skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The truth is no one is going to work 24/7 for 7 years with 0 percent in the company in the hopes of 1-3% 7 years later. Most companies offer 4 year vesting schedules to encourage that ownership.

If after 14 years you can't afford to hire someone to be on call tells me that 1-3% isn't worth as much as you value it... what would that be in real dollars under 10k? If that is the case it will cost you more to replace and retrain.

Something tells me you feel like you could go it alone if this person left. You view this employee as a cost or at best is a neutral force who might produce value as much as he costs. You view this person as an employee and not an equal.

Would you rather give them a $10,000 raise yearly or stock worth under $10,000?
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Sure you don’t need to defend it but you should be able to.
> You can't use these "DeFi loans" to buy a house in the real world.

You can if the person selling the house agrees to accept the token (likely some form of stablecoin). Whether that matches your definition of 'real world' or not, these things have happened already. We will probably see less of this in the US, but I can imagine someone in another country gladly accepting tokens. I don't see why this is so far fetched at this point.
Fungible + trades at greater than one usd also includes, for example, aapl shares. Still well short of the mark.
That's a wrong way to view unions though, a propagandized American way. Unions should really be default and not imply some sort of moral failing about the employer. Sadly they are viewed as such.
The problem I wrestle with is “comments lie.” Not all the time of course, but often enough that I often end up reading the code to make sure anyway. It’s those very “why?” and “how?” comments I’ve seen lie. My own have lied to me. As have my teammates. They go in at one point, the code evolves, the comments become misaligned. I’m not trying to justify no comments. I just wish there were a better solution to this very real issue.
Have you tried it yet? I’m skeptical for the same reasons but telling myself to not judge something before I’ve tried it. After all, my prior should be “do other humans find this useful” and I’m probably not all that unique.
Why wouldn’t you just.. scp?
Not OP and haven't watched that documentary but this [0] recent comedy special about Apu and cancel culture was hilarious and highly relevant.

[0]: https://youtu.be/fk3svL0GPWI
8 steps? are you insane? keep it to 3, and no leetcode. these are senior people, just look at past projects and make a decision.
Yeah, but is it really Nextdoor that feeds this paranoia or is it just the true face of american suburb, that some, more secure feeling americans, like yourself weren't aware of?
There's some irony in the rhetorical length to which this brilliant coder goes in order to justify the benefits of its byte-sized brevity.
Ow: Function Argument Validation for Humans
We surely had a DOS era in Europe, as the market was still big enough to have Amiga vs Atari vs PC.

What we skipped was a Mac's era in Europe, until Microsoft rescued Apple and OS X came to be.

In Portugal during the early 90's the only place I could touch a Mac was at the university campus and we had a single Apple reseller located in Lisbon for the whole country. Otherwise they were only present in foreign computer magazines.
PIA before the Kape acquisition was owned by parent company London Trust Media. The owner is Andrew Lee, who was best buddies with Mark Karpeles responsible for the MtGox collapse and defrauding all the users of the exchange. Unfortunately the Japanese government let him out of jail and Andrew Lee decided to make his old friend the CTO of the company. Andrew Lee is also the guy behind the shady "sale" of the nonprofit Freenode that caused everyone to jump ship to LiberaChat.

I feel like it's probably more trustworthy under Kape than a CEO and CTO surrounded by a long history of lies, fraud, and general scumbag behavior.
Agreed. As a datapoint, I’m fairly senior (staff SWE at 2 companies), and there’s absolutely no way I’d do a 4 hour take home assignment. I work long enough hours already, and when I’m considering a job move, I interview at multiple places. No way am I investing that much in a single “maybe” role, especially not when the job market is so excellent for experienced devs.

Also, re:

> Benefits and salary are good (though salary isn't posted in the ad)

If the salary is legitimately strong, you should post it.

