skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Contract Language and IP Rights
Seeking the opinion of experienced contract programmers:

I've been offered a contract with the following language. Is there anything in this to be wary of, or is it standard boilerplate?

> The Contractor agrees that the Company will have exclusive ownership in all ideas, discoveries, inventions (patentable or not), concepts, methods, copyrightable works of authorship, formulae, algorithms, techniques, processes, know how, trade secrets and other intellectual property and work product, including all expressions of such intellectual property and work product in any and all forms, which result from the Contractor’s engagement with the Company or which result from the use of the premises or property (including equipment, supplies or Confidential Information) owned, leased or licensed by the Company or which reasonably relate to the Company’s business (together, “Developments”) and that the Contractor will promptly disclose the Developments to the Company in writing. This will be the case, whether or not a Development is: (i) capable of being protected by copyright, patent, industrial design, trade mark or other similar legal protection, (ii) conceived or made by the Contractor during or outside the Contractor’s regular working hours, or (iii) conceived or made by the Contractor alone or jointly with others.

> The Contractor hereby irrevocably assigns to the Company all rights, title and interest, including intellectual property rights, that the Contractor may now or in the future have in and to the Developments and hereby irrevocably waives the Contractor’s moral rights and all other similar rights to any and all copyrights subsisting in the Developments. If required by the Company, the Contractor also agrees to sign any applications or other documents the Company may reasonably request: (i) to obtain or maintain patent, copyright, industrial design, trade mark or other similar protection for the Developments, (ii) to transfer ownership of the Developments to the Company, and (iii) to assist the Company in any proceeding necessary to protect and preserve the Developments. The Company will pay for all expenses associated with preparing and filing such documents.

Of course, if you have any advice on "gotchas" or other parts of a contract that I should pay extra attention to, please do share!

Thanks in advance for your feedback and help.
I've asked about anbox (not having heard of waydroid before now) on Pinephone threads before, consensus seemed to be even without bugs it's too slow on Pinephone hardware. (And indeed I've found it too buggy to be useful on my desktop anyway.)

So certainly lighter sounds good, and hopefully the future's bright - could be very useful in bridging the gap driving more Linux phone adoption. Some things just can't and won't be available (without way more adoption), like bank apps say, so being able to run the Android version smoothly would be a huge win.
Good points and personally relate to some of these benefits.

I try to keep my social media minimal. No Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, etc...

At times has been difficult to use social media in moderation. Feels like I am competing with an Olympic champion in their own sport.

With that said, here some things that I found helpful:

- Never social media apps on my phone (no email either).

- Only access social media via laptop/desktop.

- Use services like Mailbrew to follow Youtube channels I want to follow (very few).

- Never save my session, always enter the credentials every time I want to check social media.

I do however follow Twitter & HN. More like a passive user.
Gnome 41 Released
In Ubuntu kernels the Android modules are named "binder_linux" and "ashmem_linux" so:

sudo modprobe binder_linux
sudo modprobe ashmem_linux

Where $version is the kernel version, for -generic kernels they are in the package "linux-modules-extra-${version}-generic" and for -lowlatency "linux-modules-${version}-lowlatency". On -generic the modules-extra may sometimes not be installed by default.
the most gross aspect is that the majority of people want change (at least according to polls), however this is apparently not enough since "wanting" is not enough (and politicans don't survive measures that throttle the economy). As we are destroying our planet in only a few decades, I begin to think that giving a 70-year old the same share of a vote as a 20 year old might be inadequate for these times.

To end with a ray of hope: Journalists (and activists) have certainly picked up steam the last couple of years, and so have the engagements of companies and politicians. But these baby steps are nothing more than that, we have to grow up fast. The world is showing us.
It’s underrated but DJI drones sold by millions is a great way to spy on what could not be gathered through satellite imagery. If not now then during war time, CCP has a million remote cameras in form of DJI drones and can turn it on in a snap. It would require nationwide firewall to stop. Of course, DJI drones require DJI flight app to even take off.

Why isn’t US Gov putting together legislation for this sort of a thing is beyond me.
on x86 at least
Yes, but a dimly lit room will cause more exertion on the pupillary muscles anyway, because the flux of light is way too low for all types of focused activity like reading. Both undivided attention and the flux of light have a significant influence on the pupillary state of the eyes.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634867/
> My father told me he once read a book that said it was impossible to go to the Moon because it would take 750 years to get there.

