skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most relevant information I see on this is Google's comment that future claims about past events will not be subject to binding arbitration. That implies that the special circumstance which will be different going forwards is not about underlying events, but about the actual current status of the claims.

If the announcement set Day 0 based on the date of the claimed harassment, that would be extremely suspicious, and I think the most natural reading would be some specific issue that's been resolved, but could produce exceptional damages. With a date-of-claim threshold, that seems much less likely; any kind of serial misbehavior or other mishandling that Google expects to avoid in the future could still create liability via claims not yet filed.

A few legally-inclined people elsewhere in the comments have pointed out that "adding the option to leave arbitration" behaves differently than "not forcing arbitration to begin with". Most non-forced arbitration is still binding, which means that neither party can start arbitration and then pursue a lawsuit after seeing the result. Opening a one-time option to leave ongoing arbitration would be much more similar to entering non-binding arbitration, a move lawyers frequently counsel against.

The proceedings of non-binding arbitration are almost never admissible in subsequent court cases, and the process lacks formal discovery. As a result, there are unpleasant tactics like entering non-binding arbitration, obtaining useful information (e.g. someone's schedule, or information of who knew about a behavior), and then pursuing a lawsuit with added or altered claims based on that information.
That's likely because buildings are very expensive to build, and so who is going to risk tens of millions of dollars on a 22 year old architect with no track record?
One option, if you can afford it, is to try reducing the time you spend at your full time job.

Ask about reducing to four days a week instead of five. I've recently done this and I find having one dedicated day to spend on side projects is much easier than trying to find a few hours here and there.
That and not having to pay a dime to the FOSS developers.

Very few manage to do a living from FOSS unless being hired by some big corp.
More like it's a lot easier to argue at the beginning that the plaintiff has no standing to sue than it is to go through a whole discovery process and trial to hope for a judgement in your favor. Let alone the risks of the discovery process itself.
Why is it hypocritical to criticise fundamentalism when you do like the subject matter in general? You could easily be a devout Muslim, yet want nothing to do with suicide bombers.
I can't believe he'd say, "I owe you a cuban sandwich" to someone whose life-savings he presumably gambled away on options. I seriously thought this was the Onion when I heard that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNYNMM0hXXY&feature=youtu.be...
How about reducing the generally accepted working hours to something like 24 hrs/week? 40 is pretty arbitrary so we could arbitrarily set a lower number. That would free up a lot of creativity.
Read this: (warning it’s bleak) https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
If it doesn't itch, don't scratch. If it itches and scratching with your finger makes it go away, you may not not need a "professional scratching device".

Also, if people can build computers in Minecraft that don't achieve anything and get praise for it, people who solve real problems with creative (ab)use of something really should get kudos, too. You're not even using anything "wrong".
Demystifying the Delayed Choice Experiments: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3977
I would suspect the businesses involved rely on legal costs preventing things from even getting to the point of the confession of judgment being declared void.
NASA ARES: Orbital Debris Program Office

https://www.orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/
Why would his clients owe money? The fund is the one doing the trading, so it's the fund that would owe money.
I believe you believed that :-) But realistically, after over a decade of doing effectively DevOps, I'm still learning about mistakes I made before. In 3 days you may get something running and learn basics, but likely it's a false sense is security...
The word disruption is so often misused, abused and overused. That said, if ever there was an industry in need of a swift kick in the stones it's the predatory lenders in this market, as mentioned in the article.

Yes, they are meeting a need, I can't fault them for that. But their heavy-handedness and general over-focus on the their bottom line begs to be taken to the mat and punched in the face.

Certainly there's got to be someone reading this who can make that happen. TIA
It's not the light cone that matters for simultaneity, it's the reference frame. Everyone in the same reference frame (or close enough) is going to agree about the order of events once they compare notes when the dust settles. I don't think this system is moving fast enough relative to ours for relativity to screw things the common sense meaning of "happened yet". At least, this is how I was taught in my college physics class.
Welcome to the inevitable result of financial deregulation. The people who run Yellowstone should never have been allowed near other people's money ever again. There should not be a loophole treating something that's obviously alone as though it weren't. Such high interest rates should be illegal (and are for things legally recognized as loans). Clerks should not be allowed to rubber-stamp an unverified creditor's statement as legal fact, without giving the other party any notification let alone a chance to challenge those so-called facts. Other states, and banks in other states, should not accept such blatantly corrupt behavior.

A whole lot of people - not just the principals but also the legislators, judges, clerks, and bankers who enable them - should spend the rest of their lives in jail for this.
> In all seriousness... how do you protect naive people from scams like this?

