skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rational comparison is whether you got a good deal relative to the other options open to you, not whether you got a good deal relative to the other people involved in the startup. By the time a startup has raised VC and hired employees, they've usually already passed several risky filters: they've found a market, they've built an initial proof-of-concept themselves, they've convinced investors to give them money, and they convinced you to work for them.

You have the option to swap places with the founders and become a founder yourself. But if you do that, you have to clear the same hurdles the founders did - validate a market, build an initial product, convince people to give you money. And you bear the financial risk that any one of these steps won't work out yourself.

One (productive, IME) way to look at the founder/investor/early-employee/late-employee divide is to think of it as risk apportionment. The founder risks their time & effort for a potentially large payoff if those risks succeed. The investor risks their money on the assumption that the founder can turn it into more money. The employee trades away the financial risk that the venture as a whole might not succeed for reasons outside his control in exchange for ceding most of the rewards if it does. Depending on your risk tolerance and belief in whether the company will succeed, you might choose to occupy different roles in that ecosystem. But understand that what you're being compensated for, when you have an outlandish success that nets a big payoff, is all the ways that payoff could have gone wrong and you might've ended up with nothing.
Nope - no such ban.

It's probably a combination of pent-up demand, Switzerland being (generally) affluent, and having a reasonably environmentally-friendly culture.
NASA listed its preferred typefaces for workstation panels in Section 9.5.3.1.14.1 of NASA-STD-3000, the Man-System Integration Standards.[0] Engraved lettering, in order of preference, was set in Futura Demibold, Gorton Normal, or Gorton Condensed. They're also listed on page 113 of the Databook for Human Factors Engineers Volume I Human Engineering Data,[1] along with other very interesting design guidelines.

The Gorton typefaces were part of the MASTER COPY type templates[2][3] produced by George Gorton Machine Co. for its Pantograph engraving machines, and were commonly used for civilian and military aircraft panels produced from at least the late 40s onwards, possibly earlier (the linked catalog is from 1947). Since many of those contractors were heavily involved in Mercury and later Apollo, it makes sense that they used the same engraving machines and type. IBM also used Gorton when it started producing double shot keycaps for its keyboards in the 70s. There's also a modified version, Gorton Modified, that was created by Signature Plastics for keycaps that's still used today for SA profile caps.

Unfortunately, the Gorton plotter fonts have never been revived for digital use despite their interesting history.

0. https://msis.jsc.nasa.gov/sections/section09.htm#_9.5_LABELI...

1. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/197100...

2. http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-80708.html

3. http://gorton-machine.org/forms/form_1309d/index.html
Not sure what's on that site; I hopped right into firefox's reader mode on the first popup that... popped up, and it all seems pretty good now :)

It's hard for me to imagine browsing the web without it anymore, and I assume for regular people it's just an annoying experience of blindly agreeing and accepting everything without reading :/
> What is wrong with working really hard on a problem?

Because you're normalizing abusive workplace practices. Need I explain further? It's not right, it's not okay, and if you tolerate it, you do a disservice to your colleagues. Maybe you don't care, that's fine. But when you say "What's wrong?" I will point out that it is not to be commended or supported.

If your employer encourages, supports, or allows this sort of behavior to exist, I hope you find yourself on the business end of a lawsuit.
You seriously want to argue this?

I'm not arguing it is per-se bad (It is impossible to run programs at that scale without some fraud rate. Medicare's fraud rate is 8-10%)

i'm arguing all you would do by forcing them to give the money out is increase the fraud rate - they will do less investigation of claims because they don't have to.

Worse, claims that look better on their face will be approved even if they push aside claims that aren't fraudulent.

This happens in medicare/medicaid all the time, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_fraud

You can also see this happened in pigford vs glickman, etc.
I hear conflicting ideas about who's getting the most capable people, and I don't know what's true.

