skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is an argument which no one has tested in court yet. But it seems unlikely to succeed as the law doesn't specify any requirements on how “biometric identifiers” such as face geometry are collected. And indeed the courts appear disposed to allow the phrase to cover any extraction of face geometry data regardless of the technological means by which it is done.
I'm not sure what you mean, the product showcased is B2B. Most (all?) of their clients are other startups.
The article talks about non-compete agreements as if that concept is relevant here, but those are illegal in California, where Apple is headquartered and the bulk of its employees are. (I don't know where Williams worked, but if I had to guess...)
Waterfall the UI/UX, Agile the functionality.
Very relevant for all my losses lol
> We need a tech worker's union.

This will never happen, and for one very simple reason: it is the nature of tech workers to believe that they are smarter than everyone else, and this attitude is antithetical to organization.

Think about it. Do you really think very many tech people you know would be willing to go on strike over things happening to tech people at some other company? Or are they going to just blame the victims for being stupid enough to work for that company in the first place?
>Professionally trained

Minimum wage. High school diploma.

>day care professionals probably do that job just as well as me, or better.

If you are truly so terrible at taking care of children that you cannot care for your own flesh and blood better than minimum wage workers can simultaneously care for multiple children to which they have no personal emotional attachment, then please, get your children away from yourself as often as possible.

>Also, there are 168 hours in a week and the kids still spend a large part of that with their parents.

70+ are lost to sleeping, and more for younger children, so no, they don't spend a large part of that time with their parents in any meaningful way.

If both parents are working, the rest of the non-work hours are going to be consumed by cooking (if there is time for that, or else expensive prepared meals), cleaning, household chores, errands, and everything else people need to do to keep functioning.
Kemal, a lightweight web framework in Crystal
/æˈskinəmə/ for me
The surplus value wasn't provided by you though, the people who built the company added it. I know that I wouldn't make enough contributions to warrant my current salary if I worked for most other companies than the one I work for now, so they actually give me more money than the value I bring. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
> Say you've built a database that underlies reporting infrastructure that underlies all decision-making in the entire company. Bringing in somebody else to look after the database is a risk that a company usually won't want to take. Ramping up somebody else to learn about the system is a cost they won't want to incur. Congratulations: You're stuck looking after that database for the rest of your time at that organization. That's the reward you get for having done a good job at building that database.

FWIW my experience at top tech company is very different. If an engineer did this and was unable to communicate, cross-train, and scale themselves beyond their direct ability to maintain, they would never make it to principal -- or any other coveted technical career path promotion.
AFAIK the reason one does this is because one can (in most non-shitty databases cough cough) apply most or all transformations to schema inside a transaction, and also write the current version in that transaction, such that if the transaction completes the risk that the version you think the DB is on and the version it's actually on don't match is minimized, if not eliminated. You can't really get that unless you tie it to the transaction on the DB level, which means writing a version somewhere in the DB, in some fashion.
Debatable. The unvaccinated will eventually generate some sort of mutant Measles that will kill those who follow good advice.

Or moms who have their kids go vegan (with essential oils for extra help!).
Best Practices for Navigating an API's Documentation
> If you need a little bit of money to grow your business modestly, you can raise a lot of money from SoftBank to grow your business crazily, and then put most of it in the bank and use a little bit of it to grow modestly instead. SoftBank will be disappointed with the modest growth, and you can say “sorry it didn’t work out” and then buy them out at a lower valuation with the money you have left over from not growing your business crazily. Free (modest) growth capital!

It's interesting how much SoftBank has screwed themselves with their strategy lately in such high profile ways. I wonder if this is unique to SoftBank or if there's other big VCs that are experiencing similar problems and flying under the radar.

Who funded Evernote in and out of the unicorn club?
>From my experience, always expect some nasty PRs in the beginning. Just because someone hired you doesn't mean you're entitled to respect, and many teams will make you earn it.

