skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Should a product officer be judged on whether the economy/financial markets change their mind on the value of risky things like crypto?

Yes, absolutely. The whole point of product management is to find sustainable locations in the product space to create lasting value.

People have been warning for years that the rise of crypto was unsustainable, a grift supported by locating dumb people with dollars to cash out the people who had large supplies of magic beans to sell them.

It's not like FTX was an outlier. FTX was the largest and most spectacular failure so far. But it's part of a rich tradition of crime, grift, and plain old collapse going back at least to Mt Gox in 2014. And it's part of a large network of other failures and soon-to-be failures: https://www.mollywhite.net/etc/ftx-contagion
The one thing I don't see mentioned here is spelling and grammar. Probably the single most important thing you will ever write that absolutely must not have any spelling or grammar errors is your resume. When I am reading resumes, as soon as I see a spelling or grammar error I toss the resume. To me it indicates that you don't have an attention to detail and you really don't care enough about getting a job to make sure your resume is flawless.
> That job you can't be fired from, that ensures employment as long as you want? It's in the public sector.

No, its not. You can be fired from public sector jobs. Many of them (outside of high level ones, e.g., where you are or serve at the pleasure of some elected official) have due process protections, but people can and do get fired from even those.
It's all politics. Top level leadership is triangulating between keeping investors happy and the business running. Product Area leads saying "we need to keep headcount to fend of competitor X" or "to stop customer Y from losing trust and abandoning us" (although that last one clearly doesn't work at Google).

The actual headcount number a team has at is the integral of a hundred political decisions, not any kind analysis of what headcount actually makes sense.
The thing about magnesium is that it's available in unlimited quantities. It's one of the 30 or so elements that industrial society can keep using forever without fear of exhausting mineral resources.
I like these examples because they concisely express some of the existing ambiguities in human language. Like, I wouldn’t normally call a desk a chair, but if someone is sitting on the table I’m more likely to - in some linguistic contexts.

I think you need LLM plus vision to fully solve this.
Excel never dies: getting the data you want in and out
Simple to answer, hard to accept: we don't know what, but we chase because we are built to. The hopes and dreams for the achievement and the normalization after it are working as intended. It's the mechanism that keeps us from stopping. We rationalize the direction, but the truth is we have little freedom in choosing it. As an individual all this makes little sense, but as a species it has gotten us pretty far. And it has done so by making as many people chase in as many directions as possible.
Ok, this is a very good take even though I disagree.

The main issue is you can't have someone whose supposedly a sex offender, working with others and just ignore that he's a sex offender. Also, Rick and Morty is ultimately a piece of entertainment, and it's hard to be entertained if the guy writing jokes is allegedly gross and aggressive.

And the allegations are still just allegations, but from what I'm hearing they seem likely to be proven. If the charges are dropped I would argue Roiland should go back on the show and everyone should apologize. But even without the full picture he needs to at least temporarily step back because the toxic culture is still there; most people simply can't work with someone who they suspect what Roiland is accused of, and the trial is going to conclude and we will get a better picture eventually (and at least for the latter probably very soon).

In fact it looks like Rick and Morty is continuing and people are still fine with the earlier episodes fine even though much of the show is Roiland. That is applying nuance. And I agree that it won't be the same, but it's not going to be the same anyways.
Thats the current model, yes. But it needn't be that way. The application could simply say "I want a textbox here, and that animation there", and then another UI-drawing-process does the actual rendering.

That 2nd process can have the special '3D drawing permission'.

Then, if you find a flaw in the GPU driver, you also need to find a flaw in the special UI-drawing-process to allow you to exploit it.
> As an adult coming back to those myths I realised that the gods are given facets of human personality and are actually a lens through which to understand our own flaws and traits.

It's a very good argument whenever discussing atheism with a religious person: if god is flawless / perfectly just / infallible / all-loving etc, then why is he ascribed with so many human flaws, such as jealousy (Exodus 20:5, 34:14, etc), hatred towards a group (Isaiah 23:11; modern-day hatred directed e.g. at sexual minorities), vengeance (Numbers 35:21), why does he order death or destruction (Isaiah 23:11 again), or why does he even care how one lives their life?

Never once got a good answer.
Noone reads a resume. Linkedin page is enough.
> We started off with a mission to make money equal for all.

Now they're ending with a mission to make money equal for wealthy people.

The same, really. The DeFi revolution in 2 phrases.
Are they? They’re tied to people putting money in and out of their platform, not to how much Bitcoin is worth.
Interestingly, ADS-B Exchange's twitter is suspended when I looked to see if there was any news updates there
It's likely to make people around his position lose their job. If there were safety issues at work, like I said, I'm 100% in favor of kicking people out for the first transgression in work. If there wasn't, your argument is pointless. You're just ignoring reality for the convenience of your vengeful rightousness.

