skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like he has found the problem with companies.

"Even though these companies pay a lot of money, in real terms, what software is doing in society is creating a lot more value than what they pay you. Google's pure profit per employee is actually $1.6 million per year, after all costs."

"If you're in the engineering, product, design, marketing, sort of the builder's side of that organization, you've got to know that you're creating a lot more value than that, possibly 10 times, maybe 100 times that value, and the only way you can really access that is by owning equity, and that means either being a founder or working at an early stage startup that gives significant equity. "

In other words, companies either purposefully or absentmindedly fail to pay regular employees anywhere close to their real value. This is the real problem. Not getting in a profitable startup early on isn't the problem. It's the mindset that it's somehow okay to pay employees very small fractions of what they are really worth.
Apologies I had the article in my mind when I posted. However the chemical used in manufacturing seed oils are quite extreme. I did use the wrong term
China is a big investor but its just one of many. European companies always had a big footprint.
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Damn, sorry you didn’t make $200m profiting off a company that makes ICE more efficient
"You can't move experienced employees in to train the new workforce because we want to avoid unionization in the new plant" is going to have major impacts on the ability to train up that new workforce.
Well, if being prudent you wouldn't be using your non company match part in Boeing at all. (puts in line with those of us with no match).

Sidenote: It's laughable when companies say they think options are a better choice for the employee than a 401k match.
...although I guess leverage from iOS is stronger than Safari’s.
The thing that hit me after coming back from the war, was how absolutely meaningless the vast majority of life’s required set of petty exercises are. I understand the elitism and the challenge of conquering Yale. There seems, however, to be a monumental difference between him and the rest; that is, 26 years of hardship, quiet observation, and directed action in shaping the world before reaching toward a philosophical understanding of it, versus young people desperately seeking that relevance for themselves, but only within the bounds of perfect physical and emotional comfort, perhaps not realizing that their pontifications are more limbic than neocortical. Downrange was my “safe space”; it gives a name to that limbic fear and drops a lot of emotional pretense otherwise. Stanford, not so much. What I found impressive there was the Sisyphean devotion to transforming ones mind into a perfect vessel of discovery, creation, and healing. I didn’t really respect it until I started to see that path as a superior way of being to my own, and made my best effort to commit to it despite the overwhelming disadvantage of time. Perhaps someday I too will see the same moral superiority in the screeds of elite youth in the humanities and social sciences. He was, after all, a far greater man in his first career than I ever will be.
I feel a lot of the folks here are focusing on the wrong parts here. The $200M loss was a cheap way of getting user attention, but hey it worked!

The core of what he was trying to convey was the sooner you get to understand real user / customer problems the better off you'll be in life as an entrepreneur.

He stayed away from this in his early days as he opted for stability and that he seems to regret.
If you every get to know someone who is, you'll find trans people actually do suffer significant violence and disrespect. I know you put those in scare quotes to imply it's not real and I think that's really dishonest.
Exactly, that terrible french engine makes a delorean a terrible car to actually drive. It is likely one of the many with an engine swap. As cool as they look, buy are they crappy cars. The lotus designed suspension cant help being overweight, underpowered, and assembled in northern ireland during rough years. I wonder if the tesla truck will fare better.
I don't love the way the previous comment is written, but it's substantive. This is just drama; it distills the worst possible reading from the parent comment and tries to fix that meaning for the rest of the thread, which is exactly the opposite of what the guidelines ask you to do.

Further: the Redis take on display in that comment is pretty mainstream – very much including the statement about Sanfilippo's obstinacy – among systems developers. Even if you're an advocate for Redis, it's good to at least see the brief its detractors bring against it.
Well this is why it's important to work on something that you believe in. I think there is a fatalism to think all small companies are going to fail. Individual employees should use their own judgment when thinking about whether a startup will work— they are often more right than not since startups tend to be self-fulfilling prophecy. If lots of smart people like you want to join too, then it actually becomes a lot more likely.

That being said by the numbers most startups fail, and there is no guarantee a startup role will get you a positive outcome vs other alternatives.
"If wearing a tan suit wasn't deeply unbecoming of a President, there would have been little backlash from conservatives."
> the path to success is to do what Google does

This kind of cargo-cult process copying has infested the start-up world and is akin to sending a lot of shirts to the laundromat because that's what rich people do and you want to be rich too.

These things work for large companies because they are large companies. Their problems and associated solutions rarely if ever are a good match for the kind of issues that your average start-up contends with, especially early on in the life cycle.

