skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That might be true in this case, but one partner using their knowledge as an advantage over the other to let them disproprtionately be squeezed out is just dirty business.

Nothing else. Partners are supposed to leverage the opportunity together, not each other.

It’s why attempts to simplify this and advocate for the actual innovators/creators who are just as much technical people are incredibly important.

Tech people need to retain way more of the equity, period. They create tangible value in building something. The “sales” oriented partners should earn their equity from the pool with delivering distribution or move on.
Perhaps a Fourier synthesis rather than an analysis, since there was no original map analysed into waves, but indeed, highly ingenious. Thank you for writing that article!
Or just let it get flag-killed; do we really need reddit tales that are too-good-to-be-true on the homepage?
If we are to reduce this to a vacuum in which we don't exist in a modern society with expectations and agreements, I'd accept your philosophising. Otherwise it's a distraction to the issue. No one has these arguments when their car is stolen. The purchase and disappearance of that car are nothing but manifestations of thoughts according to you.
Still No REPL for .NET Core in Visual Studio
> Alastair Reynolds

I always did wonder if the Musk Dogs species from Pushing Ice - who trick the colonists into blowing up their planet or something along those lines - was a vague dig at Musk...
Reads like a good outline for a sitcom. Disillusioned tech exec enrolls in arts school with quirky green haired genZ : ^ )
Older person perspective: I have gotten (and sometimes been able to sell!) equity in five companies in my lifetime. It's the main part of my wealth, but its surprising how much real estate and slow and steady investing can get you over time if you have a good income.

I tell my kids, always try to get equity or ownership rights over anything you do, when you can.

However, these things have gotten so much more complicated in my life time and frankly much more deceptive and hostile to employees who don't have a finance degree. And sometimes it helps to have a finance degree and cash to kick in. (Rich like the OP says.)

As an example: The first salaried job I ever had (19), at a completely boring company (I did their IT) they let you put a % of your paycheck in a thing called an ESOP. I put a little in, forgot about. About ten years later the company was sold and they tracked me down to give me a nice check. One class of stock, no RSUs, if the CEO made money I made money. The last start up I worked at: they had an incredible number of rounds, not all classes of stock were the same, and RSUs. It actually worked out well for me. But I can see how you can use the dream of a big pay out and then pull the rug out in indecipherable ways.
So the ideal is no one ever dies (most good!) while everyone makes more people (more good!). I guess eventually we'll figure out how to eat rocks. It's not sustainable. Earth is an island that has finite resources. We're covering it in crops to feed humanity, but in the process of doing so are making the planet less hospitable. Should we act now to prevent what we know will happen if we continue pretending like expansion is the only way?
Nice to know its not just us!
> Does intimacy somehow lend knowledge of whether someone's looking for a long term relationship?

In trying to understand your question, I'm realizing it's possible you are taking "intimacy" to mean "sexual intimacy." I don't think the author meant to speak euphemistically in that way. I think it just means deep, vulnerable relational knowledge of the other.

In which case, yes. When you get to know someone intimately, you acquire license to ask these kinds of more probing questions and you are justified in expecting honest answers to such questions. You also become more skilled at detecting facades and subterfuge from the other person.
I'm a bit curious here, since it feels like some information is missing.

You left this company in 2016, so by now, you know the outcome. You were there for under 2 years, so you only vested half. Based on my Googling, nothing physical was released and the company barely had a footprint. There's a patent (from when you would have been there), but neither you nor the "big rich man" are on it. It's also based in Oslo, which feels important to note.

I can't put my finger on it, but something feels very off here. I do agree the Reddit comments were quite inept, but at the same time, the conclusion doesn't resonate with me.

I think the real conclusion should be: A lot of startups are somewhere between risky and a straight-up scam, and very few are the next Google. If you're going to join a startup, YOU need to make sure it's the right one. If you don't have money, time is your most valuable asset, and you should be incredibly thoughtful about how you invest it.
> Not bullied in school since I could usually hold my own, but bullied by my father throughout my life. Being in a country where parental corporal punishment is normal, even encouraged, I was hit for minor to major (getting bad marks, staying out late to play with friends) events all throughout my life till I could save up enough to move out when I was 18.

> It took me my entire college life to get over the feeling of dread of an incoming kick or slap to my face when I said something that would be confrontational, it made it incredibly difficult for me to say no to things because any sort of response that wasn't in line with what an authority figure wanted would give me major fight-or-flight rendering me useless. Even at this point I avoid conflict but have done much better to face my fears and build the ability to speak my mind confidently.

> The PTSD made me leave my consultancy that I worked incredibly hard to build with a professor and a senior because they were working me to the ground and I didn't have the ability to say anything. Even at this moment the remnants of my past make me fearful of even applying for jobs even though I know I have a skillset that's industry standard.

