skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: I need a lawyer to vet the legality of my business model
I am starting a company with a unique business model. I need to have a lawyer review my proposed structure and business processes, etc. Where should I find a lawyer for such a review? How much should I expect to pay? My business model touches P&C insurance, asset tracking, and asset reposession. Any ideas or direction is appreciated!
... otherwise known as "going pro"
> give employees a stake in their costs, and therefore lower them for both employer and employee

The idea wasn't to get people to shop around, at least in my opinion, but rather to not use healthcare altogether unless absolutely necessary, because they feel the cost of the services more when they pay for the directly.
This is great. Here in Australia, when you pass through the border, the goons can ask you for your phone, computer, devices etc. without a warrant. They’re not allowed to compel you to hand over passwords, PINs or have you unlock it for them (without a warrant) though, but apparently they’ll often imply that you have to, and if you don’t they can confiscate the devices for some time.

This mode sounds excellent, because all they can do without a warrant is try and attack it with a Celebrite or Graykey device, so having the extra protection from physical connection and other attacks sounds awesome.

I expect to always enable this while I’m doing international travel anywhere.
Entangling single atoms over 33 km telecom fibre
One would assume that this is a step into consolidating some other things. The whole idea for a separate space force must have been that enough things were being done to merit a completely separate structure, doing this properly would entail a transition where new things were created to absorb the missions of existing fragmented space-focused resources.

In other words some of the missions of AF, NGA, NRO, etc. will probably get offloaded to Space Force.
Apparently Google is doing fine without Microservices.
> Now, they're expecting you to be satisfied with them monopolizing the security controls and monitoring on your phone.

What is the alternative, though? That each user figures out for themselves how what their security risks are, cobble together various security-focused apps, stays up to date with new developments, etc.?
I know DeepL doesn't do low-resource languages, but it would be interesting to see a translation quality comparison between the two.
Citation needed. Android exploits are more expensive than iOS on Zerodium which hints otherwise.
Welcome to Software Foundations (Video Lectures from Michael Clarkson)
> Alluded in the article: his stuff is categorized as “self-help”. As a social phenomenon, “self-help” is believers-only.

From the article:

> De Botton is careful to acknowledge that this line of inquiry might trigger the modern intellectual allergy to the genre of learning dismissively labeled self-help. And yet he reminds us that the quest for self-refinement has always accompanied the human experience and animated each civilization’s most respected intellects — it is there at the heart of the Stoics, and in the essays of Montaigne, and at the center of Zen Buddhism, and in the literary artistry of Proust (whom De Botton has especially embraced as a fount of existential consolation). He aims a spear of simple logic to the irrational and rather hubristic disdain for self-help:

> > To dismiss the idea that underpins self-help — that one might at points stand in urgent need of solace and emotional education — seems an austerely perverse prejudice.
Yes! My salary is twice the local average and still worry a medical event could wipeout my life savings.
How can an unspecified new theory of gravity not be able to fit the data?
Funny thing, ReasonML (the alternative syntax for OCaml) was created by Jordan Walke, who also created React.

The cool thing about Bucklescript is that it generated pretty readable javascript, so dropping the compiler and working with the JS files was pretty easy, which is what I did with a project that I was working when the drama started, just used the generated js files and slowly replaced them with typescript when needed.
Doesn't seem to add up though, if you keyword search for "teacher" [0], the results are dominated by GCC with consistently elevated benefits. Once you get out of GCC dominated results, the numbers start looking a lot less surprising - until another GCC entry shows up.

[0] https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=teacher
I got one of those little spritzers, like for putting perfume or febreeze in, filled it with 3% h2o2, and spritz my electric brush every day after I rinse it, cause it was getting a little grody in the crevices. Works great, dirt cheap.
Yeah but it would only show that year’s gain in pension value.
Serendipity, I am in Nova Scotia right now and heading out to Cape Brenton tomorrow! I will keep an eye out for some of those birds!
It seems to me people get tempted into management rather than promoted. It's a shitty job that they agree to do because the money is better and they like having power over others.
GCC was for many years designed to be hard to work on/with => LLVM steals it's lunch

GCC is under the GPLv3. This does not bother me so much combined with the former it's bad for getting corporations to spend money on you
Great, thank you for the details!
Yeah, the overwhelming majority of the cost was SBCs that are way overboard for what seems to be the intended use of this thing as a "learning" tool. Could have shaved $4,500+ off the price right in one whack. There are a few other places where some cost could be trivially shaved in that parts list too.

What I like best about this project, besides it being in a G4 Cube, is that it's like a physical metaphor for Kubernetes. A classic monolith was cracked into a bunch of microservices which from the outside doesn't look like any kind of improvement over the original.
It’s not bullshit comment, and the fact you are still saying this means you don’t get it! How you can be so deep in the shitcoin game and still not understand is troubling to me for a man of such intelligence.
Ask HN: Can I get a loan based on my US startup equity?
I was an early employee at a US startup that is now a unicorn. I vested and exercised some shares before leaving and they are now worth 7 figures. I'm hoping that the company will go public whenever the next IPO window opens.