Maybe a decade ago, a knowledgeable colleague, speaking of one of the better-regarded FAANGs, told me, "First they hired the A students, then they hired the B students, now they're hiring the C students."

More recently, the sentiment I heard among CS-ish PhD students at one big university was that FAANGs (or, at least, particular ones) aren't seen as the cool places to go anymore, and people would rather do their own startups, or get professorships.

Personally, I'd consider most of the FAANGs (but not one-sided hire-hazing rituals). But technical cofounder, or working on a startup that's already funded, or a rare research lab position, is seeming more likely to be a good match.
Maybe its just my distaste for the more whimsical topics in thermodynamics but is this a round about way of saying any circuit without entropy loss is also reversible?

As the article states, you can reverse intermittent computational values to recover energy so it seems that reversibility isn't really a necessary feature of computing as much as a feature of waste free circuits.

EDIT: Why the down votes? I'm asking a question here.
You should definitely short the stock.
Not to turn a Netlify topic into a DigitalOcean topic, but when you created your droplet did you select the pre-built Wordpress option? May have helped you a bit. (I used dokku-wordpress[0] on my dokku imaged server, personally.)

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0. https://github.com/dokku-community/dokku-wordpress
Indeed. You should definitely short the stock.
Note that with DoH on Firefox, your intranet domains do not work. Had issues with it before and had to disable DoH just to access our company printer. Also causes issues with DC.

That goes into the argument that DNS (domain name lookup) should be a system and network-level setting, not an App-based setting.
I am no sysadmin but working closely with some.

Some of your best friends, eh? The point of MITMing HTTPS in an enterprise setting is not inbound content scanning (though that's pretty useful to), it's to prevent outbound transfer of secrets/HIPAA or PII data/financial data, and it's a regulatory requirement for some industries.

Besides, the point of DoH is to move DNS into the browser, which Google also controls, to prevent pihole-like DNS-based ad blocking. Cloudflare supports it because it allows them to lock down one of the few remaining actual distributed systems powering the internet. These companies are not your friends, and you should think harder about their incentives.
Free at the point of use, the way normal people mean it.

Re: the responsibility thing, it’s a fundamental difference in ideology and subjective preference, I get it, and I’m not going to argue it. I used to make the same argument, actually. My own subjective preference is to live in a developed nation where everyone has a good on-ramp towards work that they find fulfilling and interesting, and where everyone pays it forward. Other countries get better outcomes in this regard so I want to follow their lead. Anyways see you at the ballot box.
Agreed! I pointed this out to my boss once, when I was working at a healthcare-related startup. I wrote software, and I didn't have much confidence that it caused any positive effect. He explained that somebody would see the result of my software, and take an action, which would influence someone else, and so on down the line, and eventually, someone's health would have an improved result. It was all about The System, and I shouldn't be discouraged because that's just how all modern life is. You contribute to your one piece of The System and you'll probably never see the effects yourself.

I'm glad I got out of that world, and back into the physical world. As you say, the pay/hours/etc are worse but there are some things you just can't put a price on.
I'm still wondering why the accretion disk from the released images isn't warped in a way we saw in interstellar. Are we looking at it top-down rather than from its orbital disk? would a differently oriented black hole look more like interstellar? Veritasium also has an explanation and I don't think it has anything to do with its spin.
From whatever videos I have watched I don't believe so called "flat earthers" really believe that the earth is flat. At most they seem to be trolls and just like to oppose whatever scientists say. So IMO nobody should waste time explaining anything to them.
> Milwaukee is where we will transition our AI 8K+5G vision into reality

I've been reading and hearing a lot of nonsense in tech since the 1980s but this is really something to behold.
Someone should create an app that detects wifi APs that are transmitting at high power so you can track them down.

