skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to engage in your bad-faith trolling. Make a substantial comment. Compare Trump's response with other world leaders, other countries, and medical advisors' recommendations, and what you'd hope an ideal leader would do, leave me out of it, I'm not a part of a government's COVID response.
This study is about prehistoric Steppe peoples, there are no Indo-European inscriptions from this time period nor would there be any until several millennia after this time.
$500 to Stripe Atlas, and you can own 100% of a company!
Al Founder's Plan to Buy Out His Own VCs
Buying out VCs with debt having earned $15 million profit on $134 million revenue last year. Interesting...

Unpaywalled version: https://www.smry.ai/proxy?url=https:/www.forbes.com/sites/ia...
Some of you have overestimated your contributions, and underestimated your blessings.
The more he writes, the better. All of it is worth reading.
Eh, no need. Author states in the first two paragraphs that there are 9 versions of k, each developed from scratch and incompatible with each other. Anyone who develops software for money should and would leave immediately. I do appreciate the honesty, though.
The fact that it’s morally wrong (and IMHO objectively evil) does not mean that it wouldn’t be an efficient policy purely from a strict utilitarian angle. Assuming we could actually identify the genetic markers that signal a higher likelihood of preferable traits even if on the whole it would only be e.g. 80% accurate that might still be useful. Individual outliers could just be ignored at minimal cost.
Vulkan does that with `void* pNext` in a lot of its structs so that they can be extended in the future.
By interleaved I mean that cases and controls were not each in their own run batches, but ideally run A ,B, A, B,
Yes ComBat can some of the batch effect if sample sizes are large enough. But here as you point out they are on thin ice.
A while ago, my wife and I were invited to the Royal Garden Party at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, in the presence of the late Queen. Very nice invitation in the form of Mr <me> and Mrs <me>.

As it was in recognition of my wife’s charitable works, She was not pleased at such a form of address. But we still went.
Is there another language out there which encodes lifetime semantics and affine types besides Rust? AFAIK there isn't (happy to hear otherwise though).
I have an autoimmune disorder and so does my wife (getting her diagnosis, the same as yours incidentally, took years). Don't tell me I have no idea how it feels just because I don't agree with you.
Sounds like "My Canadian girlfriend"
While I get the sentiment, you can still be a software engineer and enjoy a very, very comfortable life. It’s okay to not become a distinguished engineer.

Among my friends I count teachers, office workers and lawyers. My compensation to work required ratio compares very favourably to all of them (though in the long term I suspect my lawyer friends will win there…)
That depends on how you define confirmed diagnosis and false positives. For a lot of autoimmune conditions there's no real solid diagnostic criteria. Like the patient has a variety of symptoms which could indicate a few different conditions. The doctor suspects it might be lupus so treats for that and the patient's symptoms seem to improve. Does that mean the patient should now have a confirmed lupus diagnosis? Hard to say.
Wow, this is terrible.
> Icelandic passports don't have a separate field for "Surname"

I may be missing your point but there is a "Surname" field in that photo, just above "Given names".
Why does no one run a completely employee owned tech company? What is the disincentive for modeling your company as employee-owned and operated? It seems that would be the best path to an efficient company and a focused company that’s not angled to be taken over by outside aggressive for profit interest and dismantling.

I’m guessing that no investor will back a company that they can’t sell for Y times the investment.

EDIT:

Thank you for the thoughtful replies everyone. I totally spaced the idea that I was asking this question on HN, a VC owned forum. I am glad that it was not interpreted as flame war baiting.
No, Rust is definitely hard. One of the best memes I’ve seen about rust goes like “Other languages have a garbage collector, with Rust you are the garbage collector.”

I also haven’t had as much fun learning another language in a long time. Keep with it! It’s worth it.
I think these same core frustrations have been voiced literally for decades, and certainly since the birth of the Unix and what evolved to be the modern shell (Ritchie's /bin/sh). As an example, the frustrations I experience when moving between modern MacOS and Linux/GNU command lines exactly mirrors that of switching between System V and BSD Unix back in the 80s. I distinctly remember how annoyed I was at having to relearn even basic commands when forced to move between my primary development machine (a VAX running 4.3Tahoe) and the target machine for a new product (a 386 running an early version of Xenix). Eventually GNU came along to hide many of the incompatibilities, but it still represented yet a third set of command-line patterns for me to understand/remember. Similarly, I remember the differences in keybindings between my VT-220 compatible terminal and the PC keyboard on my 386 as frustrating as hell.

These frustrations seem inevitable given the diversity of systems people need to interact with. But I think a lot of them could be eased with better help systems; in particular, with help systems that focus on learning by example rather than enumerating an exhaustive list of features (like most current man pages). AI clearly has a role to play here, but most tools I've seen seem focused on simply providing the answer rather than building proficiency in the user.
I really like the way the toolbar pops up when you select text.
BTW. What's the best way to go over/keep track of all available FOSDEM talks videos?
Isn't Harry short for Harold?
This article rambles endlessly and mentions crypto 145 times and appears to assume banks are not corrupt.

