skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm having the time of my life. No joke!

What I've learned in the several decades of life I've lived so far is that your mood day to day is almost entirely dependent on how you interpret the narrative of your life, not what is actually happening.

You mention "having a kid, covid, war, etc."

But what else is happening in your life? It's impossible that every waking moment is 100% consumed by kids/wars/disease/economic collapse/etc. That's the narrative you are telling yourself. So change it! Tell yourself how lovely that flower is on the path over there. Tell yourself how nice the breeze is that wafts over your face. Tell yourself the color of the painting that hangs in your room is a lovely shade of orange. Tell yourself the smell of the soda in your cup is amazing and nourishing.

You may think I sound rather bananas right now, but this is all part of mindfulness training. I had to learn this, because years ago I was falling into a deep depression and consumed by panic attacks. I had gone on and off to therapy in the past, but this time I ended up reading a bunch of materials about mindfulness including the book Mindsight. It changed my life.

We tend to spend most of our lives on autopilot, nearly oblivious to the world around us and instead living in a fantasy we've constructed in our heads—sometimes a very dark fantasy. The way out of that is to become mindful: mindful of breathing, walking on a street, talking to a friend, writing a comment on Hacker News. =) It's not just about "living in the moment" — we're always living in the moment. The question is, do we notice that moment is even there? Are we able to slow/quiet down our inner cross-talk in order to perceive the world right in front of us?

Our powers of observation can be an incredible tool of rejuvenation and inspiration. We just need to focus on the right stuff. Needless to say, scrolling through social media is probably not the best destination for mindfulness. Informative, sometimes, entertaining, sometimes…but most certainly not where we should derive any real sense of meaning or purpose.

Anyway, apologies for the lengthy soapbox—this is just a topic I've thought long and hard about over many moons. Hope you are feeling better soon. :)
If you can't fire an employee because the vesting of their shares is "part of their compensation", what's the point of vesting at all? You should just give it to them on day 1, right? How is an executive supposed to operate if something that was promised for the fulfillment of service through a certain day becomes an entitlement any time before that agreed date? One month is too "obvious"? How about 2 months? 6 months? Where is the line when it's ok to fire someone before their vesting day but not after?
Filenames maybe
I mean, do you really have an incentive to work if 90% of the money is going to taxes which pay for the other people not working? Obviously not, that’s a terrible deal.

And if it’s that hard to find employees, companies will just have to pay a LOT for labor, most of which still goes to taxes, but also causes prices to go up because the company’s costs are so high. Which causes COL to increase because all products have higher costs. Which means “basic” income needs increases, driving up costs, etc etc.
I recently visited Paris for work and was struck by the number and quality of small local book shops, often seeming to specialize in one thing or another, as compared to where I live (SF). Prior to that I had always thought that SF had a lot compared to elsewhere.
Civil jury cases are concerned with both. If you commit an illegal act, but with a seemingly moral reasoning behind it, you may only suffer a light punishment. Now, if you are found guilty and your actions and behavior is found detestable by the jury the penalty will be far more harsh within the statutes.
What is the typical nature of these hacks? Are they phishing type exploits or are hackers actually finding loopholes in the underlying code of the coins/tokens (e.g., solidity etc)?
Why is there a need to remain employed for vesting? Can't OP offer the right to vest in the separation package and terminate immediately?
Never heard of these, thanks!

https://soylentnews.org/

https://soranews24.com/
I learned to code when I was about 7, in BASIC on a TRS-80 Model 100 laptop. I used to lug it around along with the manual and try different things while my mom was shopping for groceries. It was like my permanent accessory. I remember when I finally grokked how to use arrays to turn on and off certain ranges of pixels... it was amazing.
I don't understand this point of view. Stock/options are given when an employee works satisfactorily through the date of vesting. That's part of the terms of the deal. Why do you get to decide that a certain period of time before that date, counts as "unfair" if you quit or get fired?
Hydrogen economy: a case for hydrogen-specific standards for NOx emissions
Hey there folks. I hope this is fine to post here. I found this information to be very useful in understanding the hidden downfalls of using hydrogen as an energy source; and I wanted to share with you all.

