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There’s a long debate in the foundations of statistical mechanics about whether entropy is a subjective notion or an objective notion. I’m firmly on the side of thinking it’s an objective notion.

I spread out two decks of cards on the table in front of you. One is thoroughly mixed up, the other one is neatly ordered by suit from spades to diamonds and each suit is ordered from ace to king, except for 7 and 8 of clubs, they are in the wrong order. »Which deck has the higher entropy?« I ask. »The mixed up one of course.« you answer. Out of my pocket I pull a flashlight and turn it on, under the shine of its blacklight you can read the numbers 1 to 52 written onto the mixed up deck in perfect order, the numbers written onto the neatly ordered deck are in no discernible order.
Hi Peter, is it possible for someone on OPT STEM extension to be self employed either by forming a company or operating as an independent contractor?
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I feel like India has more important problems to solve than this.
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It's been a while since I read the GPL3, so I just read it again.

I'm no lawyer, but if I'm understanding correctly, yes, it does have to be licensed under the GPL3, but it doesn't have to be licensed only under the GPL3. With a license like MIT, the could apply a second license which would, for example, amend the MIT license to require you to pay for the software.

However, the "No Further Restrictions" paragraph in the GPL I think puts a much stronger set of requirements:

> You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this License. For example, you may not impose a license fee, royalty, or other charge for exercise of rights granted under this License, and you may not initiate litigation (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that any patent claim is infringed by making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing the Program or any portion of it.

This is why I think Stallman often uses the language "licensed with terms at least as open as the GPL" instead of saying "licensed under the GPL"--yes, it has to be licensed under the GPL3 but that doesn't quite capture the whole story. Someone can apply another license (i.e. Apache 2, to explicitly grant patents) so their licensing might not be just the GPL3, but further licenses can only expand freedoms, not restrict them.

I would encourage anyone who is interested in this sort of thing to read the license for themselves. Don't get intimidated and assume it's all in legalese: while I'm hesitant to think I understand it since the law is not my area of expertise, the GPL is written in what seems like fairly straightforward English.
> If you want complete housing coverage, there must be crappy shitholes because a crappy shithole is better than sleeping in the park.

That does not follow. You may be right, but not for that reason.
People take things too far. They'll climb on things which shouldn't be climbed on. Some dork might hide in sealed fridge. They'll go back to the warehouse section and hide where forklifts are operating. Not to mention the general destruction of the floor models.
Just ignore when they say hi. They'll eventually learn that they don't get a response. If they actually talk to you about your "rudeness" explain that you only respond if it seems urgent, and "hi" isn't urgent.
Hello!

My wife is here on DACA after being brought here illegally when she was eight years old. Due to her illegal entry, we aren't allowed to apply for a green card until she has a legal entry, which is prohibited for 10 years.

We currently are working with an attorney that is trying to get her through on a hardship petition (claiming (probably rightly so) that her being deported would be damaging to me (a citizen)). Is this this best path forward?
In fairness almost everything is cheaper in Poland. Even compared to Europe.
If you build the cable out of moon it would probably be a nice big cost savings.

Of course, it still probably isn't worth doing, there's not huge dollar reasons for people to be on the moon, mostly just fun science reasons.
>Google and Apple should definitely fight these requests as they represent a very slippery slope.

It is kind of strange that the stopping (or not) of such a blatant unconstitutional action affecting fundamental rights of so many people (especially if the action succeeds and gets established as precedent) depends only on goodwill/caprice of a couple of for-profit corporate entities.

I wonder shouldn't be there a system/process where any
person whose data is to be handed over would get a chance to challenge it in court (at least like for example it was in the good old times of the movie industry going after alleged pirates)
Hell, what is the fire-code max occupancy of an Ikea? I know it feels like there are 3000 people in line ahead of you, but I wouldn't be surprised if 3000 was well above the occupancy, not even including the actual customers.
There might be a misunderstanding. Startups can and do sponsor foreign nationals for H-1Bs successfully all the time. There's a prevailing wage requirement but really other than that there's no difference between H-1B sponsorship by large and new/small companies.
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So I clicked the link and the first thing I thought was "Cool, there'll be a bunch of ruin porn on this site", then went in, clicked into my area (was a little disappointed at the lack of two malls that I've seen quite a bit about on the web over the years) and realized there was ... one picture?

And I'm thinking, of course -- that's a lot of why I like Hacker News -- sometimes something that seems like it's going to be a click-baity time-sink of pretty picture links ends up being a write-up that's got actual value.

But hell, this time I just wanted some ruin porn. And I was about to comment on it and was trying to think of respectful way to inquire if anyone had a solid "Ruin Porn for Dead Malls" link without expressing dissatisfaction with the content provided here[0].