In summary, as advice to OP:

- Put the salary in the ad

- Scrap the take home assignment

It’s still hard to hire legit senior devs, but those 2 changes will make it significantly easier.
How are cryptocurrency loans supposed to work?

If I need own enough crypto assets as collateral to cover the loan value, whats the point in getting a loan?
A few days ago, I was looking to create an editable interface for an email composer for a project I’m working on (https://PretzelBox.cc, since you asked).

I wanted to see if Lexical was a good fit. My app is plain javascript with a bit of Alpine and htmx. I just couldn’t figure out how to <link> to the appropriate js file in my html file. And I’m not a frontend dev so I have no idea how to browserify (or whatever the technical term is) the right npm modules.

I ended up using MediumEditor which is ancient in relative terms. Anyway, now composing email feels like writing a Medium post, fwiw.
You’ve repeatedly used “dog whistle” in your replies, along with “heard this rhetoric before”.
That’s the tagline I’m familiar with (South Africa). Had no idea what it meant until today!
I have experienced it, and never have I found it anywhere near as bad as no comments and "self documenting code".

IME it's mildly obvious when the comments are obsolete or out of whack. It's testing one hypothesis. Whereas with no comments, there are basically an infinite number of possible hypotheses as to what the code does.
If you are a starter, how do you buy crypto without credit card, bank account or similar?
Maybe it rained frogs (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_of_animals) and people (being very superstitious back then) decided to bury them.
Yeah, I've listened to a couple. They're recordings of legitimately interesting places made by a really interesting recordist: https://www.soundtracker.com/about-gordon-hempton/
I think there's a perspective slip here.

I assume it means: What does the code do, why does it do that, and how do we leverage it.

These perspective issues are tricky. There's a difference between "what does the code do" (low level) and "what does the program/command/API do" (high level). There's a difference between why we need the code to do x, and why the code does x in one way and not another.
'Igor Stravinsky’s revolting ballet “Rite of Spring,”'

Er, what? If that's the author's opinion of one of the most thrilling pieces of music of the 20th century then I'll take the rest of their opinions with a pinch of salt.
talk to them and warn them. you can’t micromanage.
Thanks for taking the time to write the suggestions! I work in Europe so the situation is somewhat different here as insurance is used by a very small percentage of patients compared to the US, and I'd say 99% of other offices do not make patients pre-pay, so some of those policies, while probably very good in the US, do not fit our situation very well (the double-booking one I will probably try, though..I've always refrained from it in order to not make patients wait but I guess a little flexibility on both sides is OK).
Read the attached and your mind should be changed: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-t...

Plenty of other mistakes over the years like this (fat is bad for you, dietary cholesterol is bad for you, etc.)

There are exceptions where these concerns are valid -- but they're exceptions.
Super cool! Nice and clean.

I had an idea to build something very similar a couple of years ago, but didn't have the skills/time for it.

What I built ended up being quite visually simple (, pragmatic,), but it's cool in that you can control some of the parameters of the differential equation solver to trade off between speed and accuracy. Mine also shows you where the bodies will go in the future, rather than just a trail of where they have been. And you can click and drag to add a planet with initial velocity and see how the entire system will react immediately and interactively.

I also implemented collision with conservation of momentum (the displayed body radius is much larger than the simulated radius).

https://jurasofish.github.io/gravity/
Please build it!

+ oncard battery to survive reboots
Mostly ORMless: Ergonomic Postgres from TypeScript
> Which is more important to accomplish by EOY, to adopt k8s or to ship the new feature? There is an objectively correct answer to that

This doesn't really negate your point, but what do you mean by objective?

It seems to me like this would depend on a number of factors, like

- How much time you stand to save in the long run by switching to k8s.

- How much revenue or growth you stand to gain in the short run by adding the new feature.

- How much you prioritize the long run versus the short run.

Of those factors, the first two can only be vaguely estimated; you can gain more information by having sales and development talk to each other, but ultimately someone needs to make a fairly subjective judgement call. And the third factor is even more subjective.