> Bullying in any shape or form is horrible and can have lifelong consequences on your psyche. To those who perpetrate it or stand by and do nothing, please reconsider that it may affect someone's life as negatively as it has affected mine.

> Apologies for the rant, more power to those who feel they cannot stand up for themselves.

Thank you for writing this, it helped me realize something about some issues I have.
>> cap table

These are the magic words. If someone says to you in an offer "stock" and then tries to give it a "value" you say these magic words...

"Can I see the cap table."

If the answer is anything other than "Its in your inbox right now" then you go back and tell them that you want the shares but the value of them is ZERO without the cap table. You then ask for more cash/signing bonus etc.

That, and buying a single share as soon as you possibly can (if your staying or if you think there is an exit in the future)... once your a share holder new rules apply to you, around finance and funding!
The way AI makes me sad was best described either by Joel or some guy he was interviewing, way before LLMs. I went into IT/CS to assemble and repair intricate clockwork mechanisms, not to train puppies to not pee on the carpet.

Training ML models and data cleanup was already tedious and boring, and "prompt engineering" makes me want to blow my brains out (I work in a company with enough resources and tooling so those are not a problem). I'd rather go debug a memory leak in an old unmaintained C codebase ;)
The manufacturing costs and power use are not meaningfully different.
Thanks for the love, I just wish it was reflected in hiring (in general not you specifically lol)
> No, no you don't

Yeah, yeah, he does. Not only C/C++ v. Java, but before that ASM v. C/C++.

> There will be no competition because lazy people and people who have never seen the world outside their web bubble will simply opt for the cheapest option.

This is what most people would consider an opportunity. Get off HN and write competing apps. If these are really "lazy" developers delivering "slow and bloated" apps, you should have no problem kicking their asses in the marketplace.

But you won't.
There are are legal remedies to challenge false valuation.

There is a near endless list of ways to be defrauded if founders engage in illegal behavior and nobody is willing to legally challeng it. These range from simply tearing up you stock grant to transferring the IP to a parallel entity.
They were lyrics from a Tupac song. Clearly you are just not happy with the political environment in SF changing even slightly
Most European countries impose some form of price fixing on pharmaceuticals. The details vary by country but this is often done based on an economic value calculation, such as the number of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) that the drug would add for a typical patient. It's not impossible to do this in the USA, at least in the sense that it wouldn't violate the Constitution. But if would somewhat slow down the pace of new drugs. The US pharmaceutical industry launches far more new drugs every year than all of Europe, largely due to the outsize profit potential in the US domestic market. With price fixing we would lose out on some percentage of those new drugs.
I found a SO poll from 2021 result listing percentages of respondents IDEs [0]. There's overlap, so developers can use more than one, but Visual Studio Code is at 71%, Visual Studio at 33%, Notepad++ at 30% and vim in in 5th place at 24% (IntelliJ is at 29%).

[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-popular-...
It doesn’t matter what pct of equity you were given until the company is successful. I’m very honest with potential founding members of my startup. I can offer 2%-5% for certain roles, but if we fail, you’re not getting anything. And if you walk away, you’re essentially giving that equity back.

This is a long post about not understand startups and funding and has little to do with VCs.
> But also, it makes sense not to transmit power too far from where you are

yep, they’ll waste the energy trying to transmit it

sounds like they’re going to be attracting bitcoin miners. they’re the only use case that’s able to be in the middle of nowhere without needing other infrastructure, like robust internet.

any other use cases you all know of?
Damn, that wasn't right of them to scream you down. It sounds like an interesting argument.
Hair, as in the main shaft outside of the follicle, is mostly keratin and doesn't contain any DNA at all.
The power consumption is higher by an amount that is not easily detectable.

The power consumed by the relatively few gates that generate and verify the ECC code is dwarfed by the power consumption needed to transport bits over the PCB traces.

The extra memory cell arrays for ECC bits add some power consumption for refreshing their content and the extra PCB traces for the ECC bits add some power consumption, but this extra power is in the milliwatt range, so it is negligible in comparison with the CPU and GPU power even in a small laptop, not only in a desktop.

Most gaming desktops use overclocked memory modules that have an extra power consumption many times greater than the DDR5-4800 or DDR5-5600 ECC UDIMMs.

The ECC UDIMMs never need heatsinks, while many of the commonly used overclocked DIMMs will overheat without heatsinks.

So the claim that using ECC will increase the power consumption is completely bogus. Something like using a power-save profile instead of a high-performance profile, for clock management, or using JEDEC timings for memory, instead of high-performance timings, would diminish the power consumption by orders of magnitude more than not using ECC memory.
I think given a certain limited amount of resouces, creating a single web based app will often result in far higher quality than spreading the same resources across four different native apps.
Mini PC (or laptop motherboards) also have normal SSD storage, and are thus much more reliable than micro sdcard MLC flash cards.

