skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm willing to concede the highest paid engineers are almost by definition doing their opportunity costs math.

I'm willing to also bet that most people do not do a lot of opportunity costs math.

But as your example points out, like mine, maybe this whole idea of top paid engineers not getting paid, or even taking those jobs isn't a thing as much as we might imagine.

"Uber ... but for walking your cat" might offer far less than 220k, but they also don't need that guy might be offering more lateral move type people / money.
The term "linear scaling" was invented by cloud companies to sell more cloud.
Only one I can think of these days are when kids call their parents something liked 'Daddykins'. But obviously there are words where it's now part of the word in it's own right today like 'napkin' or 'catkin'
Off topic but on your home page https://fetchfox.ai/ the wider your screen the fewer 'Our Happy Users' anecdotes you get. Somewhere around 2400px the number goes to zero.
This provides very little benefit over pasting into chatGPT at the moment. As someone who also has an autoimmune illness and has been heavily leveraging AI tools, you need extremely clever reasoning to get the challenging cases solved, and anythign below that is just paste-able into AI.
The former. My own personal view on taxes: (especially income and property tax) neither the rich nor the poor should ever pay them. So in my view it does not matter to whom it benefits the most - most likely it is going to benefit everybody musk included, I suspect though It will also mostly benefit the less well off people in society. Perhaps the most important question to ask is not who will gain - rather who stands to lose? My answer would be the career bureaucrats.
This is a weird comment, are you a supporter of eugenics? Are you also implying that your own genetics are subpar and that you are surprised they are doing well with the parents they have? I'm not sure how else to read that last line
Of course, this is by no means historic evidence, it's more an example of the common notion of his appearance – and, admittedly, a rather extreme one.

(And, as already mentioned, Umberto Eco kind of made fun of the semblance.)

Regarding Ovid's name, I think, there was kind of a joy in circular evidence, more for aesthetic reasons than others. Compare, "artifex generale nomen vocatur quod artem faciat" (Isidore), or the notion that the lion indeed obscures its tracks by wiping its path by its wagging tail, because the lion is thus the example of Christianity preserving its secrets from its pagan enemies. There's a medieval joy, even satisfaction, in closures and folds, like this.
"and lifestyle intervention". You're supposed to use the drugs to help you get healthy, then stay healthy yourself once you've re-set.

Yes, people will probably have to bounce on and off them, but that's not the same as a lifelong addiction.

Not sure what your beef is, they work, they're helping millions get healthier and live longer.
Maybe not fully ergonomic yet, but this exists today (at least for max):

https://docs.rs/nonmax/latest/nonmax/

If you're really attached to it being min you'd have to copy that library.

Edit to add: we actually use these in one of my main Rust codes; they're useful, but I'm not sure they're so useful I'd want them built into the language.
My thought is that it's not great in absolute terms but reasonably ok in relative terms. Any thread on a topic this intense is going to have a lot of qualities that aren't good-for-HN.

We do some moderation things to try to nudge it in a more reflective/interesting direction, but there's a limit to how much that can help.
Thanks for giving it a try! Definitely a lot of work to be done and many more features to come. Any specific things you'd like to see?
If you were on the early internet talking to someone about music or woodworking or whatever, you could reasonably assume they were a tech person because it was not simple to get online. It took a minute for it to spread.
I thought it was going to be a cruise without baby boomers. No such luck.
Dilution does happen, but in good companies, it's not as cynically done as you're describing it. Earlier investors usually demand safeguards to prevent this.
IMO it's not sensitivity analysis in the classical sense because the explanations people are looking for are not about slight perturbations of the model, but usually more drastic ones. I found that, for example, the dual of an ILP is completely useless for explanation purposes. Stuff like "shadow prices" are just not relevant for complex formulations that model supply chain dynamics.

If there is useful theory here, I'd love to hear about it, but it's not in any textbooks I've read.
You’re right that my argument depends upon there being a great physical distinction between brains and H100s or enough water flowing through troughs.

