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> In fact, for an EXISTING nation, risk taking males are more of a threat to social order. Risk taking, non-conformist males make terrible infantrymen - that's why they beat out the risk taker and make you follow orders.

That's 100% wrong. One of the main advantages of western militaries is that they encourage independent thinking. In the Marines, one of the things leaders are told is that they should tell their troops what needs to be done, and let them decide how to get it done.
> What would the half-life of the value of a software engineer’s knowledge be? I suspect it’s somewhere between the physicist’s and the English professor’s because a software engineer’s knowledge is a combination of eternal computer science/engineering principles and ephemeral technologies that drift in and out of popularity over time.

Isn’t most of a physicist’s knowledge eternal, relative to a software engineer’s? After all, software engineering is based on systems designed by man while physics is modeling the fundamental universe.
What are other good feeds?
I have encountered a few good news articles, papers, journals, and podcasts for a specific topic. So what is your best quality feeds for your subject area?
This IS a nitrogen cycle. Sure it would be great to utilize waste nitrogen as well but that doesn't take away from this.

Btw this is how lagumes fix nitrogen. This nothing new but since it is already in maze it can probably be crossbred into production corn lines without that toxic GMO label.
It's not much better with RSUs, I've had both the experiences where a company's RSUs declined (so total comp fell) and they said "That's the risk we all take to have skin in the game". And I've had the experience where my RSUs have done well, and so they said "no raises or refreshers for you because your total comp is very high" ... So basically my risk if they decline and their gain if they rise...

It's frustrating because it was my capital risk of additional salary to take those RSUs (which only pay infrequently, not like salary)... Taxed at same high rates as salary...
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Fair point, I've edited my commentary.
I think dilution is something that makes the package deceptively complex. Subsequent rounds of funding diminish a previously healthy looking equity package.

How should you factor that into your expectations for the future of your equity package? I think that's complicated.

Does anyone ask for or receive a re-calculated salary based on the change in equity that results from dilution?
Yes, that's what I meant by "pre or just barely L5 at FAANG".
Who are you assuming is getting multi million dollar equity packages? To get that you either need to join really early stage or be relatively senior, the first is a lottery ticket, and the second is making your second million, which is much, much easier.
While it may be less creepy, it's nearly impossible to break even running advertising this way. And until there is a way to promote a business, especially a new business, without some form of marketing, it's a necessary step in the online ecosystem. In the old days it was possible to fire blind ads and do okay. But as the costs continued to climb it became more important to be able to target your audience in a more accurate way. Retargeting/remarketing has become a very powerful tool in this process.

The last thing in the world I want to do is pay real money to put ads in front of someone that has no intention of buying and no interest in becoming a customer.

It's bad enough that the primary platforms are making the process more and more of a black box where they control every aspect of the marketing process.
> Just like anyone else, they normally write code filled with crutches to be ready for yesterday's deadline and want more powerful hardware to mask their sloppy job; some would’ve used Arduino if it was properly certified.

The (very interesting) main thrust of the article aside, I see this kind of sentiment a lot and I don't really understand it. Arduino's just a common dev board, running a standard microcontroller, plus some hand-holding libraries (which you can dispense with if you want.) Is there any actual legitimate reason that they're not suitable for production use? Or is it really just "real-embedded-devs-don't-use-Arduino" ego flexing?
90 days for ISOs is US law. They can be converted to NSOs to get a longer exercise term, but there are different tax implications too. Some companies are offering the conversion now.
Thank god CDs are gone. Their only use these days is to serve as sources for perfect FLAC copies. A flash drive with digital audio files is objectively superior in every way. At least vinyl and cassette have the quality of being analog.
I agree. I’m slowly starting to realize that a lot of videos are filler myself. Because there are so many videos out there and I find they are often too long, I just skip skip skip ahead until they get to the point. That or just drop out of the video to find another one that does get to the point.
HN does the same. Just username and password. No email. Very interesting concept.
> What do you mean by "deceptive"?

A package which appears to the novice to be worth N dollars, but where statistically speaking many employees end up in the hole because they mishandle the tax implications, or where statistically speaking many employees end up in difficulty attempting to sell their shares because they miss some deadline or fail to meet some other condition, etc.

There is a need for simplification and standardization because the average employee offered options today does not have the qualifications to assess the value of an equity package — it's not like direct monetary compensation which is easy to understand.

