skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More than 'pros' and 'cons' I see working at a startup as requiring a certain kind of personality.

Working at a startup: Ideally you'd have a high risk tolerance, be self-motivated, be interested in learning new things -- being a do-whatever-it-takes kind of person. The kind of person who wants to throw themselves into their work. You want the kind of person who just can't sleep unless they get their product into peoples' hands. Everything may well be on fire -- all the time -- and it's up to you to fix it.

What you get being that kind of person at an early startup is a breadth of experience, often in things you weren't qualified for initially. You get oversize impact. You build your reputation -- fast. You get to build an amazing network of similar-minded people who you can leverage whether the startup goes well or poorly.

The cons, of course, are that it may not go your way. Either because of you, or because of reasons totally beyond your control. At any moment. You may make a ton of money, or no money, or anything in between. It's not the kind of workplace that's a good fit for everyone, or even for every life stage. Big companies offer effectively a 'guaranteed' way to make a 90th percentile salary, startups definitely don't.
The median T5 Google eng does not have 200k base. (It's less than that)
and lol bonus is not 200k. Bonus is 15% of base. Not sure where you are pulling your numbers from but Facebook is very similar. Most senior devs at big tech are not making 200k base (more like 150-190k). It is more like top 20% making that base. But base doesn't matter. The money is in the RSUs anyway.
> Many, many people are committed to jobs for reasons other than money, across all walks of life. This is often true for engineers, too.

Of course. But there's a reason why SV begun this expensive tradition of giving engineers substantial equity: the realization that startups and other ambitious companies must align employee incentives with company success.

It's possible that the employee will develop some irrational dedication to his job that is not based on any rational incentive structure, but that's not something you want to count on, especially with the type of intelligent, rational employees you hope to hire.

Incidentally, I've seen this position of "employees should just be dedicated regardless of equity" elsewhere in this thread. It feels like a step back to me. SV took a big step forward giving employees meaningful equity some 50 years ago. Now we're trying to roll this back in the name of... what? VC greed?
I'm not not sure if Prof. Torbjörn Lager of the University of Gothenburg knows this, but in America "Make X Great Again" has very political overtones. To those of us with colored skin, "MAGA" has been yelled with racial overtones.

Best to keep this kind of stuff away from programming, maybe?
Oh cool, didn't realize that. Hopefully London will catch up.
I'm like you, I've got some really niche experiences. I went to a #1 program at an arguably #1 school for undergrad for the industry I was planning on going into. I also have a unique personal background (extensive life-long travel) which has been helpful in more than one way but it's hard to see that on my resume.
I spent three months traveling through Central America. You really quickly get used to a constant sense of danger — the water and food can kill you, the bugs can kill you, the roads can kill you, the police and gangs could kill you — hell even taking a hot shower there is tempting fate since they have electric heaters in the shower heads and basically no electrical safety standards to speak of.

You either have to cower in your hotel in fear or live life. I went hitchhiking in Nicaragua, sledded down a volcano, went cliff diving, etc — stuff i’d never do at home.

There’s something to be said for facing down your fear of death and acting in the face of it.
My two cents is that all the low hanging fruit is gone and start ups are now 'mainstream', 10 years ago you could make a nice looking TODO list and as long as it had shareable lists and deadlines you could flip it for a few million.

I think the kind of work that is required to build something is much harder. I'm probably wrong though.
It was a long time ago, we don't exactly know what exploded.
Study says people eat a lot at work – and it’s not too healthy
I used to know the person that probably served as a model for this article.

Not only does this method work to make yourself miserable, but also all the people around you. If you detect this behaviour, run like hell.
Chrome 67 – Cookies hidden in developer tools network tab
Invented at Duke, Financed in Beijing: Powerful Camera Shows China’s AI Ambition
The premise of the experiment isn't just that people are capable of horrific behavior. It's that the thing that brings this about is largely circumstantial and a function of our role in society.
If it were any other website I would assume the humor was intentional, but I still have my doubts here.
Your arc format feels a lot like an INI-format, but with one or two teaks here and there.

