skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It wasn’t always this way; from 2015-2019, everyone at Gumroad was paid cash, no equity. No one wanted any.

Gumroad started in 2011 and raised $8 million. The reason "no one wanted" any equity in 2015 was because they laid most employees off, replaced them with contractors, and the investors wrote their equity down to $1 as a gift to the founder. The founder got to keep the IP, ditch the founding employees, and continue running the company.

The founder wrote a couple articles about the experience:

https://www.businessinsider.com/startup-failure-gumroad-why-...

https://sahillavingia.com/reflecting

What's not pictured in these articles is the employee perspective. The founder got to keep his company, got the company's IP handed to him, and I don't know what became of the employees' equity. Probably nothing, given that the company had to be written down to nearly $0 for this transfer.

I remember reading a very angry Twitter rant from an ex employee who was burned. I wish I could find it now, but that was nearly a decade ago. It was one of my cautionary tales about taking equity in startups at the time. It hadn't ever crossed my mind that someone could take VC money, pay employees (partially with equity) to build a company, then everyone gets laid off, equity declared worthless, but the founder gets to continue operating the company at a profit.

It's also interesting to note that the Tweets embedded in both of those articles above come from Austen Allred, the now-infamous founder of Lambda School. Lambda School was rebranded to BloomTech after their first wave of scandals, which was rebranded again to Bloom Institute of Technology after their recent scandal (which resulted in Austen being banned from all student-lending related activities for 10 years). The two of them are prolific social media users and have an incredible ability to rewrite their own stories through sheer volume of social media postings and articles.
Hiring someone for work is not trivial, though it is practical.
> Recall won’t work with every Windows 11 computer. You’ll have to buy one of several fresh new “Copilot Plus PCs” powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Elite chips

Oh, thank goodness. That makes it much easier to avoid this sort of thing.
Correlation =\= Causation
Companies will make them if they perceive there being a big enough market to warrant making the product - which there isn't. The biggest problem is everybody has a different idea of the minimal feature set for a dumb phone. Voice and texting? Sure, sure. Those are table stakes. Hey - email would be nice too! Okay. You know, it'd be awfully convenient to have a camera so I can snap photo and send them to my friends. Okaaaaay. And so it goes. By the time you're done you'll have re-traced the feature development of the smartphone.

Here's the thing about smartphones - you can make them as dumb as you want. You can determine the set of minimal features that works for you, providing everything you need while minimizing distractions. I know, I know - crazy concept!
Newer Tesla Model 3 (2022+?) already have a 16V internal system (Li-ion) instead of 12V lead-acid.
Interestingly looks like both the US and Israel withdrew their signatures at some prior point.
> cheap rent ($1800 kitchenless studio)

Wow that's not cheap at all!

FWIW: I paid that for an awesome 2-bedroom with dedicated parking right on University Ave about a block from Middlefield 2009-2012. Now that's like half of my mortgage for a house that's about equivalent to the average homes in that neighborhood... But in a different state.
The only way mining and refining on the moon makes any sense is if you're building stuff to be used on the moon in your lunar colonies, and that's a long way off.
Parallels has excellent graphics acceleration.
That might work if Bel didn't have threads. But it does, so it doesn't.

Also, assigning the body is not the only way to undermine compilation. You can change a function into a non-function (by changing its first or second element) and vice versa. You can change a function's environment. You can change its argument list. You can modify the body of a function while it is being evaluated. You can change anything about a function at any time.
"Azure Active Directory" (now "Entra ID") and "Active Directory" caused me a great deal of confusion.
Well a common point between Texas police and California police. Police don't change much across the country though, they're their own insular culture.
> I pointed out that Hansen had suffered professionally and personally, and that she now feels those experiences tainted her career. “I didn’t say I was a nice guy,” Johnson replied, and laughed

I might be off, but my sense from the journalist report of the meeting is that Johnson was/is a jerk.
why would this platform need to have the answers to those questions? i would guess that all of those questions should be left up to each individual company. that is something to be figured out by the company, not the platform. it seems like flexile is simply a platform for facilitating those types of labor agreements. i doubt they want to be opinionated about all of that, and i think they shouldn't be. the platform is a system to make those deals easier, regardless of how the equity is structured etc.

at least, this is my hope as a broke ass peasant who invested in gumroad's "funding" offering, and also as somebody who sees this tool as a simple way to facilitate alternative labor relationships.
Different toolkits and interaction models.

