skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla as a product is a status symbol though. It's naturally going to be a high margin product but the cost means that the market is smaller. For example, the cheapest Tesla currently sells for $61,980 before tax in Canada. The number of people who can drop $62,000 on a car are a lot fewer than those than can spend $30,000.
What?

Flipper Zero is a portable multi-tool for pentesters and geeks in a toy-like body. It loves hacking digital stuff, such as radio protocols, access control systems, hardware and more. It's fully open-source and customizable, so you can extend it in whatever way you like.

Third line on the page.
> They didn't even teach building an emergency shelter.

This is now a requirement. I don't remember the exact merit badge, but one of them had me and a friend huddled up between two logs surrounded by pine boughs for a summer night somewhere in the sierras.

It was cold, but manageable. What got me was a bug of some sort fell into my ear and I spent the whole night alternating between trying to pick out out with my finger, shaking my head wildly in attempt to make it fall out, or just lying there listening to it scurry back and forth in my ear canal.
You're moving the goal posts, it is not about being completely different recipes. It's about being different dishes. They are different dishes.
Blog entries are rarely good starting points for people new to the topic. Their main page gives a much better introduction: https://flipperzero.one/
You're being sarcastic, but we probably don't need that stuff either. We're eventually going to run out of resources to make all that at some point (we're already starting to run out of sand[1], which we use in modern cement, for glass, and for the silicon in computer chips, for an example -- and before anyone goes 'deserts are full of sand!' they are, but it's the wrong type to make these things).

Probably should start putting some energy into getting ready for pre-industrial age living again.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191108-why-the-world-is...
DAI started out backed only by ETH, they added other collateral later. Even when only backed by ETH, DAI stayed within a few percent of the dollar, despite a 94% drop in the ETH price in 2018.
IIRC some of the very early dollar bill acceptors on vending machines were perfectly happy with a black and white photocopy.
Isn't that the general trend with most things?

Kids today have more oversight and less freedom. God forbid you build a rope bridge because someone might fall off it and sue you to oblivion. Even playing unsupervised around the neighborhood is frowned upon and can result on the police showing up.
This is not an app, it's not encouraging anything. Art isn't as interesting if you only do things the optimal way.
Demographics, not bias, best predict traffic stops
to the moon and back
Completely agree. 10 years ago is 2012. That really isn't a very long time ago. I studied computer science well before that and even then it wasn't true that the industry was "almost entirely autodidacts". That's my dad's generation, where a computer science degree wasn't even a thing you could get. You'd have studied math or electrical engineering or some such and you kinda got into the computer side of things, e.g. through the computer lab usage at university.

I can also tell you that for someone with 10 years of experience, I don't look for a degree at all when I hire. Sure, I will read your whole CV and will see whether or not you have a formal degree, but I won't throw out your CV just because I don't see a computer science degree. Whether you have a degree or not, I will check whether you know how to code, talk about software, design a system etc.
They’re mentioned elsewhere, but viroids[0] are another example of RNA acting as enzymes[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viroid

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribozyme
Are there actually fizzbuzz-failing candidates with multi-year programming roles on their resumes?

I have a hard time believing they exist, excepting blatant fraud.
Which tech stock was valued at 100x sales in the 80s? I'm sure there are plenty of examples from 1999, though.
>Semantics means arguing over definitions, not misunderstanding them.

Ah the semantics of semantics. If two people disagree on a definition, then there will be some belief that the counterparty "misunderstands" the definition. That goes hand in hand.

>The difference between positive- and zero-sum systems is unambiguous.

And uncontested.

>We can call participating in the latter, whether by trading cryptocurrencies or derivatives or playing slots, with an intent to profit gambling

Yes we can.

We can also call a well diversified portfolio of 'positive-sum' investments gambling. You are risking your money on the chance you'll have a favorable outcome. There is no riskless portfolio. You are forced to gamble if you keep your wealth, because there is always an element of chance regarding maintaining your wealth. The default, uninvested state, for most is to gamble inflation won't eat it away.
I'm not only terrified, but petrified...literally!

After getting rejected for years, I have decided to stop from even trying.

It has cost me a lot of pain, physical and psychological, not to mention the emotional damage.

You know, panic attacks, stomach ulcer, colitis...the whole package!

I have been telling this for years, but people think I lost my mind :/

I'm fortunate enough that more and more friends that are around my age (40+) or even younger have noticed the same thing and don't know what to do.

I have no idea how to interview anymore; whatever I say it's either wrong or not enough.

* If I speak more than they want, I'm wrong.
* If I say near nothing, again I'm wrong.
* If I say EXACTLY what they want to hear, they go "meh".
* If I show my skills, I'm considered a smart ass.
* If I don't show my actual skills, again I'm considered an asshole for hiding my knowledge from them, therefore I'm considered untrustworthy.

