skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like the issues may be deeper than equity.

"The salary is not competitive" hints that you may not be happy with your compensation across the board.

Don't look at equity any different than cash. It's a more complicated asset, as there is less certainty about its future value compared to the dollar -- but at the end of the day it's compensation, just like cash.

If you aren't happy and motivated by your compensation you should negotiate harder or find a new role. Your career and this startup will both be better off for it.
I mean the WhatsApp founders literally quit with millions left on the table over "disagreements with facebook senior leadership" and then promptly made a huge donation to Signal. If that wasn't them saying "HEY THEY ARE REMOVING E2E" without violating NDA I don't know what it was.
I agree. As a developer using libraries and component, I really hate "release early and often".

As a user, I also hate "release early and often".

In both roles, releasing early and often effectively means I'm always using beta software, with all the headaches using such software brings.

However, as part of an internal development process -- that is, before customers see the release, "fail fast" is a totally legitimate and decent approach.
Tik Tok releases comment dislike button worldwide to all users
It's all a negotiation. However, most companies give C-level management some equity to align incentives. If you're not very important to the company (the CTO of a mom-and-pop grocery store is a very different position than the CTO of a tech startup), they may not need to give you equity to get adequate work from you. This is up to you, and you can always leave if you aren't happy with your compensation and contract terms. The threat of you leaving can always spark a re-negotiation.
Decompilation. Reverse engineering. Network monitoring. Third-party attestations like https://research.nccgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/NCC.... The lack of whistleblowers from within Meta itself. There are are hundreds of employees working on this product.
That seems low, that'd be $750 to reduce it to 0? But yeah there should be a way to choose a fair price or just let the market decide.
In a way yes, if that website reaches a certain size, say 100 million users or whatever point makes that service more important to businesses than even the phone company. There is blurring of the line between user and employee when many content creators make their entire living from their posts. They get paid by these companies to run ads on their content, so the comparison to an employee is actually a good one. Even if they weren’t paid all the time they created something of value there, a following, and a malicious ban needs to be protected against. Again, say my company gives advice or the phone, and the phone company’s CEO decides my advice is bad and shuts down my service, that would be wrong. You see companies blame say Facebook for being toxic but in reality it is the people on it they should be blaming. They just don’t like what their own friends, who they decided to follow, have to say. Blaming Facebook for toxicity is like finding a guy sitting in their own house and knocking on their door I hear what they have to say then complaining about what they said, and calling the police to make them shut up. All of these sites have blocking tools, or just don’t follow them.
A lot of people are paying off student loans, and then they're saving up to buy a house, which requires a down payment, and then they're paying a mortgage, and then they're paying for day care on top of it. $200 for a backpack is a luxury, when it's easy to find perfectly decent backpacks for $30-50.

And it's not just about a single $200 backpack. Many times people feel the need to either be the kind of person who responsibly saves money, or you just buy whatever you want all the time, and it can be hard to be in-between. If you're dropping $200 on a backpack without thinking about it, you're probably spending $1,000+/mo. on things you don't really need... and there goes a big chunk of money.

Personally, spending $200 on a backpack sounds like insanity to me. But I've also had the similar experience where someone got me a $200 something as a gift and it turned out to be amazing, and I would have bought it if I had known, but often you don't even know whether something is worth it until you've tried out owning it for a month or two. Nine times out of ten, the $200 item isn't worth it compared to the $50 version. So getting it as a gift and discovering you love it is just really, really nice.
Shrink-flation is driven by short term quarter earnings thinking. Reducing the amount of your product (and therefore it's overall quality compared to competitors), is an act of cannibalization of a brand.

They may increase profits for a short time, but as consumers realize what's happened, ultimately they see the brand as not having standards and lead to it becoming a commodity. A small group of long term invested owners would never do such a thing, because that would be 'killing the goose who laid the golden egg', but modern shareholding has no loyalty to quality.
My guess would be something like:

- startups, small teams, no devops.

- horizontally scalable monoliths.

- no complex infra needs.

Haven't used fly.io but strongly considering migrating over from Heroku and above is roughly what I would say is a good fit for Heroku so hopefully it's the same on fly.io
Nvidia's new AI model quickly generates 3d objects and characters
Employee Engagement, Burnout and Turnover Risk
Yeah, it falls into the trap of too many "secret history" pieces, both in terms of failing to understand the specific area of research (such as, in this case, mistaking the term "birds of a feather" for being connected to the concept of a "query flock" in association-rule mining, and then assuming without evidence that both of those terms were related to some concept of tracking people through their online behavior) and drawing too many, and too-thick, connections between loosely- or even unrelated events, people, or groups. It doesn't take much to go from "these are some interesting connections that are worth exploring" to "giant wall o' crazy."

