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I am alos, neither a lawyer, nor a UK citizen yet, but I work in the UK, as a temporary resident. There are a lot of details that I don't know about how employment works but I am slowly learning them.

One thing that is true regardless of whether they are enforcible or not, is that these clauses are present on my employment contract, and I have signed that contract. If they are not enforcible then why are they even there, I should get them removed, but I can't just go to them and blindly ask them to remove something like this, reason why I've asked the question above.

Given the current state of my clauses, what changes could/would you do to them to remove the unenforceable parts and clarify in written and signed contract, once and for all, without any doubt remaining, that code written outside of work is my own property?

By the way, I appreciate your linked references, thank you for sharing those with me.
Australia and NZ restricted the numbers of incoming travellers and those that did arrive were forced to quarantine in hotels.

US has always been completely free to implement similar policies.
I stuck with Wells Fargo after their fraudulent account debacle, and I can attest first-hand that this will happen again, affect more people, and be only relatively as frustrating compared to the last big issue. It's when I look back on before that time that I decided to break with business after changes to Wells Fargo ACH policy in 2018.

In 2018, I was laid off, lost almost everything over five months. I had one bill on autopay that I eventually ran out of funds to pay. IIRC in June 2018, WF stopped denying repeat ACH attempts if, on the first two attempts, the funds were not available and/or WF would not choose to pay it and simply overdraw the account. Every single attempt would now process. On December 3, my account was at $490 when the $600 payment attempted, then again, and again, over and over, for 9 business days. My account was closed with a -$1,800+ balance. I lost count of the number of NSF fees by day four or five. And Wells Fargo decided to pay that payment upon closure of my account. So, I went from $490 on December 3, 2018, to owing almost $2,000 in fees to Wells Fargo two weeks later.

I'll pay it off when I can, as you know, it's still my debt, but while other banks were cutting fees, WF was changing its policies to ramp them up. I ended up in an unfortunate waltz of financial doom with them. And I had a low statistical risk of running into a problem with them because I used so few of their services. Don't leave it up to luck. When you see risky behavior, grab your money and go. They're willing to keep doing crap like this because they know most people think it would never happen to their personal accounts.
> The California High-Speed Rail Authority has long wrestled with its dependence on consultants and outside experts, with a 2018 state audit faulting the agency for being overly reliant on these private interests.

This is what I don't like with American big business: everybody hires consultants, who then subcontract consultants, who then subcontract consultants, who then subcontract consultants.

And in the end it comes to nobody knows anything, despite n-times of my annual salary being spent every few weeks.

Where are those experts really, why they are not being hired instead of the type of "experts" whose only competence is to hire another consultant?
Is it really that hard for you to believe that people like and prefer macOS??

I don’t want to move to Windows or Linux. The time sink is irrelevant. I am a software engineer and I PREFER macOS. So do my coworkers. So do many, but not all, of my friends. So does my spouse.

Many of you replying here just seem completely unable to grasp that other people exist, with other thoughts and opinions.
It's how BER is being built, so I doubt it's a good model.
This is a good point - At the end I mention some built in advantages of global, externally defined CSS and I should add the point about caching to that list. I also mention more powerful implementations of inline styles, though, like styled-components, which you can actually use to generate cachable stylesheets on the server while keeping all your CSS scoped inline.

One thing I'll go back and reword in the article is this notion that inline == style attribute. I can see how this comes across, but I'm really talking about 'inline' the pattern more than a specific implementation. Using CSS-in-JS to add styles to a style attribute is one implementation, with, as you point out, some downsides - there are others that provide more features while keeping the component-centric model.
You heard of this guy called something like "Don Trump" who had no issue continuing to get bank finance when you think they would have treated his business deals like toxic waste in a radiation dump that somone threw biohazrds all over?

I used to think that this kind of repuational thing meant something. I pick Don as one of many examples just because he's literally gone on from that situation to become the president. Banks need to make big loans. If they make you a big loan, they owe you - go go broke it matters to them. You and me, nah. They'll burn us in a heartbeat when we're financially responsible without much reputation damage to the banks either. Reputation, it's not worth anything. And that is a sad, sad realisation and do not relish sharing it.
Hahaha to be honest you are right!
Because the whole point is a worker-coop doesn't pay workers shit salaries.

Developers make as much as the CEO, CFO, CTO, etc.