Is it inherently better in a way I'm not seeing?

Would arc be suitable enough for a new project to adopt?
1) Milgram's and Zimbardo's findings are very different. Milgram's have been backed up by many replications and are often mis-understood.

2) We have both experimental and factual evidence that shows that Zimbardo's findings were lies.

3) The entire nation of Germany did not go berserk with hatred and sadism.

4) Name one instance where Zimbardo's findings have been born out is "so many different contexts"?

The rise and success of Nazism (like most social movements, including 'Trumpism') was the result of a confluence of a number of factors. To pretend that it was just "how people are" is do both people and the truth a disservice.
Agree with you on this. I had a Golf 1.4 TSI which I drove quickly and it was amazingly frugal.
It's the distinction between "I suffer from X" vs "X defines who I am as a person".
naw, the people I know work at netflix, apple, amazon, google, spacex, microsoft, tesla, etc
It's relatively simple. If you have AdBlue, you pretty much eliminate NOx. PM2.5 should be fix-able with either filters or driving the engine iirc more lean, to incentivize full combustion. That might increase the use of AdBlue required, but I am not sure.

If I were driving, I'd look for a car that, based on my own testing (e.g., during a test drive at the dealer), measures sane emissions and drinks AdBlue. But for all I know, such a car does not exist. I really wish they make them take all the dirty cars from the streets, mandating a retrofit AdBlue system to allow them back onto the street. With an allowance for those that have an AdBlue system already to measure at a test drive, i.e., with a probe shoved up the tailpipe, and the mechanic/owner driving a loop around the block or so, maybe with some mandatory measuring for the first 100km after installation or so, and if the car at any point during this fails the standards, don't allow it back on the road. The effect from this would be that teaching the car to cheat would be next to impossible, especially if you could mandate another test e.g. at any point between 10000 and 15000km, as best fits the owner schedule. While it should be possible to engineer a cheat for this, it would be hard to conceal as an accidental bug, which would be what they'd have to make it look like to avoid potential criminal liability (they could certainly create suitable criminal statutes along with the testing requirements, and make sure these hit those that actually do it, along with everyone up the chain. Make it conspiracy or so, and catch all at once. Some prosecutor would have a lot of fun.)
Stream processing engines are meant to work with ephemeral data, fast data. Couldn't you just use a database to query 'all time'?
That is because the switch is not compliant with the usb-c specification. There have been lots of reports of people bricking their switch using usb-c cables which otherwise work fine with other usb-c devices.

Discussion on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16706803
Out of curiosity, since I always wonder about ActivityPub integration between unlike apps: If a Git server used GitPub, could I comment on a PR from my Mastodon account?
You can fix NOx with AdBlue. You can't fix CO2.
Agreed. There's certainly value in reading foreign code, but IMHO the value is much greater if you spend a bit of time trying to implement it yourself, and only then see how they implemented it and consider what you could learn from their approach.
anything likable on Facebook shouldn't be illegal, or illegal to like
Wouldn't that be nice? No - marriage over 20 years, spousal support for life. Money came from an inheritance? Not part of the so-called 50/50 split. Kids involved? Are you male? Get ready to get screwed - either you go bankrupt to get your kids or you lose your kids. Are the significant assets at stake? Then these things are never simple, and if they are the lawyers are going to make sure that they aren't because they want their share of the action.

I am in full agreement with you - the majority of divorces should be simple. They should be a form you complete in a clerks office. But that's not how it actually goes, unless both parties are very, very agreeable, and even then you'd better hope the judge is in a good mood and doesn't overrule what you've both agreed to (no I'm not kidding).
If I'm making a $1M profit on you, I'll be willing to pay you up to a high fraction of this amount if I have to. Financially, even if I pay you $950K, I'm still making money.

