skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They claim that they think they know how to do it. That's two conditionals.
Few things are as permanent as a temporary fix that works
Where is "around here"? No way it's any city in the US.
90 day exercise window is a big part of the problem here.
You’re talking about Tesla right? The one where he essentially did a hostile acquisition then booted one of the real co-founders?

You can’t honestly say he founded that company.
Interesting! If I used Firefox (et al.) more, and if my passwords stored by Google aren't available there but they would be if stored in Bitwarden, this new-to-me information just might lead me to switch. But I do still intuitively put more trust in Google to not make a mistake; I am ready to be convinced of the opposite, though.
From my memory: In the 90, if you had anything to do with computer graphics[1] you knew about binary space partitioning trees.

Off the top of my head I remember two different articles from local German computer magazines (that are still in my basement) discussing and implementing them.

But so were many, many other ideas and approaches.

Not taking away from Carmack's genius, in my opinion it was not in inventing a horse and neither in finding one, but in betting on the right one.

[1] If you were a programmer in the 90s - any kind of programmer - you most certainly had.
These days there is typically an institutional seed round before that.
I straight up don't believe the article. (Edit: not saying author is lying, but that they're extrapolating from bad data.) I've worked as employee #3 at one startup, co-founded another which achieved >$3bn valuation, and am now solo-founding a third. I've networked with lots of other founders. I've never, ever heard of a secondary liquidity offer in a Series A.

I think the paragraph above that quote explains it. They're talking about founders that "mortgaged their house and lived on ramen noodles for years." It actually sounds like they got screwed out of some equity. Rather than pay themselves a reasonable salary to support their lifestyle as they build the company, they instead traded equity for a one-time payment. That's a shitty deal, and I want to know who this predatory VC is so I make sure I never take money from them.
Compensation for programming and engineering jobs is not connected to compensation for PR jobs. Compensation is based on what kind of job it is, not what sector it is in.

Mushing the two together makes for a meaningless article.

If you want a tech salary, get a STEM education and apply for a tech job.
Ask HN: Fair Equity Split for a New Cofounder on My MVP-Ready(ish) OSS Project?
I've been working solo on an open-source project called github.com/craftgen/craftgen or Craftgen.ai for the past 7 months. It's a no/low-code AI agent-building platform with a graph architecture. with drag-and-drop UI. Deno runtime base code interpreter for self-improvement. It could be a game-changer in the AI space.

With the MVP almost ready, I'm getting interest from potential cofounders through YC's cofounder matching and other social platforms. Given the amount of work I've already put in, I'm unsure how to approach equity share expectations with a new potential cofounder/s.

Any advice on:

Fair equity split for a new cofounder at this stage.

Balancing their contributions with the work already done.

Would you happen have any potential pitfalls to watch out for?

Would you consider cofounder this late to the project?

Definitely wanna vesting period but what would be the numbers?

Thanks for your insights!

Best,
Neco
Why the disparity? Especially with Canada - no language barrier and no time zone differences. Why doesn’t the free market equalize Canadian dev wages with American ones?
requires having cash to tie up indefinitely, privilege alert

we did this on our crypto token grants though. once we realized we can play with the prices much more than with securities and that vesting isn’t standardized by any law, we granted ourselves deeply discounted tokens in a vesting schedule of like 3 months, the whole grant being a couple hundred dollars and launched the token the next day. mailing the IRS the election was beautiful.
Unreal engine also uses "portals" between rooms, where each room is either entirely visible or entirely invisible.

The two approaches have different pros and cons:

BSP is theoretically elegant, but requires a fairly expensive "tree walk" step for each frame. This is random in memory and not efficient for modern CPUs because the branch predictor is ineffective and the memory layout is typically not contiguous. It is even worse on GPUs. Doom was written in 1993 when this was much less of a concern, but with Quake and later engines it become a scalability bottleneck.

BSP maps require a very compute-intensive pre-processing step. Back then this limited modding and third-party maps because a very high-end PC was needed. This processing also had numerical precision issues. Theoretically this isn't a problem, but in practice it is. Designers had to be careful to make sure the map is completely closed ("airtight") and that the BSP process didn't create thin triangles. This meant that map design tools had to have all sorts of constraints on alignment and snapping to prevent the geometry "blowing up". A gotcha is that BSP splits polygons and hence the processing eats into the the map geometry polygon budget!

Portals are much simpler to implement, and each room can scale to any number of triangles. They're much more efficient with modern CPUs and GPUs, because each room can be sent as a single draw call ("batch" processing) instead of a list of individual triangles.

The problem with portal-based techniques is that there are sudden step-changes in the number of triangles needed to draw each frame as the camera moves. This can result in stuttering and sudden framerate drops. It can also blow through triangle budgets.

