skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "these devices" was a watch

If you don't allow any third-party developers to make apps for your device, you have a closed garden and no anti-competitive conflict. If you allow all third-party developers to make apps for your device, you have an open garden and no anti-competitive conflict. If you allow some third-party developers, but not some others, to make apps for your device, you have a walled garden and a potential anti-competitive conflict.

As long as some developers are allowed to make apps for this device -- be it a watch, a safety needle, or a 60,000 sq ft rack-server center -- barring others is anti-competitive. And barring them just to launch a clone of their product yourself is an anti-competitive super dick move.
Companies can absolutely rescind a firing (with back pay) when you give them the right incentives to.
I would be surprised if any large publicly traded corporation doesn’t offer some form of equity compensation to basically all employees with a six figure or higher salary.

The only lesson here is it is another data point in being very skeptical of someone claiming “we’ll never sell” in a compensation negotiation — if the founder(s) never plan to raise outside money or sell the company there’s very little downside to establishing an employee stock pool and awarding options to folks that may never be exercised.
It's worth noting are some countries out there collecting innocent citizens' fingerprints at the time of common operations such as obtaining a drivers' license (presumably to match them later early on). Does a citizen even have any protection against these practices, perhaps with hard to notice prosthetics?
The right to freedom of speech in the US is almost truly uninhibited. Even the "you can't yell fire in a crowded theater" argument was actually revisited by the Supreme Court and thrown out.

If there's an amendment to the constitution to ban owning a firearm, so be it. But if that right is severely limited without an amendment, it would be natural to fear for the rest. The verbiage on the first 10 amendments is incredibly simple. "shall not be infringed".
Oh wow, Perl is still getting monthly updates - I knew it was on the decline but I thought the whole Perl 6/Perl 7/Perl 11 fragmentation had left things in a worse state.
> It's probably important to point out that this is talking about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) rather than Open Source Software.

No it isn’t. Did you read the article?

“So what exactly do you mean by open source everything?

“We have over 5 billion human brains that are the one infinite resource available to us going forward. Crowd-sourcing and cognitive surplus are two terms of art for the changing power dynamic between those at the top that are ignorant and corrupt, and those across the bottom that are attentive and ethical. The open source ecology is made up of a wide range of opens – open farm technology, open source software, open hardware, open networks, open money, open small business technology, open patents – to name just a few. The key point is that they must all develop together, otherwise the existing system will isolate them into ineffectiveness.”“
Yes, it was the book that ignited the UNIX fire adoption.

AT&T forbidding its distribution years later, only made it into a cult status among the hacker culture, thus spreading even more the desire to make UNIX clones.

This are the kinds of events that would have turned out much different had UNIX been a commercial product.
IMO the UI war is settled by now. It‘s either CLI or a web interface of some sort. Everything else just seems like asking for trouble nowadays.
Sorry I couldn't help but do the same as you have, which is link a companies public environmental page as evidence for a company caring about being environmentally friendly.

Aramco doesn't pretend about being environmentally friendly either https://www.aramco.com/en/creating-value/sustainable-busines...

Despite being the largest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions in the world...
> despite my regularly selling it.

This usually is a huge red flag. If one of my friends would try to regularly recruit me into their startup I would be very suspicious if the company was on solid ground or if my friend is just desperate and trying to get someone else into the bad deal they found themselves in so they don't have to deal with it alone.
I feel like equity is a very important reason for the success of SV companies. Equity holding employees have an intrinsic motivation to work towards the success of their workplace. When equity granting companies succeed they make a lot of people wealthy (rather than just the founders/investors) creating a new class of investors.
Not really. ML in Python basically means lots of C++ libraries and you can just split processes as much as you want as it's easy to parallelize. You could do the same in R, Ruby, any scripting language really (but Python already has all the glue stuff ready to go and is easy).
> Promoting experimental (biohacked) treatments and guiding people through administering them is not compatible with the currently accepted ethical framework for protection of human subjects, _especially_ if it's done with intent of generating scientific knowledge.

> Extension of current approaches to human subjects research to accommodate a public DIY biology / biohacking community may be possible but seems tricky to do without accidentally deregulating the whole field.

This is incorrect. The ethical framework and laws surrounding human subjects research pertain to institutions, not to individuals. In the US, there is no human subjects research board for unaffiliated scientists/hobbyists that could approve or deny their research based on ethical considerations, as there is for institutions. The Belmont Report that established IRBs was specifically motivated by institutional abuse of the kind you mention, not general quackery. Marketing of quackery falls under the purview of the US FDA. There is no regulator for independent science. If you are independent and including others in your research, you are only bound by general medical ethics.

