skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Public people in Russia now routinely make statements that some NATO countries like Poland, baltics or Finland belong to them.
Ask HN: I think my cofounder is stealing company funds
Hi HN,

I'm a first time pre-seed founder preparing for my seed round.

My co-founder was managing our financials/admin which I trusted him to do, as he has this experience in his former companies.

I would occasionally look in, but didn't find anything out of place. Until I looked this week. We have only 7 weeks of runway left.

He's reported to our investors and team that we have money until September/October. This is obviously not true given the balance in our bank account.

Events:
1. I saw that he has taken out multiple payroll advances into the future,
2. Occasionally increased his rate of hourly pay (as it's processed as a bulk line item),
3. And sent himself money directly from our bank account.

I'm alarmed, and considering taking action as it puts the company, and employees at risk, as well as our DD for the investors for the raise.

What kind of advice or feedback do you have? Could this be fraudulent? Misappropriation of funds? What would an investor think?

Thank you.
That's okay, I thought it was machine language at first.
StandardML is the most practical functional programming language IMO. It concedes that mutation improves performance, laziness is hard for humans to optimize, and side effects exist. At the same time, it has avoided the weirdness of Ocaml or the unnecessary complexity of F#.

It's use of structural typing (like Typescript) rather than nominal typing is great. It winds up feeling a lot like a scripting language, but with better type safety than most non-scripting languages. The CML (concurrent ML) proposals are also much more mathematically grounded, consistent, and nice to use compared to most other languages.
> I didn't say it was.

You heavily implied it, and it's a very common criticism of stoicism, I don't want people to have such a negative view of it from the get go
I was referring to the team to maintain Car Thing :)
County sheriffs wield lethal power, face little accountability
Containerizing every Go project helped me mitigate Go's opinions on my home directory but needing to do so in the first place was irritating.
The college degree has become diluted over time. As more people go to college and receive degrees, the less special those degrees are treated. Then it becomes the type of degree you get, then the major.

It's relatively easy for most people to get into college but not always to completion. That is the only benefit that college bestows - recognition that you are capable of committing to a program, and meeting deadlines in a formal, adult-oriented environment.
Well, the goal is to get as close to infinity as possible with the smallest program possible. We can name big numbers just fine, by recursing over recursion for some number of steps, but the fun part is to have these fall out 'naturally' from the space of small Turing machines.

In this case, we can actually name the number of symbols in terms of Knuth's up-arrow notation [0], which describes the sequence of operations starting with multiplication, exponentiation, repeated exponentiation (called tetration, e.g., 2↑↑5 = 2^[2^[2^[2^2]]]), repeated tetration (called pentation, e.g., 2↑↑↑5 = 2↑↑[2↑↑[2↑↑[2↑↑2]]]), and so on. This number is big enough that it needs 15 arrows in a row to describe it reasonably. So it's not just that the number is very large, it's that we can also put a neat lid over its value. For instance, we know it's still nothing compared to Graham's number, which can't be described with any reasonable number of up-arrows.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_up-arrow_notation
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I read the title, and was actually surprised how in 2024 this is a headline. I'm surprised that this has not been a feature since forever as well.
> The whole thing is fairly similar to a materialized Python virtual environment.

The feeling I got about GOPATH, back when I first encountered it, was not that it should be used like a Python virtual environment, where you'd have a separate one for each of your projects. What I understood back then was that you were supposed to set up GOPATH only once for your user, in your shell's startup scripts, and all of your projects would have to live within that directory, in the rigid structure the Go tools dictated. The default for GOPATH added later was just to avoid confusing newbies who aren't used to adding environment variables to their shell startup scripts.
> US Navy can blockade China's food imports and petroleum

It's such an unrealistic comment. Have you seen the new Navy report in Congress? Have you seen the yearly Congress report about Chinese rocket capabilities from the last few months? Have you seen the results of the war games in the South China Sea, most of which were lost by the US?