A bit of a tangent, but that seems absurd even based on knowledge from hundreds of years ago. The moon is about 250,000 miles away, so the 750 years figure assumes a speed of less than 1 mile/day. And a quick google search suggests that we've had reasonable estimates of the distance to the moon since about the 2nd century BCE.
Ad Tech DeFi
In this post, we explore how a new Ad Tech ecosystem might look in the near future, operating in Web 3.0 with technologies such as edge computing, decentralized data networks, and artificial intelligence. We will discuss a vision of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) in which Ad Tech products become available on a decentralized public blockchain network. In contrast to the current Web 2.0, where companies are dictating data monetization models and do not typically share revenue with users, we envision that the future Internet will look different from how it does today, with users being equal participants and having an opportunity to profit alongside the traditional players in the Ad Tech system.
Alternative compensation models to kill rest n' vest culture
I'm curious if anyone out there has worked with or founded a company that had an alternative comp structure for equity and salary that discouraged rest n' vest culture?
Consider dexamethasone.

> There is, no, no large-scale RCT for IVM. However, it is inherently obvious that none will happen, none that give it a fair shake.

Well, the gold standard RCT Recovery (https://www.recoverytrial.net/) had a look.

> The entire public health apparatus in the West has a huge desire to treat all illness with only on-patent, new medications.

Dexamethasone is a cheap steroid. (For that matter, vaccines are incredibly cheap and yet nobody seems to have stopped them in favour of, say, monoclonal antibodies.)

> Do you not thin that this incentive influences what gets into the news?

Evidently not terribly much, given that dexamethasone was at least in all the British newspapers.

> Do you think the public health authorities in Uttar Pradesh are lying?

Quite plausibly. UP is perhaps the worst governed state in India and has been under all political parties. The case of Kafeel Khan is rather illustrative.

More to the point, I don’t care whether they’re lying. The whole article is full of vague statements that are hardly a good basis to believe anything about ivermectin.
11 seems like "I'm no longer addicted to smoking, but I do smoke sometimes".
In general, I find that Kindle has the best backlight, is fastest, and has a generally very smooth UI. Now, I haven't used the latest version of the OS, so that might have changed, but in general all the non-Kindle E-Ink devices I've used, I've wished it were a Kindle without the spy stuff.
Yes? Teams lose valuable players all the time, often to everyone's detriment, over failed contract negotiations. Pay in professional sports is an extremely sore topic. See US women's soccer last year.
All codes are kept with a constant name prefixed with E_ in one file.
Well many, many rentals were originally owner-occupied SFHs or condos. So they weren't purchased to be profitable.

From my experience at a commercial real estate brokerage, forming a personal relationship with dozens & dozens of landlords- it's an extremely unprofessional small business, attracted by people who think 'land, they're not making any more of it' is a sophisticated statement. It also attracts a lot of 'more money than sense' types who are willing to eat losses for the first 5+ years because they think they'll make more money over time. I would conservatively estimate 20-33% of new landlords are actually losing money every year. Could be way higher than that!

Imagine saying 'there's tons of day traders, no one gets into day trading to lose money, so they must all be making $'. In fact, no- it just attracts a lot of unsophisticated folks. Same thing with owning a small retail business or a restaurant- there's lots of restaurants, they're also terrible businesses! I would put being a small landlord closer to owning a restaurant
So you are telling me this is a synthesizer?
I'm mid-career, I guess, and these days I kinda feel like I've fucked up if I'm writing any serious amount of code, under most circumstances. The best solution is often a small script in the right place, leveraging existing software (when the best solution isn't "FFS, just pay a SaaS to take care of this, it's not even worth the time we've spent talking about it"). When I'm writing an actual project, I've got this nagging feeling like I just didn't know enough to avoid writing it. Like maybe I need to go RTFMs of the many battle-hardened daemons and OS components I have available and could be using.

Any time I do achieve "10x" versus anyone else (and I think I sometimes do, though the broad "anyone else" makes that less impressive) it's usually because of what I didn't write.
Even as a man this has happened to me. In my case at least (and I think in many cases) is that the market price of labor changes, which requires employers to pay more for new hires, but they don't go back and adjust the salaries of existing employees.
Ah thanks for the reminder. That could go into the research section too. Will add shortly. Thanks!
Are white people smarter than Blacks?
He should've also demanded the compensation for the past time.
If this always happens one way sure, but what if you also happened to include the symbol that gets translated to "brown frowning face"?
I once scavenged an HP workstation from behind a dumpster. It was just sitting there in the rain. I brought it in, dried it off, and checked the innards for rust or damage. All looked nearly brand new, so I let it dry out for a couple of days, and powered it on -- it worked. Put a hard disk in and it was ready to go. It's a fairly powerful machine, with four cores and 12 GiB of RAM, a real powerhouse for 2012 when it was new. Probably chewed through many a spreadsheet back in the day. Now I'm making it into a build server.
coinbase is to namebase

as bitcoin is to handshake
> Zero emission flights

The same lies that are peddled to us about pretty much everything. The emissions are just moved downstream, and could even be worse in certain places, as compared to other transportation systems. I am curious to see how they fare in energy usage as compared to an electric car, electric bikes and electric trains.
Zener reverse avalanche noise + sample and hold?
They also mention Marvel comics in the article. Although, it seems a bit less concrete than that. These stories were written over the course of hundreds of years, and were often not really collaborating at all, right? Like, Lancelot's characterization can diverge pretty significantly depending on whether the author is English or French, haha...
the upvote mechanism is definitely harmful in most use cases, because it prioritizes groupthink over expertise.

