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Had their hands full getting sued the same day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403128

I have color filters set to kick in if I double tap the back of iphone it shuts off everything but red subpixels. Good for preserving night vision.

I don't know legally how it works, but my gut says if this is found to be a wrongful termination under state/local/FMLA, then it also stands to reason that this could also be a wrongful death. From 1960, but it covers this line of thinking wrt suicide: https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...

Anyway here's the actual complaint (I read it after I wrote the above), I guess her parents/counsel thought the same thing: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docInde...


Thank you for finding this, really helpful. I checked PACER and didn't realize it was filed in state court instead.

The complaint is speaking and it is aggressively written and, to my non-lawyer mind, pretty well drafted. If I were Mongo, I would be trying aggressively to settle this and make it go away.

If I were the parents, I would be trying very hard to force any other outcome, preferably one where Mongo pays the biggest public relations price possible for what they've done, assuming the allegations are true.

The way Mongo answers the complaint will be really instructive in figuring out how they intend to play this, and in whether they think there is some explanation that will make this seem less dire.


If you’re doing a restructuring of the company, i.e. mass layoffs, you’re allowed to do it regardless. In some states FMLA/PFMLA a company is automatically presumed a retaliation firing if it’s done within 6 months and the onus is on the company to prove it wasn’t—-the mass layoff is the cover, and large companies know it.

However, the fact that they cancelled her health insurance a week before returning and demanded she returned on a certain date or she’d be terminated despite a demonstrated disability, that’s pretty whack and might be hard to defend as company-wide restructuring.


That’s a book I’ve been taking my time with. Read a bit every few weeks. Found the part about visual memory mechanics resonated: I have to spread everything out and see it when doing mechanic work.

No to doing books via audiobook because I see the words in my head and it’s massively distracting. Cool if it works for others I guess but like the mechanic excerpt above… not for me.


LFP are common in EV’s and ‘solar generator’ style battery packs, but I’ve never seen them in phones or laptops (outside OLPC), reduced capacity makes them not great in these, better to go NMC.

> Your phone probably already does something like this.

It most certainly does not. Most devices track battery health % (last full capacity divided by design capacity) and the gauge just presents state of charge (current capacity/lastfull)

The better phone charge threshold systems measure usage and keep the phone in the 30-80% soc range as often as possible.

Voltage drops faster on old cells as they age so you need a coulomb counter. Only extremely shit designs guess soc based on voltage alone.


Thank samsung for their shitty modems in the pixels.

However, there’s going to be a large discrepancy for all devices on battery usage based on whether VPN is on wifi or cellular, and additionally when on cellular how close to the tower they are. I live near cell edge and VPN’s roast my batts on cellular no matter the make, in city it’s almost not noticeable to have VPN on. Better to use wifi when far from towers, cellular more efficient if it’s strong signal.


> The way developers write code looks different than it did a few years ago.

Looks bad: https://forum.cursor.com/t/font-on-the-website-looks-weird/1...


I’m interested. Mainly to update the documentation on it for Gentoo, people have asked about it over the years. Also, TIL it appears HN has a sort of account dormancy status it appears you are in.

For Gentoo I should put you in touch with my co-developer. He's active in Gentoo and has been maintaining a port for it. I'll point him at this conversation. That said, documentation wise, the HPN-README goes into a lot of detail about the HPN-SSH specific changes. I should point out that while HPN-SSH is a fork we follow OpenSSH. Whenever they come out with a new release we come out with one that incorporates their changes - usually we get this out in about a week.

I remember the last time I really cared to look into this was in the 2000’s, I had these wdtv embedded boxes that had a super anemic cpu that doing local copies with scp was slow as hell from the cipher overhead. I believe at the time it was possible to disable ciphers in scp but it was still slower than smbfs. NFS was to be avoided as wifi was shit then and losing connection meant risking system locking up. This of course was local LAN so I did not really care about encryption.

But I don’t miss having those limitations.


It's still possible but we only suggest doing it on private known secure networks or when it's data you don't care about. Authentication is still fully encrypted - we just rekey post authentication with a null cipher.

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