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Ask HN: I have received a Cease And Desist letter. What to do?
Hi,

I am Robbert, creator of JavaScript Excel-like data table library DataGridXL (https://datagridxl.com). I made this component since similar products are quite slow & unreliable.

I just released version 2 of the product and decided to add a few "Comparison Pages" to my website, to show visitors why my product is better (when it comes to performance & reliability).

Now, the most well known JavaScript Excel-like data table libary has sent me a Cease And Desist Letter by email (twice) demanding that I take this Compare page (https://www.datagridxl.com/features/compare-handsontable) offline. I am not much of a legal rights expert, but so far I have ignored it. I can publish whatever I want, right? Freedom of speech?

So far I have just laughed it off and considered it very childish for a 20 person company to try to pressure me into taking this page offline. However, I could use the advice of the Hacker News community.

What should I do here? Ignore or take action?
In the UK, at least, one Michelin star (or AA rosettes) is more expensive than a regular restaurant but not by a large margin. In fact, in my area, it’s entirely possible to spend the same at a ‘regular’ restaurant. The only difference is wine.
I can answer for myself as GP, didn't interview with G but got into a similar company.

> L3 vs L4

Slightly above L3 would be the equivalent ($200-$260 salary band)

> * How many LC questions were you given per round? I would expect 2 is the norm.

6 interviews, 5 were technical -> 3 were algorithmic style, 2 were domain specific. Usually they had 2 questions, but really the first question was very easy and often related to the second one.

> * Did you have optimal solutions or were you nudged to a solution by the interviewer?

No clue, there was one I was struggling on because string parsing is annoying in C++. Not much nudging. I believe my solutions were generally pretty efficient.

> Did you pass any other FAANG / leetcode interviews?

Yes, the only other one I was in. I found actually getting interviews (as entry-level) to be much harder than passing the interviews once you got them.

> What's you educational background? Do you have computer science / STEM degree from MIT or similar?

Yes to the second and I did take a DS&A class in sophomore year of college.

> Did you crush the system design interview?

Probably was my weakest.

> How do you feel behavioral interviews went?

Well, I am good at talking.
Well, the secret service people also have their families to feed. Discontent and disloyalty will eventually make their way up.
That would break any workflow that has the slightest bit of decentralization, and would only work in a github-first workflow. Suppose two developers are working on a feature that requires two changes. Each developer works on a change in their own development branch. It wouldn't make sense to submit a PR for each change, because they depend on each other to be a complete feature. Therefore, they should merge the two dev branches together, then submit a pull request for that merged development branch to then be merged into the main branch. In your proposed scheme, this would then show up as an attempted forgery, rather than a perfectly normal workflow.

The email field is for humans, who can lie, and shouldn't be used as authoritative by github.
> one carrier always has the best rates for my city, middlemen rarely/never cost less

Couple of things: First, the post is from 2014 which was still during the rise of online travel agents like Expedia and Orbitz and Travelocity and all of their kin. There was a lot of money sloshing around in those companies to try to give "exclusive discounts" to customers so that people would become accustomed to using the online travel agent instead of booking direct. Bundled travel packages are still very much a part of this and the spiff from a hotel being included can be used to buy down the cost of your ticket so the package looks cheaper.

Second, if you are in a city where one carrier is in a position to dominate the rates for your area, an online travel agent isn't going to help you much and the carriers to your area know this so there's little incentive to try to slash prices to compete. But related to this is that a lot of people don't know that, so they still go to the sites they see advertised on TV or elsewhere and plug in a starting point, a destination, some dates, then sort "lowest to highest" and pick the smallest number next to the $ sign.
Hi,
I am Robbert, creator of JavaScript Excel-like data table library DataGridXL (https://datagridxl.com). I made this component since similar products are quite slow & unreliable.

I just released version 2 of the product and decided to add a few "Comparison Pages" to my website, to show visitors why my product is better (when it comes to performance & reliability).

Now, the most well known JavaScript Excel-like data table libary has sent me a Cease And Desist Letter by email (twice) demanding that I take this Compare page (https://www.datagridxl.com/features/compare-handsontable) offline. I am not much of a legal rights expert, but so far I have ignored it. I can publish whatever I want, right? Freedom of speech?

So far I have just laughed it off and considered it very childish for a 20 person company to try to pressure me into taking this page offline. However, I could use the advice of the Hacker News community.

