skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In California, you are free to make contributions on your own time with your own computer, and those rights can't be contracted away. You are not a slave.

If you do that and your contract gets terminated for "unrelated" reasons, what can you do in California to fight this?

TBH people are missing the point here. Employment is a "trust" thing. If your future employer tells you they don't want you doing that in your free time, you are free to pursue other opportunities.

But if you accept, and then they find out you did not keep your word, you won't keep your job for long even if you say "but the law allows this", because the employer can just say "but we don't trust you anymore", and that's it.

If you don't want to accept these terms, don't accept them. But accepting them to break them is not great.
Their own app is down too https://manage.auth0.com/
Will mRNA tech eventually become something synthesized at point of care and possibly be used therapeutically?
Barmy? I've not listened since his move to Spotify. What's happened?
There are probably exceptions but the intersection between towns with a lot of nice restaurants, cultural amenities, etc. and towns that don't have any real tourist presence for at least part of the year is pretty much the null set. The reality is that the small towns that probably most appeal to many people here are somewhat unnatural constructs.
My understanding is the lead pipes over many many years had an internal coating of biofilm and minerals that happens in all plumbing systems. The biofilm and mineral coating protected the water from lead contamination, it created a liner so to speak.

Then Flint decided to save money by changing water sources from Lake Huron to the Flint river which changed many properties of the water including ph. This relatively abrupt change caused the biofilm and mineral coating to weaken and expose the lead of the pipes to the water.

So are lead pipes at fault or the sudden change in water chemistry? Water chemistry changes are well know to cause these issues, the water quality chemist in most jurisdictions will be aware of the potential issues, not sure if they were ignored.

IMO the pipes should have been changed out long ago, but that doesn't absolve the decision makers from the issues caused by changing water sources to save money without consideration for the side effects.
I'd like to add that it is France who controls Chad's currency policy with CFA francs [1]. Some people say it's a modern mean for wealth extraction from Africa.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFA_franc
Interlude: Game Protocols
They caught up with the two people in this recently, they're still doing well (albeit not much raving nowadays :) )
Death isn't the only negative outcome of covid. We're seeing a relatively high rate of long-term damage caused by low-level symptoms. If we can reduce those symptoms with a (perhaps annual) shot, then covid turns into the "just a cold" that we were all hoping it would be
Title changed does nothing dang, a youtube free expression award is paradoxical and ironic even before they awarded to themselves and by themselves I mean the CEO
It makes sense to have watchers to watch the watchers because their respective job descriptions are different. One's task is to watch for "bad actors" and the other's job it to watch for bias within rendered judgments. Those are two different tasks requiring two different microskill sets and bodies of experience. Exemplars at each task may also represent two different personality types.
The "Building Microservices" book, which used to be the goto book for microservices suggests on page 31 to page 38 that bounded domains are a good model for microservices.

The main difference between SOA and microservices is dump pipes vs smart pipes. Not service size. As explained in that book.

Most people trying to implement microservices seem to have not read much about them outside of blogs.
I hear this all the time about other fields -- "there is a shortage welders" etc. But these jobs are 30-hours tops, or only for 8 months, or similarly limited, and often located in places like rural Missouri, where there is no overflow housing and nothing to do.

For 50/hr -- yeah maybe. I'll be bored as shit and living in a shed, but that's decent money. But for 25/hr? Screw that, I'll pick up a side job here or something.
They are low value workers. They don’t get job security. That’s the reality of it. They are replaceable with people with no experience. They have to understand that. There’s no job security to waiters either or Uber drivers. Just because they work in a datacenter doesn’t mean they deserve more money for a low value job.

If they want a full time job, they need to elevate themselves. Educate yourself, get a degree, find a new job, become management etc. Lots of paths to job security. Just because people want job security doesn’t mean they deserve it.
By that logic, shouldn't you also through that same sense of decency and civic duty donate to prevent starvation? How is it morally decent to live in an expensive city while that money could prevent others from dying?

