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Tell HN: Anima/Shun (YC W21) Considered Harmful
I like to think the Hacker News community is a nice, respectful community. YC companies who interact with the community should be especially careful to treat everyone like humans.

Unfortunately, I came across a reddit post that made me realize something [1]. Anima, a YC backed company, used the Who Wants to Be Hired Thread to mass-send the same email while writing it to look personalized and did so month after month. I think this is not behavior that the community wants to condone or encourage.

Shun's email to chater00:

https://gist.github.com/assets/13973198/8698a343-f2cd-4df8-8d2c-6724f81005fb

Why would Anima do this?

Reddit user cheater00 posted their email interaction with Shun [1] that took place after the January thread. They replied to Shun but never got a response. This suggests Shun mass-emailed everybody and didn't have the bandwidth to reply to emails, much less actually look at any of the applications.

Shun also did not reply to my email response in early December. I am not "salty" for being ghosted, I now have a really nice job, but I find this behavior of doing "growth" hacking disgusting.

Shun's email to me: https://gist.github.com/assets/13973198/1ff7527b-c9d9-43eb-a394-05b9da41b270

If you look at Anima's hiring page in the email, they mention the 0.5% - 0.8% hiring rate with Pride. I don't mind them being selective, but they're wasting so many HNer's time to get this vanity metric.

https://gist.github.com/assets/13973198/3a317bdb-0354-4c1b-89c7-b47a6102cfd2

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[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/193fv5q/i_finally_figured_it_out_i_know_why_companies/?ref=share&ref_source=link
Most banking apps will refuse to work if they detect that the phone is rooted.
If you think that Apple's platform brings no value then sure.
A used CPAP machine and overnight oximeter device from aliexpress are much better tools for tracking sleep quality than any of these watches.
> I would press you to reflect on why you think you have the right to tell a stranger how to behave

Isn't that what OP is doing to coworkers?
Because the filter list is capped, right? Is there a reason the Brave team cannot just remove or increase the cap?
> what does it feel like in your head when your legs move and your view moves but your body doesn't?

That could be fixed with some active tilting of the whole platform to create dynamic lateral forces.

Those little wheels will need to be strongly controlled & grippy to avoid real and perceived slippage.
Indeed. Koboldcpp works fine with other UIs than the bundled one.
Spotify can talk once they actually support the Apple Platform fully. They cried constantly about Homepod having a closed API but now that it’s open they are in no hurry to implement those APIs.
> it didn't really require any specialized skills

Many such cases.
> informal standard

FAFO, as they say.
It's pity that parenthood doesn't come with 30day cooling off period. Becoming a parent is a lot different than many imagine.

I agree with your sentiment but I won't judge anyone for not being able to cope with parenthood.
Good article. Not much of the infosec world looks at these kind of bottom-feeder attacks - they'd rather concentrate on fancy, high powered or high dollar attacks.

Also has great, modest, explanations of the attacks, complete with references so you can decide for yourself if the author has correctly attributed which type of vulnerability the bottom- feeders are looking for.
Actually, if history is any indicator, we can’t trust any of these companies with this. Remember the org tld private equity fiasco? ICANN only did something after public outcry and EFF interest.
It was a pretty horny game, no question, but I think when people say BG3 has a great story, they mean that the combination of non-linear story, huge cast of oddball characters, lively and interesting settings, little side story beats sprinkled around which makes your playthrough a little different from your friends, vocal performances, mood, animation, sound design and the actual gameplay mechanics all came together into an experience that people really really connected with. It doesn't have to be Kubrick, but I think the author's point is that narrative AAA games disproportionately suffer from bad writing which harms the perception of the games' overall quality, and that writing is actually a worthwhile investment.
this is exciting, I look forward to hearing what you end up doing
When it's only the bad messengers who are shouting loudest, you should pay attention.
sadly, publicly only ever told to men. edit: whoa, given the quick downvotes on your comment, HN doesn't like it publicly said to men either.
Sounds like you have enough for a decent bug report
Remote work won, don't let anyone gaslight you to believe otherwise
> PM breaks down tasks with such granularity that it’s like they’re programming the people doing the work. They learn a programming language through a bootcamp and start doing some tickets themselves, and now you have a key product person who is likely to leave for a developer job.

I haven't run into this scenario, but I have encountered project managers who want to read the code and advise on that level, which I don't think is very productive at all.

Unfortunately, in my experience, managers like this need to see for themselves how much time and energy is wasted trying to be this hands-on, as opposed to deferring to the developers.

> PM gets burnt out from dealing with behavior that would be considered extremely impolite on a regular basis.

I've had this happen with multiple project managers. My understanding is that working with people, including dealing with seemingly impolite behavior, is a part of any management role. This is precisely why I'm not interested in management — I'd be terrible at it.

