skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
although some countries have these linking rules I don't think they generally apply to research, that is to say if they research is available it is legal to link to. Research from American governmental agencies is also paid for by American tax money and thereby, under the American model, owned by the public and publicly linkable.
The court documents at one point call that contradiction out as being nonsensical. A license cannot prevent the licensor from choosing restrictions, so interpreting the AGPL in a way that automatically nullifies those does not make sense in this context.
I don't know if this is true or not, but I once read that during the last California gold rush, there was more money in selling tools to miners than in the gold itself.
Ask HN: Why do you work at a startup?
Given all the downsides, I cannot think of enough upsides to work for a startup. I'm interested to know what reasons people have here.

The term startup here includes any private company under 500 employees. Companies like stripe and cloudflare won't count.
T4g.nano has 2vcpus at 5% "baseline utilization" (=sustainable utilization). That is not very much. Also only .5GB memory
It's incredibly interesting how public opinion and perception of these issues (overpopulation, but also other kinds of scarcity, i.e. food, energy, water) came to be.

The by far best book on the subject is Charles Mann's "The Wizard and the Prophet" [1]. It is also one of the best books I've ever read.

It shows how - from the middle ages through today - the idea of scarcity vs. technological advances have played out, explains which characters played a role and where we stand now. Lots of interesting people make side appearances, i.e. (tragic/demonic) Fritz Haber, Norbert Wiener etc.

[1] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/220698/the-wizard-a...
Well, the software industry seems to believe that, for some reason, we get to live by different rules from every other company on Earth, throughout all of human history.

Depending on key roles is something that every company in history has had to do. It’s a risk, but one that has been paying off for hundreds of years, for millions of companies.

There are ways to reduce “bus factor,” yet still maintain high Quality work. The corporation I worked for, managed this, but the price is extreme levels of overhead and rigidity. That has its own risks. I was treated as a “cowboy” in our company, and was considered to be borderline “reckless.” Most folks here, would have considered me to be destructively conservative and risk-averse. I got the job done, though. Our team consistently delivered high-Quality solutions to difficult problems, for decades.

The “easy answer” is to keep expectations and demands on labor low. Keep quality to a minimum. Rely on “black box” dependencies. Don’t use advanced development techniques. Squeeze your coders like lemons. Treat every employee the same as every other one, and control for the lowest common denominator.

That’s not how I worked.

It's OK. The industry is safe from me, and my radical views. It was made abundantly clear, years ago, that no one wants people like me in their company, so I have been forced to work with people that can't afford even crappy programmers.

Poor bastards are living the nightmare.
> It is astounding how many people require 24/7 ops... while working 8/5.

In this case the client had an actually global audience. They could have afforded downtime for the actual transition, but it was a usual test for the high availability features that mattered for them.

I do agree with the overall principle, though - a whole lot of people think they need 24/7 and can't afford downtime, yet almost all of them are a lot less important than e.g. my bank, which do not hesitate to shut down their online banking for maintenance now and again. As it turns out, most people can afford downtime as long as it's planned and announced. Convincing management of that is a whole other issue.

> My take on this is what OP is a sysadmin, not a dev. smug smile

Hah. I'd say I was devops before devops was a thing. I started out writing code, but my first startup was an ISP where I was thrown head-first into learning networks (we couldn't afford to pay to have our upstream provider help set up our connection, so I learnt to configure cisco routers while having our provider on the phone and feigning troubleshooting with a lot of "so what do you have on your side?") and sysadmin stuff, and I've oscillated back and forth between operations and development ever since. Way too few developers have experienced the sysadmin side, and it's costing a lot of companies a lot of money to have devs that are increasingly oblivious to hardware and networks.
> I am always surprise when well funded startups hire former big-tech engineers, rather than experienced startup engineers

i'd say that if you plan on scaling, you need a bit of both. a lot of tricky scale/process/architecture questions have effectively been "solved" in big orgs, it's useful to have people who can bring this experience

to take a completely random examples: setting up a performance improvement plan, performing incident post-mortems, organising oncall rotas, branching strategies when you have a mix of small customers on standard product and big accounts with customisations etc
Whoops, accident, and I can't edit any more. Not sure how I blurred Google and Apple together. Meant Google product. Sorry.
true, it was also a layup to point out valve games heheh
The Chinese firewall is a government run censorship apparatus. The American one you refer to is standard network security (or CGNAT out of necessity) on networks you don't 100% control, but I'd hardly call it a "great firewall."

