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Ask HN: What is the definition of a “founding engineer”?
I'm asking this question in response to this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32085475.

The reason I'm asking is because the comp listed in that thread is "in the $160-180K range and equity around 1.5-2.0%". I'm assuming that actual founders (not "founding engineers") will have equity stakes that are an order of magnitude more at that point in the company (though perhaps much lower cash salaries? not sure).

Now, of course, actual founders at this point have already done a ton more work and had more initial risk - they came up with the idea, did the work to get into YC, etc. But, going forward, the founding engineer is probably going to be working just as hard as the founders, and has just as much risk as the whole thing going belly up.

So, I don't mean this to come across as overly negative, but being a "founding engineer" seems like a pretty bad deal. If the company hits, you are going to have put in nearly as much work as the founders, but will be probably making ~10x less in equity. If the company fails, you're out of a job but are otherwise in a similar boat as the founders. I guess my overall point is, if you're considering being a "founding engineer", why not just become a founder? Case in point, Nathan Blecharczyk, who was CTO and basically original engineer for AirBnB, was an actual cofounder and is now worth multi billions of dollars. If he were a "founding engineer", he would probably put in nearly as much work, for 10x or more less payoff.

Would be interested in folks with more experience who could actually comment on the economics and thoughts on the risk/reward of this. Perhaps I'm just reacting to the phrase "founding engineer", because it seems like it's trying to conflate the role of founder with much less of the benefit.
> How can rating systems better account for/normalize against this kind of behavior?
By doing stuff properly, like moderating.
I would do law school online, but guess what? It still costs $70k a year to do a JD that's almost entirely online. The cost is really absurd. I feel that way about all higher education, but especially about JDs. Cheaper learning platforms are the future.
I believe this is far more pertinent in today's crazy zoo of languages, frameworks, freak show databases from flash in the pan vendors and the incidental complexity that is woven into nearly every project for no good reason.
how?

standard TOTP MFA (which is what most password managers would offer in terms of MFA) uses a shared secret, which you would just dump from the same database you get the dumped passwords from.

unless you use asymmetric crypto e.g. in webauthn this doesn't benefit you at all.
There are countless examples. The reason they composite the sensor layers in the first place is because they are trying to color code gases and dust for use by scientists. In some cases they are trying to highlight features that would be too dim otherwise.

Here is an example of color-coded images from Hubble being used - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/345911/pdf - The same beautiful image used to get the public excited about space is used in Fig2 to locate where helium, nitrogen, and oxygen are in a planetary nebula. Even the 'Pillars of Creation' image was used for this sort of analysis, though it was less interesting than most images.

"Beautiful" just happens to overlap with "highest contrast and most useful for study". JWST has more sensors than ever before, so it will be more colorful than ever before.
Do you believe you can do the work of someone with a degree (or maybe comparable): I bet they'll still be interested!
75 bps hikes are unprecedented in the last 40 years, since Volcker, and they are happening every month right now. By historical measures, I'd consider it frantic compared to most of history being long periods of unchanging rates.

Look at the gradient of the recent hikes: https://www.macrotrends.net/2015/fed-funds-rate-historical-c...
that was the first thing I tried. It completely failed. Just seemed to key on "Striped shirt" and not on the specific colors or style.
This is spoken by someone who is really clueless about AI and Machine Learning
Minor clarification. Sports scholarships are limited by duration, and often apply to BS and MS for 5 years max, with 4 years of playing time.

Generally switching schools requires a year off, but there are some loop holes by applying to a grad major that is not present in the original school. Basketball and football players seem to use these often. You can google for more information, and I believe it still wouldn't work for law/doctor programs, but I haven't looked into this.
Dawn dish soap should be fine to use as long as there isn't any other junk like lotions.

A toothbrush, on the other hand, is completely not recommended.
Techno-optimism is destructive when it gives people an excuse for inaction. If you're actually putting a lot of effort or resources into a possible solution, that's the opposite of inaction.

Plenty of people are tackling the political side of things, with a notable lack of success. I'm glad there are people working hard on the technological breakthroughs that could make the task a lot easier.
Spotted that after I posted, probably makes something around 24 the lowest likely age, but I'm just old enough that that's still The Youths to me :-)

[EDIT] Anyway I wasn't trying to be weird about this, just complimenting some awesome young people (some of the others definitely appear to be in the "young people" range) so I'll just leave it there. I'm just going to quietly check out these delightful throwback hobbyist sites and not engage again so I stop being such an awkward old weirdo :-)
Seems you refer to a domain specific language in the annotations. This is exactly what https://github.com/AndreaCensi/contracts does (it's an amazing project but has a very large code base). However, I wanted to achieve something similar in pure python and as compact as possible – so there are compromises (like no real symbolic calculus)
> Give hilariously bad estimates for delivery time.