What should I do here? Ignore or take action?
I wish the not anonymous to search feature were applied to home addresses and home purchases too. I see the benefit of the data being publicly available but wouldn’t want it abused by the wrong parties.
Yep, I would 100% look at a company trying to skirt a true range like that and think "absolutely no way I want to work there."
Would you tell us a little about your photophobia, I've never heard of anyone having that before. Thank you.
Good to see this field getting some serious investigation. Last I looked it was still very hypothetical with only questionable characters investigating.
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LiveView is pretty neat. The last time I used Erlang was before Phoenix and Elixir came on the scene so I can't talk from personal experience, but my understanding is that LiveView is a good easy way to add state synchronization to an app but using it for anything high-CPU/memory becomes limiting. If you've tried it, I'm curious to know if that matches your experience, because I confess it's not something I've tried directly.
> Functionally in tech that already exists with levels.fyi (At least for larger companies.)

Note, the data there is getting better but it is not perfect. As they accept both offer letters and W-2's, which can be wildly different as share prices move.
The question is how and why FTX became big given that BitMEX already existed.
I'm a huge Letterboxd fan, and have thought for a long time that a similar app could gain traction for books. I hope this is it!
Not to be confused with hopscotch the kids' programming game which is an awesome app for teaching kids coding concepts https://www.gethopscotch.com/
To extend on that, he’s done a couple ho hour interview with Sam Harris on ‘earning to do good’
I've never owned a Beagle. I discovered earlier this year that they were open hardware and even had real-time capabilities. It struck me that this is what the Pi should have been.

Then I saw the price. So I'll be sticking with Pis.

It would be a master-stroke if the Pi gained real-time capabilities.
By the time you've added enough components to make it fully functional, it's up to the price range of a used machine off eBay or even some new chromebooks
Sure, candidates can also easily skip companies where HR plays silly games.
No. I have some mutual acquaintances with the owner through effective altruism and I've heard good things. It's pretty insane that he left Jane Street to try make more money to give to effective charities and now at 29 is worth $22.5 Billion! So they have the money to spend on these things and the fact he's running a future fund makes total sense based on what his original goals were.
There was a time where the embodied energy of efficient vehicles was much higher than bad ones and it made the objective math a lot fuzzier. Maybe things have gotten better.
Russia is about to default on their debt. The Ruble is worthless. ATM's are running out of cash. They aren't allow to buy microchips anymore. They've had 1000's of casualties and lost hundreds of pieces of military equipment. Russia has arrested thousands of protestors in a country that had mostly given up on large-scale protests. This is not good for Putin, even if Ukraine gives up tomorrow.
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Your idea good

Your idea stupid

I’m not woke by any means, idk what it is about low level programming but calling someone’s idea “stupid” is a really shitty thing to say.

“He chose to take it personally” is the type of lazy, pseudo-stoic argument I have no interest in reading.

Yes I’m having a morning, lol.
this looks great Justin! I've always found Good Reads to be very unappealing.

What did you use as your source of book data?
There have been studies that have associated emotion with decision making - people who, for some reason, lack an emotional state, find it basically impossible to make a decision.
That doesn't solve the problem of "I can't afford to spend all my time interviewing", but corpo can afford to spend tiem interviewing everyone.
I think this is too cynical, yes. To me, this is just the free market. If folks can see Bob gets paid way more and see he doesn't do anything, they can leave. Right now they just keep trucking with blinders on.

The thing is, even if someone demands to get paid more, it won't necessarily happen. It's still going to be a negotiation. This is basically a shift to give workers power again, since most unions are gone. It's a lot easier for me to point to a stellar performance review AND salary band then negotiate blind.
This scenario has happened to me with Amtrak. It also applies to some coach bus services.
If you dont track win rate how can you be elite? I would say jorbs is just a good for-fun player. its much harder to dismiss someone when results are there
Guessing the lead is so the ball of molten metal to make the bubble in can be not so big as to be impractical to handle.
I am pretty sure Mac OS doesn't COW fork(), and that the address space is copied. At least it was the last time I looked. FreeBSD and Linux both seem to COW.

Perhaps there's a reason vfork is different too.
https://youtu.be/DPVrraVbEIM?t=82 shows me that removing a Tesla Model 3 battery needs the front and rear seats, center console, and all the carpet and interior bits removed, because there are bolts going down to the battery pack. That explains the price.

(It doesn't explain the "only" $2300!)
I've been using https://insomnia.rest/ and I am a massive fan. From the ability to make dependent API calls to say log in with one API call, and inject login tokens into the other from the first's response is amazing!

Overall this tool has been my go-to for 3 years now.
WikiHow: How to Sirvive a Nuclear Attack
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Podcast with CEO of LaunchDarkly on Lessons Learned
You can always surrender and give your freedom away. Is this what you would choose if USA was attacked by China?
Janked by google and apple. Influenced by China.
One thing missing here is your relationship with your manager. You could be a star employee, and have a crap relationship with your manager, noone is going to fight for you to stay. Conversely, you could be a mediocre employee and have a great relationship with your manager, and be paid oodles and oodles to stay because you do have someone singing your praises.

