All that an inclusion of these new companies would accomplish is a bailout of their stockholders by pension funds and ETFs where millions of regular people shoulder all the downside risk.

SpaceX and OAI stock will be available through Robinhood, Questrade and all the other retail investor markets. Individuals can make an informed choice to trade it there, rather than have it automatically added to their index fund without having any say.

Plenty of ways to get exposure to that stock without it going into the indices it is not qualified for.

https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0

(Disclosure: while I haven't talked with him in years, Tridge was my colleague and mentor for many years. I feel it is worth considering his view before joining a crusade)

   "A substantial patch used to imply substantial effort, and that effort was a reasonable proxy for good faith. That assumption no longer holds."

Any place that allows easy instantaneous subscription by a simple web form, but makes you call and talk to a person during limited business hours for cancellation, is a toxic place. I've been told they have stopped this predatory practice due to some newly passed laws or something, but they did not stop their predation due to their own values.

I urge everyone reading to unsubscribe instantaneously from the NYTimes for their business practices. Do not do business with unethical companies.

Basically, our economic reality and expectations have come into conflict with biology and human lifespan.

If you want a secured dignified life and basic prerequisites to starting a family, every year that takes a little longer. And these days, almost everyone wants that dignified middle class life before they start a family.

A degree, an advanced degree, a good enough job, sufficient housing, a little fun to boot. Not until 25, 28, 30, 33, 35.

But we're supposed to have children in our early 20s. That's when we're strong and energetic enough, with good backs, and grand parents fit and willing to pitch in.

When we finally feel ready in our mid 30s, we find that time has conspired against us. Our parents are far away and often ailing and demanding care and attention. We have less energy and more stress and dread the lost sleep. We have the wisdom and worldliness to know just how hard this is going to be. And once we've metabolised all those things, that's when we realize that conception is no longer a question of a great night out and a few drinks. How many kids will be born at the end of that gauntlet? We're finding out right now.

and then i realized that ALL of the software (which i collected from defunct websites and archived on github) related to it was ancient and after a while of getting tired of using WINE every single time i decided i wanted a cross platform modern equivalent that did everything that several of these different programs did (plus break out some stuff that was now potentially possible with modern computer)

i thought it would be extremely hard because the computer to synth communication is pretty much only via sysex commands (of which the actual wave file encoding protocol was undocumented)

Claude walked me through examining the some of the original software in GHIDRA, and I had a working demo that night.....now im just playing with adding new features to it.

It's kinda surprising to me that even the people who are all in on ai haven't internalized that there's no inherent value in producing a big lump of code. They've massively decreased the work they put in but still expect the same pre-ai reaction/gratitude when submitting a big PR.

It was a different situation 2 years ago, when there was significant cost to building your own harness (but then: you probably weren't doing AI vuln research 2 years ago). Today, I think your best bet is to look at something like this for ideas, and then just ask for your own, to fit your own work style, with your own interface, your own notion of target and effort specification, and your own alerting.

So if you use Rust, you get these by simply calling [T]::sort(_unstable). Great performance out of the box :)

On my machine (Apple M2), using the benchmarks from the repository on Apple clang 17 and Rust 1.98 nightly:

    Sorting 50 million doubles:
    ipnsort             0.79s
    blqs                0.90s
    driftsort           1.13s   (stable)
    std::sort           1.22s
    std::stable_sort    4.64s   (stable)

    Sorting 50 million (i32, i32) structs:
    ipnsort             0.82s
    blqs                0.89s
    driftsort           1.07s   (stable)
    std::sort           3.09s
    std::stable_sort    3.15s   (stable)

    driftsort           0.29s   (stable)
    ipnsort             0.81s
    std::sort           1.15s
    std::stable_sort    1.63s   (stable)
    blqs                1.89s

I'm not exempting myself from this. I was an adjunct lecturer for two semesters. I did have some fun with it, but it was way harder than I thought it would be, and I think that university is probably considerably easier than elementary or high school.

I had students that I knew were smart that I was forced to fail. They would grasp the subjects quickly when I was speaking, they would ask good questions during class...and then they would simply never study or do the homework I assigned them, and then they would do terrible on tests and I'd be stuck having to give them a bad grade. They were smart students, but they didn't want to be there.

Now when I see people talking about how they're going to "revolutionize" school, most of the time I just assume that they've never actually taught anyone anything, or least never been required to teach someone who really isn't interested in learning.

Sudden outbreak of common sense.

SpaceX is going "public" with only 4% of the stock being sold to outsiders. The S&P 500 requires a 50% public float. That may disqualify SpaceX for a long time.

Although GOOG and META are listed, despite control being held by insider shares of a different class. There was a time when the NYSE did not permit companies with more than one class of stock to be listed on that exchange. (Except F, FORD, which predates the NYSE). That was lost some time around 1990 or so.

Evidently Evan You was an Art History + Studio Art and major and at Parsons School he had to pick up javascript to quickly show his work. During a stint at Creativelab5 at Google, he was so inspired to improve on AngularJS experience that he came up with Vue and the rest is history.

I have no idea what this Cloudflare acquisition will ultimately mean but I know I am so very grateful for the beautiful frameworks/tooling Evan and his team have cranked out over the years.

Now I see communities being affected. When you kill PRs, you not only kill the code contributions, but also massively impact the other, non-tangible contributions like ideas, eyes on code, etc. That feels way worse.

