skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the average engineer could get a job at FAANG then they presumably would since their total comp would go up 2x. In my experience most engineers can't get one of those jobs despite trying. So they circle around non-tech companies and startups for lower compensations. I've observed this both in the Bay Area and New York. People who are in the FAANG bubble don't notice this in my experience (or the difficulty of FAANG interviews for many engineers) as they don't interact with that part of the engineer population.
>failing to provide adequate representation

This means they have to put an honest and significant effort into defending you to the best of their ability. They are responsible for the quality of their work, which is why they don't generally let the clients dictate the details of how they work or the overall strategy because the clients don't know what the fuck they are doing in virtually all cases where a lawyer isn't on trial.

You keep trying to change the situations you are talking about and then pretend that they are the same.
That is a failure of hotel quarantine. The lockdown that followed was harsh and it worked. I am in another Australian state, the lockdowns have been lifted and I can go to work with little fear of contracting COVID.
What's the point of giving people rights when companies can just force you to relinquish them via contracts? That obviously leads to these "you can't exercise your rights" clauses becoming standard in every contract.

People should be able to do things that hurt a company's business interests, especially reverse engineering. They do not deserve any protection. Actually, it should be encouraged since it leads to better products for consumers.
What I think is unfortunate is that the author doesn't compare the Roman system to that of other countries, and highlight an important underlying issue: state capacity. Early legal systems were not backed by capable and well organized executive branches. A huge range of things that now are a matter of law -- even contracts -- were basically left up to individuals to sort out for themselves. In tribal societies, all there was to settle differences was people's good credit with their neighbors; so you better be liked by everybody.

But it was not until the principate, when the stability and power of the Empire rested on the shoulders of a single man, that murder truly became a crime.

What does the author want us to draw from this conclusion?
A tiny bit. My father will be carried by his friends, my uncle, my brother and I. My mom will be carried my uncles, my cousins, my brother, and I
I got into the whole thing and now my records are shelved in the attic and tone arm has been dead for over 5 years. Records are a real pain in the ass. I understand its a hobby, good for you.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b2/7d/cb/b27dcb7a032184951f28...
You've described a typical personality on StackExchange - nothing to do with networking people.
If you disable loading remote images/content in your email client, spam dies off eventually. Without read receipts address gets marked as dead.
It doesn't matter if you have a 'great lawyer' - because any 'fine print' in other investors deals can very easily fundamentally change the value of the offer.

Major investors could have 3x 'participating' in which case they get 3x their investment back before anyone else gets anything.

There are debtors: if the company has big debt - money goes to them first. Sometimes the debt is convertible - which could mean major dilution.

The number of outstanding options, not actually stocks, obviously makes a big difference.

Major cash bonuses to execs, IP holders etc. upon sale.

And that's the 'relatively normal stuff'.

The contracts can literally say anything. Like 'Investor ABC who put in $1 gets first rights to the first $100M in valuation' or something insane like that. Now - that would be very bad actually for the company obviously, so it's not likely to happen ... but it could theoretically be there.

So there's an immense amount of trust that has to be in place, which is why you need a very 'clean' situation, a credible team - and then of course a 'hot enough' company for it to even make sense.

Equity is a legit form of comp. but everything just has to be 'just right' and often it's not.

If there is any 'odour' at all in the situation, I would assume shenanigans, in which case, any form of equity is considerably more risky, and then probably not worth it.
That's a pretty greedy thing to say.
Looked at the graph you're referring to.

This looks like it's a very narrow set of companies. We should be looking back farther, and wider. Recall that, for example, Netscape IPO'ed after 18 months and Amazon IPO'ed after 3 years. For better or for worse, 90's companies generally IPO'ed much quicker than the SaaS cohorts mentioned in the data you linked to. Back then, 10+ year timespans until IPO were rare.
My point is that few startups actually need the best and they have no reason to pay twice as much for the best in competition with FAANG. And as you point out, the few that do want the best can get the ones that didn't choose or get chosen by FAANG.
Ask HN: Why not top-down URLs (com.Y Combinator.news/item?id=123)
Why can't URLs start from the top domains and dig deeper into other subdomains and then finally resources? Today we start from lower subdomains and make our way up to top level domains, all to then go further back down into directories and items. Could something be made to experiment this without refactoring infrastructure?
Unicode handling seems nice:

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\uXXXX - unicode (U+XXXX)

\UXXXXXXXX - unicode (U+XXXXXXXX) "
A highly specialized browser for emacs from 2013 is hardly competition against consumer browsers. I don’t think they’re directly comparable either.
thank you for putting up this correction

There is literally no company on the planet that can justify a 896 PE

Let's see how long Tesla can keep things going with 1,000 PEs

They are projected (based on stock valuation) to take over all or most of

cars
energy
solar power

Which is quite an absurd assumption
This. That CLA does not assign copyright, so they can't relicense. I'm sure they know that though and either scrubbed those out at some point or are pursuing other ways of monetizing it.
Laws are the source code of society; built up over dozens of generations by thousands of people who all had a different idea of what the finished product should look like and what algorithms to use.

