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EddySchauHaion Our VC told us they won't follow for Series A. At the worst moment

Yeah a combination of people constantly posting hate on Web3, the need to spend a lot of time keeping on top of a stupidly fast sector, and the users demanding you move fast for maximum ROI while also demanding perfect security is just a lot to deal with mentally. I quit Web3 earlier this year.

EddySchauHaion Chess Investigation Finds U.S. Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times

> it's hard to differentiate between someone genuinely playing at a level higher, and a cheater

Actually, it isn't! Great chess bots have very different play styles and there are people currently studying them. It's very unlikely someone will come out of nowhere so to speak (as in, not on some amazing rise as a young child) with these types of techniques. I'm nowhere near these levels of chess players but have played competitively for my county as a school-kid and still play a couple hundred games a year so have some idea.

EddySchauHaion Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

I heard this argument and thought the same, but looking into it there is no standard definition for a recession. Two quarters is a nice layman version people share, but it does involve other factors. This isn't something that's changed recently, economic textbooks from the early 2000s say this too. Just something some people heard and ran with :)

When people hear these anecdotes, check yourself! In an era of fake news and bubbles you have to be accountable to yourself by researching if common sayings are really true before sharing them.

EddySchauHaion I need structure in my life

Please don't suggest this, it might end up happening!

EddySchauHaion Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

I had to navigate a dynamic maze involving teleports and boulders to show my leet graphing abilities to join as a test engineer :) Suffice to say I failed. I build test frameworks, manage test network infrastructure, and deploy CI/CD pipelines (and think I'm pretty good at it). I just really suck at leetcode.

Edit: In fact thinking back, they even sent me tips on how to improve my leetcode skills in preparation for the interview! The whole process was completely guided by it.

EddySchauHaion Learn TLA+

I've heard it is used at AWS. I've seen it personally used in crypto on the Cardano blockchain. Leslie Lamport gave a talk at my old workplace and mentioned several big companies in tech and finance that use it but I'm not sure if that is public info.

EddySchauHaion Downturn career decisions

Yep. I went to a good private school (a so called public school in England) and can confirm it does not result in good grades lol. It still requires some drive and care about school to succeed.

EddySchauHaion Downturn career decisions

Wouldn't someone who conforms to the norms tend to become the average of that environment?

EddySchauHaion Downturn career decisions

Ahhhh, I forget there's another.

EddySchauHaion Downturn career decisions

Cambridge isn't exempt - if you're a great rower you can get into Land Economics pretty easily ;)

EddySchauHaion Downturn career decisions

You think all 40,000 per year are going to be successful if they coast? And doesn't it require some tenacity to get into an Ivy school, meaning they're the type of person less likely to coast? This comment comes off as somewhat sour.

EddySchauHaion Why the Rings of Power Show Is Not Good (Part #7934)

Yes in order to make the One Ring more powerful than the other rings he had to put his own strength into it. However the elven rings weren't made by Sauron so he couldn't control those (eventually worn by Gandalf, Galadriel, and Elrond), and if I remember right the Dwarfs were too stubborn to be controlled (or something), so only the humans ended up being controlled anyway.

EddySchauHaion Why the Rings of Power Show Is Not Good (Part #7934)

Originally Sauron was a Maia who was 'good and uncorrupted' with a passion for order. He sided with Morgoth because he thought if they could control the minds of Middle-Earth they'd be better off. As far as I know, in the lore, Sauron isn't evil in the way he's portrayed in the movies in that his goal is to improve everyones lives through efficiency and order (so it's not as simple as light v dark).

Sauron can shape-shift so in the second age he shows himself as a fair and beautiful man, but he's also portrayed as a werewolf and vampire in the books at different times!

EddySchauHaion Why the Rings of Power Show Is Not Good (Part #7934)

Either one we’ve seen or one we haven’t! In the canon lore he disguises himself as the Lord of Gifts from Valinor and works with Celebrimbor to create the rings of power. Elrond, Gil-Galad and Galadriel don’t trust him but don’t realize who he really is. My money is on Halbrand, as he’s a good smith and able to persuade people to do as he wants but it’s probably a false lead and he’ll come in later.

EddySchauHaion Why the Rings of Power Show Is Not Good (Part #7934)

I’m a pretty big Tolkien fan and I absolutely love this series. They keep surprising me with license-scope beyond what I thought Amazon acquired (using content from the Simarilian for example). If you’re on the fence about this show because of its media, give it a shot!

/spoilers

Can’t wait to find out who Sauron is, if he’s in the show so far.

EddySchauHaion Figma: A Random Walk in Palo Alto

I live in midtown and can confirm it’s dead! I refer to downtown as the city center fwiw

EddySchauHaion Figma: A Random Walk in Palo Alto

I enjoy the people I meet living in Palo Alto but yes, it’s very sleepy. Couple bars downtown and that’s it, really. In Europe it’d be classed as a small town.

EddySchauHaion Blockchains by number of nodes/validators

It’s surprisingly complex to run a node unless you’re a seasoned developer, and even then when you add things like updates and potentially even slashing for mistakes it’s not worth it. I spent around two years contracting building test infra for different crypto companies by creating throwaway networks with potentially up to three different cryptos (for bridges) and it was a nightmare. There’s a definite startup idea there to make it easier like spinning up VMs

EddySchauHaion Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?

I think any contract developer will be on the 95%+ percentile. When I started contracting in my mid-20s I was in the UKs 1% for a 40 hour gig done from my bedroom desk. It’s pretty mental.

EddySchauHaion Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?

Seems perfectly reasonable to me, maybe 1 month off a year. All my UK contractor friends make over £550pd and have work whenever they want

EddySchauHaion Will young Americans want to work in semiconductor manufacturing? [video]

The hardest job I had paid minimum wage when I was 16 in the UK - 3.98 an hour. I make more money taking a crap as a software engineer than I made in an 8 hour day as a developer. That's not a joke, I did the math the other day. People work much harder jobs than sw for much lower wages all over the country and world.

EddySchauHaion Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU

https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/dream

It's not free but I've played with it a lot over the last two days for around $10, generating the most complex photos I can (1024x1024, 150 steps, 9 images, etc)

EddySchauHaion Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?

Yeah it’s becoming more and more common that universities allow previous experience to count, probably after raising the number of student intakes allowed in the UK. Now if you can pay and if you will probably pass you’re allowed in, from what I gather.

EddySchauHaion Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?

Yeah exactly.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with SE degrees, they can be as rigorous on CS topics while swapping later maths modules for engineering modules. I ended up taking an MSc in CS fwiw.

EddySchauHaion Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?

This one was a bit of a cash cow. I lived in Oxford for a few years while my wife worked on her DPhil and agree in general the other courses are much more difficult to get in.

EddySchauHaion Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?

Nope; definitely an MSc! It’s a bit of a cash cow course, ended up doing an MSc in CS at another university.

EddySchauHaion Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?

No degree in any field. Ended up enrolling in an MSc in CS at another university though!

EddySchauHaion Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?

I interviewed at Oxford for an MSc in Software Engineering with no bachelors degree lol. There are sneaky gateways into a lot of top universities.

EddySchauHaion Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?

Wow, that company is 73% at Unix Administration AND 80% at Network Solutions. If only they were 70% at Python I'd have hired them for a project. I need a company with those stats.

EddySchauHaion Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?

I’ve had fun in the Web3 space working with devs who I only know from a GitHub handle and an avatar. Paid in crypto, work well, but no need to know who they are. Pretty funky environment to be around!