Stop acting like you get some sick virtue points by enacting vengeance on bad people. Two wrongs don't make it right.

How about a message that even sinful people can still do good? Or that they should channel their flaws to something good?

As if I care for roiland being fine. Your message is that it's fine because the only ones being hurt are everyone around him.

And this has everything to do with cancel culture. It's happening to Harry Potter over nothing right now. It's all over the place. People cancelling the constitution because "slave owners", owning slaves is definitely worse than domestic abuse.

It's all nonsense. Either an action is good or bad. Bad action on bad people doesn't make it good. It makes you bad as well. Everyone sins. You don't judge an action by whether it's helping a sinner because then no action will be good. You judge it only by itself.

This is a new form of religious atheism where the mob is responsible for justice instead of God. And in my opinion, society is better when justice is served by an intelligent entity rather than blind mob.

It shouldn't be the mob's job to stone him.
Startups and inflated ego go hand in hand.
Some good suggestions and tips in the post and if I may, I'd like to add a tip of my own: scan the CV/resume for spelling, grammar, formatting mistakes.

I know it's not a very "scientific" and objective criterion, but it has never failed me :-)
If it is extremely hard to attribute outcomes to individual contribution, maybe no one should get the $105m?
There's SyncTerm.
Oh Microsoft the company is not to be trusted and is not your friend. It’s a huge company with many employees and products. Moreover I can’t attest to any other group’s culture - I can only say what we do in Excel.

In Excel working hard to make addons possible and trying to foster an ecosystem of users sharing expertise is a focus as well as community building and smbs.

Taking a cool community project and doing it ourselves would shooting our selves in the foot.

More than once I didn’t do things or work in features for that reason.

Again not because Microsoft is your friend but because it’s in our business interest.

I don’t speak for Microsoft or Excel and am just a developer/hacker ;)
Flutter is adding WebAssembly target for web
This is an ad for a startup that is hiring a "founding engineer" with a "competitive compensation package". Are you so excited about the mission that you'll work toward it for free, anon?
What’s Next for Flutter
But, desires must meet possibilities...? (

I don't enjoy living under constant threat to my life and imposed choice of either being recruited (war) or jailed, even regardless of poor health condition. I'd really love to change this and do what I love (like art and programming). But it's a bit laughable )
I would watch a service with content that I want to consume.

It would be helpful if I could find that content.

Some content I want to consume like pirate movies and steamy romance audiobooks cannot find hosting on conventional services, but must content can still be hosted on YouTube.
Any free speech oriented service is inundated with fake news propagators and people with really shitty opinions and a much as I would defend their right to speech I am not interested in thier content.
Therefore I tend not to use existing free speech platforms because all the content is uninteresting. There is no need to host a regular tech tutorial on peer tube so that content I want isn't going to be there.
If the platform mostly hosted stuff I liked, even if that stuff was lewd romance books and hooky hbo shows then sure. But it won't be.

People hate algorithms but live discovering the stuff they want easily.
Any high privacy platform will have much lower doscoverability.

As a result, the things people find on here are going to be stuff the creator has built a marketing funnel for. People only do that if it is thing to make them money in a way they can't do on censored platforms.
Therefore it would be full of crypto scammers and evil gurus.

A lot of existing alternative platforms have actually been high censorship just on a different political basis. If this imagined platform was genuinely high free speech then it would be full of illegal content like i2p and I'd avoid it for that reason too.
> Maintainig containers will cost more than keeping the package.json or rubyjso whatsoever updated.

Fine. What about compilers? System libraries? PostgreSQL version & config? Does package.json manage your node version? Oh and we switched from npm to some hipster new thing a while back, and older package.json files of ours will fail to install properly with the new thing. Have fun git-bisecting.

> Also you need some hacky things to make vbox running on OSX so it becomes totally a "works on my machine".

Been doing this for like a decade and it's not much more than "brew install docker" and a line or two in your shell rc file. It used to be slightly worse because you had to manage docker-machine separately, but it's never been hard or complicated.
Years ago compact disc metadata was really important. There was an open library for this called CDDB. At some point the owners of that started silently inserting an agreement by the user to assign ownership of the submissions to the company.

That “open” database got sold off and became Gracenote [1].

I’m not sure how many times we need to learn this lesson.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracenote
Joke's on him; dude got paid in fiat!
> well too bad I work 15 hours a day in this tech company that has private git repos

Same. I've been in the industry for nearly 25 years and have written hundreds of thousands of lines of code and tens of thousands of sql queries, but I can't share any of it.
Some say "x" is always "less pain". Less pain for you or your loved ones.
Look at government finances for 5 seconds. We will be back to 0% interest rates in less than 2 years. For the same reason as explained in margin call:

"Its just money; its made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat. It's not wrong. And it's certainly no different ..."

