skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a time where I thought the same way: That the founders should reduce their salaries to basically minimum wage until the company is profitable. I believed it was the right and honorable thing to do, while also signaling to investors that we were serious and would not "take (their) money out" of the company until it was appropriate.
The problem is that investors are not driven by honor and if things go bad one day they will leave you with nothing and not have your back. You are also always exposed to a higher legal risk and things are a lot easier when you have the savings to pay for counsel in such a situation. The investors even tried to leverage the fact that we had zero savings to force us to agree to very unfavorable terms.

I still believe a founder should demonstrate commitment and not unnecessarily drain the startup of resources, especially early on. But you don't have to earn minimum wage for that. At my current startup, the founders are the lowest paid team members, but in today's world of high developer salaries that still plenty to live comfortably and build some savings. I also believe that once a startup starts having significant growth/revenue or profits, founders should use one of the subsequent fundraising rounds to set aside a safety cushion for themselves - not a huge payout, but maybe a years salary or so. This levels the playing field with investors as rounds and valuations grow and enable the founders to make decisions that are not driven by them being afraid of their livelihoods/living expenses/family. In difficult times you want to have founders who keep a cool head and make decisions that are best for the company and not for themselves.

There is often a phase in the beginning where you a bootstrapping/just starting out/don't have investors yet where there just isn't any money to pay yourself and there isn't much one can do about it except live of savings/family and reduce personal spending (like in this case). But that phase should end once the startup is in a better financial situation.

In the end, founders are expected to work a lot, prioritize the company over personal matters and take a discounted salary. In general that's fine, but we ought to recognize that there should be balance. You don't have to ridiculously overwork yourself be successful and it's OK to draw an livable salary, take occasional holidays and spend time with family.

P.S.: The industry standard in the VC industry is that the general partners collect a yearly management fee of about 2%. For larger funds, that's a lot of money and I've never heard anyone demanding that GPs don't pay themselves a salary and instead only receive the carry (percentage of profits after paying the investors/limited partners) in case the fund performs well a few years down the line. Instead, they always get the management fee (=founders salary) plus the carry (~20% of profits), the later possibly being significantly larger than the management fee if the fund performed very well (=successful exit). If they can live comfortably from their profession, so should the founders.
Yes, you won’t see that happening when buying on Apple app store because they don’t share your email.

I was mostly talking about avoiding Paddle as a payment processor, the app store isn’t a payment processor so we can’t really compare them.

I’d still say the spam came from a seller sharing your address, or leaking it by mistake, not from how Paddle works.

If your issue would be Paddle related and recurrent, I don’t think they would still be in the business as trust is very important when handling money and customer data and soon no one would choose them anymore.
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Safari enables me to create accounts on lots of services controlled by third parties and, for some of these, Safari does not symmetrically enable me to initiate a deletion in-app.

This might be the weakest strawman argument I've ever seen. Well done.
Btw, I’m developing an IntelliJ IDEA plugin for Awk: https://github.com/xonixx/intellij-awk

You can already install it from marketplace.
This definitely helpful for some people, I also like the UI design. It looks modern and sleek.
I used a Privacy card and NYT did a “force post” [0] after they got a decline. I contacted Privacy and this is apparently a per se violation of the Visa rules, so they opened a dispute and I won. But NYT actually tried to charge me despite me trying to cancel, and I live in CA, and the card was blocked in Privacy.

[0]: https://support.privacy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012288214-F...
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Likewise, the app crashed for me on a fresh install as soon as I touched a task.

Things now integrates with Reminders.
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What do you even mean when you say something is worth 0? How can a share of stock that you can sell at any time for an amount much larger than 0 be 'worth 0'? Things are worth what you can sell them for, and that is the only definition of value that isn't nonsense.

You want currency you hold to be deflationary. Deflation is a systemic problem for economies, not individuals with cash in hand. Its not expensive to transact, it is extremely cheap. You go find a provider to let you accept payments from anyone in the world for a smaller % of the transaction and that will cover chargebacks. It doesn't exist, and you are not doing an honest analysis when you compare the transaction cost of walmart instead of yourself, or the cost of exchanging cash without the costs of moving people to the same location to exchange it.

You have no practical legal right to anything as a shareholder. If a company is liquidated the shareholders get nothing in practice. Management controls the finances and expenditures of a company, and a majority of shareholders control management. This control is usually only given to special classes of stock that is for the most part impossible to buy. Why do you think people fight over control of companies? Management routinely steal huge sums by allocating it for the direct benefit of some shareholders over others.
> Facebook risks losing its young, liberal staff.