But since we knew properties of wings were major comments to flight dating back to beyond the myths of Pegasus or Icarus, we rightly connected the similarities in the flight case.

Yet while we have studied neurons and know the brain is apart of consciousness, we don’t know their role in consciousness like the wing’s for flight.

If you got a bunch if daisy chained brains and that started doing what LLMs do, I’d change my tune—because the physical substrates are now similar enough. Focusing on neurons, and their facsimilized abstractions, may be like thinking flight depending upon the local cellular structure of a wing, rather than the overall capability to generate lift, or any other false correlation.

Just because an LLM and a brain get to the same answer, doesn’t mean they got there the same way.
> There is a base package of employee shares you get upon being hired.

Where do these shares come from? Do you dilute the pool? Will people who are no longer part of the company (but are still partial owners) want their ownership pool diluted? If so, how fast can you grow before they start saying no?

> The investment portion would be separate from the base package as part of adding the investor-employee to the company.

Where does that money come from? Employee stock ownership plans where money is taken from their salary?

How much has to be invested before they feel like owners?

And again, where do these shares come from? Is there a market? Is the share pool diluted? If dilution occurs, what’s the mechanism for this?
> Also, don't hire a college kid to build your MVP. That's a big enough red flag right there.

That seems like a pretty big generalization. I can think of several going concerns where a college kid might have not only written the MVP, but actually what they have in prod. There are tech plays out there where the tech part is embarrassingly easy, the tricky bit is the politics of getting the contract(s).

Example: signing up certain populations for government benefits. Sometimes there's a nice cut to be made and it doesn't take much more than a couple of online forms. The hard part is recognizing the opportunity then getting the deal inked, not the implementation.
Proposal for WASI Cryptography APIs
The company certificate is put on the server. Manually, the sysadmin generates the user key signed by certificate and sends it to them. Or the self-serve system generates it and they download it.

The user uses the SSH key as normal. The server checks that if key is signed.

The self-serve system uses the single-sign-on system for the company. The SSH server can't do SSO, maybe can do LDAP, but it is giant annoyance to set it up. A lot SSH use assumes that using key and doesn't support username/password.
Per The Richter Scales, 17 frickin' years ago:

Hire yourself an engineer,
Feed him pizza, buy him beer,
Give him just a fraction of a fraction of the pie.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I

Let's face it folks, the party was doomed to only last a short while before the managerial class took over.
You have to wonder if the only reason the iPhone 16 isn’t included in this article, is because the article was written before the iPhone 16 existed.
A proper LLM will include realistic rates of typos eventually. ;)
Gyroscope-on-a-Chip Targets GPS's Dominance
Both schools have a great reputation, however Stanford is clearly superior. Berkeley is, at the end of the day, a public school, and so it’s lumped together with other top public schools like UT Austin or U Mich. Stanford, on the other hand, is a globally recognized private university and more often compared to MIT
See also: Nick Carr's book, "The Shallows."
Does anyone actually use Siri?
You and I don't have a meeting of the minds for what a founding engineer is. I understand it to be the first, non-cofounder, salaried engineer. This is the highest-equity receiving engineer-focused early employee. They should be getting a market-ish for a startup salary. In this day and age, in the US, it's probably 150-180k + 1% equity + healthcare.

If you are not making a salary / a well below market rate salary (50k for an engineer), you are a co-founder, not a co-founding engineer.
> Then I'll come up with a prompt such that the answer can only be arrived at via reasoning.

Dude, if you can formulate a question and prove an answer absolutely requires "reasoning" (defined how?) then you should drop everything and publish a paper on it immediately.

You'll have plenty of time to use your discovery to poke at LLMs after you secure your worldwide fame and recognition.
I re-read the top-level comment and don’t see where the “hates the work” assumption is coming from. Or is expecting to be compensated fairly for effort a form of hating work?
check here https://review.video.fosdem.org/overview
His todo list includes working with Boeing to speed up delivery of Air Force One
If you have proven yourself indispensable then it definitely can via additional grants.
Your memory is faulty.

