skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The caffeine gives you focus and the energy to counteract whatever lassitude comes with the cannabis, and the cannabis provides easier access to flow state and the tendency for thoughts to wander in what can often be unexpectedly productive directions.

Or so I assume, at any rate, based on knowledge of each drug's action in isolation. I had a heavy cannabis habit back ages ago, and kicking it cold was really one of the best decisions I've ever made - of all else in my recollection, the only thing comparable in terms of immediate cognitive and emotional improvement has been beginning APAP treatment for obstructive sleep apnea. Given that I'd be very wary of self-reports of the benefits of heavy cannabis use - after all, I thought for a long time it was helping me, too! - but I suppose I can see why folks who do choose to indulge might choose also to pair cannabis with coffee.
If one believes as you do that they are "nutjob senators", it should be all the more important that you're appraised as to their thinking and thought process no?

Why would you choose selective ignorance to those which wield power?
In Silicon Valley this is simply not true.
>They think that promos (like this article), are at most only %10, while promos are more like a x1.5 to x2 of your income.

I'd be curious to see stats on this. My experience at large corporations (multiple of FAANG) has been the opposite. For instance, at Google my L4-5 salary bump was 10-15%, my bonus target percentage is identical, and to be honest the stock grants from L4 Strongly Exceeds were better than L5 Consistently Meets Expectations. There's theoretically a higher ceiling over the long term (and the L6 bump seems to be better) but it was nowhere near 50% for me.
To be fair crack was thought of as the poor man’s coke. You can take high quality coke, cook it with sodium bicarbonate and make more money using less supply
Yes. They do this in a lot of ways.

- Connections: industry, hires, investors

- Investing themselves into the company (bringing capital to help you grow)

- Domain specific knowledge. Hopefully they know the industry better than anyone.

- Management. Do not underestimate how far good management can go. It can really be a productivity multiplier - but the other way is true, too. If you have bad management, you're going to kill productivity.
It's unethical, manipulative and looks like a fraud.
I was one of those slurping down the KoolAid and believing all the FUD about the Middle-East. Then I started dating a Qatari woman and that helped to balance me out. She says the public health system is pretty poor, and it seems the migrants do not qualify for it anyway. That's a bad start.

People on here are totally misreading the Amnesty report though. The report does not say 15,000 immigrants died from World Cup construction. It says 15,000 migrants died over the period specified (which is a nominal figure), but it says that they do not understand what the cause of death was because Qatar is either purposefully or incompetently diagnosing this. That needs to be fixed.

I don't think Qatar is unique in mistreating its immigrant labor. Everywhere I've lived in the West does this to some degree, though not as seriously as
Qatar was doing in the past.
I think it depends.
My current job is relaxed over hours - I'll checks emails at home, wander in mid-morning and leave when my works is done. Might be 5 if I get it done or have plans, or might be into the evening (quite pleasant/productive to work uninterrupted in a empty room).

I've got other colleagues who'll be logged in at 08:30 (so I believe) and leave on the dot of 17:00.

I think both approaches work for different people and for the company a mix gives them more flexibility without having to create a formal plan.

I think what the article was bringing up was that if you set expectations and are seen to conform to them, everybody is happy (or doesn't think about it).

If you're the person who's always there as the office opens and sticks around late - you may be noticed and get a pat on the back, but it's never going to compensate for the additional hours you put in. This might be fine if you have one job and a career - but if you're trying to hold down 2 jobs, those extra couple of hours each day are 50% of the effort of holding down that 2nd job. They're worth 50% of a whole new salary.
Ah yes, my bad!! Sorry
I want to earn enough to have a good life and work hard. I think most tech jobs pay more than enough.
My mindset is anyone who is a "maxi" is just an idealist. Most (all?) idealists end up being wrong; that includes 100% decentralized viewpoints and 100% centralized viewpoints. Anyone who thinks that bitcoin is going to be somehow the most efficient to buy a beer at the local bar is an idealist. Anybody who thinks that their nation's fiat currency is the only safe thing to store value in need only look at Turkey and Venezuela as counter points (or find a list of defunct currencies throughout history if you want to get more philosophical). If you want to make more nuanced arguments about making global investments go ahead; but bitcoin is attractive because the narrative is more simple. Does that guarantee Bitcoin is the answer, nope.

NFT's aren't just digital art; digital art is just an easy implementation of NFT's. DAO's are a decentralized usecase. Centralized entities issuing NFT's redeemable for services at a future point in time is another category. For example, Nike issuing a NFT which can be redeemed for a limited edition shoe rather then selling the shoe online directly, having it be bought up by bots and resold on the 3rd party market. Nike gets a cut of the resale value every time the NFT is resold at minimal effort; they don't even have to build/host the marketplace. Consumers get a limited edition shoe shipped to them directly from the manufacturer with worry about middlemen or authenticity. To your point, people already trust Nike (and many other companies) to send them products.

