skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No need to apologize - what you're sharing is the accepted truism. And yes, it makes it hard to compete for the same talent that's also considering FAANG. I will be even more blunt - yes, you're likely to retire sooner if you took a FAANG job.

But there are three caveats:

1. That last statement is only true because most of the people who start or join a startup don't see a material increase in the value of their equity. But a little known secret in the startup world is that you only have to be right once. It doesn't matter one tiny bit if your previous 5 startups failed, if the 6th one ends up finding the product market fit. My batting average is pretty poor, and even so I am way ahead of anyone I grew up with. You only have to be right once.

2. People think of startup success as this all or nothing thing, where you're either super poor or super rich. In reality, if you give it your best and do a decent job, even if you end up failing you'll be getting calls from people who you would have never met in any other way. For example, I failed with a startup about 10 years ago and ended up at Square only because of that exact same failure. There's no way in hell it would have happened any other way.

3. Most startups are run by first-time founders, and most first-time founders are still early in their learning process. A direct consequence of that is that they are cheap. But every once in a while you come across someone who's had one or two big exits, and I guarantee you that they are thinking differently about comp. In PG's words, Apple could have given Steve Jobs 95% of their equity to lure him back, and it still would have been a great deal for them. Experienced startup founders know that, and they have levers that FAANG doesn't. There are two senior people in my current startup that I poached directly out of FAANG.
Jeez ok now we are going with a personal attack I see. I don’t think that standard of discourse belongs on this site.
1984 got nothing on 2022
This is hilarious.

Narrator: "In fact, the Internet is never safe"
> why do you even bother being alive?

This is going to be a very real question to hundreds of millions of people within a few generations — because of climate change. Hopefully the people alive today think the answer is to create an enjoyably livable world for the people alive a few generations from today.

But I don’t blame them if they don’t. It’s fine to be selfish and not care what happens after you’re dead - it really doesn’t matter anyway. So have kids, don’t have kids. Separate plastics or don’t.

Also adoption exists.
Doesn’t some of this stuff add some legal liability to organizations?

Like if a manager learns something and takes action because of it?

Or learning about employee behavior and sentiment and using that information to suppress promotions…

Or being informed of employee misbehavior and not taking action against it…
Why is everything duplicated in this announcement? The list of classifier descriptions effectively appears twice, the first time with the text of the "What you need to do to prepare" (which, btw, says exactly nothing on how to prepare) appended to each item.

What even is this site? It looks like grade A content rehashing from various MS sites...
In general, you won't have enough information to accurately model this yourself, IMO. You might increase your edge, but you're still basically getting lottery tickets.
You are recalling incorrectly.

India's death rate during the pandemic is between 3.5 and 4.7 million more than expected.

The US has had around 1.2 million more deaths than expected.

So something caused a huge increase in deaths. And it was obviously COVID.
It’s ok sometimes to admit that you just don’t know rather than to make things up out of thin air.
I used to have those programs that scan your device and install your driver for you on a CD drive. It was a eureka moment when I figured how to find the vendor and the product Ids and then use it to search for the correct driver on the internet. It was infuriating when the same model had different hardware in it and you have to figure out the correct one to get Wi-Fi and Bluetooth working.

It was shocking trying out Linux distros and seeing it included everything already.
Fastmail :).
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Rust does not have to be this hard.

Most of the pain here come from the unholy trifactor: combining async, lifetimes and dynamic dispatch with trait object closures; which is indeed very awkward in practice.

Async support is incredibly half-baked. It was released as an MVP, but that MVP has not improved notably in almost three years.

There are lots of ideas, some progress on the fundamental language features required (GAT, existential types, ...) and the random RFC here and there, but progress is painfully slow.

This isn't because no one cares, but because Rusts async implementation (which is very cool due to the low overhead) and its interactions with the other language features require complicated extensions to the type system. It does seem to me like there might be a lack of resources/coordination/vision ever since the Mozilla layoffs, but that's a different topic.

