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I open with my base price, which is several times what most firms plan on offering.

"Hi, thanks for reaching out. I'm very happy where I currently am. Lemme know if you can beat ${2X FAANG Total Comp), 5 wks vacation, and fully WFH (before COVID was a thing), with a great collaborative culture dealing with scaling highly available systems. Cheers!"

Usually, the response is, "wow, great gig. We will circle back at a later time."
I think using Mapquest and Yelp as examples harms your argument.

Mapquest and google maps are fundamentally different products. Google maps is a geo database that happens to also give good driving directions. Mapquest just gave people directions. A better example would be google's Waze acquisition, but even that one is not very comparable.

Yelp is basically a protection racket whose sole purpose is to squeeze money from small single location restaurants. They actively harm their customers by promoting reviews based on whether or not you pay them. They are a modern day BBB
I don't agree with jammucoder that information restriction is a justifiable way to reduce terrorist attacks, but I think HN is exactly the sort of place that tolerates this exact kind of viewpoint, especially directly underneath a comment that argues the opposite.
If you suffer ADHD, I strongly recommend reading Scattered Minds, by Gabor Mate. I found it enlightening
Shutting down the internet is more or less as the major online platforms colluding to shutdown one side of the political spectrum.

Sometimes it's the government, sometimes it's people that aspire to be in the government and aren't yet. It's all about control.
You can set google to search articles from 2018, when everyone referred to it as the team being disbanded and warned of trouble. Administration officials have tried to spin it as not disbanding it, but it’s not obvious why they should be viewed as being correct. Some 2018 articles:

* https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/2/23/16974012/tr...

* https://khn.org/morning-breakout/global-health-security-team...
* https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/05/white-hou...

Pandemic preparedness was merged with WMD control. The below article refers to it as streamlining but notes

>The abrupt departure of Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer from the National Security Council means no senior administration official is now focused solely on global health security. Ziemer’s departure, along with the breakup of his team, comes at a time when many experts say the country is already underprepared for the increasing risks of a pandemic or bioterrorism attack.

https://www.kff.org/news-summary/elimination-of-nsc-global-h...
Everyone’s an expert when it comes to things outside of their field. Dunning-Kruger is looming larger and larger on HN, as HN descends into a circle-jerk of narrow political thinking.
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Yesterday, there were reports of Russian mercs arriving to help Lukashenka fight his people.

Just saying.
I'm not aware of any case in which this is true. Effects are run on every render unless you explicitly specify dependencies in the second argument of the hook.
Not just the fees, but how they can suppress free speech and whatever they deem "unworthy."

Granted a lot of it comes from risk management.
>"Oh," he says. "You mean why no voice dialing? Saying 'Get Fred' or 'Get Sam' or something? I don't have a voice dialer." He will soon, surely. Any day now, he will be able to pick up a phone anywhere and say "Call home" to a network that will recognize his voice and look up his home number (verifying his credit by means of his voiceprint).

In hindsight that's a... yesn't.
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Your hourly billable rate is irrelevant here because these community tokens aren't trying to compete with your salary. They're pricing something else, something orthogonal to your professional compensation.

So there's a useful idea out there called the 8 Forms of Capital: https://www.google.com/search?q=8+forms+of+capital

The idea is roughly lets use the language and methodology of "capital" to look at all the non-"net-worth"-ey things that makes us human.

So your "net worth" is the sum of your 1) Financial Capital (bank account) and 2) Material Capital (house and "stuff").

But that's only 2/8. When you hear about people who live in luxury highrises and work 12 hours a day at McKinsBcgBain but are too drained when they come home to do anything other than order takeout and pass out watching netflix only to pop a xanax and do it all again the next morning, that's being wealthy in Financial and Material Capital but poor in everything else.

The idea of these community tokens isn't to price your time as Financial capital, but rather price it into something like 3) Social Capital (the relationships you have with others) or, maybe, 4) Cultural Capital (all the ideas and bonds that constitute a community identity). Do others interact with you purely transactionally, or do they rely on you as you rely on them? Do you feel like you're part of a neighborhood, or just renting space one 12-month lease at a time?

So basically, your time can be priced in salary-dollars or it can be priced in community-bonds. Your time may command a high salary-dollar price, but what kind of social- and community-dollar price do you command?
To nose around without the VPS of B&E, Bay Area HN'ers can visit:
https://www.nps.gov/goga/nike-missile-site.htm

(I had first heard of this site as a conspiracy theory from a non-tech bay area friend who swore to god that as a teenager he'd broken into a Nike site — and left immediately, as he was freaked out to find all sorts of new tools and electronics about, implying someone was repurposing the missile launchers. It is reassuring to discover it had just been the cold war equivalent of napoleonic reenactors...)
So you feel that it is better to do many things and fail at all of them than it would be to do one thing and succeed at that because that one thing has no meaning in the world that would result?

