skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could see them looking at HN and thinking, "FT readers are a cut above a bunch of computer repair people. Surely if they can have a civil public discourse, we can."

They really do have some of the ingredients, but they are missing key ones. I'd say the biggest limitation to building a social platform from even as rarefied a captive demographic as their esteemed readership is that when your livelihood is based on relationships and narrative over concrete physical skills, the stakes on being controversial are too high.

If you are a financial advisor and you are controversial in public and lose, among peers whose stock in trade is being aligned to the highest powers available, you lose your credibility and place in your pecking order. Whereas, if someone decides I'm on the wrong side of a narrative, I can still write code, build something, or make it work.

Opinions are what we have when we're not actually doing the thing we have the opinion about, so it's my indulgence to be provocative about how well the world is being run - because I'm not the one doing it. All the world is indeed a stage, and getting all the best lines is almost fair compensation for having to put up with its managers. The issue of our time is that the people running the world think people like me have a bit too much freedom to mock their degenerate incompetence, and they think controlling public forums is going to be easier than doing a more credible job.

There is an iron law about the trade off between autonomy and power, where power is to act through others, and autonomy is to act without others. Quality discourse (social media content), and news stories, require some kind of friction or conflict to make them interesting and compelling. This disqualifies powerful people from participating as themselves because the risk of alienating the people through whom they act is too high. (Musk is the exception that makes the rule.)

The "social" in social media means that it's for kids and plebes like us who can afford to have drunk pictures of themselves on the internet because we aren't engaged in the all-against-all political power struggle that defines elite competition - the world most FT/Economist readers inhabit. My opinions have nothing to do with my ability to fix computers, where for the typical FT reader, their opinions signal their alignment, status, and reputation. They can't risk their reputations on making the kind of piquant online comment that makes this all so good.

I'm glad they learned you can't just "start your own" social media platform, but that wasn't the real obstacle for them. It's that, they'll never (shit)post like common people.
I went to a restaurant recently that did the QR menu thing. It was a long list of terrible UX on my phone. I'll never do that again. If a place can't give me a menu, I'm walking out and finding another place to eat.
For small acquisitions like that, I've seen rough multiples of 4–8x ARR.

So 6 figures makes sense for $5k MRR.
For what it's worth, I think GP was being sarcastic.
A significant chunk of iconic comedy characters are horrible people. Basil Fawlty, Blackadder, David Brent, Malcolm Tucker, Homer Simpson, Hyacinth B̶u̶c̶k̶e̶t̶ Bouquet, etc. etc.

Some of these characters have redeemable aspects as well; Homer Simpson is a dedicated family man who clearly very much loves Marge and his kids; there are some scenes that are quite sweet. But he's not being very funny in those scenes, he's being funny when he's selfish, lazy, alcoholic, and generally just a jerk.

Even in comedies where the characters aren't jerks such as Brooklyn 99, many of the characters would still be horrible in actual real life. Can you imagine working with Jake?

Overall, I think it's a mistake to overthink comedic characters too much; sometimes something funny is just funny, and just because character X is horrible doesn't mean the creators are trying to send any sort of message. It's certainly a mistake to emulate these sort of characters or take life lessons from them.

This kind of reminds me of the video game debates. Yes, in video game X you go around shooting people to solve your problems, but in real life you don't. I think everyone understands that.

Rick reminds me of the Elves in Lord of the Rings. Tired, weary of life, sort of past caring; the curse of immortality. Rick has the curse of being nigh-omnipotent.
Isn't "unique domain name" also a giveaway that it's a canary?
> A quote from page 3 of my edition: "WHERE'S MY SUIDICE SWITCH?"

I realize this was a typo, but now I'm imagining a Russian roulette-type game, but with dice.
Health-record review links viral illnesses to brain disease
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Seven Minute Abs
If you want to play the game: https://github.com/artiebits/fake-git-history
The 105 Mio. figure includes stock sales when the price was still high.
> Well too bad that I don’t want to work opensource or use stack overflow (I don’t for work because we have our own internal one for years)

Then communicate that. The point in the article is just to demonstrate that you deliver consistently. If you have meaningful contributions to an internal system, tell me about it.

> whatever impact I have in the corner of a 50000 employee company is probably not going to be enough for you.

Working at a large company is definitely different than working at a small company. The breadth and depth of the job responsibilities will be different.

That’s okay. Not every job is for everyone.

> How about just checking I know what I put on the resume and being done with it

What do you mean by “check”?

Resumes are a place for the candidate to tell me about themselves, they’re not some sort of background investigation. I presume they are honest unless the candidate gives me a reason otherwise. And if the candidate gives me a reason to believe they’re not honest, I’m not wasting any time sleuthing about their background — they’re disqualified.
The key takeaway here is: “Although many are prototypes, the company aims for the bots to eventually make an impact in the company’s logistics network.”