Or at least there's such a need for reform from the perspective of the employee. From the perspective of an employer, if statistically speaking many employees mishandle their complex options packages, then the company ends up money ahead, having driven down labor costs by offloading hidden risk onto their employees.
i'll be happy to help test the fart sniffing module whenever it becomes available :)
Show HN: Schemepunk – Portable standard library for seven R7RS Scheme dialects
So I've been learning Emacs for a bit now and was just thinking about trying to figure out how to web browsing in emacs as a browser is the only other program I need right now. Gotta give this a try see how it works.
The sky is falling soon...promise.
The FTC should look into Musk's statements about self-driving, how it's almost done, etc. All that does is trick Tesla owners into paying for the $8000 upgrade for a product that will never, ever come, guaranteed. It just won't happen and he keeps peddling the product like it's only a year away, for the last several years. It's outright fraud and he should be taken to task for it. And for the record, I'm a Tesla-owner.
I’ve heard a lot about Sowell, particularly in terms of his ability to frame today’s current events in a prescient way, but haven’t read anything from him. Do you have a particular work from him that you’d recommend as an intro/starter?
We embrace isolation and anomie as we have more disposable income. It's our choice because we find value in comfort and privacy. The best argument to be made that this is a poor choice is that we discount the work needed to maintain social relationships, and chase after bright shiny things at the loss of something more valuable.

You could also say that we discount the discomfort of living close to others after we have achieved some separation. I definitely think being poor is romanticized by some strains of thought.

I think a desire for authentic community is a mark of material affluence, and should not be seen as a regression. The community we desire is not actually authentic. We don't want to be around poverty or dysfunction or addiction, which are all elements of authentic communities. We want a sanitized community. It's just the next ask after air conditioning.
Yes, that essay is outstanding! I largely left out mention of IPv6 because it's a whole different can of worms, but as that article presents, it aims to make the situation radically simpler but in practice, well, doesn't. Cue the XKCD about making a new standard.

A bit ago I touched on various competitors to IP on my blog-thing (https://computer.rip/) but I need to find time to give the topic a more thorough treatment. As with a lot of fields, you can probably learn more about what really matters in networking by studying the protocols that didn't make it than by studying the ones that did. It's hard for most people that entered the computing field in the last couple of decades to imagine IP and TCP/UDP not being the clearly correct design, but in the '80s to early '90s the expansion of microcomputers was accompanied by a flourishing of network protocols for use with them. There are multiple reasons that TCP/IP over Ethernet eventually became dominant but in the end it's mostly happenstance, it's pretty easy to imagine XNS becoming the norm if ARPANET had gone a little differently. Imagine the problems we'd be talking about today in that parallel universe, XNSv6 adoption is such a mess.

I'm honestly a bit sad to see the "all-IP" trend working its way through the telecom industry. It's reducing use of protocols like MPLS that I think are very cool. But now software-defined networking brings a whole new world of strange network technologies that we'll find ill-advised in fifty years.
W2 taxes will create significant friction here - more so the higher you get over $200k.
Hope it's tax-free or taxed as a prize at 25%.
Obviously you don't get that satisfaction when you are dead. That's why this guy's job exists. He lets you get that satisfaction before you die.

Message boards may operate on similar principals. I get the satisfaction of communicating my point as I write this, even though I don't know who if anyone may read it.
Yeah, agreed, I don't really think the core premise is that deceptive.

I will say though one trick I've seen (I should write about this) is multiplying your common stock through by the latest price of the preferred stock and presenting this as the "current value" of your equity offer. Your common stock is not worth as much as the preferred stock.
I’ve been working for 25 years. I could wallpaper my home office with all my worthless options. I’ve never seen a penny and I never will.

It’s just not going to happen.
I play vinyl! There’s something special about the the experience of taking a record out of its sleeve, the white noise while you wait for the pin to pick up, and then listening through the entire album.

It’s not something I do every day. Most of my music is streamed. But I find when I stream I rarely listen to a full album. Apple killed the full album.
Still the all time cheesiest language switch.

Banderas sits up all night listening to them speak in another language. By morning they’re all speaking English. When he speaks to them fluently, they’re surprised and ask how he learned their language.

“I listened”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FdsCX8ccYXs
> you work for FAANG for ~5 years...meet the requirement for an accredited investor...you can invest any disposable income into early stage startups.

if you worked for $300k a year (total compensation) for 5 years, you would have accumulated $1.5m dollars. But you would have an outflow due to cost of living. Let's say it's 50% of your income goes to cost of living. Then you would have only $750k left to invest after the end of your 5 year tenure.

Even if you managed to keep your stock based compensation (rather than selling it), or you picked some other stocks to purchase during your tenure, it's unlikely to have more than a 100% gain. Let's say you did, and end up with a $1.5m pot at the end due to lucky picks.