Since you broke the ice on that one -- does anyone solid bookmarks ... with pics? :) I dig it partly because there's a whole lot of Detroit "ruin porn" -- my home town (metro) -- and many are places I've visited/dined in/seen shows in. It's depressing (and fascinating) how quickly these places turn[1]. The first "Ruin Porn" site I visited had pictures of the interior of a Detroit steak house ... 3-6 months after we ate there. 90% of the damage was probably people picking at whatever was valuable that was left in the first few days, but the amount of natural growth (food/all kinds was left out and the building was exposed to the elements) and how quickly the earth started reclaiming what man had built was humbling.

Malls tended to be closed up in parts. Heck, I can't remember ever being at a mall that had every space occupied, but when they failed, they'd start blocking off large portions of the realestate. There'd be walled off third-floors, then all but the first. Some were partially converted to the headquarters of the real-estate company who owned them and later went bankrupt. The two abandoned malls that I've visited had full-time police deputies with a security office[2]. There were a lot of things related to running such a large property that you would never know about unless you had that job and it's interesting seeing how that all worked.

[0] I did read a little bit, but ... Wikipedia fills that need for me. Not sure why that made me think I'd sound like a d*ck, but hey.

[1] There was a steak house downtown that my boss had taken a coworker and I out to -- great dinner, very inexpensive. It closed a week later.

[2] One was in a gang area where you're just not going to get anyone buying things if they're fearing for their safety, and the other in an upper-class area with the tax dollars to warrant giving the wealthy visitors a sense of safety beyond "mall cop".
"Last week I needed to reboot dsr55rhel. I was blocked for 8 hours because of the way we communicate things. To avoid this next time, I suggest we: ..."

"Last week I lost 3 days of my work because someone rebooted dsr55rhel and I didn't see the reply in time. To avoid this next time, I suggest we: ..."

There are probably cases where it's necessary for multiple people to be communicating/collaborating on some issue simultaneously and synchronously. Most won't be.

I think cases like "what if something comes up and you need multiple people" is a smell that something can be improved, rather than a common unavoidable problem.
As if most Indian citizens living in the US even have an option of getting US citizenship.

There is a 150 year waiting list for someone from India who is here on a work visa to even get a green card much less citizenship.

The fastest route to citizenship for someone from India working here is:

1. Get pregnant

2. Wait nine months for your child to be born in the US

3. Wait 21 more years until they are old enough to sponsor someone for a green card (and don't forget to make sure that their income is high enough to support both themselves and you single-handedly)

4. Wait another year to actually get the green card

5. Wait five more years to qualify for citizenship
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During the submission process where the form say a title is too long you could also be displaying how any transformations will affect it.
They look kind of like a telescope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn-_oWl_x90
In this case either of the solutions would satisfactorily solve the problem, so implementing both would be redundant and wasteful. The problem appears in this case when there’s disagreement on which of the two satisfactory solution paths should be taken. Implementation work cannot proceed until it’s decided which solution path is to be taken (even though they both work), but there’s no way to prove which is best aside from general intuition arguments, or actually implementing both (which as mentioned, would be a waste of resources for no benefit).
Only watershed management is a legitimate reason for regulation out of your list.
Without knowing all the facts of course, that appears to the best other option.
It’s entirely possible as someone reading hackernews you’re far more inundated with news about the tech sector than the average person.

I’m not sure this is an obvious perspective to most people in America.

I’m very pro public awareness which educates the layman on what information these companies are collecting, how they’re using it, and how long it can affect you for.

Especially for the older generations which seem more susceptible to actual fake news, and may have a lesser understanding of what this tech is and how it works.

And especially for younger generations who may not instinctively realize that every button they click, picture they post, and website they browse is being mined, logged, harvested, aggregated, and sold to anyone who asks for it with a couple bucks to spare.

Also, as the parent to your comment stated, I didn’t know there was a data breach Wednesday, and I’m a software engineer.

It’s funny. When the media doesn’t cover something enough, people say “why is CNN talking about the Kardashians?? Climate change is happening!”. Seems the converse occurs too “Why is the NYT covering this again!”
Does your country do one thing at a time?
Yeah but your friends chose that. My friends switched to Discord and don't really use Facebook anymore. Switching was super easy and happened organically for us.
You'd think he'd stop after the first prototype with that last name.
So, there are a great many tiling window managers out there. i3 is just one fish in the sea. Here's a starting point at a list just for X11: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/window_manager#Tiling_w...

The usual classification is static vs. dynamic: static managers maintain a certain fixed layout of slots which they then fill windows into, while dynamic ones adjust the number, layout and size of those slots on the fly as new windows are spawned.

