skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Getting out for an early employee after funding rounds is expensive

Early exercise and 83(b) is a must, or forget about it.

When considering joining an early startup ask if they will allow you to early exercise as soon as you start (well, it'll be after board approval but as soon as that happens).

If they don't allow that or if the price is too high for your comfort level, don't join that startup.
IDK how secret this is.

But the reason for founder equity -- as with anything in a free market system -- has nothing to do with deserve and everything to do with demand/supply.

There are many more we early employees willing to take 1% equity than founders willing to offer it.
I've heard the phrase "cis by default" used to describe this experience (which I mostly share). Essentially, the intensity of feelings regarding gender can vary widely from person into person and so a lot of people are fine with the gender they were born as not because they strongly feel like a woman/man, but precisely because they don't have strong feelings about it. (And therefore being transgender is the intersection of both "having a strong internal feeling about gender" and "the feelings you have about gender not matching what society categorizes your body as".)

That said, I suspect that at least some "cis by default" people would indeed experience feelings of a brain-body mismatch if they had different parts, it just happens to be something you can't test for.
Perhaps its because the average house (e.g. the Simpsons house) is no longer achievable for the majority of young people, smaller footprints mean things have to become multipurpose.
The discussion and reasons of "data first" vs. "data last" can be found by searching these terms (including type inference"). For example for Rescript (TAFKA Bucklescript) which changes OCaml's data last to a dáta first syntax.
https://www.javierchavarri.com/data-first-and-data-last-a-co... which does explain the actual "technical" reasons behind the decision.
Tiger mosquitoes behind dengue fever rise in Europe
I would hazard a guess that backend upgrades made keeping your plan as-original became impractical if not impossible, but hiking your price up and losing you as a customer was also wholly unappealing because any money is better than no money.

So presumably AT&T did the next best thing for both you and themselves by silently(?) upgrading your plan to whatever was the new minimum of the new hardware while keeping true to the price lock to keep you as a customer.
Hmm. I can't tell whether this is a mistake, disagreement, or ambiguity in the NOVA classification system that the paper claims to use. Their Appendix A, Table S1 clearly lists as ultra-processed foods: "Meat alternatives: Vegetarian sausage/burger; Tofu/tempeh/TVP/soya mince; Quorn". I would think all those things are quite different to each other, but not to this study's classifications.

I was unable to find an authoritative source on what the NOVA classification of tofu actually is, or how the NOVA classification system methodology even works. Secondary and tertiary sources on the internet disagree with each other, and ChatGPT cites Brazilian institutions like "NUPENS" whose websites are on Google but seem to be either dead or inaccessible from the US.

Edit: There seems to be a third-party database, https://world.openfoodfacts.org/cgi/search.pl?search_terms=t..., that lists many tofus in category 3, "processed" (because they have salt and oil added) or 4, "ultraprocessed" (because of gelling agents).

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But even excluding tofu, they also consider things like bread (yeast and wheat?) to be ultra-processed, or potato wedges, or fruit juices, or canned vegetable soups, along with ketchup.

To be sure, many of those CAN be commercially processed, but I think this particular study might be trying a bit too hard to lump together a bunch of ambiguous foods in order to try to find power in their stats? It's hard to trust a dietary analysis that treats sugary sodas the same as pasta sauce or whole-grain bread...
They definitely do, take a look at how much big US tech companies pay in London.
There's a video series on YouTube where game devs talk about the challenges they faced while driving the game. Crash Bandicoot is covered in one episode, and there is another fantastic episode about Dead Space with the tentacle scene. Much recommended view.
Oh yes, many studies on unused targets/receptors are out there. It's a very common thing in the cell. Sure, yes, there are a lot of transport mechanisms to get the higher Dalton things about. But, again, it's all kinda random down there. Look at a lot of synapse regulation and you'll see that signaling molecules will escape the cleft and have to be digested. There's this really fun 'dance' that astrocytes do to regulate damaged NMDA receptors (and likely all receptors) that kinda makes the synapse just spill out all the signaling compounds for a little while. The cilia in neurons will also act as a kind of passive radar for a cell, just taking in signals and seeing what is going on with all the unused stuff floating about.