A common technique is to limit portal traversal depth in some way, which would cause "black" doorways in the distance and other similar artefacts. Similarly, certain map geometries were poorly supported, such as complex outdoor spaces with visibility from many directions into many rooms.
How long is typical for the seed round? Both my prior startups only spent a few months in the seed stage.
It is a bit funny how founders get the special access at a lot of companies. Not all places work like that, but it seems disingenuous.
I'd love to see photos! Ideally including the bus :)
Their app too. I’ve given up on making several high dollar purchases because it would take minutes to load.
predatory SEO!

Not content to fuck up the real world, we've done the same in the digital.

Social sites, like systems, consist of inputs and feedback loops. How the feedback inputs are filtered is what we call moderation. Sometimes good, sometimes not.

Google tamed the web and tuned itself for its own benefit. SEO engineers noticed and motivated by culture's dear friend greed, they were some of the first to automate - faking traffic and content to shape google, the shaper. Fixing the fixer.

And now we add LLMs to the mix.

In control systems, negative feedback shapes the outputs in useful ways while positive feedback amplifies. We've set the dial to 11+.
Search is abysmally slow, I agree.
Even if you have it in writing, you need to have the tenacity to hold them to it in court. They can do the fun corporate game of “computer says no” and defy your written agreement as a gamble that you’re not willing to spend time and money suing them.
The better question is why doesn't the free market lower Silicon Valley pay to be comparable to the rest of the world. SV is the outlier. Even other forms of engineering don't pay compensation anywhere near what SV software devs get.
> the starting wage jumps to $31,959 per year

You have to wonder why they don't go work at a restaurant. There's a shortage of waitstaff, the pay is at least marginally better, and it should be much lower stress.
I love that. Unsolicited but quite possibly authentic email from my bank? No auto-fill means no-go, start over from a known URL. It would be funny if this behavior isn't a guarantee in certain adverse conditions.
It's the style of comments you get on a lot of conspiracy sites. I see comment styles like that on a lot of articles linked from places like rense.com.
This is the weirdest whataboutism I've seen all year.
That’s really about not falling foul of insider trading laws. Regular employees are free to set up limit orders within their trading windows (eg sell if stock hits $200) if they want. Can’t subsequently cancel it though! It makes way more sense to just sell on the day of vesting and then trade shares that you’re not restricted from trading. No tax or other reason not to do this.
I can also guarantee you points 2 & 3 are pretty wrong as well. Funny (and also sad) how different peoples realities can be. I have been worn out sitting on both sides of the table to tell you the truth. (One thing I will say is that within VC, the vast majority of the folks actually doing the work are sympathetic and helpful to companies, working with early/senior employees, but it gets lost up the food chain so to speak and there's usually just one or two people making decisions at the end of the day about a particular deal or a whole portfolio- and these people are generally very self-interested.)
>Tech jobs have long had much better vacation time

Yeah, no.

Google is 3 weeks/year, and has been that way for as far as I have known it.

KLA+ (formerly, KLA-Tencor) has several (IIRC, 3) weeks of sick days and vacation COMBINED, so if you get sick, no vacation for you.

Those are representative examples.
As you can see he is thinking about that all right.

The question for him is whether we want to uproot the world and rebuild it in the most energy-efficient way possible. That would affect most everyone in the world: I'm not sure the Malays want to be that global industrial hab. Perhaps they enjoy their jungle more than hosting industry for the whole world. Seeing as they already have lots of it.
Assuming the Apple side of the API doesn't prompt the user before setting a passkey, sites will inevitably start using passkeys as tracking cookie replacements.

I can't believe they'd be that shortsighted when designing up the APIs for this.
While we're on the topic, what SQL-based BI tools do we all recommend? I'm in agreement wit OP that writing SQL is generally a best-practice, but I'm still a bit clueless about the State of the Art tools. Metabase? Looker? (it's still so expensive though). Something else?
Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman
Like in assembler.
Or, if you prefer that, in untyped lambda calculus.
A significant portion of startups that raise a Seed round (or equivalent) never get to a Series A. Maybe 30 to 50% fail at this stage.
Probably expires in 30 days, so you better be vigilant.
I bet I saw the exact same thing about 14 years ago.
One of the nicest things about finding old papers is that often the "unworkable" technique now fits in L1 or L2 cache.
WEF Global Gender Gap 2024 Report [pdf]
It depends a lot on the startup. I have similar number of startup experiences, and only one had early stage secondary sales ( but those were even for non founders ). Mainly money comes from IPO or other exit.
Show HN: Online Viewer for KiCad Footprints
A super quick online viewer for the KiCad footprint library! I built this to test out a React PCB viewer.

