skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is that you're legally allowed to own all the different bomb-making pieces unless they can find any solid evidence you planned to commit harm with them. I wonder whether the court ordered a psych evaluation for him?
The problem is the software, not the packaging.
I believe unions are actually necessary. Necessary evil at times or not, it's a human right to have a union.

I've never been in a union, but my wife is. And I've worked as management with unions in a factory setting. It was fine, actually. The company I worked for that was unionized was the best, most efficient corporation that I've ever seen.

In fact it was a superior there that told me, when I was more anti-union, that "companies get the union they deserve".

I did everything I could to get my wife into a professional career with a union, so that when I die she'll be as safe and protected without me. I never wanted anyone taking advantage of her in her career. The union may sometimes do stupid things, but overall to not have one is an absurd, and small-minded idea.

All that said, unions should also be sector-wide not worksite based. And there probably shouldn't be any government unions- I wouldn't budge on anything though as things are today, without real and significant gains for unions in the private market.

I do believe small business under a certain number of employees should be exempted from unions. Say <10 employees. I know France does this, or something similar to it. Big corps keep out competition too easily, and should be doing more to keep the American middle class around. Their contribution can be unionizing. I also think unions would help the world, while I'm certainly not overpaid myself, my Indian colleagues deserve the same pay I receive. I'd strike for that. They, and my employer, deserve it.
Based on your other comment, you were paid something to work on this project, with a vague promise of more money later. Is anything in writing?

If not, it needs to be. Does the company even legally exist yet, and have you been granted equity in it in writing?
I do wonder how much of HN culture is affected by very smart people (in one domain) being subconsciously led to believe things by the machinations of tech. As smart people, they take very passionate positions on issues they believe strongly. Perhaps they wouldn't have believed them so strongly in a vacuum though?
Not just cameras, apparently. Recently I was watching a movie at some small cinema, and there was a dim vertical green stripe on the left side of the screen. I got curious and asked the projector guy after the movie. His answer was "some dumbass flashed a laser pointer right into the lens, burning an entire pixel column".
That’s a good citation (thanks!) but it covers the period of time when you’re legally an employee, thus if you start Tuesday you’re not one Monday, and if you finish Thursday you’re not one on Friday.

In this case with OP, my guess is that left them two choices:

1/ Accelerate start and then as you note, pay the whole period even though it sounded like this occurred before Christmas, was only a few calls then a vacation.

2/ Pay an invoice, which is mucky since it’ll probably involve supplier setup via AP, they’re clearly a W-2 equivalent person so perhaps this complicates other things like tax or benefits, etc.

If the person is “unencumbered” (not currently employed or subject to something contractual like garden leave which prevents them assuming the new employment) and if there was real value to having them participate in the calls then certainly the easiest would be (1.) - and IME, this is how larger employers would do it.
> > We also have reports of systematic hospizalization where ambulant treatment would be possible and recommended. Intubations which aren't required and actually harmful

> Never heard of that in any of a variety of news sources I consume,

And I heard exactly the same about Italy from news sources that no one in their right mind would trust, which actually corroborates your point.
I agree that mandates cannot be justified and we were never at a point that they could be justified. Pfizer will sell us their Omicron vaccination next...
not a solution to the problem... but npm explore should be available to all npm users. Not just enterprise users... I want to know exactly what is being installed when I run `npm install`.
> You can't be "kinda vegan" without leaving your brain in permanent stress due to dissonance.

To be honest, a lot of meat still tastes kind of gross to me. Give me fried tofu over baked chicken in a salad. Heck if I’m just having a a boring burger for a random lunch on a Tuesday, give me an Impossible patty over some crappy fast food beef.

That said if there’s a dish that’s enhanced by meat (say a Wagyu steak or a pastrami sandwich) then sure, I’ll eat that a few times a week.

At least so far, this hasn’t caused me any stress.
Private relay is still in beta, Apple can fight with carriers after they properly launch the product.
There's this document linked: https://www.sirillp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ORDER_202...
> you can at the very least assume permanent availability of RAM, SSD, Display

Quite the opposite. That would only apply to a very popular laptop like some thinkpads.
This could even be a net win for Bitcoin, if only sustainable energy remains for mining Bitcoin.

Then the one argument against Bitcoin could fall away, and companies like Tesla could start using it again.
Thanks for creating oga :) I use it a lot. Bonus: it's even slightly faster than Nokogiri.
All good points. In my mind, a market lets me make informed choices and choose from multiple options for something that meets my needs. As you noted, the only real choice is whatever your employer offers, or something more fantastically expensive. In terms of care, there are lots of choices but not enough information to actually choose. It's more of a choose your own adventure where you have to guess and hope you got it right.
I used Ruby for my MSc thesis... which involved applying statistical approaches to reduce error rates in OCR. I did have to call out to C code for a few things (k-means in Ruby 1.8.x was not fast...).

