skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in a really similar position to you. I'm currently engineer #1 at a seed stage startup making $155k with 1.5% equity. But a year in I'm realizing I've built their entire product from scratch while they do sales and outreach. Obviously those things are important but I'm a leg of a tripod holding the whole thing up and yet I have a fraction of the equity they have. Makes no sense.
There is nothing about your posts that are good faith.
> when they say anti-leftist it feels like a justification

I wrote "anti-leftist" to be descriptive, not normative. If it wasn't clear, I aim to criticize American policy, not to praise it.
How is "Windows Activity History" different than browsing history, search history, location history, recently used apps, and recent files? I can't find much after a bit of searching. Does it store screenshots or full file contents or something?

On the one hand, you have Windows Recall storing screenshots and data about everything you do. That's potentially very bad because it can capture all kinds of new and unanticipated private information and secrets.

On the other hand, I don't think people commonly turn off their browser history and shell history. It's not necessarily bad to have local history for certain things.
The boom in drones predates the EV. The main driver there was the development of better IMUs for smart phones.
Agreed that I wouldn’t refactor this for no reason.

That being said, the first time I had to edit this (even just do change the base string) I’d make the change.
Knowing Japan. This regulation isn’t about making your experience as consumer better.
"Neuron" is not out of place when you're talking about software that uses neural networks...
Remarkable writing considering OP is just NaN
Is GenAI more like cigarettes ("cool factor", but harmful in the long run), or is it more like cars (noisy and creates pollution, but super-convenient and therefore something most people should adopt)?

I still struggle with this every day. Maybe I'll figure it out someday soon...
Honestly, I was confused by that myself.
Ask HN: Can someone help me prepare to launch my side project?
This is an application for windows made with Windows Forms.

This is my first time working on a windows client project, I started out by noodling around in Visual Studio and found that building an app with Windows Forms is pretty fun. It's progressed to the point that I think I could have something shippable around the end of the year. I am mostly building it for fun, but I think I may as well charge for it, and so I have questions.

> Windows specific: I don't really want to worry about product keys and running my own website to sell licenses. I think I want to sell it on the Microsoft Store for an annual subscription fee. Is there some reason why this is a bad idea? I'd love to hear from people who have done this before.

> I'm going to have business expenses soon, and hopefully revenues. Since it's just me, should I simply log them in a spreadsheet and file it with my personal taxes? I'd be interested in hearing from anyone selling their own apps.

> Anything else I should be thinking about at this stage?
Well, in my experience, these are quite uncommon. Especially for being fully remote.

If someone's offering $500k/yr to an engineer plus stock, they're definitely trying to attain someone with very niche skills. Which begs the question: Just how applicable is this scenario for everyone else?

I haven't found many startup roles going past $200k for a fully remote engineer, almost regardless of level. I don't think they even try to get someone who would be Staff+ at FAANG because it's basically pointless.

Top quality in your scenario might mean niche skills like you've done specific computer vision work, have a PhD, and are going to a self-driving startup... Cool but not really applicable to most of us, is it?

Whereas compare as to how common it is to be a typical full stack or backend engineer with a decade of experience... join FAANG at Staff and make $600k+.
horses tend to sleep standing up, their legs are made for it
But that's the thing, we're comparing with Go, where all functions behave that way, and no async/await ceremony is required. Go has many weaknesses, but I don't think a language that treats async as unusual/special beats Go in that respect.
Dispersion is the name for the process of separating the light into individual frequency components but there is more than one mechanism. The term 'dispersion' to refer to what diffraction gratings do is already well established.
Loads instantly for me on macOS.
They sell your traffic to Google for many billions of dollars. Believe me, they are not leaving surveillance revenue on the table. They just launder it well.
If you’d be interested in being mentored in a research project send me an email; bersub@cmu.edu
HN algorithm is weird. I think it's moderated with manually inserted weights.
I think this is my fourth time seeing this article posted here within a week?
The answer is obvious, because you can’t fairly resolve a conflict of interest like that - alignment between publishers and distributors in the same vertical should be banned.
Not all places are doing research. In fact most are not! Knowing whether you're at a company willing to bet money on R&D, or whether you're at a company that wants you to come up with actionable, is pretty crucial. As you said, Amazon is not really out there doing research - so engineers working there would do well to assume they need deliverables to keep managers happy.
>read between the lines and see that this isn’t working.

