skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things I wished someone had told me about Bitcoin years ago (disclaimers, I own some and I haven't read the article but most comments are tangential anyway):

- Your takeaway from the comments may be that Bitcoin is still controversial but what if Paul Graham, Sam Altam, Naval Ravikant, Chamath, Peter Thiel, Nassim Taleb, etc all joined the chat to tell you it's a good asymmetric bet. It's an appeal to authority, sure, but sometimes, you need the right person to tell you the truth. It was at the price they bought and it very well may be today.

- The current narrative is it's digital gold (but easier to transfer, verify, hide, no inflation, etc). It's very easy to fall for arguments that it's useless because it's hard to transact, too public, that it's going to get replaced by something better, but as of today, there is product-market fit, regardless of whether it only works for the rich.

- This fall saw a lot of financial adoption, Druckenmiller, Guggenheim, Mass Mutual, off the top of my head. In May, it was Paul Tudor Jones. Everytime these people come, they bring hundreds of millions. These sometimes start with financial disclosures that prevent them from buying before announcing it. Microstrategy publicly asked the bond market $400M to buy BTC, got $650M within a week when price was $18k but got to buy at $23k IIRC. This frontrunning is a recipe to pump the price.

- There are 19M BTC in circulation, the next 2M are already somewhat owned by mining companies and their investors, past buyers were either flushed out by past crashes or are battle-hardened and convinced it can go a lot higher.

What I'm trying to say is that Bitcoin could go to $100k with today's fundamentals alone. I missed out much of it because of endless ideological, semantic and technological debates, but financially, it's makes complete sense and honestly I'm also in it for the money.

This is not financial advice but I feel compeled to end with a few disclaimers: Bitcoin is here to fight inflation, but if deflation occurs, it could hurt; Tether may collapse (this is a shady company selling blockchain dollars which may or may not hold billions of dollars worth of BTC on one side and $20B of liabilities on the other side); investing too much may cloud one's judgement, the market is out to get your money.
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What are you actually talking about, your just touting rhetorical nonsense with no actual content or thought beyond you on hypocritical echo.

"Woe is me the government is corrupt, won't the government save me from their corruption".

Take power away from the government and you'll find it a lot easier.
it is a generic statement. applies to most things you can think of if not all.
A pretty informative post. I like the mindset and towards the end, yup, the only big mistake that was made was not trying to switch to other teams at Stripe first. But certainly nothing wrong with switching jobs like that.

Live and learn.
Is there a way around the issues that cause service interruption? I was using self-hosted until my ISP proved itself to be unreliable, and moved to notion hoping that another host would have an easier time. Same issues - i need to update my CRM and am basically locked out of it until notion figures out the outage problem. is there another similar project that is al little more fault tolerant?
Isn't this more of a protection for established players? ie if your product is a GitHub alternative, should you be allowed to buy ads targeting ppl who search for Github to build awareness?
At least one Nobel prize-winning economist has noted that home ownership is not all that it's made out to be.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-15/the-econo...
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(OP here) I did! And it was enjoyable and didn't take that long (about 2 or 3 weeks initially). I think in the end It actually was still faster to just write the GUI by myself than to use Qt, simply because I would have to get used to Qt and put up with all its bull. But even if it wasn't, I'd still prefer 3 weeks of challange over 1 week of misery.
"When I started my second job search, I was worried that the short tenure in the job I was trying to leave would be a turn-off to perspective employers. In reality, however, it wasn’t a big deal- people asked about it, but seemed satisfied with my 20 second summary and then moved on to other things."

Alternatively, you can simply leave your new position off your resume and not talk about it in the interviews at all. There is nothing wrong with saying "My last gig was a software engineer at Stripe. I left there to focus on looking for a better fitting opportunity".

There is no need to have your resume be a complete record of your employment. In fact, such resumes are often less desirable because they are long and don't highlight any specific strengths. Instead, make your resume highlight your most relevant and best accomplishments.

I've only been a professional for 10 years, but I am already condensing my resume, removing descriptions from my first few jobs. I imagine that as time goes on, I will even group jobs together like "2010 - 2015 - Software engineer at Companies A, B, C" to keep my resume a nice, neat one pager, and focus on the more important things I have done recently. Like the OP, I've also quit two jobs shortly after I stared them during my career and those are definitely not on the list - its simply not relevant.
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> It is in fact a conspiracy theory. But a small reminder that conspiracy theory doesn't tell you anything about the truthfulness, e.g. that the Iraq War was based on made-up evidence was a conspiracy theory.