IMO the cool thing about this is it doesn't need pcbnew, it directly loads in the kicad_mod sexpr. This makes it a lot more lightweight for displaying footprint libraries. The downside is it's not going to be 1:1 with the Gerbers generated by pcbnew.
Discussion [0] (193 points, 9 hours ago, 202 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40651203
Answering "Design Uber" questions is like playing a weird charade game in a LARP camp. It is very convenient for the interviewer because they set the rules and can change them anytime. They only prepare their question once and apply it it all candidates. What type of signal these are supposed to generate? Are these some sort of behavioral/hazing rituals? Why all the smoke and mirrors? If these are testing System Design skills, why not ask a specific System Design question? Why not ask about tradeoffs between single vs multi leader vs leaderless? Why not ask specifically about document vs relational.

Better yet, why not look at the person experience and ask them how would they scale a system they actually worked on before? And what were the tradeoffs.

This can be helpful for LARPing though: https://systemdesignfightclub.com/
It's not even remotely fair, but it does follow the golden rule: he who has the gold makes the rules. The founders were the ones who investors were willing to trust their money with. Employee #1 was not.
The alternative, which I prefer, is an XGCM-like construction that just gives you a large enough nonce to comfortably use random nonces.
the lottery ticket analogy doesn't quite hit the mark imho.

I've been seeing really shitty vesting schedules more often these days. a year in an early stage startup is often more intense than years in larger companies, yet they feel the need to push vesting schedules like 5/15/30/50 on people.

even if you do stick it out and exercise those options and eat the tax burden, those shares can still be ignored in an acquisition or diluted into oblivion in an IPO if the agreements are structured to allow that.

with a fat carrot dangling at the end of year four and the promise of an IPO Soon™, a lot of people will be more than happy to ignore important parts of their lives and financial well being for the chance of maybe, just maybe, getting access to that lottery ticket.

I think a better analogy might be like gambling in a casino. investors get to write the rules and hold all the leverage. the worst places are mobbed up, the rest might be legit but either they have every incentive to keep selling you the dream of winning big. in all likelihood, if you keep making that bet you'll walk out worse off than you were when you walked in.

if a startup or VC truly gave a shit about anyone outside the c-suite, they'd have an employee ownership program of some form and assign actual equity, not just options. I've yet to see many of them do this though because founders are the most likely ones to be gambling in those kinds of casinos.
And the reading comprehension of CS people is near zero. You can give someone a paper with the solution, they will skim, not understand anything and then going back to reimplementing something poorly from first principles.
In my case cannabis masks pain and muscle spasms resulting from a spinal cord injury. Masking is the only option I have. And yet still I agree. Whilst I sleep, unlike without, it’s not the kind of sleep I knew. Then again, nothing is. It’s a drug of last resort (but then again they all are.)
This is helpful context for an article with a headline that seems to suggest something is wrong but simultaneously is very careful to not make an actual allegation of wrong-doing.

I only have the headline to go from, since it's behind a paywall, but headlines like this are often an indicator that the article will also be designed around a suggestive narrative and 'fitting' anecdotes from a partial perspective.

I don't care one way or the other about Musk, and without the context of a pending shareholder vote the article just seems like the WSJ equivalent of a celebrity tabloid article that's designed to catch the attention of people who don't like the guy.

It could be either, or neither.. but it's a good practice to think about the presentation and context of information you consume, and a shareholder vote is relevant to that.
June Feature Drop: New features and upgrades for the Pixel portfolio
Elon Doesn't Care About Tesla Anymore': Musk's Biggest Fans Are Turning on Him
Look, I've worked for 5 companies, 1 of which I knew would never sell and I had inklings that one other probably wasn't going to sell and instead was a lifestyle business for the founders, and the other 3 had successful exits. I won the lottery 3 times but I quit the game because I was tired of making VCs and founders rich while taking home breadcrumbs, comparatively.

My first startup I walked with a paltry sum and the owners suddenly went from being doctors with a side hustle to private investors. That was my first warning sign and really drove home the need to invest in myself because it certainly wasn't going to be someone else doing it, despite the talk of changing the world. It was really, really obvious that the payouts were stacked in one direction and it certainly wasn't on the side of employees, early or not. I still enjoy working for small companies, but the hype and bullshit are really tiring and so very cultish. I'd really suggest treating the startup life like a scratch lottery ticket, because that is all it is. If you win, you're gonna get paid but it won't be life altering money, just like a scratch lottery ticket. Plan around it being worth zero and go in eyes wide open.
Are we talking about just YC-style internet/app startups? Two of my startups have been deep tech where you can't do shit without a Series A, and the third was crypto in the start of that boom where VCs were begging to lead your Series A. So maybe I just work in a vastly different field.
Another observation, using the host cpu to manage the nvme storage for vod content is also a bottleneck. You can use the liqid 8x nvme pcie cards and address them directly from the bluefield3 arm processes using nvme-of. You are then just limited by pcie 5 switch capacity among the 10-20 shared nvme/bluefield3 cards.
If the FCC were functional, it would be nice for carriers to expose priority in the phone icons. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to explain to friends who lamented about “Full bars but no service, weird.” The current iconography is outdated and clearly confusing (read: misleading) to the public.
I don’t understand what you mean by low touch. If high touch is the many appeal system what’s the low touch alternative?
Linux doesn't even install a command line shell by default, so I think that goes without saying :)
It feels kinda like the style of a Minitel number, those were always 36?? from what I remember.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel#Technology
Do you remember the title/where to find it?
Apple’s ad revenue is at single digit billions per annum.

