skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can totally see someone taking a potshot at it just for a lark. Heck, I can see someone doing it for the purpose of creating content for their TikTok or YouTube channel.

It's not like something like that has never happened before: https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/santa-barbara-county-ma...
That's actually how I found it too, the drawing and annotations were just the cherry on top
throwaway acct here. I left a flagship tech company with $500k total comp and joined a startup as engineer #1 with 5% options over 4 years. My salary is current $120k and I'm losing money each month, although I've been promised that will changed as soon as we raise more.

We are going to raise a Series A in the next few months. I know a little bit about this stuff, but not enough that I'm confident in exactly what to expect over the next few years, nor enough to know that I've negotiated properly (thought I did lol) and are protecting myself enough. This thread is scaring the shit out of me. I have a good relationship with the two founders and not afraid of being candid with them. Would appreciate any advice.
> Have you been an employee in a startup? Because in my experience it has a lot of the downs of the founder, but none of the ups.

Have you been a founder? If not, I'm not sure you fully realize what goes into the job. Everyone wants to be a founder, but nobody wants to _be_ a founder.
I've joined two startups now as the 2nd and 4th engineer. I went into both expecting nothing from options or shares, and knowingly accepted a lower than market salary because I liked the teams and projects.

I couldn't be happier. Neither panned out for me with regards to stocks, and I definitely didn't get rich in the process, but I very much enjoyed the jobs and when I decided to leave it was only because the business direction wasn't a fit for what I wanted to spend my time on.

It sure sounds like a privledged position, but it more came down to us living cheaply compared to our income and having the breathing room to trade a higher salary for work that I really enjoyed. I hope more people can make that tradeoff, it's much more fulfilling in my opinion
You should also try the opposite, have the AI show reasons why it was not written by an AI.
Amazing. Exactly the type of content that I come to HN for.
The surprisingly not so doomed effort to force US drivers to stop speeding
I don't know that the entire volume is considered "precise". Most of it should be cryogenic equipment (compressors, pipes, etc), packed in some kind of insulation. If anti-material rounds did penetrate the load, on-site repairs might be feasible. Contrast this with something like an EUV tool, which would probably be instant scrap if this kind of attack were successful.
Everyone I knew never washed theirs, maybe every couple weeks at most
They were talking about logging your own encrypted keystrokes and being in control of them.

This would be dehumanizing? This means 'hacker news has lost their way'?

Logging your own keystrokes and encrypting it is 'bleakness of tech'? This is a 'surveillance machine'?

What are you talking about?
> The blockchain part is silly, because timestamping services exist without it

Yet the timestamping service which I trust the most, is the Blockchain-based one. https://opentimestamps.org/
CoComelon Captures Our Children's Attention
It’s fortunate we have mountains of human-written books, film, television, radio programs, music, and video games from Before AI. Just the good stuff could occupy several lifetimes.

Pity we killed most of the good used book stores already, though.

Also, shame about journalism and maybe also democracy. That’s too bad.
https://archive.ph/vElvl
most definitely protected, and very expensive insurance too.

> gunfire in transit

Not just gunfire, they need to protect it from

- Climate Activists, blocking road and sabotaging the instrument, like they destroy old paintings at museums and art galleries to bring awareness via headlines [1]

- Foreign Adversary Intentionally Sabotaging Equipment to prevent America from leading in Semiconductor ( Had happened to India’s SCL silicon lab when they were catching up with market in 1980s ) [2]

- And ofcourse Gun Slingers too

[1](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/famou...)

[2](https://youtu.be/isBYV6QWDIo?si=_g_0uYoXqiekhh9n)
A close friend of mine did this about 25 years ago, and he considers it one of the best things he's ever done. His description of Ireland is "if you ignore the weather, this place is as close to a paradise as I'm likely to see".

It may not be for everybody (nothing is), but it is for some.
It is that easy. Employee 1 is getting paid below market. That’s why they offer 0.9% equity. Meanwhile, the founders are also getting paid. No one is working for free. One of the first things VCs tell you is to make yourself comfortable so you can concentrate on the company. That’s literally one of the reasons why VCs tell founders to sell equity early, to make up for lost income, while Employees 1+ has to ride the rocket into the ground.