Where does the money come for dividends, taxes, and overhead?

If there is enough supply of engineers at the same quality, no one will pay more.
> Particularly when the first round of early employees don't have a lot of experience, but have a significant amount of influence and sway simply by nature of being an early employee.

As is often the case...

Very often the first generation of employees at a startup will consist mostly or solely of folks with 0-3 years experience at most. Then if that startup survives, all these people are "naturally" promoted to senior / team lead / tech lead levels...

> It can be very frustrating being someone with experience that has to sit back and watch big mistakes be made despite warnings from people who have done it before.

I feel you, brother. I've been there too.

> There's an attitude I've noticed also of, "we're not Xyz."

It's called "young arrogance".

"Hey, we're a bunch of straight-out-of-school engineers, but clearly we can do better than Google because we're awesome!".
Why are poor people in America so patriotic?
Wow, when did we all lose our souls? So many pro "FAANG" comments. Working at a big tech company totally sucks. Its soul sucking.

Personally speaking, I made about 300k at a FANG adjacent company - and I hated every moment of it. I quit to make less money at a startup. And I'd do it again.

Today, especially today, what is there to be proud of in working for a FANNG company? Google is working with the Pentagon on war technologies and new ways to abuse their users privacy with Internet spyware and spam; Facebook is a master of fake news and Donald Trump; Amazon is an anticompetitive monopoly.

If its only about money, check out mikekij's comment:

> "If you are a smart, quantitative person looking to maximize your income, you should go into investment banking, not software engineering. Partners at an investment bank can make $5M a year. You won't make that as an engineer at Google."

Hacker news is the place to be positive about startups, the future, and technology.
Exactly. Doing this, if anything, makes me incredibly grateful I haven’t lost those things. And at the same time realize that it wouldn’t be the end of the world.
Germany's Migrant Rape Crisis: 'Failure of the State'
Precisely.

There's a huge difference between saying "I have severe depression, and it takes great effort for me to get through a day without buckling" and saying "I have severe depression, so my daily mental breakdowns aren't my fault".
I just meant to show the probabilities. (Such a bond wouldn't have to pay for non-winning tickets.)

Whole scenario is totally unrealistic. (Though if I parked $100M in cash at a bank I would not be surprised if it offered me a AAA bond @ 12% for, say, $500K. This will cost them $60K per year or 0.06% of this totally unrealistic principal. Maybe they'd do this to mollify me, I don't know. Point is, if my target is 10% returns then I should accept!)

What the bonds stand for is tptacek's business, which " has a Y2 ARR(!) and revenue target that I think would make a lot of YC companies pretty happy" but is "not a sensible investment for venture capitalists".
Good one. This is entirely consistent with the thought behind the 10 year exercise -- don't shackle the employee.
I think the US switched to giving women custody in the 1920's.

Since the 1980's California now fairly strongly pushes joint custody.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607938/google-now-tracks-...

"Of course, Google has been able to track your location using Google Maps for a long time. Since 2014, it has used that information to provide advertisers with information on how often people visit their stores. But store visits aren’t purchases, so, as Google said in a blog post on its new service for marketers, it has partnered with “third parties” that give them access to 70 percent of all credit and debit card purchases."
also there can be stress every now and then
You know tills do that now an have done that for say several decades.
CRISPR Caution (gene editing and cancer risk)
Asking "is it satire?" means: it's no t sa tir e
How Net Neutrality Actually Ended Long Before This Week
How do nail salons and the like afford to stay in strip malls when KFC shops can't even make rent anymore?
Yes, there will be collisions. You take the result of the API call, and compare them locally to the password you are checking to see if it’s in the list.
I live somewhere that is earthquake-prone, and watched intently when a large earthquake hit a city a couple hours away last year.

