skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem correct in the observations that the far right and left believe in the same worldview with opposite arrows, seeking to oppress any dissent to this worldview through fake outrage. Both share the worldview that the superior whites need to either help or rule, depending on which fringe we are talking with. Both unfounded beliefs as there are bigger variance within than between identity politics groups.
For the short term, sure. But long term, the lidar system will have to be adjusted to not cause harm to the public.
Whatever the reasons for the workforce reduction, this way of doing it is just unnecessarily cruel.
If you want something more general purpose that can load lots of different 3d formats including Quake 3 maps, take a look at Irrlicht.
My take on work is there's always someone who will be your boss and dictate what you can and cannot do. If you bootstrap, then it'll be your paying customers. If you take family/angel/seed money, then it'll be them and their expectations. If it's VC money, they will have a seat on the board and expect you perform. If it's the public market, then every quarter you'll be expected to show significant results.

I fail to see how a nightmare isn't just code for, I don't like what this person wants me to do, I did this startup to get away from having a boss, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Apparently some managers used to hire sacrificial lambs with the express purpose of culling them to spare the rest of the team.
sad: I had a really good thing going with these to a miniDigi/miniDSP/miniAmp stack for power-efficient portable speakers.

was gonna build more using beocreate; not quite sure now which way to jump... anyone know of a similar device that includes TOSlink out?
It's not even the words themselves, it's the deeper implication

He's using the white supremacist's own racism against themselves. "Reading the deeper implication" has many likely interpretations of Sargon's internal mental state that are both non-racist and racist. That's quite far from "manifest observable behavior" Patreon claims in their TOS. They just have to cut off a father's income just before Christmas for a counter-troll on an obscure fringe live-stream from 10 months back? An organization making that much of a stretch is showing its hand. (Again, I don't approve of Sargon's language. It was definitely a mistake for him to say such a thing.)

I see this as no different from a TV network firing a host

Then how is it that someone did a search of Patreon's site and turned up tons of n-word occurrences? How is it that Patreon continues to fund groups that seem to encourage violence? If Patreon is reaching that far in Sargon's case to "protect their brand" yet have so many skeletons like that, so easily found, I highly doubt that "protecting their brand" is their actual underlying motivation.

In any case, Patreon is a conduit for payment, not a network. Perhaps they're pivoting, but from where I stand, it's completely the wrong move. They've severely damaged their standing as a means of paying creators.
what is the less cruel way to lay off 10% of your workforce
> But if overall rich people are aligned against higher taxes, which is the case in history most of the time, they're effectively aligned against equality and justice.

> I love tax policy on HN, because it really brings out of the woodwork people who do care about what's good for the country, and people who don't.

What's the point of discussing this with you? Here, I'll try:

But if overall poor people are aligned for higher taxes, which is the case in history most of the time, they're effectively aligned against doing work and freedom.
People who participate in something are often best positioned to criticise it, because they:

A) know how the sausage is made, and

B) stand to actually lose something if people believe them, i.e. they are standing by their point in spite of the negative consequences to themselves.

People on the dole who argue against (details / implementation of) social security should be taken seriously. Rich people arguing against tax breaks for the wealthy. Programmers against big tech firms. Etc.
They recently switched from composite hull to metal hill for BFR/Starship, so it might be a case of terminating those employees whose primary focus was designing the composite hull and whose skills were not transferable. There will likely be talent pools that get thinned out too, welders who won’t be so necessary now that Block 5 is in production and Falcon Heavy is “operational” (meaning fewer expendable launches, less demand for welders to build new rockets).

It doesn’t help that there’s been little warning (though I guessing a lot of these employees had some warning that they are going ormtheir teams are getting thinned).

I hope for the best, the people leaving SpaceX have certainly got great resumes to recommend them to new employers!
Oh my goodness! Is that really live - that's amazing and beautiful..
Ask HN: Diabetic Retinopathy Medical Device Help
Good Day All,

Apologies first if the content is irrelevant.

My grandma found that she’s diagnosed with diabetes in late stage so she has to inject insulin by herself every morning.

Our team has started to develop a portable auto-focus fundus camera non-mydriatic for diabetic retinopathy screening and management because we thought there might be more people who under or or are in the process of vision loss.

Late stage detection of retinal diseases presents serious risks because eyesight become irreversible and incurable.

We want to help people all over the world ensure their health and prevent diseases, especially third-world countries with low medical accessibility.

Our prototype is operating in Vietnam for beta testing. We're currently looking for any clinics / hospitals / pharmaceutical companies and partners who are interested in working with us.

