skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.everynda.com/blog/beware-residuals-clauses-nda/

We ended up signing it, but I went back and forth with their counsel to neuter this clause so that it was significantly safer:

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, Recipient may use Residual Knowledge, subject to
Provider’s valid patents, copyrights[, trade secrets], and mask work rights. [For the avoidance of doubt, no license is granted to the Recipient for any of Provider’s Confidential Information, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, or mask work rights.] "Residual Knowledge" means any information that is retained in the unaided memories of Recipient's Representatives who have had access to Confidential Information of Provider[, without specific or intentional memorization or reference to any written or electronic information or documentation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Residual Knowledge may only be used for internal purposes by Recipient, and Recipient may not disclose Provider’s Confidential Information to third parties under any circumstance except as outlined elsewhere in this Agreement.]

The parts in [ ] were added by me. We tried to neuter the clause as best we could; they really wanted to have one in there, for whatever reason, so my focus was on neutering it rather than arguing to remove it. There are always other concessions in a negotiation from the other side. :)
If this is a product targeted to investors looking to make far more than $19/mo from their investments, then this price is fair, no?
If so, then the lawsuit would likely be dismissed for lack of standing.

(Yes, yes, they may have loaned more copies of a particular work than they had, but those loans have expired now.)
I’m sure part of this is consumer preference. We are 100% web at the moment and customers ask for an app all the time. Reasons they give:

- They want native notifications, not email or SMS.

- They perceive that web will be more difficult to log into.

- The don’t know how to install a website onto their phone like an app.

(For context, we are Bottomless.com, YC W19.)
RISC-V still seems overhyped to me. It would be nice to see working examples being used competitively.
If you have a perpetual license like Apple and many others do - that's a mandate to honor it forever.
> create a serious styling framework

For example?
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The problem with ARM is when a customer asks to add a single new instruction, ARM say yes sure, that will be $10M+ please dearest customer.

No wonder everyone is jumping the ship over to RISCV.

Soft Bank did not do its due diligence, did anyone at SoftBank hear of RISCV before buying ARM in 2016?

The writing was on the wall since RISCV ISA was made open source.
Except they get audited by 3rd parties on statements like that, and have controls tested. It's not like they're just ... digital ocean or somebody.
> True, but losing influence on the core component you've pivoted your whole company around, would also be pretty disastrous.

It doesn't seem to have hurt Apple in any of their past transitions.

The fact that Apple could improve their vertical integration by switching to their own silicon, doesn't mean that they need to control every single aspect of it. That rarely happens.

Also, any move by Nvidia to specifically hurt Apple would be not only detrimental to their own business, but likely an easy target for a lawsuit.
ARM management has historically been anything but clueless, they must have their reasons for putting it on the market and yours is as good as any that I've seen.

RISC-V is a serious threat to their business model. In a way this is good, CPUs and the surrounding IP should be a (free) commodity, just like operating systems and utilities.
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It is work in progress on a very impressive trajectory.
I can't speak for how effective Fawkes is but I can speak for the process. I just tried this out with 4 images.

One thing that I took notice of was how long the program ran on my computer. It took about 5 and a half minutes to obfuscate 4 images on an i9-9900K with the cpu was pegged at 100% the entire time. I can't imagine how long this would take on a low end laptop: especially if I needed to cloak a lot of images in bulk.

Another thing I noticed is that the discoloration that is applied to the final images can be easily mistaken for bruising. If I were to see someones post on social media and they looked like my results I'd be inclined to think that the poster is recovering from a bad fight or is a victim of abuse.

Other than those two little nit picks the tool is pretty cool! However I don't think I will be using it myself due to the second point.
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Variable fonts are a nice match for rich text editors. They allow you to have any combination of italic and font weight without having to load in a whole font family.
If this just requires USB and HDMI, it should theoretically work identically a for Mac Mini or even something like a Fire TV, yes? Is there an upper limit on resolution and frame rate for the dongle?
Also, it is possible to build systems such that, no, there isn't a 'root' or 'unlimited permission' or whatever. Or that there is, but it's a multi-person credential.

This is one area where AWS takes things MUCH more seriously than it's competition, and they don't talk about it enough publicly.
It's less debatable if the libraries they partner with have records showing that said books were on the stacks behind locked doors and that they used these records to change the number of each title that can be loaned out.

But it is still a pretty big shift in "how to count" that maybe would have gone over better if discussed first. But let's be realistic, the publishers would have done the same thing. They do it over and over again. A lawsuit seems like an unfortunate but probably only sane way to determine if this new counting method is legal enough to pass muster.

