skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
employees aren't shareholders

they get options, not equity

personally, I never understood why they don't get actualy equity (in particular, given that the options are "fairly priced" i.e. the call price is the latest equity round price, making them worth literally $0!)

and that equity should have the same terms as investors get (no "liquidation preference" lol) because - guess what - you're literally exchanging your labour (== money) for them!
Fantastic news! Better late than never. Aiming to come online in 2030. Hopefully to be followed in short order by many more.
If we talk about stock options, the company is still private, and no stock was issued.

Paying taxes on options for stock that may never materialize, or never be worth much, sucks.

I won't (and didn't) buy options before an IPO or an acquisition is scheduled, even if they had been granted, unless I have money to gamble on it. I won't consider options as a part of my pay, unless I'm a founder %) They are but a lottery ticket, even when your personal effort may significantly affect the odds of it winning.
It's a really depressing state of affairs when a filter for "is this piece of journalism false" could just `return True` and be accurate enough to be useful. It feels bad when you are genuinely less informed for having read the news, and it's pervasive -- across news all outlets and across the political spectrum. Everyone would have been better off had nothing about this ever been published, and that includes NYT's contribution that spawned the tabloid-spam. They put this tiny little community on blast in front of the whole world and now the misinformation is all they'll be remembered for.

There is nary an article that exists that couldn't inspire academic level discourse on how wrong it is, and the factors that contributed to its wrongness.

Thank the lord I'm not in high school anymore because writing a paper on current events has got to be painful.
Founder liquidity events are done in secret in startup land. There's a simple reason for that.

It's wrong.

Startup employees, especially early ones, take on most of the risk that founders do. They take pay cuts. They work insane hours. They sacrifice.

And they have the same liquidity needs, too.

It's wrong to make them wait a decade for a fraction of the liquidity that founders got in the Series B.

It's wrong to force them to absorb the risk of the Series B, C, D, E, F, and IPO. All while the founders were set for life years ago.

If founders are going to take money off the table, they should extend the same liquidity offer, pro-rata, to their employees. Period.
Absolutely! I’ve commented about it a few times on HN[1] as I was at Amazon at the beginning of Alexa of investment.

As with other projects Amazon’s plan seems to have been get big fast and figure out monetizing later. I’m sure ZIRP played some role in it and if not for rate hikes they might have kept it going for few more years.

But their aim from day 1 was to get millions of devices into customers home and then use that to boost e-commerce sales. When the second part didn’t materialize the initiative suddenly became a white elephant as it costs non trivial server capacity to keep the backend infrastructure running.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40009295
Maneuvering target tracking using Autoencoder-interacting multiple model [pdf]
TiniJS
"But you only need to learn those new parts if you're using them" - people only use a subset of C++.
I wonder if this problem could be avoided if the early technical founder insisted on having the same class of stock as the founders. IANAL but in my (limited) experience these games are easier to play when the founders (or often the C-suite people) have a different class of stock then key employees. Or that's how I have seen the game played where one employee can have a liquidity event and another doesn't, or the dilution is unequal.

I am no expert! Can someone explain to me if having the same class of stock as the founders is a meaningful protection?
It’s not. My actual experience was that basic, happy-path usage of Google’s effort failed at such a high rate that I couldn’t use it for anything. It was too unreliable.

Happy-path use of Messages, when I switched, was much smoother.

I haven’t tried to switch from iOS to Android so I don’t have that experience to recall.
In related news, if you've ever wondered how good Bill Gates is at poker, he played a little with some locals from Kemmerer while there for the groundbreaking.

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/06/11/when-it-comes-to-pok...
I think you underestimate the size of the silent insufferable minority.
It's more that nukes are preventing modern governments from behaving how they otherwise would. A quick glance at that list shows lots of wars that simply could never happen in modern times because of nuclear weapons. It's the same reason the Cold War isn't called WW3. And this applies not just on an international level, but also domestic.

For instance the US Civil War with nuclear weapons spread all around would have quite difficult to imagine consequences. To say nothing of all the biological and other weapons being developed in secret that would absolutely be unleashed if one side or the other came close to defeat. It seems a reasonably likely outcome would have been a fairly quick truce and the relatively peaceful splitting of the US into two countries.

If and when the nukes start flying, that conflict will make every other conflict, combined, look like little more than a schoolyard fight.
From a working author's PoV, super mental powers were great stuff. The "hard" SF audiences really liked the idea - I'm sure it helped that many of them imagined or fantasized themselves being somewhat "super" in the mental dept. Such powers add a bunch of (conveniently arbitrary) rules, which puzzle stories could be built around. Unlike (say) FTL drives, there was no expectation that the author should devise a detailed "how it works" backstory. Nor explain how the protagonist could manage to afford or invent it. And most mental powers are an easy short-cut to the character's emotional states. (Not to assert that sophisticated and nuanced character portrayal seemed a priority of most "hard" SF authors, back in the day.)
> But this is a straw man. Do you know any conspiracy theorists that believe that a large percentage of the state is working together on a secret project that they have guarded from the public, or is that just the easiest thing to discount?

