skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One way to think about it: some of ink & switch's other projects use hypermerge to manage data/state e.g. https://github.com/automerge/pushpin. In farm, we use hypermerge for data and source code. As a result, not only are farm applications local-first*, the development and distribution of those applications is also local-first and collaborative.

*https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html
Also to take things on their own terms. Too many of these shows try to project somebodies existing values onto wherever they are traveling too.

AB always acted as a humble guest anywhere he traveled and with whomever he was speaking with. It was always refreshing.
Pomodoro is only one method, and it's best for repetitive work. For creative work 60 or 90 min intervals often work better since we operate in 90 min ultradian cycles.

See if you can find anything useful on our blog (or in the course).
A List of companies that use Array Languages
SO: Why do you think they chose what they chose?

If you want to start that conversation, let's start it. I don't think it's gonna look good for conservative, anti-public-safety-net types...
The fact is that "secret sauces" are basically worthless. Every successful business is 99% execution (& luck). A startup, especially in tech, will never be able to base its value on something simple enough for an employee to smuggle out legally (i.e. in their brain).
> Like going to work for McDonalds R&D after leaving Burger King as the VP of product design.

Don't rightly see why there would be any issue with that. If you bring McD IP to BK, then that's an IP theft issue.

> I once worked for a major bank and someone who left another major bank held a meeting with developers of a next-gen platform where he basically explained, in explicit detail, his old employer's entire platform. I would argue a non-compete would be 100% enforceable here.

And I would argue a non-compete should be 100% non-enforceable here. "I learned shit on my previous job" doesn't mean you should not be able to work in the field anymore.
> be financially compensated (significantly, usually on the order of 50% gross salary for the entire period)

I think this is the most important protection that's needed in the US. NCCs for high-level executives with golden parachute clauses actually makes a lot of sense. If their former company is essentially paying them (usually a lot!) after they leave during the NCC period, that is unlikely to get abused and overused.

For anyone who's knowledge and connections is not important enough to those kinds of payouts offered to C-suite execs, NCCs are just a way to bully employees into not leaving.
EDIT: Seriously? I'm getting downvoted for converting an area? Am I the only person who finds a square measured in miles easier to visualize than hundreds of thousands of acres? I'm not minimizing the import of the fire.

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Per google, 200,000 acres = 312.5 square miles. Per GHCI, the square root of that is 17.7. That is, the fire covers area equivalent to a square less than 18 miles on a side.
As a professional services company we have had a few people over the years shop their contract or try to go direct with the client.

They essentially split our gross margin with the client. The client reduces their cost and the employee gets paid more.

Our non-compete mainly is focused on not taking our clients.
Before comment karma was a thing, certain forums and usenet newsgroups didn't really contain constructive arguments or disagreements.
Arm-Chair Quaterbacker response -

"In particular, Telegram encrypts acknowledgement messages, i.e. messages that encode that a previous message was indeed received, but the way it handles the re-sending of unacknowledged messages leaks whether such an acknowledgement was sent and received. "

That ^ bit is indeed of interest. Having this ability could be useful in two ways that immediately spring to mind if I were a 'james bond villain'

I am currently taking a skim through the paper which for the curious is available at https://mtpsym.github.io/paper.pdf (52 pages)

[Edit] Will leave it to those better qualified regarding the math but uhhmm yeah, A good summary is yes, there were somethings that could have been exploited and were patched by the Telegram team and a bug bounty awarded (as noted in the article). The thing I found of interest bit turned out indeed to be in the 'highly theoretical' realm. As in "only on a wet Wednesday when the wind is blowing from the west at a precise angle way"
I just use the desktop app to create/manage the cards, and then on mobile use ankiweb in a browser. That seems to work very well for me.

The best thing is that even if some weeks or even months I do not feel like studying at all, I can just continue with the Anki decks for 5-10 minutes a day to make sure I continue to retain what I had already learned. It has not become my bedtime routine/habit.
All resources are scarce.

But if nobody wants our world and they're scared of intelligent life then just send out Von Neumann probes to ensure intelligence isn't showing up elsewhere. First mover's advantage nullifies the entire dark forest.
Contracts are not foolproof but probably good _enough_ if you’re selling to legitimate businesses.
Cool, hope they expand it to everyone.
> Even a 10x factor would be utterly transformational.

In fairness, the current best option, the Falcon Heavy, is already 35x as cost effective as the Shuttle.

But yes, even in the worst case Starship will be far cheaper.
It normally starts off very small like this 7%, they have to get a beach-head as it were and get SOME boundaries set up, then it's just a matter of extending that boundary, such that it can't grow anymore and then it mostly puts itself out.

