skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt the default USB HID mouse driver in Windows is needlessly big. Just don't use the hideous bloatware that comes with the mouse. I've never had to worry about mouse drivers on Windows in the past probably 20 years, even wireless mice. They just work without thinking. It's much better than the 1980s-90s.

You probably don't use an ancient OS as a daily driver so maybe those extra megabytes really are needed for something important after-all. I'm not saying Windows is super well optimized for space but you can't count the whole growth as waste. Even the default Raspbian Linux for Raspberry Pi requires several GB of storage.
We need to separate public policy (where I live getting a shot is entirely optional for previously infected) and the individual decision to get vaccinated.

For the individual, the risk of reinfection is still higher than the risk of a vaccine. Also note the small risk of a false positive for the initial COVID diagnosis.
If the rights are construed as an (implied) social contract of negative rights, this is easy to resolve. If you uphold the social contract towards others, you are implicitly agreeing to be bound by it, and others who likewise agree owe you your part. If you violate others' negative rights you, again implicitly, reject that social contract. Therefore, others don't owe you anything, your rights can also be violated.

I personally subscribe to what I view as a more logically consistent version where the only thing that matter is how confident we are that someone rejects the social contract. If e.g. they repeatedly keep committing clear-cut crimes against clear-cut victims, they obviously think it doesn't apply to them, and in my view they literally should have no more human rights than a rock. That should apply whether they are a CEO defrauding customers, or a homeless person stealing a bike.

However, most people think it's a proportional/gradual kind of thing, hence e.g. jail.
California voters are probably totally fine with the housing supply being too low because it drives up the price of their houses.
Ask HN: Any recourse for a f***ed contract?
Hi HN!

Way back in ~2011 I advised a startup, Company1, and got a contract for a small portion of equity in exchanging for advising them. I did some r&d work for them and completed the contract.

They moved to SF, I moved to SF, we had a conversation: hey the contract is done, but please keep coming by, after all this only has value if there’s an exit. I did off and on for maybe 1-2 years after end of contract.

THE DUMB THING I DID: I misread the contract. I needed to execute the contract right at the end of the 2y advising window. It had a clause, options would be good for ~7 years. I misread that as time to execute. I was wrong. The big moral: get legal advice.

Company1 is about to merge with Company2 for a $3bn valuation. I don’t think there’s any recourse at this point (I had a talk with a founder two years ago who was apologetic but said there was nothing to be done,) and I wonder - is there any recourse at this point? Or can I just write up the story and share it so that someone else new to advising doesn’t get f**ed the way I did?

Clearly the mistake is mine. Curious if there any avenues I am missing.

Thanks!
That doesn't take away the incentive, though. Anyone that can pass on less cost because of a better process now has a real competitive advantage, whereas today they can, what, virtue signal?
Hmm ok I haven't looked at Seastar in a while, but it used to depend on Node-like control inversion where you'd pass an explicit lambda to each action, telling the action what to do next. That meant unwinding the handler for a given event into a bunch of nested lambdas. Coroutine would let you write them in a more traditional sequential style, where you'd have a return to the scheduler whenever something could block. Yes you have to write a layer of async io under everything, but that's how any OS works, more or less.
Wasn’t that much more? FBI demanded that Apple would give them the signing key, they would do the rest themselves. Basically adding arbitrary code and unlock any device at that time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute
A lot of the ease of using Discord comes from the fact that every server just works, and you can join using a link. If people could host their own servers I'd imagine you'd end up with poorly-hosted servers that would degrade the overall experience.
Common pitfall. It doesn't matter how interesting the company is if you're not actually working on the interesting stuff!
Look into BPC-157.
> that's called "dodging the question"

That is an immature non-intellectual response. I am done with this thread. Have a good one.
This is the biggest moving cloud computing since Thomas went from Oracle to be the CEO of google cloud. Charlie was the heart and soul of AWS engineering and product for more than 20 years. He can be a game changer for Microsoft
It seems like a logical option to eventually offer if it doesn't already (which I presume it doesn't, or the post would have mentioned it) - [1] is a post about the bot cutting PRs when it finds other things it thinks it knows how to correct.

[1] - https://www.jelmer.uk/janitor-update-2.html
I’ve used discord for a long time and greatly prefer it to slack, teams and Mattermost (the three competitors I’ve used most often). Ironically the only think stopping me from strongly advocating for its adoption in business is that I’m already a user!

Much like GitHub and to a lesser extent teams, they seem to not get the idea that I have different personas related to different parts of my life that absolutely should not mix.

