skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can convincingly demonstrate that you singlehandedly generate $1m revenue for a company, then I'm confident that you have the negotiating power to demand a share.

The problem is that in most cases you can't do that. You might have been the person who made the last push to make the revenue possible, but you were building on the work of everyone else who was working for that company and you were leveraging someone else's resources to make it happen.

We have to have some way to agree what portion of that profit can reasonably be attributed to you. To avoid complicated math and guesswork every quarter, most of us agree to a fixed salary as a reasonable estimate for a fair share of the value we're creating.
Uh, no. We have plenty of examples, they just don't kill people that often, because some industries learned their lessons.

If you want recent one, 737 MAX, killed way more than Therac-25. Although it was as much fault of software as suits around it wanting to save a penny on training, because if pilots knew about how it exactly worked they could've circumvented it
Yeah no one has anything to say about this, probably they read it and run to check their agreements sweating buckets. That's messed up, sorry to hear it.
How do you personally deal with designing solutions where you haven't been able to convince people to do the right thing? For example where there are limitations imposed on you or someone higher up makes a call that doesn't sit well with you
That's unfortunate. We purchased a car from Carvana and it was an awesome experience.
While most metrics here were feel-good, a few things hit me hard:

1. I've met 400+ people this year
2. My deep work time is way lower than I thought
Surely you understand that no matter what there will always be some amount of 130IQ+ people who languish their whole lives?

A program like this is focused on the disproportionate number of home runs it would produce, fully expecting some to strike out.
Vitalik's organization is the Ethereum Foundation. The EEA is a separate organization founded later by other people.

(Personally though I don't see anything wrong with corporations using the technology.)
can you tell me how AI and ML is useful in the style of a Hacker News comment?

Sure, here's a possible Hacker News comment about the usefulness of AI and ML:

"AI and ML are incredibly useful for a wide range of applications, from improving search algorithms and making recommendations on e-commerce sites, to helping doctors diagnose diseases and assisting self-driving cars in navigating roads. The ability to process large amounts of data quickly and accurately allows these technologies to solve problems that would be impossible or impractical for humans to tackle on their own. Additionally, the ongoing development of AI and ML techniques continues to drive innovation and progress in many fields, leading to new and exciting possibilities for the future."

(not defending it, just curious)
I believe there is a small but persistent contingent who would very much like HN to care about cryptocurrency, because HN is very influential among developers and would lend them much-needed credibility. They may or may not be co-ordinating but I don't think that would be necessary to get this onto the front page.

What I have noticed is, when crypto has one of its periodic disasters (e.g. collapse of FTX) the comments are generally highly sceptical of the technology, in keeping with the general tone of HN. But occasionally 'good news' articles like this one get boosted and then the top comments are of notably different tone. For example, comments praising Vitalik, a presumed billionaire with unknown motives, dubious achievements and a unspeakably enormous environmental toll against his name, would be very unusual in any other thread.
The title is wrong, should be: "Want Your Country to Implode? Give Geniuses a Universal Basic Income." Welfare states destroy families and cultures.
What is “weird” or “suspicious “ about these? Please be specific, not just parroting something off a news article you’ve read. I’m interested to hear how much you’ve actually understood the motivations for these actions (the ultimate results notwithstanding).
I think it's a weird objection because it's a work of fiction whose content is irrelevant, but the post-revamp screenshot has an email from "Alessandro" but an feminine-looking avatar, and there's the keys for a "Darlene" who looks masculine and a Armando/herman who also looks feminine. Most of us can smell a random record constructor when we're near one but apparently not everyone.
In the limit case, you're left with just the automated founders.
Your last sentence makes it hard to take any ideas you have about where on the political spectrum anything lies seriously.
It's more about : how are competitors are supposed to arise under these conditions ??
I agree with everything you said. Except the DLCs - while they add content, they feel like somebody is copying from a Game Design book. Here is a cool new thing, but we will make it miserable and hard to use in these ways. Have fun.
Also in general Rimworld is pretty linear somehow. I play a few colonies, I get bored, then take a break for half an year. And repeat.
Most likely because they are:

* Experienced devs who have "seen it all"

* Have to deal with the consequences and have more responsibility
I don't think previous poster said they were.
I hate government welfare programs about as much as possible, but the "administrative overhead" arguments I see from UBI advocates really doesn't make much sense. The savings from eliminating most overhead in welfare programs isn't nearly as much money as most UBI advocates seem to think. Roughly 5% of the cost of the food stamp program in the US goes to administrative overhead. Social Security (which doesn't have means testing, the only requirement is age-based) spends ~0.6% on overhead. From what I can find about Medicaid, admin costs are generally around 5%. You'd only save ~$40 billion a year if you eliminated all administrative overhead for Medicaid (which is nothing to sneeze at, but it's nowhere near enough to fund a UBI).
> why do founders with a successful exit get rich when employees get even less than they would've been guaranteed at a non-startup tech job