If you can avoid async I would recommend doing so. The problem is that the entire ecosystem has completely shifted to async. There are almost no active / popular libraries related to network IO that haven't switched over.

To be clear: using async is fine if you know what you are doing, and it can provide incredible performance. But if you do, keep it simple: avoid lifetimes and most importantly: don't attempt advanced trait shenanigans - if you do need traits, just returned BoxFutures without lifetimes, throw in lots of clone(), share as little data as possible, use Arc<tokio::sync::Mutex<_>>, and call it a day.
Hacker News isn't a social media site. It's a user-submitted news site that has a comment section, not a place to build connections with other users. Any networking that happens on this site have to take place using means beyond the site.

Also, why would you delete your Facebook account without having another way to contact the people on there that you do care about interacting with? You should at least have email addresses, phone numbers, real addresses, or whatever else in a personal contact list.
I'm getting a bad Gateway. So, the #1 thing should be (although it doesn't look like it from the comments):

Predatory pricing and marketing, with the sole aim of encouraging and monetizing addiction.

The amount of multi-phase psychological manipulation in many mobile games, and now those in "AAA" games, is on an accelerating curve. For the console/AAA, a game was a one-time-purchase, and perhaps an expansion. Then came monthly fees with MMOs, then came microtransactions.

Then came Machine Zone games with PlayToWin. Addict, then extract. Use social engineering, sunk cost fallacy, constant devaluation treadmills, employee superpowered players to cause conflict, strife, stress, bully, and extract money to survive, false communities. Slot machine mechanics and payoff ratios. Timers with no regard for sleep cycles.

Sure some games were always pushing the envelope, but what is appalling is that the App Stores from Google and Apple feature and promote these "games", and establish no boundaries for the conduct within. This outrageous behavior is officially condoned.

Children's games are loaded with inappropriate ads, inexcusable amounts of addictive elements to get the parents to shell out money for the paid version.

I contrast this with old standards for children's TV programming, and physical toys, games, and products.

This is a sick, sad, manipulative, dangerous, morally depraved business.

And I want to emphasize: I've played video games since the Apple II.

I don't see how things can continue without regulation like TV standards and toy safety standards.

This is not an isolated phenomenon to bad actors like MZ. There are thousands of reprehensible games on the app stores and AAA games are all moving to "revenue models" like this.

Edit: I got a cached version. These are comments from what I guess will be the "golden generation": when revenue wasn't good enough to employ an army of MBAs to direct games into revenue model hell, when the limited budget had to be spent on artist and programmer to even have a chance of success.

And that's what I fear: all games aren't games anymore, for the sake of entertainment. Now they are ongoing revenue models to be refined, enhanced, protected, A/B tested, and focus grouped.
Actively-exploited, unpatched, remote code execution in Atlassian Confluence
Yeah avoiding the only isp in my town ain’t happening.

How the free market will I get internet?
Companies lay people when stock price goes down?
It is interesting, but how can someone patent this?
> MMT requires the government to raise taxes once inflation starts rising due to previous money printing.

That’s a common misconception. Have you seen any MMT economist advocate a tax increase recently?

Here is an excellent podcast with one of the most eminent MMT scholars Randall Wray discussing his recent publication on how to deal with inflation in the US currently:

https://realprogressives.org/podcast_episode/episode-173-inf...

Here is the publication:

https://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/ppb_157.pdf
It's ok it's from Microsoft. Nothing in Office 365 works, this won't either.
> how you might like the look of the canteen girl

I would never put anything like that in email, or even say it in a teams call.

“Never write a letter, and never destroy one.” - Cardinal Richelieu
I drifted off commercial social, so I'm no longer a coveted MAU. I do check in occasionally to connect with friends. That being said, I drifted into a few mastodon instances that focus on particular interests I have.
> take that to TOR accessible only sites where you have some level of security.

Could be accessing reddit through tor+VPN.
I've come to the same conclusion, especially with HN being a timesuck. Not a bad timesuck, but it very much does contribute to a dopamine feedback addiction loop for me. I'm glad it's here, than, Facebook, but yes.