It’s Baby’s First Labor Exploitation.
It's split up into 18 separate loads
> My daughter (6) loves experiments, but honestly all the chemistry sets and similar we've bought have been quite boring [...]

I had chemistry sets as a kid, and I think I agree with this. As an adult I understand why these sets are boring, and honestly I'd be more likely to play with these sets as an adult. The instructions and guides weren't really very creative and they weren't engaging.

At the same time, the chemistry sets of the (for example) 1950s were absolutely batshit insane and are rightfully taken off the shelves.

It's a shame there isn't much of a middle ground other than finding YouTube demonstrations. Then again I haven't looked for a chemistry set lately...
> Also, has it not occurred to anyone that deep down in the brainmeat, humans might actually be employing some sort of organic LLM when they engage in writing?

This is a fairly common take, along with the idea that AI image generators are just doing what humans do when they "learn from examples". But I strongly believe it's a fallacy. What generative AI does is analagous to what humans do, but it's still just an analogy. If you want to see this in action, it's better to look at the way generative AI fails than the way it succeeds: when it makes mistakes in text or images, the mistakes are very much not the kind of mistakes that humans make, because the process behind the scenes is very different.

Yes, obviously when humans write, they take into account context and awareness of what words naturally follow other words, but it seems unlikely we've learned to write by subconsciously arranging all the words we've encountered into multidimensional vector space and performing vector math operations to arrive at the next word based on the context window we're subconsciously constructing. We learn to write in a very different way.

It's truly amazing that generative AI writes as well as it does, but we reason about concepts and generative AI reasons about words. Personally, I'm skeptical that the problems LLMs have with "hallucinations" and with creating definitionally median text* can be solved by making LLMs bigger and faster.

*I did see the comment complaining that it's not mathematically accurate to say that LLMs produce average text, but from my understanding of how generative AI works as well as my recent misadventures testing an AI "novel writer," it's a decent approximation of what's going on. Yes, you can say "write X in the style of Y," but "write X but make it way above average" is not actually going to work.
Do not forget huge pages configuration in kernel - Postgres will use them and it will save a lot of RAM for large databases, esp with many connections.

One of the ways to configure is to continue adding nr_hugepages to kernel, restarting PG and running your workload until you see HugePages_Free growing.

E.g.:

sysctl.d/10-hugepages.conf:vm.nr_hugepages=20000

See how these are used:

[root@potato ~]# cat /proc/meminfo | grep -i huge

AnonHugePages: 4411392 kB

ShmemHugePages: 0 kB

FileHugePages: 0 kB

HugePages_Total: 20000

HugePages_Free: 3103

HugePages_Rsvd: 143

HugePages_Surp: 0

Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
Hugetlb: 40960000 kB
Almost certainly no. Probably not protected from meteor hits or car crashes either.
Samsung made a cool $1.2B from its Vietnam factories last quarter
> We forwent this in favor of getting that consoomer dollar.

We forwent this in favor of empowering the huge number of people who didn't want to program, who just wanted to use the computer to be able to do (nonprogramming) things.
To me, it’s more like a guy who is known for going on rants over the current hot thing goes on yet another rant.
Have you been thru rural Ohio?
Greenshot have great features - but i need to test flamshot ad it (also) looks promising…
Advertise for a founding CEO and offer them 1-2%.
I can't think of a single company that went public that has improved rather than massively regressed. Could you name one of these unicorns?
Show HN: Learning History via CYOA
I made Amnesia, a generative AI choose-your-own-adventure game that drops you in any given time and place and lets you explore.

I’ve tried a lot of these kinds of games before and have always found that the lack of structure and intention in “you can do anything” AI games prevents me from caring about the content of the story.

I thought it might be interesting to experiment with using a narrative to consume content I would’ve cared about otherwise, which led me to making Amnesia. Amnesia has two screens- one for the storyline and another for learnings. Every decision moves the narrative and presents you with new learnings.

