skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One should never work for a startup for the equity.

The equity is a "bonus/lottery ticket" for the future.

IMO, You work for a startup because you get to work on exactly what you want to work on in a way that would be more difficult in a larger company (in terms of technology, the amount of effect you can have, the learning experience....) and the salary is sufficient for your goals and needs (i.e. support yourself in a lifestyle that you are content with and able to put sufficient savings away for the future so that you will be able to afford the things you want/need in that future).

If the salary isn't sufficient, you shouldn't work for a startup banking on the equity, as you can't bank on it.

If the experience of what you will be working on isn't special and you could work for a larger firm that pays more, you should work for them, not the startup, as you aren't getting any extra value to make up for the lower pay from the startup.

At the end of the day, a startup that goes to 0, the investors lost all their money, but all the employees got a salary for the time being there + whatever growth/value they personally got of the work that they can take to their next job. If the startup doesn't go to 0, but goes to under invested dollars value, it is effectively the same thing, the equity employees were issued is 0 and the investors have lost money, while the employees at least are net positive on their salary.

I really think people who say to work for a startup to take less salary because of the lottery ticket that is equity are making the wrong decisions. I'm saying that as someone who is now on his 3rd non public company, where the first job didn't work out for me (and the company was then sold at a down round, though more money than they had raised), the second company ran out of money and was "aquihired" by a larger firm and "Hopefully" this third company will go public (though current market trends make that a hazy crystal ball for the foreseeable future). But none of these jobs I took because of the equity, I took them because the salary was sufficient for my goals/needs and I got to work on things I really wanted to work on in a manner to have an impact that I couldn't have elsewhere.
Agree, was super excited when I saw reference to the German tank problem as that is immediately what I thought of in the first post.
> To run more wire, you've got to get out the (I think?) jackhammer.

Don't they leave conduits and junction boxes in the walls when they run the initial wires?
Thank you for sharing. A real gem of a story.
RSS is still cool, even if rebranded as Podcasts. What's not cool anymore is text.
I can wrap my head around zooming in - conceptually you run any life simulation you want, i.e. a base level game of life, and then recursively decompose each cell into the 2²² cells of a OTCA metapixel.

Zooming out I find much harder to make sense of. What does it look like if you zoom out infinitely often? Is there some limit? If you take an empty universe with all cells dead there seems to be nothing at first, but at closer inspection there is of course still a lot of stuff going on in all the dead metapixels making up the empty universe. After zooming in a couple of times it would be hard to tell that zooming out a bit would leave you with an empty universe. And it would not have to be an empty universe, it could be anything.
I would never run Norton, but if it was combined with Knuth... that's a strong maybe.
For the first time recently I started going to a McDonald’s that uses the kiosks. The response lag to touch inputs is surprisingly bad. It’s quite shocking actually how awkward it feels to tap something and then wait awhile for it to react at all. The urge to tap again is overwhelming for even a few hundred milliseconds lag.

Another example: using the payment thing at a 7-11. You have to say if you want cashback or not by tapping on the screen (can’t use pin pad). Tapping a selection results in a minuscule change in contrast on the button that’s almost impossible to see in part because the buttons are smaller than a finger. And then it still doesn’t move on to the next screen for a few seconds, leaving you to wonder if you actually made a selection of if it’s still waiting because it didn’t register your tap.
That is so cool! This person really is a freak, in good way. They also created their own physics engine, which was featured here a while ago: https://github.com/saharan/OimoPhysics

But it would be cool if we could change the GoL parameters and see how that affects the infinite fractal recursion!
Fentanyl is definitely as, if not more, restricted in the UK than morphine (oramorph being a brand name for liquid morphine).
Unfortunately most people think the converse is true.
When an executive level manager is paid multiple times (or orders of magnitude) what an engineer is paid, I feel there should be a different assignment of responsibility and exposure to risk.
> I would postulate the single most important thing a company can do is make money.

Nobody in the company "makes money" (unless the company is a bank, then they literally do, by giving out loans). The people perform various functions and the money made or lost by the company is a result of a sum total of their actions.
That's a bit ironic, if true, as Hacker News is the opposite of a self-curated RSS feed.
One of the reasons progress in physics has been slow is because Wall St hoovered up much of the talent.

Even if you have a good PhD, opportunities in physics are very limited. And they don't pay all that well.