I'm conflicted, confused and afraid, HN. Look at what I just wrote, yet I use claude and deepseek and all the skills and complex harnesses and MCPs and whatnot... But all now seems like a transition phase. Transition to f-ing what though?

A lot of questions cannot be answered unless we dedicate a meaning to our lives. Human touch? Too late? Also: I liked a song and it was sonos. I unliked it after discovering. I feel so stupid, so often.

Sorry for the unhinged digression.

I love Ladybird (have a sticker on my laptop to prove!), I hope they thrive.

I honestly don’t understand AI naysayers. I use Claude every day both professionally as a Solution Architect and personally in a variety of projects I simply could not have ever approached alone.

This is to say: the autoregressive decoder-only transformer llm architecture as pioneered by openai is wildly simple for how revolutionary its results are. I was reading about non-learned classical SLAM systems (uses video + handcrafted math to produce 3d mappings of physical spaces while also locating the camera in those spaces) at the time, and comparatively speaking I’d say the math is about as complicated as ONE of the components in those complex formulations. The only reason frontier LLMs need 6-figure computers to run is because the model designers made the middle bit in those models REALLY BIG, dimensionally speaking. They just took the steam engine, made a few gargantuan versions of it, and are selling them as the ultimate source of power.

This was openai’s entire breakthrough. Making this particular model architecture larger leads to emergent capabilities like being able to pick the best ending to a story/set of instructions or answer questions about broad factual knowledge. I’ve been meanwhile watching these AI companies attempt, successfully, to sell this capability as some sort of robot consciousness hand-crafted by supergeniuses. The fact that they are getting away with it is almost as shocking to me as the discovery itself.

One of my focuses now is my own model-agnostic, harness and workflow orchestration (I know everyone is building these) , baselining on opus, and aiming to transition to Chinese models like deepseek in the short term and hopefully open, self hosted models in the future (which I plan to open source).

The nonstop marketing fluff from anthropic while their service quality and availability noticeably degrades... just continues to destroy my trust in the company.

This isn't the repairability and reuseability of old devices mindset people have been begging for. This is some guy using internal privileges to having some fun, and deciding the rest of us should get a piece of the fun as well.

This is a "happy story" in the same way it is a "happy story" when some kid successfully fundraises a classmate's cancer treatment because the healthcare system neglects them.

I'll share a story, but its about a close friend and not me so I won't name any explicit actors and I'm going to round out the numbers. You either trust me or you don't, but this is a very direct relationship I have to both the founder and VC.

The story is this: the founder started their company outside of SV, so the lawyers weren't super familiar with startups and messed up the initial incorporation and stock plan stuff (actually super common: use Stripe Atlas or pay a startup-aware lawyer!). Went under the radar through years. This company ended up being bought for nearly $1B (with a B) after many rounds and a large board.

During the legal work to close the acquisition, they found out this messed up stock plan. Without going into the details, the effect was that instead of taking home $200M, the founder would take home ~$75M. The mistake the lawyer made almost a decade earlier was about to cost him $125M.

Most of the board basically said "too bad so sad, law is law." But one VC (the one I know, the one I'm talking about) basically strong armed and politicked the whole thing and eventually convinced everyone around the table to give up an equal share of their own holdings to make the founder whole.

Letter to the law: they didn't have to.

Spirit of being founder friendly: this VC went to bat hard and got everyone to yield to make things "right."

Also, look, you might argue $75M vs $200M is just "rich vs rich." Who cares? Sure. That's not the point.

You don't hear about stuff like this because honestly its not a big enough deal and feel good stories get way less clicks than pitchfork stories.

Accessibility shouldn't require giving up privacy.

Memegen is a key part of the culture. Its default mode is over-the-top mocking, of course, with a grain of truth. Nobody and nothing is spared. C-level execs, products, the perf process.

So this by itself is not quite the scoop 404 media thinks it is. You could take the front page of memegen on any given day and construct twenty scandalous headlines of it.

My hypothesis is that as societies industrialize, they afford their population more and more activities that are simply more fun and rewarding than having children. So many people I know put off having children (or curtailed the number they had) because they were reluctant to give up the activities only available in a childfree/one-and-done life. Ultimately, we are hedonistic creatures, and having kids is antithetical to the myriad hedonic pursuits available in wealthy, industrialized societies.

[*] Israel is the lone exception, due to its Orthodox Jewish population.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/global-decline-fertility-rate

[1] https://pub.nordregio.org/r-2024-13-state-of-the-nordic-regi...

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10049131/

I wonder how the initial investors feel about the aqui-hire path... Must be a pretty nice sum for them to agree to it, or they saw that the path to any revenue was near impossible/non-existant

original commit: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commit/d046525de39315d...

```

- if (!ptr)

- ptr = malloc(num * size);

- else if (ptr == do_calloc)

+ if (!ptr || ptr == do_calloc)

   ptr = calloc(num, size);

Written with claude. This is a good example of what slips through LLM attention. It forces all allocations to be calloc as if it is a strict upgrade. For large and recursive allocations, this becomes a significant cost.

reverted in https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commit/7db73ad9a1b8721...

if you read the description of revert half carefully, it's easy to tell that even that was written by an LLM .

I can understand the sentiment of whoever posted the original thread.

An open-source projects losing the ability to find and mentor new maintainers is so disappointing.