skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a nutshell: “The corporation’s articles of incorporation, original and as amended, can be difficult to obtain from the state that issued them, and employees or others investing in the company may not realize that what’s hidden in the articles may later prove to be of critical importance.”

Entering a startup without understanding liquidation preferences would be insane, but handing an employee a copy of the cap table and the Articles would be insane too.

The solution, of course, is to build furniture in your garage.
They didn't have an army of UX fuccbois back then. Now they do and this is an endless stream of makework to justify themselves.
Temu: the fiery culture and a perpetual efficiency machine
Some of these are things we can control with infrastructure and regulation (e.g. why is your airport so close to housing?), and others aren't really what I would consider problematic noise.

Sirens are an unfortunate reality, but the reason they're so loud is because most cars have a ton of sound-proofing. I'm sure you know this, but you can hear sirens blocks away when they're trying to alert a driver... maybe 20 metres in front of them to move out of the way?

As for excitable drunks, I think there are places where that's a constant problem, but again, this isn't constant and permanent. Traffic noise and airplanes are pretty constant though - I live on what should be a pretty quiet stretch of land but the local stroad always has at least a few really loud cars in the wee hours of the morning. The rest of the day it's just lots of regular cars making a lot of noise as cars are want to do. At least with the excitable drunks they don't make noise all hours of the day, since they have to sleep or be drinking at some point!
Users: We want standalone non-subscription licenses!

1Password: I really wish we knew what users wanted.

Users: Please don't move to Electron, I don't want Chrome bugs in my password manager.

1Password: I'm just baffled. We never hear from users.

Users: Please, for the love of God, give us control over our vaults. Don't go cloud-only, we're begging you!

1Password: Better turn on telemetry. It's the only way to solve this mystery for the ages.
Why Apache Kafka Doesn't Need Fsync to Be Safe
Honestly I considered trying to hack one but just never managed to put it on the schedule. Early models had some quirks but now they're reliable enough that I haven't found any pain points that would compel me to open one up so if I ever get around to it it'll be just for funsies.
> What did you type in that form, but delete before submitting? No visibility.

Well maybe I deleted it because I thought twice about what I wanted to send you.
Never pass up a chance to keep your mouth shut.
I knew I should have confirmed that year before posting =) I couldn't remember the epicenter, I just knew it was up in the Valley, so I did look that up on a map. I only knew of it from stories, as I was nowhere near California at the time. I had a co-worker that had just moved to that area the day before the quake. He said he debated about putting off the unpacking and checking out the new area or busting ass to unpack and just be "moved in" and done with it. He chose the unpacking, and then that night the quake where he lost a lot of stuff. Had he left everything in the boxes, things would have been just fine. I bet he's now a firm believer in procrastinating!
if Kagi becomes popular, losing the early subscribers is just a drop from their bucket
I can't speak for multiple vaults, but it was extremely easy for me to import my single vault:

1. Export 1P passwords to a 1pux file
2. Import file into Bitwarden
3. Done.
Microsoft is a pain in the ass regardless - they block my email delivery from SimpleLogin. From their own servers.
That's not even nudging, that's just providing a necessary option. There is no coercion between "I want to throw something away" and "There's a trash can on the curb".
Religions only tolerate progress when it does not interfere with their power. That why religions are cool with math.

Now if you go to physics and biology, oh well depending on the age you were born there is some risk of losing your head.
Huh!? Why can’t business owners find a solution to increasing collaboration and mentorship? It makes zero sense to involve the government in employee training.
Studying videogame speedrunning to predict AI breakthroughs
All you need is the OTP secret. I have all of mine stored in my bitwarden. I can plug and play them in any supporting app to keep generating the 2fa codes.
It does do that. Point and aim camera at totp QR code and it will ask to which account you want to store it to.
If they are losing money as fast as commercial real estate is dropping, it's guaranteed they'd do anything in their power to reverse it.
I've changed views a lot. I absolutely intend to spend a significant fraction of my life working on interoperability & interoperation, in trying to find & capture the essences that are the same. I identify a lot with the value system you're presenting. I'd felt a bit morose originally that BlueSky/@ had made their own fresh take.

What's charged is my mindset. I'm no longer coming with such a view of scarcity. Of insisting we work together.

You know who gets everyone in a big meeting room & then decides what to do & builds that architecture out? Corporations. In contrast, I think the organic growth model is a huge win here. We can cover more ground, better assay where the rich & nutritious veins are, better explore the many ecosystems of possibilities with an organic model.

It's all still so early, we're so young. ActivityPub, Nostr, BlueSky/@.... they barely have antecedents and none are proven. We are in free-form mode, none of us know what to do yet. You mention RSS, but that's a read-only medium. That attempts to explore the bounds of that didn't get that far: Google Buzz, the Salmon Protocol. OpenSocial. They weren't necessarily bad techs but we never really figured it out, democratized it, pulled it off.