If I could stay logged into my social discord servers with my gamer handle and be being logged into work servers with work handles, especially on mobile, they would gain traction I think. Add active directory account management as a paid option and would be an easy sell some places.
I think it was the Galaxy S4 that I had for 4 years, then the S8 for 3. I don't remember if/when updates stopped. I probably only had the phone I bought in 2010 for 2 years because back then they were still subsidizing new phone purchases at the 2 year mark.
I was young and naive. They made me think they wouldn’t pay out my left over PTO pay unless I signed.
> Matrix is miles behind discord which saddens me.

In which way? Discord is miles behind Matrix in terms of privacy features. It does not even support e2ee for PMs or self-hosted servers or federation. They probably don't even plan to implement that ever.

That's an instant knockout for Discord for me. There is no way that I willingly let companies read my private communication in 2021 after everything that we learned over the last couple of years. No amount of nice productivity features can compensate for that.
Doesn't work if the data of interest is not there for the taking. And a judge will not compel beyond what they consider reasonable. Having the feature already in place dramatically shifts the bar.
Isn't there a weird attack possible with publishing SHA512 hashes of Ed25519 private keys that Signify barely side-stepped?
I agree with the premise of what the parent is saying. How is it legal that you can enter into a contract that gives Apple a perpetual right to your private (Or your company’s) data, without clearly requiring you to consent, with a witness or notary, in plain and understandable terms at the point of purchase?

If your data is located in a cloud you might make the argument that Apple is the owner of the system. But if Apple is truly accessing data from your personal device or “server” without explicit authorization, it violates a whole host of computer crime laws.
The PRISM revelations, to this day, are very ambiguous about their implications for cooperation. When they came out, most involved companies flat out denied cooperation. The types of data the NSA claimed to get were available by tapping into network backbones. Unless you are aware of a theory or evidence I’m not, I think it’s just as likely that the program described in the leaked slides involved unilateral or covert intrusion by the NSA rather than cooperation.

It is reasonable to be conservative about data stored in someone else’s cloud, and there is undeniable value to end to end encryption that gives you control over who can access it. That said, especially if you read Apple’s letter in response to the PRISM allegations, Apple’s behavior seems quite consistent and sincere over time: https://www.apple.com/apples-commitment-to-customer-privacy/.

I don’t think it’s likely they designed this feature under pressure from the government or with the intention to expand it to local data on your device.
You could do contract / freelance work. You’d have to pay healthcare yourself.
They just rolled out the option for Mac native notifications. Of course it’s easy to miss the permissions request snd then you get no notifications at all.
...and back to platforms :)
There are multiple vaccines out there that don't have such stringent requirements. Even the J&J vaccine doesn't have those requirements.
I would not be anywhere near that building for any prolonged amount of time if I could help it.

There are too many people and organizations that have too much to lose by being overly optimistic about the state of the building’s structural integrity.
They did… just read the specs.
There are many pdf:s on the bottom. They failed the PR truly.

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
Does the company have data showing that the average medical expenses of the unvaccinated (or the coworkers they could infect) are $200 higher on average? If not, the power of a company to dock wages by an arbitrary amount to incentivize behavior troubles me. The benefit of being vaccinated is less if one already had covid. Will people who had covid also be fined $200 for being unvaccinated?
Yeah, it is no panacea for sure. For me, I have been lifting for years, doing BJJ for years. Ran for almost two decades. I consider myself in pretty good shape for a random dude on the street. It all takes work. Especially with Rehab you really have to put in the rehab work to direct the healing and if you went with pharmaceuticals like we are discussing that becomes extra important. But I think at low, therapeutic dosage it is all really safe. On a 3 month cycle during injury recovery you are unlikely to grow muscle quickly enough to do any real damage either.
Then buy something that you can keep instead of a revocable license to use something on someone else's computer.
If the exchange with Apple is encrypted / interleaved with other traffic to icloud, how would you know that there isn't new classes of scanning being done?

I'll be very surprised if similar tech is not lobbied for as a backstop to catch DRM-free media files played on devices we "own".

And, it seems far more probable than not that police will demand this capability be used to help address more crimes. The problem here is that crimes can mean speaking out against an oppressive regime. Being targeted for having the wrong political views (think McCarthyism in the United States or the US backed murder of a million people in Indonesia for affiliating with the "wrong" political party). Etc. History is awash with political abuse of "out groups" perpetrated by tin pot dictators all the way to presidents and PMs of major world powers.