Sounds pretty toxic tbh.
Counterpoint: the anti-poaching agreements between Apple, Google, and others [1] shows that other than better non-compete statutes, SV isn’t any better than any other place, especially if the largest employers want to collude to prevent hiring one another’s employees.

It’s unhelpful to fall into the trap of thinking the Valley is any better than any other place.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust...
This is Cisco's model: two employees (or groups of employees) leave to develop some new tech, raising money and building staff in the process. In the end Cisco buys the one that gets traction and if the other fails the people can go back to Cisco.

It is a way of providing engineering bonuses without messing up the internal politics.

I have a neighbor who did this twice. Apparently that's not that common: I mentioned that in a random conversation once and the person I was talking to said "Oh, you live near XXX?"
or penisland.net. I'm afraid to look it up at work but as of a few years ago, it's still active.
Frenchbee also run them 3-4-3: https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/French_bee_Airlines/French...

Unlike Lufthansa which runs them 3-3-3: https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Lufthansa/Lufthansa_Airbus...

Interestingly enough that means they're 32'' pitch 16'' width, where most airlines run those 31'' 17''. So depending on your body size, one can be worse than the other...
> How does one transition into management without prior management experience?

You don't.

You build management experience.

1. Manage an intern.

2. Manage a junior's project.

3. Lead a three-person project.

4. Fill in for your manager's organizational work (planning meetings, higher level status syncs, etc) when they are on vacation.

Talk to your manager about doing these things, and why you want to do them. If the conversation doesn't go well, then you're in the wrong org to make it work.
Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript
Bay Area Legoland Holding Contest to Find ‘Master Model Builder’
When I said "we don't have a mechanism" I meant that it's not spelled out in the Constitution, e.g. how the process for Amendments is in there. It's basically just "common sense" that if everyone agrees, you can change whatever you want.

I do agree that it should be extremely difficult, and it obviously is.
Creating an Open Reviews Ecosystem to Make Insights Accessible
Those down files probably rarely receive as much implicit or explicit testing as the up files, too. I sure wouldn't trust them, in most cases.
Mac Pro Build to Order Options
I was under the impression that blackhat SEO only worked 5 or more years ago. Aren't those days completely gone?
The GNU make documentation is the best introduction to make I know of, and a stellar example of technical writing.

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
note that "the model" is the writer of the story.

these seats are an improvement but airlines have long been user hostile, so it's understandable that folks are skeptical.
If Apple thinks engineers are valuable, they can pay them more.

It’s unfortunate that the big companies in CA (with Steve Job’s support) worked with business leaders to surprises the wages of scientists and engineers.

Note: this moment we are living in is a historic shift in power centers as have always existed in western democracies; that is, business/law/finance have always held the keys to the kingdom. These nerdy engineer types were never a threat to the power structure until now.
Do we live on the same planet? Tech jobs are insanely awesome compared to basically every other job out there. I've consulted for unicorns, the amenities for employees are ridiculous. Employees are incredibly sought after and can (and many do) regularly shop themselves around for better offers.
Pretty much, I expect California to dismiss unless he has a contract where he waived his rights.
Free WEBINAR Start boosting your career in 2020 using Behavioral Science
Well, the ransomware will continue spreading, if it operates autonomously, independent of whether the decryptor works. New ransomware might not be created however
Predicting a protein's behavior from its appearance
Could be, but that's even worse because it means their people are better at keeping their systems non-corrupt in a way that we have failed.
Citron Research on Peloton Share Price Target
Yes, yes I can.

