skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pros: Work with cutting-edge tools and languages. Work with people who basically know their shit. You're given much more responsibility, hence control, upfront. Process isn't ossified. Flexible hours.

Cons: Hope you like your coworkers because you'll be working cheek-by-jowl with them in someone's coworking space or crammed in a garage or something. They will try to pay you partially or entirely in Bison dollars (equity). You are assumed to have flexible hours so I hope your evenings and weekends are free. A company without solid footing can go tits up once the VC funding dries up, sending you on an early job search.
I don't really disagree, but I think you overstate it, to an extent. For most people, simple 99% accuracy of their input on their phone's system of capture is probably overstating it. There is a reason people have the clever footers "written on phone."

That is to say, people have a higher tolerance for things that are within expected norms of their environment. Ideally, we want no corrections. But, having to do them constantly for a time will quickly desensitize people to this. (And yes, this is currently just an assertion of mine, I don't have data backing it. Just some anecdotes.)
"One billion years from now, about 27% of the modern ocean will have been subducted into the mantle. If this process were allowed to continue uninterrupted, it would reach an equilibrium state where 65% of the current surface reservoir would remain at the surface. Once the solar luminosity is 10% higher than its current value, the average global surface temperature will rise to 320 K (47 °C; 116 °F). The atmosphere will become a "moist greenhouse" leading to a runaway evaporation of the oceans. At this point, models of the Earth's future environment demonstrate that the stratosphere would contain increasing levels of water. These water molecules will be broken down through photodissociation by solar ultraviolet radiation, allowing hydrogen to escape the atmosphere. The net result would be a loss of the world's sea water by about 1.1 billion years from the present. This will be a simple dramatic step in annihilating all life on Earth."
All the borderlines in this thread getting triggered (you know it's true).
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If you play russian roulette and "win", would you say that that was a good strategy? Would you do it again?
Glad to hear! I hope GitLab will also provide feedback to the community group.
> Also had no luck even trickle-charging smaller USB-C machines like the HP x360 using a phone charger.

That sucks, one of my favorite features of the new MacBook Pros is extending the battery life using a portable USB battery intended for phones
The point is that startups are not competitive in recruiting good talent, and they go to the large companies.
Again, this assumes that everyone buying cryptocurrencies are financially irresponsible people.

I have been doing this for years. While I have been lucky to consistently pull a profit, I never invested more than I could afford - and I certainly never planned to see a single cent I invested return to me (as one should assume with any investment).

If you are buying any cryptocurrency with the expectation of reselling at a profit, and you are falling into more debt than you can afford to be in while doing so, the issue was never cryptocurrency, but rather your willingness to borrow more money than you can afford to pay back.

Given that profits were never a guarantee, anyone expecting guaranteed profit already exhibits the kind of high-risk financial decision-making that deserves a low credit score as a consequence for unpaid debts, regardless of what they spend the borrowed money on.
I see a lot of talk about comp, and that is 100% an issue (particularly considering the time-value of money, that every year that you're earning more money you can earn ~10% long-term on that in your IRA/401k).

But, considering there is only so much money that startups have access to, and most early employees are not primarily motivated by money (I would hope, or else they are likely quite naive), the biggest let-down I've experienced as an early employee, that would have made up for the lower comp, would be actual access to the founders' networks and learning opportunities.

If being an early employee meant getting to meet with investors and help the founder raise money (and make an impression on those investors), if it meant being actively involved in the struggles of the founders involved in running a startup, then I suspect those of us who wish to start our own startup some day would consider that a reasonably attractive opportunity to really learn those skills and build their network.
Well, that and because he appears to be saying "this happened to me and therefore it happens 100% of the time to everyone", which isn't true.
My company isn't well known and the 200 or so engineers who work here have an average all-inclusive compensation north of $200k (many see above $225k).
Privsep is useful but I'm not sure I buy the argument that Firefox needs to go all in on it to be secure. Despite Chrome's engineering approach people still managed to privilege escalate all the way from their webassembly decoder (insecure C++) all the way to persistent root on Chromebooks, due to fundamental security engineering failures (multiple) that no amount of privilege separation could stop.

More precisely limited capabilities for content processes, etc, are good but you also just need to write more secure, more stable code and Rust is a great investment towards that. I don't think Firefox needs to go all the way to Chrome's horribly slow 37-million-process-types model. The Chrome approach has significant downsides - any use of the GPU has measurable overhead which turns into higher battery usage (this is the main reason Edge uses less battery on Windows for things like video playback), and their privilege isolation turns cache hits for web content loads from <1ms to 20-60ms because of the multiple RPC trips and context switches necessary to load things out of the cache Because Security. Every decision made in Chrome probably had a reasonable security motivation but I don't think that necessarily justifies turning a page load from 0.5s to 2.0s just to protect against a hypothetical attack.

