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Ask HN: Leave and exercise shares (and get poor), or stay put (and get bored)?
Hi,

I'm currently the Head of Product at a startup in the Series A stage. Like many others, we feel the recession, but we're not complaining. We have a few years of runway. We're mainly experiencing a significant slowdown in our growth. Our ARR hasn't changed much this year. This essentially means that our Series B funding round is pushed back to 2025 (if it happens at all)

I'm in a pretty good position, enjoy a good working environment, and have earned the trust of my founders. However, I'm increasingly feeling bored and eager to take on new challenges. After four years here, it feels like I've explored all aspects of my role.

Yet, I find myself feeling somewhat trapped by my company shares. They are currently worth $200,000, and exercising them would cost me $25,000. While I do have the funds, it's a substantial chunk of my savings, about 30%. On the flip side, I'm confident in the company's potential and believe these shares could increase in value. The company isn't overvalued at the moment. In case of an exit, there's a good chance for a significant profit, which is crucial considering I live in a high-cost real estate area where a decent salary alone doesn't cut it for home ownership. These shares might be one of my few, possibly only, shots at building substantial wealth. Of course, I know I could also lose everything.

I'm reaching out for advice because I'm at a crossroads. This situation is new to me, and I'm not even sure what information I should be considering to help make this decision. My initial plan was to wait until the Series B round, as it seemed to significantly lower the risk of loss. But with the Series B now pushed back by two years, I don't know. I'm not sure I can wait that long, yet I'm also not ready to make a snap decision about acquiring these shares.

Should I wait? Should I go ahead and acquire all the shares? Should I leave and acquire none? Or should I leave and only acquire a portion of the shares? I know there's no definitive answer, but I would appreciate some insights to help lean towards a decision. I feel unable to make this decision alone right now.

Has anyone been in a similar situation?

Thanks a lot for your insights.
Seriously amazing piece of tech here - satellite sourced emissions data covering the globe and the majority of industry. As someone who stares at this kind of thing most days, this latest release represents the gold standard for the sustainable development goal-y trinity of emissions data sourcing, wrangling & visualisation.

According to the presser they're looking to begin releasing updates multiple times per year, in the new year. Fairly impressed.
It's also a company the US government is presently suing for antitrust violations. That seems like an issue too.

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/12/1198558372/doj-google-monopol...
Out of curiosity I landed at http://sauerbraten.org and was not disappointed by the trailer.
Klarna freezes hiring as chief bets AI can do the job instead
Power is not the same as energy obviously, but otherwise it is the rate at which the thermal energy is spent.
For one, HN misbehaves pretty badly on mobile.
Don't care. They're wrong.
Thanks, did not know that. Will look.
What I find brilliant about this work, is that it calls back to many things the scientific community has done in the past. (Like the use of specially bred lab rats and immortal human cell culture lines.) I would expect to see many of the events in the story play out in real life, if human minds ever are uploaded.
As a European subjectively the bigger problem within the US is one of culture and education. Where in the past one had the feeling people in the US where at least interested in a better future, it now feels one third wants to actively burn it down (as long as it triggers their enemies) while another third isn't interested into anything that helps anybody except themselves.

On top of that the societal contract in the US has been broken. It is no longer enough to get a good education to find a job that will secure your future. There is too much skimmed of the top for that to be possible. The big corps are so oversized and monopolized that any young entrepeneueship is crushed right there and then unless it is in tech — and even there your end goal is usually getting bought by the big ones.

Where I live the minimum wage is double to that in the US and we have universal healthcare and a working social system and decent infrastructure. You just have to tax the big earners instead of stuffing them with the tax money from the small fishes.
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I have a question about the control rods: are they normally removed completely when you want the reactor to run? If they are partially inserted, that would seem to mean that the reactor fuel would burn unevenly, with the pellets at the bottom used up sooner than the top. Is that true, and is it a problem that has mitigations?
> My wife is a researcher in Germany and because of something called the "Wissenschaftszeitgesetz"

For a country that prides itself in research and engineering culture, this piece of legislation really is an embarrasment
Just like in the good old days of IE.
Obviously, only a very tiny proportion of that power is spent towards making the clays that we needed. We could spend a fraction of what we have and still outdo Earth by orders of magnitude.
Over the many nuclear reactors, hydro stations, geothermal stations (which I guess is kind of cheating since it measures energy twice), tidal power stations, solar panels, wind turbines, gas and coal fired generators, and all the other odd-ball power generation devices used around the world, I could believe it. The heat can only get to a place where we actually measure it via lots of thermal mass that would slow things down.