And, it sets the precedent that e2e encryption is not an excuse for a provider to not provide private customer data to the authorities-- a back-door can be installed, "Just do what Apple did."
Economically that might be a niche where energy is nearly free. Environmentally, it seems like a better use of that energy than what it's currently being used for, which is bitcoin mining.
a reminiscence of the pre powershell days I guess
You're probably better off if what's being said about anti-body monoculture from vaccine acquired immunity is true. You'd have higher probability of resistance to variants given the greater diversity of anti-bodies leftover from naturally acquired immunity.
Yeah and then there are people on H1B who has to work the same job 7 years or they're deported in 60 days.
Note: although the phrase “almost all” sounds like an intuitive English-sentence idea, it actually has a very precise mathematical meaning: it means the complement has Lebesgue measure zero.

It sounds like maybe you take issue with this phrase. I kind of think about it probabilistically: if you start uniformly sampling decimal digits 0-9 at random d1,d2,d3,… then the corresponding number

0.d1d2d3…

(with the digits going on forever) will be irrational with probability 1.
I think they would prioritise basic issues first before refactoring the code
Portrait of a Professional Baby Maker
Windows Terminal is pretty good. VSCode is heavier than necessary but easy for everyone to use. Mostly their recent developer tools are good.
SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said the company was low on liquid oxygen
Is Saito the Next 100X Gem? – Saito Review and Price Prediction
I don't think tricking is the word for this. You're not going to click something by accident and be immediately billed for something. Yes, they've made monetisation more prominent, but I think that's fair for a platform that's free to use. I'd rather they attempt to get more revenue out of users via premium features than have to shut down cause they were operating at a loss.
Wait, the USA can revoke citizenship?

It's generally only possible if you're an immigrant. (The story mentions immigrants)

If you're a native born US citizen, the US Supreme Court has said it's not possible for the govt to take away your citizenship for a crime. But you can renounce it yourself or go join a foreign country and fight against the USA and lose it that way.
The CASM perceptual hash scanning is not the only new thing, there's also on-device machine learning algo used by Messages app attempting to identify "sexually explicit photos" as well:

"The Messages app will add new tools to warn children and their parents when receiving or sending sexually explicit photos.
When receiving this type of content, the photo will be blurred and the child will be warned, presented with helpful resources, and reassured it is okay if they do not want to view this photo. As an additional precaution, the child can also be told that, to make sure they are safe, their parents will get a message if they do view it. Similar protections are available if a child attempts to send sexually explicit photos. The child will be warned before the photo is sent, and the parents can receive a message if the child chooses to send it.

Messages uses on-device machine learning to analyze image attachments and determine if a photo is sexually explicit. The feature is designed so that Apple does not get access to the messages." -- https://www.apple.com/child-safety/

While that's billed as "available for Family accounts in iCloud", so _probably_ opt in, it's another piece of software I never asked for and don';t want on the phone I bought.
The funeral home director mentions doubling of the normal number of dead bodies brought to them.
The housing units are less about housing of employees and more about parking of endowment coin in real estate investments. All the cool colleges do it to some degree.
> You're actually comparing two different computers.

Huh? One is the previous MBPro with a removable battery and the other is the latest version MBPro with a glued battery.

> A pull tab does not weigh 8oz more than a dab of glue. I don't get why someone would try to argue as much.

I didn't say that. I said the form factor for a glued in battery doesn't it allow it to be setup as a removable battery configuration.

Gotta love the armchair hardware engineers in here.
Thanks for your message. Unfortunately, it is not available at the moment, still needs FDA clearance. Wish you well.
Very, very much appreciated! I will read all of this right now and respond once more if I have any ideas.

Editing my comment:

Thanks again for the depth offered. I don't have any employees or physical products, so hopefully just Delaware or any other tax free state would be just fine.

I have personal assets in a few states and I am married, so I understand that if I just follow the strict rules of not mixing funds and operations then I will not have my personal assets seized on this technicality.

It sounds like the proper thing to do is make a lot of money and then incorporate. I don't mind paying the fees of a few grand, but that's actually just table stakes when compared to the cost of litigating a frivolous lawsuit like from a patent troll or people who make it their profession to sue businesses.

I have heard that even with insurance and being apart of groups that band together to prevent themselves from the brunt of these costs, it still costs tens of thousands of dollars to protect yourself from a default judgment.

I have a great business and great customers-- this legal risk does nothing but get in the way of that!
An advertiser knows exactly how many clicks and revenue they get from facebook or google campaigns (the click url includes that as query params). Down to the campaign level. That's not what this is about. This is about Facebook and Google being able to give even more detailed information on that revenue (ie: predicted view attribution, revenue by product shown, revenue by search term, etc.) and do even better automated targeting on those campaigns.
Continuing the figure of "unrequited love", idealization plays a role - a simple misperception or distortion of what the state of affairs actually is. It's no coincidence that a "romance" used to refer to fantasy tales of adventure, like Treasure Island.

