skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think speed reading for code is actually an anti pattern since it is encouraging your biases and guesses instead of actually reading the damn output.

Right, reading twice as fast increases the "WTFs per minute" metric by 4x: 2x because you get through twice as much, and 2x because you understand half as much.
From the Wikipedia article on Vice, at least (and this is all linked to sources), the cofounders -- including McInnes -- bought it back in 2001, and he was actually with them until he left in 2008 due to "creative differences," which I (and others) read as Vice retooling themselves into a more serious news organization while McInnes was retooling himself into an alt-right leader.

Having said that, though, Vice has a pretty clear political slant, and alt-right is definitely not it. So I'm in hard agreement with your conclusion -- I mean, if you object to white supremacist co-founders, Vice kicking theirs out and cutting ties with him would kinda be a net positive, right?
Sounds like you're looking to go on sabbatical? A lot of bigger companies have active sabbatical leave policies. If you're happy with your current company, you could talk to HR and see their position on it, as I think it's becoming a fairly common practice in tech and elsewhere.

https://blog.trello.com/sabbatical-leave
Wanted to add to this that there is very little that would stop IRS from taking IRA status off your account (unless you're Peter Thiel) and forcing you to sell all assets and pay capital gains if you committed a prohibited transaction. An example of such IRA violation that's fairly common is buying rental property with IRA and utilizing it for personal use.
If you have insurance and a primary care doctor, ask them for a referral. If not, you don't need someone with a specialization to start, find a "therapist". There's that talkspace online option as well.
This sounds like tacit knowledge. You have to experience it to learn. However a buddy or mentor would have been invaluable. Especially one who works elsewhere so there is no fear of reprisal (or talking behind someone’s back) when someone says “my boss was a jerk today”.

The buddy would help you understand if it’s your perspective that needs to change, you need more skills or it really is a shithouse culture and you need to leave. They can also help you understand what career path to take.

I worked somewhere where team leaders got sent to conferences and paid more. Ok looks fun to be a team leader and not a minion. Buddy would say “hang on there….”
The whole point of a roth IRA is that taxes are paid on the assets before they are added and the investment becomes exempt from capital gains. I'm guessing the law applies to the act of adding the options rather than exercising them, so if he paid income taxes on them and the statue of limitations have passed he is in the clear.
https://www.propublica.org/article/lord-of-the-roths-how-tec...
Love it, more power to ya :)
The powers and perils of using digital data to understand human behaviour
only java :(
So this makes me wonder what the smallest modern OS is that’s usable for daily tasks (browsing, email, some light not taking). And also for more rigorous work tasks (programming, video editing, sound editing). I’d be curious to see what can be done on-device. I bet there’s some cool stuff…time to google!
You are in a perfect position to launch a career having gathered so much data.

Do you like working with people? Teams? Working in the field? Getting dirty? Do you like working with things and machines? Troubleshooting? Teaching? Writing? Self-learning or prefer training and certification? Danger or safety? Commission or salary?

A lot of careerless folks would covet knowing as much as you probably know about yourself, given all the things you've dabbled in.
The article says he bought shares (at $0.001/share, I guess pretty early in the life of the company), not options. Now, maybe a startup that's willing to give you options might also be willing to sell you shares (after all, that's almost what an option is), and might be willing to sell you shares in your self directed Roth.

Sadly, I didn't think to ask the startup I worked for about this. Would have been nice to not pay taxes to diversify.
What if he were, and was taking care of them? We should all be so lucky.
Something people dont seem to understand:

A roth IRA does not save you money unless the tax code changes unfavorably and at the time you exit the capital.

The math of taking the tax cut upfront (and then compounding your investment within) vs taking the tax cut later (after compounding) is actually the same.
The issue here is that the server you downloaded the desktop app from is. You can reduce the amount of this you have to deal with by shipping a native app, but you can't get rid of it entirely as long as you plan to host a web site or a download of something, or if you plan to let users communicate useful things back to you (such as their hardware specs, OS version, crash reports, usage patterns, etc).
What led to you working at Sonic?
Yeah, I just came here to see if there was any discussion about this. I end up implementing stuff out of research papers pretty much exclusively. If I could train more efficiently, I would happily. But if I have to build something from scratch using an unconventional paradigm with no large body of research behind it, the value to me is negative, because before I even start I would have to convince my customers they can rely on it, that it matches state of the art, etc. Then I'd have to work with a much smaller set of tools built around it, including pretrained models with ultimately millions of dollars of R&D tied up in them. It's good to see new research, but this is not at all immediately helpful for applied work. Show me ResNet implemented this way, with a comparison of speedup and benchmarks on imagenet, and my opinion will change entirely.
Wrong search string.

IRAs simply cant have assets contributed to them, only USD cash. With that USD they can purchase anything.