Most of my Ruby work has been outside of web. Message brokers, cloud orchestration and assorted devops, a text editor (for my own use - it's replaced Emacs for me), financial simulations. And that means the majority of my work for the last 15 years.

Ruby has gotten more low key, but for those of us who never really liked Rails that's not really mattered much.
Here in the UK we have pretty strict campaign finance limits and lobbying is also heavily regulated. In most European democracies the comment was referring to this is really not a serious problem. It's always a problem to _some_ extent, but the US is an extreme outlier on this one.
Not at all. That's fascinating.

Do you have a link or reference I could learn more about it from?
I think the self-isolation part is key. If they're doing that as if they have Covid then I agree with you. And honestly, I think the commenters parents have a fair point about being in line with other likely Covid infected people.
I pretty much agree with you especially on the point that there are far more effective and nuanced ways to for the maintainer to have made their point, like relicensing (imagine what would happen if the license suddenly became AGPL and everyone at big corps automatically updated without checking the new license—it would be a raucous for both legal and engineering, author could offer a non-gpl version for money and probably rake in more than a 6 figure salary… but I digress).

What I find most interesting though are the ethics. The way I interpret (1.) on this comment in the context of this thread (other people have said similar things) is that the community considers the author here to be acting ethically, just annoyingly. When someone submits dubious patches to the linux kernel and wastes everyones time, it’s unethical (kernel maintainers are the victim). When researchers submit dubious CCPA requests to people on and waste peoples time, it’s unethical (webmasters are the victim). However, when a package maintainer throws a temper tantrum and fucks up everyones’ stuff and wastes a bunch of time, they’re in their right to do so and it’s pretty much just annoying but totally okay because the maintainer is the victim of something (either corporate greed or mental health issues, or both). Our society very much puts a premium on protecting victims.
Ruby has map, filter, reduce and a bunch of other functional methods. It's more about the consistency of wondering what's a function versus what's a method and then things like list comprehensions and for loops. Python also doesn't have a lot of the goodies of a real functional language, it encourages for loops and seems to be even more procedural than Ruby but less OO?
By that logic, every sports player that uses high quality gear is "paying to win". Is Nadal winning solely based on the quality of his racquet? Of course not. Would he play with a basic or low quality one? Absolutely not. What's wrong using the best gear possible?

I don't know where'd you get this notion that it stops at 120hz. It's been proven again and again that even with monitors with low refresh rate you still get a better experience by having more fps available. Better so when you have both the frames and the refresh rate in your monitor.
Disclaimer: I'm not an NFT owner

Why do so many here seem to be so proud of their lack of understanding of the value of NFTs?

If you have an NFT, you get to do things others cannot. That's the value right there. At the very least, holding an NFT gives you the ability to transfer it to someone else and make them the holder. Anyone can confirm that you did in fact transfer it and made the other person the holder.

In addition, you potentially get access to other benefits, such as acceptance of some alternate meaning in the NFT social circle as well as potential benefits in software written that respects the NFT.

What seems to have taken off most is that the NFT social circle will accept ownership of some linked item within the NFTs data. They see the NFT record as a register of provenance that they're willing to recognize.

Do NFTs signal legal ownership? I imagine we're going to find out that it probably depends. But even where they don't, they certainly signify something akin to ownership or possession. And that ownership of scarce goods is precisely something that is valued by certain communities, especially the art trade community.

That you can mint your own NFT with the same data, or that a link in an NFT stops working don't really change the nature of the kind of ownership. What NFTs offer sort of mimics the 'realness' of a piece of art. I can make a picture of the Mona Lisa too, but no one will respect that picture as the real Mona Lisa. While you might lose out on the pretty physical object, you gain in cryptographic provability and potential software integration
While good attempt in 2012, afaik we can do better these days with e.g. ok* family of colorspaces: https://bottosson.github.io/posts/colorpicker/ (includes section on hsluv)
> I do worry that the dual licensing approach might turn off some readers

I've not read any of your books (I tend to first look on O'Reilly Learning when I need a book on a given topic, and so far when I've needed a book on a topic you have written on I've found a satisfactory book there) so maybe it will be different for your readers, but that approach would definitely turn me off.

I buy (or read via a subscription service like O'Reilly) books to learn, not to obtain a code library. If I learn something from the book, even if that happens to be in the form of code, I want to be able to treat it the same way as I do things I learned from my college textbooks.

I don't want to have to be remembering that this thing I learned from that book can't be used on these projects because I don't have the right kind of license.