It should also be noted that I've experienced my own feelings of burnout as a result of dealing with the behavior of managers as well, and whether I find such behaviors to be impolite or not, the only control I have is with how I respond to them. I choose to do so in ways that allow me to avoid stress and frustration, and I'd do the same in their position.

As for the company's response to manager burnout in this situation, it's difficult to say because it mostly seems to happen behind closed doors. I've had managers quit projects, and I've been reassigned to other projects which were under different management. I'm fine with either case, as long as we're all able to work reasonably comfortably and have our individuality respected.

> No PM you have or could hire is capable of breaking down tasks in a way they will get worked on or responded to, at which point you have to find another dev/firm.

This has been a concern of mine in the past, and so I always try to provide examples of what I think are reasonable methods of communicating within the group. I design processes, describe roles and responsibilities, and set expectations as best I can, all while taking the preferences and individuality of others into account. I would never require my specific suggestions to be implemented as-described before participating, but I feel that the principles behind them should be understood and that reasonable efforts should be made to accommodate them. And I think all members of the team deserve the same considerations.
> It’s the place where a young Black artist named Billie Holiday put on a controversial performance of “Strange Fruit” in 1959 America,

I was going to say she was dead by then, but it turns out there IS a recording from 1959, the year she died:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGY9HvChXk

I still think he probably meant 1939 when she actually was young.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_domain
> I hope someday we get the real story of what Eric was hoping to accomplish with Beeper

Beeper is bridging many services, such as LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram, Twitter DMs, Slack etc. I really like this, as I miss an all-in-one messenger app like Pidgin.

Just because Beeper includes iMessage, I wouldn't view Beeper as his personal vendetta against Apple for the Pebble vs Apple Watch thing.
I got into Spidweb through the Blades of Exile demo. The Exile games (and their Avernum remakes) are pretty great, but I have a massive soft spot for Nethergate.
Isn't that just because it's a fundamentally different business? It's not like you can freely set what price your album and songs are if you put it on iTunes Store for sale.
They pay 70% of their revenue to artists. What percentage do you think they should be paying to artists so people don’t consider it nothing? Or should they just jack up their subscription rates?
At least Android is open source and doesn't restrict sideloading. Even if you don't like the Google version, you can always install something like GrapheneOS.
It was glaring issue when I upgraded to a smart watch that recquired daily charging from smartband that I charged every other week.
This is just simply not true. Whatever you may think of their efforts, there are many people trying to say deep and profound things via the medium of games. I don't particularly like some of the heavy-handed messages in a lot of indie games. But it's clear that the creators really have specific and deep ideas they're intending to convey. Same with something mainstream like the new God of War game. Again, it's not something I particularly enjoyed. But the writers clearly put a lot of time and effort into it, and wanted to convey specific themes and ideas.

At this point, it's a settled question whether people are putting effort into games as art, and the only real question is "which games succeed?"
Shopify Implemented Read Consistency Across Database Replicas for Consistent UX
> Youtube-videos seem to prove that that you cannot become squatter later in life.

Wait, really?
The full podcast can be found here and is well worth a listen: https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/cliff-stoll
Apple is simply playing by the rules of capitalism, which are as follows: extract as much value as possible from your customers, employees, etc, for the purpose of enriching capital (shareholders). Apple will follow the law to the letter, but they will do so in whatever way will be maximally best for their own interests. Way she goes.

People keep falling for the just-world fallacy[1], and companies exploit this through the use of propaganda (ads, marketing, yadda yadda) and most people eat it up. No company (not Spotify, not Apple, not the woke-est, most DEI company out there) cares about anything other than profits at the end of the day under capitalism, because capital rules everything and politicians are not exempt from the rules of capital.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
Note that Apple will track what country you are located in so that you don't accidentally install an alternative application store outside the European Union.
We've had two years of reporting and analysis now and it's clear the Russian plan was for a fast and brief military/intelligence operation that decapitates and paralyzes the Ukrainian government and installs as a friendly regime. One particularly telling aspect (which was not as obvious in the chaos of the early days of invasion) is the substantial preparation and rapid deployment of civil administration resources into occupied territories - down to delivering Russian school textbooks. It's not particularly material what Russians claimed before they invaded, they planned to begin ruling Ukraine very quickly.
This topic is about Apple, but I'm happy to talk about how much I loathe Google in another thread. But at least I can install custom ROMs, 3rd party stores, don't need notarization, don't need to pay Google for the privilege of using the device I own, etc.
They do use the OS, the APIs, many of them depends on service in the cloud. The App Store is not the only thing apps interact with.

