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> a free open-source operating system written entirely in Assembly. The operating system weighs only about 3MB and will boot in less than 3 seconds even inside a virtual machine.

And it really is less than 3 seconds straight to desktop UI and ready to use immediately, incredible.
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>Greed is a superior motivator because it has no bounds. When someone is obsessed with accumulating wealth, it tends to be a never-ending pursuit. No matter how much wealth they accumulate, they're left wanting more. This is in stark contrast to more wholesome values, which tend to be more easily satiated.

I'm not sure why you are stating this like it is a universal fact. Plenty of people reach a level of wealth in which their desire for more is satiated and many people have a need to do good that is never fully satisfied. It all depends on the person.
Rust used to be developed by Graydon Hoare for years until it became a team project. There is a rust-prehistory repo which shows this:

https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory/graphs/contributo...

After the initial commit in the "group" repo, development of the language has switched to a team instead of a single person, with the introduction of additional contributors. This holds even if you only look at the pre-1.0 days which established the core concepts of the Rust language as it stands today (the original language when the team started to work on it was a bit different to 1.0).

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/graphs/contributors?from=2...

The work since 1.0 can be classified as a massive refinement project, which also does not have a single leader. Zig on the other hand does have a single main contributor/maintainer/creator:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/graphs/contributors?from=2015...
The critical point is not the OS itself, but the tooling, ecosystem and the drivers.

There is a lot more hardware and software now than when Linux got started.

For something different to overcome the initial bootstrapping problem it will need to be significantly better and be pushed by a very large player.

Googles Fuchsia is the only possible current candidate I know of.
Might be worth looking at Sowa's Conceptual Graphs. E.g., [1], talks about time, and links to his book.

[1] http://www.jfsowa.com/ontology/process.htm
FANG equity packages are an implicit buy option that lasts 4 years. $1 million dollars of options that lasts 4 years is very expensive and very lucrative.

Plus in startup land, your missing that equity half, so you can't take that money and go invest it in google like you could working at FANG.
This was the first time I remember computing news becoming mainstream news. I was asked many times by people not into computers in any way, whether I was excited for Windows 95. (I wasn't, because I was already running Linux). It was a great demonstration of the power of marketing at defining the popular consciousness.
Ask HN: Is web3 with its current meaning viable for entrepreneurs?
I’ve been looking into web3 developments and it is based on decentralization and participant ownership. Users having stake in some token that may or may not be valued highly. Web3 companies will probably be controlled by a DAO with no real company behind it.

This all seems great but are people even those in tech ready to adopt anything that runs on this tech. Is it way too early to try to build in this space.

For the people who work on it and build how will they make money and see huge exits like web2 founders.

Just trying to figure out what to work on and I’m very interested in the decentralized nature but we can’t all work on things for the love while making huge salaries at the centralized big names.
Google’s parent company is still Alphabet, right? Wasn’t Alphabet created to be a pseudo-VC fund for all of the non-core research and development projects that Google had going on?
As a manager, I’m looking at how my principals are helping the team move past big hurdles. Their ability to write code is a given, and they still do it (though not as much as they did, or at least not the same type of code). But are they mentoring and pair-programming with junior team members? Can they take what the BA/PM ask and turn it into meaningful technical tasks (that’s part of my job too - I try to lead that exercise, but need them as a sanity check and to stay on top of new things I might miss). Can they talk to a customer in a useful way (not too technical, not condescending) and do whatever problem is being discussed? Are they a go-to resource for other teams? Are senior leaders dropping in to ask them questions?

I’m definitely not looking at the raw number of Jura tasks here close. But I’m not looking at that for junior devs either.

Edit - usually, the more junior drive are more in awe of the principals. I’ve never encountered one who outwardly seemed to think the principal wasn’t contributing. More than likely, the principal was actively helping them get their own tasks done.
Macro expansion has recently been added to elixir-ls[1] and is supported via custom command in vscode extension.

[1] https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls
I’m sorry that I’m aware of the Armenian genocide and get weirded out when people act like it didn’t happen or was justified.

Would you keep watching a movie that took the stance “slavery wasn’t so bad” or “well we can all agree Hitler took things overboard, but you know the Jewish people in Europe weren’t perfect neighbours”?
Exactly the reason I didn't like "The millionaire next door". For me it misses the point completely.

This book assumes that people want to be "millionaire" in order to stare at a 7 digits number before they die.
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Specifically any religious notion really. Like, if you didn't believe in a particular outcome after death or reason for how we came to be, would homosexuality still be considered a not normal thing.
I think something like YugabyteDB
Let me guess, you're not a Silicon Valley tech company? In S.V., it usually goes like this:

* A couple of people have an idea, and quit their job (or didn't have a job), build a quick prototype, pitch it. Maybe they spend a couple of months at a startup summer camp like YCombinator

* They raise seed funding or a small first round

* ...and then immediately hire Employee #1 at 1% equity, and it's their job to build the first "real" usable version of the product. Employee #2 follows shortly at <1%.

