skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take everything this guy says with a grain of salt. His phone business appears to be a scam.

These paragraphs caught my eye:

> The Figgers F3, which went on sale in 2019, contains a chip designed to enable wireless charging whenever the phone is within five metres of a "super base charger" - a device that has been awaiting approval by the FCC.

> The marketing of the F3 caused controversy, with some bloggers arguing that not all of the first model's features were as up-to-date as they said they had been led to believe.

Some quick Googling shows that the Figgers F3 is actually just a rebranded $200 Oukitel u23.

Figgers apparently claimed that the phone had wireless charging at a range of 5 meters (impossible), a Snapdragon 855 (it has a cheap MediaTek chipset), a 4K screen (it doesn't), and 1TB of storage (only 128GB built-in, but it has a microSD card slot).

You can also find press releases saying "Figgers F3 is first 5G smartphone made in America with 5-meter wireless charging" which is clearly untrue, as Oukitel is a Chinese company and the Oukitel u23 is made in China.

More drama with trying to pay off YouTube influencers can be found on Reddit. Supposedly Figgers tried to pay a YouTuber $34,000 to shill the phone, but the YouTubers have turned on them after realizing it was a scam: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/gtujqx/figgers_wir...

It appears this guy's phone company is a scam, regardless of the truth of his origin story.
Anonymous group issues warning for Elon Musk for Bitcoin market manipulation
I have always thought that the particular combination in place for setting Steve Jobs on his course was the doting devotion of his older than typical dedicated and adoring adoptive parents and the fact that he was a pretty boy to his social advantage when at high school. This combination created a manipulating and charming young man who could talk to older people and command respect of less experienced peers in the necessary ways to organise their energies.
Some ideas really, really need to be killed fast.

The example that comes to mind for me is a non-engineer suggesting we relax important security constraints in a meeting with non-engineering decision makers present. In this case, the entire line of thinking is that it's acceptable to e.g. store unhashed passwords in the DB and not implement CSRF protection if it gives the team time to do other tasks, and it needs to be made clear that it's totally unacceptable to trade speed for safety.

It's almost always possible to explain why you shouldn't make a bad tradeoff like that, though.
They'll just send a NSL instead.
These are outdated narratives. Network effects are much more the cause of success of such people ie where they were geographically and who they were surrounded by - https://www.nfx.com/post/your-life-network-effects/
Probably a breach of contract but maybe you could have convinced your neighbors to share their connection
I don't agree that domestic law always wins. It all depends on the situation.

If a country's domestic law violates international law, the extent to which that country gets away with it depends a lot on how powerful that country is. Great powers have much more ability to violate international law with impunity than small countries do.

And in this particular case, it is not that US law and international law are actually in conflict. It is just they assign different meanings to the same words. Even the US government generally accepts the internationally standard meanings in international fora.
Thanks for these insights!

Analogy to movie production is spot on, I think. I suppose game dev is also different from other software/tech products because releasing continuous updates is harder. Also, players expect more from the first published version of a game: it shouldn't merely be playable (compare: early adopters could pay money for a SaaS MVP) but already polished, fun, engaging, well-designed. I've never worked on hardware products or products in heavily regulated areas, like health care, but I suppose the production cycle is just as tough.
Books for First Time CTOs
Does anyone know any books for first time tech founders?

I've read Joel Beasley's Modern CTO. It's a concise and crisp book! Super refreshing

What other books do you know? Currently I am in the edtech/jobtech space @ kinobi.asia. Am thinking how to level up to give even more value to the students in SEA region
Has he show any remorse for ordering hits on people yet?
Michelin's inflatable boat sails aim to decarbonize large ships
And if you need to spend it from day to day it's both inconvenient and often worth a fair bit less than the day before. It's increased float price vs. USD over the years may make it a reasonable investment for those with a tolerance for high risk. Not so much for a population where the median annual income is about $4,000 and the average person is probably living close enough to the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy that they can't just sit back and HODL when BTC prices go into hibernation for a year.

If there's a place in the world that would currently be a good test bed for a country to make BTC legal tender, it's not El Salvador. Its population simply isn't in a position take much of a risk moving from hard currency like the USD to a volatile asset class.
I think we're gonna see a lot of companies move towards predominately in office work at least a few days a week, while having some specific teams working remotely full time to satisfy the people who want to do that.

I think in general, a lot of people are going to prefer a 3/2 hybrid of wfh for software positions.

Im personally pretty excited to go back to the office, as Ive found myself hating wfh quite a bit.
If you just say "what about <showstopper>?" without offering a way to continue the discussion, then you might come off as TWWP. I would suggest that it could be phrased in a more constructive way, which was the point I tried to make in the article.