In addition most of these people never communicated and there is a ton of legacy functionally that is still in there that needs to be gotten rid of, but nobody wants to go through the trouble of submitting a change request to get the old cruft out.

Beyond all of that bug fixes get pushed through without any real analysis and consideration for their consequences or to make the product better, but instead for the Project Manager to get a chance to show how great they are.

Feel free to add to the analogy.
First option: PWA

Second option: Ionic

Third option: if using web-based/hybrid cannot give you the features you need (which I seriously question) then vendor native is the way to go (Kotlin/Android Studio for Android, Swift/Xcode for iOS).

Forget cross-platform options like Flutter, React Native, or Xamarin: they give you short term POC success at the cost of doubling the effort to deliver a MVP if you hit any edge cases not covered by their 80/20 approach.
> for the people that applies to, it's not terrible advice.

The advice being dispensed is superficially applicable to everybody who gets offered an equity package, and it is terrible advice for most of those people.

It's like giving high school basketball players advice which assumes they'll make it to the NBA.
These are just the first full-focal plane images, there's a lot of parts in the system that are set up for testing _the sensors_ and it's geared towards that.

https://www.lsst.org/content/detailed-features-pinhole-proje...
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.

For people fresh out of school or people who have spent many years in public companies and haven't had to think about how much the options are actually worth, there's likely to be a disconnect between what is written on paper and what is perceived.

The equity clauses in the typical employment contract, for example, won't tell you about AMT taxes, liquidation preferences, how hard it actually is to decide to exercise 90 days after you leave (you'll mostly likely leave before the cash-out), or how unlikely that equity is to be worth much. Those things aren't said or written but are important to understand. The recruiter won't tell you that either because they want you to join.

That last item is entirely about your ability to accurately assess the value of the company, which is usually a crapshoot even when you have complete information, which you don't. Plenty of people I know/knew, including a younger version of myself, think about it subjectively and don't have a cynical enough view on the chances of cashing out.

It might not be deceptive, but it certainly is complex, and you're probably not being told the most important parts of the deal. The saying "caveat emptor" comes to mind, which is definitely about surprises showing up after you commit.
Wait, but you can still radio the folks I'm your ham club, right? Or has government overreach stretched to new lows?
All dyn_cast does is move runtime polymorphism to compile time polymorphism.
Having seen exit packages for director/ executive level individuals at a successful startup even, there’s a lot that doesn’t make sense. Early employees work really hard and are rarely promoted to important positions internally.

I’ve seen equity turn out well. It obviously can. And being open to those opportunities that might change your life can be valuable. But most likely it won’t - be an investor, do due diligence and make sure it’s really a rocket
TOML is great if you think of it as JSON, but optimized for being written by humans instead of machines. I hope no new first-class types or syntax features ever get added after the 1.0 release so it can have the same stability that makes JSON great. The vast majority of the proposals that I see in the repo's issues would collectively destroy the value of TOML, and I'm glad the current maintainer seems to have the sense and fortitude to resist such additions.
With all this mucus dripping, won't it need even more water? Wouldn't that be a problem in the dry future?
Authoritarian dictatorships are bad for many reasons. Ineffeciency when compared with more collaborative decision making processes is often not one of them.

No need to go through a comitte or build consensus when there is only one person that needs to make a decision. On the other hand that often means the person making the decision doesn't need to consider the opinions of others when making decisions.

EDIT
To clarify my comment I didn't say that dictatorships are better at making good decisions or result in a more efficient society simply that they are more effectient at making a decision. Whether they make good or bad decisions is much more dependent on the leader. It is a common pattern in the world the more constraints on a position the less autonomy an individual has the less impact they can have either for good or bad.

Probably is related to the fine line between idiocy and genius.
At some point, doesn't your measurement division hit the Planck length?
Roman empire never died,just Rome fell.

They moved east creating the byzantine empire which again, never collapsed lol.

Who am I on about who ruled and still does?

Well it's been going on over 2000 years this was, they killed the man responsible for spreading knowledge, jesus.

Yup, Christians vs Jews for over 2000 years, that's why the white European is been wiped out now.

In 2066, the UK will be mostly foreigners. What UK people (and other white European countries) is when your not the dominate one you have no home!

You don't see this happening to Muslim or black countries? Well, not until all the whites are gone!

Isralites hate all gentiles!