Also, this other link may be useful for some people as well. https://www.cleanegroup.org/hydrogen-hype-in-the-air/#:~:tex....

Just want to make clear though that I am not against using Hydrogen over other fuels. I just want to make sure we are not all being hornswoggled like usual by the powers that be.

I should also add that I found this info by searching "does combusting hydrogen always produce water", because my intuition was telling me the implication was not completely correct.
Ok, so you're likely either not bothered by the messaging differences or not don't experience them.

Now take a moment to imagine someone tries to tell you that your messaging system makes you not desirable in a group. What do you do as an adult? Spend extra money to comply with their ideas, or tell them to either use alternatives, or get over it? Does the fact you've never used those apps even factor into the decision?

For context, in many places outside of the us the question is simply "which app do you use" and then you use that like an adult that you are.
you either use a framework or you end up writing (a bad, usually) framework
This is a great example of a line-drawing fallacy. The claim isn't wrong just because there's no universal precise line.
What makes their anecdote "emphasis" or "exaggeration", while yours is jut sharing?

If your anecdote is "boring" or a more normal representation, why share?

It seems like you want to fight to downplay the effects of covid, which is fine, but your approach is totally off.
What benefit does one get from using this over the cloud versions of e.g. Plausible or Ghost?
iPhone = Dystopia?
I feel like every decent developer goes through a period where they decide Frameworks aren't worth the hassle.
for real under-performers, it's usually clear within 3-4 months, esp in small teams / small startups. i have _never_ seen a case where i feel a person lacks fundamentals or is a bad culture fit for a team after 3 months, then turn it around 6 - 9 months.

any number of months waiting after 3-4 IME is months too late. but it feels cruel and it's tough to convince yourself you're right in a specific case. especially when you get to know the person.
> I mean, do you really have an incentive to work if 90% of the money is going to taxes which pay for the other people not working? Obviously not, that’s a terrible deal.

It's not obvious at all; in fact the tax percentage is meaningless on its own. People get too hung up on tax rates instead of focusing on purchasing power and quality of life. It's almost like adding zeros to the currency. The only thing that matters is your purchasing power (which comes from your net income), not your gross income or what percentage tax that corresponded to. Like if (in today's economy) you pay me $10M/year and I have to pay 90% of that in taxes, I would happily work for you. If you pay me $10k/year, I wouldn't even work for you if my "tax" rate was -100%.

Is there a way to make the math work out? Honestly, I don't know. Maybe it's impossible, maybe it's practical, or maybe it would come with so much baggage that we'll prefer the status quo. What I do know is that the people who declare the answer is obvious consistently arrive at that conclusion by artificially constraining the problem in some way that is not implied by the premises, like "you can't raise taxes significantly", or "you can't touch defense spending", or "we won't decrease healthcare costs", or numerous other things.
Why do the largest companies need to grow any further? Maybe they should not? The world does not grow.
You're reading type safety as type checking
As an average VR enjoyer, I’m absolutely baffled by the current state of VR gaming.

2018-2020: barely limping along compared to the early hype, but still getting 2-3 “groundbreaking” titles per year that mostly live up to expectations

Spring 2020: Half Life Alyx is released to a flurry of (mostly deserved) 10/10s across the board

October 2020: FB releases the Quest 2 and proceeds to beat the combined lifetime sales of the rest of the VR industry in under 18 months. Essentially moving the same number of units as the PS5 during that period (to be fair, Sony had shortage issues)

Winter 2020-Present: imagine a tumbleweed lazily rolling through a deserted casino town

Most of 2021 was a cope period where enthusiasts believed the drought was due to game publishers pivoting to the Quest’s mobile chipset. But at this point, especially after the Quest Pro reveal and the second Connect with no updates on the two announced AAA titles (Assassin’s Creed and GTA:SA), sentiment seems to be shifting towards a desperate hope that PSVR2 will save the VR gaming industry.

