skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need maximum wage laws. Such a law might look like this: The maximum total compensation (Salary + estimated stock grant value) must be less than some multiple of the lowest prorated total compensation of any regularly scheduled employee or contractor operating within nominal geographic limits.

Goal: Stop overpaying top staff or increase the pay of your lowest workers, including commonly outsourced positions such as janitorial staff.
Great success, thanks for sharing!

Why did you sell now instead of building for a few more years? If you had hit $30-50k per month you probably could have sold it for enough to be financially independent for life. Were you bored or burned out? Or did growing it further require things that you didn’t want to do?
I disagree. The message is clear that reality is messy. But not that love is an illusion. Those two messages aren't hand in hand. In the time stop episode he explicitly sacrifices himself for love and reflects on that. Most Ricks don't seem to love their grandkids but the main Rick does. This has been a plot point since season 1.

I think Rick was frequently wrong even in early material. He was wrong about the planet being ruled by advanced males that lost the need for females. He was wrong about his relationship with Unity and nearly kills himself for it. He was wrong when he destroyed his own universe. Rick lives in a meaningless world because he's vastly surpassed its limitations. But he's not better for it.

Most plot arcs take an existing concept, writing tactic, plot, or trope, and deconstruct its assumptions to then reconstruct the juicy bits. Like the Purge episode. Rick is too powerful to be bothered by the purge. Gets bored. But ends on gleeful gratuitous violence because its kind of fun. Which gets back to what I would say is the central message of the show. Even if the world is dumb/messy/nihilistic/bad; it can still be awesome. Things can be good without a need for them to be intrinsically good.

I think this is one of the more pressing artistic idea of our times. Same for Everything Everywhere All At Once.
It's Valve; you know there will never be a third iteration.
America’s first nuclear-powered Bitcoin mining center to open in Pennsylvania
> How do you deal with people who proudly wear "Antiracist" t-shirts, but will quickly tell you Asians are opportunity hoarders who must hate their kids because they focus too much on academics.

That sounds pretty bigoted, so make a complaint to HR. Putting on a 49ers jersey doesn't make me a true fan.
I wonder if you could take down the analytics db with enough bad cross joins.
What Do Angels Look Like According to the Bible?
Lookout: A phone camera that looks up, so you can keep looking down
GPT is all you need for back end
There are now 100M developers around the world using GitHub
On "people that don't know what they're talking about" today!

That's the anti-cheat which only Valorant uses
^up, must have been deleted in an edit.
Biggest expenses are food and rent. Those aren’t cheaper in India?

Your point is taken, but like, I don’t have a monthly line-item for Mercedes.
I'd be super curious to get the entire list of studios that the author looked at for analysis. Max Levchin's studio HVF labs birthed Affirm, which isn't included.
I made this argument a few years ago when my wife asked me if it was a good idea for us to get solar panels for the house. My reply was that solar farms get economy of scale and would out-compete us, plus our roof views East/West, not South. Now that electricity prices have trebled, I have changed my mind.

The simple fact is that these static larger installations should be better, but they're not happening at nearly high enough rate, and so there is still benefit to be had by individuals installing smaller less efficient systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Fastow

Andrew Fastow, former CFO of Enron, became a document review clerk after serving his jail sentence. But five years later he became something called a "Principal" for an analytics company called KeenCorp.
> the problem is that shareholders are often too distributed and don't have enough control to do anything about it

Any examples to cite? Because I can't think of an example of a single company where this is true.

Usually it's a small group of shareholders that hold more than 50% of the company, making it essentially theirs as they hold a winning number of votes. They run it in a way that benefits them, placing their people on the Board of Directors, setting their goals, which the C's just follow. Sure the C's get paid well, but that's negotiated with the Board (who represents the majority shareholders).