Additionally, stock options aren’t relevant here when it can also just buy shares directly, easy when you have executive authority over the company to sell shares.

Thiel had under 10% ownership of PayPal quick enough that year to comply with regulations (he had 3.5% ownership in 2002 when it was sold)

OR Thiel paid the penalty of $2,000 (100% penalty if transaction not undone) and didnt unwind the transaction, and still appreciated all the upside

OR the IRS took too long to discover the issue to levy the $2,000 fine

Doesn’t matter we don’t have the details, those are the possibilities and universe of consequences
No its not, it's to encourage certain behaviors. In this case saving for retirement by using already taxed income instead of paying those taxes when you retire. You can read the article I linked to below to see how it was abused in this instance.
What you said was perfect except for everything after “onboard.” Let’s help each other out if we can and not want to get anything in return for it.
You're going to have to boycott a whole hell of a lot of businesses if that's the standard. Not saying you'd be wrong to do it, just... godspeed.
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I think a big part of it is that it feels like we are losing our chance to influence society. That can come back to bite us when people go to vote, based on what they’ve learned on social media. So it creates an urgency to throw something out there so that we aren’t bystanders to the formation of societal opinions.
Bane of my days
Thanks for using and mentioning Feedity!

We've since rebranded to New Sloth: https://newsloth.com, which is now a simple integrated feed builder, reader and clusterer/deduplicator, specially aimed for knowledge workers with hundreds and thousands of feeds to monitor daily.

Besides visual selector-based feed generation, our API can auto-magically detect relevant selectors (in most cases) as well.
could it be fabbed around a lattice of thermally conductive elements, like a menger sponge?
How is your health and diet?
Luv it . . . "because you have more lawyers than the IRS does . . . "
Except you just get taxed up front with a roth. You still get taxed.

You are at no greater advantage in growing your money after tax unless the tax code changes. (tax code change risk is the only reason people go with a roth). It just provides certainty.
Deep sea robots will let us find millions of shipwrecks: Titanic discoverer
Do you want emergency services rendered to people who get into an accident?
And instead of making cross-platform native software toolkits to ease that burden, the industry decided to reinvent the entire von Neumann architecture in interpreted JavaScript and dub it “assembly,” whatever that means. Then since you’re already in a browser at that point, why not phone home and say hi, and anyone who dares to instead suggest that software operate without an Internet connection is told “just stop” because the “market has spoken” and absolutely no progress was made in software engineering until the pointless backlog that nobody looks at was pointlessly filled by pointless, automated telemetry.

Industry practices collapse under the weight of their own complexity and people argue on HN about it with absolutely no context on the real issue, just presupposed bugbears like “privacy”. Video at 11.

JavaScript is the single worst thing to happen to computing in its history. Maybe not the language itself - it’s fine enough for its purposes - but the industry deciding that its purposes overlap with a wildcard glob is a huge mistake that we will be paying for long after everyone in this conversation is deceased. It’s annoying that you credit that situation to JavaScript and laud it given what else comes with doing everything in a browser (enabling the surveillance economy, inadvertent network dependencies, computers running at about 5% ability, etc etc)
That’s the sort of thing that drastically impacts and all career advice OP might receive.

If it’s the case, OP needs to mention it.
Fraud has no statute of limitations
> So, fire up a coal plant and nobody can get visas out?

Unless they vote against using coal
A lot. I love seeing that check and looking back on other ones along with the work that I did.
Insured?
I was pointing out a mistake that inadvertently causes harm. I’m doing it exactly the way I would in a code review. I’m sorry this comes across to you as self righteous, but what I did is absolutely the right thing to do in the face of mistakes like this.
That's one half of the question.
Does the kernel not have a heap?
No worries not an obnoxious question, I've been on my own since 18 and have done a fair amount of international travel and lot's of hiking. I'm from Montana/Colorado currently in Texas.
Audacity has gone as far as banning use of it for children. If that doesn't trigger an alarm for you, what would?
The original Paypal folk were always big fans of this. Levchin did similar.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2012/03/20/how-f...
Empirical/dynamic testing for vulnerabilities is not rigorous or complete in any any way, and is only viable for a relatively small subset of issues.

I'm only suggesting that holding programmers liable for security vulnerabilities isn't really precedented across any other engineering discipline. That's not to say there isn't tons of shitty software being shipped with reckless disregard for quality, and some reckoning there might be useful.
Ship of Theseus[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Fork name suggestion:

Gaudacity.

As in Ye Olde "G(ood) Audacity". Intentional misspelling of "gouda" (but sounds the same), has original name as a substring, and should come with appropriately cheesy wedge located between the headphones. Bonus points: reference to plugging one's ears with cheese.

...what? My dad humor is showing?

