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Ask HN: Design work for a VC fund for LP allocation
I run a web design and engineering studio. A single GP venture firm approached up and wants our work in exchange for the LP allocation in the fund, equal to the arbitrary value of rendered work, namely $50k.

The fund target raise is $38M, 1.5% management fees and 20% carry

Here are some more information I got from him:

"$750,000 is the GP commitment (2% of total raise). I will "assign" the value of our project (ie: $50K) out of the commitment to you. You will then share in profits and losses (as if a GP) pro-rata.

Some details:
Investment profits capped at 4x initial investment ($200K total)
Legal fees will be split "50/50" — The Firm will actually pay 100% but your half would be docked from "invested amount (project fees waived into Fund)"
ie: Let's say legal fees for side letter creation = $2000 —then your "net" investment amount = $49K, etc"

"Fund lifecycle: 10 +/- years from final close to fully exited. On average will begin to see distributions / returns anywhere from 5-7 years into the fund then won't stop until fully exited. "

"The GP commitment is = to LP capital as far as rights, roles, etc — this is option 3 expressed in the legal sense. Essentially as a GP I still have to put up money (essentially my "LP" investment amount). So the entire GP commitment must be returned (1x) before "carry" is instituted (20% of >1x profits) — the benefit of being the GP is I don't pay carry on my portion ($750K) … ie: after the 1x hurdle you too will now share in profits pro-rata (not affected by carry) until you hit the profit cap. This is actually the most advantageous position you can be in regarding VC roles."

"As far as profit-sharing cap — 4x is where I've landed - this is open to discussion but would not be able to do 10x or anything crazy like that. At a 4x cap you would still greatly outperform the market over the course of the fund's life. Let me know your thoughts!"

My gut feel is that I can totally write off this investment given the probablity of return, inflation. 4x cap seems low given the risk imo.

Also, I think rendering work this way might lead to endless revisions "I'm not granting you the LP allocation until it's done on my terms" etc.

What am I missing?
There is no such thing as a 10-hours-a-day-7-days-a-week hobby.
Of you have a Yubikey why do you need to use passkeys (which are essentially software emulation of a Yubikey).
but I'm not versed enough to fully judge it as "great",
"not bad" or "slop", or spot hallucinations (if any)

"Thanks to o1, now minor details like 'I am uninformed about the subject' don't need to stop me from producing Content!"
Well that's the reason why im running my private mailserver and the only thing im using google for is actual google services.

I always wondered why people would just give all their personal information to google in terms of mail and files (convenience i know but still..).

But than you see the posts of "google just shutdown my account without any reasoning and i lost everything help!!" here on hackernews and you know exactly why you don't use google for anything but their services.
what example can you give?
I've taken to saying "Wednesday" or "this Wednesday" to refer to whichever Wednesday is coming up, and then "the Wednesday after this Wednesday" to refer to the following Wednesday. It is a bit wordy but at least it's unambiguous.
It is pretty clear that many European countries, EU or not, do not want individuals hosting websites. Germany has quite strict rules regarding hosting, the EU has again and again proposed legislation that makes individuals hosting sites very hard and the UK doing similar things is no surprise.

These governments only want institutions to host web services. Their rules are openly hostile to individuals. One obvious benefit is much tighter control, having a few companies with large, registered sites, gives the government control.

It is also pretty clear that the public at large does not care. Most people are completely unaffected and rarely venture outside of the large, regulated platforms.
Ask HN: Interested in optimizing datacenter energy use?
Hi HN,
We are an early-stage startup working on OS-level AI energy optimization. Our goal is to revolutionize the way systems manage power consumption at the OS level making AI and compute more energy-efficient and sustainable.
We are looking to connect with individuals who have exposure to energy costs, energy purchasing or a strong desire to optimize them at the server and datacenter level. Whether you are working in data centers, telco, AI infra, or any area where energy efficiency is crucial, we would love to discuss potential challenges, solutions, and opportunities in this space. We're eager to learn from your experiences and explore ways we can collaborate to make a meaningful impact.
Drop us a note at scottcha@live.com and we'll connect up.
Thanks Scott & Chad
> notice how theres a definition right in the middle of the article, and not at the beginning.

The criticism is of sentence structure, not document structure.

> That analysis revealed that legal documents frequently have long definitions inserted in the middle of sentences — a feature known as “center-embedding.” Linguists have previously found that this kind of structure can make text much more difficult to understand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_embedding
Adding to this, ELO is also heavily used when evaluating, benchmarking and ranking state-of-the-art generative AI models. Particularly LLMs, image generation and video generation models.
> Kubernetes API servers saturated because they were receiving too much traffic. Once that happened, the API servers no longer functioned properly. As a consequence, their DNS-based service discovery mechanism ultimately failed

I am not sure where it is about "one process"?
Please don't editoralize headlines <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=don...>, because you have made this one into clickbait that isn't present in the article:

> LastPass 2022 hack fallout continues with millions of dollars more reportedly stolen
Write code with your Alphabet Radio on, not an LLM
As always, it depends. Building something like Unity/Unreal that should support everything and everyone under the sun, one way or another? Yeah, huge time sink.

