skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting equity was a little less than 10%. Valuations went up as several rounds were raised up to $30+m and share value went up until at one point it was north of $20m paper dollars. After market re-valuation an additional $60+m was raised and value went down a little but was still substantial. Then the IPO market all but disappeared. Final sale price was around $150m and common shareholders including myself initially received zero. Essentially the VCs converted their preferred to common and then voted to sell to a related party (another company the same VC firm had invested in).

According to a lawyer who setup our initial investments, this was actually illegal so common investors including myself sued, but was this bankrolled by one of the big early investors as it's incredibly expensive to try and do a shareholder lawsuit against a major VC firm and investment bank. It ended up being settled out of court and that's where my $100,000 came from. The CEO came out a little better, but people who sweated years (and I mean frequent all nighters, weekends, true dedication) ended up with even less than me. And the only reason we even received anything at all was because we had a HNWI common investor who also got screwed and backed the lawsuit, they ended up getting their money back and a small return on investment from what I remember of the settlement terms.

Just a word of caution to founders and early employees of startups to know what they are getting in to and the typical case of what happens (a small or non existent exit is the typical case in a tech startup), even when you see those big number raises and a big sale and you just assume that everyone is making bank.
Major rightsholders don't respect our rights with regards to copyright (eroding/harming fair use, copyright extensions, etc) so fuck 'em. This is historical sales data. This isn't anything current or sensitive to today. Why are you defending a company that couldn't give two shits less about you, me, or our legal rights?
Alternatively you can use things like Postgraphile or Hasura and truly eliminate both N+1 and 1+1. CTEs and JOINs really are underrated. Both solutions allow easy review of the SQL they generate, they do all of the CRUD work for you, and new resolvers are just a function away.

MySQL isn't invited to the party however. Just Postgres.
It gets more country-specific the deeper you get into it, but usually there are exceptions for people in the public eye (like politicians or celebrities), events of sufficient public interest, etc.
If a good subset of developers keep the ending slash anyway, what's the point of removing it?

I used to do proper XHTML with the correct mime type. I don't anymore, but I like the syntactic ending the closing slash on a void element gives. (I also end my <p> tags, and all the rest)

I really don't understand how the author thinks it is misleading.
Can someone tell me a better way to export Evernote content?
YouTube prioritizes "authoritative sources" when searching for certain topics, which means channels of legacy media outlets.

Are we sure that your profile doesn't affect search results? I'd expect the opposite, considering it's Google and one of the things they're known for is changing search results based on your profile.
Federal police in the USA are already doing exactly that:

https://www.wired.com/2012/12/public-bus-audio-surveillance/
It seems like building a context tree with a convex branch cross attention estimator then using branch and bound to prune the tree while descending to get exact cross attention when it's above a threshold would work pretty well, assuming the cross attention matrix actually is very sparse and the trouble is just accurately guessing the non-sparse elements.
This comment makes so much sense relative to what I've seen with Claude's 1M context window. It reliably fails to succeed a task with a prompt where I just stuff in a big blob of data in the middle as context. But when I use emebddings to only select a small relevant subset of that data, it always passes the task.
I have both installed and am migrating a game between them now. I don't believe I've actually exported the 4.x version for using the HTML5 profile just yet, so I'll have to give that a go.
We've actually seen web vital bugs tank our rankings pretty quickly. And fixing them resolved the ranking almost as fast.

I should specify that we are a timely news site, so there's some different mechanics at play. We mostly rank for content posted within the last 24-48 hours. Google has a slightly different set of rules for that kind of content vs marketing or evergreen.
What else did I see in the news? People are angry they can't buy incandescent light bulbs any more.
let's just activate his mic for a little while then we can parallel construct
anyone who has seen a temperature record going back more than a couple hundred years will tell you that this is hardly uncharted, there is strong evidence that it’s been way way hotter and way way colder before, and that at scale the global climate is oscillating back and forth between ice ages, if you look at the zoomed out view you would conclude that we are heading towards another ice age, and perhaps it seems unintuitive at first, but it’s theorized that extreme weather and fires, earthquakes and volcanoes are part of what brings about an ice age as the sun is blocked by particles in the sky…

I get they are talking “modern times” and specific types of recording history, however given what we know on a large scale it makes these kind of articles seem short sighted and uninformed at best, especially when they try to sound so scientific, and at worst, perhaps intentionally misleading FUD

after thinking about it perhaps too deeply the cynic in me sighs thinking maybe modern web analytics has taught the industry that FUD is simply what gets the most likes and shares
I don't think we need any more useful data for the AIs to gobble up — we just need to make the architectures we train more data-efficient. In my mind, a few petabytes of text, images, audio, and videos from the pre-AI era should be more than enough to train an AGI, we just haven't figured out how to do it yet.
Maybe it's different for you, but, for nearly everyone I've ever known, most weekends are not true days off. Weekends are where I work on things in my personal life (yard work, home maintenance, etc) that I can't get done any other time because I've sold the majority of my waking hours to my employer.

