skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. I certainly didn't lose mine when I transitioned in July 2017. In fact, I helped my company's HR department figure out how to handle it, as I was also a support group facilitator and had access to information that could help.

Literally, I took a Thursday and Friday off (Thursday being the day my name change was granted) and came back as Amy on Monday. My cubicle nameplate had already been replaced, and someone had taped a "WELCOME AMY!" sign over one of my monitors. There were some bobbles with getting all my accounts changed, but those were quickly resolved. (I left that company two years later, and now work somewhere where I've never been anyone but Amy.)
If you're using a version of 1Password that's several years old and no longer updated, and also splitting your passwords across two solutions, one of which is not accessible on all your devices, I'm not too surprised that you don't enjoy the experience.

The current version of 1Password is pretty much seamless for me across Linux, Mac, and iPhone. It's more seamless than it ever was before, honestly. It works for my technical needs and my parents' non-technical needs alike, and greatly simplifies tech support for the latter. I would sincerely recommend giving it a shot if you haven't already.

> I'm not sure a password database is a 'online bodyguard'.

If that's all 1P is, why not just spin up an SQL db yourself? Because, of course, that's not all 1P is. It's a database, a GUI (for five OSes on two architectures, plus web), extensions to auto-fill (and recognise new passwords, or changed passwords) on a range of ever-changing browsers / websites, a great deal of security hardening for their software and servers, an office full of people that evaluate and consider how to combat emerging threat models, etc. None of this is technically impossible to handle yourself, but that's an extremely inefficient allocation of most people's time.
Relax, friend. Nobody said anything about lying or tests. I'm asserting that your rose colored glasses are just quite strong. Nothing sinister, nothing offensive.
I'm one of those people who upvoted without commenting. I think it's just a way of saying, "I found this article interesting / I agree with the content, but I don't have anything of value to add".

But hey I just commented :)
Making less money isn't really the risky part about founding a startup. The risky part is missing out on years of other life experiences, stressing (or losing) your closest personal relationships, failing and feeling personally responsible for disappointing everyone you convinced to believe in you, and developing an anxiety disorder (or worse) from chronic long-term stress.

Author's suggestion that they could have taken a "similar level of risk" as an early employee by taking secondaries as a founder is way off, IME.
If the stories are true, shareholders should be aware of Musk's behavior since they're deciding company business.
I implemented a BSP based renderer too in around 1998- 2000.

Probably from that same paper.

It was/is such a cool fun little algorithm to implement.

We were building virtual reality worlds 24 years ago and people are still not using it.
It’s a vote bait title. (Type of thing people upvote without reading the article)
Intentionally killing children with your car is a crime. Playing with your phone while driving is "a tragic accident".
The blog layout is truly fascinating
It seems to fit the definition of a PIP. If you’ve defined that every PIP must be a bad faith one, and this is not one of them, it doesn’t stop it from being a PIP.
I have seen a lot of companies, a lot of rounds. I have known zero founders who have turned down an option to take money off the table (and zero A raises that offered that to employees). I love the idea of your universe, though.
Gutted. K. Lol.
> Everyone can save by switching to an MVNO.

I think you are better off not saying that. If everyone were to switch to an MVNO then the large carriers MVNOs depend on would not offer as favorable rates to the MVNOs. Reminds me of when Apple licensed their OS and promptly got spanked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Computing_Corporation
> We couldn't figure out how to change our names from "Player 1". Tapping the name did nothing.

To be fair, entering the player names on these systems has long been an exercise in frustration. Here's a pic I took in 2012, where the first of six steps was "Press the qubica key" and it went downhill from there: https://evan.tumblr.com/post/30872104470/
We are talking SV here, and that's very different from my European experience. I've known of founders in Scandinavia who walked out from startups that weren't doing so bad and that could have gone for another round of investment because they were earning as much as a bus driver, had zero savings, and were experiencing burn out after almost a decade of work. Maybe that bit of SV culture that lets founders be on par with a highly paid engineer at a big company is up to something. Maybe if it were more of a thing in other parts of the world, we would be more competitive.
> Android in desktop mode is far more useful and less locked down than Chromebook

My chromebook (framework) has 64gb of ram and 2tb NVME and thunderbolt 4. It also runs containers, vms, vms inside vms, windows vms, macOS vms, AND Android apps from the play store.

Only thing missing is PCI passthrough from thunderbolt enclosure
Plugs are welcome when they are backed with a great product. Really nice version of Solitaire. The only "bug" was that the double-clicking to move the cards to the stacks was really finicky (Chrome, Win11).

I wonder if you could get more donations by split-testing the end screen? I was thinking you should try putting a fixed dollar amount, like "Donate $2" instead of something open-ended that forces the user to think.
Also not GP.