Do the decentralized "maxi's" like that nike example, probably not. But they don't really get a say whether it exists or not. Everyone is so quick to declare web3 100% dead or 100% going to take over the world. If this was pre social media, nobody would know about web3. The value would be orders of magnitude lower and you'd probably only find out about it once there were "useful products" or never at all if it's a complete failure. But that's not the world we live in anymore.
I’ve seen people promoted once in FANG including Meta more than double their salary.
Never had issues with homebrew and have been extensively using it for years now.

It’s a great piece of software I would really miss.

The people maintaining it also do great work.
Also, doctors normally don't prescribe percocet or other strong opiates to "take the edge off" (i.e. psychiatric treatment). That's what barbiturates and anxiolytics are for.
> If the platform picks and chooses what goes on its platform then it's a publisher, not a platform. Thus it loses it's Section 230 immunity.

This isn't true and not apart of section 230.

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
You can’t just take any two random jobs, you need the right two jobs. One that doesn’t require meetings preferably.
Nah being the only product for which you can pay in taxes, at pain of men with guns putting you in a tiny box, is the best of ensuring dominance. Over the domestic population, at least.
Agreed. I probably think about the problems I am trying to solve during most of the day. However, I don't think that is really work. That is just my brain not being able to shut off. And it isn't concentrated work - it is off and on.
Also, guns.
They might be referring to The Work Number from Equifax, which you can check out of, but never leave.
I think that's possible. Foolish, but possible.
I have to disagree, they are relevant. SV needs bodies for the various profit grinders and a way to put pressure on other elites. Wastefully discarding somewhat functioning humans isn't ideal.
> And you cannot put both jobs in your resume, only one on top of that, and this will show up in future background checks

hah. yes you can. No one cares if you have multiple concurrent jobs on a resume. And no one cares about what the background check is going to show.

This is all easily explained away.
I'm just going to ignore it until it either evaporates away. Web 2.0 was basically sitting on the same stuff as 1.0 (html+Javascript, server, database), just with more moving dynamic parts. Since web3 wants to change this, I doubt it will amount to anything.
Depending on the amount of data (and your willingness to pay to have it on the blockchain) you can put it on the blockchain directly just fine. Some of these "art" NFTs can perfectly be simple base64 encoded PNGs or SVGs and wouldn't cost too much to have them stored directly.

But forget about this case... even if "you are not storing the data directly with ENS". So what?! Do I get to host my website with my DNS server? Do I get free email service with my MX records?

The whole thing I was talking about with ENS is that it is a decentralized way to get an identity online, not to have a free website. I am failing to see your point.
It depends on whether you believe internal political capital is gained from effort, or time spent waiting for good luck. If you believe the latter, working two jobs gives twice as many "lottery tickets".

In reality it's a combination of luck and effort, but luck is definitely a factor.
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<i>Felt like I needed to resolve that or we may never stop being sarcastic</i>
That’s never what section 230 said, or was intended to do. In fact that’s explicitly what it allows them to do, and without this protection the moderation decisions would be infinitely worse because they would become liable.

Repeating FUD misinformation doesn’t make it true.
By refusing to do any sort of business in or conduct any sort of trade with China.
It's not just advice. 90% of everything is crap.
Even funnier, the rich are needing to catch up to third world standards. The poor have been working multiple jobs in America for a very long time.
I don't think "no reporting" connects in any way to "ridiculous interviews." It is perfectly possible to do a reference call to a company, at which one's name, rank, serial number, and dates of tenure would be verified. That would be as much or more than you'd get from most background checks.
Original title preferred, please.
This, absolutely. There are many who are fully vaxxed and happy to promote the vaccines, but oppose the passports and mandates. It's not about the short-term gains but the long-term effects of authoritarianism.
> An immutable GC would only be useful by adding an interior mutability wrapper, which is exactly the kind of friction the paper is trying to avoid.

This would be the most idiomatic approach, yes. They could use a code transformation to automate the 'wrapping' and present an intuitive, frictionless interface to the developer.
Or, as we actually do, just assume they were legitimately sentenced to what we just assume is a fair duration.