It's all about perception, not reality.
What's the ballpark startup cost to get it up to supernova volume?

Would scaling up production of Farnsworth fusors help?
I once was part of a now-defunct reading forum in my teens.

On the forum, people would package three related books into quests. A boring example would be a dystopian quest pack with three books about three very different dystopian scenarios.

But the quests people put together were usually more interesting. I remember a "Weird Magic" quest had books with really unconventional magic systems. I found Motherless Brooklyn (detective with Tourette's) in a quest pack of "heroes with issues". Other quest ideas would be evil protagonists, alien first-contact with the wrong guy, and stuff like that. You can often find three books for even the goofiest of quests.

It was a cool way to find new books. And whenever you didn't know what to read next, you'd look at what quests you were still working on and choose among them. Once finished, your completed quest count would increase.

Long append-only lists of genre-related books were never as interesting to me. Quests only having three books made them a fun thing to collect. Maybe there's something fun there that new goodreads competitors can experiment with.
New Math - Tom Lehrer (1965)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA
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Erlang processes aren't unix processes. They're more like coroutines.
Prospective employees balking.

If I see a company that specifically excludes Colorado residents, I already know the company is going to be doing all kinds of unethical shenanigans to employees and is likely a bunch of fools not worth bothering with.
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China built a one-of-a-kind cyber-espionage behemoth to last
Is it real or could there be unaccounted for neutron sources? That’s been an issue with past metal lattice setups.
In case anyone's curious about California's law on this:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

This was changed in 2019. Employers must provide a salary band, but it can be after an initial interview, and is not required in job postings.

The same code prevents employers from directly asking a candidate about their salary history, or relying on salary history to make a hiring decision.

(Employers can ask about a candidate's salary expectation, though. And the law doesn't say anything about benefits or non-salary compensation.)
Yeah was an egregious typo - fixed it. Clearly wrote the comment quickly.
Concave key wells make the keys easier to reach and decreases the amount of finger/wrist travel. Key wells combined with the ability to adjust angle/tilt using tenting legs keeps your fingers and wrists in a more neutral position while typing. This helps reduce the amount of repetitive stress on your muscles/nerves/tendons/joints
I don't understand people who give ranges.

If a company gives a candidate a range, of course the candidate will pick the highest end of the range.

If the candidate gives a range, of course the company will pick the lowest end of the range.

Just give one number and then negotiate.
I am confused, how would a 40% reduction of current software salaries in the US for top talent due to competition mean exploiting people?

Are you against training more doctors too because they would make less money and therefore be more exploited? What about the people who buy their services? Or do I misunderstand?

There certainly are exploitive labor practices but I don't think being for decreasing the costs of a profession due to free competition has to be equated to being for exploiting people of that profession.

I think that many industries and use cases could benefit from software automation, but it is expensive to hire those people. If they are good there is endless demand for their skills in ad tech alone, where they can afford to pay them a salary and benefits valued over 20-30% of the gross profit that entire company brings in a year.
In the article, they describe it as being close to two stars. There are 5 restaurants in Birmingham with a Michelin star.
I'd like to talk about the format that James uses for his book summary. What do others here think about this format? It's simple and to the point.

As I think through some recent books that I've listened to as audiobooks, I'd really like to generate a summary like this for each one of them so that I can help the material settle into my brain a bit better. The challenge is usually the places where I'm listening (driving, running, riding) and capturing notes in those places can be hard. I've recently experimented with using Apple Watch Reminders to take notes - have others tried this as well?
This is really interesting. As a non-U.S. based and infrequent traveller, I had always just assumed that you lost the value of the ticket if you missed the trip. I never really understood sitcoms where no one seems to care if they missed their flights or not, but this would make a lot of sense.
Eh, but it will at the margin though. Like, you are undoubtedly correct, but part of the effect of this is piss off people in the rest of your org when they see the tech person you hired makes more than people think they should. This essentially causes the value of the high-performing tech person to decrease for you, since along with their wonderful skills you are now also hiring a tiny amount of resentment in your firm. At equilibrium, if you believe this effect, it would cause the worth of tech talent to be lower for your firm, and the equilibrium salary would reflect that.
> Running into things like this is a visceral reminder that even "normal" things—normal food, normal code—can just be better. A lot.

Right. I am away from home at the moment, staying at a house which doesn't have all the things I need. Like, there are only tiny frying pans, there aren't any spices/condiments/salt etc.

So I have been buying the minimal things I need to cook food I like, and working with what is there.

I took a tin of cheap, mass-produced fish out of the cupboard that I did not buy and was probably a mistaken purchase (everything in that cupboard needs to be used up), and on the basis that wasting food is a crime, I cooked it and added the simplest things alongside; some broccoli and a baguette.