Food and water were supplied very quickly. But there were 3-4-hour long queues so you're better off with your own stock. In the following days, what people requested most be sent in as donations were the following "luxuries": toilet paper, diapers, and batteries to charge phones.
Yes, please do that.
If you are interested in Sergio's insightful trip don't miss his story: https://bitslog.wordpress.com/about/

Disclaimer: he co-founded one of my companies.
No its not most of the bulk in my wallet is my cards not the £100-200 I carry.
having been, for want of a better term, ‘highly miserable’ in the past, the entirety of this article comes across as insidiously toxic and detrimental to the mental well-being of those who are suffering.

there is a.. loosely similar CGP Grey video, which approaches the matter in a much more rational context [1]

for anyone suffering, i emplore you to not read this and watch this instead;

[1] - https://youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o
Why wouldn’t the slaves just rise up and mutiny against the captain??
The difference is that business partners are completely free to set the terms of their partnership. Whereas in marriage, the terms are fixed by the state.

No business partners would enter a deal with equal shares if one brings 1M in assets and the other zero. A marriage forces them to.
The biggest irritation I have is that some things are outside of my control. I can make technology better, optimize things and add features, but I can't magically wave a wand and make other areas of our company better. In specific it's hard to learn how to market a product, especially if it's a disruptive technology. Also frustrating is that I have been here before and seen scenarios where 3 years later someone else is able to bring your passion project to market after you've given up after being told "that would never work" by people who are now using said product.

I truly believe there are tons of already built products out there that get turned offline because they never were marketed correctly.
There is this hypothesis in psychology, depressive realism, that says that depressed persons see reality more clearly but this better vision isn't an advantage, on the contrary it's useless.
No. Laying fiber across neighborhoods is extremely expensive. The investment required is so astronomical that even Google stepped out of the game.

Yes, some towns have created their own municipal fiber optic networks, but it's done on a small scale.
Must be a cheap restaurant the limit for wireless is low.
It's the "print" (as in, formatted for a printer) version of the article, you can see it in the url (or probably not on mobile).

Here's the full link with all the page bloat included: https://www.alternet.org/here-are-14-habits-highly-miserable...
I think the sarcastic tone of the article is extremely effective at getting its message across. It felt like been repeatedly slapped in the face but ending up grateful for the experience at the end.
A downvote, really? Must be a lawyer in the crowd. Having just finished spending $15,000 and two years of my life on this, I'm not exactly happy with our legal system.
What those shocked people (Ha) are often not told is that Milgram went to great lengths to appeal to people's altruism (desire to progress the state of science) when selecting subjects and to persuade them of the scientific validity of what they'd be asked to do. That once the experiments began the experimenter would frequently pressure the 'teacher' by invoking the necessity of science.

He was measuring "obedience to authority" insofar as "authority" meant trust in scientists credentialed by Yale. One variation on the experiment following the same script as the infamous variation tested obedience rates outside of the Yale campus and, of course, there was significantly less compliance.

Or put another way

>'according to academic Don Mixon, Milgram didn't measure immoral behavior in his lab. On the contrary, he argued that what Milgram measured was misplaced trust. [...] Don found the same results as Milgram but came to completely different conclusions. he argued that it wasn't immorality that drove Milgram's subjects to flip the switches but trust in the experimenter, who, despite the cries from the learner, calmly told them to continue and gave the impression that there was nothing to worry about. [...] According to Don, Milgram simply measured the faith that people put in experts: "He found just the opposite of what he thought he found; nothing about the subjects' behavior is evil. In fact, people go to great lengths, will suffer great distress, to be good. People got caught up in trying to be good and trusting the expert. [...] The only evil in the obedience research, Don came to believe, was "the unconscious evil of the experimenters"'
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Is that really so awful? I love ultralight formatting, but once you start pushing 60rem text width it becomes very difficult to read.
Pro of startups:

- Get responsibilities you couldn't get at a big company. Don't have a graduate degree in underwater basketweaving? Wearing many hats at a start up means you might get to do some basketweaving anyways. A few years of experience and wins to demonstrate with that and now you can get good basketweaving jobs everywhere.

