skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love the creativity and investment in client growth large and small. I simply could not prosper without their incredible facilitation tools (think serverless everything for the win). Hate the free-for-all aspect of serverless contributions which feels disorganized. It's hard to keep up on reference docs and best practices when there are a firehose of "solutions". The process seems to outrun the ability to document too. Extreme curse of abundance.
Why not take it at face value?
ProtonVPN is a white labelled version of NordVPN, source, HN yesterday.
How did you market them initially?
> Python is heading this way (among other problems with the whol shebang). "We had X in this language Y, so add feature X." Why leave a language if it had the features you wanted?

Because you can't switch languages in a system for each feature, so if you want features A, B, C, D, and E, and the subset (A,B,C,D) has more value than (D,E), the language that has A,B,C,D will be preferred to the one with D,E, but you’ll still want to add E.
There are more guns in the US than cars as well, so deaths per car vs deaths per gun is higher.
> This article doesn’t represent my experience at the company so far at all.

Good for you, but your personal experience is not really relevant. Assuming the article is true, it sounds like Atlassian allowed a bad manager to make some very poor decisions.

> just happened to have a tough manager

You make it sound like it's an act of God. "Just happened". No, it's Atlassian's fault here, they advertise some values but don't really enforce them.
It looks like a cool model, chameleon particles arising from a dynamical scalar field associated w/ dark energy. Looking at the paper [1], it's important to note that actually the solar axion model provides a better description of the xenon1t data. However, the axion model is disfavored due to constraints derived from observations of stellar evolution. The authors claim that while the chameleon model is a slightly worse fit to the xenon1t measurements, it is able to evade those astrophysical constraints. That is, those observations cannot be used as evidence for or against the chameleon model as the chameleon particles apparently aren't expected to have any impact on stellar evolution. I didn't read the paper closely enough to say, but this could be due to the characteristically weaker interaction of the chameleon particles in the vicinity of a dense/massive star. Or it could be due to a much more complicated reason!

[1] https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.0...
Was about to say the same. That is exactly how Windows 8 was made. Really wish we had gotten more of a continuation of the design of Win 7 instead of everything else that’s happened since.
Thanks 4 the AMA.

How many projects did you launch before you arrived at these top 4?

How do you arrive at an idea worth pursuing?

Where do you start?

How long do you spend before you chuck off a project not worth pursuing more?
Try to understand that the economy is structured on a system of laws that facilitate the provision of jobs and goods/services by companies, while minimizing harm and maximizing fairness. Are you anti-regulation in general, or saying something more like Facebook is a special case that for some strange reason should keep hiding from legal scrutiny?
This appears to be a thread with a better explanation of their story.

https://twitter.com/michaelmartocci/status/14379982016599203...
How did I get interested in writing?
Is this really the case, that regulated was equivalent to supplied in that context? I don't think it matters in the slightest for the purpose of the second amendment because the militia has no bearing on the power of the government to infringe the right of citizens to keep and bear arms, no matter how well restricted or well supplied it is.

> We don't call a cars gas pedal a deccelerator or fuel-regulator,

The pedal is not the mechanism, that is the throttle (aka fuel / air regulating device, it regulates flow by throttling it). There's people who call the gas peddle the throttle too, although less common. I don't think any of this proves a point about the word regulated in the constitution though.
Sorry for the late reply, but those thought experiments are exactly that... a thought experiment, most of them never come anywhere close to reality.

I'm not saying it shouldn't be allowed, but that is a huge leap in one's understanding of the world. The possible effects of leap should be thoroughly studied before making those leaps, because it can backfire due to unseen consequences. Blindly following immortality as a way to live isn't a right way in my opinion.

> We accept change all the time without considering consequences if the individual gain is strong enough.
Not all changes are equal and arguably immortality would be the biggest change humanity has ever faced, so I don't think this is a matter of "We'll see things afterwards", but of "let's first study the possible good and bad consequences of that and then decide if we want to do this or not". Advancement for the sake of advancement isn't a right way to go in my opinion, especially not when majority of changes will now affect ALL the people on Earth as we're all connected now.

On the topic of, will I opt in? It depends on the consequences. I would prefer not to be a tester of such thing, so I won't opt in if I'm in the trial batch or even first public batch. Feel free to do so if you want to, but try not to say "what you think others will do" based on an internet comment because that again is based on the mental model you have right now which is a narrow slice (same for everyone). Now, would I like to live a good life (90-100 years)? Yeah sure, but I really don't feel like I want to live beyond that. I might want to extend that life if I find some purpose later in life, but even after that I don't think I'll ever want to live forever.
They need to do it because a sense of belonging trumps rationality.

