skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Background: I'm a founder who's helped multiple friends negotiate offers with early stage companies.

When you join this early, the main compensation is equity.

To give you a benchmark, most investors pressure founders to never grant more than ~1% of the company to a single employee. In this current environment though, you could probably push for ~1.5%, especially if you take the title of "founding engineer".

When it comes to salary though, you can do three things:

1. Clarify the minimum you'd "happily" take to work with them. This mainly depends on your alternatives and how much you care about this company

2. Understand how much budget they have by asking how many people they want to hire to achieve what milestone when. Note: often people don't have a plan, so you have to resort to no. 1

3. Negotiate a written agreement to raise your salary by X% when the next fundraising goes through

Finally, look for ways to enlarge the pie, such as negotiating getting a 1on1 with the founders every 2 weeks to learn about whichever topic interests you.

Did I forget anything? Happy to share more.
Here's an submission on just that, a Dell Chromebook cluster. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36871338

I myself had a small Kubernetes cluster of Chromeboxes for quite a while. I eventually upgraded to mini-PCs basically because they were so cheap at the time and were much faster, even though I didn't really need it.
What happens when they lose this one too? Just because the commissioner has a law review Note setting forth a legal theory does not mean the law has changed.
Odd, I've always used it to mean removing everything that doesn't meet expectations. I've got at least a few people who agree with my usage.

https://www.matuzo.at/blog/html-boilerplate/

> I’m cutting the mustard at JS module support. If a browser supports JavaScript modules, it means that it’s a browser that supports modern JavaScript, such as modules, ES 6 syntax, fetch, etc.

https://decadecity.net/blog/2014/03/06/cutting-the-mustard

> The phrase "cutting the mustard" was coined by the BBC responsive news team to describe a technique of setting a minimum standard that a browser must meet in order to get an enhanced experience. Browsers that meet this minimum standard are said to cut the mustard.

I guess this is the OG https://archive.li/ANEHs but my parents use this phrase so I would be hard pressed to believe this is where it came from.
I may be out of the loop, but can't schools just install Linux mint on these things and use them to teach kids python and *nix??

A Chromebook hardware wise is still eons ahead of what many older software engineers grew up learning on
This video seems to show the best example of a possible effect like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC3r9-OaWes

But it still looks dependent on their being a NS pole at a corner.

That said...from this video https://sciencecast.org/casts/suc384jly50n I'm very suspicious of the behavior you see in the last few seconds where it gets pushed over to the corner and seems to fall right to the magnet That would be consistent with their being a ring magnet underneath the top magnet their, and once suitably over into the corner it loses the diamagnetic property because there's no N-S pole. The "seam" on what should be a bulk magnet in both videos that are out seems like an obvious problem.

So yeah...I think put me down for this is diamagnetism with pyrolytic carbon (the image in the paper also notably hides what you see in the video - that there's a seam on the magnet where it looks like it's a stack of two).
Your app, unless it's a text editor or UI toolkit, should not care.

The easiest way to support Unicode is to avoid supportimg it. Leave text editing to UI widgets. Leave truncation to web browsers. Avoid fancy marquee effect on the terminal. Your program may look less fancy but it will automatically support unicode, even future extensions.
Perfectly Preserved Roman Glassware Recovered from 2k-Year-Old Shipwreck
Ad blockers currently work on Android devices[1][2][3][4], preferably by gaining root on the device and using a de-Googled Android, using F-Droid[1] and/or manually installing packages with FFUpdater[1].

If you really have to use Apple devices and other post-general-purpose-computing locked down devices (e.g. televisions), you could try self-hosting privaxy[5][6] (or similar) which performs MITM manipulation of web traffic to remove ads, including via JS or CSS injection.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi...

[3] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android

[4] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/ublock-origin...

[5] https://github.com/Barre/privaxy

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31432848
If you don't like a US-and-western-dominated empire, would you prefer living in a Russian or Chinese empire?
So unsurprisingly based on my gripes, we are an OLAP shop. I've never heard of ClickHouse before, and I'll be looking into it. We're doing OK on PostgreSQL, but just OK. A lot of learning and unlearning.
Ahhhh. I can absolutely see that. I’ve got two similar, but slightly different Tesla clients, and it required two separate modules because of the “assemblage”, but can see how Req could have piped easier, probably allowing me to use only one client instead of two.
> Have you ever noticed that fancy new condos or rich people's houses are able to be built

It's basic economics: the more regulatory hurdles (red tape, approvals, permits, etc.) a construction project has to overcome, the more expensive it becomes, to the degree that the only projects that are economically viable are things like luxury condos.

Several of the Southern states rank very highly in land-use freedom[0]; that is, the freedom of the owner of a parcel of land to do what they please with it, including building higher-density housing. House prices and rents are reasonable in those states.