Educate yourself, before it's too late hey!
> Software and battery nodes can be reprogrammed over-the-air. With that in mind, the system was designed with end-to-end encryption to prevent hacking.

Forget about connectivity loss, the worst case here is the ability for an attacker to remotely turn your battery into a bomb. End-to-end encryption does not come close to covering all possible attack vectors.
Macroeconomic Inequality Review
I find this post insightful generally but I don't think the last sentence was necessary. It is possible to be an organic advocate irrespective of "listening to the scientists" on this or any other topic. Constructing and attacking this straw man doesn't really add anything to your post.
"nabith" translates to wine. I wonder, what were they drinking?
That was my experience exactly.
When you sign a contract, very often you are waiving some of your rights. There are rights which cannot be waived by you—I’m not sure the right to reverse engineer is one of them
Damn really nice read! I wonder: is this what enterprise software engineering really feels like up there in the high ranks? I don't know if I would ever enjoy doing any of what she listed!
I much prefer CDs than records. At least you can skip the songs with a remote control, sound quality is far superior than records and the entire thing is compact and lasts forever. Relatively speaking.
MacGyver Recipe: Box Fan + Ordinary Store Bought HVAC Air Filter + Duct Tape = Low-tech air filtration device.

Excellent idea!

(Also, wild guess here, but wetting the filter might slightly decrease the particle size of air contaminant permitted through; that is, it might slightly increase the efficacy of the filter -- but without testing against real world air polutants in real world scenarios, I wouldn't know that for a fact...)
It’s just a poor analogy for the law. It’s what programmers turn to but it doesn’t work.

The law is a fundamentally human executable. Code is fundamentally computer executable.
It was popular for booting people off IRC, but there were other exploits around the same era that did the same such as land and teardrop.

It wasn't super notable. What was more horrific was the amount of windows machines that had tcp ports for various windows services open to the internet that led to not only crashing but remote compromise and rootkits/botnet stuff. That went on for years and only got mitigated by people deploying routers with fw/Nat functionality.
I got into vinyl in my teens (I'm in my mid 30s now), before the "vinyl revival" really started. I still listen to and buy it as much as I ever did, and my collection is quite large. I also listen to digital music, both streaming and stuff ripped from my CDs, downloaded from download cards that come with vinyl, and digitized directly from my LPs. There's certainly room for both. But when I put music on for the family, or want to sit down and really listen to a record, it's always on vinyl. To each their own, but this statistic itself shows that there are plenty of people who truly enjoy and find value in vinyl.
False.

Angel investors frequently invest at the level of thousands of dollars.
I would guess that there are cohorts of kids across states or districts with different offerings of things like AP classes that could be matched on standardized test and SES scores.
Compared to the the problem of nitrogen fixing in a future without haber-bosch fertilizer plants, water use barely registers.
I didn’t take it that way, I took the “pretty pictures” to be mocking the OSI model’s more ambiguous layers.
...

What is a staff engineer?
Your point is well made in David Bahnsen's book, Crisis of Responsibility, where he cites multiple studies indicating that higher education and income levels correlate with stable families on the right or left of the political spectrum. I assume that would also hold true for libertarian/independent/3rd party types as well.
> If the average engineer could get a job at FAANG then they presumably would since their total comp would go up 2x.

A lot of them don't actually know that.

Every time someone posts one of those developer salary articles here, from levels.fyi or similar sites, there a long line of naysayers who just can't believe the numbers are real -- but they are real.
I remember Rich mentioning his in a talk. There's one problem he considers unresolved and he wouldn't finalize the API until he had a good solution. Unfortunately, I can't remember what it was. Also, this must have been more than a year ago, whatever goes on in spec2 might have evolved since then.
Hmm, yeah that seems like a reasonable perspective too. Interesting.
Yes I have, and I remember kicking each other in the balls too. But kicking each other in the balls does not have a high probability of life long or any major injury (as a small child).

My original point is still that a twisted nipple or graffiti or egging a house is not in the same class as racing black out drunk and shooting pellets at people on bicycles.
So if a person maps them up, one gets basically C64 style display.

Yeah, auto-increment can rock! Blasting characters to the memory would be fast, and only require a precise index for the source data. Perfect for the 6502. Other index can be done every so often, depending on what is being drawn.
"Theoretically, a startup that actually wants to compete on compensation by sharing in good fortune could craft an equity package which is simple and standardized enough to be comprehensible by ordinary humans."

One time, I received an offer from a small, struggling startup. But because it's equity structure was so simple (struggling has a way of simplifying things), I counter-proposed taking less salary for more equity, and they agreed.

With the typical equity opacity removed, I viewed the trade-off as more of a bet on myself: the impact that I could make and if I assessed the company correctly.

The payoff when we were acquired was just the equivalent of a nice extra bonus. The real satisfaction was having more skin in the game, having the expected impact, being correct on the assessment, etc.