They derive identity from an emotional attachment to a lifestyle brand premised on being on the leading edge of car and EV technology. EVs from other brands that charge faster or have greater range threaten that identity so they cast about for explanations and rationalizations in order to preserve their sense of self.

It's a similar phenomenon to what you see with QAnon or Trump or anti-vax "truthers". Feeling like you're part of the group is more important than accepting simple, practical realities. It's easier to concoct some kind of conspiracy theory than it is to admit that your beliefs are wrong.

And, when in comes to Lucid in particular, Elon Musk has been publicly feuding with Peter Rawlinson for pointless, petty, and untrue reasons:

https://insideevs.com/news/505126/elon-musk-tweet-rawlinson-...

Musk's followers like to follow him.
Donald Knuth Explains “Premature Optimization Is the Root of All Evil”
do you have youtube/blog where we could learn from you?
"The complaint added that 'in a story that was supposed to inspire women by showing a young woman competing with men at the highest levels of world chess, Netflix humiliated the one real woman trail blazer who had actually faced and defeated men on the world stage in the same era.' "

Yeah that seems unfortunate...
it looks like the project's in this archive which shows the contributor: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/log/?bran...
It was clearly more than a performance given the things that led up to several of the founders getting fired.
> I learned sine and cosine from the diagrams in the manual years before we covered them in maths.

You too?

I didn't fully understand them, and thought they had more to do with circles than triangles, but yeah that circle drawing code in the Spectrum manual was my first exposure to sin and cos.
The perjury clause only applies to the claim that you're authorized to act on the copyright.
3,000 people died in 9/11 + countless long term deaths from asbestos, 2 wars that lasted around 20 years with what, 500K - 1M civilian deaths in Iraq and Afga? 168 deaths in OK City bombing including women and children, 270 deaths in the Lockerbie bombing including women and children. What are the long term affects of January 6th? Oh absolutely nothing? Get off the propaganda.
> How do you know that individual wasn't approved for the 2 months? I missed that part of the story.

Context clues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_(language_use)

> Do you not believe an employee has the right to resign from a job

Of course. Nobody said any different. Are you confused about the thread you're responding to?
An old programmer loses his job
The greed makes you do crazy things.
I get some enjoyment thinking about how much Apple must annoy all the right-to-repair people every year as they solder more and more components into their logic boards.
20 years ago, fully open source design, 10Mbit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RONJA
The Government derives its power from the people. What is the penalty for the case where this information is found to simply be embarrassing and not a secret at all? None.

It should scare everyone in the country that you could go to prison and ruin your entire life for omitting information on tax forms etc but the Government can do far worse with with facts that the public needs to make an informed decision at the polls and get away with it.
I don't have any personal knowledge about it. I just did a Google search on starlink latency, and as Trump would say "people are saying ..." Seriously, I just checked the search results again and find that https://www.speedtest.net/insights/blog/starlink-hughesnet-v... says starlink's latency varies with location. EG. 45 ms in the US and 101 ms in New Zealand. Better than I would have guessed, but still not great.
Your projects look cool!

How much time do you spend on a project before you start to monetize or move on?
Guilt, and shame, are both *human emotions*.

"Platforms," feel nothing.
What exactly do you mean by political will?

The US fought a war of attrition for 20 years and finally withdrew, their enemy being in a better position than before the invasion. You wouldn't call that a defeat?

Why exactly do you think that a better armed and much larger force, one that is the economic backing of the military they'd be facing, would stand less of a chance?
It's a shame that India hasn't jumped on the Thorium train. India has plenty of Thorium (some call India the "Saudi Arabia of Thorium"). India desperately needs to shut down its coal power plants and replace them with something safer (like a Thorium reactor)
> The way that state secrets used to be handled was simple. The government chose on a case by case basis whether or not they were willing to not present their evidence (potentially losing the case because of it), or whether they wished to present their facts to the judge in camera (meaning in private, in chambers, relying on the judge to maintain confidentiality).

The issue here isn't whether the government wants to use secret evidence to prosecute someone else, but whether a plaintiff, to make its case, can force the government to disclose state secrets. That's an entirely different situation, one that historically was extremely rare or even non-existent when the Federal administrative state was miniscule and there weren't broad rights (statutory or court-made) that created rights of action against the government or which waived sovereign immunity (i.e. you couldn't sue the government, period).