- Learn about lots of things. Learn a little about a lot. Learn what niche work you like. Learn learn learn. (caveats below).

Cons of startups:

- Terrible comp. Enough said elsewhere in this. Also, handcuffs are weird, and the current tax system means that if your company does well, then the IRS might handcuff you even harder than the company does.

- Environment that encourages overoptimism/kool-aid. This is true everywhere, but startups seem worse. That lottery ticket? Going to be worth millions for sure! Our competitors? They're idiots! Our employees? The best!

- Terrible work life balance. Everything is on fire always, and you're running out of runway and "passion" is so important.

- Fewer experts to learn from. Startups have fewer people, tending younger and greener. 30 years experience at OldMoneyCorp? That's an old stagnant legacy company, so that experience doesn't count. Oh, and they have kids so won't work here anyways. This means you'll do more things wrong and spend time learn things you didn't need to. Self guided learning is hard and has lots of backtracking.
Rather than being "debunked", the milgram experiment has been pretty widely replicated.
You can do this kind of stuff with the Leo Editor and some scripting.
I found a loophole to all this madness. I joined a company that was not remote-friendly, moved a couple hours away after about a year, and told them I'd be happy to continue working for them remotely. They obliged :)
> It goes against the narrative that there are "good" and "bad" people.

Actually, it doesn't really. The experiment says far more about the importance of perceptions of authority than it does about "good" or "bad" people.
See also, The Wave: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083316/
Can we go with FAANGAMU? It's like a Kangaroo, but with FAANGs.
Obama cosponsored a bill in 2006, as Democrats knew that anything else would leave the decision unsure. A bill was introduced in 09, when the Democrats could have ensured net neutrality, but it never got further than that.

The Democrats have publicly embraced net neutrality, but have done nothing to ensure it. Even in 2016, the Democrats official stated position was to do nothing, leaving it in the hands of the courts. Both parties actual actions have the same results.
So shrink your browser window, tilt your phone to the side, or switch to reader mode
It can feel like these startups aren't all that independent from those companies. Most are hosted by Google or Amazon and many depend upon Google or Apple to approve their mobile apps for distribution. Some get acquired by them.
>Of course, the (much) larger version of this project is converting the Digital Mars C/C++ compiler entirely to D.

Is that project complete, and if so, have you studied and found any differences between the old and the D version of the compiler?
It would be if `kjæreste` didn't have `æ` in it and were easy to pronounce for an English speaker.
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is seeking investors for a new company
This seems extremely sparse, and perhaps not ready to share? The latest draft appears to be here: https://github.com/git-federation/gitpub/blob/draft-0.1/SPEC...
Inheritance isn't considered community property. It is the sole property of the heir spouse except to the extent explicitly gifted to the union.

That aside, assets can be divided up without involving lawyers. Indeed, hiring lawyers is the pretty much the one thing you can do to guarantee that the divorce will be acrimonious, because the lawyers could care less about your (or your soon-to-be-ex spouse's) feelings.

I've never seen a judge throw out an amicable divorce settlement drawn up by parties without their own lawyers. At most, they required the divorcing parties to have the agreement looked over by a lawyer to make sure it satisfied necessary legal requirements.
It's easier to be positive if you don't feel exploited, underpaid and disposable. It's important to push startups to do better, so they deserve our positivity and can create that better future.
I personally find the European food labeling rules to be strange.

But I'm an American, and we have our own strange rules too.
Does Firefox show all the cookies?
Marriage can work out with either party getting the better end, and divorce usually works out with both parties getting screwed by lawyers. However, on average, men still come out better than women do.

See https://www.amazon.com/Price-Motherhood-Important-World-Valu... for documentation of this fact.

(Speaking anecdotally, I came out much worse off for my first marriage and that was mostly my fault. My second marriage has been a delight though.)