Even the janitor, makes the same.
That's pretty close to how much it is. $172 million and change. The $900m figure was the total amount sent, all but the $172m has been returned, at least according to the article.
As the subjects become age appropriate:
+ logic/philosophy

+ personal finance

+ mechanical skills (home repair, auto repair, etc)

+ home skills (cooking, cleaning, etc)

+ circuits and programming

+ hunt, fish, garden, mushroom

+ politics/civics/rights (they might teach some of this in school but even then it can be biased)
If they were willing to give volunterly that wouldn't be necessary

Taxes are always taken, even if you earn 20k/year

I know that the only reason USA are born was to avoid paying taxes, but it's a bit silly to think that a billionaire cannot be asked to contribute back to help those that are in need

A billionaire

It means at least a million times a thousand dollars

1% for them is virtually nothing

Unless billionaires want to send their children to collect trash, ship Amazon packages, drive cabs, keep the house clean, defend the country in the military (funny how rich people almost always skipped it) etc. etc. then they owe to society more than society owes to them

It's that simple

To not understand it one must be mentally challenged

The funniest thing is that you're not a billionaire and would only benefit from a more just society

But you felt for the same mistake that Scott Fitzgerald made many years ago.

"The rich are different from you and me” wrote in his novella, The Rich Boy, with a sense of romantic longing.

Ernest Hemingway is said to have replied “Yes, they have more money.”

Hemingway wrote later on, in a 1936 issue of Esquire magazine, “that was not humorous to Scott. He thought that they were a special glamorous race and when he found out they weren’t, it wrecked him"

Don't be a Fitzgerald, be a Hemingway.
Which developers? There are plenty of us that don't care about UNIX.
You can have the first file in the tar archive as the "index" file
At 60 degrees the planet is nearly uninhabited for vast stretches. Ok, that would not affect sunsets. But at 66.6 degrees sunsets stop to happen depending on the time of the year. Already St. Petersburg (Russia) at 60 degrees north is famous for their white nights. At 30.000 ft it's worse. So not convinced about spectacular sunsets, I would expect continuous twilight.

I live at 64 degrees and sunsets take "forever" and are mostly boring compared to at more southerly locations.
When an application turns out to be malicious, Apple can remotely disable it by invalidating the developer certificate globally.

This is how some mac viruses were stopped; the developer license was retracted, making the executables hard to open in the background, slowing the spread or even killing the virus during its infection track.

It also maintains Apple as the administrator of your computer. You may have paid Apple for your laptop, but it is Apple who decides what you can and cannot execute. Options to work around the blocks Apple throws up are reduced and made harder with every new release. I predict that eventually all binaries will need to have Apple's blessing or be signed with a corporate certificate, just like on iOS. It's still years away, but the direction Apple is taking this is obvious.
Is it just me or is this window getting smaller and smaller every month?
>This makes me wonder how open source is supposed to work on macOS.

It isn't. Apple's view of the world is that computer users are non-technical consumers who need to be protected from others and themselves, and that Apple are the ones to offer that protection. Open source is antithetical to this view because it puts the responsibility on the user, which is the last thing Apple wants.

I can sympathize to some extent with this view. There's obviously a large (perhaps majority) share of computer users who it describes - just not small/independent developers/hackers. Those users are better served elsewhere.
How about this you have a mortgage on a house for 3 million and lender is worried you will stop paying maybe because you missed some payments.

Now you schedule a bill pay at your bank for back payments
to your lender and your bank messes up and pays off the entire mortgage with their money.

The lender then recieves a lump sum payment from you which pays off the mortgage and they are happy.
Sure but if I lend you $1000 and then you leave your wallet at my house by accident with $1000 in it while going out drinking and overdrawing your checking account it’s not quite so clear cut is it.
Small but non zero for death.

There seem to be other nasty long term effects that are mostly unknown.

The idea that kids don't get or spread covid is not supported by evidence. They seem to get less symptoms, but there isn't enough evidence to say they don't get or spread it. Some studies suggest they are more likely to get and spread it, but there isn't enough to make strong statements yet
I knocked something up. It might be a bit too trivial but I’ll let you judge: https://github.com/mcapodici/badlanguage
What tool do you use for documenting your deployment architecture?
Linux disk cache – When and when not to worry
On the other hand, without the billionaires and millionaires crowding into manhattan, it might give ordinary people a shot at ever owning property in New York.

Unless you're in a cushy rent-protected situation, all the municipal services in the world don't mean jack when you get kicked out because you can't afford it. And manhattan stopped being affordable a long time ago, with large parts of the other boroughs well under way to the same.
There's no simplicity in tar. Even reading the file size is a guesswork. It's a baroque format with weird short-sighted decisions patched and extended in ad-hoc ways by multiple subtly incompatible implementations.
Both theories are somewhat incomprehensible for normal human beings. The idea, that everythinw we know just came into existence at some point is as shocking as trying to think of something that has no beginning and no end. We humans are inherently bad in dealing with these terms.
His wife is denied access to Navalny, because he didn't allowed it (because he is in coma, welcome to Russia)
How do you know it wasn’t the IT system that caused the problem?
You could set limits on yearly credits that can be earned. To keep it fair and balanced. Like maybe 40 hours * 52 weeks, so that you can't exceed what a normal employee would get. Employees, can get 2x that much, cause they can also double dip by investing their own $$.
or, you know, spend couple of days installing local instance and NEVER EVER pay AWS per Chat message/per minute/Per Day/and additional service usage bills.
Ask HN: Source of an Van Emde Boas Tree Layout for Binary Search Trees impl
Hi all,

where can I find the source code (preferably in Java or Kotlin) for a Van Emde Boas Tree Layout? As it's the best layout for arranging a static binary tree and even for an updatable binary tree I wanted to see a "real world" implementation.