I create profiles for starting up each part of my work tech stack (backend, frontend, workers, specific ssh connections, etc.) and I can run/switch to them in separate tabs via shift-cmd-o and typing a few characters of the name. Can also start up all of them at once via an 'Open All' command for a group of profiles.
I think he means 83b early exercise: https://www.esofund.com/blog/early-exercise-options-83b-elec...

Extremely beneficial when paired with QSBS and liquidity.
There's also now an article from the Los Angeles Times via Yahoo News: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/lynn-conway-leading-computer-scie...
Joining the chorus to say that this is one of the greatest articles I’ve read. I love everything about it. From the hacker spirit to the investigative reasoning to the little observations made during the process like what could be considered a weapon according to regulations and how Covid affected costs of different items and when to consider o ring size in the planning. Love love love it.

My favorite line had to be this though.

> The first prototype didn’t look like much but the mental effect was enormous. Now there was at least something to show and improve.

worthy of being printed and framed.
What you are doing is proving my point.
With blur there can also be no data (as you said -with randomization, you can even blur randomized text instead of the real one).

But the fascination is easily explained - it looks better as it "fits" the rest of your image vs having some jarring black rectangle
Now it makes sense why Elon Musk trims the fat on his companies ruthlessly and regularly
No judgment. Links are fast these days, and redisplay optimization can be more or less arbitrarily complex. And dinner is important.
Some more of Lynn's recollections with her kids/nieces at https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Retrospective5.html#..., https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Retrospective5.html#..., and https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Retrospective6.html
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While I agree with you, I also think companies shouldn't advertise in a way that strongly suggests that they won't ever raise their rates. It's a pretty scummy practice.
> that they're willing to sign a contract allowing someone to charge them any amount to be decided at a later date?

Hilarious to try to blame the US's broken medical system on the victim. If you've ever had any medical procedure done then you've done this thing that you consider so reprehensible. If you've ever been seriously injured you've done this (your consent to any price charged is presumed while you are unconscious, by law). If the hospital walks 5 specialists quickly through the room while you're out cold, congratulations, you legally consented to pay any price they charge.

Come on. It's a ludicrous system. Don't even try to blame the victims here.
This. I don't think most people realize how much eggs they put into one basket. Every service that can be used for MFA (email, token, password manager) should have its own separate barriers of entry to make total compromise as difficult as possible.
Founder liquidity doesn’t make up for much in the average situation.

Making $400k after making $100k for 4 years doesn’t really change much.

It gets you upto junior engineer level.

The underestimated play is becoming a cofounder to a great CEO 2nd time founder.
You've lost all objectivity on this.
Ouch, amen
SetTimeout could be the reason of leaking memory in node
They've changed the plans a bit, you can get 8GB even cheaper I think.
I pay $30 a month after the autopay discount. Though mine is only 5GB
We have our own set of giants to stand on the shoulders of.
There are still feature limitations, such as Apple Watch with same number as your phone, etc.
this argument is nonsense. There is 365miles from Moscow center to border with Latvia, NATO member.
Perfectly illustrated by this statement:

> I have been an early or first engineer at five different companies and have had three liquidity events in a 9-year career.

A "big" success is a 10+ year journey. For an early employee, it is perfectly acceptable to give a few weeks' notice and move on to the next lotto ticket. This doesn't work for a key founder-exec -- they're likely going to commit to a decade working on one big problem, and investors want to incentivize them to shoot for the moon & stick with it for the long haul.

It's definitively not the same for an early employee.
I'm still on one of their prepaid "Connect" plans, and get unlimited talk & text, plus 12 gigs of data, for $35. Since I'm nearly always somewhere with wifi, I can't recall ever having run into an issue due to lack of data. I wonder if some folks could switch over to a plan like this and save money, if they planned media downloads to happen when they're on wifi?
Of course we would have and expect exactly that same (extremely cherry-picked, confirmation bias serving) result if it were true that female athletes had similar innate physical capacities — and they do, sexual dimorphism in humans is quite minimal compared to the other great apes, especially the gorilla and the orangutan — but were neither as well fed nor as well trained as male athletes.

In other words the (very circular reasoning) chart your source provides doesn’t obviously show sexual dimorphism when confounding variables of food and training (and the funding and social incentives that provide both) exist.
Even founders get shafted in later rounds where they are diluted out of their voting rights because they can't raise the capital to maintain their share. The only people not getting scammed regularly are the VC.
Latency here is weird. You are using the number as bandwidth in this calculation. Perhaps reporter doesn't really know what he's talking about.
The use of the word "relevant" such as in the phrase "are the most relevant" is problematic.

Relevancy is dependent on and relative to a specific task or interest. "Related to" or "associated" might be a better choice, since parts of a text can be statistically associated with each other.