Indeed, I'd argue that ability to handle subjectivity is a strong point of top-down processes. For questions with an objectively correct answer that can be discerned through discussion, there's less need for such a formal and rigid structure; the group of individuals who care most about the specific issue (who may not all line up neatly on the org chart) can meet and hash it out. It's when people can't come to an agreement that it helps to have someone above them to make the decision.
My heart bleeds. Oh the humanity.
This is far less impressive than they think it is, but I guess that's just how it is nowadays.
I have some in my salt shaker now.
Your last point is the most salient for me- I might be willing to do a long coding assignment if I’m already confident that the company has invested time in evaluating me individually and that an offer is likely, but I’m disinterested if I don’t believe I’m at a 30% chance or greater of getting an offer.
Not an expert, but my understanding is that German unions are collaborative with management and not adversarial. Not common, but it would disprove the direct link and make it more of a strong correlation.

Happy to be shown how my understanding of the German system isn’t correct.
Oh, neat, I recall a trial of that but didn't realize it was rolled out permanently. And apparently you can even book tickets online without jumping through insane hoops! Huzzah!
French is actually not so weird if you think about what a "score" is in English. Gettysburg address literally begins with "four score and seven years ago", which equals to 87.
> Filecoin - A commodity market for storage that's currently 0.0011% the cost of S3.

This actually proves that there isn't a real use case of Filecoin aside from speculation. Amazon isn't making 99.9989% profit margins on S3, nor is it possible for Filecoin to be a hundred thousand times more efficient than S3. This means that Filecoin's storage product is so uncompetitive that you need to subsidize it a hundred thousand times just to get people to use it.

> Toucan - Tradable Carbon Credits

All the other use cases listed look like parodies of crypto products with plenty of buzzwords, and no real substance. However, this one is especially nonsensical. From their website:

> Working with top DeFi protocols and the community we enable carbon credits to be used as collateral, yields and money, as well as a huge range of novel applications.

That's literally missing the point of buying carbon credits. The only use case for buying carbon credits to blackhole them immediately, so that you can feel like you're offsetting your emissions. There is no reason to resell them. Even if you did want to resell them because you overestimated your carbon footprint and have some left "unused", no buyer has any reason to believe you. If there is anything carbon credits need, it's more centralization and trust, not less.

Excellent relevant Wendover video about carbon credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW3gaelBypY
LTT is certainly NOT dependent on free review units any more.
You see one screen's worth of code at a time. You can't glance the big picture from code because code is about here and now.

With some error handling code, for example, briefly commenting what conditions lead to what exceptions goes a long way.
> I'm not picking a side, just pointing out that you disagree with almost every expert on the planet.

The beauty of crypto is that if you don't like this feature of crypto, you don't have to use it.

Everyone gets what they want! The "experts" who prefer inflationary currency can keep using that, and people who don't want their money inflated can choose otherwise.
"Few technologies have a clear start point. Did the internet start in Tim Berners-Lee in 1990? Or in 1982 with TCP/IP? Or in the 1970's with CYCLADES? Or in 1969 with ARPANET? Or in 1965 with the invention of packet switching? Or in 1950's with time-sharing? Can you distinguish the internet from computers or information theory? Maybe it starts at radio or the telegraph."

Did you say 'over'? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! It ain't over now, 'cause when the goin' gets tough, the tough get goin'. Who's with me? Let's go! Come on!...

(returning): What the f--k happened to the crypto I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst. 'Ooh, we're afraid to go with you, crypto, we might get in trouble.' (shouting) Well, just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Coinbase, he's a dead man! Celsius, dead! Ethereum...
isnt that blockchain sovereign identity? its not you that owns your identity, its the blockchain and a private key.

it be nice to prove identity via a public key, but the private key can't be trusted as the authority. They get compromised too often
George Vlad has long recordings per location on his channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/GeorgeVlad/videos
> ... if they have no interest and you turn around and blame it on men that allegedly discriminate

The very first programmer was a woman, and in the early days of computing history they were over 40% of all programmers [1]. The idea that "they have no interest" is bullshit [2]; talk to women in tech (and the ones who quit) and you'll quickly learn why that is the case.

