skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get paid 995_850 for not doing much, whereas startups are much harder and are a lot more work.

Somewhere the inventives are misaligned for sure.
zooming and panning is often easier, particularly if a website is hijacking scrolls and slowing them down, doing scroll snapping, etc.
That politicians get to scrub their pages shows there are cracks in places, but overall it's generally pretty ok
Is it really that different though? There are now 5+ threads going on the same bug, with a lot of the same sentiments, repeating. Verge and some of these news sources aren't exactly on the ball with this stuff, it's just same news. There was a fix/update, 24 hrs ago, good. Whatever, moving on. The other threads provide some more of the insights people were sharing around the bug etc, more than what might be repeated here so far.
I'm not even certain that product can exist, at least not anytime soon. But AI is in a hype cycle right now so everyone wants to jump on the gravy train.

Of course a lot of people don't want it. A lot of artists, developers and creative people want nothing to do with it, for obvious reasons. I don't want it. I think AI-driven tools only serve to commoditize and diminish human creativity. I've never seen anything generated by AI that I find interesting beyond the sense of superficial aesthetic or vibe. But I'd never prefer it over something made by a human being.

But no one cares what the muggles think, and criticizing AI right now gets you denounced as a crank in much the same way as being an anti-vaxxer or flat-earther. There's nothing to be done but hope the fever breaks before too much damage is done to the world.
Many great comments already as to why this is a bad idea, but here is another reason it won’t work:

Anyone at these companies can sign up with their @company email address, post an “urgent bounty” and 10 minutes later show up at your desk to fire you.

Though I am sure that a lot of money has been made through these types of services, just not out in the open.
The concept seems like… performance art protest or something.

Building a platform to bribe your way through the opaque customer non-service system of these companies is either low corruption or high art.
iTerm2 feature request: disable all AI-related features
This can go from "corruption" to "extortion" real fast. Employees can start banning accounts to make them pay
Startups are unproven ideas.

MAANG companies are proven businesses.

Lots of people would say "Yes! I shall pretend to work on establishing a viable business if you throw scads of money at me!" And not ever really develop a viable business.

Founders get rich by having equity. Some of them get stinking rich.

It's basically a form of betting that incentivizes actually succeeding at finding a viable business model. That's the only way that makes sense. Otherwise you are paying people to pretend to work.

The "pretending to work" issue gets talked about a fair amount. People attend conferences because it feels like work. People rent offices and set up business bank accounts because it feels like work. Etc.

Real work involves solving a real problem and getting people to pay you for it.

That doesn't automatically happen because people call themselves "founders" and invent a business name etc.
In a similar vein, there's also this 2008 blog post about DPaint which nailed a UI concept I kind of sensed but couldn't articulate:

"The importance of Exuberance in User Experience"
(Site seems to be down right now, but the wayback machine has it)
https://web.archive.org/web/20160611170615/http://designblog...
Even a k-hole'd clock is right occasionally
Most Dutch people don’t wear a helmet when riding a bicycle. As e-bikes are becoming more popular, some older people are opting to wear a helmet since the speed is higher, but many still don’t.

It’s not uncommon to see a parent riding around with a kid attached to the bike and neither are wearing a helmet.

I think it is kind of a cultural thing as well as convenience. If you ride a bike to the station to catch a train, then you might need storage or to carry it with you.
OTOH, I'm thinking about clicking that Make Default button on DuckDuckGo and skipping the entire mess.

Bad news. The Duck has AI now, too.

I just searched for something and it popped up DuckAssist with "Try generating an answer from Wikipedia."
dang has that username because it's a rarely used word.