So is illegitimate debanking an example of a real useful purpose for cryptocurrencies? I'm also thinking of the current Musk takeover of the Treasury payments system as perhaps leading to a useful purpose for cryptocurrency. For example, the regular payment of funds from a grant could be set up as an Ethereum smart contract. Or funds allocated by the US House could be a smart contract to prevent any other level of government from tampering with them. If you can't trust the banks or government then does cryptocurrency have some benefits? This was not seen as a Western problem because we had rule of law, but now, maybe it is. Decentralization and operating outside the control of a bank or government can be very useful features if the bank or government is corrupted. Like holding gold, except much easier to use because it is digital. Much easier to hide from a corrupt government also, maybe, though the government could know you had the funds depending on how the cryptocurrency works. In the old days people used to hide grain underneath their house to keep the government or armies from taking it, so they could survive the winter. Yes, criminals can hide and use cryptocurrencies also, but they always used money/fungible assets even before cryptocurrencies, to the tune of trillions of dollars. Seems like trying to control money has not worked very well in controlling criminals and instead root causes should be addressed.
Whenever I see AI-generated word salads like this, my mind automatically discredits it and skims over it.

In my opinion, thinking that AI does a good job of expressing your intent and opinions for you is as flawed as thinking script kiddies with a history of leaking information from their employer deserve a role in breaking and fixing sensitive mission-critical federal systems.
Not sure about "the original vision", but by many metrics I believe Youtube was a successful acquisition story
> if you even mention crypto, more than half your engineering candidates will immediately say “no” to your company

Yep.
The only reason to sell any of your company is to raise money. If you can raise all the money you need from your employees, then you can be employee-owned.
I think it’s that last part, we expect hyper growth in tech forever or it’s considered a failure.
Raphael Luba on Jai compiler internals [video]
> We do not offer stock or options or equity in the traditional sense. Instead, we offer a crypto token.

Found the catch.
Yep, I lived in an apartment off Poway Rd (Sabre Springs) and we were perfectly placed in a valley where cell had "signal" but didn't work very well if at all.
While I agree that 1% is low. 25% seems crazy?
There is a lot that goes into a company before the first round is even raised and if you join after that low single digits seems quite reasonable. Often at this stage you will earn more than the founder does in cash to compensate so you take on significantly less risk.

You can work for just equity if you prefer, that's usually what the founders do for the first few months to a year, before there is enough money to pay a salary at all.
1-byte characters (i.e. what k's typically have) handle ASCII just fine, for which doing reversing/splitting/uppercase/lowercase/iteration/etc is actually meaningful (stock symbols, stringified dates, identifiers, etc).

And if you have to handle arbitrary language user input, there's basically no operations you can/should actually do anyway. Uppercasing/lowercasing? Doesn't make sense on CJK languages. Reversing? Completely meaningless. Trimming to the first N chars for some visual display/summary/preview? Even grapheme clusters won't help avoiding a character with ten thousand combining components, and you'll have to do language-specific logic to not cut in the middle of a word for languages where the display of a prefix of a word may change depending on later letters! And forget about spaces meaning anything.

Basically the only string ops I can think of that make sense for non-ASCII generally would be splitting/joining on newlines and escaping for JSON/HTML or whatever, which'll work completely fine on a byte list anyway.

There's perhaps some middle-ground of doing things for a specific set of languages, but even for such you won't care about the storage format anyways, as what matters for you is just whether operations you use (presumably using some library; and even if you write a manual uppercase for French specifically or whatever, you'd notice if you implemented it wrongly) do the thing they should.

So a list of byte chars is just fine for anything one would actually do, providing optimal access to ASCII, and not actually making things worse for non-ASCII.
When I was in school in England the most common first names for boys are exactly the first names that were given in the article namely John, Peter, James and Williams. The first three are from the Bible names and the last one is not from the Bible but from the name of Williams the Conquerer or Guillaume in French. The other most popular ones are Andrew, Philip, Matthew and Thomas. Fun facts, most of English people have middle names but it always abbreviated (e.g John F. Peterson) and apparently it's considered very rude to call someone by their middle name.

