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> the standard library is where packages go to die

I totally understand that sentiment. But that does seem to contradict the "batteries included" philosophy. Then again pip itself seems like one of the batteries you would expect to be included, so maybe that philosophy is just no longer as relevant to python.
Hot take: Maybe this is less about modern society and more about what stage of life you're in? I think that urban professionals have been moving around a lot for decades and that settling down in a community as you get older is the pervasive norm.
I might misunderstand the fundamental point, but zoom doesn’t seem to be making new laws. Existing contract law is perfectly capable of handling two adults agreeing to a mutually beneficial set of restrictions.

Lots of things that are legal we’ll be restricted in contract agreements - free speech is a fundamental right, but mutual non-disclosure agreements still exist and can result in (civil) legal action if reneged on to one party’s detriment.
Few worthwhile efforts are successful on the first attempt.
I don't understand the point of this comment other than to virtue signal that you're better than a bunch of teenagers from a decade ago. Whoop-de-fucking do, aren't you special.
I worked in the mail room of a dorm while in college. Part of the daily routine was mindlessly marking things "return to sender," rarely noticing the postmark date. In one instance (this was 2013) we received a pretty beat up piece of mail that was clearly a Valentine's Day card. The postmark date was "02 Feb 1999." Being very intrigued, I found a CV that seemed to belong to the recipient (the CV indicated that they attended the university around the same time) and emailed them. They expressed their gratitude and mentioned that the card was from their now deceased grandparents. I of course forwarded the mail to them. I've always wondered what kind of journey that piece of mail had... I imagine part of it was stuck behind a desk somewhere.
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>But then realized that the coastline paradox must also exist for 3D surfaces (TINs or DEMs or whatnot) so asking “what is the area of a surface on earth” can be a very complex question if dealing with elevation.

StandUpMaths did a great video on this recently, asking whether national land area includes elevation and which nations would gain/lose the most land area if it were/weren't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtKhbbcc1Rc
Maybe he only talks to people going to Stanford - he lives in Palo Alto after all. The people going to Stanford tend to have such incredible privilege that they might just be the right people for his advice.
I think this is true in many ways but lately I've realized there is a sweetspot of career (pre or just barely L5 at FAANG) and startup (founder previously successful, raised well from top funds, early traction) where it can make sense. Just as an example maybe your TC is currently $250k and you get an offer for a startup at $165k salary and 0.3% over 4 years of a series A company valued at $40m. That's a TC of $195k but your salary is still pretty good and if you think the startup is promising, it's basically a way to "invest" your time in it.

The math starts breaking down if your opportunity cost gets high. However out of the people I've known who have worked at startups, a decent chunk of them made much more money than they would have at FAANG (and yes, for some of them, lifechanging amounts as just low/mid level engineers). So it makes sense to treat the equity/options as $0 for financial planning/budgeting purposes for sure, but from an expected value standpoint, I don't think it does.
> It's takes a long time to understand what the value of a letterbox might be to some people, that'd very complex knowledge.

It’s not as soon as they are forced to earn and pay or work to reinstall one. And I guess I hung around exceptional people, but I didn’t think it takes genius to recognize the value of a life or limb, especially someone else’s. Anyone past toddler years should be able to comprehend that if they don’t want random violence inflicted on them, they shouldn’t do it to others.
I dunno. By the time one manages a full enterprise of configuration, one puts it in SQLite and treat your cookbooks/roles/stacks as report products.

After normalizing, one could get to a tidy heterogeneous solution.

(Only the finest vaporware spoken here.)
So glad the term "hopes and dreams" was used. That's exactly how I describe half my staff level role. I move mountains to enable and materialize "hopes and dreams", or I destroy them without a sliver of doubt, in equal parts. That means doing at least all the things the post describes.

But the other half was only lightly touched on. Staff is as much spearhead as it is rearguard. So that means caring for legacy codebases, aging tech, and anything else that's falling behind. It's search and rescue and postmortems after things have gone catastrophically wrong.

Great great write up!
This is false. If the defendant feels they are being deprived of their right to adequate representation they can very easily file a grievance with the judge and get a new pd. In a case like this ignoring important evidence like psychological trauma would be grounds for the judge to replace the clients representation. So no, the public defender can't just ignore what their client wants with regard to how to defend their case.
I cannot believe America is like this. TIL. As a non-American, I was thinking of moving there one day. These days, the reasons to not want to (which have nothing to do with politics) are racking up.
You rock. Thank you.
Even that 'relatively high chance' is really low. Even companies funded by the top VCs only have a success rate of about 7.5% (success means generating ANY positive return).