"US Congressmen: 90% of US fighter jets in the Western Pacific will be destroyed within hours of a US-China conflicts by missiles. The military bases being mentioned are those in Japan, S Korea, Guam and Northern Marianas." [1]

> to say nothing of demographic bombs, the real estate / regional debt crisis, and the inevitable sanctions from a Taiwan invasion.

They are heavily investing in Sub-Saharan Africa because, based on IMF data, it will be the only region in the next few decades experiencing significant population growth. This region is their own 'China.' With increasing automation and a cheap workforce, demographics are not a significant problem. They just poured 53 billion USD into the real estate crisis. To receive sanctions for a Taiwan invasion, first, you need to invade it, and it's not in the short-term interests of either China or Taiwan.

> Don't worry about the shipbuilding. China doesn't have carriers. They don't have a navy that can leave shore more than a hundred miles or so.

Don't worry? If they destroy a US ship, it will take 5-10 years to rebuild it, whereas they will rebuild theirs in a year. This is also mentioned in reports.

Your entire comment is wishful thinking. China is not collapsing, and the data confirms that. [2][3]

1. https://x.com/Ignis_Rex/status/1791035870210085350

2. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/china-still-ris...

3. https://x.com/davidpgoldman/status/1792215020941565983
That really depends on how you expect people to express their anger. Yell, punch a hole in the wall, kick a puppy or assault a co-worker is not really acceptable.

If people could stick to "I'm rather angry with you right now, so I'm leaving" then sure, by all means express your anger.
"But not all Ikariots enjoy the same degree of longevity. Data from the ongoing study shows that people living in the northern part of the island outlive those inhabiting the southern part, and therein lies the mystery. Presumably southern Ikariots have no significant dietary differences from their northern counterparts—nor would genetics make sense, since there’s little chance of finding genetically isolated populations on a small island. That’s why some experts have proposed one possible reason for this discordant longevity—geology"

The north and northwest of the island are predominated by granite rocks, which naturally contain trace amounts of uranium and are known to emit very low doses of gamma radiation, between 0.20 and 3.31 millisievert annually—somewhere in between the amount of radiation you would absorb from a single chest X-ray and a more-powerful CT scan.

“To the south of the island, on the contrary, limestone predominates,” says Christodoulos Stefanadis, professor of cardiology at the National University of Athens and the Ikaria study’s head researcher. Statistically, people in the north of the island live significantly longer than those to the south. In 2001, the northern part of the island had 11 male and 22 female nonagenarians and centenarians out of a total of 1,452 male and 1,359 female inhabitants—whereas only five out of 1,691 men and 19 out of 1,710 women were over 90 in the southern part.

Stefanadis says this appears to be tied to the excess in gamma rays in the north, which are between 0.20 and 3.31 millisievert annually (over and above a universally “normal” amount of gamma rays would be about 1 to 2 millisievert per year). “This radiation difference is an independent prognostic factor of longevity,” Stefanadis says, though he is quick to add there is not enough evidence to confirm this definitively, simply because the question has not been properly investigated.

https://proto.life/2021/11/ikaria-the-island-of-mysterious-l...
To add on, cerebrolysin and methylene blue are sometimes helpful with brain function (the former specifically after TBIs). Various nootropic forums (I'm aware of reddit's ones) may be able to offer more possible solutions. And of course speak with your doctor first before starting anything new.
The US is the worlds largest arms supplier today, and getting more orders all the time. There might not be a lot of factories, but the ones there are produce a lot of stuff.
Related: How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19396563
Buddhism is not just the subject matter and the students, your teachers can also fail.

As I understand it, anger is wrong just as pain is wrong in that it’s a sign that something is wrong. Touch a hot object and you instinctively know it was a bad idea, but anger doesn’t come with the same innate revulsion. To be angry at yourself for feeling angry is missing the point, anger isn’t the failing it’s the notification of failure.