And no, it doesn't answer my question - you seem to make assumptions a lot that people should be able to interpret things exactly how you expect them to; and you have the polar opposite behaviour as well of assuming what others mean when you're potentially wrongly interpreting. It's quite fascinating - and you'll assume I'm just wrong without caring to put effort into seeing if I have a valid point or not that could lead to growth.
It sounds like VC boards are semi-civilised bands of fairy tale creatures that have to be put to sleep with gold and fantastical tales or else you get kicked out the kingdom and they kidnap your children.
Cringed when I read the changelog for the new version and saw that they added AI features. That’s like the last thing I want in my terminal.
Netscape 6 and 7 were reskinned Mozilla Suite. It was Netscape 4 that was (mostly?) pre-Bugzilla.
How to destroy your privileged life in one easy step!
Imagine if some competitor showed up that skipped the middleman and made a business model where you pay them a recurring bribe and they just keep your account open.
To play devil's advocate - since we're talking about "pay yourself less than Google" not "pay yourself nothing" - what would happen if someone was throwing tons of money around and telling founders (and early employees, while we're at it, who also take less than Google et al) to pay themselves several more hundreds of thousands of dollars a year?

They'd attract a lot of people to fund, for sure.

You'd lose a bit of a filter around risk tolerance to try to weed out scammers, though. There are absolutely a bunch of people who would take that money with no intent or ability to deliver a solid company in the end.

So they'd probably want to be EXTREMELY selective; moreso than Google by far since there the financial loss is smaller both absolutely ("one bad hire's salary for 6-12mo" vs "a multi-million dollar seed investment") and likely as a percentage of revenue/bank account.

I think they'd either get ripped off and disappear in a few years or just be small and stay small and not make a huge difference overall.

It doesn't seem entirely different than the attempted Softbank "de-risk startups by picking a winner early and pouring in crazy $$" approach.
Just found out this is a fork of heynote! Was looking for one of these with web support
> Microsoft adding their shiny new thing into all the products they have, as in tradition.

The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

That brings up another point: This particular LLM system will require custom integration by the game developer, development that could go to all those features you mentioned. That sounds like a lot of work for a dubious payoff for either the player or developer.
ActivityPub might be a transitional technology
It’s many keystrokes away. You have to type the thing you want sent to OpenAI. Manually.

It appears 95% of the people complaining about this feature don’t actually know what it is.
"Most startups that COULD exist are never actually started because the founders want to be making higher salaries working at Google/Microsoft/Meta/etc."

Sorry but I disagree. People who start startups are people who don't care that much about making more at a larger company. They do startups because they hate doing what they are doing and want to create something of their own or solve a real problem that no one solved it for them.

If I was a VC and someone wanted me to invest in their "idea" but only if they get paid the same salary they make/could make at a FAANG, I wouldn't trust that founder. Just doesn't work that way. The point of startup is that it is hard and you still want it bad.

Honestly, if you start throwing money like that, it will attract the wrong types or the "Wantrepreneurs". My 2 cents. Feel free to disagree and counter.
Except this is legal. Extortion is a serious crime, especially when businesses are involved.
Oh right. Well I think it is a separate problem from these laws against encryption.

I am not sure if we need to make laws that would prevent websites from going through Cloudflare (because the sites choose to do so, right?). It would be like making a law that would prevent Telegram from not doing proper E2EE... not encrypting traffic is a choice that has nothing to do with the law, I would think.

The article in this case is talking about politicians who want to make laws that will prevent projects from doing proper E2EE, that's the opposite.
Germany reaches its self-imposed targets for 2024 as early as May (+87 GW)
>That was unintentional actually

Freudian slip? Hehehe
You'll never know any returning users after salt changes. This is the hole point with privacy first.

But you have options tho. Compared to other tools that is privacy first, you can actually pass your own user id. You can get this ID from where ever you want (db, cookie, localStorage. Its up to you whom implement it)

But I want to have a middle ground where privacy is important but you have the options to decide what path you take.
Via https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1cxbeq5/solar_expan...
My best guess is that its in their best intrist not to. We know the navy has super precise microphones underwater to detect weapons feasting both conventional and nuclear, as well as using the sensors to monitor for ship activity....like sub's or unmanned water drones.