Letting somebody innocent out "early", even if we extracted undue labor from them, could be a net good. But the incentives are all in the wrong direction, and we see the effects writ large all around us. Making fine points about a theoretical situation of justice and legitimacy is a harmful distraction in present circumstances, where we demonstrably don't have those.
Is that why Chernobyl reactor core kept burning after the blowup? I am not familiar with cycle of the nuclear core in the plant. I assumed once the control rod is in, the core will stop "combusting"?
When was this? It also isn't the norm. I've also heard of people double their TC during COVID, but it was mainly due to the stock increase. It's not sustainable, nor is it the norm.
> Maybe if your having a hard time breaking into startups or FANGMULA and your just starting out, this might be an ok strategy, but beyond that, it's not a good idea.

Most people are never good enough to break into FANGMULA.
Many vaccinated Americans will at some point test positive. Here’s what to do
Oh yeah totally. By articles I meant not work related stuff (like HN posts or something).
https://archive.ph/JbpGY
It is nice but pity it does not have a "turn right" opcode: start going left, on the turn opcode, continue decoding pixels after turning 90 degrees to the right, until you hit a previously decoded pixel or the wall of the bounding box defined after the first two turns, in which case you turn automatically. The file ends when there's nowhere to turn.

This would eliminate the need for a header (bloat!) as the end of file is clearly defined, the size is defined after decoding the top and right line (second turn), and it's not so sensitive to orientation (a pathological image can compress very differently in portrait vs landscape in line oriented formats). Color profile can be specified in the spec.

Also allows skipping altogether some image-wide bands or columns that are of the background color (defined by the first pixel) as you do not need to walk over all the pixels.
Are you high, sir?
that's not true at all. I've ran mail servers. It's really easy to block by domain, and I have.
It's a statistical inevitability that this will happen all the time at facebook's scale, even if you have an algorithm with a %0.00001 false positive rate, because they deal with billions of items per day. It's really actually fairly rare unless your purposefully bashing your content against their stated boundaries, but huge numbers make thousands of these events happen per day around the world.

Just like society has learned to accept certain rates of death, crime, medical imperfection and more to have a functioning society, we will have to come to terms that algorithmic moderation will also go wrong and we will have to pay for it, with $$$, one way or another. It will never be perfect, because what is perfect is different to different groups.
Planning with Flare
> Google PageRank has done more damage to the open web than Twitter could ever hope to.

If you're going to show up in someone's thread, tell them they're missing the picture, g make a big bold counter claim... for heavens sake have the reasonability to make a refuttable claim. Make sometbing i can disagree with. Make some assertion.

I dont have the faintest clue why you'd make this assertion. The web is free to innovate. What about page rank is a threat to the open web? In my view good interesting stuff is able to grow & succeed adequately.

Maybe im not in a popular camp here, but, not everything on the web needs gangbusters mass critical success. I feel like there's a lot of high interest, active communities & products that arise & grow via word of mouth jiut fine.

I dont see search engines as relevant. I feel like the social processes of the world are far far far more powerful & informative governors, that products & services make themselves. This idea that search is that important doesnt ring at all true to me in the world today. You're getting people who dont know much or have much idea getting connected to low-denominator highly-massified results. This is basically a promise that search will almost never lead to interesting ends. Real, useful, interesting connectivity comes from elsewhere. Good things get started via opt-in interests, not random discovery.

I'd really apprwciate it if you'd at least explain your position at least a little. Just throwing down an opinion without explanation makes discussion or explanation nearly impossible. It's really low grade discussion. I've tried to elaborate some how i think this discussion might go, but you havemt made any real claim other than that you think someone is to blame, not why.
It's the reasonable solution to dealing with big tech's recent censorship abuses (yes, censorship; they operate as oligopolies, which means they possess censorship power).

Congress and or the DOJ refuse to go after big tech on this front, they refuse to hold them to account to Section 230. There is a contingent of the political elite that is shielding them for obvious reasons.
The vast majority of applicants can not get into those prestigious companies, and to be frank - if you can get two remote CRUD jobs that pay a total of $300k - that's probably 3-5 times higher pay than the average "normal" physical job in their area.

I get that this is HN and a very SF-centric board, but sometimes users here are so incredibly out of touch with the real world, it's not even funny anymore. I'm not attacking you directly, but it's something you see here all the time ("why not just join google and become a principal engineer")
Does anybody know of the FOSS app for this that would work on my hardened degoogled phone? The alerts would need to delivered via web socket or Gotify since I have no Google Play Services.
> In the 30-60 day window, you should set goals with your boss if that’s not already done. Drag out the newbie card and claim slow ramp-up time. Identify what absolutely needs to be done, communicate that as your goal, and meet them.

In my experience, this will already make you more valuable than most employees working at big companies
That was my original assumption, but I looked it up before posting this. As near as I can tell, there's a video length requirement for enabling mid-video ads (11 minutes?), but nothing in general. And almost none of the 11ish minute videos I play have interstitials.