Those aren't really comparable. What does "reliability" mean in this context?
There was a point years ago when I was surprised to find out that you can throw things other than strings...
Just imagine you need a container for the calculator.....
I usually understand WIP to mean Work In Progress but what does it mean in your context?
> in order for any license to close this loophole, you need to create a licensing term that obligates the user to publish private forks. These terms will inevitably either restrict the user's freedom to run the program

No. The end user is the one using the SaaS service, not the company providing the service. AGPL is there to give freedom all the way up to the end user. Also, there is no private fork in this scenario.
Vl (Violet) – Shell Scripting in TypeScript. Powered by Deno
An audio desktop:

http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/
This one is from a study with real data:

"In 1985, men ages 20-24 had an average right-handed grip of 121 pounds and left-handed grip of 105 pounds. Today, men that age had grips of only 101 and 99 pounds, the study found. Men 25-29 posted losses of 26 and 19 pounds."

source: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/13/4815909...
and: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26869476/
> The internet exists beyond these walled gardens.

Barely. The amount of content that is locked in Twitter, Reddit, Youtube and Co. is enormous and I have never managed to find anything that can remotely compete with them. Worse yet, most alternatives are just clones of those services, they don't really change anything fundamentally. If they would ever get successful, they would go down the very same path. See imgur, which started as an image-sharing-but-good site and is now just another site trying to force you into their mobile app.

At this point I think the only way to solve this is legislation that forces those companies to open up the data and not wall it away. GDPR already did that for users personal data. The upcoming Digital Markets Act will force messaging services to interact with each other and maybe the walled gardens will be the next target.
Qt docs are excellent, one of the best I have used. They have high level overviews, examples and everything you ever want
If someone sends me just “Hi” in slack, they’re still waiting to this day.
More importantly, don't let this happen again.

How many times does someone have to fall for the same scam before they deserve some of the blame?

Only support services that aren't blatantly trying to buy their way into becoming a monopoly and abusing their locked in customers.
We have changed our couriers – Better customer experience
Primarily for storage at this point.
I run some CI/CD on my local network, and the artefacts produced by the building process are massive. Paying for that is not worth it.
This feels very much like the classic dropbox vs ftp+svn comment. I don't think the point of CF Tunnel is some novel technical capability or performance, but convenience and having a service you don't need to worry about and not have a server that you need to maintain.
Did you watch the video?

The difference in numbers is how things are measured. Measure them the same way and Japan's rate is lower than the USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate#:~:text=If%20m....
We shouldn’t underestimate some companies’ desire to keep running the same software.

However, as for stuff they legitimately do "better", they’re mind bogglingly reliable. We’re talking two or three seconds of downtime per year. They’re also accurate - every instruction they perform is checked for correctness and if something goes wrong, that task can be migrated to another CPU core and resumed transparently. Cores can fail, socket can fail, etc. without the system going down. Hardware can be replaced without downtime. Processes and data are just migrated elsewhere. They recover from hardware faults and resume at the same instruction within milliseconds with no data loss (cache contents can be mirrored to other machines in the data center, etc.)

The hyperscaler model would be to eventually recognize tasks sent to some machine aren’t returning and reschedule them from the beginning. VMs would resume from the last snapshot, etc. It takes a few seconds at best. For 99.9% of the world, that’s perfectly reasonable and acceptable. We work off of eventually consistent models.

But there still remains a small audience for which that model isn’t acceptable, and they’ll pay through the nose because there’s not many companies making machines that way anymore.
Septembrians don't know what to take seriously. These kinds of strong opinions feel useful for people new to the scene so they can certainly influence a lot of people.

Hopefully they can see comments like 'gtk+3 wasn't even backwards compatible with gtk+2' for what they are. (i.e. no shit, hence the major version change).
This sort of thing is not what Show HN is for. I'd remove that from the title if you're able to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
My remote option is a global team. We have offices at my location, but since management and the rest of the team is spread around the globe, the risk of me needing to show up at the office is minimal.
https://archive.ph/gxhCC
I worked in the Cinema industry when Dolby Atmos were introduced. It was a pretty big upgrade and quality assurance for each auditorium were strict. Speakers had to be installed all over the roof and more speakers had to be added all around the auditorium. So in a Cinema Atmos can be pretty great, but how you can translate this to a home theatre setting is beyond me.
Qt has stayed the same and KDE has been excellent, this is a probleem with GTK and Gnome based desktops
It's impossible for there to be an objective measure of intelligence as it is an adaptation to a specific environment.

As others have said before me, an IQ test measures how adapted you are to IQ tests.
> Do democrats disapprove of creating internet access for Ukrainians?

I think what was said was used to denote that he will comply with State mandates in regards to what the DoD may need; moreover SpaceX and Tesla are big proponents of hiring Veterans and have several in key positions.

It's sad reality, but people need to realize that aerospsace has and will likely remain an appendage of the military; it's an incredibly patriotic, borderline nationalistic, Industry: ITAR compliance of any and all workers in aerospace being critical for weeding out possible threats to the Industry is one critical reason why it's there.