/not a practicing Buddhist
In all seriousness and fairness, this is par for the course of internet-related health advice...
Yet another self righteous person on the internet teaching us the errors of our thinking. Everything wrong with micro services is an issue with micro services and everything wrong with modules is a skil issue of the person doing the modules.

> Once the interface is established, each team can operate independently, just like in microservices, as long as they adhere to the defined bounds.

Where I was lost laughing.

I'm sorry, but the hords of spaghetti monsters that I battle on a daily bases are spawning because communication is hard the more people are involved in it and the more someone is in a hurry to deploy their feature. Not even talking for the fun when you need to update a third party dependency and you discover that half of the code base depends on a now removed feature, so expect migration in 5 to 12 years time.
Sorry, you're right in terms of their own cloud. I meant the syncing with Google Drive, Dropbox, etc, which is quite limited
Maybe they used "borrow" in the "new" method to avoid having both 2-3=9 and 2-3=-1, compared to explicit radix+2-3. But if you actually wanted to memorize subtraction table then "old" way is maybe easier, because your table is nice square grid instead of wider triangle (and if you actually need negative result you can do second lookup for 10-x).

Also try doing something like 2000-1111 in "new" method and you go on huge side quest to propagate the borrows and go back to the beginning. Compared to "old" method where you progress one digit at a time without backtracking.
what is blocking the remaining 7%?
Most people don't believe a cryptographically-relevant quantum computer will ever exist as an real world engineering artifact.

If NSA believed it were possible, they would not publicly promote research on post-quantum cryptography, the would crack quantum cryptography.
It’d be trivial to MITM it with wireshark
One of the best things I've discovered recently is how to activate the parasympathetic nervous system. It's quite easy: just inhale a belly breath but then draw the transverse abdominis back towards the spine below the navel. This helps the rest of the air you inhale effortlessly expand your rib cage from bottom to top if you relax.

If you do it right, the transverse abdominis above the navel should bulge out as your diaphragm descends. It's accompanied by an amazing tingling sensation.

I can't imagine it being possible to hold on to anger while I'm that state.

I learnt about it in the book Pranayama by Gregor Maehle.
Please make a version that has the bezel blend in with the screen. It will make it look much more clean and more modern. The remarkable's thin body and bezels are key to why it is so desirable.
I already have Nova Air C, and a color Bigme tablet. I don't think any of the two was more expensive.

The ePaper response time is tempting. But no color over "back"light temperature or no color support would be a step back.

I fondly remember the best smartwatch I ever had - the Pebble Time, and its 60FPS color display. Can we get a version like this too?

Try to change my mind that I need it.
> The ten's compliment of 3 is 7.

Not a good look for someone extolling the benefits of understanding the theory behind an algorithm. This is only true if you're working modulo 10.

I'm suddenly very curious what you think the ten's complement of 12 is.
That's the entire point: a proportional increase in renewables isn't a 1:1 reduction in thermals. You don't replace 1GW of thermal plant capacity with 1GW of solar. You replace some fraction of its output, but it still runs overnight, or at times of low production or whatever.

So installed capacity increasing doesn't directly tell you much about the future composition of the grid, particularly in the absence of significant storage or overnight capable sources like wind (which after still variable).
Based on your experience , what do you think is the biggest pain point?
This is so stupid. They are the sender and receiver of the messages. They can backfill their telemetry using batch processes offline ffs.
>This conflict, in turn, limits [our ability to monitor you] ... We propose to solve this by moving to a multi-certificate deployment model, where servers may be provisioned with multiple certificates [including those Google controls], and automatically send the correct one [i.e. the one Google controls] to each client.

How did you go from "chromium wants servers to support multiple certificates" to "chromium wants servers to support multiple certificates so they can put in their own certificates and MITM you"? Don't cloudflare and other CDNs already have the ability to MITM people given that they control the certificates? Why does google need this elaborate conspiracy to MITM people?
> Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he doesn’t like anthropomorphizing AI. The OpenAI partner doesn’t even think we should call it “artificial intelligence” at all. He suggests “different intelligence” but we don’t think that’s going to make it past the marketing department.

