skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a successful founder in New Zealand that bootstrapped.

You are correct that I'm unfamiliar with employee options: that is why I'm asking what you are saying because it just doesn't make any sense to me (looking at it as a founder). I'm trying to understand but failing and your explanations feel to me like they go left-field every time.

The VC culture here is rather thin and options are not commonly used.

> par value be set at $0.00001 and no higher than $0.0001 per share

Sure, that is at inception. If you are getting shares at inception you are one of the first employees. One Angel investor and the shares get a valuation and that valuation is nothing like par value. Money for early employees often comes from investors. I guess the founders could be paying you but that would be less common.

When your options convert you pay the option strike price, not the par value. Setting the options at a price close to par would be extremely strange because they would dilute the founders.

I guess I'm saying that I don't understand because the financial incentives seem wrong and everything you've said doesn't seem to fit together to me: including your comment on par value.

"The exercise price may never be less than the fair market value (FMV) of the underlying stock on the date the option is granted."

Fair market value shouldn't be anywhere near the initial par value (unless the business is close to worthless).

I guess it could make sense if the founders decided they were giving you x% of stock, and they used options as an intermediate step to do that for some reason (e.g. vesting).
heck, i live on the other side of the globe (haa, take that flat earthers /s)
so i am stuck.
Your last line immediately made me think. probably in near future, techies of the future would say something similar about our achievements, maybe gpt, or 4 qbit quantum computer.
Serious question: will the cost of energy come down in California as a result? Why is it still so high?
Flat Earthers spend thousands of times more effort on their research than Roundies do, because they understand that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Few know this.
GPT-3 sure. There's no model that's even close to GPT-4, though. And we don't really know much about the actual size of that, only lots of speculation.
The new version of Turbo Tax forces you to sign into the Intuit website account to activate the serial number before you can start to enter data.
Sorry for nitpicking, but just trying to clarify what seems like a double negative - do you mean "to affirm that equation", i.e. that the author claims they are equal?
OpenAI would likely start using AI to detect the content generation and ban the users. It wouldn't even need to be GPT level. Just they could use some AI labelling and counting.
Ask HN: What to do in this tech market?
I've been looking for a job for 2 years with no success, my savings are mostly depleted and I have no idea what I'm going to do when they run out

I had a good career before this, I've worked at FAANG, and at startups. I've managed teams, I've delivered great software, but none of that seems to matter – I haven't even had a first interview in months, I just get turned down or ghosted every single time.

No one in my network has reached out to ask what I'm doing now, I feel ashamed that people I know are able to get promotions, new roles, they're thriving and I'm failing.

Am I the only one in this situation? What are other people doing? I feel like the world is ending but other people seem to be handling it just fine
So many people misusing the word Asian in this thread. It's a big place and it has a lot of different rice-eating cultures.
Psychedelics are a force to be reckoned with. Plus people are conflating clinical trials with taking unknown substances, in unknown amounts without considering the proper set and setting.

Controlling for the substance and amount as well as having a professional, caring guide to help the patient through the experience will be a FAR different experience than eating a fist-full of shrooms at a party some stranger gave you while under the influence of other things...
He signed an extension bill to extend s702 just like Obama before him since that section was introduced.

Biden has just extended it again and this time by bypassing Congress since apparently republicans now “care” about privacy.
Who's going to make the first open source monitor?
Shouldn't that be 'pendant'?
modernc.org/sqlite now supports Linux/loong64
Absolutely. They surveil us, we sousveil them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
You can't legislate away corrupt judges. Also when one of the sides asks to question you as a witness and the judge proceeds to swear you in, you do just that and later complain, not start and argument there and then.
Do you have a screenshot or copy of such a video?
Kraken is sadly a dead project, with little work being done. For example support for Containerd is non-existent or just not documented.

I created Spegel to fill the gap but focus on the P2P registry component without the overhead of running a stateful application.
https://github.com/spegel-org/spegel
It’s a slogan popularized by Python.