See https://www.weber.edu/IRB/irb_history.html
Well I suppose the characterization as thorium-fueled is debatable. In any case, it was certainly designed to study the prospects of an actual liquid fluoride thorium reactor. The current reactor can be viewed as an application or successor to that experiment, and it's based on the same design with modern improvements; TFA did point this out.
Excellent post of useful information. Hoping your wife, and you, are on a positive track forward.
I like you.

I sincerely don't understand the idea of people working more than what they are paid for. If my capabilities are worth 10k/month and you only pay me 5k/month (state of the economy, CoL adjustment, being a scrappy startup, whatever the reason), you will get half of my capabilities and I will spend the other 4 hours doing/thinking about something else or just online browsing HN.

Not trying to be snarky, but people that know that are underpaid and still give the companies 'their best', what is the rationale?
Yeah. I had the same issue and could not stand the update nagging anymore.

Thankfully, a buddy of mine pointed me to SetupDiag, which parses the logs to get you more info. In the end, the update was failing due to an accelerometer driver (!!).
It's not "brittle," it's "just in time."

It seems to me a whole lot of people were given authority to make decisions and agreements that collectively whittled away at the ability of participants in US markets to be responsibly prudent. We allowed players in the market not subject to labor, quality, ecological, or criminal accountability, promoting an endless deluge of cheap crap at the expense of business (and thus economic) resilience. This led toward more consolidation, with acquisition and endless growth replacing reserves and correct planning for lean times, ensuring that only the biggest players in a rule abiding market can survive.

When tshtf the boomers will die first. As the world burns we can at least enjoy a little schadenfreude.
feel free to reach out to me, my emails are available via links on my profile.
For anyone thinking of using fingerprints: There's a number of people, especially some older women (due to a lifetime of hand washing dishes) and chemotherapy survivors, who no longer have legible fingerprints. Insisting all users authenticate with legible fingerprints becomes discriminatory.

I'm not saying fingerprints are bad, just that there must be a process to support those that do not have them.
>Pretty harmless in this case

No! It's worse. If a democratic government mandates something that some view as unreasonable, they can always hope that the ballot box and elected representatives can at some point reverses the action. If a private company "anticipates" a government's actions in an unreasonable way, what appeal is there?

>but I wonder if Facebook would do the same in countries with speech censorship and human rights violations. Countries may not even need to build a GFW or filter Facebook since they would rather voluntarily comply than be regulated.

I don't disagree. But I suspect that Facebook by and large isn't allowed in such countries in the first place (China, for example).
I hate the fear of experimenting with a feature and accidentally ending up with a big bill. Budget alarms aren't enough
This is perhaps simply a good reminder that everyone has a price and nothing is set in stone. If you’re in a position of leadership, be humble and real. If you’re an employee, don’t be naive. The market has the last word.
If the user base was that technical, with performance requirements, they wouldn't be using an Electron based product to start with, when there are plenty of other native alternatives, including for CUDA debugging from Nvidia themselves.
I didn't say anything about bans or making things illegal. I don't mind too much that there are drug addicts, speeders, sex addicts and frivolous games.

I think you're letting emotion blind you since it seems you're not actually reading and understanding what I write.
< The world would be better off without them, nevermind me.

That's a hell of a sentence.
Yeah, if you don't intend on selling then you should say so and not offer equity so the employees can make a better decision.

Things may change and you might sell after all, but that is not "withholding" anything, that is just things changing.

I can only imagine this story was spun by employee who saw the founders selling and getting bunch of money and now think they should have reaped some of the benefits.

Money and greed make people stupid.
My father bought a camera in 80s, very similar to this[1]. It was extensively used to capture our memories and we stopped using it around late 90s. However the camera stayed around, at one point my adolescent son used it as a toy, and it was rough handled. One day I saw it lying about the house and picked it up and tried to operate it. Almost every button was functional, spring operating perfectly, shutters open/close mechanism intact. It was as if still well maintained. No rust, and absolutely no mechanical malfunction. Even the camera roll counter aligned perfectly against the marker. I was astonished. I couldn't but marvel at the quality of Japanese engineered product. Not only was precisely built but it was also rugged and the material used oozed quality. Respect.

[1] https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8d/c9/ff/8dc9fffb67918c2dc8869d2ac...
So funny seeing all these LinkedIn posts show up by pseudo entrepreneurs and startup gurus copy pasting the same shit about how awesome they did by not giving equity.

Only to see the balloon popped with the other side info on HN a couple of days later.
Onivim2: Status of the Project
Ruby is alive and well. We don’t use Rails specifically (Hanami + ROM.rb + DRY.rb), but absolutely love Ruby as a language and the ecosystem surrounding it. It’s productive, and as powerful as you need it to be.

When it comes to building feature-rich web applications quickly and sanely, Ruby is still hard to beat IMO.
> The thing I don't understand - why would someone 'never selling' influence someone else to work for less than market rate?

sour-grapes. They see the equity payout, and imagined that they'd get a piece of it had they been compensated with equity.

