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Ask HN: Startups vs Big Companies: Which do you prefer?
Right now, I'm a software engineer at Microsoft. However, I'm wanting to move to a Web3 startup (well, if they give me a good offer). Yes, I am aware of the "problems" about blockchain/Web3 and that everyone hates it.

My heart and gut is telling me that I should go with the Web3 startup, no matter how much I convince myself otherwise. My mom is largely warning me against the idea of me joining one and pushes the idea of a "stable" job on me.

I get where she comes from, but even with my tech choices I was historically not the "default" or "most popular" type, I liked trying something different. Well, unless I really like a particular piece of software, like with FreeBSD, where I am a committer. But even then, my FreeBSD laptop is a very new HP Spectre x360 14 and not the "safe" option of a 10-year-old ThinkPad X220/T420, and I like Gnome even if everyone else doesn't.

Going back, I feel more entrepreneurial and not cut out for a "corporate job", I want to innovate on my job and take ownership. At the same time, with other important metrics like work-life balance and compensation, a "big company" also has its wins. But even at Microsoft I do have times when I am pretty much idle (even if I ask for work) nor do I want to work in "Big Data" forever either.

For reference, the startup is a Series B company. I also have interviews with another series C Web3 company, and a "big" firm (not FAANGMULA, but more like Pinterest or Dropbox sized).

However, about you all HN readers, especially those who worked at both startups and big companies (doesn't have to be FAANG), which do you prefer and why? I am leaning towards the Web3 startup if I get it, but also want other perspectives.

Yes, I did have an internship at a (now-dead) crypto CDN startup who almost hired me full-time, well before Microsoft came in.
Nope, not interested in paying for photo storage, although I do use it currently because it’s free and convenient.

Would rather just operate in Web 1.0 and download to my computer every few months.
Unicode specifically limited itself to the range zero to U+10FFFF

Obviously nothing in the laws of nature forbids "a future Unicode version" from disavowing this limit, but we could say the same for whether "a future United States of America" could disavow the status of independent Indian Tribes it has previously recognised.
The number of companies currently on the Nasdaq that got their Sequoia funding while having a bunch of functioning flaming poo for code kinda proves him wrong.

The startup graveyard contains the corpses of many “perfect architectures”.

This reminds me of people whining about rails and it’s performance issues at scale. Rails helps you have the luxury of surviving until you get to experience performance issues at scale.
The grandparent was disclaiming his bias regarding his own personal dislike of golang. A full-blown point-by-point critique would have been unnecessary and inappropriate in that context.

Nothing I’ve replied here has been an “attack” on you. I simply tried—gently at first—to suggest that “x is bad” should not be equated with “x is irredeemable” which is not exactly a charitable or reasonable interpretation in the context in which that statement was originally written.

Further I directly expressed a more nuanced opinion as an example in my and you still chose to discard that nuance and interpret the opinion as black and white.

I think you’ll find that on a scale of positivity from -1.0 to +1.0, most people perceive “bad” as somewhere along the lines of “< 0.0” and not “= -1.0”.
Hmm, perhaps not. We may be agreeing with each other. I have no desire to punish people for their crimes, only to remove them from society.

I thought your point was that the concept of prison as "a place where you are removed from society" is fundamentally flawed, and your rationale was that removal does not serve the person removed. It seems that your point is actually that the modern concept of prison as "a place where you go to be punished" is flawed, which I agree with. Prisoners should simply be outside society, not in pain or fear. If they can manage to live peacefully that ought to be allowed; if they cannot, they ought to be restricted further.

I think there are only two real "punishments", which are death and exile. Corporal punishment is just partially-applied death, and prison is just partially-applied exile. All other punishments I'm aware of are just shades of either death or exile; even monetary fines are "a reduction of your ability to participate in society".
Taking property without compensation.
Eh more a relatively priveledged few selfishly demanding protection of the status quo at the expense of everybody else. What they fought for was the "right" to keep jobs from less skilled work and more expensive fabrics for everyone else. What precisely is the difference between the luddites and a price fixing cartel or an extortionist? Both make things more expensive for everyone else using the threat of violence against those who don't cooperate.

The status of paupers also wasn't an issue until their own living was threatened by theirs improving slightly. Socialism would imply society as a whole (or at least whomever they consider "real people").
Yes! Last time I used sshuttle (bypassing content blocks in India by tunneling to a server in the US), my bandwidth dropped from 10mbps to 1mbps. Back then wireguard didn’t exist, but IPSEC could easily saturate the 10mbps link. I suspect it’s a combination of TCP-over-TCP and a horrible default buffer size that makes sshuttle unusably slow.
Excellent question and context. Long answer, four points.