It would be super useful for someone like me where there are dozens of different APs in an apartment building all competing with each other. Then I could kindly go to my neighbor and ask/assist them in turning theirs down.
amusingly, putting enough safeguards in place that kids would do this would actually be providing some good education for kids on the path to hacking.
Neither of those are dissimilar to what I pay here in the states. Although I guess I can find horrible vodka in plastic 500ml containers for about $8
Interstellar is one of my favorite movies in recent memory. If anybody else is interested in reading more, the book "The Science of Interstellar" is fascinating and very easily digestible even if you're not big on physics.
How Hashtag Entrepreneurs Influence Our Perception (The Wrong Way)
Nkrisk admits that their personal ethics allow unauthorized signing into hundreds of computer accounts for the purpose of committing fraud. That's very weak ethics.
15%? You might wanna do the math again dude.

Also the entire point of an equity like arrangement is that the investor gets a larger fraction of the upside and in exchange for agreeing to eat the downside if the investment doesn’t work out. Comparing it to the APR of a normal student loan misses the point entirely. With a regular loan you have to pay the same amount whether you’re making minimum wage or 200k/year, whereas with an equity-like arrangement you only have to pay the max amount if you make a lot of money.
How a Facebook Chatbot Increased Sales Conversion by 300%?
All words are made up
That makes sense, haven't thought of it that way.
I believe I've got the opposite of Aphantasia. I do a lot of improv comedy and I credit my success ar the form in large part because of my ability to believe that what we are creating in the moment is real. I can almost see it in the moment. Thinking back on specific scenes I don't see an empty stage with two+ people on it. I see some version of whatever we were supposedly doing in that scene.

I've got an incredible sense of direction too and I tell people it's because I've got a little google maps in my head.
This is a bit different in embedded systems. Here is this physical object, and today it can do something that it couldn't do yesterday, because I made it do that. For software, it has a lot of physicality...
I graduated in December. Before this I already had an MS in Finance.

Overall OMSCS was a phenomenal value. The lectures are hit or miss, but that's not where the value lies in general, though there are exceptions (Joyner's classes like Human Computer Interaction). The value of the classes lies in the curated projects that high class professors designed and selected to facilitate learning. I learned so much in RL and ML especially due to those projects, as well as Educational Technology due to a project I selected myself.

FWIW I was working full time as a new software engineer when I started the program and after a year it helped me move internally into a data scientist position where I've now been for 2+ years.
Great deflection, but what should network operators do then? And specifically, network security specialists?
Probably not facetious. Just pedantic. The Amazon River is a specific example, not a generic one.

ge·ner·ic

characteristic of or relating to a class or group of things; not specific.
I don't know but you may have been the victim of 'liquidation preference' (and participation). Your perpetual startup never went public. Each of the investors, seed, A, ... has a preference in case of a liquidity event (exit) over earlier investors and a participation (multiple) as well. Your RSU was just at the bottom of the heap and there was nothing left.

The founders would have had something equivalent to your RSUs but ... they were doing the negotiation. For example, IIRC, Anthony Levandowski cut his employees out when he sold 510 to Google. (So it shouldn't have surprised anyone at Google when he later screwed them as well.)

https://www.invigorlaw.com/key-term-sheet-provisions-liquida...

Edit: the article even says it:

Today, if you’re an employee you’re now are at the bottom of the stock preference pile.

In this case, I'd only work for a startup if my preference seniority was equal to that of the founders. And the article says that too:

If you’re one of the early senior hires, there’s no downside of asking for the same Restricted Stock Agreements (RSAs) as the founders.
Can someone explain in layman terms: If graviton particles or gravity waves travel at light speed, how does this information escape the event horizon?
How Pinterest’s friendly culture has slowed decisions and hurt growth
Simple Bash syntax error in Steam for Linux executed “rm -rf /*” (2015)
You can get it turned off by contacting customer service.
I'm having a hard time thinking of ISAs as much more than a ridiculously high interest loan, especially for those who are self-motivated have a high probability of landing a job after doing X course.

E.g. Lambda school is $20k if you prepay and maxes out at $30k over 2 years, which is effectively a 45% interest loan. Even if you didn't have the cash (or didn't want to fork out) the cash, a typical loan taken out today will have a single digit interest rate.