Maybe it changed? I know next to nothing about historical YT revenue rules.
Absolutely it is not. Most decent bootstrapped SaaS will have trouble getting pure profit that matches the salary of two developer jobs, and it will be a lot of work, a lot more than just engineering.
I think the best thing this Congress can do in a year is pass a law about forming committee to do a study.

If you really want to play the game, prewrite the law you want and jam it into a debt ceiling bill that congress has to pass.
oh it's swedish laws. that makes sense then
Absolutely. Not for the entire meeting, but I try not to join meetings (at least long ones) where I'm not going to be participating.
>3. They think that promos (like this article), are at most only %10, while promos are more like a x1.5 to x2 of your income.

This is false on average, even at FAANG, getting promoted to the next level doesn't boost your TC that much, the company assumes that the promotion on itself is good enough prize. You usually get a better deal applying to the next level at another FAANG.

> 1. They tend to work double jobs at frankly lo.....
This is also false, plenty of people that work for small companies, even being a 10X , "rockstar" , ... developer, would never get "promoted" to the next level, because , there is no next level, and the C-level positions are reserved for friends and family, and in some occasion to outside experienced executives.

30 years ago, climbing the corporate ladder was "the way" to get ahead, nowadays, people with small mildly successful SAAS businesses, consultant companies, podcasters, indie hackers etc... make way more than any Director at FAANG.

This is a very "boomer" take in general, and is also pretty cringe.
"Resource Limit Is Reached" which is actually quite on-brand
The opposite of "selective ignorance" is not publishing their verbal flatulence in full and as-is.
I see. So she bought Fentanyl and mixed up with some other medication. This is insanely careless behaviour.
I would.

And you would too, take your favorite instant messaging app and imagine it started blocking nudity/violence. Or email.
How many jobs are like that? All the jobs I have had, contractor or otherwise, require at least some meetings. I can't imagine a new hire who is making $150k/yr+ not being in a few meetings a week.
Who's to say that "contributing to society" is entirely encompassed in the idea of "work" though? Perhaps those posters contribute in other ways?

Plenty of valuable contributions are made outside of traditional "work"
> If the platform picks and chooses what goes on its platform then it's a publisher, not a platform.

As far as I'm aware, picking and choosing, moderation, and editorial decisions, don't waive section 230 immunity. Although that is a US law, and the MP in question is Canadian, so I'm not sure how the jurisdictional issues would be decided.
As long as corporations are legal persons, I'm going to hold them to a moral standard, and I think the American public as a whole has a duty to do the same. If they can contribute to politicians, then we all have a personal stake in their ethics.
is it bad example or legal precedents that change people's minds...? it depends, of course.
This really highlights how salaries really only ever motivate some people to work the absolute minimum.
Or the “NFT derivatives” thing. Idea was interesting but code had bugs that weren’t corrected.
It seems that you do care a lot about other people choosing to discuss how Facebook manages their service, though.
This article is literally about Biden ignoring experts who advocated for ramped-up testing for a year.
Well I do know someone who pulls that as a junior but he also has a PhD in inverse kinematics simulation and that job was really needed.
While it's not easy (and you should never trust anyone who says that it is), I do think that it's more feasible than most developers think it is. I'm not special, absolutely far from it, and I achieved it (in Australian dollars anyway, and focused on a B2B niche rather than B2C)
Thanks for sharing this - it's really hard to find anything this well documented from locals
Solving retrieval was Evernote's original idea, and then they became enterprise spaghetti instead.
Okay if you start THAT low I can see it, but most start at 40-60 here, getting up to 80-120 is used to be at least a decade away.
Ahhhhhh this is not what section 230 says at all. Go read it. It's not long and not complicated.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

There is literally a section that talks about that a company can restrict basically a huge range of content.
Within the last 4 years for sure, and before that as well. Not the norm, but for high performing engineers it’s definitely possibly without equity appreciation. But I do think it speaks to the parents comment — if you put in the extra work the payoffs at the right company definitely have higher ROI than two jobs where you’re lying / hiding / stressing about being mediocre. Just my two cents.

Note, it’s not just the initial promotion. It’s the wider compensation band it opens up.
Ah. Maybe you are more senior. I speak in maybe 1 in 10 meetings that are not standup. I have muted them. Taken naps during them. Most of the time I just carry on working.
Can you make it so obvious someone working 2 remote jobs could do it?
That would follow Sturgeon's Law that "90% of everything is crap"
Hey, this is pretty interesting, you can sear food with a laser with good control over how deep the heating penetrates. This could be good for ‘torching’ fragile proteins like seafood.

It’ll probably only be used for some highly processed frankenfood however.