> You are able to diversify your portfolio across several different startups

A $1.5m is barely enough to invest in one early stage startup these days. And not to mention it's such a small amount that a private equity investment firms/VC firms would likely consider it not really worth the trouble to court you over. So it's likely you have to DIY everything yourself - from finding the startup, to hiring the lawyers and bankers to deal with, as well as learn the domain (which you may or may not already be an expert). Or you will have to take a much more unfavourable term with the PE/VC firms as a small client (you have no influence over the conditions of your investment).
Even then the wireless connection is only between batteries and vehicle. The vehicle's central BMS has a cloud connection but that's a separate issue.

> Unlike today’s battery modules, which link up to an on-board management system through a tangle of orange wiring, GM’s system features RF antennas integrated on circuit boards. The antennas allow the transfer of data via a 2.4-gigahertz wireless protocol similar to Bluetooth but with lower power. Slave modules report back to an onboard master, sending measurements of cell voltages and other data. That onboard master can also talk through the cloud to GM.
Lockdown in NYC made me want to kill myself, so I had to leave
No. More likely, Arabs are more diverse in appearance than you think.
"What has been getting far worse, however, is family life. Stable families have been in free fall over the last few decades. In 1960, the out-of-wedlock birthrate in the U.S. was 3 percent. In 2000, it was about 30 percent. Today, it is 40 percent. (This figure obscures class divisions: for college graduates, only one out of ten children is born out of wedlock. For those with only a high school diploma, six out of ten are born to unmarried parents.) The lack of stable families has contributed to the widespread mistrust of others and lack of social relationships among young people."

It is certainly a preciuos story that lack of trust amongst children is caused by lack of marriage amongst parrents, but the author has not furnished evidence that this is a causal relationship.

"We didn’t really believe that the adults in our lives cared about what we did. Seth got thrown out of his house and wouldn’t tell us why. Josh and Brandon’s dad had been divorced five times, and he was always traveling for work. My adoptive mother had recently moved to another town."

I know many adults today who had abusive or indifferent parents that did all of these things _while married_.

The factual claims in this article are not supported by the text. City Journal is operated by Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative 501(c)(3) tax exempt think tank. They seem to be more interested in promoting their values than showing their work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Institute
If a public defender demonstrates a pattern of failing to provide adequate representation then they can be reprimanded by the court which carries both a legal and ethical consequence. So the point about the attorney not being legally or ethically required to represent the client as they wish is simply false.
Employee culture and wellbeing platform
Hi Everyone,

I'm working as a design and frontend lead and while working I found a problem. The problem is we have so little employee engagement. We used to have alternative Friday lunch and learn sessions, and social drinks the other Friday. So I thought if I can come up with the employee culture + well-being app?

The platform will have your colleagues onboarded, The will be assigned to lunch and learn sessions randomly until the round is finished and every other Friday they will be invited for social drinks.

Also, there will be other features that include is every 1 hour ask employees to enter the hour's progress on what they are working on. Every 3o minutes ask them to stand up and stretch. Also will have lunch and learn session assigned automatically to someone in the company that will boost the culture also.

I also found that reporting to the manager became hard these days so I just figured out that wip.chat could be a thing to integrate in the platform. Employees can make the to-do list and post it to slack so that managers know what employees have been working on and what has been accomplished.

Let me know how does that sounds?

Some

I've already started building it and looking to hear the opinions from you guys.
Fun fact: the guy who made [2] is also the co-author of the first web page hosted in North America.
We have no idea what they're going to say in the courtroom, not even the people who read Carreyrou's book.

Hell, we don't even know to what extent Covid is transmitted via droplets vs aerosols. "Based on what we know right now" is highly appropriate preface for claims about an uncertain future. I wish more people would use that phrase.

I, personally, have popcorn in hand.
Right? She sounds so competent and practical, but also kind. Love it.
It's usually deceptive all the way throughout:

1. Not disclosing the valuation details

2. Not disclosing who owns what and with what liquidation preference (this alone means you don't know what you're getting even in the unlikely event the startup succeeds)

3. Creating unrealistic expectations about the value of your "equity" package ("0.5% is a lot of money, man, we'll be a unicorn"). Quoted because if it's not equity if you can't sell it or can't get a dividend from it.

4. Requiring that you sell your _exercised_ shares back to the company at the price of board's choosing if you left voluntarily or otherwise. This is called the "clawback" clause.

5. Requiring that you forfeit your _vested_ but unexercised shares if you were terminated "for a cause", in addition to #4. A "cause" can easily be manufactured shortly before acquisition. There are precedents.

6. Abusive terms in case of acquisition

7. No acceleration in case of acquisition

8. Super short exercise window if you leave on your own volition.

With all of the above combined, you're at the complete mercy of the company in whether you get anything at all even if you work there for years.