This, of course, doesn't change the fact that -- not long after the time period in question -- the IC did start working with the telcos to conduct mass surveillance, but the intimations that they secretly funded Google in order to create a private surveillance state that they could exploit strains credulity, and gives the IC waaaaay too much credit for both foresight and cynicism.
Taxes are a non-trivial consideration. Google employees in California have an almost 50% marginal tax rate plus I imagine Google gets better prices than retail monitors (plus someone else maintains it for you).

So they'd need to give you ~+$1000 in salary/bonus instead of a $500 monitor to get the same monitor for personal use.
Sounds like a good way to engineer it... anything to improve the bottom line even if insanely-targeted ads only trickle out to users. How about limiting who sees this feature to also limit the risk of being detected? Maybe just do it once a year to everyone, or never to specific "tech-savvy" users that they have completely profiled.
Let's be real again, most employees don't touch anything that contributes to revenue.
Also, the post sounds like namelesscto wants a referee to tell his/her boss that he/she is wrong which... that isn't how anything works.

NB: equity on small companies is often worthless anyway. There's no liquid market for it, so turning it into cash is often impossible or at a pretty arbitrary price.

And one last thought: @namelesscto should go get an offer. I'm not saying it's the case here, but I've found (as a person who hires engineers) that many engineers are optimistic about their market value. eg yes, engineers at google make a lot of money. However, most engineers aren't capable of getting a job at a faang. I've made a couple people pretty sad by bluntly telling them that if they want to earn a google salary, they should go work at google and I'll be bummed, but I'll help them transition out. Getting an offer will turn that market value from hypothetical to concrete, and will be informative both for @namelesscto and his/her boss.
I think problem solving mechanics or structure can be taught. Creativity in problem solving is probably less teachable.

For anything non-trivial, I think a process or structure for problem solving, knowing that you probably won't solve something on the first attempt and need iteration, and basic project coordination skills are needed. I think all of this can be taught.

I think there is a lot more in common across fields than people are willing to admit. There are different techniques and language used to accomplish the same thing, but it's all in service of the same underlying goal.
It also would allow anyone to construct your class via make_* which kind of defeats the point of making the constructor private in the first place.
The benefits you described are the same as a vacation.
Signal calls on users to run proxies for bypassing Iran blocks
Never really thought about it until you laid it out, and yeah it is troubling.

At my company there have been meetings on how to be “innovative.” The suggestions are straight out of Dilbert. Someone said we needed more meetings and everyone agreed. Another said that everything we do is innovative and everyone agreed.

I have no idea how a modern corporation is suppose to work I guess. Maybe the dream is be innovative me become large then watch the next few generations of leadership slowly tear the company down into irrelevancy.

I forgot where I read this but there’s an idea of a “manager” class that refuses to innovative or change anything because rocking the boat potentially means losing out on bonuses or stocks or promotions, so you do everything in your power to maintain the status quo until you go to the next gig basically playing a game of hot potato until you retire. The “manager” class has taken over the corporate world for decades.

I think this was Econ talk but I’m unsure.
Isn't Braintree owned by paypal anyway ? If they do kill it, they will probably move customers to their new thing ?

I do agree that Paypal has become a clusterfk of things where they have created a mess of their own products and some they acquired. Now there is too much confusion with names like "Paypal Standard", Paypal pro and what not. Do I take credit cards directly with paypal pro or do i use braintree or ?? Confusing!!
> Arresting people for having Signal installed is not a scalable approach for a totalitarian state.

Not all of those are in the same country, though, and it’s worth thinking about how the install base would change after a particular country banned an app. The first time someone gets an official warning a lot of people are going to say “not worth it”.
Exactly this. The labor market has been heavily weighted for the laborer lately, and this whole "macroeconomic headwinds" chant we're hearing from leaders of every Fortune 500 right now is simply them trying to stave off further increases in wages. The macroeconomic issues aren't going to realistically affect Google or most large companies.
The shareholders own the company, bottom line.
> "Release early and often" => release after each change, don't bundle everything into a big release that happen every 6 months

After years of dealing with software that does this, I've soured on it completely. It has resulted in greater difficulty using software, and the software being less solid.
Am I missing something? Why carrot?
That's exactly what I meant; except that although you mentioned NI, you didn't mention income tax. Dividend is irrelevant - I was referring to individual employees (sorry - didn't make that clear).

