skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin enthusiasts often say this because they know the energy question is one that Bitcoin can never answer but that doesn't mean it's a good one.

The US has national interests economic and strategic that exist independently of the reserve status of the US dollar. The sprawling US military infrastructure does not exist to preserve the status of the dollar, it exists to protect these interests. The US doesn't operate bases in Germany and Japan for the dollar. Or do you really believe that should Bitcoin replace the dollar as the international reserve asset, these military bases around the world would be closed down?

The importance of the petrodollar is vastly overstated and the reserve status of the dollar has far more to do with the liberal attitude the US takes to foreign capital flows and the size and depth of US economy and consequently its capital markets. Mercantilist economies such as Japan and China would be unwilling to accept foreign capital flows appreciating their currencies and making their exports more expensive largely because of the domestic political issues this would cause.
There are plenty of space weather monitoring options available via satellite, telescopes etc monitoring the sun for a coronal ejection. We have several hours to prepare for them when they pass earth.

'The fastest Earth-directed CMEs can reach our planet in as little as 15-18 hours. Slower CMEs can take several days to arrive. They expand in size as they propagate away from the Sun and larger CMEs can reach a size comprising nearly a quarter of the space between Earth and the Sun by the time it reaches our planet'.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/coronal-mass-ejections
If it's to exercise at the close of a deal, the acquirer could also setup a loan too. I had options which were subject to revesting (lame, but worked out ok), and the acquirer fronted the money to exercise everything that wasn't already exercised and then took payments automatically when the chunks vested. Because of the strike prices we had, it didn't feel very risky.
I've been an early engineer (first 3) at a startup. I didn't stick around long enough to vest for reasons, but in hindsight, it wouldn't have been worth it financially even if I had. They eventually got acquired by a big brand name Silicon Valley company after 4-5 years for an undisclosed amount. My 0.4% plus salary wouldn't even break $200k/year in total unless the company sold for a fair amount above $100M.

Later in my career, I have had offers at seed stage companies. The compensations were marginally better than the one described above, but most still needed to 10-15x in value over 4 years just so the annualized comp would match the base annual comp at various series C/D companies I also had offers at.

Given the risk, often poor culture, rampant inexperience in leadership, and long hours, the upside is only worth it as an early employee if the company is a unicorn. And every founder says their company will be a unicorn...

After starting a few (failed) companies myself, I've come to adopt the mindset that the total equity allocated to the founding team (pre-seed + seed + maybe series A) should be around 20-25%. Everyone after should get 15-20%. In the event of a $100M exit, there should be no scenario in which the founders/investors walk away with a win financially, but the early employees do not. The early employees took the same risk and secured that win, and thus should be rewarded accordingly.

Edit: fixed grammar and re-ordered sections
Or bring back public-square and courthouse executions.
AFIACT, their micro-architecture naming scheme is intended for internal consumption (naming projects in burn-down charts, etc.).

The closest they get to “marketing” naming is the UPC-code-like numbers their processors get; and these, I believe, are optimized for the needs of enterprise buyers, who actually understand the ‘meaning’ of the parts of the number, since it’s pretty easy to see when you’re staring at it as one row among many of a spreadsheet of all the part-buy options they’re selling.

In this sense, they’re just retaining the very classical electronics parts-numbering tradition — see the naming of pretty much everything in this list (https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/25...). They’re all just random codes, because parts buying on an industrial scale was always about vendors sending you these long sheets of different possible configurations each chip can be made in, and the buyer ticking off the ones they want as if they’re placing a dim-sum order.

I believe Intel still gets the majority of its business from enterprise buyers (OEMs, but these days also IaaSes doing their own integration), so this part-code is still the leading number for their products. Even though it’s mystifying to the average consumer.

Of course, they do try to hand their downstream integrators a bone by coming up with random marketing terms that apply to some of these processors but not others (i3/5/7/9, etc.) so that they can have something to badge a computer with. I do get the sense that this isn’t something Intel themselves think is very important, though; in about the same way that Nvidia thought “Max Q” was kind of silly (and first tried fixing that by enforcing a specific meaning to it, before just explicitly renouncing it, letting vendors use it however they like as pure marketing buzzspeak.)
You're right about how the role ends up being implemented, but it shouldn't be this way.
It would be so easy to write a very similar article on why clinical laboratories show NOT use 'R' in their analyses. I use 'R' extensively for data presentation, but I am constantly bitten by plots that look great, but do not in fact represent the data, because of some weird "factor" issue. I have never used a language where it is so easy to get beautiful results that are wrong. 'R' has very limited error checking, if it can figure out a way to do something (incorrectly), it's happy to do it. With its hidden 'statefulness' and tricky 'factor' effects, it would be a disaster in the clinical setting. Clinical labs need languages and procedures that will fail, rather than present an incorrect result. Unfortunately, 'R' does the opposite.
> before Citizen I don't think anyone could pay 19.99 a month to have a thug come watch them.