All those other things that Mozilla has done to date have not moved the needle for me even a little bit. But the browser is something that touches me every day, for multiple hours of the day.

Maybe this is just my personal perspective but all this activism has not brought Mozilla much other than a bunch of controversy and in the end a browser that is not quite top notch, when it very well could have been.
Didn't know there was one in the works. First one was pretty good, one of the better "role playing games" in literal "get-into-the-role" sense.

Breath held.
That's how you can tell that the SEO people are lying about their motives. They don't want you to switch to DDG, they don't want 1000 search engines to bloom. They want Google to be the big gatekeeper with almost all of the traffic, and they want the government to use regulatory powers to force Google to drive that traffic to their sites.

That's their endgame. They want the EU or whoever to effectively force Google to send flight search traffic to Expedia. They don't get that from a competitive search market, they can only get it if Google remains dominant but becomes subject to a lot of bogus regulation.
And frogs don't really sit in boiling water.

These are called figures of speech for a reason, being literal about them is not admirable nor worthwhile.
Would it be legal for American companies to ignore American laws on foreign land? It doesn't sound plausible
> Firefox can't fight that by itself

Why do you say this? Because this is exactly what I expect Mozilla/Firefox to do.

IE, Chrome and Opera all use the Chromium engine. Safari is locked into the Apple ecosystem. And as such, it’s imperative Firefox fights this battle, with all the resources and community support they can get. Otherwise we do end up with a Chromium-only silo very quickly.
Absolutely there are cases where class components make sense. I highly doubt they would ever depreciate them.
Ask HN: Does a flat org ever work?
I have been at a few places now that seem to want to have a flat org when it's convenient and a hierarchy when it's convenient. I've found that hierarchical structures with established roles and responsibilities work best. Flat structures seem to allow no one to have accountability.

In your experience have you ever actually seen a "flat" org work? And if we are being honest is what you are describing a "flat" org, or just an org that claims to be flat but in reality there are clear power dynamics and decision makers with unofficial influence?
Here's one idea: Make the index open and public, set up a public body to update it, and allow anyone to build a frontend. Access can be charged per query. Other companies/entities/governments will be allowed to mirror the index for essentially the price of data transfer.

This is just something I thought up right now, and sure, there might be problems with the approach. But to pretend like there is absolutely nothing that can be done betrays a willful lack of imagination.
I second this. I've been using Jira on and off for years and I'm still having the feeling I haven't fully figured it out yet. In particular, there are some things that I still find unintuitive and which require more brain capacity than they should.
Yeah, I thought the silver surfer quarters that came out a while ago ended up with a fine:

https://www.coincollector.org/silver-surfer-quarters-declare....

Although, I suppose someone has to go after them to make it a problem for them.
HN values freedom and as software engineers who depend on the internet I don't think we'd tolerate bullshit comments like this.
The new vision sounds like the old, current vision for the most part. I might be missing subtle changes in items 1 through 4. But item 5 is interesting:

> New focus on economics. Recognizing that the old model where everything was free has consequences, means we must explore a range of different business opportunities and alternate value exchanges

I think combining this with the momentum behind things like the Federal Reserve's new inter-bank payments system (linked on HN yesterday) could finally make micropayments or something analogous mainstream. I would really enjoy shifting some of the advertising-funded model back to direct revenue from customers. I would like to be considered a "customer" again in more walks of life, generally. Not just a "subject." I think the customer-vendor dynamic is much more healthy when I am indeed the customer.

If there's anything hopeful to take from this announcement, I think this is it.
Probably generation difference. The author is depending on google products and social platforms way more than I'd ever do. Facebook, youtube, gmail, chrome...
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I agree with with the intent of your statement!

However:

> Nobody wants to hand-write wasm (...)

As a side note I want to point out that it is actually quite feasible to hand-write WASM in the text representation WAT.

It has some high level control constructs, type checking, some unique safety guarantees and a simple memory model.

Writing some (simple) programs in WAT and possibly a small language compiler for WASM is quite educational, fun and can be inspiring.