It's also okay to find an implementation in another language.

kind regards
Johannes
Building a Hotel Recommendation Model
Does the US have open borders with 30 countries ? Or is it just 2 which are closed.

And the behaviour of people in societies are determined by (a) leadership and (b) policies of the various levels of government. That is where the US clearly has failed.
Ah yes, I am sure the authors are aware of it. And i am sure they tried to ask animals first and then settled on human interpretation as second best option.
The real insight will come when you realize every very large scale financial institution you do business with will retain your money without hesitation or remorse if they feel they have the legal right to do it.
> yourself shaving, you might die and no doctor could help

In my parts of the world (Eastern Europe) often times the barber was also the doctor and the dentist (was called "felcer).
Epidemiologists these days regularly talk about excess deaths (from Covid-19). Those are deaths that exceed the expected (or normal) death rate.
You obviously don’t own any of these devices.

Seamless means I can call or text from any of my devices. Switch a phone call audio from my laptop, to my phone, to my AirPods. Go for a run and stream music from my watch directly to my AirPods, without my phone. Unlock my laptop with my watch. Confirm a password from the keychain with my watch. Pull up a browser tab from my phone. Share a clipboard between all my devices with zero setup. On and on and on.
This issue is to a large extent addressed by Terraform Cloud.
Canada uses metric system yet all of the problems are the same.
He was talking about JVM specifically, part of the benefit of WASM is portability, CLR is getting better in this regard with .net core but that's a recent development (I don't see how phone VMs compare)

CLR also has an object model and a memory model that's not very friendly to unmanaged languages, hence C++/CLI, and the runtime is not very lightweight for embedding purposes
Very cool!

> binsort <dir> | tar -T- --no-recursion -czf out.tar.gz

> Binsorting the distribution of abiword 2.8.6 (44029103 bytes in 3391
files) on a quadcore CPU takes approx. 12s, and produces a tar.gz
more than 14% smaller than without processing.

14% is an amazing improvement.
A few setup for cars adds up, which is why cars are a single color. If the robot had some artistic sense it could put stripes on the car that artfully flows with the lines of the car. No reason it can't be done today, but it isn't because that is more hours.

I believe most car parts are paint everything and don't worry about over spray which brings costs down. That only works if you have a single color.
Moreover his wife passport with stamp of marriage is not enough to prove marriage, she must provide certificate of marriage(welcome to Russia).
In your opinion, what is making it less attractive?
Mountain Time Is the Best Time Zone in America
> In China (put aside all the political issues at the moment), they were building elevated track to the tune of something like a mile a day at the peak. (On the order of that magnitude -- elevated! Not even just plain track on bare earth)

> What does that produce? A rail-building skilled workforce (10,000+ engineers) that has lots of practice, expertise, and templates to stamp out that stuff like it's their business. Here, we do this now, what, once per decade?

Economies of scale, and "economies of knowledge" are a very sensible argument when it comes to operating a fleet of expensive capital equipment, or capital intensive building projects.

Take a look on Emirates Airlines. They are the only company in the world who made money on their Airbus A380. Why? They operates 100+ of them.

Same with HSR in China, not tricks involved. Though it's still a heavily subsidised, loss making business, but their "core" service in between major cities makes quite a lot of money.
also I was not aware that governmen corruption was a bottom-up problem
This isn’t about not wanting to pay. It’s about being forced to use a tool in spite of much better possible alternatives. If apple allowed SSL-style certification, I’m sure cheaper and better alternatives (similar to LetsEncrypt) would prop up.
Approximately nowhere does this. It wastes a lot of the capacity of the line and requires you to build wider right at the most expensive part of the line (the stations, which are hopefully in city centres), plus it sacrifices a lot of the convenience advantages of rail.
There're several products already in the market.
I have tried some of them and the problem is the generated code is messy and hard to maintain.
> I really don't understand what Ellison is trying to accomplish here?

Appeasing Trump?

> Aside from making more money, of course

He can push Trump to lower the price, with the force of the United States Government behind it, then flip it to Microsoft for twice the price in 3 months when Trump loses the election.
To each their own. You should use what you like.
This is a nice example of what a logician calls a false cause: your conclusion (definition of outrageous) isn't supported by your premise (how much you used to pay for kit).