There are ways to make Pi's more reliable, but it usually requires a lot of extra parts.

The ARM SoC do not have an IME though... ;)
And would you treat an API endpoint that's down the same way? Just silently ignore that a feature that's part of the user's workflow isn't actually working, that maybe only half of what was supposed to happen when they pressed a button actually happened?
Processors too can have implementation bugs (and had!), and bit flips, so even a perfect memory won't solve this edge scenario.
The ASRock boards have always supported ECC in their consumer tier AMD products (Ryzen).
Low-stress, high-ambition, high-pay. Pick two. Tutoring high school
students comes to mind.
> Most people just want to make apps for themselves.

"Most people"? Really?

Most people wouldn't recognize real source code if you tattooed it on them, much less have any desire to write code for themselves.
Still very stylistic and brownish colours; but look at main sentiment here the landing page doesn’t feel like a warm set of humans inviting you
This would greatly enhance the usefulness of tribal-electricity.
And for an image previewer I'd care.

If I'm opening a codebase with thousands of files, I don't mind to wait a couple of seconds, as long as it's responsive afterwards.
All your comment talked about was money in the abstract, so you totally missed the point.

The point was that here we have a technical founder who spent years of their life working hard to build a product only to have their hard work de-valued in ownership terms by a non-technical founder who would be cleaning toilets were it not for their ability to scam naive engineers into doing The Work for them.

The moral of the story: don't work hard for someone who can de-value your hard work on a whim while laughing all the way to the bank.

I've looked through job listings on workatastartup and I've interviewed with some of those companies. I've also submitted proposals to YC and joined their cofounder search site. So I am mildly familiar with the landscape of VC funding and startups.

On the cofounder search site I had dozens of non-technical co-founders who were trying to scam me out of years of my life by offering me anywhere from 10% to 49% equity as a...get this...COFOUNDER. These people don't want to do the work to develop the skills necessary to make their oftentimes idiotic visions a reality and they almost all want controlling equity stakes, as described in this poor bastard's story.
I have (but or course Apple make it hard to do so you need third party software). But that doesn't help with special mac only software that has it's own style, like Arc or Zed.
After Googling, it appears to be a thing and is very green.
> I see no reason to believe that all AGI (or GAI, to use your acronym) entities will be identical

I absolutely agree. There will be a Cambrian explosion of superintelligent forms.

> The additional value that humans present would thus be a diversity factor.

We already have a test for this. Parrots, octopus, whales and many other creatures are also diverse. But our problems are beyond their experience. Do we value their diversity as thinkers in our economy?

We don't.

(I am speaking in economic terms. We can deeply intensely highly "value" many things, but if we don't actually invest economic value in protecting or nuturing those things, our appreciation has little or no impact.)

--

> It comes down to timing: if there's technology available for humans to become less ... biological

That makes sence. The order things become viable makes all the difference.

What I am seeing is that AI as software/minds is moving faster and faster. AI "bodies", i.e. robotic forms, are moving much slower but gaining steam. And our ability to augment biological forms is moving far far slower.

All three areas are accelerating, but the disparity between them isn't shrinking - for now. But who knows? The next couple decades will be interesting!

Maybe going fully artificial ("self-designed" might be a more meaningful description) will become trivial sooner than we think. :)

--

> Lastly, I'm suspicious that GAI entities won't be purely economically motivated, because I don't see any reason that they'll be "purely" anything at all.

I think they will be deeply motivated economically to care about ethics. Just as our genes and culture have (slowly) responded to the tremendous value of creating win-win situations.

Also, our general curiosity about about many things that don't have immediate economic value, actually does drive unpredicted personal and society level economic advances over the long run. So I expect they will maintain interest in general and undirected learning.

Similarly, our appreciation for seemingly non-economic shows of creativity (art, music, competitive games, mathematics for its own sake, etc.) can be thought of as the active form of curiosity. The development of novel and surprising artifacts and challenging competitions, may have value to AI's as well.

Everything that is important to us became that way for some economic reason: specifically, survival energy economics. So many of our seemingly non-economic activities may continue to have analogous roles for future intelligences.
That’s quite a magnanimous attitude. As an American with some disability, I feel the need to save all the money I can while I am able to work in order to meet my inevitable healthcare needs where the social safety net is very thin. Perhaps Switzerland is different? Also, I do not feel like most of our military spending has served to make us safer in quite a while. Perhaps it that effort was focused more locally, it would be easier to accept.
Wired Publishes Facts-Optional Screed Against Section 230
Haha thanks, was a lot of fun
If you pay attention it was posted on HN by exacty same user as on reddit.

