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They overturned an at the time recent Supreme Court verdict, which is disruptive and counter to long standing precedent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_v._Michigan_Chamber_of_...
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Both parties are corrupt, and both advocate for reasonable and unreasonable policies. Part of their power derives from convincing much of their base to despise the "other side", to never properly listen to the other side, and never fairly consider the other side's position. Politicians on both sides benefit from inflaming this dynamic.
I think all these kinds of papers are very confusing. Comparing RSM (replicated state machine) to Paxos is just like comparing a car to an engine. It makes very little or no sense.

In the original Paxos paper (https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf), the part 3 (RSM) is not extensively explained. There are countless ways to use Paxos to implement RSM. Multipaxos/Raft/Epaxos try to fill in that gap.

By any means, Paxos itself is 10x simpler than Raft or whatever. Every time I heard a "distributed system" engineer said Paxos is complicated, I know he/she does not have much experience in the field or at least has never implemented the core consensus part...
Per the decision, the un-annotated code is made freely available.[0] The issue at hand is the annotations.

The majority opinion is that the key point is authorship. Officials whose work has the force of law (aka judges and legislators) cannot be authors for purposes of copyright of any work produced in their official capacity as a lawmaker. Their argument is that the annotations are published by the legislative body of Georgia in an official capacity, and therefore are not subject to copyright.

The first dissent disagrees with the majority's interpretation of the government edicts doctrine (lawmakers cannot be authors of, and therefore cannot hold copyright on, works produced in the discharge of their lawmaking duties), finding it too broad and not obvious. The core point is that the type of work matters, and that in this case the type of work is not legislative.

The second dissent argues also that the type of work matters, and that annotations such as those under consideration do not created in a legislative capacity. This agrees with the majority argument about the government edicts doctrine, but disagrees about whether this work constitutes a government edict.

[0] This is mentioned spanning the bottom of page three and the top of page four of the majority opinion (pages six and seven of the PDF):

> In exchange, Lexis has agreed to limit the price it may charge for the OCGA and to make an unannotated version of the statutory text available to the public online for free.
I'm currently going through https://github.com/LukeMathWalker/build-your-own-jira-with-r... and had been using RLS. I just switched to the VSCode rust-analyzer plugin, I've followed the instructions, the installation finished w/o errors, but it's only working in the main.rs file.
Thanks. I like the light theme also. If anyone has suggestions of good {theme, background-highlight-colors} choices, especially for dark backgrounds, please open a PR/issue and we can add them to the README.
Ask HN: How do you secure access to your digital assets?
From USB stick necklaces with password manager databases to RFID implants with private keys for your VPS and LUKS headers, what do you do to increase the chances you will not get locked out?
What a blast from the past... I remember installing that exact kit (plus antenna) in my own car some twenty years ago. It worked great.
Yes, but how would you host a file on the sub domain?
Here are the conditions for lifting the CA stay at home orders: https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/California...

It basically comes down to being able to contain disease spread by contact tracing and testing.
I mean all the power to you if you want to disrupt that market but this isn't a marketing thing, it's the conflicting goals of different organizations within a business.

I'd speculate that the people running social media didn't want to send out these tweets and the people in legal told them they had to, so they do it a week ahead of time on a less visible twitter account and hope it blows over a bit.
I read analysts report about slack from time to time. It is amusing. Many investor looking at it from a market perspective claim that MS will crush slack and potentially Zoom, because both are commodities included in your monthly 365 subscription. So reasonable companies will give up on the convenient slack and Zoom combo over time. I just don’t buy that simple logic because quality is simply ignored here. Your comment is in line with my thinking.
I did first try to setup email, but I couldn't figure out how to do that without providing a static ip address. This was a "what can I make work in the two hours before we drive across the country" solution lol.
For some reason I don't see a reply link on lewisgodowski's comment.

> Couldn't replying to their tweet be considered sending it to Disney?

Disney apparently does "consider" that to be sending it to Disney. Since Twitter doesn't belong to Disney, I don't see how that could have any legal relevance. Twitter has its own terms of service.

(I am not a lawyer.)
Can this stage individual lines, and then display a view of only staged lines and no un-staged lines? AKA only the things you are about to commit.

In SourceTree this is called "split view staging" and I find it indispensable. But SourceTree is so old as slow and unsupported that I'm desperately trying to find an alternative. Most of the existing GUI clients don't have this option.
That article was nearly content-free. Brief review of history and then some talk about a supposed "third wave" of migration is not clearly characterized, nor actually foreseen in any detail ("certainly X would be a good place to start" - thank you captain obvious).

No discussion of anything signifcat:

* Are commercial corporations contribution back to FOSS software they use?

