skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, he continued running the company with new part-time employees, minus original investors and minus the early employees who built the company. Apparently the company succeeded enough that it's now worth $100 million. Early employees who built the original site presumably don’t have equity because they were laid off and their options expired worthless as they were told the company had failed.

Let me start off by saying that I think most startup compensation is downright bad for employees, compared to FANG alternatives. I would like to be a startup founder one day, but I realistically can't see myself as a startup employee.

That said, I don't think Gumroad did anything morally wrong here. The layoffs were absolutely necessary, because the company would have gone bankrupt without them. But it's false to say that this caused employees to have no equity. Even if you get laid off as a startup employee, you can still choose to exercise your options and hold on to the company's equity, if you think that they will eventually be worth $100M. No one misled the employees about the company's future. They saw that the investors were pulling out. They saw that the engineering team was getting shredded. And they made the very reasonable assessment that the company's equity isn't worth the cost of exercising their options.

Blaming Gumroad for employees not having equity, is like blaming AMD for their previous employees selling off their stock during their near-bankruptcy days. Any company can and will go through dramatic reversals of fortune. And whenever there's such a turnaround, there is bound to be people who missed out on the upside, because they didn't continue holding through the dark times.
Bidirectional charging is a no brainer. Give me a 120v 20amp outlet and a 240v 50amp outlet. I want access to those electrons!
Oracle owns Java, plain and simple. There are alternatives, sure, but it's foolish to think that when it comes to anything within the Java ecosystem, the buck doesn't stop with Oracle. All they have to do is modify the Java license and all that open source goes poof.

We're talking about a company that sued it's own salesperson for earning too high of a commission.
Doctors do save many lives but I fully agree a whole lot of them are indeed terrible at edge cases and what's worse is the arrogance they display when one tries to explain the symptoms clearly. Some of them go as far as recommending a psychiatrist when it is really not called for (sure, there are instances of hypochondriacs but how about the rest who aren't? ).
The answer is piracy again.

For a moment in time, piracy of movies and series was at a low point. Recently, with the fragmentation of all the different streaming services it's rising again.
Not so bad for whom? The article says that this happening would put coastal cities under 20 feet of water:

> Since some twenty feet of sea-level rise is tied up in Greenland's ice, every coastal city in the world is at risk.
Here's a summary of my journey: I started out just writing clean and simple HTML with NoJS support. I wanted to be usable over a slow connection and for Tor users. I had a few older browsers I liked which I also wanted to support. Also, text-mode like Lynx, for the hackers.

I happened upon a great digital art exhibit at the MFA in Boston, and one of the rooms had several beige boxes with Windows 95 and Netscape 3.04Gold set up to exhibit older Web art in a time-accurate setting.

It was then that I realized how much I liked that particular browser, how much I enjoyed using it, and also how capable it was. So I tried to adjust for it, and by then I had tested under so many others, it wasn't even much work. After that came others, like Mosaic and OffByOne and even more obscure stuff, barely a blip on the radar in its day. It became a fun hobby, and something to be proud of.

A couple years ago, NYC had useful Web access kiosks which were than locked up over public outrage about outdoors people using them for porn. However, they allowed Google Translate, and I was able to both read and post to my site via that.

I had not foreseen the use case, but because I had tested for so many others, it worked. All around, I refer to this as the bending over backwards development model. Like the city bus, I work hard to accomodate everyone, and don't turn anyone away if I can help it. Except spammers, fuck them.
Based on the comments here this tech is for people who:

- don't drive very much

- but drive enough to spend tens of thousands on a new car

- but can't put a charger at their residence

- but can park somewhere that isn't shaded by trees or buildings or clouds or snow

Still, as the overall market for electric cars grows that can add up to millions of people. There's also another larger group:

- People who don't choose car options based on a fully considered rational utilitarian evaluation of cost/benefit

Which brings you up to >90% of car buyers ;). I'd probably pay for it if it's <$4000, it's much more utilitarian than 24" alloy wheels at least.
Can you elaborate where do you buy things online from? I want to move away from Amazon, but it's also exhausting to sort through multiple websites for a product, their shipping fees, and make decisions.
I have asked this question myself, and after failing to get an appropriate answer, I started using "DevOps Administrator" instead of "Engineer" in my email signature. It feels more appropriate since I definitely do not write production code.
this sounds horrible. what if you walk on it and track it home? then you get to walk on crushed glass with your bare feet? yikes
Low pressure sodium vapor lamps are also very yellow [1], whereas a modern LED is much more broad-spectrum and thus looks nicer.

Unfortunately, it does mean that LED lamps are a greater hazard for light pollution.