What happened? 2020 brought the first AAA 10/10 VR exclusive title AND new hardware that absolutely demolished the sales of everything else released to date. And yet the market is SIGNIFICANTLY more dead than it was in 2019.

I can’t explain it. It’s not even a Nintendo Wii situation where it became clear the massive install base wasn’t interested in third party titles: there hasn’t even been a single big third party title released! RE4 VR and Bonelab come the closest and, by all accounts, they both sold extremely well.
Yeah, you need therapy.
And yes, we all feel the same.
Imagine being accused of murdering someone. You ask for a jury trial. The prosecution asks you to turn over the murder weapon. You plead that you don't have the murder weapon because you are innocent. The judge tells you you have 5 days to turn over all the knives you ever bought. You don't, because you don't know where some of them are. The judge doesn't believe you.

The Dystopian Part:

The Judge finds you guilty of murder by default, without hearing any evidence of your guilt, and denies you your jury trial, based on the justification that you did not turn over a couple of the knives.

Guilt and Punishment:

The judge proceeds to hold what amounts to a memorial service, as family member after family member is called up to the stand by the prosecution and they cry in front of the jury over their lost loved one. Your lawyer can't effectively question a crying family member as that makes them seem like a cruel psychopath.

Should you take the stand in your defence, the judge threatens you and your lawyer with contempt, and by implication jail, if you go up there and say you're innocent. There's a list of things you're not allowed to talk about because they would imply your innocence. And you were already found guilty! Therefore, saying you're innocent would be perjury.

You're only allowed to answer with "yes", "no" or "I don't know" when the prosecution calls you up to the stand. After they berate you for half a day, and your defence lawyer objects to the judge losing control, the judge ends the day by yelling at your lawyer that she won't stand for any nonsense from now on. That she hasn't found a lawyer in contempt in all her career, but she's ready to do it now. The next day is when you're supposed to testify in your defence.

You decline to take the stand.

Final Instructions:

The judge tells the jury it isn't allowed to question or speculate on what basis you where found guilty, just that there are only here to determine your punishment.

This is what I'm upset with. This was a political show trial, engineered for a specific verdict.
Silence
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.smssecure.smssecure/

first versions of signal had encrypted sms. then it was spinned of as a separate app. then abandoned.

Silence is a much more evolved fork of that spinoff. It's the best sms app even without encryption (it has encryption). It's the first app I install on a new android
They can decrease stress and increase property value, both of which are probably correlated with lower risk of mortality.
Nope. My story is just as useless as every other anecdote when it comes to evaluating the truth of something like this.

The point is to provide a neutral voice in contrast to the fearful one.
Bad idea. Let them vest then let them go. Money does not equate value.
Type guards (X is number) are different from type assertions (X as number). The former are user defined runtime checks - if they are not correct, then the developer who wrote them is at fault. Moreover, they are typechecked, so you couldn't have a type guard that claims to return a number but actually returns an array, at least not without bypassing the Typescript checker some other way.

Type assertions match what you describe better - they are ways to override the compiler's opinion about the type of a variable or expression. They are, as you say, unsafe in the sense that the compiler has no way of knowing if this assertion is true or not.
What Influence has the BBC had on History?
Trying to stay within hn guidelines here
People get to decide because you can't stop them from doing so. There's plenty of situations in life where being right and having a positive relationship come into tension. Invoking the "terms of the deal" usually has a cost, relationally—to the point that choosing positive relationship may be less costly overall.
Seems like a good time to remind everyone CA is one of the richest states, generally has the most progressive homeless policies, and has the highest rate of poverty in the US (sometimes second to Hawaii). People have also been trying universal basic income program trials for decades and there's a reason they're never implemented, or if they are they're quickly repealed
Yep agreed - in my experience slow queries eventually cause the web server to back up.
You can still run Bash from Zsh. Your terminal shell is irrelevant.
Hah, these dismissals remind me of the comment on Dropbox's initial Hacker News post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Is it only you who has the problem with them or the entire team?