Python with its seven circles of infinite package hell also demonstrates the limits of this approach. It’s not very useful that the language gives you two AA batteries when your application needs a megawatt of power (metaphorically).
There is some news OpenAI spent 4 billion dollars for data sourcing.
Yes, but to no avail
I do this with my rice cooker
Easy peasy no magic Asian touch required

My mother tried to teach me the knuckle method as a child and it just bothered me. I need that precise ratio.
Not everyone has it even initially; it really varies from person to person. I suspect that to some extent it is influenced by past exposure to fast-paced first-person games (e.g. FPS when played using the mouse).
I love this design. Looks solid!
So batteries are too expensive, but space launches aren't? Even assuming the light can be sufficiently focused to bypass the inverse-square law, it'll still need precision manufacturing to actually deliver the power to the panels reliably. And that's assuming mirrors are enough, and you don't need space-side solar panels and microwave/laser beams (which will be even more expensive than hundred-mile-focus mirrors).
> So everyone is "fighting": do we want less houses built, less nature, or less farmers.

What stance do the "Partij voor de Dieren" (animals' party) take?

(and is this what would count as "fighting" by US standards, or is it more along the lines of "we'll all write passive-aggressive rhyming couplets about each other's misbehaviours come christmastime"?)
Market Pressure
I specified Celsius. And being willfully foolish as to the direction of the temperature change is childish.
Not until 2035 at least
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Spain

That's 10 years to build alternatives assuming no further extensions or new nuclear.
I’m guessing the 'blind' method looked something like using one of the early graphics tablets to trace routes or tap control points on a paper map according to a sequence displayed on a text terminal, with no graphical feedback to confirm the vector data during input.
Nuclear helps to reliably produce electricity when there is a peak demand or renewable has a problem producing (no sun, draught)
> I'm forced to pay the highest spot price in the EU

This isn't true — prices are the same throughout a zone, but Germany and Sweden are not in the same zone. Sweden has several zones. The total possibly export from Sweden to neighbouring countries is not unlimited, which is the reason for the boundaries.

https://www.nordpoolgroup.com/en/the-power-market/Bidding-ar...
Thanks. I picked a fixed number of horizontal pixels per second for an internally cached image. I think it was 30 pixels/second so that scrolling at 1x playback rate would be smooth on 60/90/120Hz screens. So it can't zoom into the waveform like yours, but I don't need it to zoom.

There are two parts: first the C++/wasm that analyses the audio and generates a bitmap that has width 30*duration and not very high. It effectively draws a line from each audio sample to the next, with alpha, but this can be optimised like crazy to a point where the time it takes is unnoticeable.

The second part is the WebGL that the bitmap (aka texture) and renders to the canvas. In principle this could be rotated, spun in 3d, mapped to a sphere or any other crazy GPU manipulations. WebGL isn't too painful and works everywhere I tried including the Android webview in my Bungee Timewarp app.
Yes, we would have to disagree. Mozilla previously had a reputation of being open and tolerant, even for people with more conservative viewpoints. While the proclamation for inclusion might be louder today, it is far less believable now.

Especially if there are any moral "handcuffs" as you say, because that would be an obvious contradiction to their stated values which I would argue people will notice.

The rules of PR demand that you are less free with what you communicate and it also demands you to lie. Many opportunities that Mozilla had were lost without any gain.

Hard to believe that Eich discriminated against gay people like you suggested. And I feel that isn't even the issue of those that complained here.
> I live in Sweden with 90+% of renewable electricity generation

Except sweden isn't self sufficient at all with electricity… Can I really say that I'm 100% renewable if I have a tiny solar panel at home, and for the rest I use power from somewhere else?
> described as nice and generous by her friends.

I really hate these takes. Yes she was stealing a shit ton of money so she didn’t mind paying for stuff for friends and giving expensive gifts so people thought she was nice and generous.