They’re not putting them in apps or websites I use (because it’s not mandatory) and I think if you ask around most people would agree.

So if there’s enshittification , you’d have to pint it out to me. And unlike Microsoft and the ads in the start menu or control panel…
Is it really strong typing if you can't type functions parameters and returns?
I use Airtable at work actually, its quite a nice tool for hacking internal tools together. Its extension requires Javascript though, which while great for professional coders like me, IMO I don't think it would extend to a more general population as being interesting.
Computer security is usually defined as achieving three things: Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability.

If device loss (or a google/apple account ban) leads to permanent loss of access to your (other) accounts, then passkeys aren't providing availability, so they're not secure.

Put another way: If you ignore availability, then passwords are even more secure than passkeys when used "correctly":

When creating a new account, choose a random 80 digit string for your password and don't record it anywhere. Also, don't set up an account recovery email address / phone number / etc.
If you actually compare results across different people across many queries, you will notice that they differ relatively little. The fact that search uses personalization doesn't mean it is always personalized or it affects all results always. It affects relatively small number of queries and relatively small number of results, very dependent on the types of queries and types of results.

Location affects a lot more results than personalization, but that is also very query dependent, so certain queries are affected by the location a lot more than others. And the particular example query is one that you can expect very little location variation.
> The Australians I met stuck abroad at the time were... not.

Of course not - they were stuck outside of Australia during a global pandemic and were unable to return home due to airlines limiting flights and cruiseships being floating cesspools of cross infection.

There was also a very vocal minority that strongly objected to restrictions on social gatherings and to various lockdowns when infection appeared that occurred in some of the Australian cities.

The vast majority of Australians (I'm one) were mostly pretty hapy with how the situation was handled in Australia with a few exceptions, the Federal Government failing to secure an early volume of vaccines being one of those failiings.

Yes, you can go online and find some very vocal Australians complaining very loudly about how it was a total shitshow that trampled their rights, referring to quarantine sites as internment camps, etc.

You can also compare that to vastly larger majority than understood the issues, the dangers, and supported the balance struck and measures taken.

There is no universe in which a spread of opinion did not exist.

Australia had early COVID cases, thanks to fairly uniform measures these were contained and overall the country had a very low death rate by global standards and maintained a strong economy during the pandemic.
Working project on 35kwh for $2k with https://www.greentecauto.com/hybrid-battery/repurposed-batte...
"Half of it is regurgitating"
"how you behave as a human being, what happens when I throw in a curve ball."

So it's half hazing, half theatrical performance?
Not really in anyway, they are freeware.

OpenRA might be GPL, but that's a complete re-implementation and extension of the original engine.
Denmark recalls Korean ramen for being too spicy
I have witnessed small liquidity events at Series A and Series B that allowed for some small percentage of all total equity vested (around 3-5% ish, depending on the terms of your specific options grant) to be cashed out at some multiple of the FMV price. AFAIK the founders held themselves to the same restrictions (5% total, I believe?) to keep it relatively "fair".

Pre-Seed, Seed, and some really really early Series A employees got to cash out fairly significant chunks of equity. Not as much as a founders' 1-2 million, enough for downpayments on homes or slick new cars all cash. The founders apparently were incredibly generous to Seed stage employees.

Still doesn't compare to a Founders' equity, as this article implies.
> ChatGPT will gleefully suggest you a wrong approach, just because it’s so intent on satisfying your whim instead of saying No when it would be appropriate

Therein lies the mistake. Too many people assume ChatGPT (and similar LLMs) are capable of reasoning. It's not. It is simply just giving you what is likely the 'correct' answer based on some sort of pattern.

It doesn't know what's wrong, so it's not aware it's giving you an inappropriate answer.
What I don't understand is why the focus for stationary batteries is still on lithium. I don't really care about energy density (weight / volume) because I don't have to carry it around. Aren't there cheaper and safer solutions for stationary batteries?
"I don't necessarily think that the speadsheet, even an improved one, is the best graphical model/structure for articulating complex processes, but it seems to be the best we've discovered thus far."

I actually do agree with you on that, as you say its just the best we've discovered so far. But if there is a better model which is as versatile and easy to use, I'm totally open to it.