DISCLAIMER: I got paid to work on Firefox and Chrome, so I have some sort of bias here
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In other words, the one who follows Paul Graham says: yes! For Paul wrote: solve hard problems.

Let's get down to the practical.

Laying fiber is expensive you say? What about spacecrafts/sats? Let's phone Elon wether he has time to negotiate a deal…

Recap: 1. Everybody wants Internet. 2. Not everybody (who could pay for it) has it.

Conclusion: there is an opportunity.
Not every start-up could afford it, sure. But by the time you are well-capitalized, it’s not an excuse, and as Stack Overflow has shown, it’s not that hard to afford even in Manhattan.

When young start-ups are spending millions on the company’s third wave coffee station and opulent roof deck for obligatory alcohol drenched happy hours, you know it’s not cost keeping them from prioritizing ergonomy-focused private & quiet work space.
Other resources related to this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree#Second_preimage_at...
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/2106/what-is-the-...
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/43430/what-is-the...
https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=102395
The latest trend of adding iPhone X-style display notches, even by companies that mocked that design when it came out, supports the "cargo cult" theory.
The clarification was to add ITP.

Disqus is over that way, if you want to keep arguing without a reason and without reading what others write.
This is also the basis of the Steel Man Argument [0] [1], as opposed to Straw-manning. Instead of attacking (basically nitpicking) the easy missteps in your opponent's reasoning, find the best form of their argument, and then argue with this. It seems to me as the ideal way to both win over those on the other side and provide yourself with a solid ground. You present yourself as avoiding undermining their position (really listening and caring to understand where they are coming from) and present a better argument yourself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#Steelmanning

[1] https://lifehacker.com/utilize-the-steel-man-tactic-to-argue...
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I discovered his books on the Byzantine Empire when I was about 15 years old, and I loved reading them. He made history so interesting and it was about a subject I previously had no information about, in those days before the Internet.

I've been meaning to read his book about Venice, but I keep forgetting to go get it. This is reminding me to do so.
Essential reading on this topic: "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield
https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/1...
What Freud with few of his contemporaries got right is that most of our thinking is unconscious. If he'd stopped there and investigated, we would have a different picture of him today. But no, he developed theories on top of that theory, then shifted his stories to fit his wild speculation. Even as a historical source he's hard to take seriously.

The only recourse to avoid calling him a fraud is to call him a fanatic.
Interchange rates on Visa are >2%, and there's definitely cards that offer 2% cash back on everything, with the exception they generally bar "cash-like" items like cash withdrawals and t-bill purchases, to avoid holders just churning purchases for the rewards. (There used to be a way to make tons of points for buying like $10K of t-bills on your Visa, then immediately reselling them for $10K, because the Treasury wasn't charging the interchange fee.)
>Easy: they could expect to make more profits than the cost of interest.

This is all anecdotal now. You took a semantic argument and you're running entirely too far with it now.

>In the absence of actual numbers, the journalist is simply jumping to conclusions by assuming everyone is unable to pay the debt.

Which is a fair assumption.

If you zero cash, and $15k in debt, you will not be able to pay your debt.

If you have $10k in cash, and $15k in debt, you are insane not to pay off as much of that debt as you can with that $10k, because the interest will keep accruing every month.

People who fail to understand these concepts likely already have a terrible credit rating because they lack the common sense to avoid making bad decisions with debt.
The other thing that I think would be great if YCombinator threw their weight behind would be lobbying for universal healthcare.

I (and many others, I presume) would be much less risk-averse and more likely to start a startup or work at a startup if healthcare wasn't so expensive. One of the biggest benefits of working at a big company is their good health insurance, which many startups are lacking. So not only do you get paid less at startups, but your costs are higher if you or anyone in your family gets sick.
I am not sure how Leetcode would help out here in specific, for someone who already has years of proven programming experience with other companies. Any company who holds any water in what they do would substitute rote knowledge of algorithms with real world programming skills.
> Consider how much a 10 GbE card still costs -- this is the same speed! Apparently, it's not cheap making chips working with 10-20-40 gigabit/s line speeds but the market demands low cost. USB C wouldn't get far if a plain USB C to DP adapter would cost a hundred bucks.

