skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As has often been Stripe's way as a company, they are setting the bar for what other companies should strive toward. Has there ever been a more generous severance package posted to HN?

As the owner of a (much, much) smaller company, I'm inspired by how the Collisons run their business, especially under adverse circumstances. Yes, they fucked up in estimating the future market, but they are in good company among CEOs and non-CEOs lately.
Hey, thanks for this tip! I didn’t know this. :)
>most plants reflect most green light (something you may have noticed.)

Subtle !
Not hackable but I replaced my Pebble Time with a Fossil Collider HR and was very happy until it broke 1 week ago. Now I'm in a different country trying to get a replacement.

It had a MONTH charge and it filled all my requirements which were mainly about getting notifications.
~A laptop.
Can the Garmin control music playback from your smartphone?
How much "U's" of space do ISP typically give you (e.g. 4U, 8U, etc)?
Satoru Iwata took a large pay cut when Nintendo was in a downturn in 2014ish
Inversely, next time that they asked me to fix the site during such a situation, I would pretend like I didn't see the alert.
I've found using Ethernet prevents lag spikes during video calls and in general makes download speeds more reliable.

Off the job I play a lot of fighting games which use peer to peer connections. Without Ethernet those games are borderline unplayable.
Just checked the Garmin Fenix 7 and now I want to add one missing point to your list:

- affordable
It's not about the severance.

It's about the empty platitudes they and all people like them spew. "they take responsibility" what does that even mean? It's meaningless.

Are they taking a paycut themselves? Letting themselves go instead of their employes? Cutting down on bonuses to keep their people employed?
No. There are plenty of places
I can go where this doesn’t happen. And I cook my own food. I know what I’m allergic to. A lot of expensive places I had to pick from used gallons of butter every night.

I’m also in the Midwest. Food safety is a bit of a foreign concept out here.
Operating a private CA is trivial, there are packages to automate it at every level from simple manual scripting to fully-automated ACME servers such as Boulder[0].

For proprietary software it's idiomatic to use a private CA for securing connections to a central server, to avoid the risk of DNS hijacking or a malicious third-party CA. For open-source software it will, definitionally, allow substituting different server key validation options for users who prefer to run their own servers.

The only real problem QUIC's mandatory TLS causes is that localhost development becomes marginally more difficult, but even as someone who loves running my in-development stuff on localhost it's clear that the security of the internet as a whole is of far greater value.

[0] https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder
> some companies also start to do this in the US

This is pretty normal in my experience. Having experienced layoffs (never as a target, always from the side) for the last 25 years. There are probably edge cases, but some amount of severance (based on time with the company, typicall), healthcare coverage, bonus acceleration, etc, is all completely normal.

On HN, of course, you're mostly only going to see the edge cases posting, so it's easy to get a distorted view of normal.
Darktable is more like Lightroom. RT works on single images mostly. Both are capable of great results. I use both with my Sony A7-III.
I cannot suggest often enough also to look at the difflib implementation in the python stdlib

https://docs.python.org/3/library/difflib.html#difflib.Seque...

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/difflib.py
Bringing Google one step closer to total intrusion, one API at a time.
It's damning that there no truly functional grammar or spellchecker for latex, even ignoring crazy things that can be done with macros.

If some billionaire wanted to 'move the needle' and change society for the better I think building a truly better latex would be worth it. Each year some of the most brilliant people in the world sacrifice on the altar of latex, that could instead be spent on more productive research.
There still isn’t any watch that comes close to the quality and number of watch faces Pebble had right? Aside from battery life, that’s why I kept mine. It’s really cool to see Mario hit a block to update the time on mine.
Please. Stripe is privately held so let's look at a market comp, SQ.

SQ 2021 Revenue: $17B

SQ 2021 cash and short term investments: $5.3B

Stripe 2021 Revenue: $12B

Similar businesses, operating in the same market, with the nearly the same number of employees (about 8000). Barring exceptional circumstances, we would expect their financial health to be roughly similar.

You said it yourself:

> the leaders have to... [deal] with investors

The economy is contracting and their share price is falling. They could afford to dip into cash and keep everyone on board but their investors are more concerned about propping up the valuation. They don't have two shits to give about the people they're letting go.
"Weight" and the gross vehicle weight rating are completely different things! The GVWR is how much weight the vehicle is designed (and in many cases legally allowed) to carry, including itself. People don't really think about it for regular passenger cars since you'd have to stuff them to the brim with lead to get it over GVWR, but it matters for cargo-hauling vehicles like vans and trucks, or when you tow; in those cases it's easy to go over.

When towing, there's a separate weight rating called the gross combined weight rating (GCWR), which is the GVWR of the tow vehicle plus the GVWR of the trailer.
I'm far from an expert but I use LaTeX, and I distinctly remember there is some oddity such that you have to put an empty comment at the end of a specific line in the middle of some code that generates multi column figures, or else the layout gets messed up. That sort of thing just shouldn't be possible in anything that has the right to be called "elegant".