Unless something has gone wrong, I generally don't do any work on holidays.
Could you clarify the term "nazis"? Presumably, you don't mean a member of the German National Socialist party, which was dissolved in 1945. But if you mean "people whose views I disagree with", then perhaps you could be a little more specific.
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/01/1185632827/web-designer-supre...

> A Colorado web designer who the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday could refuse to make wedding websites for gay couples cited a request from a man who says he never asked to work with her.

A pre-emptive request backed up by a fake customer does not equal standing (in a sane court but SCOTUS left sanity behind a couple of justice appointments ago.)
I found some documentation. This is supposed to be an enumeration of all the data that the _application_ collects from the phone. It's surprising to see that the app is collecting health data, presumably the phone prompts a person to grant the permission when they try to fetch that data.

If, as you say, this covers all data "used" in some manner by all Meta apps then I think this is a clear misuse of the policy. Providing a list of labels that includes literally every label isn't helpful to the person deciding if they want to continue using the application or not.

In any case, if Threads doesn't collect health data then, IMHO, the privacy label shouldn't be listed. By Meta's own admission, their app collects this data and posts it back to Meta.
I misread that as "retroactively" at first and am feeling relieved now. Which I shouldn't be!
I no longer see the "basement dweller" phrase, must have been edited recently.
https://archive.is/890FP
While the intel community in the United States seems to be above the law I don't think lying to a judge in France is ignored to the same extent.
The author's insight is fair on a personal level, but the thesis is not very useful as a generalization. The reality is that bugginess and velocity are all relative, and every situation is different. It's good to understand the leadership viewpoint and be realistic about the business that employs you so you can decide if it fits your values and look for a change if not. If you care a lot about the quality of what you produce, there are plenty of companies that need and value that. On the other hand, many people just want a steady job where expectations are clear and ambiguity isn't too high; mediocrity is one way to achieve this, and it can work fine (for a while at least) with sufficient moats.
Saying all cops are anything is exactly the same thing as saying all blacks are thieves, all Jews are greedy, or any of the other blanket statements that can never apply to any large group of people. It’s disgusting.
Most enterprises that fail do so because they run out of money. In software business where the dominant cost is engineering salaries [1], poor tech practices with expensive fixes are a major factor in running out of money.

More abstractly, high productivity engineers help you to exhaust the idea space through delivering products into real world before you run out of money. It's better to fail because you discovered your supposed gold mine had no gold rather because you ran of mining resources half way through.

[1] Notably this doesn't apply to capital intensive business with high marketing or infrastructure costs
It's so weird to see this argument retreat to rhetoric that basically reduces to "What's your problem? It's not like the planet will become a lifeless wasteland. Something is going to survive!"

The median scenario we're looking at now (polar ice melting, large scale extinctions, universal ecosystem disruption, all over a few-hundred-year scale) is exactly the kind of "doomsday scenario" that all you people spent the past three decades denying was possible.
Physical switches are necessary on devices.
I've been doing 1-3 (usually closer to 2) weeks per year since I started my career in 2001. It's possible, but I also enjoy my work.
Microsoft's WordArt was too much power for some people
Do you have links to the charts you're referring to?
https://archive.is/y8cUj
Some further support for RFT as a useful model might be LLM's ability to take on different "voices" or perspectives. For example, you can ask a big LLM to argue that cake is the building block of civilization from the perspective of an excitable birthday cake, and then argue against this theory from the perspective of an archeologist. Despite never having "seen" an argument about cake archaeology, it can readily come up with both sides.

To me, this goes beyond "stochastic parrot," and implies that the LLM is actually modeling bidirectional frames. That would be fascinating, because it would be further evidence that language and complex thought are inextricably linked.
Only working 150 days a year probably left a lot of time to go fight in one of those wars, peasant uprisings, and the crusades that were going on.
That's what uncharted means though. Uncharted territory still existed.
> What followed the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars was one of the most peaceful 99 years on the European continent since Pax Romana.

Yeah... on the continent. They were merciless to indigenous populations across the globe during that century. Big improvement there - instead of fighting each other, we'll invade everyone else with the full takeover of India in 1858, and the New Imperialism of the 1870s which added 8.8 million square miles of land to European possession.

> This is the rule, not the exception. Throughout history, instances where religious war was waged or religious atrocities occurred, there was often an underlying political logic to them. Religion has less to do with the underlying morality of the scripture and more to do with what religious leaders of the time say it is, and their interpretation can be...flexible.