In this case, you stop government enforcing the scam.
Well, now a 4-year-old has one more kernel patch than I have...
A day on the life of a SaaS founder who raised $4.5m
You definitely are overlooking something. Corporate (tax) law and doing business with governments in the EU.

I would suggest consulting a good accountant / corporate tax advisor before doing anything.
Intriguing... What do you do then?
Maybe you could write more than three words about your experience and what positive suggestions you have for OP (ie. not "here's what bad advice" and instead "here is some good advice")

Was soccer really the thing that helped you?
Oh, my mistake.

But National Express does them, right?
I find it quite telling you were downvoted. It makes it clear that people hate the idea that Python 2.7 may stay around so they keep trying to shut it down at every opportunity.
Confessions of Guilt are an interesting concept and maybe they shouldn't be thrown out by NYS entirely, but signing one when there isn't guilt (especially in advance of the loan) is a horrible practice.

Perhaps Confessions of Guilt should have an expiration date like that it must be filed within 7 days of being signed or it's invalid.
I dislike the idea of aliases. I like knowing what the flags do. If I go to another workstation of say a co-worker and she’s not using my particular aliases then what? What I’ve done is learned my own DSL and not the commands.
Let’s maybe go easy on throwing around charges of “fundamentalism” every which way. I guess it’s an attempt to tap into the universally bad reputation of Bin Laden et al. But that alone should be reason not to stick the label to anyone who has a github account or a product in the App Store.

It’s really just Godwin by another name.
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I was baffled at first by this comment, but then I realized it's the recent tend in the USA to somehow make up for the mistakes of the past, hence the attempts to erase words like "master/slave" that are perceived as sad reminders of unfortunately not-so-distant past.

In Europe, we don't see this way as we don't have this particular trauma. We did have different forms of slavery centuries ago, but it was newer a thing in mainland Europe (although the feudal system was close to it). So this word is not that emotionally marked for us. It's quite normal to say that someone is a slave to something (fashion, fear, alcohol). Some people even use it in a positive way, e.g. a slave to God. All these figurative uses are quite common and are not intended to trivialize the original meaning.
> See, I don't get this. How do you have 50 employees and no profit? I don't understand that.

Ask Uber? :-) But Silicon Valley jokes aside, you can have a small business where the amount of money coming in pretty much exactly matches the money going out, and that is essentially no profit. For a real estate business, most of those employees would be brokers who would make no salary but would make a piece on the commission of each sale. So the percentage of the commissions that the agency kept covered rent, and admin staff, and maybe a salary for the principals.
Love this, but was a bit confused because the patch is 4 years old, a fact which which confirmed my initial misreading of the patch being 4 years old (rather than the correct reading that it was by a 4-year-old)
I didn't know that javascript automatically created variables for every html element with an ID.
Yeah well - looks like we disagree. :)
- Plotlys api is def. not full featured - more like a proof of concept (unless you are building generic 2d plots).
- If you can’t use the api without reading the sourcecode: the api is not documented.
- The 3d libraries only work with the simplest use cases. Its pourous, unstable and inconsistent. Like a poc or alpha.

I am a “technical user” and its bc. of projects like Plotly I try to avoid js (pole or not).
Best Video Blog on how to live a good live, and I think is your real question, is Philosphers Notes from Brian Johnson:
https://www.youtube.com/user/PhilosophersNotes

And the simple and best Book to Live with your special Guys in the Company is "Assertivenes at Work" from Kate Back:
https://www.amazon.com/Assertiveness-Work-Professional-Busin...

At the End I take a buddhism trail and got rid of this Feelings blowing my emotions to this bad shapes you discribes. Begin with simple Meditation by Youtube lessons.

Live long and prosper
Oerb
Also, just because people do good for the world does not mean they're beyond criticism. It should be allowed to criticise anybody. Your trying to silence an (imho valid) criticism goes against a freedom that isn't too far from that championed by FOSS: free speech.
> someone whose life-savings he presumably gambled away on options

It’s a stupid line. But nobody with any sense has more than 5% of their portfolio in a single hedge fund.
Not really. The academic field grew tremendously in the mean time, so the comparison is rubbish, but the index isn't.

It is defined for an author as the largest number N such that as then have N articles with at least N citations.
The recently announced https://sr.ht is a good example.
Second weightlifting. Not really similar or left of field, but a good complement. I found it more interesting after I started following a routine and tracking progress on each exercise, trying to optimize nutrients before/after workout, daily macros etc. Optimizing these things is kind of satisfying.

For example, the other day I had to work out after work instead of in the morning, and I had also been encouraged to do some spinning because of a knee issue. I found that I didn't perform well but I don't what caused it exactly: the cardio before lifting, it being late, tiredness from work, eating schedule, the knee, etc. Kind of similar to debugging.
You are very correct. I've often wondered why some of the kind of people who are ambivalent about having Linux on the desktop don't see the huge benefits to their cause.