Spot on, and not just young, liberal. Old-ish and privacy minded. Mid-aged and right.

Two crowds are critical though:

- this is the talent pool: college campuses. FB's changing tone (sponsoring scholarships, sponsoring scholarships for non tech -> tech transfers, etc) is evident.

- this is the management pool: mid-30's to 40's, married, coastal EMs or PMs, that have to explain at dinner parties where they work and why they do it. See: the whistleblower.
A Group of River Otters Is Attacking People and Dogs in Alaska
Maybe I'm a heartless sociopath but seeing the word three in massive font had absolutely 0 emotional impact on me.
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I believe this is from last year, I remember those little squares from a past life.

EDIT: January 12, 2021 - looks like my brain isn't fully swiss cheesed yet after all
I don't know how to feel about something like this. Obviously there is benefit in highlighting systematic issues, however it may also be detrimental to highlight the actions of those who are killing for glory...

Also I'm not sure I would qualify the shooting in Texas as a school shooting. By that I mean in the U.S. the term in my mind means an act of terror targeting a school, however this seemed more like a grudge match where a gun was pulled.

I don't mean to take away from what you've built ExtraE, your effort and creativity are appreciated :)
Donate to Mozilla.org - bam, paid Firefox
Yeah I dunno, I'd happily take an existing Facebook US salary if all the good engineers stopped working there.
Some of the Python FFI tools are listed here: https://ocamlverse.github.io/content/ffi.html. But clicking through to GitHub, the repos haven't been updated in a while.
Hi, thanks for that! I fixed the link by editing the post!
Where will that young liberal staff go work for? I suspect once too much of good life perks are not available at FB maybe their outlook itself change a bit.
True. But the comments and community is what i meant, too.
This whole circus is about as contrived as it gets, complete with the "think of the children" gimmick. The timing, the theatrics, the manufactured celebrity of a middle manager at Facebook who is doing the "right" kind of whistleblowing that the establishment likes.

Facebook's predatory business model isn't unique or new. This is about raw power to censor.
No Android version available, sad.
FB has been through so many scandals in the past four years and literally nothing seems to materially affect the company. At least not their stock. Bloomberg has a nice rundown of the past crises and how quickly it rebounded every time:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-06/facebook-...
They still have more fans than syphilis.

If the postal service came up with an ICQ / message board; or hell even mastodon servers for Zip codes, they might kill the beast.

I'm sure local postmasters would love to add a "online clerk" or two to their staff, to deal with the server level local dramas. The opportunity to pay for it with "bulk mail" analog advertising is obvious too. All guided by the loving hands of a questionably responsible quasi-governmental bureaucracy led by shady appointees.
I don't mind app that use my location for stuff which requires it, what this project is meant to do is find who SELLS the information.
Why is this article dated October 9th? Did they release it early to counter a slow news day?
Anyone who has your number in their contact list might have uploaded their entire contact list.

It literally takes only one person who has your number to reveal your number.
It absolutely can be, and I think it is.

The left has blamed the election of Trump on Facebook, chiefly for spreading "misinformation".

Facebook should have responded to this charge by asserting they are not arbiters of truth, but they happily took up that mantle.

But it's not enough, and it never will be. The goal is to regulate Facebook into oblivion.

Others may disagree with my assessment of motivation. Plenty other "reasons" exist, all revolving around the specter of "misinformation". See for yourself, the recent bad press about negative impact on children is just the cherry on top.

All of this falls when the standard is personal responsibility. You should decide what is trustworthy, or misleading. You should decide how much time you (and your children) spend on social media.

But the going mantra is that this freedom is "harmful", and must be regulated. That's the end game, and your assessment is dead on.
Is there any real media left? Most newspapers are a shadow of their former selves. Cable news channels are more about entertainment than news.
Well, there's an inherent conflict between making individual queries easier to read and making your entire code easier to read.

How much whitespace you need is completely dependent on what exactly you are writing.
Sounds like they're already using Rust where performance matters and are looking to switch
Yes it is and yes they do.
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Maintaining even one browser engine is an ungodly amount of work (see how even microsoft dropped the ball on that), let alone 2. Discontinuing Servo was the correct decision however sad it is.
On the other hand, Firefox does incorporate more and more Rust into the browser, but reimplementing such a core part is simply infeasible.
I have a 40 something friend who started working there a few years a go. He has a family. He mostly went for stability, good pay, good benefits, predictable long term outlook. Not working insane hours. He loves it. Actually said he feels valued as an engineer.
Some advertisers - e.g. large CPG with branding goals - might care more about even delivery and spending the budget than performance.