The government (doesn't matter which colour, they're the same) make a huge deal about income tax rates, tax-free thresholds and so on. Income tax is a smaller part of my tax outgoings than VAT, by a long chalk. (Well, it was when I was earning; now I'm retired, I don't earn income, and nearly all my taxes are VAT).
Without PITR for postges I don’t think so.
Yes, I was denied a security clearance because of the time when I was a homeless 17 year old and a town cop illegally planted weed on me at the scene of an accident. Sorry, CIA :-)
Google is not well run. People need to get that through their heads. They were so profit and cash flush that many bad behaviors were left unchecked.

Well run is Amazon or Apple. Not perfect but the best run large companies out their today
Because those aren't mass manufactured clothes sold at retail but something the costume department threw together specifically for that scene.
Yes, let's keep making it possible to seamlessly switch languages, make it possible to have software that actually speaks their native language.

ASCII had its place, at a time when computers were primarily in the angloshpere. Now, we are at a time when everyone and their dog runs a computer, atleast in the form of their phone, and they all cannot read English, and it is not proper (or profitable) to ask them to do so.
Completely agree. Terrabloom is another good option with noise dampened products.
My understanding is that for their own data centers (e.g. us-east-1 or us-central1) they are able to negotiate excellent costs of power by soliciting 100MW+ long term contracts, so they don't really need to. Energy is a lower margin business than tech, and they'd rather not get into the messy business of power generation.

For colocation data centers (e.g. Tokyo or Singapore regions), they're more reliant on the data center provider to do that negotiation, and they negotiate for rack space prices, so it's slightly different (thus why prices in regions can vary dramatically, though this is also labor, what the region can bear price-wise, etc.).

I assume they also have teams hedging power prices to keep those costs reasonable, while OVH and other tier 2's likely haven't reached that scale.

I'll briefly shill my product (crusoecloud.com) because we _do_ vertically integrate our power production and data centers by colocating modular data centers at oil wells (utilizing flare gas), wind/solar, etc. as a way of both keeping energy costs low/stable as well as solving related environmental issues (e.g. reducing methane emissions or providing base loads to renewables).
The app that you type your message into is controlled by Meta. They can do whatever they want with what you type and THEN encrypt the message and send it to the other person.
The concept was to reference with other languages where higher-dimensional representation breaks down because of initial implicit hardware issues / assumptions at language design time.

examples:

lisp -- mapping to popular stack/register hardware.

C -- pointers & malloc implications

snobol's successor icon -- pre-database '70's design descision on how to handle 'table' type (where today table can be key:pair, graph, document, heirarchy and not just a vector set)
> knife I have no intention of ever using, maybe carrying it as a "pick a new target" kind of message

Dont, you wouldnt know how to use it anyway. Criminals and psychopaths are really good at reading people so you wont intimidate anyone with any experience in exerting violence, you might get stabbed with your own knife instead. Take a self defense class, one that emphasizes awareness of your surroundings. You wont learn how to fight anyway unless you decide to dedicated one evening a week for at least a year, so your best bet is learning to recognize and gauge risks. Thats why a gun is such an alluring proposition, you can actually learn how to defend yourself with a gun in a couple of months without physical exercises. Its point and click.
That all makes sense to me, however I think those prestige benefits are similar in all fields. Although, as you point out math is perhaps even more unique in how siloed and impenetrable the various fields are.

The impression I got from these few professors was that the quality of research (besides status benefits) would be significantly higher. Something along the lines of, "most math researchers aren't doingimportant and groundbreaking research, only the top 5-10 departments are". Do you agree with that?
>They don't need to keep pace feature-wise.

Last I looked into it; the problem wasnt with features. The Chrome code base is very dynamic and if you fall behind then it becomes very hard to pull upstream patches due to the pace at which things get refactored.
I think it's just different dispositions and values.

It sounds like you value doing work that brings you to life. Instead of finding a way to subvert that value, perhaps you can find a way to live that value.
It's not Mozilla failing to keep up, it's Mozilla growing an unhealthy, greedy and complacent middle-management fat.
being written in go does not imply anything about ease of deployment. kubernetes is written in go.

in fact, the type of project that sees something that works exceptionally well (like ES) and then decides to partially reimplement it (to the point of maintaining API compatibility) is a pretty big red flag that it is NOT going to be easier to use in the long run.
Depends on the company/team size. Most established companies/teams have requirements like these where you are just running scripts and not much to do. If you want to do real development/programming work, join a startup or a smaller company (under 100 employees ideally).
On the one hand, you're not wrong that getting amazing perks taken away shouldn't produce complaints like this.

On the other hand, what the hell is the justification for it? Google's making money hand over fist over knee over ankle. Their quarterly net income (not annual, not gross) is in the double-digit billions.