I'd be OK with it if the code that is actually in the text of the book is public domain or under a permissive license and the author includes a link to download more extensive code that is not under such a license, as long as the code in the text of the book is sufficient for learning the material the book purports to teach.
Amazon KDP delayed royalties til Jan 1 then killed the account on Dec 31
Next week:

> Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Social Media users that everyone convinces Employees ‘That Unions Suck’
He allegedly leaked information to their domestic media about the NSA working with the Danish on spying missions.
That is not true. There is nothing provable about hash functions. The best that you can say is that there is no known algorithm that can calculate a pre-image for any given hash function in less than some super linear time. You certainly cannot prove that no such algorithm exists. If you can prove it please publish a paper you will be revolutionize mathematics.
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I always thought most Google employees would be creating less value than what they earn, with a few of Google's money printer products enabling such high remuneration for everybody.
> definitely introduced bugs for me

I'm an avid TDD developer. Red-green*refactor*. The latter, often overlooked, is IMO by far the most important part of TDD. But the refactor is only possible because of the tests you wrote, asserted, and tested (testing the tests) in the red-green phase.

It gets hairy when a refactor needs to also refactor the tests - often a sign that the tests were lacking in the first place (and the more reason to refactor them). In which case I try to refactor them not in lock-step but decoupled: first refactor the tests without touching the SUT. Then refactor SUT (and then, most likely, another round of this)

There is no fool-proof way. There will be bugs. There will be regressions. But that is a artifact of "change", not of refactoring. I'm also a believer in "never fix something that ain't broken". Which, unfortunately, only works for software that is not ever upgraded, has no dependencies, runs on hard- and software stacks that never change and has no changing business-needs ever. I.e.: non-existing software.
Node and Rails aren't close to the same thing. I would think a better comparison would be Node - Sinatra.
So, I recently took a trip that is 7.5 hours for a gas car (my friend did the same trip in her Audi) and took me 9 hours in my electric car with ~220 mile range. It definitely made me want to think about 400+ mile range cars, which seem to only be two makers: Tesla long range and the new Mercedes EQS.

At least one of our stops (visiting Joshua Tree) was at a charger that I think is essentially a glorified 110v socket (ChargePoint in Yuca Valley). We charged there while eating breakfast and while it reduced the range anxiety some, getting to 80%+ was not on the menu.

On main highways you're right, although traveling over the holidays led to at least one wait for a charging spot. To be fair, even the gas station had a line.
It is well documented they straight up covered up covid deaths in republican states.
Having done both professionally, I'll take Python any day of the week. The "Expressivity" lauded by Ruby fans translates into a lack of readability. But the things that drives me crazy is the optional/alternative syntax of ruby.
Is there any fundamental difference between poor people and rich people other than their privilege and riches? Could poor people send a space telescope to space?

Human animals have very similar tools to those of other social animals. We're just privileged to somehow be able to stack up our experiences to create science and technology. But isolated tribes in the amazon could never send telescopes to space.

So we're only special due to our circunstance. Our bodies are barely fit to stand and walk all day, we're pushing the limits of where we're supposed to live, and our diets are all wrong. But we make it work because our ancestors developed knowledge sharing to a global level.

Were just very lucky priviledged apes.
>Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object

Cmd+F, badger (Not found).

Cmd+F, mushroom (Not found).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI (video sfw, comments may be the usual YouTube battleground)
Technically yes, but as is typical with an acquisition there's residual divide between projects which originated from the BT Inc side of the company and those from the TRON side. BTFS is very much a product of the TRON side despite using the BitTorrent branding.
Why would it have to rise to the level of lobbying in Washington? That's not how the majority of laws get enforced. It would be more like:

- Law for frivolous lawsuits created with criteria

- Company A engages in said behavior

- Company B files motion to dismiss based on said criteria

- Judge agrees and dismisses lawsuit, and warns of contempt if the behavior continues
I don't get what the other two people are contributing. Money? It doesn't sound like they are contributing any work. Also when you say money is running out, whose money? Your personal money? If you are doing the engineering work, you should be taking zero financial risk imo, since they are contributing nothing.

Your entire story sounds like a red flag but the biggest red flag is that I don't hear a single mention of your users. Why are you asking "idea guys" for validation, you should be talking directly to users no matter what stage of development you are in.

From what you wrote, I really don't think you should take a cash infusion when the money runs out, just move on and find better partners in the future.

Note to other software engineers being approached by random angel investors: If you are being approached by an angel investor, please please vet them to make sure they are willing to do work. Ideas are valued at ZERO. If they are not technical, ask them to make a no code demo -- literally anyone can do this.
They are Nine Eyes (coalition that excludes Germany), willingly cooperative and with different charter/regulations than NSA. Bit of a tautological answer and I hope another commenter has more insight.
A developer creates a work, gives it for free(in writing) and receives fame and applause by the terms of the social contract.