Edit: here it is: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/37597

>"The % (between \end{subfigure} and \begin{subfigure} or minipage) is really important; not suppressing it will cause a spurious blank space to be added, the total length will surpass \textwidth and the figures will end up not side-by-side."
Yeah, I saw David Sacks tweet:

“ The entitled elite is not mad that they have to pay $8/month. They’re mad that anyone can pay $8/month.”

There must be quite a few people in here who are well versed in customer relations, at least in the context of a startup, can anyone explain to me why Musk and Sacks seem to have developed the strategy of insulting their customers and potential customers?

I can think of two reasons

1. They think twitter has a big enough most of obsessed people that they can het away with whatever they want.

2. They think that there really is a massive group of angry “normies” they can rile up to pay $8 a month for twitter blue, but isn’t ironically the goal of twitter blue to get priority access to the “anointed elite”? For sure I’m not paying $8 a month to get access to the feeds of my friends and business associates.

David Sacks’ tweet does feel very Trumpian in a way though, which supports the notion of bringing trump back and starting the free speech social network.
I'll throw a +1 in for Duplicacy too. I think I'm backing up something like 8TB to Wasabi using it and it's excellent in terms of de-duplication.
Acreom 1.0 – a lightweight Markdown editor with tasks for developers
Hi HN, founder of acreom here. After over a year of building, we're excited to drop the beta badge and introduce acreom 1.0.

The HN community was very helpful for us from the very beginning. We've recieved hundreds of signups on our google forms before writing the first line of code and a valuable feedback on our ideas throughout our beta.

We're building acreom to be the dev-first workflow tool you will love using, individually and later in the team. Today acreom is built to be your daily driver for capturing notes, breaking down development tasks, tracking progress and building a knowledge base.

acreom is built around the following fundemantal principles:

tight integration of markdown, tasks and calendar

capture-first organise-later interface

designed for keyboard

local-first

you can try it out in your browser without downloading anything.

if there's anything we can do better, pelase let us know.

we're also on producthunt [1] https://www.producthunt.com/posts/acreom-1-0
How did it break? I've read in forums that the screens go bad when exposed to to much sunlight, which seems like an odd weakness for a wearable.
I'm a quite bad bad programmer.
But also an example of how moderation or lack therein would help to serve a particular end goal. ex. HackerNews is a pretty well moderated forum, however sometimes the content (PC being related to technology) is within the rules, but the behavior it elicited in the other users is detrimental to the overall experience.
It's the "documentation of the crime" aspect of child pornography that makes it illegal. It is still technically illegal in parts of the US to possess, say, drawn illustrations of pornography featuring minors (what 日本人 call "lolicon") but the legal precedents are such that it can't really be prosecuted.

That is, it's not clear in the US you can ban something on the basis of it being immoral, you need to have the justification that it is "documentation of a crime".
Haha thanks. Hack Club certainly has adults involved (like myself) but we structure projects so teens can be core contributors (the rest of the core engineering staff on Sprig are all less than 20 years old and I'd say 95% of the games in the library are from teenagers).

As for Sprig itself the only part that is limited to teens is that we give the console away for free to teenagers who submit games to the gallery. Otherwise anyone can make games and submit them.
Amazing Nunzio! Congrats
Isn’t it mandatory to pay holiday accrued? Because it’s been, well, accrued…
"it was humongous"

Yeah, I've heard that too.
It's relevant because there is no doubt that Firefox would not have axed a promising open format despite users asking for it.

It is possible that FF won't continue the work of implementing it if they see no future without the oligarch in the field, but we'll see
Teaching AI advanced mathematical reasoning
I've also seen "hybrid" setups in certain stacks, where the applications run locally but the database instance is shared amongst multiple developers for the same app version/branch.

In my experience, that can be a way to deal with some resource requirement and licensing constraints, but can also be pretty horrible due to either bandwidth requirements or latency that adds up for many smaller queries that follow one another (e.g. when your app needs to shuffle around lots of data to load a page).

Therefore, I'm tempted to agree that you should be able to relatively easily run as much as possible locally: especially a database with automated schema migrations and either data import or seeding (generating believable test data).

Then again, one can see why something like that would be problematic in situations where you can have dozens of microservices, running all of which locally isn't entirely viable, yet re-architecting everything isn't either. It'd still be nice to be able to launch and test everything you need for a given scenario locally, even while using certain dependencies from a cloud dev environment.
Is Pingdom Effectively Dead?
Is Pingdom effectively dead/abandoned/stale/whatever? Seems slow and buggy and support is unresponsive.