I'd assume that if they release any info on if they heard something via a sub or some sensor.....its basically burning an intelligence asset, as it can reveal information about the actual sensor and possibly it's general area. Best option would be to just stay silent and deny if asked, and refuse any FOIA request on the grounds that releasing sensor data even if its not the raw data could lessen the effectiveness of our Intel/sensor network.
Show HN: Auggie – bringing the GPT-4o desktop experience to Windows
Alt + Space is all it takes and gpt-4o can see your currently active window!

We saw OpenAI announce a Mac app that let gpt-4o quickly “see” your screen and cut out things like opening the browser, copy paste, and more and were pretty disappointed the Windows app timeline was just “later this year”. So, we built it ourselves with an open source screen sharing library, time Rust, Tauri, and a bit of Windows app dev know how.

Try it out yourself. We’d love the feedback and are thinking of ways to make it extensible so anyone can plug in info or context from an app or workflow in a more custom way.
In that example foo is the important aspect, so it should be the leading element:

foo
fooModified
If you made a couple million already it's fine, but then again, why are you coming to me for a Seed round unless you just want to set a price point? (ik a couple startups that did this)

If you don't have the track record or wealth to justify that then yea it is a massive red signal.

Imo, a CEO/CTO in the Bay Area should pay themselves market rate for their equivalent PM/Staff Eng position.

Some will take a very low salary ($70-90k) but they are also younger (early-mid 20s), but going up to $150-70k is doable depending on life circumstances (tbf, a founder with a family also probably has a decade+ of experience so I'd trust them more).
If a would-be founder doesn't want to start a company because of their salary, then it's probably for the better. An early-stage startup isn't a vehicle to funnel VC money into your account at the rate that multi-trillion dollar companies give it out.
> [...] by doing non-work activities on the clock

How do you know they are doing it on their company paid time?
What a load of nonsense.

The claimed first "AI-first" language Lisp was nothing of the sort.

The claimed latest, Bend, makes no mention of AI in its pitch.
It has lots of potential killer features, depending on your workflow. To name one example, the tmux integration is great.
I switched back from Prompt to iTerm. Prompt is awfully nice but has enough bugs and rough edges (which I've reported to Panic so they can fix them) that I'm not yet comfortable with it as my daily driver.
Like I said, related doesn't meant dupe and this is different from those posts. When Apple's CSAM thing happened, we had multiple related posts too but they weren't dupes.

I won't respond further because I don't want this turning into a flame war.
No ones asking you to raise with us. You can be a PM or EM at a company and have an equal impact.

Also being a Director at a company is a hellish role. I remember my Director of Eng at a startup that hired me as a SWE eons ago was working almost 60-70 hour weeks. They were both technical minded AND business minded
You probably mean Compose Multiplatform?

That is a fork, or rather, extension to Jetpack Compose, Google's declarative UI framework for Android. It uses Skia for rendering but has an the identical API to Jetpack Compose, hence from the point of view of a framework user, there is nothing new about it (other than that it works on Android, iOS, desktop OSs and web).
Everyone reading I should watch the movie Brazil.

Remember who the true hero was. He wasn't in it for long.
That's tragic. Was pre-2020 PC laptop hardware more reliable, from any OEM?

Apple hardware seems to be relatively unchanged, or even improved since the keyboards were fixed.

How about current Framework devices, which aspire to be repairable? Hopefully they will offer an Arm-based laptop, tablet or mini-PC.
Features you don’t use still add complexity, bugs and potential security and privacy issues.
I take issue with such POVs.

Movement - or as we call it in modern life, exercise - *is* the historic (read: evolutionary) norm. It's effectively breaking even.

Lack of movement is not the norm. Lack of movement is bad for the human system. Lack of movement is bad for the brain and the body.

It's mind-boggling that we insist on proving - again and again - the norm is ideal.
It's the thesis of Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature. It's not an uncommon sentiment. Maybe we run in different circles.
Just another example of Zawinski's law, no?
Famous last words at >50% of the companies I've worked: "Just implement as much of standard X as you need to ship an MVP of feature Y!"
Founders can make a "competitive" salary, if they have existing experience for the actual job of being a founder (i.e., previous executive leadership experience).