I think that's interpreting the term "conspiracy theory" more broadly than it's typically used. IMHO, colloquially it pretty much only refers to outlandish theories, based little to no actual evidence, and usually requiring a conspiracy so impossibly large and impossibly well executed that it beggars belief.

I don't think the idea that Jack Ma is being targeted by the CCP is just a plausible theory, not a conspiracy theory (in the colloquial sense). You have a group with the motive, means, and MO to do so, you just need to find the proof.
What's funny to me is that people complain about US automakers losing... with no mention of Tesla at all.
Oh ya, Emacs default movements aren't great for more line oriented syntaxes, even for s-expressions I have customized things a lot more to my liking and smartparens isn't part of default Emacs either. I don't think Emacs really expect you to stick to defaults, the whole editor is designed to be customized.

When I edit the non s-expressions languages I mentioned I do it in IntelliJ, sometimes with the vim bindings.
the article is mostly the retelling of a twitter link, hidden behind an anti-adblock popup.

here's the original twitter link with the video:

https://twitter.com/milehigherjosh/status/134564316964450304...
I've done this as well. Been at MSFT for 7 years, been on 5 different teams, and switched between PM and Dev a few times. It's been great from a quality of life perspective, I think. I've got a lot of experience I wouldn't have had if I stayed on the same team and work has stayed pretty interesting. I've also got a pretty large network of folks I know, which is helpful for a variety of reasons.

Biggest downside is economic; can't negotiate new pay when changing teams by policy and you've gotta build a new case for promos/etc. People who have changed companies 2-3 times are likely making significantly more money than I am. I try to keep it in mind that I'm paying for quality of life by staying, so I need to get my money's worth or it's not worth it.
I'm with you that there are definitely a lot of players. But recently, speculation on/collection of Pokemon cards in particular has become kind of a big thing.

[1]https://kotaku.com/twitch-streamers-are-opening-90s-pokemon-...
If extended with given quantity "how far from the south pole", that question actually has definite answer for any observer not on any of the two poles.

The only observer for whom there is no answer is the one on the south or the north pole.

Regarding the time question, are we on Earth in 2021 on the poles of the time sphere, or somewhere in between them?
Cynical response: Because thats what the people already at the big company had to put up with during hiring, and damned if they’re gonna let any prospective newbies off with an easier recruiting process, no matter how broken and pointless it is...
It is used, but with a modified titlebar bar the styling on it seems to be ignored. GTK3 apps that leave the titlebar alone are fine (Quidlibet for instance).
If you are the only technical person on your team then it's of course not ideal and would require some further thought into making things redundant.
But even that is easy enough to do with IRC (setup two servers, link the irc servers together, single DNS record that points to both servers - job done).

If there are other people on the team that have _some_ technical skills then they can fix it..

IRC lacks quite a few features compared to other solutions, but the reduced complexity does bring very low operational complexity.
There are more cases that get under your radar: good developers that won't suffer a coding interview. Folks that don't do well with someone looking over their shoulder and talking to them while they're trying to work. Folks interviewing for a job that isn't simple algorithms.

To be honest, most data structure wonks are great at scaling cloud services or massive middleware business logic. But not all programming is like that.

It's easy to fall into "If they won't do a coding interview, they have something to hide!" But it doesn't (only) work like that.
I'm very sorry to hear that - I'm not sure I can offer much in the way of improving your outlook. I'm just focusing on the vaccine and the hope that provides.

To change the subject slightly: Would you describe yourself as an extrovert or introvert?

As an introvert I suppose I thrive on my own / with few people around me. I wonder if extroverts suffer more mental anquish when forced into isolation?
This is true of anything "on the chain." The world can just decide to not care what the chain says.

I would argue games are the only place where this situation is reasonable as the gamers desire self enforcement (or there is no game).

In other situations with DRM (which is what the chain if being used for, DRM) it's trying to force the user to stop themselves. Here the community can police itself.

You're right that trusting a closed source game to stay up is crazy, but people "buy" digital goods all the time. That situation is not unique.
re managerialism: I used to complain that we geeks got no respect. What I'd give to be ignored and neglected again.

I'm going to chew on your "second chasm" notion. Thanks.