...I could go on and on and on and on, but this is your "Ask HN", not mine LOL!

Feel free to check my submissions and my comments on related topics and you will find you are not alone in this.

Virtual hugs my friend, we are together in this.

Update: I forgot to mention that I have a CS diploma which is basically worthless...trust me, the toilet paper you use has higher value than my degree, HA!
Don’t even get me started on Octupus. Putting aside that it’s dubious ethically it’s like fucking rubber.

Georgia being a tiny third world country that hardly anybody knows about might have something to do with their lack of cuisine reach.

Portuguese is like the 5th most spoken language in the world. That’s pretty damning.
It very much depends what band/frequency you are listening on. An Icom TRX could be HF, VHF, or UHF. And of course it will depend where your antenna is.
False dichotomy. It should have been done, but to a much lesser magnitude. That is plainly obvious to any rational minded person.

The Fed also should have considered velocity in employment gains. They basically waited until labor market was already overheated to do anything... which means many are likely to lose their jobs in the fight with inflation now.

Unfortunately the basic law of economics and real productivity vs nominal currency units has continued to exist, despite it being 2022.
The Paternoster: The Non-Stop Doorless Elevator
“My dad played a tontine and won. So should we all.”
I can only hope Apple actually ships these Preview additions to main Safari; since they seem to have a habit of of not doing so.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Dieulot/status/147324798779092172...
>What legal structure are you each using? sole proprietorships, llcs, s-corps? (Assuming you’re US based)

We've used a mix of ALL of the above. Right now, it's two s-corps and an LLC.
That's the nice thing, there's flexibility in how YOU want to structure YOUR stuff and do so optimally. UNFORTUNATELY, we're all California based, so sole proprietorships are probably out now.

>Are there any tax benefits/costs to this arrangement?

Yeah, so you lose out on economies of scale that would come by having ONE set of books, ONE accountant, an HR department, etc. However, that gets offset a bit by having total control and flexibility in how you structure your tax write-offs. On balance, I think I come out ahead this way, but it's a bit more unbillable work.

>Has the government hassled you regarding the arrangement? (It sounds like it has, but…how exactly and how did you respond?)

Yes, the CA EDD was kind of a nightmare to deal with over this issue during an audit which was for the year or two BEFORE the ABC test came into affect. It all mostly worked out but they just could NOT get it. We kind of lucked out there.

>Have counterparties hassled you or been scared off? Do they even “know” of the arrangement?

Basically, no, but they don't really know the arrangement. We have a sort of sub-contractor agreement that spells out who carries insurance liability for a particular job, and some other details. (I'm fuzzy on the details, it's been a while).

>Are there significant legal/transaction costs between the three of you? If not, is that simply because you have strong trust in each other?

Transaction costs are very minimal. We have contracts specifying the nature of payment and negotiations, and a clearly defined structure for who "owns" particular clients. That said, trust is paradoxically very high despite what I'd say is in some ways a very low-trust structure. The essence of the idea was to take all the stuff that would normally have to involve an army of lawyers and whatnot and convert it to something that can be managed as a free market.

Beyond our core team, we have several people that form a loose coalition of professionals we occasionally rope in on projects as well. This lets us grow or shrink out team in a really quick-to-adapt way without really making anyone feel responsible for anyone else's livelihood. Since we're regular partners on projects, typical transaction costs and negotiations are very minimal.
> The very idea of an algorithmic stablecoin is beyond idiotic.

This is key. It's either idiotic or malicious. The general structure of the relationship between Luna and USDT should be identified as a species of scam and criminalized going forward.
> can also call a well diversified portfolio of 'positive-sum' investments gambling

We can call it whatever we like. It's still positive sum. (That's the point of the part of the quote you omitted.)

Crypto and slot machines are not positive sum. That is a fundamental difference that separates them from investing.

> is no riskless portfolio

Straw man [1]. Nobody claimed this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
the even better advice that i know is wise but I just cannot take from a former colleague: “the less you need the richer you are”
Could be but just looking at the block diag Ken showed, that thing looked like a really critical component that all the comm ran through, although it looks like there may have been a way to bypass it for voice only comm in an emergency.

But regardless, I still think those guys were amazingly brave, they knew the thing they were riding in was pretty cutting edge and there were big risks. (Apollo 13 of course is an example).
Nice, with generics, some things that were hard are easier to do when it comes to polymorphism thus code re-use.

Go community has been pretty "anti-framework" (AKA "just use net/http" when it clearly doesn't solve every problems..., "don't put request scoped variables in context" when it's the very purpose of that interface...) and there was a lot of drama around some framework creators, unlike any other web language community I have seen by the way (remember Martini and the insane backlash? Iris and the constant drama, was that Iris, I don't even remember the name...) so it will be pretty interesting to see the reception for that framework.

