skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steve jobs emails Eric Schmidt:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38769203

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greenyoda on Dec 26, 2023 | next [–]

https://nitter.net/TechEmails/status/1443263744906305543

Context:

> High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation is a 2010 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust action and a 2013 civil class action against several Silicon Valley companies for alleged "no cold call" agreements which restrained the recruitment of high-tech employees.

> The defendants were high-technology companies Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay, each of which was headquartered in Silicon Valley, in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of California.

> The civil suit was filed by five plaintiffs. It accused the tech companies of collusion between 2005 and 2009 to refrain from recruiting each other's employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

oldgradstudent on Dec 26, 2023 | parent | next [–]

But why a civil suit?

This is a criminal matter. It should not be too hard to prove criminal intent :

> A few months later, Schmidt instructed a fellow exec not to discuss the no-call list other than “verbally,” he wrote in an email, “since I don’t want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later?”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/02/google-apple-cl...

bryanrasmussen on Dec 26, 2023 | root | parent | next [–]

ok well obviously "why not both" would be the rejoinder, but I'm not actually sure I follow the reasoning that this is a criminal law matter?

greenyoda on Dec 26, 2023 | root | parent | next [–]

There was both a civil suit (brought by five employees) and a criminal complaint brought by the DOJ. The criminal complaint was about a violation of antitrust law:

> On September 24, 2010, the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division filed a complaint in the US District Court for the District of Columbia alleging violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. In US v. Adobe Systems Inc., et al., the Department of Justice alleged that Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, and Pixar had violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act by entering into a series of bilateral "No Cold Call" Agreements to prevent the recruitment of their employees...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

oldgradstudent on Dec 26, 2023 | root | parent | next [–]

Complaint against companies, not against individual actors for some reason. The final judgements in both resulted in meager compensation and achieved zero deterrence.

Why haven't Eric Schmidt or Steve Jobs spent a single day in jail or become felons? The DOJ didn't even try.

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It's advertising referencing the Cooper Cycle Company City Agents who ride White Flyers which are a type of Barnes Special bicycle and which evidently were painted white back in the day.

The Cooper Cycle Company advert is centered below the map in the margin.

The Union Crackajack was evidently a Union bicycle for real "Crackajacks" or a riding group by that name and they chose to ride the "Barnes Special" which evidently was painted white as noted in the other advert and according to the description was well-made for the time period in that welds at frame joints were ground down so there were no obvious seams at the connections. It apparently was a quality product.

It looks like several of the bicycle ads reference specific colors for the brand they advertise so that may have been a distinctive maker mark from back in the day.

For example moving around the margin from UL corner - Fenton bicycle described as Blue Crown (maybe a trademark); along UR margin - March-Davis Cycle Company was the "Speedy Pink and Blue"; LR margin and LC both mentioning the Barnes Special; and I suspect that the left margin advert for National and Deere Implement Company bicycles were distinctively colored.

Just my guess.

EDIT: As a matter of fact I found a 1900 Barnes "White Flyer" Cushion Frame bicycle [0] listing in a UK museum site.

That description supports my guess that each manufacturer used color to distinguish their products from the competition. I got lucky.

Here's a little more history of a bicycle racer, Eddie "Cannon" Bald, who rode a Barnes Special and an example of the bicycle. [1]

There's also an eBay listing for a Barnes "White Flyer" frame [2] that is not cheap.

And finally, someone really knows their Barnes bikes and has a great example. [3]

[0] https://onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/1900-barnes-the-white-flye...

[1] https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/barnes-white-flyer-special...

[2] https://www.ebay.com/itm/163237177987

[3] https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/barnes-white-flyer-special...
Aren’t most of these things you want in the standard library, and not things that the language itself should do?
It didn’t. I implemented this program in BASIC as a teen. The brilliance is that, when it isn’t able to guess your animal, it asks the user for the question to ask, as well as the correct answer. All “intelligence” and grammmar comes from the user, but for someone playing it for the first time on a well-populated database, it looks impressively smart.
Human breeding impulses are infinite but there is only so much space. That is why prices keep going up. The earth is getting full.
Tracing slow start of a systemd unit implemented in .NET
Most of D users would rather call that "static contracts". I dont know why the author choose to call that "unit test".
Having attended conferences under Chatham House Rule: It's invaluable if the event includes speakers that must maintain a specific public stance - politicians, people in highly visible roles/organizations, etc.

There's no top secret lore handed out, it's not a secret society taking over the world. It addresses the issue that any public statement will be cut up into sound bites, and the public discussion will only focus on one or two sentences, drowning out any nuance. And, if you misspoke, the public discussion will portray you as "not being aligned with your organizations values".

This allows people to set aside speechifying and talk about the actual problems. With lots of nuance. Acknowledging shared ground. Hashing out what the _actual_ disagreements are. We need more opportunities like that, not less.