The term goes back to the 1950s -- and it has become entrenched, like the term "UFO" has become entrenched -- so it's a bit late to change now.

I don't think that "different intelligence" is any better, besides. Different how? We don't know how the human brain works, and most AI systems are black boxes, so it's not outside the realm of possibility that there are deep similarities we have yet to discover.

The greatest and most immediate "difference" is that one type of intelligence is natural/organic and the other is synthetic/inorganic. In other words, the latter is artificial.
Well I don't use the Kagi Orion browser at all, I use IceCat on all my PC stuff, and Firefox on mobile.

I do generally agree with your broader point, however in 2024 I don't think it's realistic to stop utilizing search engines while not inadvertently giving up PII. I mean, I could, but I do think my life would be considerably worse.

At least with Kagi, they have some means of making money that doesn't involve selling data. It's entirely possible that they betray us and start selling our data anyway, I'm not completely naive, but at least it's not an inevitability like with ostensibly free services.
I mean, this mechanism wouldn't make a server operator using entirely non-Google cert authorities more difficult to maintain. I'm pretty cynical on Google these days, but I don't see how this wouldn't be a boon to everybody pretty equally.
I gave up anger ~20 years ago, and it's maybe the best thing I've ever done.

I'm not claiming it's easy or that my way is universal, but this worked for me:

- Like anyone else alive, I get momentarily angry. The important things are (1) don't hold on to it, and (2) remember that being angry is being stupid, so don't do anything irreversible while raged up. There is plenty time later to burn everything down, if that really needs to happen.

- It's very important to accept reality. Accepting something doesn't mean that you love it. It means more "act as if it's true".

- There is this myth that you have to be angry to accomplish change. This is just wrong. You accomplish a lot more with a rational clear mind than blinded by rage.
In terms of wanting a wall calendar and not want to buy new ones every year, I like Matt Parkers idea of reusing vintage calendars, as there are only 14 different calendars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrgN-tvg53I
Turning a ATX PSU into a Variable Bench Supply
This is kind of a nonsense argument.

"They just work everywhere" isn't true. Not everywhere has natural gas access, not everywhere has oil/propane delivery, not everywhere has access to wood fuel.

So now we're back to making situational decisions about heating technology anyway.

One fuel source that's more universally available than any of the above is electricity.

Electric heat pumps can work in more places than any single traditional fuel source. It's only when you combine all of those fuel sources you can make the "less universal" argument.

Add electric baseboards as a backup for sub -5F temps and you can cover 100% of the country with electricity.
You're deducting points because of his excellent consistency?
Universal Basic Income or Universal High Income?
Firefox does do revocation.
> I don’t understand why the US voluntarily gave up its significant advantage in manufacturing

We didn't. The US manufactures more than ever. It seems like we gave up the advantage because we let China take over the cheap junk market (before them Japan and Taiwan had that - both have moved up quality though); and we use far less people. A typically factory in 1950 with 2000 workers would now have around 200 to produce the same amount.
Naughty Dog Boss Neil Druckmann: AI Will 'Revolutionize How Content Is Created'
At first I thought it was an Onion headline, as if "Car Thing" was a real name...
Factorio IRL

The post has one interesting resource that can become a bottleneck: people, what if there is a mod where you need to find and employ aliens to run your production line? Maybe some of the aliens will choose to work in factories instead of attacking you..
I see the still haven’t revoked your cert. Has digicert started the revocation process?
If you have ever had to try to RMA a Samsung drive you will know to never buy Samsung again.

The worst manufacturer I’ve ever dealt with by orders of magnitude - it’s not even remotely close.
Well the point in Buddhism is not that anger is a symptom of pain but a primary cause of pain. The Buddha even says in an early scripture that anger is the one thing we should kill outright, since it’s considered totally destructive. In effect, the root of all evil
Lots of browsers avoid it for reasons, but isn't this the whole point of the OCSP(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Certificate_Status_Pr...) and OCSP stapling?
This is your opinion.