But it wouldn't have happened if I felt lost in the complex equity structure and confidentiality barriers that seem to be present in many startups.
People in the Near East (Syria, Lebanon, etc) had genes for light skin before most of Europe did, with the exception of Scandanavia. "Whiteness" may have arrived in Europe in three waves, one of which came from the Anatolian farmers that introduced farming and urban life to the continent. Those same farmers, who were similar/near to the Syrian farmers that invented agriculture, interbred with the continental European hunter-gatherers. So technically, a large % of Europeans can say that they have Middle Eastern ancestors and that they got the roots of civilization from Syria. That's without getting into the huge gene flow that later came in from the Caucuses/Indoeuropean Yamnaya culture.

What I found really interesting was that 10,000 BC, Britain was populated with blue-eyed people with dark skin. They got mostly replaced by Anatolians, who then built the Stone Henge and occupied Britain for a few thousand years. Anatolians were then replaced by continental Europeans (who by then had been breeding with the progeny of other Anatolians for thousands of years). At least while the Anatolians were around, the remaining dark-skinned natives, who were dwindling in number, resorted to inbreeding so as not to dilute their genes. Clearly they didn't care for lighter skin.

Ya, archaeogenetics is a real trip. The field can upend our already flimsy notions of race and the narratives that come with it. Modern sequencing technology is yielding huge new results on a frequent basis.
nah . I dont want to work there. Money still matters, but less after a certain point, and it sounds like a lot of bullshit.
Personally, I consider CDs to be retro tech, after all they go back to 1977. Though not perfect, they are the ideal audio format - uncompressed, high resolution, excellent dynamic range, DRM-free, and compact enough to reduce space while being large enough for at least some artwork. I do enjoy the “experience” of vinyl records more, but after years of messing with finicky turntables, expensive cartridges, and preamps to achieve marginally better sound, I realized CDs had perfect sound in the first place with no fuss aside from the occasional scratched discs. One of the problems I have with vinyl is that with every usage you’re degrading it. For that reason I’ve stopped playing some of my most valuable and treasured vintage records for fear of making them unplayable. I typically make a high-res recording of the vinyl and listen to that instead (and yes I realize that defeats the purpose of the all-analog signal chain, but my ears can’t tell the difference).
Oh, you meant IoT for infrastructure etc. Yes, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for explaining!

Your example with the firefighters is a good one, no matter whether they are public sector employees like in the US or privatised like in Denmark. That's why I was confused.
Bitcoin doesn't use base-58 in any performance relevant way, it's only used for user interfacy sort of stuff.

Probably the most straight forward way to make fast base conversion is the way that most range coders in compression (which are effectively just fancy mixed-radix base converters) do it-- first store temporary digits of a larger size so that the there won't be any inter-digit carries, then make a second pass through to propagate the carries and generate the output.

IIRC the approach in bitcoin core is related-- but it processes the carries eagerly rather than deferring them (which makes it asymptotically quadratic (the worst case), but the average case is fast).
And accidentally plugging into an adjacent ethernet port
What made the offer simple compared to typical modern SV startup offers?
I mostly agree -- it takes a level of trust to provide your credentials to a third party app.

However, there are precautions that you can do to minimize the risk of your credentials used without your authorization with a local client software:

1) requiring multi-factor authentication when credentials are used from a new location/device/ip...
2) A local firewall(like little snitch for osx) that surfaces any unexpected outbound requests.

These obviously wont be much help if you grant some other server permission to access your email.
SRBs are complete trash after one use, they are a great reliable source of fuel, but it certainly wasn't feasible to reuse.
I’m sure grandpa was being facetious
This is truly great! Work in an organization with ~200 sw engineers and some of it is pretty accurate to my role as well.
Hyperloop isn't a fluke?
In an alternative universe where Novell continued to dominate networking, we'd be talking about how IPX uses the MAC directly to ID the host and had a separate network ID to uniquely identify the LAN the host is connected to.

It is actually a pretty reasonable way of integrating hardware MACs directly into the internetworking stack.
Related, xwidget browser in emacs with keyboard navigation, etc:

https://github.com/BlueFlo0d/xwwp/tree/xwwp-ace-dev
Incarceration is punitive. Psychiatric "care" in prison is sedative drugs and physical restraints to enforce compliance, not cures.
There is the concept that constraints drive artists to make better art within the defined limits. Vinyl has so much less tonal and dynamic information recording capacity than CDs... today’s artists spend more effort and energy “exploring the limits” rather than creating great art. Outside of classical music and opera, what forms of music are unquestionably better on CD than vinyl or cassette?
My Dad used to take naps while building, and would do make followed by an echo of a dozen or so bell characters to wake up when it was done.