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Today marks 38 years since January 24th when Steve Jobs introduced the first Mac
Hmm, I may give that a try, thanks for the tip..
Pretty sure they still receive prison sentences in Singapore in addition to caning.
Google would still make $$$ because of all of their ad space on Search, YouTube etc.

But they would farm that ad space to multiple exchanges that would be competing for both advertisers and space, and so profits from running the ad exchanges would go down and those ad exchange profits would not be flowing to Google.

I'm neither arguing for nor against this, but that's conceptually how it would work.
My "high school" was not in the US. They don't even _have_ a GPA! No matter how it's calculated, they don't have it. They have quarterly tests(some lesser tests in between), and they have a weighted average of your scores for that particular year. You are above some number, you pass, otherwise you fail. It does not carry over to the next year. How would someone like me input anything resembling a GPA?

Also, it was a long while ago.

I would not be surprised to hear that companies that ask these questions also have ageist policies.
CEOs currently get paid either way, either by golden parachutes and retention bonuses when the company fails or by big paydays when the company grows.

It's in the best interest of the shareholders that the CEO of a failing company either have faith that it will turn around or negotiate an acquisition. I don't believe this is the case with current executive compensation structures.

And at least this penalty would be an incentive towards shrinking the company via attrition instead of disrupting the lives of thousands of employees and shocking the labour market.
I personally have no interest in taking VC funding (to be honest, I feel like this defeats the purpose of founding a company, which is to have control over it) but currently own a small company (bootstraped side gig) and plan to move to full time when the startup I am currently a FTE at exits.
Santos, is that you?

But really, lying on resumes is just dumb. You have more to lose than to gain.
I will state that I have never used Macs in a corporate environment. Every Windows laptop I have ever had has an employee has so much extra corporate security software on it that they can remotely lock me out, reset it, wipe it, etc. They don't need the password I use for anything.

Does Apple or any third parties make software to do this?

Essentially the T2 security chip needs to allow 2 passwords so that both the user AND corporate IT can reset the machine etc.

If a company is leasing laptops then they need to treat this process like an apartment security deposit. When I rented my first apartment I had to pay one month's rent up front. I moved out 4 years later and they inspected my apartment for damage and after they found nothing wrong they gave me my original security deposit back.
I’m very surprised UC Berkeley doesn’t own that domain name. They have a trademark on “Cal”, don’t know if they’d file a trademark complaint if this got larger.
Theoldrobots.com
this is the (modern) way.
Almost like allowing them to buy their only actual competitor had exactly the outcome anyone with half a brain cell could have predicted.
I'd say over 60% at least - a friend of mine bought a second-hand M1 macbook without any issues. Key here is that the previous user has to initiate a full-wipe on the device, if that happens anyone can continue to use the device. This is similar to SIM locks on iPhones, completely intended to reduce theft.
> Are boards and shareholders even dissatisfied with executives right now?

Not with prior actions, but they are with current margins. Which is why you see both layoffs and other cost-cutting measures that get less press.
Thanks!

I use excalidraw: https://excalidraw.com/

I think most web-dev bloggers use it, makes me feel very boring
Right, and the current court is unusually pro-corporate: https://www.axios.com/2022/08/04/supreme-court-john-roberts-....

And although it's not necessarily a liberal vs. conservative issue, it would be deceptive not to point out that this is entirely because of the Republican justices.
Riot Games refuses to pay ransom to hackers
Nah. You don't have to think outside the box with HR. In fact, you should think firmly inside _their_ box.
They wouldn't be smaller Googles, they'd be different companies altogether, with their own practices and work cultures.

They'd have less bureaucracy, which might help them to innovate and move faster, and in different directions from each other.
No job I have had since the first one has asked about college in the interview process. Nor do I ask anyone except new grads about their college experience. No, it's not relevant.
The goalpost comment really isn't necessary; there are a lot of people on this site, and it's inevitable that conflicting opinions will get expressed. I think there's an interesting point to be made about how widely differing expectations can make it difficult for public figures to avoid criticism from one group or another, but it's muddled by the dubious assumption that people commenting on articles are some monolithic unit rather than a varying set of individuals from one article to the next, each of whom have potentially unique perspectives and aren't necessarily the same people who commented on a different thread.
Regulatory cases like this get launched to test the waters. I see the Within thing as tipping at toe in, to see what the judicial branch will allow them to get away with. They are probably reaching for an extreme on purpose to find the boundary.
https://archive.is/mCikl
Indeed, hence why I said I moved back to NextJS for my use case, personally speaking.
You are stating private jails don't control the government. You're right, the opposite is true: government officials control private jails, which means delivering inmates and redirecting profits ...