The risky investment put in by founders often amounts to: "We had to spend a few months grabbing coffee with potential investors"
>You either have to ask people (i.e. you need a priori knowledge obtained out-of-band)

Again, the only reason blockchains need consensus is to allow people to interact with each other - consensus is between people. Computers are just tools to make that easier. It's a fundamental contradiction to assume you can use any blockchain to make any economic transactions without interacting with other people - because economic transactions require other economic entities.

Of course when you assume something false you can prove any absurd result, like that PoS wastes same resources as PoW.

PoW relies on social coordination in the short term, because short term attacks are cheaper, so in the case of a 51% attack people would have to organize fast. PoS is extremely safe in the short term, and only maybe falls back on social coordination in the long term (again, only in the case of an attack), which is the correct security model.

>deterministically choose the fork that the economic majority of people use (which is the problem PoW solves)

No it doesn't. Mining revenue is an insignificant part of what the real consensus in any PoW coin is. For a while BCH had biggest revenues after the fork (because of their difficulty algorithm). Ethereum has higher mining revenues than bitcoin for months now (last 24h: $49M ethereum, $31.3M bitcoin) - does that make ethereum the true bitcoin now?
> While the information isn’t public, we can safely assume that less than 5%, or 2,954 engineers, work directly or indirectly on Google Ads (Google Search, Youtube, etc.).

Where does this assumption come from? I don't think this is even remotely close to the truth.
The person you're replying to is in the part of the Americas where this isn't true.

This board is always a bit parochial, but there's no excuse for it when people are clear about where they are.
Now it's ikea LINNMON reinforced cardboard tables, but same ethic :P
Isn't this Google Ventures? (https://www.gv.com/)
"You want wealth because it buys you freedom—so you don’t have to wear a tie like a collar around your neck; so you don’t have to wake up at 7:00 a.m. to rush to work and sit in commute traffic; so you don’t have to waste your life grinding productive hours away into a soulless job that doesn’t fulfill you."

Am I the only one here who doesn't have any kind of "wealth" as defined by the author, yet doesn't suffer from any of the above? We don't wear ties, I don't have a commute, and I really enjoy my job. Is investing any of my time(as in - sacrificing time that would be otherwise spent with my family or just on relaxing) in "wealth" still the right choice?
>screen image offset on monitor

That is so annoying on my machine, a band an inch wide is offset by an eight of an inch when it comes out of sleep one time in five. The only solution is a reboot.

I've had all the other problems as well, on both Intel and M1.
I agree, Linus is likely pretty neutral on the topic. In the world of kernel development though, feeling "neutral" about something is about the highest praise it can receive. In other words, there's not much else that Torvalds could do to welcome Rust developers besides writing a kernel patch in the language himself.
Wait what? How does this deal with homosexuality? Because men want to continue to exploit women? So anything that deviates from that system is considered abnormal?
Do chimps see color even though they don't have a word for it? Did homo-sapiens see color before inventing language? (obviously yes, many animals see color, or plants wouldn't evolve to be so colorful as an example)

It's cool to think language somehow creates color, but I suspect it only gives us the tools to talk about them. It's not that ancient Greeks couldn't see certain colors, but that they didn't have color theory like we do, they didn't organize all the colors into a wheel and had a whole industry that played around with colors for mass consumption.

The simple explanation I think is just that ancient peoples had a very rudimentary understanding of color and that just means they didn't have the tools to talk about them. This creates a feedback loop, because without talking about them, you will not get a request from someone to paint their house in that color, and thus the culture develops a blind spot for those colors.

It's not that the brain is creating colors, but rather it associates labels with visible spectrum frequencies, and having labels allows discussion, which allows real world application of it, which feeds back into the culture. It might seem that a member of said culture can't "see" a color, but really it's that they never learned to have a "pointer" in their brain for it.
Do the architects actually… build things? The description of the work there is more like a program manager. Which is an important organizational job which doesn’t have any power, but also isn’t the person doing the work, and so doesn’t have the understanding to design it.
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agreed - I would not deploy this as is, but the idea is interesting and I could imagine the concept being given some UX love in a different application
> But for the fourth kind of luck, there isn’t a common cliché out there that matches the unique character of your action

“Right spot, right time”

I think there’s a lot of flaws in the reasoning and characterizing anyone who isn’t prioritizing wealth creation (or even the concept of a tax) as a parasite is extremely miopic. For one, if you don’t have any customers, good luck creating your wealth. The data repeatedly shows that a stronger safety net (which requires taxes) encourages more risk taking and better allocation of wealth creation. Characterizing those that aren’t able to have that freedom as parasites… you have to be really full of yourself to make a claim like that.
Curious if you have a list of topics that uniquely/surprisingly stand out as high or low quality
The other consideration is that the traffic (and submissions) have grown likely 50x plus but the front page still only has 30 slots, and so the 'needle eye' is a lot smaller.