In fact, instead of taking that vaccine shouldn't you give it to a school teacher or hospital worker in a country that doesn't yet have the vaccine?

This 'moral obligation' nonsense sounds good at face value but really doesn't hold up in practice.
Yeah I don't think the person you're replying to has any experience in building control systems. I used to be an energy engineer and I would predict sub-floor heating owners will have no real issues here.
It's a way better title indicating the corporate sponsored nature of the award and the blatant conflict of interest on the award committee and Youtube.
> health insurance and how it's tied to employment

Without getting too political, I really feel like untying health insurance from employment would transform the labor market and encourage far more entrepreneurial endeavors. People could take more risks if they didn't have to worry about losing healthcare coverage.

There are obvious tradeoffs involved, but I really never see this aspect considered in public debate. Making healthcare independent of employment really empowers people to do their own thing.
> The thing is, what the "best" tool is, is relative to your requirements.

Yes I agree, but I think my point still stands :)
I've been thinking a bit since the last article from the author on Internal Consistency [1] on HN [2] on how to stress test a framework, or an application written on it.

The problem is: it is hard to know in advance what kind of pressures your production system will be submitted to.

I think the right approach would be Jepsen-like: generate inputs and delay them by inconveniently crafted amounts. Maybe take a look at the execution graph to infer what to delay (for example Rows that will be joined further down the graph). One could implement dedicated operators for DataStreams; and for SQL some bytecode could be injected in Flink's Operator.processElement to add delays.

[1] https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/internal-consistency-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26851803
That's an interesting trend for Europe. In the US physical bookstores have thrived over the past decade. I can't remember the last place I was - small town or large city - that didn't have a normal physical bookstore filled with actual books, as was common 30 years ago.
Totally worth it!

And going from "Granny Knot" to "Ian Knot" is actually a lot simpler than relearning the correct way to tie the normal knot. I tried that first ... but relearning the exact same finger movements but mirrored was not possible for me.

I also use his "Secure Knot" [1] when hiking ... although my SO ridicules me for tying shoes with the bunny ears technique :-)

[1] https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm
Well actually... If they know that someone is shitting around with de-auth frames, they probably will find out in no-time (I'm the only one around this block that is known to have knowledge of anything tech related).
I've been on a cowon J3, and their S9 (but its slider/switches wear out) before that. Both are discontinued. The SanDisk Clip series is alright as a spare device but they just don't have the battery capacity so I consider them high maintenance.

Recently I got a used single samsung galaxy bud, and have been using my phone. The touch controls on the earbud work through my fingered gloves. Wind noise is an issue though. I might try something like https://www.cat-ears.com to block the wind without making it hot.
Votes currently stand at 34 likes to 11,000 dislikes. Is that a record low ratio on a video with a non-trivial amount of votes?
Possibly, but someone still needs to do the work of the aggregation and QC.
I read that the ancient Romans also used lead pipes. They too knew it had horrific health effects, and they used it anyway: lead is cheap, and the government was corrupt. Plus ça change...
That's called a warlord.

Or if you want to be romantic about it: a knight, or samurai. There are many periods of history where warlords ruled by shear might and took to the battlefields personally.

If you rule by military strength, then it is customary to also take to the battlefield. That's why the samurai class, knights, etc. etc. were on the battlefield. They were expected to personally enter battle as part of their political power.

Turns out: having a bunch of warriors as leaders isn't the best political style. Not by a long shot.

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In any case, Agincourt remains the perfect example of that. The Armagnac decided to fight the English invasion. The Burgundians remained neutral.

Then the Armagnacs were virtually wiped out in the battle of Agincourt, allowing the Burgundians to basically take over France and win the Armagnac vs Burgundian civil war.

The Armagnacs died, defending their values. Since they died, the victory goes to other parties.

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> political class that are personally at risk from their policies and decisions.