Get a job as a quant and it's not remotely hard to earn $500k a year.
I'm getting occasional (maybe every 3 squares?) dropped input in the free-hand mode and sometimes the box draw mode gets "stuck" in the same spot.
Most of these would seem to be allowed under Rust semantics, except that Rust does not conflate references/pointers and MPSC channel ends; there's no notion of "identity" for the sending half of a MPSC channel like there seems to be for a Pony ref. But if you have one of these you can clone it and send it wherever.
And in case I’ve minced words, lol… I’m very much saying that Jack is finally coming out and admitting his goal is a social media specifically for nazis, stalkers, and other monsters whose victims either never escape or suffer lifelong trauma if they do escape.
That sucks. NPR has been a pillar of good reporting in these times of strife
If the physical property mentioned is housing then no. In paper it's all leased. But it depends on local use. Property built in the countryside are less seen as 'commodity' so less constrained. Large development of housing are all leased.
In Nim, let is an immutable runtime value, but const is an immutable compile time value, sort of like constexpr in recent c++.
Cargo could call gcc-rs instead of rustc.
> What does it look like if you zoom out infinitely often?

Make a sharp backwards roll of your mouse wheel and see for yourself - it'll turn on the autopilot mode.
It just says "Loading" for me with FF 106.
Mesmerising! And so fast!

@JWZ, can we have a xscreensaver for this please!
Have a go at sleeping rough, not washing, barely eating for 6 months, then refuse an offer of fentanyl. The causality is mostly the other way around.
A key allegation: In or around May 2020, Bankman-Fried directed that Alameda be exempted from the “auto-liquidation” feature of FTX’s spot margin trading services.
what's with the carets [^0] instead of [0] in your citations?
Just me or anyone else find this heading impossible to parse? This particular combination of words seems to stick me in an infinite loop.
> what would you do differently if you were HR here?

Hire more HR staff to reduce queue times? Apple literally has $100b+ of cash that they don't know what to do with, they could spend some of it on improving their hiring.
There is some talk to classify "environment-induced" attention deficits as ADHD too, because the symptoms are the same.

The idea being, social media and the like became so bad in the last 10 years, that there is no functional difference between inherited ADHD and acquired ADHD. The only difference is that the acquired one might be curable.
Lottery implies its entirely luck based.

When in reality, you have a great deal of control. Marketing IS something you can control.

Sure, some streamer randomly picking up your game is beyond your control. But you can certainly create conditions that would make it easier for your game to be picked up by a streamer (build relationships with journos, streamers; get paid marketing, etc.)

Calling it a lottery is a disservice to the people who actually put in effort to create these games.
There are pros and cons to the non-/native approaches.

Writing effective cross-platform application is harder than one would think. Some time ago there was a discussion on HN where a WxWidgets maintainer stepped in to explain why some WxWidget programs were apparently inconsistent across O/S, and the explanation was that they were developed naively (I think one needs to use specific spacing abstractions, but I don't remember with exactness).

For my personal development, I use non-native (which is easier to develop), however, on large scale, it'd be a tough decision.

WxWidget was my favorite in the past (again, for personal development), however, the bindings are very spotty, which prevents adoption for several languages (wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_bindings_for_...).
Moral high ground is low intelligence.
I did not realize that. If you are not auto-zooming it seems to just control the simulation speed but while auto-zooming it effects the speed of the zoom. That probably makes sense at a deep level because as you zoom in and out the simulation speed has to be adjusted to make the new level run at the same speed as the old one.
You can't "just make a bunch of cash" by market making. It is extremely competitive and it wouldn't surprise me if they weren't capable of doing it.
I don't think line workers on assembly lines have much exposure to OKRs.

OKRs are entirely about creative work and have seen success at tech companies that take management seriously.

The problem is that throughout the industry most managers were promoted into those positions without any training for being good at something else entirely. So even if they want to care, they generally have no idea where to begin. Self help books about business "heroes?" Focus on more metrics because they're something to show? Just focus on coding because that's what got them the promo? Et al.
If that game is like Chip's challenge I know someone that would love it, it's her favourite game all times. Thanks :-)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The meta game of late has been to keep cashing out at every fundraising round, and to negotiate for a fat salary.
Sure: https://tld-list.com/tld/com#pricehistory
Yup, in other domains ChatGPT will confidently give answers that sound vaguely plausible but miss out key things a human would definitely highlight, or just get the specifics wrong.

There's a video of Harstem I think, following build orders ChatGPT came up with for Starcraft II. ChatGPT doesn't say "I have no idea how to play this game" instead it confidently offers advice that is... not good. Harstem wins at least one game anyway, but you know, not from the great advice just from being a good player.
It can be both, and is easily compared to some hair stuff today.

I remember women in my family spending hours talking while doing hair. "Doing" meaning things like home perms, haircolor, and highlights. I'm guessing similar things happen with braids.

Realistically, none of these women would trust a stranger to do this process. If it wasn't a close friend or family, you'd go to a trained professional. The process itself is intimate, and the setting - with its boredom and sheer amounts of time it takes - lends it to be social.