Take away the money and likely she would have been seen as greedy and nitpicky.

It’s like people going “yea, he did steel a lot of cars, but I still think he was a pretty decent guy who always showed up in a nice looking car”
https://brisk.news/read/articles:ykn94y0xr6ex9zt66zfs
Ask HN: Does Anyone Use a "Closed Core" Software Model?
Hello HN,

I'm exploring variations in software business models and came across what I'd call a "closed core" approach: the main system is proprietary, but all additional modules are open-source.

- Are there examples of companies adopting this model?

- What are the potential benefits or pitfalls?

- How does it impact community engagement and software adoption?
Nice! Great project website styling and demo.

I had a WebGPU scope demo using vanila JS here, but it's not connected to AudioContext at all.

https://stackblitz.com/edit/vitejs-vite-cuc9vs

Still, I had to use the old WebGL solution for https://glicol.org since the WebGPU support seems to be pretty slow at the moment. Perhaps you can add some kind of detection and downgrade mechanism?
Same applies on the memory management front, while it is understandable the decision they have made, for compatibility with Objective-C frameworks and runtime, most tracing GCs with 20+ years deployment experience are still faster than Swift on server workloads.

And it is worth remembering that Objective-C only got ARC, because adding a tracing GC was a failure, given C semantics, and most applications being prone to crashes, when the GC got pointers wrong, thus automating retain/release pairs was a much safer approach.
In particular when more of that green energy is going to be used on bigger EVs, more aircon, more screens, etc. Western countries are unlikely to reduce their overall energy demand, in which we should account for the one necessary for producing the imported goods.

That said, opening solar farms to shut down coal plants is a net good regardless.
Dupe from yesterday (by the same poster? Maybe a bug.): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40037844
I guess you're right, negating an inequality is likely the same as affirming an equality? I am not a native speaker.
Show HN: 8x8 vs. Zoom Competitive Analysis
Hey,

I built a competitive intelligence platform and we can track your competitors.

Here, let me show you one example analysis result:
https://compint.co/meeting-solutions/8x8-vs-zoom

What do you think?
As others have said here, for residential, it probably makes more sense to knock down and rebuild than try some weird revamping.
security e.g. massive sandstorm from Sahara blocking a lot of solar
Surely the ideas themselves are what should be examined for ethical suitability, rather than the meta-idea of “ask an LLM for ideas”?
There is no need for backup fossil power to account for more than a few percent of electricity production in the medium term.

https://www.volts.wtf/p/what-the-sun-isnt-always-shining
the bank manager sounds like "Owning Mahony"
In US, the original war on drugs was racial in nature (targeting blacks and Mexicans specifically).

The particularly heavy-handed enforcement from 1970s onwards that spawned the term itself broadened into a war against the social and cultural opposition to the status quo - still partly racial in nature as various black civil rights and black power movements were a significant part of that, but also targeting anti-war protesters, "pinkos" etc.
The law can open source any code. It means that in the future the companies using such code might decide to use code they own or the people selling them that code might charge more upfront. But the market will adjust.
This guy clearly is just trying to bang on about racial superiority but coaxing it in terms of "they won't let us say the thing". Your response neatly shuts him down. Well done.
I'm not saying that water should not be used as a battery. I'm just saying that there is a very serious water crisis in big places in Spain, and to make the people not very familiar with Spain about the difference in weather and climate that exists within the country. Basically, the parts near the Atlantic ocean are always very rainy, and this year some other zone with no sea got a lot of rain, but the Mediterranean coasts have really low raining in general, and in recent years the situation worsened even more.
There were CRT based in-car record keeping systems used in police cars for a long time before laptops replaced them which had a very similar form factor.
Try that in August
I wrote exactly the same thing before reading your comment. I completely agree. For me one of the great things about writing in Emacs is the distinction about my personal draft and my published outuput, which is expressed by the distinction between a 'typewriter' fixed-width font and a beautiful LaTeX processed output. Blurring that distinction produces an anxiety.
we decided to base our GenAI framework - Edgechains on Hono. Primarily because of winterjs compatibility.
We build a WASM compiler to compile our prompts and chains into webassembly. Honojs was a critical part of it.

https://github.com/arakoodev/EdgeChains/
In terms of the ratio, we use equal parts water and rice, plus one additional cup of water.