Really? How much is a case of beer now?
The article doesn't say they have no choices it says they have less/limited choices. And this is simply a common sense fact. The more resources/power you have the more options you have.

I can buy so many more things and combinations of things with $100 vs $1, for example.
>This was never a problem pre-pandemic

I think this was less of a problem pre-Trump more specifically.

At some point the idea that foreigners and minorities should be treated like human beings seemed to become controversial in some circles. Same circles that thought an alternate invented history was preferable to reality and spent a lot of time/money mainstreaming that idea.

The resulting push back was expected and necessary. There is a cycle of civil rights wins followed by backlash in the US, I don't think that cycle ever ends.
That's not an argument. But I happen to be familiar enough with that history to also say your point isn't even a valid one.

That's the two wrongs make a right logical fallacy. That the US did shit to Iran does not excuse the shit Iran is currently up to.
It's easiest to debunk the theory making the most extreme claims, then pretend that's the only version of the theory.
No, what they are saying is that people present a false dilemma where your options to work are either at a FAANG or at a startup.

Most people work at non-FAANG companies. If you're going to do a write-up on relative merits of working at a startup vs a larger company things are going to lean heavily in favor of the FAANG because the overall risk to compensation is much more favorable.

But if you compare a startup to a more standard tech company then each side will have more pros and cons.
For some time I have found it amusing that ABC's pilot studies were largely used as a justification for Python's significant whitespace, despite the fact that the ABC editor provided syntax-aware editing whereas Python was always composed with an ordinary text editor.
Calling everything that's at odds with ones beliefs misinformation is stupid in the first place. And I believe the word is used precisely in this sense most of the time. Definitely here.
Real-Estate Frenzy Overwhelms Small-Town America: ‘I Came Home Crying’
hate to say it but could definitely use some machine learning to radically upscale most of them
At least with the founders I’ve worked for it’s hard to agree they are owed that much more.

They fund raised. Poorly.

They offered zero direction, touted a big number as potential revenue.

They traveled ostensibly to fund raise, but usually just brought back personal stories of fun.

While we all slogged on “their” vision, which meant rearranging deck chairs to the march of some alpha non-contributor who can brown nose.

It was effectively our company with some entitled assholes name on the paperwork.

I’m guessing there’s many more founders like that, as I’ve had the “fortune” to work for 3 in the past, versus the one I work for now, who knows the problem space, has worked directly on solutions for years, and shows up everyday with new customers chomping at the bit to sign up.

So I feel confident saying: Most founders are idea people with no skills. Just a used car salesmen personality and a richer network.
For "most" women, but not by a large margin or anything. And even for women where it's "not so bad", they are still sick as fuck for at least one of those days. They hide it better because society has ingrained in them that this sickness is not worth resting for.

In your idealistic world we should have no reason to announce why we take off, and we would have more sick days. But sorry, MyHypatia, that's not going to be the case in the US for a while. Maybe in specifically tech it will take off, but I doubt an average worker will experience this benefit.

We already think of women of incapable, that is the problem! That's how we got here. Set them up for disaster because they were already incapable of working as much as a man. I think thinking of women as capable means giving them menstrual, pregnancy, and maternity leave. Because it evens out the divide between us.

Given that, don't you think setting up institutional policies to protect someone from losing their job if they are menstruating is important?
But you or someone you care about could become a murder victim in both packages. Indeed the likelihood for that unwanted outcome is higher in the second package. I prefer the policy alternative that lowers the risk of people being murdered.
"copies of Chick’s Someone’s Ugly Daughter soon garnered up to $800 on Amazon and eBay. (It currently sells on Discogs for $100 to $200, but the full album isn’t available on streaming services.)"
AllMusic has samples if someone wants to listen parts of the album
https://www.allmusic.com/album/someones-ugly-daughter-mw0000...
I’m biased because I run a startup and have only ever worked at startups. But I’d say it basically comes down to different strokes.

If you’re in it just for the money AND you have the background and interviewing skills to get a job at a FAANG then you’re better off doing that, you’ll make far more money.

For me though, there’s not many salaries that don’t end in “million” that you could pay me to work at a FAANG. Not only because I mentally couldn’t deal with the people (see Apple’s latest debacle), but because your impact is essentially meaningless. Working on some tiny little fraction of a fraction of a feature means I’d basically have to not give a shit about my job.

At that point you’re just a wage slave. A well paid one, sure.