They really don’t make significant use of robots.
Then iOS apps stop working, right? The DRM regime requires SIP to be enabled.

Stallman was right about "treacherous computing".
The beauty if disinformation is that it includes nuggets of truth, or uses seemingly solid rational that is flawed in a very subtle way.

I am a pro conspiracy theory person. But to be clear, there was a ton of disinformation around COVID, and this thread has nothing to do with COVID. I believe COVID is real, and that the vaccines were a good idea.
When is a big If.

Much like the simulation hypothesis, "super intelligent AI" is more religion than reality at this point.
Ok - How many microseconds does it take to round trip SELECT 1 to localhost on a typical cloud VM?

You are still using the network stack and involving multiple processes.
> I don't get the value from preventing a customer from modding the device.

For many, having locked down consoles is a feature not a bug. It massively reduces the odds of coming across people running cheats in online gaming. It still happens, sure. But in the end it is far less common when cheating requires buying hardware modifications from potentially shady marketplaces, soldering things on to the board, potentially breaking your hardware, and potentially blacklisting your hardware on official matchmaking systems.

You're never going to get to zero cheaters, but if you make it more difficult to cheat and make it easier to blacklist expensive hardware it'll massively reduce the odds of your player base encountering cheater in an average match. Encountering less cheaters increases player satisfaction and keeps players playing your games.

I didn't buy a game console for it to be a general purpose computer to do whatever I want, I bought a game console because I want to play games. If I want a general purpose computer to hack around with I'll go buy a Pi or an ESP32 or some other SBC instead of a Switch or an Xbox or Playstation.
What projects do you find useful?
I can’t provide concrete citations, but I was a child when GoldenEye 007 was in its heyday. At the time it was a very accessible way of playing a multiplayer first-person shooter. Instead of a bunch of networked PCs, you could play a 3D deathmatch with a $200 console, the game, and controllers. The game had its own quirks and nuances, like any game, so it had its own culture. Just today, Brianna Wu commented some nostalgia of the multiplayer. [1]

I think the next biggest step for the accessibility of multiplayer first-person shooters was Xbox Live, but I haven’t really researched or proven it.

[1] https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1618281159779287040?s=2...
You need to chill and stop extrapolating my values and worldview from a few sentences online. I'm a practicing christian so the concept of forgiveness is one of CENTRAL importance in my life and a daily practical and philosophical concern.

We all sin but not all sins are crimes do you get what I'm saying? Our reaction to the spiritual state of sinfulness is, needs to be, different from our reaction to the social transgression caused by it.

Forgiveness requires repentance, contrition, consequences. Forgiveness is not just letting something pass as if it didn't happen, though certainly sometimes it can be. Forgiveness also requires an active forgivER, which is not me in this case.

Roiland didn't do anything to me I have nothing to forgive. I am not god and cannot forgive him for his sins. This should be between him and the people he did harm, which is his specific victim here, but also the people around him depending on his stability and integrity in his professional role. Blowing up the employments of all those people with this transgression is part of its harm and something he needs to seek forgiveness for. But not from us.
Anyone want to work together on spinning up a non profit replacement with governance that prohibits a transfer of ownership to a for profit entity?
> Tricking the coinbase execs into giving him one of the highest paying packages for any product exec in history

The money was primarily generated from stock and options sales, not salary. If anything, it would be institutional investors who financed this. The fact that he happened to be on a Rule 10b5-1 plan further cements this; he didn't even control the timing of the sales.
I might feel similarly, especially given my distaste for private equity. But in the AIS (ship tracking) space, commercial versions seem to do ok. MarineTraffic runs its own blatantly commercial effort. And AIShub.net is not commercial itself, but it is run by Astra Paging, which definitely is.

I run a receiver that feeds into both networks, and in both cases I look at it as a value-for-value exchange.
standard gear cutting arbors aren't that expensive, but are often for standard module gears and the gear form is an approximation that applies to a given range of gears.

e.g. https://www.amazon.com/EVNSIX-Involute-Cutters-Milling-Machi...
> Most people will get used to the idea it'll sometimes take their eyes a few minutes to boot. Even with glasses.

I'd be concerned that cyber-eyes would suddenly start showing you "offers from trusted partners".
Why not? It is one of the founders sharing their project. The article mostly focuses on features, how it works, and plans for the future
One of the first projects I created with the Raspberry Pi Model A was setup a SDR listening station. Then I wrote some software and downloaded software to listen and stream ADS-B data to a few aggregators. One of them was ADS-B Exchange. The other was ADS-B Hub[0]. The later is still free and still open source.