1. With all respect to your experience being triggered, etc, your experience has nothing to do with the experience of most of your users whom you would acknowledge will likely not share that experience. The personal sensitivities of staff really is not what any business in its right mind solves for.

I won't say you are crazy, your experience is what it is, but the painful truth is that your personal experience is irrelevant to the business. It's really important- also painful- to see that. I'm sorry.

2. Your personal experience is relevant to your relationships in and outside the business, but only insofar as you nurture those relationships and that they are healthy ones for you. It sounds like they are not, and on top of that you are in a position of psychic debt from a relationship perspective to your perception of your ownership stake, which is probably a misperception.

3. Your ownership stake is a mirage. Numbers written on paper are worth nothing in early stages, they are strawperson framings of stakes that serve the purposes of the parties really driving the bus and will be changed in the blink of an eye (by dilution, etc) if it starts to matter.

It is SUPER SUPER important to understand that, and to transition your thinking to a mode where you have zero stake, that if you want this business to succeed that you are going to earn your stake, and the only way to earn your stake is to (re)build relationships with key people and to deliver results that matter to the business, not to you personally. Very likely this is a non starter for you.

4. The short painful version is that it very much sounds like you are in deep emotional debt and this colors everything.

No one is forcing someone with a dog allergy to sit next to a dog. They just aren't. If someone has a dog allergy, they can't work in a pet store. That's fine because there are lots of other jobs. Same here. No one is forcing you to work for this business. You can leave tomorrow and in practice you would lose nothing, because early stakes are on balance worth nothing.

You definitely think you can't leave- this is on you. The MOST IMPORTANT thing is to you to get out of emotional debt and get back to a place where you can bring your strengths, and not your weaknesses, to your work.

If you were in an emotionally strong place with strong relationships you COULD leave tomorrow and find people who respected your sensitivities and who valued your understanding of the market and then that might be something.

My advice is to make emotional health your goal.

Best wishes, from someone who has been there, multiple times.
The ninth amendment.
The Memories of Z80 Past: Zaxxon and Future Spy
> I mean, assuming your experiences are shared to some extent with everyone else's is a pretty human thing to do. It's also a particularly American thing to do, perhaps for cultural reasons.

You really have no idea what you are talking about, but don't let it stop you.
Brownies, and banana bread are pretty easy (especially if one does not have allergies to chocolate and nuts as add-ins). Bread and pizza crust might require a bit of experimentation for perfect texture with your flour/water/yeast mix, kitchen temperature, humidity affecting outcome ( if you have central a/c or heat probably not as big a concern but I do not).
Someone just took pictures of himself everyday for 5 years and sold it as an NFT
By "challenges dark matter theories" do you mean "challenges the theory that there is dark matter" or "challenges theories of how dark matter originated and is distributed"?
I've generally considered an SSH tunnel as a poor man's VPN.
If you're going to the effort to spinup a machine, and use SSH anyway, i find it much easier to use `ssh user@server.com -D 4444` then I can set my browser's proxy settings to use localhost:4444 as a SOCKS5 proxy.
For those apps that don't have native proxy support, I use proxychains to force them over a proxy connection.

Ofcourse this is only useful for a single user, and for devices that can use ssh and proxies.
The superior bill is the one that gets passed. This is something democrats badly need to learn wrt Manchin.

Until then we're just giving completely, utterly pointless kudos to whoever can play chicken most convincingly. I'm sure Hawley's office could have come up with something with even slightly more teeth if Ossoff came to him first with a GAO bill.
It would be nice if pull requests and issues were integrated into git somehow, to avoid centralization like this.
I feel the same, and I live in the EU.

The silver lining of my aversion to collecting user data is that it aligns nicely with my beliefs about privacy and minimalism (ie. coming up with ideas for web applications that don't even need a backend).
My biggest one is how my favorites re-arrange themselves randomly in the Control Center. Seems to happen right when my muscle memory gets acclimated.
I have a hard time getting past the foundation metaphor. I agree with it, but stability of a foundation is not just "doesn't crash" but also "doesn't change." And that is something our industry just flat rejects.
That’s OK, it was still a good jab
There might be more options if Uber hadn't used its wealth to drive them out of business.
Interesting that this appears to be about copying specific game mechanics, not something like game assets or code.

Based on the screenshots they provide on page 43+ it does look like Free Fire is pretty clearly aping PUBG's aesthetic and mechanics, but I'm not sure that is copyright infringement.

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/dwvkrkjdlpm/...

Interested to see where this goes.
The great lakes. Fresh water is gold
Follows along with “squeaky wheel gets the grease” and usual small-town-ish politics. Engage and get the benefits.

