skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, how the CEO manages thier personal finances is really no concern and irrelevant to the conversation as long as there was nothing improper with the company's payment arrangement with the CEO.

It really sounds like this CEO just checked out. Sounds like the board should have stepped in and either replaced him for being an ineffective steward of the company. Which just goes to show that the CEO has fault, but there are others that were asleep at the wheel as well.
Maybe Shortcut can soon get their name back that these guys stole[1]. Then again, that name would be tainted forever.

[1] https://techstartups.com/2021/08/02/clubhouse-io-rebrands-sh...
Why pre-fund and fully fund pension schemes
It sounds as though this guy just got tired of running his company, realized he couldn't sell it for the price he wanted and decided to just walk away from it.

He could have handed the reigns over to someone else. He could have sold for a lower price- there's always someone willing to buy if you go low enough. He could have pivoted the company to doing something he was more excited about. He could have done anything.

But the most important thing he could have done was be transparent and open with the people his decisions would impact. Being a leader means you stand there and deliver the bad news, and take the heat from people mad at you. Dropping a bomb and then hiding to avoid the flak for it is a cowardly move.

Adding "Ryan Carson" to the list of leaders I don't want to work for in the future.
To the extent you mean "others will see your behavior and possibly emulate it as part of a social norm", you're correct. If a critical mass of bicyclists wears helmets, the social pressure to conform to helmet-wearing would result in higher rates. Conversely, saying, "I don't see anyone else wearing a helmet, why should I?" is also a consequence of social norms; norms can override rational risk/reward choices.
because it's a perfect symbol of the breakdown our society is experiencing. His life is completely unaffected by the failure of his company, while the employees who were passionate about the mission are left with nothing.
do you have a source for this? the USPS claims "Unlike any other public or private entity, under a 2006 law, the U.S. Postal Service must pre-fund retiree health benefits. [1]" and everything else i've seen on the topic agrees that this is a requirement unique to the USPS.

[1] https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/financials/annual-reports/...
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Might be similar to the last time this came up (i'm looking for it now, edit: found it[0]) where the developer worked with a sizable development-for-hire firm that were themselves associated with many other dev accounts, some of which ended up being suspended for ToS violations (possibly by this firm, possibly by the customer without the firm's knowledge). The anti-ban-evasion technology Google runs then effectively poisoned this firm's Play developer profile so that anyone working with them would be suspended for the potential ban evasion, eventually.

Note that, for this specific case, it might not be a firm but one of the developers themselves that has a poisoned account thanks to past dealings that violated ToS. I imagine the system only banning by associate if the $25 developer account itself ever uploads an app so that it doesn't ban associated Google accounts for non-play-developer purposes.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19124324 (comment explaining https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19124463 )
Why is this legal? Why is it legal for Google to completely demolish a business with no human review, no due process and no excuse at all?

Why do we keep hearing this without a single developer going forward and suing the hell out of Google? Or Apple by the way.
During the TLS handshake, is the server's TLS certificate sent encrypted? If sent in plaintext, it seems to me, the GFW could easily block connections based on the certificate, even if eSNI is used.

Based on this [1] description of the handshake, the DH random values are exchanged before the certs, so they could in principle encrypt the certs. But it doesn't say if this is actually been done.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthn/tls-...
On the other hand morale will never be good among people who see an ig post of a selfie during a tropical storm and try to spin it as:

> Carson enjoys a climate-related disaster

These people will never experience happiness and high morale
The title is somewhat misleading, I think. Nevertheless, this sounds like very interesting research.

It is astonishing how much we have learned about the brain and how it works, but there so much to learn I doubt we will ever run out of questions to ask.
Completely different languages tend to group colors in roughly the same way
And they are more vertically integrated on semiconductor side than other auto manufacturers.
> Pro tip: there’s people other than Mark Zuckerberg who own those super-voting shares in Facebook, who keep his power unchecked. One of them is considered a darling investor in Silicon Valley and pretends to be a voice of social justice (and funds a lot of that sort of stuff).

Pro tip: citations, please!
UK has one of the highest population destities in the world:

"all the buildings in the UK - houses, shops, offices, factories, greenhouses - cover 1.4% of the total land surface."

This is not a chicken farm untill we have 100 billion people, which we never will.

We are like illiterate medieval peasants who trow shit on the street and in the river and they wonder why they get the plague. Must be overpopulation.
How do you scroll long comments without the mouse?
Really sad to read this.

Treehouse was the first online resouce that made programming "click" for me almost 10 years ago when I started thinking about changing careers.

I absolutely loved their short, fun videos followed by quick quizzes and programming challenges. I basically completed everything they had for Ruby, Python, JavaScript, HTML and CSS back in the day.

