skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original comment seemed to imply that every software engineer is deserving of more by virtue of being a software engineer in a trillion dollar company. That seems very questionable to me which is what I was calling out.

I’m sure there are a handful of Zuckerberg type people (let’s be extravagant and say there at 10k such developer/entrepreneurs who have built unicorns by dint of their software skills) but the software engineering discipline is orders of magnitude bigger than 10k.

Edit - Since the original comment was focused on dollar value created by software engineers, we can discount much of FOSS where value has been captured by the likes of AWS and RedHat, not the FOSS community.
With ffmpeg running straight in the browser, maybe ImageMagick could go that way too for systems requiring signing? In the end developers might take a second look at more open alternative OS.
This is why the whole notion of colonizing/terraforming mars is a fantasy. Any humans there would be dead within a fairly short period and terraforming efforts would be futile due to getting blasted away by radiation.

If we truly wanted to colonize off-planet, the moon is right there.
I don't understand this idea of engineers and tech people glorifying effort.

The whole point of engineering is about efficiency, like making a bridge that holds while using the minimum amount of work and materials. A bridge using more materials is not necessarily a better bridge.

You can often make things better by putting in more effort but it may also be counter productive, sometimes the easy solution is the best. Some ready to eat food may be better than what you can cook yourself, even some reputable chefs admit it and the efforts they save on these parts let them focus on the parts where they can make a difference.
I’ve seen some math that suggests that this or perhaps even doing it on the surface with superconducting rings near the poles would take less energy than you might think.

If I recall correctly it was something like the power grid output of the state of California. A lot but entirely within human capacity.

If it were space based you’d have a ton of free continuous solar power.
Ask HN: My previous startup was acquired, and no one told me anything. What now?
I was a co-founder of the startup, and still hold about 9% of the equity. My co-founder fired me some time ago, and I have not received any communication from them ever since. I found out from a random PR release that the startup was acquired earlier this month by a PE firm. I have yet to receive any sort of communication from the startup about the acquisition, much less the details of the acquisition. It's a small startup - ~10 employees, incorporated in Delaware, and a few million in VC funding. We use Carta, and I see my shares on Carta, but I don't see anything about the acquisition there either.

I have no idea what to expect to be honest. I am cautiously hopeful that my equity will be worth mid-six-figures, potentially even a million. But I wouldn't be shocked if the acquisition was for less than liquidation preference, and I don't receive anything at all. Given the relatively low stakes, I'm hesitant to spend a bunch of money on lawyers.

I'm trying to figure out:

1. Is the company required to reach out to me, and send me whatever money I am owed for my shares?

2. Is the company required to send me details about the acquisition?

3. I've heard some horror stories about ex-founders getting screwed over. The most famous being Zuckerberg diluting Saverin's stake in FB, and Saverin needing to file a lawsuit to get the money he was owed. What can I do to protect myself and figure out if the company is violating its fiduciary duties to me as a minority shareholder?

4. Besides the above, is there anything else I should be doing?
Is the outrage not justified? The chips might be tiny but Neuralink has an abysmal record with animal welfare, and they do, regularly, severely cripple and kill animals.
The Hunt for Crypto's Most Famous Fugitive
What would power it?
IMO it doesn't solve the problems of the dating applications, it is still profile based with pictures, unlimited likes, etc. It is a good thing that it is OSS and free but it would need more than that.
> what do you think Israel should do given this current situation?

I think the answer to that is to first figure out what kind of vision people have a for a long term view of what that part of the world will look like. If the vision is that at some point all these people are going to have to live together and mix freely then we are already on the wrong pathway for 70 years. If the vision is that Israel is forever going to be a state surrounded by enemies that slowly expands by virtue of being a forward post of the West with nukes then that is effectively condemning Israel and its citizens to pawns on the geopolitical chessboard.

It's possible that 'the end of oil' will somehow tip the scales in Israels' favor, but it is also very well possible that at some point the Arab world will become more of a nuclear power than they are today. And in a world where 'might makes right' and proliferation worries dominate a lot of these discussions the current situation is highly unstable.

If Israel doesn't manage to get to the first kind of solution in the foreseeable future I fear that in the longer term is may cease to exist entirely.

By the way: thank you for the respectful discussion on this extremely sensitive subject. Given some of the incredible garbage in this thread it is a welcome relief.
Yes.

They’re called Codespaces.
The causal mechanism isn't the same thing as "why hasn't evolution selected against this"[0] and neither is the same thing as subjective incentives.