Note: with their heavy armor, superior training and armed guards... Knights weren't really the ones personally at risk in most battles.

The unarmored peasants who fought under them, too poor for fancy armor. Too poor for nourishment (much smaller and weaker than a nobleman due to malnutrition). The peasants were at highest risk in any case.

Agincourt was unusual in that the political class died as part of the battle. Normally, just the peasants die while the knights / noblemen retreat safely on their horses.
>All land starts out near worthless and in the middle of no where. //

No. People don't raise armies to steal land that's worthless. If you're going back to pre-history then the land near a nice river that has plenty of game, isn't predated by larger animals, and has nice fruit trees is worth way more to a person than some section of desert.

If right to live on land also goes with rights to exploit resources beneath the land then disparities in value as you approach the industrial era become massive.
Are you saying that female CEOs can't crucify themselves? She didn't have to accept this award.
With density you can afford transit which would reduce traffic. See Japan for an example. Most people take the train or bus to the ski area. There’s barely anyone in the parking lot.
Apple “Spring Loaded” Event
But is this undefined behavior in the typical c sense (lol, I see you call function possibly_undefined() I'll just make you a sandwich and clobber all registers instead) - or undefined behavior in the sense that it should crash - but might return?
How are they not being treated with humanity? They started with no skills or experience and were trained from scratch. How many jobs train on the job? Paid a good wage in an easy job and given a job for 2 years. Is that not humane and fair?

How much of your salary are you willing to give up so that these people get their job security?
It’s a United States problem.
This looks like the "before" part of a "before and after" redesign comparison. Sorry, but it looks a decade or more older visually.
(Only mentioning this because the title has "website redesigned" in it.)
Won't somebody please think of backcompat with the Notepad raytracer?![1]

[1] http://kylehalladay.com/blog/2020/05/20/Rendering-With-Notep...
Sorry, it doesn't really appear to work. I tested one of the English bots, and nothing happened when I sent in text.
There has been some work on resolving multipath errors with indirect ToF, Chronoptics (I'm a cofounder) recently licensed our technology to Melexis in automotive.

Here's a blog post I wrote about resolving multipath https://medium.com/chronoptics-time-of-flight/multipath-inte...

And a link to the announcement from Melexis
https://www.melexis.com/en/news/2021/4mar2021-melexis-announ...
America's Architecture and Construction Industry Is Broken
I don't know why I even have broadband...
> We already have laws for these things.

We handle those through contract law to some extent. Any law passed to prevent employer overreach would presumably be neutering contract law in some manner. I'm not sure there won't be unintended consequences we'll have to deal with for a long time.

> why do they need to control your non work time in addition to the legal avenues already at their disposal?

They aren't controlling your non-work time, they're controlling your non-work output. You can use that work, they just don't want you selling or giving it away, as they view that as competing with what you've contracted to provide them exclusively (because you signed an exclusive contract).
Clearbanc becomes Clearco and raises 100M to flip the VC world
Totally agreed. The "static HTML" part is IMO munin's single most important feature. You can point any webserver at the output directory (or just download the output directory) and immediately browse the contents. There's no need for CGI or any daemon to be running in the backend, which is extremely helpful when you might be trying to diagnose why said daemon isn't running.

I also agree that documentation about the basic architecture and execution method needs improvement. At some point in the CentOS 7 lifecycle, a minor update to EPEL's munin package deleted its own crontab file, effectively disabling the master, without providing an obvious alternative such as a systemd timer. I couldn't find any explanation about why it did that.
Herd immunity exists when enough people are incapable of re-transmitting a disease that the R number is below 1, even when we're back to a normal way of living.

It may be that the vaccines will be incapable of giving us herd immunity, but they may allow us to keep the R number below 1 with much less extreme social distancing and lockdown procedures.