That's the very high level, skipping loads of important details overview of how they tend to fight fires.
Hey, author here :)

I don't think they're always a bad idea, but when talking about external IDs many folks would agree with you, in a few ways, actually.

Relying on exposed primary IDs being ordered, and/or exposing them, is often a bit of a can of worms.

A common case is that you leak information about your company because people can see how quickly you're growing. I've seen this in a few products I use and it's always interesting when you take an action a few days apart and can see how much volume they're doing.

TIL: German Tank Problem, thanks @teddyh! I first came across it with a good story about someone buying Donuts/Coffee in a shop and using the receipt numbers to estimate yesterday's sales, can't find the link, though :(

In this instance it's not our primary ID field - those are internal, and are long and random. They holds no meaning other than being a reference, so aren't used for sorting or exposed to the customer, and even if it was, it wouldn't mean anything or confer any information.

The IDs I refer to the in the article are more like external references. References we _explicitly_ want to increment by 1 each time.

For those referencing invoices as a parallel, it's a good equivalent. I'm not familiar with the details in the comments below, but if I created two invoices and they were referenced #1 and #33, I'd be quite confused (which is a version of what our customers felt/experienced here).

IMO It's also often a good idea to use different external IDs to your internal ones in APIs too, and ideally have no meaning attached to them, either. That way users don't do things like assume "record 99" was created before "record 100", and you can also move data around and migrate things, so long as you honour those external references (i.e., you can change the type/format of your internal IDs at will).
> I'm most curious about the auto rate adjustment. I'm assuming a built in oximeter?

Current cardiac pacemakers use oximeters as well as acceleration or jerk sensors as a proxy for physical activity.
There is a third kind which bars people working for professional services companies from taking clients directly or going to another company and taking clients.
Yes. In particular because you’ll be more concerned with sales than engineering. And in the end all businesses are sales first.

Find your customers, then build whatever thing they want.

Also, this is sort of a contrived question. No one starts a business saying, “I don’t care about money, I just want to do X.” Because if that we’re true, just go be an employee. It’s much easier to do.

The reverse would be less common, not the question you’re asking.

For example someone had some exceptional product idea they really enjoyed working on, and they happened to stumble on the right people to fund it as a lifestyle business or something greater.

No one starts a business, files the paperwork, opens the bank accounts, purchases the insurance, finds the customers or clients, does the work, hires the laborers, and says, “I didn’t do this for the money.”

Anyone who says otherwise is trying to push “culture” or some other nonsense on you because they want to command your labor.
Yeah even some of the biggest PC games out there like GTA just don't feel as good on KB/M as they do on controllers. Like others said, with the dual trackpads built in and the extensive controller configurations offered by steam's controller settings I don't see the controls being much of a problem on the steam deck.
Superside is scaling up, hiring remote tech roles
- It takes real programmer brain to publicly post a 10k word solution for world peace littered with pop culture references

- If you are an executive for any company, maybe don't publicly share your opinion of the israeli/palestinian conflict, using your real name, and try to buy twitter ads pointing to it
Is anyone using this for page rewriting? Not just for the all-important ad blocking but removing the whitespace where the removed ad was, rewriting autoplay videos and gifs into click-to-play, etc. So many apps have web views that the doing it in the browser is a step backwards.

I used to do all my rewrite via a proxy but it stopped being particularly useful when https became almost universal.
They are also highly correlated between each other.
From the linked article, it sounds like this work is getting pretty close to being able to provide a single error-corrected logical qubit, depending on what threshold one expects for the error rate. Is that a fair reading? How close are we to having a realistically usable logical qubit?
Show HN: Secure HTTP and TCP tunnels that work anywhere
Broken links on some references

Plenty statements with citations that don't really support the claims made directly but instead paraphrase the claims in the introduction of some paper (turtles all the way down)

Article size has grown whilst increasing noise to signal ratio (I guess you could call it an opinion)

Influence by certain groups with a selfish interest in editing the content, and more authority given to established editors

Those are the ones that come to mind at the moment
I just assumed that was a big part of what big tech is paying for when they over-pay developers. They are buying you off so you don't work for competitors, or someday become a competitor. It's a bit of a gilded cage.
I understand this feeling. When you don't feel good about yourself, hearing praise from others (Especially people who don't know you well) can be crushing. As if they're being dishonest, in a way.

I can't speak for Tony, but he fit the pattern of a highly intuitive person with sky-high expectations for himself. That's what made his journey so fascinating to me, anyway-- his constant pursuit of and personal and professional ideal that's always just out of reach.

“If I get hit by an ice cream truck and they’re peeling the bumper out of my head while I’m dying, I’m not going to wish that I had eaten more or traveled more or taken more drugs. I’m just going to regret how much I disappointed people in my life.”
I was really interested to read about their subsurface scattering model, but alas, it's like the only TODO in this whole thing.