No need to "read between the lines", he directly mentions some of the ways it's not working as pleasingly as he would like.
Agile development at its finest. Boeing can prioritize in next spring and ship a “day 1” patch that is 100+ GB to fix the issues.
Do you hold the same views about marriage? That changing one's last name is is confusing and Orwellian? That close friends might humor the individual out of respect, but society at large should refuse to allow history to be rewritten?
That's an i9 chip without proper cooling.
They do tend to sell under different names - Lenovo sells as Motorola, and Oppo sells as OnePlus. Before the ban, I'd also see a few Huaweis, also in the northeast. In Canada, Huawei used to be fairly common and TCL is still carried by many carriers as a budget option.
Nietzsche's Guide to Greatness
Here in Chile almost every single site does that. Wanted to tap on a link in the lower part of the screen? Haha no dice, it just got covered with a popup that says Miguel from Chillán bought a video card five hours ago. Absolutely infuriating.
I was replying to the guy suggesting they were honest about the risks, not you. I think you and I agree.
The last time I heard about an automotive Helmholtz someone had put one in the exhaust system of a VW

My old Ford had one under the bonnet/hood for sound improvement reasons - https://archive.ph/ITQGb
Let's say you have the opportunity to sell your shares in the private market for $2/share a few years after you've vested.

Exercise earlier:
Strike price: $0.10
FMV at exercise: $0.20
Taxes: AMT on $0.10 gain (might be $0 in taxes) + Long term capital gains on $2.00-$0.10

Exercise at sale:
Strike price: $0.10
Taxes: short term capital gains on $2.00-$0.10

Assuming a decently sized transaction:
If your marginal rate is 35%, your long term capital gains rate might be 20%, saving you 15% of the sale price in taxes.

There is a risk that the money you pay to exercise ends up buying you worthless shares.

It all depends on the specific numbers. The longer you wait to exercise, the more likely you will have to pay significant AMT taxes (assuming increasing valuations) to the point where it no longer makes sense to exercise because you'd have to pay so much in AMT taxes for shares that may become worthless.

I gladly paid $10k to exercise so I could save $150k in taxes because I thought the odds were high that I would later be able to sell my shares for more than I paid.
Hollow Earth strikes back.
That is likely to be very expensive.
"Ejector seat? You're joking."

"I never joke about my work, 007."
Not all models have them.
You only missed the part that SpaceX was founded several years prior and that Falcon 1 was developed with his own money and solely private risk.

Nasa only contracted SpaceX because of that AND because SpaceX saves them billions of dollars from otherwise inefficient suppliers.

But that's not relevant.
Unhappiness Is Mostly a Choice
> Only seven hours of free-flight time is needed to perform a normal end of mission, and Starliner currently has enough helium left in its tanks to support 70 hours of free flight activity following undocking.

I’m not sure I believe it. Why would anything on a spacecraft be designed to ten times the needed capacity?
> there are plenty of people with high paying jobs or powerful positions who are in this category who will not let it slide without some form of retribution.

I don't think they're going to be particularly good at putting together that they're included in that group unless they're mentioned directly.

The thing is, intelligence is almost entirely separate from thinking ability. There are some extremely intelligent people who nonetheless have very low capacity for thought, because intelligence is defined as the ability to store and recall information. That's what's taught up to high school.

These intelligent people don't deserve to be considered any less of human beings, and it's very difficult to speak of not being able to think without implying some level of inferiority on their part or superiority on mine (ours?). I don't mean to imply that such people aren't conscious. They could pass any Turing test.

But there is somewhat of a difference between thinkers and non-thinkers. For example:

- Those without thought are given responsibility that they shouldn't necessarily be trusted with, for example settings that might break something if changed. Customer support representatives can probably tell you how common it is for someone to bypass any number of warnings or layers of obscurity to access things that they have no idea how to operate, then make it someone else's problem once it bites them later and they have no idea what might have happened.

- Due to the above, mainstream products are often designed with primarily non-thinkers in mind, leading to those with thought potentially feeling restricted or that they lack control thanks to the changes designed to limit how much mistake someone who doesn't think can make.

I wish there were some way to fix these problems, but it'd probably be too discriminatory for most of the non-thinkers to recognize the utility, and it seems impossible to classify people like this, since thinking ability isn't binary.
Sad that Facebook Marketplace appears apathetic. Is it naive to think they could stop being part of the problem?

Facebook Marketplace will not lift a finger to help you, period. Don't even try. You can click 'report this ad' or 'report seller' but I can pretty much guarantee you literally nothing will happen.

Facebook has no functional customer service, and to be honest they've repeatedly demonstrated that they do not care that Marketplace is used to fence stolen goods. There is literally nobody behind the scenes at FB Marketplace who is going to care, or help you.

Point being: don't waste your time contacting Facebook.

Per: https://bikeindex.org/news/what-to-do-when-you-find-your-sto...
Cesar from the https://woogles.io team - bananagrams is definitely not nearly as fun as Scrabble :)
Meanwhile Singapore’s prime minister knows programming and writes Python in his spare time.
Yeah, they should just define a new command line option (and perhaps a new command that defaults to this behavior, say vpip or vpython or something.) The virtualenvs take some getting use to. I've been using python for over 15 years so it's second nature.
> Great to hear the views on programming from one of the authors of SICP.