Similar to combing lice. You are probably going to need to do it, it is intimate because they are touching your head, and that need alongside setting provides for a social opportunity.
I am really enjoying this full screen with auto-zoom-out at the slowest speed setting. If the controls faded like media player controls do in full screen, I would be perfectly satisfied.

This inspired a bit of awe in me, especially after I learned from another comment here that each game is unique.

edit: Oh wow, of course it's last month's Bubbles creator.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33566924
I'd be interested to find out.

Despite your scepticism, there are a few things that gave this one away.

Repeating the subject noun rather than changing to "it" after the first use is the biggest one in this example. It sounds very unnatural to keep saying "ChatGPT", especially three sentences in a row, but ChatGPT seems to do it quite often.

Having said that, I'm not confident I could do much better than 50/50 when not primed with the knowledge that people are likely to post generated content right now, plus the context of the conversation.
Already tried that, does not zoom quickly enough to reach infinity before I have to go to bed.
Exactly. Haters gonna hate me but I really liked Windows.Forms (and C#) for development line-of-business desktop apps.
It is not surprising to see resistance. The food industry will collapse if people pivot to low carb diets :)
Open-source motion capture data of elite-level baseball pitchers on GitHub
I'm sure Cloudflare (or some YC lo-code?) would happily comp the elonjet kid their hosting?
The dutch word is "wasbeer". As you may guess, that translates to "wash bear".
RSS needs it’s QR
moment. By that I mean Covid was the accelerator for QR adoption. RSS needs something so that most people are happy and used to collecting feeds. An RSS can be used for anything where you want to update someone at the same pace as an email: soon but not realtime. I use RSS to get alerted to deals.

One aspect of RSS that might appeal to marketers is the perfect delivery and no games trying to avoid spam folders, plus tracking via images and landing pages will work. The receiver gets easy unsubscribing and less in their real inbox.

But email replacement is just one thing you can do. Stock alerts; Reminders etc. could all be done this way. Social media of course too.
I've been working a 2D rendering toolkit that increasingly looks to me like it probably deserves a mention on these lists: https://github.com/logicalshift/flo_draw (but I'm not on Reddit...). Layers, vector sprites, dynamic textures and a streaming API that fits well with 'reactive' designs are amongst the features that make it stand out from what else is out there. It's super simple to get going too.

Started life as a rendering layer for FlowBetween so I could put in whatever looked like it was 'winning' later on but wound up writing my own renderer as there wasn't anything quite there yet. Still has that design so another unique thing is that it's possible to use the same API with whatever rendering layer you want.

Speaking of FlowBetween, one thing I have wanted to do for ages is to get rid of the platform-specific GUIs and use something universal. It should be easy because FlowBetween sends straightforward instructions to an independent GUI layer, but I keep bouncing off for a few reasons:

- it's a big ole task so I definitely want to pick something that's stable and also lets me hedge my bets in terms of being easy to migrate away from

- most commonly, FlowBetween needs pressure data from tablets and a lot of frameworks just don't do that (this is also in a terrible state in browsers)

- lots of GUI crates are designed as frameworks and so try to dictate the entire design of any app that uses them, which is no good for FlowBetween which tries to keep its internal design choices independent of its choice of GUI

At the moment, I suspect that some sort of imgui framework is best along with an entirely manual implementation of tablet pointer data: fits with my existing design and isn't 'contagious' in a way that could make it hard to migrate to something else later on.
If you care about people in weaker positions so much, perhaps develop a web plugin for them which will hide the compensation amount on the job pages?
When you detect their ip..
- serve images upside down
- serve images blurry

More examples here from long long ago..
http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html
My apologies, I should’ve checked, but maybe you could offer some of these caveats as a contribution. Your language was even convincing enough I thought it was theirs.
Wasn't it 500 million?
What makes that "complete freedom" claim weird is also its (historical) novelty. Nobody was ever able to say everything without consequences, yet this utopia claims it's a forever right. Or maybe I understand them wrong, and they only defend the right to say bad stuff right before going to jail for it? Fine, but in this case there's no novelty at all, so it's probably not this.
The joke used to be fusion was always 30 years away. Then the joke was it was always 20 years away. Now the joke is it's always 10 years away.

People paying attention over this time have noticed it getting closer as we improve our capabilities.

The next iteration of the joke will be 'fusion was always inevitable'
Fantastic. I've wanted a program exactly like this for a couple of decades now.
Unless that text is subtitles . . . all the Kool Kids love subs (or so I hear )

Question is, though, can we get a YC startup from that?
> the people who make the money have no concept of what "integrity" is.

It's outrageous that there is no honour amongst scammers.
One use case is speedrunning. If you don't have space on your PC and want to record your runs.
How many of those actually look and behave like native and support accessibility correctly?
in fact, the two are probably anti-correlated
I always wondered about this - if capital interest rates are low, shouldn't capital be getting compensated very little? Shouldn't labour be worth more?
> Developing an app using Electron gives such tremendous benefits that it far outweighs any downsides.