So I suppose whoever posted it telling story of his own.
> The trick was the pre-money valuation was decided by the “internal round” participants. They basically decided the company was near worthless valuation pre-money. This then meant you owned 15% of nearly nothing.

And if that pre-money valuation is very wrong you can sue them for fraud. Judges won't take kindly to that sort of maneuver.
Doodling at least appears to help with memory recall.

Anecdotally I've always found that when I see a doodle made during a meeting or lecture I get a much more vivid recollection of the actual content.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090226210039.h....
To me, it sounds like "if it doesn't work 100.00% of the time, we cannot trust it and should forbid it", but the reality is that neither the world (and even internet) nor electricity nor healthcare, are "100.00% available/reliable".

In general don't worry that for very important calculations, they are run a couple of times, at least just to verify.
Yes, actual size, but also relative to the size of their economy. Considering Philippines GDP, this is significant.
I think RDIMMs are available in higher capacities than UDIMMs. But the registering adds additional latency. So if you need the capacity, RDIMM is the way to go. But if you don't, you might prefer UDIMMs.
It's the End of the Web as We Know It
Authors 'excluded from Hugo awards over China concerns'
What do you mean exactly?

Moderation in the classical sense, where spam/off topic content is removed?

or

"Moderation": Consensus manipulation, speech/thought policing, censorship of opposing/controversial ideas, etc?

Because in practice "Moderation" is what you get (and what they spend most of their time doing), but they sell you on the above by fear mongering about spam.
> Bottom line, public money must come with strings attached that serve the public interest. Pharmaceutical companies should be under heightened scrutiny and regulation because of where they get their IP.

Drugs go off patent, and generics don’t have to undergo clinical trials. Sounds like the public benefits quite a bit. After a relatively short period of time (usually 10 years post FDA approval) a generic comes in the market for a fraction of the price.

The problem is, once a drug gets approved everyone thinks they are entitled to it. It is fundamentally a selfish problem; “I deserve XYZ” as opposed to “everyone will benefit after it’s paid for”.
Here is a great comparison of land use for different power sources, based on power output: https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source

Solar is roughly on par with coal, depending on the exact type of solar technology used. Of course you can put solar on existing structures, in which case the land use is negligible and on par with nuclear.

Regarding energy input, solar panels break even after about two years, I think (no source on hand currently). It would be quite easy to have solar panel production run entirely on renewable energy input.

Regarding the other resources, you can't really compare energy sources to one another, as all are using vastly different inputs and have different challenges regarding disposal of waste and recycling. You'd have to make a judgement based on impact. I.e. coal is really bad, because it produces CO2 which has potentially society-ending consequences. Nuclear has challenges, because the waste remains radioactive for so long. My personal impression is that solar has some challenges, but those are manageable and likely can be mitigated by regulating disposal and recycling of old panels.
I asked it to generate one using matplotlib and it worked.
I was agreeing with you that it seems overpriced and relying on a niche market that doesn't care about being cost effective hardware-wise.
I'm fully aware of how unsatisfying this reply is, but unfortunately I can't seem to find links. It's been a few years since I was deep diving into ledgers and I must have cleared my bookmarks from that time.
And an AP1000 reactor costs about $6.8 billion to build, and substantially higher operating costs. 68% of the power for 14% of the price seems like a pretty good deal to me, there's a reason people are investing more in solar than nuclear, it's just more cost effective.

edit: Oh, and that $6.8 billion looks optimistic. This project with two AP1000s looks like it costs $30 billion. https://www.ans.org/news/article-3949/vogtle-project-update-...
As someone foreign to the macos ecosystem, what... makes you say that? This Github looks perfectly innocuous.
Competitive programming code is extremely easy to test, but many would argue it isn't high quality.
I wonder if mycorrizhae is extending through the frog's body?

Says this type of fungus is saprotrophic. Hard to imagine anything but a parasitic relationship from the frog's perspective.

But the fungus is mature enough to fruit and the frog is still living??? That is one hearty frog. I wonder if it had a mutation
What are the reasons that you have decided to drop ST?
> Just because you have a license doesn't mean you have to use it

This is completely untrue for broadcast licenses.
> It's shrinking very rapidly as we have this silly argument, even as you'd admit that no action was taken to reduce spending: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

That's not answering the question.

> educate you about these issues.

Oh, DO be quiet. You could "educate" me by actually answering the question, but (once again) you haven't.

Bye again!
People do shopping, taxes and banking on their computers now. They use personal certificates to sign legally binding documents.

Them not having ECC is insanity.

There are of course niche cases where memory reliability does not matter. Exceptions can be made for those few.

But think about the general case first. Got to protect the non-technical from non-ECC memory.
Thanks, I had no idea. Gonna added to my reading list.