If it's the entire team then get rid of them asap, after checking corresponding labour laws. Imagine you work hard and someone's smooching off your hard work, then they get paid the same to boot! That shit negatively affects everyone.
And it is no fun when the manager of the company developing your proprietary framework decides to tank it because of a change in strategy or the competitor buys the company and stops development. Since you have no source code you are forced to do what the commercial interest of foreigners dictate.
Perfect for corporate 1:1s then.
Was a cool premise but the opt in nature combined with the limited retailers meant it was unlikely to get traction, especially when a lot of people just aren't that interested in a reciept anyway.

It could have had cool usage around bill splitting or expenses perhaps but without being owned by a bank or big payment processor (Square might have made sense given their POS side) it wasn't going to move.

Oh well, least I got a free takeaway out of one of their offers.
Sounds like this behavior change lasted for years though. That is one hell of a manic episode.

(Also, key question, was the art any good?)
I've seen it once, but it was clear the person knew what to do - just needed a bit more time.
My microwave uses 1200 or 1500 watts and does not need a dedicated circuit. Sure, I don’t run it continuously for an hour, but that has nothing to do with whether or not it needs a dedicated circuit.
Yup. I've done a extensive blood work for pretty much everything you would think can affect the nervous system (Lyme, ana for Lupus, even Syphilis). Nothing. I've done everything short of a lumbar puncture.

I've not even a health anxiety person. At this point I'm sort of thinking "it is what it is". I'll continue to live life. But the only thing there really is to point to is either covid itself, or some vaccine response.
I didn't enter with a bias, I was just thinking "LOL, how are they going to justify this, this is gonna be good."

And then they had to be something completely different and yet completely justified. Darn.
That's because you don't understand their business model.
Not sure that 'scarcity as a service' is the incredible pitch Sandbox seems to think it is.
Ideally the plan would be to expand this out to the whole city, not just the 11 million dollar trial. And frankly, dumping $11 million into the purchasing side of low income housing in LA very well could cause inflation in their local housing supply
I agree to the general sentiment of this thread but...

> Taking off without informing team

You tolerate such a behavior if you let him vest and show weakness. Maybe the guy did worse things, talked behind your back and what not. Maybe there are more people who would appreciate his lay off and then, wonder why he still got the vesting. Letting him vest might make you the nice guy with an easy company to work with but could also frame you as the dumb, weak CEO who doesn't dare or can't make tough decisions. It's a thin line.

Not an easy decision and the majority goes for the easy way but there must be a better solution. Despite of a lot of good advice in this thread, I wonder how many in this thread are founders/employers vs employees.
Presumably talking to the wind here as this thread is old, but nonlocal hidden variables do not break causality! This can be seen explicitly in Bell's trivial model, where the state of a system is just the regular quantum state plus a uniform random number between 0 and 1 (hidden). Or put it this way, if this model "breaks causality" then so does regular non-relativistic quantum theory.
ohh yes, a phone with few days of standby power just to call for help is more than enough. I'm sure my work can wait if I lose power. haha.. The bbq is an essential tool. I've got a gas bbq and I live close to Bunnings so shouldn't be hard to replace the tank. Also have a small charcoal bbq and a bag of briquettes! Yeah, I'm gonna refrain from showering for a couple of days if the hot water system fails! So far the weather looks okay. We're expecting heavy rain in another few hours. Fingers crossed!
What a coincidence, just mentioned the comment you're refering to on a separate comment on this post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33187258
Thanks. Lifestyle business would be the dream I think, but for now there's still some daylight between here and there.
Because Apple is not inflammatory in the court. You cannot go into a court and behave poorly, especially in the a case covering murdered children and expect a jury not to punish you to the full extent of their capabilities.
Asset bubbles are a predictable consequence of monetary inflation.