If you're cooking about a cup of rice (which is a nice big amount with a standard measuring cup -- hard to imagine needing more unless you're cooking for 5+ people) that comes out the same as my 2:1 ratio.

Does that work if you're making a smaller amount, like a quarter or half cup of rice? Seems like it would be too much water.
Hence the typical observation that a lot of Big Data jobs actually run comfortably on a developer laptop.
It LOVES to happen on complicated in-construction off-grade intersections, where you usually need the navigation the most.
This can hardly be understood without knowing that in a number of cases, e.g. 90s hard disk configurations, you actually were required to set with switches which drive would act as 'master' and which one as 'slave'. This is offensive even a thousand miles away from being 'woke'.

Personally I also take exception to things like the Unix 'kill' command. You terminate a program, you don't 'kill' it. 'Killing' is for living things, and it's a one-time action. Programs are not alive, and I can restart them as I see fit.
My subjective take is the opposite - psychedelics make you see order (patterns) emerge out of seeming chaos pretty much everywhere you look.
Embezzlers are not smart nor brilliant. Its easy to steal its much harder and more luck is needed to earn the same amount. Id say about 100 to 1
Visual Studio Code Day 2024
The Kennedy Space Center is on the east coast of Florida. The house was on the west coast of Florida. And they're about 180 miles (290 km) apart. I guess from the point of view of space, they're not very far, but from someone living in Florida, I'm not sure I agree.
Microsoft's management keeps undercutting any good will that .NET manages to win, that is why.

Recent examples MSTest being proprietary for Native AOT testing, and no plans to help improve xUnit into that direction.

New VS Solution format, that might only be supported on the C# Dev Kit, also under VS license.

Killing VS4Mac, which although it has its own set of issues, VSCode still doesn't provide the same level of tooling for Mac and iDevices development as VS4Mac did, forcing anyone that cares to go out and buy Rider licenses instead.

The dotnet watch removal drama to only have hot-reload available on VS, thankfully back pedalled only thanks the engagement of high level .NET developers, with help of the community backslash on social media.
If that third party code must go in products that must eventually become open source, they won't be able to sell that code and it will be replaced by open source one because of market pressure.
Move fast and break things... not the brightest idea with heavily regulated markets when we talk about 1st world countries human lives.

But I'll probably die of old age than witness that massive childish ego admit a fuckup in any possible way. Till then, voting with my wallet and avoiding teslas like plague, novelty of cool tech gadget is long gone and reality seeps in.
Yep, but car racing today is orders of magnitude safer than it was decades ago, especially in F1. An insane amount of money, research and regulations has been poured into increasing safety by the FIA.

F1 tracks, cars, suits and helmets today are so safe that even on violent crashes at >45G[1] or flaming infernos[2] of gasoline and lithium, the driver can walk out of the wreck with a just a broken rib or a burned hand, whereas in the past that would have meant certain death or at least being crippled for life.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x45fLUTHCuk

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ7_En2xEm4
Huh, interesting. Well it still supports my point that when people looked to which version to resurrect, they did not pick Amarok 2.
And given the incoming tidal wave of DER and cheaper storage that curtailment will stop I bet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_generation
Show HN: A daily word game versus my grandma
RNNoise 0.2 – now trained using only publicly available CC-licensed datasets
> Why do you restrict your comparison to wired connections only?

Because wireless simply is not enough. There is a pretty fundamental limit to it, called the "sampling theorem". You simply don't have enough available bandwidth for the cell wireless to replace the wired connections, even in moderately dense environments.