[0] one suggestion is the "gay uncle hypothesis" which posits that people who themselves do not have children may nonetheless increase the prevalence of their family's genes in future generations by providing resources (e.g., food, supervision, defense, shelter) to the offspring of their closest relatives; this hypothesis seems to be consistent with the evidence without being sufficient on its own.
And then we get planned obsolescence and new pseudo-features that are just excuses to turn it into a subscription service.
A mere attempt to improve SEO.

The article is a non-news and a non-proof.
It also contains recycled content, in fact, on top of the article: "October 12, 2023 ... First Appeared on Big Think"

following the link to Big think article we read "September 25, 2023" and "This article was first published on Big Think in February 2022"
They say:

> New subscription services make it easier for people to access whatever digital content they want, when they want it. And because these services are relatively affordable, more people are choosing to pay for content.

And then they say:

> hopefully this is just a ‘blip’ and rates of theft begin to fall again as the economy recovers.
>
> If not, we can expect to see legal channels raising their prices again to cover the losses caused by piracy.

I don't know what to tell you, content providers. Maybe you'll figure it out someday.
The reason I'm excited for Android 14 is it includes support for passkeys being managed by third-party software like 1Password. Android 13 has passkey support but you are required to use Google's passkey store, now in theory you can use anyone's. It is all working, sort of, and was the last major component I needed to start using passkeys to log into things for real.

Unfortunately it's exposed a bunch of other unfinished parts of the passkey ecosystme; the user experience is still not very good. But Android 14 is part of the march of progress, even if it goes slowly.
OK, I supose it does, in the sense that market incentives is one way we might get more doctors trained. But on the other hand the market incentives are plainly there; plenty more people want to train as doctors, than there are training places. That is, the market incentives don't seem to be working to increase training places.
No - please check out Hono https://github.com/honojs/hono
I think this is it. It is indeed satisfying to see and feel progress. For me, that progress was being in less misery with each subsequent run (and losing weight). I can see how time improvement would give others that same satisfaction. Thanks!
That's a good question, I don't know.

I suspect the specific case of sdiv may be practically handled already for post-div Armv7a and ARMv8a AARCH32 on dynamically loaded operating systems, either by the dynamic loader or the compiler support library choosing to swap in a different implementation of __aeabi_idiv according to the available capabilities.
For hikers and trail runners, going faster means getting to see more stuff, and being able to take longer breaks to enjoy the scenery
Fastify is absolutely fantastic. It has the concept of "type providers", allowing you to pair it with fastify-type-provider-json-schema-to-ts (for JSON schemas) or another typing system of choice, such as Zod, to obtain strongly typed queries, request bodies, and responses in handlers with TS types derived on the fly at compile time. It also validates data returned from handlers to conform to schemas, reducing the likelihood of accidentally leaking sensitive information. And it's faster than Express, even with validation.
Express is outdated (in terms of active development).

I prefer Fastify since it has very good schema validation and error handling built in.
I've been using Chrome natively on Wayland for over 2 years as my daily browser. There used to be lots of bugs, but over the last 4 months, the only bug I noticed was a missing insertion cursor while typing in TEXTAREAs, and that seems to have fixed itself.

In the Display pane of Gnome's Settings app, I have "Scale" set to 175%.
My understanding is that bugs are not actually drawn to light, but rather attempt to fly at a fixed angle to light, roughly perpendicular to it. When the light is the Moon, that keeps them flying in more or less a straight line. But when the light is close to them, they turn to keep the light at that fixed angle and consequently spiral in towards it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse_orientation
Yep. I carry a few of them in my glove compartment and use them whenever I see lemonade stands in the summer. The kids go crazy when they see them
Well, some people are competitive about distance and some people are competitive about speed. Also there are theories about slow-twitch and fast-twitch muscle fibers that lead some people to do better with endurance sports and some to do better with sprinting, so there may be a natural bias involved.

However, as an ex-competitive swimmer who specialized in the sprint events, going fast is just fun, and training so you can go faster increases the fun. This can be a little dangerous on a bicycle however, caution is advised, especially as one grows older and injuries take longer to heal.
I would ask myself first where I want Israel to be in two centuries and then steer course for that even if that means losses in the short term. Because long term this won't end well if there isn't a real change of course even though in the short term it looks as if Israel has the upper hand.

Note that 'The State of Israel' is not synonymous with the Jewish people - even though there are a lot of people on both sides of this who seem to want to propagate that, and that religion and land (the two major things this conflict is all about) are not worth millions of lives lost.
Mine wasn’t a “gotcha” question. If the poster’s answer is “no” (i.e. that they don’t want to pay for or run such a system), then maybe they should consider that the same applies to everyone else.
Thinking about the sensible limits of customization of things
Last I checked, Express is extremely slow and will significantly impact your SEO if you're a content business and doesn't really scale very well if you get huge amounts of traffic like I have.