I'll blog about it one day (I know it's been five years I've been saying that but hey) but... Sussman invited me for tea in his office so I ran to the MIT co-op but couldn't find SICP there so I told the person there I really needed that book for I'd see Sussman the next day: he called the Harvard co-op and they told me they had one copy in stock. So I uber'ed to the Harvard bookstore and bought SICP.

Next day I went to Sussman's office at the MIT and when I arrived Abelson was there, by chance (he was leaving) so they both dedicated me my copy of SICP. And Sussman added "had you been there 15 minutes earlier my wife would have signed it too!".

I had no idea his wife was the proofreader for SICP.

Fun story. Probably rambling by now but all this really happened. I've got a cool picture of these two wizards and me holding the purple book they just signed!
I love Alamo drafthouse and it’s pretty much the only theater that my wife and I goto when we see a movie. Hopefully this doesn’t result in the experience becoming shit.
Yes they run linux just fine.
I thought Alexa was bad for privacy.

But I guess Amazon does everything in their power that only they have the access.

So it sounds to be quite well secured, while no idea what Amazon does with it.
Indeed, I prefer to openly display information that, were it kept nominally secret, could be determined anyway via lots of tedious bookkeeping.
Germany only really has one castle, but the Germans are excellent at speed-building.
Right, that's what it does. You can do it manually too if you don't want to connect it to WiFi.
> That seems a pretty extreme position!

Not really.

Jeremy Howard has said the same thing for example.

> What's your definition of AGI ?

Things that we consider intelligent when humans do them.

Basically we had all these definitions of AGI that we have surpassed (Turing test etc). Now we are finding more edge cases where we go "ahh... it can't do this so therefore it isn't intelligent".

But the issue with that is that lots of humans can't do them either.

I think the ARC challenge is valid. But I'd also point out that there are substantial numbers of people who won't be able to solve them either (blind people for example, as well as people who aren't good at puzzles). We make excuses there ("oh we can explain it to a blind person" or for many physical problems things like "Oh Stephen Hawking couldn't solve this but that is an exception") but we don't allow the same excuses for machine intelligence.

I don't think the boundary of AGI is a hard line, but if you went back 10 years and took what we had now and showed it to them I think people would be "Oh wow you have AI!".
Can't each app have it's own section of it?
I don't think it makes sense to base your opinion on videos when you could simply use the product yourself and get first-hand experience.

I've come full circle on it. First I thought it was totally amazing, then I pushed it hard and found it lacking, and then I started using it more casually and now I use a little bit every day. I don't find it completely brilliant but it knows an above-average amount about everything. And it can make short work of very tedious tasks.

I just type to ChatGPT so there are no "emotional effects" involved.
Musk likes sycophants. Tesla has been wasting time and money advertising for his pay package ahead of the shareholder vote:

https://electrek.co/2024/05/13/tesla-spends-ad-money-influen...

The board is not looking after Tesla. It's looking after Musk.
Excellent article! Very clear and engaging.

If checking for an intersection between two convex sets, another method is to solve a convex optimization problem minimizing the norm of the difference between two points, one constrained to be in the first (convex) set and the second constrained to be in the second (convex) set. If the optimal value is zero, then the sets have an intersection.

I'd be curious to see a comparison between the GJK algorithm and using convex optimization. Not sure if either has an advantage over the other.
Since even a successful ejection will hurt you due to the immense forces at play (an explosion will push you out the plane) even in the best case, and crush you, if something goes wrong, no wonder that joke is for real.
I don't think there is any hard evidence except people looking at correlations. SDXL, one of the preceding versions, is allegedly less censored and happens to do anatomy better than the examples in the article. Logically, it makes sense that omitting good data would lead to worse results - nudity filters or not, anatomy is very complex and humans are very sensitive to inaccuracies in human looks, so a giant dataset with as many different poses as possible is the way to go. But in terms of actual empirical tests and measurements - I haven't seen that yet.
> non-public information that gives you a structural edge in assessing the stock

This can also cut the other direction too. I had a slightly negative sentiment about Google during my tenure there due to the organization I was in. When earnings call season rolled around it didn't matter since the ads revenue line always dominated everything else.
True, the idea wasn't new. But Campbell made it part of classic SF rather than fantasy or "new age" mysticism as it was earlier.
>> it would be entirely non-immersive because moving your upper body

>Not sure what you mean by this?

Imagine full 3d scan of the players in real time. You could move around the court and watch them play.
There are some sweet spots where local tech companies can compete in markets even though their products are worse.