And the rule only works if you're running the iterated version, and it's a high-value meeting. Because losing access to that forum is the penalty for violating the social compact.
Doesn't he seem to be following the trend: Embracing contempt for anything but ego and power? That's what Musk does, prioritizing those things over profit and the well-being of his businesses. Zuckerberg is all in, so are many others. It's 'founder mode'. In a way, they are following Trump.

Why treat it like a novel case, or like he has a mental health issue - unless all these people do.
We are an IT company providing services such as VoIP. RingCentral is our preferred VoIP service, they are great but I am about to switch to another provider very soon unless they stop calling me with their Filipino call centers asking for super long calls. I can't even hang up they are extremely aggressive. I told them nearly 20 times not to call me, I know their services, and I can call them if help is needed. No, they must have a call and must find a time.

If anyone is reading from RingCentral: you are seriously pushing your customers away with these shitty calls. Just stop harassing your own customers.
All of these privacy arguments seem a little silly to me given that you have no privacy anyhow. The site is getting an IP address and a browser fingerprint, and that’s enough to uniquely identify a person in most cases.
> spent long, hard hours banging my head against native-image and it just wasn't working out.

it would be nice to know what exactly isn't working out and what the problems with native-image was.

Coz i think clojure is as close to perfect, imho, as a language can go without selling out.
Show HN: Willpayforthis.com – Gathering posts about what people will pay for
When people have a pain point they'd like solved, I find that many of them resort to posting a Tweet about it. I made these posts easy to find.
Note those suggestions were very specific to op question, is. Metal, classical :) would recommend other software if you were more electronic ie. Fl and ableton
That isn’t quite right. Speculators look for good deals, meaning they look at prices N years from now and try to make money on that. They aren’t pushing prices up just for existing, they are predicting higher prices and acting to take advantage of that. They are looking for second hand property that is undervalued for the horizon they are looking at.

But yes, wealthy people have more capital and leverage to participate in time-displaced arbitrage. Gentrification is a bit more productive, since investors work at making their properties more valuable at least.
AI agents are already renting GPUs on their own and doing AI development
It’s really hard to even comprehend how large IPv6 is. I have found that extreme examples tend to help people get there. Here are some I’ve used in the past.

There are enough IPv6 Addresses for 4.77 x 10^28 for every living person.

If each IPv6 address was a grain of sand…

That’s 2.39 × 10^18 of addresses per person, or roughly enough sand sized addresses to equal about 1.8 times the volume of earths ocean per person.

At sand scale all IPv6 addresses would take the volume of 12 sols.

Conversely, all the IPv4 addresses in this sand scale would slightly over fill an oil drum.

From “IPv6 Addresses: Big Numbers, Big Solutions”: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1365362
Emergency calls often come from people NOT in your contacts. That's why you provide emergency contacts on forms. If something goes wrong at work for example, someone from the office would call, not your spouse themselves.
I don't understand the "Requirements Met" section, that reasoning applies to almost any programming language. You chose Common Lisp because there's a JSON library?
Securing Wedding Website with Nginx
You'd find this pre-print interesting: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36973715/
total piece of work this dude, I abandon any and ALL things that even mention wordpress and will never touch again. Who knows what this guy will do next.
> Everywhere a C constant-expression appears in the C grammar the compiler should be able to execute functions at compile time, too, as long as the functions do not do things like I/O, access mutable global variables, make system calls, etc.

They have been working on bringing constexpr, which exists in c++, to c. This is essentially a constexpr function.
> I have no idea what game Meta is playing

Based on their business moves in recent history, I’d guess most of them are playing Farmville.
Windsor? As a nicer Detroit, I thought they might at least benefit from weaker rents considering what’s available across the border. But that’s just a guess, I haven’t lived in that area since the 80s. Here is one source that says a 1 bedroom will set you back $1400: https://www.zumper.com/apartments-for-rent/windsor-on
Ozone hole? We recognized the ozone layer had developed a hole which was growing. We identified the cause. Globally agreed to ban CFCs and implement replacements. Hole is mostly gone today.
I don't think the 4-hour SLA customers subsidize the 72-hour ones. It's more about managing the volume of support. If know you won't get an until 3 days after, you will google obvious things yourself, and only contact support if you can't get the answer otherwise. But shorter SLAs, let alone phone support, encourages a particular kind of customers to just copy-paste any error message they encounter (that may not necessarily come from your product) and expect support to untangle it. Been there, seen that.
Only half of them. The first and third are language things.

The first could almost be done with macros. Except that separate declarations of an equivalent struct are considered different, so the best you cand do is a macro you can use define your owne typedef for a specific slice type. It could be done in the library if c supported something like a struct that had structural instead of nominal typing.
And once autonomous vehicles expand to every city in America, and multiple robots are in every home in America, NVIDIA's market may expand even more.
Using a tool beyond its design can be problematic.

