skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being similarly frustrated with note taking apps lately (Android), I finally discovered one that's pretty amazing, so I'd like to mention it. It's called Zettel Notes [1]. It's all offline, with support for many syncing options, and the notes are simple markdown files stored in a directory.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.eu.thedoc....
Absolutely ridiculous, what a joke. That’s comparable to El Yucateco sauce. Tabasco which is barely perceptible as hot is around 5000 scoville. Not to mention, isn’t capsaicin completely harmless and only activates your pain receptors without actually causing any direct damage (there may be damage from the inflammatory response in extreme cases).
Most people won’t go through the hassle of cancelling. They will bring in a LOT of money, and pay out a few of the pathetic “last bill” refunds.

This whole thing though is like thinking you have wedding vows and not realizing there was fine print. It’s like “forsaking all others, till death do us part” but at the end of the vows it says “and if I break these vows I’ll pay you $75.”
> humans do not need 10,000 examples to tell the difference between cats and dogs

Humans learn through a lifetime.

Or are we talking about newborn infants?
Thats exactly how Governments in the rest of the world protect strategic sectors from being swallowed up by Wall Streets massive mountain of capital.
I was looking for a post mentioning the build engine. Obviously it came a little later and has higher hardware requirements, but I wonder if this is really related to the sector approach, or whether it's mostly other parts of the engine. It seems much more elegant as it directly uses the data structures that represent the level layout, thus not requiring a preprocessing step, and intuitively I don't see how it's more expensive than walking a tree for every frame.

Did anyone do a more thorough investigation into this? I know Doom's engine has been analyzed to death regarding every little detail, but build/duke3d didn't get nearly as much attention.
This isn't a terrible take, but there doesn't seem to be a shortage of people for whom this doesn't feel like a scam.

I'm not particularly fond of the founder hype train, and the typical line is indeed "various risks and blah blah blah" but what's often left out is that employee #1 at a post-funding startup is a pretty different job/profile than co-founder.

Most employee #1's don't have relationships with investors, might not be as employable outside the startup world, and they don't sit on the board, don't have the same formal responsibilities, and rarely are able to raise money to found their own startup -- in fact, this is the often the key reason they're even interested in being employee #1.

It's a market, and as a market I'm not sure it's that skewed.

Want 25%+ of the company? Start it. There's no cabal preventing you from doing that. Have better options than 1% of a likely-dead startup, that pay more and have better WLB? Take them.

After all, few industries give any employees equity. First employee at an ice cream parlor? 0%. First employee of a hedge fund? 0%. First employee of a medical practice? 0%.

Equity grants can be motivating and aligning, and frankly more industries should probably consider them. But not that many people are in a position to found a startup that can raise money (larger equity grants are much more common for pre-external-funding employees) and this differential reflects that.

Btw, "1% of the other 10000 startups that folded" is worth about the same as a founder's 40%: $0. The issue is the middle ground, but there the equity grant is often not worth the paper it's written on: typically the acquirers dictate who gets the money. 1% or 5%, unless the acquirer is trying to retain you, chances are you'll see nothing even if the nominal payout is large.

Anyway, the upshot is what people have been saying for decades: don't do a startup for the money. Do it because you want to be part of that kind of thing, and treat any exit money as a bonus.
I've had these and they were fine (I also grew up eating spicy foods).

These might be too much for the Danish palate though.
Maybe. On the other hand, maybe it’s the same as them canning Stadia (whose app was also Flutter).
Dreaming about a smaller, lower-power yet faster RISC-V CPU (many cores exist that are strong against cortex-M0+) with the RP2040's peripherals.
But you don't eat these sauces on their own.
The founders I've known were already wealthy when they decided to do a startup. They aren't at risk because even if the startup falls through without making a cent they have enough money in their bank account to withdraw $200k/year for thirty years. There's no risk there.
It’s a little off topic, but it’s probably a good thing that it’s not very accessible while it would be lithium. When they burn they are almost impossible to put out. Which isn’t too much of an issue with your phone or other small appliances, but things like cars (and especially buses) are a real hazard.

Maybe it’s not so much of an issue in the US where cities are designed for a lot of cars, but here in the EU it’s actually quite dangerous. If a car catches fire it’ll have to be dumped into a specialised container of sorts, which works ok for cars. If a bus catches fire on the wrong street it’ll risk burning the entire street down.

Just imagine what power walls would do to neighbourhoods where buildings are close to each other. You’d frankly burn an entire town-part down of every home had a power wall and just one of them caught fire.
It happens.

I was offered the option to liquidate up to 20% of my vested shares at my last company's Series A. It was restricted by tenure though (3 years), so it wasn't available to everyone. In retrospect, I should have liquidated the full amount, but it was a new concept to me at the time and I was more conservative with the amount.