One advice to the author, congrats but don't call your framework "framework", it's like the go community hate that word, just say "a set of useful libraries to help web development", it seems like euphemisms are easier to swallow for some...
That use case was what got me to pre-order one over a year ago (currently in-transit, any day now!).

Replace my bulky, awful complex-provided fob with a dolphin with attitude? Yes please.
Yup. People get confused. There’s probably more 10x developers at google, but choosing at random is going to get you an average candidate
https://www.boyscouttrail.com/boy-scouts/meritbadges/compute...

The current requirements are somewhat funny:

> Why it is not permissible to accept a paid, copyrighted computer game or program from a friend unless the game or program is considered freeware or shareware. Explain the concepts of freeware and shareware.
This is a bad take without much internal context. Heroku is not thriving as it stands today. It takes a lot just to run Heroku and the engineers still around care deeply around it. I'm excited for a lot of the new offerings like Fly and Railway, but they aren't operating at the same scale as Heroku.

It does feel like there continues to be a fading at a leadership level about developer experience and what it means. There may not be strategy for what makes Heroku the next Heroku whether engineering or product, but the team that is still there is a solid set of engineers, not 100% there for Salesforce internal stuff, and kudos to them for still keeping afloat what is one of the better ways to deploy an app.
Yeah I packed a lot into there, sorry. What I meant is that the client initially has to send more data into the connection than the server returns. That means sending some padding data in the client hello packet. This rule is only broken after the client echoed an unguessable random token, which has a similar effect to doing a TCP handshake (because a spoofed-source client wouldn't be able to echo this value), so I know they're legit and I can safely send big answers to small requests without the risk of DoS'ing an innocent third party. It also prevents a third party from trigger the rate limiting and thus blocking an innocent third party's access.
That makes a lot of sense. I have Portuguese heritage and plan on acquiring citizenship in the future. It's nice to get some insight on the culture over there. Thank you.
Ethics are made up, so if you reach a conclusion that we're all pieces of shit and there's nothing to be done, you have the option to just rethink your system of ethics until it's sane.

Like, I'd maybe re-examine your ethical framework until it becomes an actually useful tool for figuring out what's the right thing to do in various situations. That's kind of the whole point.

e: Say, if your boss told you to shoot someone in the back of the head because he didn't want to deal with firing them. Would you say "Ah well... 'tis the way it goes under capitalism, amiright? Gotta pay the rent!". Nope, your line does exist, you just aren't showing your hand to us :P
I agree. What the hell is NFT Stablecoin and all the other snake oils been pedaled all this time .. could not make head or tails of them.
You will need to pay taxes as you are required to mention this in your tax form.

Otherwise it's just tax fraud.

I would put 20-30k aside to be save.
> anyone who takes more interviews than average to be hired

What is the average?

My impression is that even "top" candidates take a lot of interviews, which gives them a lot of options and possibly multiple job offers that they can use to drive up the price in negotiations.
ZkPairing: ZkSNARKs for Elliptic Curve Pairings
> You can crtl-f for "Specific Performance" and "Material Adverse Effect" in this thread for explanations of exactly how and why you're wrong

I assume you meant ctrl-f? So I did and still don't see it. Mind explaining a bit?

> You're just wrong. This is what happens when you try to play lawyer on the internet.

Worse things have happened, surely. Not trying to find any supporting statements, then there are replies of "You didn't even try". Then providing some support and it's "how dare you, you're not even a lawyer".
> I thought you would mention that it can be hot in CT in Jan-Feb, in the 30-40C range. But it's a dry heat

Thought you were talking about Perth, Australia there for a sec!

The running joke is 'it's a dry heat' when referring to the week long runs of 40+ degrees
EconTalk podcast covering this topic: https://www.econtalk.org/munger-on-the-nature-of-the-firm/
Cell theory origin stories don’t rely on an existing being willing something into existence, or steering improbable events

The domain of the supernatural simply covers less and less things as our collective understanding expands
Software bloat is an ideal gas. It always expands to fill the volume of computational speed.
Exactly. I think he may be reconsidering that, though it's probably too late. The whole thing is very baffling.
I'll just point out that talking about being "kind" (under this nonstandard definition) isn't doing it. It's great that you gave your friends good advice, but is that what you're doing when you're bringing it up today?

None of us are doing anything material by talking about it on Hacker News, but the person you replied to seems closer to being kind at this moment?
How do they get that far along the interview process?
I'm pretty sure the comment came from the other direction - that Twitter's board/CEO wasn't so inept they needed to be advised by HN.
Of course, there’s other success metrics than just financials. I think healthy financials are definitely a trailing indicator when it comes to innovation, and that it’s probably fair to say thay Heroku either has or is losing leadership over the future of its niche (PaaS.) I’ve been a vocal fan of Fly.io here; it’s a bit apples and oranges, but it really feels like they finally are fully scratching an itch that Heroku originally made me cognizant of.