Nah, ask a historian. The history of Europe over the last 1500 years or so is long, but you can only name a few incidents and examples. And even then, you can't show of a change where one thing was widely unacceptable and became acceptable to this day. The Catholic Church, for example, still condemns premarital sex and always has.
"Even if we consider "Wagner" to be "neo-nazi" with no evidence what so ever"

Well, this sure looks like an evidence of Wagner's commander having a neo-Nazi tattoo [0][1]. Besides Utkin's personality there doesn't seem to be anything else.

[0] https://t.me/concordgroup_official/729

[1] https://t.me/concordgroup_official/736
likely referring to Stratospheric aerosol injection: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_inject...
Social media is over if you think trading Musk for Zuckerberg is progress.

On a side note though, Meta just changed their whole narrative in one day after being dragged for the last year over the Metaverse. If I were an investor I'd be very bullish on Meta. What was considered a colossal failure in over hiring helped result in a chance to add a new growing platform.
> the original author wasn't wrong that there is a ridiculously high tolerance for buggy, low quality software, and the reason isn't super clear

I disagree. I’d say the reason is clear: the market decides; and the decision is that current amount of bugs is ok. Most software is fine for the end user.

We (devs) notice the bugs because we’re familiar with the process; but in the end we’re just people who know how the sausage is made.
Titan sub may have been doomed from the start due to organizational flaws
I really enjoy my work and the feeling of doing great work for 8 hours is an important part of my life. But weekends and holidays are the thing that gives life meaning to me. I get to do the hobbies I enjoy, see friends and family, and enjoy a greater sense of agency. Some holidays or weekends I do indulge in bad food or alcohol but many more I am outside or exercising or socializing or learning new skills.

I don't think it's a sad existence at all to look forward to holidays, at least for me.
I think family time is key. Vacations have their own level of stress inherently, and holiday time does too but it seems less.
Unsure what the point of this article is. I've never seen any person or even VC company make the claim that they're on to the one and only 100% coverage network. I'm quite sure everybody is aware that social networks come and go and that at any point in time there will be multiple of them.
Is it expensive to compromise a phone?

Is it sensitive to compromise a phone, now that there is a national law allowing it, passed through a democratic process?
The examples you give have regulations for software. Even if companies want to "move fast and break things," with medical devices there are required tests and the testing and results are audited by the feds (here in the US), so you're forced to move slowly and not be broken (in ways that are regulated).

That does not mean "high quality." You can still have an architecture that's tightly-coupled spaghetti code that resists all human efforts at debugging. It just means "we threw enough paperwork at the auditors that they're not asking for more."
People smoke from 15-20 years old but still don't die in their 30s. It doesn't mean it's not bad for your health. This is the same thing, it's bad for the health of the company. High dev turnover, poor working conditions, and productivity issues can all lead to a death from a thousand cuts, and even if the company doesn't actually go under, you can't say that a company didn't suffer because of it.
From the French Revolution, to this. How far the mighty have fallen.
I think the game of "let's write a bunch of stuff so we get free views from Google" is also kinda dead. Your content has to be valuable and it takes a significant investment to do that. A good example is Hubspot which has dozens of articles on how to run digital operations for small businesses that are well-written, well-researched and contain some actual insights and even talks about products besides their own. If you don't have the chops to do that kind of thing, you're just better off paying for ad space.
Yes, Claude 1M is using all sorts of approximation tricks to get that 1M context window. IMO this is actually quite deceptive marketing.
The statement becomes true when all good cops avoid policing the bad ones, which is the whole point of it.
No, both this and the original blog entry are myopic.

There have been companies that went out of business, not only the software publisher but companies that relied on such software.

If the assertion is that "known unknown" bugs exist in code, and the publishers are aware that there might be bugs but in their QA/QC could not identify them, I can accept it. But, if the assertion is that there are "known known" bugs exists, I find it bordering unethical. The only way I can accept this if the publishers informs the buyer, and let them know what is the impact, the plan of action to remediate or mitigate the bug, and in what time frame.

"Known known bugs" (the publisher knew about the bug for extended period of time, and never informed the users) have destroyed multitude of businesses.
I really don't think what happened to the bison is something that should be idealized. It wasn't and isn't a good thing. Certainly not something I'd want repeated.
You're right, which is why it's insane Saudi Arabia handed $2 billion in investment funds to Jared Kushner months after he left the White House as a "Senior Advisor", against the advice of the fund's advisors.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/jared-kushner-saudi-in...