Speculative assets differ from most forms of gambling in very important ways:

1: they lack expiration dates (last year's lottery ticket is not gonna become a winner tomorrow night)

2: even if their value diminishes they still maintain a miniscule probability of 'going to the moon.'

Mix in real stories of folks becoming overnight millionaires along with a guaranteed future check that you can use to cover needs while you are flexing your diamond hodl hands and you've got an addictive recipe to destroy any functioning marketplace.

Trying to stop it thru regulations is going to net you another metric ton of complexity and unintended consequences.

We live in a world of limited resources. Those resources have dynamic & personalized value depending on an arbitrary context at a moment in time. Money is the best worst abstraction we have to quantify and reason about those values. Printing more money doesn't make assigning values to things any easier, it actually complicates it by destroying the unit of account.
Founder of a late-stage start-up here. Firing people is never fun, and pretty much always I (and most of my founder friends) drag it out. With some people, PIP would work. For most people it doesn't. You don't need to put them on a formal PIP as long as you've been direct with feedback, and your legal environment allows at-will termination. As an early-stage company, especially in this economy, you don't have the time in engage in this luxury.

What I'd do - if this person has been underperforming under bad faith, and you have this well documented, I'd move to terminate right away - vesting or no vesting. If that means they don't get to vest, too bad. Don't be scared of lawsuits - yes it will be unproductive if a lawsuit pops up, but if you've been following the law, and you've been following your contract, and you have been direct about the under-performance, the law will be on your side.

When someone is allowed to operate in a team in bad faith, it also severely demotivates the people who perform well. And when this person is allowed to derive a benefit which they don't deserve, it is unfair to those who are putting in their time. And this employee knows that there is a 1-year cliff with vesting; the whole point of that cliff is to weed out such employees.

If they have been underperforming for personal reasons, or because they're not best fit for the job, or if they have benefited you at some early stage, perhaps with fundraising, initial prototypes etc, and then lost momentum, then some amount of empathy is justified, and you can apply that at your discretion. In this case, I'd immediately send this person on garden leave, and terminate past your vesting date, since that's so close.

As to whether there are any downsides on having them in the cap table - it depends on how much equity they hold, assuming that's very small, then no.
How were they exaggerating or emphasizing them? Looks pretty matter of fact to me.
Just want to add Outer Wilds to the list of “video games as art”.

Coincidentally, it has a fantastic VR mod called NomaiVR. Just do yourself a favor and avoid all spoilers before playing it.

Definitely in my top 5 games of the decade and one that I wish I could erase my memory to play again.
This can potentially become very interesting where if all these pages are pushed to edge via CDN, then browsers can essentially have a GraphQL built on top of SQLite on the client side.
You made this situation worse by not firing them sooner. This is 100% on you. You let this drag out far too long until it comes time to vest.

Now you're going to make this even worse by not letting them vest? You're making mistake after mistake. You're going to look like an asshole in front of the other employees and they won't forget that because you could turn around and do it to them.
I mean that’s not true? If buying new is crazy cheap and very convenient via Amazon(etc) doesn’t that necessarily undermine the size of the second hand market? It certainly has for me.
Person 1: "the world is coming to an end!"

Person 2: "well, hold on now. Things still seem okay to me."

Person 1: "why are you minimizing it?!?"

I'm not saying that OP isn't telling the truth. I'm not even saying that their story is less representative than mine. I'm just saying that my boring story also exists, and we shouldn't fixate on (i.e. "emphasize") the emotional stories because they're emotional.
You’re full of bad takes today. Morale at a 10 person company decides it. If it took you 49 weeks to realize this was a bad hire, that’s on you too.