Admittedly, the narrative is pretty weak at the moment, and will need some more work. Having said that, I’ve loved messing around with this and exploring all sorts of time periods and places in a more engaging & personal way.

I’d love for you to try it out and share your thoughts!
Both were eccentric dropouts. Hughes did big flying things, Kaczynski did AI doom.

Musk tweeted "He might not be wrong" about Kaczynski so maybe it's in progress.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1667627403089268739?lang=en
Nice! Once you start getting complex, a standalone script might be a good idea. But it should be noted that your ImageMagick processing can also be inserted into the original one-liner:

bash -c 'flameshot gui -s -r | convert - -colorspace Gray -scale 1191x2000 -unsharp 6.8x2.69+0 -resize 500% png:- | tesseract - - | gxmessage -title "Decoded Data" -fn "Consolas 12" -wrap -geometry 640x480 -file -'
...which was replaced a few years ago, now using optical tracking from Hawk-Eye.
It has happened before with other kinds of large cargo (the type that you really wouldn't want to have undesired holes in): https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=276419
This is in line with my experiences, as well.
> but I’ve basically given up on using the YouTube interface for finding videos

Not just you, youtube has as well.
> Intel's 916,000-pound shipment is a "cold box," a self-standing air-processor structure that facilitates the cryogenic technology needed to fabricate semiconductors. The box is 23 feet tall, 20 feet wide, and 280 feet long...

The weight gives Tom a big number for his headline - but 99% of the problem with this load is the dimensions - which are too big for normal railroads. (Yes, the weight is also large enough to rule out using a heavy-lift helicopter.)

Vs. a single 1940's-era steam locomotive+tender could weigh over 1,200,000 lbs. Modern locomotives - where electronic control makes it very easy, flexible, and wage-saving to operate 'em in sets - generally weigh a bit over 400,000 lbs. per.
Restate raises $7M for its lightweight workflows-as-code platform
Nobody talked about "high performance". I'm just talking about using all the cores on a machine. People write stuff in Python and JS for obvious reasons that I don't need to detail here.
Yes please. The art of writing is conveying the most meaning in the fewest words.
Most of the large petrochemical tanks on the Gulf Coast have bullet dings in them. Folks just like to take potshots at stuff. Luckily the steel of these tanks are already more than thick enough to handle most small-arms fire. They just take the damage into account when they do corrosion monitoring every few years (those impact spots tend to be thinner afterwards, of course).
Yes, you vest stock options, and given that risk for startups is very much front-loaded, vesting schedules that are back-loaded are a big red flag for incentive misalignment. And that's ignoring all of the problems with stock options as opposed to RSU's.

The baseline is something like a 4-year vesting schedule with a 1 year cliff and monthly after that, uniform distribution. Anything more back-loaded or worse than that is a red flag.
What? It's self protecting. How is a thief going to fence a million pounds of heavy equipment, and get away from a convoy of dozens of people?

As soon as they turn onto some smaller road they're going to run into power lines. If it's so expensive for Intel/Ohio DOT to move it, it's not gonna be any easier or cheaper for a thief.

This is like, what if someone stole the copper wiring from the white house

Fun to think about though. Fun weird question.
You don't have to limit that first statement to telecoms.
Exploring probability distributions in random numbers
most i know who work as eng #1 (non founder), are new grads who couldn't get into FANG. So mainly just looking for experience/inflated job title to boost their resume.

So not like these startups are getting top senior talent who obv will want to get PAID.
There already exists the comskip project used by most home-brew PVR software for broadcast TV. I wonder if it could be leveraged for this. See https://github.com/erikkaashoek/Comskip
Author here with a disclaimer, it's not perfect, but works well with popular blogs more likely to be indexed by WBM.

I am sure there are more stable/accurate ways to do this with scraping but the WBM approach suited my requirements.
I think it's important to consider some of what Raspberry Pi's mission [1] and how they have kept and/or swayed from that.