I've been to some MedTech conferences but was not able to get much insight.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NShPRdNlaDw&t=33s

or email me (freesoulee@rooteehealth.com)

Kind Regards,
Hi Taylor! Really interesting idea. I look forward to following Focusmate and giving it a go sometime soon. One use-case that I didn't see mentioned in your copy is for creatives. Consistently finding time to sit down and work on creative projects, music, writing, art can be a real challenge. I would certainly be interested in trying this out in my music production. Initial hesitation from me is the requirement for video chat, just because I haven't grown comfortable with doing that with a stranger over the internet. Perhaps video chat is a critical component to making this whole thing work, but maybe there is some middle ground that can be achieved by just using text chat or the like. Curious to know your thoughts on both these points. Cheers! - Varun
Years ago I heard the government gave the telcos millions or billions of dollars in tax breaks, subsidies, or something to build out their fiber networks... and they just never did it.

I haven't been able to find any documentation on this. Anybody know what this supposedly was?
Oh I missed that, thanks. My local Hackerspace made some boards that have that LoRa radio and an ESP8266 on them, I might grab some of those as I'm not in the US and Adafruit won't ship here cheaply, thank you.
and 5% of them will quit in the next 2 months
And another form; the Swiss call some trains ferries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_shuttle_train#Switzerland
It's because of Google's use of 'From' and 'Sender' headers in gmail. If you setup an SMTP server to send your emails from for your @example.com address then Google won't mess around and the emails appear to actually come from the email address you want out there, not your @gmail.com.
> We had an all hands meeting and were told to go home and wait for an email that basically says we stay or go. (from reddit post)

I'm surprised about that idea. At that size I expected them to follow "your account is locked immediately before you're told" policy. Guaranteeing people have access to company emails over the weekend and are told they're fired, sounds like a bad idea for IT to deal with.
Unless they're cutting the satellite constellation I think this fits in with what people expected for SpaceX's growth. The problem is even as costs for rocket launches go down we aren't seeking hockey stick growth in the demand for rocket launches. The number of rocket launches per year has remained steady since 2015. SpaceX is getting an increasing number of those launches but even if they got all of them they would only have 40 launches. I'm not sure what else they've publicly advertised which would assume hockey stick growth.
Well, they're going to use whatever is easiest. I don't think this is a strong argument.
Good grief. Food trucks use public roads and sidewalks as their dining rooms. Half of the lanes on the roads are designated for buses I'll never ride. Homeless use sidewalks as encampments. And we're worried about scooters? How about in places like New York were the damned bike share racks take up half the sidewalk? How about graffiti "street artists" that paint their nonsense on privately owned buildings? They're displaying their "inventory" on property they don't own.

People seem to hate on scooters because it's "private" and people might be profiting somehow. It's trendy for the get-off-my-lawn crowd to hate on the Ubers, Birds, AirBnB and other similar businesses. "Hacker" used to mean people that didn't care much about the status quo, but here on "Hacker" news, it sounds like a bad threat on NextDoor or some kind of homeowners association meeting complaining about the mauve garage door on Mrs. Davis's house. Many of the people hating the scooters because they're "storing their inventory on public property," don't seem to have any problem Torrenting movies they didn't pay for or stealing other content they don't own. It seems the trend is "it's ok to steal from private companies because I shouldn't have to pay for stuff, but it's not ok for private companies to profit off of public infrastructure."
Tell the affected ones immediately. Don't tell the other 90% that they're potentially getting fired tomorrow. Treat people with respect and be transparent when you hold power over them.
I've been with them for 3 years and change, the entire time it's very much been an iffy beta-feeling product. shrugs the price is worth the inconveniences I've experienced.
I hope Google enables the possibility of third party firmware before eventually bricking them.

Streaming (even locally) is impossible without Google blessing the connection initialisation.
If that's the case, then let's remove the bike-share racks.
Well, rather than a "Don't come Monday" email on a weekend, which effectively gives them 0 working days notice, giving those employees say, 2 weeks notice that they will be terminated at least gives them a chance to re-train for another position or get their resumes together to try and find another job while still getting an income to pay for rent, food etc.

FAR less 'cruel' to give them an opportunity to plan their exit and give them the psychological space to get used to the fact.

EDIT: In light of the 'read the article' responses and downvotes, I wanted to clarify that my comment here is directly addressing the question "what is a less cruel way of laying people off" against the purported scenario above of people being told on Friday to go home and check their emails to see if they still have a job on Monday.
Another problem this article misses is that it's quite arrogant to assume a founder has other means to build a company. Most founders are quite honestly usually young and that also means they lack capital, but would otherwise be brilliant and the perfect person/team to create the next Facebook/Uber.
Additionally, when the stack ranking is done at the first or second-level manager (which is usually the case), you end up making sub-optimal decisions. Meaning: the bottom 10% on team A may be better than the top 20% of team B. Which then leads A-players to seek to work on B-teams, so they can be on the top of the stack ranking.

