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Make the huge title bar dark, just like in normal Chrome? You can already select dark theme inside Twitter, but it's irritating with the light title bar.

With `prefers-color-scheme` soon websites will be able to react to system theme too.
Hopefully they won't provide chat data or metrics to others. If Discord were acquired or partnered with anyone shady, they are certainly in a position to Big-Data-AI (and other bs bing words) everyone. They brag about storing all messages. [1]

[1] - https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-m...
Comments seldom represent the majority in any venue, and for that matter "votes" don't necessarily either. However it's a general observational piece about a philosophy some prescribe to. Seems pretty interesting and worthy of conversation to me.
First course of action: ignore it. Just because someone gives you a piece of paper to sign, doesn't mean you have to sign it. Don't make an issue of it. Just don't sign it until they make an issue. This worked for me at one company.

Second course of action, get some legal advice from a lawyer in your area who knows employment law. Based on that info, seek to ammend the contract to be more reasonable. The lawyer may say that such contracts are void in your state, in which case just sign it. In other cases, the lawyer may give you some reasonable things to talk to your employer about.

Oftentimes, companies get bad advice from lawyers who give them boilerplate contracts to use. Sometimes if you explain how this impacts you, they will change it. If they see it puts them at a disadvantage, for example.
Good point. I think any single founder should bear this in mind.

Note that depending on scale and industry, you can design around this to an extent. My company largely runs automatically. I mostly work on growing it. I have a contract programmer and support rep who handle stuff. Requires very little day to day input from me.

Don't get me wrong. If I became quadrapeligic, things would gradually break. But depending on time required away, I could have someone come and take input from me on some decisions, stop some functions, etc

I got this from the 4 hour workweek, which is an excellent guide for anyone who wants to make a solo business based on systems.

I do know the system works incidentally: there have been periods where for 1-2 months I did almost nothing. Just coming out of one due to a concussion that knocked me out of work. The business grew nonetheless, though I have a backlog of some things to take care of.

So, if you are starting a solo business, you have a bus factor of 1. You should consider the design of it, and what happens if you become unable to work on it.

Of course, this bars you from some industries or business models.
We just released a major update of our Keras based image super resolution project. Now you can super-scale your images and run experiments very easily with RDNs and GANs.

In particular,

⭐️ We've added some new cool stuff like VGG deep features + GANs to achieve amazingly realistic upscaled images

⭐️ We provide a few more pre-trained weights as well as some Colab-notebook tutorials to play around

⭐️ And the best thing our project is now available on PyPI! So you can just pip install your way to our project

If you want to know all details and results of the new update, check out our new blog post and also have a look at the documentation.

- Blog: https://medium.com/idealo-tech-blog/zoom-in-enhance-a-deep-l...

- Documentation: https://idealo.github.io/image-super-resolution/

- Github: https://github.com/idealo/image-super-resolution/

- Colab (prediction): https://colab.research.google.com/github/idealo/image-super-...

- Colab (training): https://colab.research.google.com/github/idealo/image-super-...
For OP it shouldn't be a big deal, because forwarding is just a temporary aid while transitioning from one email address to the other.

I've just about completed the move (to runbox) without forwarding and it wasn't that big of deal. Just set aside a bit of time every once in a while to update all the accounts that are still sending to my gmail account.

Eventually I'll set up a permanent auto-reply saying "this account is no longer monitored, please contact me at xxxxxxx@runbox.com".
Low Latency makes it ideal for voice trading.
The Worlds Cheapest Hospital has to get even cheaper
I would love to understand how employee #1 got an "embarrassingly" low amount from a 9 figure sale, especially when you say that the exercise tax would have been high. What was the issue? I can think of:

1) Massive dilution or liquidation preferences?

2) Failure to negotiate significant equity at the beginning of the company?

3) Something else?
Making it mandatory would help.
I'm sure this is new office is for Google to move its "Chinese work" away from a campus where Western or other liberally minded employees would protest.
Of course it's always the benevolent Google ramming down their network down our throats. How would AMP bans work? You can't even read any email in any client?
Yes, spending 30 hours on a train and getting 900 miles down the track sounds like a fate worse than death. -Confused American
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Thanks! Will there be a way to authenticate that a JSON response came from a given sender? (E.g. are they required to be signed or whatever?)
Right, finding virtue in suffering is more a trait of Christianity than Stoicism. Stoicism doesn't think suffering is virtuous. Stoicism's approach to suffering is giving you the tools to endure suffering you can't avoid, and the tools to recognize and seize opportunities when you can avoid suffering. It does not teach people to seek out suffering or to endure suffering when it's within their power to prevent or avoid it.