I’m lucky my employer has a really fair moonlighting policy (basically, I can’t use company equipment for my outside projects and I can’t get paid to talk about stuff I explicitly learned at work), but many large tech companies assign ownership to any code you write, whether it’s a side project or not.
I wish airlines would just pump knockout gas into the cabin so I can skip the whole flight experience.
Want a White-Collar Career Without College Debt? Become an Apprentice
Arrow-Debreu isn't all it's cracked up to be: http://frankackerman.com/publications/economictheory/Interpr...
In addition (and this is slightly offtopic to the lawsuit itself, apologies), aside from a few high profile open source projects like LLVM that help drive their business, the default is that Apple employees are not allowed to contribute to open source projects. This is why you see so few Apple contributors in open source projects. This is in sharp contrast to, say, Google, which actively encourages open source work in a number of ways. Making it relevant to the original topic, that's a fairly common path for people to bring technology out of the company. I'd personally argue that it's ethical, ethical, and of benefit to society. Whether companies think that such lenient approaches to open source benefit them apparently vary pretty widely from company to company.
Marie Fredriksson, Swedish Lead Singer of Roxette, Has Died
I definitely prefer ALSA to whatever windows tries to do with sound when working with sound card radio systems. I've had way too many problems with windows just arbitrarily rerouting things and switching input/output devices with no user input.
? Apple is beholden to China more than the other two.
Germany Edges Out Norway as Europe's No. 1 EV Market
U.S. Says Accused Apple Secrets Thief Had Patriot Missile File
That’s a good point, yes. I definitely feel more at ease when I know there’s a migration path should it become necessary.
Reminds me of the Mitchell & Webb Look sketch where it goes like this:

> Second Nazi: Have you noticed that our caps actually have little pictures of skulls on them?
> Hans: I don't... er-
> Second Nazi: Hans... are we the baddies?

People going around helping monarchies (and/or democracies) to implement mass surveillance on journalists and human rights activists, with projects' named things like DREAD, should start asking themselves that question...
Some of these were removed from zoning because they weren't fantastic housing. I've been in a bunch of those old boarding houses (several existed near my university) and they were relatively terrible structures with minimal privacy and universal rodent issues.
It's hard not to be cynical, especially when some airlines have solved this problem the old fashioned way - by providing a reasonable amount of space in the first place. I'd rather airlines find a way to match the dimensions of Jet Blue than come up with "innovations" that make their unrealistic seat dimensions slightly less miserable.
More than themselves Softbank has/is harming the entrepreneurs who now think having modest growth is something one should never aspire for. They see headlines of billions of dollars in funding and assume this is the norm and if they don't get so much of funding then they have not succeeded.

But of course, the Softbank doesn't care - they have a different vision.
Fair enough, but the WSJ article states that "Away said the CEO search has been under way since this spring", so it is not simply Gruber's speculation that the CEO search was long.
I dunno, I just did some back-of-the-envelope calculations and it seems to be okay:

With 8 high-end GPUs, we see a Blowfish speed of about 100 kilohashes per second. [0]

We assume we're cracking bcrypt strength 10, so we divide this number by 64 (2^10 ÷ hashcat's 2^4), and get about 1500 bcrypt checks-per-second.

There are about 170,000 words in the OED, and we choose 4 at random to give us 170_000^4 = 8.3521 * 10^20.

We can divide by 1500, but that still seems like a lot of seconds. (like, 3.5 ages of the sun)

[0]: https://gist.github.com/epixoip/a83d38f412b4737e99bbef804a27...
I remember someone telling me something about how 'hard' it is to get a good return when you have a massive amount of money. I suppose they meant beat the market or something like that...

But there are so many examples of folks with massive amounts of cash trying to hit it big(er) ... maybe at some point that big wad of cash really is better off in some index fund or some mixed fund that offsets risks or whatever. It seems like shooting for the moon makes people make bad choices because they feel they have to do things differently.. and ignore some obvious missteps.
No, I think I get what you want the first time I read it. So I did a little experiment (just to make sure I'm not wrong about it). I did everything in the command line. I staged a file, then run git commit, when it opened the editor, I switched to another terminal window and staged another file. Then I switched back and finished committing. And surely enough, just as I expected - git did not commit two files, but only one and the other stayed staged.

So the feature you're asking is not even supported by Git.