This is according to Marc Andreessen himself: https://youtu.be/JYYsXzt1VDc
Well, no. Most of those companies have special terms which end up screwing most employees out of any upside. That goes anything from shares people can't exercise without a 10-year commitment to tiers of options, to simply offering 0.0000001% of the company, to many others.

Equity is worth $0 unless the company is fully transparent on this stuff. I've never run into one which was.
On the one hand society expects people to be "just, upright citizens".

And on the other hand society expects the military to fill the ranks of infantry and enlisted sailors, including the reserves.

From at least some perspectives this is confusing: we're all only here because our, overwhelmingly male, ancestors went to war and won.

Conjecture: a society that doesn't foster risk-taking behaviour in young males may soon find itself extinct.
You don't need to manufacture a product to sell it. He might have been developing it, then someone beat him to it. Instead of spending on R&D, he gets to just buy it from a manufacturer and use his name to sell thousands.
In the book he attributes the fractal insight to measuring the crack in a bar that is part of the border of the fictional enclave in NL/Belgium.
Jeez, what will it take to convince the Musk haters that he's the real deal? I mean, what does a guy have to do to prove it? Launch his car into Mars orbit using his own rocket? Oh wait....
That may be what it means in a technical sense, but what most of us Americans were taught in elementary school was joined-up writing that was presented to us as "cursive," the only (and obviously much more sophisticated) alternative to "print".
We've been exploring pricing based on the square footage of the facility for larger operators. Generally, real estate operators think of costs in terms of square feet rather than number of units. But I agree that there may be an easier way for operators to digest this, especially those that are not familiar with Stripe that may question the "+ $0.30 per transaction" structure.
I vehemently disagree. Surveillance at its very core can be argued to already violate the fourth amendment.

And now in this age of social media, any seemingly meaningless activity can be used against anyone - because surveillance can be cut and devoid of context.
A couple more links to such projects:

https://open5gs.org/ https://github.com/nextepc/nextepc
> an equity package which is simple and standardized enough to be comprehensible by ordinary humans

> deceptive equity packages

What do you mean by "deceptive"? The standard for pre-IPO seems to me to be N number of options, at a particular strike price, 10-year expiration (or 90 days if you leave the company). That doesn't seem all that complicated to me, or deceptive.

What can get deceptive is if the company is trying to lowball you on salary and tell you that your equity will become worth millions some day as if it was a sure thing, which is of course a scummy practice. And the whole expiration after 90 days thing is garbage. But deceptive? Complicated? I don't think it is.

I really don't see what's not simple or standardized about what I described above. Granted, the last time I joined a startup (which is not a startup anymore) was 9 years ago, but I haven't read anything to suggest that this has changed drastically.
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> The fastest way to wealth is through equity.

That's a reason to value illiquid "equity" at $0.

Because with a higher cash salary one can invest in "diversified" liquid equity that has a much higher future value than the uncertainties in many startups.
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I think another thing could be how easy it is to only interact with people who share your interests when you were raised doing it mainly online. Older coworkers have said that before the Internet became widely used, being able to find common ground with your neighbors and coworkers was the only way to have any social interaction. Now though, it's so easy to find an online group with common interests that it can seem like a chore to talk to someone who doesn't share a lot of things in common. Even when people do go out in social situations, it's not uncommon to see a lot of people sitting on their phones.

Like you said, air conditioning made it so you didn't have to interact as much if you didn't want to. Now with the Internet, you can sit in the AC all day and think you are being social because you're talking to likeminded people online, even though you likely aren't making meaningful connections.

As an aside, my wife is from the US South, and what you read is spot on. Even if it wasn't sitting on the porch, it might be going to a local creek or lake to cool off. Even now with AC, it's not uncommon for friends or family to be driving by the house and decide to stop by and talk just because it's part of the culture now.
Do the mandatory smoke alarms already have some 'smart' capabilities with a communication network, or are they considering using them because they are mandatory, and the 'smart' implementation would come later?
> I hate that trope because, yeah technically it's the right advice for most people, since it applies to 99% of companies. But there's that 1% that raised seed or series A from a16z or Founders Fund where your equity has a relatively high chance of a decent payout

Then it's _excellent_ advice.

In Canada we have endless amounts of kids who bust their butts to get themselves into the NHL, and only a fraction of a fraction make it, and only a fraction of _those_ get a jaw-dropping contract. From your own admission, and from what seems to be generally accepted, this is also the case for winning the equity lottery in Tech Startups.

For those trying to make a living, buy a house, and have a family then valuing your equity at $0 is the only rational option.
What I found interesting as a kid is... The front door of the house was half opened and I leaned against it so that my nose was against the edge.