It can also build a more grounded intuition for the performance characteristics of WASM.
Ethereum + proof of stake + sharding. Right now every node on the Ethereum network validates every transaction using a similar proof of work system as Bitcoin. This creates a transaction bottleneck; I believe Bitcoin can do something like 7 TPS, Ethereum about 11, which is woefully inadequate for a global financial system (for comparison, I believe Visa does something like 20,000).

Proof-of-stake replaces this massive electricity waste with game theory. Every validator must put up a deposit (in ETH) to participate. If it cheats, it loses that deposit. The damage it can do to the network is limited to less than the deposit. Therefore, it's never profitable to cheat - and so they won't, or if they do, they will go bankrupt, remove themselves from the network, and self-limit the problem. And transaction validation can now be split among thousands of nodes (instead of having those thousands of nodes all validate the same PoW), which means the network can scale to tens or hundreds of thousands of transactions per second.
We will try to record them and post them in the future. Also considering a live stream for others in a similar situation. Will try to follow up here once we decide what’s possible!
Wow.

What they mean, I presume, is that when money earned locally can only be spent locally, it encourages re-investment at the source.

This is dangerous and limiting in some ways, but an interesting thought in others. The world doesn't need to be all one or the other, and just like any other currency, a powerful enough local one (NYC Bucks or whatever) would establish an exchange rate against other currencies anyway.
Turn off Javascript. Click the uBlock symbol and the symbol that looks like an empty closing tag. Burning extra cpu cycles to read the news always seemed strange to me anyway.
I used to use Yandex back in 2012 and DuckDuckGo for a while. I had my browser open up with all three at one point - Google, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo. If I didn't find or feel the results showed what I wanted, I checked all of them.

Another thought, isn't YouTube the largest video streaming service? I think Vimeo has 5% of the registered users, but it is ad-free. Wouldn't it make sense YouTube shows up at top for most searches by sheer number of registered users? Some of my more esoteric searches come up with videos that are only found on Vimeo, and I click on them. Should a single video on Vimeo be given more real estate than the 20 that popup on YouTube?
Dear Mozilla, I would gladly sign-up for monthly patronage payments that go towards the development of Firefox features that the community chooses. Firstly, "installable" PWA support on Linux and Android. No one cares about your VPN or Pocket.
Sure, but I've never had one of those ATSes fail. For a sample size of ~15 over a decade. Where I've pretty much had every APC BackUPS and SmartUPS (mostly 1500RM 2U, some 3000 3(?)U, some 2200 floor units) drop power at some point. That includes being very liberal with battery replacement, the last one was <3 months with a new battery. I would say that they seem to be reliable within 3 years, It's outside of that 3 years that I've had problems.
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>You also need to look at the elasticity of supply: in this example, is it easy to enter the search market? You can learn to make a SERP or an algorithm for indexing / ranking results in an algorithms 101 class...but let's not pretend there's not a SIGNIFICANT investment needed in indexing BILLIONS of pages of documents just to be a viable competitor. This is not free by any means, and requires $millions (dozens? hundreds?) of upfront capital just to maybe get a few % points market share.

This is not as convincing for your argument as you may think. All it sounds like is "you took a big risk, you succeeded, and now that we see it's a pretty neat thing, we're going to take it away from you, thanks, please take more risks and make more cool things so we can take them from you".

The fact that this doesn't happen often is why we can have nice things. As soon as you start seizing things that become successful, the nice things stop.
Might be unenforceable, but they don't have to cater to them and can and will break forked clients for however long it takes those to catch back up. And then Signal gets flak for not hobbling their development processes to the speed of the slowest (somewhat popular) fork.
gosh I think people forget the basics: it's not Chinese people are bad, US people good. Even if tiktok has good people, and US gov. has bad people, the behavior as a group doesn't follow.

What matters is the political system. is it geared so that no one entity gets all the power? is it geared so that politicians will have to think twice before doing abhorrent things? are people in power replaced with just the right frequency to prevent long-term corruption?

US as a political system has all of them. Even though you guys say "look some US news outlet says Trump is sit", the fact that you guys can hear that news FROM a US news outlet shows FREEDOM of PRESS. And if Trump is sht, the political system of US will ensure that he won't stay in power. And its

On the other hand, CCP ("China") doesn't have that system. Its courts, the Army, the Police, the media, the internet... everything is owned by The Party. So it doesn't have actual separation of power, and the whole communication is blatantly owned by the party --- so it can conveniently and openly block messages that are negative to those in the power.

Anyway, it seems US is opting to "quietly watch" the comm, because it's an extremely useful tool in catching crime orgs and foreign spy rings. But due to its political system and the resulting backfire, US gov has to be careful to be discreet about its use.