The mean free path is pretty much 0 all over, so to speak. I was just trying to tie it back into more EE concepts for you. The idea is that things are just randomly moving about, with a 'free' mean free path, until they aren't, and that stoppage costs energy. At body temperatures, it doesn't take much to knock binding ligands out of a cleft. So the stiffer the bind, the harder to disassociate, and the harder to get it to unbind at the end. Nature kinda figures this all out on her own, and the optimal energies are found out via evolution. It's all a 'good enough' system.

So, the trick with bio is that it's a lot like how Clausewitz thinks of war: War is easy, it's just that all the easy stuff is really hard. In that, it's conceptually easy to do bio. It's just that it's really hard to implement anything. Feynman talked a bit about it in one of his lectures. In that, getting a rat to randomly go into a room and then discover that there is cheese in it will take a tremendous amount of prep and careful cleaning and the like. Rats have really really good noses. It's so easy to fool yourself in bio, because the systems are just so complicated. And, for me, that's been true up and down the size scale, from single cells to whole animals. The systems are just so complex, you really only get to ask simple questions and then hope you controlled the experiment correctly.
Yeah deep-tech (which I am also in) plays on a different scale when it comes to funding rounds, simply because of how expensive hardware is and how big the headcount gets to just make MVPs.

My friends in software startups balk at the sheer burn rate and funding rounds at mine. $100mm for a Series A is unheard of in software.

Thank you Thiel for setting the bar so high (the famous, "you need $1billion in total capital to successfully pull off hardware startups" quote).
This largely takes away any odds at solving this. You definitely can't reproduce that under a million dollars.

I have some ideas I want to try, I might still though. But all of it would require external tools.
I sometimes (but rarely) use blur to shift the attention focus on certain screen regions by blurring out other parts. Like an inverted highlighter. But mostly I actually use the highlighter function :-)
I wish I had known so much more about this before joining a hot AI startup a few years ago. It raised its Series C at $850MM valuation. The business was doing terribly; investment was exclusively speculative with no business success to speak of.

The founders made tons of cash. Layoffs ensued. They're still kicking; they've pivoted to Gen AI which has given them new life. I had no idea how terrible the deal was. I regret so much about that time and the opportunity cost of joining that place.
I have been having an intermittent issue as well, but only when using BLE, so I was suspecting the Espressive drivers. I was wondering if it would be worth switching over to NimBLE, so thanks for that tip, I'll try it out and see if the problem goes away. Luckily, it's a very low priority.
So how is this different to OpenFaas?
I don't understand what that means. 70k per what? 120k per what? What is a "hit"? A read operation?
The Vogue Archive
> Now the shoemaker had enough money to buy leather for two pairs of shoes.

Everything I need to know about business in one line of one old story.
Abrash's Black Book was more in the style of Numerical Recipes than graphics gems, from what I recall. I also remember Nvidia putting out something annually around the late 2000s that was pretty good, can't remember the name though.
How much do Canadian tech companies earn per employee? There’s your answer.
Like with all terms originating from 4chan, some people will try to reject it and make it the new n-word like they're paid to do this. The irony is they do it for free on a Friday afternoon. At the end of the day normal people who don't larp as Internet hall monitors don't care and adopt the term anyway. Many such cases. And people haven't learned in the 20 years this kept happening over and over again.
Libsodium maintainer is low on rent money
> Doom was written in 1993 when this was much less of a concern, but with Quake and later engines it become a scalability bottleneck.

Worth clarifying that the 386 and 486 were not pipelined, so they didn't feature branch prediction. The Pentium was, but it had released during Doom"s development and essentially no home user owned one.

Quake made extensive use of the Pentium's faster FPU, so they didn't optimize for earlier CPUs.
John McCarthy (LISP) wrote on USENET about his emotions as a draftee hearing the A-Bomb had been dropped and he wouldn't have to storm the beaches of Japan.
> it would seem to be limited to 30 levels of brace nesting

Yes because I declared 30 cells, you can declare more if you want.