You and your buddy the first-hire developers are not going to gain anything by copying the Spotify development model, and other examples in that vein.
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This is usually money laundering. A Brazilian politic had won the lottery 7 times.
Sorry to hear that someone disagreeing with you is worth disappearing entirely. Crony capitalism is indeed a problem, but I think you're going far overboard by suggesting that all large corporations are evil and that anyone who works for them is just causing all the suffering in the world by ignoring it.
It's using FNV-1a [1] which is indeed a non-cryptographic hash function and is a perfectly suitable choice for a hash table [2]. The goals are speed and low chance of collision, not security.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fowler%E2%80%93Noll%E2%80%93Vo...

[2] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/4955...
I really don’t know much about it, but I think the Han identity is similar to whiteness in the US, right? A coalition of groups that not that long ago would not have considered themselves the “same.” The Chinese govt seems to consider constructing a unified Chinese identity pretty important, maybe anticipating that once they start failing to make the standard of living gains they’ve made over the past decades ethnic tensions could be destabilizing?
Well, TSLA is a very sentiment-heavy stock, so it's hard or impossible to say what exactly caused this recent run.

For example, they've been guiding Q3 and Q4 profitablity since ~Q2 or earlier. They started building the Shanghai factory in Q1, the Model Y was announced in March, the Truck's been talked up since forever, etc.

What's really changed is that the Taycan is no longer a mystery, but a real car with a real price tag and real range. The ID.3 is almost-real and struggling with software issues. The E-Tron, new Leaf, new Bolt, etc have real sales figures. When these were unknowns, you could be reasonably skeptical of Tesla's claims, but that's increasingly untenable.

Or, as the great Silicon Valley philosothoughtleader Russ Hanneman said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo
Yep, I’d agree with that!
> The West can help by redirecting all food aid instead towards education, contraception and abortion for women.

This is evil.
Here's a mainstream article: https://www.wired.com/story/democrats-fix-crumbling-data-ope..., I have heard that both the previous setup and the new setup are worse than reported.

On a different level, Obama drastically reduced the funding for the DNC and weakened the organization, possibly as part of a grand bargain with Hillary (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/2/brazile-says...).

Additionally, the consensus is that Trump's team embraced FB ads / other digital much more than Clinton's team. FB embedded "representatives" (presumably sales/operations people who understood how to best use FB ads) with both campaigns but only Trump's really listened: "Hillary Clinton’s campaign didn’t have Facebook employees stationed on site, according to people familiar with the campaign. One former Clinton campaign official said the campaign didn’t want to give Facebook employees “24/7 opportunity” to sell more ads by embedding with its staff. A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton didn’t respond to a request for comment." (https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-facebooks-embed-in-the-trum...).

Of course, to Kick's point, the specific company being discussed here is a Bloomberg operation, not a Democratic or "progressive" operation, whatever those terms mean. If Sanders or Warren win the primary, will Bloomberg redirect the company to their control / use?
This comment is not internally consistent.
Well said. You’re also describing a fundamental tension between capitalism and socialism.
> It also seems like most people in the US only cares about ticket price,

Ryan Air, EasyJet, and other discount airlines suggest that Europe cares significantly more about price.
The languages themselves have decent support. The problem is that it works great if you code the way Google does internally with all your dependencies vendored. Outside of the googleplex where we have, you know, package managers, bazel adds a ton of complexity and bugginess. The core algorithms are battle-hardened in Google, and the third-party package manager support is a tacked-on afterthought on to the open sourced version.

I don't blame the bazel authors, but the development process it was designed for is not the development process of 99% of companies out there. Maintaining BUILD files for all of your vendored dependencies is expensive for your company. You need a full time team working on it.

Unless hermeticity and build correctness issues are absolutely killing your team's productivity (and at a certain size, they might be!) think twice before adding bazel to your maintenance overheads. You can always move to it later if you need it, and it might be more stable and have a better 3rd party package story by then
Did you get offered 1% of Apple? I mean, getting offered equity at the start of a thing is what I was trying to talk about.
>How could a country with the largest prison population in the world not fall into at least some definition of authoritarian?

Because the prison population isn't comprised of political prisoners at the will of the federal government.

The vast majority of prisoners are there as a result of violating state level crimes by State prosecutors...having nothing to do with political opinions.