Which is really saying something, there is an incredible wealth of information in here.
>You probably don't need funding, as many solo founders can attest.

anyone know where I could read for stories like this? I want to motivated by the story of success solo founders
I think the idea is that the non-compete increases your value to the company, and that your salary is strongly tied to your value to the company. Both of those are pretty questionable.
At that point you’re just seasoning firewood. And whatever does decompose — unless you bury it our turn it into biochar, is going to release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Here's what I think happened:

The Powers That Be took a short look at this drama and decided that no, this is not the hill to die on. They never are. Being perceived as tolerating antisemitism because VP Weirdo keeps getting "misunderstood" over a "manifesto"? That's not even a hill anymore, it's a grave someone dug for themselves.
Thank you for catching the bug, I'll take a look at it.

As for Safari, unfortunately, some critical APIs (used for timers or distraction-catching notifications) don't seem to work at all, so it'll take some time to port the extension.
Research code is highly volatile: the details and architecture changes a lot. It is much more important to invest the time into writing more experimental code and validate it with e2e functional tests that don't need to change, than to constantly having to rewrite the code and the tests.
So let's differentiate between conflicts and noncompetes.

Conflicts arise when you do work for someone else while employed by a company that may compromise your ability to effectively work for that company or may be detrimental to that company's business. This is an employment condition that is common and reasonable burt with large companies may exclude pretty much everything because large companies compete everywhere.

Often companies will have a blanket rule on such things. This could be as simple as "this is your full time job, you can't have another" but it shouldn't exclude running a restaurant if your company is a food delivery app.

Noncompetes apply after the end of employment. There are a very few high-level employees for which this makes sense. If someone can leave a company and take all that company's clients then that's a problem. But again noncompetes are used for normal employees that make no sense.

We don't need to ban them. We need to force companies to pay for the privilege.

Courts generally uphold the principle that a company can't deny you the reasonable ability to earn a living. So if you're a plumber and your noncompete says you can't work for another plumber within the same state then that's likely not enforceable.

Rather than this interpretation, how about we force companies to say "we will pay you a year's salary upon termination and you agree not to work for X".

I think you'll see a whole lot less noncompetes.
> no one uses it because they'd rather foist the effort of protecting children to others.

There's no right way to "protect children" when some countries define any mention of LGBTQI+ to be unsafe for children. There is no way I, as a random website creator, can figure out the appropriate worldwide label for my content. Am I foisting "the effort of protecting children to others"? I don't think so.
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Do you think a company is obligated to purchase every idea an employee cold sells them?

It strikes me as incredibly unlikely in 2016 Delta management at some level weren't aware of the concept of workplace messaging software. Besides this one employee, there were loads of companies trying to sell this in 2016 too (Yammer, Slack, HipChat, etc, etc) as well as the usual enterprise vendors.
I'm convinced paying a mortgage is a good thing, it means you have less capital tied up in your home and more available to invest in areas with higher return, such as doge, er, s&p index funds.

That said, if you really hate having a mortgage, don't buy a home. Don't fall into the trap of thinking you need to own a single family dwelling if renting is more your thing.
Disinformation is coming for your business
Kinda

> We also show how an attacker can mount an “attacker-in-the-middle” attack on the initial key negotiation between the client and the server. This allows an attacker to impersonate the server to the client, allowing to break confidentiality and integrity of the communication. Luckily, this attack is also quite difficult to carry out, as it requires sending billions of messages to a Telegram server within minutes.
Original link 404s. It's missing a character at the end. Try: https://blog.min.io/hybrid-cloud-red-hat-openshift/
Do Low-level Optimizations Matter? (2020)
So, I'll start off by saying - I work at google, in cloud, but not for this person, I don't know anything about him, and this is my own opinion.

I think if someone had asked him at an all hands for his position on the israel palestine conflict, and he said something like:

"I grew up in a strict Egyptian Muslim household, indoctrinated to hate Israel and Jews, and it wasn't until I was exposed to jewish people and became friends with them that I realized how toxic those ideas were, and I regret that I ever held those ideas and no longer do. And now I hope that everyone on both sides of that conflict can have the same realizations that I did, and realize that we are all human and just want to live in peace"

I don't think it would have been an issue, or at least not to this degree. It's possible to acknowledge a past flaw, talk about how you've taken steps to address, and move on in a productive way. But that's not what he did.

If you read the entire LinkedIn post, it's pretty cringey. It starts off going deep into how much he hated Jews, then talks about how long it took him to not hate Jews, then he takes a sharp right turn to point out that because he is .1% Ashkenazi according to 23andme, he's technically also Jewish, so isn't this whole thing just an idea? Aren't these political and cultural boundaries just ridiculous ideas we need to get past? Then he takes a swing at Zionism that I don't quite follow, and he wraps things up.