Instead of "what about <showstopper>?" you could say "I think that might be a reasonable solution. What impact will <showstopper> have on it?" and now you've validated the good and brought up the potential showstopper without shutting down the conversation about it.
You end up with N lists to merge, so to find the smallest head at each given time, you'd take log(N) steps.

Given that you have N^2 elements, it would take a total of N^2 log(N) time, which is equivalent in time complexity to simply sorting a list with N^2 elements.
Presumably, in El Salvador, salaries would be denominated in BTC. That's the only thing that'd make any sense. (And, barring external regulatory force, it's very likely to be what a free job market where employees mostly spend BTC would move to doing.)
I think a lot of the existing SV salaries are there to hog all the talent from competitors. MS can't build a better Bing if Google hires all the search engine experts.
The US doesn't operate a great firewall. I don't dispute the capabilities that the NSA, CSE, GCHQ/five eyes partners have, or presently operate, but what matters to me is the results in human rights abuses, freedom of the press and freedom of speech abuses, arbitrary detention, and censorship of the Internet that results from it.

If I had to make the purely pragmatic lesser of two evils choice between the US domestic telecom system as it's run right now (day job is senior network engineer for an ISP), and how telecom is done in China, I'll take the US/NATO approach any day of the week. I don't have time to go into great detail without violating a whole boatload of NDAs and other restrictions, but to use a crude metaphor, suffice to say that I've seen how the sausage is made.

Also if I may point out, a low effort comment engaging in nothing but "whataboutism" is barely a step above flamebait.
A commenter named decremental

And to Hacker News he sent all

His very best rhymes

And wasted their times

The downvoters thought he was mental
I couldn't get "Voldemort" to rhyme.
The prevailing wisdom, previous to Covid, was that you had to be colocated in an open floor plan, sitting next to each other, and overhearing conversations, in order to facilitate collaboration. Now many companies that spearheaded this (not including Apple, apparently) are saying you don't even have to be in the same building -- or even in the same city! What a turn around! Was the open floor plan thing erroneous?
I'm not the author but I've written a lot of OT code. OT works great when you have a centralised server. Its fast and simple. I (and others) are working on it but there aren't many production quality, fast CRDT implementations in rust and other languages yet.
Yeah, and look no surprise from your profile that you lead an org. It's so funny to me that people are arguing in this thread what should be tolerated from candidates without considering for a second what is actually needed to get the work done and have the team function.

There's such a thing as reasonable accommodation. When we all went to WFH when Covid hit, it was totally understandable that people had bad setups, family complexities, etc. and all companies (that I am familiar with) were totally cool with that, and supported employees through it - eg provided equipment or WFH stipends.

But now it's like a year down the road, and it's basic competency of a professional to ensure that they are able to work productively. Mid 2021, there's no excuse for having consistently bad video meetings if video meetings are at all central to your job. It basically means a combination of you not caring about your productivity, not caring about your colleagues, and not being able to solve problems - which for any medium-seniority and above role is frankly not a good sign.

Your point about the Indian dude with a generator is a good one. I bet he also keeps weird hours so he can overlap with the team (assuming the rest of the team is based outside of India.) It's basic stuff, if you want flexibility of remote work from wherever you want, you also have the responsibility of making it feasible.
There are already enough people using password managers that they’re a target.

If they were as easy targets as you imply, then they’d already be exploited.

The fact they’re not demonstrates that’s reused passwords is lower hanging fruit.
This reminds me of how I was fascinated by N-body simulations and fractals in high school, and then later found out there are much better ways of calculating both gravity and the Mandelbrot set than the obvious ones.

(i.e. tree methods like Barnes-Hut for gravity and perturbation theory for Mandelbrot)
Maybe you should actually check the blocks. If your transaction pays fee 5 cents it would easily get included in the mined blocks. Often immediately.

As I mentioned, if people are using wallets or exchanges that set the fee higher, that's their fault. They are stupidly overpaying and that's why average is high.

Since mempool is currently empty, the blocks include transactions with 1 sat/vB. For average transaction with 140vB that would be 140 sats, which is currently ~0.05 USD.
> While the writing group was relatively small, it reportedly began in a "remote work advocates" Slack channel with about 2,800 members. If so, it might reflect the concerns of a significant number of Apple's non-retail employees.

I’m at a different tech company where employees penned a letter to leadership on another matter, which was picked up by news outlets.

And that group wasn’t influential at all - they just happened to be the loudest people. If anything, the news media made the issue appear to be orders of magnitude more significant than it really was. Quite frankly, most people didn’t care.

IMO there’s really no “news” here. This is clickbait. There are differences in opinions on what office vs remote work looks like in a post COVID world, and that applies to pretty much every company including my own.