We have multiple different explorers now, and I like it. The ability to keep making useful growth, is, I think, what counts here. ActivityPub has shown some decent flexibility in going across-mediums, but we don't have a ton of extensions, a ton of new modes for it (I think Akkoma, an Elixer-based fork of Pleroma is the most boundary-pushing, and reaction-emoji is their main defining claim to fame). BlueSky is brand new and we have no idea how far it'll go, but it also has a lot of really neat compelling web-oriented ideas in it's core, of signed DIDs that let it be web without having to rely on http:// and dns:// and give us self-sovereignty. Nostr I think is incredibly fantastically compelling, for it's hackability, and what a huge roster of incredibly smart & sharp "Nostr Implementation Possibilities," (https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips). What a beautiful phrase that captures so much essence of where we are: finding possibilities.

Right now, we need to emerge a shit ton of complexity. We need really wild off the wall stuff. We need lots of ideas & possibilities. We need growth & exploring bounds. Once we have some actual experience building these things & running them as smaller scale individual/microcollective operators & peers, I think then we can focus a lot more on narrowing down & coming together & deciding where and how to meet.
Unfortunately, that luxury is out of reach for people with permanent tinnitus, along with those of us who are hyper-aware of the sounds of our own bodies.

I'll likely always prefer some amount of white noise to a totally silent space. A smooth-running fan has regenerative properties for me. Up to certain thresholds, I can turn that fan up to drown out the majority of whatever noise might be going on outside my room or building. It's helpful to be able to disconnect and float in your cocoon, whether for work, play, meditation or sleep.
Wow. I thought I had a lot with over 900. Mostly exported from Brave because I just started using a password manager less than a year ago.
Absolutely, this fight needs to be fought on the cultural/political battlefield. It can never be just a technological arms race or solution, because technology usually favors the rich.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast, and mass culture of movies and video games is really the most effective way to teach the broader audience about these issues. Black mirror did a great job with some episoses, and also handmaid's tale has had a big impact in thinking about women's rights.
If you're pushing to fewer than 5 frames per account then their free tier works fine. They used to cap the free tier to 1000 photos (we just deleted older photos to keep the collection fresh) but now the free tier supports unlimited photos. I'm sure some day they'll go bust or get bought and it'll stop working but I feel like we've already gotten our money's worth out of it.
These guys are joking, honestly? No one else can own IP, but they can own the name of something they didn’t invent ?
or just focus on demanding something less demanding, or making that 1 webpage view into multiple by making good content

either way, you're in the minority in feeling that someone viewing <1 piece of your internet content entitles you to personal information about them as intimate as an email address, because it is a ridiculous expectation
Yep, absolutely. I’m an EE, and was interested in doing my own electrical work - there’s no recognition of prior learning, as far as I can tell. In Australia you must have completed a 4 year apprenticeship. No ifs, buts, it maybes.

For reference, it’s not uncommon for contractors to send out apprentices with a year or two of experience to do jobs solo (it’s illegal, but that never stopped anybody). I appreciate the need for experienced workers to do jobs to a high standard, but it seems clear to me the currents regulations are too onerous.

It’s not surprising a there’s a shortage, when the apprenticeship pays like shit, the actual job is not paid especially well, and the work sucks. The only people who make money are the contractors with a team under them.
Unlogged users can no longer use Twitter's search function
Twitter's explore page used to have a search bar, but it's no longer visible to me. Can other people confirm? Instead, it shows Elon Musk and other trending tweets. The search bar is visible when on an account's page, but if you try to use it, a pop up prompts you to log in or create an account.

Is this a new tactic to force lurkers to create accounts? Or a bug?
That threat holds zero weight as anything that could be so flippantly and easily offshored to save money and avoid regulation likely already has been. What's left must instead be jobs that don't exactly translate well to offshoring.
This would have much broader implications in the modern service economy where the jobs can't exactly be moved elsewhere easily.
Back when you were at Amazon, I was at Red Hat. (disclosure: I am at Amazon now, and have been for a bit over 13 years).

From my perspective when I was at Red Hat, Amazon was very much an IT consumer. Amazon was a _hugely_ important customer for Red Hat, even appearing on stage to give their testimony about the benefits [1]. It was a "lighthouse" customer that really opened some doors to selling Enterprise Software.

Part of what we sold to Amazon was being their connection "upstream". In 2001 it was quite unusual for an IT shop like Amazon to participate directly upstream. One benefit of being a customer of Red Hat's was: they will fix bugs and work upstream on your behalf.

It was a very reasonable approach in those days to use an existing contractual / support relationship with a vendor like Red Hat to deal with all of those details and complexities, which often required strong social connections among open source developers and maintainers working together upstream.