And the reason you want that feature, because Magit has spoiled you - when almost everything is nonlinear (unlike with git cmd), you want to extend it even further. Let's be pragmatic, don't complain that it is great that Tesla has autopilot option but you actually wanted it to be an amphibious vehicle, because you live next to a lake.
Use of nanoparticles for detection of vascular calcification in atherosclerosis
Totally depends on your employment contract. Plenty of large places and even smaller places take a “we own everything you create” clause.

Now, now enforceable it is often depends, but the Oculus case is just one major example of how a company can assert ownership of IP created outside of work hours.
Think off all the people that would have moved for life and live, but were imprisoned in their cars for that commute.
That doesn't mean there isn't more value to extract for workers—very probably there is—or more that could be done to even out availability of things like parental leave, for example, or that an easy, cheap, acceptable route to professional and legal counsel & insurances outside the direct control of the company one is working for wouldn't be very valuable—and besides, the overwhelming majority of tech jobs aren't the kind you're talking about, even restricting ourselves to the US.

[EDIT] more to the point, if your company doesn't say things like "you know, this contract pays really well, no need to negotiate for more even if we think we could get it" there's no reason employees should have that kind of attitude about their pay & work conditions.
When I saw the name I thought of towel.blinkenlights.nl
Bitcoin is not a currency in its common sense, it is a speculative asset. Call everything meaningless is pretty meaningless as well.

>> Comparing it to the marketcaps of companies is even more meaningless

Wrong.

>> And comparing Bitcoin trade volume with stock trade volume is another meaningless thing.

Wrong.
I've never had that issue. Make existed on all Mac systems I've worked on. Perhaps it got pulled in via other tools, but recently I ran into an issue with the Make on my Mac, and only because the version out of the box is a 3.x, from 2006.
It's got 80-120 ish bits of entropy, why is it not secure?

(Assuming you're not referring to it literally being a well known password from a web comic.)
“We have a SaaS that is running well (staff scheduling) since a couple of years”
…
“I hadn’t a SaaS "running well", nor a real product ^^”

"Just before turning off the light, I sent a message to my brother. I asked him to like my post to get a bit of visibility."

Ultimately, I don't think these things make a lick of difference. But it seems so common for "growth hackers" to do kinda sleazy crap like this. Why's this type of behavior so common?
Much of this is due to the way that some very vocal engineers have said that they want to be treated.

Look at the growth of Agile (the reality of what it is, not the manifesto, confuse those two at your peril) and the growth of the Product Manager role in tech. As engineering groups have ceded their position and complained about having to be in meetings, only being responsible for the systems running and not much else, having others tell them exactly what they want done, those responsibilities and tasks have either been picked up by existing groups or had new groups created to handle them.

What we're seeing today is the natural growth of that. That's one of the reasons why we're seeing the huge interest in the no-code space. Engineering has managed to turn itself back into a cost center and is being viewed by the business side of the house as a necessary pain vs a beneficial resource.
Why would I believe anything Boing's PR says if nobody went to prison for endangering so many people's lives?

It makes sense that sensors on an expensive plane shouldn't malfunction so early.
OpenLayers was one of the first open source libraries of this kind; sadly it's lost some development momentum back when everyone was using it in 2008 or so, and nearly everyone switched to (then faster) alternatives like Leaflet.
I’ve very rarely seen engineering managers that didn’t come from being an engineer. Most lower level manager interviews (at least in the valley) still involve a significant amount of technical questions to weed out people that don’t have a solid engineering background.

If you are talking more about executives this has also been true at places I’ve been. Engineering VPs mostly were also engineers at one point, although likely long ago. Conversely I’ve known very few engineering managers / directors / VPs with MBAs.
Pain.
YC Startup School became our ticket to YC. It helped us get all our ducks in the row and really focus on growth for the first time since we founded AXDRAFT. We applied to YC two times before SUS to no avail, but after we got into SUS and managed to get to 20%+ MoM growth there, we got into YC.

The software behind SUS is amazing. Even now after YC, I report our metrics to SUS software, because it keeps you accountable and shows you very clearly how you are doing.