But in all frankness, I'm serious.
Besides inefficient chemistry remark above, car batteries classified as high-discharge as opposed to deep-cycle. We need the latter for energy storage. If you'd like to assess the cost of lead-acid, check out «marine» batteries instead.

PS: lead-acid is very dull at self discharge.
In Canada that would be the state, which might explain the state using available tools to discourage this behaviour?
Upper Peninsula of Michigan for a long term bet: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/heres-the-best-place-to...

Michigan in general is solid because of the great lakes.
It's usually what happens when a software project has a lawyer involved. Copy left spooks people, anonymous contributions that may or may not be licensed spook people, lack of a privacy policy spooks people, etc.
Periodically Congress was literally desperate for cash and encouraged people to pay taxes up front in exchange for not paying ever again

I just don’t see how another perspective can be reached with the same information
You’re right, I just found the politics inscrutable and so tried to find other ways around it.

Form relationships with people who are good at that sort of thing, who value you for things that you’re good at.
They are! They've forked it. Now you and like-minded folks here can use the spyware version, and the rest of us will use the clean one.
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What prediction would this theory make for Sweden?
Thiel bought his founders shares in Paypal - 1.7M shares 1/10th of a cent per share with money in his Roth.
> Thiel had under 10% ownership of PayPal quick enough that year to comply with regulations (he had 3.5% ownership in 2002 when it was sold)

If you're arguing that these stock units were purchased when the "company" was created in 1998, then you're talking about Confinity (not "PayPal"), which only had 3 founders. Thiel was clearly a >10% shareholder at the time. Or are you trying to argue that Thiel had a 0% stake, because his IRA had all of his stake?

You're using a 3.5% number from 3 years later, after merging with x.com, and raising ~$170M.

> OR Thiel paid the penalty of $2,000 (100% penalty if transaction not undone) and didnt unwind the transaction, and still appreciated all the upside

This is the biggest cop-out excuse of "valid". By this logic I can sell myself (into my Roth) all of my assets every year for $1, pay a $1 penalty, and everything is a-okay.
Buying even one founder share in your startup is self-dealing and a prohibited. The penalty is the whole account loses tax advantaged status, not a measly $2000.

But tax details are private and between Thiel and the IRS.
I opened it up hoping for a nice mechanical design booklet... Alas!
> However it is a problem to say that "since you are a woman, I infer that you must be short".

Sure, replacing "much more likely" with "definitely" is inaccurate.

And if you're assuming that whoever's saying this has more data available - like actually meeting wherever they're talking about - then well discarding information is also silly.
The IRS enforces that portion of the US Code, and they say its “executive && >10% owner”, not OR. Both conditions must be satisfied.

and the penalties are also clear, up to 100% penalty of the value of the transaction if it isnt unwound

Thiel could have paid that $2,000 and not unwound the transaction

It is not possible for the court to hear any other perspective
This wasn't done with options. Thiel straight up bought shares in Paypal at $0.0001. The only way to make this work is buying assets that are going to increase in value by orders of magnitude.
Of the various objections, many of which I agree with, this one is nonsense. If a communications can not be scanned because of E2E encryption, and if E2E encryption is banned, that's evidence of a crime all on it's own. That would have to be a pretty dumb criminal.
I assume you have not read these type of privacy policies before, but it's extremely common for web sites and online services to disallow children under 13, at least in the US because of COPPA compliance. In general, it is illegal for commercial entities operating in the US to collect data on children under 13 (although in some cases there are some exceptions). See for example the Github privacy policy which includes a similar clause: https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-privacy...
Software is a tool that does a job for me. When I buy or download the software it does that job and should continue doing that job in the same way indefinitely. It never needs to change. It never needs to connect to the internet.

Obviously this applies to offline tools and not web browsers.
This is laughably false, primarily because this is not just a discussion between a regular IRA (taxed on exit) or a Roth (taxed on entry). The contribution limits mean many people have a much larger amount of income than they could feasibly put into either type of account.

I mean, just look at how Thiel did it, it's not like he was trying to decide how to stash $1700. He saw it specifically as a way where he could buy a large amount of his shares at basically nothing because he knew if it grew he'd have a large amount of tax free cash to play with.
This is completely wrong for a huge number of people who are currently in a much lower tax bracket than they expect to be in the future (when they are withdrawing).
Ah! Thanks for linking this. I linked to the wrong one.
I guess 8 exabytes doesn't get the same number of clicks

Edit: Not really trying to be facetious, but come on. Apple using a lot of storage at a lot of places isn't too surprising
Ocean floor mapping [1] and ultrasound are two examples.

[1] https://www.acousticimaging.com
This sort of fits into the encouraged behaviors though:

Put aside some money for the future.

Invest the money into company stocks, generally.

(Hopefully) having made good investments, have more money in retirement.