Last big scandal about large scale wrongful imprisonment - of children, no less - the people profiting from this were:

1) Directly profiting

* the District Attorney

* 2 judges

* the director of ... of the Juvenile Probation Office

* the brother of the District Attorney, who ran the prison

2) Involved, capable of stopping the abuse, not proven to have personally profited, yet they cooperated:

* the district attorney

* a supreme court lawyer

* a supreme court justice personally

* the whole Pennsylvania supreme court

* the governor of Pennsylvania

* Pennsylvania's Judicial Conduct Board

* the FBI

3) the only parties the justice system considered guilty

* the brother of the District Attorney, who ran the prison. Note: he's still in business. The SAME business. He was convicted for a small amount, because he lied about paying off judges. He, and his brother the district attorney, are of course completely innocent of plotting for a decade to wrongfully imprison children, for profit.

The scheme continued for 7 YEARS after complaints about corruption were filed.

The profit has not been paid back.

* the lowest level judges

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

As always, we come to the same point as always: people claiming the government can be trusted, because of $reason. Separation of powers, because of the law, because ... You forget the government is a system made up of people. Guarantees, laws, contracts, achieve nothing the quality of people in government doesn't achieve. And we all know that quality is lacking somewhat. Also, this cannot be fixed by better laws, better such guarantees, any of that ...
The twitter profile didn't say parody!
I'm confused; why isn't the idea of making something more or less legal related to how many people illegally do that thing?

They wouldn't be illegal immigrants if we didn't have "tight border controls" by definition, so it feels related and not "divorced from reality"...

We lived through this, basically all of American history up until 9/11, where the Mexican border was "loose"(er, the US committed some pretty fucked up atrocities using that border a few times in its history); it seems to me that if we returned to that level of interaction with Mexico, the vast majority of concerns raised by anti-immigration folks would be quelled.
Curious what you dislike about Calendly's UX?

I feel like the product's success is largely because they've used clever UX to solve a common, but difficult problem.
Oh, lets not pretend that there's only one reason.
I think polarization on social issues has made people forget that the conservative position / the liberal position isn't always a world ending flamewar.

Taking the position that market intervention isn't needed until consumer harm can be sufficiently demonstrated vs. market intervention is needed when any firm wields monopolistic power is a discussion about the role of government and what produces the best outcomes, not "look this side bad."
Thanks for that, its wonderfully creepy.

(its a short story written in the style of a wikipedia article from the future about the standard model test brain uploaded from a living scientist).
The prison industrial complex has lobbyists who do influence those decisions. They could start focusing on making the penalties harsher for minor crimes.
Within is an app developer whose apps compete with apps owned by Meta, run on hardware owned by Meta, and are sold in an app store owned by Meta. Why does this confuse you?
I'm a bit nuts, but I run Wine headless to host a niche product server for software developed on Windows many years ago. Using Wine, I can have one profile/prefix per customer, and run multiple customers on a single box without needing any Windows licenses. The way the original server was developed only expected a single customer per box (since they would be running it on their private network), but many customers have opted to have me host it for them, and a big rewrite was out of the question.

It's been working out nicely for many years, with only a few bumps and bruises in the early stages getting everything stable.
I said "more than 30 years ago".
I was thinking the same thing until I saw things like this in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34503617

Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT are cool, but once you get a better understanding of the model and how it's trained it doesn't seem that exciting personally.

But being able to engineer living organisms? That's sounds like something out of blade runner.
It gives you the ability to market to developers and post on HN without actually making it easy to host the open source version
The pricing tiers on the website are also misleading/incorrect (edit: may be outdated info). For example, the free tier has unlimited event type only for the duration of a trial period. After that it downgrades you to 1 active event type at a time. I've run into a few "bugs" like that, but it still works well enough that I haven't bothered with the difficult self-host for my recruiter booking calendar.
What exactly is the difference between Wine and Proton?

I just use Wine, mostly with older games from GOG.com, and it seems to work alright in all but a few exceptional cases (and has for long before Valve got involved with Proton).
How to Value Software Buyout
We (my business partner and I) have a small company writing software in a niche industry. A consulting company has approached us to purchase a specific product we developed, for exclusive use by them. Up until now, we use our custom software to produce detailed analysis for the outside consulting company (we charge them, then they charge their clients directly) We have no experience in valuing the software for sale. We've been using our in-house GIS software to produce the reports, and over the last 5 years have had income of almost $700k. Anyone have suggestions on how we should go about putting a value on this software? They want exclusive rights to use it. I've read several articles on how to value software (note: source code will still be ours, in escrow). Some articles suggest either 3, 4, or 5 years of past billings/income to value the sale of that software. Any suggestions?
So in that case they would just reduce hiring.
When I was 20 years old I was offered a job at D.E. Shaw (for Juno, not as like a quant) on a team of my friends. I was gearing up to move to NYC from Chicago when their HR process kicked in and asked for a copy of my high school grades, whereupon I immediately noped out.