While I feel that you are accurately conveying the terminology in the field I personally feel that terminology overstates things. For example, the notion that words closer in meaning are generally closer in latent space could be more accurately stated as "words closer in latent space are often used in similar ways."

I think this comes down to meaning being largely determined by a person's individual interpretation at a given point in time, similar to the arbitrariness of relevancy.
Oh wow, this is a thing? It happened to me.

- unassigned from a team

- report to no one

- no real work to do

- got frustrated and quit

I didn’t stick around till appraisals. I shudder to think what might have happened if I did. No one was looking at my performance.
> you've forgotten what you actually needed to do

In my case I only picked up the phone to do TFA. Which expired because I got distracted and now I need to log in again :(
Number 9 is more than sufficient alone. Everything else is ancillary.
It's worth re-reading works from the trenches of WWII. US troops haven't had to fight a war like that within living memory. Ukraine and Russia are fighting one now.

The clouds of war are gathering. Germany is making plans for a draft. Poland tried a small-scale test mobilization of civilians. Poland and Latvia are planning to send back Ukrainian males who dodged the draft there. Sweden and Finland never stopped having a draft.

Russia is currently spending over 7% of GDP on its military. The EU averages around 1.5%. US around 2.9%. Russia supposedly lost 40,000 soldiers in Ukraine last month alone, although nobody has solid numbers. That's about 4x the losses on the Allied side for D-Day in 1944. Big wars kill large numbers of people.
People naming distros like it's 4chan from 20 years ago. Redhat and Gentoo. Oh my.

Linux Mint, Pop, and more, all now provide "Windows without MS" which is what most users really want/need. Even with gaming now that Steam has multiple ways to run on Linux. You can put grandpa in front of some Linux boxes today and he won't notice the difference.

Debian, BSD, etc. I totally get you want the most stable thing going. You like to pretend that memorizing arcane spells for 20 years is the same as intuitive. I get it. I run some remote stuff on a BSD box. I don't know a single serious command without a lookup. But it's stable. I thank the guy who made a cheat sheet for common commands.

Even on the security front though, the tinfoils are doing weird containerized OSes and stuff now. Opening a browser tab can spawn a whole sandboxed OS in seconds. Your pitifully out of date Debian repo doesn't really stack up anymore.

Basically. You can run a modern OS that doesn't suck to use. And that OS can be Linux. With Windows 10+ poised to drive many away from MS, distros need to get with the times and be ready for the masses.

Or. "Serious users will move to X" is a bad argument from the 1990s. Newbies have an OS that pros can enjoy. And if I want to run Debian, I can fire it up in a sandbox or whatever. It's the 21st century. It's not like I have to wait for physical media to spin up to install a live copy.
Tech jobs are going to move out of the bay at the larger companies.

Companies are being rewarded for being efficient in the stock market and CEOs are taking heed.
Having been employee #10 a couple times now, there is a lot of that even when you aren't a founder. It would be nice if the 'de-risk your life' stuff this article describes for founders was also available for early employees.
Does anyone restrict 83b elections? Is that even allowed?
Rather the opposite, I pay $20.99/month for unlimited for _just_ my iPad now on a different carrier because I don’t want to ever think about WiFi again when I’m not at home. Cellular is finally “good enough” that it’s better (faster/more reliable) than most hotel/public WiFi I’ve used in the past year.
Amazing!! I had never heard of Raycast! I'll be checking this out first thing in the morning! Thank you!
How common is this? How many founders that raise series A are liquidating? What are the amounts typically?
And yet...
Still can't find clueful people.
But probably I mean people who will: learn about memory management, multi-threading, networking, etc
Numerical Recipes was just several editions of one book, each with a few variants (for different programming languages).

But you might be thinking of Graphics Gems (vols 1–5). https://www.realtimerendering.com/resources/GraphicsGems/
To be fair, there is a skill in getting people to believe your vision and to take the risk to work for you. They also need to convince VC's of that vision to get the money to pay you in the first place.

Generally they make more decisions that directly effect the odds of the company existing 6 months or a year down the line than the average employee does (with some exceptions obviously).

You can still be cynical, I think all employees should be given the ability to get liquidity early, but it's not like it's totally unjustifiable.
Founders have control of how things go, and have many ways to make money along the way (one such way documented by this article). How often do the first 2-5 engineers get any such chances?
Except the HD website is slow AF. I can often walk somewhere in the store faster than I can find it on their site if I know the general area to begin with.
Can't stress this enough, as someone who has traveled to a lot of countries in South/South East Asia the quality of life have improved tremendously
Not really. Pretty much all of the housing price increase (above the overall average market growth rate) is explained by the density death spiral.
Debian's killer app is systemd. You know what I mean.
"At first glance, this seems fine, but it is not. If an attacker knows the plaintext p1 and the ciphertext c1, then they can compute the keystream by XORing p1 and c1 together"

Also, if the attacker only has c1 and c2, if the nonce is reused then c1 xor c2 will be the same as p1 xor p2. In most cases, two plaintexts xored with each other are trivial to decode.
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Sorry, separate concepts executed at separate times.