Christianity on the other hand is all about virtue in suffering, perhaps best communicated by the anecdote of Christ having the opportunity to avoid suffering on the cross, but refusing that opportunity. (There is a great deal to be said about how Christianity finds virtue in suffering, enough to fill books, but this singular example is perhaps the most vivid, and maybe even the root of it.)

The confusion may arise because Christians have often voiced some tentative respect for Stoicism, but they in fact have very different approaches to suffering.
I agree with you with most things, but bad team is bad team everywhere, and it can ruin your life and career.

It's important to recognize it and switch teams inside the company after 1-2 years if it's needed.
>Not all email providers support HTML in the same way.

Excellent. Let's introduce one more standard.
Why is Qualcomm suing Apple instead of Intel? The article makes it sound like Apple switched to using Intel chips due to the license fees. If Intel is infringing, wouldn't they be responsible? Or does the law allow you to go after "customers"?
I don't understand. It's not about what is or isn't "Walmart's fault", it is about Walmart structuring their employment in such a way as to funnel labor costs onto taxpayers.
> Tech changes rapidly, and legislation quite simply isn't going to be able to encode a specific contextual mutating standard. Law isn't wrong to offload that analysis to an institution that is in the thick of it, with access to expert testimony and amicus information to inform it. You WANT the EFF and other advocates being able to weigh in on how the balancing factors should work and you want the courts to listen.

That is separate from the problem that the "new law" created by the court is being imposed ex post facto on actions you've already taken.

It means you don't know what the law actually is yet when you're trying to comply with it. That kind of uncertainty leads people to make overly conservative choices that make beneficial projects uneconomical, or just causes them to give up because it's not worth investing years of your life in something you don't know the courts won't unexpectedly blow apart.

And if you want someone to take input from the EFF et al then why should we wait until it's already in court instead of doing that in the legislature before passing a bad law to begin with?

> Yes, and then 95% of those go back down to pre-spike levels of interest.

But the fact that they did have a million users for twelve months may get them hauled into court.

> If they's the odd exception which has a massive sustained uptick for their service which promoted copyright protected works, now they can think about licensing and formalizing their processes to protect all stakeholders now that they're a success.

Again, you're assuming that success comes with popularity. If you're losing money on every user you can't make it up on volume.

There are projects operated by individuals with a large number of users that operate at a net loss. If you say to those people that they have to implement Content ID because they have too many users, those projects are dead.

And the projects that actually are successful would have high revenue, so the only projects ensnared by a user count limit but not a revenue limit are the ones that are barely making it as it is.

> Courts do not afford less due process to larger penalties. The cost is in the complexity; who owns the rights, what did they know about their claim, how easy was the mistake to make, etc. Proving this to a court that has no starting knowledge of what's going on requires money to compile information, prepare briefs, etc.

Yes, exactly, so if that process is used then the penalty would need to be sufficient to justify the victim in going through that process.

But now let me ask you this. How is it that we're willing to impose a prior restraint without going through that process but not a penalty for false claims?
Does it need to? If you're making $250k a year (which honestly I think is lowballing; source: personal experience) and still have compensation growth, you shouldn't need to work another 25-30 years before retiring, as long as you don't feel the need to live a lavish lifestyle and are fine retiring in an area that doesn't have a high cost of living.

If you're in your mid 30s now, and are already making $300k+ (very doable if you're skilled and work for an established company), I don't see why you couldn't retire by the time you're 50 with $2M+ in the bank. Even if you choose not to retire fully, even taking jobs that drastically cut your income to under $100k a year should net you a very comfortable retirement with a nice buffer. Just don't buy a house in San Francisco.
No, I wasn't talking about anything specific. Just the general setup of having a large part of US surveillance performed by commercial entities, combined with the ability of public companies administering critical services to refuse doing business with arbitrary individuals.

For example: see the "unbanked". Rather than fixing the banking system so that basic transactions do not rely on credit, it's easier to create a whole class of people that the industry tells to get lost.
They were ISO's, I only knew how many shares I was granted, but by the time of the exit, following several rounds of funding, it ended up being around 0.02%.
WSJ must have rolled out some new counter measures recently, haven't seen outline work on WSJ this week.
Consider the environmental savings of one delivery van taking the place of 30-40 auto trips to the mall.

People have been complaining about "low quality plastic products that don't last" since I was a boy in the 1960s.
McDonald's will use AI to automatically tweak drive-thru menus
Getting an npm or other package approved for internal use
is not an unusual practice.
Until google bans your account and everything holy related to it for "click fraud"
Doom from 2016 had this really cool feature in it where the music was procedurally adaptive based on the context of the game. When you were getting into a battle the music would mutate and become a lot more aggressive. Small fights would be different from big hairy fights. Ending a fight on low health would be different from leaving it unscathed.