I recommend YC SUS to all startups that ask me for advice and if you want to get into YC - start with SUS.
Underpriced Repo Risks May Push Fed Toward QE4, Pozsar Says
> Do these people even understand how the rest of the country lives? Perhaps some of those well compensated but eager to organize tech workers should focus their organization efforts where it can actually help people.

Unions (or some type of effective worker organization) should be an all-workers thing, not a some-workers thing.

> For example, setting up a union for the gig economy workers that deliver their food, drive them around, pack their amazon packages, or run their errands

Tech workers can't "set up" a union for gig economy workers, that would be patronizing and ineffective. The gig economy workers need to do that for themselves if their union is to have any teeth. What tech workers can do is have a union that can give support to the gig worker union.

Also the tech workers who bask in the gig economy are probably a different group than the tech workers who are trying to organize, and it's misleading to conflate them.
It won't happen for a much simpler reason: tech workers are not disenfranchised. They enjoy amazing pay and have tons of options. Tech workers, as a class, are generally not suffering under anyone's yoke, much less the yoke of their employer. Companies are falling over themselves trying to attract talent.
Aren't amendments basically that?

Historically they've been pithy, but there's nothing stopping someone from proposing an Amendment that says "Article 1 of the Constitution is hereby replaced by.... Article 2 is hereby replaced by...."
Ha, that's funny. I drink an extra cup of coffee when I get to the office, to add to the one I have with breakfast at home.

I would get the worst headache on the weekends until I realized my body was expecting that second cup.
The full report on this is fascinating - https://citronresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Citron...
You mean clearing a cache? I don't understand. Using a proxy to protect yourself from missing dependencies/down servers is a bad thing now?
38 states are needed to amend, not 50.
It exists at my company, for sure. In the past year, I’ve seen 3 engineers on my team or closely affiliated teams start up the management track. We even have a 3 month trial period for IC’s turned manager. During this period, the new manager is mentored by an existing manager. At the end of the 3 months, they can decide to continue as a full manager or step back down to IC, no questions asked.
Maybe Masayoshi Son secretly hates Mohammad bin Salman and the whole Softbank Vision Fund was just a clever way to basically light Saudi oil money on fire while maintaining plausible deniability.

Looking at Softbank's investments, I am having trouble coming up with a better explanation for their behavior.
Weird, works like a charm for me...

$ aplaymidi -l

14:0 Midi Through Midi Through Port-0
28:0 MT4 MT4 MIDI 1
28:1 MT4 MT4 MIDI 2
28:2 MT4 MT4 MIDI 3
28:3 MT4 MT4 MIDI 4
28:4 MT4 MT4 Broadcast
32:0 USB Midi USB Midi MIDI 1
36:0 LPD8 LPD8 MIDI 1
40:0 Axoloti Core Axoloti Core MIDI 1
44:0 LPK25 LPK25 MIDI 1
"Anti-war" after 9/11 = don't support the troops

"Anti-ICE" after 2016 = don't support borders
Show HN: Use and pay for just one tool to chat with your team and your customers
I don't agree. Users are hostile to their own comfort, with the vast majority of travelers focused exclusively on price. Air travel has never been cheaper, and a less comfortable seat is a big part of that tradeoff.
As a kid I was fascinated by the garbage truck lifting arm, as well as any other cool mechanism I saw. I’m a robotics engineer now.
Over $50k when maxed out with a 28 core processor and 1.5TB of RAM.
Anyone know how OpenLayers compares to Leaflet today?
From my experience, clicking the "build" button (or using the equivalent keyboard shortcut) in Visual Studio.
Going to throw out my 2 cents here:

1. I don't like multiple makefiles. Icky with lots of duplication and high maintenance. Bad article.

2. When possible I use target expansion to generate targets in the main makefile:

APPS:= app1 app2 app3

$(APPS:%=build.%)

3. I prefer to use makefile functions rather than reaching for "bash" where possible: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Functions...

4. If something is really complicated - extract to bash

Make has been written in 10K languages and the original is still the best