But Python is not designed to only be a scripting language:

> What is Python?

> Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. It incorporates modules, exceptions, dynamic typing, very high level dynamic data types, and classes. It supports multiple programming paradigms beyond object-oriented programming, such as procedural and functional programming. Python combines remarkable power with very clear syntax. It has interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various window systems, and is extensible in C or C++. It is also usable as an extension language for applications that need a programmable interface. Finally, Python is portable: it runs on many Unix variants including Linux and macOS, and on Windows.
High Point Scientific is a great option. They sell tons of options and have great service.

For example, this is an extremely commonly recommended for serious beginners that is sold by them:
https://www.highpointscientific.com/apertura-ad8-8-inch-dobs...
Ask HN: What does Salesforce AI do?
So far these Matthew McConaughey/Woody Harrelson commercials have demonstrated that Salesforce AI can:

1) Prevent being seated outside in a rainstorm w/o interacting with a human host to tell them where you want to sit.

2) Prevent receiving food you don’t want w/o ever ordering from a human waiter.

3) Prevent a clothes stylist from putting terrible clothes on you without ever telling the person what kind of clothes you like.

I get that the rain is supposed to be absurd. But you’d think they’d try to add in one realistic application. Which makes me wonder what it actually does.
Oh thank god, this is the report I was looking for, and I couldn’t remember what it was. Thank you.
1) There are too many broken things in the world.

2) Why should the victim be expected to waste their time.

If I posted a small complaint about every broken interaction, it would be a firehose. Imagine complaining about every website popover or pothole...
Thanks, and nice werk masswerk!
When I lived in the Welsh countryside, there were occasional nights where I could not see my hand in front of my face. The requirements were that it was new moon, and that there was slight fog. We also lived deep in a valley, which helped. I had great fun navigating my way to the local pub in complete darkness.

The odd thing is that when I recount that experience, some people refuse to believe me. Of course they are all city dwellers.
Secret Phone Surveillance Tech Was Likely Deployed at 2024 DNC
> well written text file

The problem with this is no one agrees on the definition of "well-written", so consistency is a constant battle and struggle. Language tooling is a better answer for quality of life.
Launching telescopes is not a viable alternative to ground based telescopes. They are completely different scales. We would need large scale orbital construction facilities or a space elevator to bridge that gap. We don’t need to develop every square inch of the planet to support humanity, we don’t take up that much space.
CSAM is legal where you live?
Many here complain about Mullenweg's boundary-crossing, counterproductive, acting out. Yet many are following Mullenweg's lead - the comments here seem like the worst HN behavior I've seen.

Seriously, perhaps people can empathize with how Mullenweg came to behave this way. When people around you are doing it, it affects you; it subconsciously sets new norms, resets the boundaries in your mind. It impacts your emotions - you are drawn into their emotional state. And then you start acting like them.

Many, many people I know and in the public eye professed extreme dislike for Trump's behavior, but my impression is that over the years, many of the same people act more and more like him.

The trick is that when someone violates your values, you don't want to do the human thing and follow them - we're social creatures, we instinctively follow the crowd. You want to consciously be a leader, consciously remember your values and reset them, and lead the herd to a better place. That's why calm under fire, grace under pressure, dignity and composure are so important.
IIUC the input to LLMs is tokenized not on word boundaries but some kind of inter-syllable boundaries, because then whatever the model associated with "task" will also apply to "tasking", "tasked", "taskmaster", etc for example. So a model making up compounds that don't exist would be fully possible and even desirable, especially since real humans do it with English all the time.
> I’m with parent - what if you don’t have the tool?

The "what if you don't have the tool" situation never happens in case of Rust. If you have the compiler you have the tool, because it's always included with the compiler. This isn't some third party tool that you install manually; it's arguably part of the language.

> What if there’s a syntax error in some implementation or dependency such that the tool chokes early?

In C I can see how this can happen with its mess of a build systems; in Rust this doesn't happen (in my 10+ years of Rust I've never seen it), because people don't publish libraries with syntax errors (duh!).
Taken at face value, this just says that productivity increases are expected, not that less people will be employed. It is completely possible that jobs open up because more things are made/done, new industries pop up, and so on.

Governments should really make sure that workers benefit and the jobs keep company, or plan on implementing something like UBI. I have no hope that the incoming US administration is going to be forward thinking though.
So that would be Mauna Kea. I don't believe there is any industry being built near there.
That’s a brilliant snapshot. Thanks for sharing. It also really shows the value of things like archive.org — this context would otherwise be lost if a site disappears.