Let's take a trip back to 1992.

In 1992, unless you were rich you had a $2,000 386SX-33 sourced from parts out of the back of Computer Shopper magazine.

Here is a 386SX-33 running Windows 3.1 (1992) launching WordPerfect for Windows 5.2 (1992) a perfect representation of what a normal, typical, average person in 1992 would have as a PC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYjrX2P4iY4

WordPerfect takes 45 seconds just to start. You dropped $350 on an ATI Wonder that has hardware acceleration of Windows 3.1 video calls just to get smooth window moving and resizing.

What about a 486? Lol you didn't have a 486, those were for CAD workstations and servers. You had a 386.

Three years later, lusting after Windows 95 and frustrated with slow performance, you shell out ANOTHER $2,000 on a Pentium 75 with 8MB of ram and a 528MB hard drive.

Sure, with the lower FSB that means you're less than half the performance of a Pentium 133 despite having 56% the clock, but you're a regular person with regular person money.

Windows 95 takes over a minute to boot, Space Cadet Pinball takes 15 seconds to launch, and you buy City Streets for Windows which takes 3-5 seconds to redraw its viewport every single time you reposition the map.

From the day you could first afford a PC you chased upgrades: more ram, a hard drive with a higher rotational speed and bigger cache, holy crap they can do 3d in hardware now, can I afford a 256kB COAST module?

Then one day, in about 2011-2012 that all stops. Sandy Bridge. SSDs. Now you only upgrade every 4-6 years: when performance doubles or windows stops supporting your CPU or you drop your laptop and break it.
There are plenty of self-taught people in the open source space making highly reliable software.
I wonder if we can invent a new convention, of compacting last names. So, if John Richards and Mary Jones have a child, they can give it the last name… Jords. Or Richnes. It only really needs to go out for four or so generations anyway, at which point the folks who have a really strong attachment to the name will be dead. Plus the middle names provides a slot to put your family tree’s most famous name anyway.
Same here actually! https://cooltrainer.org/images/original/michiru-rhapsody-201...

I love it as a bridge machine — New World but with ADB and an oldschool serial port (from GeeThree, replacing the built-in modem). I use it as a jack of all trades and have partitions to boot 8.6, 9.2, MOSXS 1.2, Tiger, Leopard (mine has a G4).
Searching for a Co-Founder in US
Hi guys,

I’m reaching out because I’m looking for a co-founder in the U.S. to build my next AI startup. I currently live in Amsterdam and have already built my first startup here, but this time I want to take a different approach—starting in the U.S. with the right team from day one.

I have a strong vision for an AI-driven solution and am eager to connect with ambitious, technical founders who share the same drive. Given YC’s network and expertise in helping founders connect, I’d love to know if you can offer any guidance or introductions.

Looking forward to your thoughts!
khos

+31629742896
k.golzad@gmail.com
Founding Engineer Equity is broken but hear me out what if we broke it even more ... come on
AI Reveals Hidden Interior Design Rules of the Cell
> I've seen this alternate nickname scheme in a family that reused women's names down the line

I've been doing a smidge of genealogy lately, and my dad's side of the family is full of this kind of stuff. They have a tradition of first son takes dad's dad's name, first daughter takes dad's mom's name, second son takes dad's uncle's name, etc. Not a lot of middle names. My great grandmother's maiden name is the exact same as her mother's married name, although some records have a shortened form, mostly for my GGM, but sometimes for my GM. For my kid, we tried to look around and pick a name that wasn't super common, but also not unique; I think we did well with the whole name, but there were three of his first name in kindergarten; thankfully with different last names, but the initial of their last names were sequential!
The problem is the overhead of government is even worse.
POSIX doesn't have any of that.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/

"I got used to fish and vi mode which are not available when I ssh into servers, containers."

POSIX does mention vi mode as an optional feature.