Additionally, building a successful company is one of the most rewarding things you can do. True American capitalism is a thing of beauty. Taking an idea, building a product, and creating value. Working at a startup is a good first step in building your own.
I prefer working with just plain old setup functions, that are called once.
If you don't want to return anything you'd declare your function return type as void, so that's probably more in dynamically typed systems.
Some of the examples in the list seem dubious to me. Absent? Cushion? Recap? I don't think I've ever heard the stress on the latter syllable even when used as a verb.
That's news to me and that's great. It'll be a huge help with frame rate in VR.
recap:

[you] I think this is for communities

[me] nope. not communities

[you] exactly
It sounds like a reflection of current emotion/mood to me. Also it is something I'd think about if I was a mercenary aiming down at some innocents. 'theyre just going to suffer, nature is so cruel, *yawn BANG'.

It's fun to get this viewpoint on the same thread where the human animal seems convinced it is special. The greediest animal, we are special. We take joy in the misery of others, that's gotta be unique.
No, and I don't think that's the parent is suggesting that. They are saying if you are looking for a challenging, highly rewarding role, FAANG is a better fit than startups.
Poor people in the U.S. are not really poor. This is the irony in the article and a lot of comments I see. You are acting out the same headline, but in perspective of real poverty.

Did you grow up in a town with dirt roads? Did your neighbors live in cardboard and aluminum self-made housing? Did your family struggle to eat and everyone around you is so skinny that fat people are a rare sight? These are some markers of being poor, and most "poor" people in the U.S. cannot imagine this life. People talking how they are poor because of their stock wealth... poor people won't even have this on their horizon.

Also, yes, my family was very poor in Latin America, and that is why I had no childhood and worked literally all my life, having little friends and romantic life. There are just not enough resources to even do what "poor" people in America take for granted.
Eh, I like the BSDs too. I just dislike their sometimes lacking hardwaresupport, and the memes around them which aren't true anymore. Besides, maybe you'll move to somewhere else some time? To hyperturboendlessloopsuperfastspamdeliveryland, and then you'll need whatever is appropriate then, to deflect that sh.. before it hits your fan!1!!
I'm part of a mentoring group for recent college grads. One of our biggest challenges is that much of the conversation on HN, Twitter, Blind, and other sites assumes that FAANG admission is guaranteed.

This becomes a major struggle for juniors when they realize that there aren't any FAANG offices in their location. Many others apply to FAANG but don't receive offers, which is devastating if every HN comment, medium article, and Tweet they read revolves around getting into FAANG.

It's a strange situation to have to console junior engineers about their "paltry" $130K compensation at comfortable 9-5 jobs in low cost of living cities.

I have to remind a lot of people that the FAANG interview acceptance rate is very, very small. This idea that everyone can call up FAANg and get a $200K+ job in their city is not helpful to anyone but top candidates in a few select cities.
If I had such a principal on my team, I’d be happy about that. It means that they’ve contributed to an overall team dynamic where the team does not depend on them personally to perform under pressure.

Far worse is a team of on-call juniors who stand around jabbering cluelessly until someone decides to call in Principal Pat who fixes it in 15 minutes during the 7th hour of outage.

If the team is on the right track, providing non-technical support and encouragement is exactly what a principal/director should be doing, to reinforce that the team is performing and earns the credit.

The principal “owns” the annual downtime and problem-loss figures. The team gets credit for this weekend’s fix.

In other words: “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” —-Lao Tzu
So many comments from folks who have never used IRC... makes me feel old
I don't think its about trouble understanding but rather that most rich people don't care about poor people. Is that a bold statement? Not so sure, because it seems to me that also a majority of poor people don't care about other poor people. We live in rather unempathetic society were unemployed are never considered to be depressed or having an alternative take on the merit of work but instead are seen as lazy or dumb. Where fat or ugly people are considered a cosmetic liability rather than a natural part of the community. We are a bunch of egotistic, self-obsessed maniacs. And yes, there are excpetions among rich as well as among the poor. But they are few and most think of them as weak or suffering from helper syndrome rather than being blessed with altruistic and empathetic abilities.
Go to Thailand, insult the king, and post to HN about how surprised you are that you got caned like a bad boy.

I don't think you were trying to troll people. I meant to draw a comparison between your aw-shucks surprise at a negative reaction with the very similar attitude of trolls. In my opinion its a cover for the belief that one's opinions are sacrosanct and anyone rejecting them is inferior.

I am sorry for implying you were intentionally trolling. Saying "this conversation is over" is a very rude thing to say.
The problem is determining what is true. Something that experts say is true could turn out not to be true, but we don't until after the claim is already called fake news. People won't see the revision that it is not in fact fake.
Zig is better C. I love zig.
> The only wrong thing you've said here is "I'm not a leftie".

> Why do you reject that generally accurate label?

Because most of what he wrote aligns with libertarianism, which is generally not considered left.
As long as you don’t postulate that your “objective” axis is the Ultimate Truth then we’re in agreement.