Unfortunately they didn't keep up the pace with interesting classes, and I would come back after a few years and resubscribe to see mostly the same courses, just re-shot.

I was still recommending Treehouse for people completely new to programming, though.

It is a dire scenario, but I hope they can bounce back from this.
Start reading IEEE, SAE, or other trade magazines; get an EE degree in the Midwest; get a job in the automobile supplier industry; go to industry conferences or just read their proceedings...
I used TreeHouse in the past, it used to have very good websites on web development.

But the CEO always seemed... weird. I remember he appeared randomly in one video, seemed obvious he had forced it.

Also looks as though the CEO "removed management" in 2013. As in get rid of all the manager roles. Also seems people didn't work Fridays (in other words had a 4 day a week).

It would be interesting to me to learn if any of these things were the reason for the decline of TreeHouse.
For them it was the end of it all. For google, it was a Tuesday.
The sub-headline of the article says it too: "The gargantuan Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet will strafe Saturn's orbit in 2031. Scientists are stoked."

If anything were actually on a collision course with Earth, I can almost guarantee the headlines of every major news outlet would make it clear.
you might want to translate it to English . . .
The "Top-20 school" is bad advice for disciplines (like life sciences) where the expectation is that you will do a post-doc. There are post-docs at high profile institutions that came from lesser known schools, but had a great graduate career, pubs, and recommendations. In those fields, your post-doc is at least as important as your graduate school.

And most good life sciences departments do not offer a Masters program -- you get a masters if you decide at some point to stop pursuing the PhD. Most Master's programs cost money, and, at least in the life-sciences, you are better off working in the field (CS may be very different).
Your amount of social interaction is also a choice that will dictate your ability to get Covid. Should be obvious that this is comparable to your example from the lockdowns that have been ineffective.
This would disenfranchise many disabled and those who must travel for work.
"You should not put all your eggs in someone else’s basket."
Does anyone know of any analysis of Tesla’s quality control? This[0] thread on twitter was pretty interesting but I’d love something more encompassing

[0] https://twitter.com/snazzyq/status/1434936396096028674?s=21
The US alone is 700,000 of those, or ~14%. The United States population is equivalent to 4.25% of the total world population.
> compiler and tools writing in Java is fun too, particularly in JDK 16. (Think ‘Haskell the good parts’.)

I would love a more in-depth exploration about this part of your message, if you have some time. I didn't explore the compiler/tools ecosystem for Java for some time, would love to know the advances it got that prompted your message.
yeah, so he's a bad boss. that in and of itself is not a crime.

I get it. People are pissed off about not having a job and the no severance is just salt in the wound. Lashing out at the CEO is obvious and justifiable. Stretching that ire into the CEOs personal finance is not serving the cause in a meaningful way. Absolutely, bitch&moan about his Insta posts. Bitch&moan about the fact the CEO wasn't willing to sacrifice some salary as a gesture to offset. Lots of examples of how badly this CEO handled this. Definitely will not look good in his future CEO job interviews.
Can I dump my OPML into this, and you recommend me feeds based on what I'm already subscribed to?
When my friends text me to say they are "on their way" I don't exactly jump to the conclusion that they are literally going to ram my house with their car.
When I was a freelancer, I was warned by my legal help that taking a businesses site offline in response to non-payment was legally risky. There was a chance of being sued for disrupting their business.

I wonder if there are grounds for a (reasonable) legal suit here. Anyone in the know that can fill us in?
I agree with you that at Netflix we hired for specific roles and that worked out well.

But I think that has to do with the fact that we only hired senior engineers. At the other BigCos, they are hiring junior engineers right out of school who aren't specialized yet, so for all intents and purposes, they are fungible.

Even the BigCos hire for specific roles at the higher levels.
I found this odd too. The idea of limited liability, is that your business can go under, without it taking your personal finances with you.

> pay severance to his employees?

Isn't severance pay something that should be included in the work contract? I don't know how this differs in the US.
No real due diligence often leads to “disasters” like this.
What's the problem with that? It does not increase the price for you if you buy through them.
I think it’s a completely fair assessment to view the word that way. Dog-whistles aren’t just a thing neo-Nazi’s use, any unpopular political groups has words they use to indicate what their true side is to others of the cause. The only point against comrade in that light is that it’s so heavily tied to communism in the collective consciousness that it might be too obvious.

That said, how negatively we should view that particular dog whistle is a separate conversation.
Appreciate you sharing the datapoint.
Contracts are not regulations. But the government provides contract enforcement, which is an essential part of a free market.
>40-60V system

What makes that voltage a better trade off?
Because law enforcement is for the rich, that's why.
Again, you can substitute any of the things I mentioned for Instagram in your post and find contemporary people making the same complaint. And yes, I'm sure there were pointing at Luther to decry the evils of the printing press.