That said, it seems wrong to use accelerated delivery for anybody using the Facebook pixel for conversion optimization.
I find it ironic that people seem intent on holding Tether to a much higher standard than banks. I know there are certain legal guarantees applied to banks along with regulations, but all evidence points to Tether being in a much safer position than banks with their tiny fractional reserves. People are dissatisfied with anything less than fully-backed when it comes to 'crypto'.
Facebook has gotten worse with its young liberal staff. And I don't mean in the dark patterns for more clicks sense, I mean in the cpu cycles to do a basic operation.

Maybe it's time for the old crusty developers making $60k on embedded systems to take a shot at it.
> most of them don’t give a shit about the reputation of FB

This is close to a straw man argument. Nobody claims users will abandon Facebook.

The article posits, instead, strengthening headwinds. Headwinds in hiring (there is already a double-digit premium Facebook must pay for talent). From recurring whistleblowing, and its impact on morale and productivity. Headwinds in projects and partnerships, like Libre/Diem being dead on arrival because Facebook brought it to the table. Senior leadership knowing they will, at least once in their career, be hauled in front of Congress for a nationally-televised grilling because their employer's unpopularity [1] makes it a popular punching bag. Headwinds in M&A.

People didn't stop using oil after the Standard Oil break-up. Nor Windows after its antitrust brush or cigarettes after the tobacco master settlement. The power of those companies was simply sharply reduced.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/6/22702798/verge-tech-surve...
Would you know a GUI tool that would use the social network of the functions (who's calling who) to build a visual representation based on metrics of your choice? (ex: eigencentrality)

Ideally it would integrate with an editor to open it on the function you click, and allow other things that make sense to explore a codebase (ex: filter by filename to exclude some files and all the functions they contain)

I've been asked to look at some java code (not my favorite thing). There are about 8000 files, 150 of which seem more important. Having a premade graph to model their relations would let me read the 150 file in order of importance, starting with the most connected one, and maybe even stopping early once I've understood enough of the codebase.
I mean there’s also 15 years of memories going back to me in college. There’s sentimental attachment there.
These macro changes are bad for embedding into other languages: macro functions are not exposed as symbols from libpython, which means every embedding must build another DLL to export them. Some of the macros have a function counterparts, but these do not seem to.
A clbuttic [0] solution to the problem.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clbuttic
References to articles talking about the school shootings would make the website more meaningful.
> Basically, it is a todo manager, but with built-in first-class scheduling.
> You input your todos, assign time estimates, and Sorted helps
> you spread them out in your day, keeping your calendar events in mind.

So, it's like org-mode.
Donations to (non-profit) Mozilla Foundation are not (afaik can not be) used to support development work done by (for-profit) Mozilla Cooperation, which is where Mozilla's Firefox development happens.
I have trouble getting consistency. I tried several methods, like you mentioned starting small, completibg small actions etc.. But I'm not able to consistently do it. It breaks when you are stuck at some problem. And in my job(legacy code base (~13yearrs), me with < 2 years experience, i find it harder to get that momentum.
Funny this comes up today. Belgium is now having a gun alert on a school today. Not a shooting, and I hope they stay rare. Even so, someone here commented we're turning into a little USA.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2021/10/07/gun-alert-at-kortrij...
You may be right, but it's very unclear. I came to my conclusion because Firefox calls every result a "Firefox Suggest" result (see the title at the top of the results).

From https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2021/09/15/data-and-firefox-su..., it looks like Firefox (currently) matches your search terms against a local list before forwarding them. So not everything is sent, but anything including a term specified by the advertising agency.

It's unclear if it includes the entire search query or just the single word. That same blog post seems to indicate that mozilla "may" send the entire query. It also appears that Mozilla is sending city level location data.

Of course, that same blog post implies that the feature is opt-in (which it definitely isn't).
I think you're rationalising a bad decision, one that weakens your position, and sadly it might be difficult to undo now, so you're even more likely to rationalise this to yourself.

If the problem was motivation try and find out why you were lacking it, I suspect the answer was not "I'm too gosh darn rich"
Perhaps; but Awk is such a compact approach. My head feels cleaner when using it compared to Perl - perhaps as it's fairly close to C. The interpreter is a single binary on practically any OS, and is usually around 5MB in size. It's installed by default on essentially every OS (aside from Windows, which is an easy single exe download). Also with implementations like Mawk, it will destroy Perl in speed.
They'll go work for the AANG in FAANG. If they're good enough to get into FB, they've good enough for the other 4+. FB transferred from a "change the world" to a "change my finances and make my resume" place several yers ago. Several other companies fill in the latter qualification.

