skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We should be able to do that. Exterminating the billionaire class (by taking their money) would be a great thing for society.

Historically, weak private property rights are used to hurt the poor, the vulnerable, the weak, the unpopular, the racial minorities, and the immigrants. My fellow members of the left make a grave mistake in assuming that private property rights are only important to the wealthy.

I will predict that assailing private property rights to accomplish societal goals will be seen as a major unforced error by this political movement because it will end up being used to harm non-billionaires FAR more than its used to rob the rich.

Not to mention that just like wiretapping and anything else, it's a lazy shortcut to just suspend rights to achieve your ends rather than doing the proper work within the system and without violating anyone's property rights. We need to put more thought into things than these kinds of facile solutions.
> It misrepresents the point of the actual author

It doesn't? The moral of the story is bitcoin hasn't been adopted as much as the bitcoin fanboys will scream.
I'd argue this is how it "naturally" works for the current epoch with the current division of productive resources, that is to say, it is a historically conditioned state of affairs, and like any historical period it is overcome. As in, the current distribution of property is to blame, but it's not clear that simply switching to a different model of distribution would overcome exploitation at large.

I think that exploitation can, in general, be defined as when A exploits B, A takes "unfair" advantage of B. In order for this to be the case, there must be some mechanism by which A has the ability to exploit B, which I see as defined by the distribution of productive assets necessary to live. It gets more complex speaking of how we define productive assets, and whether exploitation exists as a matter of class (neo-Marxian sense) or as a matter of profit (the Marxian sense).
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Bitcoin has failed and succeeded.

It's main success is that it started both blockchain and cryptocurrency evolution.

Other than that, it's failed. It's fairly useless as either a currency or store of value. I've seen comments that state how Bitcoin or Lighting Network works. It does, but for the tiny fraction of people who can't use fiat, other top cryptocurrencies work even better (cheaper, faster, no Layer 2 complexity).

I always find it curious how some assume Layer 2 is inevitable on any currency that scales and therefore Bitcoin, having early lead in LN, can only increase its dominance. But no one can force us to do that and we don't have to use just one made up currency. We can use an unlimited number of coins, each without Layer 2. Bitcoiners have been saying other coins will die off; not only that hasn't happened, but even tiny coins haven't died off.
Hey! I love the idea for your app. I've looked for something like this several times.

Quick suggestion.. you should put a sample of the voice quality on your website so people can hear it before installing it.
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Oldest still supported? Probably gotta be GCC.

Oldest unsupported? I have some VB6 tools I use to make tilesets for Sega Genesis homebrews.
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>> IPO rocket ship

The attractiveness of this depends on whether it goes up or down. It's anybody's guess which way it'll go.
> Living in the UK, national payments are instant, with very few exceptions.

Well, anything within the same bank is instant. There is a commonly used mechanism in business accounts called "Faster Payments" which tend to settle even across banks in the UK within 2h.

Very recently - as in, in the last 4-6 weeks - a system called "SMS" was rolled out. Despite the name, it has nothing to do with text messaging. It's a new cross-bank settlement mechanism which promises to settle the transfer in 20 minutes within UK.

The reality is that SMS transfers don't work reliably across all the banks. Our payments and customer service teams had a bad week after we enabled SMS payments. When a supposedly faster transfer takes 5-6 days and you have to chase the bank(s) about payment states, there's clearly a fault somewhere.
This is why I use 2nd Line. the voice quality is shit but its free so.
But the average steam user only plays 5% of the games he owns, so this may not be so bad!
Please keep in mind that the tips/tools/techniques that people list are highly subjective and may not be applicable everywhere. I realized this from my own experience (worked at two startups in the past, and now at BigCo):

* Glassdoor: Sort reviews by date (people are relatively happy when they join, negative reviews tend to be more current). Take every review (good/bad) with a grain of salt. Reviews with higher "helpful" counts could be more reliable because there are so many companies where the HR writes glowing reviews

* Crunchbase: To know more about the funding situation, list of execs, etc.

* levels.fyi: Salary info. Also check h1bsalaryinfo (website). May/may not be applicable to you, but will give you an idea of what your peers potentially make.

* LinkedIn: Search the name of the company, click on the "People" tab, and look at the list of people who match your background, and then dig out their backgrounds. How long have they been working at the company, what are their previous jobs, how well do you think their background support their roles (even before you talk to them). At my previous company, there were a bunch of people who did sub-par job of being software engineers at their previous companies, and took director/lead/vp roles purely based on their years or experience rather than technical expertise and screwed up the mission big time. This tends to happen at medium/big companies more frequently than at small startups.