[1] Low-pressure sodium vapor lamp spectrum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-vapor_lamp#/media/File:...
I read the title figuratively:

like when something is good quality it blows something out of the water.
> Kendi's work is extremely good

Kendi proposes a constitutional amendment that would enshrine the principle that Racial inequity is evidence of racist policy (from certain threshold that he does not specify), and create Department of Anti-racism (DOA) comprised of formally trained experts on racism and no political appointees. The DOA would be responsible for preclearing all local, state and federal public policies to ensure they won’t yield racial inequity, monitor those policies, investigate private racist policies when racial inequity surfaces, and monitor public officials for expressions of racist ideas. The DOA would be empowered with disciplinary tools to wield over and against policymakers and public officials who do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas. [0]

Do you find this proposal even good, much less extremely good? I don't. This is an attempt to bend reality by law, which rarely works, but usually has a plethora of unexpected negative consequences.

It also goes completely against any individualism that characterizes the Western society and elevates racial groups to basic building blocks of the country.

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/how-to-fix-politi...
I used the pest[1] library in Rust, it uses something a bit like an EBNF syntax to write the grammar and generate a PEG parser.

[1] - https://pest.rs/
> And Spotify is already paying out 75% of it's revenue to royalty holders

Realize that the royalty holders are not the musicians, but typically the major labels. The musicians get virtually nothing.
A possible solution is allowing studded tires and making snow tires mandatory at certain times of the year (Quebec does this). Studded tires would make driving a lot safer in icy conditions and snow tires are an incredible improvement over regular tires in wintry conditions (tradeoff is they tear up the roads). Winter Tire tech has vastly improved over the years and most manufacturers have added a feature for Icy conditions (sip their tires - https://www.discounttire.com/learn/tire-sipes ).

Salt may be cheap but there are environmental costs. Recently this news article was published about how Toronto rivers are seeing high levels of salt. If it's happening in Toronto, I'm sure it's happening all over the mid west and north east.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/road-salt-gta-water-1...
> industrial consumers in Europe have the same stipulation in their power contracts: in case of emergency, the power company (network operator) may choose to suspend power delivery to protect the grid.

You can't really compare.

Industries can chose in their contract to be part of the load shedding system. It's done with their agreement and the system is purely based on the grid frequency. The disconnection is done on site in an orderly fashion. In a way, it's probably more correct to view it as industries electing to temporary disconnect rather than the provider stopping supplying them.

> I don't recall any grid-wide emergency events.

The European electrical grid is extremely resilient. It was accidently split in two a couple months ago and that was barely noticeable for the customers of either half.
Thanks for letting me know about Signal. That's pretty bad.

About abandonment - has Signal LLC announced anything about this? Reading that thread you linked to sounds rather ominous; i.e. that they're making an effort to prevent any modifications or adaptations from being meaningfully usable. I guess things haven't improved since then?

> but could I ask why you find the UX bad? I'd be interested in helping improve it.

Will email you about this, since it's veering too far off topic.
There's a few on my radar (from most underestimated to popular):

- Pony (seems like the best of Rust and Go), need to build up adoption, libraries
- F#, what I wish my foray into Scala was like
- Elixir, possibly with Phoenix grow to be the next Ruby/Rails
- Julia, the only other data == code language (now has axes for 0-based indexing)
- Clojure, a batteries-included lisp

The biggest problem with F# for me originally was being tied to the Windows .Net platform. Now as mentioned it's from being in the shadow of C# which is incrementally getting features from F# in poorer form. It works fine on Mac and Linux but is still not easy to set up and get started.
Seriously. Sounds like a major public health crisis in a few decades.
It still seems weird. You’re repeating the conclusions forcefully and often as if they’re true. You’re taking more time to post than it would take to read the entire position paper in detail and check all the references. This is clearly a topic you care about, but you’re pretending and framing it as though it’s something you can’t be bothered to investigate, after investigating. You’ve mentioned IPCC twice in comments to me, but you’ve never posted quotes from IPCC abstracts or conclusions to Hacker News. Since you're actively participating in SRBR's advocacy, I’m confused about your story.
Oracle owns the IP of Java, and begrudgingly allows such things as openjdk.
T-Mobile has such shitty IT, infrastructure, and security practices.

My last experience with them caused me to switch away from them permanently. I switched away from them after getting SIM jacked, with real money stolen from me. Happened exactly like in this article[0].

Another incident happened where my online account was merged with someone else's in California (I'm in Texas). Our billing information was merged, with the others paying for the whole account. I couldn't make changes online- only after sitting on hold and explaining what happened was I able to get the whole situation unfucked, but there's no telling what amount of my data still lives in that other account.

Come to think of it, my first experience with T-Mobile was as a Radio Shack employee, circa 2010. When a customer came to the store to pay their T-Mobile bill with cash, if I took too long to enter all the data into their awful online portal the money would sometimes go to a completely different person's account. Many hours were spent on the phone with the local and regional rep resolving multiple instances of this happening.

