on devices. Free competition on service. Customers can combine as they like.

Granted you could buy carrier-locked phones rebated through a contract, but the carrier lock was time-limited and reversible and the phone was a generic, international model.

Carrier-branded phones was definitely not a EU-wide phenomenon.

If anything the introduction of the iPhone in Europe (launched using the very confusing US carrier-model) was what started pushing carriers into attempting to making new restrictions on how people were allowed to use their (formerly unrestricted) subscriptions.

So you got it pretty much 100% backwards.
I agree with the general point you make, but carbon fiber bikes aren't that crazy expensive. I bought one for $1k 5 years ago and I love it, even though I don't do any racing or anything like that.
It would, but I want to stress again that this was not a fault of my employer, nor is it permanent.

It was basically the fault of Dell/Intel to provide proper drivers with my hardware, combined with the worst of timings: the first French started on the day after my hardware arrived, and I had to hastily relocate after picking it up, to avoid being stuck in a tiny temporary housing. This was then the only work-capable hardware in the house. So I couldn't just send it back when I noticed the problems, because it would have meant literally not being able to work for a while. Although with the time I spent trying to make it work on linux, then the nerves/mental health I've spent on using Windows on it, that would have been the better call in hindsight.

Anyhow, given that on-premise work is still not exactly around the corner, I'll build a ryzen workstation as soon as parts become available here, and be done with this. And I'll avoid Dell/Intel from now on.
And now enterprise permission features like ACLs creep into web apps because companies think web apps are popular for other reasons and we start the whole thing all over again.
> There is always a slight time lag in the R number of a matter of weeks

ah ok: that's not what I understand from how governments are reporting it.

My understanding is that it's the (best estimate) of how virus cases are spreading today.

Since the graph of cases for today tells you how the virus has spread in the last two weeks, that's not the same information.

If you claim that R is only estimated from the historical number of cases, then R is not giving you information that you couldn't technically identify from this graph, I agree. However, R could be estimated using other information.
Though as noted there, Chrome recanted on its 2015 attempt at killing SMIL—and it was only ever Chrome that were labelling SMIL as deprecated, no one else does so. Four years after that, I haven’t heard any more talk about killing it. Notwithstanding that, CSS is now able to cover a lot more of the SMIL use cases than it was then.
Honestly, I suspect zero. My app is on the major stores and literally zero downloads come from simple organic listing. It's pretty clear we need to invest considerably in our own channels/marketing.

In all fairness, though, while a Store listing doesn't guarantee users, the absence of a Store listing does guarantee no users. Epic found this out with Fornite when they tried to get users to sideload via their own website. So a Store listing is a necessary-but-not-sufficient condition.

The user funnel seems to be awareness via non-Store marketing channels -> search on Play/App Store -> install. Remove the second step and your funnel disintegrates.

On the other hand, it's also possible that Fortnite's Android woes were due to artificial hurdles (e.g. requiring users to first navigate menus to allow "unsafe" side-loading). I suspect they don't have this difficulty on PC where it's just a simple go to website->download->install.
> Not a single web-based text or code editor is worth a damn.

codesandbox.io is actually very good for web development. If I didn't have access to a native code editor I would be pretty content with just using codesandbox. I think it uses a modified version of VS Code.
Yeah, now I can see that you have indeed never really tried.
Google is but a telecom is not.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/technology/fcc-location-d...
I've been a lisper since 1971 and did reviews of the X3J13 Common Lisp Standard. I've been using Common Lisp on almost every project I do.

Contrary to popular belief, and apparently your own belief, Common Lisp is doing fine.

Language rankings are meaningless.
I learned to program from two QBASIC games that were on the school computers, Nibbles and Gorillas. My friends liked to watch me make mods for the games or code from scratch, so I was doing "live coding" from the beginning. I think it must have shaped the way I program, giving the mindset of explaining what you're doing and why as you go.
It might be a great school and who cares if someone went through a "grande école" but why would an article preface itself with a statement so obviously false.
It seems to me that the self-esteem movement enlarged egos and arrogance rather than self-reliance or resilience, and so these sort of individuals tend to grow up to be selfish, haughty, entitled people who collapse under any sort of real challenge.
No, I know for a fact that it's not reflective of HN as a whole. But I did find it funny if not tragic that it's fairly common place. The amount of upvotes my comment received (about 100) seems to confirm I'm not alone in thinking so too.
Problem is, the maintenance was for the entire mall with only very little done to your store, and the checkout employee that you mentioned can only do the one job with probably of taking your money as hostage.