* On-site interviews: I know it is going to be extremely hard to gauge a team/company while they are gauging you, but this can be done. Prepare your questions beforehand, and try to see how close or vague their responses are.

* Blind (app) or teamblind (on web): Search for the company and look for comments/questions etc. There may be some discussions which may not be applicable, but it doesn't hurt to search.

* GitHub/Medium: Some companies/startups have their own pages, or at least their team members do (although not current). It'd be good to check those as well.

* Cold emailing: Previous and current employees. Not many will respond, but if even one or two do, I'd highly value their input

* Coffee: Doesn't hurt to try (most people are willing to do this, but don't do this just because they don't have time, or feel awkward about meeting new people)

Most of these will be applicable for smaller companies/startups, but at big companies, it'll be tough knowing all the people you will work with. Ultimately, it's going to boil down to few things:

(a) your instincts: whether you feel you'll fit right in or not, whether the company is good for you or not, whether you believe in the core mission or not. I tend to believe this more.

(b) your team: a good team/team member can make your life at work the best experience or the worst experience. And unfortunately, there is no way to predict this unless you give it a chance.

Good luck!
> We charge $10 per month because it’s simple, but eventually want to move to a model where we charge a small percent of the tax write offs we find for you.

Does that mean you'd need to examine the person's full tax filing in order to determine what you've found that they did not?
I think there is some sort of anti-astroturfing on glassdoor. The salary that they have for us is absurd. It's something like the starting pay at In-N-Out or Chick-Fil-A, for an experienced and specialized software job.

I wonder where that comes from. Perhaps it is from Glassdoor itself, trying to force companies to enter into some sort of business arrangement to correct the nonsense. Perhaps competitors are trying to make us look awful. I'd like to think that the culprit overplayed their hand, and that everybody will disregard the nonsense, but probably some people believe it.
Browser extensions that automatically delete site cookies when you close all the tabs for a given site (unless you manually add the site to your whitelist) still work and involve the least amount of ongoing user hassle.

Cookie Autodelete on Firefox, for example.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
Hetzner provider in Germany offers "auction" servers for good price: they are customized and/or outdated servers that customers cancelled so they can rent them for an extended period of time.
There is always a greater goal to achieve that requires more money: 90M to retire? Sure, it’s plenty of money. 90M to do greater and better things? Not so much. Hell, even Bill Gates would gladly take more money that what he already has in order to achieve his foundation goals.

Your point of view is not objective, but subjective to how much money you need to have in order to do the things you are planning to do.
Yeah, I agree with this and also believe the parent is responding in good faith. I've never worked at an established franchise, and I'm sure there are ma-and-pa shops that actually care, but what I've seen has been abysmal.
Semantics are important here. 'User' connotes more agency than can be expected. I find that 'subject' is more appropriate than 'victim' but we should agree that 'user' is the wrong word. The media can do better, and these companies have to do better.
I actually loved the first quarter most. What I liked was the self-motivation exhibited in it. It's not so much insightful as reassuring.
I guess if there was any insight, it's from the very first chapter - you can learn something from everyone around you.
> I just gotta stop and ask myself sometimes what the fuck I’m doing wrong.

Don’t know anything about you beyond your github and HN profile, but I‘ll speculate: perhaps getting hired at 200k or less by the right company is the key to earning 300k+ within a year, while getting hired at 300k is unlikely unless you come straight from a corp/position that is known to pay more.
And Bruce Schneier says the trust thing is a bust - it moves trust, rather than eliminating it. Usually to parties that I have far fewer reasons to trust.
It's also reversible.

With bitcoin, it might take a bit longer, but transaction are non-reversible after a few confirmations.

Any other system can reverse payments even 6 months down the line. Sucks for businesses.
>2. Whether board members and executives still have skin in the game and holding their stock. If board is full of early shareholders who have already been made whole, chances are you aren't their next unicorn, there is no explosive growth, and they've checked out. Expect executive level bullshit politics related to their short term compensation milestones.

Can you elaborate on that?
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Hey, thanks for sharing that app link. Checking it out on my iPhone now and it's pretty impressive!
I have two hypotheses as to why that is.

Bill Gates is financially involved in a large number of startups mentioned in the article. Good PR = more sales = Gates' portfolio is better off.