> I reject the analysis that there are systemic issues, there is no evidence at all.

That's the same argument used by folks who deny systemic racism in the US, despite decades of historical context [3]. It's a convenient position, particularly for those in a place of privilege. Of course you're free to believe in whatever you want, but if you don't want to put in the effort and learn from other's perspectives, then you're part of the problem.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/10/06/34...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Brotopia-Emily-Chang-audiobook/dp/B07...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Caste-Origins-Discontents-Isabel-Wilk...
I don't know about the very early days, but since 1990 Internet adoption (globally) has only gone up.

Some stocks crashed, some specific sites went away, but the people involved just reorganized and made even more successful businesses.

If 50%+ of Internet users decided to disconnect that could cause some real problems.
No DDG?
Serendipitously, I went through a very similar process. My intent is to document and share that process so others can apply it too.

It would be great to connect, you can send me a message at mitchhankins AT icloud DOT com
I think the problem unions face in tech is that, for most developers, salary isn't an issue. Benefits probably aren't an issue either. What people in tech want to unionize to do is a bar far higher than the average union, they want to steer the direction of the company, they want to pick and choose what they work on, etc... all while struggling with the idea that tech is a very diverse landscape in terms of politics, and the language of people who create unions don't speak kindly to them all.
Me too, I thought: " We use RSA, AES, ECDSA everyday, why is it a question" at first glance.
I have no faith whatsoever in WC‘s reviews or advice anymore. I’ve bought several of their recommendations post NYT acquisition and they’ve all turned out to be flawed in a way that I’d aimed to avoid by following their recommendations.

I find „site:Reddit.com“ a much much much better source of actual information that isn’t SEO spam.
So it's not a record temperature, just a really hot temperature in a place that routinely sees really hot temperatures?
You fill-in in a bank transfer form and mail it to your bank (if you don't carry it in person to a branch office). The money gets transferred from the account of the receiver to the account of the recipient within a day. That's a standardized service every bank has to offer in the SEPA area and the price must be same regardless where the recipient's account is. No difference whether business or individual on either end. You need to know the recipient's account number (IBAN). Of course banks prefer that customers use the internet to initiate such transfer, but other methods exist (often at a higher price).
Magnetic Amplifier
I m really glad they are trying. The Quest2 is the most innovative product in tech in a looong time and FB isn't even a hardware company. Beating Apple to it is a big feat.

But VR is not going to be a wide success, it will be a really nice 360 image viewer for when those cameras become popular and cheap. It has its place , but it is obstructive. And it cannot become a status symbol, which imho is a big driver behind iphone sales
That's where the money is. Otherwise, Mapbox provides a lot of relatively low value commodity services. You can get maps from them but there are lots of competitors for that. You can get libraries from them for rendering those maps. But they are now closed source and have been forked by others (maplibre seems popular) and also there is some competition: leaflet, overlay and proprietary things like Here, Google and Apple maps.

The big money is helping big corporations (including automotive) with advanced use cases around logistics, very detailed 3d maps, gis, etc. So, that's increasingly what they are doing at the cost of the business that made them big (shipping good quality openstreetmap based maps and OSS software). They are now very similar to Here, Tomtom, and a few others. The latter two used to be mostly about consumer navigation products for in cars but that is now a commodity business that got disrupted by Apple and Google just bundling it with their phones (actually Nokia started this by giving away Here maps 14 years ago). Mostly if I'm in a rental car with tom tom / here maps built in, I end up using my phone with Google Maps instead. Just easier for me. Both will get me from A to B. I don't pay for it directly. That's no longer a viable business model.