And then... there's China, which goes straightly to "hey you send something bad for some higher up. Come to police station to have some tea!"
For me extremely relevant. And that probably explains a lot of my perspective. I'm one of those 'free software all the way' types and FireFox is a very important component in that toolchain.

Of course, being more or less forced into Gmail and Google docs (or office 365) means that that too is now a losing battle but I hope to fight this rearguard as long as I need to be commercially active. Frankly, I can't wait to shut down my email account and call it a day but it's still some years away.
Of which I've been a part for the last 15 years.
They are still completely separate entities when it comes to documentation, library support etc.
Yup, it renders correctly out of the box. Occasionally some small odd quirks with more complex CSS styling though. I've done lots of development with Qt and webview but saw significantly better performance in Sciter.
Well, I'm affected by the 2G connection as well here, and have lived all my life seeing state govts here shielding terror groups. Things are improving now since the 370 abrogation and bringing J&K under central govt administration. And govt action isnt a one-dimensional thing, this is one of several measures the Indian govt has taken and people here are optimistic about the future.
Do you get a lot of people reposting the same thing because they think it didn’t work the first time?

I wonder if you treated new content from unverified users like a temporary shadowban (they see it, nobody else does) how that would affect behavior.
I was partially responsible for designing a system that could be used to eventually scale to handle processing every global credit and debit transaction.

GPS is harder.

disclaimer: I used to work at Visa.
During quarantine I designed a paper-based system for making QR codes by hand. Everything is very papery and bureaucratic, but also fun. Tables to look up bytes, long forms for calculating Reed-Solomon, and even transparent sheets of paper for comparing different masking patterns.

My goal is to film a video of generating a QR code without any computers or even calculators. It's possible, just might take two hours or so.
Facebook launches group to oversee “all things payments”
Is there a zip code that equals its population?
I even pay them for premium. I can't send an email without it. It makes business emailing much more professional.
The Democratic Party is a long-standing "bankers party" and "corporatists party" (a party for big companies and organizations). In that sense, they're just as "bad" as the Republican Party, and due to how the whole democratic system is set up in the USA, Americans are in reality bereft of alternatives. Picking anyone else than those two, is effectively a blank vote. This system can at least in part explain why so many Americans choose to stay at home during the elections, because to them, for whatever reason, it doesn't really make much of a difference who is in power.
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That’s correct, they settled before any divestiture was forced on them, and I assume Google might too.

But the threat stopped them from dominating the browser market and enabled the first dot-com explosion.

We would be way better off today if there was a powerful countervailing force to all this FAANG consolidation. The current environment is deeply harmful to innovation.
> To all the people complaining that modern web browsers are too complicated for small teams to build and maintain, do you think WASM helped with that at all

Absolutley not. I love rust and would be happy to live in a world where I could write rust in any place where I would typically use typescript or babel or coffeescript back in the day, but none of that is going to be possible without an entire stack of tooling similar to that which already exists for the js-targeted ecosystem, and I have no problem with that, but people who ostensibly dislike "churn" claim to have a problem with new tooling and new solutions for building web pages and this is exactly the promise of wasm.

If anything, wasm represents the biggest shift in "churn" in the history of web development since it opens the door to dozens of new languages and frameworks that were previously impossible to use for web development.
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You've misread me if you thought I said specifics aren't important. Rather, that it's possible to advocate for "someone needs to figure out the specifics" without yourself knowing the specifics.
SEO industry publications suggest that fewer than 1% of all clicks come from page 2 or higher.
This doesn't have much value without federation, which would require active support from OWS.
As to the interjection that Signal is lacking a FBI canary - Moxie was clear on the subject:

https://web.archive.org/web/20141027143819/https://github.co...
HN's values are limited to the site guidelines. Arguing against freedom of information is tolerated in the context of Tik Tok, and IMO should be tolerated in the context of terrorism in Kashmir.

I want to re-iterate that I agree with you that curtailing the freedom of information is bad, but that simply arguing about it and hearing from those that feel otherwise — especially those that claim to be directly impacted — is incredibly valuable for me, sitting in New York City.
"Willing" a currency into having value is exactly what all currency is. I assume you're saying it isn't easy.
…until the UK leaves the EU, I suppose?
It's background to the situation. Direct background.
I don't buy it. I've been running my own Matrix homeserver and giving access to non-techy members of my family for years already. Setting up e2e is not automatic, but nothing that my mother couldn't do after 5 minutes of hand-holding.

It is on us with tech skills to help others to get out of any centralized alternative. Ease of use will come with the less technical user base.