AppKit is still dominant on macOS (despite the addition of Catalyst), UIKit is the chief framework on iOS/iPadOS/tvOS/visionOS, SwiftUI is native on watchOS and mostly wraps AppKit/UIKit on the other platforms. macOS is oriented around KB+mouse usage, iOS/iPadOS/watchOS are touch-dominant, tvOS is made to be remote-friendly, and visionOS is oriented around eye navigation and hand gestures.
Yes I didn't see he posted first!
Healthcare; as long as there's people there's going to be sickness and injuries. It can be a tough work environment, but it's as recession-proof an industry as your likely to find and you can ply your skills anywhere. Healthcare tech platforms also "benefit" from incredible vendor/consumer lock-in relationships. Once a major hospital settles on a healthcare platform it's going to take a minor apocalypse before they move.
do you know of any protracted war where this hasn't been the case? or even any urban war where the ratio of civilian casualties to combatants is as low as this current war?
> What options does it have to do that that would meet with your approval, or even grudging acquiescence?

They could form a state with equal rights, including right of return, for Jews and Palestinians.
No, but they should have.
It is tough for everybody. It's one of those pernicious things that sounds simple until you try it and start to realise just how many assumptions about the relationship between things are baked into both your mental model, as well as tooling.

A lot of things in UI are like this, but given the way the web has developed, it's particularly true. The article goes over some of this, although I think it kind of assumes the reader is more or less familiar with some of the issues that come up, but it could probably still give a naive reader some idea.
USED to be good, but now, meh... https://gamedev.net

For indie devs:

TIG Forums

https://forums.tigsource.com/

Syntax Bomb. Very small.

https://www.syntaxbomb.com/
I think you're thinking of the Lightspeed Leapfrog trope[1].

(In a more general sense, it's the inverse of the first-mover advantage: the law of the handicap of a head start[32])

Or: the early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LightspeedLeapfr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_handicap_of_a_head_...
Don't forget that job hopping is still the easiest way to get a significant raise...
I ran windows under qemu, with a GPU, and a dedicated soundcard, and multi-monitor for years - even though ostensibly there was a 10-15% "overhead" due to emulation/virtualization. I had exactly zero issues, and to be quite frank i couldn't tell any difference in framerates, especially compared to my windows laptop running the same games with roughly equivalent GPUs.
Using solar energy to generate heat at 1050°C high temperatures
Lenovo has been selling a Qualcomm laptop, the Thinkpad x13s, for several years already with questionable at best Linux support so I wouldn't expect the new ones to be much better.
It's not "Windows 12": Microsoft keeps Windows 11 branding despite major changes
> It consists of a quartz rod coupled to a ceramic absorber which, thanks to its optical properties, can efficiently absorb sunlight and convert it into heat.
Significant portions of those disapproving are people who want to intensify the war in Gaza, so I doubt an ICC warrant would make them more opposed to Netanyahu.

Think it is easy in the US to think Israeli public opinion somehow mirrors the US but the vast majority of people in Israel right now are pro-war (similar to the US post-9/11) and anti-two state

e: not sure why I'm downvoted for something that can easily be confirmed by googling polls
https://soundcloud.com/alabpodcast/episode-3-faketoshi-the-p...
As I saw someone else put it, this will probably be studied in decades to come as a case study in "why not to piss off your superpower ally."
Microsoft says "Prism" translation layer does for PCs what Rosetta did for Macs
Off the self software doesn't make sense for a company that is planning on lasting a long time. These solutions are all designed for multiple use cases. That means that there is complexity and inefficiencies that are not required for your particular problem. If you were to just focus on your problem wouldn't you just end up at an ASIC as the most optimal solution? Reason most software doesn't is 1) people like to re-invent the wheel 2) As you go start going lower level the less qualified people you can find.
> it just goes to show how the internet and the people on it create a vast but very vocal minority of opinions that are not worth listening to in the real world

I saw this criticism of Twitter, way before Musk bought it, possibly even before Trump became president. This [0] story from 2018 was about journalists paying too much attention

It does feel like Twitter and Facebook are shadows of their former selves though - partly because on the rare days I go to facebook, it rarely has anything on from humans, partly because it's not covered in news that "Blah Blah said Blah on Platform". That's a good thing.

I'm uncertain what drives Meta's continual growth

[0] https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/journalists-on-twitter-s...
Antibiotic-resistant bugs is a tragedy of the commons. We may need a blanket requirement for FDA approval for products, including probiotics, which create antibiotics.
There is a growing movement of disarming the power of large companies. If the EU can do it, India and other countries also want it.
Then you disagree with international law and common sense. If my siblings are killed with a rocket that targeted a hospital turned a weapon silo, I would blame those who put the weapons there, not those who launched the rocket.
You seem to be saying in your above comment that Biden's only possible choice is to appease Israel to hopefully get some humanitarian concessions from them. This is probably true due to the reality of American domestic politics, but if we ignore that then other choices are obvious. Treat Israel as we once treated South Africa. Force regime change by isolating them.
I always thought calling it Xbox One was the most bizarre choice in the history of branding and marketing. Given how common it is to retroactively refer to the first item in a series as "One" (Rambo 1, Rocky 1, Playstation 1, etc), it seems intentionally designed to cause confusion.
Western supremacy over... eastern supremacy? Who exactly? China? Russia?
If that's your answer, I'm happy with western supremacy thank you very much.
Microsoft CEO on How New Windows AI Copilot+ PCs Beat Apple's Macs [video]
This desperately needs a date `[1999]`
If you follow the various links on the Uber site, you see that they have multiple applications sitting on the same database. see https://www.uber.com/blog/schemaless-sql-database/ . It's not just 1 design of a database, with 1 application on top...
That's not on congress though. If a budget for the agency only comes with those kinds of political strings attached, the right thing for the agency would be to say "please keep your money, the US won't be going to Moon or Mars".
It's happened with academic journals like Science and Nature too...
You've missed Defender there