For many, being a founder is not just "taking a risk on an unproven idea" it's also a career change from being a solo IC or technical leader to being an executive, with very, very different requirements for success, so the risk here is compounded.
Holy shit. This is one of the 2 bugs in my career I never solved. (That I knew about, and lost sleep over, etc…)
I think you may be wrong on 3, I think more founders want to stay, and investors want a fast exit for big bucks.
Reminds me of the "Cash for Clunkers" program:

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

They would destroy the engine by replacing the oil with sodium silicate, and then running it until it seized. I watched a video of this, and it was so sad watching a completely working car be killed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0IcIxhd8ks
You gotta do a lot to get a director gig at Google.

You might not think it's all useful especially if you're not into the people/politics side (I would agree, personally), but it's not like you can go sleepwalk your way into that job.
Metro Exodus: continent-spanning journey across post-apocalyptic Russia
Those turboprop planes don't fly as high as turbofan plane. The Dash-8 tops out at around 25-27k ft. compared to ~40k ft. for most modern jetliners.

When you are going over the alps, that extra altitude can really help.
Something went wrong with the 2019 models, because almost every time I hear someone complain about an intel MacBook it's a 2019 model.

I am still using my 2018 15" MacBook Pro, and it works great. About six months ago I brought it in to Apple because the keyboard backlight quit working. Turns out the battery swelled and damaged things. So they replaced everything, top case (with keyboard and trackpad), logic board, LCD display, and battery. I still have AppleCare so this was all done free of charge. Prior to that I had zero issues with the laptop in the 6 years I owned it.

Now my M1 Air has had a logic board failure, and the LCD cracked all within two years.
On the flip side I'd pay for this.
My Twitter account was suspended last year for no reason I can fathom. I wasn't abusive, I wasn't hacking/abusing the platform etc. Just one day I posted a comment and was then told "Your account is blocked"
I'd really love to get it back as it's a 3 letter handle. Alas, despite submitting upwards of 100 appeals I hear nothing back (I guess since Elon took over there's no support staff anymore)
Anyway, I can see there would be a market for this, however unethical/risky it would be for employees to participate in.
I joined a startup as the first employee. One year and €1M in VC spend later, and they were in a cashflow problem.

You can definitely give yourself a too high salary as founder.

I’ve learned that I’d make that money stretch a lot longer.
In case you’re wondering what Sky sounded like, here’s a recording of Sky being asked questions about Scarlett Johansson.

https://youtu.be/1zoLfQ75QvU?si=6iBLrwTFR4nbqIIw

While it doesn’t sound exactly like her, if I heard this without knowing it was AI I’d have thought it was Scarlett Johansson.
The ostrich strategy to avoiding bugs.
This reads very much of https://xkcd.com/793/:

> You're trying to predict the behavior of <complicated system>? Just model it as a <simple object>, and then add some secondary terms to account for <complications I just thought of>

> Physicist: Easy, right?

> Physicist: So, why does <your field> need a whole journal, anyway?

> Liberal-arts majors may be annoying sometimes, but there's nothing more obnoxious than a physicist first encountering a new subject.

Yes, physical scale absolutely matters. I'm a controls engineer in industrial robotics. Some of my material handling projects involve giant Fanuc R-2000 robots that move very much like gigantic, dextrous fingers as they use incredible levels of power with their rigid gearboxes and heavy castings to manipulate payloads weighing hundred-kilogram payloads. They're fast for what they are, but they move with all the urgency of a barge compared to human fingers. They're completely different from tiny high-speed conveyor systems using little SMAC linear motors and laser galvos that are flapping about at speeds the eye cannot hope to track.

There is square-cube law stuff everywhere. Also, power density, strength-to-weight ratios, and stiffness of actuators and limbs has enormous variance - your intuition about what a mechanical gripper might do or how rigid a finger vs. a block of steel might be will likely mislead you.
I think it’s more about uncanniness and some sort of latent, subliminal incoherence. Like maybe it is somehow disruptive to visual memory in a subtle but noisy way, because it doesn’t hang together quite right.