[0] https://www.adsbhub.org/
HN is so weird when it comes to anything related to crypto.

Guys if you hate “capital”, then maybe stop hanging out on a news website run by and started by a venture capitalists and populated by people who are either participating in or funding startups themselves.

This guy took a compensation package that both he and the company agreed to. He then sold the compensation package.

There’s no scandal here. Good for him.
This philosophy of praising exploitation

I read that comment as sarcastic. I don't think your parent comment is praising him
Yep, the better comparison would be a % of Coinbase's market cap which is $11B. Still, as far as I know, walking away with 1% of your company's market cap is rare for a non-founder hired only 2 years prior.
It's an interesting question.

Is it both legal and ethical to prioritise specific groups when hiring, with the aim to improve diversity?

Is it therefore both legal and ethical to use the same metrics when conducting layoffs?

Though this is not my field, it somehow seems more unfair in the latter case?
> It has the same buildup, the same issues, the same dumbness as the original, real world.

Why would it not? Both computers and humans exist in the same world. There is no 'towing it outside the environment', we are the environment and all of our warts and problems are going to follow.
>Lol publicly firing someone in what is obviously tied to criminal accusations is the same as not watching a show?

You can use the same reason to not take part in two things that might be wholly separate.
Cough cough was not a respiratory reference. I simply am not going to stir up the pot by directly mentioning the fields that are corrupt or the specific disorders.
_The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo_ by Tom Reiss, and Gabriel Stoian (Translator)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330922-the-black-count

It was an interesting look at this period of history, and even more fascinating insight into the wellspring from which Dumas drew for his stories.

It's esp. interesting when contrasted w/ the pastiche of _The Count of Monte Cristo_ by Steven Brust, _The Baron of Magister Valley_, which I also highly recommend if you're interested in literate fantasy.
Please also note that I'm talking about the Lisa OS (subfolder LISA_OS in the source code ZIP), not the Lisa Toolkit (subfolder Lisa_Toolkit in the source code ZIP).

It's actually not a surprise I see some Clascal files in the Lisa OS tree since LIBTK in LISA_OS/LIBS is apparently just a copy of the Lisa Toolkit.
Can you tell some more details? What was this API, how long did it take, what tech did you use, how much experience do you have?
If I am considering a candidate enough to look at their GitHub, I will actually look at the content.

If someone was actually trying to pass this off as relevant work, I’d disqualify them for being dishonest. They’d be 1000x better off by having no GitHub history.
Here's a fun list of these from Mike Pope from 2012:

https://mikepope.com/blog/AddComment.aspx?blogid=2354

He adds,

> Then there is the question of what we might call a nickname like this. A name based on a place is a toponym. A name for people from a city or region is a demonym. I solicited some ideas for this, too. We threw around corporanym and employeeonym. Someone suggested "idionym, which should mean roughly 'your own name'."

> The most interesting suggestion was from Colleague Clay, who knows his way around a number of languages. He suggested ergazomenonym ("from modern Greek εργαζόμενου= employee"). I like it tons, although I'd need some coaching, perhaps, in how to pronounce it properly.
There's a protocol for multilateration of the detected jets using all of the receivers that are in range of its signal. Whil I'm sure there are ways you could attack it, it's pretty robust to the more obvious things.
I'm always intrigued at people's carriers and where exactly the inflection point was. Looking at Surojit's career, it went something like this:

BS in CS at Kharagput, something like a US T2 university

MS in CS at Buffalo, something like a T2 univeristy,

Spend some years at IBM and Oracle as a developer/senior developer 200k/year ?

MIT Sloan MBA T1 world class

PM/Senior PM at Symantec for a year 200-300k/year?

Head of Payment products India at Google, 8 years rising though the ranks 300-500k/year?,
did an externship of 2 years at flipkart as SVP

Then back to google as a VP 500-1.5MM/year?

CPO at coinbase made 150 million.

It looks like he moved around, leveraging his title to get senior roles between start-up and well-established companies:

PM at small company to PM at big company,

Head of product at big company to SVP at startup

SVP at startup to VP at big company

VP of big company to C-suite at startup pre-IPO

Most of all, he got in on the crypto gravy train right in time for his options to balloon
you don't fire people to make them suffer. it's to improve the company
At least he didn't talk about politics at work. Can't put a price tag on that!
I believe it depends on which race, gender or ethnicity is being let go.
I just don’t get how a newspaper with a freaking comments section doesn’t understand the risk inherent with a social media website. If you break it down, a text-based comments section has many of the risks of a Mastodon server—people can share all manner of things. And worse, it’s actually centralized.