I think counting books in libraries you have formally partnered with that are literally locked behind closed doors is extremely reasonable, but I also think copyrights should last like 20-30 years tops so I doubt that I'm in the mainstream.
It's funny you say that, I've seen people pick a tech stack based on developer cost.

Maybe five years back I had a client in NYC who had a predominantly Java stack, but due to internal politics, wouldn't pay more than 135k for a senior developer when the market was wanting at least 25-30k more than that. Everyone they hired was pretty terrible.

At the time, Node developers were cheaper, so we split the application in two, wrapped all the old Java code with APIs, which was then able to be maintained by a small team while the front-end and any new features were all re-written with Node. It was architectural a better system--but the driving factor was really developer cost (the business hated to make any investments in technology).

The problem was that Node got popular and it got harder and harder to hire good Node developers at what the company wanted to pay. They had a big re-org and fired everyone I knew, so I don't know what they are doing now, but I often wonder if they just repeated the process with whatever up-and-coming language was more hip.
Did they actually make that deal about not lending out other people's books?

The article seems somewhat fuzzy on that...
You mean is it a bit naughty to sell something as if it's more than it really is?

I think you could make that case.
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I had a recurring donation until they decided to take a step that was obviously going to get them sued. I support IA's mission and products, but won't throw money in legal proceedings they set themselves to lose; I feel like this is better spent on EFF etc who are serious about it.

I object to modern intellectual property and publishing practices as much as anyone, but what did they expect would happen when they dropped their entire legal justification?
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Make it public domain. While any major corporation could still use it without you being paid, many don't and will request you provide the same code but under a license their lawyers are comfortable with. SQLite sort of runs on this model -- it's public domain, but the author has been asked by many big corps for licenses and pay for them. They also pay for direct support, mods to the code. The testing harnesses and other aspects of the development and testing of SQLite but which are not part of SQLite can be kept entirely proprietary. I don't know if this model would fit for your library, SQLite may have a very different niche as an embedded database, and frankly it is used everywhere, so not sure if that would work in your case, but it's another option to think about.
Their website is literally https://www.spaceforce.mil/
That's the current story - where ARM is independent. If a competitor buys it and decide to not invest as much in ARM or keep things for themselves that's where this discussion plays off. I was saying it won't matter much for Apple but on the other hand Apple buying them would be a much worse outcome for the industry as a whole.
Ironically, the same thing happens with banks under a fractional reserve system. If the bank has $1000 in gold, they can lend out a virtual $9000 of that gold.
The feature that makes D my favorite programming language
Modeling is an art form. In my opinion it's about as likely to be taken over by AI as any other art form.

We have seen AI (or CGI) being used increasingly in film, music and writing, but the highest forms of these arts are not AI, unless they are AI for AI's sake (i.e. as a novelty).

A fintech firm might now be producing daily stock summaries from AI. A Hollywood studio might make use of CGI in its movies. But the highest art form still makes without AI and will continue so for many decades to come.
The ASM-135 was built in the early 80s and shot down a satellite, Bold Orion shot down a satellite in the 50s, what are you on about?
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> With this suit, the publishers are saying that in the digital world, we cannot buy books anymore, we can only license and on their terms; we can only preserve in ways for which they have granted explicit permission, and for only as long as they grant permission; and we cannot lend what we have paid for because we do not own it. This is not a rule of law, this is the rule by license. This does not make sense.

If that's the main argument of IA, they'll have a tough time in court. It's reasonably well established that when it comes to intellectual property, you can refuse to sell it, and only grant a limited license. With some small carve outs like the First Sale doctrine.

They'll need a judge who is willing to legislate from the bench.
Well, no I didn’t think they were doing that much research on startups. Do you know this from experience?
Perhaps but at least for me I wouldn't be investing in every IPO and a large part is just speculation rather than real long term investing. There is no guarantee to making more than $228/year.
Thank you for sharing this feedback, it's something I was wondering. My thinking for this pricing is that if you just act on one of the signals and are right, you will hopefully have a return of more than a year's worth of subscription costs YMMV
>Air Force X-37B

The Air Force X-37B is not a missile or weapon.

>Don't get me wrong, Russia aren't some good guy, but when you actively do a thing for tens of years and then the other guy does that thing, you have no moral high ground left to complain.

Russia tested a satellite-to-satellite weapon which is completely unprecedented militarization of space.

The US has tested ground-based anti-satellite weapons on satellites in decaying Low-Eart Orbits. The debris quickly burned up in the atmosphere.

China is the only country to have blown up a satellite beyond LEO. The debris from that will be in orbit for decades. That was an unprecedented militarization of space and not comparable with anything the US has done in the space.