"Allow shell command line editing using the built-in vi editor. Enabling vi mode shall disable any other command line editing mode provided as an implementation extension. This option shall be supported if the system supports the User Portability Utilities option."
Why shouldn't a startup engineer earn more than an engineer at Google? Think about it, they take much much more risk. Their comp can go to zero. It's not liquid like a google engineer. Also they are creating something net-new that can benefit society in the long run. We want, as a society, to reward people for taking those kinds of risks!

In other words, we need more startup engineers and less google engineers.
I don't know the details for I am but a simple engineer. But using a government RHEL system a couple years ago, middle clock universally pasted whatever I had highlighted with the cursor. Didn't matter what program I was copying into or out of.

I mostly used this to copy paste from a terminal into a COTS GUI tool, or from that tool into the OpenOffice (or maybe LibreOffice, I don't recall) spreadsheet program whatever that's called.

Honestly it was incredibly useful and probably saved me collective hours over the few years I worked there

Obviously this thread is about terminals, but the functionality does exist in some places
>absolutely zero corruption/fraud.

The correct amount of fraud is not Zero.

Maybe the world is just too complicated for you to understand? Are you just throwing a petty tantrum? Does that really result in a better, stronger US?
Well, they don't have to be employees. It's not for everyone, if you don't want a crypto token compensation, Fetchfox is not the right company for you to work for.
Could you elaborate on the existential dread? What causes it exactly?
I cashed a check the other day with my name but it had the wrong address (at least an address my bank is not aware of). I asked google real quick - panicking it wouldn't go through. Google's AI came up and immediately told me to get the check re-issused, go through all this crazy hassle. First result after that, and all the results basically said - you'll be fine.

The check is cashed, and went through just fine. They only care about the name.

LLMs are bullshit machines for sure. That doesn't mean they have no value, but they can be wrong.
GKE cross region capacity chasing
* Splitting large enumerated types into smaller ones

* Using the same range for arrays indexes, "for" loops parameters which index those arrays. In those cases a good compiler removes the useless run-time checks!

Ada range types can have bounds that are known only at run-time. It was not possible with Pascal.

To see subtypes in action: another FOSDEM presentation:

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5148-adve...
So you want to scale up a new venture with (potentially) risky, low wage talent? That sounds like a bad bargain. I would wage that there's not that many interesting "uber for windows" companies, versus those with at least a modicum of challenging problems. And one of the biggest challenges is managing software complexity at scale, which is almost inevitable in a software startup.

I get that the typical $220k dev probably has a different mindset than the one you'd look to when building a new company. That said, I've focused most of my career on being the 2-5th employee and helping guide startups to viability. I've been able to do that while still pulling in reasonable $$ and hours to make my lifestyle work.

Maybe this alternate model is gone now with the credit crunch, but it does seem like we're missing out on a workable yet oddly unpopular approach here.
The return of the buffalo is reviving portions of the ecosystem
Will fix it shortly, the CSS / Javascript on that is a little buggy. I wanted to make neat visual effect but it breaks in a lot of cases.
If you've got evidence the curves are flattening lets all see it. Otherwise it actually does make sense to update when everyone at these companies tells you they aren't flattening and might even be bending upward.
I have a set of multiple given names, each of them given by a godfather. In our tradition and law they are equal because treating one of them specially is insulting to the godfathers (which you caught me guilty of).

If given name or surname comes first is regional. Where I come from (Bavaria) traditionally the surname comes first, so even by that metric I wouldn't have a first name.

Source:

Die Reihenfolge der Vornamen stellt keine Rangfolge dar. Nach höchstrichterlicher Rechtsprechung (BGH, Beschluss vom 15. April 1959 – IV ZB 286/58) steht es in Deutschland dem Namensträger frei, zwischen seinen standesamtlich eingetragenen Namen zu wählen.

[..]