While I don't usually see them classified this way, there is also pre-defined vs. on-the-fly (manual?) layout. This is pretty much what it says on the tin; pre-defined managers have pre-defined zones (for static managers) or algorithms (for dynamic managers); generally you can customize these in some way if you wish. On-the-fly managers let you create custom layouts as you go.

Examples of various combinations:
static, pre-defined: Fancy Zones, Slate, most simple tools for windows / mac
static, on-the-fly: stumpwm/ratpoison, emacs (not really a window manager but the paradigm is familiar to many)
dynamic, pre-defined: dwm, awesomewm, xmonad
dynamic, on-the-fly: i3

All of these models have strengths and weaknesses. Dynamic/pre-defined (e.g. dwm) is well suited for a workflow leaning on traditional unix tools (vi, sed, awk, lots of shell magic) where one tends to frequently spawn and despawn terminals (i3 is probably also decent here), but tends to fall down if you have a lot of windows to manage (workspaces can sometimes help with this, but they aren't always the answer). Static/on-the-fly (e.g. stumpwm) works really well if you have a lot of windows to manage, but only want to display a few of them at a time in some ad-hoc manner --- but isn't so great if you want to constantly adjust your layout. Static/pre-defined usually have a control system that is less automatic (more overhead on the user) but play nicer in environments that are traditionally dominated by stacking managers (so also less headache for the user). i3 is kind of it's own beast; it has a lot of power in creating whatever specific layout you might find optimal at the moment; downsides include evolved complexity as your layout develops, and simple lack of the specific strengths of other approaches.

You seem to have found happiness with i3, which is great. I currently prefer the approach of dwm or stumpwm, depending. Others have other preferences, but all of the above are valid approaches to tiling. While I agree that more detail in the title could be a good thing, I definitely wouldn't call it clickbait.
> So a cable at 300,000km at, oh, I dont know, an average of 1 meter wide, is not massive

Massive to a man, not a moon...
Hey! Founder here. Let me know if you have any questions. Also just as a quick heads up this doesn’t work very well on mobile yet.
I'm an HNer who has started and sold my own businesses, I have family who have founded & operated businesses in highly regulated areas, and I'm an investor in startups. I have also been audited by the IRS (the US tax service). One wrong step does not mean you're toast. It means you need to admit and fix your mistake and make sure it doesn't happen again.

I'm sure agencies such as the FAA or DOE might be more of a PITA to deal with. But that's because they're regulating functions that are literally life and death.
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> they just hand wave that all failure will happen on the moon side and never affect earth... um okay? Because of testing?

They don't handwave it, they calculate it. It's significantly less handwavy than your back-of-napkin objections.
wget() { wget2 "$@"; }

or

alias wget=wget2
They are called housing projects in the USA.
They should sue under RICO. Smells of the Big Tobacco shakedown orchestrated by Iowa's dirty AG Thomas Miller.
That's not normal. I would reach out to your local Congressional office and ask it to make an inquiry. This is done all the time.
We used to do this on dates at the Denver, CO IKEA. No one ever even knew what we were doing.
Hey thanks for this response. I'll have to work on #2 - I suppose I need to search for more opportunities to ask them for advice, maybe it will help build a bridge. Difficult to get past the initial dismissiveness, though. I'm not ready to quit but that is a good reminder too. I'm actually incredibly happy with the role (besides not feeling like everyone is 100% on board, anyways). #4 is a great reminder as well (and while we're butchering quotes - "tension on a string can create majestic music" :) ). Really appreciate the stoic point of view of that quote in #5, too.
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I've often thought.. If you feel like everything is under control you clearly don't know what's going on. It seems the higher I go in a company the more this is true.

When I was a junior being handed design or detailed work specs it seemed like part of an over-arching grand plan. Now I realize.. we just hang on and try to stay alive; albeit with-in something resembling a meta-narrative.
You mean, Unless Google gets paid for it.
Without "regulation" downtown San Fransisco would be a towering mass of high rise apartment complexes. Traffic would be impossible so people would be forced to find alternatives. There would be endless bitching about the eyesores on the horizon and the perpetually congested streets and the ruination of property values for the heavily gentrified neighborhoods.
>I think the most important thing is not using Slack or avoiding Slack, it's building a culture that allows people to opt-out of it, without any sort of penalty, perceived or otherwise.

The new book "Indistractable" makes exactly this point. Incidentally it also talks about how the Slack company uses Slack, and this is exactly their point, too.

The book goes on to talk about "Psychological Safety." In this case, defined as the lack of '>any sort of penalty'
Really, just turning in do not disturb for chunks of time is good
On Win 10 I'm using the combo of Virtuawin (for multi-desktops and window assignments) and AquaSnap for tiling / positioning.