I guess I already know the answer. So any recommendations for a similar product that will monitor endpoints as well as do simple "go to that URL, click the link, check for text" kind of scenarios? Doesn't have to be free. In fact, I would prefer to pay for it.

Thx!
It amazes me, that Netflix is capable of such top of the line engineering things (really mindblowing stuff, one machine that streams nearly 1 Terabit pers second), but is for the love of god unable to stream HD Content to my iPhone (newest firmware, all up2date). Tried everything gigabit wifi, cellular, multiple ISPs ...

It is better for me to pirate their content, play it with Plex and be happy. I pay for Netflix, but still have to download it, to see it an acceptable quality. Absurd. The support couldn‘t help. It doesn’t affect, because I have my Torrent/Plex Setup, but for 99.9% of people it is a subpar experience.

I think the best years are over for Netflix. The hard awakening is here to make content that the users want and they are a movie/tv content company, not primarily a „tech company“.
He kinda did in roundabout way; the "perfect" moderation, even if possible, will turn it into nice and cultured place to have discussion and that doesn't bring controversy and sell ads.

You would have way less media "journalists" making a fuss about what someone said on that social network and would have problems just getting it to be popular, let alone displace any of the big ones. It would maybe be possible with existing one but that's a ton of work and someone needs to pay for that work.

And it's entirely possible for smaller community to have that, but the advantage with this is small community about X will also have moderators that care about X so

* any on-topic bollocks can be spotted by mods and it is no longer "unknown language"

* any off-topic bollocks can be just dismissed with "this is a forum about X, if you don't like it go somewhere else
I imagine the argument is that a less locked-down device would be able to receive community support 10 years later.

I suspect, though, that that’s optimizing for perfection in rare cases rather than doing better overall. The number of iPads that survive to 10 years is presumably puny. The batteries wear out, they get dropped, etc. I would guess that the number of 2-3 year old devices that get replaced simply because the OS updates stop or the UX gets slow is much greater. And, while community OS and firmware projects do exist, they haven’t made it into the mainstream in any meaningful way, so I doubt they make a dent in overall consumer behavior. In which case, perhaps Apple’s way of doing things is a net win (or at least the lesser of some number of evils) compared to others’ in the aggregate.

Hard to say without any hard numbers, though.

(Disclaimer: A couple months back I opted to replace the battery on my 2013 MacBook, which is still going strong, instead of buying a new Framework laptop. That may indicate some bias.)
In this case, stripe is private, so their stock performance is mostly moot.
You can get a similar experience to the Fenix (but without the higher end sports features) with other Garmin sports watches. The Forerunner 255 is well reviewed and very similar to the Fenix for about half the price.
No option presented for installing locally, must make all calls to their api servers.
I mean... if you want to try and claim that AOC hasn't been harassed, that's fine. But I don't think anyone is going to take you seriously, no matter your definition of racism or misogyny. I decided to go AOC's twitter page and view the replies to the first tweet I saw, I scrolled past 8 replies before I found the following

>How does it feel to know that in 2 weeks you will be voted out? What a loser you are. The People of NY hate you. After you lose the election, you should disappear forever. Go to Puerto Rico fix you abuelas roof and stay living there

Now, I personally think the racist trope of "go back to where you came from" is pretty obvious. I also think that the fact that I can find such comments so easily is fairly telling. But let's ignore that and just point out that people have literally been jailed for harassing AOC and sending her death threats.

So let's back up, you can make a judgement about the extent to which you value free speech, but you have to do that grounded in reality.
> preprosperous

You mean you expect it to succeed soon? :D
To a certain extend yes you're right. But they've overextended. Realistically there won't be a fertile IPO market at their size/level of valuation in years now. So unless they up their salaries, it's doubtful some people who joined in hopes of cashing out after 1-2 years would be willing to wait an additional 4 or 5.
I’ve owned two pebble steel watches. I didn’t notice this even with the one I kept
So many BS roles at all these companies. I imagine we see a lot more of this going into Q4 when next year's budgets are finalized.
I did use it. It worked 90% of the time. I backed up to one-drive. I just ended up getting veeam.
This is the duality of automatic updates, on one hand you don't automatically get security updates, on the other, you don't automatically get exploits from new owners or compromised accounts.

In a software project this is really a responsibility I think people don't appreciate that they have, especially in regards to package managers.

But for end user devices it's encouraged to have automatic updates on. I think this is a personal responsibility as no-one really has your back on your device, except the highly automated app store verification. Which in fairness to them, likely stops a lot of exploits/malware making it to user devices.
Legacy cities and the changing nature of the good life
Reddit defied Crypto Winter and created a $10M market for avatars
Just as phones are conveniently charged overnight, a smartwatch usually charges fast enough that you can usually just put it on the charger for 30-40 minutes before bed (or overnight if you don't care for sleep tracking).