They lie and try to blame restaurants for slowness too. I've found that most of them have a specific timer for the all the stages before "driver waiting at the restaurant". If they can't allocate a driver or he doesn't arrive there by that time, the status will switch to "driver waiting at the restaurant" even if that's not yet the case, putting the blame on the restaurant.

I had suspicions about most of them doing it but what I can say for sure is that I caught Uber Eats doing this by calling the restaurant directly and confirming that there was absolutely nobody there and the food has been ready for 40 minutes.
Java has a similar “extension” as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Modeling_Language
> You can set up a stripe account to accept payments very easily.

Doesn't it require having a U.S. corporation? That's a few hundred dollars off the bat. It also requires you to provide evidence that you are within the types of businesses they authorize. I also suppose it requires having a bank account. Opening a business bank account does not take a few minutes and it can be close to impossible for certain categories of businesses. Multiply that by 10 if you are not a citizen/resident. I also don't believe Stripe allows sending money. Furthermore, receiving payments on Stripe effectively takes a week due to the waiting period. Finally, if Stripe decides to freeze or terminate your account, you are f'ed.
"...keyboards returned to normal."

Their keyboard mechanisms might have gone back to "scissor" mechanisms but the current keyboards still have less travel than the 2015 models.
First, the specs on the Intel MBP weren't even top of the line. You could get laptops with slighyl higher spec CPUs, and much better discrete graphics like the 2080 that blew the AMD graphics in MBPs out of the water.

Secondly, and most importantly, having a powerful chip, in a small chassis without adequate cooling = hard thermal throttling.

The M1 chips are an upgrade on top of this with much less power draw for same performance, however both M1 Air and Pro still throttle, and M2 will throttle most likely more.

If you want top of the line performance in a laptop, you have to buy one of those bulky ones with very loud fans, and expect that running at full performance on battery will drain the battery quickly There is no way around this. And to call those machines "laptops" is really a misnomer even, considering that its almost painful having them on your lap due to the heat.
I agree with this... and my understanding of their logic is that it was never a federal issue and should have been a state issue the whole time.

Now, I personally feel the states should ALSO say that it is none of their business and treat it as such. That would be the proper way.

So I agree with their ruling, but I also agree that unfortunately the states are going to have their own laws. I much prefer this over the government controlling the entire country via this method.

The whole idea of statehood is that people of that state vote on the direction of the state. You then move around the US to find a state that is more aligned with your values.

Just my 2c.
This is what happens when management gets sweet-talked into thinking you can make everything a web app.
Tulsa’s futuristic ‘Jetsons house’ flies off the market
Actually I don't want the app, as I don't trust Slack as an organization. Who knows what their app does on my computer or what it could do, even if it is an electron app? I prefer running things in the browser sandbox, at least limiting them somewhat.
Multiple local USB3 HDDs syncing to Google Drive.
You realize that it’s possible for people to be in the vicinity of other people who are committing crimes while not committing those same crimes themselves?
I would wager that the landscape today is a bit of an opposite. The secret sauce today is to reject as much excessive technology as possible while still meeting your business goals. A lot of productivity is wasted on framework churn.
Both of those are still pretty nice to work with and I'd say can still be used for a variety of different pieces of software! They also have a Software Gallery page that shows a few different programs developed with them: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Projects_using_Free_Pascal

Though the language is also showing its age and perhaps isn't for everyone, like how C++ might also be an acquired taste. Some things like talking to RabbitMQ, Redis, gRPC, GraphQL or MongoDB (just as examples) might be a bit more difficult than in other languages that get more love.
Why not switch to product management?
Still, if you're going to catch a falling knife, best to do so before it hits the floor.
When I learned about this thing via Reddit and its LEDs thing, I thought it was going to be something like the first mobile phone I ever had, a Nokia 3220.

Those LEDs at the sides of the 3220 were not only beautiful but really useful. As I use to carry the phone in my pants pockets, when I was at a crowded or noisy place at night couldn't hear it when it rang - but nevertheless could see it was ringing because the light went through the pocket! So you could even personalize the ringones for each contact and that stuff and you could tell who was calling you without hearing the ringtone, just seeing the phone from afar.

Albeit you could personalize that light pattern via MIDI - if I recall correctly, each LED was controlled via a special MIDI instrument so you needed to lay those along the other instruments in a MIDI composing software and 'compose' your pattern, which wasn't going to be hearable but visible. The process was rathing tricky for me 'cause sometimes it didn't work for whatever reason, but I could manage to get a couple of tunes working with my own LED patterns, one which was Metallica's "Hit the lights" (no pun intended).