You can thank the laws of physics for that because at 10+ gbit data rates you start needing crazy internal clock speeds (which can be significantly higher than the input clocks). Since the distance a signal can travel before it loses too much energy to register logic HIGH is proportional to the wavelength, you have to pack everything close enough while still doing what your specs call for. In the case of 10GigE and USB Type C, this means having to move to smaller fabrication processes than most companies are prepared for or even have access to.

Most protocols designed to be that fast are either massively parallelized to avoid this problem like PCIe/DDR2+ or very expensive to implement as peripherals/silicon like MIPI3/10GigE/USB Type C.
Is it really true that these is no reason to train your own language model? What if you have hundreds of millions of unlabeled examples of something that looks different to formal language? E.g. you're analyzing Slack messages.
Thus it is not viable.

It's a single equation with 3 variables. The monthly payment, the rate and the duration.

The payment is about 50% of the typical salary in the area. The rate is set by the economy. The duration is determined by the two other variables, it's not adjustable on its own.
Um, what was the lie again?
In the US it usually doesn't, where did you learn about marriage property?

> generally speaking, Separate Property includes:
•Any property that was owned by either spouse prior to the marriage;
(random link with explanation: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jefflanders/2011/04/12/understa...)
RSUs are guaranteed money at big tech companies. I have never heard of any MAFANGs rescinding their RSUs. In fact, when shopping for a house in SV, my mortgage lender also took unvested RSUs in account when deciding how much to pre-approve me for.
This is great. Another wonderful piece of advice I had read somewhere for similar situations is:

"remember that an argument between you and your partner is you two against the issue rather than against one another"

I think it is a great way to refocus the conversation and work toward a solution.
What you're saying is that the difference isn't between companies - MSFT vs FB - but between areas: Seattle vs Bay.

I'm mostly aware of pay in the Bay and a few similar areas, and it is largely equivalent at the levels posted here.
No, as is clearly stated.

(I know you are joking, but I'm giving a serious answer in case people come along and read the comments here before/without following the link)
> That’s one of the most frustrating aspects of GDPR in relation to cookies - many businesses that could happily run a site with no cookie opt-in end up implementing one anyway because that irritating pop-up gives the end user a perception of ‘handling privacy well’.

Have you actually seen examples of that? sad...
How to think like a scientist
Founders don't work many more hours per day than early employees at x100 less than early employees. They work many more months/years before earning an income at all.

By the time the employees start to get hired, a large part of the risk and work that a founder does to earn their hopeful future fat stacks has already been done.

Now, are startup compensation packages a little low and relying on the money making reputation of past decades? Sure. That doesnt mean there isn't a world of difference between working hard on something that has a decent amount of vetting for below market rate, and working hard on working that's almost certainly not going to pan out for zero dollars.
Three things with that:

1) Prenuptial agreements exist, you can alter the terms of the partnership.

2) As someone else mentioned, pre-marriage assets are generally kept separate.

3) Business partners enter into all kinds of arrangements - maybe one parter brings in less money but has more expertise, connections, or will work more hours over the life of the partnership.
Speaking of Stacks, I keep remembering this different feature: https://www.dropbox.com/s/loojgwkskhqn4lu/About%20Stacks.pdf...
Yes, and I suppose if I'd had the option of stopping the company from paying my colleagues I would have been fine with stopping my expectations of them as well :)
Also one thing people often forget if carrying a balance - if you have balances with two different interest rates (say cash advances or balance transfers first vs. purchases or if the card issuer has raised the interest rate for purchases after a certain date) they would like you to think that "any payment above the minimum goes towards the highest interest balance" means that the whole of the given payment goes towards said balance. In point of fact, only the amount of the payment above the minimum does, the rest goes to the lower interest balance. This can sneak up on people who don't actually read their statements and destroy any form of credit progress.
Did you seriously just compare Mormons to Branch Davidians? And North Korea? Mormonism has its problems (excellent article on that at https://longreads.com/2018/06/07/meet-the-new-mormons) but that is totally over the top. If you want to leave North Korea, you risk your life and your family's lives in a terrifying journey over the Chinese border. If you want to leave Mormonism, you write a letter saying "please remove me from your list."
>But if you are buying an asset hoping that the 100% annual return will pay your credit card interest and help you catch up with your rent

If someone borrows more money than you can afford to pay back because you expected a guaranteed profit investing in a high-risk market, the cryptocurrency was never the problem.

Their completely irresponsible use of debt was the problem.