Wikipedia's lawsuit begs the question of the injury. Unlawful surveillance by itself wasn't an injury that courts would historically have taken cognizance of, modulo whatever rare exceptions there might have been. Courts wouldn't have considered it their role to squash any and all illegal government behavior; a situation like Wikipedia's claim would have best been addressed through the ballot box.

Remember, courts required and at least nominally still require concrete injuries. A claim without an injury is no claim at all, and invasion of privacy on its own was not a concrete injury. That's a recent judicial creation. The remedy for an illegal search was a) a claim for trespass if trespassing occurred, and b) return of illegally seized evidence, which prevented use at trial only as a consequence of the government no longer being in possession[1] and unable to force the defendant to submit it themself (i.e. self incrimination). If neither situation applied, then an illegal search was of no matter to the court; mere illegality wasn't an injury. Application of an exclusionary rule disconnected from this simple, logical application of traditional rights didn't come about until the past century or two. And the reframing and reconceptualization of traditional constitutional rights as a matter of privacy (as opposed to dominion over property and conscience) and then recognizing an invasion of privacy per se as a concrete injury is an even more recent innovation. Not only recent, but incomplete and perhaps a bit tenuous--the logic of Roe v. Wade is fundamentally grounded in the logic of privacy, which is why Roe v. Wade rests on somewhat shaky legal ground.

[1] Traditional rules of evidence would have required submission of an original document to establish a fact evidenced in the document. A government witness couldn't simply recite it from memory; that would be hearsay. A government created copy would at best have had heavily discounted credibility given the suspect provenance, and I bet often would have been inadmissible--not because of any fruit-of-the-poison-tree logic, but because it's likewise effectively hearsay.
It continues a decades-long tradition where every other Windows version is borderline unusable and universally hated. As long as I remember:

* Windows 3.0 was perceived as buggy

* Windows 3.1/3.11 was a major improvement

* Windows 95 was extremely unreliable

* Windows 98 sort of addressed most of the issues

* Windows 2000 was a weird amalgamation of the NT kernel and 98/ME look'n'feel that wasn't received well

* Windows XP fixed that

* Windows Vista was universally hated

* Windows 7 addressed most of its issues

* Windows 8 was a nonsense with phone-style UI on desktops, tablets and servers

* Windows 10 fixed it

Now it's time for another crappy release to get people really excited about upgrading to Windows 12 in a year or two.
Excellent information. Do you have a reliable source for that?
> as is Nancy Pelosi

I find it odd that people who are working until they are past 80 are accused of doing so just to enrich themselves. Pelosi has what 8 years left alive on average, and is spending all her time still working and influencing politics so that she goes to the grave with ~2% more money? Does that sound right to you?
Yeah. The original founders didn't fail. They made out like bandits.

Yahoo bought it and allowed it to wither on the vine and fall in value until someone else thought they could make a go of it for a bargain basement price. Something they have a long track record of having done. (I bet they lost way way more on their acquisition and later sale of Flickr that they did with Delicious.)

Here's the whole Delicious story, in two blogposts...

https://idlewords.com/2009/06/seeking_testers_for_a_bookmark...

https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...
we aren't going to hold it against him. we all have our hobbies.
Yeah this looks like spam otherwise, he/she just linked stuff all his sites otherwise

Even if he does provide a screenshot, I am not sure if an AMA is the best type of post for Hacker News - there is no unique or insightful content in the original post apart from a set of links
“There are good reasons for keeping jailbreaks [ ] closed source”
If all the commits on an account have person X's name on it, letting person X hide the repo isn't going to do much harm. And you can send an email to the account owner asking if they dispute the claim.
The problem is that just receiving the message is in-and-of itself bad for the end user. It's not the volume you think (assuming the other poster is accurate about relative volumes) - it's far, far more. Imagine getting 1000 SMS/day that all have a "spam" warning attached, or worse, no warning at all. You'd just stop getting any value from SMS at all, and ignore it.

I mean, going back to the postal service - even the weekly pile of "here, throw this away for me." dead trees we receive (in the US) is mildly irritating. Imagine THAT x 1000!

I'm grateful for the silent block in this case. I mean, my social security number is being canceled, I'm about to be arrested by the IRS, the FBI found a suspicious package with my personal information in it and my car warranty (didn't know I had one) is up for renewal. And that's just this morning. What more can I stand? One of these days I'll press 1 out of desperation...

Also I hate govt/big-corp censorship as much as the next person, but none of this seems remotely political or ideological. And consider the alternative.
> I reported maybe 20 times obvious scam videos, or posts with extreme hatred and threats of violence

Back when I had a Facebook account, I just started reporting all ads as sexually explicit. They always came back with "no it isn't" but it took a while. And I stopped seeing ads.
That is exactly the conclusion they drew.
You still have the GIL in python to overcome.
Yawn. Why is this news?