[0]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/3kx4ej/sim-jacking-mobile-ph...
Funny joke but I really don't believe a good test taker does make a good doctor. It might in fact make for more arrogant doctors.
Java 16
“Research” shows literally whatever you want it to show. So unless you’re going to link to the “research” for examination, nobody should be taking your claim very seriously.
You can also do large nuclear reactors in a factory if you use shipyard construction. In the 1970s Westinghouse and Newport News had a joint venture called Offshore Power Systems to do this. They employed 1000 people at their peak and did serious design and construction work of their nuclear plant manufacturing facility in Jacksonville Florida. In fact they actually got a manufacturing license to build eight gigawatt-class floating nuclear power plants in it from the NRC in 1982.

https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/floating-nuclear-powe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0awiL0BeZ-k

https://whatisnuclear.com/blog/2020-01-26-offshore-power-sys...
The entire point of civil disobedience is to commit a crime (and usually do the time) in order to raise awareness about the unjustness of said crime
How does an author do this? An artist? How much money can the 20th musician in a day doing a tour expect to really make? An orchestra?

How about movies? They'd cease to exist (barring a few youtube-quality productions).
> If this is not sustainable for the artists, how is this different than piracy?

The difference is that every artist has a choice if his music lands on Spotify or not - and if he accepts the conditions offered. The main problem of many of these artists is that they signed bad distribution deals with their labels and are giving away a big chunk % of streaming revenues. That isn't Spotifys fault.

Also, according to Spotifys latest financial statement, they are expecting a $200-300m operating loss for 2021, so i find it hard to argue that Spotify is being "too greedy" when they aren't even profitable.
It looks like yet another cosplay of 20th century labor politics, but with the typical 21st century twist of diverting the fight from those who wield power to... the paying customers, for whatever reason.
I have to say, I'm kind of creeped out by union dues. It just feels less about workers helping themselves and more like some workers creating a new power structure and job roles that they can enjoy.
> Once a union has been certified or recognized, the employer is required to bargain over your terms and conditions of employment with your union representative.

Oh. So once again bad laws cause the whole problem...
They're not asking for "orders of magnitude" more, but 2-3X more. The current average royalty is 0.38c per stream, and they want 1c per stream.

That said, apparently most of Spotify's revenues already goes to pay artists, so it would not be achievable without significant increases in Spotify's fees. This would in turn reduce user numbers, leading to fewer streams, more users turning to piracy, etc.
This and the bowline are my favorite knots
The "DC area" that is already in Maryland... will be unaffected. The "DC area" residents who reside in DC proper will have Congressional representation and the freedom to spend their own local tax dollars as they please.

Is there something about wealth that is disqualifying from full participation in American democracy? Do we apply that standard elsewhere? Like any other city, there are both rich and very poor neighborhoods. Something like 1 in 5 DC residents lives in poverty.
Isn't that a problem generally in the music industry?
Is the default mode of the brain to suffer?
Where did you get 35K???

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-27...

"Median household income was $68,703 in 2019, an increase of 6.8 percent from the 2018 median of $64,324 (Figure 1 and Table A-1)."

35K is closer to the poverty line in much of the USA for a family than the median income.
You know what's going to happen with that mentality brought to investors. They gonna demand lower pay rates, forcing people to move to lower income areas.
Investment opportunity:

Find a hole in the ground, buy salt in the off-years, sell at peak.
Only if the white water indicator inside the SIM card port turns red or pink, there’s an O ring around the sim tray to provide the water resistance
Unfortunately we're discussing unions forming in a country where there are a lot of issues with dysfunctional unions, and some less than stellar, high-profile history. It will be impossible to dismiss that when having the discussion when the context is within the United States.
The unfortunate reality is energy/battery tech headlines like these are one of the reasons we haven’t been able to garner widespread support for nuclear. Everyone thinks we’re on the cusp of having a big enough or strong enough battery to power industrialized cities but in reality we’re impossibly far from that.
from the paper "solutions are needed to store and transfer renewable energy from summer to winter" So the timescale to discharge would be months
That's very strange as it works on my older firefox (78.8.0 / Linux). Sorry I don't have access to v86.0.1 so I can't check why it doesn't work on that.
Yikes, thank you for sharing your experience! Sounds dreadful. What country is this in?
A penny a stream is honestly way more than "a play" of music has cost. I'll admit I'm off the beaten path with how I do music but this is my setup:

1. I buy the CD release of music because I like to collect them, and the art is cool (I listen to folk metal and they usually do some cool stuff with album art and the front of the CD).

