skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some areas served by SDG&E have community owned power generation and SDG&E handles delivery. The price SDG&E charges for delivery is usually 30% more than generation costs.

Power bills increased after switching to community generated power.
I would say Ada got a lot nicer when Ada 2012 was released, and interest picked up since then. Around the same time, C++ got a lot nicer with the release of C++11.
> He is the president, the population elected him.

That doesn't give him the right to shred the Constitution.

> You have a process to rectify it if you feel so inclined.

A process that the Vice President has said the President is free to ignore.

You're justifying an all-out assault on the Constitution of the US. The President isn't following "the process" - which seems not to concern you in the slightest.
Mastodon / Fediverse
1% is better than a crypto token.

If things go south, no court is going to take some crypto stake in a newly minted coin seriously.

Either you have shares in the company or you don't, maybe they aren't voting shares, but at least they are real from a legal standpoint.

A crypto currency that was made up by the company is way too much of a legal gray area to consider.
The registered company name is Anchor Labs, Inc. and it probably DBAs as Anchorage Digital. The tag line is "crypto bank for institutions" but the registered name does not include 'bank'.

EDIT: Pay attention to comment below. This comment is incomprehensive.
Imagine the chaos if English had a phonetic spelling reformation like Spanish had a while ago...
AI agents will do everything software engineers with few years of experience do
The academic paper this story is based on is here: https://nature.com/articles/s43587-024-00793-y
Despite the linked story title only mentioning omega3, the paper was about 3 interventions, that, vitamin D, exercise and found reduced epigenetic age from the interventionts, with bigger anti-aging benefit as they were combined.

With respect to vitamin D specifically, this isn't by itself good evidence vitamin D reverses aging. But it is consistent with the totality of evidence that being vitamin D deficient probably (causally) speeds aging. And it mildly increases the overall weight of evidence of a connection.

As with much vitamin D research, it would have been better for the intervention to have been titrate vitamin D supplement amount to achieve an optimal target range (eg 30-60ng/ml) rather than using a fixed relative moderate dose (2000IU).

The problem with a fixed dose is that surely some subjects started severely deficient, some mildly, and some had sufficient levels. The moderate but not very high fixed dose will have helped many in the middle group climb out of deficiency, not been enough for many in the 1st group to bring them fully out of deficiency, and been unnecessary for those in the 3rd group, so the study ends up seeing a weaker overall effect averaged over all subjects. This is well known within the vitamin D world, eg see https://x.com/KarlPfleger/status/1732514710715514883, but somehow has not permeated to be widely enough understood, even within the scientific community (or the Hacker News community).

For an extensive list of papers supporting a link between vitamin D and speed of aging, see https://x.com/KarlPfleger/status/1390717755158974464
LLMs CAN read minds. Whether it can’t read minds is not provable.

Literally I invite people to post prompts and correct answers to ChatGPT where it is trivially impossible for it to have known what number you were thinking of. Every one of those examples falsifies the claim that LLMs can’t read minds.
I doubt it if everyone is leaving mega tech corps at 30-40 years old nearly ready to retire.
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I totally understand.

And so many tech bros misunderstand. Its not a problem with the tools and its not the money. Artists have extensive experience going hungry. So have I. I doubt many tech bros and technocrats know what starving feels like. Real hunger. But I digress.

Its how the tech is being wielded. Its not just: can the robot imitate a nice picture. Its: artists are deprecated.

And it mistakes artifice and artifact for art as a practice, and so conveniently cannot process any information about the subject beyond that final conclusion.

None of this is hidden or arcane stuff, but effort has to be made to learn new perspectives… kind of like how the world has readily adopted new technology.

What should be a reciprocal exchange is rapidly turning one sided and tyrannical.

Woe be the future where any such single-minded ignorance takes absolute control (as is the current missive emerging out of SV at present)

See Yarvin’s missive as adopted by so many VC’s in the current political plays. The way the tech is being wielded is all about power. Forced power over others.
https://graymirror.substack.com/p/the-butterfly-revolution
France and EU promise to cut red tape on tech
> How do I know they will be worth anything when the company exits?

They won’t be worth anything. Equity isn’t perfect, but it offers at least the bare minimum of legal protections. Any crypto token will just be ignored by the acquirer (or any present or future company leadership) and you’ll have no legal standing.
By and large, don't do something that you just hate unless that's your only option. But if you can find something you mostly like (and that's a pretty reasonable bar) for pretty good money, that's not a bad target.
So I won't go into too much detail given the nature of the forum, but beyond the complete change in tone that Jackson brought to the presidency, something that Trump is also routinely criticized for, prior to Andrew Jackson we had an entirely different banking system.