I would really like to get access to some of this capital to diversify my assets and reduce risk, pay off some debts, and maybe put a down payment on a house.

The main problem is that I'm from New Zealand, and I am not a US citizen. I lived in the US for a few years on an O-1 visa. I live in New Zealand now, and I am no longer a US resident.

I tried to use EquityZen [1] a few years ago, but unfortunately the company blocked the sale. I also talked to ESO Fund [2], but they weren't able to work with me since I wasn't a US citizen or resident. I've just sent an application to Quid [3] and have requested a call, so I'm waiting to see if that might be an option.

I'm wondering if there are any other options where I don't need to sell any shares? I'm looking for around $150k USD.

I would also be interested to hear from any individuals who might be interested in setting up a loan arrangement similar to Quid. Please send me an email if you're interested: equityloan65@gmail.com

I have a Shareworks [4] account that shows the number of vested common shares, and a recent 409a update with the current price.

I found this HN post from a few months ago [5]. Please let me know if there are any other posts I should take a look at on HN, Reddit, etc.

[1] https://equityzen.com

[2] https://esofund.com

[3] https://www.getquid.com

[4] https://www.shareworks.com

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30274024
Y'all are leaving out the no service part that would come with that.
Yup, and I can't seem to stop them.

I did go through the interview loop once but stopped right before the final because of comp.

They basically pay everyone a cap of ~$150k/year USD, but they'll make up whatever you're losing in base with a tiered sign-on attached to a clawback clause and their famously-high RSU package with their infamous four-year vesting schedule. Not for me. (I make $215k base and am eyeing for more.)
"only after they were kicked out of SWIFT and their reserves frozen by foreign banks."

This is a response to an invasion of another country. Maybe I'm reading your tone wrong but "only after" seems to imply this was unjustified or at the least had no reason behind it.
I dare say app functionality will be reduced by cutting policies such as gps, which may prevent legitimate apps from functioning.
its trivial for well-funded organizations to get around such legal issues when they use something called “parallel construction”

this is when evidence is collected in nefarious and often illegal ways. it is then given to the organization which will weaponize the information. this organization then launders how they acquired the evidence, obscuring the shady way it was originally obtained.

there is no shortage of instances where different groups (including local police) have laundered how evidence was obtained to get around legality requirements for obtaining evidence.. [various links below]

as the above commenter highlights, it’s about to get even more terrifying as incredibly well funded, incredibly authoritarian groups jump into the fray using religion as their excuse.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intel...

https://www.jurist.org/news/2018/01/hrw-us-authorities-conce...

https://reason.com/2018/01/09/federal-agencies-may-be-regula...

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-te...

https://www.techdirt.com/2014/02/03/parallel-construction-re...

https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/01/09/dark-side/secret-origi...

https://www.scmagazine.com/news/security-news/fbi-stingray-n...

https://www.wired.com/story/stingray-secret-surveillance-pro...
Shrek Box
This is our local Shrek Box. Maybe it's a study in mutual aid, or self organizing communities, or maybe everyone here just loves Shrek.
Good to know, thanks!

BTW, Hopefully the last word is just a typo.
Synthetic fuel:

https://www.prometheusfuels.com/news/dude-wheres-my-fuel

The most promising tech. Make fuel from CO2 captured from the air. We can keep using our existing infrastructure. Buys us a lot of time without destroying our current way of life.

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Carbon Capture:
(Twitter accounts)
@CharmIndustrial
@noya_carbon
@heirloomcarbon
@ebbcarbon
@livingcarbon

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airmyne

> Net Power, a startup that built the world’s first zero-emissions fossil-fuel power plant in Texas. Earlier this year, Net Power fired up a $150-million power plant that burns natural gas but has the ability to capture 100% of its carbon emissions.

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Emission free manufacturing:

> What Gross is pursuing with his new company, Heliogen, offers a way forward for renewable energy to be applied to manufacturing processes for cement, lime, coke, and steel — some of the most energy intensive and polluting industries that exist in the world today.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/19/heliogens-new-technology-c...

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Geo-engineering

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Nuclear

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Food:

Modified feed to lessen cattle methane emission. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/alga-biosciences

Real milk without cows. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/brown-foods
Your accountant, financial services provider, etc. would probably have good references.
Found the Space Force recruiter /s
three short stories by Roger Zelazny -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_Is_Legion_(short_sto...
There has been a lot of discussion and politics about this since it was first proposed many decades ago.
Yeah, I feel like that a lot.