Maybe this time all the naysayers are right and Instagram type sites make us worse off. But I doubt it.
Arguably, CGOL later did this concept better, using portable Lisp code.
Except the reason the CEO got rich enough to afford a mansion and a boat is because he accumulated for his personal use the value created by his employees. That alone is reason to ask, "is this really fair?"
And yet forecasts say that only 50% of VW and BMW sales will come from EV by 2030 with tens of billions poured into conversion they say that it isn't possible to go any faster. And they are faster than other major players.
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Yet nobody says walking is deadlier than deep see diving.
Alternatively, maybe just like SpaceX has faster development cycle AND greater safety and reliability of rockets, Tesla has faster development cycle AND greater safety and reliability of cars?

Judging by the number of recalls, Tesla doesn't seem to be doing worse than GM, Porsche or Ford.
Probably for the best with their history of customer support black holes and horror stories of falsely banned accounts in all their consumer products.

Google is one of the last companies in the world I’d trust to hold my finances.
Meh. I’m pretty annoyed about over-the-top wokeness too, but this was shit management. It is understandable that people would be furious and thus inclined to amplify every slight.
Show HN: AirSS is a web-based feed reader that put your privacy first
I doubt that "too hard" is really the issue here. yeah, if USPS wanted to figure it out, i'm sure they could. but what actually happens is that the USPS contracts somebody else to figure it out for them, and that contractor charges USPS a price for that.

if the price is worth it, USPS pays. if the price isn't worth it, then USPS stops delivering there.
Can you clarify how that is different from what the parent poster said?

> or to trust another node to custody your funds
This is a trivially small amount of people. If it wasn’t - people wouldn’t even bother with learning how to clip in. They’d be like, “oh no, clipless pedals is what killed my pa back in ‘04.”
There's a Node in the Cluster in the Cloud
From what I can tell the company didn’t fail, just downsized. That’s mundane, not ‘a perfect symbol’. Downsized employees of tech companies aren’t ‘left with nothing’ they got paid for the work they did and will have no difficulty finding a new job.
I'll bite. In 2021 what is the benefit of a 1mb block over a 10 mb block?

Of course there is none I can think of. Any miner big enough to put a $20k+ into mining hardware needed to be competitive wouldn't blink at the $100 hard drive needed as well.

The Blockstream/Core people convinced many of the lie that non-mining nodes "secure the network" which is not true of course.
RSS for everything would be epic!!
1) As you know this is super common and there is no recourse. Abandon Google, read something by Kafka, have some whisky.. life isn't over.

2) Take your IP and rearchitect your games for web or other platforms. Despite losing your user reviews and published applications, you clearly have something of value that was trending up. DO NOT let Google smite your startup by simply banning you. Android phones are not the only place where your IP can continue to thrive.

3) If you don't want to rearchitect, Consider selling your IP to another mobile developer. IP with a track record of positive reviews/downloads/cash flow is pure gold. There are websites where you can list your business and IP such as EmpireFlippers and Flippa.

4) Lastly.. having a team who is competent, you enjoy working together, and has success under your belt is also gold. What else can you do with this team to take the world by storm? I envy your position; I have not a team nor 1M+ users anywhere. Good luck friend.
This is very simple: consciousness is not an epiphenomenon of the brain. It's a universal force. We don't emit consciousness, we tap into it and experience it as individuations.

This why AI will never happen in the generalized sense. Because as long as we keep thinking we can engineer a mind out of matter, we'll keep chasing our tails.

Matter is a by-product of the universal mind.
And we all experience our lives as singular nodes of that mind.

This has been known for millennia and is the basis for the world religions (which are mostly dumbed down co-optings of this).

Also, Bitcoin fixes this.
Most people even when they think they're in the right won't take legal action. Even when they think they'll get a payout they won't take legal action. If they get threatened with legal action they'll automatically backdown.

I'm sure there are a multiude of reasons behind why this is. But I think part of it is on some level fight or flight. I am sure for a lot it's just not worth the hassle.

I'm hoping for the day someone does take them to court especially in the EU where they're less likely to put up with the corporate nonsense that the American courts seem to put up with.
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Due to covid I’m back to driving trucks and they have the same supply problems as everyone else — the dude I’m working for can’t find a used truck to put me in because new trucks are taking 6-8 months to get.

Used trucks sell as fast as they go up on the websites (with the lease returns from the company we’re running for selling even before that) and the truck dealers apparently think this is the time to charge excessive finance fees (basically doubling the cost of the truck) because they can.