Personally I'm completely happy with my federal student loan terms for the $20k or so I have left to pay. I stretched it out to 20 years, pay a 5.5% interest rate, the interest rate is deductible you make below a certain income, and barely think of it outside of doing my taxes.
Simple Serverless with Golang Functions and Microservices
US lawmakers begin push to expand federal electric vehicle tax credits
Not performance. And your Merc E won't get better with time.
There is a giant button on the popup that says "Continue with Adblocker"
Fair enough - I think understand their model, but I don't really agree with it :)

I don't think my car needs internet access, or anyone needs the ability to check in on it.

Unless there's a safety recall, I'd personally prefer my car to keep the OS and configuration throughout it's lifecycle.

But I love their batteries in particular, and I think they're very nice cars in many ways.
I agree with the spirit of what you are getting at.

Except that it's not fair to simply assume that a good salary was roughly similar in terms of purchasing power across the a few centuries. In fact at that time middle income people were much poorer in terms of what they were able to consume, purchase, and barter.
AFAICT, unlimited. I just ask and they always say yes. Last year I took around 4 weeks of vacation _as well as_ 5 weeks of paternity leave.

I think it helps that they've never taken issue with my general performance; if I weren't satisfactory in my output then I probably would have some push back.
Not sure if I missed it, but can we tell which way the accretion disk is from our view of it?
We could even cancel a trillion dollar fighter jet or two.
Consider yourself lucky that a black hole isn't Jupiter level distance from us.
Interesting but it doesn't really explain how a software trick can help us break the Landauer limit...

I'd love for Isaac Arthur to tackle this, he uses the Landauer limit a lot to express things like "How many human minds can run on the energy of a black hole some 10^53 year into the future?"
Where did you even get the 15% APR from?

A $10,000 loan with a total repayable of $25,000 over 15 years would have an APR of 15% and a monthly payment of $140 [1]

It's also not 15 years. The term maxes out at less
than 10 years for English majors.

If your total repayable is 250%, having the term be shorter means the APR is higher †. 22.3% APR for 10 years, in fact [2]

Paying back 250% over 8.5 years? That'll be a 26.2% APR [3]

So that 250% payback limit only kicks in if you've got a pretty raw deal.

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=$10000+loan+over+15+ye...

[2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=$10000+loan+over+10+ye...

[3] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=$10000+loan+over+8.5+y...

† Of course, one could argue APR is a poor measure for precisely this reason.
And this is exactly what's wrong with the US right now. No one cares to help anyone else.

Even in healthcare! "I have my money, if they die it's because they chose to be poor."
The Coming Corporate Brain Drain
Oh, hey. Somebody just reinvented indentured servitude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude

Good job.
Let's start a movement similar to flat Earth, but instead it's Spherical Black Hole. I refuse to believe that a black hole is anything but a sphere no matter what evidence I'm shown.
For this event they could have purchased multiple use containers for each person. Wasteful but a better image. So not really their personal containers.
English is the de facto language of international relations, more so than any other language anyway. And English is also the working language of ICANN, IETF, and any other technical body dealing with the Internet I can think of.

Point is, the fact that slightly different words are used in Spanish and Portuguese really doesn't matter. They might also want those words as well, but they have claim over the English version too. For example, even though the word for Japan in Japanese isn't "Japan", ICANN would never delegate that TLD to anyone else besides the Japanese government (and indeed even that TLD would be unlikely to be created because it's redundant with the .jp ccTLD).
> Tesla’s price is $35k but your country adds hefty taxes.

No, they sell different models in Germany. The cheapest model available in Germany currently is the LR AWD, which costs $48K in the US.
Irony that the company is now probably more known than the place.
Is this your first semester? The waitlists clear up shockingly aggressively when the semester starts. I'm always surprised when I get into a class from position 300 on the waitlist, but it always happens.
>Can you have imaginary discussion inside your head? For example, before you are meeting someone can you plan the discussions inside your head?