For long time I've always thought it would be great to have something that had a similar effect based on text input speed.

Situations like getting into a massive battle, or leaving a battle with low health would have the music mutate to
It may always be okay to disagree in a moral sense, but expressing an opinion out of step with the majority view, when the community climate is full of fear, can have serious, even life-altering consequences. You may well actually be inviting yourself to get hurt by speaking out, and one must pick one's battles. Accomplish change, yes; but also preserve your future effectiveness.
The companies named offer digital advertising services. The issue in question is if they used customer data for advertising purposes.
Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler
FFDB – Easy to Use CLI and Engine to Create NFL Database
Hey everyone, I've been working on creating a tool for developers to easily create their own NFL databases for football or fantasy purposes.

I myself had been looking to create my own app for a long time, but getting the data you want easily from a single source wasn't as easy as it should be. With this tool, you can easily create your own PostgreSql or Mongo databases in a single command. If you don't like the schema, or want to use the engine to populate a different database, you can implement an interface and the Engine will do it for you (the app is built with netcore 2.2)

Here's the repository page, which includes all the instructions to get the program, along with API documentation for the CLI commands:

https://github.com/rushfive/FFDB

For quick reference, the Engine provides data such as player information (names, draft profiles, college, etc), teams, every important stat type for players and teams (from 2010 to the present), and weekly matchups.

I have it released in an alpha state right now, although it's pretty much feature-complete. I'm open to feedback on the database schemas I've created for PG/Mongo.
Would love to hear any thoughts, ideas, or recommendations from the community.
Have fun and cheers!
We are not doubting the accuracy of your sources. We find your central premise morally repugnant.

I could pull up any number of sources from people making charitable cases for slavery or Jim Crow laws, that the original authors were not actually racist but simply protecting society. But taking racists at their word that their motive is pure or free of ignorance is in its own way ignorant. And just because they did not have adequate words to describe their misdeeds does not forgive them for it.

To reply to your original post, medieval Europe was very-very antisemitic. This is not a debate about "complex economical issues". The idea that this refugee class had a "stranglehold" is simply not supported. Especially laughable to think that their "strangehold" was worse than the feudal lords of the day!

Jewish people were expelled from England. Full stop. If you can't agree that this was an antisemitic act (they didn't kick out merchants, or just the ultra-rich, or break up the feudal lords), I would implore you to rethink how you approach history.
Nobody's "forced" to use it. Users can turn off AMP in Gmail, and email authors can continue to just use HTML emails if they don't like AMP. HTML emails will continue to display in Gmail just fine for the foreseeable future.
I work remote 2 days a week. Then 3 days in cube jail.

I just bang out my regular work, then I can do what I want (kinda). Nobody is really looking over my shoulder and as long as I meet my deadlines things seem to be fine. (Until they are not.)
Yes. Certs are for identity which is only required if you need to create/manage channels or if a channel ACL is set to require registered or specific users. You can create public channels.
AMP is not a standard. It's a proprietary thing.
Whitney’s code is what I expect code to look like post-singularity when hyper intelligent AI program themselves!
Would love to hear more about your database system!
Work from Home with Affiliate Marketing (Clickbank)
Good. When I return from frequent business traveling I immediately get daily spam calls from local area codes. Since I don’t allow any of my apps to have my location (except Google Maps and Apple Maps, and then I have to run them, which is rare) I suspect ATT is monetizing my location data with these spam callers. That would also make sense to me because ATT certainly has the technology to identify spammers and shut them down.
I think you had a typo in the last line. Google cancels projects because they _are_ popular.
^ Please disclose that you work for Google. Don't push AMP as if from a neutral point of view
Almost all big open source projects are under direct control of a person or entity.
https://us18.campaign-archive.com/feed?u=ab0f46cf302c0ed836e... if you need RSS feed.
Sure, but my physicist training requires me to add the standard caveat about sample size of 1. Depression comes in many forms and what works for me and my form of depression may not work for yours. In addition there is some research that suggests that depressed people simply grow out of depression often enough; if you sent what I know now back in time to when my depression was worst there's not even a guarantee that it would have worked back then.

So there were two key developments that helped me personally.

The first was a unified theory of righteousness, manifested in five commitments I made to myself. They are commitments that I view as essential to a good or heroic life, they are interdependent and when they are in conflict they require wisdom to resolve the tension. They are commitments of love, honesty, ambition, compassion, and humility. So the idea that I had stable commitments started to anchor me: I was not totally worthless because I had understood the basic axioms for being heroic. So this is a core environmental change. I could go on and on about what each of these mean but it is perhaps not the right context or time for that just here.