The moon landing conspiracy theory is a good example. It would involve hundreds of thousands of people across public and private sector all keeping such a secret. It would even involve the governments of other countries (namely Russia, or Australia who received and relayed many of the lunar broadcasts on the US's behalf) who had their own tracking and radio equipment and could have at least attempted to discredit the mission, but did not.

Chemtrails is a common conspiracy theory as well that again would require cooperation and secret keeping among thousands across both public and private sectors.

Part of my point is that a small number of people keeping a secret for a short time is plausible, but as the number of people and length of time scale up it becomes less plausible due to human nature.

In countries with extreme state corruption, secret police, rigged elections, people being "disappeared", etc. those things are not secrets, and the problem is not a lack of evidence of the corruption.

The citizens know that the secret police exist and that you are at risk of being detained by the secret police for publicly stating forbidden positions. The citizens know the autocrat will always win each election. They are just powerless to change it.
'loading it on a barge' doing a lot of heavy liftin there. (heh)
oh interesting. well if someone wants to learn more via a search engine could use terms distillation column crash and:

> The incident occurred at about 11:20 a.m. April 27 on State Highway 36 near State Highway 317 in West Temple.
13000 quotes over ~720 combinations isn't a bad spread.

I'll admit, it's cute. For someone well-read this is a pretty charming gift. Visually pleasant and nicely constructed.
Forgive me for being cynical at this point, but I'll believe it when it comes online. I sure hope they're successful, though. Nuclear is still the only thing we have going for relatively near-term non fossil-fuel baseload. Anything not near term is too late.
I've seen one of these in person. It works as advertised.
1000 times this - you need to deliver something. Even very long projects such as medical research have intermediate stages and goals to meet.

Very experienced people tend to forget this from time to time too and get excited or convince themselves "big risk big reward"... I've never seen that work out.
Don't Refactor Like Uncle Bob
There are a couple comments to you so far and both of them miss the point.

> decouple itself from LiveView in a sense in the __minds of developers__

This isn't a technical knowledge issue or if a given technology should be the default on install. Assuming I understand your original post correctly this is a mindset issue: too many people dismiss Elixir and the rest of the ecosystem because the first thing they think about is LiveView while ignoring the rest of the ecosystem and that's a shame, because it's much more than that... and I would agree with that point. Even Phoenix is more than LiveView.

It's possible to have solidly productive, cost effective Elixir applications not involving LiveView or even Phoenix for that matter. The choice of Elixir in the backend should be more common than it is, though I understand some of the conventional wisdom and fears that motivate other choices.
Not developing a launcher but Gravitics https://www.gravitics.com/ is another company doing something in different way (Gary Hudson, if you know the name, is on the team)
Yeah, because regulations are exactly the thing that prevents big companies from monopolising whole markets and help their small competitors. /s
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There's nothing worse than trying to type in an activation code that's written down or spoken over the phone. Was that a "0"? an "O"? a "V"? a "U"? Is it case sensitive?

Safe32 handles all that.

Edit: Bleh, HN strips out the anchor. https://github.com/kstenerud/safe-encoding/tree/master/refer...
If ksnip is cross-platform, may I ask why don't you use it everywhere, if it's so similar to Greenshot?

BTW I've never heard of Ksnip before. I gotta try it.
Yeah, this is pretty much exactly how we propose its done (restate services are inherently versioned, you can register new code as a new version and old invocations will go to the old version).

The only caveat being that we generally recommend that you keep it to just a few minutes, and use delayed calls and our state primitives to have effects that span longer than that. Eg, to poll repeatedly a handler can delayed-call itself over and over, and to wait for a human, we have awakeables (https://docs.restate.dev/develop/ts/awakeables/)

More discussion: https://restate.dev/blog/code-that-sleeps-for-a-month/
AI is clearly not the problem here. Our preexisting society and massive wealth inequality is. I'll add though that many, many open models of high quality that smaller companies can build on exist and these models and companies are likely to be the most harmed by over-the-top regulation. OpenAI will survive jumping through hoops just fine.
Not really, since that would just be kicking the can down the road. Yes, you can have authentication between application servers and HSMs, but ultimately, whatever credential is used for that can be stolen from the application server, and then whoever has it can talk to the HSM.