Short version, the Foundation was established to support the education and development of skilled technologists (subtext: in the UK). It came from the observation that enrollment in Computer Science courses was dropping, and that the kind of accessibility and hack-ability of previous technologies was becoming less available to people with potential interests. Inspired by previous UK efforts like the BBC Micro (and other 8-bits), and other concurrent educational efforts, they decided their niche was going to be cheap, single board, all-in-one computers.

What I really respect from the RPI folks is that they've really tried to focus on building a viable UK-based technology company - as much as possible, without being zealots about it. That's their unstated mission, to revitalize the U.K.'s technical capacity:

- Based on an ARM processor, a British company

- Has tried to keep as much manufacturing as possible in the U.K. (Sony UK Technology Centre)

- Went public on the London Stock Exchange

All that being said, I feel that they've deviated a bit from this as their primary mission. During COVID when supply chains were messed up, Pi manufacturing and shipping was prioritized to large scale buyers, where the supply then seemed to end up in industrial use-cases instead of the hands of people learning. I've heard an argument, which I do think is valid, that getting a familiar tech stack into industry provides an on-ramp into jobs to the same people who had learned how to do technology on those same Pis. But there's now at least a 2 or 3 year gap where new people couldn't really onboard into the ecosystem because of availability and cost.

The second challenge is the Pi 5. I do think that expectations were simply too high here and the community was expecting basically a usable desktop with fast PCI lanes and gobs of memory for $35. What's delivered is amazing, but once you build it into a "desktop", you may as well have just bought a cheap intel desktop. And that I think is the real existential problem for the Foundation today.

If I were the Foundation, post Pi 5, I would be looking very seriously at alternative form factors as the future. The CM line and HAT concept has been very successful, the hackability of Pis have been amazing. Perhaps there are ways to make the concept even more modular, or more hackable. Maybe offer baseline RAM amounts soldered on, but upgradability with new modules? Make other wireless technologies a core part of the offering (HAM Radio/BTLE/4G/LTE/LoRA, etc.)? Tap more into the 3D printer space with readily available mounts and housings that provide sufficient cooling and airflow. Ready-to-go cluster computing variants, why not mini-Blade-likes using Compute Modules?

What ways can the core Pi technologies expand in order to serve their primary mission and expand the ways that people can learn about technologies?

Perhaps they're thinking the same thing and this is why they need to raise more money?

1 - https://static.raspberrypi.org/files/about/RaspberryPiFounda...
Very nice, but I gotta give Greenshot the edge here, strictly from a usability standpoint.
It blew my mind when moved to Ireland and saw that GPs/dentists etc. posted prices for services. How sad is that?
My experience this is common for specialty knowledge the founders might not possess. They know enough to know they cannot assess, say, AI/ML or infrastructure, and seek interview support from an advisor.
Most certainly, but not for the public to see (although we all know relatively where different countries are.) I recently read kill chain which is jarringly accurate for a 4 year old book, and it goes through what you're indirectly alluding to: US military ppp is not only too high, but the 'kill-chain' is too slow.
See the FAQ entry "Can I post a job ad" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
What I don't get is that you are engineer #1 but you say the vibe and culture are bad.

Why didn't you build a better culture? I very much doubt that the management team took all the hiring decisions on their own after they got you on board. I'd say the most important part of my job as #1 was to hire and build the team.
my absolute favorite irc client. screen+irssi ftw. bitchx was also very popular, too. ah, memories.
The license is the MPL, which allows commercial use?

https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/blob/dev/LICENSE.txt
Be careful here about confirmation bias. If you only spot 10% of the AI-written code, you'll still think you see all of it, because a 100% of the ones you spot are indeed AI-written. And the 10% you see, will indeed be painfully obvious.

The ones you don't notice aren't obvious.
Ever seen a stop sign in rural America?

Quite a few folks like shooting stuff and have very poor judgement.
> food desert

There are absolutely places, at least here in the U.S., where food deserts really are a thing though.