He engaged in a conflict with the central bank overseeing national finances and banking and vetoed the bill renewing its charter, in part because he perceived the bank as supporting his political opponents. It still had four years to go, but the next year he unilaterally pulled all federal deposits from the bank, putting them in smaller state banks. This crippled the Second Bank of the United States with no Congressional approval or oversight. In fact, he was officially censured by the Senate for doing it.

Some other similarities in tone or type:

Jackson wasn't initially taken seriously as a presidential candidate - he was a political outsider and "a man of the people." He thought the federal government was corrupt and against him. This feeling was not helped by his winning the popular vote in the election of 1824 but it being taken away by the electoral college and ultimately decided by the House of Representatives in a "corrupt bargain."

He basically replaced his entire cabinet because of a conflict between the wives of his cabinet members and the wife of his chief of staff, who had married the widow of another cabinet member after a rumored affair and that member's subsequent suicide.

He had a "kitchen cabinet" of unofficial and unappointed advisors who had extremely significant power in the Federal government, such as Martin Van Buren (who would later become VP), John Overton, and Francis Blair (Editor of the Washington Globe), including some of the richest people in the country at the time - some of whom were bankers, by the way, and directly benefited from the destruction of the 2nd National Bank.

He criminally investigated his presidential predecessor's staff, alleging (and allegedly finding) corruption.

He was accused of being a dictator and a despot, and rattled his saber against Europe, almost going to war with France.

He nominated and successfully appointed completely unqualified judges.

We didn't have the current system of executive agencies until the latter half of the twentieth century, but if we did Jackson would probably have dismantled it.

A couple of books I liked about this era are:
The Birth of Modern Politics - https://archive.org/details/birthofmodernpol00lynn

American Lion by Jon Meacham
The role of founding engineer is generally a rip-off if the salary isn't market rate. If you're not an actual founder, my advice is to ignore the equity entirely, try your best to get market rate, and look at the opportunity as a means to grow. If you can't get close to market rate or you're not breaking into some hard-to-reach industry/vertical that will help your career, then keep moving.
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Actually, some of the Big4 has a partner model where you can buy in if you are promoted to partner level
Old news or not, the fact that my hardware could have backdoors in it concerns me, and I use a Pixel phone. These things are the ideal spying devices.
You said the same thing as thing you quoted, so what issue do you have?
Speak for yourself please dang
That's because online doesn't usually check the names, just the numbers. They wouldn't know unless you called in and told them, such as in case of an error.
Why? So the game can have adds?
> The selling point of Ada is that it's been around for a long time and many vendors already have established compilers and tools with all appropriate certifications and qualifications done for all sorts of industries.

This makes it sound like the field is dominated by proprietary/closed-source tooling. That is a huge red flag for the health of the language if true.
What OS are you running on that B&W? I have Mac OS X Server 1.23 on mine, basically Rhapsody and basically OPENSTEP.
Stop taking the deals :) The problem is engineers are usually risk adverse, and that's taken advantage of. Your skills are far more valuable than you think. Charge what you're worth
Yes, it is certainly an abandonment of all strategy, including realpolitik!
I hate to be That Guy, but I strongly suspect the article authors would categorize the very idea of being concerned about the value of the tokens as an irrational fear of crypto. Dilution and contracts are tradfi concerns - what you're meant to understand is that crypto tokens will always go up when their associated projects do well, as a law of the universe.
> Early accounts depict him as being both very tall and strong having a big head

The article, on the other hand, makes a point that the skull is quite small… (which seems to be the principal argument for the rather slim reconstruction)

At this point, it's probably really more a case of iconography (which, for the most, features Aquinas as one of the most prominent portly men in history) than of actual history. But, I think, any concepts or notions guiding the reconstruction should have been provided, and I'm kind of missing these.
See also: jumbo-, hyper-, micro-, nano-, mini-, uber-.

I'm sure there are more but I haven't done enough crossword puzzles lately to be on top of my game.
I assume this whole thing is Linux based? (Not that Linux is bad, just it does take a bit of time to boot.)
Wouldn't that warrant a reaction from the EU then? I haven't seen any.
On the other hand, what difference does it make if the greater fool is a dentist’s brokerage account or a dentist’s crypto exchange account? The price of the thing is as imaginary in both scenarios.
lol how the sarcasm was lost on hackernews
Makes me think about all these underwater horror games: Soma, bioshock, subnautica...
Do some research about Boeing over the last decade.

They are full of “real Engineers”
> Generally we offer between 5% stake on the low end to 25% or more on the high end to the first few engineering hires.