These days I use Go, Deno or Crystal which is much faster.

For hosting I recommend Cloudflare Pages, Vercel, (maybe Netlify) and Render.
For example, East Germany and North Korea had and have vastly inferior outcomes to West Germany and South Korea. No racism or darwinism required to see that.

I'm not sure why you are so confident that racist conclusions are inevitable? You also seem to suggest that the facts are racist, but that we have to blind our minds to that reality?

> [...] if you are naive enough to think that the numbers explain everything.

Our knowledge, including our quantitative knowledge, is very limited, but it is not zero either. There are some areas where numbers explain enough.

And, of course, just because numbers don't explain everything perfectly doesn't mean that our personal non-numeric pet theory is automatically any better.
The presence of alternatives doesn't mean something isn't the "de facto".

In all the times I've evaluated all of the alternatives to Express, this is the first time I'm ever heard of hono
> people living in the only nation that really has a choice all measure distance and height in (square) feet

The U.S. automotive industry certainly disagrees. They've largely (80~90%) gone metric quite a while ago.
WSL is only tenable if you only use your computer for development.

Trying to use a windows computer for gaming or media production with WSL installed is problematic. For example… opening file explorer causes WSL to start and file explorer is frozen until it launches. And WSL seems to constantly be running eating up 8gb of RAM.

Unless you need a GPU, codespaces are way more convenient than WSL.
Mario 64 running in mixed reality
It's always been amazing to me the 'apple blindness' that goes on. They really can do almost no wrong and everything is almost magical. Fortunately, for most readers here we don't need someone else to tell us what crap this "upgrade" was, but I agree it would be nice to get unbiased reviews, but it is owned by Conde Nast so I wouldn't expect it to change.
Belief in personal growth was one of the pillars of Victorianism. Then there was the American Dream.
> "if you're the only person that 'gives a shit,' YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A BAD TIME."

Not only that (which is 100% true) but also you're raising the bar in required work quality for everyone else to get on par with you, therefore expect to make a few friends and many enemies, especially among colleagues.
I don't think it's the fault of the apps. I think it's US culture being very money focused because there is no safety net for people. You're always 2 weeks from being homeless. So women naturally adapt to the situation.

I'm using Bumble and Tinder in Croatia and in just 2 months I've met two amazing down to earth women.

The apps reflect the culture of where they're being used.
Then he wouldn’t be giving a shit, he’d be selling some shit.
> Apple Watch is probably < 1% of a market dominated by Garmin, Polar, and Suunto, so it doesn't make much financial sense to integrate with GymKit.

Well, maybe (though I highly doubt it is 1% of the runner market) but it is by far the biggest player in smart watches generally now, and they are quickly eroding the feature advantage gap with those other brands. And most of the users of the brands you mentioned are serious runners whereas the average person walking into a gym bought their smart watch for a broader set of reasons than a serious runner buying a Garmin. It would make sense for a manufacturer of equipment to appeal to the average person walking into a gym.

> Apple falls to Garmin in two areas: battery life and software. Sleep affects recovery, so planting a watch on a charger every night is a non-starter. Garmin's performance analysis software is also years ahead of Apple's. Apple could fix both of those things but that would require investment which I'm not sure they are willing to make.

I wear mine all night and get the sleep info. I plop it on the charger while I shower and eat breakfast and it is full by the time I am ready to start my day.
My current side project is using python aiohttp and htmx. The main plus of Python is that it has a lot of machine learning functionality but the truth is almost all of that is used in batch jobs and if I did anything computationally intensive serving a page I would have to farm the work out to another process. I have no trouble maintaining Python I write but it seems to always fall apart like Jenna blocks when I hand it off to somebody else.

If I had to get more people involved and have it scale I might go to Flask but might also go to a Java-based backend as it really has the best ability to use threads and parallelism.

As for HTMX I like it but I think there could be something similar but a little more feature risk, for instance my app has a lot of tables and tools that make it easy to add client-side sort buttons would be nice. If I had more people working on it I could see using a react-a-like system as well.

The database is arangodb which I love for rapid prototyping but if it had to be really reliable the first thing I would look at is postgres.
It was also a source of major shame and embarrassment for Nintendo and I would not be surprised if they just wanted to forget it.
Documented every time you go outside and noone looks Native American in a continent where 100% of the population was once Native American.