If everyone was as risk-averse as the FT comes off in this article, we would not have any creations of note.
It seems so, and Twitter responses already accused Unis being leftist bastions. The whole point is to introduce us/them mentality better than your opponents.
SSRIs do lower the risk of further depressive episodes.

"To conclude, this review provides evidence that continuing SSRIs for 1 year reduces risk of MDD and relapse."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5761909/
DOJ Sues Google, Seeking to Break Up Online Advertising Business
I find this interpretation of “calories in” very uncharitable. We certainly don't argue over whether eating coal makes one fat. Coal has lots of calories, but we're interested in metabolically available ones. If type 1 diabetes people cannot metabolize glucose, then it doesn't count as in.
Kudos Bryce for writing the story and also for posting here. This is a great story from the trenches.
People are complaining about not being able to use Teams?
afaik JetNet hasn't offered a competing service before: their focus is on business jet fleet and transaction related data (I worked for what could loosely be described as a competitor)

The data has some value in supporting that core product (as an additional data feed to sell a handful of enterprise clients, to support their fleet data research and possibly to enhance their FBO/charter products). I guess part of the appeal of ADS-B Exchange is that working in business aviation, an unfiltered dataset is a lot more useful to them than a filtered one like most of the commercial providers.

Still seems like a slightly odd acquisition, since they could have got the data beforehand relatively inexpensively and they'd probably get better feed coverage leaving it as an OS project and I do wonder how they'll manage privacy requests from some of their clients...
Sorry, I prefer a concise one page resume that tells me just enough that makes interested to want to learn more. Anyone can claim outcomes and metrics on a resume that can never be validated.
The desktop app I’m thinking of was called “e-Tax”. More recently you could complete your return through the MyGov website with all data pre-populated. Perhaps there was a transition period where they were still using e-Tax but also could pre-populate the data. But before that, you still had to fill it all in from paper forms.

It’s a while since I’ve had to complete an Australian tax return.
Yeah but that's not what Coinbase was. It was a industry leader. I think we can blame industry leaders if the industry evaporates like this.
Right, I think humanity will some day create something resembling an AGI, but the current LLM statistical approach is extremely unlikely to be the path to that. You need many more layers of sophistication.

Like, AI art generators don't just have issues with human hands or eyes, they also create buildings which are architecturally incoherent. I don't know how you solve that with mere data or refinements.
Yes, but I appreciate it when people are so deep in their field that they innocently spout off ideas like this. It's also a little sloppy for Bloomberg to let that get by since it almost encourages something that's possibly illegal.
I agree, love their motors for simple applications where you don't want to write software
>So basically in practice think carefully about the risks, costs, benefits and what tradeoffs are worth making.

And then be told by management to scratch that, we need the app out yesterday or the competitor is going to eat us.
It’s not a pipeline problem https://www.fastcompany.com/90596325/its-time-to-debunk-the-...
I came here to say exactly the same thing. I'd love to find a kit or gearbox than can gear up/down a simple stepper motor for Arduino projects. The HDPE laser cut is a good idea though, I'll give that a try.
> I sleep at night knowing that push come to shove someone will step in and mass produce machines to create personal phage cocktails.

Drug resistant bacteria are here. Hasn't push already come to shove?

Phages are interesting, but given that there are substantial challenges on the road to making and administering them (and you can be in a race against the clock as someone's infection progresses), shouldn't we also be trying to use existing antibiotics far more strategically?
It can be. In fact even if a person uses a whois-privacy service for their domain there is almost always a unique identifier for that persons registrar account and that can also be used for tracking.

Sites such as fastmail allow adding aliases using one of their several domains with the one downside it is harder to find a short unique name. I have one encoded into my profile here on HN.
How did buyers perform due diligence?

I have surface level experience in the private equity industry and was surprised that there seems to be very, very little due diligence performed on sales through microacquire, so I'm building a due diligence platform for buyers and sellers doing those sorts of deals.

I'm curious about how your buyers performed due diligence.
Sure you can! You just need to figure a way to digest it. Ask chemistry.
I did a strict 1400 calorie per day diet for a few months in college. Zero cheating. Also kicked up aerobic activity a ton.

Losses were at like 5-10% the rate they "should have" been. Totally worthless.

Meanwhile weight lifting has always worked for me a large multiple as well as it "should", for weight loss, if you go by calculators that try to figure how many calories an activity burns.

I reckon that in both cases those two approaches must be having large (and opposite) effects on my resting metabolic rate.
The $30 plan is missing the real 5G data speeds. Your phone will say 5G, but your throughput will disagree.
This of course is not what happened. The article explains. He was granted stock at a much (much) cheaper price.