[0]: https://www.freedominthe50states.org/land
Never work for Amazon. It doesn't matter how much money they promise you, because you can never get a good deal with a snake.
If people followed this logic there would be no Linux to “evolve sufficiently”
International trial shows that interferon could help reduce the spread of Covid
Look at the quantities for meat, it's marginal

"Okinawans ate three grams total of meat — including pork and poultry — per day, substantially less than the 11-gram average of Japanese as a whole in 1950."
Most cities are democrat. Of the top 100, only 24 have republican mayors. So it stands to reason that there will be more democrat run cities with high murder rates. Conversely there will be more democrat cities with low murder rates. I wouldn’t classify any of those cities as decidedly lefty, all three of them are in swing/red states. That’s just my opinion and not really the point, though.

My point was more to the effect that there is a trope, especially in right wing circles, that Chicago in particular is especially dangerous, which isn’t really the case. It was a point to illustrate that talking points like “Chicago is super murder happy” and “Seattle is Dying” keep getting repeated despite their lack of grounding in truth.
Well, that same generation as a whole is probably accurately described as conservative now! After all, it's well-known that people become more conservative as they age.
I think the vehicle rebates are so such people can have a car to sleep in. /s
>It's a graph whose scale doesn't start at 0 on the Y-axis.

Why would it start at 0? It's an average of surface temperatures across the Mediterranean Sea, parts never dip below 15C.

>I even agree that we should reduce carbon emissions, we just don't have to massively disrupt everyone's way of life to get there. We've got time to come up with better solutions.

I didn't even give you a spiel which makes me want to use even less plastic and take more personal responsibility!
The next one - for Google perhaps - gets even harder.

They already lost one with Activision and Microsoft.
lol, I did forget about the rain.
I've always though Seattle must have great suburbs with the wealth and climate.

Is crime something you see a lot of down town, or if you are not looking you really dont notice?
What purpose does your comment serve?
If you think CO2 is scary, wait til you hear about methyl mercury.
> but all those people likely still live there and it was a pretty damn big deal

You aren't going to get much sympathy for your position from those people who lives in Capitol Hill, they tend to be very young and very left in their ideology. Yes, FoxNews showed that picture of the teleporting guy with the gun (before they started marking such pictures as illustration), and yes, the homicide rate was slightly above average during the CHAZ. Most of us who live in Seattle never actually experienced it (I didn't), and when I finally got around to visiting Capitol Hill during the pandemic, it was long over and a perfectly normal place (albeit with slightly more restaurants closed).
The A in Alphabet stands for Abandon
Big Tech's Takeover and Destruction of Open Protocols and Networks
Alpine DNS is so insanely weird. I had an immutable task that, after a year of smooth operation, would fail one particular DNS lookup in the JRE in one specific AWS AZ, and did fine in other AZs in the region, or if you seeded whatever host cache it uses with “dig” every so often. I couldn’t detect any difference in the DNS responses across AZs.

Those tasks then became Debian based within a couple days.
This reminds me a lot of AutoGPT and GPT-engineer and other "full automation" systems, only much more practical and reasonable.

Like if I was going to try to make one of those self-programming systems work I'd be focused on getting it to outline and specify components, then divide that work on components, maybe doing revision passes, think about the specification order, etc. Many of those steps are things programmers naturally do and are supported by modules and functions and tests...

So phrasing the specification language as a programming language instead of a single prompt is pretty reasonable.

That said, I'm not sure if this needs to be its own language? Could it be in Python directly? (I'm reminded of my own magic Python module: https://ianbicking.org/blog/2023/01/infinite-ai-array.html – though honestly I haven't touched it since writing it... too much magic makes something not really useful.)

I think it would help if the development process was maybe more incremental. I don't really use REPLs because I find it hard to construct and maintain the REPL environment. But maybe those compromises are more reasonable given the unique challenges of AI-written code. Like maybe the AI should be building mocks from the beginning, kind of gentle placeholders that get thrown away quickly, but since the AI wrote the original code no one really cares.

I guess I'm proposing processes (architectures?) of construction that are specific to AI. Maybe not entirely novel, but the result of looking holistically at the development experience and picking out ideas that allow for incremental confirmation and refinement. AI is often better at making changes and refinements than creating something from whole cloth.
Which the irony here is that I think a lot of the rough ride is due to people caring too much. Most of the fighting is due to non-experts having high confidence in their understanding of the highly complex phenomena fighting with similar people with just different misunderstandings. This fighting just adds additional noise to the system and results in it being even more difficult to formulate effective solutions.