I'll concede that sometimes, when the majority shareholder is also in the C-suite, you see more blatant "take from the company and give to myself" behavior. But as the majority shareholder it's effectively their company, and they can do what they want with what they own (basic freedoms I think we all agree on?). For example, Elon, as majority shareholder, could simply liquidate Tesla and pocket his share of the sale. It's his company.

Poorly run companies usually have a poor Board of Directors. This usually happens when the majority shareholders are short sighted and prioritize short term profit over long term growth.

I've seen situations where the company/board claws back money after a C leaves, because the C was negligent/dishonest in their doings.

In all of the above cases, the shareholders are the one's holding the cards. I can't think of a single case where the board conspired with the C's to fleece the shareholders. To do so would likely result in criminal charges.
Except now with no accountability whatsoever. Just a magic box that you get to worship.
Genuinely curious:

Are people angry at coinbase (and generally crypto exchanges) because they believe that exchanges allow vast amounts of people to speculate on the price of crypto and treat it as an investment vehicle when it was supposed to be a currency? And therefore nobody working for coinbase is capable of creating value.

Or are people angry at crypto overall because it's a wasteful cesspool and so because this guy took a product role in the crypto industry he's not capable of creating any value whatsoever so fuck him and fuck everyone that paid him?

Or are people angry with this guy because he's a bad or underwhelming product leader and the salary does not reflect the value he did bring to coinbase (perhaps you hold coinbase shares)? And therefore you feel he was somehow dishonest about his value and conned coinbase for millions and this reflects poorly on the startup/tech/vc industry?
> 3) they're not smears.

They are. Just like how it was with all the US enemies before those, "Every US enemy is Hitler". Because there is no other way to justify atrocious wars.

> I don't like the leadership in the west either

And yet, you dont go around making strong statements filled with emotion about those who murdered 1 million in Iraq etc and pushing for their persecution or their overthrow.

> You really need to not take this stuff so personal.

It is personal. This kind of rhetoric is used to build up public opinion for overseas wars and regime changes, which then come and hit the countries of people like me overseas. There doesn't even need to be a majority opinion for it - the establishment doesnt care about the majority's opinion - its enough if just a percentage of public makes enough noise in the way they want them to. Like how you helped make happen.

...

Actually, its more than personal now - as of this moment the US is pushing war with two superpowers at the same time - Russia and China - using that very rhetoric. It is even easing the public into believing that 'a nuclear war wouldnt be so destructive'. The psychopathy and delirium are now at a civilization-destroying level, not a 'We will have some overseas wars to bash the heads in of some 3rd world countries to rob their oil' level. If things go at the rate they are going, this thing wont remain as a scholarly, no-strings-attached opinion matter for you like how it is now either. Its no longer like a football match played in an away field...
Lots of discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34507230
I used to work in the ophthalmology field, here are your best and easy solutions:

1. Artificial Tear Eyedrops (look for preservative free). Brands like Systane and Refresh are available at every pharmacy and will do the job. My recommendation for drops would be Optase. They recently released a new drop with ingredients that support restoring the quality and layers of your tears. They are thick and last the longest out of all the brands I've tried. They also come in a bottle while most preservative free drops come in daily use vials.

2. Punctal Plugs. These are absorbable little plugs that are inserted by an Opthalmologist into your lower eyelid where your tears drain out. They will slow down the drainage of your natural tears for 2-3 months until they dissolve and you will need it done again. Just make sure that the Dr is putting in dissolvable ones and also key here is to ask what duration plugs he has available, let him give you options usually it will be either 3 month or 6 month, you want the 6 month just so they last you longer, if you don't specify this they might put in 3 month to get you to come in sooner, usually will happen with private practice.

Optional while at Opthalmologist: Tell them about the red eyes, here in the US they will prescribe you some NSAID, basically an aspirin for the eyes to get rid of redness. It's a very cheap and safe drop to use now and then and great to just have at your house if your eyes flare up before you go to a party or some event. Prolensa is a brand name and Ketorolac is a generic (usually cheaper).