The real benefit of HSMs is that they can make low-level keys accessible via a high-level interface that restricts the type of operations that can be performed at all. For example, an HSM will never just hand raw keys to application servers, but rather only let them perform various operations (based on their permissions). The higher level and specific these permissions are, the better.
We're one of the few companies that count stock growth against you during comp reviews.
Are the salt tanks expected to be periodically replaced due to corrosion?
Simplest explaination - air conditioning - which isn't much used in the UK.
I found keeping an old machine or two around is enough. Old laptops are pretty much free.

Generally frontend performance problems are easy to diagnose, easy enough that that's not a consideration when architecting an app in most cases. If your React UI is taking 30% of your dev PC CPU then that's pretty obvious that it's gonna be slow on an average laptop from Walmart with a 5k passmark score.
Gist: Backspace exits Vim if at beginning of buffer
Martin Shkreli accused of copying one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album
The NYT posted an article with a comment that was taken grossly out of context. Then the NYT posted another article addressing that. I'm not trying to say the NYT is perfect, or defend the news outlets that take things out of context, but it is difficult to arrive at the conclusion that all news outlets are doing that.
The Dali hit the Key Bridge at under 10 mph.

The kinetic energy of a 415000 kg object going 4.5 m/s is about equivalent to a 2000 kg object going 65 m/s = 145 mph.
Energy production is national security. Each country should treat it as national security.
US is lucky to have oil/gas fields, but it would not last for ever. Even ignoring the ecological impact of extracting fossil fuel, or impact on climate to burn fossil fuel, the fact that is a limited resource should force the US to move other energy production (e.g. nuclear, solar, wind, hydro) and migrate the energy consumption to electricity... if we want to soft land, when fossil fuel would get expensive (peak production, wars, etc.).
I agree, but also, it's really hard to have sci-fi without FTL. I feel that necessitates it being somewhat soft, but having every other character die when someone travels to another planet means you're basically tied to a space story without space travel.
The parent's point though is it actually doesn't. For example with NASA, there are 1000s if not 100s of 1000s of intermediate goals on a project like SLS. For example, IDK, make sure the engine hits 95% of thrust spec. Hardware? You design each IP in isolation, test in isolation, build up step by step. A0 tapeout, A1 tapeout...etc.
Stable Diffision 3
> Our preexisting society and massive wealth inequality

It seems like anything that will make this problem worse is a net negative for society

If the only way to make it a positive is to change everything underneath it, then...
I believe in diversification and index funds for most people, but this seems overdone.

The issue here is that sometimes if you procrastinate about diversifying, it pays off very well. As a Google employee (who joined after IPO), it was by far my best investment and funded my retirement.

I guess that's accidental gambling. I did have other investments.
I've followed Calm closely when I was in the startup game and I think they deserve recognition for trying to find a different way. One that benefits founders (primarily bootstrappers) and investors alike.

Seems like the third party in the mix has taken the hit in this constellation.

Thanks for your work and sharing openly!
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Hmmmmmmm.

I find this a bold claim, considering I extract several hundreds of dollars a month for the cost of $25 a month for GPT-4 in both language learning and wading my way through tech stacks very different from my own.

It could be that my experience is very much an outlier, but even if only 1% of GPT-4's subscribers got the value of it that I do, that would imply it very much is a net positive.
Awesome to hear this was a successful test of a full-flow stage-combustion engine! The space industry desperately needs competition for SpaceX, and this company looks like a great candidate to eventually offer it.
There is new interpretation of existing executive orders that prohibit US citizens from providing anyone in Russia with

IT Support and Cloud Services: Any IT support or cloud-based services for covered software (like ERP or CAD) to Russian entities are prohibited.

Consultancy and Design: Services related to IT consultancy, design, or custom software development for Russian companies are not allowed.

https://ofac.treasury.gov/faqs/added/2024-06-12

So Uncle Sam allows only to consume and degrade and disallows to create and prosper. Should Russian citizens comply ? Hell no.
Yes, there are people who won't get the same benefit from hedging like this.

But they're a small minority. Not that many people meet your description here.
> which would cause mass unemployment.

Ever since the spinning loom, this claim has been made. It’s been made about the combine harvester, welding robots, computers, and now AI.

And it has never once been true as the improved productivity led to different jobs as human wants are pretty unlimited.

And the jobs eliminated of are jobs that today would be near impossible to fill, as the modern jobs are much better.

Next to nobody would take a job standing in a wheat field chopping it down with a knife on a stick. Yet people protested the combine to try and save them.

I don’t see why the programmer wouldn’t just be the AI’s overseer, in the same way a farm worker now drives a combine instead of slashing wheat by hand.
That's elective. It's fine and not uncommon to just give employees stock (actual shares, not options) in a company as compensation. Famously Wizards of the Coast gave shares to employees and vendors to create alignment.