And apps still need signing, that’s how Apple still interact with the apps.
"world changing invention in all of our pockets now"

My Android phone does the same thing :).
Really? People still like those Microsoft bloated products? How come.
I remember Office 2000. Nice and small, quick and easy to use.
2003 wasnt bad either, but you start to feel the direction. 2007 was last usable
office for me. Anything later is just downhill ride.

Luicky, I can avoid all those tools mostly. I feel sad for those who cannot.
I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
Great find! I think the loop is essential otherwise it's an unfair comparison. But TIL that compilers can do that, so it's very interesting. I'm now wondering if there's a way to force compilers not to do that (so as to make for fair performance comparisons - e.g. it sounds like rust may do the calculation at compile time and simply print a constant at run time).
Yes, I have also heard from my military friends that the creatures live on dihydrogen monoxide, a substance that kills thousands of people a year. The truth is out there
I don't enjoy documenting the graph in two places, first in models, then in factories.

But yes, the pattern is essentially the same, just our example methods and Faker - without Factory Bot.
when the antenna on their butt wiggles it means they are transmitting positive messages about the human race to their homeworld. Stay on their good side and the earth remains safe
Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent
Email isn’t end to end encrypted.
> you can get a 5kw battery for 2k. Good luck running water plumbing and radiators throughout your house for 20k

That's not quite apples-to-apples; the energy from the battery also needs distribution through the house. Of course, every house has wiring, not all already have radiators.
In my experience, the Latin cursive that you may or may not have learned in an American classroom sucks. Common characters require too many strokes or raising the pen. Having to dot your i's and cross your t's breaks the flow. Also lots of people can't even read it.

It was only when I learned Russian Cyrillic that I grew to appreciate a good cursive writing system. It's super fast, most characters resemble their printed counterpart, and lots of words can be written without needing to lift the pen once. Yes, there's some ambiguity like ли and ш, but that's rarely a problem once you actually know the language. In comparison to the English cursive I learned in school, it actually feels like a system intended to be read and written by regular people for everyday use.
A tile with ultrasonic array of transducers are provided as in the assembly to provide instantaneous friction control for any objects contacting or supported on the contact/upper surface. [1]

So that's what these tiny tiles are, something ultrasonic, not tiny wheels.

EDIT: Found some more explanation in a reddit comment. [2]

Ultrasound vibration makes it slippery, then it has an X-Y pistons underneath. So it makes itself slippery when it wants to reset position, then makes itself sticky again when it wants to move you back into position. Now repeat this process to fast for you to tell anything is happening.

[1]: https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloa...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/19eef29/comment/k...
It's toxic to say your coworker asking for help is a distraction when all people are supposed to be there to collaborate and get things done together.

Imagine someone comes to your desk and says they need help with something and you say "Please go away, you're distracting me" or you simply ignore their presence. How would they feel?

I'm not saying OP is doing it at that level but I think you can see my point.
Not to artists, to labels. Labels are massive companies, and everyone there needs to be paid from stream money.
That's a good criticism.

The comparison is more to cellular providers where there's open access to the same underlying infrastructure, and we have consistently good pricing nationwide thanks to competition.

The point in referencing national averages is to show that the electric utility model can result in sclerotic and under-performant regions that are impossible to fix.
Sideloading will still require Apple approval, thus fees
They will still have to have their app notarized (basically signing the app). Apple can revoke certificates at any time.

After the first 1 million installations they will be charging a Core Technology Fee, which is a flat €0.50 per install. Every installation still needs to talk with an Apple server it seems (not 100% sure on this), so Apple should be able to track it.

An app like Spotify is using a bunch of Apple’s technology in their iOS app. UIKit and CoreAudio almost for certain.
Our Open Salary System
To add insult to injury, one carrier demanded this of me, then its retail store franchisees refused to issue me a SIM unless I purchased a new device or a new line so they’d make commission!
Less than a year before Katrina, PBS’ Nova ScienceNow looked at the potential effects of a hurricane hitting New Orleans (including failure of the levies).

https://youtu.be/XjZ5mAXcAy0?si=1CfLMxuqmZ7wYI-r

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/education/earth/hurricanes-new...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/hurricanes/
'Quiet Eye' helps elite athletes (2005)
Would it relax you to know that it has been retconned into "Address Routing Paramater Area"?
There are no rolling elements / wheels that I can see - it looks like low friction pucks that angle and raise/lower to push the objects laterally by having them slide to towards the lower pucks
Until there is tech that makes a 3D feeling surface that can create corners, people, anything, vr will feel hollow. At this point, a full body suit that creates haptic responses to simulate feeling an object seems more feasible than a static exterior surface like this that fulfills the other half of the vr illusion.
How would that affect women differently than men?
> Israel has a tech-driven/advanced military but is still using hundreds of thousands of troops in Gaza.