These are your easiest medical solutions. Other people in the thread have given good things to try as well so see what works for you. Take breaks as often as you can get yourself to, and maybe set your fonts a bit larger. Remember to blink! Put in drops every hour or two during a computer session.

If nothing advanced treatments like a drop called Restasis that increases your own tear production after 4-6 months of daily use is available. There's a lot of gimmicky procedures out there to heat up your eyelids and stuff, they are mostly nonsense and have ridiculous cost do not try them. You can buy a heat pad and put it over your eyes if you want to try something like that, Optase also sells one I'll link it all below. Not affiliated just a happy customer.

Regular Optase Drops:
https://www.amazon.com/Optase-Dry-Eye-Intense-Drops/dp/B088P...

New drop that has ingredients that support restoring the layers of your tears:

https://www.amazon.com/OPTASE-MGD-Advanced-Dry-Drops/dp/B09X...

Mask:

https://www.amazon.com/Scope-Optase-Moist-Hydrobead-Technolo...

Also if anyone wakes up with red or dry eyes maybe a night ointment will help you (you will be blurry for a bit after putting it in):

https://www.amazon.com/OPTASE-Hylo-Night-Dry-Ointment/dp/B09...
The thing is API is interesting things for developers, if you make super easy for all the people who don't know much about API then they love to try out API in simple way.

So, I add simplicity to this product and making super easy for people.
The Alone show is pretty interesting as an example of what could happen being in a box with no food. Men and women of all shapes and sizes go into that show and they all just slough off weight, like over a pound a day sometimes, and struggle bringing in enough food for their body to not starve. Many are medically discharged from the show if they lose too much weight too fast where it puts their internal organs at risk.
I've done this for a decade. It's real. I exercise a couple minutes doing all out sprints 3-4x a week and it increased my VO2 max faster then running 5 miles everyday. I've tried both. The increase in performance is dramatic. Like you can bring yourself to way above average VO2 max performance doing HIIT on the daily.

I want to emphasize though that one thing I noticed is that this is exclusively for VO2 max. I'm not sure if this type of exercise is good for the long term. It's good for increasing your performance.
ORM have their on inherent security issues. Accidentally bringing back all related tables to the user because of referential integrity settings, for example.
What's kind of codes that run on CI AND production? You mean passing a prod-clone.db to test suits instead of fixtures?
Don't store TOTP in Bitwarden for your online accounts (2022)
Related:

HelloSystem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28733897 - Oct 2021 (39 comments)

Hello system, a FreeBSD-based OS designed to resemble Mac - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26092040 - Feb 2021 (267 comments)

Hello: Let’s make a FreeBSD for “mere mortals” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25112820 - Nov 2020 (1 comment)
Why is your comment greyed out? Are people being so confidently incorrect that they downvoted this comment?
S&C basically invented modern white collar crime. It's hard to find outside of libraries, but: https://www.amazon.com/Law-Unto-Itself-Sullivan-Cromwell/dp/... is an exceptional read on their history.

(I still think Crypto is worthless, but the concerns about S&C in this case are likely very legitimate!)
Ah yeah these are good.
So glad I switched to KeepassXC
Fwiw if I ask a human assistant how to make a bomb I'll probably get a moral lecture too.
They don't. Not cars, not electronics, not house appliances. As was said elsewhere - these are more expensive in poorer countries, not cheaper. Maybe handbags/other apparel, but I don't buy that.

As someone coming from a poorer country, I'd check if it really is the same item - usually what happens is that they produce a cheaper version out of cheaper materials and with lesser service commitment that costs almost the same price (80-95%) as the better item in a rich country.
The way I see it, Alameda is the real criminal here. They clearly operated with the criminal intent to take the assets, and distribute who knows how.

I think it's perfectly possible that SBF is just dumb, and Alameda exploited his stupidity.