1. Usually I've found it takes about 1 year to fully understand a significantly large organisation and how it works.

2. After a while, it stops mattering. I came in to do a job, to focus on building whatever it is you asked me to build, not follow the office growth strategy day to do.

I feel like a lot of places do this now as a part of "transparency", but it's not really transparent. Any questions they don't want to answer they'll use more jargon to dodge it.

It's kinda like sports. I'll go to a baseball game, have a good time in the crowd, enjoy myself, but if you start throwing stats and the team story at me I'm lost. Some people love following the "sport" of office politics and goings on, other don't.
Not my experience at all. It takes the same skills to manage a monolith as it does managing microservices. However microservices are inherently more complex than monoliths. So they are harder to keep clean/maintainable. All complex problems/systems are solved by breaking them down into smaller problems/systems that can be solved. Using microservices doesn’t make that easier. It actually makes it harder because you now also have to deal with the complexity of a distributed system.
> But that's largely due to Python's outputs-first sequence comprehension syntax being a mess that doesn't scale at all.

Choices like wrapping a set constructor around a list comprehension rather than just using a set comprehension don't help, neither does using multiple nested no-transformation comprehensions laid out that way.

By hand, on mobile, I think this reduces to (assuming “from itertools import chain” in the file header):

tags = list({
nel
for subli in chain.from_iterables(chain(
[[jel.split('/')[2:] for jel in el]
for el in classified))
for nel in subli
if nel
})
Confuse "is" vs "ought" much?

I didn't say they have to do anything. I did observe a pattern.

There is a difference between saying everyone should take responsibility for fixing all their criticisms and noticing that a particular person never takes responsibility for any of their criticisms.
> On the other hand, it also makes most social time wasting stuff not work, which is what the masses mostly use their phone for anyway.

Got any info/links explaining that? Having only read Apple's webpage, it sounds to me like the major problem is slowed down javascript execution? I certainly didn't;t get the impression it's going to shut down all social media apps/websites?
>Require a standard format. Pick JSON or CSV in some standard encoding. We don't need hospitals publishing XML files and Excel spreadsheets.

Definitely CSV. Always CSV. It's easy to produce, easy to parse, and kind of human readable. And easy to do some basic analysis with tools that everyone has access to - Excel, Google Sheets etc.
You can read about the ReScript change here: https://rescript-lang.org/blog/bucklescript-is-rebranding

I wouldn't go so far as GP as to call it "drama", but the split left Reason without a reason (pun intended) to exist or any activity for that matter. Most of the people who liked Reason for frontend usecases moved to ReScript since that at least had some momentum behind it. Since the split, Reason itself has been largely on life support, with no significant changes and almost no forum activity in the past year. So newcomers to Reason see a dead community for a language which is a syntax extension for another language with a (relatively) alive community. The fact that Reason hasn't seen a surge in enthusiasm corresponding to the enthusiasm in the OCaml community with the advent of 5.0 and multicore is proof enough that Reason is dead, and projects written in Reason should probably consider moving to OCaml entirely considering there are planned changes to the OCaml syntax for effects which I don't think are going to make it to Reason.

Some people in the Reason world blame the ReScript people for this, which I think is entirely misplaced. The only reason (pun not intended this time) Reason has died off is that there is absolutely no clarity on the future of Reason. The creator of Reason, Jordan Walke, has been entirely MIA for about two years now. A version 4.0 was planned in 2020 and as of now hasn't come up. This issue was opened in Nov 2020 asking for future plans and is still unresolved, and the latest comment from a new developer just makes my point: https://github.com/reasonml/reason/issues/2634.
Not just if you have money. If you have a lot of money. The majority of the country is one major accident away from being completely wiped out. It's the number one cause of bankruptcy.

I had an emergency this year within a very tiny insurance gap between employers and now all of my savings and retirement are gone.

I'm really not sure who it works out better for versus universal healthcare, but I can't imagine it's a whole lot.
Except iOS devices aren't "markets in the city". It's a good thing that you decided to pick that as an example for this comparison (even though it's a bad example) as you have (on accident, i presume) contradicted yourself in a spectacular way. See, the aformentioned market is in...well, "the city" and chances are that that market is regulated by the city council/county laws/the laws of the country the market is in. The city provides infrastructure for the market as well as customers, perhaps some advertising...you get the idea. Hm, it seems that in that relationship, while AppStore is sure a market, the city that the market belongs to is...Apple? Whoops.