I can think of worse red flags than asking about grades, but not like a lot of worse red flags. Don't put up with this stuff.
Curious about the "world's best coop" part. What does this mean? (Asking as someone with chickens, and some old coops now.)
But in that case the open-source part is irrelevant. You are paying for the operations/hosting, not more generic dev-support.
Why Google Search Has Become So Bad
When signing up I get "Please double-check your email address". It lets me continue anyway, but I guess it's over-zealous about my address being on my personal domain rather than @gmail.com
Google has several separable ad verticals.

To name only two: AdWords / AdSense is the "auction model" that made Google famous as an online ad brand and is the one they developed (mostly) in-house: advertisers bid on ad impressions, publishers get paid for offering slots on their pages to do the impressions. It's a very hands-off model in that advertisers don't need to control what sites their ads run on and site owners don't need to control what ads get run; Google handles all that handshaking (and brokers all that money).

That model doesn't work at all for a lot of companies that need way more control over the content shown on their pages (either because they have serious concerns about brand-image that they're unwilling to hand to a third party or they're just wedded to the traditional "steak dinner and fancy suits" advertising model and aren't comfortable working with their advertisers at arm's length). So Google also sells a suite of data-management products for companies that broker their advertising clients directly but are vending ad space on digital services. This is the DoubleClick model: it's (for example) the New York Times's pages and the New York Times's ad clients but Google's infrastructure physically vending the ads, tracking conversion data, tracking completion of advertising contracts, running predictive models to see how valuable ad slots can be, etc.

To the layperson, this is just all "ads," but a not-very-sharp knife can be driven clean through these two business units (from the outside. From the inside, they are no doubt built atop the same Google special-sauce NIH fabric, so it'd in practice be a colossal pain in the ass to divest either of them; either one will have to be rewritten to work as a mundane cloud service or the company carved off will be taking a copy of Google's infrastructure special-sauce with it, running Borg and the logging infrastructure, using stubby and dapper, resolving global resource contention with chubby, etc... All stuff Google really doesn't want to compete with in the holistic way it's woven together inside their house).
I think you have switched union and intersection. ’Unknown’ is a type which can be anything, so it is the union of all types. ‘Never’ is the empty set of types.

‘Any’ does not really fit into a set theoretical model because it can be assigned to anything and anything can be assigned to it, so it is both a supertype of anything and a subtype of anything. Basically it just disables type checking.
Young women in Japan have a hard life with young children, especially male children. If the country wants more children they will have to make life better for fertile women. But this would be such a wrenching change for their culture that it's very unlikely to happen. C'est la vie baby.
I'm in the tech industry. I come here because I see interesting stories posted and intelligent conversation.

I have worked for 2 startups and both failed. I have zero interest in ever starting my own company and zero interest in ever working for a startup ever again.
How artificial intelligence is helping us decode animal languages
It's the VC-funded OSS playbook (restrictive open source, monetize support and advanced deployments until the open source loses potency, relicense). Cal.com took money from https://oss.capital/portfolio and others
The homepage is text and static images.. I doubt the issue is with them
> This is going to have all the same problems as letting a bunch of green developers go to town on implementation without a design phase.

Except without all the downsides, because GPT can rewrite the whole program nearly instantly. Do you see why our intuitions around maintenance, "good architecture/design" and good processes may now be meaningless?

It seems a bit premature to say we don't have anything close when we can get working programs nearly instantly out of GPT right now, and that seemed like a laughable fantasy only two years ago.
I decided to open the Wikipedia page for Chloroform while this video played and thought it was interesting that the idea that criminals can immediately knock someone out with a chloroform soaked rag is really a work of fiction. Not that it couldn't be done, but that it would probably take minutes and not just a few seconds.
Can someone TL;DR this please?
> poaching and killing of these wonderful creatures today.

Where can I find a mastodon?
I'm just happy that I finally found the courage to ditch LR and Adobe a few years ago. Seeing that their performance issues are still plaguing them doesn't surprise me in the least.

Switched out to Photo Mechanic for cataloguing and Capture One / Affinity Photo for editing if anyone is interested.
In high school I was stealing to order so I could afford rent, oh, and heroin.