But there's nothing close to Google Search or iPhone.
I'd be very careful with a 20% option pool and a 3 month cliff.

My assumption is this means the founder is providing double the equity, meaning that at 3 months the potential of not insignificant amounts of equity can be walking out the door.

We've had the experience where we had a contractor who we thought was a good fit. We decided to hire them as an employee, and back-date the cliff to when they started. We had a very big somewhat bet the company deadline which their work was key to, and this deadline was about 3 weeks past the cliff date. They walked 2 weeks before, and didn't deliver. Literally waiting until they could claim some equity.

Of course, this is what bad leaver clauses are for, but there is a reason why some of the terms exist.

I agree with the long exercise options. Vesting timelines have arguments for longer and shorter, which is why I think the standard 4-years is settled on.
> Where's the source for the data files? Without that it's not possible to make sense of these benchmarks. Are the keys sorted?

The names were randomly generated, as were the UUIDs. Serial / Identity were of course handled by the DB itself. Nothing was pre-sorted.

> 2ndquadrant agrees with me

I wouldn’t say a summary “maybe the issues are fairly negligible” counts as agreeing. Do terrible queries matter more? Often, yes. However, I’ve found there is a strong correlation between devs using UUIDv4s (even after having been warned of the consequences) and poor schema and query design.

I’m not going to argue any points further as I don’t see it being fruitful. My day job is DBRE; I have ran both MySQL and Postgres DBs at the TB scale, managed and self-hosted. I’m sure there are many who have ran far larger clusters, but I believe I have enough experience seeing the impact first-hand to be able to speak about them.
You are actually right [1]. Using the quoted figures of 30'x30'x4'' = 8 meter cube costing 7.5k USD, we get 41k USD. Which is crazy expensive even for foundation.

[1] https://homeguide.com/costs/concrete-slab-cost
Already exists in US.
Is the mountain of skulls really propaganda?
Virgin Galactic announces reverse stock split
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Thanks for clarifying - honestly, we're a tiny startup so not really here to play PR games, just didn't fully understand the question. Users can 100% review all the results even if they aren't ranked as 'high priority'. You can even free form search our repositories with boolean strings like you would any other OSINT tool, but with the added benefit of an AI agent to help triage, if you so wish.
No, both Rust and Swift can be seen as better C++'s. And both do not provide the Smalltalk like OO Objective-C has.
Swift (only) on Apple platforms integrate w/ ObjC, but the core language is more like C++ and very little like Smalltalk.
Brassica oleracea is such a fascinating species by the sheer number of unrecognizably different vegetables we've cultivated that all technically remain the exact same species (it's way, way more than you'd think). If you've never looked at the table on wikipedia, please scroll down and take a look!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea#Cultivars
I once did something in a similar vein, but with much less sophistication. We had 8 players and 2 copies of Catan. The games were played simultaneously and the rule was that the first player to win a game was the overall winner. Everyone was very motivated to play frantically!
Yes! At least once a week. Mostly to try out new apps and immersive content. I’ve taken it on a couple trips to capture immersive video, but never in public spaces, because that would be weird and I don’t want to be mugged.
While the idea of deferring load to eliminate the need for batteries might seem straightforward, it raises significant practical challenges. Forcing billions of people and businesses to change their consumption habits is not only unrealistic but also fraught with potential issues.

Consider the global perspective. In developing countries, where resources and infrastructure are already limited, expecting such flexibility is impractical. These regions often lack the luxury of choice and are more vulnerable to disruptions.

Moreover, the goal of decarbonization isn't just about ideological preferences for renewable energy. It requires a pragmatic approach that incorporates a mix of technologies: solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, batteries, and more. Each technology has its strengths and plays a crucial role in the overall strategy.

Cherry-picking preferred technologies without considering the broader context can delay our progress by decades. To effectively combat climate change, we need to embrace a comprehensive and inclusive approach that leverages all available solutions.
It's the verb vendor: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vendor#Verb
> I was always under impression that Amazon uploads all our data because I notice data transfers whenever I use voice commands...

As I recall, they said as much. The device uploads a clip of the audio to get processed by the back end, does it not?
This seems like wishful thinking to believe that someone other than the buyer will pay. The buyer always pays for the cost of goods.
I don't know if it was a Martin-Baker ejection seat, but this pilot's account of surviving an ejection from 78,000 ft at Mach 3.18 (3926,664 km/h!) in a SR-71 Blackbird is pretty wild.

http://www.chuckyeager.org/news/sr-71-disintegrated-pilot-fr...
> and other people sanctioned for not noticing.

This is often by design by the fraudster, if one can compromise enough their own governing body, the people in there will need to protect the fraudster out of self preservation.
Followers of Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. have known this to be true for quite some time.