Later I've found that the typical English popular first names are mostly from the Bible, or to be exact the disciples of Jesus. In the Quran however, the names of Jesus disciples are not given but just called as Ḥawāriyyūn or the helpers/disciples. Similarly the names for friends or sahabat of Muhammad are not provided in the Quran. The ones that went to established the Rashidun Caliphates are very popular among Muslim for examples Omar/Umar, Osman/Usman and Ali. These three names are equivalent to the top three given in the article namely John, Peter and James.
Exactly. Even if it is not entirely correct, the single-origin "out of Africa" theory is extremely useful in fostering unity and stamping out racism amongst people. We need to be really careful in how we present scientific advancements that may affect that theory, since any erosion of its political power will give ammunition to alt-right racism at a very precarious time in world history. It is the duty of every intelligent individual navigating these topics to keep in mind that the Africa theory must be presented as the main branch of humanity with any additional findings shown only as alternate streams that change, but do NOT enhance, the base human. Obviously we must also explain that any evolutionary change to the human species coming out of Africa has been entirely lateral and not vertical, lest the same alt-right racism take it to mean the African diaspora is somehow "less evolved".
Bodies in certain environments (e.g. especially some bogs/marshes) are much more likely to be preserved? On the other hand it’s extremely unlikely for human remains to survive for long in tropical forests or similar places.
You guessed it. I know some totally employee-owned tech cos, and they can work, but the one thing they can't do is raise money like founder-centric startups.
> "there is no single definitive k, but instead a sequence of slightly incompatible versions. If you decide to stick with k, you’ll see mentions of k4, k5 etc."

I don't know about the qualities of k itself, but I think the idea of having a common practice for experimental programming languages to be grouped under a single name like "E" with a number is quite attractive.

There are lots of students, hobbyists, researchers, professional devs and companies who are developing their own working programming language. There are a million of them, all with their own names. 99.9% of them are ignored, or criticized unfairly by others expecting fully fleshed out features.

I can imagine a GitHub repo where you can register a new language "En" (with n being a number) rather than it living in obscurity on a random website. Then others can jump in and experiment with the language and give it feedback, fork it, etc.

This isn't just for toy languages, but for big organizations like Google. Instead of naming a not-fully-baked C++ successor as "Carbon" and getting flak for it not being ready for real world code yet, they could simply call it "E321" and the status of the language would be self-explanatory.

Then if one of the E languages gains enough traction, it could "graduate" to its own named language.

I also like the cred that an "official" E language could get when a dev talks about it to others. Everyone would immediately know it was experimental and where to see the code.
J has an Android interpreter, which for me as a non-professional dabbler is the killer app since it means I can study and play on my handheld devices when I'm on a break from work or family.

The documentation is pretty decent compared to the other members of the Iverson gang and the libraries one can install with the desktop version makes it somewhat batteries included, at least it's easy to suck in a file and start rendering plots.

Maybe BQN can compete on these things nowadays, I'm not sure.
the # people that find comfy fulfilling jobs is less than 5% and are all nepotism right time right place in a market that doesnt need to be efficient.

we need to create proper regulation that requires software engineers to actually be engineers. no more collapsing bridges and finger pointing. thats the historically proven and optimal way to put engineering back on top.
The HN guidelines specifically ask you not to claim that somebody did not read the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

But if you're going to do it, the one time it's really misplaced is when you're claiming the author of the article didn't read it.
This is what people said about the internet too. Remember the whole "do not ever use Wikipedia as a source". I mean sure, technically correct, but human beings are generally imprecise and having the correct info 95% of the time is fine. You learn to live with the 5% error
> 35% of a million requests is different than 35% of a billion.

Not statistically.
>the PMC bureaucrats who worked for federal agencies absolutely did think they were wiser and better educated and had better judgement and were simply better people than the people their agencies were meant to serve

Do you have any evidence for this at all, or are you just projecting your own beliefs?
ha! True.

Yeah, back then the insane ideas were pushing the limits on unbounded possibilities (including unbounded destruction).

Now the insane ideas are on how to deal with our bounded resources and life support systems (or pretending such bounds don't exist...)
How do you take outside investment if all ownership is with the employees?

Even a self funded company has a different problem, the person/people who started it did a lot of the heavy lifting and took on massive risk, they want to be compensated for that risk, and are loath to share it all with others but in some sense, many self funded startups are 100% employee owned… just by a small subset of the employees.
I wonder if something like this is behind the push from Microsoft to obsolete a lot of hardware with the windows 11 release. The NSA pushed them to require a hardware upgrade so people replace devices bearing old processors with new ones featuring the latest bleeding-edge backdoors.
Or given the average life expectancy of a human; 1,300 lifetimes wasted.
DOGE-Backed Halt at CFPB Comes Amid Musk's Plans for 'X' Digital Wallet
Provided, of course, that you have the special app which costs $5.99/month* and has full access to your phone storage, camera, microphone, GPS location, WiFi SSID, OAuth tokens, and copyright ownership of your childs baby pictures.