Once everything crashed, Alameda was all too happy to turn state's witness. SBF's best chance at this point is to secure his own plea deal with proof that Alameda is lying to the feds and scapegoating him. I don't see the feds going for this, they hate ever admitting they're wrong, but I suspect that's how it's going to play out.
Very true!

That said, we do have laws in the US around accessibility for handicapped and disabled people and this could easily be added as an extension to that.

Had this been a place where there were no servers and you could only order and pay by phone (which also exists), then that brings up the question of exclusion of people who don't embrace technology or can't afford a phone. I've seen this one come up a lot on HN in the past too.
Great way to filter for people who actually want to work there and aren’t just shotgunning resumes though.
CICO while thermodynamically true, is not _that_ useful because no one really control CI nor CO …
Funny to see Betaworks on the top and High Alpha on the bottom xD
He borrowed $3B at over 14% to buy Twitter. Yikes.
What did the website do that you built with the Twitter API in 11 hours?
Thanks, I design, I code, I sell, I market, I do everything my self.

I love designing.
Is there a brand / type of glasses you would recommend? Any generic / cheap blue light filtering would do the trick?
Looking at your comments it feels like your employer could identify you. A friendly reminder to be aware of that.
Congrats! On a related note, can someone on HN can educate me on why MRR is the primary metric? MRR doesn't tell you if the startup is profitable, which is presumably the goal - to make money. If your costs are $3M/month, an MRR of $100K sounds like a terrible deal. Wouldn't it make more sense to report profits?
The reason I thought D&I teams would get cut is because I believe in a lot of companies today these departments are reducing productivity and workplace satisfaction. No one wants to work for a company where you're likelihood of being promoted is, in part, dependant on having the right immutable characteristics.

The issue is when times are good and companies are expanding it's hard to justify why you're suddenly cutting people who work in D&I roles. And you can't even freeze their hiring because even that looks bad when every other department is still growing their headcount 10% YoY.

But now for the first time in many years tech companies have an excuse to cut fat - so who are they going to cut? Well, it's not going to be the engineer who's been their for 10+ years who has built several essential tools and services. It's generally going to be teams who work on speculative innovation projects that are likely going nowhere and those from departments offering little value to the company such as D&I.

My opinion on the tech layoffs from the start has been that if you're a good engineer who's providing value, or is able to provide value elsewhere, it's unlikely you'll be impacted much. Even if you're let go.
Regulatory capture is a real concern but no, small companies just flagrantly violate the law and get away with it all the time. The stakes are higher for established ones. Many regulations also specifically exempt small companies.
In my experience, in many cases, the so-called "first draft" (of code, content, etc.) is more just helpful for a mental warm-up. It isn't actually suitable.

The time it takes to write/code/etc. isnt in the typing, that's trivial. It's in modelling the problem (, audience) and solving it.

ChatGPT isnt in the game of modelling problems and solving them, it possesses only superficial semantic characteristics of the questions posed

That its answers satisfy the requirements would require ChatGPT to ask you questions (and much else besides)
A Web that Reflects People and their Values (2022)
Tell them you identify as Latino?
> extra rules about what is digestable and what is not. Calories doesn't state that all.

I wouldn't call those rules “extra”. After all, we're talking about human metabolism and what is digestible or not is central. The calories we're talking about under this topic has nothing to do with steam engines, except that both steam engines and humans take some input, called calories.

I don't see any conundrum with type 1 diabetes. They might have a different metabolism that counts differently which calories are in.

By the way, do you have a reference for this claim of yours [0]:

> people without insulin are able to stay thin, while eating massive amounts of calories

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34518288
This is very interesting, it appears to be catering to devs who love to work on own project and see help on SO.
It also helps a competent manager to see the code structure and such.

Nothing wrong with that, but! ask yourself, if all the SO profile is all questions and no or no correct answers, what does this tell you?

How would you know if the repos are not forks or copy paste jobs?