It’s also inspiring to see how Ben handled most of the comments/criticism.
i’m a bit lost. I think I get what it does but what’s it for? I’ve never had the need to convert a tag to a hash and that hash to a tag.
ff. also curious about this after seeing benioff talking shit on excel having an openai wrapper :)
Which some extent, it has. My 14 year old describes Facebook as "the app for boomers."
Ha, I wish.
That has lots of issues. See https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#set_-euo_pipefail for some.
Regarding your first point: this is already implemented! In the 3D view you see these little markers on the model with text displaying OSM features "peaks" and "saddles"

Second point: I'm a bit hesitant to store media on the server or on a cloud service, this seems rather costly as this is a free service. But I don't have much experience with this, maybe someone has a good idea on how to manage it?
Looks like vim-slime is essential to how you work with CL + vim. I've only used vim for not even 2 years, and came across vim-slime 6 months ago when working in ruby and wanting to quickly 'send' code from editor (neovim) to rails console. 2 months ago I launched a startup and for hours every day had to swat/fix repercussions of bugs that weren't apparent pre-launch (as well as doing via the console things users needed but weren't able to do because the feature to do it hadn't been built yet). It was daunting. I don't know how I'd have managed without vim + vim-slime. Probably a lot of copy/pasting from vscode. Vim + vim-slime was at least a 2x productivity improvement, and >2x increase in developer happiness.

Another huge benefit of vim and vim-slime is it is immediately valuable when you use/learn any new language. So long as the language has a REPL/console/interpreter that can be opened from the terminal or terminal emulator in any form (e.g. CL, ruby, python, bash etc etc etc) then vim + vim-slime will be a brilliant ~IDE. (Possibly the only thing I haven't been able to do but wanted to is 'send' code from neovim to the javascript console in chrome, which would be pretty awesome!)

A side note: I found doom-emacs very similar to vim, only needed ~10 or so new keyboard shortcuts to be productive in emacs. (I still much prefer vim, but I'm not so down on emacs).
At least they're adults. On my throwaway accounts feed, they're often not.
Interesting point. While I agree that the outcome has been bad or really catastrophic, I'm not sure it's the same cause.

Certainly ideas from positions of power need openeness and sunshine, speaking very generally. The problem on social media is the flood of crap that buries everything else, and nobody can keep up - the sunshine effect is overwhelmed.
Wondering whether a dialect like Jank [1] may be worth a shot?

[1] https://jank-lang.org/
Calling "split tunneling" a bad thing is such a cargo cult. Even the good security the GP is describing is a split tunnel: "VPN to get to get to secured resources, and direct fast access to SaaS services".
They work well but don't have the UWB part and need to have battery replaced every few months.
"only a 34% improvement" - listen to yourself, man.

It's amazing we still get significant improvements in every generation.
SBCL is a great choice! It's a surprisingly dynamic system (so are other CL implementations).

A while ago, I did some private work for someone, using SBCL, and sent her the native binary I built, then forgot about the whole thing.

The client came back with some new requirements much later, when the project was concluded, and the source code was already lost by that time.

I vaguely remembered how I did things, so I spawned a REPL from the old binary, went into the relevant CL package, wrote a new function that overrides the old behavior, and the client's problem was solved.

I did all those without the original source code. It was a small thing to fix, but I can't imagine making the same fix so swiftly with any other tech stack, when the source code is lost. I was deeply impressed.
Resources Like Replit's 100 Days of Code but for AI?
I agree with you, but I don't.

The way C handles header files is sort of "seems-to-work" by just blindly including the text inline.

I know this is not a much-used language, but in comparison, Ada did a pretty nice thing. They have the concept of packages and package bodies. The package is equivalent to the header file, and the package body is the implementation of the package.

I remember (long ago when I used ada) that everyone could compile against the package without having the package body implementation ready so the interfaces could all work before the implementation was ready.

an in another direction, I like how python does "header files" with "import". It maps easily to the filesystem without having to deal with files and the C include file semantics.
I went on a similar journey a couple of years ago and ended up on Gerbil Scheme instead.
Pretty much still does against the Kurds
Living with a short sleep gene: 'It's a gift' (2021)
Thanks.

> starting with 802.11ax ("Wifi 6") [0] they've started doing frequency-division

How does that differ from multiple radios running multiple connections? Is it that there are many more frequencies, closer together, dynamically allocated?
amazingly accurate. Hard to believe anyone could’ve gotten so much so right with only small details missing a little, not feasible or existing in some way, though just to humble him a bit please keep in mind he did predict we’d have gorilla butlers farmed and trained to replace domesticated labor in the home. So even the best of us don’t get it all right and in some cases very wrong.
Morse Code Clock
Another obvious things C should do:

- better enums (with tagged union)

- compile time type introspection

D does the latter (very well btw), but completely missed the mark with enums
Nothing wrong with Chatham house rules, stated up front. What's an embuggerance? Remembering to stick to them.