I more recently interviewed with a pre-series A company and they said that they'd include me in a liquidity event when I brought up compensation.
Raycast only keeps history for up to 3 months unless you pay for it, then you can choose 6/12/unlimited. That has always felt like a silly limitation, and quite disconnected from a $10/month price.
Nowhere near close to killing you though. Crazy it's considered poison there.
I'm not honestly sure if people want to pay for content. They want to pay for convenience or value. That is to have content available easy. But not necessarily for content if they can avoid it or get it cheaper.

Not that there is no sub-groups that will happily pay.
The "fix" is to use a nonce misuse resistant cipher, of which AES-GCM-SIV is one.

But, AES-GCM-SIV requires two passes over the data, which isn't always ideal.

The goal of the CAESAR competition [1] was essentially to find alternatives. Whether that goal has been met is a bit unclear at the moment.

[1] https://competitions.cr.yp.to/caesar-submissions.html
The Leidenfrost Effect
What is CDIC? How have you judged that you managed to do better testing than them? There have been a lot of tests of the efficacy of masks, not just from one organisation. Especially during the pandemic; there were many organisations across the world doing studies.

If you didn't manage to discover that the main benefit of lower grade masks is to restrict respiratory droplet movement then your literature search was very ineffective.
I found them all extremely easy for a while, but then I couldn't figure out the rules of this one at all: e6de6e8f https://i.imgur.com/ExMFGqU.png
+1, soatok has a write-up of how that works: https://soatok.blog/2022/12/21/extending-the-aes-gcm-nonce-w...

...a variant on that is DNDK-GCM in draft at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gueron-cfrg-dndkgcm/ and a recent presentation: https://youtu.be/GsFO4ZQlYS8 (this is Shay Gueron who worked on AES-GCM-SIV too).
UK economy flatlines in April as construction output dives
Some insights from one former lead: https://erogol.com/2024/01/09/goodsandbadsofopensource

TLDR: Making money from open-source is hard.
> Note that Orwell promotes an hard form of the Sapir Whorf hypothesis

This is not what he was getting at at all. I think you've completely misunderstood an analogy in a work of fiction that was aiming to warn about the distortion of language for politics ends.
What if they give 1-2% and good market rate salary (~200k/y) to a founding engineer? Is that still a bad deal?
The irony of being an early engineering employee (and any engineer really) is that the better job you do the easier it is to replace you with someone who can maintain what you built. Accepting a below market salary and then doing a great job is a huge risk.
Yes, makes sense! I would need to change it to output only the password without all the extra info that only makes sense for humans - could work in this script mode when provided with an additional command line option.
This reminds me of how I have seen a few asks lately for roles where a company is looking for a CTO for their “AI startup”. How an “AI startup” (whatever that might actually mean) can _start up_ without a CTO is beyond me, and raises some very big red flags about what that company might be up to.
The author makes it sound like most software in the world is software that is made to scale. I strongly doubt that. I would say that at least ~50% of software is ad-hoc scripts or specialized tools for single organizations.

It is no wonder that the software that is used by a large number of people is talked about more than software that is only used by a handful. Home-Cooked Software already exists, it is just not as easy to see.
https://archive.is/xaMd8
Show HN: SpeakStruct – Turn voice into consistent structured data
Hey folks,

Built SpeakStruct to allow users to setup templates to turn voice input into consistent, structured output. Use cases from feedback I've had are customer support, coaching/check-ins, note taking, etc.

Although there is a pricing section, signing up is free (no CC required). If you don't want to sign up, a demo is available here (sale-sy demo, but shows the product).
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Open to all feedback.
The water ball maze at the end is really cool.
You may want to modernise your script because Bucket ACLs are disabled by default these days: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/about-...
No, I just think that when you search for 2048, you should get the original one that was published first, not one of the many imitation ones.
Keepassxc has zero collaborative features and no online sync. I’m a big fan of keepassxc but these reasons are why I pay for 1P. I can add colleagues, guests, family members and have it run on all my devices.
This is what ends up happening with an overbloated public sector, idiot bureaucrats have to invent problems to justify their cost
70k per lifetime of the CD drive. 120k per complete playthrough of the game. A hit is reading from the CD.
China solar panel manufacturers seek government action to halt price freefall
Dr. Hipp is one of our investors, and we have the right to use the SQLite name.
Chollet's argument is that LLMs just imitate and recombine patterns. This might be true if you're looking at LLMs in isolation, but when they chat with people something different happens. The system made of humans+LLMs is an AGI. It is no longer just a parrot, it ingests new information, gets guidance, feedback and is basically embodied in a chat room with human and tools.