And what kinda projects will be in the repos?

For sure nothing proprietary, hence private projects.

Have these projects been done during work time or during time off?
Both are bad, if the dev worked on private projects during work or if they go and code 5 hrs a day after work, or any unhealthy amount.

I used to do many projects outside of work,things like sign up, log in features from scratch in node because I thought I need to learn the next new thing, but once I moved positions into a more product ownerish role, ie, much more work, I had literally no time any more to spin up a personal project.

But yes, all in all, this is much better than applying at the typical company where hr is writing nonsense job requirements like 15 years experience in golang and such.
https://archive.is/g545B
Seems like it could be generalized to something more like a base 5 where the positions are rotated.
>This may be caused by the "desktop environment" you are running and not Linux itself.

I run none. Just simple window manager. Same on FreeBSD.
I can see valuing some clearly passion driven extracurricular activity. Like if someone is a top SO contributor, that's cool. Or if they're part of a big open source project. Or also if they volunteer at a soup kitchen or charity. Stuff like that may be worth including on your cv to show what your interests are. I wouldn't weight it much differently than anything on the hobbies section, but it's still cool.

Personally I'd be wary of hiring someone who had done just the right amount of all this stuff, and who appeared to be soulessly gaming metrics instead of actually being interested in stuff. Otoh, there are jobs and work environments that fit well for that kind of person, and screenings that optimize to make sure that's what they get. It's just as important for people that aren't that way to not get accidentally stuck in such an environment. Like a "17 pieces of flare is only the minimum" kind of vibe
Actually listened to an interesting lecture on the ancient far east. The White = good and black = bad had originated from the people of the Levant originally, and I mean a long time ago, like before 600BC long ago.
Is SDR accessible through the internet a violation of GDPR? Hard for me to understand why relaying ADS-B would be different (considering the sdr data is inclusive of the ADS-B data)
The Fremen also embraced a certain amount of "ends justify the means" (mostly in the unseen bit between books 1 and 2); it was ultimately Paul's _fault_, but they very much went along with it.
I think another part of it is that there are many "bootlickers" that will do whatever it takes to keep that director floating, because they think or feel that director will get them promoted, give them a bonus, etc. The moment that director walks in, they are prepared.
Why didn't the C-suite folks do better? Because their contracts hold stock prices above all else.

That means that making any group of stockholders unhappy risks reducing their earnings. Many stockholders don't understand macroeconomics. Many see the news and start calling for action, however misguided.

When enough demand action, the C-suite is forced to act, even when they know the actions are symbolic at best or counterproductive at worst.

That's assuming they know best. The C-suite command their salaries not because of what they know, but because of who they know. So making economic predictions may not be their strength.
You don't need to know these rates, you just need to have a point of reference from which you can change according to your weight loss goals. Not losing enough weight for the given caloric intake? Then just dial it back and reassess.
how does one protect the microprocessor from the back EMF? Do you need an optoisolator?
No doubt a lot of SF looks worse now, but it should be possible to find better examples than these. Some of their modern examples look like improvements to me, others just look like they took a bad photograph in one case and a good one in the other. Others are explained by the fact that you have to build housing for people because there are more of them. Can't really hold it against a city if it's more populated than it was a hundred years ago.
Experiences I guess?

I wouldn't really say I am specifically chasing anything.

If I had to pick something, then I guess I'd say I'm chasing what makes me overall the most happy.
> America was founded on exploitation, not just of natives and ...

I believe these criticisms are true of essentially everywhere on earth. How much of Germany was French for a time or a vassal state of this one lord or another? Africa, the continent that invented slavery still enslaves people to this day. The Native Americans themselves faught with one another for land and treasure. Going back far enough, we cro magnons stole neanderthal land.

The United States didn't pop into existence in 1776 bringing with it some sort absolute barbarity that previously never existed, it's the other way around, the world was pretty backward and barbaric until the Americans got around to fixing it.