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by neilv 9mo ago
What I know from news articles is that some of them openly "escort", like some traditional porn stars did more quietly. The fame on the screen can be brand-building for the even more lucrative in-person work. As one said in a quo
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by neilv 9mo ago
Thank you for pointing out that section. I wasn't aware of those storytelling compromises specifically, and some of them are annoying. I said "drama" rather than "documentary" because I was sure there were storytel
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by neilv 9mo ago
A good movie drama about some of the human computers for NASA, and some of the prejudices that these particular ones faced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures
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by neilv 9mo ago
I agree that this is another factor, and I'd like to get into some nuance of it... If we go back to the RMS school of code sharing, which influenced much of contemporary open source, they're very big on licensing to control how th
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by neilv 9mo ago
Their brochure Web site snapshot (this probably isn't the best snapshot, but maybe close): https://web.archive.org/web/20230104231600/http://www.spider...
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by neilv 10mo ago
> How do I feel, about all the code I wrote that was ingested by LLMs? I feel great to be part of that, That's fine if he feels that way, but he can only speak for himself, not for all the copyright holders of the other code that
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by neilv 10mo ago
And that's if scanning never malfunctions. Everyone is accustomed to cars malfunctioning, in numerous ways. An intuition from an analogy that should be recognizable to HN... Everyone is accustomed to data breaches of everything, and th
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by neilv 10mo ago
What if the real world safety data over time is... secret retinal damage to millions of walkers and runners, with symptoms attributed to Covid mysteries (and not obviously due to vision), and it takes years more before someone happens to ge
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by neilv 10mo ago
I didn't know that Navigator was ever strict, and bit funny story about when I complained that they hadn't been strict... Around 2000, I was meeting with Tim Berners-Lee, and I mentioned I'd been writing a bunch of Web utilit
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by neilv 10mo ago
> It’s not legal to be denied jobs based on health. Not to deny insurance The US has been pretty much a free-for-all for surveillance and abusing all sorts of information, even when illegal to do so. On the rare occasions that they ge
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by neilv 10mo ago
It should be integrated with the ways that people find those businesses, including maps, Web search, and "AI chat".
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by neilv 10mo ago
That could be a virtue. And some closed proprietary software does things like adds a few additional fields for pragmatic end user extensibility like this. The practice predates JSON, but sometimes your bespoke string or ID or whatever in fi
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by neilv 10mo ago
Thank you. I've been doing distributed systems for years, when and to the degree appropriate, but this Worst Of Breed career guidance resource should help me position my skills, for current hiring priorities, to maximize my impact, to
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by neilv 10mo ago
Is the Kagi Orion browser going for the "we hate loading and looking at ads, and maybe this is better than Chrome with uBlock Origin Lite" demographic? (They don't seem to be going for the "serious, clueful privacy and I
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by neilv 10mo ago
I actually found a nice SoundTouch 20 discarded on the curb, a couple months ago. I assumed it was probably discarded due to the frequent situation here, of student who is moving away, and who doesn't want the hassle or expense of movi
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by neilv 10mo ago
Agreed. When someone does something, hears the complaints, and changes, it's charitable to bin them as someone who made a mistake and wants to improve. Not every company deserves this charity, but the social media default nowadays is
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by neilv 10mo ago
Elegant, sure, but... fold a sheet of US Letter (8.5 x 11.0 inches) in half, and you're on your way to a pirate hat. Fold and pull it several more times, and you have a boat.
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by neilv 10mo ago
* You like the mission. * You like the craft. * You want to be there for your team. * You like that your financial needs are taken care of, so that you don't have to think about that. * You like that everyone else's financial need
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by neilv 10mo ago
How does this get past firewalls that would block the alternative, of SOCKS5 traffic tunneled through port-443 HTTPS with keepalives? (Even with complete HTTPS decryption in the firewall, the downstream traffic could look like, say, random
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by neilv 10mo ago
I fully agree about the labor rights concerns. (In my head at 2am, I was (wrongly) taking that as a given, understood by everyone, and then remarking on a tangent from there. About the implications of 60hr/wk at Google specifically.
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by neilv 10mo ago
I'd be happy to do 60-hour weeks of good work, in a good environment. I wouldn't want 60-hour weeks of dealing with a lot of promotion-seekers, though. I wonder how different Google would be if they'd just paid people enough
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by neilv 10mo ago
I want to distinguish what I think are two distinct things, and also make a point about one of them. * As dang and many know and appreciate, online communities themselves "age", and if you don't keep getting fresh new people
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by neilv 10mo ago
Is this thread just toying with the metrics?
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by neilv 10mo ago
One anecdata: The one time I accepted a counter-offer (but not for more money), I regretted it. (I was at place that had an existential problem, and unhappily fighting it. Then, coincidentally, a different company, which had previously mad
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by neilv 10mo ago
I hope you find a good way to help HN be genuinely more optimistic. Of course, right now, gloom is all over most of social media, and everywhere else, for understandable reasons of world reality (besides engagement manipulation/dynamic
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by neilv 10mo ago
This got downvotes, after getting upvoted. I wonder who thinks that a practice of combining sub-market salary with miniscule ISO grants (not even real equity) for early hires is a good idea for startups that want to win big.
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by neilv 10mo ago
A related but slightly different impression of early YC that I mentioned the other day, touching on the "disingenous and exploitative finance" aspect this article alludes to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46
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by neilv 10mo ago
Besides that, is YC building new trust? One recent concern I have is (anecdotally) how poor a deal YC startups I've seen are offering for founding engineers. Before YC started, early hires who helped make a startup successful could g
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by neilv 10mo ago
IIUC, if that company had just let him be remote, and not demanded exclusivity, they could've gotten the same output, delivered at the same time, for less than 1/10th the cost. One of the 'mistakes' (conscious at the tim
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by neilv 10mo ago
That particular doctype is HTML5. I was making a too-subtle joke about slapping it on '94 HTML.

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