This is telling every Google employee who actually works on stuff (as opposed to managing people) "you, your comfort, and your professional development are less important to us than a tiny, tiny fraction of our quarterly profit. We at the top need to focus on making our dollar-denominated high scores go up even higher, so you all just have to tighten your belts and accept that you don't matter."
See this comment for more specifics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32953007

I think there its a little unclear that by case, I mean testcases that would fail to pass to fulfill a single feature. E.g. "I need an addition feature for a calculator" but naive implementation will result in it working for 1+1 and fail for all others.
> "This is the first time we had to make sure the game is deterministic between ARM and x86. We should be fine, C++ is portable, right? Just don't use undefined behavior. Turns out we use quite a lot of undefined behavior..."

Hah
Does fly recommend any good tools for measuring client latency (which is their big selling point)? I know they offer graphs for server latency.
> It's interesting you automatically assume it's "truth"

Well, not automatically. I confess my automatic response is to go with what is easy. It is certainly easier to believe there is no God like the Abrahamic God we must pay attention to, and like you say because things change we just can't trust that some things will never change... but my friend in response to the rest of your comment I've found easier isn't always the best way to think about things.
CodeMirror is a code editor component for the web
> We some how think this would be six hours replaced with "improving our minds", visiting museums and working on our calculus or oil painting.

I'm in my 50's and am literally doing the latter two on weekends. Have I become a trope?!? lol.
They are more quiet and don't pollute the local environment. They are a small but meaningful improvement to the quality of city life.
No, sadly. Maybe trucking in liquified clean air and boiling it off into your house to create a positive pressure.
I would love to have a charger that just has a knob on it. Charge fast on one side, charge cheap on the other.
At least our Cool Big Brother the FBI lets us smoke 24 joints.

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/fbi-clarifies-that-using-mar...
Works in Safari version 16.1 (18614.2.6.1.1) on Ventura 13.0.

Works in Safari on iPadOS 16.1 (20B5050f) on iPad, and iOS 16.1 (same build) on iPhone.
>(comedy option: 32-bit int, 128-bit long, and 64-bit `unsigned middle`)

rather than unsigned middle, could we just call it malcom?
For some reason this made me flashback to the summer of 1981 when MTV first went on the air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs

Spot the mainframe cabinet and wait for the full wall Moog

(they actually showed non-stop videos back then, it was awesome, nothing like it before)
IMHO it’s a bad idea.

Market for bluetooth speakers and music streaming apps is saturated.

Their users base didn’t ask for this and they are unimpressed at best or even hangry.

The Polaroid company of today is a small company. I understand they are trying to diversifying their business and monetize their worthy brand but they are probably just wasting resources and damaging their brand: Polaroid should be all about instant photography not branding some lifestyle electronics from some OEM in China.

They are repeating errors from the past, they already failed two times trying this move.
I wish this was a browser extension so the redirection could happen automatically! Would probably function similar to [1].

[1]: https://github.com/Jdhaimson/smilealways
Concern is relative. Namely concern for nobody in a building is working is concerning. Except when there is a workplace shooter in the building or the building is on fire.

It is the root cause which is in dire need of being addressed. Frankly if everyone hates the government you need reformers not spooks.
I just found these today which are LSM-based storage engines which supposedly support both transactions. Sled can operate on a single file, I'm not sure about wiredtiger. I've never used either of these before though, so please perform your own due diligence:

- https://github.com/spacejam/sled

- http://source.wiredtiger.com/11.0.0/overview.html

To add transaction support, you probably need a good understanding of how the memtable works in Log Structured Merge trees:
https://creativcoder.dev/what-is-lsm-tree

as well as how to implement something like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimistic_concurrency_control

You might also be interested in the design of the Nova database:
https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast16/technical-sessions/...

There are probably newer system designs out there, this just happened to be linked from the creativcoder.dev article above.
Don't do it for free.
> what is it that gets people to trust anonymous strangers? It is bizarre and seems like a mind virus. If an anonymous stranger tells you what you want to hear then you are apt to ingest it uncritically.

I guess it has something to do with lack of trust in Established Sources of Information—TV, newspapers, experts and other various figures of authority. The biases of the Established Sources has become more apparent over the years, to the point where scepticism, doubt, and even defensive cynicism are fairly common default attitudes when dealing with the information they provide.

The trust in anonymous strangers is, at least in part, the result of them not being Established Sources. It's not a lying politician, or a deceitful news anchor or journalist, it's just another well-meaning regular person like you. That alone makes you more receptive to their message. If their message happens to align with your existing beliefs, even better. Of course, it can get into cultish/conspiracy territory if any of those beliefs are directly opposed to the mainstream narrative.
As crazygringo guessed, I have a mortgage...and a few kids, and my wife is a SAHM. I live in a HCOL area. Google compensated me well and I could have spent $200 on a backpack if I specifically wanted it, but I don't spend $200 just on a whim.