Die in der Geburtsurkunde eingetragenen Vornamen dürfen von den Namensträgern im privaten Rechts- und Geschäftsverkehr nach Belieben genutzt werden und sind gleichberechtigt.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorname_(Deutschland)
Can the human body endure a voyage to Mars?
> not the creepy one by sleep8

What are you referring to?
x.com and app haven't been buggy for me. I also haven't seen an increase in neo-nazi content. Maybe this is true for the people you follow?
Anthropic pivoting to doing economics? Seems about as legit as most economics

Probably an overall smart move, since claiming to be doing economics sometimes leads to being positioned to make policy favorable to oneself
If you're comfortable sharing, what is your job/role, how does Kagi help with that (or is it more of a personal tool), and do you find it more helpful than something like Google + Claude (what I currently use and love)?
I had a conversation with my friend. "Look at this new, incredible CPU cooler tech! It's sooo good at removing heat."

"What if you didn't generate the heat in the first place?"

Personally, I have a hypothesis that there are systemic areas we need to address in our food supply to lower healthcare demand. This will sound kooky, but if we can get more sulfur and trace minerals into the food supply, we could improve the general well-being of massive amounts of the population. We really need to look at doing more research into additionally fortifying our foods.

Here's a nature article on the reduction of sulfur from the food supply: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00172-0

NPK farming has ensured that the food supply doesn't have a rich set of additional minerals outside of (N)itrogen, (P)hosphorous and (K)potassium.

Then when looking at sulfur-containing molecules, the research on them tends to herald them as miracle-health molecules: MSM Taurine, B1, NAC. All bring sulfur into the body.

Then there's companies like Buoy drops that offer 87 different trace minerals and folks are swearing by the effects of them. Asian countries consume things like seaweed and get trace minerals like this from the the sea water, but a the standard american diet is really lacking in a lot of additional nutrition that would be productive to health.
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41377960
$ echo --help
--help
$ type echo
echo is a shell builtin
> From what I understand, if the genetic lineage is particularly elite, you might keep more.

You mean like Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
Correct, but they could be cross-flashed: https://web.archive.org/web/20060511060609/http://homepage.m...

I have also cross-flashed a PCI Radeon 9200 but it needed a larger flash chip to hold the larger ROM image.
Deep House Techno – open-source music
https://archive.ph/jVyEU
If you have written multithreaded C# code which encountered deadlocks, race conditions and had to build a mental model of which thread is responsible for what and currently "owns" a resource and is allowed to modify them... then you already kind of know a bunch of things implicitly that rust makes explicit and can transfer that knowledge.

At least that's how things clicked for me when I came from Java and I already had to debug lots of concurrent code before.

Similarly, if one has fought with a garbage collector and thought about efficient memory representations, where things get allocated and deallocated that transfers to some extent.

If you have been living blissfully in effectively-single-thread-land, then yeah, there'll be a bunch of new concepts to digest.
Hard not to feel that most of this research has been lost on the modern practitioner? I'd wager even money that a sizeable portion of new entrants to programming are not even aware of optimization techniques. Never mind if they are familiar with them.

Nor is this limited to optimization techniques. State machines are surprisingly ignored by many.

Makes me think this would be a fun post. What are the techniques that are basically ignored by most current discourse?
> the # people that find comfy fulfilling jobs is less than 5% and are all nepotism

Can you cite any source that might back this up?
Efficient GPU Resource Management for ML Workloads Using SkyPilot, Kueue on GKE
I believe you, but it would be nice if you called out the exact vendors that do that, for others to be cautious. It's not like their pricing is under NDA, right?
You forgot to account for the likelihood that 1% is liquid at any point with a valuation close to or higher than the current one.
I was about 180lbs by the end of highschool, and I was one of the fattest kids in my class. Not to the point that I was given fat kid nicknames or openly mocked, but I was almost always the fattest kid in any given group. Picked last for teams in gym class, chuckled-at when trying to do pullups for the Presidential Physical Fitness Test.

Now I'm 260lbs and fat by any standard. What I wouldn't give to be 180lbs again.
Yeah because if they explained that synthetic data causes model collapse, their stock valuation would shrink.