For me telling the time is the least valuable aspect. It's convenient for email notifications, particularly since I don't tend to keep my phone in my pocket (or often even in sight), it's a convenient way to control music playback when out and about and things like weather reports are also neat info to have on a wrist.

But even more valuable are the health related features, I tend to get too easily absorbed in work so the reminders to stretch when I've been sitting too long and the water consumption tracking is very useful. I also often have trouble sleeping, where the sleep coaching functionality is pretty useful for identifying what I need to do to fix things. Additionally having things like step count on my wrist has gotten me to try to walk more as it's a constant reminder of how little I walk. It's also a very convenient morning alarm since it stays on your wrist and can just use vibration to wake you instead of playing a loud sound and making you dig around for the phone while half asleep.
It is dependent on circumstances, and the people who would draw the line in the end would be the government followed by the court.

Not all speech is protected speech. Graffiti is speech, and the words being spoken could be argued as protected, but the act of spraying other people properties with it is not protected. Free speech rights does not overwrite other rights. As a defense in a court I would not bet my money on free speech in order to get away with crimes that happens to involves speech.

Historically the US court has defined speech into multiple different categories. One of those are called fraudulent speech which is not protected by free speech rights. An other category is illustrated with the anti-spam law in Washington State, which was found to not be in violation of First Amendment rights because it prevent misleading emails. Washington’s statue regulate deceptive commercial speech and thus passed the constitutional test. An other court ruling, this one in Maryland, confirmed that commercial speech was less protected than other forms of speech and that commercial speech had no protection when it was demonstrably false.

In theory a spammer could make non-commercial, non-misleading, non-fraudulent speech, and a site like twitter would then actually have to think about questions like first-amendment. I can't say I have ever received or seen spam like that.
Private high schools tend to have more flexibility with degree requirements than public schools. Many public schools expect teachers to have master’s degrees in education, and while private schools look for a BA in the subject area or significant work experience. You could also look into “alternative certification” programs (some states have these; some states don’t) if you’re interested in starting as a substitute teacher.

There are also programs that will place you with a certified teacher to enrich a HS computer science class. TEALS is the best known of these but there are probably others.
The core is really:

> https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1586956650455265281

"Hereʻs the answer everyone knows: there IS no principled reason for banning spam. We ban spam for purely outcome-based reasons:

It affects the quality of experience for users we care about, and users having a good time on the platform makes it successful."

And also this Chinese Room argument: "once again, I challenge you to think about it this way: could you make your content moderation decisions even if you didnʻt understand the language they were being spoken in?""

In other words, there are certain kinds of post which trigger escalating pathological behavior - more posts - which destroy the usability platform for bystanders by flooding it. He argues that it doesn't matter what these posts mean or whose responsibility is it for the escalation, just the simple physics of "if you don't remove these posts and stop more arriving, your forum will die".
Operating a private CA + QUIC does not allow me to host my own website that is visitable by a random person on the internet. HTTP/1.1 does.

Private CAs solve other problems for internal uses but not this big important one for the public web.
Stripe is large enough that the founders/CEO can retire anytime.

It's not like startup founders who haven't been taking a salary (or been taking a below-market salary).
I thought about it for some time (nothing serious), but can see few obvious stoppers.

First, cheap blogging is something I do not like, and producing quality content takes time. An example of cheap blogging is “I npm installed foobaz, passed it a low-effort options object copied from SO answer and voila”. Sometimes I struggle even with HN comments, heh. “Half” of them never get posted.

Second, my views on programming (my primary interest in life) are not mainstream and a little bitter, sometimes not a little. I know this from trying to expess them here on HN from time to time. I’m afraid that publishing that would bring nothing but a sense of worse isolation at my own expense. I’m a pretty negative critic, and I don’t get where people like n-gate take energy to continue their public work (I’m not a HN hater, just a random example out of top of my head).
The LaTeX input for Word equation editor makes it a lot faster, but it is still quite limited and often doesn't do what you expect for more complicated things. It makes the easy things easier, but the hard things harder.
“ip” has the -json option; i.e. “ip -json a” gives you straight JSON; no need for JC.
I really despise the idea/existence of app stores.

Why can't a publishers website be their store front, then from that site, you can run (or "download"/"install" if you must) the app?

Technically it looks like that would actually work [1]. They could host the `.snap` file. Although I'm sure snap will add friction to this (as in, not simple let you open and click "Install") from a downloaded snap file, as they probably want you to use their app store.

1. https://github.com/snapcrafters/signal-desktop/issues/70#iss...
Could you suggest some good resources for learning about timeseries models?
That's not the founders taking personal responsibility unless they are paying for those benefits themselves. That's the company taking care of the employees, which is great. What GP was asking is how are the founders demonstrating accountability.
Yes for Android.