but it's also definitely beneficial in places like Stack Overflow, where there's a logical reason to assume that the most popular answer might have any correlation at all with the best answer.

the best answer will always be at or near the top in a place like Stack Overflow. so the upvote mechanism is useful there. but the most racist answer will always be at or near the top in a forum where racist people just share opinions.

and this malicious example is just chosen for clarity. even in a more innocuous context, if there is no absolute correct answer and nobody is testing the answers for accuracy, upvotes often do more harm than good, and upvote sites are almost by definition groupthink factories, when they don't pertain to verifiable claims that are quickly tested (which is what makes upvotes helpful on a site like Stack Overflow).
Well, destructors come up if you have non-memory resources to manage, and there you do go back to ownership and deterministic destruction issues.
The problem is absolutely scrolling (I call them feeds[0], but pedants don't love that.)

Feeds encourage consumption over action, take you in unwanted directions and induce FOMO through overchoice. If you can eliminate them, these services magically become tools rather than escapes.

[0] https://suketk.com/feeds-considered-harmful
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar or further into personal attack. Maybe you don't feel you owe the other person better, but it's not the kind of community we want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Indeed. Sense of equality != equality. The OP almost suggests it's better for people to live under a false sense of equality.
There are hundreds of "official" currencies in the world today, is dealing with them a problem you deal with in your life?

I assume many people here travel (or did pre-covid) frequently and mostly don't even notice the currency that's being used when you swipe your credit card when making a purchase. The details such as whether the merchant gets USD, EUR, or GBP are abstracted away from you and all you care about is buying your souvenir and figuring out where to go next.
Yeah, in other words: it's not intended to hold up to scrutiny, just hold up to a glance.
I'm also a new homeowner, and my mortgage + property taxes + insurance + utilities are about 2/3rds of what I was paying for rent last year. Will ongoing maintenance on my home eat up the $400 a month I'm saving? I guess that's possible... but even if it did, I'm still breaking even, and I own my own home.

That's particular to the area I live in, though, where the rental market is extremely tight in comparison to the buying market. In my particular case, the article's advice about "what else you could do with the money" is moot. The rental market here exists for people who need transient housing, or who's financial situations makes a loan difficult to get.
Lightning was shipped before USB-C was standardized, if I recall.

Sep 2012 for lightning shipped, and USB-C not ratified as a standard until Aug 2014.
For those of you who have successfully minimized social media in their life. Where does you go for real conversations on the internet?

I sometimes use Twitter for that but feels like the ratio of noise vs. signal is too high!
With public debuts of Toast and Ginkgo, Boston is remaking its startup scene
Presumably Apple ensures there is nothing nefarious in the hardware, but it seems an unlikely avenue for compromise. Most of the "phone" is Apple-provided software.

In theory sure, you could have a chip snooping on the bus. But it would have to have a lot of OS-level knowledge and then how would it exfiltrate the data without OS-level access to the IP stack?

Like the Bloomberg/Supermicro story, I am extremely skeptical.

A Chinese-built phone that comes supplied with an OS, that's a totally different matter.
That's great for the 20% of Americans that live in those states. In many of the other states, you're evicted and looking to find another rental that will take you even though you were just evicted for not paying rent.
Why Hasn’t Elon Musk Been to Space Yet?
When I was working in healthcare, I found out that hospital groups negotiate their own Code prices with each carrier individually.

So one group will have one rate with Blue Shield vs what another hospital will have.

Its absolute bullshit.

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If youre mandated to have insurance - then procedures should be regulated to a set cost regardless of who performs the procedure.
Thanks! I think an export function would be nice, did you have a particular format in mind? Is it more about exporting the layout or having access to the raw data?
Thought experiment: what would happen to energy and pollution if magically, all existing software on earth suddenly was written in high performing C?
Was going to say the same. In any decision where the outcome affects a human being, "because the algorithm said so" is usually not a satisfactory answer either to the human being affected or to any regulators who have an interest.
About 15 years ago, aircraft safety systems at that point. One area where Waterfall is almost justifiable, but most of the other projects (in the same office) did not use Waterfall because (as that project demonstrated) it was crap. V-Model or Iterative & Incremental (slow-motion Scrum) were used with much greater success on all other projects. Success as in, they were rarely late by more than a rounding error (days, maybe a couple weeks). When they were late by larger margins the issues causing the delays were discovered early and were almost always requirements issues or hardware issues (that is, the former was partly on us, the latter never was).