With that said, Musk is doing business with the CCP in China. I'm wondering that if in time it will be a bigger threat that they demand they breach his security in order to retain his company and not be nationalized.

My opinion: The US DoD can just use continue to use Raytheon or Boeing to make all the murder-devices they need, there is really no need to have SpaceX involved at this point.
Yes, all true. You can in principle export to STL but it doesn't work very well.
> The automatically rolled out browser specific method described in this article is really directed at users that don't know this is even a choice...

So it's intended to benefit 99.9% of everyday users, then, despite the risk that it might irritate the 0.1% who for whatever reason want things configured some other way. Sounds like they made the right call.
Construct 3
Youth and/or believe in product.

BTW it would be welcome to clarify of what to consider a startup since this word seems to be slightly overused.
Another thing that we are going to see in combat vehicles in the next decades, IMHO, is something like OmniMechs. Meaning that future weapon systems, e.g. fighters or tanks (not the upcoming generation but those after that, F-35's successor' successors) will feature LRUs (line-replaceable units) that carry different mission capabilities. That way, a fighter can land as a ground support fighter or drone controller and lift of as air superiority fighter by swapping a hand full of modules out.
I believe 1:1s are counterproductive
Why wouldn't be anyone invited to a productive conversation? Or is it to keep secrets or extinguish promises?
Not everyone will be in every open meeting, but things closed doors isn't great.
Factorio sessions would be cool too
Only if your license is covered under copyright. Contracts are functional instruments, so copyright doesn't always apply. You, as a license author, may in fact be required to demonstrate to a court that your license is not only original and creative enough to be valid copyright, otherwise they're going to throw out the case.

And even if you do manage that... it doesn't change the obligations, right and conditions of the license people agreed to. After all, they agreed to a contract, irregardless of that contract being in copyright violation. So even if a license author sues, they can't help people already under that license. And the most likely court outcome is that the software under license becomes proprietary once the court decides you can't use that license text anymore.
> we never raised any money

Who? (Also, given an open market, as was the case when the Amazon patent expired in 2017, the company fundraises to scale will beat its more timid competitor. This is basic strategy.)

If you were in a different industry…great execution in the wrong industry is as good as a Ferrari in a swamp.

> all that matters is knowing people

Sounds like you’ve been through some shit. I’m sorry for that.

The point I was making, summarily, is that Bolt ate Fast’s lunch. It went straight for the big customers. Fast wanted to grow towards them incrementally. In this story, if anyone had a fundraising connections advantage, it was Fast—they were Stripe backed. Bolt outmanoeuvred them (and was lucky).

This is unorthodox strategy. Fast played it conservatively. Bolt swung for the fences. Curiously, Bolt landed the home run.
I did try using the extension and almost all the features are available in the free plan. Planning to use it now.
Wouldn't a Spider be the better scout 'Mech? It has jump jets!
No, Russia Did Not Make the Ruble Gold-Backed
Cool!

Curious, what is your rationale behind having a 7 day trial? The time a customers invests to dive into and get attached to your product seems like best predictor for a future sale.
Most of the downsides are financial - you work for a bit less than you might earn elsewhere and equity usually ends up worthless. Those don't really matter if you're earning plenty though. Someone who can command a $150k salary doesn't need to accept a job that they don't enjoy. They have choices. One of those is a startup, where the product itself is often much more interesting. You have real agency over what you're building that you wouldn't have at a BigCo, you're likely to be working on a problem that actually feels like it'd make a difference to customers, and ultimately you have more power over your own destiny. Plus it's can be a smaller, closer team than you might get at a more established company.

Add to that the hiring practises in startups are usually something like a quick chat, a tech test, and then an indepth interview rather than 6 rounds of interview and whiteboard tests, and just the process of getting a job in a startup is more appealling.
I'm in the opposite camp. I recall great monolithic software for media production from the 90's and think our modern web-centric view is "dumbed-down".

There's a time and place for minimalism, but the term "power user" also has a meaning: your accumulated user-base that didn't leave.

Windows post-Vista has forced me and countless others into never bothering again. The fact of a 90's MCSE certification means nothing when I blankly gaze at the visage of a "modern" Windows UI that tells me nothing of import.
M$ basically told all their power users to go away.
>the or later part alone makes that risky.

You are entirely free to pick a GPL version and don't add the "or later" clause.

Many projects, including the linux kernel, do.
> Sublime Text and others were maybe successful at some point but not sure how profitable they really were.