Example: I have an older laptop with a 5400RPM hdd that I've since bought a SSD to image and put a new OS on. Currently it runs Windows 7. Hate Windows 10 after being a lifelong Microsoftie (DreamSpark worked as it turns out), been learning Linux at work, so let's try it at home. I work on computers for a living, I can handle the learning curve, right? I will be reinstalling Windows 7 so I can AskWoody Group B it until it is out of support, then move it to Windows 7 POS Ready to get security updates until the last possible second. From there? I guess a mac because I refuse to use Windows 10 on personal devices aside from maybe a LTSB version. Different rant though, back to Linux on desktop:

I _want_ to run NeonOS or Debian KDE on that laptop, but cannot as the tools I use are not available on those platforms. The "fundamentalists" as portrayed in this article would say that I shouldn't have chosen to use the tools I chose. That doesn't help my problem though and won't do anything to get the 'unwashed masses' using the better software en mass. Here better software = FOSS since we are being a hypothetical fundamentalist a la Stallman.

If these Stallmen could "hold their nose" long enough to build Linux such that it could run most rando Windows programs without huge fuss and individual WINE config tweaks, the long term benefit would be that they would be positioning themselves to overtake Windows in usage on the desktop as well as the server side.

Knock-on effects are strong:

1. More users, more developers to create software

2. More developers, more improvements made to system codebases, package maintenance, dev tooling

3. More Linux, more Linux compatibility out of the box

4. More Linux on desktops, more people who've never been tainted by MS DreamSpark (like me) and due to baby duck syndrome prop up MS Windows, Office, VS and the Microsoft way

5. MS might even open source Windows itself (a core product) if it is no longer profitable. Making the job of dealing with Windows compatibility A) easier and B) nearly redundant

So the FOSS people win the war, at least on the desktop Linux vs Windows front.
1. Find a therapist who specializes in adult autism and cbt.
2. One thing that will help is to develop your small talk. Look people in the eye, ask how they are and the default option, “any and for the weekend?” If it’s wednesday or later. If it’s monday or tuesday and the first time you interact, ask how was your weekend? Be prepared to give answers yourself that are more then 1 word and allow some basic questioning and responses. That’s all you need to do to get started. You can literally script it out to start and over time it will get easier. The trick about being an effective communicator is actually to just actively listen.

There are some self help books on CBT too that will help. Find some written by academics from reputable schools.
>Side note - couldn't you make a similar argument about any kind of further abstraction? "Question for all you hackers out there - do you really need HTTP requests with their complicated headers and status codes and keepalive timeouts? I run several apps just sending plain text over TCP sockets and it works fine."

No, because the end users already have an HTTP browser. Your analogy doesn't work because switching between k8s and lamp stacks is invisible to your users where dumping HTTP means you need dedicated clients.
Google will now add live comments to its searches
This is a terrible situation. Predatory lenders dealing with owners who are in no position to take on a loan.

I run my company with Quickbooks Online, and they have a "feature" called QuickBooks Capital, where you can secure short term loans at not terrible interest rates (~10%), and they report your payment history to your DUNS number, building your company's credit history.

I take out $20k every 6 months and pay it back weekly over their 6 month payment window and end up paying something small like 4-5% interest on it.
docker image definitions are idempotent as a matter of principle. creating an idempotent shell script is non trivial IMO - e.g. what return code is returned from package manager XY when something is already installed etc.
HP OfficeConnect Infrastructure Hacked?
>there's a not insignificant number of people who are caught in these situations precisely because they failed to plan and have contingency money set aside...

and

>due to unfortunate events, like cancer, in their personal lives...

I think it's a bit idealistic to think most Americans can save up to take care of a potential bout with cancer. Particularly if they are unfortunate enough to get certain varieties of cancer.

It's like a Manhattan penthouse. We can save for as long and as hard as we like, but for most Americans that purchase is just going to be out of reach. That's just life here in the US when it comes to cancer. The treatments are expensive and out of reach for most of us. Insurance can make it a bit better, but at the mean, we'll still have some pretty serious problems paying for the treatment.
Whats up with the comments blaming the victims here? Duncans’ only fault was being naive. But how many of us commenting here know about “confession of judgement”?

This shouldn’t have happened in the first place, regardless of how naive the borrowers were.
So, maybe we need VC funding for science?
> Welcome to the inevitable result of financial deregulation.