This scales for 200M users and 1 billion sessions per moth for OpenAI, which can interpret every human response as a feedback signal, implicit or explicit. Even more if you take multiple sessions of chat spreading over days, that continue the same topic and incorporate real world feedback. The scale of interaction is just staggering, the LLM can incorporate this experience to iteratively improve.

If you take a look at humans, we're very incapable alone. Think feral Einstein on a remote island - what could he achieve without the social context and language based learning? Just as a human brain is severely limited without society, LLMs also need society, diversity of agents and experiences, and sharing of those experiences in language.

It is unfair to compare a human immersed in society with a standalone model. That is why they appear limited. But even as a system of memorization+recombination they can be a powerful element of the AGI. I think AGI will be social and distributed, won't be a singleton. Its evolution is based on learning from the world, no longer just a parrot of human text. The data engine would be: World <-> People <-> LLM, a full feedback cycle, all three components evolve in time. Intelligence evolves socially.
As a comparison, one habanero (not the crazy ghost/chocolate cultivars, but the plain jane habanero) is 150k Scoville units. Serranos top out at 25k.
Oh no, business did a capitalism. In other news: Water still wet.
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I have a “select choice fam unl 50tt” which I’ve had forever (I buy phones outright to keep it) and still pay $85 for two lines. I don’t see any price increases for my account recently. I have unlimited everything except 5gb of tethering.

If they raise my price I’d be upset but it’s still cheaper by far than any modern plans. Someday my kid will need a phone and I’ll get him a separate account so I don’t get conned into changing my plan!
I do, no problem
I don’t think this is rare. We had a friend with the same issue but obviously where I am coming from he was not properly diagnosed, so we just called him sleepy X.
I think your comment over intellectualises the way children experience the world.

My child experiences the world in a really pure way. They don’t care much about labels or colours or any other human inventions like that. He picks up his carrot, he doesn’t care about the name or the color . He just enjoys it through purely experiencing eating it. He can also find incredible flow state like joy from playing with river stones or looking at the moon.

I personally feel bad I have to each them to label things and but things in boxes. I think your child is frustrated at times because it’s a punish of a game. The departure from “the oceanic feeling.

Your comment would make sense to me if the end game of our brains and human experience is labelling things. It’s not. It’s useful but it’s not what living is about.
I worked at a preseed company recently. Here's my experience:

- Work 9 to 7 everyday. 6 days a week.

- People are working 9 am - 5 am in crunch time. Then joining again at 10 am.

- Monetary Comp is exactly market average.

- Equity Comp is even more paltry since founders raised at a huge valuation.

- Founders make unrealistic promises. Eg: It took a competitor with 7 people, 3 months to make a product. The founder told us Saturday that he wanted it built by Monday (with 3 total devs).

- Founders message you 24 x 7. If you don't reply, there's a "serious discussion" to be had next time.

- Non Accomodating of anything because "It's a startup".

I left the place after 10 weeks. I saw 3 people leaving the 6 person company in these 10 weeks. The ones who stayed were under heavy financial stress or had drank the kool aid.
As you noted below, it depends on the industry.

But for software, and my impression is that it is even more like this in most other industries, a huge amount of tech ventures never receive any funding. Many of these are never even properly incorporated and may not be included in datasets. Then, for the ones that do raise seed money, usually with SAFEs, 50-60% of them would fail before raising a significant priced round (series A).

The overall point being, there’s a lot of risk between starting a company and raising a sizeable priced round for most people.
Works like a charm for me on a T4, faster on L4.
Basic free-tier GPU enabled colab notebook is enough to get started.
I can't take anyone seriously who tries to frame the keepassxc packaging correction as "hijacking".
This is a good point. If I click on this post today it has an agenda and if I were to click on it in a few days then it does not
This is very childish.
Only because I, as a SWE, know how that sausage is made. Either it is some misguided desire to show a customer that you're working on the product ("See, we're still alive, please keep paying us money!"), some PM or UI designer stuffing their promo packet ("Look at how much increased engagement we have!" by making users now click twice as much), or to satisfy the whim of some c-level sponsor. Rarely is the UI actually improved or made more efficient or actual user research conducted. Prime example is the last Slack UI update from last year that introduced a ton of dead space and other annoyances. Like, the tool is for reading and writing text. I want to see the text. Why did you shrink the text area for that stupid dead space on the left? Guarantee they are measuring useless metrics like clicking on those stupid buttons on the left now and patting themselves on the back on how awesome and useful their change was.
For me it's Alpine Linux.
While I was thinking it's a good thing, I just remembered of a tangential question -- home ownership.