This is the question that if addressed would fix the whole startup scammyness and exploitation. But then it may as well kill startups.
While the NLRB has previously held that companies can require employees to attend anti-union meetings, the agency’s current general counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, views such “captive audience” gatherings as inherently coercive and illegal. Her office is pursuing cases that could change the precedent, including at Amazon.com Inc. and Starbucks Corp., both of which have denied wrongdoing.

So it sounds like Apple's tactics weren't illegal but this new counsel wants to reverse precedent to make sure they are now illegal. Seems bizarre to try and change precedent from the side of the lawyers rather than the judges. Paired with the PR-tone of this article, it looks like an upstart lawyer trying to win the court of public opinion rather than a legal court.
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I never made it past reading about Dwarf Fortress. I’d like to try it, but I simply do not have the time or patience to learn what looked like a very arcane UI and gameplay.

I’m really hoping this graphical update will lower the barrier to entry for me.
Both great questions, where the answer will give you a level of knowledge, rather than a yes/no.

(personally, I would be a meh candidate until you probed further - but I've not touched C for.. hmm, I'm old)

I often get questions where I need to determine if they're looking the textbook answer, or a real-life answer. Usually I will go with "well generally, the answer is $Textbook. However, ..."
Many years ago as a part time undergrad student (I went to a "nontraditional" university) I took an Interpersonal Communications class, which was very good. I told the instructor that I had fear of public speaking and wanted to know if she had any recommendations for overcoming it. She strongly recommended a class called "Acting for Non-Actors". She practically guaranteed it would cure me. Alas, I was never able to fit that class into my schedule, wish I had.
Hi, planning to do iOS release next year. It's built in React Native, so should be easy in theory, only thing is that don't have a have personal OSX laptop (required for publishing) nor Apple developer account at the moment.

Your not the first to ask for it, so I guess I'll have to figure it out.

> $10 if it could export UML or some kind of XML definition

Interesting. One of the features I plan to work on this week is export & import of source files. My first plan is to 'brute force' it, and export a .json file with a attributes for each cell in the grid. But could also be yml, or even XML I guess.
- First thing in the morning, standups followed by coaching sessions (basically pair programming or code review) for sticky problems

Then it varies.

- 1:1s

- project or program (in the sense of both code type programs and long term direction programs) planning or status meetings with various stakeholders, especially POs, PMs, and execs

- digging into particularly difficult or odd code or set up issue that's lead to it being escalated

- meetings with vendors and doing a write up of their product's potential and costs

- creating rough project or program outlines with rough
budget estimates for execs

- creating design documents on projects or programs that have a bit of traction

- meeting with other architects to collaborate on wider designs or just share items of interest

- going on HN to tell strangers about my day-to-day life

- create fully functional POCs or reference implementations

- doing post-mortems

- examining code from a potential acquisition or quizzing their engineers

- getting on meetings with clients or potential clients to give them a warm fuzzy that a tech person with an impressive sounding title is listening to show we're taking something Very Sersiously and find them to be Very Important.

- regular Open Office Hours for anyone in the company to drop by and chat about anything (lots of good stuff comes from these -- highly recommend)

- fielding various requests and questions from Security and Ops other teams and whatnot.

- Having What-If meetings with sales or execs (danger! There be dragons here! But, with Sales especially, a really good way to figure out what customers are clamoring for)

- Preparing talks and technical outreach

- Exploring New Shiny Things (though I tend to do this more on off-hours just because there are fewer interruptions and urgencies).

In terms of microservices in particular, I tend to ask a lot of questions about data and work flow, how someone has defined a domain or domains, making sure they're not falling into the myriad anti-patterns, making sure what they're doing is going to be visible, tractable, and play nice with the rest of our services including following our common patterns and idioms (and when I run into idioms that they might not know about I document them and make them easy to find) and not create any unpleasant surprises down the road, and that they have given appropriate thought to evolution of the service and forward and backward compatibility during that process.

Martin Fowler is by far my most influential resource on microservice architectures and doing domain driven design well. But I would strongly suggest literally reading everything you can find on the subject. Mostly because it's many subjects in a trenchcoat. Seeing it all from a few different angles will better arm you for whatever comes your way.
Does anyone know why it took so long for this game to get graphics?
The issue isn't that they did the animal experiments, as you point out we do it every day.

