skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. There's probably a free market argument (though I wouldn't make it) that banning non-competes prevents two parties from willingly coming to a mutual agreement. But there are obviously limitations to the agreements we allow parties to make. And there are significant power asymmetries with respect to employment agreements.
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Annoyingly, the higher standard of living comes with a very high carbon footprint. We need to empower women and lower living standards.
The term "Europe" is often used synonymously with "European Union" here, and that's what it means in this context.
ok, now compete with china and india where they only care about profit, not the environment
I'm more worried about how it's revealed how much of the us governance was run essentially on the honor system. Did it never occur to the framers that a popular corrupt president could completely end-run around the judicial branch by pardoning everybody on their speed dial? The rule of law has been completely castrated.
Unless you need to win more votes than your opponent.

I don't think you can generalize politics and startups in the same breath with an aphorism.

We are in a rather polarized political climate, so being a bit more extreme does seem to get you more attention and maybe more votes than being more centrist. But the 2020 U.S. Presidential election actually refuted this statement in the article:

> ...in the same way that any major politician sticking to a pre-2016 playbook today is almost certainly not going to win.

Biden was much more centrist/bi-partisan (in his messaging) than any of the other potential Democrat candidate, but he won the popular and electoral votes.
In the Python community it is a pretty well known implementation.
A lot of what they talk about also conflates security with anonymity. While it may be good advice for connecting to coffee shop WiFi on your laptop, for a secure network, being able to tell who performed an action is less of a security hazard and more like a security requirement.
This is along the same lines, but something people don’t often think about when using and naming queues.

https://www.brightball.com/articles/organizing-background-wo...
Why would it matter in this discussion?
Whitespace is just something to get used to I think. It's a higher barrier for some people though, I agree.
The light emitted by said object would get more and more red-shifted. That's a consequence of "time would appear to pass slower and slower".
Oh, I love this. My native tongue is Lithuanian, which doesn't have such power swear words, compared to Russian or English. I live in the UK, so all the public swearing is done in English. At home, I switch to Russian swear words,even though we only speak Lithuanian or Engish in our family.
There are plenty of smart people in Texas, of course. However, it may be difficult to attract scientific-minded employees to a location where their kids will be taught on a curriculum that rejects science in some regards.

That also hints at the larger culture clash that may result from the "liberal elites" moving to the area. If this migration does happen it'll be interesting to see how the culture in Texas changes.
Most of the paper assumes zero fuel and maintenance costs
Just FYI, QALYs/DALYs are considered an unethical measure by the European Union, and they have asked governments to abandon its use. One of the reasons why is because it is a simple, linear calculation that values abled-bodies’ lives over disabled people. That is basically the entire premise of the measure, too. It is a human rights issue.

Unfortunately countries like the UK, Canada, and Australia routinely use it. The UK does so especially, and it is well embedded in its NICE guidelines. In the US, this practice was generally abandoned with the passing of the Affordable Care Act. The US system, certainly is the most problematic system of all, though.
> Ukraine he was acquitted of after being charged as a sitting president.

Not in a court.

During the proceedings no one ever actually argued he didn't do it they just aren't going to vote against their own man.

> "Attempting to subvert the democratic process" is terminology that doesn't mean anything

Poor argument.
> Both Android and Jolla are also Linux based

AFAIK the kernel plays practically no role in how a browser works.
It makes sense as long as forward and backward compatibility are maintained perfectly. If a future version of the runtime breaks something in your application you suddenly lose a lot of the value of this kind of packaging. Ditto if you make an application that uses features only available in the latest runtime.
No it isn't. It's only the default on OSX last time I checked.
Hi! That’s just a video playing on a loop taking you through the various screens. The “image gallery” is just showing our work item screen and then it jumps to some other screens. Thanks for the feedback though! It may be that this isn’t clear enough
The paper is available here if anyone's interested: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Too bad he can't understand a word of what is written in the award ... even if it was written in Portuguese.
Funny thing is their not using texas science. Just because a company is stationed in texas doesn't mean they adhere to nonsense like creationism.
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Love seeing Pixelfed mentioned here. I've thought of it as an Instagram replacement but if it's practical as a Google photos alternative that's an added bonus.
14%. Do you think they should burn the cows to make steel, instead? :o)
Though institutions also got this award in the past, it seems the OCCRP would dare not mention the Chinese Communist Party that is definitely better suited for this year's award. Our chinese overlords (they are buying our country, Brazil) must be happy we and the rest of the world have people like Bolsonaro to blame for all our problems, despite not even once being formally accused, while they silently trample on our future and our dreams.
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[0] https://www.nlo.eu/en/news/comparing-apples-and-pears
... payable in vouchers for free concerts that don't actually exist, and coupons for $2 off expedited shipping of paper tickets.