Do you think it's fair when someone bought a house long time ago, and hence pay just a small fraction of the property taxes of what newcomers pay, but get the same services (roads, schools, utilities etc) that are paid by property taxes?
I remember building Unreal maps as a teen. I didn't really understand bsp back then, and online discussions regarding mapping where full of cargo-culting weird methods to avoid "bsp holes". They were basically holes in the level geometry that sometimes even only appeared at specific camera angles, and not just in the distance, sometimes right in the corner of the room you're standing in. There were also two sliders in the dialog where you rebuilt the bsp, but I forgot what they were called and at least back then didn't understand what they did anyways, but changing them slightly could resolve the issue - only so you'd realize there's now a new hole somewhere else after 5 minutes.
A colleague who lives in Korea recommended these to me before. I stopped eating them because of the insane amount of salt in them, not the spice level!
It is about aligning risk preferences. Being "all-in" is not likely a good thing for a founder. The founder prefers to take less risk which results to mediocre exit for the investor. The investor would rather have bigger exit or nothing, and giving the founder some money is helping to aling the risk preferences a bit towards the same direction.

As for employees? They are typically not calling the shots about company direction. I don't see a reason why investors would care about employees.
I like the comparison to implicit methods or trait implementations in rust. However what about currying and partial application? The article didn't come back to that. It's that lost now in Gleam?

We wrestled with the same issue in PRQL. There we have "data last" in order to allow for currying and our pipe operator just pipes to the last argument so you still have the same pipeline syntax.

I also like the qualified imports. The lack of those was what turned me off Nim.
Unicorn or bust is the name of the game. Once you understand that it’s not so bad.

It’s also possible to level-up pretty well from an acquisition, where maybe the equity was not life changing but you’re now in a bigco at a higher level than you’d otherwise be. The trap there is that many startup folks are not cut out for bigco life.

But yeah if you were dreaming of sailing off into the sunset you need to be a founder (or remarkably lucky). That’s one reason why there’s so many startups.
The only patch to FreeBSD I maintained was hacking up FreeBSD 2.x to embed Hughes mSQL to back getpwnam etc and radius/tacass. I also needed to exceed the uid limit and came up with hacky uid for the customer and gid as the account letting each customer have the 30k or whatever account ids. I shared the idea with friends at Teleport ISP in Portland who ended up doing something similar with Oracle I think. I think the same sort of thing lead to vservers that best.net used with BSDi and eventually FreeBSD jails was developed and significantly better than my hack job so I migrated the isp over to using jails.
Since lots of surfaces in Doom are diagonal, using that approach would have required an enormous amount of splitting of polygons, to fit the geometry to an orthogonal tree, probably increasing the amount of geometry an order of magnitude. The benefit of BSP is that it minimizes the amount of new geometry that needs to be created (even if it still requires some new geometry)
Is this what he wants to distract from by throwing screaming tantrums over apple and openai? Or is it the $46bn grab-the-money-an-run move as long as the tesla stock is still worth something?
Right, but I wasn't making bay area salaries, I was making Irish salaries at first, then a split between Irish and US when I was working remote. This means €65k instead of $165k. On top of that, I had one lucky break (Okta bought Auth0) and while the stock was nice, it was all taxed at 52%. The upshot of all this is that over the course of ten years I would almost certainly have made a couple million more (especially if I had invested decently or bought a house) than I did in Ireland, and while I like living in Europe (though not Ireland, I couldn't wait to leave by the end), being able to FIRE by 40 would have been better.
Measuring the Parallax of a Near Star with Modest Equipment and Modest Talent
My parents bought PC in 1993. 95% of the usage by me were games. 100% of the reasons for upgrades for next decade and a half were only due to games.

Doom made folks want PC, it just didnt work that well on consoles. Then multimedia and windows 95 in PCs steamrolled everything else, even with high prices and famous MS instability.

If you needed all-in-1 solution, PC was the way to go.
I remember spending $75-$200 for MadCatz/Hori/... sticks when I was more involved with the fighting game scene around 10 years ago. Customizing an OEM stick or doing something DIY for an arcade cabinet was doable with a donor controller.

This all hangs on what "reinvigorated" means and I'm fine conceding the ground of not paying close attention in the intervening decade. I didn't think it was prohibitive back then, maybe it was in between then and now, and perhaps the barrier to entry is so low now that it's even better for gamers.
Amazon Mechanical Turk workers, who might not be 100 average IQ but wouldn't be far off that.
If you come to think about it, in the beginning computers automated existing tasks and only later were giving tasks that people aren't capable of doing (eg. timing in electronics). Maybe there is a range of useful tasks people aren't doing yet, because they are too difficult, so nobody thought about them, but AI might unlock that?