One could argue that a story that makes it to the front page today is much higher quality than one that did so years before.

You get more for 100 points, just like in economic inflation terms, you get more for a consumer electronic that has stayed roughly the same price but quality and features have increased considerably.
I mean... the WORST? For me Mongo takes the cake, but oracle is up there too.
>And this can be the display itself that's causing the issue.

The funny thing is running Windows on my Mac mini via bootcamp shows none of these problems.
Or this:

* Startup doesn't outright fail, but gets acquihired...

* Founders gets executive positions with bonus on top of bonus. Their resume has taken a huge leap forward, and if they stay at the acquiring company for just one year, they'll amass enough cash to take another couple of years off to try another startup.

* Employees get regular salary, and some small bonus to make it "worth it". They may as well have never done the startup, because it's an overall net-negative.

Oh, and the employees still have to individually interview at the company, and several won't make the cut.
Children are a public good that funds everyone's retirement, no matter your political system and the people who don't have kids are basically free riders in the end.

In a libertarian perspective, the young create growth in the market that the ownership old use to fund their retirements, and in a socialist perspective, they create a tax base of income that the government uses to fund the retirements of the old.
Yeah, with enough inflation 'millionaire' will mean next to nothing.
That's actually true, I never use them though.

I just hear so many horror stories about those stores (at least apple's store) like what OP posted.

Maybe just stay off the App store and do webapps if your app can run like that.
Growing up, Dad worked 3 jobs to pay the bills. On more than 1 occasion, I was sent to go pay a utility bill after the utility was shut off. My first experience driving was at 13 to haul our garbage up to the school dumpster on Sunday nights because we didn't pay our bill.
The car was constantly breaking down. With no garage, I spent more that 1 weekend on my back in the dirt, even in January, helping Dad fix it.
Vacations? Ha!
Although I live modestly now, I have a decent paying job and suffer from none of those things. Car is 12 year old, mostly runs OK, and there is money reserved for emergencies like when a an oil line broke last month.
All bills are paid on time, automatically, each month.
I try to keep a minimum 2k reserve for emergencies. I am out of the debt spiral. Our modest condo will be paid off in 4 years.
I have no great ambition to be wealthy, just secure. Lots of people I know, and people here on HN, have more to show for their lives.
But I'm doing better than I did growing up, and to me, that is satisfying.
Acceleration of GCC support could help.
There is lots of valid criticism of Zig. The fact that it's run by a single person is not.

hostapd is maintained by a single human. They are responsible for about 69% of all commits in the git repo, 55% if you look at the last year. It's still the most widely deployed WiFi implementation of the world. https://www.openhub.net/p/hostapd/contributors/summary
The voltage regulator module serves both CPU and GPU so the thermal issues are related.
> Everybody involved is taking some fraction of that risk.

I think that by "that risk" you're talking about "the overall increased risk of investing in a new company". I deliberately use the word investing because that's how employees should think about their participation in a startup: They're usually giving up something now... salary, extra work hours... in exchange for some possible upside in the future, often in the form of stock options.

To state what you're saying another way: A lot of employees do not correctly assess the risks of the investment they're getting into, for example, of not having direct control over the date when a salary increase will occur, or whether that salary would be in the form or cash or shares. In short, employees often invest themselves into investments (i.e. startups) that bring far more risk than they can personally tolerate.

Avoiding startups completely is one solution. Another is to really start thinking like an investor: Personally, I like to consider whether I would be a passive investor in the company (i.e. just write a check)... If not, it's a sign that perhaps the company is not a good addition to my portfolio overall, and I'd be better off taking the cash from another employer and investing in something I do believe in.

(Aside: I've seen some pretty good "rent or buy your home" calculators out there, but never a good "work for a startup or an established company" calculator. If anyone can recommend one please reply.)

Edit: https://triplebyte.com/startup-equity-value-calculator
I think the narrative of the young dropout founder is just more palatable and headline worthy. That's why people believe or want to believe that and eat those type of stories. Twenty year olds think that they can build the next FB from their dorm room. Not to say that's impossible and they shouldn't try. I got invaluable experience from doing those things in college, but I'm glad I didn't drop out or continued to work on those projects full time after graduation.
You are absolutely correct! I wasn't aware that "-i" takes an optional suffix, so it didn't even occur to me to look at the sed line as possible cause for this extension weirdness.
Don't confuse language semantics with language implementation. Case in point SmallTalk does actually use message passing. So does Obj C and Swift. The compiler can often optimize those to either virtual or direct calls, because that's simply more efficient.