There's also a part of society that does require Facebook and other Meta properties, unfortunately. While I deleted all friends and purged my facebook of real material - I use it for marketplace listings and groups which give it considerable value and insight.

I would argue that breaking the loops and addiction is a solid first step, disable notifications and delete the native apps - and apply/increase friction to use the platform e.g. for facebook access it only via the mobile interface.
> if you are arguing that using the same talking points as a known racist shouldn’t make others suspect you of being a racist

That is a (very) thinly veiled version of exactly the tactic we're talking about, and I probably shouldn't engage with it, but ... who says something doesn't affect whether it's true. Why is the demand for perfection - dare I say purity? - so one sided, and limited to certain topics? If a racist says that it's wrong to assault peaceful pall-bearers at a funeral for a journalist who was already a victim of a highly questionable military action ... well, they're right. One should of course be careful not to validate anything else the racist might say, or to let them shift focus/proportion beyond where it belongs, but rejecting truth because it was stated by The Wrong People is exactly what the racists themselves like to do (not to mention every authoritarian of every stripe). It's not reasoned ethical debate. It's pure blind partisanship, which is not healthy even in an otherwise good cause. Set aside the ad hominem and guilt by association. Consider whether something is true no matter who says it, and whether its truth suggests change.
Damn, dude, you need a life skills coach and psychotherapy. It is literally crazy to make a statement like “women don't understand how it feels like to be laughed off or ghosted”, and saying “it can turn a man into a psychopath” is a claim only a psychopath would make. That you don’t even realize how bizarre your claims are, and that you’d say them out loud, is a big red warning sign. You bet your ass I’d tell any woman to stay away from you now: you seem to be dangerous.

Edit: I just read your comment history. Your statements are not a red warning sign, they’re an ear-splitting air-raid klaxon with strobe lights. I fully expect you’ll make the news headlines one day.
That's rational. If a startup CEO is motivated by salary rather than equity, that's terrible for everyone involved, from the investors on down to the early employees.
The opening line of this blog is:

> MMT, for those who aren’t familiar with it, is a small, cohesive group of people who go around telling the government to borrow more and spend more.

Which is fundamentally incorrect and betrays a misunderstanding of MMT so his opinion is irrelevant
Way back when I was just another IC at Microsoft, my mother was with me at some some party and said to someone who was also at Microsoft and was acting as a jerk to her that her son "is your boss's boss's boss". I think I choked on whatever I was eating at the time. Instant promotion time!
Why would he? He told everyone what he was doing. He and his company were very transparent. The fact that it was a horrible investment is a different thing. But it's not illegal.
Most poly people I know are childless. The one relationship I do know that involves children, the children benefit also -- happier parents, more close friends their age.
They would have to adjust their strategy and be more selective in the companies they invest in. And they of course know that they aren't actually very good at picking winners, so that strategy is out.
Reminds me of how in Inglorious Basterds they gave themselves away by how they gestured the number three with their fingers vs how Germans did it.
For applications programming, I'm excited about Flix, https://flix.dev
I’m sure you could. You can collect unemployment even if you quit without a new job in many cases.
Might not work for everyone, but I use it as motivation: I should make sure I schedule a catch-up with friends too, I should take advantage of good weather to go out and do something, I should go on a holiday myself.
Some organizations, when confronted with a dysfunctionality problem, think "I know, let's have product managers." Now they have two problems.
At the same age? Your comment just sounds like someone that is getting wiser with age. I agree to all you said, but I think it's because I am wiser with age. Is life really getting harder at the same age and at the same opportunity? Man, this is hard question to ask because you are looking at the rear view mirror.
Buying whole bean is already a minor refinement, you’ve ruled out anything that changes flavor as the grounds are exposed to oxygen. Buying whatever’s on sale also exposes you to a lot of variety, so you probably have much greater recognition of flavor differences regardless of preference. Not challenging your preference, only recognizing that it’s valid!