The second major change was an adaptive change in crisis moments. I have a strange religious history where I started Catholic, became a fundamentalist, became an atheist, became a Buddhist, became a mystic Christian again. Somewhere in the atheist phase after fundamentalism I had started learning about Buddhism as part of a general interest in world religions and their models of heroism but before I had really started meeting Tibetan Buddhists in person. This introduced me to meditation, but that was not quite what I use: meditation is something of a constant attention-strengthening exercise, this is more of an acute stress response. The idea is that I simply try to sit still in the middle of these swirling negative emotions. My problem is that each negative thought causes, on average, more than one negative thought: this change in what I am paying attention to and how I am organizing my activity, takes that number less than 1. I would not say that it is fully zero. But the point is, that then my negative emotions behave more like others', they multiply a little bit but eventually peter out. So just by finding that eye of the storm, I can eventually gain control of my mind again.
Yugabyte doesn't use Cassandra, it's a custom-built database using RocksDB as a key/value layer and with an internal document-store representation.

It offers access to the data in multiple interfaces: Redis, Cassandra CQL and now PostgreSQL.
The last thing I need is for my email to become more like the web. I want my email to become even less like the web.
the power of HN
Not that high -- 4800 x 2848 is the max resolution.
China does have bankruptcy laws, but in this case "One creditor said the company was a sham from the beginning, with fabricated expenditure and cooked books." The debtor running with the money is not something you can simply price into the loan risk, which is why financial fraud is usually illegal. Maybe the creditor was lying to avoid the debt being discharged in bankruptcy, maybe he even bribed the judge to get that verdict, but that's not a problem of the blacklist but of the rest of China's judicial system. The inconvenience of being blacklisted is specifically intended to make people pay back money they falsely claim not to have (which is why it targets expensive "luxury" goods).
This is good to hear! (Upvote for you!)

Where will we see the setting, and is it still rolling out? I can see in my old Gmail account where I have "Ask before displaying external images" selected, so I'm presumably protected from AMP for now, but I would've expected to see the setting for AMP alongside it.
McDonald’s tries to be more like Amazon with $300M AI buy
> There are a lot of these newsletters at the moment. I’m not sure how to differentiate them.

So, you wanted a curated list of newsletters which provide curated lists?
You should probably assume that people using supercomputers have thought about "just using a GPU."
Happily. But what do I do with the psychiatrists who used that "chemical imbalance" to describe my experience and then prescribed me SSRIs? Burning them is illegal.

I'm sure it's comforting for the tweet author to pretend that harmful concepts come exclusively from outside his profession, but that's just not true.
Except that competition and choice is at the heart of capitalism. Not local governments signing monopoly deals...
Well, if the "9 figure" was 100M, then 300k seems fair, since after 10 years of fundraisings and even minor dilutions, it's very easy and expected to go from 1% to 0.3%.

On the other hand, if the amount was 500M, 300k seems very low, hinting to a final ownership of ~0.06%. If that was true, even after considering all dilutions, that makes me think that OP didn't negotiate a fair equity package to begin with, since as employee #1 you should definitely have at least 1%.
Browser extensions like "Read FT and WSJ" do not work either.
> And amp4email starts with `<html 4email>`, with the emoji? seriously? [I cannot even insert this emoji here at HN]

I think I know why they're doing this, actually. It's a clever way of ensuring that any services that send, receive, or interact with AMP mail are Unicode-safe. If they can't include a U+26A1 ("HIGH VOLTAGE SIGN") character in the AMP markup, they'll probably mangle any other non-Latin text too.
Also I have learned some basic time management skills. I just get the job done so I can move on to my side projects. The incentive for me is do my personal stuff. I don't have a career at my current job.
Yet another thing nobody asked for being "cramforced" down our throats by Google.
Yeah, I ran a Mumble server for my group of friends for years. Basically zero maintainance beyond ensuring the package was up to date. The client was fast but as you said, setting it up was less friendly than Discord. Same thing happened, everyone moved to Discord.
Nice work. By the way, on the x86 simdjson did you use any of the string compare instructions in SSE 4.2? Or was AVX faster?
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The last thing I need in Google's already unusable web interface is a "more dynamic" experience. Ever since the Gmail "update", it regularly takes me 45+ seconds on a 60MBps connection to just _load_ my inbox.
So I wrote a longer post about founder risk, but I realized maybe I misunderstood what you meant by this:

>There is not a lot of risk from your perspective

You mean, from my perspective, it sounds like I don't think early employees take on a lot of risk? I wanna be clear: Options are risky. Working at a startup for options is much riskier than taking cash. I hope it doesn't sound like i'm denying that.

If you're making market salary, and you're getting equity on top, then maybe its not so risky. But if you're taking a pay cut for equity in any form, you are absolutely taking a financial risk.
I believe the first mainstream game with adaptive music like that was Half Life 2 in 2004.