I've seen Waterfall used on other projects since then including a major information system that resulted in about $1 billion of waste, fortunately I've only been adjacent to them not on them. The billion dollar waste relied on (as Waterfall often does) late integration, none of the pieces worked together even though everyone built everything per the spec they'd been given.

If you've not encountered it, that's great. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Inside the Drug Use That Fueled Nazi Germany (2016)
Would you mind expanding on the maths of contracting @ £500-£700 per day working out as equivalent to £200k PAYE?
Biden murders a bunch of civilians then has the media cover it up to try and look tough after his Afganistan withdraw clusterfuck gets thirteen American soliders killed and you feel the need to go back over a decade to look for an example of evil US government.

Democrats live in a perpetual state of denial.
No it would probably be a lot more like TikTok or other social media. Addictive at first and then most likely economically driven as well.

Imagine being able to deliver REAL experiences as ads:

"TRY our new toothpaste. Really!"

So like everything in technology we will just kind of evolve into it without even noticing until it's too late like Facebook or some such.
Tsunami Impact on US East Coast from Collapse of Cumbre Vieja Volcano [pdf]
This will probably help a bit but in an emergency people don't have the time to compare prices. And with US health care, it just takes one accident that sends you to the ER and where someone that's out of network performed a procedure to end up with a bill that's tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
https://www.sogosurvey.com
I like the idea of getting rid of in/out of network. Both recent administrations have taken steps in this direction.
Absolutely agree. I think that once you've established your civilization over a few stars and planets your survival is pretty much guaranteed against astronomical destruction (if there's anything huge enough to destroy ALL the stars you've colonized, you probably can tell with billions of years in advance), the incentive changes and you now want to basically go on stealth mode to make sure you don't actually attract any nasty neighbour's attention, because that may be the only thing you can NOT see that may be dangerous.

And notice that people from different star systems in the same civilization will very likely only have extremely rare direct encounters due to the brutally long distances involved... it's highly likely the civilization will split up into completely separate "star nations", with their own internal issues to keep them busy and at some point may lose interest even in communicating with other star systems... without any incentive at all to expand further as the species survival is guaranteed... curiosity wouldn't be strong enough, probably, because after getting to know several star systems, you may decide they are look more or less the same, and to find anything really interesting might take multi-million year journeys and no one would be able to embark on something like that just for curiosity.
I don't disagree at all with what you're saying, but shouldn't we still what little we can? Even if it's incremental, doesn't it at least send a tiny signal to manufacturers and companies and government if they see an increase in the demand of open hardware and open-source software?

The end solution will definitely require something more systemic, no question, but I don't think that should stopping the common person from doing what what they can.

I bought an iPhone less than a year ago (to use up a discount code before I left Apple), but a part of me already regrets not biting the bullet and purchasing something open, like a PinePhone.
A similarly speced XPS 2-in-1 costs 1,120$ and that is already and expensive laptop, so yeah that's pretty pricey.
FWIW you can just run a Wayland compositor in a window on X. Not sure if there's a way to get it working without the root window to make it seamless, but it's still an option.

EDIT: Actually I tried it and this doesn't want to work in an instance of weston running on top of X; not sure where the failure is.
Is there any available resources in which I can jump start my way into making these kinds of creations?
Telnet is a protocol on the Internet, not a predecessor of the Internet. To connect to a BBS using phone lines, you just dialed its phone number; this has no relation to the Internet. Even if we generously consider a phone number to be a “connection address”, there’s no “port” involved and DNS has nothing to do with phone numbers.
Who would have known.
A simple rule for negotiations is that whoever has more information has an advantage. That means if workers don’t know the exact pay scales they are almost by definition at a disadvantage while the company has the full info.

To the people who think they negotiated really well and want this to be kept from their coworkers I say that a lot of you have been lied to and you are making what everybody else makes or even less. I still remember a guy proudly telling me about his great contract and his face when I told him that I made almost twice as him.
Experience is valuable. Experience with what specifically your current employer does is not.
Secrets imply deception.
Millennials certainly seem more willing to openly discuss salaries, which is a promising trend. I've also noticed that people in NY are much more eager to discuss specific salary numbers than people in SF.