It's kinda an odd characteristic that passion for a subject doesn't strongly correlate with the desire to become more knowledgeable in that subject. It's definitely there for all those that do become experts, but there's a large number of experts with high passion too. I suspect that it is partially due to our desire of wanting to know everything and believing that lack of knowledge is a blemish. To me this feels odd, it is like being upset you bought a puzzle that wasn't already assembled, a videogame that wasn't already beaten, or a book that wasn't already read.
Child Safety on Federated Social Media – David Thiel and Renée DiResta [pdf]
Welp now I know what to say, thanks!
I for one really appreciate all the random spam on the open source project I work on, because it's about 1 comment a month. Some of the jokes about my mother may go a bit far, but recently, I've been taking things very seriously imagining positive intention, and it's fun seeing them caught off guard.
> Make the browser paid?

That's an interesting question! Paying for things is the obvious answer, but us users have been trained to feel entitled to not paying for other people's hard work. So the most interesting one in the space of "how to get people to pay for a web browser" is Replay.io, which is "just" a firefox re-skin (it's infinitely more than that) selling to a niche audience that is known for being cheap. So rather than sell to them directly, sell to their employers (it's a business tool) and get into the enterprise space, which is its own can of worms. It's a ridiculously powerful tool, if only their target market could manage to hold it correctly.
You can but it’s not common either (across orgs).
Scammers could probably using random numbers to call/text potential victims, and the RNG has ended up generating your phone number. Or the scammer might not even be using an RNG.
Could spammer be spoofing random people's numbers?
https://xkcd.com/2798/
>They just stop getting updates.

And stopping the updates will block them from the internet, at least that’s per the article:

>Chromebook will no longer receive the software updates it needs, blocking basic websites and applications from use.

>That means that as the software drifts farther and farther out of date, which in turn means that some things will stop working, but it's not a kill switch.

So basically just like an android device, after 2 years you’re on your own? Better than a killswitch obviously but it also means that it’s just a software pre-determined obsolescence and had nothing to do with google claims that’s it’s “hardware vendors issue”, because just like android hardware, a lot received non-official support from different developers for years after untill the hardware became a little slow to keep up with the bloated system.
Another room temp superconductor claim retraction:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02401-2
Purity is about knowing that functions cannot change the state of variables. It is not about what you can do in the REPL.
I didn’t see any mention of how this compares to TclKit.

Anyone know?

Edit: this is the only discussion I could find: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.tcl/c/H8pxX5VmGeA/m/io...
The Gravity of Glacial Melt
Yesterday's liberals are today's conservatives.
I'm glad the optical telegraph operators never successfully argued for job security.
Given the materials and methods involved it really isn’t that dangerous. With basic precautions I’d say go for it, worst case is honestly just blowing a few hundred bucks. If this pans out, there will definitely be some do it yourself tutorials on YouTube in the coming weeks.
> Importantly, the Nest Hub series of smart displays are entirely unaffected by this change. Those devices will continue to run Fuchsia under the hood and will continue to receive updates as normal.
He has a history of lying. References to his fraud are all over this thread.

What is the relation are you suggesting?
Elon Musk's new rebrand looks like a ripoff from an iconic 1984 logo
Does it run on any of the BSDs?
No one in their right mind would read that title and think 100 degrees Celsius.
One option to your case is OpenVino. It's written in C++ and has Python Bindings. Also, it can be used to train new nets. You can use ONNX files with OpenVino too.
Extensions got killed during Safari 12 & 13.
> A browser, un no circumstances, should be log-in walled.

Why? Not that Arc does this, but in today's modern world, we're two device creatures; a smartphone and a laptop. How do you connect the two if not with some sort of login?
Ask HN: What focus/coding music are you listening to these days?
I always find HN's recommendations for focus/coding music fantastic and helps really expand my horizons of what's out there. I think it was HN that introduced me to Low-Fi Hip-hop as an example.

Recently I've been really listening to a lot of the new Underworld Drift music and Spoq (both on youtube) depending on my mood, though I tend to sort of steer towards old fashioned proto-IDM music like the classic Artificial Intelligence albums by Warp Records, and the Ambient works by Aphex Twin. The Black Dog by Spanners is sometimes incredible.

What are you listening to these days?
Yeah, it’s been a pretty solid trend line, new superconductor, first batch is usually kinda shitty, but proves the basics, refining the mix nails down its exact performance characteristics.

It’s spongy grainy crap indeed… but as long as their analysis holds up to scrutiny and replication… and whoa boy do I bet there are people already trying to replicate this result as I’m typing my reply and reading the rest of the comments…. As long as the results hold up and this isn’t an abnormally low performing superconductor… i have no doubt this is going to win a Nobel prize. This has been the prize for a long time in this whole discipline, and they may have finally nailed it.