I hope that the wise EU is also going to decide that European car manufacturers and their infotainment systems are "abusing" their dominant position in their respective markets of manufacturer and model specific systems! Or that non-European companies should be able to provide "alternative software" to multi-billion euro manufacturing lines of European mega-manufacturers with the same disregard for any potential consequences, just to avoid any sort of "anti-consumer" behaviour. I sure hope so!!!(couldn't care less)
It's not a promotion! It's taking a sucky job that no one else wants because the money is better.
I like money but something tells me targets of such attacks might end up dead, so it’s more about ethical considerations rather than who pays better. The bounty won’t sway everyone but $2m would sway more people than $1m which would be more than $10k
If the problem with federated networks is that they can't be globally censored to your (and Coraline Ehmke's) standards, I think I will continue to use them.
You kinda offer a solution by telling us about the annual inspections. There are also water alarms that go in the pan under a water heater for slow leaks.

I've also seen them placed in areas with tile floors and a drain just in case. Sounds like much of the decentralized system damage from water heaters is customer neglect.
This is why looking at government spending over time is an incomplete picture. If a huge chunk goes to retirees and wasn’t 40 years ago, there’s simply less leftover for everything else.

Tax revenue might be higher than ever but net available for programs is down. Thus, the feeling by many that government must be wasting money.
This is why transparency is often nothing but a parlor trick. The raw information we are given is useless
Should have stopped the onsite and started over!
Same here.

I get MDM profile updates from IT on my work machine. One time they auto-installed a cloud backup service and sent out a company-wide email after they already did it. Something like: “Now nobody has to deal with lost data. You’re welcome!”

Huge backlash from employees on that move. But I get both perspectives. These are work machines, and a mundane accident with the equipment shouldn’t incur significant losses to the business.

But apart from the potential loss of personal privacy, it feels wrong. Especially so, when you’re looking for other jobs.
Where I'm from mostly installations have a 2 inch deep drip pan which you place a water detector. It emits a very loud noise if the bottom of it gets wet

ex. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Basement-Watchdog-Battery-Operat...

This doesn't help for catastrophic failures but for leaks it should.
you might be interested in CompilerGym https://compilergym.com
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-113hhrg81195/pdf/CH...

This was a governmental report on the challenges of Exascale. Contributors included major universities and all the US supercomputing facilities. It wasn’t that they overlooked the possibility of Moore’s law continuing and associated power reduction.
I am sorry, even Wikipedia does not put at least half of these as right-wing radicals. "Charlottesville Attack" you mean which one, there had been a lot of violence between left and right thugs, do you mean the guy who got spooked and drove a car through a crowd blocking the roadway? And US Capitol Riot, really? Violent Parading? That's right wing violence? JFYI, leftists "paraded" there countless times, most notably during Kavanaugh confirmation. And they actually bombed Senate in 1983.
It doesn't sound like you're considering that people are very often fluent in a major language in addition to their regional one?
I don't think their loop is crazy (leadership principles aside)
Or chumming the advertising waters for the upcoming Shrek 5 release:

https://shrek.fandom.com/wiki/Shrek_5

(yesyes, i know, a cynical take...)
Nope. Microservices are guaranteed to be more complex than an equivalent monolith. It constantly blows my mind that it isn’t obvious to some developers. A distributed system (microservices) is always more complex than a non-distributed system (monolith).
That would be a pretty interesting VPN service if you could easily deploy it as a docket container. Something simple that could give Little Snitch like whitelisting.

The Charles proxy iOS app doesn’t have the ui to support this, it’s clumsy to whitelist domains, but it does provide some visibility into what domains are being accessed.
Where to start...

1. Somehow in the mid-2010s congress decided that anyway that walks onto private property, demands care from a private organization, will receive it, even if they declare they will not pay a dime to the staff working.

2. Congress could have totally create/build a system of hospitals that provides "one time care" for those people, but doesn't.

3. Instead they pass the buck and say "figure it out" to the private industry.

4. Hospitals are squeaking by largely flopping duties on nurses, making their jobs far less enjoyable (wrangling entitled individuals instead of healing people and providing care), and charing double-triple to responsible individuals who will pay for themselves.

5. E.R.s are now becoming "primary care" for large majority of the US population, as they show up, then disappear knowing they won't be stuck with a bill.

6. Members of Congress literally don't give a crap about "common folk" and go on golfing and enjoying their free healthcare for life. Meanwhile commonfolk and the poorest of the poor don't get the same deal. One set of rules for peasants, one set of rules for the 1%.
You weren’t able to use COBRA? Or was the coverage just very poor even with it?

My probably naive understanding was that COBRA can be activated retroactively if you get in an accident during the coverage gap.
HVAC engineer here. At the residential level this is already achievable with hot water storage from either solar thermal and/or heat pumps. Plus you get to use the hot water (assuming you've sized the tank correctly!)

Storing heat in rocks or sand doesn't make sense from a thermal efficiency standpoint unless the temperature is high and that isn't economically viable unless you have large volume storage - typically district or precinct level.
talk about viral marketing!
This kind of attitude summarizes bad policing, abysmal public relations by law enforcement agencies, and indifferent responses to crimes, which have made it impossible to do good.