But they're fighting mostly unarmed civilians, and the odd guy with an RPG, rather than any nation state military.
Semi-related question. I recently took an at-home sleep apnea test using the WatchPAT ONE (https://www.itamar-medical.com/professionals/disposable-hsaw...). It includes three main pieces you can see in the image there: a wristwatch-like sensor, and finger sensor, and a sensor you attach just above your sternum (primarily to track breathing events for sleep apnea). There is an associated phone app.

Of course, thanks to capitalism, the device is marketed as disposable (I love how this is somehow portrayed as a bonus in the marketing materials). You're literally supposed to throw it away after a single use.

So questions:

1. I've searched online but haven't found anything about people successfully hacking the device so it can be used multiple times. Has anyone seen any succesful hacks of this? If not, can anyone point me to some resources where I would even start to try to hack it? It communicates with the app over bluetooth.

2. Does anyone know of other medical-grade sensors that are usable by consumers that are not disposable?

I ask this because in the past I've just used the "Sleep as Android" app with a smartwatch and it was horribly wrong. It just checks for movement, and there are lots of times when I an exhausted, staring up at my ceiling not getting any sleep, but I'm not moving because I'm stuck in this exhaustion-but-not-sleeping state.
Oh how true this is. At my current work we use _kubernetes_ for absolutely no reason at all other than the guy in charge of infra wanted to learn it.

The result?
1. I don't have access to basic logs for debugging because apparently the infra guy would have to give me access to the whole cluster.
2. Production ends up dying from time to time because apparently they don't know how to set it up.
3. The boss likes him more because he's using big boy tools.
I mean, plenty has been written about the rationale behind the Digital Markets Act (DMA), but you could start with the EU’s own explanation:

> The Digital Markets Act is the EU’s law to make the markets in the digital sector fairer and more contestable. In order to do so, the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”) establishes a set of clearly defined objective criteria to identify “gatekeepers”.

> Gatekeepers are large digital platforms providing so called core platform services, such as online search engines, app stores, messenger services. Gatekeepers will have to comply with the do’s (i.e. obligations) and don’ts (i.e. prohibitions) listed in the DMA.

> The DMA is one of the first regulatory tools to comprehensively regulate the gatekeeper power of the largest digital companies. The DMA complements, but does not change EU competition rules, which continue to apply fully.

https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/about-dma_en
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c

That video changed my entire outlook (punny) on Excel. Before, I was of the opinion that, "a spreadsheet app is a spreadsheet app". But, no. Excel is insanely complex and capable. After a few years of Excel, I have a really difficult time using anything else.
So Schumer proposed a major ammendment to the NDAA, and was willfully advised by a "crank" without vetting? And said ammendment was significantly watered down by reps who have big donors within the defense contractor world who have a lot to lose over such legislation, because there's nothing there?
Watch lovers buy from legacy watch makers. Fitness freaks buy Garmin & smart bands. Tech lovers buy the best integrated software (Samsung/Apple). Quirky product fans aren't volume buyers.

What is Fossil's identity ?
I immediately thought of Hoon, Nock for the Urbit world.
The OS is not an Apple service. That is the consumer’s. The ability to write with Apple’s stuff is covered already by the developer fees.

It’s fine to pay for the cloud services but those are low value.
maybe cnc sandblasting with emery will work for that, but it will produce a lot of airborne crystalline silicon dust, which causes silicosis if animals breathe it. maybe better to cut your clay to rough shape before firing and then wet grind to final dimensions after firing if necessary. hot isostatic pressing may also be an option depending on the use
Interestingly, if you're doing CNC laser cutting as a business, with the larger CO2 laser cutters, you're gonna spend a lot to keep replacing those CO2 laser tubes. Because the gas degrades with heavy use, even if the tube is intact.

Why can't you just refill the gas? Because the precise gas combination that makes for a stable, reliable laser tube was monopolized ages ago.

Because of that one trade secret, countless tubes end up in the trash and way more than necessary are manufactured. Classic case where monopolization of scientific knowledge can end in significant unnecessary waste.
It bothers me because they poked the bear and i lost a feature, to use iMessage from my work computer (Linux). Really makes me dislike Apple, but still - Beeper basically nuked the feature themselves by making such an odd move.

I really need to switch away from Apple. Ugh.
> The only thing that seems like it probably works is the chip database

Indeed, ear tattoos can lose their legibility over time, as seen in this sad case:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-farmer-lo...
What the hell does Apple’s watch do that it drains the battery in a little more than one day? Seems to me like it’s overpowered for what it is. My garmin lasts 10 days.
I don't follow: if third party developers only build for iOS, that is Apple's fault?

If Walmart doesn't carry Target products, I either buy a substitute or I shop at both stores.
Definition of noise is relative.