The analogy wouldn't be to the meat industry generally. The analogy would be to a rancher that intentionally did something to one of their animals that caused that animal to vomit so violently that it had open sores in its throat, choose to keep it alive and not euthanize, such that the animals final weeks were spent on complete agony, it's torture.

So, do we torture the animals in our food supply?
I'm sick of people posting comments that are copy pastes from ChatGPT output.

We've all been seeing ML generated images for the past few years, is it really such a novelty for text to be generated as well?

I am sure there will be even more advancements in ML.

But hey, at least we won't need a huge troll farm to influence elections anymore and we are one step closer to rich people having ML enabled killer bots and of course applications in war and by threat actors comes last right? Not to be a downer, I get all the amazing uses of it but in the end it is a tool and it can be used or abused depending on the user's intent and it will be decades before the law and treaties catch up.

I hope humans don't give up original thinking.
There's lots of supply, but like 90% of it is going to corporations and backdoor deals before it hits retail shelves for consumers.

Ever since the pi foundation took that $45M investment and added their first outside shareholders about a year an a half ago it's been all downhill from there in terms of consumer supply.
I can see how you might layer that stuff on top (e.g. using smart contracts). It's not clear to me whether such a system still has some advantages though. Maybe the open nature of the platform?
Hm. On the one hand, I find this pretty cool. A singular-focus media campaign, and from what I read one that could actually provide some educational and entertainment value. Might be a good step by GE in terms of managing brand awareness and identity.

At the same time I'm a bit concerned by the influence advertisers and their interests have on media in general. Catering to advertisers does not always seem to align with the possibly more intrinsic goals and values of a newspaper, for example. Or what I would want from a newspaper.
The people I see in my neighborhood carrying kids in those chest carriers or pushing them in carriages seem cheerful enough. I was cheerful enough back then, though there was a big effect on my time, including sleep time.
My daughter is going to love this.

Can anyone make out if songs like this are specially mastered with separate vocal channels? I’m guessing they’re not minus ones that someone else has arranged and played. If these are coming from the original artist it’ll be interesting to know if they’re being uploaded as separate vocal channels or if Apple is applying ML to do voice isolation.

Do any audio file formats support separate tracks with level info?
It's rent-to-own so if you start early enough, you'll own the house by the time you retire.

And yes, heating and utilities add up. But we're talking about a salary that after taxes will be 3x to 4x the down payments.
Contracts don't determine what is legal and not legal. If the said person is found out then they would be in breach of contract and could be fired or sued. They would not earn themselves a criminal record.
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Most of which was sold to the general public. The sale was open for six weeks, widely known in the crypto community, and even reported in mainstream press after its first couple days made it one of the largest crowdsales to date.
I understand I have no authority on the subject, but, aren't we well aware that immunity wears off at different rates depending on the strain ? A lot of sickness only affect the children, and once for their lifetime, but there is at least covid for we know the immunity wears off. Surely there are many others.

edit: I suspect the article only states that life long immunity does not wears off. I don't challenge that at all.
Which is funny, because after 2008 it felt like a lot of the bedroom communities / strip malls struggled and went down hill (lack of demand I guess) - and it felt like a whole wave of young people were only wanting to live in the city.
There's a difference between not having the title and not having the title in hand. What Carvana does in this respect isn't illegal.
Indeed. HR handles layoffs. Well, unless you like lawsuits.
At one point Scientific American had an article which reported that the pigments used in the cave paintings in Spain, circa 25,000 BC, had come from Italy, suggesting goods were traveling long distances as early as 25,000 BC. Either one tribe was moving back and forth from Italy to Spain, on a regular basis, or there was a trade network. So to learn that there was an extensive trade network at the end of the Bronze Age is not nearly so exciting, even if the scale of distance is a bit greater. I mean, we already knew there was extensive trade at the end of the Bronze Age, I was taught that when I was in school.
This is very fair and I have similar feelings about the accuracy and false confidence. Looking at your experience, the outcome is still impressive. You got 3 new solutions that you were able to get working with some tweaking and one of them was an improvement. Sounds like working with an experienced teammate who also makes mistakes but improves your code in the end with a new perspective and insight. Like… damn, this is all next word text prediction?
I disagree that all conservative critiques of universities philosophical and political bends are superfluous. I agree that most are, especially as a propaganda-driven meme, but not all. You _need_ second order diversity of ideas, which tends to be achieved by the first order diversity of background, in order to flourish. Subject to paradox of tolerance criteria, an institute of learning and research should allow academic freedom but not necessarily academic safety. Bad ideas are bad!
I give contractors a coding question related to the job. Unlike LeetCode, it isn’t really challenging (not even fizzbuz), just a test that they can learn a few APIs (that are given descriptions) and write down code. You’d be surprised how many candidates freak out at that point. Unfortunately, it’s often needed for the role.
> Europe arguably has better public transportation and shorter commutes

Mine (Dublin, Ireland) is still about an hour on the tram (for EUR 2) from where I live, so I'm not saying it's perfect, but my manager, in the Atlanta area, is a two-hour drive away from the office. That and he starting meetings at 6AM (because Dublin) makes me support remote working even more for the ATL teams.