Still profitable enough to be larger than it's ever been, enough to fund new products like Sublime Merge and continue releasing updates. I'd argue any small business that provides a lively hood for at least one person is fairly successful.
Seems like that's just standard appreciation. You replace the bits that deteriorate and conceptually lose value, so by replacing it, you just bring it up to par with what it would ideally be worth since buying it. Although my father did buy his house in 96 for $80k in Canada, hasn't replaced fuck all, and it's now worth hypothetically $250k just because that's what houses are going for in the neighbourhood
Nail them i say :).
You translate it by using Dolby Atmos setup (which people are doing for a few years now and is available at home as well).

For cheap setups, people bounce sound off the ceiling while for better setups people install speakers into the ceiling. Automatic speaker calibration for a given room is pretty much a standard feature on AVRs today so that part is also taken care off. It's not quite the same as cinema, but there's still a massive market for people that want more than farting out of cheap phone speakers.
FYI, the mac serial number seems to fit under the European personal data definition.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
Apple doesn't change. Chrome doesn't change. They both look exactly the same as when they were introduced. What makes platforms strong is stability and consistency. Linux desktop projects are more likely to get funded the more disruptive they are and the more likely it is they'll alienate supporters and cause drama. Like gnome's big shift circa 2014 to tablet first interfaces. If we consider that Linux desktop users are the smartest and most technically advanced computer users in the world, then it's quite a slap in the face to force them to use a gimmicky gui intended for toys as their workstation. The most advanced computer users deserve the most advanced desktop. Sadly that's not the world we live in. Hopefully someday we can liberate the technical class from this orwellian treatment of continual destruction of identity.
This is something that we are trying to solve at Careersaas.
We take "remote ratings" from those who have applied for roles at companies, but also we algorithmically measure the ratio of remote positions, text indicating a remote role within a job post, and then add a score. Here's Gartner, for example: https://app.careersaas.com/portal/companyprofile/662a55634c1...
Twitter has barely changed for me the last 10 years. I only access Twitter from Tweetbot on my phone. Should Twitter decide to deny Tweetbot API access I’m pretty sure I’ll quit Twitter all together. Cause I don’t understand the web version or the native app.
Hey look, my crush I wrote about! Naw, that's no fun. The better solution is buying a Honda generator or maybe trying to build one.
That's normal, most papers are written unnecessarily complex, likely to make them appear more impressive than they actually are. Many blog posts that contain just as much information as papers, but presented in a much more intelligible way.
Tim Rogers and Noah Caldwell Gervais are the absolute masters of long form video game essays. Joseph Anderson too if you can stand exhaustive detail.
Java doesn't have a widely adopted framework for kickstarting development like Ruby on Rails or Django Admin Panel. Actually .net core comes much closer with web apis and the default web projects you can build. Spring boot is pretty good, but has a much bigger learning curve than Django or Rails IMHO, there are several templating frameworks that might help you but none of them are "standard", I seem to remember using Thymeleaf for something a long while back.
I'm perfectly content with a docker compose script, it gives me more control over the software, too. Dim is excellent in this respect.
Good, but frankly it’s pretty embarrassing for them that it took the threat of a multi-million pound fine before they made this change.
Org mode was my main "excuse" for keeping Emacs around, but these days i've more or less given up using it due to lack of decent mobile clients.

Instead i've more or less settled on Obsidian for my notes, which does 99% of what i used org-mode for, and i use other tools for the last 1%. The only thing i'm missing is a good (integrated) solution for task and time tracking/reporting.

I'm aware that PlainOrg (https://plainorg.com/) exists, but i've already moved my notetaking workflow to Obsidian, and i'm deeply entrenched in modules with that, so moving now would probably not accomplish much.

Somewhat ironically, the best Org-mode plugin i've found for "other than Emacs" editors is for Sublime Text : https://github.com/ihdavids/orgextended
I think you have a misunderstanding of what the change is and what the previous situation was.
> Framing the dissenting opinion as equivalent to "aliens did it" is exactly the problem.

You made a category error by somehow replacing "opinions which are obvious nonsense" with "any dissenting opinion whatsoever".

Nobody but you suggested that. The claim was that you cannot say anything at all about any "dissenting opinion" unless you are 100% sure you are correct. That is nonsense. You can obviously say something about some of them, while not being confident enough to rule out some others.
A CDN like CloudFlare with "Always Online"?
Interesting but to claim excess credit wasn’t the primary driver seems to ignore that credit was clearly in excess in it couldn’t be repaid, even when prices correctly slightly. That’s pretty much a definition of credit becoming available in “excess”.

And the categorization seems "after the fact". I mean if you look at prices and then lump cities into categories, you're not really predicting anything.
There's a lot of content that only exists in these walled gardens. It's easy to say "don't watch that movie if you don't like it" but Twitter has a lot of information that you can't find anywhere else. Just like YouTube which can be a bad place but still has a lot of documentaries and valuable content that's only there and makes it worth jumping through hoops for.
Lifetime ISAs as a different scheme than help to buy ISAs and are still available https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/lifetime-isas/