Maybe it's just how things go. Fads, "selling out", poseurs, fashion, lost in translation, etc. Uncle Bob also references the rapid growth of our profession, where warm bodies are added faster than best practices can percolate.

To do list item: Maybe Everett's Diffusion of Innovations talks about this.

I've been getting a lot out of David Graeber's books, most recently The Democracy Project and Utopia of Rules. They're the first description of workplace democracy (collaboration, empowerment) which matches my own experiences. Back then, I was just kinda winging it (eg "What would Drucker do?"), because I really didn't have a lot other options.

Graeber considers the paradoxes better than most sages. eg How a movement begats its own destruction.

I keep thinking about that cliche of how anything taken to its logical extreme becomes it's own opposite, related to an abundance in one area causes a deficit in another.

Bringing us back to Goldblatt's Theory of Constraints. All balance is completely lost with all the players trying to hyper optimize their own little corner. Worse, "rationalists" weaponize fallacies like "beware the slippery slope!" to actively reject any kind of nuance, moderation, judgement, balance.

Thanks for listening. Trying to articulate my grievance helps me organize my thoughts.

--

Oh. One parting thought. I'm trying find a rhetorical basis for advocating moderation, proportional solutions. Something akin to rational altruism. I want a mashup of algorithms, game theory, and hedges (eg basket of investments, NPV) to guide decision making and governance. To make it okay to do 100 crazy ideas, because maybe 3 will hit the jackpot. To make it okay to try a variety of mitigations, because there is no one right-sized solution. Etc.
> Unfortunately I'd have to pay back the $10k relocation package if I left, so I decided to stick it out.

For the future, this kind of stuff is very easy to negotiate with the new company, and should definitely not be the thing holding you back. E.g. "you would have paid relocation for me but I'm in the same city so help me pay back my current company for it instead".
Easy, use C++.

While not perfect, given its copy-paste compatibility with C, you can opt-in into bounds checking by using the STL data types, or similar.

Then you can also make use of compiler switches, to opt-in in changing the behaviour of operator[]() to do bounds checking.

With templates, you can opt-in into checked numerics.

While not perfect, and maybe it will be replaced by Rust or other candidate someday, it already offered plenty of opt-in possiblities since early 90's, no need to keep writing C.
Speaking of the complacent wealthy, China disappeared Jack Ma two months ago for getting too comfortable and mildly criticizing the regime. He's China's Jeff Bezos, and he just went away with a poof.
So why not give a simple coding test? Talk through peoples thought processes.
Giving leetcodes only reward people who have grinded leetcode.
Grinding leetcode gets you better at solving leetcode and takes tons of time
"Provide value"? Hmmm. To whom? Not humanity in general, I think."

The organization they're employed at. Which is obvious because we're talking about jobs here; that's what salaries are, in part, based on.
How do you have the Slack app installed? I currently have it installed via the Windows/Microsoft Store, and I suspect that is a significant part of the problem.
No idea - I remember spending a lot of time browsing Silent PC Review on previous builds to make sure I got an appropriately quiet power supply and everything else, but it stopped doing any meaningful testing years ago, and the current incarnation basically looks like affiliate link blogspam.
Over here, at least, a lot of the time is spent just waiting for content. Even static content from CDNs. I'm guessing they're not geolocating properly.

See https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-swi...
Having worked in hardware for most of my career, I can tell you that hardware labs are generally dark and messy.

Commutes are hell. If you are working on hardware, especially secret hardware, it's unlikely that you'll be allowed to work from home.

Note in the Apple Press Events, they always have this zoom thing, where they burrow into the earth to show you the hardware labs.

Sort of like The IT Crowd...
Or, nobody has a better idea, at least not one that’s possible to administer cheaply.
I might have to look that up. It's hard for me to imagine what dithering and typography would have in common, other than they might both be used to produce a book.
Huh? All of the components of my computer, both internal and external, have RGB built-in. It would be practically impossible to replicate that by just buying some dark blue LEDs, and there's barely any additional complexity involved with RGB components. There are literally only two additional connections in my machine due to the RGB, and those are for the LEDs in the case and the water cooler. Every other component uses the data lines it's already connected to.
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Those are some really incredible Covid numbers for Taiwan, just, incredible.

Having spent time there and seem some poorer areas and very dense areas, 7 deaths is unbelievably great.
The Parinfer core algorithm is mostly "complete", with the remaining work being various editor integrations (which can be quite tricky).