I have no science to back this up, mind you. But I struggle to recall details of these images (I also believe I have a limited form of aphantasia so it could just be my flawend noggin)

But I will take your point ;-)
The old cobra bounty problem
It kinda has been advancing, but the advancement has been happening on the SIMD/SSE/AVX side of things (up to 512 now).

Regarding the non-SIMD side of x86, what are good driving needs to process 128-bit values among the normal instruction stream?

- 128 bits is 16 bytes, and that's a decent maximum length for many textual identifiers. These can be loaded, compared, and processed with single instructions now and possibly be processed without intermediate memory accesses.

- It would be super convenient to load a GUID/UUID or IPv6 in a single register/instruction I guess. Would Intel get an `RDUUIDV4` instruction and be able to generate them natively?

- A bigger space for `mmap()` could have interesting possibilities.

- 64 bits of additional randomization available for memory paging could make security techniques like ASLR a bit better.
> Everywhere I look, blog posts use the same generic-looking AI art (I can't quite put it into words, but you probably know the look I'm talking about)

They got that AI grease on them
Onshape and Solidworks (and Shapr3D, and Nx amongst others) use the Parasolid kernel. Without Parasolid, Onshape wouldn't have happened so quickly. It also helped that it was founded by many of the core team behind Solidworks. Parasolid started being developed in 1988. [0]

Creo uses the Granite kernel, which was developed by PTC, starting in 1985. [1]

Onshape and Solidworks (and many others) also license the same 2D solver, D-Cubed, now from Siemens as well (originally from a company founded in 1989). [0]

None of this is to say that it is impossible to start fresh, just that there are insane numbers of person-years of development work embodied in these libraries. To get anywhere near the level of completeness and power will take a lot.

[0] https://www.engineering.com/story/parasolid-d-cubed-and-siem...

[1] https://www.shapr3d.com/history-of-cad/parametric-technology...
Keynesian economics can certainly work to help end something like a recession or depression (and we can see that when FDR tried to pull back on those ideas unemployment jumped back up again).

My beef with it is that it doesn't seem to be a sustainable system in the long term just like the previous system also had issues. We didn't have a great depression in 2008 (a very nasty recession instead), but the quantitative easing then and during Covid is driving inflation wild. The official numbers are generally fine, but they don't include all sorts of items that have gone up an incredible amount and are thus misleading. I'm sure some of it is corporate greed or standard supply/demand (e.g. a wood manufacturing plant going offline making construction material costs soar), but a lot seems to be because of the insanely high printing of money that has to be carried out in order to inflate away the massive runaway national debt.

So the Keynesian toolbox that can be used to get us out of something like a depression also is ultimately our downfall in the long run as our leaders can't or won't use it responsibly.
We are definitely a community. Sadly, "community" has little meaning in he modern day compared to 30+ years ago. I'm in a neighborhood but I don't feel a sense of "community" with most of them. I have a job but don't have a sense of "community" with most of my coworkers.

The world's a lot lonlier these days.
You’re talking about someone publishing high quality open source software for over a decade that’s beloved by millions of users. Have some respect, man.

You might disagree with the way a specific feature works, but this is absolutely no reason to talk about someone like Mr. Nachman this way.
It’s a test to see if the founder values their equity more or less than the salary gap. If not even the founder values equity more than the gap, then they should close down and go get jobs.
They will gain more users than they will lose including many of the people who are so outraged by this, because, there's no such thing as bad publicity.
How does the saving notes on disk work? You mean just downloading it? Or is the content synced? If so how does that work?
gestures broadly at Star Trek
Probably the same ways as billion dollar businesses share revenue with open source developers...
Are you thinking of certain secondary libraries in particular?
I guess I should have emphasized how I didn't like the LLM contradicting itself.
Honestly, this is why I like HN. Mostly honest, straight from the heart high value comments. Sure, it can sting at times and can be critical but I prefer that. I wouldn't want it to change at all.