Without the vaccines, the only way to get rid of this pandemic is through severe economy-damaging lockdowns and liberty-encroaching contact tracing and quarantining. If we can achieve the same thing with vaccines plus just having to wear a mask when near other people, then I would say that vaccination would still be a moral obligation, even though we haven't achieved herd immunity.
Hi QuinnyPig! Thanks for the feedback. I will push this out today with more details.

If anyone else is wondering the same, Quadzig is a Delware C Corp. Apologies if it's not clear from the website.
Obviously not a biologist, but if you could target a specific protein on the bacterial surface it might work. Alternatively you could CRISPR some human cells that generate the bacteria-killing RNA constantly.
If you are salaried, your 40 hours a week is just the minimum. Some employers respect the 40 hours, some expect you to work well past that number until the job is done.
Water for residents is a drop in the bucket compared to farming. A single farmer selling out their plot to a suburban housing development will more than provide the water excess required to support the houses.

The problem is strictly the water rights being a political labyrinth (water rights don’t easily transfer from farm to residential).
Unfortunately I don't have a good answer, but no matter the answer I believe strongly that if it's good for some but not for others, it's still better than "bad for all." This extends beyond housing.
You also need to be able to pay your rent, food and health insurance while you change direction. Any improvement plan takes time, and carries the risk of failure.

It's easy to get - and to remain - stuck. You don't/can't viscerally understand that if you've never been in that position.

It's easy to tell someone to just do x, y and z. It's not easy to do x, y and z when there is a substantial risk of catastrophic failure.
The word is "currently", isn't it? They'll be rolled back soon enough, same as in 2008, to get the plebs back to work.
Apple – Spring Loaded 1pm EDT
I think this highlights that graphic designers are not necessarily good UI designers.
Neither do standard antibiotics.
Single family homes is exclusive. You’re choosing to build a mega mansion on a big plot of land vs letting 100 people enjoy that land. The latter will be more affordable.
Exactly. With the slight caveat that beautiful and scenic really only enter into your triangular choice when a place is publicized (advertised?) as such. There are beautiful, restive, empty places to go within an hour Los Angeles, Seattle, ... that are kept that way only by relative obscurity and mildly inconvenient access.
San Francisco gets its water from Hetch Hetchy, it follows an almost entirely pristine granite pathway from the reservoir to the city. Moved here from Chicago, a city directly abutting the largest freshwater lakes in the world.

I drink directly from the tap, and grew up trusting my access to water. Now, I'm aware that not everyone has that privilege and our government, increasingly neoliberal and enamored with privatization and fracking, has allowed the public freshwater infrastructure to degrade in various parts of the country that didn't previously have problems with their tap water.

It's one of the first questions I ask when I visit someone else now. It's probably the greatest modern civilizational decline.
One helpful intuition not explicitly stated:

To rotate a 2x2 matrix by 90°, you can multiply it by:

┌ ┐
│ 0 -1 │
│ 1 0 │
└ ┘

One could reason out how to expand this into 3 dimensions. For example:

┌ ┐
x: │ 0 -1 0 │
y: │ 1 0 0 │
z: │ 0 0 1 │
└ ┘

performs the rotation along the x and y axes.

One could verify that the 2x2 example above is equivalent to:

┌ ┐ ┌ ┐
│ 0 -1 │ = │ cos(θ) -sin(θ) │
│ 1 0 │ │ sin(θ) cos(θ) │
└ ┘ └ ┘

when θ is 90°, and that this formula works for any angle, and the 3D example expands similarly.

When imagining how I want something to rotate, I occasionally find it helpful to start at the first matrix and reason outward from there.
It'll be a thing - 4 years tops. Hopefully there will still be such cool independent bookstores by then.
So, it looks like the average difference in between the SGS - Alternative CPI-1980s about 7%-8% between 1990 and now so that means that a dollar back then is worth about 7.5- 10 dollars today (1.07^30 -- 1.08^30). The average wage for person who graduate high school, but didn't go to any college was 26k in 1990[0].
So, this is claiming that the average high school graduate made 200k-260k in today's dollars. This is not true. Is my math wrong? I feel like these inflation fears are getting ridiculous.