We are currently using maplibre with Maptiler.com as our maps provider. We may have to switch maps provider for some of our customers (our German customers are picky about where their data is hosted). Maplibre has been pretty solid for us. Last year when I had to pick a library, I briefly considered Mapbox and then noticed all the activity around the newly created maplibre fork (and the reasons it was created) and went there instead. All the commit activity happening there is no longer happening around mapbox. That's the value Mapbox lost by going closed source. So unnecessary and short sighted.
If you take the deductable tax rate per kilometer, which is 70 Rappen[0], and assume 15000 kilometers a year you get 10'500 Francs per year

If you Google the question you find a variety of answers, but I think looking at it from the tax man's perspective is a good start.

I agree that the cost nay vary, but it can also be significantly higher than 1K per month, depending on the model of car, yearly kilometers and your risk from an insurance perspective.

[0] That's the rate you can deduct from your taxable income per kilometer if you use a private car for work purposes.
I would like the reverse case where my app runs in other people's machines and I get paid in crypto whenm people use it. Is there such a thing?
In exchange for your seeing some other's genuine photos/life/bowel habits (though it may be staged/scripted) - they would want you to totally give all your legitimate photos/life/bowel habits.

I am sure PR from IG would not want to write this directly in main page.
I wonder if there's public writeups / research into compressibility of web browser RSS, eg if there's a lot of JS objects they should exhibit a lot of regularity.
The low popularity and adoption level of VR, and consequently the very miserable shape its industry is in, is in my opinion because VR doesn’t really address its most plausible and largest consumer even at the slightest: a gamer. As a moderate adult gamer who is able to cut through the technological bs and buy a decent headset, I have no idea why would I wave my hands, turn my head/body and jump around after a day of work. I just want to relax in my chair and have a jetpack-like experience of hover flying on a keypad/mouse/controller and maybe glancing +-15 degrees around when my own instincts scream to do so. VR/AR >itself< isn’t as amazing as companies try in their marketing. I just want a full-fov 3D display and a controller that could AR-pass-through a part of my table as some “deck” or a dashboard so I don’t spill my drink and can see my vape device and phone while having a 3D experience in popular 3D games. I want to point and click/tap/etc as usual, and only sometimes to point with my hand in the scenes which do not require a quick action, just as a more elaborate way of control, or to perform a real gesture. Mostly I want to hold a controller with both hands in a way that it points to something like a two-handed laser tag with buttons and sticks.

I’m speaking not only of shooter/action games, but also quests, rpg, fixed-altitude (non first person) sims, third person character control in general. Basically the same games like on PC, but with a depth component and a little changes in controlling, if any.

Instead we have: jump-around and slash games; games that require to walk, move hands and point/look around, cinematic panoramic “games”, meditation “games”, and other try-and-forget lo-fi bullshit which almost no one would buy if it wasn’t VR novelty. Which fades away in just a week.

Basically, today’s VR is a tiny niche like any other flat-sales Steam niche. And it will stay so. Because most people like to sit and relax. When a job requires them to walk, jump and move their hands, they start to think about to maybe land into some office. When they want to talk to someone, they sit down. When they work with visuals, the last thing they want is to stay up and stress their hands. Hands at the belly is the most comfortable position for extended time.

How VR companies are unable to understand these basic, stupidest and already explored principles is frustrating.
Actually Wife is far more energy/work intensive than a computer. She requires constant maintenance, she has plenty of alarm bells that can't be turned off at all, her speaker constantly makes noise that can't be turned off either, costs way more to keep and, on top of all of that, has way more downtime.
I run https://t.me/withpublic_jobs Telegram channel and managed to find several senior level candidates, including DevOps. If you are ok to remove 4h tech assignment:), I can post your job there
Is this supposed to recognize a single digit? For me it can recognize only half of the digits correctly. What is the use case for sich a low-precision image recognition?