I think that over time as large companies shift to consume open source software directly from upstream, they have to build the capabilities and connections to participate directly rather than going through an intermediary like Red Hat. It can take a fairly long time to do that.

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2577912/linuxworld--am...
Hunh, interesting that they emphasize NEVER by putting it in all caps. Didn't occur before that that would be a good prompt engineering tool.
No it is exactly the kind of landgrab that shouldn't happen. GPT is a universal term and OpenAI didn't even come up with it. By rights it should be either not held by anybody or by the people that initially made it a well known term within the industry. Because it would be absolutely outrageous if OpenAI ended up in a position to use trademark law against the party that came up with a term.
Every time we call something GPT we invariably would reference OpenAI's work. This tells me they don't want us to do that, and would instead like to control what can be called GPT and what cannot.

Great, they've showed their intentions and we should respond accordingly. Don't call it GPT, call it parroting (or literally whatever you want). I like this for its connection with the Stochastic Parrots work and because it is already a common usage of the word outside of ML/AI. AutoParrot, BabyParrot, ParrotAPI, etc. We train by first parroting a large natural language corpus and then fine tune the parrot model with RLHF.

Companies will do what companies do, but communities work better when they are free (as in thought).
Lol. I remember the user who said to me "documentation or it doesn't exist".

And so I looked it up. Became pretty popular on hn.
Email is centralized in the sense that you might run your own server/domain but if Google decides you are bad and stops federating with you you might as well not exist. Who are you going to exchange mail with if most people are on Gmail?

That’s very different than Google banning your account where you can just switch to Bing for search.
It quite depends. A review of downvoting I've been part of includes "I don't like your view" and "you're demonstrably wrong" together.

I appreciate the "you're demonstrably wrong" commentary, which downvoting doesn't provide.
I disagree. ChatGPT reached 100 million MAUs 2 months after launch. It’s one of the fastest-growing consumer applications in history.

Anecdotally, lots of my non technical friends (and me) are using it for everything from cooking to learning a foreign language.

Lots of my technical friends are using it for side projects on the weekends. I’d say it’s the top new technology all of them are working with or incorporating into their workflows.

I and all of my teammates are using it to help us write sql and answer basic programming questions.

It’s clearly a way bigger deal than VR right now.

The problem here seems to be that Snap rammed this feature into their product in a really awkward fashion that doesn’t make sense for their users. Hence the backlash.

source:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/chatg...
Humans don't like change.
What other job is open to a non-college graduate and guaranteed to go up to $54 an hour at the 5 year mark?

I know a whole lot of people who will never earn $54 an hour in their lives would love to know the answer to that question.

While the pay is decent, it is hard, physical work.
I recommend http://totp.app for Android. You can even set the app as default on Android.
The one people will remember, though, is SRI-NIC because that's where you FTP'ed the offical HOSTS.TXT file from (mid-to-late 1980s before DNS.)
Ah the famous historians Neil deGrasse Tyson and Joe Rogan...

Better to head to /r/askhistorians with those kinds of questions.
>copyrighted material is that which a GPT has been trained on, without any regards to those rights or protections

AI's do not qualify as entities that can claim copy rights or protections, which ironically makes them not qualify as entities that can infringe copy rights or protections either.
In my opinion, actually caring about the result makes all the difference.
I think the distinction the authors are making - correctly or not, I’m not sure, plenty of rivers don’t flow to the sea - is this artificial river flows into the sea, not into other canals or rivers.

The grand canal connects the Yellow and Yangtze rivers, for example.
LLMs don’t know what garbage is or is not, depends on what they are trained on.
> I get a feeling that this wasn't planned, that this "just happened" after the release of ChatGPT and by that time it was obvious that "GPT" was the brand people were talking about and you can't simply turn the tide.

That's their problem though. Trying to trademark a well known term of art that you didn't even come up with is a very bad trick.
Because when nobody actually pays market rate, market rate is what he pays them.
Apple Rumor Hallucinations. Human Ones
Those lockers are great for ergonomic keyboards, but I don't think I've ever heard of someone using one for anything else.
this reply feels 1 step behind my post.

i already mentioned imgur. i already spent a while talking through how we adapt & deal with this. i tend to think the way forward isn't to change our user behavior or the pattern, but to layer user-sovereign resilience atop the web, which we already have wonderful examples of aplenty.

the Axioms of Web Architecture help us cope & iterate with emerging situations well, are a strong start for resilience layers. https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html

and reciprocally, i'm not saying it's a solved problem either.
Apple declares victory after decision reached in Epic Games appeal
It's interesting that the only jurisdiction doing any thing about this is China, and they mostly only target online games.

Games where young frustrated [0] [1] Chinese teenagers could talk relatively freely with others from different regions of China. Or god forbid, learn English and have contacts with westerners. Better to keep them grinding on shaving a few tenth of a second on basic algebra problems for the Gaokao. That will better prepare them for the factories.