[0]https://www.infoplease.com/business/economy/median-annual-in...
The whole concept of phage therapy is somehow based on this: Bacteriophages inject DNA into specific bacteria that makes them copy the phage inside them until they burst open.

Basically use viruses against bacteria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3tsmFsrOg
Not quite. Remember that if you held the true value of a currency flat with increasing automation and technological efficiency you should get more for the same amount of money. Prices staying flat over time in the face of efficiency gains is its own sort of inflation.

I do agree that they should source things better.
That's not a particularly useful sense. There's more variation in height amongst men and women than between them too, but we're still perfectly happy to say that men are taller than women.
They generally do not care no and often try to brush it off as "as long as it's legal, I'm fine with it"... and I'd have no ground to stand on with that since it's technically legal here...
It would be quite impressive if their whole website was just static assets that they rebuilt whenever a booking was changed.
Danish?
I did, it’s overly complicated for what I need (single team, apply YAMLs in git repo, specific branch, tagging).
I see the industry using mostly Flux and ArgoCD and I really don’t want anything Jenkins related in infra again.
I don't know if this helps, but I had a similar problem getting through even one page in a good book. My mind would wander somewhere else mid page and when I realized it, I'd feel silly and have to rewind and rebuild context to continue reading. Usually felt a little ashamed to reread part of the page I had scanned the words of but didn't actually read with my thinking brain.

Eventually what I realized was that these books were actually stimulating my thoughts at a higher frequency than the author intended. This is only really a bad thing if you need to get through the book under a certain deadline. Stimulating new thoughts is precisely why I read books in the first place!

These days, when some sentence sends me on a mental rabbit trail and then consciously pause and follow it as far as I like before returning to the text. Overall this is a much more satisfying reading experience for me.
>We're seeing a relatively high rate of long-term damage caused by low-level symptoms.

Source?

I've seen it reported that this may actually be dubious. [1]

[1] https://archive.ph/CConv
An informal spec is about getting your intention across to humans who will interpret it in some reasonable way and fill in any gaps. It’s not math or a computer program at all.

David Chapman makes a distinction between rational and reasonable behavior, and it’s more like his “making breakfast” example:

https://metarationality.com/reasonableness-aspects
Years ago I used to hand-sequence synth lines like that and skipping between octaves was the "instant hack" to get compelling patterns by adding dynamism to the sound without making the melody itself too complicated. You could just jump around multiple octaves for literally two notes and have some pretty awesome sounding stuff. Heck, that's what an arpeggiator does, but honestly, doing it by hand can pretty often get better results. Combine with filter envelope key following for even more interesting sound on an otherwise "simple" pattern :)
In my state they leave the mills the same, then apply a common leveling ratio at the county level to try to equalize the property value and cost of living compared to other parts of the state. It's better than nothing.
Evictions in Violation of CDC Moratorium May Violate Fair Debt Collection Act
Malaria is a parasite, not a virus. Doesn't it have to be a virus for mRNA vaccines to make sense?
At least it didn't hang and crash.
It’s the old Demotivator poster!

You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor.

https://despair.com/collections/demotivators/products/achiev...
Facebook: Data Portability Tool
Either I'm doing a bad job communicating or you're doing a bad job understanding.

I'm not saying no human should be involved. I'm saying an excellent human should screen candidates in a phone (or Teams or Zoom or whatever) interview before they are invited to sit across from you at your desk or in a conference room.

If you find yourself sitting across from someone who cannot technically do the job, your step one has failed (and should never fail).

If you don't hire someone because their in-person interview didn't go well, it is social skill (or cultural fit) related.

If that's not the case, reference step one to see that you have an error in who you are inviting for in-person interviews (or your phone screener should not be the person phone screening).