When the products turns out to have problems, an issue arises between the supplier of the product and the supplier of the fame and praise.

I think that's why people feel entitled to customer service. If the developer fails to provide a good customer service, the users demand refund, that's why it feels very similar to regular customer support.

In fact, the users of the free software can often be much more demanding. Maybe they are rightfully so, since they paid with social capital that is limited, precious thing - unlike money that can be earned in by doing work for a bit.

The pain as a result of the product failure is also the same, it doesn't matter if you paid for it by a monetary transaction or tapping the like button. Even if you haven't done anything directly, you inflated the developers stats - which are the main KPI anyway.

IMHO, if someone wants to make money from their work they should explicitly charge for it. You can't expect to receive all the street cred for giving away your work for free and also receive money for your work. The maintenance is simply, street cred maintenance.

Many years ago I learned my lesson for giving stuff away for free. It's tough to sell your stuff in exchange for a reputation, the demands of the customer never ends. Your part in the deal is also not clearly defined, you are expected to fulfil your obligation by working on every single request no matter what is the scope and if you fail to do that your free users will be mean as if you scammed them.

edit: Sorry for not being able to reply to you all but my account seems to be rate limited. Unpopular opinions have consequences I guess. Shouldn't hold them.
Surgeons have used surgical masks for... 100 years? Are you sure there's no evidence to back that up?
I would rather work in a co-op rather than in a union. If everyone owns the company and the whole makes decisions rather than a tiny minority, the workers get taken care of, making unions irrelevant.
I suspect everyone was writing badly informed code at one point - just for some of us it was a long time ago, and we were young.

For example, I wrote a javascript image editor that stored images as hex strings internally, and saved them to file by screenshotting them. Completely mad design. But that was ~23 years ago, long forgotten by everyone except me, and I was age 14 at the time.

This is a young and growing industry; someone who coded like a 14-year-old ten years ago might simply be a 24 year old today.
https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

Also Denmark has been a US protectorate for quite a while for reasons (e.g. Thule airforce base)
My wife has been gaming on a fourth-gen i5 + RX 570 for a few months, and it was mostly fine until Halo Infinite— with that title it was pretty clear that she was CPU bound, with the system chugging on open areas, mob AI, particles, etc.

We upgraded her to a second hand B450 mobo + Ryzen 2400 and that's been fine. Still running on low settings due to the limited GPU, but everything is at least playable. And this motherboard has FW updates that support 5xxx series Ryzens, so there's upgrade headroom there now as well.
In the US it certainly outlawed it, we call them safety and emissions standards.
I wonder if you also get a couple of wasted bytes between structs to achieve word alignment on an 8-byte boundary?

In which case you’d be saving HALF your memory instead of just a third.
Unless there are some clear symptoms of deficiency, vitamin D or testosterone tests aren't usually justified from an evidence based medicine perspective. Insurance companies usually won't cover such tests unless the patient meets their medical necessity criteria. However in many countries you can order such lab tests yourself and pay for them out of pocket.

As a separate issue, there is now significant clinical evidence that hypovitaminosis D is a major risk factor for COVID-19. So I hope that medical guidelines will be updated to make those tests a routine part of preventive care screening, in the same way that we test for lipids and blood glucose levels.

https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/
> In Europe for example, the hospital is owned by the government/state/etc,

Europe is a big place with many different types of systems. What you're describing sounds like the UK. But places like NL[1] or DE[2] are more like Medicare/aid for all (basic coverage) + Obamacare (mandatory private insurance, sometimes supplementary). The providers may be private practitioners.

NB: I'm not an expert in these systems so I may have gotten some details wrong. My main point is that "European healthcare" isn't a monolith and it's not all state-owned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_Netherlands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Germany
What if adversarial systems result in asymmetric arms races and the game theoretic best move is to work for a corporation that is so short sighted as to go to battle against their own employees and to work for them diligently and intelligently?

Because I see a whole lot happier employees at Tesla than I do at General Motors.

I'm not saying this is an all-or-nothing thing. I'd join a union if I was working for a certain type of employer (company town, federal government, etc) but when it comes to technology companies, I got to say it's pretty good here.
Whats your business arrangement? Did you spin up a c corp yet? Did you sign over IP? Do you have a cliff or vesting schedule?

Not really sure what the financial situation is but it kinda sounds like they hired you as a contractor or they are just hanger-ons and not really business partners among equals. Lots of people will happily take a big cut of your business without contributing anything.

And I don't know building consumer... but you should get users/customers & get feedback back from them. Thinking you need to pitch to VC's with the perfect deck or app is a trap, what you need to do is build a product and business.