* * Additional functionality and bug fixes?

* * Grants/donations of money, hardware or even developer time?

... Amazon, Google, MS run mostly FOSS on their clouds, and pocket billions, but certainly don't give much back.

* Does "open source components" just mean FOSS inside but closed commercial outside, or do companies transition to making FOSS?

* What about hardware? Or at least, device drivers and firmware?

* What about all those SaaS and PaaS platforms even the article itself mentions? Their engineering setups, and software in particular, are mostly closed. Where's that promised "wave" for them?
The physician I talked to was basically trying to rain on my parade when I said "hey, it will be great when there's a vaccine and we can all go back to normal." Maybe, maybe not.

I don't know that much about it, but sometimes people infected with a coronavirus can get sick again, not as ill as they were previously, but contagious. [1] COVID 19 hasn't been analyzed well enough, long enough to say for certain.

There were some scary stories early on, a month or two ago, about people becoming reinfected with full blown cases of COVID 19, but they really felt more like uncertain anecdotes. I strongly suspect the immunologists will know a lot more about this in just a few weeks. Researchers are already giving people test vaccines and sending them out into the world.

In a nasty - hypothetical - reality where people regularly get reinfected: things do not go back to normal, and we have to figure a lot of difficult social stuff out.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/coronavirus-immunity-r...
The free version is the unannotated code and Lexis is required to make it available per the contract with the Georgia legislature.
I certainly prefer the Apple/Google/DP-3T approaches but they are certainly not "zero-knowledge". They are not even strictly "less-knowledge" than PEPP-PT if you trust the central server (but arguably not in ways that can have strong practical consequences, at least not more than the situation in the other direction).
Sweden didn't shut down. Hospitals are not overwhelmed. Cases have plateaued
I guess not enough of HN has watched Mad Men.
well you do want a small chance the judge will side with you.
Affairs.

Iron-clad proof a minister violated some lockdown restrictions.

The location of someone hiding from an abusive partner.

The new name of someone in a witness protection programme.

The identity of a defendant in an important but secret trial.
Unfortunately, yes. Consider the common cold: yes, it does mutate fast, but the other big barrier to producing a vaccine is that immunity to it doesn't last very long at all. So if COVID-19 immunity truly doesn't last long, that's a problem.

I doubt this is likely to be the case, though. Antibodies to SARS seemed to have long lifetimes (several years), and COVID is likely to be similar. It is certainly possible that for some people, immunity fades much faster for reasons specific to that person, and that may be what is being picked up in these reports.

It is also possible it's just shoddy lab work. There has been a ton of that going around lately, and it's not just caused by pressure from the situation. Not all scientists are equally competent....

(Disclaimer: my knowledge of immunology is likely little better than yours, but I did at least used to be a Real Scientist in a different field.)
Second that this is an excellent book, written by a doctor whose practice was treating PTSD in Vietnam veterans.
> Wow, great job of getting that shipped real fast, It's really obvious now

I love it when you can take years to fix something and someone will still say that anyway :)

(The same thing happens in the HN inbox. "Wow, thanks for the fast reply"...if they only knew.)
> Like everywhere else.
>
> And this will never change.

I am quite used to hearing this from people who oppose GDPR, however I am yet to hear at least a single strong point made about what they would do instead.

Apathy due to not being able to do best is incredibly self-defeating. In my own personal take on this I think this is exactly what Google et al want you to do: being afraid to do anything because you haven’t yet found a way to perfectly resolve the situation.

It’s a policy issue, and thus if you knew how to resolve it in an ideal way there would be nothing to resolve in the first place. We’re not dealing with number theory where some brilliant mind can suddenly imagine a mental framework that will resolve our all sufferings.
If this is a low traffic list, I’m hosting one for free via Mailgun (which has bi-directional support). Benefit is that you get to keep it on your own domain while avoiding deliverability issues.

It doesn’t have a self subscribe thing though - look at subgun/audience. There are a few alternatives.
Dent corn is still edible, it just needs to be nixtamalized first to unlock more of the nutrients. [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization
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No. Ruminants eat food that humans can’t. Furthermore, grazing grassland uses marginal land unusable for industrial scale farming. And, locally operated meat processing works just fine.

Virtually all of our problems with the meat supply are self-created and can be fixed — lets just return to the horror show we had 30 or so years ago... wait - it was just fine 30 years ago, and someone who ate the same meat he sold you was responsible for raising and preparing your food.

Source: family owned and run feedlot, and worked at a local abattoir thru university.
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Many techniques already used by Aerospike on their KV database, which also bypass the OS file system/cache.