The way macOS does window management is internally consistent, and for those of us who have used it for decades, it works perfectly well. Just because Windows chose to do it a different way, and Linux copied Windows because it had a monopoly on the desktop, doesn't mean what macOS is doing is bad.

If you don't like it, you don't have to use macOS. (Or, you can install the exact utilities various people are mentioning to force macOS to act like Windows.)
As I’ve grown older I have developed a heuristic, which is that people who talk/write like this, i.e. being completely convinced that one way of doing things is always wrong and one way of doing things is always right, and that people doing things the other way are just ignorant/stupid/wrong, usually have no idea what they are talking about.
Interviews with Marketplace Founders
I wish we had more articles not about what good practices are, or how things should be designed in theory, but rather about how to enforce those practices in a large organization, when you are not necessary a guy who makes decisions.
Embracing anger wouldn't be a better answer.

Addressing the problem that lead to anger, or moving away from what causes would.
While I hate the cargo culting of microservices, there is one use case they handle very well - reusable services with obnoxious dependencies that don't really need to be integrated in with the rest of your codebase. I would much rather take a docker image of a whisper or text-to-speech service and add it to my compose file and call it via HTTP than try to wrestle a CUDA build and get whisper/TTS bindings working for every language where I might need them.
Paula Vennells names five executives she blames over Post Office scandal
If one were to make this physically, it could have a narrower width by having the days of month on paper, rolled up like scrolls on either side, with knobs on each to adjust. Motorize those, maybe.
Peeking underground with giant flying antennas
Can you elaborate, aren’t there cheaper cloud based hosting solutions e.g. aws?
I feel the same way about people who are "Everything needs to be containerized in K8s". Sure, it's useful in some cases, but it isn't some universal panacea.

Understand the problem space, understand the solution space, and try to find a fit, don't just grab your favorite hammer and start whacking away.
Carroll's algorithm has evolved over the years. The First Sunday Doomsday Algorithm (https://firstsundaydoomsday.blogspot.com/2009/12/quick-start...) includes all the improvements published as of 2023, including Fong & Walters' nifty "odd+11" rule for calculating the year code (https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0765).
Belarus will probably be reabsorbed back into Russia in the next 10 years.

I worked with many young IT people living there, when Russia invaded Ukraine, many fled to Germany with the help of the fortune 500 company I worked for. A few were even helped to move to NC here in the US.
Ya if it's GPT-3.5, I'm actually surprised the accuracies were so high!

I've been pairing with GPT since 3.5-turbo. I run 20-100 queries a day (have an IDE integration). The improvements for GPT-4 over 3.5 are significant.

So far GPT-4o seems like a step-up for most (not all) queries I've run through it. Based on the pricing and speed, my guess is it's a smaller, more optimized model and there are some tradeoffs in that. I'm guessing we'll see a more expensive flagship model from OpenAI this year.

But honestly, these details don't really matter... Regardless of the performance and accuracy of the models today, the trend is obvious. AI will be the primary interface for writing all but the most cutting edge code.

Two years ago, I thought an AI writing code was 50 years away. Yesterday, I took a picture of an invoice on my phone, and asked GPT to recreate it in HTML and it did so perfectly.
I agree with you. And at the same time, I often feel like it is more difficult being heard when being nuanced. It seems like what gets discussed most are strong opinions.
Yep. Get yourself some low quality/crap land that's not too far from a population center with insane electricity pricing and turn it into a solar panel farm (or wind farm, etc).

Regulations often seem to block new entrants from doing that and supplying the grid... but stuffing all of that energy into something portable which can directly top up or recharge consumer vehicles seems like a cool idea.

Hopefully it works out for them such that they can scale up then open up further options for themselves. :)
The Midnight Library. It helped me process my regrets. And frame my mind to do my best with the life that I have now.