The problem is when people decide that X is the thing every human should optimize for. Even though pursuing X is often as meaningless as pursuing Y.
only as much as other means of money laundering, which tend to be more energy efficient
As long as I create something in that "a bit" that sets me for life I'm good to go

and if that doesn't happen at least I'll have tried haha
Please don't make corrections that are not necessary for readers to understand the comment. This is one of the most annoying things about sites like Reddit.
This seems like a pragmatic and workable idea. We could even have the same type of thing for journalism and "facts" in general, it would be a step up from the current tribal meme/propaganda war approach we rely upon.
Summers says crypto has chance of becoming ‘digital gold’
I was wondering recently whether some kind of 45° rotation transform could be used to represent equally well both "sides" of Heisenberg's unsharpness principle ?
It's way easier to build up experience and get your hands on impressive projects than at behemoth corporations. FAANG is not what it's all cracked up to be for 95% of people joining these days
Non-paywalled link:

https://archive.is/IRICf
> I think maybe matching the compression speed with the network speed is what you want to do.

You might be interested: Zstandard has an adaptive mode that attempts to do this.
Let people promote with their own money based on what subjective useful researche quality score they feel like.
My son was part of a >$300M buyout. His half-percent netted him some hundred thousand. Didn't make up for the lower salary at a startup for the couple of years. The schemes VC's and founders use to skim all the fat are legion.

He's now starting his own company, doing something socially useful that he can be proud of. Got a good team and making good progress. Will see MVP in a couple months!
Nice! Although I'm linux user, I got inspired by the idea. I often combine imagemagick import with xclip to quickly snap parts of the screen to clipboard (import png:- | xclip -sel clip). This can easily be extended with tesseract for ocr support (just add 'tesseract - -' between import and xclip in the pipeline)!
Not that I disagree, but that only works if you have a lean product line. Intel's whole pricing strategy relies on micro-segmentation of each 'product' to extract every last cent out of customers. You can't do that if you only have a handful of very distinct products.
I’m quite sure that’s not a driver bug. Reason for that is that Apple is well aware of the issue and that’s why it’s fixed in MBPs with 5600M.

If that would be solely driver bug it would be patched by now (and that’s an issue since 2019, so not exactly new).
Finite state machines will never not be useful for the same reason regular expressions will always be useful. They're a supremely simple model of computation, making them easy to reason about.

The problem with state machines in Java is not the state machine's fault, it's Java's fault.
Why? If that's what society values, that's what society gets. Who are we to judge?

A 0.1% chance to build an app that's gonna be useful to hundreds of millions of people is better than what most career scientists manage.
In this particular scenario I'd be the second employee, not counting the two founders as employees.

I did similar math as you said and I didn't find the numbers fair. I figured how much would I be losing per year at the current valuation and my pay cut seemed more than what the investors got for the last round.

I wish there was more public information about startup salaries at various stages of employment, while the company is still a tiny company. Finding information about FANG salaries is so easy but startup salaries is tough.
Run a data warehouse, on a dataset with power-law querying frequency. Most of the cores would read row-tuples from the same hot memory, do a little bit of local streaming transformation/projection to them, and then send them out to a NIC.
In my experience, it is much easier to love what you do than to do what you love. I think I could develop a passion for a vast spectrum of goals.
I actually believe there would be fewer UI bugs if more UI was modeled as a state machine. After all, all diagrams and design is often based on "when X is shown and Y is pressed, we go to Z". But in code that's expressed in a way that makes it possible to have a mismatch between multiple half baked states.
Freenode maintains a policy against spam [1]. This policy hasn’t changed for years.

If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact freenode support.

Secondly, you come to conclusions that have no basis from your explanation. To be clear, freenode doesn’t “tap” private messages.

[1] https://freenode.net/policies
the witnesses were other neighbors. So there's not much reason to doubt their identification, at least.

Sure there is, if you seem someone leaving a house that resembles another neighbor you’re going to assume its the neighbor and not a stranger. Context is huge.
Yes, I can see that it’s a technical violation of the policy. On the other hand, OP explicitly abandoned the channel and then cried “abuse” when the administrator stepped in to resuscitate it. And now this very tiny tempest in a teapot is at the top of HN for us all to gawk at.
Not a "Principal", but you guys would rather be followed up by a business person who would come up with their revised requirements and timelines, each day or the other? Or obey the commands of the technological genius that somehow always have the answer to every question, for others to implement exactly as told?

Leading by using technological experience and refraining from prescribing "the meds" all the time, is lighter work, so one can stretch over much more than otherwise. But nobody becomes master of everything, and those places that have those, truly suck without knowing it. Having to go into all the depths, someone else'll need to take point..