I gladly traded the rich cultural life and world-class restaurants for a walkable city and a house with a small park one gate away from the back yard.

Even considering the occasional invasion of the house by a bunch of screaming little 10 yo's who are my daughter's gang (who lives mostly on the same street).
Tests and homework aren't written for someone who is just going in cold, you're supposed to take the class and read the material.

Since there's no way to judge the required sample size based on the information, it's extremely likely that option A was something specifically discussed.
I completely disagree, we've made more progress in the last 40 years than in all of human history. We can sequence an individual humans genome, that's just one example. This is true for nearly all of Medicine. Your way off here.
Hunter-gatherer bands don't exactly survive without families to continue the cycle of reproduction, someone to take care of the children, someone to tend to the wounded and sick, someone to build the houses while the hunter-gatherers are out hunting, someone to grow crops when it's cold and food is harder to hunt for, someone to track how much food everyone is getting...
What if I'm a founder who's also a developer, I have the idea, customer base and I've done ~80% of the code of the product but I need help with deploying and scaling the product.

How much of the profit do I share with the employees? What does the society deem fair in the case where founder comes up with the product, identifies the problem and works with the customer to configure the product? Do I get to take 5 salaries or 1 salary?
As a vegetarian, I would much rather have someone who eats meat and also has a preference for reduced animal suffering, rather than having that person abandon it due to someone's demands for consistency.

Gatekeeping caring about animal welfare leads to more animal suffering, not less.
While it's true he's saying that founders can create a lot of value without employees, he's certainly not suggesting employees don't also create value. Obviously they do, or founders wouldn't hire anyone.

> if you have employees, you have to share your profits with your employees

Needless to say, this already happens via equity and options. There's a reasonable debate to be had over what constitutes "fair" profit-sharing. But the market clears where it clears, and individual tech employees definitely have meaningful leverage even under current macro conditions.
Sounds like an alignment problem.
I came here for this comment. Thank you for bringing this up.

Although Phoenix is one of America's most progressive cities with regard to minimizing per-capita water usage, the whole prospect of the city of Phoenix was ill-conceived from the beginning.

Of course that doesn't matter now -- the city is there. But I hope that TSMC knows what they're getting themselves in to.
I live in the Chicago area and this is just not true on a large scale at all. The commute into downtown Chicago on a weekday morning is extremely busy (especially pre-COVID), whether by car or rail. The reverse direction is nearly empty. Even as I write this at 9:15am (with rush hour ebbing), you can see this for yourself on Google Maps - the inbound lanes on all the highway arteries are all orange/red, the outbound lanes are all green.

For a long time, my office was always in the suburbs. Out of the 100s of people I knew in the office, I only ever heard of maybe a dozen living in the city and reverse commuting. They were always fresh out of college, and all gave up that lifestyle after a couple years because commuting out to the suburbs each day is challenging and time-consuming (no easy way to get from the rail station to the office, for instance).

Our company decided to move their headquarters into the city "to attract younger talent" a few years before COVID. What actually happened is that over the course of several years, the vast majority of people assigned to the new downtown office slowly stopped coming in at all and now nearly everyone works from home, and COVID of course only accelerated that. The younger people that live in the city are almost always on Zoom when they join meetings so it doesn't seem like they're taking advantage of the office much either now. Also, there were a small number of people who lived in the suburbs but favored city life who moved back into the city when the office moved there. However, anecdotally every single one of them that I know moved back out to the suburbs in 2020/2021 because they all became trapped in their small apartments with nowhere else to go because Chicago shut everything down for an extended period of time. Now that things are open again, no one that I know has moved back, and our office downtown is still a ghost town. On the rare occasion I've gone in, it's not uncommon to be the only person present on an entire floor of the building. I don't know how long the lease is but I have to imagine we'll scale way back on the space when it expires.
But this time, it's not wait a few years for something to maybe happen, but wait a few years to see how Twitters numbers develop. If Twitter has a quarter of the market share in 2 years we can say that yes, Elon failed, but right now it's hard to judge.