Love to see stats on percentage of users that submit.
iPhone would auto import them and create spam meetings you couldn’t delete
At the pro level you need something that can be turned around in seconds. You dont want to hold up a rock concert or movie shoot because a battery has run flat. A constant flow of alkaline batteries is more reliable than organizing banks of gear-specific rechargeables. If mrs spears' pack died, a man in black would be running on stage with a new procell. Far easier to swap a battery than swap the entire pack integrated into her costume and sound systems.

The entertainment biz is special. They will bring thier own generators to run a rock concert because the power supply at every major stadium is too unreliable. A touring show would rather haul a generator truck (or three) than deal with the specifics of each stadium they visit and risk bad power. Better to spend the money and generate it yourself.
That's only one remedy available, this is another one.
> git:// support is not being removed from Git or self-hosted repos of any kind.

...quite yet. Because that's the third 'E' in the strategy, and they're not quite finished with the second one.
I built a similar test rig from a $15 plane controller to test some VTC6 batteries I bought:

https://notes.stavros.io/maker-things/battery-discharge-curv...

It was a lot of fun!
>Do you see the contradiction here? I don't think bibliometrics are useful for measuring utility.

that's not a contradiction that's like just your opinion man. it's also the no true scotsman fallacy on your part.

>we should massively

>NSF grants should be redirected to a GRFP-like funding model

>NSF should put a hard upper bound

cool when you replace panchanathan you can institute all of the policies and only then will academia be more egalitarian and possibly more useful to society as a whole. until then you're just playing bait and switch wrt the current state of things.
Article 3(2) is short. Here it is:

> 2. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to:

> (a) the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or

> (b) the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.

Recital 23 includes an elaboration on (a):

> In order to determine whether such a controller or processor is offering goods or services to data subjects who are in the Union, it should be ascertained whether it is apparent that the controller or processor envisages offering services to data subjects in one or more Member States in the Union. Whereas the mere accessibility of the controller’s, processor’s or an intermediary’s website in the Union, of an email address or of other contact details, or the use of a language generally used in the third country where the controller is established, is insufficient to ascertain such intention, factors such as the use of a language or a currency generally used in one or more Member States with the possibility of ordering goods and services in that other language, or the mentioning of customers or users who are in the Union, may make it apparent that the controller envisages offering goods or services to data subjects in the Union.

Probably nothing to worry about for a hobby site.
Should we have fired unvaccinated medical workers?
You may find "Project Steve" amusing:

https://ncse.ngo/project-steve
> on nine of ten counts

So then, yes, on 1 count it did engage in illegal anti-competitive behavior.

See, you were the one trying to claim that it is completely impossible, that any definition of anti-trust law would cover Apple's behavior. And we have evidence that this is false.

Clearly, your previous extremely strong claim, of zero possibility of anti-trust behavior, is wrong. Because on 1 count, it was ruled that it was illegally anti-competitive.

Glad we could clear that up.

If you wanted to be more accurate, you could have instead said something like "Apple's position in the market is complicated. It does not have complete control of the market, but it has a large enough control of the market, that some of its most egregiously bad behavior, could be illegal. Really, things could go either way on some of its actions".

That would be a much better, and more nuanced statement, that opens the possibility for some of Apple's behavior to fall under anti-trust law, but not all. Clearly it is not as absurdly in Apple's favor you were trying to claim, and it is not as simple as "just vote with your feet, they aren't doing anything illegal or anti-competitive".
I discover how much I don't know that I think I know when I try to write it down.
That depends how you define civilisation. Margaret Mead said it started the moment people went from abandoning to caring for each other in spite of catastrophic injuries that would have required very long periods of recovery.

Someone made the decision to care for another, much less functional person at their own significant expense. Was a philosophical principle behind that or just enlightened self interest? Maybe we have an innate capacity for empathy. Other animals appear to as well.
This author misses the point that the first problem a business faces is how to get customers and how to please them. Getting customers is the number one priority -- perfect architecture is only important to the degree that helps get customers.

Business owners and managers do need to understand that they may have to rewrite the software from the ground up because the first version will have all the problems the author talks about.

Most business owners and managers actually do understand this already. The goal of the first version is not to be architecturally perfect. The goal of the first version is to see if anyone will care if it exists. This is a good argument for not always building on the first version of a startup idea -- but actually build it again once you know people will buy.
> design is not your forte and if the remaining stakeholders trust the design

> When user stories/feedback comes in that vindicate me

You seemed to have missed the issue at hand. OP doesn't think the design is bad for the business. They just don't want to look at it. That's not a matter of trust or vindication.
Running a company completely online, especially through VR, would make pseudonymous leadership possible.

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Rethinking Errors, Warnings, and Lints
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29906774
"Simply" is carrying a lot of weight there.
We do have to credit Nancy for bringing so much attention to this issue through her flagrant actions. Probably not intentional, but credit where credit is due.