But a 2D engine that should only support exactly what the features need from Stardew Valley? Doesn't seem insurmountable, although I wouldn't exactly take that approach myself.
Take a look at QGraphicsView framework, https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/graphicsview.html it's one of the most powerful graphics frameworks I've used. In addition to scene-to-object transformations (with object hierarchies) it gives you many powerful tools to render complex, interactive scenes.

Alas, I have not found a web equivalent that works as well as QGVF.
This is a weird title for the paper.

There is no evidence that anything resembling what anyone would call AI is involved. They don't even mention it in the web version of the article

This is just standard gig economy stuff.
As someone who's done game dev professionally for a decade, as well as had countless personal projects and has known others to have done the same: don't underestimate the toll game dev can take on you, it's a cruel mistress. Stardew Valley is a massive outlier.
I did this! I got to the point of building a ticking prototype, and I considered it "cheating" to copy any clock designs. I did use an established escapement design, though. Apparently involute gear tooth profiles aren't appropriate for clocks, but I don't know how to draw the "correct" type. I spent months designing it in solidworks, creating the 3D models and plans. I then cut out the gears from baltic birch plywood with a cheap scroll saw, then sanded all the teeth, which took forever. If I do it again, I'll just have the parts laser cut. About a year later, I bought a kit [0] which was very enjoyable to build, and I saw how my bearing design was wrong.
[0]https://wooden-gear-clocks.com/ascentclock

Edit:for a point of inspiration, check out this guys creations in wood:
https://youtu.be/HlJdfKYg6As

And his website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20061117180507/http://flashpages...
Databricks is Raising $10B Series J Investment at $62B Valuation
Do you have any demos proving that this concept is even possible? Power consumption is already managed meticulously at most datacenters and they'd want to see some hard proof that your product can improve their situation.
Researchers Demonstrate New Technique for Stealing AI Models
sorry for my late response. Thanks for giving me this example. I can kinda see why you would not click it in first place.

As for me - i have very limited time i spend on reading articles listed on hackernews so i always have to condense it down to those im very interested in.
StoryGraph is an excellent tool and I continue to use it daily.

I’ve also found Hardcover.app, which I quite like. It has an API and a slightly more refined UI, but it’s clearly more than one person working on it.

Of course, if your focus is book clubs, Fable is likely the app for you
The person who made the tool is culpable. Same way if a lawyer hires an intern that preps legal documents is responsible.

However, governments in thw US love to whitewash liability so this is just academic.
In this case though, the griefers don't have to file a lawsuit themselves, they just have to post harmful material and file complaints. That is a much lower threshold. It is less effort than the sorts of harassment these people already inflict on moderators, but with potentially much more serious results.
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Have you personally tried? I have a business doing exactly that and have three restaurants paying between $300-400/month for a restaurant website -- and we don't even integrate directly with their POS / menu providers (Heartland).
He didn't back off; he locked the thread because people got too "uppity" and left the issue open.

Chances of it getting merged: 0%.

Bots 1: humans, 0.
These can not be unintended consequences. Obviously the UK government is aware of what they are doing and are using whatever language they can.
Back in the Facebook app days we had some apps with 2-8mil daily unique users on anywhere from 1-3 devs and team sizes anywhere from 2-5.
As someone who's built a few engines and also worked with third party ones: It really isn't the hard part for a 2D game. High fidelity 3D, different story. But something like Stardew Valley, I'd dare to say custom engine and something like Unity is pretty similar in effort, considering that you need to deal with doing things in the engine's way, which requires workarounds and what not. Bringing it to many platforms gives the engine a head start, but I'd say it's comparable.

Iterating on the game content itself: _Insane_ amounts of effort, in my experience.
Passkeys are in 1Password. I'm authenticated into 1Password on my phone, ipad, browser extension on multiple computers. As long as I don't lose access to all devices at the same time I'm fine...
what do you think about pre-scheme?
I thought it was more for writes, but reading here looks like the index will also help reads
Customers and suppliers can't be held liable for GDPR violations committed by someone else.

The only way the EU could enforce the GDPR on a fully foreign website is to block it.
It's not about looking at the body (in my area at least, funerals usually don't even display the body), it's about grieving and mourning. Or supporting other people who are going through grief and mourning, even if you don't feel it very strongly yourself. My mom died of cancer about a month after lockdown started in 2020 so we couldn't have any kind of service, but we had a "celebration of life" a year later. I'm glad that we did.
AI, Scraping and Legal Thoughts
Ask HN: Why was the fish shell rewritten in Rust instead of Swift?
Wouldn't Swift be fast enough and result in more elegant and shorter source code?
I will do the same thing I did on all of the previous occasions when new automation ate my job: move up the ladder of abstraction and keep on working.