Is there a actual reason you define the country with the largest prison population as necessarily authoritarian?
Its super readable on ios.
There has been progress since the millenium on race traction control. In the beginning, it was a crut h for bad drivers. Some systems today are banned in racing. Both for ocassional advantange, and for not-occasional mishaps that endanger other drivers. It always seemed odd to me that tech not safe enough for racing is now mandated on the road.
I have a suspicion that most application of computing and Internet technology, even in business, has in fact been neutral or somewhat negative in terms of productivity and, for humans, also for happiness, but some minority of the applications yield such huge gains (on both fronts) that it's an improvement overall and one can be fooled into thinking it's usually good, rather than usually bad but sometimes very good.
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I realize you are probably saying that in jest, but I once worked in a cubicle for a Fortune 50 firm. Loved it. The firm itself had average management, but the people on my team were a lot fun to work with.
Is China Beating America to AI Supremacy?
In alaska there is no real punishment for skipping school
I don't disagree with you in theory, but when an article is suggesting that you should instead make $200M in equity by working for a venture capitalist - and not just any venture capitalist, Peter Thiel, the man who is sad about women's suffrage because it means unchecked libertarianism is less likely to be chosen by free elections - for spy firm Palantir?

Go work for a big tech company, it's far more ethical if you think capitalism is bad.

Also keep in mind that there simply isn't $200M to go around for every software engineer, let alone every human. These concentrated payoffs only come at the expense of others. It's not universal advice and it can't be.
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I guess what I wanted to say was that if you are capable of building great software, you should join the .01%, because that was my experience.

I started as a reader of Hacker News just out of college, and it taught me a lot. Many of the founders we back came through Y Combinator and learned about startups here.
Yeah, that's exactly the case. And filtering is quite useless in London for example, where all the reasonable options are in a single bracket.
When you say it was undetected on VirusTotal, I suspect you really mean it was unknown, i.e. hadn't been submitted. Currently it has 3 scans and detections from the first.

2019-12-22T12:41:28 11/59

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To be honest, I don't know. It's hard to compare for the US domestic flights, since you have to decide on comparable routes.

That said, flights throughout Asia at distances similar to US domestic flights tend to be reasonably cheap.

I decided to make a comparison:

Fly Singapore Airlines from Singapore to Hong Kong. This will cost you 225 USD in economy.

A domestic US flight of the same distance would be San Francisco to Albuquerque on United Airlines. This flight will cost you 468 USD.

So it seems to me that Singapore Airlines is able to provide better quality at much lower cost. Perhaps the US airlines simply don't have to be better because there is no one that shows it can be done?
Based on what we know of physics, weight, and grip, elon is, as usual, full of it.
Tofu is processed but also incredibly ancient[1]. If it was bad for us, we'd probably have found out about it by now. Ditto for seitan[2], tempeh[3], various pickles and other types of preserved foods, and cheeses. "Traditionally" processed foods get a pass on the "real" food scale because they've (mostly, apart from smoked and cured meats and fish) passed the "is it harmful?" test.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu#History

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_gluten_(food)

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempeh#History
>> There’s no telling that the current outcome is inevitable if you had chosen to participate.

True. Judging from the author's terrible decision-making abilities, the company would probably have gone belly up before it got to series A if the author had joined sooner as a director.
Oh I agree— big tech is fantastically lucrative! I wouldn't dissuade people from spending some time there.

Separately I also agree that there's a big problem of credentialism in software engineering. We meet lots of amazing software engineers who didn't go to the right schools— that's a big reason why I funded Triplebyte.
Do you believe the figures Russia and China publish?

Alternatively, if a country had a high rate of executions and/or "disappearing" people, what would happen to that country's incarceration rate?

Alternatively, is the term "incarceration" only applied to people convicted of a crime? Would re-education camps count towards the incarceration rate?
I guess what I'm getting at is everything described in this article. The concept of ultra-conformity doesn't really resonate with the America.
If you define “toddler” as age 1–1.5 then sure.

By the time a child is 2.5 or 3 years old they can be learning dozens of words per day.

The most efficient way to teach new words to kids is to spend as much time as possible reading books with them.
Everything you just typed can be explained by the phrase "Tesla is years ahead of their competitors", so not sure why you're so solid on that "Incorrect" statement.
Is that what you expected from such a simple piece of code?
That's not the reason why they continue to exist. They continue to exist because if they didn't the whole thing would slide backwards in a hurry and then we'd have to start all over again. I've seen a lot of union based excesses and there are tons of horror stories. With all those taken into account the situation is still far to be preferred over what you'd get without unions. Witness the kind of pushback IT companies give against unionization and you have to wonder what they're so afraid of, a level playing field definitely benefits the employees and collective bargaining rights is one of the greater goods to come out of the 20th century.

You will lose that at your peril. In a way the whole gig-economy is trying to do an end-run around any kind of social safety net, and looked at from that angle it will likely end bad to very bad for the participants, even if from their present day perspective it looks like a great deal.
This should not be downvoted. filleduchaos is right. Get over yourselves nerds.
It's pretty bewildering to me too. The point is I said no, and it was the wrong decision. I ended up starting a company and later becoming a VC.
In theory, every LSD dose consumed is pure LSD. In practice there are many stand-ins that are cheaper and easier to produce. They have different tox profiles and one never knows what one is actually taking unless you run your samples through a battery of quantitative tests. The one or two field tests out there are easily fooled if the counterfeiter is of a mind to fool them
> This seems like using a laser to peel an apple for internet points.