Edit: you updated defender, but you missed the depth of the rabbit hole. There's defender for office 365, there's defender for IoT, for Containers, for cloud, for cloud apps, for identity. There's one for gramma too
I thought Microsoft requires UEFI + secure boot for Windows, and with no disabling option in the firmware setup, for Windows Arm PC? Or maybe it was "only" Microsoft Secure Boot and you can actually use a Linux distro? If this is the latter case, can you build and run the kernel you want or not?
I understand the sentiment here (and agree PSQL will get you quite far) but this post is completely devoid of any actual content/meaning, examples etc. This is a literal shitpost.
If companies decide to stay private the vast majority of people won't be able to invest in companies. As well as companies will be taken private more often. If you own a company like TSLA where the revenues don't make the stock price you would be better of being private and showing the company is "worthless" in terms of profit.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40418931
Yes..? If someone commits war crimes and posts the evidence of them doing so on the internet one would hope the ICC would take note.
They're trying to have it both ways and it's not clear to me as a consumer what is local and what is cloud. (As a developer, I can tell they're doing a few things locally like OCR and webcam background blur on the NPU, but they are not running ChatGPT on an a laptop anytime soon)
Perhaps it’s less the individual techniques, more the clarity of its underlying model. The book is worth the read by the way.
I don’t know about timescale specifically but using Postgres for everything is the safest thing you can possibly do as a startup.
You might be surprised how often a deep graph of microservices ends up rereading the same prior transactions over the course of stateful payment processing and on-demand payouts. DynamoDB can give you 2.6 million short reads of base load (1 RCU/s provisioned) for $0.12 per month, which would make a $65 alternative (2.6 * $5 + 2.6 * $20) a hard sell.
Evangelicals are a small component of the electorate relative to Israel's support (they're like a quarter of the population, and, of course, they're locked in completely to the opposition party; Democrats don't meaningfully campaign for evangelical votes.)
huh, I listened to those and I feel like they're fairly similar, obviously the _Her_ scene is more emotional which distorts the comparison somewhat
Your first bit isn't an example of a legal workaround, it's an example of attempted sophistry for illegal behavior. Are you implying that the cops in this case broke the law? I don't think that is clear.

Cops should be able to do what is within the law, and if we don't like that then we should change the laws.
> I wouldn't say the first statement can be reasonably derived from the second, since most people in that poll think it is not a good idea.

46% good, 27% no idea does not imply majority supportive

But it also doesn't mean "most people think it's not a good idea", which in colloquial English would be majority bad idea.
Microsoft launches their own version ChatGPT desktop app
> Near half of the US population would throw an absolute fit.

But a large chunk of the population is already throwing a fit, and given the spread in views among different age groups, that's a growing chunk of the population.
> The vast majority of Palestinians wish all the Israelis dead, and are happy to kill

That crosses into the sort of slur we don't allow here, regardless of which group is being spoken of. Please don't post like this to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You're exercising your cognition. It's no surprise that the acute effects include exhaustion. The long term effects are you have stronger cognition.
Social. Mobile. Local. Big data. Quantum. Blockchain. Crypto. Cloud. AI.

All aboard the hype train..
Ignoring issues that others have pointed out, I have to ask: Why would we need to bend over backwards to be "fair" to police who abuse their power to commit crimes? They're already immune to prosecution, this is just about removing them from positions of power after they've abused it. There's no need for any sense of "fairness".
That would be the end of Israel as a functioning state (Jewish or not)

You really think a country can double it's population overnight bringing even more division without it crumbling? You'll just end up with another Lebanon.

A two state solution is the only thing that can make sense short/medium term. Longer term after decades of peace you can open the borders and create perhaps a union of sort.