Courts in NY are executing these blatantly unfair contracts, after other courts all over the country decided they were blatantly unfair, and you're blaming deregulation?
Co-signing this advice. I was basically in the same shoes as the OP, being the quiet office weirdo for my first few years, usually getting very tense in meetings and so on. These days I'm effortlessly starting discussions, speaking my mind openly in meetings, etc, and have never had it better professionally or socially, at work or otherwise. I won't try to distill my personal transformation into a step-by-step recipe for others to repeat, but at least know that with persistent effort, change is possible.
FYI, for a 3 month daily debit loan like this, 350% APR means paying $60,000 for a $35,000 loan. This is obviously very high, but it's not the 3.5 * the principle like many people would assume.
If they are real estate agents those 50 people aren't really employees, they are real estate brokers working under the Duncan license. They aren't paid unless they sell something or someone sells something they listed. Then everyone, including the Duncan's, gets a cut of the commission.
Ask what do you need two laptops for is gender bias
Ultimately, this is a consequence of out-of-control complexity in the legal system in America (and, I think, in many other countries). The current status quo is that in order to do many commonplace things, you will be required to sign long, arcane legal documents that are difficult or impossible for people without specialist knowledge to understand, and which in most cases you have no real negotiating power to argue against.

And so people don't read them. You can't.

When my wife and I sat down to buy our first house, we planned to read every document before signing it. The mobile notary they sent to our house was aghast. He was like, "Uh, I guess if you want to try, I can leave these here and try to come back in 8 hours or so, but obviously I will not stay here while you read everything you sign." Even if we had read it, what are the odds that we could've found some gotcha clause dressed up in weird language in that mound of documents?

When the status quo is for people to sign documents that they have not fully read or understood, things like this are going to happen.

There are a couple of solutions, neither of them perfect:

1. We need lawyers-in-a-box that can protect us from the most outrageous abuses. You should be able to point your smartphone at a Confession of Judgment and your phone should make a big red X and say, "WARNING! This kind of document is considered predatory! Exercise extreme caution before you sign it!" (You should also be able to get one that would tell you that the non-compete they want you to sign in California is not binding, that this contract contains a mandatory arbitration clause, and other things like that).

2. But that would only help a little bit. Ultimately, we would need to really rework the legal code in ways that I think everyone is more than a little uncomfortable with.
Really?
It seems pretty easy to fall into a group dynamic where one person gets the technical debt dumped on them while the other handles the non technical aspects. This is because it is easier to not communicate and just do everything yourself than to explain to someone who is less technically motivated, for whatever reason. When you slow down and try to explain stuff over and over, until at a certain point as the gap increases it feels like the other person is either incompetent or taking advantage of the situation to reduce their own workload.
Linus on trivial patches:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/20/255

[ Linux-kernel added back into the cc, because I actually think this is
important. ]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> Should I just stop attemting to make these trivial cleanups/fixes/whatever
patches? are they more noice than gain? am I being a pain to more skilled
people on lkml or can you all live with my, sometimes quite ignorant,
patches?
I do try to learn from the feedback I get, and I like to think that my
patches are gradually getting a bit better, but if I'm more of a bother
than a help I might as well stop.

To me, the biggest thing with small patches is not necessarily the patch
itself. I think that much more important than the patch is the fact that
people get used to the notion that they can change the kernel - not just
on an intellectual level ("I understand that the GPL means that I have the
right to change my kernel"), but on a more practical level ("Hey, I did
that small change").

And whether it ends up being the right thing or not, that's how everybody
starts out. It's simply not possible to "get into" the kernel without
starting out small, and making mistakes. So I very much encourage it...

So please don't stop. Yes, those trivial patches _are_ a bother. Damn,
they are _horrible_. But at the same time, the devil is in the detail, and
they are needed in the long run. Both the patches themselves, and the
people that grew up on them.
> docker-compose gives me most of the benefits of orchestration

I feel this is a very unappreciated feature of docker-compose. I've gotten pretty far with setting restart: always, baking a machine image, using cloud scaling and load balancers.
Interesting. I wonder if Maisa has gone on to write any more patches yet!
This criticism may have some merit on the particle physics side of things, but from the 'gravity' side I see exciting recent progress. In particular, the AMPS firewall and literature that followed, including the introduction of computational complexity into physics, ER=EPR etc. With LIGO and various space telescopes soon coming online, the experimental future looks bright too.
A Metropolis of 200M Termite Mounds Was Hidden in Plain Sight
Mailing list thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/24/407

> When I was reading the documentation, my 4-year-old
> niece wanted to see what I was doing. After telling her,
> she noticed that something was very wrong and asked
> me to fix it. Instead, I helped her fix it herself.
Never really tried it, but when I was looking for Dokku and Flinn alternative, I found this: https://captainduckduck.com/
while 'pigs' != 'fly':

...

Made me chuckle!
Because thats how the contracts were set up shrug emoji

There are no absolutes, only agreements
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