Also, and ya I know how this sounds, but if Coinbase keeps it up they and similar companies will and are grabbing some of the same talent.
Right, in most people's minds a "mass shooting" or a "school shooting" means a targeted terrorist-style attack, not an interpersonal or gang dispute that escalated into gunfire and had multiple injuries. Pretty much all counts of mass/school shootings in the US are inflated in this way, possibly to make it sound worse for political purposes.
I think you're kind of deluding yourself if you think MSM wants FB to die or lose influence.They're(FB) partly much of the reason MSM hasn't straight-out died after they tried catching up to more what used to be alternative "news sources".

What the new whistleblower "leaked" isn't something revealing at all.And the frightening thing is that what she a argues for is even more disturbing: more regulation.
This would be fine if FB&friends would be definitely declared to not be public spheres (which on one hand they're technically not because they're private entities, but on the other hand [wrongfully] have the public sphere status in law, when it comes to information).

What actually is news about FB is the reported 1.5BN hack, which nobody talks about besides this "old-news". which is mainly either a regurgitated attempt _by_ facebook to somehow resurrect their image through this, or the US gov trying to gain even more pressure on private companies.Nobody talks about the fact that our 'whistleblower' openly donated a lot of money to DNC, and a quick research on her stinks of collusion, either politically or against against facebook itself.
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The movie Gran Torino came out when I was twenty, and in seeing it, I heard many racial slurs uttered in context for the first time. I was, of course, familiar with the "main" ones, but the one in particular that I remember was "spook". I remember it vividly because, upon hearing it, I had an immediate realization that I had heard it before when it was said near the end of Back To The Future (the scene where Marvin Berry and the Starlighters chase off Biff's gang).

In my youthful innocence I had assumed the characters in the movie were trading silly, made-up names (e.g. "Who are you calling "sparky", Popeye?"), not racial epithets.

The fact that this list needs to exist makes me sad, but I am glad technology can assist on some level with the issue.
No it isn't. It's like Apple asking you if you want to keep paying for a service you voluntarily signed yourself up for. You can set your own calendar reminders about subscriptions you may not want in perpetuity, but it's entirely on the small business to keep me as a customer.

Let's not pretend that the "poor small guys" don't sometimes use subscription models with automatic renewal specifically because they're hoping people will keep paying them after the product is no longer useful because they forget to cancel their service. This is a known dark pattern I've seen complained about everywhere (including here).
Worth noting for the ones who aren't familiar with it: physical dependency is different than psychological dependence. Not saying one is easier to stop/better than the other, but Facebook and heroin have very different effect on people.
I think Elixir would be interesting for your usecase.

It's a dynamic, garbage collected language. It's easy to pick up and get going with. As a functional programming language there isn't a lot to learn in the way of language constructs, and you don't even have to do the 'wrestling with the type system' thing that you have to do in compiled functional languages like OCaml or Haskell (like you do in Rust).

Its processing 'horsepower' is probably comparable to Python, but it's much better for building low latency things if you want to run something in a bit more of a production use case. This is also improving due to the recent addition of a JIT.

The addition of NX is making Elixir an increasingly interesting place to do ML - write Elixir, have it run on GPU etc. See https://dashbit.co/blog/nx-numerical-elixir-is-now-publicly-...

Python integration is probably best done using the Erlang 'port' system - running Python as a managed process and communicating with it using messages over stdin/stdout. I use it for C interop and it works well (and fits well with the Elixir/Erlang process model). It's not difficult to roll your own in Python e.g. https://github.com/fujimisakari/erlang-port-with-python/blob... or look at something like http://erlport.org/
Put it in an HTML comment. Those looking for it, will find it. Especially given how clean and lean it currently is.
I mean, it's a stupid plan. A whistleblower to advocate for censorship? Do they think the people are that stupid?

I guess like most things they don't need the majority of public on board, just a bit of plausible deniability.

If anyone was really concerned about the algorithms, they'd make transparency requirements, not censorship requirements.

If anyone was really concerned about the results of teenagers in the study, they'd go after TikTok, where teenagers are and where they rank them by looks.

If anyone was really concerned about bad foreign actors on social media they'd go after the Taliban and the Ayatollah on Twitter.