2. I rip them to FLACs and store them on my plex server

3. I stream them to my phone/etc.

So I'm really used to paying something like... {cost of cd} / {lifetime play count}. Which honestly is probably a lot higher than what a single stream of music earns the artists but a lot lower than 1c per play.

Just as an example, let's take Sonic Firestorm by Dragonforce. I probably started listening in 2007 or so. 14 years. I listened to the entire CD probably at least 3 times a week for the entirety of high school. So 4 years of high school times 52 weeks a year times 3 plays a week times 9 tracks per play is 5616. I'd guess I paid 12 bucks for the CD (it's 10 on amazon right now). So that's 0.00214 dollars per play. And that's just high school. Though admittedly that's one of my favorite albums, but I do think Alestorm and Ensiferum and several other bands are up in that play count too for my 4 years of college.

And I don't think many bands want to make the argument of "yeah but we're one of those bands you're gonna buy our CD for 12 bucks and listen to 3 times and then we end up in the back of your CD holder because every time you flip through you're like 'nah not really feeling them right now' for weeks on end".

So... I dunno. I'm all for paying artists more. But I would really prefer the way we do that is decrease the (massive) cut that goes to the labels and send more to the artists.

I've been buying my CDs on bandcamp as much as I can recently because as I understand it, bands capture a lot more of that sticker price that way. At least it seems like they do. I get CDs from residential addresses in Norway, anyway.
The challenge I have with looking at unions in countries that 'do it right', so to speak, is that the union Amazon employees are looking to make will end up being an American-style union.
Have you read critiques of Kendi's works? Here's Coleman Hughes review of one book: https://www.city-journal.org/how-to-be-an-antiracist
I’d been using timer videos on YouTube but this looks nice. Thanks!
Build more PV. PV is now so cheap that in most places it genuinely makes more sense to build PV based on winter output, with batteries for overnight use, rather than to build coal or nuclear. It’s close either way for gas, but the price trend suggests that even gas will stop being economical this decade.

And by “most places” I include the UK, which is north of the entire contiguous USA.
The JEPs/enhancements:
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/16/
Ghost 4.0 Released
Any good articles/books on myelination process (children in particular)?
This is a generalization of a personal anecdote, which is exactly what you asked the other user not to do.
He is probably too decent to meddle in practical politics.
I would be interested to see what would happen if Spotify changed the free account to something really small (and maybe annual). For example $10 a year. I'd guess that's still small enough that most people will pay it.

There are a lot of comments saying Spotify can't raise prices - but Netflix has repeatedly raised prices successfully. I'm now paying them double what I originally did when I signed up.
I don't care how begrudging it is, it's under an open source license so if you avoid their binaries I don't see where they have any leverage
Social media reward clickbait, ergo clickbait grows.
hahahaha i'm guessing you're not currently cohabitating?
I think the 90's (Napster, Kazaa, etc.) has proven people are simply not going to pay that kind of money for the product (music).

The music industry also seems a bit like a "winner takes all" market where there are a bunch of top grossing artists which make an insane amount of money and a much, much larger part which can't make a decent living out of it.
boost::spirit and boost::qi are similar uses of deep secrets of template magic. They work nicely, until you make your first minor error and have to understand the whole machinery to get what's wrong.

Maybe someday we'll have a language that is efficient and also allows creating efficient and usable DSLs. C++ ain't it.

Edit: perhaps D would actually be that language?
Hi tuanacelik! Yes I definitely see any and all topics being part of the platform. The idea is to create a generic structure (i.e a lesson has steps, steps have checkpoints, checkpoints have tests). Beyond that anyone is free to create a lesson for anything they're interested in. In fact, I'm sure that lessons will be created on topics I have never even heard of.
The idea of somebody being a "trained Marxist" is very funny. Personally, I'm a 4th degree Historical Materialist and I'm training for the 2nd level Communist obstacle course
On the margin, PV and wind are cheaper than nuclear. At deep decarbonization, which implies sufficient long-term storage (not just 4 hours) and/or other backup options, it is not cheaper than nuclear. Furthermore only Germany has seen significant anti-renewable NIMBY groups so far (I believe they have over 300 anti-wind groups). At significant scale, these may proliferate even more and find ways to drive up costs (just like they did with nuclear).

For some models showing these scenarios, see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2018.08.006
The problem is that people don't care about "all the music ever recorded". They mostly care about a very limited selection of music. And if Spotify starts costing like $45 a month, how many people still think it's worth it? You can buy like four albums off of iTunes for that and then listen to them as much as you want.
Your bringing up another issue entirely. What do you think about the unionization effort?
"They do this all the time"? The ignorance of generalizing a large country with a big population is astonishing. The problem is your employer paying peanuts as developer salaries. You'd get the same bad code if you paid peanuts to hire shitty developers in the US or EU.