> Unless I am mistaken, it requires a pointless increment and decrement of a variable before and after every function call.

Yes it adds overhead, you can rebuild with : { ; IMMEDIATE : } IMMEDIATE ; and then there's zero overhead on any Forth, when you've demonstrated the braces match. This is meant as an aid for people that struggle without parens.

> Aren't those just functions? If so, it wouldn't work in compiled code.

It works in compiled and interpreted code, 'just functions' compile automatically without trouble in Forth, it's parsing words and immediate words that need care.

No that code wouldn't work with multiple threads, but if you declare the space as USER space it would, similar to just whacking 'thread_local' on something.

The example is failing in one regard, that it doesn't provide a way to reset the stack if something goes wrong. You can use something like : RESET{} BRACES BRACES ! ; to accomplish that. But it is just meant to show that Forth is quite succinct and powerful, which it does.
Many of them still allow commercial use. The question is most likely about the XTTS model, which doesn't, but its license is up to the original Coqui team.
No, you missed the point. The striking thing about ARC is the puzzles are super easy, for humans. The average person solves 85% of the tasks, but the worlds best LLMs are only solving 5%. The challenge is to simply make an AI score as well as the average human.
any companies with excess budget out there using libsodium? support the dev!
> Perfect is the enemy of dinner

I've never heard this one. Is that a reference to something?
Why not? If the only thing that can solve problem X is AGI (e.g. humans), and something else comes along that solves it, then rationally that should be evidence that the something else is AGI right?

Unless you have strong prior beliefs (like "computers can't be AGI") or something else that's problem specific ("these problems can be solved by these techniques which don't count as AGI"). So I guess that's my real question.
Of course you are right :D

So Linux is actually more secure than OpenBSD ;)
FreeBSD or Linux management plane on routers/switches is mostly irrelevant. The majority of the data simply flows through the asics untouched.
It's crazy how good open weight models are already. With a 7900 XTX I can run a roughly GPT-3.5 quality q6 model at 70 TPS. FP16 at 30 TPS. I can swap out the model to cater to specific tasks.

Sure, it's nowhere near the amount of knowledge as Claude Sonnet / Opus, or the suite of GPT 4s, but when you hook it up to external sources of knowledge, it's still freaking useful.
What I am thinking is bad cafeteria food. Something they slop on your plate from big container with zero ceremony. Which does not have any desirable, consistency, taste or colour...
ARC-AGI: "here are some pretty simple puzzles, we'll give you a million dollars to solve them!"

Human: "They're quite challenging, this might be a trick to engage activity for the purpose of training models."

skrebbel: "You're stupid".
> take a look at how much *big US tech companies* pay in London
We've just opensourced MARS5 and are bullish about it's ability to capture very hard prosody -- hopefully you can validate the results and grow alongside its community.

We tend to agree, the time for just one company to be seriously doing speech is over. It needs to be more diverse, and needs to be opensource
https://github.com/Camb-ai/MARS5-TTS
And it will give you a crap answer 95% of the time. Good luck using chatjippity when you have any level of complexity.

I’m working on a React UI based SQL query builder, where the entire data structure is recursive.

ChatGPT is literally unusable for this
If you don’t believe a startup can be the next Stripe, then you definitely shouldn’t take 1% and work as one of the first employees.

Also, the risk profile and expectations are vastly different between founders and first employees. E.g. founders are expected to not quit unless the company collapses completely, first employees can quit whenever they wish. Also, if the runway is short, founders work for free and can even go into debt, whereas employees have a stable salary.
Here's a great github discussion about passkey plaintext exports.

Apparently, the FIDO alliance is considering adding an attestation feature that would allow websites to block various passkey implementations:

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407#iss...

e.g., they could block ones that allow exports, or they could block ones that are FOSS. To their credit, it looks like Apple's throwing their weight around to prevent such blocking from being technically possible.