>Do you have verbal thoughts?

Not the OP, but my mind's ear is deaf just as my mind's eye is blind. I can plan a discussion in my head. I don't really hear it, I just think of what word I'm going to use, in a similar fashion to how I can think of a sphere but not actually see it. I think more about the points I'm going to make sure to make, though, than the actual phrasing. When I'm practicing a speech or something, I can feel my jaw and mouth muscles trying to move, so I think I'm sub-vocalizing it or something. That realization makes me very careful around others when I'm having private thoughts.

When I'm thinking about a solution to a programming problem, or any problem really, I sometimes "disappear" for a while and when I come back I have an idea about how to best proceed. People have commented in the past about my becoming completely still and zoning out for a period of time.

The inside of my head is a pretty quiet place usually. I just noticed that my jaw was making the movements I would use were I to speak the end of that last sentence. Weird.
A founder takes far more risk than an employee. It's easy to look at extremely successful outliers and say in retrospect that they are unfairly wealthy, but for every Sergey Brin or Elon Musk, there are many many people who slave away at a company for years at a very small salary, burning through their savings and getting loans (or "investments") from friends and family.

Take Jeff Bezos. He was a fairly wealthy guy, having worked at D.E. Shaw before founding Amazon. Still, he took a $250k investment from his parents to help found the company. Yes, it turned out to be a great investment, possibly worth $30 billion today, but at the time, the more likely outcome was that it would be worth $0. So not only did he risk his own money, but that of his friends and family on his new venture.

Contrast this to an early employee who starts after the first round of outside money is made. That employee often gets paid a competitive salary (maybe not a FAANG level salary, but something that's fairly easy to live comfortably on). They certainly are not expected to raise money for the company. It's just a much safer thing to do, that really doesn't involve nearly as much sacrifice as the founder.

Now, I agree that there is a point where the rewards may not justify the risks, which is joining a company in the pre-series A stage. At this point, you might be asked to take a very significant salary/benefits cut, while your share of the company is likely to be in the low single digits (percent-wise). At that stage, I personally don't think the risk/reward ratio is fair (i.e. i think that stock grants to these early employees should generally be higher than they are).
What bothered me more about the video is that of you watch the whole thing, he ends up talking about some theory which leads to another type of image prediction. He never actually explains why he chose to go with the former prediction rather than the latter.
Amphibious ships like the USS Wasp can only operate the F-35B variant, which has been operational for several years.
Ask HN: How fast do SaaS sales teams ramp up?
Modeling out a high-level proforma for how a seed round would get us from current state to Series A (say $250K MRR).

One of the questions is how long it takes sales teams to start to get productive. (Bit of a J curve from a cash pov for each hire.)

Any good data points on what the norm is for this?

Grateful for any thoughts / references here :)
ICANN’s UDRP already gives trademark holders huge leverage over cybersquatters, arguably too much power. Not sure we need much more in this regard. If you look at the UDRP’s case load, it’s extremely rare for trademark holders to lose a UDRP case.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Domain-Name_Dispute-...
One could say the same about Usenet and Hacker News. Yet here we are.
That would work in much of the world on paper. Not that the world sees the upper range as ambient. The metal may well approach the upper range during a sustained heat exposure.

Wonder what the safety factor actually is?

There are three basic types of temperature exposures:

One, a journey. Got super hot, or cold for a while, then returned to moderate, or acceptable range.

Two, excursions. Got extreme and stayed there for a non trivial time. (Scaled to the properties of whatever it is)

Three, wild ride! Journeys all over the place.

In addition, these can be one off events, or cyclic.

Windows get a kind of cyclic ride in many places. A bond holding "for a while" always has the question of what "while" really means.

Microfractures due to highly localized stress and strain, pre loaded in as an artifact of welding, would be my primary concern.