First off, no one asked him to share his thoughts on the subject. Second, it's easy to find someone attempting to co-opt your identity via a saliva DNA test offensive. Third, by trying to talk about how made-up these groups and identities are, it can come across as erasing them. Fourth, and finally, his political views on solving the Israel-Palestine conflict have nothing to do with his previous beliefs.

Again, if he stuck to what he used to believe, and how he sees that's wrong, that's less controversial. But he uses it as a springboard to offer up a grand unified theory of racial identity which, again, no one asked him for his ideas and solutions to this extremely complex problem.

Then, from the article, apparently he continued to espouse these views in public, defending them, referencing his .1% jewish heritage as a defense.

But setting aside all of the exact specifics - if you're a VP at any large company, you should know this is not acceptable. You have to be able to read the room, you have to listen to feedback, and you have to know how to communicate with others. You have to be able to build trust and rapport with your team, it's not about being "right". If he was unable to do that, as it seems like was the case, then he's not a good fit.
Are these people highly compensated?
How does this compare with, say, Wallabag? https://github.com/wallabag

Looks like ArchiveBox has more export options?
EDIT: looks like ArchiveBox is focused on continuous change tracking rather than than just snapshots like Wallabag.
Yeah the controller was really good in theory and the technology was definitely great but the build quality just felt really off and like you said sometimes you can't beat twin stick/dpad but overall the controller was a great concept and paved the way for the index controllers and now the deck's controllers too.
While we don't have a direct capability to do this now, some of the large programs of record are being built so that robotic servicing may be possible.

JWST has a docking port for a future robotic servicing mission.

Nancy Grace Roman (formerly WFIRST) space telescope has grappling points on the spacecraft for robotic servicing.
> [asking whether a fire is due to climate change is] like asking which specific cigarette gave you lung cancer

That is a beautiful analogy.
> I'm in a US state that allows non-competes and recently turned down a job because I wasn't comfortable with the non-compete expressly because the company's opinion of its own market was so broad. They implored me to trust that they had "never sued anyone" and "have no intentions to", and I think they honestly believe that. But then why have the non-compete at all?

FWIW you can try editing the contract, removing the NCC clause, or tacking on steep consideration for exercising the NCC (as well as hard limit on it).

If they never sued anyone and have no intention to, they don't need an NCC clause, strike it out and ask them to sigh the updated contract.
Just the word “Print Shop” is nostalgic to the point of physical pain. I used to sneak into the school computer lab at lunch or recess and print out huge numbers of banners which I then covered my room with. Dot matrix 4 Lyfe.
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Yeah, Junior devs are in the majority who don't have a symmetrical relationship with the employer. In California such a broad remit would not be enforceable.

FWIW court battles are rare. But better to get rid of the noncompetes regardless.

> > 2 - every such agreement I have signed has had a “carve out” clause: you can list things you’ve been working on (which is vague, I have listed areas I’m interested in and have looked into and counted that as ”work”) and exclude the stuff listed there from the agreement.

> Wait, are you sure that list works how you think it does?

Yes, that's the whole point of that list and the language is very clear.

FWIW I've mostly been the employer, not the employee and I always scrutinize those lists carefully (if someone writes anything there I have to approve it before the agreement can be signed). Not because I care what people do in their free time, but to see if there's anything there that could cause a disagreement, especially if it would be an innocent disagreement. And I have never seen anyone write something that seemed unreasonable there. TBH most people leave that blank.

These docs always go with the employment offer; if the employee doesn't see them until their first day what kind of negotiation is there then? The whole point is to have someone join us and be happy to work with us, not to take advantage of them.
> I'm not sure what the solution is, but having independent prosecutors for police crimes might be a good start

It would have to be an almost entirely separate career path once you stepped into it. Once you've prosecuted a few cops, I'm sure that will follow you as a prosecutor wherever you go, and good luck hiding it. Gotta either stay in that game or advance to the point you no longer need to work with cops (become a judge I guess)
If you're interested there are plenty of interrogation videos on yt, some by the FBI are particularly interesting. Sometimes they have a pretty good case but getting a confession tremendously speed up the process so they lie to get confessions.

They also can lie to trigger responses and see how the suspect react, guilty people seem to react in way different ways than innocent ones. It's obviously not an exact science, even though it's heavily studied and has some psychology compounds, but it worked and put countless number of guilty people behind the bars

A source I like is: https://www.youtube.com/c/JCSCriminalPsychology

This timestamped video is an example of a cop lying (to innocent people): https://youtu.be/BemHqUqcpI8?t=704