The slack channel has 2800 people? How is that relevant?
My guess is that they have some sort of photo, screenshot, or video that happens to show that a suspect had this page open on a computer or mobile phone, and that they can reliably date the time of this photo or video.

Depending on details, it may not be an unreasonable request. The question is more one of trust: do we trust the FBI that it's a reasonable request?

This is why all the stuff like the activities the Snowden leaks demonstrated or Trump's idiotic harassment of the press through the DOJ are so harmful far beyond the direct harm they did: they justifiable and seriously erode trust, and then there is a serious case like this and "trust us" no longer carries any value. A sad state of affairs where everyone loses.
I feel like Apple will not have a problem replacing eighty people.
https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook/blob/develop/03_how_ln_work... is a reasonable explanation of you're interested in the technical aspects.
The thing is that even he died eventually, though. Death is scary because we don't know what happens in the afterlife, but if it isn't suffering, that means all suffering is temporary.
Sure, but exactly how would you build something that's robust against that kind of access?

If you leave cryptographic keys lying around unprotected they should be assumed to be compromised.
I think it's a real crapshoot, most of the time having kids is a net positive in the long run but you could get unlucky and end up with a child requiring nonstop attention for the rest of his/her life due to various medical conditions and that kind of thing totally annihilates your way of life forever.

I have witnessed it firsthand.
Also hah! I saw someone once counter, "If category theory is so universally useful, tell me how it helps the study of differential equations?" The ISA "sprint" https://www.ias.edu/math/sp/hprinciple_flex_geometry_pdes referenced by the article mentions PDEs and Fukaya categories, which I hadn't heard of, so hah!

Just don't ask me to explain it :D
I would like to interject that Earth changes very very rapidly and humans never remember what it was like just 20 years ago. Most of the natural forests in the United States have been a ravished and destroyed. Yet people are still worried about the environment but not concerned about tearing down a quarter acre of the forest for their house. The snowflake never feels responsible for the avalanche. My grandpa told me stories of squirrels that could go from Cincinnati to Apalachicola on the tops of chestnut trees and never touch the ground, now you'll never find one chestnut tree the whole way.
I thought that Limerick poems have to start with a reference to a place or town. The name Limerick the eponymous origin for the style.

Essential to traditional Limerick poetry is also a unfortunate or humerous last line.

I don't know why I have no idea what is the unrepeatable word omitted and then cause by omission for praise, but it would be in classic Limerick form to use it at the end where it remains unspoken for effect and publishing eligibility.
We had hybrid and hot desking before COVID and it was a bit of a pain to deal with.

- the hot desks never had the correct dock stations for people's laptops, or "good" chairs had been stolen and left with the sketchy one with the broken wheel.

- The people you actually need to talk with will naturally come into the office on a completely different schedule, so they'll only have one overlap day with you.

- Everybody else will need to talk with them too, so it'll be impossible to get face time when you're in the office and everybody will be pissed off at each other because of all the meetings.

- All business will get done on zoom those other two days.
Good question! I'm not aware of any end-to-end encryption scheme that commutes with OT, so probably can't do it as long as you have a central server doing transformations like Rustpad.

That said, if you use a sequence CRDT-based editor like Yjs, this avoids the central server problem entirely. Rustpad is a small branch-off of a longer-term project / product I've been working on which requires collaborative editing, so having a central server was part of the equation from the start.
....It's just Hackers...
> but that doesn't answer the question of why they made the request in the first place

most likely the fbi was monitoring some website somewhere and the person of interest posted a link to or talked about the article and it was 35 min after the story was posted when the guy linked to it.
That is certainly one pattern we see repeating, but I don't think it's what is happening with many of the big tech companies. They're opting for the alternative where tackling 90% of support requests is highly efficient because those requests are simply routed to /dev/null.

In one sense, it's hard to blame them. After all, if no-one who matters to their revenue stream is actually going to change behaviour because of that dismissive policy, it saves them all the overheads of providing useful support and costs them practically nothing. It's just good business, right?

What is strange is how they've got away with it for so long and most people still don't seem to be switching to alternatives, even as the tech giants casually squash them without even noticing. At some point around here, the words "competition" and "regulation" enter the room.
There’s this really weird press release that seems to be written by a third party, in weird English: https://figgers.com/news/figgers-f3-is-made-in-america-smart...
Tiananmen Square Tank Man Vanishes from Microsoft Bing, DuckDuckGo
I think I addressed most of your issues in my response to DFHippie above, but I think I can at least address your more specific issues. To be clear, my central issue is with putting the onus on individuals to make the difference. I don't see sufficient evidence to suggest that individual voluntary collective action is capable of making a difference in regards to global carbon emissions, and I think that communicating so is not appropriate. I see it as largely misguided virtue signalling that is largely counter productive.