A one state solution is detached - it's just not a viable option, and even if you believe it's the right thing to do it just doesn't seem wise.
For the latest ones it's fair because the S is a lower tier to the X
I think employers see labor as an investment, and each worker has a different ROI. The higher your ROI the more essential you are to business. Since the economy is tight for tech, companies can only make room for high ROI workers.
"The US does not send troops to fight in Israel's wars. The US just sends money"

That's what Ukraine is begging for.
Aella [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aella_(influencer)
> There's a huge difference between targeting civilians and striking genuine military targets that have civilian human shields

Even in the latter case, the cost to civilian lives has to be proportional to the the military value/lives saved long-term by ending the threat. This is not proportional: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

But unfortunately, the latter case does not account for all that we've seen in the last few months and years. There's been plenty of "targeting civilians" too
It's pretty well established that tactics that produce widespread civilian casualties just create the next generation of insurgents. In that respect, Israel's current actions seem to match the definition of insanity.
Sorry, but to confirm, they charge a 10% flat fee and that's it? That's insanely good compared to every other platform I've seen for any type of commerce. Sure, Amazon, Apple, and the like also help offer exposure and some other services, but 10% flat seems completely worth it until you hit a critical mass where it makes sense to handle things yourself. I imagine that number is very high though.
Having spent a few years living in a fraternity, I would not recommend doing this.

Once you're 3-4 years out of school, it will feel like living with children.
I don't know about economics of this particular project but damn dynamodb is expensive. At some point I was thinking that everyone else was just using it wrong, doing scans and queries instead of point-wise lookups into pre-computed tables.

It turns out however that even when you use it as a distributed hashtable you still pay a huge premium.
I am sure Apple is not surprised by any of this and they are not too worried.

They have had competent arm chips for years and will board the ai hypetrain in time.
> Legacy software is why we still use windows. There is nothing better about windows than say, Fedora.

Except, of course, the legacy software support.
Warrants requests are for five people.

I think warrants issued against Sinwar, Al-Masri and Haniyeh are very likely. Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant IMHO are over 50%

Proportationality and intention are important when the ICC interprets what constitutes war crime or crime against humanity. These cases also set up a precedents.
Arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant is for:

- Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(b)(xxv) of the Statute;

- Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health contrary to article 8(2)(a)(iii), or cruel treatment as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);

- Wilful killing contrary to article 8(2)(a)(i), or Murder as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);

- Intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as a war crime contrary to articles 8(2)(b)(i), or 8(2)(e)(i);

- Extermination and/or murder contrary to articles 7(1)(b) and 7(1)(a), including in the context of deaths caused by starvation, as a crime against humanity;

- Persecution as a crime against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(h); Other inhumane acts as crimes against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(k).
I find this useful as a productivity tool. For example, this can give me my standup update summary. It knows what I worked on and can summarize it for me.

AI/LLMs are great at staying organized over huge amounts of data and this is the perfect application.

disclosure:
I am the founder of Perfect Memory AI https://www.perfectmemory.ai/ that does something very similar today.
> The company also promotes its services using “barely-disguised images and names” of celebrities, such as “Ariana Venti,” “Barack Yo Mama” and “Cocoon O’Brien.”
They don't, see https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07061 . The basic idea is to use "picosecond-level" synchronization to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. They mention that a truly phase-coherent swarm would perform much better but they consider that a longer term prospect (section 2.1.4).
That's fair.

Statements:

A. majority think it's not a good idea

B. majority do not think it's a good idea

C. majority think it's a bad idea

Usually, A and C would be read as equivalent. I was using A and B as equivalent. But I understand that it's not very clear how I meant it. Certainly B is what's supported.
I agree that the Sky voice is flirtatious.

But I'd also argue that flirtatiousness is a very good match for the character of Samatha in "Her" -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV01B5kVsC0&t=84s
I don't understand the bet in the article, nor do I understand why $750 for a NEMA 14-50 makes any sense.
A gb200-nvl72 seems to cost [1] about $3,000,000. I expect Apple could throw together a few, several even, 192GB M2's for that sort of money - and they may not have a 16TB bus, but I suspect (for the same price) their quantity might make up for it in the problem-sphere that a gb200-nvl72 would expect to be in...

[1] https://www.tweaktown.com/news/98292/nvidias-new-gb200-super...
> but instead 'get it as cold as possible'

More like 'get it as ambient as possible' so if you're in a 50 degree room you're all set.
seems dubious to analogize a pair of objects designed for each other, screw and screwdriver, with a pair like lonely mentally unwell person and therapist.
Inbreeding by Country / Consanguinuity by Country 2024
"Active Directory" / "Active Directory Domain Service" / "Active Directory Application Mode" / "Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services" / "Azure Active Directory" / "Entra Id" / "Active Directory Federation Services" / "Active Directory Certificate Services" / "Active Directory Rights Management Services"

Ugh... and don't even get my started about the pronunciation of "Azure" (or the fact that, somehow, they took a project code-named "Red Dog" and named it after the color blue. Then there's the JEt Red and Jet Blue database engines, one of which was used by Active Directory...)