(I'm bitter, but that wasn't hyperbole - that was the actual award of their last class action settlement for fixing the consumer market)
I remember using iTunes solely for the purpose of ripping CDs. It was pretty much one of the best tools for the job, at the time.
Alt+/ is the magical shortcut that makes this easy, you can simply search a font name and hit enter.
Perhaps they (or Hyundai) won't, but someone else for sure will.
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Yes, I would not dream of being able to compete with these juggernauts. Also, my use-case is for low overhead, low latency work - so I want to be able to have a VM ready to go in the time it usually takes linux to modify page tables!

So, it's a bit of a weird project in that way. Not your usual emulator. Ultimately it's a hobby project, though.

I actually tried to implement the tiniest KVM machine I could, and it wouldn't start in less than 1ms, which is an eternity for me. I also seem to remember that you need 2 file descriptors at minimum: 1 for the vCPU and the other for the VM itself.
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Damn, I use this feature everyday for the chat window at my job... It works wonders with i3WM/SwayWM and it's the best way to get a webapp in a independent wayland compatible window.
i cant wait for the us gov to tax me in order to spend 2x the cost for "carbon free" steel in a building project in a state i dont live in, tied to some other critical legislation that is to important to not pass!
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In the end it depends on what you want to predict from your assumptions that tell you whether it’s okay to assume a ball is round or the roughness matters.

Would you call a golf ball round? Depends. If you want to calculate how a golf ball travels upon being hit by a golf club, then you’re going to get more predictive results if you consider the dimples in the golf ball.

If you only want to calculate the number of balls you can fit in a bag, by all means ignore the roughness.

Just as in the flat earth debate: it’s perfectly reasonable to assume flat earth when planning your bike trip, but the assumption breaks down when you want to fly large distances.

For me it is all about knowing which models and abstractions are useful in which contexts rather than philosophising what is “real”.
Paid off how?
There are enough engineers posting here from well paid FAANG roles to fund this effort...
7% of all carbon emissions come from steel production. This article poses it could be reduced to zero. It's not the largest source of CO2, but it's still significant, so if it shouldn't be everyone's priority, it should be someones priority, so it's good that it's Mitsubishi Heavy's priority.
My reference shows 1% at 30km/h. But even 1% is too high. But luckily you also usually get a chance to scrub off some speed through braking. Braking follows a square law, so driving a little bit slower gains a massive difference in stopping distances.
For sure, but it's not used as much on user Arm machines compared to server applications, which Apple doesn't have much of a stake in ATM.
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The A689 is the only coast-to-coast road (more or less) - Hartlepool to Carlisle. It runs through the North Pennines and is very scenic in the middle (albeit a little desolate).
Probably written by the "If man were meant to fly God would have given _him_ wings" crowd.
Also, while human labor is cheap and energy-efficient it's not ok to have slaves anymore, so multi-purpose robots will surely have niches to fill.
I am also trying digiKam this week. Sadly the face recognition is unusable. For example I tagged one photo with Name1 and many other photos with other names. But it always suggests Name1.
I think people aren’t blaming HTML5, but the people who said that HTML5 would do everything flash can do.

Like you said, that’s a bad comparison since they’re fundamentally different things. And killing flash without a replacement for the studio existing leaves a hole where it used to be. And it may be possible that Flash was a product of its time, and such a well integrated studio isn’t going to be made again for decades.

Which isn’t to say that Flash didn’t need to die. The security issues existed and I suspect that Adobe would have slowly killed it from neglect regardless. But HTML5 is not a replacement for what Flash was.
I should've included this sentence that follows. Essentially the market freedom is more important than individual companies, but noncompete agreements put companies above the market.

> Ultimately, the market is more important than the prerogatives of any particular company.
Kinda dropped the part where it says: if not apocryphal. Meaning: hard to believe. Not saying they KNOW it’s not true.
The relative simplicity of the language is a feature. I can imagine introducing Nim to embedded/microcontroller firmware developers that only know/use C99 now. I cannot imagine introducing Rust - while a great language, it is C++ level complexity - and that is not always warranted.
I think that you description of exactly once messaging is inaccurate

> This is the holy grail of messaging, and also the fountain of a lot of snake-oil.

Exactly once message delivery is quite possible with messaging systems that support transactions. When combined with other transactional resources (e.g. database) and a distributed transaction monitor, exactly once messaging works well and is rock solid reliable. The grand-daddy of message brokers IBM MQ is absolutely capable of exactly once messaging.
I personally wouldn't use a client that relies on a third-party. There is an argument that it might be necessary for some features to work on mobile, but on desktop there's absolutely no excuse.