That said, having good ideas is nothing if you can’t prove it in the market, but I do think Heroku will be around for a very long time by the nature of how sticky its customers can be, so it’s hard to use that to judge the future.
If you know what it is already, maybe that helps. But I still only have a vague idea after reading that.

It is hard to make an introductory explanation to someone with close to zero context of what you are talking about when you yourself know it very well.
I was always under the impression that Elon was making a (poor?) joke about the sex tourism stereotype of bald Britons living in and around Thailand specifically.
Anyone home? ‘Doorway’ on Mars spawns alien conspiracy theories
The reason to use past values is because they're known. Anything anticipating the future is speculation, and relies on many assumptions. Check analyst earnings estimates for S&P companies for 2008 and you may be surprised what you find.

I fully believe Tesla can be the number one auto maker, and get self driving working to a sufficient extent to be marketable. But what's the upside? A few X at most. To me that risk/reward is pretty awful... many more attractive companies selling at 1x PS and fast growth/smaller market cap that can go up 10x easily over a few years
Agency Case Study: Increasing Client LTV from $1.5K to $36K
Stock buybacks aren’t spending money any more than putting it in your retirement fund is. They are value neutral.
Neither is wearing skirts or dresses. Some men wear them happily by choice, but it’s still seen predominantly as an expression of femininity. Social and legal rules aren’t built to be true without exception.
Once as a thought experiment I tried to determine what characteristics you could use to say unequivocally someone is male or female and it proved to be impossible. There is an exception to everything, so it’s best just to ask or be told.
You are talking about storing wealth. There were already myriad ways to store wealth before bitcoin. Precious metals, jewelry, property, etc., bitcoin is not needed like wheat is for vodka. It is just one way of many for doing the things you describe.

I'm not saying bitcoin is going to zero. In these threads, i've always said bitcoin has perfectly reasonable use cases, but if we're being honest not many people really need to use bitcoin, and yes, i'm saying, in the the grand scheme of things, the population of El Salvador is not many people. It will probably not become the de facto unit of exchange in our lifetime, or ever.

I'm not talking about bitcoin is a vehicle for temporarily transferring wealth from one asset to another, i actually think it's pretty useful for that, i'm talking about bitcoin as a vehicle for investment... which is why the lion's share of people have been buying it in the last decade.
Whatip.info
Introducing whatip.info. A very very simple Go program behind an NGINX server to resolve and return the remote IPv4 (and soon IPv6) address.
> I think the rapid adoption of e-bikes shows that the real barrier was not the detailed performance of particular components, but physical effort. Who knew?

In a lot of cases I think it might be less about effort itself, and more about climate and what the level of effort means in that context. I know where I live half the year the average temperature is 80F or above, and pedaling or not could very well be the difference of showing up as a sweaty mess that needs a shower on site to appear presentable or not.
As with a lot of things (having done my fair share of acquisitions and also having been acquired multiple times) the plan and reality are two completely different beasts.

Oftentimes, getting the deal done is such a rush to the finish line, mixed with celebration, that making all of these grand plans a reality is someone else's problem, time to go fix the next thing. It's not logical or rational; in reality, the euphoria of closing means the real work has just begun.

One of the hardest things to do is maintain momentum after a major accomplishment - either by buying the company you so coveted, or by selling the company you built.
IP's are still swapped around like hotcakes.

People (and especially law enforcement) need to understand an IP address is not static or 1:1 with a person. So what likely happened is there is an ip range ban configured somewhere in cloudflare from when the IP you now have was in the hands of domeone doing something malicious.

So it sucks, but it is what it is.
I just did CTRL + F and typed Bitcoin, nothing has been found.
If they’re paying the highest price (and have the greatest convenience) to buy an asset I’m selling, they’re going to be the proud new owner. Same story if Blackrock wants to bid the most on my house.

If they have a better mousetrap, good for them. If they don’t and are just overpaying for cars, well, good for me.
How Zutty Works: Rendering a Terminal with an OpenGL Compute Shader
Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Extreme Micro-Manager (2018)
Change your mindset. With 10 years of experience, in my last two job searches I felt incredibly well positioned to interview for senior roles, and ended up with dream jobs in both cases. I have no degree. I've noticed a trend in the last 3 years where companies require a degree OR equivalent experience. Which is awesome. If you're a great engineer and you're friendly, be confident in yourself!

I did struggle initially with the "coding challenge" nonsense used as a candidate filter these days, then realized I'd never paid attention to data structures and algorithms (which is covered heavily in computer science degree), so I spent time learning this and I was fine. I still wish these would go away.

TLDR: Don't worry about competition. Worry about yourself.