How many "25%" stakes _do_ you have....?
I agree, which is why most people aren't just taking the drug. They're using the drug to help improve overall health, from better eating, reduced obesity related issues (joints/sleep/metabolism) and are able to start getting healthier. It's not a magic bullet, but it's a significant leg up.
From my point of view, I make 400k right now with 7 years of experience at a large tech company. I could reasonably retire in a year or two at my current level of expenses. I could probably make the next level with a fair bit of work in something like 3 to 4 years from now and expect to make somewhere between 500k to 600k, but to me that doesn't seem to seriously change my life trajectory (this is only a bump of 70-140k after tax). Without devoting to something like 10 to 20 more years of working and becoming a director or something similarly soul sucking, I don't see a route where I could reasonably have much more than say 10 million 10 years from now.

So I've thought about saving up enough to comfortably retire, and then going to work in a more risky company for the chance to get a life changing amount of equity (something more than single digit millions). I don't know that I will though, because the odds are seriously bad.
Also "napkin" (from nappe, old for "tablecloth"). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napkin#Etymology_and_terminolo...
Where is that the case? Middle click copies the selection and right click pastes on every terminal emulator I use.
Or just investments in an index fund. I know someone who mad a pretty big pile of money at a company and he told me that he could have done a lot better than angel investing. He still does some--but only companies he particularly believes in.
The first image that came to my mind was the $1 bill. There is what looks like a pyramid which has an eye in a pyramid for a cusp
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I stupidly googled the topic. The quotation wasnt found, but the concept exists.
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https://www.worldhistory.org/ziggurat/
<<In the Uruk Period, the high priest was also the ruler of the city whose authority came directly from the patron god that watched over it. Scholar Marc van de Mieroop writes:
At the top of the Uruk society stood a man whose powers derived from his role in the temple. Hence, scholars often call him a "priest-king." At the bottom of the social ladder of the temple dependents were the people involved in production, both agricultural and otherwise.>>
Disclaimer: I work for Polars inc.

As a sanity check I just cloned https://github.com/h2oai/db-benchmark, ran the data generation script and ran on a 64 core AMD EPYC (AWS c7a.16xlarge):

import polars as pl
lf = pl.scan_csv("G1_1e9_1e2_0_0.csv")
print(lf.select(pl.col.v1.sum()).collect())

The above script ran in 7.58 seconds.

If I change the collect() to collect(new_streaming=True) to use the new streaming engine I've been working on, it runs in 6.90 seconds.

I can't realistically time the full "read CSV to memory" with this 50 GB file on this machine as we start swapping (this machine has 128GiB memory) and/or evicting data from disk cache (this machine has a slow EC2 SSD attached to it), so we do have a blow-up of memory usage (which could be as simple as loading small integers into an 8-byte Uint64 column). I think it's likely that on K's machine the "read full CSV to memory" approach also started swapping, giving the large runtime. However, in Polars you'd typically write your query using LazyFrames, which means we don't actually have to load the full CSV into memory.

EDIT: running on a m7a.16xlarge with twice the memory (256GiB) once the CSV file is in disk cache Polars can parse the full CSV file into an in-memory dataframe in 7.68 seconds.

K's claim that it parses the full 50GB CSV in 1.6 seconds if true is very impressive regardless.
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> a lot of people don't realize Harry is a nickname

Does no one know Shakespeare any more?

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'
Kinda related but less happy end. IIRC there was no difference between Voodoo graphics cards for PC and Mac and they could be used interchangeably. When Nvidia entered the scene they decided they wanted more money and made Mac specific BIOSs and ATI followed suit.

I know quite a few people that have paid more for "Mac" USB hard drives where the only difference is the format out of the box and maybe some junk software they never used.
Why can't Windows hibernate just one process? (2004)
There are two companies here. "Anchorage Digital Bank, National Association" is the "bank" with the OCC charter. "Anchor Labs, Inc.", who confusingly labels their service as "Anchor Digital", has a relationship with the former, and the article hints at some form of obscured ownership.
FetchFox is inventing a new model for Founding Engineer compensation. Our goal is to solve the problems with the current model from above: disproportionate stake, and improbable liquidity.
That's a good point. When I joined a startup as the 6th person, I was a college student working part-time freelance gigs and making maybe $30k. The startup was initially a freelance client, they offered to take me on as an employee for $40k part-time / $80k when I could work full time. They gave me some tiny amount of equity, probably less than 1%; it turned out to be worthless. But everything else was a significant improvement: I no longer had to juggle multiple clients and haggle to get paid, I got health insurance, and I had more money in my pocket.
Flow with What You Know
Afaik, he lives in Japan, so that could be the correct date.
Only 6500 years? That's incredibly recent for such an influential language. For comparison, Sargon of Akkad died only 4000 years ago, and there are written records from him. True, he didn't speak Indo-European, but Afroasiatic/Akkadian, and that was the language on those cuneiform tablets the researchers used for reference.