The meal I ate is one of the best things I have ever eaten, and it has improved my relationship with food, overnight.

On that basis, if I go to an expensive restaurant and do not get food that is qualitatively better and not just different and in its own category, then I am being taken for a fool.

So I am glad to hear that your Chez Panisse experience was what it was.
Both Out of the Crisis and The New Economics are very good.
> forces the advertised salary range to reflect the actual range

All that means is the candidate won't get the offer if he's not worth the bottom end of the range.

> pay discrepancies

Some people are simply more productive in the same job as other people. Why shouldn't they get paid more?
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Now we need laws restricting a specific job-posting tactic where a few employers spam their same jobs over and over, multiple times daily, so you have to scroll past or filter out redundant listings. DoorDash is a prime example. Truck-driving jobs belong in a separate category altogether, but they are also prime offenders.
Why would being "cleaner" make any difference for the likelihood of a theory? Isn't "clean" just a made-up concept that merely means "pleasant" to the human mind?

I don't see how "all cases" is any more likely than "one case".
Shoot me an email if you want to talk about it. At least the JavaScript version I'm very familiar with. It doesn't match 1 to 1 with stuff like C# though. Email in profile.
Humans aren't rational, and are particularly bad at assessing each other and performing cost benefit analysis.
What we used to call "Need to know" is making a comeback. You don't
need to know. I don't need to know. And in most cases the less we do
know the better. Glad that GDPR is spreading this fundamental security
principle again. Most websites could and should dispense with
sign-in. Even those that have something to sell can compartmentalise
that function these days. That's why I like Gemini, because of its
regression to more or a less stateless web that is about words, roles,
knowledge, links, things and places, but not so much about people and
"identity". That's where we've gone wrong with WWW.
They don't have a choice. Washington's legislature only meets for 2-3 months per year[1], and they're paid about $56,000 per year[2], which sounds pretty good for 2-3 months of work...except that they're actually working behind the scenes all year long to get legislation lined up, and then falling over each other to get things done in a short time window every January. It's not an efficient or particularly effective system.

[1] https://leg.wa.gov/legislature/Pages/Overview.aspx

[2] https://lmtribune.com/northwest/washington-senator-per-diem-...
Also wrong.
The state legislature in WA works part time of the year, from Jan to later March I believe.
> [Cheng-Yun Tsang, an expert in financial regulation at National Chengchi University in Taiwan] said Beijing’s moves to distance itself from Moscow appeared mostly symbolic, inflicting little actual pain on the Russian economy.

After reading that link, that seems to be a pretty accurate summary, when adding that

> China also relies heavily on the SWIFT system. These facts might well lead China to a somewhat prudent move when it comes to providing financing with Russia, as jeopardising its own ability to transact in US dollars would never be a good idea.

So that they are cautious to

> comply with the letter of the law, but in my opinion, not the spirit of the law [Alicia García Herrero, chief Asia Pacific economist at Natixis in Hong Kong]

> Gary Ng, an Asia economist at Natixis, said the current sanctions regime gives China considerable room to continue legitimate trade with Russia.

It's tough because the sanctions are meant to be bad enough but not so bad that alternative systems start to benefit too much, reducing Western - and US-$ - influence in the long run.
extrapolating that idea into PC video games makes it seem ridiculous; the solo-produced video game wouldn't run anywhere without the work of hundreds of thousands of individuals within the computer field -- but I wouldn't consider the people who worked on , for example, SMD resistors , to be collaborators with the video game production.

in other words ; 'cooks, servers' are generic components of a restaurant; the 'fun for the whole family' bit comes in as part of a custom set of things on top of the generic restaurant experience that were thought of and attributed to the people responsible for the concept -- in this case the Founder.
At some places you may even want to set aside money to have a cheeseburger at a fast food joint afterwards.

But that's not a bad thing. Filling you up may be part of a fine dining experience, but it isn't necessarily so, and it's the least interesting part of it.
Preferably react it again in a 'fast' reactor and get the other 90% of the energy out. And after that bury it for a much shorter amount of time than traditional waste requires, since it isn't as high in energy.
I had no idea that the way it works in the US seems to be the outlier worldwide. Even the ultra-low cost airlines here (like Spirit) work this way.
Ndnft: Higher-Dimensional NFTs?
Sean Carroll's Royal Institution lecture discussing the many worlds interpretation and using a similar app:

https://youtu.be/5hVmeOCJjOU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv5FYrOthvE
Highschool math is all that is required for it from what I remember, definitely doesn't require a lot of mathematical maturity. Even if you would somewhat struggle to completely understand the math, the ideas they try to teach you should still be accessible in my opinion.