People and circumstances change.
If you tell me you won't give me equity it's one thing.

If you tell me not to worry my little noggin about it because we're never selling :) and then you turn around sell for $12B, I'm going to feel a little shafted...

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But looks like they accounted for this with the 500m pool, so in this case they ended up "fixing" the problem.

I think in the end this will just be a cautionary tale on the other side of the "equity is worth TP" stories. I've always felt equity is a lottery ticket, but a lottery ticket isn't completely worthless...

ps: It is a little funny watching all the people rush to defend this, like Mailchimp's founders obviously saw the issue here and negotiated that pool into the deal, but random HNs are so quick to defend it with "that's business folks!" like human emotion is something to throw in the garbage when talking about $$$.

Mailchimp wouldn't have worked out with that mentality, it shows reading their story.
accrued leave is a liability that a company doesn't want too much of.

For people leaving, accrued leave is something that the person could ask to be paid out in cash, or they can take the leave prior to quitting.

As an org grow larger and larger, they'd need to prepare for these to crunch together - and thus, by forcing leave, they can cap the amount of reserves (cash, and people to take over) they need. It's understandable, but of course, frustrates the employee.
Ah, 'my voice is my'!

https://youtu.be/-zVgWpVXb64
It's not that bad. I contacted them after getting phished (yeah, I know..) and they were quite helpful.
"It's not a mob if they are on my side."
Very exciting stuff. I hope they succeed and others can use it as a model.
Ya, that just makes the USA’s high homicide rate even more embarrassing.
This resonates interestingly with the recent post about Mullvad, yesterday on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28551960
On some days I believe the molten veins of liberty in the US have cooled and solidified—structurally succumb to the great machine—bound by economic needs and principles. It’s not about we the people anymore. We won’t see any real change; corruption has seeped in and taken hold. Right now, if there’s money to be made, it’s legal. (Except if it involves giving women power, so sex work remains taboo and OnlyFans is under attack.) Liberty was never about doing whatever the fuck you wanted, it was about collective ownership of structures of control. Does the average citizen participate in the economy with any shred of liberty? Who tells the reserve bank and payment processors how to wield their power over currency? Are you free to wander cyberspace and loot more than 500GB or 1TB of its treasures? Who innately owns your data? Is encryption speech? etc…

The only possible way to fix these problems is to code solutions into the fabric of society. And to do that you need a young molten society of people that fundamentally communicate using a common implementation language working toward a shared vision. This society understands the principles supporting the solutions and is willing to sacrifice in order to maintain a system which innately resists deprivation of liberty. You need birth and.. eventually.. death. We won’t see meaningful data privacy without a revolution.

On some days I feel this way.
The derangement of liberals knows no end, I see. Just nakedly projecting his own internal reality without a hint of self-awareness.

Being brown myself, I promise you that your cherished pet minorities are doing fine in the suburbs. None of us are looking to urban whites as a savior, and you don't need to involve us in your feud with rural whites. Many of the people who I know that are gun owners are black -- they're very neighborly as well!
Expect this hack wasn't "showing the door to the assholes in your community" this was hacking and trying to doxx another community you don't agree with.

They had already left your community and made their own, but as was expected that wasn't enough and never was the actual point of that XKCD. The actual message behind the stance is that speech you hate should be removed.

As with most things people are for removing speech as long as it is speech of people they disagree with. We just have to hope the pendulum never again swings back to the other side.
Naive employees. Companies will break their promises eventually. C’mon, Google no longer promises not to do evil.
How quickly do you think big companies could start hiring contract workers from smaller tech companies that are also in the bay area? Because they already hire a lot of employees as contractors. Limiting only large companies would simply cause that behavior to increase.
More than needs repair - I think that a pretty good analogy for tech debt is deferred maintenance - if you don't change your oil or your tires the chances of expensive/bad problems increases. If you've got dents in the body you will need to address these before a respray.

And if you have a 15 year car with a clapped out motor, you are not going to achieve modern safety and fuel efficiency by swapping the worn-out motor with a NOS replacement, so there's a point where investing money in the old solution isn't going to move you into the future you need.
We're all strangers on this forum. Half take the numbers at face value, the other half doesn't.

The allure of this thread is the author's claims on revenue. I'm asking on behalf of the latter half of hn, that would like to believe but would like to see verification first.
There was a defcon talk about 3d fingers

https://3dprint.com/271540/d-defcon-fooling-biometric-sensor...