Because if we aren't back to 0% in ~2 years the government will be doing its job without money, proverbially killing people just to get something to eat.

So I guess, given your comment as that being the cause of huge wages, that's great news for most people here!
Is the codebase open / is anyone spinning up an alternative yet?
The journey is always hard and unpleasant because it's full of risks and uncertainties. If it's not then you are not really journeying but staying at home.
Yes, my machine does swap quite generously. I have never noticed any slowdowns except when working with large video projects. However, I'm coming from an entry level 2015 MacBook Pro, so maybe I just don't know what's fast anymore. I am a little concerned about the SSD lifespan but that's something I'm still looking into.
dont forget how much google is still paying android founder's golden parachute after the many sexual accusations against him...

I think he beats this.
Say the homepage has a short url to type, the homepage loads fast, and the recommendations or searching is good, yeah I’d use it too.

One reason I stopped using Nebula is because it became hard to separate the signal from the noise.
Handling them means preventing the company from being harmed by them.

To simplify, if you depend on market X then hedging your bet means also profiting if market X collapses.
Dan's new C4-SFX case officially hit production today too, for anyone wanting to build an SFF that is future proof for tomorrow's giga-sized GPUs.
Any chance Gemini Earn users will see their tokens again?
If you could also show the flag in the message, so that I can associate them again, that would really improve retention!
Coinbase didn’t do enough to thwart the massive fraud and youtube-deepfake-powered-heists going on. Lots of sheep lost lots of money and look where we are now. The crypto winter will last 50 years.
Nope. They can also complain now. And forevermore if they want. None of us, you included, is obligated to protect grifters from the criticism of people who suffer while they walk away laughing.
Jesus people on HN must all the be on the spectrum. Everyone's joke detectors are broken
Should Charles Schwab start selling dildos every time there's a recession?
Regarding resume length, I'm a huge fan of the "collapsible" approach: if when reviewing your resume I somehow print out only page 1, is it still great? Is everything I need to be interested in you there? If so then you can have all the pages you want.

The origin of this test is that I do not actually want to read your resume. I'm not going to look at the other pages if page 1 is boring! So tell me who you are first and if I'm interested, I will follow along.
The one thing this is missing is referring to employees with a cutesy company nickname while laying them off. "We'll be parting ways with some talented Floofmates* which is very difficult." It always strikes me that a layoff email is not the right time/place to lean on cutesy "we're a family here! We have fun" company culture schtick.

*or googleers, metamates, plaids, whatever

Incidentally is there a name for these company-nickname-for-employees words?
I think it's pretty common, you're just not reaching for the right set of "-ence" words.

Residence -> residential, Evidence -> evidential...

Jurisprudential, existential, penitential...

The only thing is that about half have become "having characteristics related to the thing" instead of "about the thing". Words like consequential, pestilential, preferential have a common usage in this realm but still can be used in the "discussion about a thing" sense.
Any advice you would give for brushing up a resume? I'm not a dev but work in IT and do a lot of admin work, networking and a lot of security work. I am having a super hard time fitting all of the skills and tools I use on a one page resume. I had considered using like a GitHub Pages resume but haven't had a solid reason to do so.
> So far, I think the main failure in that process is that governments don't put enough money into science to find said evidence.

Couldn't agree more. The evidence of how ineffective the American scientific regulatory community is all around us.

An easy example is how fast rising yeast impacts gluten intolerance, or how high fructose corn syrup impacts insulin resistance or glucose response. Highly negative correlations here, even from the advent, but the potential revenue has outweighed the desire to protect Americans.

The truth is that American business sees citizens as two ways, suckers for making bad choices (while forcing those same choices down their throat), or simply unlucky. The rich avoid the obviously harmful aspects of America, while accepting the odds on the things they can't avoid.

Personally if I were very wealthy I would spend very little time in the United States.
or at the very least, the partners at Silversmith will have a long list of billionaires who owe them favors.
Trial and error. I've taken 6-8 different kinds and settled on one that works, which is the cheap generic store brand.

My wife has done the same, and has discovered that the one that works for her is a completely different sort.
The attack used on regular AT PCs with encrypted-at-rest boot disks but no TPM, is that DIMMs of DRAM can be popped out and immediately put into a specialized board that will keep them refreshed while scanning them (but cannot write to them.) As long as the encryption key is in plaintext in RAM, this allows you to recover it.

(Also, before you remove the DIMMs, you can get the RAM + its board very cold, to decrease the decay rate during the swap.)