Here's a no-BS email client that doesn't have this issue: https://freron.com
> or simply something that is not directly correlated with the product itself (Uber...)

Uber was initially named Ubercab. They changed it when regulators began to treat them like a cab company.

> You can also try with word alterations such as Lift > Lyft, Scribble > Skribbl, Domainer > Domainr, Engine X > nginx.

This creates the inconvenience of always having to specify the spelling when you tell someone about it for the first time. It's similar to having a number in your domain name, you always need to specify if it's spelled out or it's the digits.

Naming is difficult.
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This brings up a good point, which is that Excel supports localization, while Python just assumed you know English.
Will that teach me transformers too?
I don't see anything useful about non competes when NDAs and IP laws exist, other than to restrict the talent pool.

I've been bounded by non competes before and I can tell you it really restricts your job mobility, especially if you're specialized, since only direct competitors can benefit from your skill. Even harder if you're on a work visa which is linked to your specialization. This is the primary method to keep salaries down in competitive markets.

Not a lawyer but sometimes I wonder if they are even constitutionally valid, considering you are restricting someone's freedom to do something in the future.
> Why would you ever want to run CPU bound tasks in python? ... But most of the widely used stuff in python already has underlying compiled code for the heavy lifting.

Haven't you just answered your own question? We know that people want to run CPU bound tasks in Python so much that they went to the effort of writing native modules because they couldn't do it in Python.

> python's lackluster concurrency support

This is a common misconception - Python actually has fully concurrent threads already.
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Not sure if this is also a limitation of Snowflake. But ULIDs are only unique down to a certain timescale. (milliseconds I believe)
If every industry and government has someone else to look to as being "even worse" then that's a recipe for gridlock and nothing changing. This is important progress.
In the same way Canada and Mexico are technically both part of America despite not being part of the USA, this is a reasonably well understood linguistic shortcut.
I increasingly find positions about flash are not based in first hand experience, believing ones experiences summarizes all experiences, or anecdotal knowledge based in popular belief about what we heard about something but might not have used ourselves.

With all the progress in tooling, it's completely reasonable that more and more folks might not remember how broken browser compatibility was between multiple browsers on the same computer in the age of Flash. It was nothing like today with shared engines and even shared runtimes like Webassembly. Browsers were young, at war and didn't lean towards being compatible on their HTML interpretation.

I spent as much time focusing on HTML compatibility, if not more, as Flash pains.

Flash helped cover some and even smooth of those gaps between web browsers where the same features didn't exist in each browser, or they did not implement HTML tags, or even Javascript in the same way.

Flash based technologies like Flex and Air really shed some light on what rich internet applications could do, and it's one area where HTML5 and JS have been able to provide some alternatives and evolution.

From a mobile perspective, it seemed like flash couldn't do much there...the same until I discovered Flash Lite. It quietly powered the GUI on many more devices than I ever imagined in its time.

Nokia adopted it and it was quietly embedded in far more devices to provide custom functionality than I realized around the world. It makes me consider Steve Jobs letter against flash at a time when he was also against custom apps and app stores in a different light.

Flash lite even appeared to power the internet channel on the Nintendo Wii.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Lite

Much of my flash exposure was to integrating with educational content, and in that way I has a direct exposure to many of the things thst simply weren't possible in its time. It wasn't perfect by any means, but I think today's environment of tools takes for granted how few tools there were during Flash. I truly had to create identical experiences in multiple browsers, and where avaikable, operating systems.

I also worry that new closed digital experience tools are simply trying to replace Flash with another closed garden.

Flash in some small ways delivered on the write one deploy anywhere promise made by Java, but for the average user. This should not be diminished in its age of Java applets, and many security issues with alternatives as well.

Flash helped me get my start and imagine and help deliver interactive digital experiences in a time when everyone was anchored in compact disc based rich experiences. Flash, and broadband internet helped move mountains forward.

I still look forward to find the set of solutions that completely replace what flash could do. While a closed source tool, it was uniquely democratizing and accessible.
Krugman was being sardonic here, along the lines of “assume a spherical cow”. The whole introduction is dripping with sarcasm. The paper was partially intended as a satire.
Granted, it's an oversimplification but I wouldn't call it a misrepresentation. It's one of the (arguably key) things that make quantum algorithms work.

To quote Nielsen & Chuang (section 1.4.2 on page 30):

> Quantum parallelism is a fundamental feature of many quantum algorithms. Heuristically, and at the risk of over-simplifying, quantum parallelism allows quantum computers
to evaluate a function f(x) for many different values of x simultaneously. In this section we explain how quantum parallelism works, and some of its limitations.