At the same time, of course, China pushes CCP-backed TikTok to American Teens (gathering huge amount of intelligence and data in the process).

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/too-many-...

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/2015/06/05/gender-imbalance-china-o...
Advice to the President on Extreme Weather Risk [pdf]
Then they will have to live with sharing the term with others.
I wear earplugs every night. I personally can't imagine wearing actual noise cancelling headphones which would prevent me from moving freely and requiring a charge every night. But good quality earplugs (e.g. from Etymotic, Downbeats, or Loop) make a world of sleep quality difference, especially when paired with a sleep mask.
Thanks for linking all these references!

I’m also new to a lot of these topics but recently read Rust Atomics and Locks which has helped my understanding quite a bit - at least keeping me above water reading all the discussion in this post. The examples are in Rust but the concepts are at the kernel/cpu level and apply beyond the language. I recommend it.

https://marabos.nl/atomics/
"Not providing the option very frequently" is pretty indistinguishable to me from "nudging in the wrong direction"...

but here's a much more explicit nudge example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Mess_with_Texas
Islamic Golden Age I find is less about attributing results to Islam, and more just a shorthand to referring to certain parts of the world currently known as "the Islamic World". And yeah the idea is that they were Islamic at that time, and maybe that's not entirely accurate, but it's not as much "this happened specifically because of Islam".
> For neurodivergent folks - who probably make up the bulk of programming teams, if we're honest - the camaraderie and team-building and all that is a mythical thing that normies experience, but we don't

Please don't speak for all of us. I used to think exactly like you, but turns out I was just on bad teams in bad companies. My recent teams have mostly been composed of and managed by like minded programmers and the camaraderie, lunch conversation, and ad hoc collaboration that ensue massively help both my happiness and productivity. I'm as neurodivergent as you will see in public.
The elephant in the room here is that quite likely a large part of content that may contribute to female mental illness is not hateful.

I'm of course talking about female influencers on Instagram flexing their wealth, highly customized looks, hot boyfriends, fancy holidays, etc. The phenomenon where a young girl at her most vulnerable/insecure age is ranking against this distorted image of filter-laden "expectations" is brand new.

My point being, there's a huge amount of content that is bad for our mental health, yet cannot be censored because the harm is indirect.
> what I see really not paying off is when congress addresses an issue a single time and then considers the matter solved, regardless of the actual result

This is incrementalism. It’s the solution preference of a deliberative, consensus-building democracy. We make a move. See the effects. Iterate. It works in the long run.

The opposite, forcing through chaotic legislation, tends to result in alienation, repeal and the resignation of the issue to the partisan trash pile.
You're focusing on Amazon's retail side while most of Amazon's profits are from AWS. AWS is not an advertising business
This is capitalism? It’s ok though because the wealth will trickle down.
Counties live in the shadow of things that happened thousands of years ago... 44 years is barely a generation.
I don't like that they basically treat employees as contractors - take on many employees when they need them to build something, then lay them off when the thing is built. This almost externalizes costs for companies, moving the risk away from them.
This might be legal, but IMHO breaks a promise of "as employee, you earn less, but you lower your risk and the employer will do what they can to find a different role, as long as we stay profitable".

All the big tech companies are thus encouraging their employees to unionize through these actions, even though many of their employees don't like unions.
and even that has been managed to be split between snap appimage and flatpak :D

(sorry not meant to offend, long time linux day-to-day user here, but it was just ironic for me to point out fragmentation of fragmentation ^^)
How about an ability to resize the width of the column that lists the names of the secrets in the vault so that I can see what they are. That’d be higher on my priority list.
Some thoughts:

Put your money into an HSA rather than an FSA. It's a free extra retirement account.

You don't need to worry about being locked out of your 401K after being sacked. It's still your money and they have to give you access to it, even after you're sacked. Transfer the money out to a separate 401K account that only you control after you've left the company. (Or don't, because I'm pretty sure they have to keep your account open indefinitely, but IANAL so ask a professional)

You should practice interviewing well before your last day. Interview somewhere you'd like to work at least every 6 months. Tell them you're not looking to move right away but you're curious about their company and team an open to hearing about new opportunities. Keep in contact afterward.

Not mentioned there, but commuter benefits cards have an expiration after which you can't spend the money, so make sure if you have a balance that you spend it before it expires. I once built up $250 on a card and forgot about it.
IMHO there is no "punishment" for dissenting views. If you post something that gets downvoted into oblivion, well, the only outcome is that the community refuses to engage with that post (which we should be free to choose) but it's not doing you any harm or preventing you from doing anything else in the future.

There's no real reason for self-censoring, if you think something may be reasonable, you can throw it at the community and then you'll know whether it's something we're willing to discuss; and if it gets "censored" and thrown out, well, it's no big deal.