Also, in a real word mall, the rent and maintenance fee will not increase as you makes more money. Yes, they can try to sell you a better location for a higher price, but it's a mutually beneficial sell (You get a better location from the sell).

My point: 30% was too much for what Google/Apple is providing.

Let me also add:

> And imagine that you are selling goods with almost zero marginal cost

First of all, developing a product costs money, you need to pay everybody including yourself. After all that, advertising, user support etc all costs money. So even if Google/Apple wants other people to treat this service as a mall, it's not a mall, they don't even provide lighting, long bench, air conditioning and free toilet (all of these are inescapably expensive to maintain). Instead, it's more like a searchable list + content delivery service where people can search the item and then download it. They should design their fees more close to that.

Now, imagine saying this to your user: "Hey dear user, yes, that 30% increase in price won't give you any advantage compare to those who directly purchased it from our website. Yes, it's expensive just because you brought it from Google/Apple, nothing else, because we end up receive the same amount of money.... yes, 30% every month for your subscription, and this is the only approved way for Google/Apple to allow us to provide our service to you."
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I am personally not convinced that any build system can be correct and general, but perhaps that’s my lack of experience speaking.

On that 30 minute note though: so, how big does the project need to be in order for Make not to be enough? And at that size, why wouldn’t the project invest the extra week it takes to get the Makefile correct?
One does have to consider the frequency, I’m assuming dampening high frequency sound is easier than low frequency.
And? The 1950's were just one example. There are also a lot of factors besides "grit" which contributed to the success of the US. Practically unlimited natural resources would be an example.
https://www.coolmathgames.com is also using this, nice !
> You cannot run any internet service without collecting personal information

What the hell are you talking about?! Of course you can, why wouldn't you be able to? You think the internet and the web started out with having everyone automatically collecting everyones personal information?

> Disclaimer: googler

Aha, yeaaaah, now it makes sense that you don't think it's possible to do anything else but to collect personal data. While the opinion is your own, it's pretty obvious what its been influenced by.
The gen 1 apple devices with the worst support lifecycles have been

* iPad 1, which was basically a iPhone 3GS with a bigger screen, and from day 1 didn't have enough RAM to drive the big screen

* First Intel macs, which were 32-bit, before Apple quickly transitioned everything to 64-bit

* First Apple Watch ("series 0") which was just underpowered in general

The M1 Macs really don't appear to have any obvious flaws like these.
This is literally true in many countries.
Nice that you’ve managed to speed it up quite a lot! Still it’s fairly slow, that’s why I was thinking about streaming stuff to a running BEAM from a Golang executable, say. Presumably then this problem goes away (compilation may still take a while). I guess if the #! just streams the file content over we are still protected by the execution bit, but what about malicious programs streaming their own content?
So they’re broadcasting super-secret messages from their living rooms?
> The groups competing for "the one right way" to do things.

I don't want to be in a position where the developers of the currently most installed desktop environment GNOME are calling the shots.

GNOME is removing instead of adding features left and right and as a power user I get treated like a toddler that's being told what's good for me.
> We've given up on protecting our freedoms

Now "we" bloody haven't! You may have, I and others have not and will not. Decades ago people were literally fighting fascism and dying for it, these days whiners can't manage to install linux, VMs or blocklists.

You chose. You can unchoose.
Forwarding packets happens in ASICs, generating ICMPs is usually done by the CPU (which has a packet rate of maybe 1/100000th of the ASICs). So the latter is usually either rate-limited or turned off entirely, or you could bring the router to its knees by just spamming packets with too short TTL. It's also not uncommon that people turn it off to reduce external insight into their network, for whatever reason.
> the rent and maintenance fee will not increase as you makes more money

Nope, malls often charge a fixed rent PLUS a percentage of sales.
Haven’t ran it yet, but the thinking behind this is sound. Hats off to OP.

“Custom interpreters are powerful and flexible tools that allow solving thorny problems with grace.

The general idea is that distilling the fundamental building blocks in library form makes it possible to reduce needed effort to the point where more problems start to look like custom languages, and where it's affordable to try out new ideas and throw some away.”

- from the repo README
Actually the same thing did happen on iOS with jailbreak tweaks being copied by Apple devs. (E.g. wifi sync, quick reply, predictive keyboard...).

Admittedly the pool of developers was restricted to those who were able and cared to jailbreak...
I'm not sure what the OP was trying to show with this.

It's certainly cool and interesting to see that nim(rod) was written in pascal 11 years ago?

I love Pascal, I just give up on it too fast. But man it's fast, compiles fast, "easy" to use, until you start doing real world stuff.