My taste in wine is similarly lax, but I set a price floor at ~$6-7 to avoid accidentally buying vinegar, and rarely go over ~$15-20 unless there’s a special occasion or specific reason to splurge. My only other criteria, which has never failed me: a pretty label.
Im not so sure. There are a lot of error states that won't happen in production ever with other languages because the language/libaries handle those conditions gracefully without you needing to care. Rust pushes this to the edge, _which is good if you want that contol_, but is a cost you have to pay.
I mean the attributes you mentioned just reduce the search space.

Something is going on if even some random word produces a correlation of some sort.
ask for a 4-day at Offer #1. then bail when they say 'no'.

then wait till you get fired at current job, or just keep looking.
FSF has required an assignment since day 0 (I wrote the blanket assignment a few years later when Cygnus was paying people to changed code owned by the FSF).

The base problem is: who has standing to sue if there is a GPL violation. People have sued in this case when it was Linux (which does not require an assignment), but no defendant has yet tried the defense “you don’t have standing to sue me because you are not the copyright holder of the lines of code in question”. Like the FSF, I fear that this could unfortunately be a very effective defense (against being sued for violating the license) in most jurisdictions.
I think that the bar for "had their reputations tarnished" is far higher than "rescinding an accepted offer" which is the topic of this thread.

I additionally think that trying to compare someone rescinding an offer with Damore and co is irrelevant when the actions are nowhere near equal, and therefore the reactions would also not be anywhere near the same.
Not really.

Office suites were a mistake. Return to text editor.
Toyota unveils home battery pack to compete with Tesla Powerwall
I am almost surprised it took this long to get to this point, but I suppose the recent resignation wave made it into a viable product offering. My last MBA class was HR analytics class that, among other things, dealt with email sentiment analysis and stuff like that. Part of me was thinking average HR person won't touch this stuff, but if a company just happened to offer something that would do it for them..
There's no shortage of easy money, there's shortage of confidence. Every single crisis the already wealthy become even more wealthy. Right now they're consolidating and derisking, wait a few years and the chips are on the table again.

Besides the wealthy, there's the army of believers putting in small money.
The conversations will happen elsewhere and so will the relationships. Management is locking themselves out from the team leaders and suddenly those off site 'adult kerfuffles' are exactly the conversation you needed to hear to prevent exodus.
I don't hang out in chronic illness support groups, but I have lots of transgender friends. I know quite a few people with chronic illness, and only one of them is transgender. Yes, transgender people frequently feel more safe accessing support online than in person. Sounds like sample bias to me.
have to rename it as specified in the license

I could not find any such thing. The closest thing is the following:

The work must carry prominent notices stating that you modified it, and giving a relevant date.

Which part are you referring to?
Similar history here, lots of energy drinks since I was a kid.

I've been caffeine free since the start of January and no more tinnitus, anxiety, shaking hands or waking up during the night.

Downside is I'm eating more food, it's harder to focus and gaining weight.
Not to mention things like ReTool which suck up a lot of what would’ve been dev work earlier
Potentially could reboot the startup after the downturn with your learnings, seems like something that really should exist.
I think it's more likely that's related to the upcoming transition of Ethereum from PoW to PoS.
> The demonization of unions is over the most successful cases of propaganda in the last century

Ever notice how unions are somehow all the same entity, and seem to have to answer for things completely different unions in completely different industries did?

Nobody treats corporations this way, even though (if you look at interlocking BoD membership) there's a more reasonable case to be made for collusion in some industries...
I think the problem here is that your statements have all the hallmarks of a conspiracy theory
> I care about speed and correctness but Rust makes me also care about ownership and lifetimes even when I don't really want to care about that stuff.

I don't think one can care about speed and correctness without caring about lifetimes and ownership. Even if you do not care about memory ownership and use garbage collection, there are plethora of other things that you take care of. For example, if you've juts sent an RPC/HTTP request, and a user closed a particular window, should you abort the request or not? What if the user have closed all windows except one? Can they actually close window X without doing something in window Y first? What should happen if you forgot to abort the request and now the callback is called, but the original caller is gone?