Quite a stressful time…for him. I don’t really care since I’m making money and team driving isn’t as bad as I remember it from the last time I did it 23 years ago.
Yep, and not so much recent example : Tello, bebop... Those are quite old and well open to allow external control from custom softwares
> As far as policy is concerned they have contacted us previously and we solved all of the issues to their satisfaction.

He admits they were in violation of policy previously and fixed it, but then repeatedly states they’ve never violated any policies. Curious what the original violations were for. While I know Google is notorious for things like this, it feels like they’re not telling the whole story.
> An end goal of crypto is to have all financial and ownership services exist on-chain. To conceptualize the real world as somehow forever separate is going to lead to the correct conclusion that DeFi doesn't seem to affect "the real world".

I get this, and I definitely am not suggesting the real world is forever separate. I am somewhat suggesting it currently is though.

> There are cryptos looking to tokenize and fractionalize public/private equities.

Yes, but the ones I'm aware of are entirely doing it on the backs of traditional finance equities.

> Requires identification.

This is a good point and I almost explicitly called it out myself - traditional finance is valuable much because it acknowledges the existence of the individual in society, not as an abstract entity with cash flows.

Solving the identification problem is a goldmine for society at large, not just DeFi. I just find it hard to imagine a suitable solution that doesn't involve trust in the government and other institutions.

I want to make it clear that I am not anti-crypto/DeFi. I think most payment will one day be distributed/trustless at its lowest layer. But I also think that true value (in the "real world") will come when all of the trust built into the rest of society is layered on top.
> Did he check in individually with any employees? Never.

How the fuck does this author know this? The boss could have spoken to any number of employees with the author being none the wiser. FAQ my arse -- this is a whinge from a disgruntled former employee...

Don't get me wrong, the CEO of this place was probably not the nicest guy, but this is clearly loaded a certain way. The use of the word "never" instead of just plain-vanilla "no" is also a bit of a give-away.
I don't think the security requirements are unreasonable, and actually make a lot of sense. The issue is a lot of corporations that store your personal data are just insecure and careless. While they could be spending the money you give them on IT upgrades, a lot of times they are upgrading Yachts and their mistresses.

The thing I don't like is that even with better hardware, Windows will still find ways to enable telemetry and then exploits to that data. So, even once you upgrade your hardware, attackers will still find a way in thanks to Microsoft.
It should be noted the most prominent bans have ban for TOS violations unrelated to misinformation. Even the misinformation bots aren’t banned for misinformation, they’re banned because they’re automated accounts.
Private companies have to fund retirement benefits. The US government doesn't -- which is why there's arguments over why the US debt is around 20 trillion (current bonds outstanding) or over 100 trillion (including unfunded social security benefits).
The same thing can happen with Google Ads Accounts. I've seen a several ad agencies get totally destroyed when a client does something that violates the TOS and then you get the 'guilt by association' ban. Then this propagated out to all of their other client accounts because, well, guilt by association.

Rather than Google taking the time and effort to identify the single issue, it's FAR easier for them to just ban anything that touched those accounts. It is hands down my single biggest worry when working with Google. And why I immediately revoke access for anyone (including me) that does not need direct, active, access to any account. There is simply no way to talk to a real human and say, look, I've been working with you since you launched and this one account way over here that's 'new' did something you don't like and now I'm banned for life?
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Hashicorp Vault – Encryption as a service, Secrets- and Access management
It's quite terrifing understand how the China state is trying to spy/sniff/obserbve/censure you inside one of the most freedom expression: internet. The more tricks the devs found to improve your privacy (eSNI/DoH/HTTPS/recursiveDNS/etcc...) the more China invests time and money to track and spy on you. if only they used their time to make something usefuel for all the people and not to try to pursue a new privacy feature invented by the "free developers".
Looks like you are targeting devs, so content is king. Auth is a tough market to get started in. The main issue will be "why should I trust your small outfit over a large and established product?"

See the skyscraper technique mentioned here: https://boringseo.org/

Here are some others I like

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/beginner/seo-start...

https://mailmeteor.com/blog/seo-for-dummies
Just submit it to the Amazon Appstore. According to Google they are a major competitor, right? Same same?

Yes, I’m being sarcastic
There are activity clubs, bars, lots of thigns like that, but that's why I talked specifically about "passive" socializing. I would call these things "active" socializing. I personally have a hard time with these kind of things, so in a way WFH could make my life a bit harder. Again, it's not a reason to stop people from doing it, or anything like that, but it's still a consequence of the shift, and I don't know how to solve this.
i happened to look up the latter question. Toyota does about 10M cars/year, so this is about 10% of toyota, which is way closer than i expected.
Alternatively, we could get the rich people poor again, since it's a small part of the giant population that's causing all the problems.
Batteries is the bottleneck for entirety of next decade. All other manufacturers make like 5k a quarter which means they are loosing money on them…