OTOH some seemingly impossible things couldn't have happened without a "vision". So... tilt away.
> Of course, since these packages are built automatically without human supervision it’s likely that some of them will have bugs in them that would otherwise have been caught by the maintainer.

Human supervision isn't enough to protect the supply chain, and I can't think of a time that it's actually stopped an attack at the packaging stage, but having some extra "friction" in the process seems like it should be a benefit. Ideally an attacker would have to get past both the upstream author and the Debian maintainer, rather than these being two separate single points of failure.

Fortunately the Debian project is improving the situation with regards to supply chain attacks by continuing to work on Reproducible Builds. I think the next step from there needs to be Binary Transparency, with the adoption of the sort of approach being trialled by Arch Linux:

https://github.com/kpcyrd/pacman-bintrans
Why are steroids even a controlled drug? If a man wants to use them and knows the risks he should be able to. Same with any drug I guess.
China could always (already) demand that, I don’t see how the introduction of this tool changes that…
I'm still trying to understand at what scale Playdate moves from a hobby to a viable business. Panic sold 20k units in 20 minutes, which is impressive, but probably not yet enough to pay for the years of development cost accrued.
If you have a T-Mobile Magenta plan with unlimited data, you get HBO Max for free btw.
Do you think the kind of interview Rogan does is similar to the typical interview the Kardashians appear in?
I'm not an expert on code signing, but wouldn't a code-signing cert with a 2 year lifetime mean that none of the apps it signs can be used for more than 2 years? Or is the code-signing valid as long as the signature was generated within the signing cert's lifetime?
How's safety.

As far as I can tell America is more dangerous than most other places.
I genuinely do not understand how Amazon can have dropped the ball on their UI for this long, this bad. Given their drive to get customers to consume shipped product, their track record with digital products is abysmal. Video games is a product problem and that's a different discussion, but "television" and movies are a different matter. The product and consumer appetite are there, but the roadblock is the UI. Does no one who is in upper management use the product? I know they treat their testers like crap, but surely someone in the marketing or graphics department has at least done some usability polling. Right? Right?
I've used discord for a number of years, and use it almost daily with my friends. Arguments over UX will always be opinionated, but one thing where discord absolutely shines is voice chat. There's just no competition to any other voice chat system out there; it's fast, it's high quality, and most importantly, it filters out non-voices. Clapping, water faucet, vacuums, crunching chips, coughing, breathing, desk noises, none of it comes through and all of it gets filtered out. It makes for a significantly better experience when I don't have to deal with someone else's "voice chat etiquette" incompetence/ignorance.
I'm using Vivaldi, which is like Chrome but with a far better UI. It has a reader mode, which afaict does not help with the paywall at The Economist. Perhaps it's because if you pay for a subscription there, the full article is at a second link?
Thanks so much for your support!
>Forums shouldn’t be policing content unless it’s illegal. Why is everyone so desperate for regulated discussion?

So I guess you're advocating for /r/jailbait to be brought back?
For whatever reason the climate establishment isn't on the olivine train. Using DAC to create carbon-neutral jet fuel makes more sense than sequestration in the short term anyway.
> I don't think tricking is the word for this.

Tricking is 100% the right word for it. They are putting those Nitro buttons there with the clear intent that a user will click it by accident while attempting to access a different feature that used to be there.

> You're not going to click something by accident and be immediately billed for something.

If it didn't work, they wouldn't be doing it. I'm not claiming that they're outright scamming people out of money, but that they're using actively hostile UI/UX to profit by serving advertisements for Nitro when someone was trying to upload a photo. That's absolutely worthy of criticism.
I wouldn’t read this that way. Everyone gets visionary points.

The CEO put a PR person in charge of HR, who cut bonuses and probably salaries ahead of a buyout to optimize the balance sheet.
Ask HN: Do you know anyone who's a rockstar startup mentor?
Ideally, the mentor is:
1. an exited founder / growth expert with bragging rights
2. empathetic and open to pro bono mentoring for 4-5 hours a month

I'm building a network of startup mentors who genuinely love teaching founders how they achieved their success. We've had a couple of sessions booked through the platform already. If you know someone, please reply to this thread.

Cheers,
Your terrifying idea mischaracterizes the nature of false positives. Any photo in your library is equally liable to be a false positive as any other; the perceptual hash is not looking for similar images by the metric of what you find similar (content). That’s also the underlying idea behind why people have been able to turn arbitrary images into adversarial false positives.
To be clear, you cannot renounce citizenship unless you have a valid destination country that will accept you, as far as I'm aware.
And not to be a dick about it (unless absolutely necessary.)
Curious to learn more about CockroachDB's problems you had. They market themselves as a turn-key solution to globally distributed databases, it's worrying that you had a problem with that very use case. Thanks for the additional details!