Then they go on and explain how e.g. the Deutsch–Jozsa algorithm is a good example of this. But I think it's a key component in Shor's algorithm as well when it comes to the period-finding step.
Correct. This is basically the premise of why QALYs/DALYs are an inappropriate measure in this particular case. Although, the measure in general is unethical.
AlphaFold is an important advance, and it is laughable that the author is dismissing it citing NP-hardness. That's like dismissing SAT solver advances because SAT is NP-complete, which is nonsense, and demonstrates severe lack of understanding of NP-hardness issues.
So much of that book just goes over my head while I didn't have that problem with ESL. I don't know if it's Murphy's writing style or just the way he approaches the topic but I found his book significantly more difficult to process.
For those interested, "The 8-bit guy" did a video series about tech companies in Texas which was insightful and had a couple of surprising things, so the capability is there in some form already.
systemd has a strong track record of finding and fixing security issues and getting the CVE published. This is important if you want to consider "secure software" and getting things resolved in a timely manner.

People focus on the attack surface, but most of it is local exploits where the threat model is "someone has shell on your box".
I figure if the operator is doing something illegal, they might also risk not running an ID.

I also wonder how the IDs will work, are they just written on the drone or do they need to have transponders like aircraft? I feel like transponders are the only way they could effectively enforce the rules.
This thread is from before EBS (Elastic Block Store) existed, and long before S3 Storage Gateway existed. It doesn't seem to have much relevance today.
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It was my understanding that the risk to terrestrial life from alien life contamination was essentially zero because there’s no reason to think they would have evolved to be able to infect anything on earth.
My earlier post inspired me to push one of my Literate Programming, if inauspicious, projects to my public github.

https://github.com/AndrewOwenMartin/nestor

This repo implements an all-but-unknown ANN called NESTOR, but you can use it as an example of how it would be relatively easy for someone who knows nothing (or has forgotten everything) about NESTOR to contribute to the project. I make no claims that it is a good example of such.
Support for PWAs is much better in recent versions of iOS than it was before.

It looks like Apple is moving toward kicking all the "websites in a native wrapper" stuff out of the App Store, so PWA may well be the future.
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hear hear. capitalism already works in solar’s favour and the moment solar+storage become cheaper than coal the energy sector will switch almost instantly.

with other sectors we need governments still to make the transition
Fossil ivory trade was significant for Siberians for centuries, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory#Alternative_sources

I think you underestimates the difficulty to travel across Siberia: almost no roads, no trains, few and scattered inhabitants, thousands of km of steppe in all directions... Huge parts of the country are basically only accessible by helicopter (which is extremely expensive). In fact they even used an heavy helicopter to bring back a whole mammoth to Moscow a few years ago.
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It's not like we can observe light from near the horizon anyway. An active black hole is a hellish place to observe anything.

What observations we have come from gravitational waves.
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Stick to your knitting?

Anyone whose been in Dallas in August when it's been 110 degrees with humidity at 80 percent 3 days in a row knows why Texas cannot become ... anything but Texas.

Silicon Valley was not an intentional construct. It was a happy, chance collection of attributes that were combined geographically and then allowed to evolve for, now, 100 years. The Valley's seeds were planted in the 1920s when the Stanford-graduated, radio-enthusiast, electrical engineer sons of John Osborne Varian[0] patented the vibrating magnetometer. You you might consider John Osborne Varian the 'father' of Silicon Valley. His sons, Russell and Sigurd Varian, were compatriots of Philo Farnsworth and later invented the Klystron and founded Varian Associates.

Radio technology, a key player in WWII, guided military dollars to Silicon Valley. And then, Shockley established the semiconductor industry. Happenstance again due to Shockley being an alum of Bell Labs, and born in Palo Alto.

The point is, it was chance that the Varians and the Shockleys were from a region that included Stanford University. And to some extent the weather may have played a part in their decisions to locate their companies there. The seeds were planted as a matter of chance and then allowed to grow, mature and evolve for now 100 years. Moreover, I'd contend that the rate of growth in influence (how would you measure it?) of Silicon Valley is greater than anywhere on the planet, meaning, there is no region that is closing the gap.

Texas is a great state. It has awesome people, a large space industry including NASA, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, the real Texas Barbecue, a great University system, and a significant high-tech industry. But it cannot be, and should not strive to be Silicon Valley. It should strive to be the place that it has the most natural advantage give it's history, resources, and strengths.

To put it succinctly, Texas should not strive to become Silicon Valley any more than Silicon Valley should strive to become Madison Avenue, Hollywood, Las Vegas, Paris, Milan, ...

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Osborne_Varian