Nrbelex

> Both our preferred stock and common stock are subject to transfer restrictions contained in our bylaws. Any sale or transfer of Anthropic stock, or any interest in Anthropic stock, that has not been approved by our Board of Directors is void and will not be recognized on our books and records. This means that if someone purports to sell Anthropic shares without proper board approval, that transaction is invalid. The purported buyer would not be recognized as a stockholder of Anthropic and you would have no stockholder rights.

I actually think we agree that the value proposition is currently there for pro, per what I laid out in the piece (though of course I look forward to things that will further increase its value). My comment was supposed to make clear that adding more ads to Pro could undermine that value—but it sounds like that's not the plan, which is great.

Author here. Glad this made its way to you. I've been chatting with Shay and don't have a ton of questions, but I'd just emphasize that even as Flickr continues to (rightfully!) modernize, please (a) don't drop the features that make it different than the closed social media platforms (e.g., RSS, open APIs, etc.) and (b) maintain and enhance the power features that make Flickr more than just a place to dump photos (e.g., would love to see a camera AND lens combination finder, search by EXIF, enhancements to the world map, etc.). Very much looking forward to more modern file types.

And while I think the site strikes the balance decently at the moment, Pro is too expensive for ads to get more intrusive (for the Pro user and for others looking at his/her photos).

But as I hope was clear, I'm a big supporter and would love to see the platform continue to thrive. If you're ever looking to bounce thoughts off a user, or anything else, I'm happy to help!

Highlights •186 Li-ion batteries cycled across 62 formation protocols but with the same aging test •High-formation charge current on the first cycle extends battery cycle life by up to 70% •Substantial Li loss during fast formation shifts the electrode utilization range

Related tweet: https://twitter.com/JohnLu0x/status/1760066875583816003

See also Algo VPN: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

Thanks, but there's clearly more to it than that. They reference the full Flickr corpus in a number of places on the foundation's site and blog. e.g.:

>Flickr has grown into one of the biggest photo collections on Earth. It contains tens of billions of images from people all over the world, and keeps growing every day. That’s why we’ve created the Flickr Foundation—an independent, community-focused organization. We’re committed to stewarding this cultural treasure for future generations, and fostering a visual commons we can all enjoy. [1]

And

>Today, the Flickr holds “tens of billions of images” documenting our planet from the first days of photography to just a moment ago. What if—should the ship go down—we had an archival copy of your Flickr presence ready? Simply admitting this might happen and preparing for it is a form of preservation. We call it a data lifeboat.

You have probably been affected by web services that go dark or disappear, often with little or no warning. We think that’s not good enough, especially for an archive as precious as Flickr (and your photos), so we want to design a better way.

It’s all at risk—though not in imminent danger—and that’s why the foundation has been set up. SmugMug has acknowledged the risk and set us the task of imagining and determining how to make sure this huge piece of human history doesn’t sink.

We will work initially with the smaller and openly-licensed subset of imagery held within the Flickr Commons. Using this collection as our baseline, we will explore the edges of what’s required to create a data lifeboat that’s transportable, buoyant, and robust.[2]

[1] https://www.flickr.org/ [2] https://www.flickr.org/programs/content-mobility/data-lifebo...

And a question for anyone involved: how does the .org relate to the .inc? Is the plan for Flickr to continue as a commercial enterprise?

>"As you can see above it’s a work in progress: MapMetrics flags, in red, Colorado ski areas and the Denver Airport. Neither of these are bad per se, but ski run and taxiway routing isn’t a thing yet! Over time, MapMetrics will filter these out to focus on just the roads."

Joining the chorus of those asking for a trackpoint equivalent and a larger gamut screen option. Love what you're doing and would buy today if those two issues were addressed.

Check out mapy.cz [1] or an ad-free version from Windy [2].

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.mapy...

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.wind...

In fact, Google does: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1187538?co=GENIE....

Before anyone says this doesn't expose anything that's not already public:

>The system did not simply automate the manual process of one user looking up the name of another participant on LinkedIn during a Zoom meeting. In tests conducted last week, The Times found that even when a reporter signed in to a Zoom meeting under pseudonyms — “Anonymous” and “I am not here” — the data-mining tool was able to instantly match him to his LinkedIn profile. In doing so, Zoom disclosed the reporter’s real name to another user, overriding his efforts to keep it private.

Of course you're dealing with your local licensing authority, but they'll all have a rule substantially the same as the model rule cited.