Retire and have some tax free money.

Most investments don't apprechiate quite so much, of course, but there were no rules on investment returns, only about contributions (and restrictions on self-dealing which may very well apply)
I think they simply meant 'instead of everyone running their own CI', not GH Actions in general - they're asking for a centralized feed repository and not one that is subject to people putting in work every few months to fix things that break, as that's likely to hurt adoption. In my opinion it sounds like a request for an open source/more community maintained feedly.com.
Seconding the Manager Tools podcast. I used to teach devs coming out of boot camps and half our time was spent on how to manage your manager.

IMO, schools of all kinds need to teach their students how power dynamics are in the real world, how most jobs are about navigating through difficult personalities, and how “being a professional” is not really about winning or losing, but how you play the game.

And look, I get that a good chunk of us would prefer to compartmentalize non-engineering work as much as possible. It’s just that knowing the rules is the best way to decide if you want to engage with them.
> Thiel showed that you do not need to invest in index funds in a Roth IRA, which is what most people have been saying investors should do for a long time. The thing that is blowing the personal finance world’s minds is the idea that people can and perhaps even should be much more aggressive within their Roth IRAs in hopes of running into some stock that goes bananas, therefore giving you a personal, tax-free slush fund to invest in anything for the rest of your life.

> “You want to put in [to a Roth IRA] highly undervalued assets that could grow massively in value,” Joshua Sheats, the host of the show, said on an episode that extensively praised Thiel’s strategy.

So the "investing tip" is to gamble on wildly speculative investments rather than invest in index funds. Investing in highly undervalued assets - it's so simple, why didn't I think of that sooner!?

This will make a few wildly rich, and many more will underperform the market. On average, everyone will do just as well as an index fund would've, because averaging is the entire point of index funds.

I'd be way more interested in repeatable advice for how to turn $2000 into $5B than I am in how to avoid paying taxes on it.
Construction is insanely hot right now. I hear building companies are booked 12 to 18 months in the future.

Which likely means you can sell your skills at really good rates.
> Or there are conditions I just don't want to put up with anymore so I just walk.

Tech isn't any easier here. In fact, I would say the main marker of success is the ability to resist flipping the table. It's a constant battle and is actually a muscle that you develop.
your lawyers can understand Congress’ laws better than the executive branch

this isn’t controversial just reality
I'm not really sure what you are getting at, but I think that anyone who gets into an accident deserves attention from emergency services. To suggest otherwise would be rather vengeful.
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Many clinics offer free mental health screenings (also called needs assessments) so you don’t have to get hung up on deciding what ‘type’ of therapy to try—they will interview you and offer a recommendation based on what you’re having trouble with and who at the clinic might be a good fit for your personality. Just call some place in your area that is reputable, or get a recommendation from your GP.
There isn't much evidence that Apple has ever used bitcode for anything other than making existing watchOS apps run on the new arm64_32 architecture. It's required for app thinning (where they only install the architecture needed for the actual device rather than all of them), but if that's not just an arbitrary requirement to get people to enable bitcode it's unclear what it's being used for.

I don't know if bitcode could be used to recompile your app with a higher deployment target and have useful effects, but it isn't being done in practice.
Money Rules
How much regular in-person human contact do you have?
Yes, seems like a pretty strong indication that telemetry is bad. Which is the point. Which is why we are all going to use the fork now.
Yes. Not for you or me, but outside of the audio niche one may not even know what "DAW" means, let alone how it differs from a sound editor.
Sikh turbans are wrapped into their long, uncut hair. It's not going anywhere.
Painting a picture while tickling the brain
It's the 21st century, please don't use rules set in a different context.

They should just wear a helmet.
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> Mixing romantic humanism with technical misunderstandings is no good.

What are you referring to with this comment?
This is the idea.

Amazing how people can (mis)interpret (unclear) comments as if they were crystal clear. They make assumptions. They read things in that are not there. It is truly entertaining, I never mentioned Linux. I never mentioned "desktop". Nor did I suggest Windows users would not be able to access the internet. Nor did I suggest the computer with IP forwarding enabled (call it what you like) needs to do everything a "firewall" does.

Indeed, I am writing this comment on such a commputer that runs a proxy for all the other computers. That's only because I like to experiment with different proxy configs.
Yes, you can use that logic, its up to you to make that valuable. Unless you have a market of VCs or massive liquidity lined up it is a big and bad bet.

The other side of the logic is that the ownership percentage can be bound to the tax year instead of just the moment of the transaction. So you would be using an average % ownership which could have changed rapidly.

And of course there is the simple reality that he paid a $2000 fine

The financial engineering has always been available, obviously for 20+ years, many people just hadnt been inspired to do it until now. There are plenty of similar possibilities available that considers multiple state paths of value to generate massive returns.