You are pushing a narrative that the US is the warmonger in space and that Russia is only responding in kind. The truth is that Russia and China are far ahead of the US in weaponizing space. The US is playing catch-up.
Hardware is hard for startups though.
> Nothing feels special about that temperature when I walk outside; it's just somewhere in the middle of "too hot".

It's probably worse then that since "real feel" is strongly influenced by humidity or wind. What I meant is that body temperature is more or less universally applicable to all humans, something relatable but with no benefit over the freezing point of water.

Room temperature isn't that much better. It's a bit more useful than body temperature but far less precise, could be anything between 18 and 24 C depending on who you ask.
This reminded me of the time Amazon started selling diapers at a loss to price-battle diapers.com. They won and ended up buying the parent company.

https://www.vox.com/2017/3/29/15112314/amazon-shutting-down-...
This is really cool! I worked for a startup years ago that had a 1-way setup like this that allowed our two remote teammembers to pop into the office anytime, and it was great.

Bummer to see so much jeering in the comments here. No iteration of this product will be compelling to the "not interacting with people is the best part of remote work" crowd, but they aren't your market. However, I think you might be able to land on something that addresses the privacy concerns while still improving on "in the room"-like serendipity for remote teams.

I've worked on a team that used Mumble audio-chat years ago. Everyone kept it on much of the day with a global push-to-talk key, and it was mostly quiet but super helpful for spontaneous conversations. It's basically like using walkie-talkies, now that I think about it. I wonder if something like that would be compelling here (e.g. I can pop up on your screen on-demand, but I won't see you unless you acknowledge).

Anyway, congrats on the launch. Look forward to seeing where this goes!
The domain name begs to differ.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience with Plotly... I'd be curious to hear more if you're willing to share! Were you working in Python or Javascript or within our GUI?
UFCS is a syntactic sugar in D that enables chaining any regular function on a type (string, number, boolean, etc.) like its member function of that type
After saying that Russia was witnessed "launching a projectile with the characteristics of a weapon." the Air Vice Marshall said "Actions like this threaten the peaceful use of space and risk causing debris that could pose a threat to satellites and the space systems on which the world depends."

My understanding of these words are that it wasn't that Russia having weapons in space per se threatens the peaceful use of space but how they tested their weapons in this case. This is because it risked causing debris and a lot of damage. I don't see the basis for calling out the US for hypocrisy based on this article. I'm unaware of any anti-satellite projectile weapons being tested by the US like this over the past 12 years, I suppose you could call the US a hypocrite for previous tests but that's a bit of a stale accusation given how much more peaceful space activity there has been since then.

Edit: for clarity.
Not quite, unfortunately. Apache's not all that nimble; setting up rewrites for a handful of ips-and-methods is pretty easy, but it doesn't have a built-in way to use an external list of ips (that I'm aware of). I just checked, there are over 1300 tor ips in the result set currently.

I could write a conf.d file to be included in each vhost, and write a script to generate a large rewrite file nightly and "apachectl graceful" it afterward, and that would probably work... but I expect that will have a measurable impact on response times and, again, I'm not hosting governmental sites or anything that could reasonably be considered vital to the health and well-being of innocent tor users.
Something minor that I noticed: You have a 5000x3000px 12mb image squeezed into a 600x400px frame on the landing page. Consider resizing this image to something more reasonable, since you're not using the full resolution anyway. It's very wasteful and led to a bad experience for me due to it taking several seconds to load.
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if the military uses email to communicate, does that constitute the "militarization of email"? I have to imagine that for most people, "militarization of space" means actually putting weapons platforms in space.
The decision isn't made by a trillion dollar 'Amazon'. It's made by a person inside Amazon with a limited budget, whose ROI is critical to their personal financial success. At the end of the day, the decision to compete will be an ROI question, Is it better/cheap enough to roll-my-own, or is it has this outfit done a good enough job that it is better to partner? Outstanding people are a precious commodity, so if the startup is really good, why wouldn't you partner with them? And if mediocre when you are really good, why would you?
They prompt you when you download Garmin Connect about whether you want to upload your data or not. If you choose not to upload then they'll store a local copy and let you look at some basic stats.
For me, your link gave an error: "Something went wrong. We're sorry. This page failed to Outline."
Whataboutism is bad even if we engage in it ourselves. See? That's pretty easy.
My wife (an extrovert) would love this. Me personally (introvert) would hate this. I can already see myself flipping off co-workers and forgetting the video is on :)

What would be cool is if it could read my calendar and I could block out times when I'm busy (no video) or avail ( video).
Yeah I get it and maybe that's true. I honestly don't have enough experience speculating on IPOs or individual stocks in general - most of my assets are in automatically rebalanced target date funds or index funds.