Stack ranking is a failed experiment, and by now I think all companies realize that.
To tell people face to face, to have the courage instead of hiding behind the impersonal email. Basic etiquette.
How much time does moving to 64 nits buy us? it's likely considerable, but I cant help but imagine a time when we have to address this problem for a third time. It seems to me like a more robust solution is possible.
Much better than (CA0 || CA1 || ... ). All it takes is one CA out of 10s of independent CAs to misbehave to insecure whole tls.

In DNSSEC/DANE, world only has to watch one entity rather than 10s of entities.
The specification (set of protocols) is here https://github.com/solid/solid-spec
Calling it support is too generous. If Google’s automated systems can’t help you, you’re entering a world of pain.
> Ultimately, if you were to sue them, there's a root document of legal responsibilities and behavior to point to.

But actually if you were to sue them, wouldn't the case be dismissed for lack of standing? If you're not a party to the dispute you can't sue (or rather, you can't sue and actually have your case proceed). You'd probably need to convince ICANN that they need to sue, which is already a much trickier position.
The solution is LVT's on things that behave 'like land', such as intellectual property, domain names, etc.
San Francisco must end its self-inflicted housing woes
What's less cruel? Face to face meetings? Layoffs suck, how is this particularly egregious?
That's why you should tax only fixed, country specific assets, such as land and intellectual property. They are protected by the government, therefore they cannot be hidden from the government.
From what I've read about Musk, doing it this way is part of his management style. People's feelings come second to getting things done efficiently. Well, efficiently as he sees it.
For python you can use type annotations with an external type checker such as mypy or flow for js.

To implement type checking in js or python would add a layer of unparalleled safety for a fraction of the development time involved with unit tests.

Yet I would say 90% of developers are unaware of this contradiction and go on piping about the extreme importance of unit tests while completely ignoring type checking. They value safety but are too naive to know what safety means.
I have a 20 months old daughter - who does not have DS. This was very tough read.
I used to think of myself as a tough guy, but ever since my daughter was born boy i am the weakest of all.
Really surprised by all the loose cables. That seems like a safety issue. When I was in the military, cable management was a huge thing. We would get in trouble unless every cable was secure. Having someone trip over a cable and heaven forbid break it or yank it free, could lose lives. I would imagine stakes are similarly high in space.
Street-Fighting Mathematics (2010)
When you lay off 30% of your staff you have to deprioritize lots of things.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/29/edtech-unicorn-udacity-lay...
This rarely happens because of liability and security. It’s pretty common to be walked out by security after packing up your stuff when you are laid off.
That's usually what happens basically everywhere. I 'survived' multiple rounds of layoffs and they always touch stuff that's deemed 'unnecessary' but needs to be kept alive and thus adding to the workload of already overworked employees.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design:

39. (alternate formulation) The three keys to keeping
a new human space program affordable and on schedule:
1) No new launch vehicles.
2) No new launch vehicles.
3) Whatever you do, don't develop any new launch vehicles.

I'll admit it does say human space program but it doesn't specify where the humans are.

https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html
Wonderful, all hail Elon, the next Howard Hughes.

Seriously, can modern CEOs actually grow a pair and actually face their employees rather than hide behind tech?
For everyone bitching about VC's demand on speed and profits, it wouldn't be any different working inside of FAANG. Your team is given a time limit on how fast it can work and it will need to make the parent organization money otherwise it'll get shut down and re-org'd after a year or two.

If you bootstrap a company, and it's successful enough to turn a profit, you're still at the mercy of finding a steady stream of customers. Most successful bootstrapped companies usually find 1 or 2 anchor companies that then start dictating how your company should run so that you can get paid and continue the relationship. Also, companies will prefer to have other options, so your bootstrapped company will be one of many options. (or replaced internally)

There really is no magical solution to working and making money. You should just approach this problem as, I want to build a company, I believe in this idea so much I'm willing to risk a lot to make it happen. If a VC gets you what you need but forces you to get there in 3 or 4 years time, but you think you need 5, it's not like you have a better option to prove your idea, so figure out how to get there in 3 or 4.
Nah, I just have the proper skepticism. You know, the idea behind science: Nullius in verba
Seriously, if you cannot see that "fire by email" is far more impersonal and disconnecting than compassionately meeting with the employee 1 on 1 and giving them a definitive exit path along with the financial support to do so, then please do not ever work in HR or be responsible for employing people in the future.

To subject ALL your employees to the 50/50 prospect that they will have a job come next working day is tantamount to playing Russian Roulette with them using a gun with a 2 bullet chamber - one loaded. The psychological toll even on the 'survivors' will be brutal.
I don't understand how this works.

If I am giving you money and your are giving bitcoin to the people I am supporting, then mastercard will not allow you to take money if you facilitate right wing views.