On a tangent, with the advent of AI and the final decades of our species, we should make more clay tablets to leave lying around...
Nice!

I'm working on something similar but aimed at visualizing GPS tracks, e.g. for hiking and biking:
https://cubetrek.com/view/6638

Let's share some notes, if you're interested! Code is open source: https://github.com/r-follador/CubeTrek/
> For example, the regular payment of funds from a grant could be set up as an Ethereum smart contract.

Not clear to me what problem this solves- but the result would be so incredibly kafkaesque that I can actually see it happening.
(fetchfox CEO here)

I have a few pragmatic reasons why I want to use a crypto token, instead of traditional instruments.

The first one is liquidity timing. With a crypto token, you can have 24/7 trading and liquidity from basically day 1. There is no need for second markets with high fees and complicated process. Just a 10 second Uniswap contract.

Second, you don't need to "manage a cap table". The token trades and moves freely on the blockchain, permissionlessly for anyone who wants to use it.

I have a long article at https://ortutay.substack.com/p/the-computer-science-case-for... about why I think crypto rails are fundamentally better than the current banking system, from a computer science perspective.

The best example is how money transfers work in the current banking system. A money transfer is the canonical example of why you need transactions in a database: you want to deduct money from person A only of you successfuly transfer money to person B. But guess what: this is never executed as an actual atomic transaction, because A and B are usually at separate banks, in separate DB's.

Compare this to the blockchain: every single transfer is an atomic, universally auditable transaction. If you ignore all the noise and scams in crypto, this just makes 10x more sense to me as an engineer.

FetchFox as a company has two goals:

(1) Make the best possible AI scraper
(2) Prove that crypto tokens are viable and better alternative to traditional company structures

It's lame that so much crypto stuff is caught up in scams that obscure the underlying value.
That is the moment I completely lost interest in the article.
While I agree with some points, crypto solution seems horrible. Just give them non voting shares, why do this crypto nonsense?

That said to play the devils advocate, the founding engineer can always leave the company when he wants while the founder is generally expected to sink or swim with the company. If the founding engineer could sign a contract that forced him to work for the 4 year time period, if he refused to work, he would get arrested etc then I suspect his compensation would be much higher. But of course such contracts are illegal
Nope, that sounds great!
In light of the recent events, is it time to ask what else is the update delivering?
There are lots of such cases and they are famous, this is where the "two tier kier" nickname comes from. For example, Hamoud Al Soaimi who took part in the group rape of a 15 year old girl and also a 12 year old girl, was sentenced to 180 hours of community service:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-68446855

versus Daniel Kingsley, a plasterer, who was sentenced to 21 months in prison for posting on Facebook:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c703e03w243o

Or compare Shaun Tuck, jailed for 15 weeks for posting comments online, versus Victoria Bowen who assaulted an MP (Farage) by throwing a milkshake at him, who wasn't jailed at all. There have been an endless parade of such cases. If you aren't aware of them it's because you get your news from sources who don't want you to know.

> What weird way?

They didn't take votes from the opposition. The right chose to withhold their votes in order to try and force a reset on the Conservatives, in some places abstention by those voters reached 50%.

For a party to win because the opposing party destroys its own base isn't normal. Normally the bases are stable and swing voters decide an election. This one was very different. That's why Labour were able to win despite getting fewer votes than they did under Corbyn.
I think this is just subject to normal market forces and very product dependent?

If you have engineering skills that are not easily found, then you can ask for more. If the founders don't give it to you, then they might not be able to build their idea.

If the product do not require niche or sophisticated engineering, then the founder will just move on to the hordes of candidates that can do the job.

I don't think "fairness" can be intrinsic (nor objective) in a market-driven economy. It's always going to be a push-pull, negotiation, calculating business. And you disenfranchise yourself out of this economy if you don't have the stomach for it.
The other pronunciation that drives the Brits crazy is that Bucket is pronounced Boo-Kay.
You've sub-optimized and you are too young to know it.

Also you are very likely to be laid off or pushed out before you get to the goals you think are so obvious.
US people typically want numbers translated into American football fields it seems. So around 39,000 football fields an hour might be more obvious.
> there are no Indo-European inscriptions from this time period nor would there be any until several millennia after this time

That's a very negative presumptions.

How about the oldest attestation of Indo-European language or the long extinct language Hittite who once lived in Bronze age Anatolian Steppe? The language is attested in cuneiform, in records dating from the 17th to the 13th centuries BCE.

Hittite people created an empire centred on Hattusa, and also around northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia [1].

[1] Hittite language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittite_language
False equivalence. "Nothing is perfectly unreliable, therefore everything is (broadly) unreliable, therefore everything is equally unreliable." No, some sources are substantially more reliable than others.