>My opinion is that large-scale cultural change must start at an individual level

I formerly held this belief, but I do not hold this belief currently. As far as I've seen, large-scale cultural change appears to be most readily demonstrated through forced coercion, systematic changes to the central governments, and massive advances in technology. Its a nice idea that we can all be the change we want to see and that we can change the world that way. I haven't seen evidence of it in my lifetime. Individual collective actions in the forms of protest movements have largely failed to accomplish their goals (Seattle 99, Protests against the war in Iraq/Agh, Occupy, Hong Kong, BLM). Things aren't getting better, they're largely getting worse, and those who are predisposed to take action keep focusing on types and modes of action which are demonstrated to be ineffective (advocating for people to individually become vegetarian, as opposed to finding ways of gaining power either within or over the system). People take to these modes of action because they're accessible.

I can stop eating meat. I can recycle. I can not eat some about to go extinct fish. My argument is that individual action doesn't appear to be making any difference at all. There is effectively no reduction to the amount of carbon in the atmosphere based on the % of people who have adopted vegetarianism in the previous 60 years. Arguing that people should, as individuals, go vegetarian to protect the environment, is like arguing that we should turn a fan on while the room is on fire because its getting hot in here.
I am terrified by #pragma once due to issues with relative include paths sometimes being mixed with absolute ones in various situations (none of which I personally cause). I recommend reading this post on StackOverflow by a GCC/autoconf maintainer on why he believes it is actually impossible to make it work correctly. I imagine it is thereby not in the standard, despite being widely implemented, "for good reason".

https://stackoverflow.com/a/34884735

> (Historical note: The only reason I didn't rip #pragma once and #import out of GCC when I had the authority to do so, ~12 years ago, was Apple's system headers relying on them. In retrospect, that shouldn't have stopped me.)
They have to realize that Apple is going to want to use that HQ sooner or later. Can see you quickly becoming a second class of employee if you tried to do full remote at Apple.
How else is the article going to create discord if they can't take a kernel of truth and extrapolate it to make it seem like something bigger?
I'm not sure why you weren't able to change color. It shouldn't be blocked by a browser extension; it's just a button.

Unfortunately the Docker image is built on an x86_64 platform.
venus protocol
Yea Im personally not a fan of hybrid work if you have a team oriented job, but I think a lot of people will insist on it for at least a while. I think some places might make it work, but overall people will trend back towards wanting to go into the office.

The consensus opinion on HN of people wanting to stay remote is not generally the most popular from what Ive found talking to "normal" people.
It will also massively increase the complexity of doing taxes for smaller businesses. It wouldn't surprise me if it lead to even more websites going "sorry, we value customers from your country, but we cannot serve this content to you".

Imagine running a small business and somebody from Algeria wishes to purchase your software. Is the $5 you make worth having to file Algerian taxes?

I mention this, because this is something that happened with YouTube this month. Content creators have to give their tax info to YouTube because the US is now charging taxes from creators outside the US on money they made on US customers.

Edit: as was pointed out - there's a minimum $10 million threshold. That makes it far more reasonable.
So... 4 solutions which each amount to "have gobs of money to drop on maybe fixing an issue"?

I'd hate to see your advice on dress codes. "Just wear Armani, and don't show up unless you've got those tailored"
Most are probably contractors and H1B's who have the fear of job loss hovering over their heads. Apple is Tim Cooks life and legacy, he has nothing else but that company and like all crazy fucking people in those positions probably believes it should hold the same importance to every last employee. I can understand if your twenty something full of piss and vinegar and think your going to change the world, but you have to be nuts or desperate (H1B's/Contractors excused) to give your life to a job once you have a family.
Still even if they had such a screen shot I don't get how reading a news article about a sex offender would be incrimnating even if you were a sex offender yourself.

That said...https://www.cbsnews.com/news/luka-magnotta-wanted-for-canada...
Yes, it was absolutely cutting off the nose to spite the face on the rich EU countries (well, Germany's) part. Disgusting and shameful.
There isn't monetary deflation in bitcoin (expect for lost coins).

As a global reserve currency, bitcoin would act as an "index fund of everything". Economy is expected to grow, but it's not guaranteed. Which means that there's always a non-zero risk associated to it. There's more risk on short time scales, and less risk on long time scales.
> Why does it matter how many dollars the beer is worth?

Because you can buy beer for dollars, so if your local beer costs 50$ in BTC it makes sense to sell BTC for USD and order beer. And if your beer suddenly costs 0.001$ in BTC it makes sense to sell it off to someone in USD and refuse selling in BTC.

> It is worth the same number of bitcoins yesterday, today, and tomorrow. That's the only stability that is relevant.

This is the most idiotic argument ever, if this was true it would be irrelevant if a currency depreciates/appreciates.