NB: Virtuawin seems like OSS abandon-ware (last build ~2017, iirc) but it works great (so far), while AquaSnap is trialware (I bought it after two days of use) and is still shipping releases.

I also hack the registry to enable focus-follows-mouse without autoraise. (Powertoys could enable the first capability but not the latter, hence the registry mod.)

I'm primarily a Windows SE, but I fell in love with these capabilities in X when I was learning my way around Linux and just had to have the same experience on Windows <grin>.
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Headline continues......turns out, they were all just people lost because of the horribly-placed yellow arrows misdirecting them through the store.
>The uniqueness was an artifact of the lack of advanced manufacturing and standardization was far lesser period even with things like munition armaments.

We still had uniqueness in city stores and shopping arcades far after the age of "advanced manufacturing and standardization", e.g. well into the 70s.

In towns like Manhattan they in fact took pride in their variety of shops, restaurants, etc. and culturally resisted malls and chains and same in several places in Europe. So it's not like "advanced manufacturing and standardization" automatically translates to malls, and bland cookie cutter one's at that.

Besides, my point wasn't that the ancient agora/forum was different from malls because of some virtuous choice - just that it was different, period. If that was out of necessity, that's fine too.
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This drives me crazy too. Would you send an email that just said "hi"? Didn't think so. Is it that hard to just say "hi, [question]"? Instead I have to reply and then wait for them to type their question since I've already been interrupted.
And be self employed because there are no jobs in the area.
I think duplication and access to raw data would be two huge steps forward. It's actually a bit mystifying that researchers are able to present their own final conclusions & interpretations without making the actual data available.
How convenient for Apple fans to talk about "profit share" when app stores are discussed and "market share" when antitrust comes up.

I'm saying that the "benevolent dictator" model that Apple is following results in a concentration of power that is ipso facto bad for society and that Apple should be broken up. If Apple must survive in its current form it should be placed under democratic control, not under shareholder control, and should be subject to the checks and balances of a judicial system.

Ultimately, Apple should not be the only party to have a say in what's allowed on its platforms, just like the president is not the only person to have a say in who's allowed into the country.
Thanks so much for the reply!

Just a brief followup- whats the reason for the education eval service? For context the school is US based, accredited, online and for-profit.
Capella University has a very low reputation / is for profit. My understanding is it is no better than ITT or University of Phoenix, which have a very bad and infamous reputation in the United States.
Starting the axis somewhere other than zero may be forgivable for some types of graph, but bar charts aren't one of them.
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Average users are not the only people that matter, despite what Robert Bork wants you to think.

What is wrong is the concentration of power within a company answerable only to shareholders. Even democratically elected governments need to be heavily scrutinized for abuses of power.
And of those that did show up, how many were people :)
I’ve been doing this lately. It’s pleasant for sure.
Decade-long user of i3 here, I have three different keyboards (netbook to server) and three different trackpads\mouses -- the keyboard is more efficient for resize operations. I use focus-follows-mouse (agreed, why not use all devices) and fling the cursor all over the place all the time, but don't have to click and don't even have to use my fingers if I can drag my lower palm across the trackpad.
Ok; we have some friends who claimed that since they were brought in by a citizen, and they were just "waved through" as kids in the backseat of the car, that constituted as a "legal entry".

I'm not an attorney but that didn't really seem like it would hold up since it seems like anyone could claim that.
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Gonna drop a PSA, if anyone is moving from i3wm to OSX, check out yabai. https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
Usually if you say you're raising prices because they've been flat for years the implied justification is that it's to match inflation. But that doesn't apply to a percentage fee.
Sort of. You should check with your school because in the end, it's really the school and not the government that makes this determination. But there's really no self-employment under STEM OPT. If the employment is through your own company, then there needs to be a structure in place where you are supervised by someone and don't control your own employment.
An interesting read and resource going forward, thank you.
It is company sponsored, thanks for your reply!
"We've got all the data we need, you may now opt out" ¯\(°_o)/¯
I like this idea. It's a general enough issue that making it a browser standard could be quite nice.
If they replaced 'wget', and you need HTTP2 support, you might be using the old 'wget' without HTTP2 support, or the new one with it. You would have to wrap all your commands with a version check, and ask people to install the newer, different software package, to get HTTP2 support.

Or, call 'wget2' to get HTTP2 support. You can then either install both 'wget' and 'wget2', or the package maintainers could install a symlink for 'wget' backwards compatibility, so you'd only need to install the newer 'wget2' package.

From the package maintainer's perspective, they're literally different software projects, and changing an established package name to be different software would break many systems.
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And the universe turned slightly weirder again.
That's true, there's a lot more to a partnership though then just the coding and it would still be beneficial for both.
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