I haven't written any actual code for a couple of decades, after all: I just waffle around stitching together vague, high-level descriptions of what I want the machine to do, and robots write the code for me! I don't even have to manage memory anymore; the robots do it all. The robots are even getting pretty good at finding certain kinds of bugs now. A wondrous world of miracles, it is... but somehow there are still plenty of jobs for us computer-manipulating humans.
Its a lot harder to share the passkey for e.g. your Netflix account among friends.
This is a good long-list of projects, although it is not narrowly scoped to tracing/evals/prompt-management: https://github.com/tensorchord/Awesome-LLMOps?tab=readme-ov-...
Sure. But going back to waterfall isn't going to improve reaction times for anyone. So still only the agile shops survive.
Advertisement has rarely not been a zero sum game. Disposable income will be disposed of and ads exist to influence the direction the money moves.
I have also had "helpful interactions" with the government.

However, I have also had people from the government show up at my door, unannounced, and these were indeed some of the most terrifying experiences of my life.

Talk to other victims of state violence under communism, fascism, imperialism or even modern western democracies and it's quite obvious that this fear is justified.

One way to frame it: "government showing up at your door" has murdered millions (billions?) of people. This is a historical fact. Not opinion. Not anecdote.
Aha, "libraries" instantly made me think about borrowing, not buying. But I suppose there are libraries out there where you can buy books too.
It’s more than you think: if I can convince you to type in your Google password at g00gl3.com I can turn around and use that password for the real server. Passkeys block that attack.
Am I crazy or does the guidelines page not contain the guidelines? https://www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/

Maybe because I’m on mobile?
Putting aside the insanity of rejecting a docs PR on the basis that "it's better for the AI," if their docs AI can't easily express tables yet, there should be a way of telling the user "Hey, this answer contains a table; go [here](https://path.to.docs) to look at it," just like audiobooks do.
„go can’t be taken seriously because it doesn’t have generics” has been a mantra for years before they finally arrived. there must have been a ton of them.
Giant Companies Took Secret Payments to Allow Free Flow of Opioids
Cedric Chin has a great series on this and has done a deep dive into Deming:

https://commoncog.com/becoming-data-driven-first-principles/
I am sympathetic toward the idea. However:

> a company should be required by law to provide their source code to a government agency that holds it in escrow

The reality is that a lot of code can be licensed from third parties, and there's no moral principle by which it would be right to expose and open-source their code.

So I'm really not sure how workable or useful this would actually be.
Naval engagement hasn’t the same negative reputation as gambling
If a country wants to preserve culture over economic gains, that is a choice. India has 1.45B people (as of this comment), I would expect places with lots of people to be pro-immigration, and advocate for (in countries that potentially could accept a lot of immigrants) lots of immigration, if you argued for economic success at all costs. Infosys founder is also advocating for 70 hour work weeks for economic gains, different story same tune: line go up.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/16/asia_tech_news_roundu...

Start at what a country is optimizing for, and work backwards. Line go up is not the end all be all. Tokyo is promoting a 4 day week to improve life for workers to increase the birth rate. Improving living and working conditions domestically is potentially superior to importing immigrants as fuel for a misconfigured economic system.
Konfig founder here, 100% agree. I wouldn't recommend anybody to actually try to decipher/deploy Konfig for their own use. I will say that one of our customers was able to deploy our docs platform for themselves while they find a way to deal with the blowout of Konfig shutting down.
Laws need to change to let people rifle down drones in airspace over their property.
True. But the small outfits tend to get their supplies from big ones, lead is something that can probably be dealt with at supply-chain level.
If no one would publish it no one would do it.

After understanding what "mirror bacteria" is I have one word and that's "Yikes"
Attention is the real estate for ads. The hope is always to steal more attention (time) from your audience that they are giving to things that don't contain ads (sleeping, walking in nature, talking to friends) or your competitors content.
An Educational Programming Language should not be too far removed from mainstream "Industry" languages. Complexity should not be completely hidden while teaching/learning Programming but must be gradually unveiled.

I believe a multiparadigm language with a small "kernel language" to which you progressively add more layers for different paradigms should be the way to teach. The Mozart/Oz language i think shows the way - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_(programming_language)
^This is obviously a tangent, but sure there is, if you consider a hobby to be non-professional activities.

It is trivial to come up with activities that can consume a lot of time, but don't provide financial rewards.
No and you can't. These are features.
Scraping Hotel Data for Investors
What are the main differences between OcamML and a statically typed Lisp?
> We have sort of peaked in how much people's Attention can be milked. In both time and cash. They just don't like talking about it.