The energy emitted from the core of the earth, and human generated power combined is most likely dwarfed by the equivalent watts from sunlight alone.

Assuming the low "realistic" estimate [0], the total amount of watts hitting the earth at any one time is 694.2 TW [1]... instantaneously. So that would add up much quicker.

Edit: I'm an idiot, the sun doesn't face the whole earth at once. It would still be a lot at half that though!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight#Solar_constant
[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%281.361+*+5.100644719%...
Oh damn, looks the creator was part of Spotify's recent layoffs. He was a genre researcher while he was there.
The Meetup website is the major source.

I also promote the events in local slack channels and on linkedin and twitter. Over the years we've built a newsletter and web presence and all that, but for discovery meetup is still king, though eventbrite and other places are okay.
> But people who have one home still need one home, right? So you're describing taxing wealthy people into competition with lower income people (lower-income housing), not taxing them out of it.

By this logic, if you could snap your fingers and make half of all wealthy people's net worth disappear (by some definition of wealthy), it would cause rents to go... up? You only need basic economics to know it doesn't work that way.

> And no, there's no logical inconsistency with predicting different effects from the same purchasing power removed from the top as added to the bottom

The effects would certainly be different, but how they would ultimately resolve in aggregate isn't even theoretically computable. Yet you're claiming to know what the exact impact would be. All we can say for sure is that there would be two massive countervailing effects.

> At this point it's clear you haven't even attempted to read the paper.

No I haven't because it would be a waste of time. Reading the abstract is enough to know that the premise is flawed and it can't possibly provide empirical evidence to support your hypothesis because there is no control. The same exact changes in default rates and rents could have easily occurred without the minimum wage increase due to countless other factors. It's pseudoscience.
> Now you're being dishonest. The 6-month sentence was a plea deal he declined. It was a 35-50 year sentence if he fought and lost all charges

No, it was not a 35-50 year sentence. That's the theoretical sentence one could get for those same crimes if all the sentence enhancing factors that can apply do apply. Repeat offender, part of organized crime, massive monetary damage, drugs involved, things like that. Swartz didn't have any of those factors.

Here's an article on how DoJ press releases ridiculously exaggerate potential sentences [1].

If the prosecution has been able to prove everything they alleged and the judge decided to make an example of Swartz it might have been up to 7 years, but that is unlikely. Swartz's attorney said that if they had gone to trial and lost he thought it was unlikely that Swartz would get any jail time.

[1] https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc...
Toxic in this context means rude, disrespectful and unreasonable. Insulting and offensive are just as subjective as rude or disrespectful.

We just have a culture of "sticks and stones" and people who leave toxic conversations are called "snowflakes" and told to "grow thicker skin".
> I would like to live in a world where I could use Beeper without worry but I don't feel like we currently live in that world. Am I wrong?

I've been using Beeper for close to six months, and it's been a dream.
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Interesting.

Thanks for the reply.
What's inside this crater in Madagascar?
Simple mobile tools suite is sold to Zippo apps [video]
Simple mobile tools suite is sold to Zippo apps.
How is it propaganda?
Couldn’t you get an external convert box for many of these formats and hook it up to a standard HDMI monitor?
It looks like twitter has about twice the global users as in 2013, but there are like twice the internet users globally than in 2013 and ~5 countries make up half their users.. So it seems pretty accurate to me that they are further from global relevance than in 2013.
Yes, with properly developed AI, rather than penalizing speeding, which most of us do and is also a proxy for harmful outcomes and inefficiencies, we can penalize reckless behaviors such as coming too close to vehicles, aggressive weaving, and other factors that are tightly correlated with the negative outcomes we care to reduce (i.e. loss of life, property damage). So too, the systems could warn people about their behavior and guide them in ways that would positively increase everyone's benefits. Of course this circumstance will probably go away with self-directing cars (which fall into the "do the right thing by default" bucket) but the point is illustrated that the laws can be better formulated to focus on increasing the probabilities of desirable outcomes (i.e. harm reduction, efficiency, effectiveness), be embodied and delivered in the moment (research required on means of doing so that don't exacerbate problems), and carry with them a beneficial component (i.e. understanding).
This is something that irritates me about some languages. I get the intention of keeping a clean language, but for something as foundational and basic as CGI... what's the real problem in keeping it there? It's not like CGI itself has changed much in the past 20 years...

I've written some stuff in Python but it seems like keeping up with Python and its near-infinite PEPs is half the job. They still can't get on the same page about how to package and share things on PyPI, or which tooling a developer should use to test integration or build packages, etc. I'm somewhat realizing what I enjoy about Python is more its dynamism and lack of verbose syntax. Or, cool stuff like list comprehensions and decorators.