I'm a long time Aerospike user with no connection to Aerospike.

Edit: I would love to see a benchmark with Aerospike.
Many people die in traffic accidents every day, but we don’t ban cars. Everything we do involves some risk. There needs to be a rational discussion on how much lock down is appropriate. We need to look at other countries like Sweden and Austria and learn from them. We need to look at the real costs of a depression. What we have now is “People are dying so let’s lock down everything”.
> I can’t imagine any Dell or Lenovo feeling so solid after 7 years...

I'm using a ~14yo Thinkpad T42p as one of my daily machines (using it to write this post), it feels as solid as when it was new. The battery still holds enough power for about 1.5-2 hours, the (1600x1200) screen still outperforms most newer models due to its relatively high resolution and 4:3 ratio, the keyboard is far better than that on most other machines (especially compared to Macbooks). The only substantial upgrade I made to this machine is that I put in a(n) SSD (through a PATA-SATA adapter since this machine is from before the shift to SATA).
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Most likely some very lost corporate drone soul.

This is not enforceable the same way they don't get rights to any text that has "Mickey" in it. May the 4th is also World Naked Gardening Day since 2005, 6 years before Star Wars Day. There is a lot of potential for fun to be had...
Not to start a flamewar, but I'd like to point out why I think snap is not only inferior to flatpak technically but actually a threat to the linux desktop:

Snap is very deliberately centralized, with a single hard-coded repo URL. The server is also closed-source. This is because snap's somewhat transparent primary goal is to give Canonical central control of app installation across all linux distributions. The plan from there will include taking cuts of sales revenue and publishing fees. The pieces for this (like DRM) are falling into place.

Flatpak, because it isn't born out of such business a model, supports an arbitrary number of user-defined repos, which are trivial to host because they are static folders and can be installed with a single-click via a `flatpakrepo` url.

This is on top of other advantages such as upstream support from the likes of GNOME, support for sharing code between apps using "frameworks", supporting themes, using namespaces instead of modified AppArmor, p2p support, a better permission system, etc.
> Wetting the filter gives you a more "accurate" result, but you'll get a consistent cup of coffee either way if you commit to either always wetting it or not doing so.

The big difference that wetting a filter has is that certain filters have a slight taste associated with them. If you wet the filter first and throw that water away you get a cleaner/brighter cup without the paper filter adulterants.
When you have enough tests, you know who has the virus and who doesn't. All those infected (and all the people they've contacted) can quarantine or seek the care they need, and those who aren't infected can all go get haircuts.
Two key points: a decision is an irrevocable commitment of resources

"You can tell when you have made a decision when you have committed resources. The extent of the decision are the resources that have been irrevocably committed–the primary resource is time, as lost time cannot be recovered. There are no “reversible decisions” in this framework, although future decisions can change the allocation of resources."

How to Frame a Business Decision

Here are key questions to answer up front. Write your answers down and share them with the team as appropriate. Even if you are the final decision maker, forcing yourself to write these down and explain them to at least one other person will help clarify your thinking. As you gain new information, update your answers to reflect what you have learned.

What is the problem you are trying to solve? What is the objective you are trying to reach or achieve?

What is the scope of the decision: what is the time frame for solving the problem or achieving your objective? What time limit is imposed on making a decision before you forfeit one or more options?

What is under your control? What people and resources can you commit or marshal and bring to bear? What else can you stop doing to free up people and resources to allocate to this problem or need?

What are other constraints on your solution or final course of action?

What organizational values need to be considered when evaluating a solution or course of action?

What options do you see for solving the problem or achieving your objective? Which of these satisfy your constraints and are congruent with your values?

Where is the uncertainty? What aspects of the problem or decision would be affected most by a change in your level of information or insight?
Aside from the particulars of this case, I feel that the whole subject of copyright is generally anti-competitive and rent-seeking, as codified in the laws and time limits being inflated grossly to suit copyright holders in the current era.

In my opinion, the argument that copyright extension incentivizes authors/creators doesn't hold much water. I generally observe that there are plenty of people willing to create and publish things with absolutely no hope of profit or legal protection, and yet we bend over backwards to extend our protections for the lucky few to the tune of the author's life + 70 years. Even more if for hire. Tell me how that's in the public interest.
Fair use is not that simple, and the original authors would most likely win a suit against such a "critique".

Typically the defense of fair use would apply to a work that excerpts from a larger work. Copying the original work in whole is going to be very hard to justify.
what's the case with async-std? Do the tokio devs have meetings with async-std regarding common problems they are facing, and is there any chance of merging those 2 projects, since in my humble opinion, seems like they solve the same problem pretty much ?

edit: my question may not be formatted correctly, but basically I am asking whether there is cooperation between the 2 projects, or they are competing each other
+1.