I've not subsequently done either of those things for at least 25 years and counting, so I'm not overly sure on point #2.
How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
I often use it to infer one generic parameter:

type Output<Fn> = Fn extends ((a: unknown) => infer Out) ? Out : never;
This is my main problem with HN, funnily enough.
I have lived and travelled in France for around 40 years and I don't at all recognize what you are describing.

Your claims appear to be based on suggesting that you (and, in a laughable falsehood, the wide range of opinion in French society) knows for a fact that this situation exists, but if anyone does not agree with you, that is merely their opinion, since it is impossible to measure.
Interesting the nextcloud calendar app we use internally in the organization I work for has a similar "book a meeting feature" which I haven't (yet) took advantage off.

If someone is familiar with both cal.com and that feature, I would really appreciate a view of pros and cons.
https://commonpaper.com/committee

> Agreements are created by a committee of dozens of attorneys representing technology vendors, procurement teams, boutique firms, and Big Law ... Say goodbye to combing through the same clauses over and over and hello to structured, easily negotiated agreements that get everyone on the same page.
That was a whole lot of psychobabble.
Yes, you are right, I overlooked that one was in tonnes another in kg, while both having same 10^18 factor. All other calculations are correct.
If anyone is jumping onto Mastodon (or taking a deeper dive) today with the app's release, posting my handle here if anyone wants to follow. Will follow back here today and presume all are HNers. :)

CameronBanga@mastodon.social for me! Feel free to reply your handle as well!
While I hope to see something along those lines, please be aware that divestiture is not the only possible antitrust remedy. Fines, time-limited consent decrees, and other lesser measures are not only possible, but much more likely, especially in our current political climate.
> What is a real world use case where Nix isn't overkill?

When you need to tie together code in two or more different languages. For example if you need to call an Node executable in your rust program. In that case neither npm nor rustup is enough since you need something to tie the two together. Nix is excellent for that in my experience.
They really do want the people that will crawl through broken glass for them.

The whole tech industry is insane. Can we please go back to: I give you work, you give me money. And if you want passion then I want equity.
Are you using metrics that are gameable? For instance some predictors of future criminality are past criminality, and education level.

This heavily incentivizes people to commit crimes and drop out of school.

So you are forced to only use metrics that are outside their control such as parent's previous income level. And you'll get nowhere near a 50% false positive rate using only these metrics.

Not to mention all of the frustration felt by their neighbor who is working 40 hours a week and taking home $25,000 a year, while they sit at home playing xbox for 50k a year.
The great thing about being FI is the lack of worry over this garbage. I would have truthfully answered that I was a terrible student, that I could only focus on subjects that truly interested me, and that one of those subjects fortunately happened to be coding.

They want to toss my resume for my struggles 20 years ago? So be it. It's as good of a filter for me not wanting to work for them as it is vice versa.
I'll admit, I was mostly excited about Ivory so I could have a paired set of mac and iphone apps that would keep track of where I've read to in my timeline. That was always the killer feature for me of Tweetbot. Unfortunately, it looks like the mac app is not yet out.

I subscribed anyway, though, since it's a nice iphone app and hopefully I can help support the development of the mac app.
CEO’s don’t have infinite leverage to negotiate compensation.
What explicitly is the link. What is the new evidence. Please be specific.
I'm a past startup founder. Bootstrapped and sold two companies. Taught myself how to program. Wrote the code for two other startups that were acquired.
Thanks so much for sharing that!

I had been unaware of Mr. Bhabha, before this.

He was pretty awesome dude.
I've seen plenty of images generated by Midjourney and Stable Diffusion that I would describe as "interesting" and/or "beautiful".

For that matter, nature can obviously be both, and it doesn't have intentional design nor vision behind it. So it's clear that it's not a universal requirement.
I've sometimes wondered how easy it'd be to lie about where I went to university, even. In my 15 year career I've literally never had anyone ask for any proof of my degree. I did some research just now though and there is in fact a National Student Clearinghouse that background check companies use to verify school info, so maybe it's been happening as part of background checks?
There is evidence that Facebook and Google aren't competing all that hard, see for example https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/google-faceboo....
Level Up Your Product Demos with Arc Browser
The "gaps that seem obvious"-notion describes exactly how I feel about pull request tooling these days. The status quo for PR review has very obvious-seeming improvements that have not been pursued (ex: de-emphasizing moved code vs. deleted code, making AI predict what comment will be left before dev starts typing, auto-reviewing trivial changes).

If I'm correct that PR review is currently much less efficient than it will be soon, it won't be because I'm smart or this is a new idea. It would just be because our company has spent last five years building code review tools, right place right time. Eventually there was enough infrastructure accumulated (and ambient events unfolding, ie OpenAI) that it became a small step to pass the edge of what PR review meant circa 2022.