Coming soon*
> Software engineering is a weird niche that is both a high paying job and something you can almost self-teach

If you meant programming, I agree it could be self-taught, but not SE. SE is the set of techniques, practices, tools that we have collected over decades for producing multi-versioned software that meets a certain reliability rating. Not all of these is freely available online.
> The entire point of this article is now that it is something treatable through medical science,

Yeah I don't buy it. The dude in the pic went from slightly chubby to thin as fuck, nothing prevented him from updating his diet, especially as a doctor

Of course the result overall is better, all I'm saying is that it's far from a magic pill if you keep everything else the same
Just print help instead of any error during parsing
There was a 70s science fiction future where customarily both parents adopted a new last name when they married. Seemed the obvious sensible policy for women's lib without a 2^N name-length scaling with the generations.

I only know one person who's done that. In some ways there's been less future shock than we expected.
When I was in college, I was asked to be a founding engineer. The other two involved were business guys that were pursing a $1Mil grant and needed the MVP in 9 months. I asked for 33% and they laughed me off. A few months later I saw many salty posts on their socials about "engineers expected to own the company when they don't contribute any vision or direction".

It's like captaining a ship and not being willing to repair the ship. Good luck on your own I guess.

It's different when they already have a product and are looking to expand. That's closer to hiring a sailor to manage the sails. But when you're hiring a ship builder expect a ship builders wage.

Also, don't hire a college kid to build your MVP. That's a big enough red flag right there.
At the end of the article, it's confirmed that Anchorage Labs/Anchorage Digital is not really a "bank" in the common meaning of the term:

> The Bank shall limit its business to the operations of a trust company and activities related or incidental thereto. The Bank shall not engage in activities that would cause it to be a “bank” as defined in section 2(c) of the Bank Holding Company Act.

Essentially Anchorage Digital is a rail for crypto to interact with the regulated financial industry, and their charter with the OCC limits them to only that form. So "bank CEO" is a misnomer; I would say "crypto CEO who managed to convince federal regulators to provide limited access to the banking system without allowing risky activities like lending or deposits".
Jack is also used for James, since it is the equivalent of Jacques in French and Giacomo in Italian. The apostle was actually called Yakov, after Jacob, which is the root of all those names.
>is doing what he said he would

unconstitutionally
I think that people figure out what LLMs are capable of doing well pretty quickly after they start using them. I'd say that their capabilities are underestimated by many people who once tried to use non-reasoning LLMs to do things that reasoning LLMs can do very well today.
The Potomac crash was terrible, horrible.

However, on average there's that many car crash victims in the US in less than 24 hours.

There's been ~10 times as many fatalities from car crashes (going by averages here) since the Potomac crash as there was in the Potomac crash.

And yet there aren't huge news articles about how we're investigating and going to fix it...
No, but I'd expect an auditor to be able to do their job, third party, first party, or whatever. Especially if my bank was lying about my money.
Internships with clearances are common in the Intelligence Community.

Homeland Security

“The Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) Internship Program is for… an exciting career in homeland security and intelligence…all selected applicants must undergo and successfully complete a background investigation and be granted a Top Secret/SCI clearance” [1]

Department of State

“Students tentatively selected for the internship program must undergo a background investigation and receive either a Secret or Top Secret security clearance.” [2]

Office of Naval Intelligence

“All interns must receive security clearances at the interim or final top-secret level with access to sensitive compartmented information (TS/SCI).” [3]

Defense Intelligence Agency

“Summer Internship Program (SIP)… To be eligible, you must…Maintain a security clearance” [4]

[1] https://www.dhs.gov/homeland-security-careers/office-intelli...

[2] https://careers.state.gov/uploads/3f/b3/3fb3a5029621ca488d8c...

[3] https://www.oni.navy.mil/Careers/Intern-Programs/#:~:text=Al...

[4] https://www.intelligencecareers.gov/dia/students-and-interns...
> To illustrate this in dollar terms, consider an acquihire exit. At 1% of $10 million, the acquihire nets the Founding Engineer around $100,000, enough to buy a nice Tesla. Meanwhile, the founders net $4.8 million, enough to buy a house in Palo Alto, a small yacht, and two nice Teslas.

I stopped reading after this paragraph. Why to take advice from articles that is presenting delusional scenario about the returns? $100k after tax is good enough for Model 3.
You do it as a partnership where new employees buy into the company when they get hired.
I would think as long as the company is happy then investors wouldn’t matter. Then your goal would be for example, to pull in a wealthy person who could invest in the company and work (law? Accounting? Cto?). Then sell their shares when they help it grow in value and would like to exit. That at least would allow investment growth without selling the farm.
My only experience is with intellij ides, but this plugin works in both https://www.continue.dev/. We use this internally at my company, and I think it's one of the better open source ones.

At home I use it with open router and ollama/vllm/llama.cpp server
The typical answer is finance. As a socialist myself, I think all finance should be done through loans instead of selling off parts of the company. That way it stays employee owned.
Probably because most companies aren't able to make profit on the first day, and most employees aren't willing to invest significant capital to get the company to the profitability line?

There are niche examples of 'bootstrapped' companies that are employee/founder owned...