We as a species may be on the bring of a revolutionary step forward in what we can achieve in engineering and science. Better instruments and more powerful or sophisticated motors and power systems. It’s heady stuff to think it may happen in my lifetime.
the venn diagram of people who say Arc is good, and people who say NordVPN is good, is a circle.

maybe not everybody who says arc is good is being paid to say that. but they are all people who accept money to say things like "arc is good". MKBHD included.
Someone can release this as a product though, exactly like Dropbox. Dropbox basically was rsync, it just had a better UX. There are a lot of people these days that are pretty good at taking ML models and slapping a nice UX on top of them.
Seattle has an above average property crime rate and a below average violent crime rate. This is always how it has been, since my parents met in the city in 1960s, at least.

First, Capitol Hill isn't really downtown, it is off to the side I rarely go there unless I have to go to a hospital or something (and even then, that is more first hill). So when you mention Capitol Hill, you aren't really talking about downtown. As for Downtown, it has a lot of unhoused neighbors (think Skid Row in LA), but that was true in the mid-90s when I worked at 3rd and Pine McDonalds (aka Crack-donalds, residents will know the place). They don't do anything, you are more likely to experience property crime in Ballard or Capitol Hill then anything in downtown (well, that isn't completely true, a lot of unhoused people are victims in crime to other unhoused people in downtown, but other people are mostly unaffected). Downtown is also full of cruise ship tourists these days, and the market, which again, you won't notice much crime if you ever need to go there at all (which you don't need to go there, since there isn't much there for residents anymore). You do see people shoplifting at Target a lot though, the security guards will just watch them as they walk out with a bunch of stuff (Downtown is a bit better on this now, but I saw someone walk out with stuff at the Ballard Target the other day, Ballard being nowhere near downtown).
Absolutely, but layers can be stacked (if they really are superconducting there won't be much of an issue to get rid of waste heat, there will be very little of that).

As for cooling my jets: I don't think we'll see any real application of this in the next 10 years at a minimum, this stuff is the first step on a very long road towards commercialization. From the first mention of the photo electric effect (~1890) to practical (1956), affordable (1990's) solar panels took roughly a century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_solar_cells

I hope that this superconductor, assuming it's real can be fast tracked given our much improved knowledge of materials and fabrication methods. But I'm realistic enough to realize how much work would still have to be done even if it is real. The road from the lab to the shelf is a long and expensive one and even in the best of scenarios I can't imagine anything on a timescale of less than a decade.
Sometimes things are worth paying for.
I’ve tried both BabyAGI and AutoGPT and they didn’t work well for me.

Has anyone here had success with them on something useful or interesting that base GPT-4 failed at?
This post is what happens when chemistry sets don't contain anything more hazardous or interesting than marshmallows.
The FTL neutrino paper was not a fraud, but a genuine error. The publicity was practically, “This can’t be right, but here’s what we saw.”
Not when someone creates a browser extension that you run while using Google Docs, feed the entire ChatGPT doc into it and it recreates the doc over a 2 hour period with small bits and pieces.
Maybe, you can try KubeBlocks out to see how it managed to do this.
https://github.com/apecloud/kubeblocks
yeah, apparently it's easy to find charger in urban areas, but it still gave us a little heart attack that time :D
Here's another multibillion dollar example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Research
They took blockbuster drugs for weight loss. Now their stomachs are paralyzed
Agree on the first point, L7+'s are often looking for technical ways to transform the business.

Fuchsia and Dart are still big technologies though touching many other projects, so back-tracking on speakers doesn't quite mean fuchsia is a failure/not necessary.
Sod (Embedded Computer Vision C Library) 1.1.9 Released
Xiaomi DaFang Hacks custom firmware Wyzecam V2 / Wyzecam Pan / Other T20 Devices
One of my kids observed that knowing all the stuff he learns in school doesn't seem to make him any happier, but does wonders for seeing how fucked up everything is. It would be nice if I found a way to show him that knowing lots of stuff can help in positive ways as well but for now he has me cornered.
If it works as advertised, it would make a fantastic toy. Various different types of levitating toys would now be possible that would have previously required liquid nitrogen on hand. A lot of CEOs are probably going to have very pretty and novel floating desk ornaments. Not really a great toy for children or general consumption due to the lead content, though.

For all of the big use cases people mostly talk about when referring to room temperature superconductivity, like very cheap and easy MRIs, lower losses in power grid transmission, more powerful motors, cheaper and easier nuclear fusion (potentially necessary for commercial viability), this material as-is won't be suitable because it can't deal with that much current. We would need to explore this new family of materials and try to find one that maintains the superconductivity but significantly increases critical current and critical Tesla.

That said, this material could be genuinely revolutionary for consumer electronics and computation. Increasing computational energy efficiency on the chip level is going to be really valuable, but it's also probably going to take a long time to make it into actual electronics. Although, it is encouraging that the process for making this is similar to processes that are already used widely in industry, even in semiconductors specifically.