The more I hear about this standard, the more concerned I become.
Architecting an AI App for Appointment Confirmation
In this video, I'll walk you through the system design of a project that I have built that integrates Node.js, AWS, third-party APIs, and an AI Calling Agent (Talks like a real person). You'll learn how to efficiently fetch data from an external API using cron jobs, process and store it in a database, and then use another API for AI-driven calls.

Using diagrams and detailed explanations, I'll break down each component and highlight best practices for building a reliable and scalable system. Whether you're a software engineer or a tech enthusiast, this video will provide valuable insights into designing complex workflows without diving into the code.

For some reason, I can't show code or real workflow but I have discussed the architecture in this video.
Scroll over on the test input, there’s another example in the set that disambiguates
I had the exact same situation. I stuck with it through the limited data plan era with my grandfathered ATT plan and only changed it once we got the unlimited data plans again. It was great, the only problem I had was even though the data was unlimited, the grandfathered plan had a 400 text messages limit which wasn’t enough.
See also https://tromp.github.io/blog/2023/11/24/largest-number
Recalling seems kind of extreme but I can confirm that these particular noodles give nuclear fuel a run for its money.
I believe that no one should have to pay for medical care at the point of receiving it. This is what Taxes and government planning are for
I couldn't care less. They can keep their secret and stick it where the sun doesn't shine.
A quick internet search suggests that the '2x' one recalled is 8800 Scoville units.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale
"Strong typing" most of the time means "no implicit type conversion" like e.g. C or Javascript do. That is indepentend of having statíc or dynamic typing (and anything between).
> another reason for VCs encouraging founders to sell shares: giving them a taste of wealth

VCs are wealthy. Some of them weren't born wealthy. The best among them recognise that removing the worry about e.g. paying rent will make a better CEO.
This isn't zero sum. You can do both
Cost is a big problem. Some sources say 3x to 4x the cost of lithium-ion batteries, at least initially. Nissan and Toyota both claim manufacturing cost breakthroughs.
Apparently this is hard to do, but not a raw materials problem.

Lithium-iron-phosphate batteries have taken over the low end of the market. Cheaper and safer, but less energy per kilogram.
Also the maintainer of minisign.

And I thought stars like him get snatched up by FAANGs very quickly.
There seems to be a bug today, I typed "sunshine" at 21/23 and it said it was not in the word list. But the answer was supposedly also "sunshine". Could it be that the position of each S is somehow artificially significant?
It doesn’t right now, but it will. Jose and company have been working on a gradual type system. Elixir 1.17 recently released the first typing features.
You have sleep disordered breathing. Get a good, UARS-aware sleep study - not everyone's airway collapses to the point of having sleep apnea, plenty of people experience horrifying sleep fragmentation instead. If your sleep is messed up AND you snore, you 100% certainly have it.
You're right, The Great War and Modern Memory is not only an amazing history but it's also a remarkable bit of writing in its own right. It's one of those exceptional books on war and the history of warfare and up there with the likes of John Keegan's The Face of Battle and others that comprise the main text corpus about warfare. It's an essential read for anyone who's interested in the subject.

It's author, Paul Fussell, an educator in English, was a WWII veteran and in that nightmarish push across the border into Germany and so had firsthand experience of what it's like to be in battle. Fussell not only looks at the horrors of The Great War but also at those who participated in it, and of the social milieu that surrounded it.

Fussell not only speaks from experience but also from the heart, he dedicates the book to the memory of a companion who was killed nearby him. It's a very moving piece of writing.

I came to the book just by chance, I saw it on a pile of old books on a table outside a secondhand bookstore around two decades ago. My eye was drawn immediately to the remarkable photo of a tragic figure of a young soldier on its cover. The lost and dejected look on that soldier is forever fixed in my memory.