It's also a straw man, since I was talking about an OS developer wanting to publish their software, and you're attempting to sink it by portraying it as referring to a consumer wanting free stuff.

The subject of your conclusion, 'current generations', is also so vague as to be redundant. Current generations who are alive? Generations of 21st century? Of modernity? Of the West?

I'm afraid this is not a very good HN post.
Your surgical mask reduces your risk of getting covid by about 30%.

Your N95 mask reduces your risk of getting covid by about 99.9%.

Why even wear a surgical mask?

Anyway, I think the issue with going to the beach isn’t the part where you play in the open air on the beach. It’s where a bunch of people go to a beach house and drink a bunch of beer in a small room.
Unless you're using PaX, isn't the file size just a fixed-size field in the header? Is there something I'm missing?
Yes, this happens and it does cause slowdowns[1]. It can take several seconds to check an application if you're on a very slow internet connection.

The same happens on Windows through SmartScreen, but you can easily turn that off[2] at least. As far as I know, you can't disable this on macOS.

[1]: https://sigpipe.macromates.com/2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-d...
[2]: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5593-turn-off-smartscree...
That... makes a lot of sense to me. Probably even going away from a simple upvote/downvote towards a 1-5 star rating system would help as well. In the end we're interested in the quality of the tool (and the number of ratings).
Indeed, it's a valid argument for those who are proper adults and can handle their live. But it's an invalid argument for those who need support even on that level if living. Bureaucracy is more often build to give those support who need it, even if they don't think so, as they have different goals than society. It's major problem and basically unsolvable.

> This is sort of along the same lines of the observation that just providing housing to homeless people is cheaper than incarcerating them, and provides better outcomes.

Does it?

> Of course there is something about this that people instinctively don't like

It's not just instinct, it's often also experience and understanding things on a greater scale. At least in germany it seems many who work in social services and hotspots are against UBI simply because they see how bad certain people can't handle their live even with all that help given.
You made the mistake of thinking it's your device. It's Facebook's device, you just payed to use it.
PCI DSS Requirements and Managing Payment Card Processing Vulnerabilities
Small nitpick: * will miss hidden files.

-print is also unnecessary.

Simply use

find |
> They just tatooed "Dear Banks please don't do business with us ever again" on their foreheads

So have George Soros and Carl Icahn.
> Users are able to identify when something is valuable to them.

I strongly disagree with this. Users are just responding to dopamine sensors that have triggers that they don't understand. "Value" extracted can be detrimental to a person's well-being, even if they chose it for themselves. Gambling addicts at casinos, obese people at fast food restaurants, pay-to-win whales and the newest version of Candy Crush. Reddit is just a casino where you gamble with your time and win addicting emotions like novelty and outrage.
The universe always having always existed makes slightly more sense to me than it just popping out of nowhere. Sure, from the Big Bang onwards the inflation theory seemed to make sense but it didn’t explain how everything could magically erupt out of nothing or what caused said eruption when nothing existed prior to it. For all the crap that religions get for believing in nonsense, I always felt the Big Bang was a scientific parallel.
What are the energy requirements and emissions for just building the vehicle? I've heard rumours that it's non-negligible when considering total emissions that a car will have caused.
this is my go-to comparison of different compression algorithms [0]

TL;DR zstd is faster, smaller and has a wider range than gzip. For maximum compression, plzip seems to be the best.

[0] https://community.centminmod.com/threads/round-4-compression...
A person can workout on the cheap though, and still gain strength and mass. A few kettlebells and a pull up bar can deliver a crushing workout to even the most in fit person. Kettlebells in particular are easily portable.
Basically torture
You're right of course but I find the cyclic version so much more intuitive.

The force from the big bang was imparted in an instant yet gravity is a constant force. IANAP but surely at some point the accumulative force of billions/trillions/... of years of gravity overcomes the force imparted by the big bang and the universe compresses into a singularity again?

I'd really appreciate someone explaining why this isn't obviously the case.
Psiphon Uncensored Internet Access
You definitely can do the same with Kubernetes too, just that the scope is too large and it doesn't have a good reputation with rolling updates of controlplane.

> Do you end up with a "meta-kubernetes" to deploy kubernetes clusters and migrate services between them?

Congratulations, you just discovered the ClusterAPI
That's a surgical mask. N95's protect the wearer from most particles (the 95th percentile in size).
As a former casual drinker, I found drinking water alongside any other drink completely makes me forget I ever drank the night before. Hydration does wonders for me.
I cannot thank enough for this port :)
I find it interesting that everyone is presuming this is an accident.

If something like this were to happen in cyberpunk RPG the players would assume that with a billion dollars on the line the hedge fund had either hired a hacker or suborned a Citibank employee in order to make certain they got paid. (As a hedge fund, lawyering up to hang onto the money once you have it is comparatively cheap.