This is why the conglomerates consolidation is mentioned, particularly in consumer targeting and data access. In order to ensure efficient targeting to avoid over-indexing on generic, world-wide/national attention, marketers are increasingly turning to consumer data brokers to fine-tune their messaging to niche groups so they can gain more traction with less dollars. By buying these aggregators up, they end up saving money in the long-term and lock out competitors from gaining any competitive advantage of using those data brokers or charging more heavily for the pleasure, thus getting paid on the way in and out.

Regardless of the feelings of those here on HN or those who use adblockers, the rest of the public seems to be largely accepting of marketing and its annoyances. By continued consolidation and aggregation of consumer data, marketing agencies are continuing to find ways to stay relevant and efficient--all until someone fixes the root issue: data collection, sharing, and coalescing of organizations collating these data used for targeting.
I use easy to remember plain text passwords for services that are low risk. It's a spectrum. I'm not concerned about someone hacking into my Hacker News account for example but I am very concerned about someone breaching my bank.
Passkey is a cool marketing name for software emulation of a smart card. Hopefully you already know what a smart card does.
No. If you read the documentation, they only synchronize encrypted data.
> What happens when production outpaces consumption or supply over shoots demand?

Isn't that already happening? No human in our lifetime would be able to consume it all. Or do you mean that the total production would be higher than the total consumption? I'd wager a guess that we're already beyond that as well as one human can easily create content longer than they spent creating it.
Why are you switching between corporations and companies as if they're the same?

I actually do know of a small company that was quite badly screwed over by a vindictive employee who hated her boss, deliberately did not quit because she knew she was about to have another child, got pregnant and then disappeared for a year. Local law makes her unfireable almost regardless of reason (including not actually doing any work), and then gives her three months maternity leave too. So she basically just didn't work for a year. She said specifically she did that to get back at her boss, she didn't care about the company or its employees at all.

For a company of that size something like that can put it in serious financial jeopardy, as they're now responsible for paying a year's salary for someone who isn't there. Also they can't hire a replacement because the law also guarantees the job is still there after maternity leave ends.

> If any of these cases appears to lead to the downfall of a corporation, there were much bigger problems looming that actually caused the failing in the first place.

This kind of thinking has caused ruin throughout history. Companies - regardless of size - aren't actually piñatas you can treat like an unlimited cash machine. Every such law pushes a few more small companies over the edge every year, and then not only does everyone depending on that company lose, but it never gets the chance to grow into a big corporation at all.
Show HN: Marathon Cope 2024 – Your peak fitness, whether or not you ran it
I like to imagine an alternate universe in which all advertising is banned, similar to the way advertising certain products (alcohol, tobacco, medication) is banned in some countries. Sure you can put a sign above the front door of your business, and sure you can buy a slot in the yellow pages, but that's all folks. We'd need different funding models for radio, television and much of the internet, but we're smart, we can figure it out.
In Instagram's case I think it was very clear they were "borrowing from the future": they were accumulating a lot of technical debt and continuing to pile it on. It was not sustainable. The goal was to either hire more or get acquired. When the latter happened, the codebase quickly benefitted from the work of many more Facebook engineers.
Yes we have an early PoC demonstrating significant gains. There are certainly levels of investment where consumption is managed well but that tends to be up to the point and at the DCIM level while we are working more on the compute level.
> https://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-reall...

I wonder what the automatically assigned penalty is for wheresyoured.at? I assume it's quite high.
While one might argue that by bringing down inflation things could improve in the long run, it's not accurate to say that previously "argentinians were facing even higher poverty levels". From the article poverty rates have gotten worse:

> The country’s poverty rate soared 11 points in the first half of 2024 to 53 per cent.
She talks about the story on this podcast episode[1]

[1]https://open.spotify.com/episode/5AGrLoFgkYZ0KxLXBOjbwB
Grammarly Is Acquiring Coda
New chapter in the AI arms race
I mean, you didn’t SAY riding forwards…
This is awesome, I had no idea about my total move count and puzzle stats.

If you're already logged into Lichess, you can go straight to your own recap here:

https://lichess.org/recap
Minecraft?

Not sure how big it was before Notch hired anyone else, but this reddit post encouraging him to hire somebody says he'd "brought in $67,903,100.72"

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/kbiuv/notch_youv...
>> I would assume normal commercial purchase contracts are notarized just because it is so easy to get someone to do it. (I've never been in this process so I wouldn't know, but that would be my guess)

Having been involved in the negotiation and signing of many, many commercial purchase contracts (primarily in the US), I have never seen one be notarized. This includes at three giant publicly-traded companies and at three venture-funded startups.