The community is insufferable. I wish I could find a programming language that was high level, effective, but boring in the sense that it isn't being changed every other year. Something that I can build on for five years or more.

It's a strange thought but I've heard of people using PHP, of all things, to write general purpose CLI programs and whatnot. It had never occurred to me to try that even though I knew it was possible. It just felt... dirty.
When they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, ems will displace humans in most jobs.

When they can be used for most military purposes, something deeply fundamental about human political organization will have been completely disrupted.
atticora has a good answer.

In addition, he created his podcast in 2018, and a youtube channel in 2006.

"Fridman began his podcast in 2018. It was originally titled The Artificial Intelligence Podcast"

It just goes to show that with a little credentials, a little intelligence and consistent effort, after 17 years, goes a long way.

Tell me a case where someone who has all 3, after 17 years didn't have something to show for it.
Absolutely.

Going further, the little-known git-notes [1] feature also uses its own reference namespace, `refs/notes/`

Going even further, Gerrit [2] leverages the wide-open reference namespace/directories to create its own. For example, pushing under the `refs/for/` namespace creates a new review, and specific reviews can be looked up under the `refs/changes/` namespace.

Even even further, Gerrit's special repos All-Users.git and All-Projects.git are "databases" for project configuration and user configuration, where for example external IDs (like usernames) are stored under the special `refs/meta/external-ids` ref/branch. This has the notable benefit that all configuration changes are tracked and auditable.

I believe git-appraise [3] also leverages special reference namespaces in Git for performing its review duties (but I don't know details) Edit: actually no, it "just" leverages git-notes.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes

[2] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/note-db...

[3] https://github.com/google/git-appraise
SoundHound it's actually much more impressive because it can recognize hummed or whistled songs too!
YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in prison for obstructing probe into plane crash - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38523704 - Dec 2023 (261 comments)
Giving it to an llm. Check out our website: Onistep.com

For the time: Less than 5 second or it lose all purposes.
CSS in JS was such a dumb mistake. This really shouldn’t be a serious consideration in 2023.
I don't think you could write a more hate filled, biased, article if you tried. I could tell from the first 7 words, which open up with an immediate character attack about the way someone dresses. And it's all way, way, downhill from there. This type of pure hate propaganda does more to destroy our civilization than anything Elon Musk has or will ever do.
You cannot "estimate" the probability of a catastrophic event, i.e. a Black Swan. All you can say is that it's possible, and over a long enough time period, things like that will happen. As well as things you never imagined.
That's because received messages are grey, but the messages sent from an iPhone to an iMessage recipient are blue. So I'd ask if when he texts you back if his texts are blue.
That’s why I run everything I write through a random open source LLM with random settings and a custom decoder /s

I’m kidding, but the reality is such techniques will fool almost all stylometric analysis,

Also most actual stylinetric analysts work for spooks or are spooks.
> 'many people always ask ‘what do you think Apple is going to do about this?' I am shocked that everyone is so shocked by the sheer existence of a 3rd party iMessage client.

I'm not shocked that someone figured out how to create a 3rd-party iMessage client, however I am somewhat skeptical of the notion that Apple will not find a way to break it.
As an aside, "the Ukraine" has mildly offensive connotations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine#English_defini...
Makes sense. In many applications the ‘human in the loop’ will become the weakest link. Imagine giving alpha go to players as a suggested move assistant. Even the best players would have seen alpha go’s suggestions and thought they were an error. Can we eventually trust AI even if we can’t understand its reasoning?
Would it improve in relative terms to those entities who can run 1000's and millions of such agents? And what if that disparity gets exponentially steeper as time goes on?
So basically, worse than StackOverflow? :-P

Seems the nastier people are to contributors, the better the end product is for the 10000x more people reading it.

You know all those cruel piano teachers in Russia? But the audience actually wanted to hear the pianists later in life! It's like that... but collaborating on content, with NO CELEBRITIES :)
Teleport anywhere in VR (Stable Diffusion+LCMs to generate scenes)
The government gets a lot of things right and has solved a lot of problems. It doesn't get everything right and it can't solve every problem, of course.

I think that it's not logically coherent to say that government is worthless just because it hasn't managed to resolve your favorite issue yet.

Don't get me wrong -- the government is no panacea, and sometimes it can even make a problem worse. But it is a powerful force that can and does address and resolve real issues.
for most drugs I agree but if we were going to be serious about legal heroin and coke and meth and the heavy shit to me it makes sense to say 18 for most shit then 25 plus a license to get the heavy shit
I've been long time listener of his show, so I don't necessarily disagree with your points. It just seems like he punches above his weight when it comes to guests.
Cola wars?
I remember being jealous I couldn't use Trillian because I didn't have a way to pay for it. Running AIM, ICQ and MSN all at the same time.
It may be a common phrase, but I’ve never seen such a road myself. Mostly bad outcomes are preceded by bad intentions, or lazy ones, or selfish ones.