Do I need to continue? I had all of these at one point or another and I only evaluated offers from 2 startups so far. My lawyer extensively redlined both of them. In one case the board agreed to the revised offer. In another it did not, so I did not join.

Such redlining only works if you're a very early employee and you're very senior. But regardless, I'd argue that if you're taking a pay cut, you should at least know what you're getting yourself into, and $500-700 for counsel is not too bad. If you don't like the underwater rocks your lawyer identified, demand more cash or walk away.
I think the point the person you are replying to was trying to make is that in your proposed sequence of colored greps, the second one would not catch the "orange-box"es because of the extra chars added for coloring the output of the first grep.

Maybe grep should ignore ansi sequences optionally or by default, to solve this?
The flaw in this argument comes here:

...if we could just say that there was only one frame of reference where
we needed to set up cause and effect, then we could have FTL without
worrying about causality. However, there is no special frame of reference,
there cannot be one if relativity is to be true. And relativity is true...

This just assumes the conclusion. Obviously, FTL is not possible using physical forces as they are currently understood. If it's to be useful, the argument must be trying to show that FTL cannot possibly be achieved using some new force, that has not yet been discovered. But there is no reason to think that such a not-yet-discovered force obeys the principle of relativity. It could very well (if it exists!) allow communication that is faster than light in one particular reference frame - maybe that of the cosmic background radiation? - in which case the argument that causality would also be violated does not go through.
Most companies don't have a liquidity event therefore most equity isn't really worth anything. Yes, in the Valley many companies have IPOd or been bought out but many more haven't and never will.
Except you don't send IEEE floats over FIX. The precision is typically bounded. Also, that's more for placing orders.. NASDAQ for instance uses ITCH which is a binary stream.
Both?
https://www.core.co.uk/blog/blog/history-microsoft-word
I think that you and I are talking about different "readabilities". Yours implies a capability to effectively convey conceptual meaning, whereas mine (in this context) implies UX-focused - that is, purely visual - readability of the text at hand. I hope that this clarifies the source of our presumably different opinions.
What if I needed to add about 5-10 additional columns to that. Would TOML still have a similarly terse way of encoding that?

E.g.: Region, AZ, Network, Subnet, Description.
This analogy doesn't hold. You were born with a sensitivity for body odor, you were not born with any sensitivity for lowercase letters.

Do you really mean to imply that sentences which start with lowercase letters are intrinsically visually offensive?
Then provide some compelling non-anecdotal evidence supporting your claim. Out of wedlock births seems like a poor measure, and it's the only one presented in the article. "Common sense" sounds like something you believe without evidence to me.
You make it sound like what you do your last few days matters more than what you and other around you did before.
I think the most compelling reason for a company to go public now is that it means they can off recruits liquid equity.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the recent wave of filings was partially driven by a sense that star employees were being poached by FAANGS that could effectively pay double, mostly on account of being public.
I agree. Whenever I turn on ads they're filled with the most recent thing I've bought which I never need cause I just got one.
There might be a small reliability advantage over wired comms, since you'd only need to run the main battery cables (much larger/sturdier than comms wiring). Overall it sounds more like just something that someone thought sounded cool, though. "Our batteries use nanotech" "Yeah? Well OUR batteries are WIRELESS!"
FAANG isn't hiring nor retaining all the best.
I don't know, it's hard to get that far with TLS because you get mired down pointing out all the problems and failed potential solutions in the CA infrastructure first. ;)
Make sure you also try Xwidget browsing, which has become my de factor browser while at work https://emacsnotes.wordpress.com/2018/08/18/why-a-minimal-br...
> Is there any reason why they overloaded the hash rocket?

The fact that it's used for a kinda similar purpose in rescue clauses is a factor.

> How does the parser tell them apart?

Unbraced hashes can only occur in last-argument-of-function position, so unless it's naked (not a parenthesized subexpression) in that position, it can't be an unbraced hash.
The real question being is there any way to change this?

Ultimately it comes down to how competitive a startup can be right now.

Venture Capital isn't prepared to stretch valuations further in lower rounds so that they can compensate better in cash.

Sure everyone could also give out better percentages of equity, and VCs can have lower liquidity preferences.

But it really comes down to the tax treatment of common stock options, versus publicly traded common stock restricted units, and ability to compensate employees.
NPs are generally ASICs so it depends on how flexible the code needs to be that is being executed. If it gets outside of the parameters of what the ASICs can handle it can severely limit performance.

An interesting side effect is a lot of the time the tools running on the main CPU don't have visibility into what is happening on the ASICs as the code doesn't have hooks into the data path at all- it compiles the code and sends it down but it doesn't participate much after it starts executing.