And once again, synchronous message passing doesn't mean it's not message passing.

You just gotta get your terms and frame right.
It would be nice to hear how much of problem XID wraparound is in Postgres 14 - do the fixes below address it entirely or just make it less of a problem?

I see no mention of addressing transaction id wraparound, but these are in the release notes:

Cause vacuum operations to be aggressive if the table is near xid or multixact wraparound (Masahiko Sawada, Peter Geoghegan)

This is controlled by vacuum_failsafe_age and vacuum_multixact_failsafe_age.

Increase warning time and hard limit before transaction id and multi-transaction wraparound (Noah Misch)

This should reduce the possibility of failures that occur without having issued warnings about wraparound.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/release-14.html
It seems they largely imported same sex religious discrimination from western law that was largely written by religious men.
I think that the idea is that you use transfer learning to bootstrap from a general gan to a gan for your domain - and then use that to generate odd data.
Out of curiosity, do you know what causes this?
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People work at startups because they want crazy hours and stress. It's fun. You get a bond with your coworkers that you can't get any other way.

If that doesn't appeal to you then yeah you shouldn't work at a startup. But tbh I've never met these mythical people who joined a startup thinking that it was actually a rational financial decision - everyone I know did it because they wanted an intense experience.
I've been approached (though rarely) because of HN activity, and I've also found great temporary work via HN occasionally. So I would say it's a net positive, and I include it in my LinkedIn profile.

I use a résumé/CV sometimes, but I have found that those places which require one take a long time to process applications and enquiries compared with those places that don't require one, with the result that the latter places have ended up hiring me while the former places are still working up to their third interview or whatever.

In the end the résumé/CV is good to keep going as a hedge, and multiple applications are good for peace of mind, but (maybe it's just by chance) it hasn't ended up used by places I ended up working for for some years now.

I figure having a searchable track record is one of the reasons it's working out that way, and HN is part of that. Other public locations similarly, such as dev mailing lists, issue comments, etc. It's not why I write here, but it is a motivation to write thoughtfully while keeping it real, and I am mindful that a future employer may read what I write :)
Shit son, I’ve been hoping someone would do this. How can I contact you?
I guess that just kind of reinforces the concept that religion really is the only defining school of thought that has arbitrarily decided homosexuality is bad or unusual.
Ask HN: What means “Faith loves irony”?
This makes some big assumptions. One, that all the engineers both want and have the skill set to run a startup. Two, that those engineers have that many promising ideas for startups.
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The chip shortage has put a dent in new car supply, driving prices up and having ripple effects on the used car market. It's an unusual time and shouldn't be thought of as the new normal.

Anecdotally my used car gained 25% in value over the last six months. But if I sold it and still want something to drive, I'm on the hook to buy a replacement that is also priced higher than normal.
Yeah I mean there are probably a thousand people working explicitly and directly on web search alone, not to mention all the auxiliary work that goes into supporting websearch. This assumption is very incorrect.
Thanks for the kind words and heads up, I removed the scrolling effect while I decide on a long-term solution.
The best thing for users would be for the kernel and graphics subsystem to provide a well-defined API that maintains binary compatibility. Then people who care about open source drivers can have them, and everyone else who wants drivers that work and support modern hardware can have them.

Insisting that all drivers be open source and all vendors essentially give up control to the community puts a very small number of people with very specific interests ahead of a very large set of real users.
So don’t let yourself get removed completely from the deliverables. Keep in there. Take some tickets off the queue and work them so your skills stay sharp. If you are worth your salt, this contribution will be noticed by other ICs on the team and your boss. Just realize that the IC role isn’t primary for you. Provide useful feedback in reviews to keep dumb stuff from happening. Make sure your team is working on the right things.

And yes, the PE contribution is harder to measure and the risk is there that others won’t see it. If you aren’t comfortable with that risk, then don’t go for the PE role.

Which is OK! It doesn’t have to be “up or out”. For me PE is as high as I want to go. I have no desire to deal with the stress and risk of moving up past PE.

I’ve also intentionally moved from a PE at my precious job back to being 100% IC in my current company and then a few years later back to PE where I am now. I did that to build up a slightly different, more marketable skill set.
Taleb should know that the benefit is having f*k you money. I suppose that once said money is obtained, there may be no greater advantage in accumulating more.
I read it as

"Some can manage to get the thing done by avoiding the complexity, geniuses remove the complexity for everyone"