I live in the south and there are places here where you can't buy fresh produce for miles. I don't live in such a place but I've been to these kinds of places.
>Oh please, let's lose the persecution complex.

It's not a complex when it's actually occurring. This is like like Russia telling the world it's not invading Ukraine, it's denazifying it: "Oh please Ukraine, let's lose the persecution complex."

>If there is any discrimination against men happening in academia it's in the clown show departments that no one cares about anyway.

This is when you're unintentionally correct. The problem being critical departments are clown shows, including ones like admissions.

>As for "struggles", study history.

It's clear you haven't.

>The minor struggles that modern men in developed countries deal with are nothing compared to what our ancestors faced.

"The minor struggles that modern women in developed countries deal with are nothing compared to what our ancestors faced."

>I was never drafted and sent to assault the beach at Normandy

This has to be satire. The largest European land war since WWII is currently raging, with drafts currently occurring.
What kind of research did you do? Just having a go now with the HPV vaccine results in this recent systematic review: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8877934/ . From the conclusion:

> The preventive effect of HPV vaccines against anogenital and oropharyngeal cancers has been proven in both clinical trials and real-world data.
Does anyone know why Intel select Ohio over Oregon or Arizona? I tried to Google for it, but the sources are awful and nothing definitive. Intel has been quite tight-lipped about it. I saw this quote, which seems to be hiding something: <<"I want to give a lot of credit to the governor and lieutenant governor. They pursued us very aggressively," he [Intel CEO Gelsinger] said.>> What exactly is meant by "pursued us very aggressively"? I can only guess.
I agree, CleanShot X is the best thing I've found. Open to any alternatives that someone knows about, though!
Numbering tool is a nice touch.

Click click click, paste in email and reference the numbers… much more clear than arrows and scribbles all over the place.
> The fact that in 2024 it's still impossible to not have all your apps plastered on the home screen, at best in folders, is a mind boggling missing feature in iOS. Every time I see someone with an iPhone try to open an app, it takes them a scroll or two to find the correct screen, and then hesitation with the finger moving to find the correct app placement. How I open apps? I have the main ones on my home screen, and for everything else I double tap the home button, and type (the start of) the name. I've been doing this since I first got an Android with Nova, I sure as hell am not going to retrain a decade of muscle memory to rely on apps not changing their icon or having to remember its exact location on the home screen.

Obviously you are in rant-mode, but you are incorrect on this point. They've had this exact feature for years. I have tons of apps installed and only a few permanent icons on my home screen.
Sharp-Eyed Telescope Tracks Satellites During Daylight
Which is all fine and dandy as long as you never have to interact with those people, but in this case the author would absolutely have to do that. If not directly in their issue tracker (though certainly there), then in every conversation about their project from then on. That would be quite tiring for most people and lead to burnout.

You recently said (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40628935):

> Having a combative relationship with every stranger may not be the most productive way to conduct yourself.

Which I agree with. It seems to concur with my point (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40658456):

> Being angry at the people angry about you is not a practical solution

If you don’t think so, I’d be interested in understanding what you see as the principal difference between those statements. To clarify, I was also referring to (internet) strangers.

In sum, why even bother in this case? Just rip it out to a plugin and never think about it again. Now that is pragmatic.
The on the verge of a carbon storage boom
I had the same thoughts. "No, it's not real". The AI generated image doesn't help.
Yeah. I'm been tempted to move into product management because I care a lot more about the business side than your average dev. Then I need to constantly remind myself of what I've observed ^_^

What kind of job did you switch to after being a PM, if you don't mind me asking?
Romance Writers of America has filed for bankruptcy. What's next?
Sorry if this is too far off topic for this thread, but I'm curious if you've done any work on packaging JVM-based desktop apps, whether using JavaFX, Compose, or something else, using GraalVM Native Image. The idea of bringing Native Image's minimal startup time to desktop apps is really appealing to me.
They're not wrong though? 10% is more late cofounder territory, you won't find anyone giving up so much equity for an early employee.
What was ridiculous? Are they not doing stock standard lora?