The other reason is a little more conspiratorial. There is a growing trend of financial populism where politicians are clamoring for higher taxes on the rich (70% on $10+ mil). I think Gates is trying to mitigate this movement by showcasing how he uses his wealth for the greater good.
I'm actually curious how AWS is able to scale support so well with what seems reasonable quality. I had an issue (my fault in end), got excellent support - and they didn't tell us to take a hike at end when it turned out not AWS fault.

Conversely, with GCP 4 years ago now had some support issues - didn't come away impressed - I'm convinced even internally GCP isn't well doc'd or something.
Question: How much is this computer?

Answer: $1186

Question: If I buy 100 of them can you give me an x% discount?

That's what Amazon did with the elected NY leaders. If I bring 25,000+ employees that might generate as much as $28 BILLION in taxes, can we get $3 billion in discounts? If we don't get the $3 Billion in rebates you will NOT be getting the $28 Billion in taxes.

It was a yes or no.
You passed the sense of humor test.
Secondary sales is existing shares changing hands, there's no dilution.
Right? Even if autonomous taxis _is_ their endgame, why couldn't companies that actually produce the cars do it cheaper? Almost all of them are heavily investing in it right now, some are even partnering up with companies that know how to do a lot of it.

I don't see how this works out for Lyft or Uber. To me it just looks like they'll both eventually run out of money and get squashed. Maybe I'm missing something?
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Yes you are right, I’m sorry. By selling the bonds the fed is decreasing the money supply, by buying bonds they are increasing the money supply.

Thanks for pointing that out! I deserve downvotes for the original comment if anyone wants to give me one!
But you're injecting that point into a discussion about a different point as though it provides more insight. It's not particularly interesting; we get it, they're fabulously wealthy. But no one contested that, which is why several people are trying to explain that it's not what they were talking about.

An S-1 filing encourages relative financial comparisons by design and intention. It's not surprising that Lyft's founders are extremely well off now. What could be surprising is the degree of dilution they experienced. Those kinds of financial technicalities require us to engage in discussion that treats objectively fantastic returns in terms of relativities.
> They did that, just like Linux did before them. I especially like the reply to the announcement that was "uh… I hope you didn't spend these two months coming up with that solution. We already did that for Linux, so you could have just asked".

Linux developers were told about meltdown/spectre right away, but OpenBSD wasn't told until the end of the embargo over two months later.

https://www.itwire.com/security/81338-handling-of-cpu-bug-di...
cha-ching!
DokuWiki is good with enough plugins and not so complex as other solutions. Main problem as always is having "everybody" learn the syntax to add content.
I totally agree the dim to dark is an amazing feature before bed. I just wish they would use something better than a 2700K LED if it's supposed to be used in the 15-45 minutes before sleep.

In my opinion, if people are able to sleep in darkness, they should, and it's not a good habit to start kids out sleeping with the lights on.
Fluff article with misleading quote: "In this view, knowledge does not compensate for a declining adult intelligence; it is intelligence!"

This doesn't introduce anything of interest to people who already know that fluid intelligence decreases and knowledge can continue increasing.

Depressing.
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Unfortunately that's not what matters to Wall Street or VCs. They could arguably have scaled slower and made sure each market was profitable, but since everyone wants "growth over everything", they were forced to scale as quickly as possible.

They are actually successful in the minds of VCs because their revenue has been growing.
> ... I no longer rattle off crazy ideas to people because I’ve come to understand ...

From Baltasar Gracián, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"[1]:

Keep Matters for a Time in Suspense.
Admiration at their novelty heightens the value
of your achievements, It is both useless and
insipid to play with the cards on the table. If you
do not declare yourself immediately, you arouse
expectation, especially when the importance of
your position makes you the object of general
attention. Mix a little mystery with everything,
and the very mystery arouses veneration. And
when you explain, be not too explicit, just as you
do not expose your inmost thoughts in ordinary
intercourse. Cautious silence is the holy of holies
of worldly wisdom. A resolution declared is never
highly thought of; it only leaves room for
criticism. And if it happens to fail, you are doubly
unfortunate. Besides you imitate the Divine way
when you cause men to wonder and watch.

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To some extent, yes - the customer is always going to be on the hook for telling the truth. For example, we can ask: did you go out to that dinner with a client or coworker? The customer could lie and say yes, in order to claim more write offs. There's not much we can do about that.

We support users if they get audited in the sense that we'd give them all of their data recorded with Keeper and help answer any questions. Ultimately, we base all of our suggestions on information the user has told us, but we can't guarantee that the answers were truthful.
The Bible Belt is running out of notches
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