If you want to be shocked by influence peddling, just review what and Mr. Kushner did business with while actually being employed by the government.

https://trumpfamilyinfluencepeddling.com/jared-and-ivanka/

> Jared Kushner Held Contacts With Foreign Officials He Did Not Officially Report Or Clear With The National Security Council. “H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s national security adviser, learned that Kushner had contacts with foreign officials that he did not coordinate through the National Security Council or officially report.” [Washington Post, 02/27/18]

> Jared Kushner’s Family Courted “State-Connected Investors” To Bail Out A Kushner Property In Regions In His Government Portfolio While Working In The White House. “And since Mr. Kushner entered the White House, his family has courted state-connected investors in China and the Middle East — both regions that were in Mr. Kushner’s government portfolio — to bail out the firm’s headquarters at 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.” [New York Times, 10/11/19]
It varies by country but here in the US, we have a long and proud tradition of publishing newsworthy leaks in the media.

> does that override respect for the IP of the company

There are no issues here since US copyright explicitly allows for fair use of copyrighted materials for the purposes of criticism, comment, and news reporting in particular.

> and privacy of named people?

Work-related creations and communications are not personal private information as health records are. Without getting into the espionage and hacking tangents, by and large, if the company can't safeguard its internal output, that's on the company.
How do you think retired people are classified by Marxists? The class distinction does not mean "work until you die" , it means "you need to/have needed to work to live". So no, you're not a "demi-capitalist". You're still a worker. Because you had to work for that capital. You didn't inherit it/exploit it from the surplus value you extracted from laborers
I gave a talk at the SeaGL conference called "Features of a Modern Terminal Emulator"[0] which goes into pretty good detail about cool things that "modern" terminal emulators do, including OSC-52, xterm mouse support, font rendering, image support and more.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DgQqDnYNyQ
I'm not complaining, I want to go back to the internet being a silly place, instead of an increasingly hostile and damaging to mental health (and sometimes lives).

BUT that ship has sailed.
Unfortunately I don't think there's a good way to find these companies unless you happen to live near them or work in the industry they sell to.

In my experience, they normally get started and funded by local people in their industry and they sell back to local customers (at least initially) from their network, so there's very little in the way of advertising, especially at a national level. Also, they often hire from their network for early positions and local colleges/universities as they grow, so you might not even see them on job boards.

If you're looking for companies that are a bit more established, you could try industry trade shows.
Crazy that they were single homed.

Edit: After seeing the network diagram I have even more questions. What happens if CF is down? This all seems cobbled together and very prone to failures.
What I thought was stupid was removing the blue check from people who are worth far more than that per month to Twitter. I thinking about people like Stephen King and large news outlets.
Very bad UX. Threads.net won't even load
This is someone who has been fortunate to never need assistance.
Those get mangled by text editors that don't support them.
Fearless Tinkering Is Functional
This is an open scientific question, not an engineering problem, so there isn't a knowable answer right now on how long and what resources this might take. I have a feeling that time would be the bottleneck.

We also have several other routes for capturing and storing carbon from the atmosphere or ocean, other than by life forms, and it's likely that we would prefer those methods for all sorts of reasons.

Ultimately, any sequestration is going to be far more expensive than just not emitting the carbon in the first place. And today, we have the technology to interchange 95% of our economy to be carbon free, without any reduction in standard of living, and in fact we would have a better standard of living because energy would be cheaper and we would have less disease from pollution.

It's politics that is now the rate limiting step, not the tech. By the time we get that 95% of known solutions implemented, we will have lots of options for the remaining 5%

And sequestration of carbon will certainly be required, starting around the 2050 era (according to an IPCC special report), but we should let that tech bake for 30 years before we start massive deployment so we can get the best options without too much lock in. Hopefully in 2030s there will be a robust carbon trading network which will cause larger scale deployment of carbon capture and sequestration, then we deploy gigaton scale in the 2050s
I thought it was clear that I meant "the cultural understanding" of the map author, not the world
I mean that you can write programs that edit their own source code.

Like smalltalk.
Is 30 days including holidays like Christmas, New Years Eve/Day, etc? Or is 30 days in addition to mandated holdiays?

Most people in the US have 2 tiers of vacation days: mandatory holidays (I'd say between 8-14 mandatory holidays is pretty standard at tech companies) plus an additional 3-4 weeks (15-20 days).

For most engineers in the US, something like 10 holidays + 3 additional weeks (or more) can be expected for a minimum total of 25 days. Plus 3-5 "sick/personal" days brings you up to roughly 30 days.
Mutation testing is where you make changes to your code's logic as a way to ensure that you have good test coverage for that bit of logic. Mutation testing is helpful with any kind of tests -- assertions, snapshots, whatever -- as a way to check that your tests are actually able to catch interesting bugs, but the idea is orthogonal to this workflow.