California's state bar even has a formal opinion calling out this or similar behavior:

"Had Seller’s Attorney intentionally created a defective “redline” to surreptitiously conceal the change to the covenant not to compete, his conduct would constitute deceit, active concealment and possibly fraud, in violation of Seller’s Attorney’s ethical obligations."

[https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/documents/ethics/Opinion...]

ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, Rule 8.4: Misconduct: "It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to: [...] (c) engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation..."

[https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibili...]

If it really was intentional, this very clearly meets the standard, and there's absolutely no requirement that there be damages for the lawyer to be disciplined. I'm not talking about a fraud or malpractice claim, so there's no reason this would involve a lengthy court battle, etc.

Further, Rule 8.3: "(a) A lawyer who knows that another lawyer has committed a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct that raises a substantial question as to that lawyer's honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects, shall inform the appropriate professional authority."

[https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibili...]

Seems to fit as well if the behavior was repeated.

And if you're sure, did you report this to the relevant disciplinary body?

This is inaccurate. See Section 5(a) of the FTC Act, which provides that “unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce . . . are . . . declared unlawful.”

This is an easy case for the FTC and state regulators.

Only four months ago, the same CEO said here at HN:

>I hope you'll stick it out with us, because we're nearly done migrating one of the largest web services on the planet, which means we get to focus on building again instead of just copying. The future is bright.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20649186

I've been a Flickr user for 13 years, and I can't say I'm surprised it's back in a precarious state. The sense that it could close up or drastically change (for the worse) has always been one of its defining characteristics. This is only the most recent in a string of disappointments following commitments to reinvigoration by successive owners. I remember telling Marissa Mayer, in person, thanks for investing in Flickr under Yahoo when they invited users to their relaunch [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nrbelex/8766466511/in/album-72...]. Almost immediately Yahoo lost interest. They made some minor UI changes, but the service as a whole languished. They probably came to the same conclusion: there's virtually no realistic path to profitability.

At this point, Flickr is simply too lumbering to become a competitor to Instagram. That's probably for the best. If they'd tried to make Flickr an Instagram clone, they'd probably have lost what few remaining dedicated users exist. The platform emphasizes the photos, and the community, or at least parts of it if you know where to look, really is focused on high quality images.

It's a particular bummer because Flickr is one of those services that's supposed to prove that a service can be primarily subscription-supported rather than ad supported if the product is good enough. If Flickr can't pull it off, even with a seemingly the best possible owner, what hope do other online services have? Flickr can and has jacked up pro prices--which is fine, frankly--but as this email makes clear, it probably won't be enough.

This was discussed in depth in the long 1/25/19 article re the rescue: https://www.macleans.ca/thai-cave-rescue-heroes/ (Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19030307)

> A word about sedation. A word, too, about Dr. Harry.

> Anaesthesiology requires more training than most branches of medicine; there is always some risk that when a patient is put under, he or she will never wake up. When the patient is a child, the risks are greater. When the child is yanked along underwater for hours through a dark, cold cave, the risks are incalculable—no one has ever done anything like this before.

> Dr. Harry believes the risks of sedating the children beat the risks of not sedating the children. The lead divers believe the same, and the Thais believe the experts know best. The children cannot dive; the children will panic; the children will drown their rescuers and themselves. That is why Dr. Harry is going to do this: inject 12 kids with a sedative so powerful it will knock them out cold.

> Ketamine: a horse tranquilizer, an operating-room drug, a soon-to-be cave-rescue pharmaceutical product in its early testing stages on rock-entombed human minors.

> If only it were so simple. The children’s drugs will need to be topped up with half-doses along the way. Dr. Harry cannot dive every child out himself, but the divers are not medical doctors. Dr. Harry must give a dozen cave hobbyists and small-business owners a crash course in do-it-yourself anaesthesiology.

> If anyone dies—and many divers think they will be lucky to save two or three of the kids—Dr. Harry will bear much of the burden. He is not licensed to practice medicine in Thailand, let alone teach other foreigners to practice. Though Thailand and Australia have offered some assurance that he won’t suffer legal consequences for his young patients’ probable deaths, a conscience and a name are not so easily protected.

That's all great to here. I was thinking that the color space could be listed within the little section below the photo summarizing the EXIF data (with little pictorials for aperture, lens, shutter speed, flash, etc.). That would make it a lot easier to know if you're seeing a photo as intended.