As someone who wrote performant Electron apps, I disagree. Electron has great documentation, but I found little else to praise.

> stable and secure platform

A major factor to me stopping to write Electron apps was the frequent updates needed due to some new flaw upstream. To make matters unbearable, every time there was an update something else had changed with the build tool or the Electron API, which I then had to relearn and painstakingly change everywhere.

I like apps to be done, I don’t want to be forced to babysit in perpetuity an otherwise working app.

> Storage is cheap

It is not. People buy computers and mostly stick to the internal disk which they can’t or don’t know how to change. No one is happy to have to buy and use an external hard drive because their apps—which are orders of magnitude larger than they could be—are eating up all available space.
Musk is dimmer than Jack but that has the benefit of being more obvious at showing his same motives. Case in point: he’s already doing what Jack proposed in the article.
I was just thinking "this is bitcoin but for social media" when he said it out loud:

> It has to be something akin to what bitcoin has shown to be possible. If you want proof of this, get out of the US and European bubble of the bitcoin price fluctuations and learn how real people are using it for censorship resistance in Africa and Central/South America.

It just seems like classic libertarian niavety.
If you won't license someone the IP and you won't sell them the resulting tech, what does anyone actually expect them to do?

To be clear, I am not making a moral argument, just a practical one. Did people really expect the CCP to just shrug and say "I guess we will be entirely reliant on Taiwan/Netherlands for top quality silicon. Including all military and research applications. And we will just accept whatever embargoes they (and America) decide"?
liquidation preference protects investors from founder fraud. say you invest $1M for 20% at 5M valuation in a preseed round where the founder has nothing and then a day later the founder liquidated the company for the value of cash assets, keeping 800k of your money. also preferred has a different voting structure, making it easier for investors to fire the CEO
> You'd rather deal with attrition costs of losing a trained, experienced employee and having to find new candidates and train someone new, than to just give your current employees the pay raise they obviously deserve?

The job market is a market, meaning it's a game between buyers and sellers. "Deserve" does not exist there. The companies are obviously counting on the fact that majority of people will prefer to stay put instead of risk jumping ship for a salary increase - which is in fact what happens in practice.
I don't think you need to reach infinity to realize it's OTCA metapixels all the way down and OTCA metapixels all the way up. In a way, it just loops forever.
> the Computer History Museum has an IBM 1401

And a working PDP-1, which I'd highly recommend visiting. You can listen to some of the earliest computer music and play Spacewar!, the first video game to share or sell more than a single copy (as it were).
> Ignorance of the law is never an excuse if you are found to be breaking the law.

That’s true, but ignorance of the facts often can be. “I didn’t know I was doing X” rather than “I didn’t know X was illegal”.
Losing money is legal. Stealing money is not. I have a hard time believing she didn't know where the money she was losing came from, though.
> You have been trained to require external validation for your work. Maybe it's a modern thing with upvotes and twitter and likes and whatnot.

And simply the fact that, nowadays, you have access to the production of thousands of other people, with which you can compare yours. And in most cases it will compare unfavourably; to make it worse, almost all those people are unknown to the general public, they are often not even professionals, they are just very ordinary persons with a hobby, and yet you can see in a couple of clicks that they get (much) better results than you do.

On may call this a self-validation based on external elements.

Perhaps, as it devalues your creations in your own eyes, it reinforces the need for external validation.
Maybe if the article would contain the HN names of the scientists in the experiment in bold instead of Senator names, it would be easier to find them (I'm sure some of them are around here). We should just find those sources, it's not that hard in the internet age.
>"You can download browsers for long gone operating systems"

Unfortunately, many simply don't work for 99.9% of the modern Web due to it requiring TLS 1.3. For example, on Windows 98,there is a myth of some Opera version that had TLS 1.3 support, but I haven't had a chance of finding it. TLS 1.2 is the latest one can get

It is quite ironic that it is not JavaScript, or the modern dynamic Web features that prove most difficult to back port to old operating systems, but SSL.

Of course there is the Web proxy that renders modern Web as an image map accessible even to the oldest computers, but this is "cheating" as you really are using a modern OS to sort of pre-digest content. You need a modern OS constantly running to use your vintage machine just in case you might need to download some file from the Web.
What was Among Us' marketing strategy like?

Most developers have very little understanding of marketing, and are very hesitatnt to pay for good marketing services.

Here's something most people won't tell you: the majority of online marketing is paid, either explicitly (i.e. you pay Google) or covertly (i.e. you "bribe" an editor at Forbes to feature your article).
Curious how testing works... If i could use pytest (somehow) that would be a game changer vs typical frontend testing hell.