So one of my eyes faced the inside of the house, the other eye faced the outside of the house. I waited a little bit and then pulled away from the door. One eye had adjusted to the brightness - and color - of the inside and the other hd done the same for outside.

Our eyes have white balance plus physical and chemical exposure. pretty cool.
This issue is not about conveyance, but rather about readability. As simple as that. So, let's agree to disagree. :-)
Even amongst a bunch of technical people. It’s hard to get them to make sensible financial decisions.

At my previous company I made a mint from the shares awarded as part of compensation. By selling and reinvesting. But some people actually lost money.
Ridiculous to you, based on your own experience. Completely rational and common sense to others.
I've had a number of chats with Dan Luu about this. If you want the high risk, high reward of a startup, while earning the total comp of a FAANG, you can work for FAANG and angel invest on the side. If out of college, you work for FAANG for ~5 years, you'll be able to meet the requirement for an accredited investor by making over $200k a year. At that point, you can invest any disposable income into early stage startups.

In addition to getting the benefits of both working at a startup and working at FAANG, you also get the benefits of an investor! You are able to diversify your portfolio across several different startups and you are able to get liquidation preference in any startup you invest in.
This sounds a lot like Gitmoji: https://gitmoji.carloscuesta.me/
Thanks. I didn't mean to discredit the solution. I mean from my point of view it's great. I use mailto: and tel: all the time. But I work in South East Asia and East Asia in Web and Application analytics and the people here are very different. The medium used for communication, the platforms, the way it's being used, the devices are all very different. Just wanted to give another perspective on this, to broaden the minds of the creators.
> This policy opens up a backdoor way of essentially liquidating my vesting shares: I can simply file a new withholding form just before the vesting date, claim way fewer tax exemptions, and the company will withhold a higher portion of the vesting shares/remit more cash to the tax authorities.

Does that actually work? (As in, have you tried it?) My understanding (and how my company does it) is that they withhold the statutory minimums and don't take into account my personal tax situation at all. I didn't think that there was wiggle room for companies to do it differently, but perhaps I'm wrong about that.

(Then again, my company is public, and the RSUs sold for tax withholding are sold on the open market, so I guess it is indeed a different situation, as it sounds like your company is private and the company itself buys the tax-withholding RSUs back?)
Yeah got it, civ 4 is not a combat simulator, it's an economy and diplomacy simulator.
Note that the Osmocom baseband project isn't aimed at end-user devices, only at researchers. For example it runs part of the stack on the laptop the phone is attached to.
Well yeah don’t waste your life, equity should be one consideration among many when choosing a place to work.
I use this cli tool for my commit messages to follow the Gitmoji (https://gitmoji.carloscuesta.me/) format: gitmoji-cli (https://github.com/carloscuesta/gitmoji-cli)
I agree and on a related note, I often see startup employees valuing their equity at either $0 or #retirementmoney. In reality the expected value is pretty much always in between those two, and really warrants critical attention.

There's a takeaway for hiring managers in this as well – you need to do a lot of education and trust-building to hire well if equity is a meaningful part of the compensation story (and you need to really show integrity in the long run because people talk).
I do quite a bit of work in vb6 still. It is fast and easy to use. I really wish Microsoft would make vb7.
I could give some anecdotal stories, but it's best to search or consult a doctor. Adderall is an amphetamine and could result in addiction. Some cause other side effects, like heart problems, psychosis/aggression, loss of libido, depression.
> If it turns out to be worth something someday, great. But until then, I just don't consider it a part of my compensation.

Because it's not compensation, per se, it's the promise of potential future compensation.

More than likely between now and then there will be numerous financial events that reduce its value further and eventual deplete it to as minimal a possible compensation it could be in any realistic trigger event.

Equity is worth $0 until it's not. It is never worth more than $0 until someone is willing to hand you more than $0 for it.
Drunk driving is not acceptable behavior, ever.
Dhall bills itself as being designed for longer configuration files. It has functions, allowing for some abstraction, but it's not turing-complete.

https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang
If you value having exposure to how business works, making real-time decisions, and being impactful at > $100k a year you’re a much better employee/coworker than I’ve ever been.

The reality of the situations is working at a startup is a great opportunity to prove oneself and have stories to tell when it comes time for interviews (or drinks with colleagues).

For most employees it gives those of us without the “perfect” education/gpa/etc an opportunity to work ourselves into positions to be making significant income at larger companies either through exit, acquisition or being hired somewhere else.
Yeah that’s some risk to price but it isn’t worth $0.

