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dmak··on An Update on USDC and Silicon Valley Bank
I am curious to read more about the risks, but don't plan to make this trade. Could you share a few points just to give me a direction to dig deeper?
dmak··on Want an unfair advantage in your tech career? Consume content for other roles
Tell me you are a boomer without telling me you are a boomer.
dmak··on The end of Type 1 fonts
Me too! I was so disappointed when I saw the article.
dmak··on Local-First Web Development
That sounds exactly like offline capabilities?
dmak··on Homebrew 4.0.0
Thanks for sharing. I was looking for other options and this looks like a good candidate. Does you or anyone else have any other suggestions?
dmak··on Tell HN: Stripe closed my GPT-3 G.Sheet addon because they think I “sell essays”
Aside from government regulatory requirements, am I the only one who thinks Stripe shouldn't have this kind of say? I know there are business categories that have more risk which may or may not be allowed to transact, but this particular instance seems like a huge power trip to me.

Perhaps someone with better insight can educate me on this matter?

dmak··on NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails
Is it that difficult for you to comprehend brand names? It might have been accurate at some point, but times grow and brand names aren't meant to be taken literally.

Ser, your name is satoshiiii, so am I supposed to think you are the real Bitcoin creator? or are you straight up lying to other users?

dmak··on Cample.js: Reactivity without virtual DOM
I only read the title, but how is this different than something like Svelte?
dmak··on Crypto exchange Kraken to shut staking service, pay $30M fine in SEC settlement
This is one of the more valid criticisms of staking.
dmak··on Ask HN: Burnt out from big tech. What's next?
I did something similar and stopped working for over a year. I just took on some basic contracting and just let my curiosity drive me. The whole idea was to just not plan and let things happen naturally because I was tired of trying to minmax everything I did. I tried many things, shared it with people, and then ended up finding my passion as well as a new job in an area that I haven't considered before.

As a reminder, what you are passionate about and what you do for work does not have to be the same. I would say it's best to keep it separate. Keeping it separate helped ground myself and care less about my career. At the end of the day, I can't say the last 10 years of my career was something I am proud of sharing with my friends and family. No one cares that you built a dashboard that saved the organization a million dollars; I certainly don't. People care about your passions and what drives you, and I care about working on something that I can be proud of.

My suggestion would be to just pick anything you are interested in and just go with the flow. When you get to a point where you are no longer interested, next.

Let yourself be and you'll see.

dmak··on Ask HN: Best practices for self-healing apps?
I feel like idempotency is the solution to many problems.
dmak··on Nintendo Will Pay Its Workers 10% More
You might be grossly underpaid depending on your current skillsets and geographic location. What kind of work are you doing now? also, how many years have you been working? If you are in Tokyo and you are Senior, you should be above ¥8M at least.

Happy to discuss more over chat or something similar. Let me know if you want to compare notes.

dmak··on Nintendo Will Pay Its Workers 10% More
¥8M is common now and I know plenty of people with salaries going for over ¥10M, but very few go over ¥20M and even less for ¥30M.

I would suggest you to re-evaluate your market opportunities if you are an Engineer getting paid ¥5M in Japan.

dmak··on How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
I haven't done much SLA math in my work before. Could you share some of that napkin math? I am just curious to see how it looks like
dmak··on We reduced our iOS app launch time by 60%
Recruiting
dmak··on Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API
At this point, I think the person who paid bajillion dollars for twitter can do as they see fit. I'm just waiting for a new social media platform to pop up now.
dmak··on Ask HN: Isn't ChatGPT unfair to the sources it scraped data from?
It seems you are the one confused. If you present any ads on your website (Google or not) then you have ad revenue. The less traffic that comes to your website, the more that impacts your traffic thus directly affecting your ad revenue.

The original topic is about taking away money from the sources. Google taking your data and presenting it is taking away traffic because there is less traffic to the website of the data source due to less ad revenue.

dmak··on Ask HN: Isn't ChatGPT unfair to the sources it scraped data from?
How is it not scraping? There's no other way to get all that data for training a model without scraping.
dmak··on Ask HN: Isn't ChatGPT unfair to the sources it scraped data from?
That's my point?

If the product is scraping the data and presenting it on their website like ChatGPT and Google, then that's effectively the same as taking away the ad revenue from those websites because they aren't getting the impressions.

dmak··on Ask HN: Isn't ChatGPT unfair to the sources it scraped data from?
All I have to say is, as technologists, anyone who is criticizing ChatGPT and has not been criticizing Google is a hypocrite. It's well known Google tries to keep you on Google by parsing more and more information from websites and summarizing it. Ex, Wikipedia summaries, IMDB Scores, Review Stars, etc...

If you have a problem with ChatGPT's "scraped data", then you have more fundamental issues with how the internet is as it is today.

dmak··on Ask HN: Isn't ChatGPT unfair to the sources it scraped data from?
Have you used Google in the last 5-10 years? It's been slowly parsing more and more information from websites so you never leave Google.
dmak··on Ask HN: Isn't ChatGPT unfair to the sources it scraped data from?
All of a sudden everyone has issues with free information when Google has been doing this for years.
dmak··on Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records
It certainly feels random
dmak··on Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records
Not sure, but they have to be doing something right for the organization to reach that level. I'm also for shaking things up though. It's time to breath new life into these companies.
dmak··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023)
I like what you did there.
dmak··on Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records
How does an L9 SE get laid off?

I don't know much about the expectations, but if you're that high level then you're probably taking risks. Sometimes those risks pay off, sometimes they don't. Moreover, sometimes you just need time in-between for inspiration or for discovery.

Any additional insight is appreciated.

dmak··on Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative
This being open source changes my entire perception of it. Appreciate all the work you've put in and how you are willing to share with the world!
dmak··on Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?
It's not a great place to get help anymore. My career has progressed since I first started, so most of my questions require more open ended format which often gets flagged.

Ex, when I first started, I would ask things like how do I do string interpolation in shell scripting? Now I have more questions that require considerations from different angles such as why should I use redux over react contexts? how has it been for people with large teams?

The point system also doesn't mean much. I have over 60k points from just asking basic programming questions from when I was in college.

dmak··on Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
And how is that? I see a lot of protocols that are being built on top of permissionlessly.
dmak··on Bitwarden design flaw: Server side iterations
Can one depend on a third party if it's end-to-end encrypted?
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