I just want to express my gratitude for finally, fully embracing wider gamuts. I've been eagerly awaiting this day (and have a group all set up to show them off - https://www.flickr.com/groups/2234658@N22/).

Questions:

1. To the extent reprocessing is necessary, will that be done automatically (e.g. as it is for photos originally uploaded at full resolution, and now being displayed at 5K)?

2. Do all mobile OSs provide the color profile management necessary for the app to properly display photos? I know this was a challenge in the past.

3. Will there be any indication a photo is outside of sRGB, aside from EXIF?

P.S. - I'm sure you're aware, but there's a (closed) group of alpha/beta users (https://www.flickr.com/groups/flickrbeta/) always eager to help provide feedback.

>Officials said the president has two official iPhones that have been altered by the National Security Agency to limit their capabilities — and vulnerabilities — and a third personal phone that is no different from hundreds of millions of iPhones in use around the world. Mr. Trump keeps the personal phone, White House officials said, because unlike his other two phones, he can store his contacts in it.

If this is truly the root cause of the issue, it should be relatively simple to rectify.

ETA: aside from the obvious solution of getting his contacts on the secure phones, is there any reason he couldn't use a satellite phone to bypass insecure cell networks altogether?

There's certainly some truth to the idea that EFF, like all nonprofits that accept corporate funding, may be somewhat beholden to those donors. That said, over 25% of its funding is from membership dues [1]. Ironically, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), only briefly touched on in the article, has a reputation for being much closer to a corporate-first lobbying organization than EFF. Of course, as the article points out, CDT was only created when EFF's members balked at Berman's complicity in CALEA's passage.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), briefly touted in the article, doesn't accept corporate donations, but it's also a fairly small organization. It also suffers from being closely associated with a single individual, as opposed to being a large, well-marketed non-profit. That said, they generally do good work, largely by filing amcius briefs in important privacy cases and exposing issues through FOIA filings.

In any case, it seems odd the author considers EFF a stealth lobbying organization when associations like TechNet are explicitly designed to lobby for the big tech corporations, while keeping their names out of the spotlight. Why not shine a light on them?

Fun fact: On the very same day that EFF was founded, the freshly created organization made a $275,000 grant to Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) which just a few years later would become EPIC [2].

[1] https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summar... [2] http://tech-insider.org/eff/research/1990/0710.html

An interesting note (maybe a 2016 tag is appropriate?):

> Yet for all the widespread familiarity of what Dr. Hall wrought as a remarkably inventive physicist, his death, at 96, on Nov. 7, 2016, gained little notice. An announcement paid for by his family appeared in two upstate New York newspapers — The Times Union of Albany and The Daily Gazette of Schenectady — and General Electric, in a company publication, published a remembrance a month later. But otherwise the news of Dr. Hall’s death did not travel very far.

See also an in-depth report from the AP: https://apnews.com/9d5904f83f6a4cf784828107fa7d038d

Newsblur is indeed great. It is under active development, the developer is responsive to bug reports, the mobile apps are good (if not gorgeous), and there are some innovative features, such as the ability to train Newsblur to sort certain posts into a "focus" list.

Plus I consider the fact that it operates using a freemium model a great benefit as there are no ads, it is less likely to close shop out of the blue, and it is less likely to be selling user data to support itself.

>Asked about the permit, issued Nov. 29, a Boring Company spokesman said Friday that “a New York Avenue location, if constructed, could become a station” in a broad network of such stops across the new system.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/dc-...

This headline is bordering on inaccurate. As described by the original Washington Post article:

> The Boring Company team has received an early, and vague, building permit from the D.C. government that will allow some preparatory and excavation work at the fenced-off parking lot at 53 New York Avenue NE beside a McDonald’s and amid the construction cranes of Washington’s booming NoMa neighborhood.

From a slightly different perspective, perhaps more useful to a legal team: Legal Responses and Countermeasures to National Security Letters, https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl... [PDF]

Neat. This technique seems to be based on hovering over a tab with the mouse. Power users likely to benefit most from this optimization likely cycle through tabs using ctrl+tab. Is any thought being given to a way to implement the technique for ctrl+tab users?

EDIT: Just spotted the FN saying "Right now, we simply detect whether you’re hovering a tab with a mouse to predict that you’re likely going to choose that, but there are certain more opportunities to introduce warming based on other user behaviours." Hopefully ctrl+tab is one of those behaviors it can be baked into.