I love this app. I let it run in the background when I walk my dogs at home and when I'm traveling and it is amazing how well it connects me with the world around me.
Authorization is a challenge for everyone, but has been solved by no one. As the people who wake up thinking about authorization each day we created Oso Golf, a game to help educate the developers about authorization.
We built the first iteration for this game for GraphQL summit, as a fun way for developers to learn Oso’s policy language. Attendees got really into the game, hanging out at our booth for upwards of 30 minutes to solve this with their friends.
So we got some feedback on the game and built it out into 9 “holes,” just like a Golf course, each hole teaches you a different principle of authorization modeling. We’re opening this up to the community today and are excited to see what you think!
Oso is building authorization for the next billion developers. We are building the product in Rust, which we think is both a good design choice for our use case and a fun choice for the team. I recently joined the team and absolutely love the culture and I'm inspired by the talented engineers I get to work with :) Current open roles:
- Engineering Manager (NYC)
- Software Engineer (NYC or Remote)
- Developer Experience Engineer (NYC or Remote)
- Head of Engineering (NYC)
The connection of psychedelics to capital efficiency and growth is wild to me - I do love Matt Levine's newsletter and I feel that part of this commentary was satirical in order to make a point.
I feel like Silicon Valley's psychedelic era is like a strain "tech bro" wellness culture (often referred to as "biohacking"). And just like wellness culture it's really hard to distinguish something that is helpful in small doses vs. something that becomes a gratuitous lifestyle (like drinking charcoal or putting jade eggs somewhere you shouldn't).
There is usually a difference between when people talk about "The Bay Area" (i.e., the geographic location) vs. "Silicon Valley" (i.e. a metonym for the tech industry in the bay area).
Psychedelics obviously were a big feature of SF and the bay area for a long time, but that's very different than saying they are an accepted part of the corporate tech world there.
At least we have a long list of cliches about Steve jobs and others tripping and starting companies dating back to the 70's and 80s! I don't think it's wrong to suggest both the Bay Area and SV's interest in those drugs started around the same time.
Thanks for posting this. I always wondered why Jessica wasn't a bigger part of the YC story that so many people told.
This line stood out to me in particular: _It's not just because she's shy that she hates attention, but because it throws off the Social Radar. She can't be herself. You can't watch people when everyone is watching you._
No matter what you get acknowledged for I think it's so important to always be yourself but to know what makes you strong is so challenging.
I saw this logic on HN frequently, but it's significantly flawed. It can be meaningful only if those two nations are completely independent to each other, which is a contradictory to the premise. Otherwise, there will be fairness escalations. To avoid such situation, modern global diplomacy and free trade already have developed a framework to minimize the friction and ensure a minimal level of fairness.
The problem is that China's legislation and jurisdiction are in a complete control under a single political entity, CCP and its laws are deliberately designed to be ambiguous to allow arbitrary interpretation in favor of CCP. Also, don't forget that CCP's constitution is on top of PRC's constitution.
Obviously, this situation is not acceptable in the the principle of free trading as CCP is blatantly exploiting this political system to discriminate foreign companies and effectively violate the principle of national treatment. In order to join the global free trade system, a long time ago China promised to change its political and economical practice at least minimally compatible to other states. I think the previous presidents till Hu Jintao might keep it in their minds but unfortunately Xi Jinping doesn't seem so.
China made massive concessions in order to join the WTO. It reduced tariffs from ~40% to ~3%, removed joint-venture restrictions from most sectors of the economy, broke up many state-owned enterprises, created a new intellectual property enforcement system out of nothing, and changed all sorts of laws that benefited domestic companies.
That's not to say that there are no legitimate complaints that foreign companies have, but the investment environment for foreign companies improved massively in China, and foreign companies have made huge returns on their investments. There's supposed to be a WTO mechanism for dealing with discrimination against foreign companies, though the Trump administration has put that mechanism out of action by blocking the appointment of judges to the WTO's appellate body.
> removed joint-venture restrictions from most sectors of the economy,
This is misleading. On paper sure, but not in reality. The majority of large companies in China will in fact be forced to participate in a joint venture. And sure there is no "law" on the books requiring forced technology transfer, but foreign companies are forced to do it.
China is a not a country that follows the rule of law. Period. The law is whatever the CCP says it is today. There can be no rule of law without an independent judiciary, and the WTO mechanism's you speak of are completely unenforceable.
>broke up many state-owned enterprises
Also misleading. They were technically "broken" up. But they still have have CCP liaison committees, and CCP members running them. The government still assists them with corporate espionage, and provides them with enormous grants and loans. Large companies in China are still state owned enterprises in all but name.
> but the investment environment for foreign companies improved massively in China
It did improve for a few years, but the current administration has managed to reverse nearly all those improvements.
> The majority of large companies in China will in fact be forced to participate in a joint venture.
That's just not true any more. Companies sometimes choose to enter joint ventures, but in most industries, they're not forced to. Many large foreign companies operate without JV partners in China.
> There can be no rule of law without an independent judiciary, and the WTO mechanism's you speak of are completely unenforceable.
WTO rulings have led to concrete changes in Chinese policy, and beyond that, China has undergone very fundamental changes to its economic structure and regulation as a condition of WTO membership. In terms of things like IP enforcement, there is something approaching rule of law in China. Western companies can enforce their IP rights through the Chinese judiciary, and they have a very good success rate.
> They were technically "broken" up. But they still have have CCP liaison committees
Having a "liaison committee" is very different from being a giant monopoly that rules the market and doesn't have to fear competition. Many large state-owned enterprises were broken up, forced to operate on a profit-basis for the first time, and forced to compete with one another and private enterprises. Private enterprises now make up a large share of the Chinese economy.
> It did improve for a few years, but the current administration has managed to reverse nearly all those improvements.
Do you mean Xi Jinping? Restrictions on foreign companies have continued to be loosened (e.g., the recent loosening of JV restrictions in the auto industry, which made Tesla's Shanghai factory possible).
You are meaning China censorship? And China freedom fight ? Yeah why comply with that ? China should leave their abusive dictatorship before talking about their company right