That, and the fact you could design your very own covers for the transparent hard plastic at the back of the phone, made it in retrospect the pinnacle of phone personalization. Or at least as what I've known; things went a little downhill from there and, as mentioned at first, I thought this thing was going to be the difference and be something similar as that ol' good 3220; was even imagining it could come with its own LED pattern composing app or some stuff like that. But really I can't see anything useful about the monochrome LEDs at the back which, as some of you mentioned, people will cover with a non-transparent cover anyway.
LG invented the smartphone-as-slab well before the iPhone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada
If that were true, the political affiliations of justices would be irrelevant, and yet it has a very high correlation with how they rule on cases.

To ignore this reality is to pretend that the way you imagine the world should be is how it actually is.
Interesting scheme. I wonder why they do it.

Neither in the linked article nor in the comments here I found a real financial damage - other than huge waste of your time and loss of personal data.

Anyone any clue on this?
It's absolutely not true that "the people using the intro of the whitepaper to justify BCH" ignore half the paper and pretend that entire technical sections are irrelevant and should be ignored. Please clarify.
SmugMug will give you unlimited photo storage for as little as $6.25 US per month (if you pay yearly). There are official apps for iOS and macOS (as well as other platforms) that support auto upload. You can easily share your account with your wife.

While the default SmugMug experience emphasizes publicly sharing your photos via a personalized photo site, you can just set everything to private, leave the website empty, and use the private Photo Library and Organizer features to manage your photos. The Photo Library provides a great UI for browsing and searching on the web (including mobile devices), and the iOS app offers a fast native iOS browsing and searching experience.

Full disclosure: I work for SmugMug!

https://www.smugmug.com/plans
Users will use "custodial LN". Which you could argue is not LN, but MySQL, L3, whatever, but merchants will still get their payments on L2
Smartphones are hardly the only thing that cares about codecs. So does anyone embedding a video online, anyone building video editing software, any browser engine, any video call system, anyone building tools that play with video (e.g. AI/ML and every random "make you look like a cat" system), and a thousand other things that want to innovate around video.
>Say you install an nginx/apache and then have a static structure where you have the profiles of employees saved as PDFs directly on the disk.

>Then you do `GET /public/v1/employees/1.pdf` and it works returns 200 with the content. Then you do `GET /public/v11/employees/1.pdf` in this case all servers will return 404.

Which is a sensible default because the most nginx/apache can conclude is that the resource does not exist on the server. However, if we know that this server is the canonical record for these pdfs we can conclude that it doesn't exist if it's not on the server. So now we know the state (it doesn't exist) and can return its representation.
If you post ln address, I can send you some sats so you can have a coffee on me :)
Agreed, I see this often where people confuse their marginal income (e.g. $0) with their total income. Most are paid a salary and don’t just choose to work an extra hour on a moment’s notice. Let alone the possibility of working 24x7 and having billable hours like a switch they can flip at any time.

The framing of something “costing me my time” has never made sense to me especially when someone tries to actually quantify it.
There's a lot of differing opinions here, but there's something that's important to note:

Playing video games feels like progress. It gives you all the satisfaction of a job well done, without actually providing any benefit whatsoever. Finishing a tv or anime series can have this affect as well.

It can be difficult to break free of that and direct energies towards actual productivity.
1.5 years? The shortages started back in 2016 and are only getting worse. By 2018 it was already positively challenging with new designs.
"our community" is one that wouldn't know how to get to the bowling lanes if Uber went down. Hell, half of us probably wouldn't know how to get work done if Slack or Github has an afternoon outage. There's not a person on this site that would last in a cyberpunk distopia, putting the average HN user in the middle of an unmoderated forum would be like the end of Logan's Run. We'd all be standing around, stupefied by a world we don't understand.

I'm being facetious, but it's true. The average person is a weenie, and we rely on a great deal of well-maintained, centralized infrastructure to keep us going. There's a reason why people here fight to keep Fortnite off their iPhone and tries to bite the hand of anyone peddling crypto: deep down, we're all scared! We need corporations to coddle and exploit us, just like they need our money. HN, and the world at large, wouldn't want crypto even if it was "the right thing" to do.
Actually, they interpret what the written law means. Which is an important distinction, because interpretation is always filtered through personal biases. During Roe v Wade, the then-justices decided the Due Process clause of the 14th Amendment ensured a right to privacy. That's how they interpreted the Constitution. And in fact, it's how the Supreme Court justices interpreted the Constitution in many other cases as well, such as Lawrence v Texas, over many decades.