Your $100k in diversified market returns (at best) won’t be much compared to a couple million in illiquid equity that becomes valuable.
How many people actually take advantage of that mobility?

Most of the men who fit the article's profile I know have never left hometown.
>"At its core, GPT-3 is an artificial bullshit engine—and a surprisingly good one at that."
I agree, marriage isn’t a requirement for a stable and long term relationship. That being said, it’s a pretty good indicator, or at least it used to be, and a shift of 36% is very significant.
even today communication isn't instant and isn't free; the limited order per turn mechanic is maybe to much of an abstraction but think for example doing a synchronized turn at the Jutland battle:

from the admiral giving the order to his own ship flaggers to communicate to the next in line takes time, then the order gets flagged to the next in line ship, which has to rely to the ship behind etc. then the acknowledgement signal has to travel back and after that you can execute a coordinated turn

it all takes quite a while, and meanwhile you're best off not changing idea; even just cancelling the order introduce the risk to confuse and disarray your battle line

now, is it the order per turn the best system? probably not. Fields of fire had an interesting system that represent well modern era army organisation and disorganisation from units moving independently, but then again it's a very specific application, while strategy system or civilization games have much more ground to cover
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> This is the garbage pedantry that I warned you about earlier. I'm choosing the generally accepted academic definition. Hopefully you're not one of those people who can't comprehend "generally accepted" without an expose into axioms and different obscure branches of math.

I think you should look into domain theory it is one of the most celebrated discoveries pertaining to the semantics of functional programming languages. And maybe you'll understand that from a programming point of view, what a function is is much more flexible and subtle than you think.

> Yeah I'm not going to reply to your shit any more. HN really needs to change the policy of not letting parent posters vote others down.

Would it help if I pretended that you downvoted me? Every time I see my imaginary internet points I will subtract 5.
> I'm from the US, and after visiting Australia, I've noticed that Australians really hate Australia(n government).... why?

I suspect it's because we are all forced to vote. Politicians spend most of the time pointing out the failures of their foes. One result of that is we we have a long list of reasons for thinking politicians from both sides are pathetic. So pathetic in fact that given a choice, we wouldn't vote for any of them.

A lot of people choosing to not vote appears to be what happens in places that don't have compulsory voting. A wild guess is that means the people who do vote when they aren't forced to actually like and support the politician the vote for, actively campaign for them, and tell everyone else how great they are. The non-voters just ignore the political process and so don't have a strong opinion one way or the other, and worse probably don't feel they are entitled to one.

But Australians have to vote so we engage more politically. That means we listen to what both sides are saying, and form solid opinions on the performance of our politicians. Given as I said the information you get about a politicians performance comes from other politicians, those opinions are never good. Ask us about it, and we will tell you very loudly all politicans just suck and despite that every 3 years we are forced to vote for one. It's a horrible process that forces us to choose the least worst. But nonetheless most Australian's think compulsory voting is a good thing. And there it is again - Australian's supporting a process that forces them do something they don't particularly like doing.

That's because, the end result is, as you say, "It's great!". No politician can rely on someone blindly liking them. To stay in, they have to convince the votes they are less likely to fuck up than their opposition. If they do fuck up when in power, they're gone. And they know it.
The actual fastest way to wealth is to be born into it, though really that's just a different kind of lottery.
Things are broken in startup compensation. FAANG (and other large bay area tech companies) pay mid six figures for senior engineers. A startup will offer you equity that in the 95% outcome nets you that much, and only after 10+ years (with a large chance that's it's worth zero). Oh, and you have a to take a huge financial risk when you leave due to the 90 day exercise window, potentially paying hundreds of thousands in tax on an illiquid (and potentially worthless) asset.

This used to work when companies IPO'd within a few years, but now that 10-15 years is common the system has broken down. As a personal example, neither of the two startups I've worked for (14 years and 9 years old) are anywhere close to an exit.

Letting employees sell their equity would definitely help, but typically the equity packages are too small for this to make them directly competitive. An offer at a $20M series A company might be 0.5% equity over 4 years, but a FAANG offer will be 10x that with little of the risk.

Removing the 90 day exercise window or granting employees money to early-exercise would help reduce this risk somewhat, but doesn't help with the limited upside.

Eventually, statups are going to have to realize that if they want to attract good employees they're going to have to either massively increase cash compensation (which means raising more) or give dramatically more equity (which limits how much they can grow pre-exit).

Personally, I think it's gotten so bad that the only way I would join a startup again is as a founder.
> The fastest way to wealth is through equity.

The fastest way to wealth might be through equity.

Also equity in a startup is a far different proposition compared with equity in a profitable company.