Edit: So for me it is mostly about curiosity and staying informed. Perhaps making occasional bets.
You as as a startup should be fully aware that a big player can enter the space at any time they want. This is not Amazon's problem. It's your problem.

Also, it's a flawed abstraction to view large companies as a monolith: the investing arms are usually very separated from product teams.

TLDR: If a large company wants to enter a space, that's their choice. Accept this as a fact of life if you want to go work on a startup.
Have you ever borrowed a digital book? It's for a limited period of time usually a couple weeks, in an app of some sort. That's what they did, that's CDL.

They temporarily removed waitlists which did allow more people to borrow a title than they had licenses, as physical libraries closed and as schools tried to get online. It was an unprecedented time. They had the support of major libraries. They stopped early when they got sued.

The lawsuit should be dropped.
> It tries to predicts burglaries from past data, based on the assumption that burglars often operate in small areas. If a cluster of burglaries is detected in a neighborhood, the police should patrol that neighborhood more often to put an end to it, the theory goes.

Heaven forbid they just put pins in a map.
As a startup, if a company is serious in investing or buying they will make an offer.

It's a common mistake to be lured into talks that drag out for weeks and months.

If they are serious it will start with an offer.
Along the same lines I launched Taaalk [1] this summer, a social network for conversations. Another HNer launched Debubble [2], a platform for taking Twitter arguments into private discussions.

[1] https://taaalk.co

[2] https://debubble.me
It's still there for me too on my Vivoactive 3.
Sounds like something Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven would write, maybe with some Peter F. Hamilton thrown in for good measure.
Having a free option sounds like a bad idea. Given that your users are by definition people interested in investing money, they should be perfectly suited to pay. Really what they're paying for is time, since they could find all of this info on their own, but their time is worth more than $20 to do so.

Edit: But I do like the idea of a free trial for a week or a month.
You could say that some topics discussed on 4chan are "toxic" but is the discussion in general also toxic? There are no cliques, no friends and foes, no flame wars, just a background level of ad-hominem (i.e. very formalized and short phrases used to express disagreement with the message in the form of ad-hominem). There is no point in slinging insults at other users and no "honor" to protect - everyone is anonymous, there is no identity, not even a pseudonym or post history. It's incredible how much of the discussion (on-line and in real life) is about asserting one's status and preventing others from asserting theirs. Anonymous image boards are free from this.
PBKDF stretching is a mitigation against bad passwords. The difference between PBKDF2 and argon2id is marginal because you'd need to have chosen a password that's in a narrow window between "So bad that PBKDF2 doesn't save you" while "Not so bad that argon2id can't save you either".

Stretching isn't magic. If your password is 'jszymborski' then no practical KDF will prevent bad guys just guessing "Um, maybe it's just jszymborski?" and getting in. And on the other hand if it's two dozen random alphanumerics you can use SHA256() as your KDF and be absolutely fine.

Because their users will (even if told emphatically not to) use bad passwords, Bitwarden needs a PBKDF with stretching here to buy those people more margin, but nit-picking the choice of PBKDF is missing the wood for the trees. As an end user the right thing to do regardless is use good passwords, which of course is how we got here...
I understand the attractions of RISC-V and hope it does prosper but I'm not sure that it's 'free' to the extent that seems to be assumed. Some implementations are open source but others are not and someone has to do the work (and in most cases get paid for it).

Chinese firms may rush to RISC-V but given the geopolitics (e.g. Huawei) I can easily see barriers being put up in the US and elsewhere to cheap chinese RISC-V chips being used everywhere.
I tried something like this, but instead of a KVM, a remote "terminal" for multiseat in Linux. usbip worked fine, but I couldn't get video to work for a damn. The idea was to have the main computer stream video from one seat to the RP and act as a client for the keyboard and mouse attached to the RP using usbip. Had I been able to get the video portion to work, then next step would have been setting the RP to boot to a fullscreen vlc (or what have you) which displayed the gdm login screen from the main computer.
I wouldn't invest in ARM if they can't sell to Chinese companies
yes! its a good start linkedin feed is garbage & twitter is full of trollers.. looks like you only have senior leaders and founders on the platform, what is the response so far?
>Second, lying to children with silly stories is not a solution. It's one thing if you tell the child a funny story with the understanding that the child doesn't really believe it, but rather finds it both amusing to imagine and comprehends the underlying message. It's an entirely different thing to outright lie. Lying is never admissible, certainly never noble, and will only work to undermine trust toward parents and consequently parental authority.

Were you one of those kids who never figured out the Santa Claus thing on your own and is still salty about it?
Why? A library lending someone a book belonging to a partner library
because that library is not easily accessible to the lendee is common practice.
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