Now, these particular justices have decided that the Due Process clause doesn't actually ensure a right to privacy. So what changed? Not the Constitution -- the text of the 14th Amendment has been the same since its ratification. The difference is that these particular justices believe that the text means something different than what every other set of Supreme Court justices before them believed. And that belief doesn't come from the text -- which again, hasn't changed -- but from their personal beliefs about whether privacy is important enough to protect or not.
So the trope goes at least. I wonder how many cases are actually like that though.
> My experience with delivery services (mostly, but not exclusively, Postmates) is that they are usually very good at giving refunds

This has changed over time, though. For the first year or so of Postmates' existence, refunds were easy and near-automatic. It was trivial to get in touch with a support person, and their response to pretty much any complaint was either a refund or a (usually generous) credit. But after Postmates grew beyond a certain point, they got more stingy with refunds, and credit they offered -- if any! -- would be much lower.

I remember the same thing happening with Uber when it was new. Rating a driver under 4 stars would win you an unsolicited email from support, asking what went wrong, with a credit or refund for the ride. That pretty much never happens anymore.

Agree with you on restaurants, though. Restaurants that do their own first-party delivery are almost always better at customer experience and fixing things when something goes wrong. And it makes sense, too: DoorDash and the driver don't care if you end up with a negative impression of a restaurant because the food arrived cold. The consequences for DD are much less than the consequences for the restaurant. And even if you do call the restaurant, there's usually not much they can do, because they're not able to get DD to redo the delivery for free, and have no leverage over DD to give refunds.
I don't have much circuit expertise, but in theory I believe demodulating SSB can be done by mixing (multiplying) a sine wave 2x the SSB center frequency, and summing that with the original signal (and then filtering the large frequency residues of course). This brings the opposite bands next to each other (then you can demodulate as DSB normally).
Oh ye of little faith!
I couldn't, for the life of me, sus out a clear summary of his work or why it's significant.
If you get an Uber credit in the future, you can use it to buy takeout instead of delivery. Of course there is no delivery fee or tip involved for takeout. My credit card gives me a monthly $15 uber credit, and I always use it to get takeout bun from a restaurant down the street.
Terror might not be the main issue in Israel these days as it was for example around 2000 but it still happens and the reason it doesn't happen as much is partly due to those efforts. The main issue is that there are still entities in the region openly claiming that they want to destroy the country and turn it into another Arab country, most of the military efforts are against this threat. There is no need to judge it cynically as if we are talking now about the US or some European country going half way across the world to destroy some countries as part of the "war on terror".
The baseline is that a number of Democrats already didn't like Musk in April and somehow him becoming a Republican made 60% more of both political parties not like him.
> The thing I don't fully understand yet is heat entropy. Apparently when you take heat into account for everything, the disordered intuition suddenly becomes applicable. So if you have a system becoming more ordered with time, heat must be increasing somewhere to offset this increase in order. Maybe someone can explain this part to me?

You can extract work from order, and can create order with work. Consider this scenario:

We have two kinds of particles and two rooms. If we have one kind of particle per room it is pretty ordered, if we mix everything then it isn't ordered. Now, lets say we have two filters, filter 1 lets particle 1 through and filter 2 lets particle 2 through, but not the others. So we have a wall between the rooms made of these two filters. Particle 1 will just put pressure on filter 1 and vice versa. This way we can let particle 1 push their filter through room 2, which creates work, thus mixing particles a bit. Do the same with particle 2 and now we have mixed both and extracted the work from mixing the particles. We can reverse this process by moving the filters the opposite direction, dividing the particles again and this process will require work to perform.

Exactly how the filter work doesn't matter, as long as it lets through the other particles then the other particles will stabilize and eventually even out the pressure on the sides. It could be slow but it would work. Doesn't have to be perfect either, if probability isn't exactly the same for both particles you can do it over and over until you get the purity on each side you want. We already uses this to enrich uranium for example, so we can make filters for basically anything in theory.
I was told this by a realtor once.
It does not contradict my point at all.

Those two phrases do not lexically parse in identical ways, but we should not interpret the RFC to be saying the alternative of "I really tried, but boy filesystems are hard and maybe the NFS mount disappeared, and well shucks, couldn't find it! 404!".
A Samsung S4 Neo, paid 35€, set up with /e/ (an adaptation of LineageOS).

It does what I tell him to do, and I've seen no ads or unwanted notifications since I use it (4 years now)
When I was in engineering I saw a lot of engineers (ME, EE, etc) pivot to sales/marketing and do well. Their education and experience allowed them to help match client's needs with the companies products without getting into the nuts and bolts.
> Don't ever use towels on either frames or glasses.

Maybe because I get the non-scratch coating, but this has never been an issue for me. Have been doing it for twenty years without issue. Assuming lenses are replaced every several years, which they should be.
From what I recall, majority of people who tried failed. The pass rates for people who did not went through school were abysmal.