And where bisons were so numerous that roamed the land lifting so much dust that the sky turned dark.
I don't know that I have a strong opinion on this. I'm just curious why such a large majority of people are so focused on speed. I don't generally care about increasing distance either -- I'm just focused on general health and the enjoyment of the experience more than how fast I do the thing. A long bike ride with friends at a fast-enough-to-get-exercise pace is delightful. I never care about how long it takes us to do it.
In dating apps, the first approximation is that women rate men based on attributes that follow the power law (such as social status), whereas men rate women based on attributes that follow the normal distribution (such as looks, age etc.). The same dynamics applies to many animals when they choose their mates.

It directly follows that on these platforms, the attractiveness of men is much less evenly distributed than the attractiveness of women, but there is "rich get richer" or Matthew effect which skews the popularity of most men.

This point is almost never mentioned in such analysis. But that is the basis of the different experience average men and average women have on current dating market.
I get cat vibes from "Nix".
When I was 12 or 13 (in the early 1980s), the same thing happened to me. I told my mom, who scheduled an appointment at the doctor. At the appointment the doctor needed to prove around with his finger and said “mom, maybe you should wait outside”. My mom said no, she’d be there with me. I looked at her and said “no, you are going outside”. I was not going to get fingered while my mom watched. She left and the doctor did his job. Turned out to be harmless.
Very true, especially in the specifics IMO. The friction getting to a park is non trivial in that area too.
But why $2.50. Seems like an cheap tip.

A $5 would be 2x better
Isn't is ubiquitously available via Lens? By default, it's right there on the home screen.
Honestly, a "no bells and whistles" OS release is welcome.

The less the OS APIs change, the easier it is to build for the OS. As a small developer, constant API thrash is a nightmare. For example, the Android storage permissions API whiplash between 9, 10 and 11 was particularly painful.

Win32, for all its flaws, is brilliant in that regard.

The most disruptive change in 14 is probably the "full screen notifications" permission, which makes me a bit sad.

Now, only alarm clocks and VOIP apps are allowed to use full screen notifications. The motivation is good (prevent abuse), however this approach of "only these approved, pre-existing use cases are allowed" is an innovation stifler. This was functionality that made Android a lot more powerful than iOS.

There are plenty of valid use cases for a rich full screen, interactive notification-e.g. something that is extremely time sensitive.

The policy should be "don't abuse full screen notifs", not "only alarm clocks and voip". The latter ensures that there will be no further innovation in this area, and we'll never know if the limitations were overly strict or not.
AKS is an example of a deterministic algorithm which works out whether a number is prime or composite and runs in polynomial time in the number of bits in the number.

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

I'm not sure why you would expect this to break all (or any) cryptographic protocols.
> I find today's C++ extremely challenging to pick up speed for someone coming from let's say, Java. Smart pointers, pointer/references, rvalue reference, copy/move semantics, (perfect) forwarding, constructors, and how all that interacts with templates. It's just so unwieldy complex.

The main difference between Java and C++ in the features you listed boils down to a key difference between Java and C++: object ownership and lifecycle management.

Java's "let's just heap allocate the world and let the JVM sort itself out" allows Java developers to be oblivious to the need to actually think about the life cycle of any object at all. That's fine for some uses, and definitely most of Java's uses, but it's also something that prevents Java from even being considered an option in performance-minded applications. It also gets Java developers to develop incomplete mental models of how computers work. For example, a Java developer who does not understand pointers/references is also a Java developer who fails to understand Java's value and reference types. A Java developer who doesn't understand constructors has also more pressing matters to concern himself with.

In C++, there's a conscientious effort to ensure developers have full control over the life cycle of each and every single object ever instantiated throughout an app session. Smart pointers were added to provide clear semantics on how heap allocated objects should be owned and shared. Move semantics were added because developers want to transfer ownership of resources instead of having to deep copy objects around. These features are aimed at performance and memory safety in a language that by design allows developers to handle low-level details if they want to.

Then there's the backwards compatibility. Perfect forwarding is basically syntactic sugar to get rvalue references to work as expected.

> The worst thing is that after it finally compiles I feel I can't be sure if I've followed all the rules and best practices correctly or if it's going to blow up spectacularly and potentially unsafely at runtime.

The same goes for any programming language. You mentioned Java. I know people who work at an unicorn whose hiring process consists of putting together a Java web service, and they outright rejects people who present a project that hasn't been onboarded onto PMD or SpotBugs. We're talking about companies who hire experts and enforce code reviews, and they still enforce the use of linters and static code analyzers.
That’s actually how it works in the states, with many universities not requiring students to declare majors until they are at the end of being sophomores, and many departments being competitive (especially Computer Science). Education isn’t considered a hot major in the USA, so almost anyone can get in if they can get into the university offering it.

I guess silicon engineering isn’t as competitive as biochem because they have more spots for students (to support Samsung)?