What they don't see is the loss if the company went bust - like most startups do - because hindsight is 20/20

so realistically, it makes little difference if a company paid in equity or cash - as long as you calculate the discount for the equity compensation appropriately.
I wouldn’t want to try to do that either. With the political climate in Europe it would be stupid to invest sums into making ICE more efficient or less harmful. Could very well be that in 3-4 years it will be impossible to sell an ICE car because of fuel prices, city bans or whatever. It’s the same reason why the diesel scandal happened in the first place: stupid rules and regulations with even more stupid metrics.
Opinion: Regulating Big Tech?
Yeah. Windows 2000 was rock solid compared to 95 and 98 and became the underpinnings for future consumer releases of windows...
> A password requires your action to provide.

But it's easy to trick the user. Very easy. And because passwords tend to be difficult to use, users tend to pick easy ones, such that you don't need to trick the user at all. With bio, the user may opt to have the protection whereas with password they either may not, or it may be trivially bypassed. Bio systems can be engineered to be anti-phishing, anti-MITM, etc. Incredibly hard to do that with passwords.

By claiming that the user has to do something to use a password ignores the vast, vast set of vulnerabilities involved.

One is not really better than the other per se. It's very use case dependent and you optimize for a specific outcome based on the risks at hand. You won't perfectly get every possibility nailed.
I had a month of between jobs this year, and as it was peak covid I couldn't travel. I ended up hiring a WeWork so I had somewhere to go, and working on personal projects. If there's something you've wanted to build and didn't have the time it's a great thing to do. However, I think there's a strong case just to take the month off and relax! Rest, eat well, get some exercise. We don't always have to be productive.
There are often reasons to change, and sometimes reasons to keep things. A lot of it is subjective.
What OS and DPI are you on?
I agree with this to an extent.

So, I just need a tech founder that's willing to partner with me and do the marketing side of it.

In return, I'll do the same for them.

Flip a coin to see who goes first.
I love the concept.

At the firm I work at, one of my "10% time" projects was to build out a "warnings" field in the API response. There are often times that you want to say "this is not inherently wrong, but likely represents wrong assumptions upstream" or "you're asking for something that's obsolete and is now being silently ignored".

For example, if someone passes a currency field with the wrong number of decimal places. You might actually want to say your product costs $1.62346, but it's more likely you're not sanitizing your data and relying on non-guaranteed rounding behaviour to make it right.

The problem we have is that the most of the API fields are opt-in-- the people who could most use the warnings are unlikely to go in and activate them.
> So, I'm asking whether, in this specific instance, people believe it to be the actual intent of the U.S. government to willfully and maliciously use COVID as a pretext for turning the U.S. into an authoritarian regime?

Yes, millions of Americans believe that.

It is also true that the Democratic Party is an authoritarian and corrupt government that is spreading corona throughout the US by opening the southern border to over 2 million illegal aliens in 2021, and allowing Afghanis to enter the US without corona testing or even a reason for admission. (The only quarantine restriction on Afghanis is if there's a measles case on the plane.)

Here's 10,500 illegals on Sept. 16 waiting under a Texas border bridge who likely have corona (the White House ordered the FAA to stop drone s from recording this because it's so horrific):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dcFtbrcr7w
You’re right, I must have read an earlier version of the bill

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

“Notwithstanding Section 65852.2 or 65852.22, a local agency shall not be required to permit an accessory dwelling unit or a junior accessory dwelling unit on parcels that use both the authority contained within this section and the authority contained in Section 66411.7”

However, it does not appear that the law prevents an ADU from being built without any additional rezoning, just that local cities may choose to approve/disallow it as they see fit
Well, for every MailChimp there are several whose equity is worthless. If the company is not public I barely consider equity at all.
Basically anyone who washes their hands frequently (ie all medical personnel, food handlers, etc.) or does manual work with ungloved hands (including home gardening) can later in life have fingerprints so abraded as to be unidentifiable. Using a lot of hand lotion, as anyone with dry hands might, also tends to flatten the ridges. Any requirement for fingerprints as a biometric can render systems inaccessible for entire classes of people - it's a growing problem in banking for the elderly, for example.
Podcasts are a great way to make boring exercises interesting. Walking or biking instead of driving is an easy way to get some exercise in. Bouldering is really fun & social.
This was fun! I wonder if the stories are true. If so I'd love to learn your drunken mastery ways. I just framed a cool Police Story poster that came out of a Criterion Collection set.