Someone is going to point out that giving actual shares is a taxable event. And that is sometimes the rational for options. But there are work arounds: you can put shares in a 401k for example. 401ks were originally created to be employee incentives, but morphed into being used for retirement, but you can still do it either way.
Great team, great launch!
Yes! Reading Swift code, even tutorial code, can be difficult.
Poetry is adopted by less than 0.5% of Python repos on GitHub. Because you can’t install PyTorch with it in a way that works for more than 1 platform, and sometimes in general, its adoption among new and sophisticated projects is trending towards zero.

I have no beef with Poetry but having taken huge brain damage dealing with Python packaging as a USP for end users, the maintainers have decided to not participate in the most exciting things in the ecosystem to the detriment of the otherwise excellent and thoughtfully designed project. Ultimately people who are offering a packaging alternative must deliver a “universal install wizard” solution that includes Windows, which interests few people to work on.
Dune is barely scifi, far more fantasy.
I fully, comprehensively agree with your take and have repeatedly arrived at the same conclusions in my research.
This seems to be closely related to casino design in, e.g., Las Vegas.
>Yes, but "state change" happens all the time! When the photon bounces off the mirror, even if 100% of its energy is reflected, it imparts momentum to the mirror.

It depends on what you consider the system. For a "measuring apparatus" to signal the outcome of a measurement, its internal state must change in some structured way. That is, the configuration of its atoms must change in a discernible way as to indicate one outcome over another. Perhaps the change in momentum is too diffuse or too noisy to result in an informative state change with implications for collapse. Perhaps one's context is relevant to whether a state change results in collapse (e.g. Wigner's friend). I'm more inclined to deny a universal definite reality than to accept many-worlds.

> "Branches" are not even finite in number, even for a single particle in free space

This only has problematic metaphysical implications if we assume the definite reality involves particles rather than waves or some indeterminate in-between. Branching due to "measurement" appears to be different owing to its problematic metaphysical implications. The question I'm asking is do we have experimental evidence of "very large" macroscopic entanglement?
I don't really think AI training is "stealing", despite how much people seem to keep repeating that. You can't own a "style", and you don't get rights to everything inspired by your work, and you shouldn't be because that would be horrible. A lot of AI images that I've generated, as far as I can tell, are pretty much completely unique in the sense that, yes, they were trained on copyrighted data, they don't really look like anything that has ever existed before.

There's been plenty of cases where a big company is inspired by a small company's work, largely redid it, and no one cared, well before AI was a thing. "It! The Terror From Beyond Space" was basically copied by Alien twenty years later, and the latter is considered a masterpiece of cinema, and while most film-geeks know this about Alien, they still consider it unique enough in its own rights to be a great movie. I feel like, in many cases, the stuff generated by Stable Diffusion is transformative enough to be considered fair use. I guess it's a minority opinion, since a large part of the most recent writers strike that everyone seemed to get behind was complaining about AI.

As a rule, I think articles like this are just kind of fear-mongering. Every new piece of tech has a risk of displacing workers, especially in the short term. This isn't new, it's the nature of progress: people really want stuff to be cheaper so we invent stuff to make things cheaper.

Will AI "replace" jobs? Sure, but so did ditch-digging machines, cars, airplanes, and computers themselves; people find other stuff to do.
> Not necessarily within a CPU.

Arguably especially not within a CPU. When I hear "isolated execution environments in a CPU", I think TEE (e.g. ARM TrustZone), not Secure Enclaves.
It doesn't have to be. All that is required is a net positive for shareholders.
Quick question. So you’re saying use bigserial for PK (instead of uuid) and have another column where I set a uuid in case of application level identifier.

But wouldn’t that require a index on it if it’s going to be an identifier that’s used to query?
I'm still a daily-driver of Flycut and love it.
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Ukranian invasion in particular have shown that US and Europe seriously under-invested in military. While western countries have been able to do very impressive tech, it was produced in small quantities, and once a real (although a regional) war broke out, it became clear that even Russia can drastically outperform western factories in raw production capacity.

With risks of much larger conflict with China become more serious, I really hope that americans reconsider their priorities and invest in military production before it's too late.
AI helps develop rare earth-free permanent magnet
When I read the news, I filter out the verifiable bits and simply discard all weak or low quality evidence, not unlike the reasoning used by the investigators in this story on HN the other day when they were looking for missing persons: https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-01/

Legal reporting is some of the worst, so I am frequently hunting for actual court documents, transcripts, etc. which are often significantly different from what you see reported. One favorite trick is that media will report things selectively in a way that is misleading. You get a more complete picture when you see, e.g., how a witness holds up under cross-examination and what details could or could not be corroborated.
So if Russia wants to get to play the top bully too, for a while -- well, we should just cut them some slack and let them have their way for a while? Because fair is fair, right?

That seems to be the essence of your argument here.

(None of those wars are directly analogous to what Russia is doing to Ukraine right now of course; but never mind that for now).
https://archive.is/fia15
Host your own model?