I doubt if that cover photograph could be bettered, it foretells the book's contents to a tee.
Once you have hundreds of accounts? Yeah, sure.
I would interpret it as completing the game requires 120,000 disk read operations, but the CD drive may fail after just 70,000 read operations.
I know someone who considers canned tomatoes too spicy. But labeling the products as “poison” seems a bit of a stretch in any context.
AES-GCM is also used in the Bluetooth Low Energy protocol, which is commonly used for IoT-purposes. As a result it’s more often than not available as a hardware-accelerated peripheral, saving both time and power. There’s also hardware-RNG available in those cases.

I think one reason nonce-reuse is a problem in IoT is lack of experience and awareness. Up until relatively recently a lot of embedded development was constrained to just offline devices, so cryptography wasn’t really required.
Harold Bloom interview on Harry Potter, the Internet and more (2000) [video]
I will say that it’s nice that you need explicit imports in Gleam. Elixir does not require this and a lot of code in our codebase suffers from unspecified imports which can be difficult to follow.
Northern China braces for record high temperatures in major heat wave
problem is that low stakes divided by low cost of bots is still an acceptable return.
Wow, the kids discovered Notepad!
Power assymetries and parasites leaching of off that. And the anti colonial is a horrific part of that, preventing societal adaption and chanfe to be able to compete. Its so bad, colonial history goto repeat itself in africa with chinese recolonialization. Thus proofing racism a effect, not a cause.
> Big wars kill large numbers of people

(Leaving NBC for a different comment:) Stalingrad had more Allied deaths alone (in ~half year) than Union and Confederate deaths combined of the US Civil War (in ~4 years).

To be fair, that was (part of) a big war without medevac, but given (a) the determination of modern actors to ignore Geneva Conventions, and (b) the tech level of the RU/UA war, I'm not sure medevac is still a thing.
That’s not the story I’ve heard. What I’ve read are stories of airlines who regretted the deals and went after those who used them extensively, looking for excuses to revoke them:

https://thehustle.co/aairpass-american-airlines-250k-lifetim...

Anyhow, the Mark Cuban article says almost nothing about how the airline treated him, it’s just a light human interest story about an unusual and quirky thing a famous person did.
I think there's a confusion between the related events. Filing the 83(b) form with the IRS is between you and the IRS. Company isn't involved so not something they can restrict.

However, filing that 83(b) only makes any sense if you are allowed to early exercise and that is indeed entirely up to the company. So if they don't let you early exercise you also won't be filing the 83(b).

Pro tip: Never join a startup that does not let you early exercise!!
The licenses of the code (MPL 2.0, allowing commercial use) and the available pretrained models (https://github.com/idiap/coqui-ai-TTS/blob/dev/TTS/.models.j...) are all clearly stated and won't change unless the model owners decide to do so. So the XTTS model is still under CPML, which doesn't allow commercial use.
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My understanding is that 83b applies to stock, not options, so you have to first exercise the options and hold unvested stock. That requires early exercise.
That's a very biased point of view. I use it for mathematical formulations for optimization problems and it gives me very good answers most of the time. The literature is very strong but hard to search via keywords. ChatGPT manages to digest the literature and does a good job pattern matching to the right problem.

(I also use the paid version).
With complex components such as these, I expect them to work perfectly because, if anything goes wrong, I can't fix it myself since the internals are hidden behind a high-level api.

So it's not great to see that...

- Multiple selection works with shift but not by dragging

- Stepping between cells with arrow keys doesn't properly move the viewport

- Space doesn't trigger a button

- Escape dismisses the entire modal while im in a combobox dropdown

- Time- and Datepickers take so long to open that I accidentally closed them by clicking twice

- Time-and-Date open and then don't close when you tab over them

- The entire interface disappeared on me with an internal error when messing with the csv importer
Brewing, like baking, was a regular occurrence in a household. It was done in the same place, with the same equipment, as last time. The yeast culture from the previous batch was likely a given ingredient.
I know that it happens, but that's different from knowing of it's happening here or not, and by how much.

Is openai selling below cost? Is the cost on azure lower than the true cost? ChatGPT free is obviously run subsidized but are the apis?

Can you tell me the actual cost to Microsoft of a gpt4 API call?