This is not a theory, btw. I had T-Mobile 5G "fixed wireless" connection and could immediately tell when major live games were on. It also became nearly useless during the Superbowl. And that's with T-Mobile limiting the number of subscribers (there's a waitlist for 5G home Internet in my area).

> If there's not enough competition, you should perhaps looks into regulation that's strangling that competition; instead of assuming blindly that more regulation is the answer to problems caused by too much regulation.

The main problem is morons who think that you can compete within the ISP market, and thus strangling regulations meant to improve it.

After all, don't we all have 10 different tap water and sewage providers?
I remember a similar thing with the Novell login at school on Windows XP.

If you just unplugged the ethernet cable at the right time, you would login straight away and even with a higher permission account compared to a normal login.

Nobody really cared about computer security back then.
Telegram does this by having proprietary server and allowing users to compile its own client.

Benefits: you can abuse the users, pitfalls: you can be abused by the Government.

I hate to use software where developer party considers I need some "engagement" and the fact I have installed the software at all as "adoption", for me these are clear notices that you are doing some scam.
Not to mention that Hitler took a lot of influence from Southern USA racists/Jim Crow. The idea of racial purity was thoroughly globalised by the time the Nazis took power.
My point is that everyone seems to draw waveforms using only two colours. Inevitably, this results in aliasing.

In the extreme we have the "Spotify" visualisations of vertical bars with gaps in between. I believe this is popular because it looks slightly better than a solid waveform lump with an aliased edge.

To avoid aliasing you need to use more than two pixel colours.
Yes, the String is a list of characters. The Haskell code uses head and tail on it. In Racket, they provided string-first and string-rest (at the end) to replace those.
The Iranian general was actively working to help arm Hezbollah, who have been i a low-grade conflict with Israel since October 7th (and before). Think Israel and Hezbollah shooting rockets at each other back and forth for the last 6 months kind of conflict.

Because of this conflict, Israel has ~80k citizens who have had to evacuate their homes because they are too close to the border, and they are afraid to come back with Hezbollah continuing to attack.

See e.g. this random article: https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-global...

> According to a report in The Guardian, Zahedi “commanded units in Lebanon and Syria and was most likely a critical figure in Tehran’s relationship with Hezbollah and Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad”.

> Arab News quoted a US Department of the Treasury statement from August 3, 2010, saying that Zahedi “also acted as a liaison to Hezbollah and Syrian intelligence services and is reportedly charged with guaranteeing weapons shipments to Hezbollah.”
Surplus solar and wind can charge batteries. Would this not count as time shifted solar?
I’m also worried about all the self-medication, where people treat serious issues without supervision. But I also want to highlight that there is a place for recreational, responsible, and safe drug use; there is a _lot_ between between clinical/therapeutic settings and random recklessness.
I woke up and had groundhog-day vibes :)

Maybe this post got re-upped (?) from a previous submission.
What did it take behind the scenes to get this approved? Can you go into some of the decision-making? This is nice but a far too rare event these days.
There are a lot of creatures who cannot cross a road. Everything from slugs, soil bacteria, to various plants who only propagate by roots.

I do wonder how many of those creatures we have already wiped out, or have already doomed by slicing their populations up so small there is insufficient genetic diversity.
Exploring Improvements to the Firefox Sidebar
Virginia's power grid seems pretty dirty, it's 50% coal according to the figures on https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=VA#tabs-4
It only happened in the late middle ages, after possibly millenia of experience navigating easier waters. They simply didn't teach their methods to anyone
Will you sell the thing you just bought
It’s funny, this is the sort of harshness and absolute certainty Jen would have come out with. Nothing is certain but my opinion given the outcome is that it definitely did not help.
Show HN: a Rust based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images
cat for images, by RUST
I blame PG&E as a for-profit entity is why.
Open source groups say more software projects may be targeted for sabotage