Continuing a lockdown of this severity makes no sense. San Francisco has only had 22 Covid deaths. A city the size of SF would be expected to see 5x as many cancer deaths as that in a normal month [1] and 7x as many heart disease deaths [2]. Instead, we're maintaining a policy that discourages people from seeking preventative treatment for these diseases on the basis that we don't want them contracting a less deadly disease.

The lockdown has proven to be excessive. The doomsday predictions have not come to pass, and we're entering a time of year that is known to be correlated with reduced rates of viral spread (Flu infection rates are 30x higher in the winter than the summer [3]). We need to get people back to work now. Social distancing should still be maintained where feasible but a blanket lockdown will cause way more harm than good.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/articles/cancer_202...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm
[3] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm
That wasn't your argument but go ahead and move the goal posts all you want.
An underwhelming argument by the blogger. Introspection about motivation and emotion is also lacking in ancient texts; should we take that to imply that people didn't introspect, or have complex emotional lives? The role of literature has changed; if I look at a corpus of C++ and fail to see mentions of trauma, should I assume that no trauma occurred in the lives of the programmers who wrote and maintained the code? No, because one does not usually talk about such things in code. And, how easy would it be to miss evidence of psychological distress when it is described as visions and visitations of demons and angels? Read medieval hagiographic literature!
Another option is to collectively create such a massive backlash that they don't dare do this again. Maybe also lots of bots flooding the tag with text that can pass automated screening but is utterly unsuitable for them to publish?
> I look back on all our HOCs and function as children and shudder compared to how easy it is with hooks.

If by "function as children" you're referring to render props, personally I was really happy to see that short-lived fad die out. I don't think render props made things simpler.

Now if we can admit we never needed Sagas just to do some data fetching maybe we can burn that stalled-out old bandwagon, too :D

(Sagas are a powerful pattern, I'm sure someone here is about to reply about how they're making good use of them. But I'd bet 99% of people using the redux-sagas library could be doing something simpler).
> You reckon everyone is willing to sacrifice health for money?

That is the essence of much blue collar / immigrant labor. You sacrifice yourself so that your broader family will be better off.
> Then why on earth is NULL being treated the same as false for the purposes of a WHERE clause.

Because, by definition, the WHERE clause returns a record when it evaluates to TRUE. FALSE and UNKNOWN are not TRUE.

Second, you absolutely can do what you're trying to here, but not the way you've done it:

SELECT CASE WHEN bar = baz THEN 'foo' ELSE 'bar' END AS corge
FROM quux

You're asking the wrong question and wondering why you're getting the wrong answer.
Well but how do you evaluate the consequences of saving the lives? After all, discussing the value of human life might be one of the oldest debates in philosophy. To take an extreme example, is being poor worse than being dead? And to that point, do we all agree that being in a democracy means that your elected representative can make that choice for you? If you're at-risk, should you feel pressured to go back to your job (at the risk of being fired)? And then if your buddy is getting paid, either by the government, or the employer for sitting at home, why should you be forced to go to work? Making a national or even state policy that tackles all those issues is going to be quite a challenge...
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I think you're right, we do need a plan, but we need trained epidemiologists and other public health figures to define that plan. Many features of disease spread are counterintuitive and we need people with training to help us, the public, understand the problem and reasonable solutions. When people like Michael Osterholm tell me that it is possible one or two million people will die in the United States, I believe him and I'm willing to go along with the plan. That said, I would like to see more clear definition of where the risk lies, how we can take small chances that have a low chance of going catastrophically wrong, and how we can responsibly try to revert to some kind of normality.
When someone comes up with a sane, sensible and actionable plan.

Waiting it out for a vaccine. Even/odd days. Provisioning of masks for everybody. Enough toilet paper to ensure basic sanitation. Enough COVID tests to effectively gauge progress or regress. Rationing. Put all unemployed Americans on the military payroll and make them take turns delivering supplies.

We could look at what any other country who has made even nominal progress with this epidemic have done, pick any single step at random and it would be one made in the right direction.

Instead we've all been told to stay home just long enough to lose our jobs, file some papers and (maybe) receive a paltry stipend, we don't even have the testing infrastructure to know how bad this really is (confirmed cases aren't increasing if the supply of tests isn't keeping up with demand!), and that isn't stopping our syphilitic warlock from telling everybody to take anti-parasitics, drink Lysol and get back out there before it affects his re-election campaign.

There is no leadership. There is no plan. There's a reason this isn't getting better, but letting nature take its course is not the solution.