If I am giving you bitcoin and you are giving money to the people I support, then Mastercard will cut you off if those people have right wing views.

If I am giving you bitcoin and you are giving bitcoin to the people I support, then how is it different from just giving bitcoin?

It doesn't really solve the free speech problem as what is needed is a way for all views to be paid with the ease of a credit card, instead of just approved views.
That's brutal. Back around 2008 my OpCo laid off employees for the first time in it's hundredish year history at the time when our current owner laid off people from every OpCo.

It was almost as savage, they went around the office of 70-80 people and grabbed some people at what seemed like random, took them in one door of the conference room and asked them what personal belongings they needed immediately, got those items and had corporate security see them off the property with their severance information. At least that wasn't "go home and worry all weekend" though.

Great way to sabotage company-wide morale SpaceX.
From the article: "SpaceX is offering a minimum of eight weeks’ pay and other benefits to laid-off workers, according to Shotwell’s email. The company will also provide assistance with career coaching, resume help and job searches."

So SpaceX is giving employees two months to focus their full efforts on finding their next job. This seems less cruel than telling them they will lose their jobs and then expecting them to keep working.
The main problem with issue trackers is they treat everything the same way (bug/issue, task, goal, project, milestone, team, etc.). Where they break out of the one size fits all mold their abstractions generally start to break down and using them requires mental hoop jumping and too many clicks.

Key feature: Disparate views. View as self. View as department. View as project. View as team. View as team member. All views should work across an arbitrary number of repos.

As a manager I frequently have to context switch like this and I want to see three things: what's being worked on, what has changed, and where we are headed. For the latter, a clear distinction between abstract/relative prioritization between tasks and a timeline view (GANTT or critical path or inter-project/inter-issue relations) would be good.

The ability to summarize what's gone on today/this week (visually), eg. send me roughly what each team member achieved, status of their goals, what is blocking them, and what they're refocused on, where the time and money went. Critical when I am out of the office and don't want to spend time re-interpreting git commits across 10s of repos.

Basically keep the need for human effort out of the loop wherever possible - remove the reporting cycle, just use git history, any other system history (wiki, issues, etc.) and auto-compile a comprehensive view.

The fact that github only recently added beta org dashboards and they still have a long way to come shows there is demand here. However, you are effectively racing against github.

Also, we do hardware so ordering or acquiring parts is a huge issue that affects speed of iteration. I would want connectivity to accounting, purchase order, order tracking and inventory management systems. The key feature there is order status transparency, largely driven by third party platform order identification and subsequent logistics provider tracking number lookup integration for realistic ETA.
Awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHO9gARac-w (Tom Scott)
While 32-bit time_t lasts for roughly 68 years, 64-bit time_t lasts for roughly 292270958501 years.
New Ohio Law Takes Aim at Occupational Licenses, Which Cost State $6B
This sounds really interesting (disclaimer: I love both these languages), but isn’t a main advantage of Forth that it compiles to something that is really f*ing fast, and wouldn’t that hybrid potentially give that up?
It's certainly not selection pressure. Google's systems did not evolve because similar companies out-competed and reproduced more effeciently than dissimilar companies. The metaphor doesn't work at all.
Perhaps Mr Thadani is merely expressing a personal opinion here.

> Dhiru A. Thadani is an architect

One may reasonably disapprove of something, even to the extent of quite literally saying out loud that it is a bad thing, and yet still think that government enforcement is unnecessary.

For example, Javascript.
Nearly all molecular biology labs have toasters and Waring blenders. It's Waring because an experiment in the 40s or 50s used one
really!
They already get 8 weeks severance. Keeping them around for 2 weeks to mope doesn’t help anything.
The problem BitPatron and others are solving for is of opaque political interests exerting influence on an oligopoly of payments providers. Right or left, payment freedom and diversity is a problem worth solving.

If people are seriously accepting moral leadership from credit card companies, what is there really to add.
I've been laid off face to face. It's not enjoyable. The logistics of safely laying off 10% of a workforce really prohibits this anyway.
It might be a two-sided transaction, but we don't really have a choice, do we?

If we knew then what we know now, maybe people wouldn't have wanted the government to subsidize the automobile by creating our road system's infrastructure. Hey, maybe people won't even want the internet in another twenty years. And I know for a fact that plenty of people in the US don't appreciate the way law enforcement keeps them "safe". Same for the military.

I find this whole, "let me laundry-list things the government does, many of which it didn't really ask for permission to serve, as a justification for its existence," to be a fairly empty excuse for taxation. I appreciate what I get on some level, but I recognize that the government isn't 100% perfect and that my successes aren't that dependent on, say, my high school guidance counselor.
10% is huge by any measure.
Misadventures in process containment
Presumably the all hands meeting was the face to face part?