How so? From what I can tell they're working to improve autonomous vehicle handling in extreme situations. That seems very practical and useful. I'm curious how you arrived at that conclusion about "internet points." Because the question I really want to ask you is against the rules here.

Also the capabilities of your mechanical rig pale in comparison to what this can apparently do.
Ok, thanks for correcting me.

I still only use LED outdoors but I would like to use them more indoors.

Do you know what the techniques for solving the annoying LED blue light are called so I can google and learn how to detect those lamps?
ah, after some more research I did not know that "migraine" was a specific form of headache instead of a synonym for it.
I am sure safe spaces are implemented in a variety of ways and with varying levels of competence.

I would point out that "being opposed to sex-reassignment surgery" is not so much an opinion as it is an ideology. I suspect many safe spaces would be far more open to including people who subscribe to that ideology if those people entered those discussions with a willingness to learn, a desire to honestly explore the pros and cons of that surgery, and a desire to share their own experiences of gender while also learning about other experiences of gender.

That is not any easy thing to do and it is especially difficult to do for cisgender people who have little knowledge of the emotional land mines they can trigger by simply relying on the "common sense" they have learned over a lifetime. If there is an honest desire to be included in these discussions, I would highly recommend taking the time to listen and learn before you start sharing your viewpoint so you can understand the effects that your words will have.
I think my problem is RodgerTheGreat said "You can't _____" and your response was "Yes you can."

Neither one of you provided anything by way of supporting details, citations, etc. At least RTG expanded a little, but even that was just an explanation of why they felt the way they did, nothing even approaching proof.
At a certain size, monorepo becomes the worst way to do it except for all the others.

Essentially: version skew across numerous artifacts in a large organization starts to look like the version skew across an industry or ecosystem. The aggregate cost of dealing with it project by project is probably higher, at least that is what most of the biggest tech companies have concluded, than dealing with it at the source level using a monorepo and single-version policy.
it is unbelievable that the was MAX considered a low-risk in terms of selling planes, but ended up huge risk in technical perspective.

if they just stuck to evaluating technical risk first, and only then the risk of selling the plane - perhaps that route would have led them to developing a new completely plane.
That is true. And these airlines never show up in the top half of the airline rankings. However, when flying these airlines you don't expect good service, and no one is going to proclaim that “flying is always a bad experience” because these airlines exist.
The claim is that by running around outdoors, the brain gets used in a variety of ways such as navigation, decision-making, and sensory processing. Then why doesn't driving around in a car have similar benefits? Or does it?
Why did he value Microsoft over Their? There is something in his character that held in higher regard one decision over the other, there's no exploration of what caused the conflict in the first instance and a likelihood it will happen again. What should he have done with himself at that point and all future similar points where he has opportunity again?

This post seems to be more about signalling than lessons learned. Better luck next time!
It's the safe and rational choice. I went to work at a startup after college and the company ran out of money in three years and valued my equity at zero. I absolutely would have been better off financially working for Microsoft.

That Palantir worked out is hindsight bias. There's no way he could or should have expected it to succeed at the time.
You're right, I got confused about where I was and what I read! Previous comment over-written.
"Coding - on software design process" by Jonathan Locke.
Actually, I don't remember how this really worked in System 7. :-(

I think, at least in Word you could Cmd + Tab (or pressing "." on the numeric keypad) to transfer focus to the menu bar. (Then simply navigate by cursor keys and use Enter or Space to select an item.)

However, Mouse Keys may be generally of help. I think, in System 7, they are part of the "Easy Access" system extension (be sure to have this in your system folder). Mouse Keys are activated by Cmd + Opt + Clear and allow you to navigate by the numeric keypad. (Up, down, left, right, diagonally, 5 is equivalent to a click, 0 to holding the mouse button pressed, the decimal point [dot] to releasing it.) On a PowerBook, you probably have to use the function key as well. (Using Mouse Keys, you may activate a menu by the 0 key. Normally, once the menu bar has focus, you can navigate by cursor keys and select a menu item by the space bar.)
Huh? Google makes $1.6 Million profit because of the Google Enterprise not because of the Employee.

According to your logic, if the Google Employee quits Google and goes somewhere else, will he create the same $1.6 Million Value? No.

You can determine how much value you are creating by using a very simple formula. Quit Google and see how much less revenue or profit Google made. That's exactly how much value you are providing Google.