I’d be interested in a couple of examples, if anyone has good ones, but I’m pretty sure that if we put stuff like 737MAX MCAS, the Texas power grid fiasco, etc the count of badly paved roads would be greater.
Shazam isn't great, so many tracks it can't identify or comes up with random electro-trance tracks. online services like a-ha are better
Dude you could be Harry Kim on the holodeck creating whatever you can think of. What's wrong with that?
Now we have 70B LLM models.
They have to draw a line somewhere or the project gets spammed with self-promotional articles. Requiring notability does a decent job of keeping the spam out.
> "free market is always good and government is bad"

This view seems especially American, but it is also a very liberal view (in the philosophical sense, not the somewhat weird partisan sense). Liberalism reconceives the common good, private property, and freedom dramatically. Whereas traditionally, the state is viewed as steward of the common good (that is its essential function), and private property as something instituted for the sake of the common good, liberalism conceives of private property as primary and the common good as something grudgingly ceded from the private good. Freedom is traditionally understood as the ability to do what one ought (the freedom to be what you are by nature, that is, a human being), but liberalism construes it as the ability to do whatever you please. (It's an odd idea. If I happen to want to gouge my eyes out and cut my arms off for no reason, doing so does not make me free. It makes me less free, because now I am less capable of functioning fully as a human being. I am confined and prevented from doing all sorts of good things. Human nature is the yardstick by which freedom is measured.)

What does this all mean? Well, it means government becomes construed as an artificial, even malicious construct that stands in the way of freedom. Certainly corruption exists, but this is not a valid argument against government as such. And besides, without government, something fills the vacuum. The absence of authority isn't freedom, but exposure to power that lacks authority.

So, yeah, free markets are good, as long as freedom (and thus the good) is construed in the traditional, not the liberal sense. That means that government, properly understood, is not an obstacle to free markets, but a sine qua non of truly free markets.
"Why make others happy when I can profit (and be happy) from their misery?"
This is what bothers me the most. Design the system so it doesn't rely on keepers remembering to lock doors. For one shift door to open, everything else must be locked down.
> On one hand, the guy doesn't really look like a "bad guy"

Curious: why doesn't he look like a bad guy to you?
The original comment said "All I found is a statement that they use some score from some tool and link to the tool developer's site". So if that's all there is regarding classification, their methodology is not nailed down very well in my view. But maybe there's more and we haven't found it?
Eh, no. Never would I give Twitter and Chief Twit my bank details.
Obviously "wealth" went up by trillions of dollars. we flooded the system with said trillions of dollars

But its all junk, fake wealth [1]. We cant even make artillery shells for f^*^'s sake. Interest rates are high, inflation is being tamed by selling the oil reserves and collapsing demand.

[1] actually its not entirely fake. No matter how pathetic a currency is, it's the metric of wealth. When you pour printed banknotes onto a favored constituent said constituent gets proportionally more money than the rest of society.
"What special sauce do you expect Mozilla to implement that'll suddenly change their fortunes?"

XUL extensions maybe? The reason I gave up on Firefox after literally decades of using it was because they kept removing features I was actively using without fixing any of the problems. What's the point of using a niche browser if it is exactly like the non-niche browser, but with more compatibility issues?
> Drivers are _atrocious_

Very true. I currently live in Boulder County. I've lived in a lot of different places in the USA and Colorado by far has the absolute most absent-minded selfish drivers.

People straight up driving the wrong way down one-way roads unapologetically, going 65 in a residential 25, expired tags, no license plates, and blinkers are rarely used.
Well, I left a comment there... Hopefully if there is something left out which explains that, they'll add it.
Just want to throw out there that ~20 years ago I sometimes got better framerates in linux than windows on the same hardware for certain FPS games
It doesn't.

Words have meanings, and a loan is not "income".
It's shameful that Apple forces people to go to these lengths to send messages to their users.
More and more often, I see titles that are not capitalized.

Is it a new trend ?
At the time, I had a FirefoxOS device made by ZTE in my hands.

It was so slow, it was unusable; even the first Android devices running on underpowered hardware were speed champions in comparison. Looking for an Whatsapp launcher was beyond the patience of even dedicated fans.
Using memory systems to memorize text passages
Used to not be the case!

I guess those of us with no connections anymore are out of luck.
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