Here are some of my favorite films:

Do The Right Thing

Mel Brooks
Looper
Zed from Men in Black
Pixar
Airplane Hot Shots Naked Gun! From the Files of Police Squad!
Lucas film
Batman
Dune
Milne-verse
Zed from Men in Black

0546585067
OTOH citing Max Planck from there: [1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Planck

A new scientific truth does not generally triumph by persuading its opponents and getting them to admit their errors, but rather by its opponents gradually dying out and giving way to a new generation that is raised on it. … An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth.
I like to think of it as Ruth's blog ;)
Frere-Jones designed most of the fonts that put HFJ the map and made them what they are today. Including Gotham that was used in Obama's campaign and shoot this foundry to stardom. All based on a handshake agreement between H and FJ made when they started working together and an understanding they were equal partners.

H massively screwed FJ. That's not debatable.
It's like regex. It doesn't solve a real problem, but only makes it easier to do so. Users are still responsible for every tits and bits.
edit: I see you have already answered this, "12 failed validation" you wrote earlier.

How many ideas have you dropped so far? This is similar to my process, except I have a habit of keeping applications on life support since it's pretty low effort to do.
Ok, I'm biased since I was a kid during the 80s but two things strike me:
1. I still love the design language of the Walkman with brushed colored metal. Why can't we have that today?
2. It strikes me that a lot more thought and engineering has gone into these products compared to today. Most things today are just cheap all over with pointless design without function.
The problem is not that the MC founders never intended to sell, then changed their mind after they reached an interesting sum. The problem is just that they were so certain they will never sell and talked about it so many times, that (some of) their employees now feel betrayed.

I am certain they never wanted to screw anyone and they identified with their "bootstrapping, never sell" culture. I am guilty of the raising bootstrapping to pedestal for many years and understand their values.

Learning from this, it may be good not to a) identify with current beliefs as we might change priorities and learn new things in the future, and b) talk in length about our current beliefs. Perhaps "we don't think we will ever sell and have optimized our business for that, but who knows what future will bring" might have worked better.
That's not an accurate chronology.
WSJ: https://archive.is/jdXf7

> ... compelling banks to share data on customer accounts, a move that requires congressional approval, would amount to just an initial step in narrowing the gap ... The IRS would need to figure out a way to use the information to decide which business owners to audit and what questions to ask them. The plan also includes billions of dollars for technology and staffing so the IRS could digest and analyze that information.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9973671/Bidens-plan...

> One key prong of President Biden’s plan to bankroll Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget plan is to monitor gross inflows and outflows from an individual’s bank account ... some are concerned that it might run up against the Fourth Amendment and those who can’t afford to fight tax audits or move their money into offshore accounts ... The proposal would require banks to report to gross inflows and outflows to the IRS, including transactions from Venmo, PayPal, crypto exchanges and the like ...
Correction.

SKS is semi-automatic.

So don't need the $200 ATF machine gun stamp.
What I didn't know is if you are knighted, you have to give up your birth citizenship.
That cashflow problem can be addressed through bonds.
They're not out of space. There's a lot of yard and a lot of altitude to fill. There's empty fields all over the south bay. Luckily, some near my previous place in Sunnyvale recently-ish got turned into town houses. My current house is adjacent to two empty acres.
The way you do it is by making it stick. Stop giving up. Accept the pain, learn to love it, and then you will gain. You know your gender doesn't matter for this goal. All that matters is eating healthy and moving. It doesn't matter what your job is either.

Fwiw, I think diet plans are bunk. Change your lifestyle now and eat healthy today. Don't plan a fantasy.
Private investment in biotech dwarfs what the US puts in right now.

US gov't (NIH) = $41.6B (not all is for biotech)
Biggest pharma (PhRMA members) R&D = $83B
VC biotech funding + follow-on rounds = $62B

So private funding is ~3.5x what the gov't spends today.
Maybe look into "Coach to 5k" running program if running is what you are looking for.

My own recipe for success was just doing very standard 5x5 StrongLifts weight training routine first thing in the morning 3 times per week. I just rolled out of bed, put on my gym gear and went to the gym. It took 45-60min to complete my sets then as a reward I took ~10min Sauna, then showered and went to the Office.
The article mentions about selling kits, so it's pretty obvious that his videos would be at least partially motivated by commercial aspirations. Yes? I called the comment silly as it seemed to be saying "I not only disapprove of this entrepreneur's target market, he is also employing deceptive marketing tactics"
Windows 2000 was an excellent OS. Clean, frugal and and rock-solid.

XP was bloated in comparison.
And this, for me, is one of the reasons why I keep coming back to HN. In a word were sensational news are the norm, and clickbait titles are everywhere, HN stands out as one of the most reliable and accurate places to find information
Vista SP1 was fine. Vista before that wasn't, really.
When both the government and the advertising companies have an aligned incentive to spy on us all, Why would the government pass either privacy or advertising laws?
Fire destroys Palo Alto home tied to Google co-founder Larry Page