I maintain an up-to-date fork of Parinfer JS here: https://github.com/oakmac/parinfer

The Rust implementation is also popular and actively maintained: https://github.com/eraserhd/parinfer-rust
I don't see an issue at all.
People are stupid, they're unable to do basic math.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/940498/assets-retirement...

Pensions and 401ks, etc were valued at $32 trillion.

https://siblisresearch.com/data/us-stock-market-value/

The total stock market value is only $36 trillion. Jesus people are fucking stupid.

You can calculuate the value of the market yourself btw. It is really simple.

How basic math could save everyone, but honestly, you are all that stupid. Please, keep watching CNN, and MSNBC.
I'm not sure you understand how excess mortality works. Excess mortality right now during the winter period is higher...it always is. And 13% is not panic numbers.

Would you be surprised to learn that the 17/18 flu season resulted in more excess deaths than we are having right now? Surely you must have been freaking out then as well advocating for national lockdowns...right?
He is dangerous because his revelations were true.
>> There are no celebrity SREs (at best they have some cache in the software/SRE community, but not in the general public).

> Twitter is full of them.

Name one.
> Some of the highest-paid engineers, AIUI, devote their considerable expertise to optimising ad click rates.

I worked on an ad product with a team of 10 or so data scientists + engineers. I'd wager most of us made between 100k-175k + some tiny bonuses here and there. The product we built was making the company $2.5 million a month.

But hey we all got some cool jackets and a pat on the back. Give me a break. Money talks. I don't know why engineers are so shy when it comes to wanting more.
Lot of lockdown, at least until November, then maybe some improvement will start showing.
Seems to me like he felt out of place at a robotics company where the bar is quite a bit higher than your typical webapp company. Different strokes, different folks.
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> desktop literally built into the desk top

DIY Perks did that.

Invisible PC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Perqf0dOGLk

Invisible monitor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E0mNSMBmFQ
I actually prefer to use the de facto IDEs for most languages, only deferring to something like Visual Studio Code or Emacs when those don’t exist.
Yes, there's some controversy but it's definitely a thing to wear them with socks.
On the other hand, you have a country like France where squatting someone's house is ok.

You are not allowed to get the squatters or and it can take years to go through courts to have them evinced.

It is enough that they stay in your house for 48 hours and they are protected by the law.

This is in France. A stable democratic country which puts squatters rights above the ones of owners.
>I'm being downvoted for basically stating the obvious

Because "stating the obvious" is rarely a productive mode of discussion. People are trying to discuss the nuance of the topic, but you have a very hard-lined view that leaves little room to actually discuss anything.
The biggest downside is email isn't reliable - it's slow, it gets filtered, and sometimes it doesn't get delivered at all.

For example, I've been locked out of my Patreon account for the last couple of weeks since Gmail decided to return 550 errors (address doesn't exist) [1] and they require an email to log in when the IP address changes. Most likely my email address has been added to the suppression/bounce list of Mailgun.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25435916
Quoting the US constitution in a thread about the UK doesn't make much sense. Is there a similar legal doctrine in the UK?
Well, we have this myth of meritocracy, but some proffessions are systemically underpaid like teachers - millions of future earnings depend on them, but noone ambitious wants to become a teacher, so our schooling kida sucks
Nitpick: "are related"..."may reduce"...these are links, not causation.

I tested this myself and found A) my sleep did not get any worse when I worked from bed and B) if anything, it got better, especially during times of illness, because I was able to get some important things done at the higher-energy highs and this in turn helped me get better sleep later.

IMO the bed and laying down in general is a great place to do mental activities including work tasks. I continue to get great results from planning (incl. pseudocoding) while laying down.

Anecdata, but I'm noticing that a lot of people aren't testing this themselves, just trusting somebody else's bell curve, along which they may actually plot at any given point.
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During the first (very) soft lockdown in Germany I stumbled into a anti COVID demonstration on a supermarket parking lot. There were two segments. The ones in the center already deeply indoctrinated. And some few at the fringes.

These were the ones one could reach. One could talk with them, listen to their fears and try to nudge them back from the fringes.

It was interesting. And would never scale. And would, I believe, not work for people already deeper into the abyss.
Here’s a cool rust crate that does color quantization and dithering at the same time. Ie picking the palette to use and dithering the picture with that palette as an evolving context.
https://github.com/okaneco/rscolorq

It’s a port of an older c library that’s based on a paper/algorithm called spatial color quantization.
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