Popular hardware NAS appliances might have all their RAM soldered on-board or part of an SoC die, but they still don't tend to have TPMs, nor an IOMMU (critical for limiting DMA rights by peripheral.) So accessing the keys on these is only a little bit more fiddly — either involving hijacking the address + data bus between the CPU and RAM; or, easier and more universal to modern devices, by putting a specialized PCI peripheral device onto the NAS's peripheral bus, that then dumps RAM by requesting DMA transfers to itself.
There's a version of MENACE online that you can train from scratch:
https://www.mscroggs.co.uk/menace/

Around the 50th game it starts drawing pretty consistently.
> This feels gimmicky and fragile

If anything is very much anti-fragile. Decentralized batteries would only make the grid more resilient both to outages and overloads.
Can you please provide a concrete example?
Unfortunately, no. Excel for Mac doesn't support either of the two technologies QueryStorm uses to talk to Excel (namely VSTO and ExcelDNA).

Might be possible to build something that would work across all plaforms using Blazor and the Monaco editor, but that would be another huge project.
How many of this industry’s thought leaders are similarly scummy?
Agreed but...is this just a problem with the US? Does this kindof thing happen in any other country?

And if the answer is "yes, but not just to this degree"...what about relatively speaking? If country X has GDP of Y...is the ratio of executive fleecing that happens in America comparable to any other country?
Do we know that the people laid off by Google, or advocated for layoffs by this billionaire, don't include the cleaners, gardeners and people serving food in the free canteen?

I think painting this as a "capitalists vs the left" thing is reductive and unhelpful. Personally, speaking as someone who Americans would probably consider extreme-left, I very much agree with your second paragraph, but I don't see this as "capitalism vs the left", I see it as the elite rich abusing their position to the detriment of everyone else. A story as old as time.
you are conflating storytelling with the plot ... see how easy is to criticise analogies ...

there is/was plenty of fresh storytelling in every age
I also didn’t know what the answer was for a long time. I count myself lucky that I lucked into the path that led to the best outcome for me once I did figure it out. Relentlessly pursued money for the first decade and a half of my career. Worked at boring FAANGs and job hopped the moment my compensation flat-lined. Then started a family, realized the answer for me was “family time” and am pivoting to optimizing for predictable work hours and free time. Now I’m running out the clock at my current employer. My next one, if I choose to have one, will be one that can guarantee copious free time.

If I had been more idealistic in my young adult years, I would have most likely grinded hard at some “change the world” startup that fizzled out and now I’d be frantically scrambling to afford a house.
Is it some AI ad or just parody ? Can't decide...
Honestly #4 applies as much as ever. - At least in most regards.

The thing is:
The 'security researchers' which I've had contact with focus mostly on hacking and memory corruption attacks.

The thing is: This is a solved problem by now!

And yet, instead of teaching students to avoid the horrible tools, which cause those problems, they keep on teaching how to penetrate and fix.

It's maddening.
I believe GP was thinking about Aireon and similar systems, which are similar to ADS-C at a surface level, but solve a different problem:

ADS-C is a two-way communications protocol; ATC can request a certain update interval and I believe also boundary conditions requiring extra location transmissions. If that communication fails, both the ATC and pilot are informed about the fact, and they can reliably switch to other means of communications (e.g. voice position reports over HF).

> These absolutely can be used for air-traffic control.

ADS-B is (at least for now) mostly an augmentation of primary and secondary surveillance radar, as well as something to give other aircraft better situational awareness (via ADS-B in), as I understand it. I don't think either ATC nor pilots are currently relying on it for safety-critical decisions.

The big problem is that it's always possible for some plane's ADS-B transmitter to fail (maliciously or otherwise). On land, you have secondary or primary radar to fall back to.

This applies doubly so to third-party (i.e. non-ATC/non-AOC) satellite-based relaying services, since not only the ADS-B transmitter can fail in that scenario (and ADS-B was not originally designed to be received by satellites), but the relay service could fail as well, and the failure mode would be much less visible to both parties than in ADS-C.
Every time some company finds a new way to trade their morals for profits, it creates a system where every other company must also trade their morals or be out competed.

Eventually we will reach a new equilibrium where every company has sold their morals and then they have to either start competing again on a new front or find new morals to sell.

I don't have a pithy takeaway from this. It's capitalism.
OP here.

You're right. I left my job last year, after 1.5 years of experience out of burnout. I'm highly frugal but still running out of money, so gotta work again.

The problem is, I knew from the very beginning that I'm only doing software for the money. And now I have to do the same thing which I've always dreaded.

I hope I get some fulfilment working from office, socializing after three whole years.
Not too long ago I was playing the stock market with some spare cash and a trend I noticed was that these companies that lost more money than they were able to generate, all had well-paid executives. So you have a company that reports say a $100M loss one quarter, well it would turn out a sizable chunk of that was executive compensation. I’m not sure how I feel about execs making really any money before they’ve made the company they’re running, profitable.
It seems completely crazy that they'd need to pay him $600m of equity at signing. Like why not close him with a package of (say) $200m? Even if he was making $5m annual TC at Google, that would still be 10x his comp in equity alone.