I'd guess there are other members of congress who did/do exactly the same thing (but much more low key and out of sight) who are not very happy about it being potentially ruined for everyone else.
> Affording to eat is getting more and more difficult.

Boulder was never exactly a cheap place to eat, but you do have other choices: several Whole Foods, Safeways Lucky's and a Trader Joe's etc... I'm told Alfalfas went under during covid.

Also, the Farmer's Markets Downtown when in season.

Personally speaking, food costs have been artificially suppressed for far too long in the US; it has led to a situation in which food waste is abhorrently common. If this is what creates a paradigm shift, then so be it.

Moreover, Boulder's community garden space is always an option if you can get in--right now you'd be limited on options with anything other than brassicas outside of a greenhouse.

This is a much needed reset for Boulder in my opinion. It should live up to the values it supposedly promotes.

Sidenote: I used to shop at that King Soopers in Table Mesa when visiting, too. Scary stuff...

And that cult owns the Yellow Deli on Pearl street mall, right?
This is a good point. With that said, one does not necessarily need to know the provider, it just makes the process more direct. An alternative approach is to send a message to every provider using the same number. The invalid addresses will likely bounce back, but the correct match will go through.
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I won’t hold my breath waiting for NYT to receive a big fine.
Amazon partnered with China propaganda arm to win Beijing's favor
What is your argument here? That Apple's services cost literally nothing to provide?

Apple provides developers access to an enormous marketplace that they run. A marketplace with hundreds of millions of "high value" customers pre-configured for payments. All sorts of related services are included, such as fraud detection, currency conversion, etc...

What do you think Apple does? Just skim 30% off the top without doing anything else?

Seriously, some people live in this fantasy world where all products should be worth 100% of their raw material cost, and services should cost only what the showroom rent+aircon costs to provide.
>Has there ever been a successful company run by a pseudonymous founder in the history of business?

No.

>Why is this needed now?

So the founder can commit fraud.

>How can this legally exist?

I could imagine a few schemes for doing so. Not that it matters, since this company will vanish shortly after receiving funding.

>How is such a founder going to also be a leader?

You don't need to do any "leading" if you don't hire anyone, and just disappear with the money.
EU to Stage Large-Scale Cyberattack Exercise on Supply Chains
Given that the vast majority of mainstream article posts are from a place of opposite bias, I think it's a breath of fresh air to have a different bias at the forefront every once in a while.
People have experimented with GPU's that have been used for crypto mining (kind of a worst case scenario) and haven't managed to hit any reliability concerns so far - the cards seem to work just fine.
how do you grab new IPs for your pi?
Without constantly loading cached data into dram the number of writes to it would be significantly lower.
A nominated founder promises you, investor, they have a miraculous lab machine and take a billion dollars. Turns out they defrauded you.

With all the pile of legal papers you have, what can you do to take your money back?
if I say I know, it would be a lie, but why not? What happened instead?
I was referring to standalone systems that are designed to filter all the air in a room, and use so-called “HyperHEPA” filters to get particles way below the size that HEPA is designed for. Of course you can also get higher filtration rating filters to attach to your whole-house air handling units, and — as you point out — those would have to be sized and designed for that. But the whole house units weren’t what I was talking about.
Awesome Elisp
> So labor is wealth now? This is the same argument

...as Marx made, yes. And he was a pretty sharp cookie, so maybe the argument is correct.
Are you joking? You emailed him and then launched your project with his name on it without waiting for a reply?
"5 years of REST" required, as if there's anything to REST that can't be learned in a week.

And ditto for basically all of these "years of X" requirements. Yes, some of these certainly do take more than a week to master -- but the point is, years-in-skill-level is an essentially meaningless measure.
The reflexive honeycomb used ubiquitously in automotive contexts is exactly that.
https://lojban.io/ looks pretty good
Batteries are so cheap these days that I consider them essentially single use, like a paper plate. I buy the 60 pack of Rayovac AAs at Home Depot and always have fresh batteries -- and I don't have to worry about a leaking issue.
If you compare to the weight it carries in the traditional legal and financial markets, I'd say it's pretty balanced, or even in favor of blockchain.
Doxing a scammer seems sorta fair.
They have a strong position, but I don’t think 60% is proof of any type of monopoly. I think people in this thread don’t 1) understand what monopoly means and 2) understand what US antitrust considers monopolies that damage consumers.
Epic sells the most obvious rip-off of PUBG. Fortnite's battle royale mode was a direct copy and directly inspired by PUBG making a wildly popular game in Epic's engine. Epic then used their position in the market ($$$$$$$) to effectively buy out PUBG's playerbase. It's not even controversial that they did this. But I guess it's all just history now. I do wonder why they're going after Apple and Google's app stores when a case against Epic and it's app store behavior is far more clear.