Early exercise (yep, 83b in the US) when options are issued then allowing employees to sell shares down the road, outside of fundraising events (Forge, EquityZen, sales to angel SPVs, etc.).
This assumes how much of the founders' shares they sell and the size of the raise. The $400k figure is just arbitrary here. I imagine when companies are raising Series B or later, founders are walking away with millions.
I'm deeply skeptical that training AI on (effectively) thousands of images of one horse will perform very well at training to recognize horses in general.
American medical practices are predatory, you literally never know what you are paying for until after you agreed to it. This type of debt should not be legal. The fact no one knows until months later is just idiotic.

Do you agree to pay for a car with no idea the cost? Then find random bills from people who glanced at the car or might be involved even if you didn't meet them? Well too bad if you want to visit a doctor you have to.

In what world should this this possible? I got a in-network nose examine that I'm happy my insurance paid the $1k+ for the 5 min examine to find out my nose was normal. I didn't realize there was a third party bill though, while it wasn't much imagine if I had some $5k examine or $20k examine, I'd not know the difference until I got the bill because it's America. You'd think since the insurance and hospital are same company this could be easier but no, multiple different payment companies for the different types of bills too. I have to look in multiple areas to check everything is paid for. How much more overly complicated can they make it?
I think founders generally have 20 to 50x what the first employee has, in my experience. Employees rarely have more than 1%. Founders tend to start out with about 20-40% depending on number of cofounders.
The hash can be on the web server. Ideally you would do something with cryptographic signatures, or at least get the hash a different way than the file itself. Obviously I don't have time to read all the code I compile but I don't run code that I can't even inspect reliably. It's like leaving your door unlocked, or something like that.

You might not realize but there are several ways you can be compromised. What if the web server was set up to serve some exploit when you download from a terminal (which is doable), or else you were intercepted by a man in the middle? Both of those exploits have been demonstrated and aren't even difficult to do. They also require no involvement from the author of the software. If it's downloading other stuff, each of those items also has the same concern.
Deprioritization is why - even 5G is unusable sometimes in busy places if you’re on an MVNO. I’d rather pay more for it to always work
Ive seen it restricted so yes
more generally, a squib is a low-power explosive
This is the one I'm curious to see play out. How low can it go? Did it reach bottom? Maybe once it stabilizes at a new norm, housing supply will catch up and prices will settle down.
> The optimization process that trained the human brain is called evolution, and it took a lot more than 10,000 examples to produce a system that can differentiate cats vs dogs.

Asserted without evidence. We have essentially no idea at what point living systems were capable of differentiating cats from dogs (we don't even know for sure which living systems can do this).
I can share some details.

Employee 1: ~1%

Employee 10: ~0.1%

Employee 1000: 0.01%

I'm extrapolating from past experiences in SaaS companies where I was employee number X and X has varied fairly widely.
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You’re asking the wrong question… what we’d need to do is take a girl with the same height and muscle mass as a boy and give them both the diet and training (and societal and economic incentives and rewards) of a Usain Bolt from birth, then look for sexual dimorphism’s effect on their sports performance. Looking for support for your confirmation bias in stats that already are influenced by thousands of years of your confirmation bias doesn’t exactly make decent scientific inquiry. Again, when compared with the other great apes (never mind less closely related primates) we humans have relatively minimal sexual dimorphism, and no obvious biological reason to simply assume that two adult peers that had the same dietary and exercise and skills training regimes would have vastly different athletic performance characteristics, especially across a wide range of sports.
I'm curious, if it turns out that a simple rule-based algorithm exists, specifically tailored to solve (only!) ARC style problems, without generalization, would that still qualify for the reward?
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It's true and there's plenty of evidence for it. AI bots, people in boiler rooms, this is 90% of the Internet now.
This is a wonderful example
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Yes, real-world problems are often underspecified but also they tend to come with much more context, and to be much more interactive. These sorts of problems are deliberately minimal and abstract meaning there's nothing for 'common sense' to work with.
Fair enough. But I've used event sourcing in production in two companies. One project was a large scale distributed object store and the other was network equipment (like switches) and network management. The banking example is a classical one but I can't tell you if it's actually used in production. What I do know is that accounting software follows the ledger approach which has a similar spirit, recording transactions, and my guess would be regardless of technology banks also are transaction/event based as their source of truth (even in a COBOL mainframe batch processing scenario).
It's actually the inverse. The raw construction cost of a housing unit in a dense building is cheap. Living there is not.

People in dense cities spend a larger percentage of their paycheck on housing than people in sparse cities ( https://smartasset.com/mortgage/housing-spending-2021 ).