People can just as easily sink all of their liquid cash into cryptocurrencies, subsequently lacking the capital to repay their exiting debts.
> I have always felt uncomfortable with the concept of "inside face and outside face". It comes off as disingenuous and dishonest.

Or is the unsubtle expression of the concept uncomfortable?

Americans do the same thing; you can see this in the casual talk Americans also have with cashiers or wait staff. Just because you're friendly and chatting doesn't mean you actually want to be friends and go out and do something together.

The Culture Map by Erin Meyer expresses this idea as a spectrum from a peach to a coconut: on the one end, you get a soft exterior with a hard interior; on the other, a hard interior with a soft exterior. The point though, is that everyone does this -- just in a different way.

I've known some Japanese people who've gone to the US, been confronted with the super friendly casual American attitude, then been horribly offended when it turned out that that friendliness wasn't "real." Part of this is the stereotype that Americans are "honest and direct," and part of this is that Americans tend toward the peach end of the spectrum, while Japanese people tend toward the coconut end.
The thing I find frustrating with Milgram is there is three narratives going on simultaneously.

1. The actual reality: this is an ethical experiment and no one is at any risk
2. The pretend actual reality: someone is being (potentially) fatally injured - certainly being hurt beyond the point of toleration
3. The false reality: - everything is fine because of science

Almost everyone is concerned that they may be in reality 2 - they ask the researchers who say some variation of "please continue". This leads them to the entirely correct conclusion that this is a safe environment and they can continue.

However, they are meant to have concluded that they really are in reality 2 and we judge them accordingly - even though they were never in reality 2, and never did anything horrifying to anyone.

But why should they consider the other person their responsibility - surely the other subject can just say "that's enough I don't care about science enough to carry on"? If the torture subject can't freely decide to stop then that means the "torturer" is probably also in mortal danger!
I just found out about Bitmain's Sophon card, but I don't think you can buy it yet.

I'd like to explore chip design but I think that requires an electrical engineering degree which I don't have.
I'm assuming you've read the book, and so actually have some idea of what this 'research' it probably refers to is. If it doesn't exist outside of the book, you may have been tricked.
> I hope Theo is wrong here, and that things are getting closer,

He kind of lost me when he said

> I doubt firefox will ever focus on security.

This just seems ridiculous. They just spent years working Firefox into a multiprocess design, in no small part for security. And the same for completely dropping the entrenched extension legacy model (thereby frustrating lots of devs and users). There are other past and current examples where Mozilla is focusing on and improving security in Firefox.
Even if you don't live in Tokyo, I would encourage you to check out the HN Tokyo Slack; we're fairly active and at the least, we can all give relatively local (to Japan) advice and a shoulder for commiseration.
I loved your response. Just to add to it: early startup employees aren't working hard just because they selflessly want to contribute. They often hold the belief (typically mistaken nowadays) that their equity will be worth tens of millions of dollars, because that's what the founders told them. So they pour their heart and soul into this venture that will surely make them rich.
Clever article. Although it's a bit ironic that it appears on that site, which seems to be dedicated to anxiety-inducing political news.
Related question but not directly to OP:

I'm a 6 years experience SWE making $200K TC (all "paper money") in Orange County (CA) right now -- is it realistic to ask for this much paper money if I wanted to attempt a spot at a FAANG(MUA)? I'm still young and flexible and have no trouble moving around so I wouldn't mind at least trying.
NEVER EVER repeat typing terminal commands.
Along the lines of other comments: Consider creating “YC Engineering, Inc.” Good engineers are concerned with their career path more than comp packages.

One function of YCE could be to enable engineers to swiftly choose projects rather than companies. An ML expert may work on optimizing income for AirBnB hosts for 6 months and then switch to working on a project at Coinbase Prime. Maybe they like Coinbase Prime and migrate to that full time or maybe they want to explore more with ML and switch to optimizing Cruise routes.

This would also be useful for startups since “fire fast” is a challenge for some. It would seem easier for founders just to tell you “this person isn’t working out: they may be better suited for a more mature YC company.” At that point you could pull that employee and have them placed at a better suited company.

Lastly I think it is a good opportunity for educating engineers. If a good engineer is proficient in Python but YC needs a lot of blockchain/financial engineers (e.g. Coinbase’s ridiculous hiring growth) then there could be opportunity to guide that engineer to such a path if they’re interested.
reminds me of this by dandelion hands - how to never stop being sad: https://open.spotify.com/track/6ZLt6fyonW1xOGMBC9vJPJ?si=PGM...
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